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VOL. I. NO. 12. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 19Q4. $1.50 PER YEAR. VICE-AURAL lAIAMH SANK IKI OS SOP. fcrhtal m Kg MM# IK 1M M ?r 11m Ateart? TarriHa Acdieat as (hi IM Tat Waf M h In BaUb? Taraol Tarta ml Wmt kn. London, (By Cable). ? The St. Petersburg officials announce that at daybreak Wednesday the battleship Petropavlovsk was destroyed at Port Arthur, with 700 men and officers, including Vice-Admiral Makaroff. The Russian advices declare' the ^re#4e' ^as blown up by a mine that ?ad drifted from its moorings, but dispatches from Wei Hai Wei induce the confident belief here that a naval engagement occured off Port Arthur of a severe character and that later telegrams will show that the Russians suffered a severer loss than is yet admitted. A rumor has reached Rome that Vice-Admiral Makaroff's squadron was attacked by the whole Japanese fleet, concealed behind Miatoao is lands. His retreat was cut off and he was forced to fight against odds, with the result that all his shipj were damaged, while the Petropavlovsk was surrounded by torpedo boats, struck by five torpedoes and blown up. Another report is to the effect that Rear Admiral Molas is among those killed aboard the Petropavlovsk. RUSSIAN STORY OP CATASTROPHE. ?' tie Less ?f the Pttrepavtovafc. St. Petersburg, (By Cable). ? All Russia wai stunned by dispatches trbm Port Arthur telling of the blow ing up and sinking of the first class battleship ,Pethopavlovsk by a mine and the death of Vice-Admiral Maka roff and all^ut. a, score of the 700 men and officers on bis flagship. The wliole population of St. Peters- I burg is awake, uniting for furtlior particulars of the disaster; and ex citement throughout the city, and par ticularly artiqng the crowds of thous- 1 ands who throiig the streets, is at fever heat. Despair prevails everywhere Th?> streets arc patrolled by largely in creased; guards. '-rgeiy m pa,ace t?,c high officials of ?? ?' constant con rHHZ ?* . Jhc censors arc planning a 8Hrve??ancc of war news, with thTly ?,r.cu"?tance in connection DukeVylil n,. ',' "V* ,ho Grm<l c I: ?. t,le Czars cousin nwl Mvca? M ,,,c. tfattiirl 1 .s"st?''ied injuries, the " n<" k"??" "is ccXij r"h" formal dispatches re wh^r ?l, ? d? ,IOt n,akl* whether the mine was a Russian r?r t'*i.neS/e' ^ thought it was one of plac<?mCr' W,"ch ,,?J <,riflC(1 OMt ?hi? i9 a,S<i l'ncertain as to whether ftion Wa*u ^tcr tho dcslruc dhMtch inrf- ?tr^fv,ovsk> ,nit oispatCh indicates that a severe .-n rfagement Was on ^The account of ihe disaster is dra #l,jll-^ussira,.\ flcef steamed out of -v? * ?{ , orl Arthur ot daylight Vice-Admiral Makaroff, the 11 Sail 2?. # -I the ?u*??n Pacific fleet. ' 'pltn t ^ls a,f on t,le formidable Petropavlovsk and led tl,e big arraJ ?a*e thl"* Shl,,H as tI,en we,,t to <?? ,? R*g? the enemy. !?*. Admiral Togo's vessels were f-ir SSn^h^'h ',0ri^'V ,nancuvering ??!. ? f8t P?s,t"?n to meet their oncoming foes. The great hulks of the Russians moved in dignified " ^^akal-nff canned for acti? firM ofliccr of his jikovleffraa?n. ?Ukc Syril CW*'? yakovleff and the other officers the * course ^ ,ayii,? thcir course and planning the expected bat : th? man WM at ,lis P?*t and the fjaj! gM0S W?rC bei,'K ran?**d for " sam* VfRSC,S of thf n?ct the same methodical preparations were fecrtV"^oha,"?- "u''r thi ifs officers eagerly watched ahead gnfVC/l? "J l,,e morninK niist we^ilw? rm fr?ni which signals were being displayed for their disoo V,?.n ?n the line of battle. P ihl ul ?** fi?,,ters werc well out 01 eJs on Z rhn SUJ(,cn|y ^e watch ers on the trailing boats saw an im 2 . column of water spout up t starboard side of the S 'caclnnvf far above the fighting masts and desccndinir in a deluge on the stripped deck *of th? vessel. There was an accompanying muffled roar. ? The giant vessel paused as if stayed by an unseen hand, lurched, sprang forward and began to settle to star* boards The nearest ships lowered boats, which pulled away for the distressed battleship. A score of such rescuers were in the water in a few minutes. On the Petropavlosvk there must have been scenes of the direst horror. Of the 700 men all but a score were below decks or in the turrets. When the explosion occurred the officers immediately divined the cause. A mine had been struck and a great hole torn in the side of the vessel be low the water line. Into this the sea poured, listing the vessel rapidly. Orders were issued to flood the compartments on the port side of the ship in order to bring it to an even keel, but these instructions could not be carried out. Graduslly over went the big battle ship. Into a few boats scrambled such of the men as were above deck. The first thought was for the Grand Duke Cyril and he was helped to a boat by his lieutenants. St. Petersburg, (By Cable). ? Barely recovering from the shock of the catastrophe to the battleship Petro palvlovsk. the city and nation were again plunged more deeply plunged into grief when official telegrams were ?iven out announcing the sinking of the torpedo-boat destroyer Bezstra s-hni, with a crew of forty-five, and the damaging of the battleship Po bieda on a mine in the Port Arthur horbor. No news was received from Port Arthur until 10 o'clock in the morn ing, when a long cipher message was received and hurried to the naval officials and translated. The message was from Hear Admiral Prince Ouk tomsky, who tersely told of the new misfortune which had overcome the squadron. The message after con firming the loss of t lie Pctropalovsk, said: "The torpedo boat Vestrashni was sent out with other*, 011 a night ex piditioii, and was unable to return, i.wing to the stress of weather. She was surrounded by the enemy's tor- I pedo boats and sank fighting, I'ive j men were saved. "After the sinking of the Petro- 1 pavlovsk I took over temporarily the command ot the fleet. "While surrounded by the enemy's squadron, the battleship Pobieda ran into a mine, which struck her star hoard side *amidship. The Pobieda succeeded in making the harbor with out aid. No 011c 011 board was hurt." The Pobieda is a battleship of !<?.-; (>74 tons displacement and of 14,500; horsepower. She i* 401 (4 feet long, has 71 fee| beam and draws ib feet ot water and is heavily armored with steel. She was completed in 1001 ; has a complement of 732 men. Her estimated speed is tK knots. The steel armor of the battleship varies in thickness from four to nine and a half inches along her belt, he arma ment of the Pobieda consists of four ton-inch gun.*, eleven six-inch guns, sixteen three-inch guns, ten i.K-inc'n tuns and seventeen t. 4-inch guns. Slie lias six torpedo tubes. T lie official bulletin conveying the information of Prince Ouktontsky and telling ot the destruction of tlie des troyer and the injuring of another battleship was almost as severe a blow as the news of the first disaster. The people of the city had been up all night anxiously awaiting news from Port Arthur, and despite the blinding .-.nowstorin that prevailed the bulletin hoards were besieged by large crowds during the day. The posting of the bulletin in the afternoon caused acute' anguish among the waiting pe? >pl?\ and many groaned and sobbed a? they read of the new disaster. '1 he Rusisan word in the text of the official dispatch describing the accident to the Pobieda means either "mine" or "torpedo," but the quali fying verb indicates something mov ing toward the ship. This dispatch puts an end to the idea prevailing here that there had been an engagement following the disaster to the Pctro pavlovsk. It is considered remarkable here that the Japanese did not take ad vantage of these terrible accident* to attack Port Arthur. The Novoe Vretnya reproduces a lecture delivered by Armiral Maka roff in i?i>4 011 the subject of the Victoria and Campcrdowu catastro phe, in which he pointed out the in herent weakness of battleships and their liability to turn turtle even when their water-tight compartments rre closed, because their armor and guns make them top-heavy. TWENTY-FOUR MEN AN!) FIVE OFFICERS KILLED. Uiited States Battleship Missouri Was HoMtag Its First Target Practice VIm Cm ExpMed? Big Warship Barely Escapes Destractioa. l'ensacola, I'll., (Special). ? The newest battleship of the navy, the Mix .souri, had a narrow escape from be ing blown to pieces by the explosion of a magazine and also being beachcci has just come to light. Capt. William S. Cowlcs prevented ?he latter when the vessel was within 250 yards of the beach by giving crders that the ship's course be cnang ed. Chief Gunner's Mate Monson save.! the ship and the lives of over 600 men by jumping into the open magazine and closing the door behind him. It is stated, though nn? by officers of the Missouri, that when the officers heard the explosion in the turret and saw the fire lapping through the top they realized the hot magazine would next explode and headed the ship for the beach, intending to belch her if por-sible before the explosion. Cap tain Cowles quickly stopped the plan ?.nd put the snip back to sea. Wnen the first explosion occur ted in the turret the men in the handling room knew i? an instant what had occured. The big magazine door wa? open and standing again*! it wore lour rharges of powder. Without a moment'!! hesitation Gunner's Mate Monson shoved these aside, and jump ing into the magarine pulled the door closed after hint. The maga/inc was totally flooded with water, and when the men opened the door found Monson barely alive, the water having reached his neck. The damage to the battleship is much greater than was stated at first. In addition to the large amount of ammunition ruined by the magazine being flooded, which will amount to thousand* of dollars, the after turret is badly injured, the top being bnrne.l jiway and all brass work melted in side. The hoist is a charred mass, and the mechanism of the guns is completely ruined. The estimated damage caused by ;hc explosion will reach $30,000 The total list of the dead now numbers thirty-two. The Missouri will not conclude hor target practice, b'ut will go to New York to be docked as soon a* the court of inquiry makest its findings* PINNED BOWK IT UUI Ufenrf TotMi Safftr tt Wnr. mw w m ma mvb& TWy KMt TMrOvaUvn k Tt-ytai toSm IMrlnttirlNw Bi Mm, Uatar If of Wafer, at tho IMm o< tfco Jtntj Oty Koaorvolr-Slfaaln Ptmb DimK Mm OtMrPMr aa NU Strtoftfc Fate. ? Boonton. N. J., (Special). ? Pinned down by his foot by two tons of lead in the darkneaa and ailence of 72 feet of water at the bottom of the big reservoir of the Jersey City Water Supply Company, at this place, a direr has lain since 2 o'clock Monday after noon. At intervals during the 24 hours of his imprisonment he signaled to the men at the air pumps on the shore of the reservoir, letting them know that he was still alive. The last signal was received at 1.30 o'clock P. M. The movements of the signal line grew fainter and fainter, and imally ceased. While it seems certain the man is dead, after suffering terrible agony for hours, the men at the air pump on the raft still pumped away, with the forlorn hope that they were still giv ing him the breath of life while he was unconscious. The efforts of skilled rescurers in cluding four divers and other experts, aided by scores of landsmen, to save this one man's life have been cease less for about 35 hours, and are al most unparalleled in the history of marine dangers. Every wrecker device known to the most experienced diver, if it could be brought into use in this emergency, | has been tried, without avail. And if it were possible to tear away the very walls of the reservoir without the loss of other lives in the flood the wreckers would not have stopped at the loss of property. Thousands of spectators watched for the end of this strange tragedy under water, a terrific pressure of two atmospheres which brought blood to the eyes and finger nails of the heroic rescuers who dropped overboard from the raft to try to save their bother diver. A special train was secured at the yards of the Luckawanna Railroad at lloboken. Two expert divers wer / procured and brought to the reservoir ii> all speed. With an electric lighting apparatus one of these divers descended and found that the great ball of lead had slipped into place suddenly and that the diver's foot had been caught be tween the ball and the edge of the aperture leading into the pipe. The second diver went down at once and an effort was made by the two to dis lodge the ball. Their puny strength was as nothing, and after hours of work, at short intervals, with rests be tween, they conveyed the knowledge to the imprisoned man of the hope It ssness ot his condition and went to ? he surface. At intervals the two divers descend ed and tried to help the poor fellow. Finally they became exhausted and two other divers volunteered to en gage in the hopeless and perilous task. They reported it was impossible to ' resist the suction of the water within i 15 feet of the mouth of the pipe,, en- J cumbered as they were by their armor and tools. They described the doomed diver as lying on his back on the bottom, Aith his left foot securely pinned be neath the ball of lead, whose whole weight rests upon it. They said that the man must have dislodged the ball by his first efforts and been drawn un derneath it by the suction at the same time. They reported that they thought that the doomed man's leg might have been broken and that his suffering was probably greater than can be ima gined. BALTIMORE WILL LOSE S2t.Ne.M0 Insurance Companies to Pay Oaly $J4.9M,800 to Ibe 258 Losers. P.alliinore, (Special). ? The total loss J by the great fire on February 7 and I was heteewn $45,000,000 and $50,000,- ' roo. The number of losers is | The insurance companies will pay a trifle over $.10,000,000 to the losers, of which amount over $ J.;. 000.000 has been ?>:ii<t already. These are the figures that will i Maud out most prominently iu the i report of Chairman Paul Turner, of the General Insurance Committee, called to Baltimore to deal with the recent calamity-. .His report is rapidly rearing completion and will be sup plemented by an cxhautivc report on "fireproof" buildings. It will admit ! the claims made by builders to be justified by the experiences of such I structures over which the tianies pass ed in Baltimore. exposition Hall Collapsed. Philadelphia, Pa., (Special).?- Expo sition Hall, the main building of the Ktoup at Thirty-third and South ?.tree's, that served to house the Na- 1 tional Export Exposition iu iHty), and J 11 which the republican national con vention met one year later, collapsed, burying several workmen in it ? ruin*. Three of the injured men were so 1 adly hurt that they were taken to the Philadelphia hospital for treatment. ! -a bile a dozen others, although bruised ? n I shaken up. refused to go to the hospital, and hail their wounds attend 1 d to at their homes. Gift to Tabercalosls Cs.np. New York, (Special). ? Mrs. An- ) drew Carnegie has offered to equal the highest donation to the Speedwell Country Home Society for the open ing of a tuberculosis camp for the I poor children of the tenements, with in e.T?y reach of New York City. The announcement was made by Mrs. Donald Sage MacKay, the president, at the annual meeting, which was held at the home of Miss Helen Miller Gould The Speedwell Society hr\s homes in the vicinity of Morristown. N. J., and in its work it recogt?izes neither race nor creed distinctions. rest*? *r' of the CM lmtl Law by refusing to serve them m a reataurint. Si* nicq' w?n injured by a collapse of jp building at- eighth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, llew York. Four of the ' injured were passersby. Two St. Loaia physicians are using a new drug in the treatment of con sumption with practising results. Four persons were injured by a gasoline explosion in an automobile factory in Detroit. ? The first trip through the new sub wajr of Nfy York City was made. Six men were injured by the col lapse of a building in New York. W. H. Ken worthy, art American Express Company messenger, and Harry Drake, a baggagemaster on the Big 1 Four Railroad, have confessed to the Cincinnati police that for a year tliey have been robbing trunks and express packages. - A settlement was reached in the sheet and tin-plate wage dispute and a strike avoided that would have in volved thousands of men. "Monk" Eastman, the leader of a notorious gang of tht^p of the East Side, New York, was convicted of as sault in the firat degree. A fine of $3,000 was imposed on R. Friedlander & Co., of Chicago, for making false affidavits to undervalue imports. Dr. George W. Webster, of the Ill inois State Board of Health, gave whisky-drinking as one of the causes of typhoid. The Standard Oil Company an nounced another reductionaof half per cent, on all grades of refined petro leum. The Circuit Court, in Richmond. Ky., threw out as invalid all the vari ous wills of the late Gen. Cassius M. Clay. Harry T. Hill, the veteran theatri cal manager, died at his home, in Saratoga. N. Y. The United States torpedo-boat flo tilla arrived at Cavite. . Thousands of men employed in the cigar factories and breweries of Ma nila united in a demonstration against proposed measures of the government to secure internal revenue. The San Francisco Merchants' Ex change has received a cablegram stat ing that the steamer Colon has been wrecked at Punta Remedios. Mrs. Joseph B. Hall, proprietor of the Catskill Recorder, one of the old est newspapers in the United States, died at Catskill. ? The car barn and paint shop of the International Traction Company at Cold Springs, near Buffalo, were de stroyed by fire. Former Police Chief Devery has made demand 09 Commissioner Mc Adoo for ' $35,000 as damages for breach of contract. *?' The flour mills at Minneapolis will close down for an indefinite period because of railroad discrimination. Charles A. Beecher, a friend and adviser of Abraham Lincoln, died sud denly at Marysville, O. A fire in the hold of the steamer Havana caused a damage of $20,000. Fordga. '1 lie House oi Commons sanctioned by resolution the employment of In dian troops in th? political mission to Tibet. It was announced that Colonel Younghusband had reached Gyangste. Tibet, which was his goal. An imposing funeral service was held oyer the body of Queen Isabella in Paris, after which the body was taken to Madrid. The police in Barcelona have ar rested an acomplice to Joaquin Miguel Artao, who attempted to assassinate Premier Maura. Colonel Marchand, the hero of the I'ashoda affair, bitterly resents his treatment by the French War Office. Bebel, the Socialist leader, criticised :n the Reichstag the German govern ment for permitting the sale of a | steamship by the. Hamburg- American I Company to a Russian company. [ Chancellor von Buelow replied that | lite sale did not affect Germany's neu j trality, and that Japan had an equal ! right to buy ships from Germany. | Emperor William went on board 1 he American steam yacht North Star, | :it Syracuse. Sicily, and had a chat ; with Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vander I hilt. I An infernal machine concealed in I in anarchist's trunk in a hotel in St. I Petersburg exploded, blowing him in to bits and causing a fire in the hotel. I The British torpedo-boat destroyer Feaxcr, ''which ran ashore during the naval maneuvers at Portsmouth, has been towed off. The Mad Mullah, whoin the British have been trying to catch, has es I ? aped into Italian territory. The matter of a Zionist settlement I in Uganda. Fast Africa, has been ar ranged satisfactorily. ?1! ',e canals and waterways bills just presented to the Prussian Diet propose the expenditure of $100. 000,000 on uew waterways, including ? i? canal from Berlin to Stettin, for I large vessels. Fiaaaclal. I Nearly $4.<xx?.ooo of Japanese gold j has just arrived at San Francisco. When Lake Superior gets thai $_\ ! 000.000 from Canada, things oujfht to look up. ; There has been better buying of I'nit ! t-d States Steel common this week than for three months, j "I'm bullish," s:iys John W. Gates. I That doesn't <piite carry the wciglu ! such a remark once had. Export b'.siness of the United State* Steel Company is falling off. The "big fellows" are leaving Wall Street. J. J. Hill and E. II. Ilarriman have gone West and J. P. Morgan is on the Atlantic. American petroleum sold in Europe ! la -?t year was $!7.48<f.uoo worth of rc | fined and $;,2(>8,ooo worth of crude oil. Seventy-one railroads in February earned gros* $80, (>48,000. an increase of $2,964,000, but net earnings were $;<). 586,000. a decrease of $1,470,000. I-or eight months of the fiscal year gross revenue has risen $50,000,000, and net profits $8.5.15,000. JBjNMN FOi TOO FUND 4 Rtv U?Mt By Ir. Mnv CifMfte. TEW IEWBIWS WMPACIIMU Ha ftfin b ta PIm Tim Pilwli PM?W ViciMim WW Maw Bm la)ar a* la Imk Effort !? Saw haaa Ufe la aai la PravMafar Ike Defcataats. Pittsburg, Pa., (Special). ? It was learned here that Andrew Carnegie has created a fund of $5,000,000 for the benefit of "the dependents of those losing their lives in heroic effort to save their fellow-men, or for the heroes themselves if injured only." Provision is also made for medals to be given in commemoration of heroic acts. The endowment is to be known as "the Hero Fund," and consists of $5,000,000 of first collateral 5 per cent, bond of the United States Steel Corporation. The trust is placed in the hands of a commission composed of the following gentlemen: VV. L. Abott, Edwin H. Anderson. W. W. Blackburn, Edward \1. Bigelow, Joseph Buffington, Wm. N. Frew. Rev. W. J. Holland, John B. Jackson. Thomas Lynch, Charles G. Mellor, T. N. Miller, Thomas Morrison, Fred erick C. Perkins, Robert Pitcaim, H. Kirk Porter, James H. Reed, W. L. Scaife, Willaim Scott, VV. II. Steven son; F. M. VVilmot, secretary. The commission held its first meet ing here and made known its pro ject. It is learned that the scheme was conceived by Mr. Carnegie immediate ly after the Harwick mine disaster, when he summoned to New York Charles L. Taylor, chairman, and F. M. Wilmot, manager, of the Andrew Carnegie relief fund, to discuss with them plans for the relief of the suf ferers from this catastrophe. On this occasion Mr. Carnegie announced to Messrs. Taylor and Wilmot his in tention to endow a fund for heroes, outlined his plants and asked that ;hey consider the project and write him regarding it, making such sug gestions and giving such ideas as might occur to them. This they did, and on March 12, just before his de parture for Europe, Mr. Carnegie for warded a letter to Mr. Taylor an nouncing the plan, and stating that the certificates of the bonds had been placed in his hands. In a letter to the hero fund com mission Mr. Carnegire outlines tJhe general scheme of the fund, which in .his own words is "to place those fol lowing peaceful vocations who have been injured in heroic effort to save iiuman life in somewhat better posi tion pecuniarily than before until again able to work. In case of death the widow and children or others de pendent to be provided tor ? the widow until she is remarried and the children until they have reached a self-sup porting age. For exceptional children ?exceptional grants may be made for exceptional education. Grants of sums of money may also be made to heroes or heroines as the commission- thinks .'?dviseablc, each case to be judged on its merits." It is provided that no grant is to be continued unless it he soberly and properly used, and recipients remain respectable, well-behaved members of the community. A medal shall be given to the hero or widow, or next to kin, which shall recite the heroic deed -it com ine'moratcs. The medal shall b? given for the heroic act. even if the doer he uninjured, and also a sum of money, should the commission deem such a desirable. APPROPRIATION ASKED. I I Tea Thousand Dollar* Is the Amount That is | Requested. Washington. ( Special ?. ? Secretary ] of the Navy Moo.lv trausmiMed to the House a request tor a $10,000 appropriation to provide for the proper rare of the remains of the victims of the explosion 01; the battleship | Vlissottri. The buieau of navigation of the 1 navy department announces that the : W. J. Bogard, named in the dispatch of Admiral Barker of the i.tth inst., as i having heen kilhul in the Missouri I explosion, and whose name could no! he found on lite record*, has heen I 'dentitied a* William Joseph Botigard, I of Mrooklyn. N. Y.. whose next of kin j ' is James Bongard, a brother, who live; j ;it Prospect avenue. Brooklyn. N. j V. This man was blown ove'boar.l j ? niiil his body Im? not been recovered. The bureau of navigation also an j nounces that the I?. J. Mulligan, men I tinned in the same dispatch as havintr j heen killed, and whose name could not I he found 011 the records, i-* John I Joseph Mullige.n. landsman, of Provi I deuce. K. 1. Mis next of kin i? given I I as James Mulligan, of >00 Chestiv.^ | ? treet. Providence, K. I., his father. 1 Cllll.ORHN WITNESSED TRAQFDV ! ' ' ! Three little Ones Saw Father \ltempi Mother's Lite. I I South lladlcy Palls, Mas*. (Special; > The *hr"e children of Daria Cape | ?!iud. a wo.ul chopper, died of poi ? ( I soring, and M?s. Capestand i* ill with | the same malady. Parts of the bodies | | of two of the children and the im\\? j from which it is sn -peeled tho poi.. 01, j I e inte have been lakci? )<? llr.rvard fori i I analysis. | 'Hie tlire.* children ."Red h, j. and ! | j. who died very suddenly were , ? buried Friday. There were pre. rut at . the cemetery Medical Examine:* lirauch, of Amherst; Chief oi I'1 iiee 1 I Mtiehey. of the I'nl !??. and Maj. lames i I MeWay, of the state police. They are ! tery retieeii' about their suspicion's, J | but claim that it is a case of murder j un ti i? mi uf uk. The progress made in the irrigatiofl work of the Government is reviewed in the publication issued by the Geolo gical Survey, which points out th? necessity ot great caution and con* servatism in the extension of reclama tion work. In the report it is sta??d that ol the irrigation projects favorably re? ported in IQOJ. which included thos? on the Truckee river in Nevada, on the Salt river in Arizona, on the Milk river in Montana, on Sweetwater river in Wyoming and on Gunnison rivet in Colorado, the Nevada and Arizona projects have been found feasible and construction on the engineering work along the Truckcc and Salt rivers has progressed to a reasonable extent The Montana project, however, hay presented unexpected engineering diffi culties as well as complications re garding water rights, so that progress is slow. It has been found necessary to modify the first plans in order to achieve early results. The Wyoming pioject as first outlined has been found impracticable. A better reservoir site than that 011 the Sweetwater river, however, has been found on the North Platte, so that a large scheme of de-. velopinent may be worked out there ii> the future. Great engineering difH cultics are encountered in the ac complishment of the Colorado pro ject. The amount of arid land thereby reclaimable is less, too, than was anticipated. Boloo for the A nay. General Crozier, chief of the ord nance department of the army, has ordered the manufacture at Water* vliet arsenal of 1 1 5-incli barbette car* riages, model of 190.1, and 200 can riages for 2.5-inch life-saving gun# for the Treasury Department. Three thousand hospital corpi knives of new model also have been ordered manufactured. General Cro* >.ier has ordered the purchase of 5,ood bolos. with sheaths, for issue to th< troops in the Philippines. In tin future saber scabbards for officeri will be made of steel, nickcl-plated, in stead of German silver, and in ordei to obtain better results in gallery prac tice an elongated bullet, weighing 10; grains, - has been adopted in place ol the round bait. Classification of Postofflce Clerks. F. T. Rogers, president of the Na tional Orginazation of Postoffic* Clerks, was heard by the House Com mittee on Poslottices and Post Road; in favor of the bill of Representative Wilson, of Illinois, providing for thi classification of clerks employed ir postoftice-t of the first and second ?. lass. Retirement of Letter Carriers. Senator h'rey introduced a bill pro viding for the retirement of letter car riers who have reached the age of 65 years and who have served for 33 years. The bill gives the carriers re tired pay at 80 per cent, of the sala ries they were receiving at the time of retirement. Home for Disabled Volunteers. The House Committee o;s Military Affairs authorized a favorable report 011 a bill appropriating $<>0,000 to pur chase a temporary home in the Dis trict of Columbia for disabled volun teer soldier*. Congressional and Departments. I Senator Dietrich has been exoner ated from all blame in connection with postoftice patronage in Nebraska b> a special committee of the Senate, which made an investigation. The House and Senate committees agreed to the bill allowing the con tractors of the Baltimore Custom house $175,000 tor loss sustained in i the recent tire. The committee investigating Red I Cross affairs had an expert examine the accounts of Miss Clara Barton. Mrs. McCoinas, the wile of the Maryland Senator, died at her Wash-. 1 iugton home from Bright's disease. Senator Proctor introduced a bill to provide for a "distinguished service [ list." The House of Representatives pass Mi the Philippine Bill. President Roosevelt has decided to ! appoint James Holland judge of the recently created eastern district of Pennsylvania. The Com pt roller <?:' the Currency authorized th?- Traders' National B.oik of Clarksburg, W. Va . to reopen i"r business. The Senate Committee on Postof f.ces and Post Roads w'ill investigate the workings ??? tin- I 'ostofliee De partment. Arthur I.. Orrison, a juror in the Watson embezzlement trial, was sen tenced to jail for contempt ot court. The American Federation of l.abor ha? arranged its exhibit for the St. Louis Exposition. By a decisive vote the Senate put itself on record against any investi gation of the Postoftice Department at this session of Congress. Senator McComas introduced a bill to e\icrsd the Coastwise Shipping l,aw> t > tiie Panama Canal /.one. Secretary Mo .dy declared himself < pposed to the proposed bill for tiic < rcation of a general staff in the Navy. A resolution was introduced in, the House to :? k the Secretary of the In terior if the officials involved in the laud fraud* were still in the public service, and if so. why. The House passed the bill appro prial.ug $.1,000,000 for river and harbor ituprov einents WOMAN AND CIIII.DRfN POISONED. Pollen Arc llavtog Analysis Maile and Will Search for Murderer. Philadelphia. Pi., t Special V ? Fred erick Scjifc, aged ,t-' years, committed ? nicide after shooting his wife Mary. Mie will recover. Mr*. Schait'e s.iid she knew of no reason for her hus band's crime tmle<"? i*. was hi* ground less jealousy. The woman saved her life by her presence ot mind.- When her husband i'.i a t. is r -v ?hc threw her arms .?Ix.'i* littii ;.nd fierce struggle 011 ?ue-i S< ii;u ir managed t < ? discharge tlu- v. ration, a bullet entering his witV* l>*t;-k. She fed, .v I. thinking hn ha<l Idled l.e '. hi.* 'urned Aeipon up ?n himself itvl blew briit.s out. l i e c mpli- !mv" ?hre.' yottn s child r? u and the hoofing o-eur.'-d in the presence <?i the little onov _ RADIATION FltOW MACMCTS. ? A Cmri?M ???IhatetlM tf Kstrtjr Wtm? CMllj D?ttct?J. > A curious manifestation of nagnetltf energy has recently been irtfcMi with a luminescent scteen. such as to* employed in the study and enmlis* tiou of the new N-rays. M. C. Oittoar hax ascertained that effects similar ts these rays are obtained If a phosphor escent screen Is placed in a non-nal* form magnetic Held. Using a scree* painted in small spots and exploring the vicinity of a bar magnet, be has found that the patches nearer tkt poles were brighter than those at tto> middle. That tills effect was not doe to K-rays was proved- l/y inclosing tb* magnets in u lead box which would act to cut off this form of radiation. The same result wan also obtained when the screen -was inclosed in %. vacuum. It was soon fouud that the magnetic held must not be utiiforae In order to produce the effect, as eve* with the strongest holds no increase in luminescence was obtained where they were of uniform intensity. Whe? the lines of force are uot parallel, the best results are secured. The phe* nomenon does not appear us yet to be understood satisfactorily, as there does uot seem to be any way of ac counting for the energy which act* *n the screen that can explain the nec essity for a lack of uniformity iu the held.? Harper's Weekly. WISE WORDS. Virtue for a wage is tirat cousin te Vice. ? A money spendthrift is a moral sui cide. The blind child can see Its father*# love. Home made yokes are always heaviest. I?Vw men cau argue about religion and keep cool. One side of on argument is alway* less than half of it. A spoiled child is almost as bad a* one that is too fresh. The shadows are longest when the sun of faith is lowest. The sense of our baseness may be the ballast of the soul. Celling the l?est of an argument Isn't always worth the time. After buying experience a man sel dom boasts of his bargain. You can easily make a man hot by rubbing him the wrong way. The physician doesn't always preach, but he has to have a practice. Reverence for age is a fair test of the vigor of youth.? Charles Kingsley. Fortune isn't a question of gender* although there is such a thing as tub* fortune. The worm ttiat works In the trunk is always advertised somewhere on the branches. If prayer always brought materia! protlt it would soon be the prey of the speculator. , , There is something to prayer more than shutting your eyes and opening your mouth. Money helps us over some hard \ places, but cannot be depended on to bring us a contented spirit. Take thy self-denials gay ly and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Al mighty. -.1. F. Clarke. As a man travels on in the journey of life, his objects of wonder daily dimin* Ish. and he is continually tiuding out some very simple cause for some great matter or marvel.? Washington Irvla x Killing m Hippopotami!-. When tirst the Soudan was opened up it was thought desirable to Impose a tax on any one killing a "hippo,** but experience has shown that the "hippo" is unworthy of the care tak? en of him. lie Is most destructive. A bull hippopotamus will upset a small boat. The natives have a eurlone manner of killing a hipjHjpotamus; they attack him with spears when he is iu a sleepy condition in the river, and attached to the spear is a rope with a huge tloat at the end of it. This tloat hampers the movements of the unwieldy animal, and after several spears have been driven into him he is easily drawn to the bank and dia Matched.? I^ondon Globe. Humorous K?lnikM. Archbishop Kyan was once called upon by a priest who said his health required that he lake a vacation. The priest's frequent absences from hie parish were notorious, so the arch* bishop sahl to him: "My dear Father Koandso. if you need a change of air I would suggest that you try the air of your own parish for a month or two." At another time the archbishop rebuked a priest, for wearing a disrep utable looking silk hat. "But 1 would not give up that hat for twenty new one*." said the priest. "It belonged to my father, who fell in the rising of *4N." "Ah." was the archbishop's re tort. "and evidently li? fell on the hat." Why M*n Fall* Trivial Incidents get so engrossing that life becomes unprepared for the great Issues. A man gets all absorbed in his business and Intends Home day, to enjoy his home; a woman gets en snared in the burdensome details of life and loses her peace of mind: and one day *om? great overwhelming ex perience of trial or sorrow suddenly attacks si ic It a life, and the life simply surrenders to the unforeseen assault, stric?*n and unprepared, because the strength which ought to have been nurtured for the crisis has been ex hausted in the I tud an I lieu lit skirmished of daily affairs ? F CealwwUr. D Q.