Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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777U '~'ALEIIOGEANINGS I rU or Events of the Week In a - BrIet Form. The following new concerns have been chartered: - Stone Land Com pany, of Greenville (commission), Capital stock $25,000. Corporators, W. G. Sirrine and F. L. Stone. Bowman I4an and Trust Company, of Bowman's (charter.) Capital stock, $5,)00. L. F. Easterlin. president; T. E. Bruce, secretary and treasurer. Robinson-Elliott Company. - of Winnsboro (commission.) The com pany proposes to engage in farming. Capital stock, $30,000. President, T. K. Elliott; vice presi<lent and keneral manager. J. L. Robinson. Gairney Brick Company (chartero Capital stock, $5,000. Corporatoro, Thompson Robbs and J. H. Curry. Pauline Oil Mill Company, of Pauline, Spartanburg county (com mitson.) Capital stock, $15,000. Cor porators, S. T. D. Lancaster, E. D. Foster, W. S, Montgomery Lydia Gin Company, of Lydia, in Darlington county (charter.) Capital stock, $3,000. 0. D. Lee, president and general manager; W. F. Dargan, secretary. Sumter Light, Ice and Power Com pany, of Sumter (charter.) Perry Moses, president; F. A. Bultman, secretary and treasurer. Capital stock $70,000. James L. Tapp Company, of Colum bia, department store (commission.) Capital stock $100,000. ' Corporators, Jas. L. Tapp, formerly of Charlotte, and W. H. Lyle's and John J. Mc Mahan. The company will open at the McCreery stand at once. A special from Newberry says: Wed nesday morning about 3 o'clock the home of Mr. J. D. Davenport was com pletely destroyed by fire. The fIre ori ginated from the outside and the house was almost enveloped in flames before the inmates were aroused, and they barely had time to make their escape. Nothing was saved, not even the cloth ing of the family. The insurance is very small compared to the los, amounted to $1,700. A Greenville special says: Magis trate Clyde has rendered his decision in the cases against C. W. Clifton, in dicted foi petit larceny, and the de fendant was given 90 days or $150 fine to cover the several cases upon which he was tried. The remainder of the cases were abandoned, as the mer chants did not wish to put the county to further expense, since it is expected he will remain in jail and not pay the line. Clifton ha furnished a -week's sensation and has not profited himself in reputation or finances, while he loses as a book agent, in which he had been quite successful. Saluida, Special.-Felix Bouknight, Mahlon Johnson and Alfred Johnson, colored, have been lodged in jail to await trial at the court of sessions, on the charge of being accomplices of Rlobert Bouknight in the robbing and burning of Mr. 3. T. Herlong's crib a few weeks ago. Frank'Aiken has con fessed that he was in the party, but he has not hegarse mi - -.~-~'uui~' a ao suspected, but Magis tr-ate Little dismissed bim because of thb~ ack of evidence against him. The legislature has provided for the appointment of a commissidn to wind up affairs between Sumter, Darlington, Kershaw and Lee counties. The latter was carved out of parts of the three counties named first, and there are to be settled several questions relating to the old counties for past indebted ness, etc. Governor Heyward in com pliance with the act has requested the * legislative delegation of each county to name two meinbers of the commis sion. The governor will himself ap point the ninth member. Governor Heyward has been very much pleased on account .of the num ber of invitations extended to him to deliver comnmencecment addresses, but he cannot comply with 'them alil. Within the past two days he has re ceived no less than seven such invi tations. The secretary of state has issued charters to the following concerns: The Church of Christ, Charleston; the town of Fort Madison, Anderson coun ty; and to the Brusy Creek Ginnery company of Anderson county, capital stock $2,000. The internal revenue department has had considerable trouble recently on account of comple.ints that parties representing themselves to be revenue effcers have endeavored to collect a government tax from merchants who are as a rule keepers of small grocery *stores in the suburbs of Columbia. Paul J. Steele, a cadet of Clemson College, died there of pneumonia last -week. Mr. N. W. Brooker, the chairman of the Richland committee for the H-amp ton monument fund, is now vigorously pushing the canvass in this city for subscriptions to the fund. S'o far he has secured about 300 subscriptions. and has collected abotut one-third of the Emeunt subscribe4. He finds, h says, that dozens of men say they will subsc'ribe, but a~sk him to ccmc back iater This is hampering the work badly ,and he urges that all try to say exactly what they can give when .he calls. It is of great importance for the work of raising the $10,000 that must be secured by subscriptions at the earliest pcssible moment.-Col um bia State. A meeting of the stockholders of the Atlantic Coast Lumber company was held last week and a number of pro.-n inont men were in the city. There were about 12 in the party and all nre mil lionaires. During their stay here they were the guests of President F. S. Farr of the Coaist company. The party consisted of Messrs. Sampel P. Colt. Commodore E. C. Benedict. James B. Ford. John J. Watson and H. M. Sad ler of New York: WXm. Dup:-e. Arthur L. Kelley, Win. H. Perry. Richard A. - Robertson. Samuel Norris and Cyrus P. Brown of Providence, R. I. KILLED BY A Peculiarly Sad Tragedy at zi. North Carcliva OPERATOR MEETS A TRAGIC DEATiH Cle. Jetmes W. Dunrawy Stcps on th: Trnck in Front of a Repdiy :.ov g Passenger Train. Hamlet, N. C.. Sccial.-James W. Dunaway, operator for the Western i'icn Tel-sgraph Company at this pace. was hit a:nd i.illcd by train No. 3S as it came into the yard Wcdnes day mo:rning. Mr. Dunaway was go ing from the office to his home, walk ing along by the track with his 1cad down, and when in a few stcps of the engine, stepr-?d on the track, seeming ly not knowing the train was ap proaching. The engineer reversed his engine and did all he could to stop the train, but the distance was too shrt. With the exception of the left arm be ing broken and a bruise on the side of the head there are no external in juries. The force of the blow knocked the man to one side and off the track and he never rallid from the shock, dying in 50 minutes. Mr. Dunaway had been suffering from neuralgia for several days. It is believed he was crazed with the pain at the time and was oblivious to the approach of the train when he stepped on the track. He leaves a wife and three children. His remains will be taken to S-lisbury tomorrow for burial. Kink-hearted people have very liberally contributed to raising a purse for the grief-strici:en wife and children, who are in needy circumstances. Vioter.c: of Strikers. Kansas City, Special.-Violence en tered into the strike of the 211 driv ers employed by the 14 transfe: com panies of Lie city who went on strike this morning Zor an increase in wages and for recognition of their union. Perhaps half a hundred men were em ployed during the day to taie the places of the strikers, though but lit tle work was accomplished by them. During the afternoon strikers and their sympathizers gathered in large numbers at several points in the west bottoms and held up wagons driven by non-union men. At the Burlington freight depot, the police were forced to draw their revolvers to disperse a crowd that had cut the traces of teams hitched to two. loaded wagons. At another point, George B. Evans, an employe of the American Express Company, in attempting to disperse a rowd that was throwing stones at a river, fired a shot into the ground. . N. Latin, a strikgr, interfered and ade a move to draw a knife, when oth mengr~e arrested. In the after- I son adon'i~ffti~hi6g are Jind threw stones at the non nion drivers. Much excitement pre riled and the pollee were kept busy. Big Tobacco Profits. New York, Special.-The annual meeting of the stockholders of the American Tobacco Company was held Wednesday in Jersey City. The old oard of directors was re-elected with ne exception, Cnarles N. Strotz being hosen to succeed Thomas F. Jeifries, f Richmond, Va. After deducting all charges and any expenszs the net earnings for the ear were $7,450,574. The stockholders of the Consoli ated Tobacco Company also held their annual meeting. The old board of directors was re-elected- The recport f the assistant treasurer showed to tal earnings of $13,291,459. The annual meeting of the Conti ental Tobacco Company was also held when the old board of directors was re-elected. The treasurer's report howed net earnings, after deducting all charges and expenses, of $11,776, White Man Killed. Columbia, S. C., Special.-W. L. Croft, a white man who lived at Fair fax. Barnwell county, S. C., was shot and instarntly killed from ambush Monday night, near his home. Susp~i ion strongly points to a neg'ro. Frank Strange, whose w~ife Croft ha.I be friended by giving her a home after her husband had driven her from his house. Tission Anniversary. New York, Specia!.-A conference celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the National Florence Crittenton ission, opened in the mission house in Bleeker street. The president, Chas. N. Critenton, assisted by Mrs. Kate Walter Barrett, general superintend ent, extended cordial hospitality on behalf of the Old Mother Mission. The following delegates were present: Mrs. Jones, Norfolk. Va.; Mrs. Wolie. Alex andria, Va.; Mrs. Holtzelaw, Chatta nooga, Tenn.; Mrs. Fisher, Lynchburg, Va.; Mrs. Holt, Savannah, Ga. Papers on various subjects connected with mission work were read by visiting delegates. The convention will con tinue until Saturday. -High Water in Arktnsas. Little Rock, Ark., Special.-The White, Black and Current rivers are bank full and rising with a great vol ume of water yet in sight. It is ex pected that the river at Newport, Ark., will show a gauge of 42 feet which will put the White r-iver into the Iron Montain yards and over a great por tion of track. The Arkansas here is rising rapidly above and the weather bureau predicts a rise here within the next 48 hours which will send the wa +t,. .aov the anger line. BUYS TOBACCO LANDS flilionaire Morgan Knows a G3od I Thing When He Sees It. Tampa, Fla., Special.-Advices from Havana which are considered reliable state that while in Cuba recently J. Pierpont Morgan, representing the American Tobacco Company, closed negotiations for the purchase of all the lands in the Vuelta Abajo district, upon which is grown the finest grade of leaf tobacco in the world. It is used in the manufacture of ciga-s. The purpose of the purchase is to secure all of this fine tobacco exclusively for the use of the factories of the Ameri can Cigar Company, which is a branrb of the American Totocco Company. If these intentions are carried out in the independent clear Havana factories in Tampa, New Orleans, New York. and other cities, will have to look else where for their fine grade of leaf to bacco ,nearly all of them being sup plied now from the fields reported to have been bought by Morgan. It will be a great blow to independent trans action. The sale involves seevral mil lions. Negotiations had to be conduc ted with a number of individual own ers of lands. Of the largest clear Havana factories in this city four are owned and oper ated by the Havana-American Com Standard Ol in Cotton. Boston, Mass., Special.-Back of the present movement in cotton and the coming consolidation of various cotton product companies are Standard Oil men, whose representatives are back ing both sides of the market and seek ing to carry out plans which Standard Oil has had for years inder cousidera tion of controlling the cotton crop of the country through the improved bal ing process. Scully. the big cotton bull, is a protege of Gen. S. M. Weld of Bos fon, father of the Planters' Compress Company, and Scully's broker, in (ot ton exchange transacticns. Price's backer is A. C. Burrage. of Boston. a Standard Cil man, who has just been elected a director in the Planters' Compress. Burrage backed Price in cotton last year and profited $1,000,000 by the deal. Mr. Burrage is a personal friend of H. H. Roger,, another Stand ard Oil magnate, who has an interest in the Pl::nters' Compress and they are working to secure control of the American cotton trade. Two Accidnts. Charleston, S. C., Special.-A News and Courier special from Sumter, S. C., says: "John F. Laughrey, man ager and one of the proprietors of the Lukens Lumber-Company, of this city, was fatally- injured late Friday after noon by the explosion of the fly wheel of the saw mill engine. A fly wheel of the saw mill engine. A flying frag ment of irr'1 struck him in the fore hea:', --ushing the skull and face. He was taken to the infirmary, but noth ing could be done for him and the octors say he cannot live till mid ight. The saw mill was completely wrecked and pieces of the3 wheel fell 50 yards from the mill after passing through the roof. The wheel was ten eet in diani t 1---311%0 High Point. N. C.. Special.-A 'phone message frm the country says that William Holt, who lives near this place, and a negro man, met a hor rible death together. Mr. Holt and the egro were engaged In cutting feed on a steam cutter when the fly-wheel burst, cutting off both of Mr. Holt's legs and killing the negro instantly. Mr. Holt lingered an hour or more. Asheville Ol Iin Prospect. Asheville, N. C.. Special.-The first work of sinking a well to find oil and gas will begin Monday on Dr. J. T. Baird's farm on Beaver Dam. five miles from Asheville. 'ihe building ef the derrick will begin then but con siderable lumber and tackle to be used in its construction has alreadly been auled to the spot and the contractors who will erect the derrick are here ready to start Monday. The builders are E. W. Litten and Wmn. Heald, of Sardis, 0. These gentlemen are pro fessional derrick builders and are thoroughly familiar with the work. They said that the wells in West Vir ginia were at least 3.000 feet deep and that the, cost of making a test her would be over $15,000.er A New Merger. Raleigh, N. C.. Special.-J. S. Wynne, secretary and treasurer of the Raleigh Cotton Mills, of this city, is authority for the statement that a new Fries merger will be formed by the aid of New York capitalists and that the con solidatior. is expected to be effected early in April. The Raleigh mills will nYe' the combination. Tried te flurder Family. Huntsville. Ala., Special.-Jos. Pow ers, a young white man of New Mar ket, Ala.. attempted to exterminate a whole family near that place Friday. Powers had a dificultv v-ith .John Winkle a few days ago and ck:ermnin ed to get rcuenge. He calica at Kin kle's home today and opened ile u~pon the family through a window. Five people wcre shot, including Winkle, a baby and two women. Winkle's son was shot in the eye. Immediately af ter the shooting Powers took a train fr Texas. The flothe'rs' Congress. New York. Special-The annual con ference of the National Congress of Mothers will be held this year at De troit. Mich., May 5th to Sth. To the board of management the congress has entrusted the conduct of its business for three years. thuo giving more time for conferences, discussions. etc. An important feature of the work oP the con~ress is to secure the co-operation of home and school, which has been effected in hundreds of schools on nsioulined by the congress. tERN INDUSTRIAL Wills' Additior.s. 3. C.) 'ills' stockhold prii 16 to ratify acLn s 'r re:;olving to .1 eo-tcck from $C50,000 to $cting will bem fcrn ne In its iissue cf D:ccra ber 1. he Manufacturers' Record mentiond th-nareAat hc t.his ine e , cpita! is to pay fo nar-ey. the crect'on of a No. 2 rai plasned fr:r 50.000 s 2les and 1, locrus. On!y 25,000 incils and 7 iComlls wI ',1 inotalled upon the co ,!nion ci theo main tuur.T other madinery will be installed ai ier the first ha!f 'f the equipmOnt in succe:sfui ope:-a:.ion. The c:, p a prc - 'n wit the worki volved in these e::tensive bettcrmcn:s It has contracten. for all the r:hina Cry. secured bricr for the build.ng which will bt . five- tory structm 1':0x450 feet, and the latter is nar-:; In progress of e e'o n. A compkt water- vorl:s system requiring a 200, (M0gallon - reservoir and a :icel bridge across Broad river will also ;e. constructed. This ncw mill will -m ploy about (00 people. The origina: Lockhart plant has 25,000 spindies and SOO looms. Doubling a $450,000 Mill. The Monaghan Mills of Greeni:lie, S. C., will double its extensive plant. The directors and stockholders of the company havo authori:ed the im pnrovements. and will push them to (ompleticn this year. The present in staliation of textile machinery is 30. 000 spindles and 7GO looms. which will be duplicatecd in the extension to be' erected. The chrtracter of product will continue to be the same, namely, wide print cloths and wide shectings for couversion. J. F. Grandy & Son have Cntract -to erect the mill extension. andler agreement to complete it by ugut 15. All the machinery has been nu rc hase d. Textile Notes. R. 13. Spencer of Dublin. Texas. is ccrresponding with Galveston (Te:-as) prties relative to the ere:.on of a large cotton mill at Dublin. G. C. McEachern, Piedmont, S. C contemplates establishing a kni-ttin nll. He wants informeation rcgardg the knitting industry, r- cs on a h:acry, etc. It is proposed tcstablish a. cotten factory at Eucatunna, Miss. M. A. ooge, one of the town's roerciants, elfers to donate ten acres of land as site for the enterprise. Messrs. M. Heiman, H. M. Remc-, John G. Flecher and othcrs of Little Rock, Ark., prcpcse the establlishm.ent of a $250,000 cotton mill. Their plan is to securc $150,000 at Little Rock and $100,000 from outside capitalists. Messrs. Ely Walker & Co., dry goods merchants, of St. Louis, Mo., will cs tablish at Tupelo, Miss., the knitting mill mentioned last month as proposed by them. About $50,000 will be invested o st:.rt with. The product will be ho siery. Messrs. W. L. Weleker, Henry Hud son. John F. Edington, J. G. Johnson nro iJraterafimoh have incoi-pura ced he Southern Textile Co. oZ Kuorville, lenn., for manufacturing cotton, flax, emp ,etc. The capital sto::k is $10,000. No further details stated. J. H. Ruebush, Dayton, Va., contem plates installing machinery for the manufacture of hosiery or underwear. e merely wants to install a small umber of machines in order to utilizze surplus powers. Prices and other infor nation are requested on the required achinery. Avon Mills, Gastonia, N. C., was amaged only about $3,000 worth by he windstorm referred to last week. Repairs to the building are already about completed. Stuart W. Cramer, Charlotte. N. C., -is engineer in charge o furnish parts for the damaged ma cinery. About 10,080 spindles and 303' loms are operated. Park Woodcn Mills, Rossville, Ga., anufacturer of jeans and cassirneres, wil enlarge and improve its plant. Company will erect additional build ing under its own supervision, of briek:. 40 feet wide by 270 feet long, suitable for storage and for operating 80 looms. It is on the market for 80 arrow looms, three sets 60-inch cards and three pairs -mules. Extract Wool Merino Co. of Chatta ooga, Tenn., reported last month as to ncrease capital from $20,000 to $40,000, as taken this action. It will erect an additional building three stories high and install new michinery to about :ouble present capacity. TI> product is shoddy (wool secured fre old rags and cloth containing both wool and otton.) It is proposed to build a knitting mill at Clinton, S. C., and P. S. Bailey is interested. York Cotton Mills, Yorkviile, S. C., has contracted for the combing ma hinery for its additional building mentioned last wveek. This machinery has been purchased from Whitin Ma -hine Works, Whitinsville, Mass., through Stuart WV. Cramer, mill en gineer, Chrrlotte, :I C. The additional building is a two-story structure 54x80 fet. There arc 20,2C4 spindles in this mill. Lumber Notes. Mr. C. L. Hardy of Lecompte, La., has completed arrangements to begin at once the erection of one of the lar gest sawmills in that section of Lou isiana. The plant will be located near the Texas & Pacific Railroad depot in Lecompte. The Cotten Bros. Cypruiss Co., Lim ited, of Morgan City, La., started its new sawmill on the 2nd inst. This mill has been under construction for several months and is not fully completed. The capacity is 50,000 feet per day. Ground has been broken at New Iberia, La., for the erection of the $500,000 sawmill plant to be built by iccal capitalists. The machinery is beginning to arrive, and switches are teing laid for transpcrtation of same o mml grounds. RELIGIOUS LIBERP A Decree Th.t Shows the Progress c the World's Thought CZAR OF RUSSIA GROWS LIBERAI Local Self-Government (Iranted I Some Instanc.:s-A Long Step I Advance. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-The Cza has published a decree providing fc freedom of religion throughout hi dominions, establishing to scme de gree local self-goveanment and mak ing other cncessions to the villn committees. The decree, which was is sued in commemoration of the anni versary of the birthday of Alexande III, is considered to be the most sit nificant act of state since the emanci pation of the serfs. The public hail it as the proclamation of an era open ing up bright prospects of the ear.: improvement of Russian internal -ad ministration. The text of the decree I in part as follows: "The trouble agitating our country which to our deep regret have partl: been sown by designs hostile to thi State and partly engendered by doc trines foreign to Russian life, hinde the general work of ameliorating th well-being of our people. These trou bles confuse the public mind, remov the people from productive labor, an( often ruin families dear to our hear and young energies among high an< low, necessary to the internal develop ment of the country. In demandinj the fulfillmeit of this, our will, whili remaining strongly opposed to any vio lation of the normal course of nationa life, and having confidence that al will loyally discharge their local du ties. we are irrevocably decided t satisfy the needs for which the Stat has become ripe and have deemed i etpcdient to strengthen and decree i expedient to observance of the prin ciples of tolerance laid down by th fundamental laws cf the Russian Em pire, which. recognizing the Grthodo) Church as the ruling one, grant to al our subJects of othsi regious and t< all foreign persuasions freedom o: creed and worship in acou:-ance witl other rites; and we are further resolv. ed to continue the active carry::g oul of measures for the improvc.. ant o: tLe material position of the orthodo rtral clergy, while enabling them t, cake a larger share in intellectual an public life. "In accordance with impending measures for the consolidation of the national economy, the efforts of th( State credit institutions and especiall3 the nobles and peasants banks shoul be directed to strengthening and de eloping the welfare and fundamenta pillars of Russian vIllage life and thai of the local nobility Fa d- peasantry These principles marked out by us foi the disposition of the laws of the rural population are, when formulated, to b referred to the prov,incial governmeni councils, so -that with the assistance f gergons enjoying the publicts conti dece, they may be further developei and adapted to the special conKition: f individual localities. This funda mental principle of the inviolability o0 communal property is to be maintain ed, while at the same time means are to be found to render It easier for the indivadual to server connections wit] the community to which he belongs, Ij ie so desires.. "Without delay measures must be taken to release the peasants from the present burdensome liability of en forced labor. "Through reforms are to be effected In the provincial governments and dis tricts administrational by the loca: representatives, while attention will be devoted to securing closer co-oper ~tion between the communal authori ties and parochial trustees of the Or thodox churches wherever possible. "Calling upon all our subjects to co operate in strengthening the founda tions- of families, school and public lift under which alone the well-being 01 the people and the confidence of ever: one in the stabilty of his rights car develop, we command of our niinisters and chief officials concerned in this matter to submit to us thei views re garding the execution of our inten tions." Sworn to K-1 HIs Uncle. r .Knoxville. Tenn.. Special.-Garret1 eddon. an alleged moonshiner, has been stabbed to death by his brother Riley Heddon, in Polk county. A yea ago in an altercation with anothel brother. Garrett killed him and thi! mude-' led to his own death. Garret and Ril'2y had visited the town of Re liance and had started home when the became Involved in a quarrel abou Garrett having killed his brother, th result being that Riley plunged a knif through his body. Garrett was takei home. where, after his family had as sembled. he gave to his eldest son aged 10. his pistol, making him swca that he would kill his uncle when h was large' rongh. Anoth er Restraining Order. Kansas City, Special.-An injunctio1 was granted to the Kansas City Trans fee Company against the Team Driv ers' International Union. No. 45, an< the sympathizers of the strike, b: Judge John F. Phillips, of the United States District Court. The ~tion wa brought on the ground that e com plainants are government cartmen, be ing employed by the government il transporting bonded goods.. Justice Day's iIlness Serious. Washington, Special.-The Associ ated Press is informed by a membe of the family of Justice Day, of tb United States Supreme Court, that h is suffering from a severe attack c grip. His condition, it is admitted, serious. Mrs. Day and two sons a rived here Friday. Two other son one at the University of Michigal and the other at a school mn Ash ville. N. C., are being kept closely a vised as to their father's illness. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS Many Matters of General interest In .,hort Paragraphs. The Sunny South. Heavy floods are threatening towns on the lower Mississippi. The Southern Railway will greatly 2 enlarge its shops at Spencer. n The North Carolina General Assem bly closed its bi-annual session Mon day. Along the Mississippi the levees are r being strengthened with bags of sand r and the levees are breaking in places. s Government engineers report that the highest water ever known in the Mississippi is to be feared before the - present flocd subsides. e Secretary of the Navy Moody, with - a party of officials, left Charleston, - S. C., at noon Wednesday on the dis r patch boat Dolphin for a cruise in the West Indies. The condition of ex-Senator James . K. Jones, of Arkansas, who has been s Ill for some days, is reported as im- - - proved. A paroxysm of hiccughs which lasted two days greatly distressed the patiebt, but the physicians now have S this unfavorable symptom under con trol and the family express the hope that he will entirely recover. J. R. McIntosh, general counsel of a the Southern division of the Postal - Telegraph Company, who 'has been ill r In Atlanta for some time with pneu e monia, was last night reported to be in - a very critical condition. Hope for his a recovery has been practically abandon I ed, although his physicians state that t he may live two or thre6 days. At The National Capital The blockade of the .Orinoco by - Venezuela is expected to develop fresh I International complications. . 1 Representatives of the three Amer4 cas will meet at the State Department tc consider the Pan-American railway i pro)ject. rhe President has nominated Wm. ' Plimley to be Assistant United States Treasurer at New York, succeeding the late Conrad Jordan. At The North. At Clean, N. Y., 18 to 20 persons were killed and double that number . injured by an explosion of oil. t The ferryboat Neptune was sunk by f the river steamer Margaret at Pitts c burg, but no lives were lost. The unsatisfactory bank -tatement'! I and the assigroent c' Dresser - Co. caused Vocks to break sharply in-Wall. Ntreet. The protected cruiser Chattanooga, for the United States Navy, built b Lewis Nixon's company, was launched at Elizabethport, N. J., Miss Lillian Chambliss, daughter of the Mayor of Chattanooga, acting as sponsor. The directors of the Western Unlow T,elegraph Company declared the regu lar quarterly dividend of 114 per cent. A stategnent issued estimates the net revenue for the quarter ending March 31 at $1,850,000. . Arthur 'Nennell corespondent In. - the divorce suit of Edwin L Burdiek, who was mysteriously murdered at Buffalo, was dashed to death in an ! automobile, and his wife who was with K> him, is believed to be fatally injured. Hon. William J. Bryan, addressing the Michigan Judicial Convention at. LDetroit, criticised ex-President Clee-. Sland, 3. P. Morgan and J. Edward Ad dicks. -The stockholders .of the Pennsyi. vania Railroad Company, in annual meeting at Philadelphia, voted to in -crease the capital stock of the corn pany by $150,000,000, making the an thorized capital $400,000,000. - SJudge E. B. Adams, at St. Louis, - " .named March 17 as the date for hear ing arguments on the Wabash Rail ro~d injunction. Six strange deaths on the Karamania which arrived in New York from Southern Europe, caused the health of ficials to suspect cholera and to order all on the vessel detained in quaran tine. From Across The Sea. Pope Leo XIHI received a jubilee delegation of British Catholics. The British House of Coanmor~s be-I gan to debate on the army esu::iates The Naval Committee of the Reich stag cut down the Government's pro gramn for expenditure. In the French Chamber of Deputies Sthe the Government was urged to ae Squire Morocco. s Nincteen Italians are believed to have been drowned by the capsizin~g of a ferry boat on the Hudson rixct a:. Spier Falls, New York. Lord Lovat was overcome with stage fright and sat down after coinletingi 1 only part of the first sentence of his - maiden speech in the House of Lords. The Ameer of Afghanistan divorced e all his wives but four. - Pape Leo, it is announced, wi~ re- I ccive pilgrims in Rome today. -A great automobile paradesaud Emperor William in Berlin. -Townsvilie, North Queensland. has :1 been visited by a cyclcne, in which y many persons were killed or injured. 1 A part of the hospital building col s lapsed during the storm, killing six -persons. Schools, churches and resi .dences were destroyed, and many of a the inhabitants have been rendteed homeless. Miscellaneous Matters. r Cotton prices again slumped on the eNew York Exchange. a Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist, it is i believed has permanently lost the sight s of oe eye. -The Buffalo police detained and ;, questioned in connection with the Bur ,dick murder mystery Miss Marion -Hutchinson, a former clerk for Edwin i- L. Burdick, but released her for lack of evidence.