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GEI SflUGGLERS CAUGHT
Max Lasar and a Bridal Couple
Arrested at Niagara Fails.
DIAMONDS WORTH $75,000SE!ZED
Gemn AT?>re Found In the PoA*eA?Ion of a
Younc Couple on a Honeymoon xrip
?I.mar Induccd Them to Carry the
Valuable*, llut Custom* Officers Were
on the Alert?An Important Seizure.
Buffalo. X. Y. (Special).?Max Lasar,
a man from Boston named .T. Mack,
ami a woman who is supposed to be
a confederate are under arrest at Niagara
Falls on a charge of smuggling
diamonds valued at $75,000. Dr. P.
Van Dandaigue. who is supposed to
be implicated, has not been arrested,
but is under surveillance.
Lasar. according to the customs officials.
brought the diamonds to Montreal
from Europe, and through Dr.
Van Dandaigue met the man and
woman, who werp on a wedding tour,
ami induced them to take charge of
the packages, representing that it was
a present which he did not want them
to open until they reached the United
States.
The suspects reached Montreal on
the Dominion Line steamer Dominion.
"When leaving the steamer Mack was
recognized by Deputy Collector E. H.
Twoliey of the United States Customs
Service, stationed in that city. Mr.
Twohey followed the two men to Toronto.
sitting behind them in the car
and overhearing part of their conversation.
He wired E. P. Lewis, the
officer stationed at Suspension Bridge,
to meet him in Toronto. Lewis followed
the two men across the border
and arrested theni.
WEST POINT COMMENCEMENT.
The Closing Exercises Held and l)lplo
mas Awarded.
West Point. X. Y. (Special).?The
closing exercises of the graduating
class of 1000 were held under a canvas
canopy in front of the library building.
Upon a platform were seated the
speakers, the Board of Visitors, the
Academy Board, the Secretary of War,
General Miles. General Otis and prominent
army officers. After a patriotic
selection by the Academy band. General
Charles F. Manderson. of Nebraska,
president of the Board of Visitors,
delivered an address to the graduating
class. Then followed brief addresses
by Secretary of War Root and Lieuteuant-General
Miles. Colonel Albert
L. Mills, superintendent of the Academy,
handed out the diplomas which
mnrio tho members of the graduating
class part of the United States Army,
l'lie good-bys followed.
VICTIMS OF BLOOD POISONING.
Two Doctors Who Had Performed Oper.
ation on a Boy In Connecticut.
New Haven. Conn. (Special).?Two
physicians have died, victims of blood
poisoning, following an operation performed
in Itockville on a ten-year-old
boy.
Doctors Malancthon Storrs. aged
seventy-six, of Hartford, and Doctor
Eldrldge K. Leonard, aged sixty-nine,
are the victims.
It is not known exactly how the
doctors became infected - with the
poison, xioth were skillful surgeons.
The operation was for the removal
of an abscess of the liver.
Dr. Leonard leaves a' widow and
two sous.
SIX MEET SUDDEN DEATH.
Logging Train Koll* I?o\vn a Three Han?1
roil Fant KinhmitmAnt.
Williamsport, P?-nn. < Special i. ? Six
men were killed ;md another injured
fatally on a logging railroad in Camy
mal, about tljirty-six miles from the
* place. A train jumped the track and
plunged down a 300-foot embankment.
Both tiromau and engineer were
killed instantly, as also were four Italian
laborers. The cars and engine
were literally smashed to kindling.
Saspecled of the Maine Murder*.
George Champion, for whom the police
of Maine. New Hampshire and
Massachusetts have been diligently
searching because of his supposed connections
with the murder of Farmer
(Joodwin and three other members of
the household at West Newfield. Me.,
was arrested at Milford, Mass. Champion
and his wife were taken to Boston
and locked up in the Tombs.
Kobertd'g Communication* Reopened.
Communications with General Rob
erts .it Pretoria have been reopened,
Generals Kitchener and Methuen having
defeated the Boers in the Orange
River Colony. Premier Schroiner and
the members of the Cape Colony Ministry
have resigned, and Sir Alfred
^ _ Milner has accepted their resignations.
No Plague in San Krascliro.
\ In response to a recent message of
\nquiry from Secretary of State Hay
Vucerning the existence of bubonic
plague in San Francisco, Governor
liajke.of California mailed an extended
repljt. declaring his firm belief that no
:-ase bubonic plague has ever existed
in SanvFraucisco.
Haines Price of Food.
Owing fco t lie plague quarantine the
prices of ali kinds of food have nearly
doubled in C^hinatown, San Francisco.
Lead Producers May Combine.
Lead producers of Utah have taken
the first steps toward forming a State,
and later a national, organization, tc
put up tin? price or, leau ny increasing
exports. They will work in co-operatiou
with the smelter trust.
Spilt Milk CausedMuriler.
John Beck, of Springfield, Ohio, whih
with a picnic party at\Clifton, was
killed l?y liobert Mendenhm, a farmer,
who became incensed over\the upsettin;:
of a crock of cream b\ the pic
nickers. \
Collece Siudcnts io Help Wltli thXwhea'
College students of Eastern HRnsa*
and .Missouri are to be importantVact
ors in gathering the wheat harvVst
They have formed companies, and
preparing to spend their vacations cuY
- ting wheat and threshing.. They ex
pert to get from $1.50 to $2 a day anc
board, and will earn more than Slot
each. The farmers are glad to hav?
them coiue.
Deaths Front l'lague at Cairo.
Out of seventy-five cases of plague
at Cairo, Egypt, thirty-four have re
suited fatally.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
I Wanlilneron Item*.
The Navy Department has established
a United States Navy pay office
at Hong Kong, with ray master Smith
in charge.
The President issued n manifesto
of a reciprocal commercial agreement
with IVrtu::al. It goes iuto effcct im'
mediately.
j Secretary Ilay and Lord Pauncefote
have signed a protocol extending until
I vi.ix/.ii j. tiiivt tho time allowed for the
ratification of the reciprocity treaty
with Barbadoes.
Senators have been asked to name
candidates for West Point, cadetsliips.
Forty appointments to fhe Naval
Academy will be made now, and sixty
next winter.
An official statemeut was made to
the effect that this Government will
take no step in China further than is
necessary to protect Americans.
Secretary Long relieved Commander
fodd, chief of the Naval Hydrograpliic
Office, from the order of suspension
Imposed upon him several weeks ago.
Our Adopted Irintid*.
General MacArthur at Manila reports
the capture of the rebel Generals Hizan
and Cavestany.
Multitudes offered suggestions for
J civil rule in the Philippines during
the Taft Commission's first week of
work at Manila.
General Maximo Gomez has written
a letter concerning the efforts of both
the National and Republican parties
in Cuba to convince the people that
he favors their candidates for office.
Governor Alien and General Davis
on the Uuited States transport Wright
have made a three-uay trip around
+>!/ ? Tclnnd nf PnrtO RieO.
Imports at Havana, Cuba, for first
I four months of 1900 footed up $19.356,046,
an increase over the same period
of 1899 of $3,239,423.
Postal receipts in the Philippines for
nine months ended March 1, 1900, were
$10,993 in excess of expenditures.
Captain Flint, while scouting five
miles east of Biacnabato, Bulacan
Province, P. I., had a slight brush with
I the enemy. Flint and two privates
were wounded.
Domestic.
Government engineers ascertain that
| the current in the Chicago River is
: not too strong for navigation.
After receiving two gunshot wounds,
i Watchman James Delauey shot and
killed an unknown burglar at Chicago.
| Governor Shaw, of Iowa, and tlftee
j others were Injured 'by the collision
I nf Northwestern trains at Des Moines,
! Iowa.
Lucretia Peabody Hale, eighty years
I old, oldest surviving sister of the Rev.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, died in
Boston. Miss Hale contributed to periodicals
for young persons.
Returned Alaska miners deposited
$200,000 in gold dust at the United
States Assay Office, in Seattle, Wash.
Spencer County. Ind., will erect a
monument over the grave of Nancy
Hanks Lincoln, mother of President
Lincoln.
The Spanish cannon loaned by the
Government to Kansas City, Mo., was
found to be loaded.
Some one in ambush shot and killed
John Ovess and his young son at Mobile,
Ala.
Dr. Psyil Gibier, founder r of the
American Pasteur Institute, died from
injuries deceived in a runaway accident
near his summer home In Suffern,
N. Y.
< The wife of Mayor Frank E. Moores,
of Omaha, Neb., sustained injuries in
a runaway accident from which she
died.
Miss Henrietta Hadley, daughter of
- ,-A- *1 1 TT-Jl
me ime vjtfutjiiii aumcj, ut >uc uui,lish
army, was sent to the almshouse
In New York City.
The factory and stock of the Virginia
and North Carolina Wheel Com ,
pany, near Richmond, Va., was totally
] destroyed by tire. The plant was
I among the largest of the kind in the
world.
Fully 40,000 strangers visited Columbus,
Ohio, to extend greetings to Admiral
Dewey and his wife, and the
city's entire population seemed to turn
out to witness the military and civic
parade in the Admiral's honor.
Foreign.
The Liberal government in British
Columbia was defeated by a decisive
majority.
The American explorer, Donaldson
Smith, arrived at Cairo, Egypt, after
a remarkable journey from Berbera
by way of Lakes Rudolph and Stephanie.
He accomplished interesting
geographical work.
Comte Boni de Castellane at Paris
trfis nnn-suited in his anneal from an
order requiring him to complete, the
payment of $20,000 for a picture.
The French fishing on the Grand
Banks has been a total failure thus
far, owing to the inability of the fishermen
to procure bait in Newfound* J
land waters.
The steamer Cutch, just arrived at
Vancouver, B. C., brings news from
the north that a scow was wrecked
jn Windy Arm en route from Bennett
to Atlin and the occupants drowned.
They were W. G. Morgeau. San Fran-?isco;
Mrs. Werner, Seattle; Joseph
liose, Mrs. Playmate, C/F. Peabody
and two unknown men.
The Sultan of Turkey has telegraphed
his congratulations to Queen
Victoria upon the occupation of. Pretoria
by the^British under Gen. Rob-;
erts. ? . ' /' I
The Peary arctic steamer Windward
has completed repairs at St. Johns, N.
F., ana, after taking on supplies at
Sydney, C. B.. will sail -about July 1
for the far north to meet Peary.
The Reichstag passed tne. uerinaD
Naval bill on its third reading by a
vote of 399'to 107.
Russia assured Great Britain and
the United States that she will act
in the interest of all the powers in
China.
A total of twenty-three deaths frotu
the bubouic plague is officially re
ported from Rockhampt'on, Queens
land. " ' *
The American bark Harvester, fro a1
Cape Town for Newcastle. N. S. W.
has been totally wrecked on the Sea!
Rocks. Captain Edwardson aud the
crew were saved.
The Prince of Wales has thanked
the Rev. Dr. DeWitt Talmage. now or
a trip around the world, for the efforts
be has mdde through his religious
newspaper in behalf of the famine
sufferers in India.
About 3500 British prisoners, includV
ing 129 officers, have been released by
\ General Roberts at Pretoria. The
Vest, "about louo. have been removed
iVv the Boers.
Vmoug the new Italian deputies returned
by the electors is Fusaui, a
workman in the Carrara marble quarries,
\vlio at present is in prison on a
chargeVof being an anarchist conspirator.
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UMPimnim
1 Chancellor of Legation Murdered by
the Empress's Bodyguard in Pekin,
EMPEROR'S APPEAL TO POWERS.
Straus 8u Wants, a Protectorate For
China? A Handful of British Marines
Boat 2000 Boxers Near tofti?Japan
Sends Troops to Takn?An American
"?n?ni r>?man<l? Protection.
London (By Cable).?The Times publlshes
the following dispatch from Pekin:
'The Chancellor of the Japanese Legation,
Snglyaina Aklra, while proceeding
alone and unprotected on official
duty, was murdered brutally by soldiers
of Tung Fuh Siang, the favor
OFFICE OF THE
(This is the Chinese Forelprn Office in Pe
where the Ambassadors at
ite bodyguard of the Empress, at Maaigate
(?) ruilroad station." ? f
A telegram from Yokohama says yie
Japanese Government has ordered
four more warships to proceed to
Taku, and 4000 men of all arms are
under orders to be in immediate readiness
for embarkation.
i The Tsung-li-Yamen has been
packed with Boxer chiefs who have replaced
the old members.
Tho summer home of the British
Miniver in Pekin, Sir Claude Mac
J Dcnffra, has Ima bnro^
DOWAOEB EMPBES9 OF CHINA.
Sixteen British marines, reconnoitring
in advance of the international
column which was marching to Pekin
fought and chased 2000 Boxers, kill
Ing twenty or tnirty.
Through the medium of the Express
the Emperor of China publishes a
message to the peoples of the civilized
world. His Majesty urges that the
powers shall set him free from his
prison fti the Pekin palace, transfer""
him to a new capital, depose the "Oqsvager
Empress and establish av^Joiut
protectorate over the empire,' which
they shall govern through him, assuming
entire control of customs ports
and telegraphs.
CHINESE (SITUATION DI.SCfJSSED.
The Cabinet Adheres to Its Announced
l'ollcy? Request For a Craisor.
Washington, D. C. (Special). ? The
Cabinet meeting Tuesday was attended
by Secretaries Hay, Hitchcock,
Long and Gage, and Postmaster-General
Smith. It was devoted largely to
discussion of the Chinese situation.
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xue uauiu^i. uuliucu iu suiuu uj mv
policy of pushing measures for the
protection of the lives aud property of
American citizens and of acting independently
so far as possible. The extent
of American activity will be confined
solely to the protection and safeguarding
of American interests. The
Chinese Government will be looked to,
under-the general laws of the comity
of the nations, to restore order and
to make such reparation as is proper.
From all political schemes in which
any of the powers may become involved,
the United Stares is to hold
aloof. This is the"general policy heretofore
outlined, and it will be adhered
to.
The following dispatch was received
at the State department:
"Chin-Kiang.?Large numbers of natives
organized secret society, halted
here. People very appreheusfve. No
protection. Want cruiser. MARTIN."
Mr. Martin is the United States Consul
at Chin-Kiang,' and his telegram
is the first news.received here to indicate
the spread of the Boxer agitation
| m iuai secuuu ul uuiuu.
Boiler Exploolori.Kills Three.
<A boiler in Charles" F. Reed's saw"mlll,
five miles west of Fife Lake,
: Mich.,^exploded, killing A. J. Cole,
M. Suifuh and an unidentified man and
injuring ten others. The mill was
completely "wrecked and all but two
of the employes were either killed or
injured.
f Hanged Two to One Tree.
The negroes, Askew and Ituss. who
are believed to lwve murdered Miss
Wlntersteln near Biloxi, Miss., were
hanged to the same tree by a mob.
One-Cent Fine For Sunday Ball Players.
The Fort Wayne and Wheeling baseball
players and the umpire were fined
nnp Pont on/>V> ot F'nrt Wnmo Tnd hu
Justice Bullerman for playing ball on
Snudav. The officers varetv off all
costs, so that the entire sum paid was
only nineteen centg.
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General Otis Sees the Pretldrat.
Major-Geueral Otis nrrived'Hn Washington
and had a talk on affairs in the
Philippines with the President, who
congratulated and thanked him for his
services. -
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ATTACK ON LABOR UNIONS "
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Testimony of N. F. Thompson Before
the Industrial Commission.
Qe 8^y? They Are the Greatest Menacc
to the Government That Exists
?Suggested Legislation.
Washington, D. C. (Special).?Before
the United States Industrial Commission
N. F. Thompson, secretary of the
Southern Industrial Convention, made
a sensational attack upon labor unions:
"Labor organizations are -to-day,"
he declared, "the greatest menace to
this Government that exists inside and
outside the pale of our national domain.
Their influence for disruption
and disorganization of society is far
more dangerous to the perpetuation
of our Government In its purity and
power than would . be the hostile
TSUSG-U-YAMEN. kin,
where the great mafedirlns n(Wt--AQC
id Ministers are received,} .
array on our borders pf the arinlei
of the entire world combined.",'^' ; i
Jlr. Thompson declared that he made
this statement after years /of- ptoB<
study, embracing the princlpal\i?Ju&
trial centres both of the North*ajui
the'South? In stfft>ort of his state
ment he said that "on every liana:
and for the slightest provocation, all ,
classes of organized labor stand ready ;
to Inaugurate a strike, with all its at
tendant evils;"
He maintained that "organizations
teaching such theories should be hel<f
as treasonable in their character, an<!
their leaders worse than traitors tc
their country;"
Mr. Thompson said that many laboi
leaders are open and avowed Social
ists; that their organizations arc weak
ening the ties Of citizenship among
thousands of our people in that the/
have no other standard of community
obligations than what these orgaiiiza
tiorra inculcate; that they are bringing
reproach upon the judicial tribunals
of our country by public abuse of thest
tribunals and often open defiance of
their judgments and decrees, thus
" * * J ? .1-1 <*/>
seeking to DreaK qowu iub um.r nmc
guards of a free people."
The remedy for these evils lies, he
sakL principally, In a, correct publk
sentiment touching the relations thai
should exist between labor and capital.
A uniform law thjat would talM
the individual workmap out from un
der any ban of reproach, such ai
"scab" or "black list,!' he thought
would aid in reestablishing correct ro
lations between labor) and capital.
"A further law," he added, "shoulc
be enacted that woul,d make it justi
flahle homicide for any killing that oc
cufed in defense of any lawful occu
pation."
In view of the close relationship
exiting nmonic all classes of oar citizens
and the interdependence of ali
interests, strikes and boycotts, h?
thought, should be made a felony but
by..national and State legislation.
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'"JUMPS\ INTO WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS.
Despondent In Love, Miss Rotli, of A1
lentowo, Penn., Takes Her Life.
Niagara Falls. N. Y. (Special.)?Ger
trude Roth, twenty years old and reck
less, ran away from her sister's hom?
in Allentown, Penn., and committed
suicide by leaping into the whirlpool
rapids.
The girl arrived here on the Lehigb
Vollmr Tfollrnnd. Shp had no baczasre,
but seetnea to have plenty of money,
She slept at the Wayne Hotel, break
fasted heartily, hired a hack to see th*
Falls. She drove about a bit, bought
some keepsakes for her friends, and
laughingly descended the elevator on
the Canadian side to the whirlpool rapids,
into which she stepped without a
moment's hesitation.
Love for a Lehigh student?a foolish
girl love for a boy?lay behind this
strange suicide.
ENTIRE FAMILY BURNED .TO DEATH, i
Four Persons Lose Their Lives In Newfield,
Me.?Foul Play Suspected.
Xewfield, Me. (Special).?George W. |
Goodwin's farm buildings, in a sparse* I
ly settled section of the town near the '
New Hampshire line, were burned,
and the four members of the household 1
perished. Mr. Goodwin was a pros'porous
farmer and a veteran of the
Civil War. about sixty years old. The
other members of his household were
Ills son. Scott Goodwin, twenty years 1
old; Mrs. Elsie Home, the housekeep- 1
er, sixty, and Fred E. Murch, a farm I
hand, thirty years old. The natural <
supposition is that the tire started from j
acc.uental causes, and tnat they were i
all suffocated in their beds, but some 1
of the residents of the town are in ]
elined to suspect foul play. <
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Filipino Stronghold Taken.
General Grant, who led reinforce- j
ments, -with artillery, against the in- ^
surgents In the mountains east of Sa- (
miguet, Luzon, reports the capture of ]
rhe rebel stronghold after four hours' j
lighting. The rebels were scattered.
General Grant's column had no caa-'r
| naltles.
An Indiau Outbreak FeawW#' *
The Leech Lake Indians, in iktlnne- j
sota. were reported to be onthe verge 1
of an outbreak. j
Newdj Gleanings.
There are 5207 motor cycles inFrance
on which the annual tax 1 :.s
been paid.
The Am'eric-n Consul at Marseilles '
reports that trade in France was In- (
creasing. , ' . ?)- ?
United States consuls have teen In- ]
strnctea to make reports on trusts In j
Germany.
The astronomers at Griffin, Ga.,
f&lld to ijcsre any photographs of the
recent eclipse. {
The new Russian crolsep Variag Is i
considered by naval experts the beat <
of her type afloat. j ]
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FATAL BIOTS IN ST. LOUIS
Biff Mobs of Strikers Fired Upon by
the Citizens' Posse.
FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Gars Attacked and General Disorder lr
tlie City?Strikers Shot Down In the
Most Serlons Clash in Front ot Posse's
-ueatVluarier??>* ere iveiunuuK *tmu
an Oattog When the Affair Happened.
St. Louis, Mo. (Special). ? On the
thirty-fourth day of the street car
strike in this city three men were
killed, four mortally wounded and
half a dozen wounded less seriously
In clashes between the strikers, the
citizens' posse and the police.
The dead are: Fred Boehm, aged citizen,
shot and Instantly killed while
standing in his front yard by Deputy
Sheriff; George Rine, striking motorman,
shot in abdomen by Deputy,
Sheriff, died at hospital; C. Edward
Thomas, striking conductor, shot *ln
breast by JDeputy Sheriff, died on way
to hospital; Ed. Bm-khart, striking con-'
doctor, shot in head, died In hospital.
The dead and wounded were takenj
EWQT III EQQbU]A]lC68? /
The former railway, employes had
been in East St. Louis on a big labor
demonstration and picnic They were
returning home in double file, beaded
by a dram corpa At the corner of
Sixth and Washington avenues a transit
car approached the head of the*
procession. The men -did,-not seem
Inclined to give the road and the
car stopped.
The guard warned the men to move
off the track. The non-union crew was
hissed and cursed. Some one threw
a brick which struck the car. The
guard at the barracks .fifty feet away,
shouted into, the headquarters that
there was a "riot , * J:
'Colonel Cavender* in command of
the citizens' posse,'his adjutant, Webliter,
a lawyer, W. P. Kennett, former
president of the Merchants^E^change;,
John F. Lee, a prominent lawyer; former
Judge Chester H. Krum, Charles
N/ifle, a prominent lawyer;, farmer
Jwfge. John H. Overall and Dr. J. II*
mkil^irnrth pnn nnt oonli with, hlg
aglonel Cavender warned the meir
x&WkSve. They talked back at Mwtf
Some one In the crowd dlscharge^a*
revolver. Colonel Cavender jfoonffily
to his three staff officers' to tRfe. jjdM
One-fusillade belched fortJ^|^fea^g|j|(|
riot guns. One man iell dea^T?^
were fatally shot and the t rest scattered
out of sight and thejteeets were
cleared almost instantlyl^pThen the
cars, which had been blodifcfl, proceeded.
- ^p.v
In a North St Louis riot thariot gunwas
brought into play for .'the
time. The riot gun scatters hears
shot. The victim is filled full of bolefl
Its first victim died instantly. .j|H
In an exchange, of shots at CodH
ton and Manchester avenues a |ioaH
was killed. A mob attacked a car UK:
South St Louis and the non-union'
motorman was seriously wounded by
a rock.
PIO DEL PILAR CAPTURED.
Igolnaldo'a Principal Fighting Chief
Taken by Native Police.
Manila (By Cable).?General Pio del
Pilar, the most aggressive (and most
persistent of the Filipino leaders, was
made a prisoner at Guadaloupe, sis
miles, east of Manila, by some of the
Manila native police.
GENERAL PIO DEL PILAR.
Upon information received that be:
ivas to be at a certain house, Capfain1
Lara and twelve policemen proceeded
in a launch to Guadeloupe, where,
lided by a detachment of the Twentyirst
regiment, they surrounded the
louse, captured the General and
Drought him to Manila.
He was positively identified before
Ihe Provost Marshal.
Henry O. Younj? Kills Himself.
r*JfTT Tvnn anror TTon r V H.
fUlLUCl. 1J1LJ ilVUOM.V. ?
Foung committed suicide by shooting
liiiuself in the head at Reading, Penn.
He was elected Treasurer of Heading
in 1800, and two years later was
jhliged to resign because of a short*
lge of nearly $10,000. Young's foouds11
en made the shortage good. .Young
tvas the second City Treasurer of
Reading in^he^last few years to become
a de?SR&^(
Paterst^^^.^ Jir^9 fafled fo/.? 105,jaus.ed
by that 'tit Ivoeni^^^Hayes,
lithographers^ t>l ' Bij^dj^aboyt a
month flg?Chilli
Drowiie4 Ju s Wniffctub.
Alfred B. gnflth; eighteen months old.
.'ell into a waahtub at parents'
home In Newar^. and was
Jrowned.r The child's ih6ther was attending
to housework on an tapper
loor of .tie- house afcfhe time.
.
General Uobertt's Cornmun beat loci Cut.
The successful cutting of General
Roberta's .rco^munieationa t>y the
3oers IS regarded by the crltfcs in Lonlon
a& llkgty to hamper the British op)ratioD'?^itt
the Transvaal, checking
pursuit of the enemy,and postponing
;he termination of the war. General
Juller Is In Boer territory.
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1 Heavy Raina In the Northwest.
Heavy raina have effectually broke
he drought in the Northwest. The
precipitation was heavy throughout
Central and Southern Minnesota, the
Red Iiiver Valley aud Manitoba.
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CAR CRASHES INTO HOUSE
Runs Wild and Enters a Reception
Rjoom at Yonkers.
Brave Motoiman Sticks to Hit Pout and
Kicapes With Ouly a Little Cut
? lirake Snaps on 11111.
Yonkers, N. Y. (Special). ? A runaway
trelley car containing twenty-two
passengers jumped the tracks while
descending a steep hill, and after
going clear across the street plunged
into a house. The car demolished the
wall and continued going until it almost
tilled the room. The passengers
and crew had a remarkable .escape,
only two receiving injuries, one very
slight. The accident was caused by
the brake chain parting.
The car was of the open class. Coming
down Park avenue thece Is a steep
hill about three blocks long. When
the motorman started to descend he
applied the brake gradually, and had
control for r^out iOO feet. Then the
cnam parted ana tue Drake refused to
work. The car instantly bounded
ahead with increasing spe^ft, and before
the foot of the decline was
reached was going like h railroad
train* Many of the passengers wer?
womieh.
When within fifty feet of the bottom
of the hll! Humphreys, the motorman,
signalled to Conductor Hobert to apDly
the rearibrake. Hobert grasped
the handle and, Just as the car reached
ft sharp curre, 'he put the brake down
with iUl hl8 strength,, but it was^ too
and went 91rajgaid0nce of
personi^^^ killed a^*r|w ? 1 a- j
>ants were entan^fed In wreckage that
n some cases pierced their bodies.
Telephone communications sunmioued
surgeons from Providence and East
GSreenwich and places between. The
.vorliing of rescuing the injured and
removing the dead was done promptly.
rivt MLLtU D T IVI^rMiMV*.
twful Crime of a Hired Mun in the
Canadian Noi^hwest.
Moosemin, Assinibola (Special).?The
?herift's posse, which returned here
from Welwyn, a village twelve miles
to the north, brings details of the Uillng
of Po.\. master Alexander McArthur
and four other members of his family
and the wounding of three others by
John Morrison, McArthur's hired 111:111.
The dead are: Alexauder McArthur,
father; Mrs. Alexander McArthur.
mother; Dempsey McArthur. age
twelve; Charles McArthur, age eight,
and rkussell McArthur, age four.
There appears to be an utter absence
of motive for the act of Morrison, who
was considered a quiet, well-behaved
fellow. It is supposed that he was
insane. He will recover.
Cavalry in the Philippine*.
Orders were issued at the War Department
at Washington, for the First
squadron of the Sixth Cavalry and the
Third squadron to proceed to San
Francisco for transportation to the
Philippines on the first available transports.
Starved, While Rich.
Mary Sullivan, aboot sixty years old.
sat dead in a chair for five months in
her miserable and squalid room in
Boston. She was buried in the Potter's
Field, for Mary had not a friend
on this side of the Atlantic, and she
wr.s considered so poor that some
said she died of starvation. But Mary
Sullivan was rich. Hidden away in a
1mv in Imr rnnnia unvnn hnnl* honl'C
showing deposits aggregating nearly
SiAUOU were found.
Tho Labor World.
About twelve hundred workers in
gas fixture factories in New York City
are on a strike.
Child labor in North Carolina mills
lias decreased fifty per cent, ia the
past three years.
Yellow pine timber is getting scarce,
and Southern sawmills are now run
ning two-thirds time.
>n million dollars' worth of build
ing improvements are tied up as a re
suit of the labor troubles in Chicago,
and the advance in pilots fpr buila
ing material.
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THE ICE TfflST FROBED.
faor Van Wyck, of New York, Tells
of His Holdings in the Concern.
OTHER CITY OFFICIALS TESTIFY.
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Fan YFyck Admit* Parcliaie of Stocks
Confeasea That He Now Holds 4300
Sharea, Bat Denie* Being; Concerned
In American Ice Company'* Management?The
Dock Privilege*.
New York City (Special).?Mayor
Van Wyck's connection with the
American Ice Company was revealed
on Ills examination before Judge Gaynor
in Brooklyn under the order issued
to five Councllmen who had made affidavit
that the Mayor, the Dock Commissioners
and others ted conspired
to create a monopoly jeontfrary to law.
The Mayor admitted vhls ownership
of stock in the Amerl&m Ice Company,
but his Information regarding the . _ 1
facts which led up to the information
of the alleged monopoly or its hold on
the city proved to be of,a very limited
character.
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XAYOB BOBtUT A. TAK YCK. '
It was established in the course of
I the pointed questioning by Wheeler v*
: H. Peckham that the Mayor until
cently owned 5000 shares of
ran Iop flomnnnv stock, for whlchafi^^Kl
paid $250,000, partly In cash and
Iy by promissory notes. He was Induced,
he said, to purchase the stock
by C. W. Morse, president of the Ice
company, who took bis casb and notes
and obtained for him $200,000 from
the tGarfleld National Bank. As to
his purchase of the stock, the Mayor
stated that he made it because he*
deemed It a good paying investment, #
Just as he did the purchase of Amalga- ... ^
abated stock he had made.
^Concerning the jaunt with Mr.
Morse and Mr. Carroll, of Tammany,
fei Maine last month, the Mayor deitdared
it. was simply a pleasure trip,
ratken at the invitation of Mr. Morse,
Buid in lien of a trip to the Hot Springs
apt Virginia he had contemplated. He . jj
'declared that not a word concerning
jg^ne formation of a monopoly in New
Bjfdric/Clty was spoken on this occasion,
BPffrhie. was not even aware that Mr.
P&orse was at the head of the American
Ice Company.
'^.There was very little objectloi raised
.by ithe Mayor's lawyers to the line ^
tit his examination, and Judge Gaynor
prevented all attempts to introduce *
jeifraneous questions.
v-'WIHIam L. Gelshenen, president of
/ tUe uarneia national mnK, wuo ia
*also a director of the ice company,
followed the Mayor, and stated that
the bank had no dealing with Mayor
Van Wyck, but advanced money on
his notes to Mr. Morse. The bank,
the witness declared, did not know
that the Mayor was to receive the loan
made, but#bought the notes frdtn Mr.
| Morse thirty iiys after the Mayor
| bought his ice stock.
Charles W. Morse, president of the
American Ice Company, who was the
next witness, denied that the company
obtained any docks from the Commissioners,
but obtained them, he said,
from Individuals and private o\#ers.
The company used the docks of the
Consolidated Company.
Mr. Morse denied that he had talked
to the Mayor or Mr. Carroll about securing
dogk privileges, nor did he talk '
to the Mayor almut buying ice sioc-,
not even when the trip to Maine was
made.
Mr. Morse* made it appear that the
Consolidated Ice Company was still in
possession of the docks in this city it
had acquired by lease, and that the
American Ice Company was simply a <
large stockholder in thejConsolidated.
OVER 200 FILIPINOS KILLED.
uesuit 01 rrevivuv
Nine Americans Killed. '
Manila (By Cable).?As a result of
the week's scouting more than 200 Filipinos
were killed and 100 captured,
while 140 rifles, with Ammunition and
stores, were secured.
The American loss was nine killed, .. ,
including a Captain and a Lieutenant,
two Captains and twenty-one privates
wounded, and one Captain taken pris- A
oner by the Filipinos.
Rose Feast at Munheim, P^nn.
The payment of a red rose as ground
rent to the heirs of Baron Stiegel. who
founded the German Lutheran Church
at Manheim, Penn., in 1772. took place
a few days ago. It was made the
occasion for a picturesque rose festival.
Bad Boys Publicly Flogged.
Roy West and Charles Scharff, each
eleven years oid, were flogged publicly
in Police Magistrate Davison's
office in Melrose Park. Chicago, fot
tying the Justice's fox terrier to the
railway track in such a way that a
railroad train cut oft' the animal's tail. -I
Iuim Mati Burin Fond*.
W. D. Bender, who died at the College
Hill Sanitarium at Cincinnati,
Ohio, a few days ago, destroyed $43.000
worth of Government bonds before i
his relatives could interfere. '
Cycling Note*.
The bicycle has been one of the main
factors in the good roads movement.
The professional promoters in this
country this year will use motor pacing
machines to a large extent.
A chemical compound of india rub
iHT lias ihvii inaiie uy a luuaue.piua
man to bo used as a filler for pneumatic
tiros. Tiio inventor thinks be
has solved the problem of solid tires.
The Touring Committee of the L. A.
W. reports that it has received scores
of requests for routes, and that the department
is one of the most popular
with the Bierabers in the League. J
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