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EMM ItS U Crowded Block in Philadelphia See of Disaster. SCORES BURIED IN THE DEBR -Five Buildings Wrecked and the Inmat Subjected to the Horrors of Fire ai Collapsing "Walls ? Sleeping Fainlll Are Blown Into the Air ? Adjace Buildings Destroyed. Philadelphia, Penn.?A terrific expl sion in a block of six buildings in L cust street, above Tenth, complete! wrecked five of the structures ar caused the death of twenty or moi persons. More than two score of otl ers were more or less seriously li Jured. Several of those taken to tl hospital will die. It is estimated thi at least thirty-five persons were in tl Ave buildings when the explosion o curred. The buildings were occupied as fc lows: Locust street. No. 1008, Hous man's pool and billiard rooms; N 1010, Morris Rosenthal's second-han clothing store, occupied by Rosentha his wife and five children; No. 101: William Jones's colored restauran occupied by Jones and about flftee boarders; No. 1014, George McClen my'8 grocery store, occupied by M Clemmy, clerk and servant girl; N 1016, Patrick Qulgley's grocery stor occupied by Quigley, his wife, thrc children ar.d his uncle; No. 1018, A Vf/vMn+rtln'o n r?H TTIPf uci i muuuiuiu o ^iuvvij store, occupied by Mountain, h mother, sister and a clerk. lhe explosion occurred about 9.' o'clock p. m. What exploded and ho it happened Is not known at this tim but it Is believed to have been a ba rel of gasolene In one of the three gn eery stores. With the exception < No. 1008, the front walls of the buil< Jngs were blown outward into tl street, -while the floors and the rool were blown upward and fell straigl to the ground. Almost every buildlr in a radius of two blocks about tl scene of the explosion had windov shattered and otherwise were dan aged. A terrible cry went up from tl ruins the moment the explosion 0 curred. Women, children and mei occupants of the wrecked house could be seen crawling from tl wreckage, while the agonizing cric of others unable to save themselv< also filled the air. From all the surrounding building injured persons came running and fe 5n the street unconscious. To add 1 the horror fire started In the wrec the moment It settled to the grouni and In less than five minutes the grej pile was burning fiercely. A genen alarm was turned In for fire apparati and ambulances, and in the meantlrc the work of rescue was begun by thos in the neighborhood that were n< Injured. Here and there a perso was dragged from the ruins before ti fire could reach the victim, seven lives being saved by this prompt worl When the firemen reached the seen the flames had made great headwa and were igniting the buildings acrof the street. The fire, however, wa soon under control. The work of digging'away the rule was then begun in earnest. Near th edge of the wreckage several colore men were taken out and sent to th hospitals. While the firemen and pi iicemen were digging and 'haulin away heavy timbers in several se< tlons of the wreckage cries were hear coming from the cellar of Mountain trooprv sfnrf* ItMftv mpn -with rrvr and tackle. Immediately were put t -work at that point and palled awn the roofing and flooring which ha fallen into a massed heap. While the work of Tescue was goin on in the exploded block hospital a tendants and others made a search c all the damaged houses on the opp< site side of the street, and almost score of persons were taken to varioi; hospitals from these places. The Jefferson and the Pennsylvani hospitals, which are nearest to tfc scene of the explosion, soon we 1 crowded with the injured. The buildings containing the poo rooms, clothing store and the restai rant were tliree-stocy brick structure while the others were two and on half stories. GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER KILLED. Street Car Accident In Front of Execute Mansion at Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery, Ala.?Miss Carrl Jones, twenty years of age, daughtf of Governor Thomas G. Jones, wa run over and killed by a street ci in front of the Executive Mnnsioi The accident was witnessed by tl Governor. The daughter for a long time he been afflicted with nervous troub which took the form of sudden spel of dementia or an uncontrollable d sire to run. She required constai attention. She sprang out of the gate hee< less of her father's call to stop. H( brother followed. She ran direct] to the car. which was coming dow hill at full speed, and reached fc the front end. at which she grasped I vain. Her father, leaning helplessl on his crutci.es. saw her strike tl <?ar. He turned away his eyes ju: in time to miss the sight as she W? thrown violently down and entangle In the wheels. She was dragge nearly a block. She was dead whe the motorman. who lost control < the car for a moment brought It 1 a stop. To Resume. Says Phillips. George H. Phillips, of Chicago, tl corn speculator, gave out a statemei In which he says that the George I Phillips Company, which temporari suspended, will resume business; thi through bad bookkeeping it has ove paid its customers $200,000: th; $200,000 is due it from accounts ca ried, and that every claim will 1 met End of British Manoenvres, The British uaval manoeuvres end( in a "victory" for the "enemy." News of tho Toilers. Detroit, Mich., has a union of marii divers. Miners in Missouri have had the wages raised. Servant girls in Chicago have form 0 a union with 330 members. The summer dullness has fallen < the building trades in Philadelphia. Striking ice wagon drivers, of Colui bus, Ohio, have won their fight for ten-hour day. United Mine Workers, with the he of "Mother" Jones, will try to organ! all West Virginia miners. |Y NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE Mob in Alabama Saturates Him n0 With Oil and Applies ToroH Manr Colored People Helped Whites te Mete Ont Vengeance ? The |? Victim Confessed. Birmingham, Ala. ? John Wesley ei FenuinRton, a negro, was burned at Rd the stake near Enterprise. Ala., before es a crowd of 500 citizens of Coffee Counni ty. The assemblage was composed of both white and colored people, and though the wretch pleaded for mercy and endeavored to break the chains o. that bound him, not a trace of sympa^ thy, it is said, was shown on the faces 'd of the onlookers. Pennington had re committed a brutal assault upon Mrs. h. J. C. Davis, the wife of a farmer, and he had confessed his ffuilt. a* woe /irtmmlttod trhtlp \Trs. 1UC txaiic ???o vv?Mi*4.vfcvw ? ?v ? ?e Davis was gathering vegetables in her it garden. Fennington choked her into le insensibility. Afterward he fled to the woods. c* As soon as she regained her senses Mrs. Davis crawled to the house and I- told her husband what had happened. e_ A larpre posse was quickly organized, and with bloodhounds they chased the negro until early in the morning when l<* he was captured in a swamp. Pennington was bound hand and foot and 2? taken back to the Davis home for iaentification. News of the assault of Mrs. 11 Davis had been sent by runners for miles around Enterprise, and (very c* farmer in the neighborhood had left his plow to join in the search. e? When the posse arrived with Pen!e nington there were at least 500 per-1* sons gathered near the Davis residence. At a signal the men withdrew is to the woods and quietly awaited the result of the meeting of Pennington W and Mrs. Davis. Mrs. Davis immew diately recognized him and the negro broke down and wept. He admitted r_ having committed the assault and o- pleaded for mercy, but was dragged from the house and into the woods } where he was burned to death. Evidently expecting a confession ?s several citizens had already driven a it stake into the ground, and as the men if? approached "with Pennington both ie white and colored people were piling r'S bushwood saturated with oil around it. a- The negro saw his doom and screamed in terror, while the crowd stood silently by. c- The frightened brute was limp and Q. had to be supported while the chains s, were fastened around his neck and te body. When all was ready the cry is was given and the crowd stood back. JS A match was then placed to the pile. The terrified negro again pleaded ;s for mercy in the most agonizing tones, ;11 and prayed that those around bim to might perish. He then called upon his k Maker for forgiveness, and as the 3, flames leaped up and encircled his it neck an unearthly shriek was heard il and the man's eyes almost bulged out is of the sockets. When he had been i burned to death the crowd dispersed3 >t GUNBOAT ORDERED TO COLON, n [e Goes to Protect American Interests In Colombia. ?. Washington, D. C. ? A number of ie complications have arisen in connecy tlon with the recent disturbances in ss Venezuela and Colombia. The infor is mation received indicates very strongly the existence of plans for a conis certed movement by the insurrectionie ists of both Venezuela and Colombia, d The absence of any late positive inforie mation from the United States repre3. sentatives in those countries has g caused some uneasiness, and it was c- decided to send the gunboat Machias d without delay to Colon for :he purpose s of protecting American interests. !Jj KILLED HER BABY BROTHER. 7 Little Girl Pat Bullet in Brain While d Playing With a Pistol. ? Toms River, N. J. ?Ethel Handy, ? the nine-year-old daughter of H. E. Handy, of Tuckerton, shot and killed her five-year-old brother Elmer. The ^ children were alone in the house and |g found a pistol. They had seen a pigeon shooting match a short time ago and j were playing that the little boy was the pigeon and the sister the gunner. The pistol went off, and the bullet entered his skull above the right eye, , coming out at the back of the head. ' Coroner Johnson and Prosecutor Brown were summoned from Toms ' River, and a verdict of accidental shooting was returned. BIC PAY FOR CRICKETER. Brown, of Torkshlre, Gets 920,000, the Gate of a Three-Day Match. Leeds, England.?The annual cricket [e match between Yorkshire and Lanca>r shire, which has just been completed, ittsieu luree uujs aim uiuauicu u u. daily crowd of over 10,000. According a to custom. J. Brown, the Yorkshire professional, got the proceeds for good service. He received $20,000, which ig breaks the record. The normal pay of le a professional cricketer is under $25 lg a week during the season. e" Fusion Again In Nebraska. 1 Fusion is again an accomplished a fact in Nebraska. The three State ~ committees of Democrats and Popur lists met at Lincoln and agreed to call their conventions for the same day, September 17. Speeches were made I advocating the closest harmony among , the parties. The Free Silver Republl^ cans, after affirming their allegiance st to their party principles, disbanded. 8teel Trnst's Plan of Fighting. The Steel Trust's plan for fighting ,n the Amalgamated strikers is to open Its mills from time to time with nont0 union labor. The Clark mill a* Pittsburg has been started. Shirt Coat a Failure. The shirt coat, a new style of summer wear for letter carriers which ly met the approval of the Postmastera> General, has proved a flat failure. It ^ was several weeks ago pronounced the r. correct warm weather garb for the je carriers. Many of the carriers tried the new garment, but soon abandoned it. They could not endure the ridicule and derision of the small boy, and returned to the old-fashioned uniform or wore a plain gray shirt. Minor Mention. at' Eggs are selling in Paris, Mo., foi tlirce cents a dozen. !ir Brooms are to be advanced twentyfive to fifty cents a dozen. e<* The Kosta glass works, the largest in Sweden, have been burned, jn There has been a large increase in the number of national banks. 31 Manufacturers in Austria are maka ing efforts to prevent importation of American canned goods. lp Attendance at Pan-American Expoze sition for first three months, ending July 31. is put at 2,724,$00. STOLE HALF A TON OF GOLD |M Ga fhieves Tunnel Into Smelter Vault and Get $280,000. M1 rt/ORK OF SKILLED CRACKSMEN ] 9Id Job In the Night and Within Thirt> m< Miles of San Francisco? Selby Smelt- foi ing Works, Largest on Pacific Coast, foi the Concern Victimised ? No Clni an to the Robb?rs. thi San Francisco, Cal.?A robbery, so }es la] bold in its conception and daring Id Its execution that It has fairly para*- ^ lyzed the pol'.c.*, occurred at the Selby \ Smelting Works on Bay Shore, Val- ga lejo, early Tuesday caorniug. Four bars of pure gnM, each weighing frotn ^ 1000 to 3000 r.arices, and about 10.000 ut ounces of other gold, the totil value rm being $2?u,uoo, -were tanen itodi wi? strong room of the smelte** -while br( workmen were busy within fifteen inl feet of the door. bo The laborers heard the noise made ( thi by the thieves, but said, "It's only the jnj ghosts In the vault," and went on on with their work. While they labored to-< at the furnace the gold bars were th< taken from the vault to a boat and dr! carried away. 1 Not a "clue is left for the detectives w? to work upon and there Is small hope wl that any of the stolen treasure will eri ever be found. The robbery must va have been planned for months, while str the actual work required many nights scl of labor. be The whole affair was planned and kii executed skillfully. It is supposed ly that when the robbers obtained their de loot they loaded it into a boat that i thi was waiting and disappeared In the J je( fog that had arisen over San Fran- tio clsco Bay. In their' haste to get 1 away they left two gold bars worth of nearly $50,000 lying on the bank at re< the water's edge. lai 9 The police of all the bay cities ira- wi mediately were Informed of the 1 crime, but all they could discover was thi a few of the tools that the robbers hqd da used. res The Solby Smelting and Lead Com- mi pany is the largest concern of ite tlo kind on the Pacific coast. Ores are ^ sent from all over the Western coun- lai try to be smelted and refined, and de the gold is then turned over to the a ' mint. A steamer makes special trips I between, the smelter and San Francis- In* co, carrying the ores one day and no bringing back the refined gold. On is the morning after the theft when the wi workmen entered the vault to prepare Mi the gold for loading on the steamer Ita the robbery was discovered. The cb thieves had taken the precaution of an fastening the door of the vault from Cil the inside, so that it would be difficult La t-j open it from the outside in case Ca they were interrupted in their work. Preparatory engineering extending ws over several weeks probably was done rui before the robbery could be accom- ms pllshed. Close to the wall of the S building In which the vault Is, a shaft bn was sunk below the foundation. Then alt a tunnel was run to the vault and all holes were bored in the iron floor un- ga til an aperture sufficiently large to admit a man was made. It was then DO easy work to pass the treasure down ? into the tunnel and load it Into a boat. ' The robbers even took the precaution to sprinkle red pepper in the tunnel * In order to make It uncomfortable for Fr any one who might attempt to pursue be< them. eni There were four fine gold bricks In ^ the vault which the robbers looted, of Each was ten inches long, five Inches hei wide and four Inches In height. They in were all stamped with number, weight at and fineness. , ? "It Is the boldest robbery in the history of the State," said Chief of Detectives Seymour, "and from all the information that can be obtained at this time there is absolutely no clue to the robbers. In fact, we do not know whether the crime was committed by one man or five. The probabilities, however, are that more than 'one man was concerned In it." POLICEMAN KILLED IN RAID. * * Another Clubbed Senseless by Dlvekeepei ijlli ?Woman In Man's Uarb Made Tronble. Via New Haven, Conn.?Patrolman 'lj Hugh McKeon was shot and killed # shortly after midnight by Andrea Landano, the proprietor of a dive at 12 Prindle street. McKeon and Patrolmen Turbert and Welch saw Nel- erl lie Slator, a woman, enter the dive. ca, She was masquerading in men's ^ clothes. McKeon broke in the door. _e) tAs he stumbled into the dark hall- J,e( way shots were fired. One of these .< entered McKeon's left lung. He died gu in twenty minutes. lea Turbert grappled with Landano and j was clubbed into unconsciousness, fQJ The third policeman was afraid to move and the murderer escaped. Three hours later Landano was cap- j tured. Qr Pr GENERAL STEEL STRIKE ON. At we The Union Leader Ordered AU the Trust's j)t Tollers to Quit. ( Pittsburg, Penn.?President Shaffer, lat of the Amalgamated Association, is- Pr sued the long-talked-of general strike Pr order, to take effect after the last turn Ht or tne muis on August iu. Tiie strike 1 rr call Included practically all Amalgamated men in the United States Steel Corporation's employ not then 1 on strike. It was Issued from the wa Amalgamated Association headquar- Hi ters, and mailed to all amalgamated a 1 lodge officials. Charges Against a Judge. ' Affidavits submitted in the charges against Judge Harney, in Montana, ?P' state that he promised to do as Mrs. Brackett said, and that the woman's on reward for obtaining a verdict against the Amalgamated Copper Company 30( was to be $100,000. Hchroeder to Testify. ^ The Yorktown was ordered to go s*6 to Guam and bring its Governor, >>8' L'ominanuer acnroecier, ro uasuiiigiuu ?i* to testify before the Schley court of nil inquiry. Prominent Peopie. ^ Emperor William is letting his bearu jn grow. Aguinaldo is said to be getting \ restive aud sulky under surveillance. *>ri Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has left London for a two months' trip on the Continent. w General Gomez, said T. Estranda ler Palma, should be the first President J of the Cuban Republic. ex Lord Roberts' title has been gazettea as "Earl of Candahar and Pretoria 1 and Viscount St. Pierre." pa John W. Champlln, ex-Chief Justice ^ of the Michigan Supreme Court, died recently, Bred sevpntr yearg. . EW TOWN OF LAWTONIi I ins Four Thousand Population in Four Days. sa Beals, the Lack? Farm Winner Takes Charge of the Bad Men of the New Town. Lawton, Oklahoma.?Tea thousand ;n and women are here struggling r fortune or a living. Lawton, in ur days, has gained 4000 inhabits. Hundreds and hundreds of sse are disconsolate, almost penniis men who tried the Government id lottery and failed to win a prize, ley are h&re to make a living, if ?y can, at anything they can. rhousands of others are here with mes of chance, merchandise and luors, all eager to win a fortune iD boom town. All the elements of an Dorado settlement aTe here. Poictfl questions are already stirring ?n to jealousy. fVagons and buggies of every de riptlon of overland Transportation ought homesteaders and speculators to Lawton at the rate of 400 an ur. jovernment officials estimated that ere were six miles of tents surroundl Lawton. The two thoroughfares the east and south sides of the tvn site became congested early In a afternoon, and it took an hour to Ive through them. Sven under these conditions there ts no disorder. The good nature lich has characterized the big gathngs at El Reno and Fort Sill prelis in Lawton. Men walking in the eets and hemmed in by prairie aooners joked each other about ing run over in^ a great city. Fa's sold soap when there was scarceenough water to drink, and an unrtaker who tried to bring coffins rough the congested streets was :red until he manifested a disposl n to supply corpses for hte wares. The new Postmaster, Edgar White, Arkansas City, Ivan., had a hearty :eption. He brought with him eight ge tents and will begin business th the new town. Democrats held a mass meeting In J Court House square. During the y the report was circulated that only sidents of Oklahoma would be pertted to vote at the municipal elecn. The politicians have looked up the v and found that six months' resloce in Oklahoma and one month in ward are required la order to vote. Prospective homesteaders are havf their share of trouble. They cant locate their claims, because there no way of finding out where those 10 come before them will select, ss Mattle Helen Beals, the Wichtelephone girl who drew second olee of farms in the new Kiowa d Comanche country, has become fcy Marshal of the new town of wton to take the place of Bat rr, the present officer. Mr. Cants relieved of his gun because he inted to start too many fights and a the new town in a wide-open inner. }he hopes to tame the outlaws and d men without having to shoot any, hough she will go well armed at times. She will suppress all mbling houses, if possible. iWAGER EMPRESS FREDERICK DEAD ther of the German Emperor Succumbs to Cancer. Jronberg.?The Dowager Empress ederick died-at 6.15 p. m. She had en at death's door for days and the 3 was momentarily expected. The Dowager Empress, eldest child Victoria, who died of cancer, had en called the most unhappy woman all Europe. She was heart-broken the death of her husband, Fred DOWAOER EMPRESS F&XDEBICK. ck the Noble, himself a victim of acer, and her last days were full of temess. She was unloved by the :>pl&, as she herself knew, for she ;ently said: I mean .to live as long as I can. it when I die no one will be sorry, tst of all myself." 3er health had been rapidly falling : some time and she was too ill to to her dying mother's bedside. She is nearly sixty-one years old. Smperor William, the Empress, own Prince Frederick William, ince Eitel Frederick and Prince igust William arrived early and re at the bedside of the Empress wager Frederick. , )ther royal personages who arrived er are King Edward and his Queen, ince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, ince and Princess Friedrich Carl of ;sse and the Grown Prince and incess of Greece. Boer Commandant Killed. ?he Boer Commandant Froneman is killed in a fight in the Orange per Colony; tne joruiau upiuicu ( Boer convoy of seventy wagons. Steel Trust Stocks Fall. ton-union mills at Hyde Park, nn., and Wellsville, Ohio, were ened by the Steel Trust without lorder. Steel Trust stocks shrank the same day $35,750,000, despite ? vigorous support of the $200,000,) pool recently organized. Agulnaldo's Succcssor Confident. L proclamation to the Filipinos ;ned by Malvar, Aguiualdo's recuized successor, promises to keep the war and expresses hope of ultiite victory. Sporting Brevities. )ver $00,000 has already been paid purses for cycle races this season. ^sbury Park Is to have ohe of the and circuit championship bicycle ;ets. iV. A. Larned defeated Bcals r. right at tennis for Longwood Cballge Cups. tf. D. Whitman and Davis and Ward pect to comprte in tennis contests road next season. larry Elks is leading all the motorced riders just now, and none of em seem to be able to take bla , ?asure. STATUS OF STEEL STRIKE ? fte Conference Between Morgan and Shaffer Ends in a Disagreement. Co IT. IS A FIGHT TO A FINISH > Absolute Power to Call Ont All the Union Employes of the Billion-Dollar Steel 'n Trait Placed In Amalgamated President's Hands?All Negotiations Broken ^ Off and Both Sides Defiant. H New York City.?Negotiations for gu the settlement of the steel strike re came to an end in this city when leaders of the strike refused to ac- or cept the terms offered by J. Pierpont tyi Morgan. President Shaffer and ,&e fourteen other members of the Execu* ^ tive Board of the Amalgamated A's- n. sociation met Mr. Morgan and other pa represemuuveB ul iuc uuueu amies " Steel Corporation In the office of C. M. Schwab, at No. 71 Broadway, i about noon. The conference ended be ibruptly in an nour. aj The Executive Board, after failing Pe to get any concessions at the meet- ^ .ng, announced through SecretaryW'l- ta Hams that the strike would be con- to tinued and that orders would be given <31 to the union men employed by tne Na- jr tional Steel Company, the Federal 0? Steel Company and the National Tube gc Company to go on strike. On the g( other hand, the mill owners will seek jn to open their mills' as opportunity ]gj offers and to keep them open with- tu out the assistance of the union. Not a man on either side doubts at that the conflict will be long and m bitterly fought, and all because neither jj. side would recede cne iota from the co position it bad assumed. It was Mr. Morgan who laid the ultimatum before the association's f0 men. It was he who told them that y< they must accept his proposition, or < else fight to the end. Not only did the f0 men reject these propositions, but tj( they submitted a counter ultimatum, <j the terms of which are so sweeping ^ that they must have known from the w i. 4V?s*?r TtTAnM hfl f] O. uuitttri iuai tucj UCTCI TTuuiu hsw ?w cepted by the other side. Id Pittsburg and throughout the great steel making region of the Mid- J? die West the failure of the conference was not unexpected. One steel ( man waited in Pittsburg at the tele- lu phone until he got news of the break- en ing of the armistice, with the addi- Bi tional information that the United kl States Steel Corporation would de- lei vote its time and money to driving gv the Amalgamated Association out of T1 all its mills. "Good!" he ejaculated, or That was all. He started ouf with re a smiling face to prepare for the fray A< This feeling was general among all ur the steel managers in Pittsburg. They F< welcomed the conflict. The workmen Li were equally ready. Meetings were ab held In all - the strike centres, and of there were rallies at two score other se places in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West ] Virginia and Illinois. Ct According to a Vice-President of the th Amalgamated Association who attend- po ed the New York conference, Presi- to dent Schwab alone prevented a set- b< tlement of the differences. Seven ju mills divide the union and the Trust, de According to the President of the Bi Executive Committee, in whose hands A< the whole matter has been placed, hi every man within the influence of tes the organlaztion will have to quit his * J V.?i-U 1mm nnn KA place ana every ujiujj iuai <.uu Uvuk ov, will be dona to prevent the Trust Bi from running its mills. ' In the meeting that followed the rejection of the Association's propo- ne sition by J. Plerpont Morgan, Presi* ta dent Shaffer was made dictator; his re: is the power and his the responsi- th bllity to make the war, and he has a declared himself. Ar Shaffer reiterated confidentally his di< oft-made prediction that the Steel hi] Trust could not secure non-union men in sufficient numbers to operate any RE of Its mills in which a strike is de- _ clared. When the possible importation of negroes from the South was suggested he said the negro steel workers down there were well or- re ganized. c? President Shaffer, in an interview, an said: "The time has come when we in must decide whether unionism is to to stand or fall. Peace negotiations with to Mr. John Plerpont Morgan are off for th good. We have no further engage- be ment to meet with the United States th< Steel Corporation. We will not try to to secure another peace conference. We no are through with the negotiations and wl any future attempt to secure a set- S tlement of the strike will have to inj come from the Steel Trust. We are thi satisfied with the progress of the fu; strike up to date. We have not lost up a bit of ground, ana mere nave Deeu many gains which do not show on the surface." 5 In its inception the struggle between W the Billion Dollar Steel Trust and the mi Amalgamated Association exactly sei parallels the preliminaries for national m< war. Diplomatic relations have been pr: broken off and obvious preparations thi for the economic struggle are under ch way. thi co ? Cresceus Trots In 2.02 1-4. 18 Cresceus's wonderful mile at Cleveland 2.02%, made one week ago, was 1 excelled by himself at Columbus, wi Ohio, by -i naif second in the most in phenomenal exhibition of speed, cour- wi age and gameuess the world ever wit- sb nessed. The bare flgtires of the mile mf and its several parts, 0.29%, 0.59)4. mi 1.30%, 2.021/!. tell the marvellous tale in more emphatically, concisely and iw- be pressively than words can tell it. of an Stung Dead by Mosquitoes. William Ma her. aged seventy, has been stung to death by mosquitoes in r a swamp near his home at Nanticoke, bo Md. Maher went to the village for a tobacco. On his return he lost his pa way. Swarms of mosquitoes settled pa upon him. He was found dead by a k? searching party. His face was swol- a~ len beyond recognition. I si^ T-nrrl Roberta Ati Miinn.non. A grant of $500,000 to Lord Roberts was voted after an acrimonious debate ( in the British House of Comnvns. p0 Ended "Misspent LlTe" at Sixteen. a<* Louis Sclieurmann, of Omaha, Neb., having just passed his sixteenth birthday, left a note that he had come to the end of a misspent life and swal- ^e lowed strychnine. He died within an 'rhour. Sclieurmann had been employed or* as a bell boy in Lincoln, but had late- t'r< ly held no position. ] Porto Rico Halts Investors. ^ It is reported that the executive r council of Porto Rico has discouraged American investments in the island by pg imposing such heavy royalties on franchises that the Investors have J dropped negotiations. po v 3HLEY COURT COMPLETE iar-Admiral Howison Appointed to Suooeed Kimberiy, Relieved. mmander Schroeder and Lleatmni Wells, Schley's Secretary on tli? Brooklyn, Among the Witnesses. Washington. D. C.?The court of quiry to investigate the conduct of ?ar-Admlral Schley In the war vfitb >aln was completed by the appointent of Rear-Admiral Henry L. owison, as the third member, to cceed Admiral Klmberly, who was lleved. Rear-Admiral Howlson's name was le of the several submitted to th< ivy Department by Captain Par t, associate counsel for Rear Jmlral Schley. Rear-Admiral How on Is now at Saratoga Springs. . Y? and has notified the Navy Detriment that he will be able to serve. e also avers that he has notjjt any Be expressed himself In regard tc p controversy. The Navy Department has already igun the summoning of witnesses tc >pear before the court. A list of irsons whom Rear-Admiral Schley tslred to have examined was received om him several days ago. It conlned the names of Commander Sean Schroeder, now Governor of uam. and Lieutenant B. W. Wells. . Lieutenant Wells was a staff Beer on the Brooklyn during the intlaco campaign ana acted aa ;hley's private secretary. He is now Europe on leave and orders will be sued in a few days directing his re* rn. An order has already been prepared the Department directing Comander Schroeder to return to the nited States to appear before the urt. The order was cabled to RearJmlral Rodgers, commanding the siatic Squadron, with instructions to rward at once to Guam by the jrktown. The Department Is preparing orders r other witnesses on foreign sta>ns directing them to return without slay, so as to be on hand on Septem,t 12, when the court will begin its ork. DOUBLE TRAGEDY ON STACE. loos Lead In* Man Kills the Star Actress and Himself. Omaha, Neb.?The rehearsal- of a rid melodrama in a theatre here ided in a double tragedy. Thad rookie, the stage hero, shot and lied Mrs. Millie Llghthawk, the idlng woman, and then turned the in upon himself, with fatal effect ae shooting grew out of the jealisy of Brookle, who objected to the al kisses used In rehearsal by Bert jams, the second man. The drama ider rehearsal was the "Arizona ?male Bandit" written by Mrs. ghthawk, who has had considerle stage experience under the name . Millie Allen. Mrs. Llghthawk her if took the title role. [n his role of "William Desmond, lief of Detectives," Brookle carried e action of the play from the supsed crime of the innocent victim the final exposure of the villain. ?rt Adams, as the virtuous but misdged suitor of the heroine, was evl*ntly sincere in the character, and ookle took affront. He envied lams the opportunities offered by s lines, and finally entered a pro3t. When Adams finally rushed Into hie reetheart's embrace in the final act IAAHA nrnlo ImoH WUQiC CAVIUIIJUIVUI 'Oh, cut that out; that don't go!" kdaras insisted that all the buslss should stay In, and he was susIned by the heroine. When Brookle monstrated further the other actors rew him out. Brookle returned In few minutes with a revolver and ed at Mrs. Llghthawk. The woman ed and Brookle then shot and killed mself. :fusal to let chinamen wo* ply of Treasury Department to Beqnest of Ship-Oirners. Washington, D. C.?Assistant Sec* tary of the Treasury Taylor reived telegrams from ship-owners ,d masters of vessels lately arrived San Francisco saying that, owing the strike there, they are unable unload their vessels, and asking at Chinamen employed on the ships permitted to unload the vessels, s masters and owners guaranteeing the Government that they would t be permitted to go beyond the larves and to prevent their escape. Secretary Taylor has replied# hold Ka o viAlntlnn nf 3 Liiai LUIS VTUUIU UC W T?V?U??WM vr? e Chinese Exclusion Act, nud resing to allow the Chinamen to go on the docks. Sentenced In a Chnrch. Samuel Shlnn, the New Jersey hitecap recently convicted of the jrder of Thomas F. Applegate, was atenced at Trenton by Justice Gum;re to eighteen years in the State Ison. Sentencfe was pronounced in e Central Methodist Church, the apel of which has been leased by 2 county authorities for use as a art room while the new court house being built. Fash Dies In Electric Chair. Benjamin Pugh, the negro murderer, is put to death in the electric chair Sing Sing prison. The current is turned on at 6.03 a. iu. Three ocks were administered before the in was pronounced dead. , Benja* n Pugh killed John Tiegen, a waiter a Brooklyn restaurant, a year ago cause of a quarrel over the price a meal that Pugh had eaten. The lount involved was ten cents Fonr Drowned From Rowboat. Che waves from a passing steamat near Central City, W. Va., upset small boat containing a pleasure rrv and drowned four people?Mrs. nny Hemming, aged forty-five; ithleen Hemming, her daughter, ed fourteen, and Imogene and Tlieore Apperson, grandchildren, aged : and seven years. England Refuses to Sign. 5reat Britain's representative at kin lias refused to sign the protocol reed upon by the Powers. Neiriy Ulotiniugi The telegraph line to Dawson has en completed. The Chief of Police in Berlin has iered storage batteries removed )m the street cars. ?rofessor Breuardel declares that berculosis may be eradicated within e next twenty-five years. die new State census of Maryland ikes the population 004,650, but the tderal census of 1900 gave 081,092. remarkable increase in the growth United States exports to Japan was own by a Japanese statistical rert REVENMTHEIfEEK J WASHINGTON ITEMS. Within a few weeks the War Department expects to send 400 more teachers to the Philippine Islands. About this number will be needed to complete the 1000 teachers originally determined upon. Acting Assistant Surgeon Hodgson, ' " of the Marine Hospital Service, has announced the discovery of a cure for yellow fever. The Postofflce Department has established a station at Guam. Government receipts for July were $52,320,340; expenditures, $52,307,590. It Is evidently the intention of Secretary Root to appeal to Congress for a restoration of the army canteen.' The Navy Department denied Admiral Schley's request for the omission of the disobedience clause rrom tne precept to the court of inquiry. * ' Rear-Admiral Klmberly has been re- M leased from the assignment to act as fl a member of the Schley court of inquiry. His plea of ill-health has been H accepted by the Navy Department. H OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. M Andrew Carnegie is to give San r T? L. Ti I.a ~ llkunm. /tltv J Uttll, runu mcu, a iiuiaij. xuc v>v appropriates $6000 a year to support It. General Maximo Gomez has written a letter denying that he or Senor Pal- B ma are annexationists. In the Cuban Constitutional Convention Senor Gi- j| berga, a delegate, attacked the mem- . I ory of Marti, who began the last Cu- I ban revolution. J Cocoanut planting presents a most attractive field for investment in the Philippines. Cocoanut trees grow V well in many parts of the archipelago H and commence to bear after the fifth H fear. B Adjutant-General Corbin, who has return to Manila after an eleven-day H tour of the Islands, Including a visit, H to the Sultan of Jolo, with whom he fl exchanged presents, sayp Taft and Chaffee are accomplishing the varl- : ous changes in the Islands most ably. Captain J. L. Burchfleld, a captain 1 in the Thirty-first Volunteers, Is to re- I main in the Philippines, having parchased a farm in Mindanao. The Manila charter was passed by. jfl the JfMlippine uommission. .as a result of the public discussion many amendments were made to the original draft DOMESTIC. , Efforts are being made to Introduce the Indian mango fruit Into Florida. American shipyards on both coasts and the great lakes declared to have orders ahead for a year or more. It became known that Arbuckles bad broken with the Brazil steamship pool, and had chartered four steamers to carry their coffee from Brazilian ports. One hundred automobiles are expected to start in au endurance run from New York to Buffalo. The biggest tenement house in the world, which will follow all the provisions of the new law and have accommodations for 186 families, will be built in New York City. One of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior disappeared during the late storm, sinking below the surface of the water. . \ Charles R. Skinner, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, New York, has condemned Miles M. O'Brien's idea of employing Sisters of Charity as public school teachers, n The chief of police, James Jones, of Shelby, was shot and instantly killed by "Jim" Lowery, a negro employed at the South Carolina and Georgia, station. Senator Tillman, at a Wisconsin -i-?-ma 1trnnhir?<? fni? V^uauiituquu, au?utaicu *v*, . _ assault and was loudly applauded. I . Miss Ethel Phillips, of Baltimore; I Miss Jennie White, of Whitesburg, J and G. Geyer Radcliffe, of Sails- fl bury, were drowned off Gordon's fl Landing, in Slnepulent Bay, Mary- fl land, while bathing. t JD J. M. Logan, national bank examiner, closed the First National Bank of Austin, Texas. Alleged excessive H loans are said to have caused this B actioL The State of Texas is said fl to have $75,000 on deposit, and total - fl deposits are said to be $200,000. fl The special dividend received by the fl stockholders of the First National fl Bank, New York City, amounted tc H 1900 per cent. Maryland Democrats, under the fl guidance of ex-Senator Gorman, adopt- H ed a platform making white suprem- 9 t.cy the paramount Issue of their State campaign. fl FOREIGN. 'fl The House of Lords rendered a judg- M ment adversely affecting trades unions fl in Great Britain. fl A test of American and British loco- fl motives in Jamaica showed the superiority of the United States machines. Berlin manufacturers of cloaks and mantles are rejoicing over their largely Increased sales to American merchants. President Romana's message at the opening of the Peruvian Congress urged reform in electoral laws and showed an excellent financial condition of the national treasury. Chile's foreign trade In 1900 reported at over $108,000,000, a gain of $9, 000,000 above the previous year. The owners of Belgian glassworks are considering a renewed offer of purchase from an American syndicate whose terms are understood to be favorable. Dispatches from various parts ol Germany shew that the financial and industrial crisis is spreading. The American Legation in Pekin was pronounced defenseless by the commander of the guard. M. Santos-Dumont made another effort to win the Deutsch prize for a dirigible balloon in Paris, but an accident again prevented the success of the experiment. American ana European residents bm assert that the demeanor of the Pe- H kin populace is constantly becom- M lug more unfriendly, and that, as the H allied troops depart, the Chinese re- S sume their old habits of jostling and M cursing foreigners in the streets. 9 The Swedish Government is consid U ering plans for the installation of elec- H tricity through the whole railway H system of Sweden. M Empez-or William has ordered that all the G000 German privates who were B In Pekin during the siege are to be H promoted to the rank of non-commis- Bfl sioned officers. S The Boer war cost Great Britain B $178,730,01)0 for the 122 days from H April 1 to July 31; more than $1,400,- JH 000 a day. Further trouble has been stirred up HB by outrages on Christians in Albania; H| it was reported that Austria was seekin? to intervene 9