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ClER OEMS'CHOICE' The State Ticket Nominated in Convention at Saratoga, N. Y. COAL STRIKE MADE AN ISSUE FafcUc Ownership and Operation el Aatlmclto MIm? Advoaltd After tb? Szerciee of the Bight of Eminent Dofti r?n~r Barred Oat of the ConTeetlw The PUllonn Adopted. Saratoga. S. T.?The New York Democratic State ticket is as follows: For Governor, Bird 8. Coler. of Brooklyn; Lieutenant-Governor, Charles N. Bulger. of Oaweso; Secretary of State. Frank H. Mott, of Chautauqua; Controller, Charles X. Preston. of Ulster: State Treasurer. George H. Finch, of Warren: Attorney General John ConBeen, of Erie: State Engineer and Surveyor. Richard W. Sherman, of Oneida; Judge of the Conrt of Appeals. John Clinton Gray, of New York City. The four striking features of the convention were the wild demonstration over the unseating of Devery. the attempt of Nathan Straus to persuade the convention not to uominate Mr. Coler, the declaration by William Heptarn Russell, the Chairman of the , Greater New York Democracy, that Democratic differences in New York Glty had been buried, and the declaration in the platform in favor of ownerahlp and operation of the anthracite , coal mines by the Federal Government. Scenes of great excitement attended -* - * XDC UQWBUUg Ol Lirtcij. lur iviun , Chief of Police of New York City forced his way to the platform and , made a speech in which he demanded his seat in the convention. J Finally Devery was unseated by vote ( of the convention. But four counties Toted for his retention. He made dire ; threats that he would bolt the ticket and stump the State against Hill and , his party, but when he left for New York City be addressed a crowd of bis , friends as follows: "I am not prepared to say anything , other than that I am a Democrat and will support the ticket nominated to-day. I was robbed of my seat, but that seems , to be one of the incident^ of the con- j vention. Maybe I will have better lock next time." The platform adopted opposes trusts , that Injuriously affect customer and ( employer and drive out small manufacturers, and especially condemns the so-called Beef and Coal Trusts for "unreasonably depriving the people of , necessaries of life." Restriction of the amassing of wealth la advocated, and the amendment of the tariff law by placing the neceasar- j tea of life oa the free list Is demanded. , The Dlngley tariff law la condemned as a whole. The President is criticised , for dilatory conduct and is accused of ( not wanting to offend the trusts. The platform ? serts that the proposition to amend iue United States Constitution to enable the Federal Government to proceed against the trusts Is i a mere subterfuge to get delay; condemna the neglect of the National and State administrations to enforce the | Sherman law; condemna the action of i the Government In its treatment of the ] Philippines; demands justice for Cuba i Is the matter of trade by reducing the i tariff to a strictly revenue basis and t demanda public ownership of anthra- I cite coal mines by the right of eminent t domain, and the payment of full dam-' < ages to owners, so aa to insure peace i in tha mining' regions and relieve the consumer. i The declaration regarding National 3 ownership of anthracite mines is as < follows: 3 "We advocate the National owner- f ship and operation of the anthracite i coal mines bj the exercise of the right i of eminent domain with Just compensation to owners. Ninety per cent, of the anthracite coal deposits of tlie i world being In the State of Pennsyl' Tanla. National ownership can be bat la the Interest of the whole people. "Fuel, like water, being a public me- 1 cessity, we advocate National owner- J ship and operation of the mines as a * solution of a -problem which will relieve 1 the country from the sufferings which ( follow difference* between moor ana capital in the anthracite mine*. This coarse will insure peace in the mining region*, and remove the cause for difference* leading not only to suffering, bat oftimes to bloodshed and insurrection. "It will relieve the consumers of coal, not only in this 8tate, bat throughout the whole country; insure steady employment and ample compensation to , labor; transfer children from the mines ' to the schools; Insure, strengthen and ] preserve the stability of the business j Interests and popular Institutions of < our ronntrr. Whatever differences of < opinion may exist over other proposi- < tlons of public ownership the propriety i of that policy as applied to anthracite coal mine* must be apparent to every < citizen.** I The platform favor* the plan of canal I Improvements which provides for a barge capacity of 1000 tons for the Erie and Oswego canals and adequate and necessary improvement of other canals 1 of the State: It urges a Just and equita- I ble Excise law in which the home rule I principle shall be recognised; it a.vtu- j pathize* with the oppressed of the < monarchies of Europe, and deplores ! and condemns the outrageous persecution of Jews of Roumanla, and also favors the election of United States Senators by the people of their reaper, tlve States. * ? ? lavastlaatlag Boxer*. The Navy Department, at Wushins ton. has received a cablegram from Rear-Admiral Evans announcing his departure from Kullcrang aboard the Helena for Ichang, on the ('.rent Yangtse River, to investigate the newly rlsen Boxer disturbances. A Tract In T?y? Now. The proposed combluatlon of fort} companies In the manufacture of toys, games and noreltlerf Is understood to r triaii iuiui*c ?. va|iiiniiA<ii(vu vt uvuj v? 000 to $10,000,000. Sew Tilal CrMtml la CnpMT Caae. In the Supreme Court at Raleigh. N. C., a decision was handed down gram log a new trial to James Wilcox, who was convicted at Elizabeth City of murdering Nellie Cropsey last winter. Demonstrations of lawlessness and in timldatton wbicb characterized the closing stages of the trial are assigned as ground for a new trial tfaowttorm la M"?a? Telegrams received at Topeka, Kan., from Central Kansas say that district was visited by a snowstorm which developed into a fierce storm of sleet. STAGE HOLD-UP A JOKE Three Society Men Played Diok Tur pins in Orange County, N. Y. Tk?y Find BUlk CtrtridiM At Um PioMtr CoMh, Kobbtd the Fumd(tt*. tad Uttr Mad* BMtltatios. Middle town, N. Y.?It has become koowa to ell that tbe sensational holdup of the good coach "Pioneer" was a Joke. When Horatio Wlsner learned that tbe hold-up of tbe coach which be and bis brother bare been driving all summer betwen Goshen and Warwick was a Joke, he said be would get even If he had to wait ten yearn. The highwaymen who. with large revolvers and blank cartridges, gave the coaching party a scare were three society men prominent In the fashionable colony of Orange County. It was Hie last trip of the season, and the hold-up was all that could he wished for. The women were frightened nearly to death but were overjoyed fo receive the cash and Jewels taken from them. When the robbery was reported at Warwick great excitement prevailed, and It was late at night before it became known that the hold-up was a thon ovwrr nivMintInn was taken to shield tbe young men. Their Dames became known, bowerer. but there is no Inclination on tbe part of the Pioneer's passenger* to prosecute them. They Were Amos Chamberlain. Louis T. Campbell and Wilbur Lawrence, all members of prominent Orange County families and leaders in society. Tbe young men were recognized by H. 8. Wisner. who was driving toward Gosben, and met them after the holdup. The young bandits showed to Mr. Wisner tbe iron cash box taken from the Pioneer and told him they had held up the coach. This was while two posses were searching for them. The valuables taken from the women passengers were returned to them. The jroung men are not to be found, bowever. and their friends will have nothing to say of the affair. When the stage arrived in Warwick and tbe story of tbe hold-up was told, tbe news spread like wildfire, and tbe rillagers gathered in the streets. Teleibones notified Goshen and Florida and armed parties started out In the dark to find tbe supposed desperadoes, tjitor th?? ronstnhlmi and other search ?m discovered that they were victims if a practical Joke. Their comments on the hoax were sulphurous but picturesque. The residents of Warwick were In:llned to be angry, after the truth was Known, because of the thorough scare it Involved. The Pioneer coach waa started by Mr. Wisner and hla brother at an ex[leuse of $6000, one month ago. The wo alternated as whip on the dally xips. The line was conducted for pleasure ather than profit It ran between ioshen and Warwick, with a stop at Florida for a change of horses. PEARY RANKS AS COMMANDER. UtmimJ la Dm Ond? of Civil Kngi?v... ? , i a Washington. D. C. ? Tbe Nary Department bas made out a commission 'or tbe advancement of Civil Engineer Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer. :o tbe rank of Commander. Mr. Peary low stands fourth from tbe bead of he list of naval civil engineers. While laving the rank of Commander Ills tile remains that of Civil Engineer, only ifflcers of the line bearing the purely nllltary designations. Secretary Moody said that he had >ot received any communication from tfr. Peary In regard to returning to luty. In May. 1807, be obtained five 'ears' leave of absence, which was sublequently extended to cover the time lecessary for him to reach the United itates. eriTtic -r/> i/AveiiTu iiyurn cn ? i Wfc a v i\v??v i n wtiv biwui^* ITribito to the H cartas Patriot WitbhmO by 50,000 Psoyl*. Cleveland. Ohio.?A llfe-siie statue :o the Hungarian patriot, Louis Kos>uth. was unveiled In the presence of (0,000 people. The figure was the trork of a Hungarian sculptor. Anirew Toth. of Debreaaln, Hungary. Addresses were made by Mayor lohnson. Senator Hanna. Congieaa man Burton and Governor Nash. Adiresses were also made In several foreign tongues by eminent speakers. 4 -*?Aa* naaaila In vhlnh Unntrnrlfin a Oil cjv uuv, IU rw u*vu ooom ind allied societies participated, was taeld. Six thousand men were Inline. Pmldtit Hop<i to Sad Cool Strike. The coal strike was considered at conferences held at the temporary White House at Washington, In which President Roosevelt, Attorney-General Knox. Secretary Moody. PostmasterGeneral Payne and Governor Crane, of Massachusetts, took part. After a thorough discussion of the situation the opinion was expressed that there was no warrant for Federal interference. The President, It was announced, will do oil he properly can to [>ring about a settlement. Postal Eatiaotoa Are lierwud. The estimates of Postmaster-General Payne of tbe appropriations required Pnr nil tho ruittfninatnra In the ITnitMl State* daring the next fiscal year aggregate $4(i.29S?20. an Increase of $3.1114,700 over the appropriations made for the eurrent year. Earthquake Shock* la Franc?. Three earthquake shocks were felt ir tlip district of Moutlereen-Tarantalse. Department of Savole, France. Forafcar Optai Ohio Campaign. Senator Kornker spoke at the open in? of the Ohio Republican campaign iL Akron. His topics were trusts, the tariff, reciprocity. Cuba and the Philippines. He predicted that a Cuban reciprocity measure would l>e passed at ;he com ins session of Congress. 3000 Mndnti Vaccinated. The vaccination of the 2<mm) student* at Syracuse University. Syracuse. N. Y.. was ordered because RAiph Holmes, of Frauklinviile. Pa.. developed smallpox. Mardcrfr liaptlted la HU Collin. Just a month after murdering Mr and Mrs. L. B. Lewis, at Bronson. Flu. Smith and Faircloth, the murderers aged twenty-one and twejity-four. wer? hanged at Bronson. Fla., In the pres once of thousands. Before he wai hanged Faircloth's coffin was fillet: with water and he was baptized In ii by a Gaptist minister. foesulon Talk la A oat rail*. Reports from Australia tell of threat ened disruption of the federal union The Premier of Queensland Is openlj advocating secession. w ro END MONEY STBWeacf Secretary Shaw Waives the Reserv* Against the Government Deposits. I RELEASES $130,000,000 CREDIT TW SMNtaij of the TrMinrr Will Allow Sabatltntloa of Cor*oln SmsHUm For OoimIi mmd ArraaffM For IndocoBoat to Idctmm Circulation?CnDrMtdiotod Aoout of Bwlaou. New York City.?Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has made arrangements which make available $130,000,000 additional credit. Mr) Shaw, during his visit to the city, declined to discuss the situation further than to say that the Treasury would co-operate as far as possible with the banks both East and West In ' their effort to supply the necessary credit to do the unprecedented amount of business that Is taxing railroads and steamship lines as well as banks to tbe UMUVV1* He said he bad never seen any good reason why banks holding Government deposits secured by Government bonds should be required to carry a reserve against It. First, it is a deposit not likely to be called in a time of stringency. and second, if calleu. the collateral will always sell for cash and in excess of the deposits. He has hnd in mind ever since be took control of the Treasury to relieve the banks of this burden. The Controller agrees with the Secretary, and therefore it is announced that hereafter banks will not be required to carry a reserve against Government deposits secured by Govern: ment bonds. The Treasury has on deposit with various banks scattered | throughout the country from Maine to j California and from Minnesota to New | urieans in y>una numners 910u.wu.uuu, I against which they have heretofore been compelled to hold more than $30.000.000 of gold or Its equivalent. This decision has released that much reserve, and therefore made available 1130.000,000 additional credit. The Secretary said he would continue to make deposits of internal revenue and miscellaneous receipts (all available for that purpose), practically $500,000 per day. so long as the situation required, and If banks were unable to obtain Government bonds to secure the same, he would accept the same general class of securities as are made available uy the laws of the several State* for savings banks. By this It Is not Intended to loan In excess of sixty live per cent of the par value, and nothing will be accepted that has not been panic-tried and proved salable for caah. He said be should of course determine each case by Itself. The Secretary further said he would accept security of the class described 1 above for a portion of the deposit held by each bank now holding a Government deposit and release enough two per cent consols to cover any increased currency that the banks may desire to Issue. He has recognised the possibility of present conditions, and therefore as early as last July commenced print' Ing currency, preparatory to the needs of the banks to handle the Increased business of the fall trade, and has on hand rettdy to be delivered an aggregate of about $25,000,000. This can be sent out at the probable rate of $5,000,000 a day If the banks desire to substitute the other security above designated for the release of the consols. This step was contemplated when some months ago be asked tbo banks holding Government deposits to order additional currency printed. The Secretary's additional relief therefore may be summed up as follows: First the release of practically $30,000,000 reserve, which will permit the IflAMAaA #KAI* ttJ* Af Kltol uauap iv mticaoc iutu vvsuujc wi vu?? en $130,000,000. Second, the substitution of other security for consols now held by the Government on condition that the same shall be used as a basis for increased circulation, which If accepted by the banks, will Immediately increase the volume 120.000.000 or 925.000.0O0. and will add thereto. If needed. Third, the continuation of deposits to the limit allowed by law. accepting. If necessary, security other than Government bonds. ALCER A UNITED STATES SENATOR Ha AoetpU (hi Appolatmeat Olwtd by OoTtroor Bllaa. Saginaw. Mich.?Governor Bliss tendered the United 8tates SenatorsMp. made vacant by the death of James McMillan, to General Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, former Secretary of War in President McKinley's Cabinet. Detroit, Mich.?General R. A. Alger has formally accepted Governor Bliss's tender of the nd Interim appointment as United States 8enator. Governor Bliss has signed the commission that makes General Alger a United States Senator. MORO FORTS DESTROYED. riaatieal Natin. Armed With a Bolo, Charges A <a art can Colnma Alona. Manila.?Three companies of infantry. commanded by Captain' Eli A. Helmnick. of the Tenth Infantry, left Camp Vicars. Island of Mindanao, to recouuonrc iur aiuru iuri? auu nruvt-r stolen arms. They encuuutercri only slight .opposition. The column captured and destroyed the Butig fort*. A few Moros were killed. The American troops had no casualties A fanatical Moro. armed vlth a bolo, charged the column alone. Buk President m Suicide. Norman Barrett. President of the defunct Atchison National Bank, committed suicldc at Atchison. Kan., by cutting his throat. Worry over the failure of his hank and the financial troubles that followed probably were the cause. Piracy la th? TelU a. i Complaints are made American shippers that pirney !s in< slug in the Yellow Sea. China has L. >11 ask.-d l??? IjII** tfnpcliliiQ tf! ulaftp I iv unr mwi i\uv " ? w v??m* aese waters of pirates. DritUh Crnlier Make* "4 Ksnli. The now armored cruiser Drake en lercd the harbor of Portsmouth. Kushind. end reported having steamed ; twenty-four knots nn hour, the fastest record ever made by a British eruistT. i The Drake Is of 14,000 tons. Her e.*I timated speed was twenty-three kuots \ nn hour. XaraJ* tailiaai Refute lo Work. Reptrdincr the Navajo Indians being . In a starving condition. Agent Ilazlett, at Fort DeUncce. Ariz., reports that they refuse to work, though he has offered to employ them at irood wares. TO END THE COAL FAMINE Boston Citizens Ask For s Receiver For the Coil Railroads. A BUI la K*altj Filed la the lap?a Cnrt-Hlat Vnal Carrylaj Coat paalM Aflected. Boston. ? committee of citizens. beaded by the publishers of a Boston newspaper, sought relief In the courts from the present coal shortage and high prices by asking for a receiver for the coal companies and coal carrying roads. A bill in equity was filed in the Supreme Conrt against the following named corporations: The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Deleware. Laeka wanna nnd Western Railroad Com* pany, the Delaware and Hudson Com* pany. the New York. Ontario and Western Railroad Company, the Erie Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Coal Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The petitioners ask that a receiver be appointed for th<> benefit of all concerned, upon such terms and in such manner, and with surh agents and servants. and with such rates of wages and other conditions of employment, nnd at such prices for goods produced and sold as the court shall from time to time adjudge proper. The bill is based upon the legal theory of the coal situation given by H. W. Chaplin, a lawyer. Mr. Chaplin says In support of his position: "Since the public has a right in the mines, a right to have coal forthwith mined for Immediate consumption, and has a right to have that coal Immediately transported out of the mine regions by the coal carrying roads, a court or equity, ir no otoer solution or the difficulty In open, tins authority to, and upon the application of a representative proportion of the people undoubtedly would, appoint a receiver or receivers, to take into his or their hands the whole business now In the hands of the anthracite coal 'combine/ and to run it In Its place." A subpoena to serve on the defendants. giving notice of the bringing of the suit, has been taken out by the plaintiff's lawyer, and it will probably be returnable in November. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN NEW YORK. Slajttr BwMd the Head of Mm Ho Bad Killed For Money. New York City.?The headless body of a man was found by the police in the cellar of a house known as the Emplre Hotel, on West Twenty-ninth street, and as the result of the grewsome discovery a tale of a brutal midnight murder, followed by an attempt to burn the body, has been unraveled. The finding of the body followed the registering of complaints by people of tbe neigboornooa, wno aeoinreu iuai there was an almost unbearable stench in the vicinity of tbe Empire Hotel. Captain Sheehan and several detectives from tbe Tenderloin Station went Immediately to tbe hotel, which Is in tbe same bnildlng with a Chinese restaurant, and made a search of the i premises. Under a pile of barrels and boxes in tbe cellar a nude body was found. Tbe head was gone, and a heavy cleaver, found In tbe cellar, was evidence of tbe manner in which it bad been severed from tbe booy. Tbe body was lying close to a furnace, In which a lire was burning. With a few pails of water the police extinguished the flre, and then, with a long bar of Iron, they dragged the half-consumed bead from tbe coals. Detectives spread through tbe house and made six arrests. Thomas Tobin, a waiter, is now In the Tombs, charged with the murder: Alexander McAner oey, a bartender at the botel; Thomas Purnell. a medical student, from Charles town, Mass.; William Hopkins, of Brooklyn, also a medical student; Grace Burnett, a salesgirl, an acquaint* nee of the two students, and Robert Kelly, a porter, were arrested. Later" In the day the girl and the two medical students were released, and two other women, one named Turner and the other Stella Davis, were arrested and held as witnesses. The bead of the dead man was so badly burned that no identification could ever have been made from It. bat the police say they bare information that be was James B. Craft, of Glen Cove, L. I. At the hotel where be met bis death and where he was an infrequent visitor he was simply known as "Captain Jim." Bartender McAnerney charged Walter Tobin with the murder, and described to the Police Captain and later to the Coroner how the man came to bis death. While McAnerner was telling his story to the Coroner Tobin. who was in the room, jumped to his feet and de. clarcd it was McAnerney woo mur* | dcrod the man and not he. The murdered man's clothing bad been thrown into the furnace in tbe cellar, along with the bead, but was not consumed. Tbe police were able to identify a gray mackintosh, a white Mi* n hlnrk waistcoat and a checked suit. The police say the clothes Indicated that the man was a well-dressed person. The murderer had seen the man display a large roll of money, and killed him to get possession of it. Debaltlag Official's Body In River. The body of Edmund Jellinek. a defaulting officer of the Laender Bank. Vienna, Austria, was icund in the Danube ltlver. Jellinek's embezzlements amounted to about $1,150,000. Albanian* Harder Soldiers. A band of Arnauts. while in Servian territory, attacked the village of Mirkovltsrh, but retired after a two hours' fnnilnilo Within a few months Ax muts hare klllo<l twelve Servian soldiers and sixteen peasants, and have wounded nine soldiers and eleven peasants. Philippine School Superintendent Oat Frederlek Atkinson, Superintendent of Schools in the Philippine*, has resigned. The resignatiou takes effect January 1, Sporllnc Brevities. Alfred Shr?il>l? ran four miles at Lon don in 10m. establishing a new amateur world's record. Hoatherbloom mailt' a now jumping record of seven feet 11 v?? inches at the Bryu Mawr (I'a.) I lor.so Show. Marcus Hurley and K. F. Boot ran a dead heat from scratch iu the mile cycle handicap at Vallshurg, X. J. Frank Farrell's De Bosske won the Speculation Stakes at liravesend, New l'ork City, and L. V. Bell Is credited with being (60,000 richer by the victory of his horse, G. Whlttler, winner f tbe opening eveot of tbe day. BILE ZOLA MUTED Noted French Author Loses His Life by Coal Gas. NARROW ESCAPE OF HIS WIFE Tk*r Had J a st Ret a rami to Paris Prom Their Coontrr Horn* ? Lighted a Fire la a SIot? With the Pipes Oat of Order -Mm. Zola Give* Details of Accldent-Novelist's Death Shocks Praaee. Paris. France.?All Francc received a profound shock when it became known that Emile Zola, the novelist, had been found dead io bis Paris borne from nsphyxintiou. It Is hardly neeessar,j to say that M. Zola was tbe leading exponent of tbe extreme realistic school of fiction, and tbe man who recently set bis countrymen by tbe ears by hi* defense of former Captain Dreyfus and tbe Jews. Sensational reports were afloat tbat M. Zola bad committed suicide, but tbe authorities are satisflel that be was killed by fumes from a defective coal store. Mme. Zola was seriously ill when the room was broken into in the morning. At about noon she was removed to a private hospital, where she recovered consciousness for a short time and was able briefly to explain to a magistrate what bad happened. Her chances for recovery are good. M. and Mme. Zola had just returned EXILE roxu. ' I to their Paris borne from tbelr country borne, in Mcdan. Owing to a sudden spell of cold weather, the beating stove In their bedroom was ordered to be lighted. The stove burned badly. and its pipes arc s&iu to nave uevu oui wt order. To the magistrate Mme. Zola explained that she woke early in tbe morning with a splitting headache. She wakened ber husband and asked blm to open a window. She saw him rise nd attempt to move toward a window, but be staggered and fell to tbe floor unconscious. Mme. Zola fainted at tbe same moment and therefore was unable to give the alarm. Tbe death of M. Zola of coarse caused a great sensation in Paris. M. Zola bad been resting from liter* ary work since be flushed his book called "The Truth." which is being published in serial form in the Aurore. Tbe obituary notices pay tribute to M. Zola's high literary talent. Tbe Temps says French letters suffered a loss which will be keenly felt. Tbe newspapers judge M. Zola's role in tbe Dreyfus affair according to political bias. M. Zola was bora in Paris April 2. 1840. MURDERED HIS SWEETHEART. Kircbut Thea Fired m Ballet lata BU Ova Head. Suffolk. Va.?R. Banister Mitchell, a merchant of Stony Creek. Va.. lured his sweetheart. Mabel Lee. twenty-one years old. away from home with the ostensible purpose of marriage, and then murdered her and killed himself. Former Treasurer E. Boscom Batts. of Greenesrille County, and a negro located their dead bodies near Callarllle postofflee, twenty-five miles from the starting point. The girl was on her left side, the face tnrned toward Mitchell's. Her bead rested on her elbow. There were three bullet boles in ber body and one In her neck. Mitchell's body, which almost touched Mabel's, was on Its back. There was a bullet hole through his head. By bis side wax a thirty-eightcalibre gun. In Mitchell's pocket were $034.25. a gold watch, diamond ring and a bunch of Mabel's love letters. 1,001.497 PENSIONERS. Tk* Spanish- Amartraa War CtrrlN Naan Beyaad tht Million Mark. Washington. D. C.?The annual report of Commissioner of Pensions Ware shows that the million mark hag been passed. On June .'to last the pension rolls were 554 names short of 1.000,000. During the month of July there were added 2051 names, making the grand total 1.001.407. The allowance of pensions on account of the Spanish-American War has hnd a great deal to do with the Increase, although the number usually pensioned is still In proportion to the entire number of men. something like 300.000 who served in that war. Typhoon Sweep* Over Yokohama. Five hundred lives were lost and several steamers and a battleship driven ashore by a typhoon which swept over V.I..I V ...... M IUKoikiuki. jii|i;iu. Negro Itarneil at the Stake. In the flames of fagots piled Irish b.v i hundreds of citizens Tom Clark. alias Will (tihson. a young nejrro. was burned at the stake in the npjjrn et metery at Coiinih. Miss, t'lark lutd eoufvssed to one of the most atrocious assaults anil murders in tin* history of Mississippi, and said that In* deserved his awful fate. Th torch was applied by the hilsliatid and brother of his victim. More iha?t persons witnessed tin* grewsome tragedy. among whom were many wmneii ami rhildrcu. I'rraouul Mention. 1'ornvT Senator I?avi?j IJ. IT411 h fifty iiiii?- years old. I .or* I Salisbury is divotrd lo animals and lias lor his favorite pet a large col. Lord 11:*;?ssey holds the rreord of havinu s::il.-d nearly mih>s lu yachts. .Mr. ilalfoitr. the Knulisli Premier. is said to >lr p a: least tivelvo hours every day. L'ope Leo XIII. has ordered several sets ?>f Marconi's wireless tcleirrauh nnuaratuts. WASHINGTON ITKMS. Contracts for pneumatic tube mail service in New York City, Boston. Philadelphia. Chicago and St Louia were awarded by. the Posfofflre Department Postmaster-General Payne returned to bia desk at the Postofflce Department after an absence of about two months. Secretary Shaw announced his willingness to advance interest on bonds to June 30. 1903, to relieve the money market. Brigadier-General Funston. in his annual report on the affairs in the Department of Colorado, said the aboil tion of the canteen ban bad a deplorable effect on the Army. The United States Government declared tbat its sole guide in tbe Isthmian policy is the treaty obligation to Colombia. The Navy Department will place Rear-Admiral Cogblan in command of & squadron for Caribbean waters. OUR ADOPTED ISLAND*. Colonel Charles Smart. Assistant Surgeon-General In the Army, was made chief surgeon of the Philippines. Acting Governor Hartzell. of Porto Rico, pardoned sixteen unjustly con* victed Federals of Patiilas. and removed the Republican Justice who condemned them. Mahini. former President of tbe Filipino Supreme Court, still refuse* to take the oath of allegiance at Guam. General Sumner is prepariug to send n second expedition against the Mncin Sultans of Mindanao. P. I. A number of doctors were sent to the Province of Iloilo, Island of Panay. P. I., to attend cholera patients there. The disease is rapidly decreasing in virulence. The duties of the Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines will be the subjects of tbe next Papal Bull. The Rev. William MacKinnon, who was chaplain of the Third Cavalry. California Volunteers, died of dyscn tery in the military hospital at Muuua. DOMESTIC. Suit for $6,000,000 was brought in Denwr, Col., against tbe Strattou estate by tbe Venture Company, of Loodon. From a stab below tbe heart, inflicted by Thomas Copely, an insane man. Polk Hill, guard at the County Asylum, Nashville, Tenn.. died. Tbe new Indian treat; was ratified by tbe Chickasaw Nation, thus terminating tbe tribal government. Despondent and In ill-bealtb Fred Cavallbo. a retired captain in tbe British merchant marine, killed himself at San Francisco, CaL Mrs. Susan Crossley. tbe only origin* al Daughter of the Revolution living In lliiode island. ceieuraiea ner luutn birthday anniversary in Kingston HilL Deputy Marshal Funk and a poM.se killed two outlaws, whose names are unknown, at Henrietta. Ind. Ter.. after a desperate fight and captured two others. A fifth bandit got away. Miss Edith Beele McCbesney, nineteen years old. a stenographer, corn* mittcd suicide by shoootlng at Syracuse. N. Y. The young woman had been out of work for a week. Nome was storm swept with the lo?s of two lives and heavy damage to shipping. A telephone company with $100,000.300 capital was incorporated in Delaware. It intends to charge two cents for messages. Harvard and Yale universities opened with large Increases in attendance. Judge George H. Durand. of Flint. Mich., has withdrawn from the Democratic candidacy for Governor of his State. Dr. George S. Seymour, oldest dentist in Louisville. Ky.. committed suicide by turning on tbe gas in bis batb room. Minister Loomis reachcd New York City from bis post In Portugal, for a short leave of absence. One thousand quarter sections of Government land are to be opened to homesteaders at Sterling. Col. rOKKIGK. An Englishwoman of tbe name of Sylvia Clerk was robiied on a train between Milan and Boulogne of a valise rontaininz iewelrv of the value of 1U0. 000 franc*. The Beifasso cathedral in Sicily was destroyed by the recent cyclone. King Victor Emmanuel has given 150.000 lire for the benefit of the sufferers by the cyclone. A story of the marriage of Queen Maria Christina to Count do la Escosura. her master of the horse. Ik declared at Madrid to be false. The story was that she was married on her yecent visit to Austria. At Mannheim. Germany, two directors of the failed Ithelnaii-Mannheim Chemical Company were arrested, and the arrest of other officials is imminent. General Prater, who was mixed up In the school troubles in Brittany in connection with the expulsion of tlie nuns, was placed on half pay. By a compact signed between the American and Imperial Tobacco companies the tobacco war ended and an international company was formed. It was announced in London that Sir Thomas Upton con templates a trip across the English Chanuel iu a balloon. The Education bill continues a source of serious political disturbance in Great Britain. The International Maritime Committee adopted a draft tor a uniform I;l\V III regard lit eouisinus <iuu Thirty miners wito killed at Maz;srroti. Province of Mureia. Spain, by poisouotitf gas. Qihfii Wiihclmina entertained ut state at The lla^tie banquet iii?MiilHWti of thi> Auiericau-.Mcxicau Arbitration Court. The evacuation of Manchuria was bcjC'in l?y thi> Uussiaus. It is ??t;iIt*?l that the territory up to the Lino Kiver will lie evacuated completely l?y ??. ! ;her N, as stipulated iu tin* agl'ivan-m. Seven men ami four schooners were t.Il the .Newfoundland cons:. A llieiiloii.il service in liolior ??f the former t.HtccU of the Ib-kiills was held at Krussels. Tile Karl of I Mid ley. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, entered lUlbliU; little etilhu* biasm was shown. erniauy. it is announced from Iter liti. will !ii>! Join I lit* t uit.-.l Stales :iti>l tJr-at Iti'itain in a protest to Koituiauia with n-uartl to the treatuieut of llflire'VS. Kit'jj Osejir'ji yacht ran on the rock* near lvuliuar. on the Baltic. aini \v?I bi'ls were svut to her assistance. - - -v HEWfOPEBAHOHPEBfORIHI Bene of the President's Injured Ler Found Slightly Affected. SPEEDY RECOVERY EXPECTED luiNU PmIHt* TILat Than U (fa IH* diMt of Mtttor "rhat Would Prodac* Blood FaUoalag - Proc*M of Impeded bjr Mr. RooMrall'i BosUomgaport Called la Coafaraaea. Washington, D. C.?Another opera' tlon has been performed on the ab* jcesa on the left leg of Preaident Roosevelt. In the fornvr operation a simple needle was used to relieve the trouble, but In the later operation the surgeons with a knife made an Incision into the small cavity, exposing the bone, which waa found to be slightly affected. The President's case has been pro- 9 greasing satisfactorily, uut it is oe> llcvcd by the physicians that the furtber operation will hasten his complete recovery. ' Tbey gave the most positive ajsorances that there is not the least cans* for alarm, and sny that on the contrary I there Is every Indication of a speedy re> i cover}", that the area of bone affected | is very slight, and will not result In ! any impairment of the President's limb ' and that there is no evidence whatever : of any matter that would produce I blood poisoning. Dr. Shaffer, of New York City, who i long has been acquainted with the | Roosevelt faniilj. and who also la a 1 well-known bono specMlst joined the j President's physicians In their consultation. It was noticed that there had ! been a slight ri?e in the "President's i temperature, and an increase in local symptoms, and tire physicians thought 1 his recovery would l?e aided try mak| lng an Incision to drain the wound. The operation was performed beI tween 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon.. The President stood the pain very welt I and expressed bis satisfaction at the result. Dr. Rir?y. Surgeon-General of the navy, performed the operation, assisted by Dr. Lung, the President'! regular physician. Dr. O'Reilly, who also was present with the other physi' clans, la the Surgeon-General of the i 411 US J 1/1 bunum A?. auuwi?.t ! of those present. is in charge of the Naval Museum of Hygiene and Medical School. i The physicians took a roseate view of the President'* prospects for getting i out again. Dr. Shaffer, while he ds? clioed to discuss generally the President's case, authorized the most positive statement that there need be not : the slightest cause for anxiety or alarm 1 regarding his condition. SON TO CONTEST STRATTON WIU Win ricM Far More Than ISO^Mafth* 14,9X1.000 E?t?U. i Colorado 8prinjjs, Col.?Isaac Harry Stratton, the only child of Winfleld Scott Stratton. decided to contest his father's will which allows him only $90,000 out of the S14.1K1.000 estate, and declares that forfeited If be con* tests the w<IL The contest will be made on several grounds, one of then being that his father was of imsound j mind when be made the will. Young Stratton has retained Jndge* | Gnnnell and Harris, of Colorado j Springs, and former Senator Wolcott and Attorney Valle, of Denver. All j the heirs here are non-committal on the son's decision. By the terms of bis will W. 8. Stratton left $1,000,000 to bnlld the Myron Stratton Home for Sick Persons In Colorado Springs, and most of the rest of his estate to its maintenance. There were eight personal bequests of $50,? 000 each. To his son. Harry Stratton, was left 150.000. "In case he does not contest or cause to be contested tbla will." The late Mr. Stratton procured a divorce from his wife noon after the birth of his son. and the latter bad ??? with tila futkcr ilnm hla birth. WO KILLED BY CYCLONE IN SICILY i $m Svtpt Inland Sirml MIU?? EnorMM Danic* to Pnpntr. Syracuse. Sicily.?Some 400 person* have been killed and enormous damage to property has lieen done by a cyclone which passed over this island. The stream flowing through Modica, swob i len by the terrific storm, suddenly overj flowed. Inundating the town. 8everal i bouses collapsed and many families I (>erished. For twenty-four hours before the cyclone burst a violent storm raged on the eastern coast. The path of the cyclone was 124 miles long, and everything in the line of the storm was destroyed. The sea rushed inward fot several kilometres, while there were violent submarine agitation* between , Sicily and the mainland. The survivors of the catastrophe have taken refuge in the hills. A relief committee and search parties have been been organised. The disaster is supposed to bare >>een caused by waterspout. The Cerman steamer Caprera was wrecked at Catania after ? terrible struggle with the wave*. Killed t)in(ht?r'i Slayer. In a quarrel at Cpatoio, <!a.. Arthur Corner instantly killed his wife Louise, shotiug her with a pistol. Shortly afterword J. W. Murphy. Mrs. Oonier't father, hoar lug of his daughter'* tragic ?leath. went to his sou-in-law's residence ami shot him dead with the name weapon Comer bad used to kill blfl wife. Ranmtnlt T*k?? Action. The Roumanian Government hai sent a telegraphic order to the local authorities to stop the issue of emigration passports to Jews. Those Jews who have already approached | the frontiers will lie *ent back, but nothing will be done to Improve the position of the Jews. Only n fresh j grievance will be added to old wrongs. Drouth In Trsa* Krokrn. A heavy rain has fallen over South ! Texas, breaking a severe drought in Till' (.'ill IIL" 1UUIIII,!. r__ >pvr? of fiir Toller*. nl Tho H:irl?* rs I i:in Memphis wns I flr.sr organized in i>*>7. 39 THesrapliers at San Francisco, <"al., B t have organized a union. jl <!as ih?*c have been granted their ' - ?4 n-iv ?i? OfiL'Innd. H r?**|ui'?i i'? ?u? i? ?.?%. IM.,1 MV ^ A satisfactory settlement of the nn-H fh.ni-t-*" >trike at Deuison. Texas. lK? n n'frlnnl. jQ Metal polishers ami brass vrorkorg^H iiave dc?*i(l?*tl to inaugurate a ceneral^H cauipakn for a cine hour day all overH - tlie country. -Hj