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THE HOWTHLY CROP REPORT A Winter Wheat Yield of 410,000.000 Bushels Indicated. CEREAL AVERAGES FALL OFF ?at*. Barfey, Rye and Buckwheat I*oorer Than Last Year, While the Hay Acreage Increase* ? Percentage of Spring Wheat Much Lower?Good Showing In Corn?Falling Off In Wheat. Washington, D. C.?The monthly report of the Chief of the Burean of Statistics of the Department, of Agrii culture "will show the condition of corn on August 1 to have been 78.7, as compared with 70.4 on July 1, 1003; 86.5 on August 3. 1002: 54 at the corresponding date in 1901, and a tenyear average of S4.4. Th^ report contains a table showing the condition on August 1 of the last three years anil on July 1 of this year of the corn crop in the twenty principal corn States. Texas. Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama. Mississippi, Virginia and South Dakota are the only States in which a better condition of the corn crop was shown on August 1 of this year than on the same date of last year. Preliminary returns indicate a v,-inter wheat crop of about 410.000,000 bushels, or an average of 12.4 bushels i per acre, as eompared with 13.S bush- ; els last year. j Of eleven principal winter wheat ; States the averse yield in Kansas. Pennsylvania. Oklahoma and Tennessee is greater this year than last; in ( Missouri. California. Indiaua, Neb? au:? ik/v ra^na, uuiu. luuiuia ;iuu .uivui^uu itiu yield is less than last year. The average condition of spring ] wheat on August 1 was 77.1, as com- ] pared with 82.5 last month, 89.7 on ] August 1, 1002; 80.3 on August 1, j 1901, and a ten-year average of 80.2. Of the five principal spring wheat j States, only one. South Dakota, shows ] a better rendition of spring wheat this year than last. The others?Minne- , ?ota, North Dakota. Iowa and Wash- Sngton?show a much more backward j condition. The average condition of the wheat orop on August 1 was 79.5, as compared with S4.3 one month ago. S9.4 on August 1. 1902 ; 73.6 on August 1, ( 1901. and a ten-year average of 82.6. ] New York. Pennsylvania and Michi t?an show a better condition than last . year, and Illinois, Iowa. Wisconsin, \ Minnesota. Nebraska, Indiana and Ohio a poorer condition. ( The proportion of the wheat crop of < last year still in the hands of farmers j 1s estimated at 7.4 pef cent., as com- j pared with 4.2 per cent, of the crop of i 1901 in farmers' hands one year ago. i 5.9 per cent, of the crop of 1900 in < farmers' hands two years ago. and an 1 eight-year average of 7.4 per cent. The average condition of barley on 1 August 1 was 83.4, against 86.8 on? < month ago, 90.2 on August 1. 1902; ] 86.9 at the corresponding date in 1901, i and a ten-year average of 83.4. i The average condition of spring rye . on August 1 was 87.2. as compared 1 with 88.3 on month ago. 90.5 on August 1. 1902; 83.6 at the corresponding date i?. 1901, and a ten-year average of 85.3. ] The average condition of tobacco on August 1 was 82.9, as compared with 83.1 one month ago. 1 The average condition of potatoes j on August 1 was 87.2, as compared < with 88.1 oue month ago. 94.8 on Au- t gust 1. 1902; 02.3 at the corresponding < date in 1901, and a ten-year average i of 84.r>. < Preliminary returns indicate an in- I ^rpnsp nf 3 r?ov cent, in the bav aver-1 i age. .hV i 1 WIFE BEATER'S NOVEL DEFENSE." i I Pleads "Now Woman" Game In a Court j to Ju6tlfy Blows. . New York City.?In sorting out the ' morning Latch of prisoners at Harlem j Police Court, Magistrate Crane found 1 an alleged wife-heater rejoicing in the ' name of Thomas Duffy. His wife charged that he had struck her in the ( face. ! "She tried the new woman same on roe." explained Duffy. "That's ft new excuse,*' said the i Magistrate. "What do yon mean?" "She wont out and left me to take ' care of the children." Duffy ex^Jained. ' "And so you blackened her face and j closed her left eye." exclaimed the Magistrate; "$300 bail." POWERS PUT BAN ON SERVIANS. Aoatrla Sends Home Stadents ami Russia Forbids All Intercourse. Vienna, Austria.?In consequence of ?, the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga and the subsequent attitude of the Servian military officers, both Russia aud Austria have decided to send home all the Servian officers studying in their military schools. Russia has forbidden hor ofjcers to have either official or social intercourse with Servian officers. LITTLE HOPE OF REFORM. China's Empress Makes Pretence of Conciliating: the Te< _>le. Tlen-Tsin.' China. ? The Empress Dowager is trying to remove.the bad impression caused by the execution of Shen-Chien. the reform journalist who was recently put to death by her order. by issuing popula edicts, but the anti - reform movement continues threatening, even in the case of Viceroy Chang-Chlh-Tung. who remains hostile to Russian influence. Saves Wife and Baby From Wreck. ! The barge Volunteer, with a cargo of coal, went down in a choppy sea off Narragansett Pier, R. I. Captain Closson, his wife and eighteen-monthold baby escaped in a small boat^ as did also a Portuguese deck hand. Ten Years For Snatching Furse. Henry Hall, a negro, who snatched Alice Sodergren's pockctbook at Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. It was also proved that HaJl had tirst attempted o i>rim i n n 1 oecoiiH on \I Ic-a ?. vnuiiiiui nconuic vu jiioo Tt'oiuiui to Ituu Engine. .Mrs. Amasa Berger, the "woman engineer," has secured a license to operate a stationary engine in the District of Columbia. She is the first -woman who ever took the engineer's examination in Washington. She will run the engine which supplies the power for her husband's steam bakery, Georgia Judge Justifies Lynching. Judge Joun Temple Grover, of Georgia, in an address before the Chautauqua Assembly, justified lynching, and said that he was glad to see the nob spirit spreading through the. ' Vorth. 1 . i * " ' /-i g SAYS CRAWFORDS EXIST Mme. Humbort, in Court, Proraisep to Reveal Their Identity, She Declare* She Will Tell All at thr End of the Trial?A Kuims to Gain Time. Pari?, France.?The trial of the Humbert family on the charges ol forgery anil swindling in connection with the fictitious Crawford millions, has been drawing large crowds to the Palais de Justice. Mine. Therese Humbert continued to dominate the proceedings, and creat- ( ed several scenes when the Court at- < tempted to examine the other mem- 1 hers of the family. M. Bonnet, the Presiding Judge, insisted on examin- I ing Frederic Humbert, iier nusoana. but Mrue. Therese, rising, said: "I demand to be heard. I am strong to-day, and will explain where the millions are.'' Frederic Humbert testified lengthily regarding the affairs of the Rente Viagere. the insurance concern which the Humberts started and in the crasli of which thousands of poor people lost all their savings. He maintained that the operations were conducted in good faith and claimed that public prejudice aroused against the Humbert family brought about the failure of the concern. The Judge sought to bring out that Romain himself impersonated the Crawford? and instituted suits in their name. The defenilant denied ever impersonating the Crawfords or writing the letters signed by the Crawfords. Muie. Humbert here made another declamatory statement protesting ui*i complete innocence. "I have tried to find the Crawfords and their millions," she said. "I have not succeeded in finding the money, but I have found the Crawfords. The.v have made a terrible revelation to me. I have told Maitre Labori all. He knows the real name of the Crawfords, for they do not call themselves by the name of Crawford. No one will suffer any loss. I will pay every one. Perhaps the Crawfords may not lppear. but they exist. It is only their name that does not exist." The Judge, interrupting her. asked: "Then where are the Crawfords?" "If the Crawfords do not come here [ will give their name and that will suffice." replied Mrae. Therese. "I have already told Maitre Labori that when the witnesses have been heard and the hearing is concluded I will tell all." There was a profound silence in the courtroom during Mme. Humbert's Jeelaration, but her final words, again putting off the promised disclosures, aroused derisive laughter. When the Court intimateu mat toe statement was vague, Maltre Labori answered: i 'But Mme. Humbert engages herself t to speak at the close of the hearing." t The Court then began the examina- 1 tion of the ninety witnesses called, i jutside the family, which will occupy < many days. Mme. Therese's declaration that the Crawfords actually exist i jnder another name Is generally re- 1 ;arded as only another of licr ruse* > o gain time. t JUSTIFIES CANNIBALISM.; i Professor Star Say* It 1* Not Wrong to t Eat a Man When He Is Dead. Chicago. ? According to Professor i Frederick E. Starr, head of the Anthropological Department at the University )f Chicago, cannibalism among the savage tnoes Ul Allll-tl, Auauaua u?iu ; Greenland is justifiable. This state- i sent was made before his class in the i :ourse of a lecture. He explained to j ais startled audience that he would not r justify any one for killing a man for i food, but that in his opinion it was not j tvrong to eat him when dead. "The bushmen and pigmies of Africa, .he Fuegians and Bolo-Cudos of South \mericn, and the Eskimos of North i A.merica," said he. "are all cannibals. Some eat human flesh from desire and ;ome from necessity. It is especialy t n the case of the latter that I say their 1 cannibalism is justifiable. It is a fact ( that every known tribe which eats s logs also feeds on human beings. Dog j ?ating and man eating go together. ( When the Eskimo has no walrus he pats his dog, and when his dogs are j gone he eats his brother, if the brother | happens to be a corpse. If he did not j eat the human flesh he would starve, | or at least go hungry, and I think he is j all right in doing as he does." , Professor Starr further remarked { that the finest tribes in Africa are can- ) nibals who think that they attain the , attributes of the dead relatives or , friends by eating them. , SUN DANCE PUNISHMENT. It Will Be Meted Oat to Those Who Incited Indians to Torture Themselves. Washington, D. C.?Secretary of the ! Interior Hitchcock issued an order to J Superintendent Seger, of the Seger ( Indian Training School, of Oklahoma, j to remain in Washington and make ( complete oral and written reports of the recent ' personally conducted" j sun dance, given for the edification of Professor Mooney, of the Bureau of Ethnology, and Professor Dorsey, of the Field Museum of Chicago, by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians of j Oklahoma. Secretary Hitchcock is highly incensed over the holding of the sua dance under the direction of Govern- ! ment officials. He said: ' If it is found that any persons, whether in the Government service or not, were instrumental in inciting the Indians to the sun dance torture. 1 they shall be reached and punished ( if there is a law on the statute book? . under which It can be done." i China Satisfied With Arrangement*. Sir Chen-Tung Liang-Cheng, the Chinese Minister at Washington, discussed -with Acting Secretary Loomi9 ( details regarding the admission of the Chinese Commissioner and his suite to the Worm s Fair at St. Louis. The arrangements made are satisfactory to the Chinese Government. Played on a Raft, Drowned. Wliile playing on a raft Ernest and Raymond Connor, children, fell into a creek at Harlow, N. C., and were drowned. Newh Erevitles. Germany is training carrier pigeons for use in the navy. The art glass manufacturers of the United States have organized. The University of Zurich is about to establish a chair for journalism. The attendance at the Northfield Conference was the largest of the season. Montrose. Scotland, operative masons have gained a wage Increase to 8<J. an hour. All danger of another flood In Kansas from thr Kansas River has passed. ' JAMAICA IS DEVASTATED" Many Killed in a Hurricane Causing Great Property Damage. LOSS ESTIMATED AT $10,000,000 Only Six Hons** I>rt Standing at Port Antonio ? Village* Wiped Out ? Fruit Trade Paralyzed?Inland Bare of Cropi ? Many Yettsels Wrecked ? Hundred# Made Homeless?Numerous Escapes. Kingston, Jamaica.?The hurricane, >f which only the fringe struck th? western ,end of Jamaica, and which it was thought had passed, instead of >rocoediug to the northwest, veered to the south and struck Jamaica with its fuil force, inflicting enormous damlge, which it will take years to repair. It is impossible as yet accurately to estimate the amount of the losses, but it is believed to reach $10,000,000. Considering the damage to property the loss of life is comparatively small, bough the present estimate now is j hat the death list will reach fifty. Hundreds of persons were injured and :here were numerous hairbreadth escapes. Port Antonio, on the northeast coast, vas completely overwhelmed. Only >ix bouses were left standing there. The United Fruit Company's wharves, offices, hotel and plantations it Port Antonio were utterly deruolshed. Five of the company's steamers, including the Simon Duraois, Alfred Duuois and Brighton, were driven ishore, but are lying in easy positions. Port Maria, another town on the lorth coast, suffered similarly. The Norwegian steamer Salvatoredi Giorgio was driven ashore at Anuotta Bay, and lies in a dangerous position. Several sailing vessels were wrecked v.. 4-Ka nA?tfK oWa onH fho nnnflf* iq Jll LUC Ul/1 IU o iv i v | uun vmv vvmmv strewn with. the wreckage of local shipping. The entire eastern end of the island las been devastated. Villages bare Seen wiped out and public buildings jnd churches demolished. Thousands >f the peasantry, rendered homeless ind destitute, are wandering about jeeking food and shelter. The destruction of the banana plantations has been complete, and the [rult trade is paralyzed for the next :welve months. Hundreds of prosperous fruit growers have been brought :o bankruptcy and ruin. The southern i>ortion of the island ias been completely denuded of its rops, the rivers are flooded, and many nen were carried out to sea and lrowned. The western end of the island, which t was at first supposed had escaped, ilso suffered considerably, tnougii not o the same extent as the eastern end. S'ew banana plantations there were jartly destroyed and the orange and ;offee crops were also injured. Thousands of houses in Kingston , Yere damaged, the wharves were bat .ered, and several coasting vessels vere sunk in the harbor. The roof of lie electric light works was blown off ind the machinery was disabled. Rail oad traffic was interrupted and the street cars were stopped. Trade here s practically at a standstill. Torrential rains have increased the misery of the poor and homeless. Little Damnge in Cnba. Havana. Cuba.?While high winds tnd threatening conditions prevailed n all the provinces of Cuba, there vere no reports of any important dam- , ige. There was some destruction of Tops and small buildings in tne rrovnco of Pinar del Rio, whore tho wind lppears to have been strongest. , BATTLESHIP STRIKES ROCK. kfassachuftettft Damaged Slightly While Leaving Kar Harbor, Me. Bar Harbor, Me.?While leaving tho larbor during a thick fog in company 1 svith other vessels of tho NoYth Atlanta squadron, tho battleship Massachusetts sustained much damage by strikng on a ledge of rocks off the western ?nd of Egg Rock. The big vessel slipped over the rocks nto deep water, but the two forward bulkheads soon tilled, and it was found that several plates forward had been cracked. The Massachusetts was lieaded back into the harbor with muchj difficulty, accompanied by her sister vessel, the Indiana, and the gunboat Scorpion. She will remain here until Captain Manning, her commander. receives orders from Washington, when it is expected she will proceed to Brooklyn to be dry docked. Iron Trade a Little Uneaay. The iron trade has shown a little uneasiness over the fact that some con 3umers have asked a postponement of Jeliveries and a few hare asked for cancellations. I'rodnction is undiminished, and there is a little feeling that consumption may fall off. Now enterprises are put off on account of fin:>ni-ial conditions. Dutch SIny Sumatra Native*. Three hundred Achinese were killed in a recent battle with the. Dutch troops in the village of Pocloetengah, in the middle of the Island of Sumatra. The Dutch lost an officer and six men killed and an officer and fifty men wounded. They captured the village. Woman Dion at Ajpe of 102 Yearn. Mrs. Maria Letitia Lash, known as the oldest woman in Baltimore. Md., ilied at the a?e of 102. She had been an inmate of the Church Home and Infirmary for many years. She preserved her ^mental faculties to the last. Twelve Bleacher Victims Dead. Two additional victims of the accident at the Baseball Park, in Philadelphia. have died, making the total number of fatalities twelve. They were Samuel Kelly, a boy who had both arms broken, and James Hnwden, whose spine was injured. Knsland Bar* Oat Sugar. A proclamation has been issued in London under the new Sugar Convention act which prohibits the importation of sugar from Russia, Denmark smri \rcAnHno Newsy Gleaning;*. There are nearly 270 different religions in the United Kingdom. At the burial of a South London man his six dogs, draped in black, followed the cortege. About $2(5,000 has been raised so far toward the $100,000 for the centennial of Chicago. Over 500 infants are killed every year in London by being overlaid in bed by their parents. , By the will of the late Dr. ^Hlram K. Jopes, Illinois College, at Jacksonville, will receive nearly the entine estate, jraloed at $75,000. \ S " . . . . , \ SECRETABYBOOTTOItESICf He Will Tender Resignation Befon Sailing For England' TAFT WAV BE HIS SUCCESSOF The Resignation TF111 Take Eflfcet When erer the President Sees Fit?Chance V Not Expected Until Congress Meets Boot a Member of the Alaskan Bonnri ary Commission. Washington, D. C.?Before*S<?cretari Root sails for London to ait witl the Alaskan Boundary Commission lu will place bis resignation in the handf of President Roosevelt in order tba< the President mav aDDoint a SeCretan of War if it is deemed necessary dur ing Mr. Root's'absence. It is expected however, that the resignation will no be acted upon until after Congress meets. The appointment of Mr. Root'; successor will depend somewhat upor the length of time that Secretary Roo will be engaged upon the Alaskar Boundary Commission. Secretary Root'3 desire to leave pub lie life is based largely ou persona grounds. His family does not like th< life in Washington, and the Secretary desires also to return to his law prac tice in New York City. The greal questions that were pending in th< War Department, relating mainly t( the administration of the island's ac quired from Spain and the establish raent of a government in Cuba, liav< been disposed of during Secretary Root's administration. The reorgani zation of the army under the genera staff plan is now under way, and thi Secretary feels that he has accom plished the work that he was called oe to do when he became Secretary ol War. While Secretary Root is in London lit will remain in communication with th? War Department, and matters pertain ing to the General Staff and other im portant affairs will be referred to him If the sittings of the Alaskan Commis sion extend beyond December 1 it It likely that the Secretary's resignatioc will be accepted and his successor ap pointed at that time, and if the situa tJon in the War Department becomes such that a Secretary is needed to take charge of affairs, one will be appointed earlier. It is believed here that there will bf a great deal of delay in the considera tion of the Alaskan boundary case and that the United States (ommissionere may be detained in London several months. It is understood that the matter oi his successor has been dir.cussed, and while nothing official can be obtained it Is believed that tne position win ne tendered to Governor Taft of the Phil ippines. Oyster Bay, L. I.? It is understood here that the resignation of Mr. Root will take effect about the 1st of Jan uary and that he will be succeeded unless present plans miscarry by Judge William H. Taft, now Governor of the Philippines. For a long time Secretary Root ha; desired, for pre?sjng private reasons to retire from the Cabinet. When Mr Root became President, Secretary Rool indicated his wish to leave the Cabinet within a year, but his friendship foi the President was so staunch and hi? interest In pem ing questions be/ore the War Department so deep that b* was persuaded to remain for a longei period than he had intended. Even now he h..s not indicated to the President just "\ hen he may leave the Cabinet, but he and the President have discussed the subject many times and have a mutual understanding regarding it. It can be said that the President expeefs that the country will have the benefit of Secretary Root's service? yet for several months, certainly until the beginning of the next year. APOLOGY TO RUSSIA. Sultan Sends Ills Son to Express Regret at Murder ot Connul. St. Petersburg, Russia.?A telegram was received from M. Ziuovleff. Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, stating that by commaud of the Sultan Prince Ahmed Effeudi. the liftl] son of the Turkish sovereign, called at the embassy to express the deep dis tress and regret occasioned to nis Maj esty by the assassination of the Russian Consul by a Turkish sentry at Monastir. The Prince requested M. Zlnovleff to ^ing to the notice of the Czar this renewed expression of feeling. SAW PLAYMATE KILLED. Little Paterson Boy Kan Under a Wago* After a Ball. Paterson, N. J.?David McKellin, four years old, was killed in the presence ot liis playmates on Union avenue. McKellin and half a dozen othor children had a rubber ball and were throwing it arouud, when William Wllsor drove by on a wagon filled with sand. The ball bounced under the vehicle, and little David rau between the front 'and rear wheels to recover it. The rear -wheel, caught him, knocked liim down, and crashed his head. $ I 2,OCO FOR KILLING OUTLAWS. Oklahoma Deputy Marshal* ltetarn With Two Kodlcs to Claim ltevrard. Guthrie, Okla. Tor.?deputy Marshals Bennett, Willttts and Jacnbson arrived hero from Pawhuska, Osage Nation, with the bodies of two members of the Martin gau? of outlaws, killed la a tight a few days ago. The dead men have been identified as Will and Sara Martin. Rewards aggregating ?12,000 had been offered for the men dead or alive. Boaton Tax Rate Unchanged. The tax rate for Boston, Mass., fot 1!)03 was announced as $14.80 per thousand, the same rate as last year, A total city valuation of $1,220,450,32.'! includes real estate to the value ol $985,553,800, and personal estate, $234,897,023. King Peter's Sons in Servla. The children of King Feter arrived at Belgrade, Servla, from Russia. The Crown Prince expressed his de light at being able to step on tbe son of his forefathers. Thousands Homele?? in Martinique. Advices to the State Department. Washington, from Martinique say that eight persons were killed in the recent cyclone and 5000 survivors of last year's volcano horror were made homeless. Second Primary Nccesaary. A second primary will be necessary In Mississippi to decide the Democratic candidate for Governor. Arm* Again to Epter China. The proclamation prohibiting the exportation of arms and ammunition to China has been repealed. I PERISH III > PARIS TUNNEL J Passengers Suffocated by Smok( From Burning Cafs. * SCORES OF BODIES RECOVERED The Disaster Cansed by Trs Empty Train; * Catching Fire ? Smoke Spread Paol< Among the Passengers on Other Tralm ?A Wild, Selfish Scramble Followed Retailing in Loss of Life. 7 Paris, France. ? A catastrophe. Ir ' which about ninety persons wer< ? killed, eighty-two of whose bodies hac 5 been found, occurred on the Metropoli t tan Electric Railway, which runs most : ly under ground. About 8 o'clock one of the trains which run on five-minute schedules broke down at Menilmontanl , Station, which is in a poor and popu < lous section of the city. This traic i was promptly emptied, and the trair t which followed was ordered to push ii to the repairing sheds. On the waj these two trains caught fire, but Iht [ employes succeeded jn escaping. > Meanwhile a crowded train reached \ Lea Charonnes, the preceding station and the officials, seeing smoke pourinj [ out of the tunnel, gave the alarm. A panic ensued, the passengers strug J gling to cscape from the station. Arai(3 the increasing smoke many attempted [ to return along the line toward Belle ^ ville, and were suffocated. \ The officials seem to have lost theii heads, and are quite unable to say how many passengers went out. It is IrnAirrn fVio f o Kaiii- ItnlC is rl Arrnn tttVir , nuurru luat uuuui uui l a uu^cu nui ; were partially suffcoated \~ere treated I* at a pharmacy near the station. The . tire brigade was for a long time unablv to enter the station or the tnnnel > owing to the dense smoke. Tens ol [ thousands of anxious people gathered | about the station. All the police anc | tire authorities were on the spot, anc the excitement was intense. | At a a. m. the flremen succeeded in . flooding the burning mass, and shortly t afterward they were able to enter thf tunnel. They brought up the bodies of five men and two women, all be , longing to the working class. , The extent of the disaster was onlj [ learned about 6 o'clock,- when it became known that taree empty trains s were burned and a fourth was full ol | victims. FOUR YOUNC MEN DROWNED, i I Explosion of Tholr Naphtha Launch Wliilt on a Fishing Trip. Bangor, Me.?By the capsizing of n naphtha launch off Ash Point, neai | Rockland, four young men were ! drowned and two others narrowly es caped with their lives. The drowned are Henry K. Crocker, twenty-three years old, son of Superin1 tendent Jonathan Crocker, of the Rock laud and Camden Water Company, a graduate of the University of Maine this year; Frank F. Veazie, aged twen ty-one, also a graduate of the Univer' sifcy of Maine this year and famous as an athlete; Charles W. Holmes, aged 5 twenty-three; Raymond G. Hall, aged nineteen, all of Rockland. Those saved iire Oliver Hills, of Rockland, and ; Thomas Hodges, of Bridgeton, Me. ; The young men were on a fishing ex| cursion. ! HURRICANE ON MARTINIQUE. Houses Unroofed and Sailing Vessel* Badly Damaged. ; Fort de France, Martinique.?The Isl[ and of Martinique was swept by a [ hurricane of great violence. Its duration was ten hours, and it was particularly severe during two hours at Fort } de France, where it caused much de\ struction. Hundreds of honses were unroofed and several sailing vessels worn hnrtlv ilnmnpoH No fatalities, however, have been reported. The roads are impassable on account of the fallen trees, which were i torn up by the roots. Several towns on the island suffered considerably, i ! principally Trinito, Ste. Marie. Carbet. ' St. Joseph and Francois. The storm , moved in a northwesterly direction. i LOST CHILD FOUND IN CISTERN.Rewards Aggregating 8X100 W?r? Offered For Lad Found Drowned. Indianapolis, Ind.?Little Ted Kendall, who disappeared from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry i Kendall, and for whom a diligent search had been made by the neighbors and the police force, was found in a cistern a few doors from the Kendall home. It is supposed he walked into the cistern and was drowned. Rewards agMHA/vn f S v\ 1AA Unrl Knori fnt* i ^lc^auujl; x av/u uuu u&vu vu.viv,u *.vt i liis return. The child last -was seen aJlve standing on a corner -watching a hand organ grinder. 1 : PENNY POSTAGE WOULDN'T PAY. England's Postmaster-General Frowns on International Proposal. ! London.?In response to a corrcspon1 dent advising penny postage between Great Britain and the United States, Postmaster-General Aiisten Chamberlin -writes that it would be difficult to , adopt such a scheme for the benefit of one country while refusing it to others. , He says the sacrifice of revenue inI volved in the adoption of international penny postage would be so great he , docs not feel justified in proposing It. Fatal Quarrel Over Indian Girl. A lovers' quarrel over Florence Mac| key, an Indian girl, resulted In the kill, Ing, at Cree Camp, near Htfvre, Mont., of Cree Tom and the wounding of two other men. Earthquake in Lisbon. A violent earthquake shook Lisbon. Portugal, and vicinity. The duration ; of the shock was two seconds. The ' earthquake caused a great panic and some damage, but no fatalities have beeu reported. 8S00,000 Damage by Hail. Reports from the farming region of Northern Colorado show such great de struction of crops by a terride buil[ storm that tlie total damage is conservatively estimated at more than $500.000. Woman-Whipping Caases Imalry. _ Pursuant to an order of Governor Terren, or ueorgia, ihp omit,* inot?u Commission began an investigation ol' the whipping of Mamie Decris, a prisoner on the Mlliedgeville prison farm. Miss Dccris was eonvictod of a diamond robbery in Savannah. Ca., and the case gained notoriety throughout: the State. Sixty Pole* Perish in Blots. T|ie strike riots iu Cracow, Austrian Poland, have resulted in sixty deaths since August 5 through conflicts b2tween the strikers and the troops. 'PRESIDENT ON LYNCHING I I | Letter of Praise Sent to Governor ; j Durbin, of Indiana. days Mob Violence la Anarchy, the Fore* runner of Tyranny?Laws Should I Work i SwlfUy and Sorely. Oyster Bay, L. I.?In a letter, the ' publication of which was authorized, ? President Roosevelt commends Gov1 ernor Winfield T. Durbin, of Indiana, ' for the attitude he assumed recently respecting lynching. The President i also embraces the opportunity to ex? press his own views in reference to " lynching and mob violence generally, pointing out that mob violence is mere ly one form of Anarchy, and that An. archy is the forerunner of tyranny. ? The President vigorously urges that [ the penalty for that crime which most ' frequently induces a resort to lynching hiiuu ue appnea swuujr auu ouieijr, uui by due process of the courts, so that it , may be demonstrated "that the law is adequate to deal with crime by freeing it from every vestige of technicality t and delay." r A portion of the President's letter is : as follows: j "All thoughtful men must feel the I gravest alarm over the growth of , lynching in this country, and especially ; over the peculiarly hideous forms so i. often taken by mob violence when colored men are the victims?on which [ occasion the mob seems to lay most I weight not on the crime but on the color of the criminal. "In a certain proportion of these cases the man lynched has been guilty ' of a crime horrible beyond description; i a crime so horrible that so far as he > himself is concerned he has forfeited 1 the right to any kind of sympathy > whatsoever. The feeling of all good : ciuzans inni sucn a mucous crime . shall not be hideously punished by mob ! violence is due not in the least to I sympathy for the criminal, but to a I very lively sense of the train of dreadI ful consequences which follow the course taken by the mob In exciting ini human vengeance for an inhuman r wrong. s "It certainly ought to be possible by > the proper administration of the laws to secure swift vengeance upon the criminal, and the best and immediate r efforts of all legislators, judges and clt. Izens should be addressed to securing i such reformation in our legal proced' ure as to leave no vestige of excuse for those misguided men who undertake to reap vengeance through violent methods. i 'The nation, like the individual, can' i f L AAmmlf n A^fmA wlfVi imnnnlfv T t I UUb LUillllilL <X tliuic nuu awyuuitj* AA I we are guilty1 of lawlessjjLttu.and bru1 tal violence, whether our guilt consists in active participation therein or in ! mere connivance and encouragement, we shall assuredly suffer later on because of what we have done. The cor* nerstone of this Republic, as of all free governments, io respect for and obe dience to the law. Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, whethei f by rich man or poor man, by black ' man or white, we are by just so much ' weakening the bonds of our civlliza1 tion and increasing the chances of Its overthrow, and of the substitution [ therefor of a system in which there shall be violent alternations of anarchy and tyranny." TOOK $80,000 FROM PREACHERS. Fugitive Treasurer of Aid Society Send* rnn/Aaal/%*i PaafAH j Boston.?In a letter -written from ,1 Montreal to the pastor of his church in East Boston, Willard S. Allen, Treasurer of the Preachers' Aid Society of the New England Conference of the. j Methodist Episcopal Church, confessed i that he was a defaulter to the amount of more than $80,000 of the society's funds. He will be arrested. Mr. Allen has been Treasurer of the society for twelve years and Clerk of the East Boston District Court foi j twenty-nine years, and for sixteen j years was a prominent member of the School Committee of Boston. He left home about a week ago without announcing his destination, and the first heard from him was the letter to the East Boston clergyman. Mr. Allen said he had lost tlie money Jn speculation He requested the minister to inform the members of the Allen family and the officers of the society of his con. fession. ! Mr. Allen for more than forty years I has been prominent in the legal circles ! and political and social life of East j Boston. He is sixty-two years old. BASEBALL PARK'S ACCIDENT. Many Killed and Injured by Balcony Collapsing in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. - As a result of the accident at the Philadelphia baseball park, when the balcony at the ! Fifteenth street side of the grounds ! fell to the street, carrying -with it sev| eral hundred baseball enthusiasts, six i persons are dead, ten wounded mor* i tally and about 200 others injured. ; The authorities have set to work to ! find who is to blame. That the people themselves caused the accident by rushing on the frail balcony to see a street disturbance Is not denied. Coroner Dugau, who has assumed charge of the investigation, visited the ball ground and made a careful exam! Jnation of the collapsed balcony and i the entire equipments of the ground. Manager Shettlln, in behalf of the ! Phil.irielnhln Baseball Club, issued a j statement deploring the accident. The I manager said that the disaster was ! in no way due to any neglect on the part of the officials of the club. The dead are: Edward Williamson, sixty years old; George Cunningham, forty-six; Mathew P. Reid, thirty-nine; Joseph Edgar, forty; Alfred Rogers, sixty-nine; William Graham, twentyfour. Irish Land Bill's Progress. The Irish Land bill liaa passed the committee stage in the House of Lords. Many more amendments were pressed with great persistency, but none was j successful, except one providing that | a person aggrieved by an order made by a Commissioner may apply to the Land Commission for a rehearing. Battle Won by the Turks, j A fight occurred near Sorovuch in j which 1700 Macedonian revolutionists were routed by five battalions of Turkish troops with artillery. Labor World. Tho metal workers' union of Japan has 6000 members, with forty-two branch unions. Job printers at Minneapolis, Minn., are preparing a new wage scale for presentation to employers. Another attempt to effect a settlement of the Penrhyn (England) quarrymen's strike has failed. A dispute of coal laborers at Genoa, Italy, resulted in a lockout of some J000 men. The employers required the sen to withdraw from their unions; tfete the men nefuaed to do 4 . ? a. a*. AltnillMrn POPE PIUS X. IS liKUWNtJ | 70*000 Persons Witness Ceremony | in the Basilica of St. Peters. MANY FAINT IN TERRIFIC CRUSH 4 The Pontifl Alnuxt, Overcome by the Tfe* | tJffnJn* Five-Hoar Ceremony ? Great Throng; Acclaim* the Xew Pope fat M Spite of the BTotlcee Forbidding: Ap? plsuBe?Stifling Heat in Rome. ' Rome. ? Before princes, diplomats M Roman nobles and 70,000 plain citizens of Rome the coronation of Pope -r| Pius X. took place in the Basilica ot ? St. Peter's. The ceremonies covered five hours, and at the end the Pope^'' was fatigued and almost unable to i raise his hand in blessing the muftitude that did him honor. T*??_ <_ !k. : Hiiiriy ill iue luuiiniifc cue vaimiwn? assembled in the Slstine uhapel tqfi|gn bow in adoration before the new.Siw ~~$2 preme Pontiff. Then they formed* iai jj| procession and conducted His Holiness to the Basilica of St. Peter. The far-famed Slstine choir led th$ W3y. It was a cortege in which the order of procedure was reversed. Im- J mediately following the choir were tha \j| junior clergy of Kome. and after tnemi ; ' * the bishops. archbishops, Cardinal* ^ and finally the head of the church. The Papal Guard and the Noble Guard surrounded the moving line, while the chief officers acted aa a. sps- j cial escort for the Pope. The procession moved up the centre al3le of the huge cathedral, and came to a halt before the chapel of the Most noly Trinity. Here the Pope adprejJ the Host, then moved onward with hip J attendants to the high altar. On the> A east side the procession halted again, lv and, escorted by the Cardinals, he en- ' tered a small space railed off firom li? rest of the altar. There was a moment of compKtfe, most impressive silence as the Pope . f advanced to the front of the altar and kneeling 6n the lowest step engaged in; & prayer, while every head in the vast f audience was bowed. Then he mounted to the centrc of the JM altar and seated himself before it. The JH Cardinals advanced, this time' In tbe^H order of precedence, and again adored him. Kneeling down they kissed the Pope's slipper, then his hand and rticeived from His Holinesatan embrace in return. 1 After the Cardinals had returned to . J their places the Pope rose and stretch* /31 ing forth his hand gave to the, peoplr- '.-l I in the cathedral his blessing. This *1 ended the ceremony of the ccnsecration. and His Holiness left the c*th?* dral in the same manner as h$ had en*, :Wk tered. J The ceremony of the coronation wa& if possible, on an even grander ecslt'Sa than the consecration. jj The Pope entered the cbui<$ in fnf! f a state, and immediately upon his.arrival began the celebration of mass. 3ji While it was being said the Cardinal JH Deacon approached His Holiness and J I placed upon his shoulders the Pontifi- .'? eal mantle, saying the following prafr er as he did so: H "Receive the Holy Mantle, the plen-jH tltude of Hie Pontifical offices, to the honor of Almighty God, and of the j i most glorious Virgin Mary, His mother '|K9 and of the blessed apostles, Peter and-?J Paul, and of tllo Holy Roman Church." 0m The choir then sang ."Esse Sacetfto^ Jjl Magnus," while the Pope marched slowly to the balcony over the princi- I pal entrance of the cathedral. Here I in full view of the sreat throng assem- I bled in the street below, the Pontifical '*J | mantle was removed and the Cardinal I Dean placed on the Pope's head the 1 I pontifical crown, as ho did so praying I "Receive tLe tiara adorned with A ***? on/< tr.Attf fhof thnn luict t'lunuct auu uuvr* vu?*?. www ? >?_ . _ the father of princes a.'id kings, the ^ governor of the world, on earth the vl-. car of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, to .. whom is honor and glory for ever and > ever." The Pope then ended the ceremony ' by making two prayers, in blessing the people below. Fully 70.000 persons thronged J*t. Peter's square when the P?re maue his appearance later on tht? balcony \ and blessed the people. The enthu- * sJasm was tre-uendous. a Thousands of people remained otlt< J side of St. Peter's all night so that A they might be in advantageous posl tlons aunng me ceremouy uhh wwu'u'j m in?. : ffl Notices were posted on every band fm instructing the crowd to keep perfect < I silence when the Pope made hla ap- ?\1 pearance, but this command was disre- 1 garded. As soon as His Holiness^ ap- I peared on the balcony shout after I shout went up, nor did the people cease I from shouting until His Holiness.U}o- I tloned for them to keep silence so that he might give them his blessing. - I The heat was terri?ic, and hundreds M of people fainted, while a number of sunstrokes were reported. Pope Pius went through the jtrying S ordeal admirably. but a few minutes after the conclusion of the ceremony n he broke down and would have fainted I had not Cardinal Rampolla come to hisvjJ assistance with a bottle of smelling^J salts. Dropped Kevolver on the Floor. " ; ' IS .Mrs. Van Wagoner, wife of Martin Vau Wagoner, one of Sheriff Franklin- fl Carpenter's deputies, met death In an H nniien<il mnnndr nt hor hnma in Onnf*P. H voort, Saratoga County, New York. I While carrying a self-cocking revolter H to ber husband, who was about ta H drive away on the Sheriff's business M she dropped the weapon, which war - discharged, the bullet entering a vital m part of hor body. She was sixty-two M years old. ' Four Lost When Yacht Went Down. pS The small sloop yacht Lizzie sank S near Vallejo, Cal.. and Herman Salo- B mon, Emil Choline, William Hanson and David Wilson were drowned. Sol* H omon and Chellne were business men j?j and leave families. Hanson was a H chief machinist in the United States Navy. fi 48,614,000 Uarreln of Applet. . The revised estimate of the Appls W Shippers' Association for the 1903 crop H is 48,614,000 barrels. This is not much 0B less than the 1!>02 crop. JH Prominent People. fin Mr. Balfour, the British Prime Min? H? ister, has made an appeal in behalf of H the cancer research fund. rag John Barrett, the new Minister to Argentina, formerly Minister to Sfam,.^H is a Vermont man, a graduate of Dart* IH mouth. Prince Napoleon Victor Jerome Bofr'^Hj a parte, head of the European house of H Bonaparte, recently reached his forty* HH first year. Captain Henry Hash, of Boston,jf|C9 the last surviving officer of the old iba company that took part ia mow "Arooatwk war." fflgM . M