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New York and New Jersey Coas
Strewn Wiih Wreckage.
PRESIDENT ON YACHT !N FERIl
The Sylph Forced ?o I'ut Into tlie Brook1
lv:i Navy Yard? Many Vessel* SunkNew
York City Tied Up by High Wind:
?Iiri:nen?e Property Damage?The Los:
of Life?liulldings Vis roofed.
New York City.?In the worst storn
which has \I.site<l Now York since Au
gust. 1SN0. shores about New York
were strewn with wreckage, in the citj
itself several church steeples were lev
clod with the roofs, windows jnnumcr
able broken in. sierns Jwistcd off ant
further damage done winch may reacL
millions.
The wind registered sixty-sever
miles an hour on the Central Fark Ar
senal aremomeler. Ii' apparently hat
110 connection with the Florida hurri
cane, but struck the Jersey coast first
The steamboat S. E. Spring, a 200
foot sidewheeler. was driven on tli<
rocks near New Rochelle and beaten t(
pieces. The steam yacht Fulconls
slipped her anchor off the Larchmom
Club house and was driven 011 I'm
brella Point. At City Island $10<).00(
damage was done to yachts alone. Th<
yacht Columbia was saved only by tak
ins tlie schooner yacht Undergrade oul
into the basin and scuttling her ir
twenty feet of water. The sloop Toll}
and tiie schooner Aoulia were driver
on the rocks. The City Island polic<
boat was driven 011 Flynn's Beach
Seventeen yachts were wrecked about
the island. The pilot boat Hermil
dragged ner ancuors ou Stapieton anc
crashed down into the wharf of the
Staten Island Yacht Club. She was
badly damaged. More than a score ol
small boats were reported wrccked 01:
Staten Island. The tug .Tamos Ke>
was blown ashore on a Hell (.Jate reel
known as Hog's Back.
The damage was great all along the
Coney Island shore. The old iron piei
besan to break up early in the after
noon, and soon the giant breakers had
torn away 200 feet. The entire roof ol
the pier was blown off. The tide rose
to a great height, rolling in over Sur!
avenue. The foundations of the Edge
mere Hotel were undermined by the
water and the wind tumbled it orei' on
its side.
At Rockaway Beach the Central Ho
tel and pavilion and the big merry-gO'
round were wrecked.
Thf> rnof .if flit* Mnnlmt-tnn TTlotc ni
Eighty-sixth street and Second avenue
was blown off. The spire of St. Bar
tholomew's Church, at Forty-fourth
street and Madison avenue, was loos
ened and threatened to fall into the
street. Police reserves kept every one
out of danger.
Part of one Brooklyn church steeple
was blown down. Another steeple was
weakened and residents of the neigh
jborhood have been made to move oul
by the police.
. The steeple of the Church of the
Holy Apostles, Twenty-eighth street
and Ninth avenue, was stripped of its
sheathing. A section about fifteen
feet wide and seventy feet long was
-carried across the street, narrowly
pissing a Ninth Avenue L train.
In Wall Street nearly all the private
;wires running from the stock brokers'
Offices to Chicago and Philadelphia,
i /were blown down.
The death record of the storm was
remarkably small. In addition to the
reports of death in shipwreck, there
was but one death clue to the storm in
Greater New York and two in the
New Jersey area visited.
PRESIDENT IX THE GALE.
V'acht Svlnli Had a Hard Time ill tilt
y Long Island Sound.
Now York City.?President Roose,^plt
bad an exciting day, full of peril
nnd adventure, a day to bring terror to
the hearts of most men. but the Presl
dent appeared to enjoy it. He left Oys
ter Bay at 9 o'clock a. m. on the Gov
eminent yacht Sylph, and was hardlj
into the Sound before the first part ol
the hurricane struck her. The captair
ordered everybody on board. President
Roosevelt included, to go below. Tb<
wind was blowing seventy miles ai
hour, and the waves and spray dashec
over the Sylph. At times the yach
/was in imminent danger, but as the i*e
flnlt of skilful navigating the Sylpl
was steered into the shelter of th<
Navy Yard, and remained until J
o'clock, when, the wind having abated
the President was taken to Ellis Isl
and.
President Roosevelt and the other!
put in a rew minutes inspecting me accommodations
for immigrants and thei
sat down to a luncheon. No speechei
were made. During the luncheon th<
bell tower, twenty feet high and lo
rated almost where the Presiden
landed, was hurled down by the wind
A few minutes later the top of a heav]
metal ventilator over the dining looii
was torn away and hung by raffget
pieces of tin. Workmen cut it loosi
and took It away.
Caaso 81,000,000 Logs.
Atlantic City, N. J.?The hurrlcan
which struck this city caused dumag
of more than $1,000,000. Fully flft:
buildings were unroofed, severa
smaller hotels and houses wrecked, th<
board walk and verandas of large ho
tels swept out to sea and pavilions un
dermined and torn to bits.
The Hotel Strand was damaged t<
the extent of $20,(XX). The old Emplr
Theatre, the new Burtlett, the Hotel
Rudolf, Chelsea, Youngs, Marlborougl
and Wiltmore are all damaged.
New Haven. Conn.?The burrican
which struck this city wrecked abou
half a dozen of the boats of the Nev
Haven Yacht Club, They wer
anchored near the Yacht Club, an
were swept from their mooring
against the club's pier,
Nyack, N", Y.?Twenty rowboats an
launches were wrecked during th
storm here,
riaiufield, N. J.?Joseph Watts. .Tr
during the storm stepped on a liv
wire and was killed.
Philadelphia, Pa.?At the Delawar
Breakwater several steamships an
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Darges sank, uapiain .j. rs. muuuu
and four of his crew of the schoone
Hattie A. Marsh were drowned as th
vessel went down. The wind reache
a velocity of eighty miles an houi
The schooners Emily E. Northan
Adeline Townsend and Sea Bird wer
driven together. The Sea Bird sail
immediately, the others were badi
damaged.
A tugboat, supposed to be the Spa
tan, an ocean-going tug, and thvc
barges are sunk in the bay. The crew
of the entire fleet are doubtless los
as no trace of them can be fouud.
11 KILL li,ODO III MLK18
t The Turks Are Deliberately Exterminating
the Christians.
/TDnniTirc nr cm tamjc TDfiriDfc
Ml nuui I ILO Ul oULinn u i IIVVI o
Soldiers Spread Over Monaslir to Slaughter
the TOO,000 Christians?Thousands
5 Are Slain Also In Adrlanople?Two
5 Hundred Thousand Persona, Homeless,
Starving In the Forests.
l Sofia. Bulgaria.?The situation of all
. the 700,000 Christians in the vilayet
: of Monastir is desperate.
The Turkish troops are making a
. clean sweep of the whole Bulgarian
element, and are not sparing the other
l Christians. Despite secret protests of
, European nations, the Sultan is carrying
out unabatingly his savage policy
t of extermination.
News filters through from Monastir
very scantily, but it all tells of towns
1 and- villages destroyed, thousauds of
- | families massacred, witu torture ot
children and women and other atroci
ties.
- Nearly 200,000 persons are starving
> to death in the forests, their homes de>
stroyed and their lives in peril from
t roving bands of soldiery.
It is estimated now that nearly 100.'
000 have been massacred within the
> past few weeks in various parts of
- Macedonia, mostly in Monastlr.
t Unless there is speedy intervention
i by civilized nations, it is feared, not
7 only by the revolutionary leaders, but
i also by Bulgarian Government officials,
i that all the Christian population of
Monastir will be slain.
t The Turkish troops are scattered all
t over the vilayet, and the work of murl
der. pillage and destruction goes on
- daily without a sign of cessation.
? In the vilayet of Adrianople also the
Turkish and Albanian troops are puri
suing their usual tactics of burning
and plundering the villages, and killing
the peasants, instead of making even
an attempt to break up the insurgent
' bands.
The Albanians, especially, are said to
be beyond control. At Kostursco the
I influential hevs romnlflinpd tr? thp offi
- cer3 of the excesses committed by the
troops. The officers resented the cri
ticism, and told the soldiers that the
- beys were friends of the revolutionar
les, whereupon the soldiers burned th?
i beys' farms.
The Turks have burned the villages
of Almagik and Erikler in the district
o? Losengrad. They beheaded twentytwo
Bulgarians at Almagik In the presl
ence of their families.
Twelve thousand troops are aseem
bled around Malkotonovo, and are eni
gaged1 In pillaging and burning the
villages. The population everywhere
f Is fleeing to the forests and mouni
tains.
AH the Turkish population in the
^ district of Losengrad have received
> arms; even the beys have revolvers.
The Albanian soldiers proceeding
: from Odrin to Losengrad plundered
the villages en route, robbed the
t ?hurches and burned the village of
: Norakoj. Another body of Albanians
i going to Vasiliko, on the Black Sea,
i was attacked by a band, and Is rei
sorted to have suffered a loss of 100.
A band led by the insurgent chief
AtamasoflC was surrounded by Turkish
> troops at Kokushko. After six hours'
' fighting the., Insurgents cut their way
, through the soldiers by throwing
bombs. The Turks lost twenty.
!
| CASTRO TO INVADE COLOMBIA.
L 9000 Men Sent to L.os Andes, on Boundary
J Line.
Curacoa, Danish West Indies.?The
foreign Consuls at Caracas, Venezuela,
report that President Castro is making
preparations for a new invasion of Cok
lombla. Nine thousand men have been
ienc to Los Andes, on the boundary of
Colombia and VenezueTa. Arms and
I ammunition have been sent every day
> Pnr a woolr fimm T.?i flnnvro Tholp
lestination is unknown.
The judges and umpires of the mixed
- arbitration tribunals in the matter of
r claims aginst Venezuela, have been
' subjected to further attacks by the
1 Venezuelan newspapers.
t M. Filtz, the umpire for the Belgium
- claims, who rendered a decision
1 against Venezuela for 11,000,000 francs
1 in the matter of the claims of the comt
pany which has the concession for
supplying gas and water to the city
1 of Caracas, has been the particular obi
ject of President Castro's wrath.
The President has avenged himself
I\tt rvrH r? cr nnhlloaHnn r\f vIIa of
I/J U1UV.11UJ) IUC J/UUJJV.UHUU Vi T11U Ul,
" tacks on M. Flltz, who is treated like
a highway robber.
3 Foreign claimants are afraid to pre*
- sent their claims, as a list of all per1
sons so doing is published daily in ev3
ery paper In the republic and posted
J everywhere, and they believe the situation
is becoming critical.
t i
Man Kicks Another to Death.
f. In a fight at McDonough, N. Y?
1 Tracy N. Borrows was kicked to death
* by Frank Gole, whom Borrows had
J just shot in the neck with a revolver.
Borrows had accused Gole of escorting
his wife to the Greene County Fair.
J 'Wind Wrecks Circus Tent.
e A circus tent was blown down at AnF
thqny, Kan., and 100 persons were
1 hurt. One man may die. Cages cone
taining 200 animals were overturned,
>- but none of the animals escaped.
Destructive Grasshoppers.
3 Grasshoppers have destroyed the
e crops of the Picuris Indians in Taos
s County, New Mexico, and a famine is
ii threatened unless the Government
helps them.
p Holiness Leader A'Tested.
lt The leader of the Holiness sect In
v Anniston, Ala., has been arrested for
? refusing to call a doctor for his daugha
ter, who is critically ill with typhoid
s fever; the Mayor of the town has
ordered medical treatment for- the
, child.
d '
c Killed Alleged Sorcerer.
Regarded as a sorcerer. "Uncle A."
L\nney, ninety years of age and a for
\ner slave, was called to the door of his
e cabin, near Richmond. Va., and killed
by three unknown men.
C The Sporting World.
(1 There is talk of a mile track near
V d;t?*> !?11 111 a random ill).
A. mouui^, X ci., w.
r provement3.
2 Canadian-bred horses have won
many races this season throughout the
j* United States.
e A ten mile record for steam machines
k has been made at the Cleveland (.Ohio)
y automobile meet.
E. E. Smathers' Billy Buck won the
r- Roger Williams $10,000 guaranteed trot
>e at Providence, R. I.
3 Star Hal woa the $10,000 Park Brew
t. pacing race at Providence's (R. I.)
Grand Circuit meetios.
HBSEBHE tit .. .x-.. "
BALFOURON FISCAL REFOR1
The Premier's Plea For a Chan2:0!
in the British Policy.
| GOVERNMENTWILL NOT DISSOLVE j
I Publication of a Pamphlet on the Subject
of "Insular Free Trade" Said to Mean
That Dalfour and Chamberlain Will
Work Together For the Proposed Fiscal
Changes?Views of the Premier.
London.?Premier Balfour has issued
the advance sheets of a pamphlet on
the subject of "Insular Free Trade,"
in which he presents at length arguments
in favor of a change in Great
Britain's fiscal policy. In introducing
the pamphlet Mr. Balfour says his purpose
in issuing it is that it would be
impossible to put all the important
points of this question within the limits
of a single speech.
The Premier points out that as a result
of England's policy of retaining a
fiscal policy made for a free trade country
in a world of free traders, not for a
free trade country in a world of protectionists,
the rate of her export trade
has not increased, and in fact has seriously
diminished. Compared with past
years some departments show no increase.
while others show symptoms of
decay.
The Premier asserts that there is
no reason to expect an improvement.
Meanwhile Germany, America. France,
Russia and even Great Britain's selfgoverning
colonics continue to build up
a protective interest within their borders.
Mr. Balfour says the mistakes made
by the free traders half a century ago
have left Great Britain bearing ail the
burdens and enjoying only half the
nrivsmtazes which should attach to the
Empire. He devotes considerable
space to the effect of protection upon
combinations in countries in which protection
exists.
This, the Premier points out, is to
the disadvantage of the British manufacturer.
who is unable to compete
with the manufacturer who is able to
sell abroad at a lower price than he
charges for the same article at home.
He gives an instance of German steel
in this particular, saying that it is selling
cheaper in England than the English
manufacturer can possibly produce
it. #
Mr. Balfour declares that the optimists
who advocate a continuance of
the free trade policy In place of the injury
worked by protection on Great
Britain's interests are foolish and their
arguments little short of reckless. He
concludes:
"It cannot be right for a country with
free trade ideals to enter into competition
with protectionist rivals self-deprived
of the only Instrument whereby
their policy can conceivably be modifled.
The most essential object of our
national efforts should be to get rid of
the bonds In which we have gratuitously
entangled ourselves. The precise
manner in which we should use our regained
liberty Is important, yet after
all, only a secondary issue."
The publicatipn of the pamphlet after
the Cabinet had failed to agree on
the proposed fiscal policy is taken to
mean that the Government will stand,
tnat the Colonial Secretary will n6t resign.
and that the Premier will retain
the leadership of the modified tariff
cause, for which the way may be
opened by the appointment of a royal
commission.
airship only_a model:
Paper-Covered Aflalr is What Irvington*
Ind., Saw.
Indianapolis, Ind.-'-The announcement
by many prominent citizens of
Irvington that they had seen an airship
a few days ago caused great excitement
here. A number of well-known
business men offered to make aftidvits
that they had seen two men in it; one
said he had called to them. ,
At noon the following day. in a field
several miles from Irvington, some
boys found a large, torpedo-shaped,
paper-covered affair, with a canopy
and two dummy figures in it. It is
thirty feet long and is believed to have
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some local mechanics were working.
SUICIDE DUE TO SHAME.
Military Attache of Chinese Legation Kills
Himself in &an Francisco.
San Francisco. Cal.?The suicide of
Tom King Yung, Military Attache of
the Chinese Legation at Washington
and secretary of the actiug Chinese
Consul-General here, has greatly excited
the prominent Chinese of San
Francisco. He left letters saying he
could not stand the 8linme of a threatened
trial in the police court for an offense
with which he was charged.
Yung was arrested Friday in the
street. lie resisted arrest, as he held
that his consular post exempted him
from this, and he was roughly handled.
He turned on the gas in hib rooms
I and was found dead.
NO FEAR FOR MISSIONARIES.
Up to Date They Have Fared Well In
Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia.
Boston, Mass.?The American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
does not feel any uneasiness as yet
about any of its people in Turkey, Bulgaria
ahd Macedonia.
Dr. E. E. Strong, speaking of the situation,
said that the board had property
worth $30,000 in Macedonia, at
Monastir and Salonika, but so far everything
had gone well with the missionaries
at those places. At Beirut
the missionaries, all Presbyterians, are
not under the jurisdiction of the American
Board.
Killed In an Automobile Race.
Frank Day, of Detroit. Mich., was
killed in an automobile accident at the
State Fair Park, at Milwaukee, Wis.,
while riding in "Barney" Oldtield's automobile.
The machine was in the
fourth mi<e of a five-mile race when it
ran into a fence, killing Day and dam- j
aging the machine.
Britain Backs Up Japan.
Great Britain will also protest to
China against the Russian terms of
evacuation, and Japan is determined
not to accept a postponement.
French Soldiers Slain in Africa.
According to an unconfirmed dispatch
from Ain Sefra, a small oasis
152 miles from Tlerasen, a French con
voy under Major Buchenit, escorted by
sharpshooters, was attacked recently
in the vicinity of Beeniabbes, and
Buchenit and thirteen men were killed.
American Woman Dlos tn Berlin.
Miss Morgan, manager of the American
Women's Club, died at Berlin,
Germany. She had been for many
years active in charity work in Berliu,
and was a contributor of much pecuniary
assistance from her cwn resources.
SAY PROSPERITY W!LL STfl
Optimistic Repcrts Frcm North, East
o ..il. I 11/.
acum ana west.
RECORD CONDITIONS PREVAILING
Advices Received by the New Yorl; Herald
From Many Districts Arc Unaaimom
in l'redictinsr an Era o.'Continued Gooi
Times?Commercial Agencics Repor
That Trade is Improving Generally.
New York City.?The Herald says
Merchants, manufacturers and bankers
express themselves as satisfied
that no diminution of our national pros
perity is in sight.
The only note of doubt, and thai
a smothered one. is heard in New YorL
City. Elsewhere the confidence is
shared by all.
No financial stringency is reported
save in the metropolis. From tht
Middle West word is sent that tli<
country banks are not asking for anj
assistance in furthering the process cl
moving the booming crops.
The steel companies an? proceeding
in a manner suggestive of confident
in continued prosperity.
The farmers of the South were nevei
so well off. other crops besides cottor
bringing in munificent returns. On the
Pacific coast business is in a most
satisfactory condition, every industry
reporting brisk trade and eiceilenl
prospects.
The mercantile agencies do not report
any more failures than at the same
period a year ago. Trade journals
print symposiums from their corre
spondents in various parts of the coun
trv that besneak an optimism almosl
unanimous.
No reductions in wages are reportec
in any part of the country and th(
stoppage of work in New England cot
ton mills and Pittsburg glass works is
declared to be merely temporary ant
not significant as regards future con
sumption of finished products.
The steady progress toward peace ir
the local building trade situation is
taken to indicate a resumption 01
easier money, for it is estimated thai
with fifty thousand men idle here al
summer at lenst $500,000 in wages ha:
been withheld every week from circu
lation in channels whore the tide oi
cash ebbs and flows.
The transient buyers have brouglr
more money to New York this autumr
than ever before, and they have lef
more extensive orders and taken awaj
with them better qualities of good;
than previously.
This has tended to offset the undeni
able dullness in the wholesale drj
goods district that has prevailed fo:
some time.
The shrinkage in stocks and the dls
turbed conditions in the labor marke
here do not appear to have had an:
appreciable effect upon the men bus.i
In thp fnf*torlpa. the mines and th<
fields, and who are not in close toucl
with New York City, for they expres;
the greatest confidence in the continu
ance of good times.
At Bradstreet's Commercial Agencj
It is felt that local conditions are stead
ily improving. Each week sees a re
sumption of work on more and mor<
buildings in this city.
The far-reachirfg effects of thi
troubles in the building trades hav<
not been appreciated by the averag<
man. Brickyards r.p the Hudson wen
idle all summer. That was a quick
direct consequence of the strikes anc
eiiv.tdcwns. At the same time the lum
ber trade felt the curtailing of demand
and this depression extended all ovei
the Eastern States. The steel and iroi
business suffered, and all workers ii
wood soon felt the effect of diminlshet
building operations, as did all allie<
trades.
In the West building has been steady
and increasing in extent, and the meta
and lumber trades have enjoyed con
tinned prosperity.
There are no more failures reportec
now than in the corresponding week!
a year ago. There are a row mrgi
failures reported all over the countr:
where the liabilities exceed $100,00
or $150,000, but the,small dealers an<
the merchants are paying their bill;
as they fall due. and the banks repor
no unusual requests for loan exten
sions,
DEATHS IN FLORIDA STORM.
Nine of Wrecked Steamship Incliulva'
Crew Drowned.
Jacksonville. Fla.?The wires beinj
down south of Palm Beach and Tamp;
some details of the hurricaue hav<
come by mail and by passengers on in
coming trains.
The steamship Inchulva, of Liver
pool, owned by the Inch Shipping Com
pany, of Galveston, loaded with lum
ber and cottonseed meal and bouni
for Hampton Roads for coal, wen
ashore near Boynton. The ship's steer
ing gear broke and she struck thi
beach with great force, breaking lnt<
throo nip^ps. The eantain and mate;
and fourteen of the crew were saved
Nine men were drowned, among theu
the engineer.
At Palm Beach the damage was se
rious. Gruber's Opera House wns par
tially unroofed, as well as bis busines:
block on Narcissus street and his ware
house. The Seminole block 8uffero<
heavily, and the Palms block to (
smaller extent. Two lives were lost ii
Tampa through the storm.
The spire of the Buelah Baptis
Church (colored) was torn from thi
building and carried across the street.
I The property loss at Tampa wil
[ reach at least $30,000, probably more.
It is estimated that half the orangi
crop has been cut off around Tampi
and one-fourth on the East Coast.
A Carnegio Observatory.
A letter received at Tulare, Cal.. fron
George E. Hale, of Chicago, Secretary
of the Committee on Observatories
says that a Carnegie observatory wil
be built on the top of Mount Whitney
14.S9S feet, the highest point in Califor
nia. The building will be 103 by
feet, of granite and wood.
I
Ignoring; the Canal.
The Colombian Congress is now is
noring the canal treaty, giving all it
attention to the danger of Panama .sv
cession.
Labor World.
Over 175,000 persons are employed ii
making cigars in Germany.
The Brewery Workers Associatioi
has a membership of 33,000 members
Stationary engineers are advocatiiij
a movement toward the establishmen
of a sick benefit fund.
Public school teachers at Toronto
Can., are talking of forming a unioi
for the purpose of improving wages.
Eight thousand men employed on ta
river front at New Orleans, La., wer
rpcpuHv locked out by the pteamshli
I companies.
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l' MADE COINS IN PRISON
Convicts in a Pennsylvania Pen;
, tentiary Counterreitsrs..
Coinaga of Subsidiary Silver Piece3 Had
lieen Carried on In the Institution
2 ?Prison Inspectors' Discovery.
/
| Philadelphia, Pa.?Following closely
upon the exposure of gross frregularij
tics i:i the cigar department of the
Eastern Penitentiary came the public
announcement that the illegal coiuage
of minor silver pieces has been carried
: on by convicts in the big institution.
George Vaux, Jr.. one of the prison in1
spectors, summoned newspaper men
. to his home and voluntarily made this
statement:
"Dr. W. D. Robinson and George
Vaux, Jr., who are at present the visiting
inspectors on duty at the Eastern
; State Penitentiary, made the statement
that it has come to their official,
knowledge that within a short time an
attempt has been made by certain
; convicts now confined in the penlten;
tlary to manufacture counterfeit silver
' coins."
? "But a few pieces were made, and
a number of these have come into the
, possession of the inspectors, together
\ with metals and dies used, the attempt
' thus being nipped in the bud. The evi,
deuce in the case is not yet complete,
but all that has been secured has been
\ submitted to the United States authorl
ities."
; Mr. Vaux refused absolutely to give
u any more details. From other sources,
however, it was learned that dimes.
l quarters and half dollars were the
[ coins manufactured. United States
Secret Service detectives were at once
' called in. Their investigation is still
in progress to learn whether there was
I collusion between the convicts and
" employes of the institution.
[ LOTS OF DEER THIS FALL.
' fbey Wintered Well in Maine and Hav*
5 Thrived Since.
Bangor. Me.?No frosts have fallen as
yet to kill off the swarms of gnats in
the woods, but the cool evenings of the
1 last few weeks have diminished the
1 energy of the Insects, and the deer
r which have hauoted the waterways
^ tha cummor nro horHnninr' trt
1 aUilli?, VUC UUUt4UVft V vvg*Mu...0 ?
:ome out Into the clearings to nibble
it the second crop of clover. Reports
\ from all parts of Eastern Maine are to
the effect that deer have been seen in
l Jairs and in herds, often showing themt
selves in places where no deer have
1 :ome for years.
T A great majority of the doer, how,
ever, are yet in the deep woods, along
the streams and by the lakes, and those
that ha,ve been seen are no more than
'j a quarter of the number actually exr
istlng. It is plain from all accounts
that there are more deer in Maine at
this time than a year ago. Lumberj
men say that the animals wintered
r well, and came into the spring in good
j condition. The dry weather from April
j I to June 1 helped the fawns to gain
J strength, and later on the feed became
j excellent. Accordingly the prospect
. Cor good hunting this fall is very good.
f SENATOR FINDS FATHER SLAIN.
Southern Legislator Searching For MissIns:
Parent Discovers Dead Body.
? Newbern, N. C.?Furnlfold G. Simmons.
father of Senator P. M. SimJ
mons, was murdered on his plantation
2 a few mile^ from Pollocksville, Jones
* County. He had been missing. Senu
tor Simmons, who was in Raleigh, and
Senator Simmons' son James, who is
1 a merchant in Newbern, were informed
* and both went promptly to the old
homestead to assist in the search. The
r body was found near the river. Mr.
1 Simmons had been shot several times
J with a shotgun. Bruises about the
J head indicate that he was clubbed
* also.
I Mr. Simmons was a quiet, inoffensive
7 man about seventy-flvo years old, and
' generally esteemed. The cause of the
* murder is unknown. A negro has been
j arrested as the assassin.
5 ROBBERS STAND OFF A TOWN.
3
j Gang: of Eight Men Picket Valley Spring*,
J S. D., and Get 88000.
i Valley Springs, S. D.?Standing off
3 the entire town at the muzzles of their
t revolvers, a band of robbers cracked
, the safe in the Minnehaha County
Bank, between 2 and 3 o'clock in the
morning, secured from $8000 to $12,000
and fled.
Th robbery was planned carefully
* and the streets picketed by the outlaws
before the attack on the bank was be?
gun. The citizens were first aroused
i by the sound of several rapid exploit
sions as the cracksmen started their
- assault on the safe. When they started
to their doorways, however, they were
* mot hv n hailstorm of bullets.
Seven or eight men were concerned
* In the robbery. After their departure
1 some time elapsed before a posse could
* be organized, and it was morning be'
fore the pursuit began. As yet there
e is no clew to the identity of the rob5
bers.
3 1
TOO MUCH PROSPERITY.
3 The City Treasurer of McKeesport, PaK
Makes Too Little by His Job.
.. Pittsburg, Pa.?City Treasurer Sams
uel Miiliken, of McKeesport. may re,,
sign because of too much prosperity
j there. He has a nominal salary of
x $150 a year. The amount that he re- i
j ceives from delinquent taxpayers, however,
usually swells his salary to more
t than $5000 a year. But this year the
e city is in such a prosperous condition
that there are very few delinquents,
j Mr. Miiliken has just figured up that
his percentage cannot possibly run
? over $2108.50, out of which he will
. have to pay $1300 clerk hire. This
will leave him less than $1000 for his
year's work.
S12.000 Jewelry Robbery In Chicago.
") While Matthias Mamer was attend '
ing a meeting of a benevolent society
'j robbers entered his jewelry store, at
1 West Harrison and Jefferson streets.
* Chicago, and carried away $12,000
I" worth of watches and jewelry.
Two Foot of Snow Blocks Trains.
Two feet of snow covers the ground,
greatly delaying trains in South Dakota.
It is said to be the worst storm
* in three years. At Medora the suow is
ten inches deep, and at Kenmore nearly
twelve inches.
Flood Drowns Four Persons In Iowa.
1 Mrs. D. W. Wemper and her. two
children, of Little Rook. Iowa, and s
1 friend who had Just arrived from Ger?
many were drowned in the uood a few
I days ago. The iron bridge across the
t Little Rock River was washed out.
The river is a mile ?"ide. and damage
has been done to buildings In the town.
3
Cre*r of Eleven Drowned.
c The trawler Don de DIeu foundered
e during the recent gale off the coast of
p France and her crew of eleven was
drowned. The wreckage has come
ashore uear the homes of the crew.
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MINOR EVEN1WTHEW?EK|!
TTASniNGTON ITE3IS.
Charles J. Bonaparte was selected
by the Department of the Interior to
be special prosecutor in the Indian land
(fraud investigation.
The bail of August W. Machen.
against whom there are thirteen indictments
for postal frauds, was raised
from $20,000 to $30,000.
Secretary Moody, after paring bureau
estimates, will ask Congress for more
than 5100,000,000 for the Navy.
The Treasury Department will have
at least $45,000,000 for monetary relief
purposes.
The latest indictments in postal fraud
cases were made public in Washington,
and are regarded by officials as consti
tuung anouier siroug mis 111 me cumii
of evidence against Macbeu. and showing
the far reaching ramifications of
his scheme of "graft."
Postmaster-General P.'iyne reported
to President Roosevelt that Miss Todd,
postmaster at Greenwood. Del., was
removed for offensive partisanship.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
The Mint Bureau purchased 300.000
ounces of silver for account of the Phiiippuine
coinage, at an average of 57.84
cents an ounce, delivered in San Francisco.
The first bale of Porto Rlcan cotton
exported in forty years was shipped
from San Juan, consigned to a Porto
Rican firm in New York City.
A popular demonstration is Demg organized
at San Juan, Porto Rico, in
honor of Governor Hunt, who will return
there October 1.
Thomas P. Coates, a customs inspector,
and Lieutenant Osborne were sentence
at Manila to long terms for misappropriating
Government funds.
The Mint Bureau purchased 300.000
ounces of silver for account of Philippine
coinage, at an average of 58.27
cents an ounce delivered in San Francisco.
DOMESTIC.
It is believed that at least twenty
persons perished in the hurricane
which struck Florida.
A statue of President McKinley was
unveiled in Toledo, Ohio; Senator Fairbanks
made the address.
By the explosion of 1000 pounds of
dynamite in a freight car at West Bay
City, Mich., two men were killed and
three others were injured.
Dr. William Brandt was shot dead
by his son-in-law, William A. Hoffman,
near Mayestown, 111.
The underwriting syndicate in United
States Realty dissolved at New York
City, having lost fifty per cent on the
deal.
Tfl-A fl li.t. 1!? J 1U ? A/vl
vjcior oiuiiu appneu iu me ouuuui
Board of New Jersey for permission
to send his boy to school barefooted.
Clark Wilson, a young artist from
Kentucky, despairing of success, committed
suicide at New'York City.
Burglars secured $3800 cash from tne
safe of Engineer Frank Bailey, at
Cairo, Mich.
The reported mutiny of 120 sailors
on the battleship Ivearsarge was denied
by Captain Hemphill at New York
City.
At large since August 12. Llewellyn
Felker, one of the six prisoners who
escaped from the prison at Butte,
Mont., gave himself up.
Sir Thomas Lipton was taken violently
ill at Utica. N. Y., from indigestion.
but recovered after several hours
sufficiently to proceed on his trip.
President Roosevelt will not attend
the autumn manuevres at West
Point, Ky. In a dispatch to a local
paper Secretary Loeb announces that
the invitation cannot be accepted.
By the death of Bishop Clark, of
Rhode Island, the Rev. Daniel Sylvester
Tuttle, of Missouri, becomes senior
bishop of the Episcopal Church.
The United States Fish Commission's
steamer Albatross reached Seattle.
Wash., after a two months' successful
cruise in Alaskan waters.
The $500 reward offered for the con
riction or tne assassin ora. ainrcum |
In Kentucky will be paid to Sheriff
Woodson McCord, of Clark County.
Caught by a falling wall. Dr. William
H. Smith was killed at Nashville.
Tenu.. in a fire that injured eight men
and caused a property loss of $123,000.
Work on all the large buildings in
Milwaukee. Wis., was resumed, the
strike having ended.
Despondency over ill health caused
Mrs. Helen Worthington-Purlntou to
kill herself at Chicago, 111.
Senator Hoar, in a speech before the
Essex Club, ne*ir Salem, Mass., said
the negro was here to stay, and the
race problem must be settled at home,
not by sending several millions out of
the country.
FOREIGN.
Turkish beys complained of the ex?
j cesses of the Albanian troops in Adri
i anopie.
Pope Pius addressed 2000 workingmen
from the quarter about St. Peter's.
Troops were called out to suppress
angry religionists at the unveiling of
the Renan statue in Treguier. :ind M.
Combes, the Freuch Premier, was
hissed.
Representatives of 3.000.000 Social
Democrats met at Dresden.
Another Servian military plot was
reported to be discovered and a numj
ber of officers were placed under arI
rest.
| Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberj
lain, while on his way to attend a British
Cabinet Council to discuss his protectionist
proposals, was hissed and
hooted at by workingmen near the
Foreign Office in London.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro said
that a settlement of the dispute between
Bolivia and Brazil regarding the
Acre Territory was expected soon.
Alarm was felt in Marseilles over
the presence of bubonic plague, several
deaths having been ascribed to the dis
ease.
Pope Pius published his first official
document, which concerns the fiftieth
anniversary of the dogma of the immaculate
conception.
Russia's new demands on China are
believed to forecast her refusal to evacuate
Manchuria on October 8.
Tho Colombia Senate approved a bill
authorizing the Government to negotiate
a new canal treaty.
Sir Norman Lockyer, in a speech before
the British Association for the
i Advancement of Science, made a
strong plea for State aid for universities.
Emperor William led 12,000 Prussian
horsemen against Saxon rapid lire guns
at the army mancuvres, gaining a technical
victory.
The village of Sant Antimo, near ,
Naples, Italy, haa been destroyed by
Are. One woman was burned to dentil
and twelve persons were injured. All
tho inhabitants ar* homplwu.
Our earth is constantly picking up ^
unconsidered trifles of stardust, wMcn ya
range all the way from the thirteen J|
foot-long mass of meteoric rock lately, fl
found by Professor Ward in Mexico jg
down to the infinitesimal particles
which are found on the roof of St. ,\v.;
Paul's, on the Arctic snows, and at'"
the bottom of the sea. It is calculated
that the total amount of matter 3
thus absorbed by us is certainly not '
less than 500.000 tonsil year, and that. Jf
therefore, the weight of this world to
increasing at that rate every twelvemonths.
t'
The British Government continuously; JEM
carries on the work of charting the , ^
ocean's bed?work tne vaiue 01 wmcu j^j
is shared by all maritime nations.
Last year eleven vessels were thus en*
gaged, carrying seventy-eight officers, |!jj
of whom forty-nine were surveying v*
officers, and 781 men. Altogether 318 ^
rocks and shoals dangerous to navig*tion
were reported, thirty-nine by die -ij
surveying vessels, twenty by other of %
His Majesty's ships and nineteen by,
sundry foreign vessels. Eleven were'
discovered through the painfni ex- I
perience of vessels striking on tlieifr *3
and 223 were reported by colonial and < . nf
foreign governments. One thousand
nine hundred and twenty-four miles
of coast line were charted, and qn $
area of 12,601 square miles jra? ' yL
sounded.
Dr. Timbrell Bulstrode's report up#n
alleged oyster-borne illness following
the Mayoral banquets at Winchester
and at Southampton, England, has
been issued by the medical officer vOf 3|a
the Local Government Board. Dr. ?.;-1
Bulstrodc- summarizes the facts as follows:
Two Mayoral banquets were A
given on the sa>me day in two towns.
After boto banquets a certain percentage
of all guests, all of whom
?~?-+n1.nn nf nrotom wprp flttflpltfid ;.'j V
UO.U puiiaacu v/?. v/awkM, ?
.with illness of analogous nature, in ' ^
some cases with definite enteric lever, . .- vA
in others with gastro-intestinal di* ^gjg?
tarbance only. The oysters supplied
in both banquets were from the same jL-j
source (Emsworth), and the oysters %|
from this source were at the same time
and in other places proving themselves
competent causes of enteric fever. 1
Solar heat Is being utilised for heat'
4ng water for various household purposes.
The apparatus for this purpose
is absurdly simple, merely a sectional
boiler 4 of thin blackened copper,
posed'on the sunny side of the roof i
under a glass cover very, like a hot Jflfl
house frame, and suitably piped foe
supply and demand. An hoar's ex-. ::fl
posure to full sunlight raises the watei jB
to a temperature from thirty degrees
to sixty degrees Fahrenheit above that 1
of tS?? air, and as the heaters actually I
in use contain from forty to one hunHro/*
onii t^rpntv trallons. according to
size, there is an ample supply of hot ?
water through the hours of daylight
Solar water heaters of this kind have
been installed on the roofs of many 4$
houses in southern districts. They ^
work admirably, and even In less favorable
places have been found useful;
;;j
When Men Are Hart. -til
Nearly all of the metal-TOorkiflg
plants in Pittsburg and .vicinity are ad- i
mirably equipped with a hospital annex,
for cases that require speedy and ?
prompt attention. The distance of fjj
hospitals from some of the works ren- ' - s
ders it possible that a*n injured man
may expire from exhaustion before he \
is admitted to the institution. To ob-^^
viate this the owners have fitted up
room or building where injured or sick J
employee can be treated at once. It Is ^
practically an emergency hospital. A
full and complste line of roller band- .
ages, esmarch triangular bandages, '
splints, torniquets, anaesthetics, hypo- .
dermic syringe, needles, silk, etc., with
linton and iodoform gauze dressings, ,
are kept on hand to enable the surgeon
to give the best possible care and afc_ ^
tention to the injured person. Wdl
When an employe is injured so that^H
he is unable to walk, the stretchers V|
kept in various places in the works are ?
utilized and be is at once taken to the I
emergency hospital, wnere ne is
In charge by an employe who is pro-^H
ficlent in rendering first aid. Pending V
the arrival of a surgeon, the patient ia 1
placed in the best position necessary to I
attend t? his injuries, and temporary I
anti-septic dressings are used. Is I
cleansing wounds of any kind only dis* I
tilled water is used, and then thorough. I
ly carbolized, and a liberal supply of
both hot and cold water is oa baad,
In cases of burns or scalds a dressing -fll
of carron oil is. sometimes; used or *a
picric acid dressing may be applied. jfl
After treatment in severe injuries 1
the patient is placed in the cot to recover
somewhat from shock, and ;.l
number of woolen blankets are kept on^i|
hanH xrfth which to cover the patient ^
during hie removal home or to the hos- I
pital, as the case may be.?Pittsburg I
Ledger. \ j
One Way to Indac? Sleep. g?j
There are hundreds of persons In
New York who take a long trolley ride B
in the evening simply to produce a fl
feeling of sleepiness. If a man looks fl|
straight ahead of him or reads a news- H
paper his ride will do him little good.
He might as well remain at home on^^H
the front stoop. But if be looks abouti^H
him, constantly shifting his gaze frocs^H
one scene to another, he gets into 9
state of drowsiness such as is brought
about b> artificial means, when it is ^
called hypnotism. That is why so IjH
many men feel like dozing in the clatra^H
after they come in from a ride or a
drive in the park.?Pittsburg Dispatch.
What She Thought of Him.
A little girl, suffering with toothacue, H
was in his chair to have the tooth re- jm
moved. She refused to let him pro- HI
ceed at first, being afraid of the pain.*J|
"It won't hurt you, little one," said tie
dentist. 'There, now, open your H
mouth. It won't hurt." Half a min-.^H
ute's work removed the tooth, and ss ffl
the little girl cried softly the dentist
said: ' Didn't I tell you it wouldnli .
hurt? What do you think of me now pi/'
Looking up at him with her big brown IK
eyes, she replied: "I think you're the ?
biggest liar in town." The dentist haa J9
quit telling people tooth pulling
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