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AM LOSS Of OFT St Mark's CM tarsi River, New Yo Land ai OVFR ONE THOIJSAN New York City.?In the greatest ma rine disaster in history?the greates1 holocaust this country has ever knowr ?probably 900 persons lost their lives by burning or drowning, when, lader with 1G00 women and children, bount for a day of pleasure on a church pic Die, the steamboat General Slocua -caught fire north of Hell Gate a little after 10 a. m., and in less than fifteen minutes was burned to the water's edge. The Slocum had left East Tliirc street at 7.30 o'clock with a Sundayschdol picnic party from the St. Mark's German Evangelical Lutheran Church at No. 323 Sixth street. Women and children, many of the latter class in fants in arms, naade up by far th( greater part of the party, and by the time the steamer was off Ninetieth street all had settled down to the en joyment of the day. Children had rue rnmnlno' frnm thoir ninthpra nnri hnvs had wandered off along the decks witli their little sweethearts. Suddenly flames started on the boat in roonj on the forward part of the freight deck about 10 a. m.. when the General Slocum was passing the Sunken Meadows and spread with great rapidity, engulf' ing the main deck and the hurricane deck. Captain Van Schaick ran the boat two miles to the north shore oi North Brother Island. wh6re he made an attempt to beach her. Many of the people of the steamboal went overboard on the run to North Brother Island. Hundreds of women and children on the upper decks became insane with terror, having tc choose between death by the rapidly advancing flames and almost equally certain death by jumping overboard. In the rush toward the stern of the boat the frantic people forced others against the railings and stanchions oi the decks with such violence as tc break them down, crowding many overboard. Before the shore of North Brother Island was reached hundreds had dropped from the decks, and when the boat had grounded nearly fifty feet from land hundreds more threw themselves off the decks. The rest of the people were burned to death on the steamboat. Heroic work of rescuewasperformed by nurses and helpers on North Brother Islaud and by persons in half a dozen boats that got near the steamer while she was blazing at the shore, and about 300 people were saved and sent to hospitals. Before the General Slocum burned to the water's edge she drifted away from the North Brother Island shore and sank opposite Hunt's Point. Before her decks were covered with water many burned corpses were in view. Of the vast number lost 490 bodies have been recovered, of which 121 have been identified, but the missing list is 625, and there is very little reason to hope that very many of these are alive. In fact. Coroner O'Gorm.ic at 2 o'clock on the morning after the tragedy estimated that the loss of life [would reach 1200. To add to the horror of the accidenl it is specifically charged that life preservers on the ship were so rotted bj age that they fell apart when passen gers sought to adjust them. The an swer to this charge is that the vesse: had been inspected recently and everj requirement of the law observed. As the flames raged hundreds ol Sunday-school children, with thei! mothers, friends and teachers, jumpec overboard and were drowned; manj more, fearing to leap, were consumec in the tire; others in the huddled mul titude on the lower decks wen crushed by the collapse of the hurri cane deck after the flames had eater away the supports. It may never b< known how many remained in tin seething hulk carried away by the tid< and left tr settle in the river bed hall a mile above. Coroner O'Gorir.an reported at mid night that 4S9 Indifs had been recov ered. Of these 4i6 w*'ie examined am tagged by him it North Brother Isl and. and were *ent to the Alexandei avenue police station, and the other: were taken from Hiker's Island am sent to the Bellevue Hospital Morgue According to the Coroner, the value o the money and jewels removed frou the bodies and placed in his custody was fully $200,000. No gayer decked excursion craft eve swept through Hell Gate and now ever carried a lighter hearted thronj than did the General Slocum as. wit! band playing and streamers tiutterinj in the soft June wind, the big vesse made her way through that channe Crops Improve. Crop conditions are certainly ver; promising. With good harvests ther is no reason why the wheels of com mcrce, which have been cloggei through mere uncertainty, should no again begin to revolve. Bobby Walthour Wins Race. Bobby Walthour, of Atlanta, wo: the twenty-mile straight-away moto paced race from Albert Champion, o Paris, at the Stadium, at Atlanta, Gs The time was 27.30. x luiuiucL l Jt Ex-President Cleveland and famil * will spend the summer at Sandwicl N. H. M. Bourguereau has been chose President of the Society of Fronc Artists. Sir Wilfred Laurier, rremier ( Canada, could not speak a word c English until he was eighteen yeai old. Glasgow University is the latest 1 confer the honorary degree of LI D. upon United States Ambassadc -Choate. i uh inns i 1 STEAMER Ci on Ends in Disaster in East ik City, Close to . id Safety. D DEAD AND INJURED . on this fateful forenoon. At a flfteent knot clip she steamed up the East River, it being the plan of her captain 1 to reach Locust Grove, Long Island. ? the destination of the excursionists, i shortly after the noon hour. L Everybody knew everybody else because of church and neighborhood association. Nearly all the children cari vied little American dags, which added > to the holiday aspect of the big steamL boat. Scarcely had the prow begun to cut through the Hell Gate waters when there was a flash of flame forward. It 1 was followed by a cloud of blinding . smoke, and the harvest of death began. "Fire! Fire!" was the cry raised, and ' pauic broke loose at once. 1 The high wind fanned the flames into I instant fury. Efforts to check them . were futile. In live minutes the entire k forward deck was swept by a whirl' wind of flame. f Why Captain Van Schaick did not 1 at once head the General Slocum to ward some of the docks on either the i New York cc the Long Island shores i hoo nnf vof imon nrnlninnrl ThTd qicr. i nailed to the engineer to go ahead at ' full speed and pointed her bow toward i North Brother Island, which was a : good mile ahead of him. The wind was blowing from the north, and the > swift progress of the steamboat caused a strong current of air, which drove the i flames aft into the faces of the passen> gers. At the first cry of fire the excursiou ists became panic-stricken. All of those on the lower deck fled to the middle : deck and then to the hurricane deck, i Mothers ran about the boat to find l their little children and get them to a place of supposed safety. The crew > for a time did nothing but fight the ' fire, which engaged all of their attention. Within a few minutes nearly . every one of the excursionists was crowded on the aft part of the second i deck and the aft part of the hurricane ! deck. The band made a feeble effort > to allay the panic by playing popular 1 airs, but the musicians soon became choked with the smoke and were forced to give up the attempt. L Within a few minutes the crew of the Slocum discovered that they could not extinguish the fire. The flames were sweeping down upon them with resistless fury, and they were compelled to follow the passengers and seek temporary safety on the decks [ aft. There tne scene was one of terrible confusion. Shrieking women, with lit" tie children clustering about them, , were trying to get life-preservers and 1 fasten them upon their little ones. The men on the boat did their best to help i with the life-preservers. These, however. proved in a majority of instances s to be death traps. Most of the life preservers were so old that their cani vas covering was rotten and their fasi tenings worthless, Jacob Miller, an officer of the Sun; day-school, tried seven different lifepreservers before he found one whose ; fastening did not crumble and break when he put it about a mother of seven small children. Other passengers had i the same experience. s When the boat had reached a point ( opposite One Hundred and Thirty-second street the flames were shooting t up eight and ten feet at the bow of the vessel, and the heat was so great that everybody was pushing and fighting to get as far aft as possible. Little children were thrown down 1 and trampled upon in the terrific crush, r Mothers, with three and four small children to care for, were helpless. Pof liceman Kelk, coming on deck, did everything possible to restrain the panic, but his efforts were in vain. Vantassel went up on the second deck and tried to calm the people there, but his work was useless. Higher and higher mounted the flames, bursting from the forward hold and licking at the decks above, which were crowded with frantic and terrorstricken men. women and children. Captain Van Schaick sounded his whistle for assistance. At that time the Slocuin was over toward the Sunk. on Meadows, once the graveyard of . the ill-starred Seawanhaka. The fire 1 drill was sounded, and Edward Flan. najran, the mate, took charge of the i* lire brigade. Difficulty was exper5 ienced in getting the fire hose into ser1 vice. The crew got it off the reels, but .. the pumps refused to work and the f streams were not forthcoming. Every i second added to the peril of the pas; sengers. The tongues of flame readied for those who were furthest forward. In terror they rushed toward the stern r of the steamboat. e Women fainted from fright and chil? dren fell in the struggle. Few of them i arose again, because they were tramit pled under foot by the hundreds who 1 had succeeded in keeping their feet. 1 Captain Van Schaick rushed from the Good Yield of Wheat, y The yield of spring wheat, with e weather conditions fairly favorable, i- should materially exceed that of 1903. il as tbe indication now is for a crop of t 291.394.000 bushels, against last year's harvest of 239.9o4.38o bushels. Non-Contiguous Commerce, n Commerce between the United r States and its non-contiguous territory f shows a slight increase in the present t. year as compared with last year, footing up * total of about ?100,000,000. Labor World. Since its organization the Civic FedY avntinn ie sni.l tn Imvo .IVPl'tPll 125 strikes. The strike of coal miners in the Fifth n sub"<listriet of Ohio has been declared 11 off .ami about WOO men returned to work. 'I In the Austrian textile industry the wortcing Hours are ton to eleven a day. "s Men's weekly wages average $3.G0, women's $1.50. :? The Erie Railroad Company has discharged ten per cent, of its working )r force, or 108 men from its shops in Susquehanna, Pa. I *11 NHL MM wheelhouse and jumped to the deck below. He did what he could to calm the passengers and to get his crew in shape to tight the fire. But the housing of the big three-decker burned like tinder, and there was no stopping the spread of the flames. Policemen, deck hands. Pastor Hass and meu aboard the boat struggled hard to quiet the panic that seized the mob of women and children. For a minute it looked as if the fight against fire and heat would be successful aud the boat would be beached. Women strained their babes to their breast and prayed. Men wept for their very helplessness. One little boy who had become separated from his parents stood near the starboard wneeinouse ana was roastea alive. It was a relief to the others when that section of the deck collapsed and the little fellow fell in with it into the vortex of fire beneath. With relentless fury the flames continued their sweep aft. It was more than humanity could stand. Those in front pushed backward, and those in the rear were against the rail and as far as they could go without jumping overboard. So great was the jam that many who would have taken their chances in the water were prevented from doing so. They were wedged in tight, and became merely part of the sea of agonized faces, some turned toward the wall of fire and some toward | heaven. The lifeboats hung in their davits useless. Because of the crowds, the fire, and the fact that the Slocum was under a full head of steam, it was imi possible, the crew said, to get them in I the water. Many who got life-preservers did' not know how to put them on $r found them snatched from their hands. Finally the panic-stricken passengers , began leaping overboard, to struggle in the wake of the fire-swept steamboat. A woman with a baby held high above her head led the way and doeens followed them. Men who realized there was absolutely no hope of saving the steamboat from destruction actually picked their wives and children up and threw them into the river, preferring they should drown rather than remain on board and suffer the slow torture of being roasted alive. Many of these husbands followed their loved ones and did what they could to keep them afloat. In many instances entire families were wiped out before the rescuing craft, which were hurrying from all directions, could reach them. Dozens of those who were in the water safe in the possession of life-preservers were drowned Ly others who, frantic from fright grasped them and dragged them beneath the water. In this pitiful crisis came the first rlicnotor Ktrninprl hv the weight, of hundreds pressing against it the after rail gave way. A human avalanche swept into the river. Then chaos reigned aboard the boat. With awful cries hundreds went down to death. The cries were of despair and rage. Mothers fought like furies to save their babes. Husbands fought for wives. The trembling crowd stood with eyes glued on the shore. Anguished cries for rescue rent the air and were heard far away. Those far in the rear struggled with demoniac strength, but were helpless to save themselves from being swept into the water. The scene beggared description. From the river bank the onlookers saw the blazing steamer rushing forward, leaving in its wake a black trail [ of deat-h. The river was overspread with black- spots like dancing corks. Every speck meant a drowning woman or child. Then echoes to the cries of horror aboard the boat went up from those on shore. A flotilla of craft put out from either bank to the work of rescue. Hundreds were still aboard the boat upon the brink of death. They were huddled on the hurricane deck. A policeman on board said every one was a raving lunatic. In front of them was a wall of fire. Behind a tail of drowning relatives and friends in the river. Beneath a blazing furnace. Frenzied mothers, looking into the river below saw their children drowning beneath their eyes. Many threw themselves Into the water. The deck was pandemonium. Then it was an inferno. While men stood helpless, women prayed and all eyes turned hopefully to the fast approaching shore, death in its most horrible form?death by fire came upon tliem. Eaten out by the racing flames beneath the hurricane deck gave way. An awful cry and a rush of hundreds and then everything was enveloped in a fiery cloud as the deck went down into the seething furnace beneath. With the coliapse of the hurricane deck the death list frcim burning and drowning was swelled appallingly. Many were shot into the furnace below and others slid oft' into the water. The Massasoit ran so close beside the Slocum that many of the passengers succeeded in leaping to the safety her decks afforded. Many were the individual acts of heroism and self-sacrifice. Louise Gailing. twelve years old. of Nutley, N. J., had gone 011 the excursion with Mrs. Gertrude Erkling. When the cry of I fire was raised Mrs. Erkling was separated from her baby, two years old. ' and the Gailing girl. Realizing some Lynched, But Alive. A mob at Lebanon Junction, Ky.. lynched a colored woman named Thompson, who had cut the throat of a white man named John Irwin. After the mob left the uegress hanging for dead she was out down by those living in the vicinity and showed signs of life. Degrees by Tuftu. Secretary Moody and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe received the degree of LL. D. from Tut'ts College. The Field of Sports. Isaac Pyle, of Ivennett Square, has sold his "Nellie Wilkes'' to a New Yorker for ?12O0. Joe Gaiis is going to 'Frisco, where ( he hopes public opinion will force Britt to fight him. On account or tne ueaiu ui ucmj D. Babcoek, Jr., of New York, the Vale polo team lias disbanded for tbe season. From California is reported the deatb of Dorsey, trial 2.0!) 1-4, brother of the double-gaited California gelding Ottinger. dreadful peril impended, little Louise, J who found herself on the hurricane [ deck with the baby i her care, got a life-preserver. Without assistance she adjusted it to her body. Clasping the baby tightly she carried it to the stern. ( Wai$ng until the flames and smoke were swirling about her. she clasped the baby in her arms and leaped from the hurricane deck to the river, twenty feet below. Under the surface she . went, but not for an instant did she i release her grasp on the baby. When they came to the surface she saw a man in uniform. She thought h? vas ^ one of the officers of the steam joat. He told her to put one arm about him and he would do his best to save her. She did so," and at the same time held the head of the Erkling baby above water. Five minutes later they were picked up by a row boat and taken ashore. Before the burning steamboat had reached the beach for which she was headed hundreds of passeugers. most c of them women and children, either . jumped overboard or were thrown iuto the water from the collapse of the bur- c ricane deck. From 134th street to e North Brother Island there was a ^ string of struggling or drowning men, women and children. After the hurricane deck had fallen the death-dealing blast had full swing c on the ill-starred boat. Folk went ^ down before it as though smitten by a . blast from a volcano. Every second T ? .1^ a /Iao fl\ rrtl 1 O Ti H ofOW iiuutu LU IliC UCUIU iw It, uiiu vivij i tongue of flame seemed to touch somebody and add to the torture. The Rev. George C. S. Hass, pastor of St. Mark's, distinguished himself by his bravery in endeavoring to save those who had left home so happily to spend the day as his guests. He and his wife and daughter were caught in the stampede, however, and forced toward the rail. With the flames curling above their heads they leaped over the rail and came up amid scores who were struggling for life. Then Mrs. Haas and Miss Haas disappeared. Finally those who had remained on board the floating furnace felt a jolt and a jar. The bow of the Slocum had struck on the reef just north of the dock toward which she had been headed before the pilots were driven from the wheel. Craft of all kinds crowded about her. Some -engaged in the work of rescuing the passengers. Others, equipped with flre-flghting apparatus, began pouring heavy streams into the burning steamboat. Pastor Tells Story of Struggle For Life. Having lost his entire family except his sister oil the Slocum, the Rev. Geo. s F. Hans, the pastor of the church ^ whose outing was attended by such a frightful calamity, was completely prostrated.- Mr. Haas lost his wife and his daughter Gertrude, as well as his mother-in-law, Mrs. Carl Hansen, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Wm, Tetimore. Mrs. Tetimore's daughter Edith was also on the appalling list of the missing. Mr. Haas was under the constant care of a physician. With his sister, Miss' Emma Haas, he returned to his home about 5 o'clock. He told this story of the disaster: "When the fire shot up to the top deck and drove the crowd back the panic was terrible. The crush from the forward part of the boat swept those in the rear along. The women and children clung to the railings and stanchions, but could not keep tlieir I holds. I with my wife and daughter ! were swept along with the rest. "In the great crush many women fainted and fell to the deck, to be trampled upon. Little children were knocked down. Mothers with their little boys and girls in their arms would give wild screams and then leap into the water. We could see boats pulling out from the shore by this time, and a faint ray of hope came to us. ' With my wife and daughter I had been swept over to the rail. I got my wife and daughter out on the rail and then we went overboard. I was so excited that I don't remember whether > we were pushed over or jumped. When I struck the water I sank, and when I rose there were scores about me fighting to keep afloat. One by one I saw them sink around me. But I was powerless to do anything. "I was holding my wife and daughter up in the water as best I could, almost under the side of the boat, when some one, jumping from the rail directly above me, landed on top of us. My hold was broken, and we all went under together. When I came up my wife and child were gone. "With a great effort I managed to keep afloat, but my strength was about gone when a man on one of the tugs picked me up." ? FARMER'S DEATH SPECTACULAR Frederick Nelson Kills His Wife and Self in Sensational Way. i j St. Cloud, Minn.?After stabbing his 1 wife and setting fire to his farm- > ( house. Frederick Nelson, a wealthy | 1 farmer, seventy years old, started a 1 tire in bis machine house, and then, j going into the barn, tied a rope to a beam, placed the noose about his j neck and stabbed himself in the breast, i Death was instanteous. Nelson lived on a farm in Santiago J township and was the wealthiest man j in the vicinity. The cause of the tragedy is not known. BOY KILLED IN FLIGHT. Youngster, Running to Escape Punish, ment, Falls Eighty Feet. Altoona. Pa.?To escape a whipping Leo Swarp. twelve years old, fled from j his home at Gallitzin. His father came i after him in close pursuit and he raced 1 up the mountain side. Reaching the bank at the west end of the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel, the boy slipped and tumbled head first ovn1 the eighty-foot precipice to the railroad tracks. In Favor of Great Britain. The award of the King of Italy in the Anglo-Brazilian arbitration regarding frontiers of British Guiana, which was handed to the British Am- j bassador and to the Brazilian Minister at Rome, Italy, is in favor of Great ' I Britain. j I; Honored by Princeton. Bishop Lawrence, John La Fargfe ! .Hid St. Clair McKelway were anions: thoso who received honorary degrees i i from rrincetou University. 1 Minor Mention. i Railroads are restricting ricridlv the Issuance of passes this year. j Playing brigand in tlio street is a I popular game with Morocco small boys, i Officers in the Cunard line's Boston service were ordered to discontinue at- '< tentions to women passengers. A Canadian egg merchant proposes to ship his wares to Great Britain packed in barrels and frozen solid. There is a strong movement to restore the practice of corporal punish- 1 ment in the public schools of New VorL ' City. * 10PE NOW piiswj :aith of the Continent in Russia's Supremacy Shaken. >EACE FEELING IN THE AIR ?he Succo?b of the Japanese Arms Wa< No SurprUo to England, However? Possibility That the Cjar May Abdicate?Bam or s of Busslan Uprisings? Internal Trouble* of the Empire. London. Eng. ? Japan's unbroken :nd overwhelming success is producng some curious effects on European >pinIon. Continental sympathies have i>t?A Dnoelon finH WPPA I?611 [AU'UUOOluu uuva >. oupled until very recently with the onviction that the war would soon lemonstrate the military superiority if Russian arms. It was especially feared in financial ,'ircles that such a disillusionment as vas afforded by the storming of the lelghts of Nanshan would demoralize France and cause a serious collapse in the bourses. The real effect has >een curiously different. The comileteness of the Russian disaster seems o have created the impression that leace is not far off. Europe has apparently suddenly umped to the conclusion that Rusia, rather than carry on a useless var, will sue for terms. The reversal if opinion throughout the Continent eems almost universal among ordilary observers. Nor is much sympathy wasted up>n Russia. Her prestige has well ligh vanished and with it has gone hat mingled awe and respect which :onstituted her greatness in European tyes. Englisn ana American opunuu ?oo >repared for Japan's sudden leap into jquality with any master of arms cnown to the modern world. To Europe the revelation has come as in utter surprise. It is strange that his momentous event Is accepted alnost without resentment and without ipprehension, despite Russia's studied ittempts in anticipation to arouse ear of Yellow Peril among Western lations. Admiral Togo's earlier naval' iuccesses caused more serious dlsturbmce than this decisive display, of his :ountrymen's supremacy in the art of var. Nowhere outside of Russia is credit 'or this marvelous achievement at Xinchau stinted or questioned. It s even conceded by most military luthoritles that the Japanese suc;eeded where the best European troops vould have flinched and failed. When It comes to a question of early >eace diplomatic opinion is not in ac;ord with that of general observers. ;t is expected that General Kouropatcin will be crushed, or, at best, driven n demoralized retreat to Harbin. , Diplomatists are convinced, however, hat Russia cannot under those cirrurnstances seek peace. It is argued hat the only means by which such t result could be reached vould be )y arbitrary act of the Czar, and such i move would probably be followed )y his abdication, voluntary or coerced. Evidence accumulates of a grave evolutionary spirit throughout Russia. The war has not served to pacify >r unite the country, and a national iisaster does not arouse patriotism, ilthough for that matter the masses ire quite ignorant of the extent of the lumiliatlon of Russian arms. It is impossible, however, to per:eive any chance of success of violent iprisings. All the troops sent to the !ront continue to be from reservists vhose time has expired and -who have )een recalled to the colors. The reguar troops are retained in European Russia for use in any revoJutionary movement. They are so distributed :hat nowhere is there any personal sympathy between the rank and file ind the population of the district vhere they are stationed. An unarmed populace, no matter how desperately ebellious, Is utterly helpless in such jircumstances. Nevertheless wholesale secret coniemnations, executions and disappearinces continue until there is a veritable reign of terror in many districts. 2rVTTTTTTrT?V VT?TT?T?AV TTAVfJTT.n 3000 Petitions in Behalf of Aged Murderer of No Avail. Paragould, Ark.?Mart V. Vowell, in aged white man and a Confederate re reran, was hanged here for the mur;ler of W. F. Lovejoy. The town was Hied with people from adjoining towns and counties. In May Governor Davis considered, i petition signed by 1200 residents of Clay and Greene counties, asking a commutation of the sentence, and at the same time another petition was received bearing 1300 signatures. The Governor steadily refused to interfere, thousrh numerous delegations tvaitcd on him. It is said that 342 nessa.ses were received !n one day ,'rom Confederate camps, requesting jovernor Davis to .ommute the sen:ence. Cowboys' Long Ride. Stockmen in New Mexico have offered a purse of .$1300 for a race of ?owboys from Alboquerque to the World's Fair at St. Louis. P. H. Leya-ul, a veteran cavalryman, and William Closson, cowboy, are arranging Jetails of the ride. It has been decided to have relays at short distances :o obviate the charge of cruelty to inimals. The distance is 11S0 miles. Suicide From Steamship. As the Old Dominion Line steamship Princess Anne, bound from Norfolk, l*a., was nearing New York George C. Rillnne VnrfYilL- n npcconornr lonnorl from the porthole of his stateroom and svas drowned. He was thirty-eight rears old, married, and the sou of tveallhy parents. The Wheat Estimate. Based on the Government's forecast, it is estimated that the wheat prop for the year will be 037,021,000 bushels. News From the Far East A Russian officer escaped from Port Arthur and made his way to Mukden. Heavy firing in the direction of Liao-Yang was beard at Newchwang. General Ivuropatkin's headquarters staff lias moved forvy miles from Liaoyang. Divers are being employed to destroy the mines laid by the Russians in lalienwan Bay. Recent fighting at Wafangtien is accounted for by the fact tbaf tbe Russians tried to raise the siege at Port Axthur. KNOX SUCCESSOR TO QUA^ The Attorney-General is Appointee Senator From Pennsylvania. Governor P?nnjrp*ck?ir Announced Tha He Will Not Call the Legislature in Kstra Session. Harrisburg. Pa.?Governor Penny packer > appointed Attorney-Genera Philander C. Knox a Senator of th( United States from Pennsylvania tc succeed the late M. S. Quay. Gov ernor Pennypacker announced thai he will not call the Legislature in extra session. This means that the appoint ment of Mi. Knox is for the unexpired term, ending March 4, 1905. Philadelphia. ? Attorney-General Knox, who was selected by the' Re publican State leaders to succeed M S. Quay in the United States Senate in an interview said: "My retirement from the Cabinel will in no way affect the policy of th< administration. Mr. Roosevelt will ex perience no difficulty in selecting a mai who will continue to represent th< principles he stands for and carry oul the national policy as set down by him "I cannot conceive how my retire' ment as Attorney-General will affeel the presidential campaign. I have nc rear tiiat tne action or tne leaders oi the Republican party of Pennsylvania in deciding to present my name fox the SenatorShip will be made a cam palgn issue. One individual cannot in jure the chances of President Roose velt. "I did not give the slightest thought to the Senatorship until I was askec if I would agree to accept it if it were tendered to me. I replied that if mj name was viewed with favor by the party throughout the State I woulc consider it a high honor to succeec Senator Quay." Asked if he would immediately re sign his Cabinet position, Mr. Kncu said: "I have no reason to as yet. M] actions will be guided by after de velopments." MRS. ELIAS SET FREE. Negress Discharged After -Aged Ac cuser Fails to Substantiate Charges. New York City?As a surprising cli max to a series of Incidents run 01 sur prises that had taken place since th< name of Hannah Elias first was men tioned in connection with the murdei of Andrew H. Green, came the di? charge of the negress on the charge ol having extorted almost $700,000 from John R. Piatt She left the court-roon of Magistrate Ommen, sitting in Spe cial Sessions, a free woman, the prose cution having been dropped on reques of Acting District Attorney Rand. At ter examining the old complainant ant Lyman E. Warren, his lawyer, Mr Rand said the prosecution had no evi dence on which to sustain the cliarg< of extortion. -~ The spectacle presented on the wit ness stand by the venerable John R Piatt, wealthy merchant, former Unioi soldier and one-time president of th< Volunteer Firemen of this city, wai one of the most pitiable ever witnessec in a courtroom. Infirm, his mind al most a blank, his figure bent, his heat drooping listlessly, he was forced t< tell of his relations with the Elias woman. As step by step, his life was unfolded by the questions of the prosecuting at torney, a flash of intelligence woul< li^ht up his face now and then, and hi: answer would be coherent But mos of the time his mind was a blank, ant all the prodding of his questioner coul< not rekindle the dying embers of iii failing memory. After her release the Ellas womaj was served with the order of arrest ii the civil suit brought by Mr. Piatt t< recover the money she has got out o him. She immediately gave $20,001 bail and was released. She went ti her handsome house iu Central Pari West, a mob chasing her carriage fo: blocks. -!?4 UNION MINERS DEPORTED. Cost of Strikes in Colorado is Estl mated at $23,030,000. Colorado Springs, Col.?Acting unde the oroers of Adjutant-General Shei' man Bell, of the State National Guard a special train was made up in th< Short Line yards at Victor for the de portatlon of seventy-five union miners They were marched to the train be tween heavy lines of military and dep uties. Fully 1000 persons had collectet to see the men placed on board. Anions the spectators were wives and sisters fathers and mothers of the depoi-tec men, and the scenes were affecting Mothers, sisters and sweethearts ciiet good-bye and tried to push through tk< lines for a parting handshake. No attempt was made to unload thi men here, arrangements having pre viously been made to scud them to tin Kansas State line over the Santa F< Railroad because of protests niadt against taking them to Pueblo or Den ver and leaving them there. The train stopped long enough at thi! place to give the soldiers time to eat The deported men had rations of beans and bread on board. Sixty men conQnea m tue unppn Creek bud-pen were taken to the conn ty jail, and charges of murder wen placed against thein. The cost of the various strikes ir Colorado iuringthe last sixteen mouths is estimated at $23,03<>.000. Of this amount the State had to pay $(>oG,U(X for maintaining troops in the field. Virginia Democrats Uninstructed. The Virginia Democratic Couventioi at Richmond tabled the recommenda tion of its Resolutions Committee t( indorse Judge Parker for the Presi dential nomination. The delegation t( the National Convention was uniu structed. Grass Promising. The previously reported promising condition of grass continues yenerallj throughout the country. The National Game. Tinker is bitting poorly. Catcher Grady is kitting very bare for St. Louis. Tbe Tittsburg club is otill reaobinj out for pitebers. Isbell is playing a fine game at Cbi eago's second base. Dan McGann stole five bases in om of tbe Brooklyn games. Hitter caugh: for Brooklyn. Jobn Cbesbro bas greatly helped ir winning bis own games by his vigor ous stick "vvork. . Snakes' Egrca. ' At tha Bellevue Gardens, Manchester, a large boa constrictor from India . (3ome eighteen feet in length), has set up housekeeping. Recently choosing a warm spot over the hot air inlet, she began to lay. The eggs, as large as a turkey's, are shelless, dirty whi:e, and 1! in texture like parchment. They num. ber perhaps fifty, over which the python has coiled herself In spirals and begun the process of lucubation. Success is rare, though some eggs Jaid about eight years ago were fertile.? London Globe. I ? j Deittructive Irj. A striking lesson as to the destructive eflfects of the unchecked growth of ivy can now be seen a few miles to the north of London, says the Athenaeum. A fine old parish church has been wrecked by this green parasite, which has been too long encouraged from a false idea of picturesque beauty?the old Essex Church of All Saints, Chingford. Last February, in the midst of bleak, windy weather the crash came: the whole t roof of the nave and south aisle coli lapsed in a complete wreck, shaking - and imperiling the walls, which are i bound speedily to follow. > Dangerom Complexion Improver. Two young girls of Berlin found ! their eye sight failing and their par\ ents sent them to a doctor, where they had^to undergo a cure lasting for some weeks. Questioned by their parents as to what they had been doing to -i bring their eyes to such a condition the girls confessed that they had washed their faces in water mixed with frogs' eggs Id order to secure a delicate coruplexiou. $' Picture Postal Card*. Franz Borich, a Nuremberg artist, 1 I is dead. The German papers say he 1 was the inventor of the picture postal card. His first cards appeared, in 1872, ' [ but as early as I808 German brewers \ were advertising their beer by picj tures and mottoes on cards, which - they sent to prospective customers. Those are the earliest known specimens. _ i . The South African winter begins towards the end of April and lasts until September. N. Y.?2J> FIT8 pern anently cured. No flt?ornervoTi*. . nees after first day's'use of Dr. KJine's Great ^ NervoBestorer,i2triaI bottle and treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phiia., P ? ??????? tvij Government Puy? Low Wajei. The British Government continues c jo be denounced by the workers' union ~ | for the low wages paid at Government work shops, shipyards, arsenals and gun factories, but all denunciations t and resolutions seem to have no effect. I How's Thlf? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward (or ] any case of Catarrh tliat cannot be cured by ^ Hail's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney 4 Co., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable iu all business transac1 tions and financially able to carry out anv, 4 obligations made by their Arm. West <k Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, To? ledo, 0, i Waldino, Kinxan & llanvrs, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. 1 Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acty Ing directly upon the blood and mucoussurfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. ^ Take Hail's Family Pills for constipation. Swiss Law Little Observed. 1 The killing of birds is forbidden in 3 the Swiss Canton of Tessin, and last j- year the rural police confiscated over j 20,000 traps and nets. Nevertheless, 3 the birds are offered for sale in tlie markets with impunity. , 1 Aak Toar Dealer for Allea'4 foaSCtit 1 A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, 5 Bunions. Swollen, Sors, tfot, <Jal lous,Aching f Sweating Feet and ingrowing Nails. Allen's 3 Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At. s all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Acecpt no substitute. Sample-moiled Fbbs, ^ Address, All6n S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. , Esquimaux make shirts and boots of salmon hides and jackets from codfish skins. Mrs.Wluslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma- EJ tion, allays pain,cures wind colic, 25c.abottle H The Japanese rank as the best gardeners IB in the wor''. H r B Plso's Cure Is the best medicine we overused |i| [ [ for all affections of throat and lungs.?W*. j ! 0. Endsley, Yanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. B Australia is capable of supporting a? H I least 100,000,000 inhabitants. ? ^ * jBp H I ^HjnA Bfl ! B Miss Gannon, Sec'y Detroit! ! Amateur Art Association, tells ) | young women what to do to 6 | avoid pain and suffering caused H by female troubles. 9 i | " Dear Mrs. P:;xkham: ? I can con- Bl I scientiously recommend Lydia E. ^fl > Pinkham'3 Vegetable Compound H . ; to those of my sisters suffering with H > female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. I suffered for months with general weak- ^B ness, and felt so weary that I had hard HI work to keep up. I had shooting pains, H and was utterly miserable. In my dis- Rj f tress I was advised to use Lydia E. BR Pinkhani's Vegetable Com- H| pound, and it was a red letter day to IS me when I took the first dose, for at Hj that time my restoration began. In |fl I sis weeks I was a changed woman, perfectly well in every respect. I felt Iff] so elated and happy that I want all I women who suffer to get well as I did." Pjjfl ?Miss Guila Gaston, 359 Jones St., , ; Detroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art ' Association.?S5000forfeit If original of aboo* ! letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. H When one considers that Miss Gannon's letter is only one of the J countless hundreds which we mm t are continually publishing in the news- IH papers of this country, the great virtue Ijp i of Mrs. Pinkham's medicine must b? H admitted by alL ?