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F VOL. XI. ARP ON ASTRONOMY Bill Talks About the Wonders of the Solar System. SMALLNESS OF THE EARTH. Arp Titoii Gives President Roosevelt n Roast for His Conceit and in a Postscript tlurratis for Capt. ilowcil in His Race. Dog days. So many of the young people writ? to me about dog days that I will answer briefly that there are no dog days. It la nothing but a superstition that has come down to us from the ancients. The Dog star or Sirlus has its time to appear in the heavens and rise and set like other stars, but it is a very irregular time and so what we call dog days may begin the first of July or many days later. The rising of Sirius In a line with tho sun begins now on the 3rd of July and will continue until the 11th of August. Those forty duys | were believed by the ancients to bring very hot and sultry weather and many mallirant disr-i.??? imt >?;.. i....... disproved by modern astronomy, for the appearance of Sirius is very uncertain and in the course of time it will rise in the winter. Now a little more about the wonderful star. You know that we have eight planets that belong to our solar system. They all revolve around the sun just as the earth docs and the nearer the planet is to the sun the faster it travels. Neptune is 10,OOO.OUO of miles distant and it takes 105 years to fret around. But Sirius is away outside of our solar system and is lii0.000.000.000 of miles from us and gives 100 times more light than our sun. It is the largest and brightest star in the heavens. It is called tho I)og star because it appeals lo be in the tail of the constellation that the ancients named Major Cunis or the Big Dog. They were a smart people and we still keep their map or the heavens snd the ir names of the stars, but they had no telescopes and did not know that there were any stars or suns except those wo see with the naked eye. But now young people listen. It <s now established and proven that them are millions of stars and solar sys? -l^iM^afar oft in space and that ours is tho smallest and the most insignificant of tha m all. Wo arc nothing an 1 less than nothing in tho scale of existence. ! It has always bc? n a mystery io me ?*!> the Creator of Llie boundless uni- ' eel:'., that has no limit, should have eho: i n this little world of ours for His greatest work, the Creation of man ;u tils own image, a little lower than ihe angels, man who sinned and fell and j ivuvi'iucu i1111 savrince ui ino Son of God. i don't understand it. I cannot comprehend it. This little world is not bigger than a cannon ball compared with some of the planets and stars afar out in space. It has but one little moon that doeu not eondecend to j show us but one side of its anatomy. I The other night we went out to Mr. ; Granger's beautiful home to look at the full moon through his great telescope that cost $3,0U0?and is mounted in a high observatory with a dome that revolves as the earth revolves. It was a magnificent spectacle but tho j view of Jupiter with four moons and j Saturn with his rainbow ring and seven ; moons was much more beautiful and | impressive. Of course these planets must be Inhabited, for the Creator would not have surrouunded a dead world with such luminous and beautiful satellites. V?"e don't know anything hardly and it fills me with disgust to , see young men strutting around like j peacocks?acting like they made them- ' selves and knew everything and expected to live always?when the truth j is they don't know where they caoi? ; from nor where they are going and can't add an hour or a clay to their ex- i istence. I have but little hope for a \ Hi or a conceited man and a vain woman is no better. A conceited man is close j kin to an idiot and a woman vain of ! her beauty should sometimes remem- j bor that she had no hand in creating It for it was God given or inherited. "Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" Of all tbe faults of which humanity is guilty that of self conceit is the last to be forgiven and the hard CO". IU I CI u I III. i' ruminated on this yesterday whta i read what Iloosevelt said In hla speech at West Point. The editor who publishes it speaks of him as our well meaning but Impulsive president. He should have said our "conceited and erratic president." In speaking of the great men whom West Point had graduated, be said, "I claim to lie a historian and I speak what I know to be true that \\ est Point has turned out more great men and more stitesmto than any other institution in the I'n.t^d States." K was self-conceit an 1 ignar- j ance that provoked such a monstrous | absurdity, for Colonel Sprague. of Yale college, has recently challenged him to the proof and has shown beyond all cavlal that Tale can number 10 times the great men that West Point can numebr. Among them 1,383 ministers of the gospel?78 Justices of suprmoe courts, 17 chief justices, 546 doctors. 39 governors of states and 3S Unitod States senators?besides these Yale has sent forth an army of educators, established 480 colleges. 160 for women and 8,000 high schools while West Point has sent out none but soldiers. Teddy ought to be ashamed of himself, but he will not be. He is not yet ashamed that In his so-called history he railed Mr. Davis an arch traitor and repudlator and told what he did when An T1 UA 1 F governor or ."msstsmppi, err. trs i-n- | tion has been railed to those malls* ! nant calumnies against a groat statesman and whose curriculum at West Point that ho ordained when secretary of war is still in force and who never was a member of the legislature noi governor of Mississippi. No. he is toe conceited to take bark anything or tc apologize for his mistakes. The man he slandered was dead win n lie published those lies, but his widow lives and there are thousands of veterans ail over the South who chcerish his nvmory and who now hold his siander in supreme contempt. Vet lie claims to le a historian! When a gentleman flnd> that lie lias unwittingly wronged another, he hastens to apologize, hut a conceited idiot rolls the moriel un lot his tongue and chews it as a cow chews and swallows her cud. He feeds on his conceit.? liill Arp in Atlanta ConstotuI tion. P. S.?All hail to Evan Howe!!?Tlu soldier, the editor, the friend in need. i nave Known lilm intime.toly since hlc childhood. His good father was married in mv towq and I think i am the only living man who was at the wedding. though 1 was tin n but a child. ! All hall to my friend. He has the right to run for mayor and Atlanta will hunI or herself by electing him. 1). A. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Cattlemen in Mexico CHty have band e?l for protection. I Cuba has asked for proposals for tlie lease of the Havana Arsenal. A steamship line is to be established between New Orleans and London. A separate consular service bus been recommended for Norway and Sweden. The Simplon tunnel will cost a million francs beyond the original estimate. The Academy of Muenster, at T'.erlin, is to lie made a university by royal decree. The Socialist press of (Scrmnny numbers 140 publications, tlftv-two being dailies. At Colwyn Kay. North Wales, three policemen control a summer population of 'JO,000. The Cuban crop of pineapples this ' year is estimated at about HUO.OUO bar- ] rets, or |>Ii?t?ja. Seventy-eight proiit-sharing enterprisos. affectin;; 53,."-i? workpeople, | were in operation in Croat l'.ritain last year. A systeniatle study of lite Japan cur- i rent is to be undcrinkoti l>y Professor William E. Ititter, of the I'niversity of i California. Hrigadier-fionernl Carter has I en designated Acting Adjutant-!lonerol of the Fnitcd States while thneral Corbin is in Europe at tlie Herman maneuvers. The marvellous improvement of Egyptian industries during roeent years and the country's present well governed condition have made the I place a splendid market for Aineriean trade. The English House of Lords has derided that labor unions eould be sued j and their treasuries confiscated where employers could prove that their business had been damaged by strikes or , boycotts. LABOR WORLD. P.oston. Mass., telegraphers have j formed a union. Iron moulders on strike at Hamilton, Ohio, have returned to work. Ilaruessmakers on strike at Columbus, Ohio, have returned to Work. The strike on the Oregon City trolley | line at Portland, Ore., has been set- ! tied. At Portland. Ore., the marine engineers' strike lias been settled, both sides making concessions. Striking rnpmnkcrs at Boston, Mass., have received an increase in wages of from five to ten per cent. Farmers arc offering high wages in J Iowa. At Fertile one man is paying $47.50. and $45 is freely offered. Drug clerks at Dos Moines, Iowa. llAVP nri?nilifcP<1 rtililint* nnnllmr ttsils-v" ? - * I to tlit* already long list of that city. The strike of carpenters, painters ami plumbers at Lafayette, Intl., has heen settled by the signing of a uetv scale. A number of telephone operators at Dos Moines, Iowa, have resinned work, having gained every concession demanded. Coal miners In Holland are hotter paid and work shorter hours than men employed in any similar Industry in ' Hint country. Cullman conductors at Chicago have been given a voluntary increaso of ! from $10 to $15 a month, according I to their length of service. At Lowell, Mass., the loons-fixers' strike, which lias been in effect three months, has been ended. It is believed j (he men received favorable conces- j shins. Toledo, Ohio, has something unique \ In the way of a labor union. The Insurance solicitors of the city have formally organized, nr.d will be granted a charter by the American Federation. A Remarkable Woman. One of the most remarkable women In Great Britain resides at Swansea. Miss Dillwyn has written successful novels, acted as a reviewer, carried out the duties of farm balllf, and is now the partner In a flourishing smelter business. She walks three miles to business every morning, and remains till 5 in the evening. She Is a member of the school board and chairman of the hospital committee. > OUT MILL, S. C.,WEI) 1TCHELL fO THE MINERS He Tells a Crowd ot 7000 Strike Will Be Success'u'. COMMANDS PEACEFUL MEANS , Tho Striker*' I.emlpr Nit.v* That tin* Miner* TWpiii*cIt<;* Onlv IIhvi* tin* I'ower to Knit t.io Strit|;s:lc?It" They Fall t<? | tVIn Tlitilr Future Will l?o i;i*rl< ami Tbolr I'nlon Cr;i*lic?l?1"1 ?n of IJoliof. Scrnnton, Pa.?The iirst of ;lie series or strikers* tnas ; m.otings planned to take place at lie various strike centres was held in the Roundwoetls. There were 7OOP strikers present ."rem all parts of tlie city and the adjoining towns, one contingent bavins marched four miles to ilie meeting. headed by a band, and earryiug tings and banners. National President Jolm Mitchell. l>istrlct President T. I). Nicholis. District Vice-President Adam Ityscavage, District Secretary John T. Dempsoy. Organizer Mortini Meniolo and Sub-District President Tlieopliilus Phillips delivered addresses. Vice-President lt.vsenvnge spoke in Polish and Organizer Meniolo in Italian. Mr. Mitchell's speech was brief, and dealt only with ihc live issues of the tight. He said in pari: "It has been said by some who are j not your friends that the miners of tin* ' Scrnnton region are getting tired of i tlie strike and are about to return to work. I come to tlnd out l? tills is so. 1 want to know if you are going to return to work, dishonoring your organization and dishonoring yourselves." | (Pries of "Xever. never'." "No!" "Don't ! you believe it!" ami the likei. "If the strike is lost, may flail Almighty hoi]) tho ntou. women ami children, who depend for their subsistence on tho vuininix of nnthraoito ooal. If tho strike Is lost you will nay tho oust of the strik-?. "I want to say that tho nnthraoito minors wont on strike themselves. They themselves voteil for the strike. It was not the otlloors o' the Unit-ad Mir? Workers who oalleil strike. It will never etui until you vote it omha'. "From tho otlh - of ih" ooal Presidents in N? \V Yn-k e >; s the deelaralion that the strike will he eft led only in their own way of settlhn; i . 1 w uhl lin your attention o r-it i'.ar I'eelara- 1 lions tnaile it: tho t'.HM strike. The ! Coal 'frost may 1 1 owerfit! ami -irons, hut the American people whose hearts thfoh in sympathy with tiso niir.ers' came are s!:onji? r than lite Coal Trust. The American people, like a jury, have passed upon tho contliet. They hoanl of the miners' renuest for betterment of condition ami the operators' refusal. They heard of the minors' proposition to arbitrate and the operators' further refusal. Ninety nor cent, of the people have amend that the miners are ritrhl and the operators wroncr. "I understand there is some dissatisfaction and misunderstanding ahout ; the distribution of the relief fund. The operators have sent men anionu you to ; ut-^e you to bo dissatisfied. Tbrouyli the newspapers they have told you that you were dissatisfied. We have sent a 1 circular to all tho locals which will explain In detail the plans for dlsirihut- , injx relief, and 1 trust when you hear it . read there will bo an end to dissatisfaction and misunderstanding. While we haven't jrut miilnns, we have j enough to see to It that no miner will starve ?'?? I ?U- tmiauililUl'L1 OI me strike. | Loud cheers. 1 "I want to apical to men with means j to refrain from apniying for relief. Let | the l'nnd l?e used 1 y those who are in absolute need of help. He patient with your committees. I'ut your shoulder to the wheel and do your share of the work. Don't depend altogether oti your officers to win your tight. If we are to win we must all help. "The one among you who violates the law is the worst enemy you have. No one is more pleased that the operators in New York to hear of the disorder in the coal regions. I want our men to exercise their rights that inure to them under the laws, hut I want that no man shall transgress the laws. "The strike will he won. | Loud and long cheers. | I have no more doubt about it than I have that I am standing hero addressing you. "If you lose the strike, the operators will make von ?? >? ."i i nfll S1I1KC losses by reducing your wages. And, if you lose the strike, you lose your organization. 1 trust and hope and constantly pray you will stand as you did in 1000.- [Cheers and cries of "We will!"] COLONEL LYNCH HELD FOR TRIAL I UriiiM Ilnvinc IT>4?l Any Mi?*lon Krnm I.eyd* to the Tmii<vn:il. T.ondon.?Colonel Arthur Lynch, the Nationalist member of the Parliament who is accused of high treason during the Boer War, was taken to How Street Police Court and committed "for trial. Before the Court committed him Colonel Lynch made a long statement, in which lie said lie had gone to South Africa under contract with the Paris Journal, and t lint he had not expected to stay more than two months. He also arranged to serve several American publication*, lie denied that he saw 1 ?f. Leyds, the Boer agent, before starting, and he asserted he had no mission from Leyds to the Transvaal. The Colonel was visited in his cell before going to court by W. H. K. Redmond and other Nationalist leaders. t r "Tf" A" L ^ ^ J . ^ >N 1081)AY, AUGUST i>. |OUR UNUSUAL WEATHER' I K Scientist Says That It is Hot Due to Planetary Changes. I)uul>tn Whether Srioiulc Diet nrhtmre* Are the t.'HUne of the Summer'* rxtrHoriltnurv Kit Infill Is. Geneva, N. Y.?As to whether the pe- j oulinr weather conditions or the pres- I er.t summer are title in whole or in part ! to the seismic disturbances so universally manifested of late nntl to the vol- ; rnnic eruptions of the present year is a question which Is absorbing the attention of scientists. It has been said t'.nit the unusual weather, cloudbursts, cy- ! Ciones, territle thunder storms and other atmospheric disturbances wore ?lue to planetary changes, but l>r. William It. Brooks. Director of Smith Observatory. in this city, ami one of the world's best known astronomers, asserts that there can be no positive connection between the movements of the planets and the weather of this globe. Dr. Brooks said: "1 do not believe in the theory that the planets inlluetiee our atmosphere, nor do I believe that the commonly accepted Idea about the effect of the moon on our weather conditions should bp seriously considered. 1 know that my assertion that the moon can have j no effect on our weather will he scouted In some quarters, hut 1 am | llrtnly eonvluced that such is the ease. There have been no marked changes in j | the planetary system of late such as | would lead an astronomer to believe i that the planets are responsible t'or the , present weather conditions." I Askd whether he thought it possible , that the recent seismic disturbances or earthquakes and the volcanic crup- | tions had anything to do with the . weather. Dr. Brooks replied that he i was not prepared to submit.an opinion | for publication. Dr. Brooks rivalled | I he eruption of Krakntna in INS"., when , iliott.-apds of people were killed. Fob i lowing that eruption there was wide ! \ ii iiki.iv Dn nit' coloring i>; tli" western ( sky nt sunset. All tint summer tin- I | sunsets were :i blood red am) scientists i everywhere wore trying to explain the i phenomena. ] It v.*as held in some punters," sail! i Dr. I'.rooks. "that 11n? red sunsets were ( cans' (I by the ?io ; i'rom ;!?, volcano, but 1 never accepted tliat statement as true. Tim fact the; before the crun u , nit artist liail sketched and painted the < I' v.tliar sunset suns ; ?n.s to hnve etc- , pioil: il the theory. However, 1 have . ki pt careful wa eh ;v- the same ]ihe- ; ; uoiuena si.tee the eruiiiioii of Mont IV- t lee, ami 1 shall continue to do so for ii: ; . - :i iii.u I tuny have been tils- , tak ii. As y , I have failed to observe any marked change : t the color of tit- ] western sky." ! < GENERAL SMITH LEARNS FATE. \ Get* first News of >11* Itftliemriit a* Transport Near* Sit ore. Sau Francisco, t'al. Standing on the j bridge of the transport Thomas, eager- j ( ly wait lag, with the ship's captain, f for a glimpse of his native sit ire. Hen- r pral Jneoli II. Smith, who was tried j by court-martial for having ordered the | Island of Sitnon* fniiwt<vi.iA.l t..,~ howling wilderness," was doomed to j learn that the President had retired liiin from active duty. The pilot hoat f which met the Thomas just outside | the heads at - o'clock a. m. brought to , tletioral Smith the first news of the A President's action. In the failing light . uf a binnacle lamp the veteran read the message that apprised him of lbs fate. Six hours later, when the Thomas reached the quarantine station In the 1 harbor. Major Duval, of the transport service, hoarded the ship with his Secretary and met (Itneral Smith at the \ iloor of his cabin. A sealed document f from the War Department was handed t to (leneral Smith. It contained the t Dtlicial notification of President lloose- i celt's action, and upon rending it (Jen- p ral Smith retired, overcome with onto- i tlr.n. ! v Upon landing (leneral Smith, with j I Itis wife. Immediately repaired to a i < hotel. Repeated efforts made to in- | f tlttce him to discuss his campaign in ! < the Philippines and his eourt-ninrtini j ^ failed entirely. lie even declined to <" take up the subject with Intimate a friends. ) * STRANCE FREAK OF A STORM. ' urrat Hiiuvp l>iM'?T?rril In flio Ground | at Troy, III.?It* Origin > Mystery. | Troy, 111.?During a severe electrical storm hcrfe a cross-shaped tlssure was j formed in tlie ground near the seliool building, one arm of which is forty feet long and about six indies wide, t and the other twenty feet long and six inches wide. Where the arms of the cross converge there Is a hole two feet in diameter, and a line lf?l> feet long weighted wilii lend did not touch iioi- j toin. 1 The theory is advanced that a holt of I ' lightning entered the ground, yet tho?-? j in the vicinity assert that no unusual bolt of lightning was noticed during the storm. a SHAKE.UP IN MINNEAPOLIS. Aclinic Mayor Fire* Chief of Police Ame*( s l.rotlier of the Mayor, Wlio lCe?lcncd. s Minneapolis, Minn.?The resignation v of Mayor Ames has been followed by a u shake-nit in the police force. Tlie acting Mayor lias forced Chief of Police t Amos, tlie former Mayor's brother, to s resign, lie lias appointed a new Chief and has tired Police Captain Flobett, ('offee John," who was Mayor Ames's pet captain. | T All tills is the result of the bribery t (barges against Mayor Ames, ids a brother and various members of the a Police Deuartment. v m?. TOWN SHMEN TO PIECES A Heavy Earthquake Shock Caused Terror in Los Alamos, Ca!. BIG FISSURES IN THE EAKTH Kvpry ITrirk Sfrticttiro In !.<? AlnmiM I'ltlwr l?pm?.ll?hoil or S?>rli*u*ly l?iut? Tholr UonirK-Shock* Not So Sever* at Other Towniu-No Mvri host. Santa Barbara, t'al. A s verc earthquake shock was felt throughout the Santa Barbara Valley, ami at I,os Alamos, a town of tJOO inhabitants, every brick building was wrecked. At that nlaeo the shock lasted half a minute. The damage to projvrty is esiitnated to be over isWi.OOO. Throughout a strip nearly twenty miles long and four miles wide the earth was rent with wide, deep fissures-. and the character of the country was chattered. Hills sprung up as if hv magic. The seismic disturhanees eouttnued with hut slight interruption until shortiy before noon, many light shocks being felt. The first shock, which was so severe as to throw persons out of their beds at bos Alamos, was the most severe. About seventy-live shocks have been felt there since July 1?7. The whole of Santa Barbara County was a fleeted, renorts of tti earl h<iu:<ke outing from Lampoe. Santa Y1107., B11IInrd and other small towns. In this pity tlte shock was slight. The population of l.os Alamos was ' [innic-srrickon. Many ot* tho inhnbitunts have loft tho town. Tho AYcslcrn , I'nion Oil (Company Is tho heaviest j osoi. two of its Immense storage tanks i being demolished, releasing thousands jf callous of oil. Xo lives are known to havo horn lost, ! 'touch t hero were many narrow os npt s. Kwry hriok building in tho j ow n was destroyed or haill.v winked. I In Hourly ovory house windows woro broken. Tho J'mbytorlan Church. a ! art:?> ami handsome hriok struoturo. r.*ns razed to th ground ami a similar rat befell tho general etoro of \Y. S. j Wi.-kenhon. also a hriok huihlint:. ')'! sh :rk. seems to havo hail a spiral notion. t.'noi!s woro hurled front !: -'v. - of store- and idled in tl> tnid- j llo of tho rooms. Kv at such In avy ift a :.s desks woro thrown nhout. Vol a i hiv.tney is ! !* stamlhit: in tho own. All hriok walls aro hadly dam- ; ttrod. Int fratno structures generally scaped sorions in ittry. Many poanlo : '(periled to President lo"japiiit Id" \Vho"!or. of tho Univor- . dt.v of California, for adviop. ami hoi old tho*.i to loavo thoir homes. This, i f anythint:, addod to tho panic. On tho following day four sovero dtaeks of oartlnptakos woro folt in ! .os Alamos Valley, and s<'voral lniihl- | ngs not already destroyed woro i racked hadly. One Immense struenro. a. sho-,r distnnoe from T.os Almios. was turned partly around on its 'oiind * t Iflllu 1,'vnvfl,,..!.. ...t. - - ? . ? iii? rem in ; eft Los Alamos, tunny departing on a ipeeittl train sent front Snn Luis )bispo. Los Alantos is tiio centre of n large iil producing territory. it i? situated n the Los Alamos Valley, otto of tlio] nost productive valleys in tin* State, vheat. olives and citrus fruits being uoduccd in abundance. A CHILD HEROINE "cn-Yrar-Olfl CJIrl futfi Ifo.- Ituhr Sister From Infuriated Itutl. Rochester, N. Y.?Ten-year-old Flora iVilliatns, of Aristotle, hearing screams roni the cow pasture. Arrived just in line to see her baby sister tossed in j lie air by a vicious bull. Without a moment's hesitation the ;irl grasped a stick, and. springing nto the inelnsure. rushed at the bull, vhicli was making ready to toss the aby again. At the sight of the new omer the hull diverted his attention roni the baby, and with lowered bead liarged the girl, who calmly invited da coming. As the maddened animal lashed up the child poised her stick, nd when the hull was three feet away ihe poked it directly into one of his yes. The pain caused the anlnal to desist from further attacks, ind hastily catching her little sister in ter arms Flora ran front the field, little he worse for her encounter. The baby, while badly bruised, will robably recover. NEGRO LYNCHED IN VIRGINIA. kllrgcil Miinlrrrr Taken From n Jul] ami uangcri by ? Mob. Washington. I>. C.?There was n j yneliitig within twenty-live miles of Vp.shlngton. win n a Virginia mob ? f r>() white men took Charles Craven, a tegro. acensed of the murder of Wiliam Wilson, from the jail at T,ersburg. mnged him to a tree and tired live mtidrtd Intliots into his body as soon s it was suspended. Craven look to the woods, anil for hree days had been ehased by bloodtonnds. His pursuers had an undertanding that if It was necessary to lioot ?he negro, they would try not to vound him mortally, in order that lie night be lynehed. When raptured Craven was more han half dead from exposure. lie had lot eaten for several days. f-olnnc" For tlnly. A statement Issued hy the Treasury department, et Washington, shows liat during the month of July the coinge executed In the United States mints .ggregatel 16..r?tW?.000 pieces and was alued at $4.y7ikSOO. / \ >? > I) ' |ll j NO. 20. " iMmrsBFiHEWEa W.MHISIITHK ITEMS. President Roosevelt approved the court-martial sentences of Major Glcun and Lieutenant tiaujot for cruelty to Filipinos, and disapproved tlie acquittal of Lieutenant Pools. It was stated tbut Consul-General Bragg was likely to be recalled or transferred from Havana as a result of liis criticism of the Cubans. The Catholic Missionary Union received a gift of tslo.OOil l'or the establishment of the apostolic nilssiou liouso which is to he opened for the training of ltomnn Catholic priests. Secretary Shaw denied that lie hnu established a Uvo-ycnr service limit in tlie Treasury Department. Hanui.s Taylor. Former Minister to Spain, was reappointed as Special Counsel for the Department of Justice before tlie Spanish Treaty (Malms* Commission. Tlie Court of Inquiry which investigated the grounding of the battleship Illinois, while entering Cliilstianla recently. found that no blame attached to the ofileers or crew. our. ADOPTKI) ISI^*^I>S. The typhoon which prevailed over Central Luzon for some days subsided. A quiet meeting in opposition to the frinrs was held at Manila. An analysis of the water nt Manila showed that it was uileontnmlnateil. A native, reared as a Christian In Spain, was said to he the Sultan of the mysterious race of white Filipinos In the Island of Mindanao. ' Over 7tKit? eigar makers went or? strike at Manila. The hoilies of the teachers murdered in the Philippines will he brought to the United States. The Civil Service Commission Issued n statement expressing gratification at the remarkable showing made by native Uorto itlcans in the postal servile examinations recently held at San Juan. Uos: Douglass, formerly Treasurer of the Island of Cchu, ?*'. I., was found guilty of e'.'.iben/.lcincnt. IX) M !:STIC. An unknown n? gro, npparenily without cause, shot and killed Arthur A. Schneider, at Chicago, and escaped. ? ? All> as lhlward Tower, whose wife killed her son and herself at rough- ? keepsie. X. V . last April, will wed Miss Mary Towue llcgavutts, a former telephone girl. A premature blast at the Clay Mine, New < uiuberle. \V. Va.. killed two miners, who leave large families. Angry from drinking, John Dlckeh son snot and killed line and Jack Dyer at a picnic at Ynticoburg, Ky. Bad feeling ever a lawsuit caused the murder of Sherman Dyer by Berry Don '.hue at I.ut troll, Tenn. The ('onmerV Jury that investigated tlie Johnstown, Pa., mine disaster, exonerated the company l'rom blame. William J. White, cashier of tlio Board of Public Works at San Francisco, Cal., lind disappeared and it was oliielaliy announced that ho was several thousand dollars short in his accounts. The cloudburst In New York Stato effected nearly eighty square miles of territory and caused nearly S-oO.OOO damage. Because of ill health Police Justice J. McKcmiy White declined the polieo inarslialshlp of Baltimore, Md. Incendiaries almost succeeded In blowing up Fort Stevens, a new military post near Astoria, Ore., and left a threatening letter. The Common Pleas Court, at Cambridge, Ohio, decided that the inunlcl- * ^ pal local option law enacted last winter, known as the Benl law, is constitutional. Julia Plgg, colored, was lined $5 by Police Judge MeCaun at Louisville, Ky., because she maliciously sat on the cat of a neighbor with whom she had quarrelled. The Republicans of Morris County, Kan , nominated Miss Kate Ileering for Treasurer. As a result of a water famine, Trinidad, Col., Wfls without lire protection, and water for domestic purposes had to he purchased by the bucketful. Mrs. Elizabeth Chase Installs, mother of ttie late Senator Ingnlls, died In Haverhill, Mass. Lightning killed E. White, n farmer, and his sou, at Indianapolis, Ind. I ORKION, The freedom of the city of Edlnburgh, Scotland, was conferred on the Colonial Premiers. The provisional government of Haiti declared General Firman, the revolutionary leader, an outlaw. Anxiety was expressed tn Pnrio garding tho results of the Anglo-Jafinn< so agreement on Korea. Tlic Costa Klcan Government, It wai announced, will grant Chile a coaling v station on Cocoa Island, In the Pacific. Insurgents in Venezuela defeated reinforcements on the wuy to General Castro, and captured a quantity oT ammunition. Successful experiments in wireless telephony over n distance of more than lour miles were reported from Berlin. President Zeluya, of Nicaragua, commuted the death sentence of Dr. Wilson Uussell, an American. Mr. Balfour declined in the llou. e of Commons to explain the Government's relations with tho Morgan shipping combine.