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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
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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"
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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.
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>N 1081)AY, AUGUST i>.
|OUR UNUSUAL WEATHER'
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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.
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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.