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m#.. - "'""M ? ??-? ? VOMJMB XI. CAMDEN, S.C.. K KID AY. AUGUST 14, 1908. Many Killed and Injured When Boiler Blew Up THE DEATH LIST TOTALS EIGHT Boti?r of Large Rolling Mill, Locat ed in the Oentre of the Flank, Ex plodes Without a Moment's Warn teg. York, Pa., Special. ? Eight men were killed, nearly u score of others more or lens seriously injured, and thousands of dollars worth of property damaged by the explosion of a boiler in the York Rolling Mill late Monday afternoon. Tlje dead : John Cleney, York. Benjamin Bremer. Harry Zacluict Pola Pueei. John Slovsman. Harry F'ager, all of Columbia, l7a. Edward Fit tier, Marietta, Pa. The boiler which was located in the centre of the ir.ill exploded without ? a moment 's warning. A rescue party was quickly organ ized and search for the bodies was in stituted. Ambulances 1'iom the York Hospit al were hurried to the scene, but ow ing to the number of dead and injur* cd, delivery wagons and other VeyancM^ were pulsed into .-civieu in order that the injured might be rush ed to the hospital. White the injured were being look ed "after, the bodies of the dead were being carried from the ruins of the building. A majority of those kill ed had their heads and limbs torn from their bodies and were so badlv mangled that identity was almost an impossibility. The mill had been ulosed down for about a week and two score of men were engaged in making repairs to an ' engine. The men were work ing close to t ho boiler ami when the explosion occurred not one of them Was able to make his escape. ? Texas Files Complaint. -Washington. Special. ? The railroad commission of Texas Hied a* forma! complaint wit h the into-r-State eom mcrce commission against sixty-seVen railroads and o tiier common carriers alleging a conspiracy on the part of the defendants through the South western Traffic Association for the suppression of competition and re straint of trade in die recent action increasing freight rates to common points in Texas. The commission will forward notice of this complaint to all the carriers involved and will give ;?hem fifteen days to reply, the usual period allowed for answering a com plaint being twenty days. The com mission will expediato this case ss mudli as possible 011 account of its widespread importance. The com plaint is signed bv Allison Mavfield, chairman of the Texas railroad com mission, with W. K. Davidson, Attor ney General, and Claude Pollard, As sistant Attorney General of the State of 1'exijs, countersigning the papor. The .complaint undertakes to com pare' the alleged cost of maintenance and operation of the railroads with the actual cost, and the claimed in debtedness which is supposed to jus tify the increase. The railroad com mission of Texas, it appears, has ap praised the cost of construction and Operation of the roads, as well as the actual indebtedness, upon which the rates mtiy be fairly based. President's Daughter Weds. Paris, By Cable. ? Mile. Fallieres, daughter of the President, of France, Monday became the bride of M. Jean Lanes, her father's private secre tary. The wedding was a quiet affair and was* wholly unaccompanied by the enthusiasm and publicity which attended the marriage of President Roosovelt's daughter. The bride re ceived many handsome presents. Dutch Vessel Catches Fire. London, By Cable. ? Only the time ly arrival of the British steamship Impgene prevented a terrible loss of life among the passengers on the Dutch steamship Amsfell, which caught fire off the coast of South'1 America on August Oth, according to a message received here. The fire created* a fearful panic among the paasetigcr6, and they rushed to the rails and leaped overboard in droves. Scores, it is- said, would have been drowtitd in the scramble in the ocean had not the Imogene put out to the rescue. -jaggi-''1' Turkish Ruler May Abdicate. Constantinople, By Cable.? A rumor (hal $$ltan Abdnl Ham id has grown tired of the insatiate demands of the r*Ypufig . Turks and intend* to flee the country' is being generally cred ited in diplomatic circles here and the discovery of a mysterious armed yacht off Scutari ha* given color to th?Ljreport. If is believed that tho fiol&n is only awaiting a favorable opportunity, to board the yacht him **il to some foreign capital. STATE BANKS WILL ORGANIZE Meeting at Columbia to Formulate Plans for State Clearing House Ah sociation of National Banks. Columbia, Special." There was u meeting hero nl the National l.oan and Kxchunge Hank concerning 'he organization of a clearing; house as sociation as provided for under the national hanking law. At t ho recent sea* ion of Congress thes%' clearing; house associations were provided to issue what is known as emergency currency. The Act provide* that suci an association for the issuance wf emergency currency under certain restrictions can be organized by a group of nationul hanks having five million dollars of capital ami surplus. Only national honks wtih u surplus of 20 per cent are eligible in the As sociation, There aiv in all 20 nat ional hanks in South Carolina of this number 2.'* are eligible. Wepre Kontativcs of 13 of these national Only national hanks with a surplus None of the national bank/, of Char leston were represented in person. If all the national banks in South Carolina go into the Association there will be just enough capital and sur plus represented to organize a Month Carolina Clearing House Association under the terms of the national Act^ If all the South Carolina national banks wvre present at this conference. Georgia will have to be asked. A Committee consisting of Messrs T. B. Stackhouse, Columbia ; J. \V. Simp son. Spartanburg, and \V. B. IhinWp, Hock Hill, were appointed To write to the hanks not repn.icnted at to day's conference to join the "oulh Carolina Association. The nrgatii/.i* tion of t Tii- A?s(n*iutJon js tiol reqult'v eil, hut it i- like tin- Texan with hiv pistol ; "When lw wants "it. lie wants it, without any d-.day." The under standing is that the organization of all the national hanks for the purpose set forth in the recent Act will be perfected. Camden Fire Case Decided. Columbia. Special. ? Judge ICrnes? Gary has just rendered a most im portant decision along new lints. There are several cities in the Slate where the water supply is *urnisiied bv fieperate and private corporation"'., Th" lontract in the various "riiier: may ?i':fiVr, and in that wav tleje may be a difference between the c.?s.' just decided and the legal status in otlu'r cities. Judge Gary has render ed a duision that a private ci%/.en may sue a water supplying eotnpanv for rift having a proper .wato* suoply in ease -of fire. .Judge Gary, in 'tis opinion, "states that this view of the liability oi the corporation ? to- i4ie individual citizen is new, and not usual, but the issue appears to be new in this state and may eventually have to go. through the Supremt Court.. Broke His Sou'e Back. Lake City. Special. ? News reached I Lake City of a most deplorable trag <-?1ly . which oecured in the TTyman sec lion of Florence count v Inst week. Details are meagre, hut it seems that Thomas Summei'field. a white man, living- just a few miles from Hvman, attended a campaign meeting at Hyman yesterday, and in the after noon loaded up on booze and went home and prompilv raised a row in his family. In the excitement he picked up one of his litle bovs a:ul thrust him against the banister with such force that it broke Hip child's back, f rom which injury he died in a very few minutes. It seems from all re ports that S'ummerford is a very quiet and peaceable mrtn when not under the influence of whiskey, which makes the case all the more sad. For School Improvement. Columbia, Special. ? The State As sociation for the improvement of Rural Schools, which has done such, excellent work throughout the State for several years under the able and energetic efforts of its president, Mivs j Mary T. Nance, a Winthrop gradu ate, seems likely to get some valu able financial assistance from the general education board. I)r. K'.iapp and other influential friends are at work along that line, and it is said an appropriation of about $20,000 is likclv to be made to the Associa tion's work in the near future. Noth ing definite has been decided so far, but the excellent work of the Asso ciation is steadily Attracting more favorable attention and good news is looked for along this line shortly. Severe Storm at Spartanburg. Spartanburg. Special. ? Lightning struck four residences, two churches and stunned several pcdpK during a severe electrical stornT^n'ere. Three of the residences that were struck were b/ullv damaercd and one was set on fire. Silver Hill Methodist church was. struck in three places and the tower demolished. A tsmnll colored church on Charles street was set on fire by a bolt of lightning and the fire department had to be called out to extinguish the flames. ... Dr. Pur-year Acquitted. Oxford, Special.? The trial of Dr, Puryear was concluded Thursday. The jury after five minutes* consul tation rendered a verdict of acquit tal, pronouncing the defendant in sane at the time the murder was com* mitted. Dr. Puryear was set 'at liber ty. Able speeches were made by So licitor .Tones Fullov, W. P. ^haw,,A. W.- Graham, W. A. Devin, B. S. Roya ler and B. K. Laaaiter. MBinmni I v mii viiktmrn Two Lurge Boilers Explode t.t the haile Plant ? ; HEAVY DAMAGE TO MACHINERY Fearful Cutuatroyhe Early Monday Morning at the Haile Gold Mine, Near Kershaw, 8. C.- Two Mam moth Boilers Uxplodo Injuring Four Men. Charlotte, N. C? Special.- Oiio of ;bc most fearful boiler 'explosions 'hat ever occurred in South Carolina ook plaee Monday morniiig ut !>:()? i clock at tlie llaile gold mine in Lanca.stor county, two and one-half wiles "from Kershaw, when the two tUO-hoiKe power boilers blew up d*> uolisbing the engine lions** and mum not h stamp mill and x<)riou*J|Y injur ng four men, one. of Mront wan a iou of Cupt, and Mis. A. Thies, of his city. Other than that the water is sup >osed to have boon allowed to get oo low in one ut tin* boilers nothing >f a definite nature is known as to dlo cause of the accident. Boiler No. I t blew up and one of the flying frag ncnts ot iron knockcd ofl the dome >f boiler No. 2, which also then >xplod/'d. The Aiock was teridlic, ts force being very pcrocpl ible, even n Kershaw, more than two miles 'way. It simply dcmoulishcd everx hing about the place, some of the s of the boilers beinp- Jxurled far ipon tlie sides of tl?<r adjacent hills. | ? (). ( . ( jarduer. who happened to >e standing behind a post but ten feet J ixvay from the boilers, when the ca tastrophe occurred. was (brown h rough t fie side of the engine hou<6 md into tne stamp mill hard by. an.d ?vas practically unharmed. Tlie in juwjd are: Mr. Krnesf A. Thies, superintend ent ol' the mine, seriously burned lbout head and body and face and leek cut by falling1 debris. Mr. H. M.._Truesdel, badly burned. Mr. J. 1\ Pittman, engineer, burned yid stunned by falling nieces of wood md brick. Not seriously hurt. Mr. K. M. Ogburn, burned and cut !>y falling timbers. I he accident look plaee shortly af :er-4) o'clock. The engines at the time were running Hnoothly, appar ently performing tkeir accustomed duties in their accustomed way. There tvas nothing slack so far as any ol those about, the plaee could tell to in {lint there was anything wrong 11 the water was low in one of the toilers no one was aware of it. Mr. lilies, who happened to be passing through, observed to Mr. Pitlman, tin engineer, that his clock wa> four minutes slow and suggested that he move it forward a little. This Mr. Pittman proceeded lo do. lje step ped up on a box to get at the clock nnd had just accomplished his mis ?ion and was climbing down when the explosion occurred. Mr. Thi;-!i was buried beneath the debris, his face being cut by flying bricks and falling timbers and his head and body seriously burned. Messrs. Pitt man, Truesdel and Ogburn, the three other men in the building, were also hurled to the floor and almost if not altogether coxered bv the loose ma terial which fell all about them. Fortunately Mr. .Pittman was not badly stunned though severely burn ed and he was able to crawl from beneath the wreckage without assist ance. Mr. Thies fared much worse, however, for ho was rendered uncon scious and some time xvas required to extricate him. 15 minutes at least. Neither Mr. Truesdel nor Mr. Og <?11111 xv ere seriously injured although their cuts and burn.', were most pain ful. Mr. Pittman escaped by a hair's bredth, his call being an exceedinglx' close one. Mr. Thies suffered the most serious injuries. Cardinal Gibbons Has Relapse. Home, By Cable.? Cardinal Gibbons suffered a slight relapse due to over exertion in attending t he audience granted by the Pope on Saturady. Sunday's services at the Vatican and Monday's congregation. As a result the cardinal may have to cancei all present plans and remove to the country for a season of complete rest. They Must Bo Tried Again. Asheville, N. C., Special. ? W. E. Ifhsese, W. II. . Penland and J. E. Diekcrson, the three former officials oi' t :ic defunot First National Bank of Asheville, must agftinvstand trial on a criminal charge. This was the cf | f"Ot of Judge Newman's decision in United States District Court in hold ing that the original bill of indict ment found at Greensboro in" 1897 and charging conspiracy was not de fective. The motion of counsel for the defense to quash the bill war therefore over-ruled and the noted ease will again be aired in a court ol jus; ice. ? : ? ? ? 1 ?, ? " Army^ OClcers on Endurance Test. Burlington, Vt., Special/ ? Tired but apparently in" excellent physical condition, fourteenarmy officers un der command of Major General Fred erick D. Grant, are encamped just outside Fort Ethan Allen, after the first day df their endurance teft as lurrtemen. They galloped, trotted and walked their horses for 7 1-2 hoofi Monday, completing a circuit of thir ty miles. ? GREAT PILLSBURY MILLS ' IN HANDS OF RECOVERS | World's largest Flour Manufac turing Company in Trouble. GRAIN SPECULATION REASON j Concern Ik un Jiutflteh Corporation ' MIIIh to Continue to (tun ? He. ' celventhfp Hold to Be ii Step To. ward IteorgmiUtW ion. Minneapolis, Minn.. A. C. Lorlng, head of tho North wwutorn Cotisoli* ! dated Milling Company; C. 8. } *i I lu- ' bury, son of tho late Chit ilea A. Pllln- ! bury, and A. C. Cobb, a lawyer/ woro I appointed receivers of .flio Plllsbury- ! Washburn Flour Milling Company, 1 Limited, on a petition of stockholders I and holders of the .company's paper. I Thoso petitioners were tho North- ? western National Ban)*, tho First Nn- I tlonal, the Swedish American Nu- j tlonal, of Minneapolis, and the fjoc- - oud National Hank, of St. Paul to-' gether with J. S. Plllsbury. ' I Tho company made no opposition and the proceeding 1h said to bo a step toward a reorganization of the ; company. . Humor has added these ' reasons for the application: Lack of i ready cash, an alleged attempt on the ! part of l<;n?<llHh shareholders to freeze i out American interests, and alleged 1 mismanagement. The court tlxed the j receivers' joint bond at 3500,000, to be filed within five days. The manager of (he business since the death of C. A. Plllsbury fen vearj ago ha3 been Henry L. Little The -company 1? "a nritlsh' corpora tion, orgnnized in \3fil) under the laws of Great Hrltaln. I> operator, "illshury MHIb A, 1) and C. with their | ele vutors, of which Mill A i? th-i larg est Sn the world; the Palisade and Anchor Mills and elevators and tho Lincoln Mill ttr 'Anoka. The eom uany's output Is 40,000 barrels of Hour dally, which it distributes throughout the world by means of 5000 agencies. The com nan v ja practically owner of the stock of the Minneapolis Mill Company, of Minnesota, and tho St. Anthony Water Power Companv of Minnesota, with water rights ' The MipneapoliH Mill Company, of New jersey, practically owns the capital stock of the Pilisbury-Wftoiiburn Flour Mills Company, and the Minne aoollB Mill Comnany owns the stock of the Minneapolis nnd Northern Kle vator Company, controlling 100 crain elevators. it was asserted at tho hearing that the Plllsbury. \V ash burn Fhmr Milli Company had done a biiRinestj of .S22.000.000 In the Inst fiscal voar.' but the net earnings of the company nave beyp decreasing ever since it -^ame into? F.ng+lsh ltandf-'. In the last ten years they hr.vp declined from 5G72.G90 to $4 01,000. Tho unsecured indebtedness of the companv is B3t nt more than $5,000, 000. Tho assets are estimated at *..,500,000. Tho company has $800, 000 of Its product Htored In twenty five States outside of Minnesota. The b^ok) value of Its assets exceeds $15, Spcculation In Wheat Responsible For Failure Chicago. ? Speculation In wheat Is f.ald to have been In part at least re sponsible for the troubles of tho Plllsbury Company at Minneapolis, and In part also a heavy decline In the sale of American Hour abroad. Members of the company have been prominently Identified with mammoth wheat deals in the Minne apolis. and Chicago markets for years Four years ago. when black rust so r.ously damaged the spring wheat crop, the Plllsbury syndicate was caught largely short and lo3t nearly $1,000,000. Two years ago the same syndicate was whipsawed. being lon^ on a declining market, and last year It guessed the marker wrong again. . iil? summer when crop conditions In the Northwest were brilliant, tho Pillsburys sold September short against their holdings of old spring wheat, but tho sensalJrmal reports concerning damage by rust and blight caused the market to rise suddenly Font PERISH IN FIRE. Flames Sweep Tenement House In , Sicilian Quarter, New York. New York City. ? In a firu (hat swept the four-story brick tenement houso at So. 332 Ease 112th street," in the heart of the Sicilian colony, lour children lost their lives and a Kccre or more persons wore injured, in less than five minutes from the time the fire was discovered the whole building was In a blaze, and those living on the upper floors had little chance to escape. The injured were hurt by jumping from windows. The dead are: Antonio FonBto, nine years; Rosie Fousto, ten years; Jos. Pousto, six years; Angelina Vousto, I sixteen month?. I Fr<*e Pass Cost Him $800. Convicted on a charge of violating the anti-nass law, S. C. Watts was fined $800 and "Gertie" Williams SI 00 in the Federal Court at Helena. Mont. Watts, who was a Great Northern hrakeman, obtained a pass for his wife and gavo it to Mies Will iams. Maker of First Airbrake Dead. 1 George F. Larimer, sevanty-three, *7ho made the first WestinghouBe air: braize, died at PlttAburg, Pa. Georgia Promoter a Sniclde. Captain I). G. Puree, well known As a developer. Industrial writer and promoter, and having connections In Now York. Pittsburg and other cities, committed sulfide at Savannah, Ga., \>y shooting. No cause la known lor the deed. * Tr . Morso Ranks Liquidated, " ' The - Federal Government bas de cided to liquidate completely two of Morse's banks In New York City, the New Amsterdam and the Dank of North America. HURRY K. THAW A BANKRUPT Slayer of Stanford White Dis-. putes Many Accounts. C'omI of Saving Mini From C ll?* Chair Hi'iirlicii ti Startling KlKUIt* ? Owon 9153,110. , Pltteburg, I'a. Alleging that IiIh creditor* are pressing unjust cIuIiub agulnut him, (iml that ho la unable to* pay. Hurry K. Thaw, slayer of Stan ford White, through hirt attorney, Charles Morachausor, of Poughkeep hlo, N'. Y.t and ex-Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, tiled a petition In bankruptcy In the United States Court. Detective Hogor O'Mara was named as receiver for Thaw's estate and gavo bond of >200,000. In his bankruptcy papers, which wero signed by Thaw while outside tho Poughkoepsio jail, he showed startling figures. lie places bin as sets at $1'2S,01'2 and his liabilities at $463,140, and asserts that ho does not believe h? owes the $463,140. He names thirteen unsecured credit o rs, and gives the amount which each one claim# he owes. Of thin number only two claims are 'undisputed. There are also Several rocus'cU credit ors, who are not named. lie admits to owing Mrs. Mary C. Thaw, bin ino'.iier, $1 01.500, and lie also approves tho claim of Ho get' O'Mara for S'OO Coes as detective. There then follows a list of creditors and thoir amounts. Thaw will insist tj\ct O'Mara Klft ihe claims to tho bottom. The lint, of the claims which Thaw declares uniust Ik an follows: Jaiuos (I . Graham, Poughkeupsic, N. V., S295 4; Dr. Graeme Hammond, N* e v/ Yo^lu ._4l.uuuv -D?v -Ghsrlfn ttr Wagner. New vor!< . $ 1 000 : I ?r. Smith W. .lelllfe. New York. $5200; Dr. Brltton ICvft'iu, New York, SGOOO; Martin W. Littleton, SSOOO; Har t ridge &. Peabodv, $0000; ,101m H. Gleanon. New York, $80,000: Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton. Now York, 512,000; Dr. Dana, New York, S 1 C 0 0 ; Dr. John P. Wilson, Now York, $0 00. Total, $453,140. CHOPS HIC LOW lO-YlOAU AVIOHACH Corn, Wheat, Oats and Potatoes Not no Good as Usual. Washington, D. C,? The crop re porting board of the Bureau of Sta tistics of the Department of Agrlcul \ ture. In a bulletin, says the condition of corn on August 1 was 82.5 per I cen> . of a normal, as compared with 82.8 last "month, 82.8 ou August 1, I 1 f) 0 7 . aud S3.1, the ten-year average 1 on August 1. ! Preliminary returns indicate a yield ! of winter wheat of about i4.3 bushels an acre, or; a total of. 425.940,000 bushele, which compares with 14.fi bushels and 4 00.4 4 2,000 bushels, re spectively. thy final estimates of last year's crop? The average quality of the crop Is 90.1, against 90.5 last year. The average condition of spring wheat on August 1 was 8 0.7 per cant, of a normal, as compared with 89.4 a moiuh ago, 7 9.4 on August 1. 1907, 8G.9 on August 1, 190fi, and 82.7, the ten-year average on August 1. Tho condition of the oats crop on August 1 was 7G.8 per cent., as com pared with 83.8 the ten-year average on August 1. The average condition o J barley on August 1 was 83.1 per cent, of a normal, as compared with 85.7, the ton-year average. The condition of rye on August 1, or at time of harvest, was 88.3 per cent, of a normal, as compared with 8S.4, tho ten-year average. The average condition of white po tatoes on August I was 82.9 per cent, of a normal, as compared with 86.8,. tho ten-year average. Tho average condition of tobacco on August 3 was 8 5.8, as compared with 82.3, the ten-year average. Tho condition of the hay crop on August 1 was 92.1, aB compared with a ten-year average of approximately WIIIGIITS 2-M1LK FLIGHT. "Xow Desinfi a Xrw Krn In Air Navi gation, " in Corn men t. T^o Mans, France.? In his aeroplnnc Wilbur Wright mndo a mosJt success ful flight, the distance being estimat ed variously at from one and four fifths to two and a quarter miles. Tho aeroplane moved bo rapidly that lc was difficult to determine accurate ly how far It flow and the length of time the flight occupied. Hart O. Berg, Wrlgh. brothers'' manager, an nounced the "official" time as 1 min ute and 4 6 seconds; other persons thought the aeroplane did not travel faster than thirty miles an hour. But whatever the time or distance, tho flight astonished and delighted all who saw it, including such an ex pert on heavier than air machines as Archdeacon, who exclaimed enthusi astically: "Now, Indeed, begins a new era In air navigation." Wright did not try to fly a long dis tance; his purpose was only to try out his aeroplane fft public. His perfect mastery of tho r.eroplane, Its obedi ence to him, most impressed tho few spectators who were Invited to tho test, among thom being soverAl French aoronauts and two Russian army officers. ftaumge Gives Woman $2000. Bccauso sho bit on a tack and broke a front tooth In eating a sau sage, Mrs. Margaret Sampson, of Wakefield, Mass., received $2000 damages In the Superior Court from a packing company of Somervllle. Rronro Kills Tiro Men. At Bloomlngton, Ind., John Mullis and his son-in-law, Isaac Fox, ware killed by a bronco which they were driving. The animal suddenly stopped and began to kick, his heels going through the dashboard and crushing the skulls of both i&en. War Against Mosquitoes. . Dr. Doty, Health Officer of the Port of New York, said that Staten Island Was now practically rid of mosquitoes, after six years of exter mination work. AUCKLAND GREETS FLEET'S OFFICERS New Zoaland's Prime Minister Presents Album to Roosevelt FINE RECORD FOR BATTLESHIPS Amcrlcjit^Ctoniniuudcr, Admiral ry, Kays Meeting of Atlantic ami llrltUb KlretH Make* For the Maintenance of Pcuce, Auckland. Now Zealand.-? Cloudy weather greeted tho lauding of Ad miral Sporry, Conimand?r-In-C>hlof of tho United Btatcu Atlantic lleot, and his onieors to reoolvo official welcoino to Australasian waters at the hands of Sir Joseph George Ward on behalf of tho Qovernmont. Muttered by Pacific gales, washed hy sens that swopt the decks and shook tho groat iiiiikhwi of Hj?el like chips on a pond, the battleships looked a* fresh and clean as though they had Just completed a crulao around the harbor, Instead of a gruel ling grind of :tSf,n miles through the wnfcles of tho Pacific. Never has such a record boon made by a modern navy1. Without once utonplng, without once adding to tho coal supply or oquipniant with which i hey left Honolulu. the but t b^hip.i have plowed through waters which novo.r before hold such an aggregation of r.ea power, to be received in a for eign port ho lira ahead of the time planned. Tho landing was made at the newly quay _ ?.1 . lint <,*uee? ?urcet, the city's principal thorough fare, at (he shore end of which an elaborately deeorai (1 stand had been erected for the reception. Grouped abou' the .Prime. Minister were the members of tho Cabinet and repro MMHatlvcK of iho various town, bor ough and country districts of the do minion. Immense crowds thronged the sti'oets, and the roofs and verandas of nouses adjacent wore moving mas3CB of humanity. It wnn n g'roat recep tion and unbounded enthusiasm pro vailed. In his address Sir Joseph eulogized, President Roosevelt as representing' the best traditions of tho common blood of civilization. Ho then pre sented to Admiral Spcrry for Presi dent Roosevelt a decorated gold and silver album suitably inscribed as a souvenir of the visit of tho American fleet to New Zealand. Admiral Spcrry received a beautifully illuminated ad dress of welcome enclosed In a hand some caBket of wood with an inlaid cover having a design emblematic of New Zealand. The American Commandor-ln Chiof, in replying to the Prima Min ister, said that no greeting would ap peal more strongly to President Roosevelt than that coming from a people small in number, but great in achievements. The reception of tho American fleet, tho Admiral con tinued. showed thai the ties of blood and friendship meant more than peo ple understood. Ho described Auckland Harbor as magnificent and safe, and as excelling any harbor in tho Pacific, except .that at Sydney, and perhaps Manila, livery facility the naval commander might desire was to bo had here. In his address of welcome on be half of the citizens of Now Zealand, I/ord Plunkltt, the Governor, said that King Edward and President Roosevelt were honored, not because of their positions, but for tho noble work they had done and were doing for their countries and for humanity. STRIKERS FIRE AT CARS. Men In Ambush Shoot at Non-Union Men in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala. ? A special pas scngor train on the Birmingham Min eral Road, bearing non-union miners under protection of the Alabama Na tional Guard and deputy sheriffs tq the coal mines at Blocton, was fired on at 2 o'clock in tho morning. Three men were killed and eleven wounded, two of whom probably will die. Tho killed: John T. Collins, con ductor; O. Z. Dent, deputy sheriff; Willard Howell, non-union miner. The wounded: A. 0. Bryant, dep uty sheriff; J. B. Cornett, deputy sheriff; E. E. Cox, superintendent of mines; A. E. Cross, chief clerk; Major F. H.Dodge, superintendent of safety; J. C. Johnson, deputy sheriff; J, C. Martin, wounded in head; W. H. Mc Auly, soldier; A. J. Myer, laborer; M. A. Pearson, soldier; Robert Slg mon. Dogs were hurried to the scene and took trails through tho woods directly to the union quarters. Eight negroes wore arrosted and other arrests aro expected. Tho affair has c.ausod widespread indignation, and a general demand is bolng made that vigorous steps be taken looking to tho preservation of order. HORSE FELL; JOCKEV KILLlJTT. J. Bondivce, Rider of Rufus, Died In Saratoga Hospital. Saratoga, N. Y. ? Jockey J. Bond wee, who was thrown while riding Rufus in the Beverwyck Steeplechase at the race track, died at the Saratoga Hospital several hours later. ' Road wee was picked up after his fall and taken to the hospital unconscious. Rufus was remounted after throwing Beadwee and finished third in tbe raae. Pythian* March, 1Q,000 Strong. Ten thousand members of tho Uni form Lodge, Knlfhts of Pythias, re splendent In uniform, and lad by bands, marched through tho streets of Boston. ?, The parrdc. was composed of twenty-five brigades of Pythiana from every section dt the country, aa well as Canada. ' ' t " ' 1 1 1,1 1 ? " " Priest and Merchant Killed. i Father Vabey, a priest, and C. W. Postman, an importer, both of Cleve land, ware killed In an aatotnoblla accident near Sylvan la, Ohio. Latest News BY WIRCf i:t Slain by Yaqufs. El Puo, Tex. ? U hu been I iwwl hero that YaquI Indian* oa Jaly X* killed thirteen person* near the U? 'pasan mine. ? ? $7000 Fine For the HaaU F*. * Chicago. ?J udge 8. H, Betfc? ttt tho United States District Coast Im posed a lino of >7000 upon Uw Alch l?on, Topeks and Santa Fe Kslfwsf Company when that company pined ui# guilty to granting refratea to the United States Sugar snd f*nd Ci? puny, of Garden City, Kan Socialist Candidate Shoots. Hloomlngton, IH. ? Joseph Tanttk Socialist candidate for Owiiism. made an unsuccessful attempt to rIiool Prosecuting Attorney WUHssi Baoh. Landls was arrested. The sf~ fair wsa the> Outgrowth of a. new* paper, controversy-' J., Col. It. L nwic JKetfrpd. \\ abhington, D. C. Co Tonal Rffi ard j., Hoxle, corpB of engineers, ?w ceutty In charge of river and harbor work In the vicinity of Baltllfeetw,. v.- a-' piaond on tho retired list &wm arm y on account of ago; wltU tho smnl t o f brlgndler-gencral. Hotly Washed Ashore Oyat.er Bey, L_ r. ? The body eC Samuel Rowlands, tho keeper of the ? Mid''!'- Ground lighthouse, at the ?? trac* to Oyster Hay, who was drovsei wh.lM attempting to gain the I(?ht Int.. ? laddur fronr his ruiTtoosI. fSa ? "VffV n (;il aiH"o?e at. WblLel: ead Potik^ about a mill! from the Ughthaoae.' Elisabeth Fire. ' Klizaheth, N\ J. ? The roafn ftulldf InK of tlio .Tonkins ltuhhor Wo^iw, at Magnolia avenue and Dtvtsfoa streets. - wuh daetroyed by firo. The? lose* will probably reach $100,000, said to ho mostly covered by Insurance. Italn* Jfi^rr^^irn..' On/Aha, Neb. ? There was a general rainlMll all over Nebraska, and re port 4 from many tactions say tho ndn In still falling. Tho effect, on coca will, be extremely good. P ;/ ? " ?" 1 Playw ftolf fn Dark. Chicago. ? On a wager Fred Mc- ? Leod, professional golfer, of the On wentHla Country Club, at Lake For est, made tho etghjteen-hole course lor S3 Btrokee, aided only by the did* light of a half moon. Ho made this first nine holes In 28, and sss fl^dtkC at a fast clip until the fourteenth holo waa reached. Army Officers End tVnTXc. San Francisco. ? Seven army oB> cors from tho Presidio have finished tho third and last' lap of theft fty-cnfbe walking test ordered by President ItooM.'vclt' to determine their physical fitness to remain In the service. Tbs . officers, most of whom aro nearly sixiy yearn o Id r arrived here after :: covering twelve miles and underwent an examination. Ail were In excel lent condition. Cinderella Slipper host. Chicago. ? Somewhere fa Chfc?p? there la a Cinderella slipper which is worth at least flKOO- Tho Cinderella, in the six-year-old daughter of Mn. Silverman, and her lost slipper holds diamonds valued at 91600. the prop erty of her mothtfr. Struck Twlco by BoIE^""-- r Hartford, Conn. ? For the ceoouC time within a month lightning has struck the great stone Keney mn __ mortal clock tower, in MnJa streets and atruck.'^wo trees. , BY CABLE* liondnran Snr.rl. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. ? Tho Uon duraa Government has refusal to re scind or cancel the exoquatera of the American Consul and Vieo-Consul mt Celba. The State Depsriment ?T Washington had requested the Hon duran Government to do so. Pn^hci Forms New Cabinet. Constantinople, Turkey. ? -Rluril Pasha has formed & new CahllUC Jernalledln Effondf, tho Shelk-nl Islam and the Miuisterof b'o.Migu Af fairs retain their portfolios. Fund For Zeppelin. Berlin. ? Tho Society for the Stady of Airships hasstartsd a national fund in aid of Count Zeppelin. Ttsrtjjufl hearing a portrait of the Comat Ian been placed, on sale throughout. Qcr? many. Prize For an American Scientist. Copenhagen. ? Professor.* Vtanrfoa Bloom field, who is representing; J< Hopkins University at the fc tlonal Orientalist Congress, in here, wae notified th*,t the pn:. varlan Academy of S cloocjes awarded him an Important y> Wnrjpj recognition of his recent publ Want Saltan to Dismiss London.-? The Times* ent at Sofia, Turkey, says that Turks captured one of tho envoys at Adrianople and c htm to swear fidelity to tke regime. ThQT then entrusted with a letter to the Saltan, in they demanded that he dtaml harem and only have one srtBa. Loss of Life in Typhoon. Hong Kong. China.? TEie meat has decided to dredge ent typhoon shelter and to other one i]i the Wiat harbor ag Of > 1 ,5 0 0.0 0 0.: |PP|L , HI lives were lost in tko late ty>l>nnn, V. Monp.l.dlRaatatDc.*' . . " Rome, Italy. ? Tkoi inl, who at siho tl