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JUDGE PAPER ACCEPTS
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Sine CEMBOMES AT MSEMVHT.
Tfce Nattflcatlaa Waa Bfw?M to Jaiga Parker
bJ Rtpraatstollve Chf Clark, ?( Mis
?rt, aa Ckakmm af a CamaHtoc tbtfn
??"Uaf Etcry Stale aai Territory la the
Uaica.
Esopus, N. Y., (Special). ? Alton
Brooks Parker, whose home is at
Rosemont, near this village, was Wed
nesday afternoon formally notified of
his nomination for the Prcsidcncy
by the Democratic party.
Accompanied by other prominent
Democrats, a committee of one from
each State and Territory, appointed
by the recent Convention in St. Louis,
came to Esopus on the steamboat
Sagamore, from New York, and took
part in the exercises. The party num
bered more than 500. They were
joined by relatives and neighbors of
Judge Parker. ? '
The programme of notification was
a simple one. Congressman Champ
Clark of Missouri, chairman of the
committee, addressed the candidate,
and handed him a written notification,
signed individually by the members
of the committee. Judge Farker re
sponded with a spccch which was the
first since his nomination, and is of
greatest importance, because it declar
es his views on the great public ques
tions before the country in this cam
paign.
Esopus, N. Y., (Special).?When
formally notified that he had been
nominated for the Presidency by the
Democratic party, Judge Parker ad
dressed the notification committee and
others present part as follows:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlement of
the Committee:
"I have resigned the office of Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals of this
State in order that I may accept the
responsibility that the great Conven
tion you represent has put upon me,
without possible prejudice to the Court
to which I had the honor to belong,
or to the _ eminent members of the
judiciary of this State, of whom I may
now say as a private citizen I am just
ly proud.
- - Famous Message Recalled.
* "At the very threshold of this re
sponse, and before dealing with other
aubjects, I must, in justice to myself
and to relieve my sense of gratitude,
express my profound appreciation of
the confidence reposed in me by the
Convention. After ndminating me
tnd subsequently receiving a commun
:ation declaring that I regarded the
gold standard as firmly and irrevoca
ly established, a matter concerning
which I felt it incumbent upon me to
make known my attitude so that here
after no man could justly say that his
support had been secured through in
direction or mistake, the Convention
reiterated its determination that I
should be the standard-bearer of the
party in the present contest. This
mark of trust and confidence I shall
ever esteem as the highest honor that
could be conferred upon me?an hon
or that, whatever may be the fate of
the campaign, the future can in no
degree lessen or impair.
The Platform.
"The admirable platform upon which
the partv appeals to the country for
its confidence and support clearly
states the principles which were so well
condensed in the first inaugual address
of President Jefferson, and points out
with force and directness the course to
be pursued through their proper ap
F'lication in order to insure needed re
orms in both the legislative and ad
ministrative departments.of the Gov
ernment.
Executive Power Usurped.
Occasionally, by reason of unnec
essary or impatient agitation for re
forms. or because the limitations plac
ed upon the departments of Govern
ment bv the Constitution are disre
garded by officials desiring to accom
plish that which to them seems gnod,
whether the power exists in them or
not. it becomes desirable to call at
tention to the fact that the people,
in whom all power resides, have seen
fit. through the medium of the Con
stitution, to limit the governmental
powers conferred and to sav to de
partments created by it: 'Thus far
shalt thou go and no farther' To
secure the ends sought the people have
by the Constitution, separated and
distributed among the three depart
ments of Government?the executive
legislative and judicial?certain pow
ers, and it is the duty of those admin
istering each department so to act
as to preserve, rather than to destroy,
tne potency of the co-ordinate branch
es of the Government, and thus se
cure the exercise of .-?!! the powers
conferred by the people.
Tariff Law.
The present tariff law Is unjust in
its operation, excessive in many of its
rates, and ?o framed in particular in
stances as to exact inordinate profits
from the people. So well understood
has this view become that many
prominent members of the Republican
party and at least two of its State Con
ventions, have dared to voice the
general sentiment on that subject
1 .? party seem* however, to be col
lectively able to harmonize only upon
a plank that admits that revision may
from time to time be necessary, but
it is so phrased that it is expected to
Eiplaslaa Pelt Twtlrc Miles.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., (Special).?By an
explosion in the Oliver Dynamite
Company's plant, controlled by the
Dupont-De Ne Mours Company, at
Laurel Run, one man was killed and
two girls were injured by flying glass.
The force of the concussion was felt
twelve miles away. A hole fifteen feet
deep and nearly as wide was torn out
under the site of the mill and not a
vestige of the body of the dead man
can be found.
be satisfactory to those in favor of
an increase of duty, to those who
favor s reduction thereof, and to those
opposed to any change whatever.
Common Law Controls Trusts.
"The combinations, popularly called
trusts, which aim to secure a monop
oly of trade in the necessaries of life,
as well as in those things that are
employed upon the farm, in the factory
and in many other fields of industry,
have been encouraged and stimulated
by excessive tariff duties. These op
erate to furnish a substantial market
in the necessaries of 80,000,000 people,
by practically excluding competition.
With so large a market and highly
remunerative prices continuing long
after the line of possible competition
would naturally be reached, the temp
tation of all engaged in the same bus
iness to combine so as to prevent com
petition at home and a resulting re
duction of prices, has proved irresisti
ble in a number of cases. All men
must agree that the net result of en
acting laws that foster such inequi
table conditions is most unfortunate
for the people as a whole, and it
would seem as if all Qught to agree
that the effective rcmemdy would be
to appropriately modify the offending
law.
Long a World Power.
"Ours is a world power, and as such
it must be maintained, but I deny that
it is at all recently that the United
States has attained that eminence.
Our country became a world power
over a century ago, when, having
thrown off foreign domination, the
people established a free government,
the sourcc of whose authority sprung,
and was continuously to proceed, from
the will of the people themselves.
Will not be a Candidate for Re-elec
tion.
"I accept, gentlemen of the commit
tee, the nomination, and if the action
of the Convention shall be indorsed
by an election by the people, I will,
Cod helping me, give to the discharge
of the duties of that exalted office the
best service of which I am capable
and at the end of the term retire to
private life. I shall not be a candidate
for, nor shall I accept, a renomina
tion."
tiEOME C. TESTIS DEAD.
Had Beca Critically III a Long Time at Sweet
Sprlags, Mo.
Sweet Springs, Mo., (Special).?Af
ter lingering for weeks between life
and death former United States Sena
tor George G. Vest passed peacefully
away Tuesday. He had been so near
death for the past three days that the
end came without a struggle.
Mr. Vest was conscious until about
2 o'clock A. M. Sunday morning, when
he sank into a state of coma, from
which he never aroused. The power
of speech left him on Saturday morn
ing, and during, the last 36 hour? of
his1 life His bi^Affltf^wa^cely per
ceptible.
At the bedside when the end came
was his wife, Dr. Jarvis, the family
physician; Senator Vest's son, Alex
ander, his daughter, Mrs. George P.
B. Jackson, and her husbafid. and
Mrs. Thompson, a niece of Mrs. Vest.
The hpdy was taken In a private
car of Mr. A. A. Allen, vice-president
and general manager of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad, to St.
Louis, where the interment will take
place.
George Graham Vest was born at
Frankfort, Ky., December 6, 1830, of
Virginia parents.
Fdueated at Centre College, Dan
ville, Ky., graduating in 1848.
Studied law under James Harlan,
Attorney-General of Kentucky, and
at Transylvania University, Kentucky,
being admitted to the bar in 1853.
J'l 1853 moved to Georgetown, Mis
souri.
In i860 elected to Missouri Legis
lature.
Joined Confederates under General
Price in 1861, but chosen to Confeder
ate Congress in the fall and later
elected Senator.
Resumed law practice at Sedalia,
Mo., in 1865.
Fleeted United States Senator in
T878 and served continuously until
March 4. 1003.
Married .in 18^4 to Miss Sallie F..
Speed, of Danville. Ky , who survives
him, with three children.
THE SLOCUM DISASTER.
Informal Meeting of liivestfgatlag Commission
HeM la Washington.
Washington, D. C., (Special).?An
informal meeting of the commission
appointed to investigate the General
Slocuin disaster in New York was held
at the Department of Commerce and
Labor. All the members of the com
mission were present except Comman
der Winslow.
Thus far the commission has taken
350.000 words of testimony. The meet
ing indicated that probably no more
oral testimony would be taken. It will
l>e necessary, however, before the
commission's report can be prepared
to await certain exhibits which are to be
incorporated in the findings of the
commission. These relate to the re
inspection of passenger steamboats
which is now in progress in New
York. About 500 ?essels are to be re
inspected, and the commission feels
that it must await the results of this
examination before it properly can
make its report and its recommenda
tions. It is probable that from time
to time meetings of the commission
will be held here to consider their re
port. but the meetings will be mostly
executive.
Atrecltlss Dees ee Both Sltfts.
London, (By Cable),?The Tabriz
(Persia) cot respondent of the Daily
News in a dispatch dated August 0
says: "On July 13 a band of Armen
ian revolutionists appeared near Oiitrh
kilissa. Turkish soldiers and Kurds
finding an excuse, attacked and de
stroyed the villages of Outchkiliss.i,
Koom'ouboujak, Gougan, Karabazar
and Sayto, butchering men and out
raging women.
BATTLE AT PORT ARTHUR
?mtMRettSalM Fartkaaf Eagi(c4
h ill jgr hate.
MTTlBBfSAH>CB)lSBSlAIEMSl
Osaeral KmnlUi Mm Nor Withdrawn (fee
Baft af His Army Safety Nsrtfc *1 Uh
yaag. Leavtef 0*y a StrMf Rear Qaart
Uae Saatfccaat al Uaayaaf la Caatcst the
Adraacc Wfcca it Caan.
Tokyo, (By Cable).?The Russian
fleet emerged from Port Arthur Wed-!
nesday and a severe engagement with
the Japanese fleet, lasting all day, fol
lowed.
The Japanese destroyers attacked
the Russians at night. The results
of the engagements are unknown.
The Russian battleships Retvizan
and Pobieda were seen outside Port
Arthur Thursday morning.
POCKETED BY JAPANESE CORDON.
Experts Say KivapatUa Caaaot New With
draw iN Mast Otve Battle.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable).?Nerv
ousness over the situation at* the frbnt
seems to be increasing since the oc
cupation by the Japanese of the Wolf
hills, before Port Arthur. It is ad
mitted that the besiegers have 'an
elevated position, whence emplaced
guns can command the fortress, and
while still professing confidence that
General Stoessel will be able to hold
out with his comparatively small gar
rison against the enormous number
of the attackers, and their evident dis
regard of men, indicated by the reck
less manner in which they stormed the
outer positions, the state of affairs
creates more apprehension than the
war office or admiralty care to ac
knowledge.
Similar misgivings exist regarding
General Kuropatkin's position, the ad
vantages of the new Japanese base at
Niuchwang is greatly simplifying the
problem of provisioning their army
being fully realized. But it is the
report that the Japanese are working
up westward of the main Russian army
which occasions the greatest uneasi
ness. The rumor that they are moving
up toward Simintin, a short distance
west of Mukden, from Niuchwang is
generally believed.
With the Japanese cordon tighten
ing south and cast and a column
threatening the Russian line of com
munications in the rear, toward MtSk
den, the appearance of the Japanese
j on the other side of Mukden would
I almost pocket General Kuropatkin
:f he has resolved to accept battle with
his whole army at Liaoyang. Shrewd
military attaches are extremely doubt
ful whether General Kuropatkin could
.now withdraw jven if he so desired. ,<
. Anothlf alarming feature of the sit
uation in conncction with the Japanese
western column is the report that it
includes many Chinese, who are Jap
anese subjects, from the Island of
hormosa. whose influence on the local
Chinese and the soldiers of General
Ma and Viceroy Yuanshikai is feared.
PORTE DOESNT LIKE OUR SQUADRON.
? ? - i ?
Preseace ef Aasrfcsa Warships Will Danfct
leu Brtaf a Satlsfactary Reply.
Constantinople, (By Cable).?The
announcement of the dispatch of the
American European sqadron to Smyr
j na has perturbed the Porte, and will,
; doubtless, hasten the solution of the
j questions at issue between the United
; States and Turkey in a manner satis
; factory to the former. The Porte
: promised American Minister Leish?
| man that a reply favorable to the
, American demand for the same fav
I ored treatment in the mfitter of schools, |
! hospitals and charitable institutions as
! is accorded to other powers Would be
i given August 2. The giving of the
| answer was then postponed to Au
' gust 4. but up to the present time no
? answer has been received.
[ The Porte recognized the demand
; in principle, but thus far has failed to
j execute the necessary measures, and
? the American legation has now sent
! a communication to the Porte pointed
! ly demanding a speedy and final settle
i nient, the issuance of the necessary
orders and official acknowledgement
by Turkey of the American demands.
There is no monetary claims.
JOHN LYONS HANOED.
Paid ibe Destb Penalty for Murdering ao
Aged Watchman.
Patcrson. N. J. (Special).?John Ly
ons was hanged in the county jail here
for the murder of John Christian, an
aged watchman, who was beaten to
death when he detected Lyons and
William Allen robbing a Pater.son silk
mill four years ago.
I he last effort to save l.yons was
made Wednesday, when counsel for
the condemned man applied to Judge
Pitney, at Morristown, for a writ of
habeas corpus for Lyons, alleging that
as Lyons v.as not hanged on March 4.
the day first set for the execution, he
was legally dead, the court that grant
ed the delay having no power to do so,
that authority being vested in the Gov
ernor alone.
No word was received from Justice
Pitney If he had refused to grant the
writ of habca* corpus demanded by
the prisoner's lawyers his action would
have afforded counsel an opportuni
ty to carry the case to the United
i State* Supreme Court and thus delay
I Mie execution.
? Allen is serving a .10-year sentence
! for his share in the murder.
Mosqaltses Stap s Rallraad.
New Orleans. La., (Special).?Th^
men employed on the Sabine branch
of the Texas and New Orleans or
Southern Pacific Railroad, between
Rcaumont and Selma, have quit work
i and returned with their families to
Beaumont, stating that.it is impossible
for them to endure the sufferings caus
ed by the myriads of mosquitoes in
Miat section. It is probable that the
oneration of the branch road will be
tusoended until the plague has abated
uutm maris senumrr.
TMtey UmmI !M i Steady ail HmI
R?f4r It Awaited.
Constantinople, (By Cable).?The
announcement of the dispatch of the
American European squadron to
Smyrna has perturbed the Porte and
will doubtless hasten the solution of
the questions at issue between the
United States and Turkey in a manner
satisfactory to the former.
The Porte promised American Min
ister Leishman that a reply favorable
to the American demand for the same
favored treatment in the matter of
schools, hospitals and charitable in
stitutions as is accorded to other pow
ers would be given August 2. The giv
ing of the answer was then postponed
to August 4, but up to the present
time no answer has been received.
The Porte recognized the demand
in principle, but thus far has failed to
execute the necessary measures, and
the American legation has now sent
a communication to the Porte point
edly demanding a speedy and final
settlement, the Issuance of the nec
cesary orders and the official acknow
ledgement by Turkey of the Ameri
can demands. There are no monetary
claims.
Disgust is manifested in official cir
cles here over the coming of the
American war vessels for the purpose
of making a demonstration. It is
claimed that the Jfc'holc trouble with
America is due to the Armenians, who
remain just long enough in America
to get naturalized and then return
and agitate against the Sultan. Ac
cording to officials, the claim of these
people to protection is the principal
demand made by the American gov
ernment.
Turkish Minister Concerned.
Washington, D. C, (Special).?Che
i kib Bey, Turkish minister to the Uni
ted States, called at the state depart
ment to inquire whether or not the
published statements that the Euro
pean squadron of the United States
Navy had been ordered to Smyrna, as
a menace to Turkey, were correct.
Me was informed that the visit of
Rear Admiral Jewell's ships to Turk
ish waters was in accordance with a
prearranged schedule, and should not
be considered a menace to the Otto
man government. In addition, how
ever, he was told that the United
States would insist strenuously upon
her rights, and upon compliance with
h*r requests with reference to trading
claims and proper protection of Ameri
can interests.
Chekib Bey did not care to make
any statement himself as to the*nature
of his interview with Secretary Hay.
There appeared ;to be an impression
in the mind of tile Turkish statesman
that because the President of the
United States could not make war
without the Coinyent of Congress he
thereby was .stopped fipm indulging
u* a navaf dembnV hat 1<^*to*<brwfcra
his purpose to secure fair treatment
for the Americans inTurkey. It is be
lieved that on this point also the Turk
ish minister was enlightened by Secre
tary Hay.
May Withdraw.
Washington, (Special). ? Instruc
tions have been sent to Minister Leish
man. at Constantinople, that he shall
hand in his passports and prepare to
leave Turkey, provided the demands
of the American government have not
been acceded to by the time the Amer
ican squadron arrives at Smyrna.
( Mr. Leishman is instructed, in case
? things come to this pass, to leave
; Turkey on an American warship.
; Rear Admiral Jewell, with two other
?lnps of his squadron, will remain in
| Turkish waters and will then assume
; diplomatic functions in addition to
I those already devolving upon him as
a naval officer.
MAY FORFEIT BIO SUM.
Peaalty ?< the BattlssMy OMe to Make
Speed RcMlreaeats.
: San Francisco. Cal.f (Special).?The
I Union Iron Works may forfeit $18,300
| to the United S'ates government as
' penalty for failur.* to bring the battle
ship Ohio up to the stipulated speed
requirements.
The sinn will be deducted from the
original contract price of %z,899,000
The official corected time made by
the Ohio on her trial trip, as tele
graphed to the Navy Department at
Washington, was *7.817 knots, which
is .183 knots below the mark named
in the contract.
The Ohio will be accepted by the
government, as she proved herself a
perfect fighting machine and met all
requirements with the exception of
speed.
THIRTY?SEVEN HURT IN WRECK.
Engineer Reta, Who, It Is Thought Was
| Responsible, May Me.
i Louisville. Ky, (Special).?A south-,
j bound passenger train on the Louis
1 ville and Nashville which left Cincin
nati at 6 o clock P. M., collided near
Horse Cave, Ky., with a northbound
passenger train which left Nashville
about 8jo o'clock.
Thirty-three passengers and four
trainmen were injured, but none ser
iously exccpt Engineer Rchm. of the
southbound train, who may die. Ac
cording to the information here.
Rehm either disregarded orders or
was sound asleep, as his train was go
ing at the rate of 40 miles an hour
when it struck the northbound train.
The bagga<e car on the southbound
train was destroyed and the postal car
damaged, but none of the coaches left
the track.
? 9H.9M.IM Lost la Forest First.
St. Johns, N. F., (Special).?Re
newed outbreaks of forest fires are
causing widespread destruction through
out the colony. A number of settle
ments have been destroyed in differ
ent localities, and the outskirts of
St. Johns arc now being threatened.
A force of police and citizens have
been employed in trying to prevent
the spread of the fires. It is estimated
that $.*0,000,000 wor'h of marketable
timber bis been destroyed in the in
terior this season.
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST
!>MT7 Trail fhages Tknagk ? IrMge
bte Crack.
TIE MSASTEK MEM PlIEUO, COL
T** Cm POM Whh Paaacafera Fsltow
Ucwthra late a Tarrcat SwUem by a
? CMknt Which tlatf Weakeac4 Fm^i
?* BfMfe?Oaly Faar Paucagcra
Weia Savti
Pueblo, Col., (Special).?Two car
loads of human freight plunged into
the raging torrent that destroyed the
trestle over the usually dry Arroyo,
known as Steeles Hollow and as Dry
Creek, near Eden, about 8 o'clock P.
M. Two sleeping cars and the dining
caJ". stopped at the brink of the chasm,
which was filled with a boiling cur
rent that quickly engulfed probably
ioo lives. Only three of the occu
pants of the ill-fated cars escaped
death.
How many perished probably never
will be definitely ascertained, for the
treacherous sands %rc drifting over the
bodies. Searching for the dead was
begun at midnight on an extensive
scale and still is in progress. All
corpses found were brought to Pueb
lo and placed in four morgues here.
At 8 o clock 76 bodies had been re
covered, and of these 50 had been
identified. During the day bodies were
recovered all the way along Fountain
River from the scene of the wreck to
this city.
At 1 o'clock two bodies were taken
from the stream at First street. Pueb
lo. more than eight miles from the
point where the disaster occurred, and
it is probable that some may even be
recovered further down stream. None
of the bodies is badly mutilated, and
all are in such condition as to be rec
ognizable. Many identifications have
been made by articles found on the
bodies, no persons who viewed them
recognizing the features.
Bridge Gives Way.
So quitely had the catastrophe been
enacted that the occupants of the
three cars remaining on the track did
not realize that an accident had oc
curred until they alighted from the
tram. Then they were utterly pow
erless to render assistance to the vic
tims jvho had disappeared in the rush
ing waters.
On the lookout for danger, warned
'l sQ,,aHy clouds and heavy rains
to the north, Engineer Charles Hind
man was running cautiously about 15
miles an hour as he approached the
Arroyo, which was spanned by a
bridge 96 feet in length. The condi
tion of the bridge was not known
until the locomotive, one of the mon
# jCr P*ssenKer type, had nearly cross
ed. Fireman Frank Mayfield, with a
torch that the engineer and fireman
>??*! Mrning tp ascertain the condition*
of-th*.
WneiT Engineer Hindtnan felt the
tremor in the great machine and
caught a glimmer on the water he
shouted his last words:
"Put out that torch." evidently think
ing that in the accident he felt cer
tain was coming the flames would
serve to spread fire.
But before Mayfield could obey,
while the words were still on the lips
of the doomed man. and his hand
seeking the mechanism controlling the
air, the bridge gave way. as though it
had been a stack of kindling wood,
and the locomotive dropped, with the
hissing steam, 30 feet to the bottom
?? the Arroyo, crosswise to the track.
The baggage car, smoking car and
c?air car followed the locomotive into
the stream and were swept away. All
the occupants of these cars, except
three men, perished, and had not the
roof of the chair car burst asunder
none would have escaped. The fire
man, as the locomotive went over,
was thrown out, and managing to
grasp a piece of wreckage from the
bridge, floated with that to a curve
made by the caving bank and crept
out of the water. He ran toward Eden
meeting on the way operator F. M.
Jones and his wife, who already had
started up the track.
Notify Pueblo," came the voire of
the running man: "the tram's gone
down and everybody is killed."
Even as he spoke, relates the oper
ator, there were cries coming from
tlic distance. The two men r?in to
where the bridge had been to search,
but in vain for victitp* r?f the disaster.
When they reached the spot all cries
for help had ceased.
A Dismal Scene.
Relief trains with physicians, wreck
and pile driving outfits and scorcs of
workmen were hurried from the city,
riic first train from the wreck came
in shortly after midnight with J. M
Kalian, of Pueblo; II. S. Gilbert, Tony
risher and Fireman Mayfield. These
were four men in the midst of the
wreck who escaped.
When dawn came the wonder grew
that four had been permitted to
emerge from the raging torrent with
breath still in their bodies.
T he great locomotive, the boiler
free of the trucks, the cab and tank
gone, lies where it fell.
A quarter of a mile to the east,
. where this gorge of death debouched
into the fountain, lay the chair car.
windows gone, three-fourths filled
with mud and sand. A hundred feet
farther on was the smoker, bot
tom up against a sand bar A hund
red and fifty feet farther on In the bed
of the fountain was the coal tender
of the engine, and from that point on
for four or five miles vestiges of the
roaches, the engine and tender stuck
up from the bed of the stream or la>
along the shore or on the island*
Red plush ?eats of the smoker were
strewn all along the stream.
FINANCIAL
Money continues to be a drug on
the market. The banks hold more
than thev desire.
Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern Railway Company, sailed for
Europe.
P W. Harding is dead Hp was th*
"specialist" in Kric 0:1 the New York
St<rck Kxchange.
The American Telegraph & Cable
Company will on September t pay the
regular quarterly dividend of 1J4 per
cent.
rows nt st it opel
The property and franchises of the
Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad
Company were bought by the ^ At
lantic and Birmingham Railroad Com
vany for $1,000,000.
Three eases of yellow fever were
reported at Vera Cruz, three at Coat*
zacoalcos and five at Tchuantepec.
There have been no deaths at the
latter place.
Misj Lizzie Carson and Miss Mar
garet Gillie, both from Philadelphia,
w?re drowned while bathing at a dan*
gerous part of the Cape May beach.
Many business houses of Pueblo are
closed, and several persons have lost
their minds because of the railroad
wreck.
The right to sink neutral vessels
with contraband on board has raised
a question of importance to the Unit
ed States.
Governor Pennypacker has issued a
proclamation designating August 20
as Pennsylvania Day at the World's
Fair.
The valuable jewels owned by Mrs.
Ogden Goelet. which were reported to
be missing, have born found.
Lillian Rccd, a stenographer, com
mitted suicide in the private office of
t her employer in New York.
I General Greely has received the first
| telegraphic message ever sent direct
i from Nome. Alaska.
I The leading furnace and coal min
ing companies in Birmingham, Ala.,
district will re-open.
I The plant of the American Refrig
, orator Transit Company of St. Louis
wa< damaged by fire.
Three workmen were seriously In
1 iured by a gasoline explosion in the
Boston subway. "
John Starr, president of the First
: National Rank, Camden, N. J., died at
Atlantic City.
j The residence of Mrs. Bella Powers
was blown up at Butte, Mont.
I The end of the fourth week <Sf the
j meat-butchers' strike in the West finds
; the controversy as tar from settled as
1 ever. There is no sign that either side
will give in.
The hiding-place of $50,000 worth
of securities, part of the loot stolen
at the Bear Mouth train robbery, was
i revealed by one of the robbers. It
I was near Hope. N. I).
The State Department has taken
1 measures looking to the improvement
? of our foreign trade by co-operation
between the diplomatic and the con
' sular services.
j George Wheadon, a traveling sales
i man for a Minneapolis yeast company,
I has been placed under arrest in Chi
1 cago on the charge of bigamy.
George K. Davis, who was divorc
ed from his wife, formerly Helen C.
Gallatin, has been ordered to pay a
dressmaker's bill of over $2,000.
The anniversary of the Battle of
*1 nt i rf 11 m ) i|) htl nfuiiii art 1 tn>
ftafe* oT I^Sns^va^ST
Verne Lowe died in Dresden, O..
froin the effects of an injury causea
! by his being struck by a pitched ball
during a same.
! The will of Bertha Dolbeer, the
San Francisco heiress, who commit
tod suicide in New York, will be at
! tacked.
The United States transport Buford
arrived at Seattle, Wash., with troops
from Nome and Skagvvay, Alaska.
The attendance at the World's Fail
during the past week was 601411, a
' new record being made.
The new Republic of Panama has
invested $4,000,000 in New York real
estate mortgages.
I C. M. Alexander, a Chicago evange
list, married Miss Helen Cadbury, an
i-English heiress.
Indiana teachers are raising $20,000
; to bring the murderer of Sarah Schaf*
, er to justice.
j Abraham B. Myers, of Hanover, Pa.,
has no hands, but he is an expert pool
player.
j Michael Caficry, of Plaitifield, N. J.,
j was shockd by 2,000 volts and still
i lives.
Max Arnold Hess, the blind com
: edian, died at a sanitarium in Phila
delphia.
Joseph Shearer and his wife, Eliza
betlu who were married about a month
ago, were shot and killed by Harry
j Fisher, aged .10 years, the woman'*
, brother, in their home, in Philadelphia,
j Fisher also shot himself and died
, later. The motive for the crime waf
robbery.
Benjamin Brown, o< Philadelphia,
aged 72 years, will wed a widow aged
65 years. This will be his fourth mat
' rimonial venture. Brown has figured
1 in several accidents and on three oc
' casions had b*en pronounced dead.
There was a run on the Drovers'
; Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago by
1 strikers in retaliation for the action
j of one of the packing firms in making
! the bank an adjunct to its pay de
1 partment.
Rear Admiral Rivet and a party of
officer* from the French cruiser Du?
1 nlrix visited the statehou<?e and city
I hall in Boston and paid their respects
I t? the governor and mayor.
An express train on the West Jersey
I and Seashore Railroad, hound for
j Cape May, ran into an open switch
at Woodbury, N. J. A number of
passengers were injured.
An Italian quarryman was wedged
I for two days in the Palisades rocks,
i on the Hudson. He was without food
| or water and lost his reason because
, of his sufferings.
At Pottstown. Pa., Harvey Keck
ind Henry Straub had a prize-fight
because of an insult offered Keek's
bride by Straub. Keck was the win
Farelga.
In the House of Lords Lord Sel?
borne, defending the naval budget, de
clared that battleships were now more
important than ever.
The report of Sir Wiliam Gasten
contemplates the expenditure of $107.
?>oo,ooo for the irrigation of Egypt and
the Soudan
The approval of King Edward of
the re-npointmcnt of Lord Curton
, <?f Kedlcstot* as viceroy of India was
announced.
Several cases of cholera are said to
I have occurrcd in St. Petersburg.
A NATURAL ROMAN CANDLK.
??methlng of the New Metal Radium
?nd Its Wonderful Propertlee.
The new metal, radium, which haa
b?en bo muCh talked and written
?bout during the last few months,
turns out to be a sort of natural Rom
an candle, since. In addition to glv
"*]*? !t also shoots off bodies of
Z? J5.er?nt 8,ze8 The u?ht
rrom this mysterious substance Is not
like ordinary light. Even a small
fragment sealed up In a glass tube
h^lnt8.Wwth a welrd g,ow llke a flrefly.
but bright enough to read by. More*
over, If these rays fall on certain
other substances, as, for example,
diamonds. It causes them also to glow
.* 8,n?l,ar unearthly radiance;
and like the "X rays." which enable
one to see his own bones, they will
go through a plank or a dictionary.
We never use metallic radium, bo
cause it has never been entirely sepa?
rated from other material. We haven't
it to use. We are therefore compelled
to be content with some salt (a mlx?
ture> of the metal. One experimenter
consequently placed the least pinch of
radium bromide in a glass tube, and
screwed It tightly Inside of a rubber
thermometer-case. This he put In
an iron box, with a silver soup-tureen
and four sheets of copper above it.
yet in some ways the rays got out.
After all. I 'don't know that it is any
more difficult to understand why this
light goes through iron than why the
light of a candle goes through glass.
But. a piece of radium, in addition
to giving off these peculiar rays, sends
out such a shower of particles t!*at
it is like a sort of exploding battery
of tiny rapid-tire guns. These, as 1
said at the beginning, are of two
sizes. The smallest are the smallest
particles known to science. Indeed,
as they travel some two hundred
times taster than a bullet from a rifle,
they must needs be pretty small not
to wipe out everything within range.
The others are much larger, perhaps
by a thousand times, and they <ln not
travel so last. Hut even these are so
small that, after millions upon mil
lions of them have been shot off. the
most careful weighing with a balance
for which a hair is a heavy weight
cannot detect any loss. Now these
smaller bodies are the mysterious
?electrons" which ns they stream
against the walls of a Crookes tube,
produce the X-rays. So they seen*
quite like old friends. The larger
ones come still nearer home. They
are like the minute particles of vapor
which are always being sent off by
any substance, such as water, or al
cohol, or camphor, or ice, which is
drying up or wasting away. But the
to the air from these'familial sub
stances is still water or alcohol or
what not, the gas from radium is not
radium at all, but belium.?From Ed
win Tenney Brewster's "Radlun*" la
St. Nicholas.
Champion Jumping Dogs.
Perhaps the most vigorous and agile
dogs in the world are Russian wolf
hounds. Built something like a grey
hound, but with more muscular limba
and shaggy coats, they are capable of
feats of agility duly astonishing.
In Barnum & Bailey's show there
are six of these hounds, which have
been trained to leap over and through
barriers of great height. Two have
acquired such proficiency that one
leaps through a square hole scarcely
large enough to permit the passage
of his body. This hole Is cut through
the barrier about 12 feet from the
bottom.
A black and white hound, however,
surpasses this performance by leaping
entirely over a 15-foot barrier, clear
ing it in some instances by at least a
yard. The performance Is directed by
a woman, whose word "Go!" the
hounds obey the alacrity of foot rac
ers at the start of a 100-yard dash. A
thick mar is spread on the ground Just
beyond the barrier, and the dogs ar?
allowed to see and smell it before the
first order to leap. Without this as
surance of safety they could not be
Induced to leap?so. at least, the train
ers say. The start is a run of about
PO feet, and the leap Is made from a
short incline covered with soft ma-.
terial to afford a footing for the dogs.
There appears to be no spring In thle
device, which is from 18 Inches to two
feet In height at the highest part.
Typewriters for Blind.
Many inventions hare been made to
bridge the distance between those
who have their sight and those who
have not. But none has been more
practical and successful than the pro
ductlon of a typewriter which can be
manipulated by the blind. The letters
on the keys are raised and the son*!
tlve touch of the blind man can tell
the character on a key as soon as he
touches it. The ringing of the bell
when the margin Is reached works as
well for him as for the man with
sight, and the sense of touch makes
the manipulation of the various keys
for setting the paper a comparatively
simple matter.
The Ideal.
"Madam, you've alroady overdrawn
your account."
"What's that?"
"You haven't any more money In the
bank."
"The idea! A fine bank. I think, to
be out of money because of the lit
tle I've drawn! Well, I'll go some
where else."
One of the favorite dishes of the
natives of the Philippines is a dish
called by them sfharanan. The larst
est specimens are half an Inch lo
the smallest one-fifth of an Inch ..
It takes 6000 to make a goi^cL '