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A Pennsylvania'woman who died the other day left $5OO for her pet dog. It .cught to be easy enough for sOme sharp lawyer to get that. : President Roosevelt says: #‘Thereare in our civic and social life worse creatures than sfiobs, but no creature is mcre contemptible.” : : et ‘lt may be truethat the average national convention-costs about $1,100,000, " but the winning candidate always thinks it worth the znoney. ; - Fooker Washington-says that 61 per cent. of the Russians are unable to read. But Mr. Washington should remember that the Russian language i§ a very tough proposition. e : ; " The cut rate of $lO for steerage passengers from Liverpoel to New York intérests the intending immigrant, the Urnited States census bureau and the Americain ‘“practical”’ politician. o e Anuinaldo hus'become a hermit. The great treuble. with most of the people’ of Aguinaldo’s kind is that they don’t know when it is time for them to crawl - irtoc small, dark holes and keep quiet. e L A New York man who stole a letter was arrested, tried and- sent to prison within 215 hours after he committed the | _offerze. If he had stolen a railroad the process would have taken at least:as many, years, and most probably he would ‘ never have been tried at all. " Onp éxplanation of Russia’s defeats .in the present war is found in the official corruption that exists in all the cepartments of the government:. A nation run by bureaucracy is always gangrened with corruption, and this condition in Russia has been notorious for years. : - - _ Russians who die in the Japanese field: hospitals are accompanied to their graves by a guard of honor, and when- l ever possible the services of a European missionary are secured far the } funerals. The Japs may be heathen, but they behave very much like Chris- ‘ tians should. $ ‘ Now an Aurora (Ind.) woman finds that the man she married last fall is a ‘polygamist, with more wives than he can’ definitely remember., So many cases of this kind are reported as to create the bhelief that women take less “trouble to look up the records of the men ‘they marry than of the cooks they em- | ploy. , ' . , | = f . —__—-——_.__h——v————— - - An unusually large number of the fail- | ures reported so far this year have been : of fire insurance companies and stocki brokers. Three or four big fires did the bad work; for the insurance com- ~ panies and some of the brokers and their } * customers were also scorched-a little, probably by getting too many hot tips from Wall street.. ' _ ‘| A brief dispatch from'Peking states that by an imperial decree China has joined the Red Cross league. The step is significant. The Red Cross, as everybody knows, is the mest advanced of modern organizations for mitigating: the horrors of war, by establishing field: hospitals and nursing the wounded of both sides. All civilized nations arein the league, and the action of China is a progresgive one. » e e j In the attention which this year’s church gatherings have been paying to‘{ the question of divorce students of social conditiens will see a hopeful sign. | Doubtless the spread of the divorce evil cannot be wholly checked until radical action has been taken toward the revision jof the marriage and divorce laws - of the various staftes with a view to securing uniformity. The churches, how- | cever, may bring an influence to bear without waiting for such action. & s Ao The experience of Miss Alice Roosevelt at St. Louis certainly calls renewed attention to the overwhelming curiosity that animates a goodly proportion of the population of this country. When it becomes necessary to summon police to drive away the women who are star: ing through the windows of the house ip * which Miss Roosevelt is being entertained, and to disperse men and women from church doors where they blockade traffic in order to catch a glimpse of the,\ first young lady of the land, jt would seem as if curiosity had run rampant to a disgusting extent. : S % The decision just handed down by the United States supreme court seems to settle finally the status of oleomargarine under the law passed by congress two - years ago. That law imposed a tax of ten cents a pound on all oleomargarine colored in.imitation of butter, while allowing the uncolored product to escape with a tax of one-quarter of a cent a pound. The supreme court now holds rot only that the law is constitutional, but aiso that all oleomargarine of the appearance of butter is to be regarded as- ~ artificially colored within the meaning of the law.. P . . ~ The Massachusetts legislature has “ passed a bill to promote honesty among . employes of individuals and corporations. It is sald that dishonesty is rife - among them, from the cook who accepts presents from the butcher and grocer to ~ get the family custom up to the purchasing agents of great mills or railroads ~ who are influenced by commissions to be - false to the interests of employers. ~ There is much corruption of this kird ~ In ever community, but there may be they ass being sold out by employes, SRy A% MEalis SUIM PRI VY ClRpMOyes,

The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the West and the South. . THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES 1! FRON WASHINGTON. G - The president has again made it clear that he will not permit himself to be drawn into local political contests. A delegation of Wisconsin republicans was informed that he would have nothing to do with @he contest in that state in any way. i ; ¥ . Recent|decisions of the United States supreme fcourt upho]d_the oleomargarine law, knock out the Cleveland four-cent fare ordinance and declare the constitutional right of trial by jury does not ex‘tend to the Philippines in the absence of specific legislation by congress. Tuesday, June 14, will be the one hundred and twenty-seventh inniversary of the selection of the starsand stripes as the' flag of the United States. : The public statement shows that at the close of business May 31, 1904, the total debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $975,301,631, which is an inerease for the month of $56,447,576. - In the United States supreme court there remains “on the calendar 282 cades, the smallest number left after any term.since 1870. During theterm 449 cases were disposed of. : The oath of office was taken in Washington by Judge J. C. Pritchard, as United Stdtes circuit judge, in succession’'to Judge Simonton, deceased. _ The government, of the United States has issued an ultimatum to the Moorish government declaring that, the bandit Raisouli must be held personally responsible for the safety of his captive, Perdicaris. President Roosevelt has signed a proc-E lamation providing for ‘the opening of 80,000 acres of the ceded lands of the Devil’s Lake Indian reservation in North Dakota. The drawing will take place at Devil’s Lake August 24. :

- THE. EAST. # Weekly report of the weather burean says that conditions faver growing CTODS. : , ; The strange mystery surrounding the murder of Andrew H. Green, “father of Greater New York,” is cleared through the filing of a suit in New. York by John R. Platt to recover $685,385 said to have been paid an octoroon woman as blackmail. Mrn.'Green was killed by a jealous friend of the woman in mistake for Platt. , , ~ In Boston Hattie M. Johnson, who is known on the stage as Marie Jansen, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptey. She places her liabilities at $1,325, with assets of $177, = -, Freight trains collided on the Cumberland \éalley railroad near Chambersburg, Pa.. Elmer Walck, aged 40 years, an engineer, was instantly killed. The disappearance of $70,000 through the embezzlement of its funds by a trusted employe, Douglas M. Smith, is admitted by the officers of the Natibnal Tradesmen’s bank, of New Haven, Conn. In New. York Samtel Filarsky, of the TUnited States Fur company, confessed the concern was a.clearing house for fur thieves. | . WEST AND SOUTH. A part of Kansas was drenched by a heavy rain accompanied by hail. Between Bucklin and Meade, on the Rock Island road, hail did much damage to crops. . - Hon. Benjamin F. Gue, former lieutenant goverger of ITowa, died suddenly in. Des Moines, expiring of heart failure while out for a walk near his residence in that city. ~ .An anarchist named Abraham Gabinski- was arrested in Chicago after shooting at a man and “‘woman. He said he had orders to kill Mayor Harrison, a son of Potter Palmer and three others. : ; : Several state militia companies were sent to Hanging Rock, 0., and the town was-placed under martial law because of .the threatening attitude of striking iron workers. 1 The prohibition state convention of Michigan selected delegates at large and district delegates to the national convention. A full state ticket headed by Samuel Dickie, of Albion, for governor, was nominated. : =

At Hamiiton, 0., Dr. Charles W. Conley, of Eaton, was nominated for congress by the democrats of the Third Ohio district. - :

Rev. Anidrew Morrissey conferred the Laetare medal for 1904, given by the University of Notre Dame; Ind., on Hon. Richard C. Kerens, of St. Louis.

While lying in bed, August Schmitt, a prominent florist of Glenville, 0., 63 years old, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. : Prospects for crops in northwestern lowa, and especially in the Mississippi vall)e;*, were injured by the rain of nearly two inches..

Charles F. Mills, of Springfield, 111., has been appointed chief of the live stock department of the world’s fair at St. Louis, to succeed Frank D. Coburn, of Kansas, resigned.

Convicted of the murder of Daniel Mitchell, of Cincinnati, which occurred in Los Angeles, Cal.,, April 1, Arthur A. Ed‘dyshas been given a sentence of 99 years. :

At South Omaha, Neb,, C. L. Saylor, office manager for the Armour Packing company, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He had been a sufferer from nervous prostration for nearly a year.

The semi-centennial of Cornell.college will be celebrated at Mt. Vernon, la., June 10-16. Senator Allison will preside on “jubilee day,” and Secretary Shaw, of the treasury, and Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, will be among the speakers. Lighktning killed three children, fatally injured one and seriously hurt a woman and child, near Tennyson, Ind. Information was given to the world’s fair police department at St. Louis that silver and gold nuggets valued at $l,OOO had been stolen from the French section in the Mines and Metallurgy building,

A coliision between cars occurred cu the Lake Shore electric road near Norwalk, 0., in which six persons were kilied and 18 injured. ; Bxficod 600 persons were maGe homeless at Newton, Kan, The Reformed church synod has forbidden the remarriage of persons : divorced for other than Scriptural reasons. While ‘she slept a folding bed closed on Mrs. Woodward, wife of a Minneapolis banker, and broke her neck. She lived several hours, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. | The price i.xed by the Moorish brigands for the release from captivity “of Messrs. Perdicaris and Varley is $55,000. | It is reported at Tokio that the Russians have been defeated near Liaoyang. : Court circles in Russia have joined in demanding that Gen. Kuropatkin take the offensive and retrieve by victory the: reputation of the Russian army. : .

A land attack on Port Arthur by Japanese is said to be thder way. Several New England cotton mill managers have issued orders instructing agents to curtail production on account of the dépression in the textile industry. Moslem chiefs have gone to appeal to Raisuli, the captor of Perdicaris, fearing. that the naval vessels at Tangier will land forces to attack the Mohammedans. : :

‘Seventy Japanese transports ]anded 50,000 men at Takushan, on the Liaotung peninsula. T .

The Russian general, Stalkenberg, with 14,000 men, is on the march to aid Port Arthur by attdcking the Japanese TELT.

LATER NEWS.

The explosion of a lantern started a fire in the Corning distillery at Peoria, I1L.; in which 14 men were killed and a property loss of $1,300,600 was caused. A tornado in Oklahoma resulted in the death of Mrs. Thomas Payne in the town of Walters. , o :

The good offices of the United States have brought about peace between the warring factions in San Domingo. Outpost fighting shows the steady northward advance of Kuroki's army. Kouropatkin is.likely to be attacked from three sides. . .

In the recent battleship target praetice the Oregon was first, Wisconsin second and lowa third, according to semiofficial announcement in Washington. The pennant is expected to go to the Oregon.” - i :

The University of Michigan won the conference meet at Marshall field in Chi= cago by a score of 32 points, the University of Chicago was second with 29 points. ; : :

**Caesar” Young, a well-known turfman, was shot and killed in a cabin NQ‘N York. Nan Randolph, a former “Florodora¥ girl, his companion, is held without bail pending a full investigation. By the wrecking of an electric carona street railway in: Burlington, la., Mrs. Joseph Keehn was killed -and 16 other passengers injured. ; President David R. Francis, of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, is being sought as a running mate for Alton B. Parker on the democratic ticket.

Edward McCormick, a young farmer of Brownsburg, Va., shot and instantly killed John W. Wade and Arthur Black‘well. The shooting was the result of bad feeling that has existed the mep for three years. : Curtis Jett, under life sentence for the murder of Attorney J. B. Marcum at Jackson, has been taken to the prison at Frankfort.

A freight collided with a work train on the Southern railway near Harrodsburg, Ky., killing two men and injuring six. : ; .

Chinese arriving in Chefoo from the Port'Arthur district state that the two armies were only two miles apart on June 2, and that'the Japanese were withing seven miles of the outer forts. Four thousand Russians attacked 1,500 Japanese near Wafangtien, but were repulsed with 200 killed and 400 wounded. The Japanese loss is reported as 100 killed. s The Russian gunboat Giliak was torpedoed and sunk off Port Arthur. For the third time the case of the state of Nebraska against bondsmen .of Joseph Bartley, who served a penitentiary term for defrauding the state while treasurer, has been appealed to the supreme court. The state is trying to recover more than Kalf a million dollars.

Two state buildings were dedicated at the world’s fair in St. Louis, those of Missouri and Indiana. :

T. M. Myers, ' who killed George Brownlee and wounded Wallace Bennett near Crooks Corral, Idaho, was taken from a party of ‘officers and lynched. ; e - Robert Steel, a wealthy wholesale liquor dealer of Philadelphia, was found dead with his neck broken. He had fallen down a stairway. : J. W. Sillinger, of King City, Mo., was nominated for congress by the democrats of the Third Misosuri district. The nomination was made on the one hundred and forty-fifth ballot.

The Grand Trunk Western railroad has purchased 182 acres of land on the outskirts of Battle Creek, Mich., and will move its locomotive shops to that city from Port Huron, A special train on the Pennsylvania railroad, bearing the old Liberty bell and an escort of about 60 persons, left Philadelphia for the St. Louis exposition, where the revolutionary relic will be placed on exhibition. : John Hopley, editor of the Journal, at Bucyrus, 0., is dead. He was 83 years old. Mr. Hopley was confidential secretary of Salmon Chase during the war of the rebellion. ;

A Tokio dispatch says that the Japanese have occupied the first line of the outer fortifications of Port Arthur after a feeble resistance. L

.The Illinois republican state convention at Springfield on the seventy-ninth ballot nominated Charles 8. Deneen of Chicago for governor and completed the state ticket. L. Y. Sherman was named for lieutenant governor. The convention, which brol;e all records, began on Friday, May 13, and continued to Friday, May 20; took recess to Tuesday, May 31, and closed Friday, June 3. s g

Japanese troops defeated a mixed force of Russians in the lower end of the Liaotung peninsula May 30. : _The Japanese lost 744 Kkilled and 3,560 wounded in battle at Kinchou and Nanshan hill. The Russian losses were 30 officers and 800 men killed and wonnded, 0 e 3

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Tokio, June 6.—The Russian gunboat Giliak was torpedoed and destroyed at Port Arthur Saturday. ! Fighting at Port Arthur. .

-London, June 6.—There has been fighting at Port Arthur, both by land and sea, since last Thursday. A Tokio dispatch says that the Russian gunboat Giliak was torpedoed and destroyed outside the harbor on Saturday. Serious Defeat for Russians.

London, June 6.—The - Daily Telegraph’s Tientsin correspondent wires: “Four thousand Russians belonging to Gen. Stakelberg’s brigade on May 31 attacked 1,500 Japanese occupying a position five miles south of Wafangtien. The Russians were repulsed, losing 200 killed and 400 wounded. The Japanese lost more than 100 killed.”

Armies Close ‘Together.

Chefoo, June 6.—But two miles separated Japanese and Russian armies on the Liaotung peninsula on. June 2, according - to Chinese who have arrived here from Dalny. The Japanese army, reenforced by the men who landed at Dalny, occupied Twingching and also Sanchimpo, several miles west of Dalny. They then proceeded along the coast toward Port Arthur. On one side of the army are high mountains and on the other side is the sea from- which 'the Japanese gunboats are supportinng the flank of the army. On June 2 the Japanese forces were within seven miles of the outer forts of Port Arthur, only two miles from the Russian army, which is ready to protest their further advance. 'The Chinese believed that there would be a big battle at this point. It isalso stated by the Chinese that the Japanese have moved their base to Dalny from Talienwan. Tlre larger Japanese ships are anchored ouside the smaller ones inside the harbor. Troops are being landed, they say, from small vessels, apparently coming from Pitsewo or the Elliott islands. The Chinese further reported that a number of Chinese have been shot while attemptinng to get through the Russian lines. .

Five Days of Fighting.

London, June 4.—No further light has been thrown on the rumors concerning Gen. Kuropatkin’s intentions. Dispatches in the Morning Post from Shanghai, and to the Chronicle from Newchwang, repeat the reports of the movement of 15,000 Russians to Kaiping. The correspondents assert that five days’ fighting took place at Wafangtieq and that the Russians are employing 4,000 carts to remove munitions from Liaoyang to Kaiyuen. Fighting Occurs Daily.

. London, June 4.—The Daily Mail's correspondent at Mukden, telegraphing under date of June 3, says that fighting occurs daily beyond Liaoyang, but that a decisive battle is not expected for some time. The Japanese plan of compaign is regarded at Mukden as having now been definitely disclosed. They occupy the Liaotung peninsula in three divisions between Nengalen . (Nakwanling?) and Wafangtien with a line of communication by the coast to their position’ at Fengwangcheng. : .

~ The Standard’s Tokio correspondent mentions the discredited rumor that Gen. Stoessel proposed a surrender on the condition that the whole of the Port Arthur garrison should be permitted to retire to Newchang under arms. « Russians Driven Back.

Tokio, June 6.—The Japanese and Russian forces located north of Pulantien, which were in a series of brushes during the early part of last week, had another encounter on Friday, June 3, near Chu-

. New Tunnel Opened. Pittsburg, Pa., June 2.—Amid a chorus of steamboat anc¢ railroad whistles and the cheers of thousands of people ‘the first Wabash train emerged from the new Mount Washington tunnel Wednesday and crossed the Monongahela river bridge to the Pittsburg side.

Electrocuted.

Columbus, 0., June 3.—Carl Berg, sentenced to death for the murder of John Geuford, at Wauseon, 0., in July, 1903, was electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio penitentiary at 12:05 a! m.

Will Hold Cansistory.

Rome, June 4.—The pope has expressed his intention to hold ‘a consistory June 27. No cardinals it is believed will be appointed, only new bishops nominated. His holiness may take this opportunity to deliver an allocution concerning events leading up to the recall of the French ambassador.

Ten Reported Killed.

Kansas City, M 0.,, June 4.—The wreck of a Missourri Pacific passenger train, involving ‘the loss of ten lives, is reported from Martin City, 20 miles south of Kansas City. oG

‘chiatun. On that day the Japanese cavalrymen met the Russians at noon. The Russians numbered. 2,000 men, and were composed of infantry, detachments of cavalry and artillery., They were Ifissing the Japanese cavalry when the apanese assembled their entire froce and engaged the enemy. The Russians drew off gradually and at half past five in the afterncon they retired to Telishu. The Japanese suffered four men killed and four men wounded in this fighting. A report has been received here from Gen. Kuroki saying that on Friday.last a detachment was dispagched from Aiyangcheng to the northeast of Fengwangcheng to make a reconnoissance toward Chaimatsi (35 miles north of Fengwangchen). This detachment encountered 600 Cossacks and after a brisk engagement the Russians retreated, Gen. Kuroki reports that the Russian loss was heavy. The Japanese suffered one man killed gnd three wounded. Danger Lurks in Plan.

Paris, June 3.—The correspondent of the Echo de Paris at St. Petersburg telegraphs: “Viceroy Alexieff and Gen. Kuropatkin having asked the emperor to settle their disputes, his majesty summoned a council of war, including Minister of War Sakharoff, Marine Minister Avellan, and Minister of the Interior Plehve. The council'debated for several hours at Tsarskoye Selo. I have reason to believe that the necessity of preserving the naval base at Port Arthur and the loss of prestige that the fall of Port Arthur would entail were the arguments which prevailed in the council. Gen. A_»lguropatkin has thepefore been advised to attempt to relieve the fortress, but to act with the greatest prudence. Would Be Serious Blunder.

“A general whom I interviewed on the subject of the council said: ‘lf Kuropatkin is weak enough tbo advance he will commit a serious blunder. The number of his troops is insufficient, and the conditions under which he would act are unfavorable. Hg might meet an almost irreparable reverse and Port Arthur be further from relief than ever. If we try to relieve Port Arthur we!will be doing exactly what the Japanese hope.” ” | Sticks to His Story.

Paris, .June 4.—The Echo de Paris’ St. Petersburg correspondent reaffirms his intelligence previously telegraphed that the emperor, adopting Viceroy Alexieff’s views, ordered Gen. Kuropatkin to send 40,000 men to the relief of Port Arthur.

Relief Force Advancing.

Paris, June 6.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Matin says he learns, from a trustworthy source that the advance guard of 14,000 men under Gen. Stakelberg, sent by Gen. Kuropatkin to the relief of Port Arthur, has already reached the entrance to the Liaotung peninsula, and that the bulk of the army is following: The correspondent of the Matin at Newchwang confirmsg this, stating that important movements of Russian troops are proceeding to the southward of Tachichao toward Kaiping. :

Cossacks Ambushed.

Seoul, Korea, June 6.—A skirmish took place between 20 Cossacks and an unknown force of Japanese scouts at a point 12 miles north of Gensan on the morning of the 3rd inst. The Cossacks were ' evidently ambushed by the Japanese, who were concealed in the brush on a hillside. -The Russians eventually retired towards Hamheung, leaving six dead upon the field. The Japanese casualties are not stated. ' | *

Hail Damages Crops.

Hutchinson, Kan., June 2.—This section and all southwestern Kansas was drenched by a heavy rain accompanied by hail. Between Bucklin and Meade, on the Rock Island road, hail did much damage to crops. ;

. Negro Lynched. Arlington, Ga., June 2—Arthur Thompson, a negro shot and killed M. L. Dudley, a young white man, early Tuesday evening. A crowd of mencaptured the negro, lynched him and riddled the body with bullets before midnight. Official Removed. . St. Paul, June 3.—Gov. Van Sant has ordered the removal of Greeley E. Carr from the office of county attorney of Marshall county for malfeasance in office, Carr was charged with being a party to a combine which secured from the commissioners of Marshall county a drainage 'contract‘through fraudulent manipulation. e Arbitration Treaty Signed. ~ Lisbon, June 3.—A treaty of arbitration has been signed between Spain and Portugal. It conforms with'article 19 of The Hagué convention.

FOURTEEN ARE DEAD

Terrible Result of Burnizig of Big Distillery Plant at Peoria, Il ~ —Property Loss, $1,300,000.

Peoria, 111., June 6.—lnstead of ten dead, as first reported, it is now known that 14 men lost their lives in the fire and explosion at Corning’s distillery Saturday afternoon, which caused .a property loss of $1,300,000. Eight bodies were recovered from the ruins Sunday, four of which were identified. Those identified are: George Gebhardt, Peter Lettemeyer, Thomas E. Montgomery, Samuel Parsons. Elmer Hagen died at the hospital. 53 The list of unidentified dead and missing is as follows: Ernest Brown, Milton Crowl, William Finley Jr., John Hobaker, Frank Knoll, Louis Sax, Alec Powell, John Unsbee, Joseph Zimmerman. Of the eight bodiestaken from the ruins, only four of them were recognized and these only by means of particles of clothing, watches, Lknives and - other pieces of metal. The search is being continued, the firehaving been extinguished and the workmen are now able to handle the debris. Six persons were injured. The Corning distillery was the second largest establishment of the kind in the country. The property destroyed com-prises-alarge warehouse, 11 stories high, made largely of corrugated iron,’ in which was stored 30,000 barrels of highproof gpirits, the cistern and fermenting departments, each in a three-story brick buijding, and the cattle sheds, containing 3,000 head of cattle, all of which were burned to death. Only the cookers are left, of the entire plant. " The fire started in the warehouse. Bursting barrels released a stream of ignited spirits, which quickly spread the flames to all parts of the immense structure, and soon the explosion of thousands of casks hastened the destruction and made a noise that terrorized all that part of the city. Inashort time the warehouse fell, crushing the smadler buildings near it, liberating a mass of burning debris. A stream of blazing ¢pirits was turned into the cattle pens, turning them into. a seething pool of flame, which quickly Kkilled the animals confined there. The cattle were the property of Dodd & Keifer, of Chicago, and F. C. White & Co., of Peoria. The fermenting houses were the next to go, followed by the cistern department, in which was 52,000 gallons of spirits. This added fuel intensified the heat and made it almost impossible for firemen to get near encugh to the build‘ings to work effectively. A high wind fanned the flames toward the Monarch distillery,and that was threatened. This made it necessary for the firemen toconfine their efforts almost entirely to preventing a spread of/the fire. In spite of them the flames-were communicated to the stockyards, a block distance, but the damage donetherewas slight. Fora time it was feared that the fire would sweep along the entire river bank. However, the great work of the firemen beganito tell, and at seven o’clock the fire was under control, with no lik‘elihood of a further spread. o

The fire at the Corning plant is the third serious mishap that has befallen the company in the last few months. In October a cooker exploded, killing nine men. In December a warehouse burned, causing a loss of $40,000.

RIOT AT ST LOUIS.

Spectatdrs Angered at Stopping of a Bull Fight Burn the Grand Stand.

St. Louis,June6.—lncensed over their failure to see a “genuine Spanish bull fight,” which the 'authorities had ordered stopped, a riot was started in an arena near the world’s fair grounds Sunday evening by a crowd of2,soom=n and boys, who-were unable to get their money back, and the building was burned to the ground. The price of admission charged was one dollar. Four men were placed under arrest by the authorities of St. Louis county, charged with the destruction of the property. The crowd, thinking these men were connected with the show, made an attempt {0 mob them and in their encounter with the deputy sheriffs a number were roughly handled and some received scalp wounds. The building is said to have cost $2,500. It is a total loss, with no insurance, it is reported. - G The initial performance by the com= pany of Spanish bull fighters had been advertised ~‘widely for Sunday, but Gov. Dockery, to whom numerous protests had been made by religious and humane societies, ordered that ‘it should not be allowed to take place.

Brave Engineer Dies.

Cambridge, Mass., June 6.—George F. Phillips, who won renown as engineer of the collier Merrimac, sunk by Hobson at the mouth of Santiago harbor, is dead at his home in Cambridgeport. Phillips enlisted in the navy as a machinist at the.outbreak of the SpanishAmerican war. When Hobson called for volunteers to sink the collier, Phillips offered his services. He remained at the engine of the Merrimac and at great personal danger reversed his ez gines under a storm of shells, then opened the sea valves, flooded the ship and made his way to the deck while the vessel was sinking.

Has Resigned.

St. Louis, June 6.—Joseph Flory has tendered his resignation as secretary of the national world’s fair commission to take effect July 1, when he will be succeeded, it is stated, by Laurence H Grahame, a New York newspaperman.

Death of a Jurist.

Halifax, N. S., June 6.—Hon. J. Norman Litchie, judge of the supreme court of Nova Scotia, died Sunday. He was the third member of Lis family to occupy a seat on the bench of Nova Scotia. He was 70 years of age. :

Barbers Arrested.

Cincinnati, June 6.—A score of barbers were arrested here for violating the Sunday law. The union voted to close the shops on Sunday. Most of the proprietors objected, and many of them were arrested on warrants sworn out by the employes. !

Two Boys Drowned.

, Toledo, 0., June 6.—Albert Black- ¢ S more and Charles Bittner, two 17-year-old boys, were drowned Sund(ly morning while fishing in the Maumee river, as the result of the capsizing of their rowboat. Y : ;

TAKES HIS. OWN. LIFE. | R L Suicide of Mayor McLane, of Baltimore, While Temporarily Insane | i —Bride Soon Widowed. - L 1 i L Baltimore, ' May. 31.—Mayor Robert M. McLane, of this city, shot and killed’ himself at his home Monday afternoon in his bedroom at his residence, No. 29 West Preston street. His bride of less: than two weeks was at the.time of the tragedy asleep in an adjoining rooem; and was awakened by the discharge of the revolver, which’'Mr. McLane evidently fired while standing before the mirror of the dressing case. - Cokf No cause can be assigned for the act by the members of Mr. ‘McLane’s family. Since the fire of last February ‘he has been kept assiduously at- work administering the affairs of the city, besides endeavoring to direct the rehabilation and rebuilding of the burned district. This, together with criticisms by his political opponents are thought by many to have caused a temporary aberration of mind. I ' Baltimore, June I.—President E.'Clay Timanus, of the second branch of the city council, took the oath of office as mayor of Baltimore Tuesday, becoming the successor to Robert M. McLane, who ended his life Monday by a pistol shot. TUnder a provision of the city charter Mayor Timar.nus will serve out the balance of Mayor McLane’s term of. three years. - -

SUITABLE LODGINGS.

To Guard Against I'imposition U"p‘o%n} Women and Children Going to ; to the World’s Fair, - 1

~St. Louis, June 3.—The, Wednesday club, cooperating withi- the Humanii{y club, wishes to give publicity to tl‘le following: ) 2 soTE

In order to give a measure of pri tection to women and girls coming"ffc; St. Louis during the time of Qhe world’s fair, the folléwing have agreed either to provide lodging houses fg’)r women or to guarantee the respectability of certain 16dgings which -they will investigate, and a list of which they will have on hand at a definite address. The ministers, priests and pastors of the churches with which these organizations are affiliated "will send to the various headquarters- addresses of such of their parishioners as will take lodgers. In this WaLlodgingsiin all parts of the city, of unimpeachable character and of moderate ot low prige, will be made available.. These orgahi—zations are: The Travelers’ Aid, Women’s Christian association, 1314 Washington avenue; the Queen’s Da‘ughtemS, 111 North Sixteenth street; the King's Daughters, Rest Room, world’'s fair grounds; the Salvation Army, sou;tj_heast. corner Eighth and Walnut streets; the Evangelical Lutheran City Mission society, 1704 Market street. || .

TO OPEN MORE LANDS.

Drawing for 80,000 Acres of Devils Lake Reservation to Begin =~ =~ ; - August 24. 1

Washington, June 3.—The president has signed a proclamation -providing for the opening of the ceded lands of the Devil’s Lake Indian reservation in North Dakota. The land is to be disposed of by a registration and d_rawing similar to that provided for the opening of the ceded lands. of the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota by recent proclamation. The Devil’'s Lake Indian reservation contains about - 88,000 acres ofy land, of which approximately 550 homestead ‘entries may be made. The registrdtien will be made at Devil’s Lake and Graznd Forks, North Dakota, and will begin August 8 and run’ until August 20, The drawing will ‘be held at Devil’s Lake beginning August 24.

TROOPS ARE ORDERED -OUT.

Trouble Feared at Hanging Rock, 0., Between Union and Nonunion Furnace Workers. f*

Ironton, 0., June 2.—The trotble that has been brewing this week at the Hanging Rock furnace assumed threatening conditions Wednesday. The strikers began parading the streets-carrying winchesters and threatening the mnonunion men wherever found, especially the colored men who had taken the places of strikers in the furnaces. It was announced at the same time that new men were also armed. It was feared that a serious collision would ‘'occur at any time and a reign of terror existed over what was expected during the night. As the authorities were defied and helpless, Sheriff Paine appealed to Gov. Herrick for troops. R |

Gives 100,000,000 Feet of Lumber.

Lindsberg, Kan., June 2.—C01. C. A. Smith, a millionaire lumber dealer of Minneapolis, who is here attending the commencement exercises of -Bethany college, announced that he would give 100,000,000 feet of lumber to ‘the college. s

Given Ninety-Nine Years.

El Paso, Tex., June 3.—Arthur ‘A. Eddy, of Los Angeles, convicted of the murder of Daniel Mitchell, of Cincinnati, which occurred in this.city April 1, has been given a sentence of 99 years.

Victim of Apoplexy.

Baltimore, Md., June 4.—William M. Keyser, president of the Baltimore Copper Smelting and Rolling company died Friday night at his home in this’ city. Apoplexy was the direct cause of his death. Mr. Keyser was about 70 years old. e T

’ Disaster in a Mine. ~ Thurber, Tex., June 4—Eli Thomas and H. M. Long were killed here in shaft No. 8 of the Thurber Coal comipany. They were crushed beneath heavy timbers which had become weakened by a fire in the shaft. : Struck by a Train. St. Louis, ‘June 4—While attémpting to cross the Wabash railroad tracks near the Vandeventer avenue station Miss 8. H. Unger, of Martinsville, Va., was killed, and Albert H. Wells, of Washington, D. C., was seriously injured by being struck by a Wabash railroad: passenger train. -~ £l ' - Corner Stone Laid. £ Annapolis, Md., June 4.—Admiral George Dewey officiated Friday at the ceremonies incident to the laying of th cornerstone of the new chapel in(m naval academy grounds. = |

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