TEN WEBE KILLED BY A SINGLE BOLT. Llghtaiaf Struck a Lake Pier la CMcafO, lllloola. OCCUPANTS THROWN INTO WATER. Mad al Tkta V/trt Bar* Bct*eta U aod II Year* al A|«. Wba Hal B«a FUfelaj Wb*a tb( Fatal Balt Dtdca4c4 -Oalj Oat Bar Ktca<cm>--TW Pkr SkatUrr4 k; tkc Tcrrilk Bait Oiicago (Si>fctal)—Crowded together in a little xinc-lined shanty under a north th^re pier, it boyt and men met initant death by lightr : —

SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

demandt.

fifth week tlctnent than on tl

ration.

The ttrikinir machhtiatf at the Newport Newt shipyard arc adhering to their determination to hold out for their tnds. The atrike is now in the week and seems no nearer a set-

i the day of it* inaugucontinnes over the id record-breaking

temperature* were reported in many places. In the large cirie* of the Eastern coast there were about 125 deaths

and 400 .prostrations.

Secretary Hitchcock says that there is -no authority of law permitting a delay until October I in the opening of the Wichita Indian reservation in Oklahoma \as desired by certain cattle in-

tive Company the Erie boiler-

the J Scrat

; makers bin,.,.

'»”• j Prof. Francis J. Birtwell. an ornith- , The tfrc , a ' ,trik l e j» no . w 0,1 • l,a . t « r - li > IU ««J ologist. was accidentally hanged in the he several days before its actual c:.tcnt “"•j forests ol New Mexico while descend- ;’A known - °. ttue ^ h ? wev : r !. ovcr

! : ig_a tree with a rope. The total circulatio

said.

Twelve sought shelter and one esc

ed. William T. Andftton, aged 12 yei was uninjured, bu he lay many mint!

before he could be drawn ou

dcr the heap of dead bodies. The dead are all from famil parativcly poor person! a party who were fishii .

lief from the heat of the day. joined . a number of boys who had come to wade j ». a 7 probably fatally injured

and swim on the beach. j n j nj . bolt in Chicago.

The scent of the tragedy was a pier , fbe President signed the just south of Marquette Terrace, and a I 0 f Judge Taft as civil govt

few hundred feet from'the waterworks j Philippines,

pumping station, at the foot of Montrose , Charles J. Pusey. of Marylan .boulevard. The storm .which sprang up been appointed an usher at the

was violent. The skies were filled with ; House,

lightning and the air rumbled s'eajily Intense with thunder. Half a dozen houses in the East. »

the vicinity ’were struck and almost all the Middle West at some | of the telephone wires were burned on*, the Pacific Coast it was 1 The met. and boys on the pier rushed very hot in New Englanl

for the only available shelter and crowd- ■ ' ...

ed themselves in through the Utile trapdoor in the cabin till thev were packed almost to suffocation. Then came the thunderbolt. It was the worst of the storm. Watchers in the pumping : —

saw the lightning stT'

they thought.

GREAT STRIKE OF STEELWORKERS. Olfferesces of Hie Wip Sole Cosed

the Trouble.

EMPLOYEES WILL 00 INTO CAMP. All Sheet sad Noop Mills Are TM Up-May latolre Every Steel Trait Factory-Skafftr Says Fix At May Be Exit a4rt-Strict Orders Git ec to Prtveat VMeoce-AssacIatiM Has a Month t* Prepare for Slranic. Pittsburg (Special).—As a result of the refusal of the representativea of the American Steel Sheet Company and the American Steel Hoop Company, subsidiary companies of the great United Slates Steel Corporstion, to — the workers' new scale at the re-:—-1 re fCnl , int

ter* oi the

..jsociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers declaring a strike at all the plants of the two cot

is known. At the outset, however, over IdS.ooo,men will be involved, at follows: \ Aetna-Standard Steel Mills, Bridge-

GOEBEL CASE'S NEW SENSATION. Jalkrdr Fraaklori. Ky^ Says Haward aad Fewer* Ptaaaad to Esckp*.

wSScJS.'fXsLVisr^ nection with the C^ieoel murder conspirators. to escape a: midnight. The

pirators. to escape 3

two prisoners were tram their eelli to the steel cage f the building and a special

-iiiiissi

tralit

Pittsburg.

An order was issued by President T. J. Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tinworkers. calling all the union men out. The strike, which will invplve 20,000 men. was decided upon because the American Sheet Steel Company refused to make

Sheet Steel Company refused all their plants union shops.

Hiram F. Heald. of Carlisle. Mass, said while in Chelmsford. Mass., he sav and spoke to J. Wilfred BIwndin. w cd in Boston on the charge of w'rfe t

der.

id R<

s, Hammond. Ind.. 300: Lauffrtan Steel Mills. Paulton, aoo; Hyde Park Iron and Sfee! Mills, Hyde l ark, 350;

total, 12,650.

Apollo Iron and Steel Mills. Vander grift, 3600; Kirkpatrick Kills, Leechburg, 550: Wellsrille Plate and t Iron Mills, WelUviUe, Ohio,

Iron and Steel Mills, total. 5100. American

loop Compa

pendent plants, 27 it Total number of

Sheet oo; ‘

Icottdalc •tee} Hi

J’jnTh

.. ican Steel Hoop Ccmj’t main offices are in this city.

$te,- : The Company has three r.uu-timon

plants here. They are Painter'* Midr

oners. When" the jai he called Deputy Her .

is on duty on the floor where arc confined, and directed him

fer them to the cage.

On Tuesday last Powers and Howard. it is said, prevailed on the jailer tp permit them to stop outside their cage on the third floor. Me gave them permission, but placed Deputy Weitzel inside the jail tos special guard, they 'agreeing to paylfor ifcc employment of' ,a guard. Lawrtjtcesays Powers had a strange visitor, tnd after he left lowers had a roll of money and called the jailer to the cell and extending a bill, invited him to go out and take some-

thing. The jailer declined. SHAFT TO SAALrS DEAD.

Graves •! 14* Victims ol Hokokea's Steam-

skip Fire Marked.

ge of

The United States Reduction anc

Sning Company, with a capital of Etc,- The Company has three r.ui x».00c. was incorporated at Denver. plants here. They are Painter'* Mills Oliver S. Carter, president of the Na- on the South Side and Lindsay and ct "5 1 , ’ tional Bank of the Republic, in New ! McCutcheon's and Olarki'c 1 -catci in 01 j York, died at Saratoga. X. Y. Allegheny. The company has also a Rev. G. H. Hill of Richmond. Ind.. non-union plant at M >net* n and one — i— mtii. • -» r!MMM«v3tt« »!.,>.](.]] j^c employees

idy for organization

itrike, 35,750. The Americ

!- | The 7 *(

lant*

n the __ IcCutchec .llegheny.

. . . 5100. American Company, 14.000; mdt-

< in nuntuer, .tooo.

involved ;

Pekin (By Cable)*—Word feat beer received here of the arrival of Duk: I an and Prince Tuan at Ulunuki, Turkestan, in Which place of banishment they ' been sentenced to reside. A Rni counsel is stationed at Ulumski, an will notify the Russian govemmetft should the banished Chinese leave tfeat

place.

Shanghai (By Cable).—The Taotai. Slicng. at the request of Liu-Kun-Yi the viceroy of Nankin, visited all the consult and urged that, as the foreign forces were leaving Pekin, they ought also to evacuate Shanghai. The consuls are referring the matter to their respeotie* governments. Washington (Special).—A curious discrepancy concerning the amount of Chinese indemnities has developed, which it appears that China has _ ced to pay about 85.000,000 taels, or li4.jO0,ooo, more than the united demands of all the poWera. Just how this tjxred is not clear to officials, but It rars to htve l>een an error of calculaat Peking, in the first place by those making up the indemnities, and later by the Chinese in their hasty acceptance of the total. As finally made up. this total was 450.000,000 taels; but the present calculation, after taking into account all the demands that are known, makes the total only 415,000,000 taels. In the meantime China has agreed to pay <he larger amount, so that the Question now arises, What will become of the excess of 35,-

00 taels.

FLAMES AT BUFFALO. Laborsr Leaped From Fire Into Water aad

Was Drowned.

Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—One life was lost, several men more or less seriously burned and. prooerty valued at $100,000 was destroyed by fire which totally consumed the westbound house of the Lehigh Valley Raib

Tifft Farm.

Some of the 270 laborers who were at work tarried in the building too long and were forced to jump from windows into the Blackwell canal. All were rescued from the water except Pietro Zaizo, an Italian laborer. His body has not beeo recovered. The steamer Hennepin caught fire and was damaged to the extent ol $25,000! The Lehigh Val-

' eight sheds and. ct

here the men ^ U .... e em ,n - . . ne

c company arc claimed-by the Amal- _ imated people as union. There are

at Riverton. N. J.. a'ged 82. , two at Youngstown and one each at The President has refused to pardon Sharon. Gitard, Greenville, Pomeroy, ex-District Attorney Ellery P.-ingham | Ohio, and Warren, Oho. and ex-Assistant District Attorney Har- ,

try K. Newitt. of Pennsylvania, who were convicted and sentenced to two and

I to

half years’ imprisonment for

ja -• ».

evt

Mrs. Ruthvi

STEEL TRUST REACHING OUT-

a hal. . .... lion with the famou*’Jacobs.countertciting cases in Pcnnsylvamia several yeat

ago.

At Columbus, whose husband murder 6f a polio

electrocution that she, and not band, was the real murderer.

Farriga.

that Cardinal Gibbons. .United States Govt

r ..« It was state . on behalf of the. United (Special).—A granite ment, urged the Pope :ed by the North Ger- pro-Spanish priesthood

to dilute the ; 'in Cuba stnd j raging the im- '

Negotiating lor the Simtaral Iraa PUat

at Baltimore.

ir *j Babimore. Md. (Special). — The ren,' United Sutes Steel Corporation is ncfor i gotiating for the purchase of the

‘ ’ n and Steel Company, of account of h being the

iter structural works outside | the steel combination. The Structural Iron and Steel Company operates a : large plant at Spring Garden involving about nine acres. This concern has

e ™' been particularly active of late years,

,n ‘j . has secured many impo

prior to the : Structural I: ot her bus- 1 this city, o

i only tidewa:

has nude a tpe-

cated at Flower Hill Cemetery, North 1 Announcement was made Bergen. N. J.. Sunday, the first anni- : House of Lords that Bernard versary of the disaster. i president of the Atlantic Tr Twenty-five hundred persons, three Comoany, had presented the 1

of whom were overcome.by the heat, »hip Maine to witnessed the ceremonies. Gustav | The British Hirschner, leader of the band frero the South African ■teamship Barbarrossa. swooned while i Blent he' was directing the musicians in the cine

The

by 5 feet 171 victir

dica^ory hymn.

t persons prostrated wci

the gjne connected with The of Ladysmith during

Denison. Texas (Special).*-A 1 pany of Texas. Indian’Territory

Oklahoma men has b

inment is (go feet high and to in area. The names, of the ims of the fire are inscribed on

a bronxe plate, though btrf 149 (Arsons arc bnried in the plot. A- granite pedestal sent from Germany by Gen. Henry Baron marks the grave of his son Alfred. who was third officer of the Saale.

WUJ p.oit tar Ike Laad.

pecial).—A comto' Territory and

oma men has been formed to make ' a rush for the lands of the Kiowa and Comanche country when it if opened to settlement, and these men will make a run for homes. They have employed counsel and if necessary will fight their case in the courts. They have been given legal opinions that the. Kiowa and Comanche country has been purchased by the United States'Govcrnmenj. that it is public domain and open for settlement by the citizens of the United States, and that it can only be subject to ' stead daws of-the United Stai

Rve Sank Win a fag.

Eagle River. Mich, tug Fern, of Algom " here. She carried

sdl of whom

. (Special).-The Mich., founded off crew of five men. Three were from

Algonae and the other two were Frank ; Johnson, of this place, and William An- 1 derson. of Eagle Har K ~' ' rw - 1 — 1

Baker, ranspo:

I presented the hospital die British Government Government awarded a

with the water

ic enupply

Ladysmith Nothing is 1

les of the report front

[ thf Chinese conrt has trn to Pekin, but will make Kal-

' pitaL

Nothing is ki circles of the that thf Chinei return to Peki fongfu the Chit

-Kennett M. dark, yacht Kariad, issued triiT races with Shan

German official

Shanghai

with the «. —. —

tnral Iron and- Steel Company

| contemplates jthe-'erection of buildings ' and installing more railroad facilities.

| The company has a large w;

for tidciraier

ron and- Steel

tidewater sbipi

rat Iron and Steel 1

Ul of $200,000.

irge water front

1. The StrnctnCompany has a capi-

LNITUTE SUED HIS FRIENDS. Knocked Oat Wkfls DrUvertag • Speech ia

a Lodge.

Chicago, Special).—Otto Bergman, an architect, did not anticipate the

Oark." owner of the j horrors of an initiation into a secret issued a-challengc for ; society on the North Side, and now ces with Shamrock, according j he has caused the arrest cf five former renditions of the America's cup friends. The five men Jsorc^caused

nee. 'counter warrants to be issued on the

The French Chamber of Deputies | grppnd that Bergman not only resisted

voted supplementary credits, amounting '] initiation but slugged his friend*, to 8o.ooo.6oof.. to defray the expenses ; "They didn't *ay a word about the redof the French expedition to China. | hot irons or the lake of ice, or the

Five men calling themselves Asneri- | grizzly bear, said Bergman. “They've

cans were caught looting in a town I *ueni all. too. They had a thing near Pekin and turned over to*the j hke a punching bag that came down United States legation. . | trow the ceiling and knocked me out

Two vessels are reported to have ! when I was delivering a serious speech been wrecked and yo persons drowned ] on the brotherhood of roan,"

during a hurricaffr off the coast of ; — >_

LIGHTNING KILLS FOUR

Chinese authoritic

EXILED CHINESE IN TURKESTAN. Dnke Las ss4 Prtaca Tbsb An la laalsb-

have

-i st tan and he

•je vals total

Yak Gan Mia.

New London, Conn. (Special).—Old Eli's sons wrested another victory from Harvard but only after the most thrilling struggle ever teen on the Thames course. From start to finish it was a desperately contested race. Old oarsmen, collegians who sue gray , and have been coming to New London for years, agree/hat nothing equal to it was ever witnessed before In the long series of contests for supremacy between the blue and the crimson. At no time during the long heart-breaking test, of endurance and skill except in the last awful ttruggle ncar the goal, was there open water visible between the rival yhellt. Each crew alternately led by inches, only to see the other forge ahead of it in turn.

Baltimore, Md. (Special).—Passengers on the through express train from Jacksonville, Fla., to New York had a narrow escape from death in the tunnel of the Pensylvania Railroad under Hoffman street, between Central and Harford avennes. The street caved in as tht : *e of the flyer reached a point aldirectly between the two corners. TJie locomotive with two cars was caught in the tunnel. Fortunately there were no lives lost and it it thought that all on board the cars escaped without a scratch.

Eldorado, Kan. (Special).—Jessie Morrison was found guilty of manslaughter of the second degree after h trial charged with the murder of Mt Olin Castle. The penalty is not mo

Olin titan

*— ‘ 4, ac pcuucutwy. »is» a ers immediately filed a notii appeal. Jessie Morrison was taken her old cell and locked up. The ji

e years or less than three years penitentiary. Miss Morrison's immediately filed a notice of

old cell and locked np. debated for nearly 30 hours

verdict. It is said that one jt

out obstinately for acqt'

Last Votaatom Howe

seeing much service. The regiment was mted at Camp Meade, Pa. It was led in the Philippines, the first two tlions being stationed on the Island of Mindanao, while another bat.talion did guard duty ori the Island of ‘Leyte. The Forty-second Infantry hay been mustered oat, of the service.

to the

urnier. won the three-dij

~ 5 aris to Berlii

to a brilliant who welcomed all the par-

‘ ed at the finish,

night.

•specially A. runner, and

led off I

Four icefrt vatioc

notabilties, tiripants as

day auto car

om Paris to Berlin, receiving an ovation from_ a brilliant gathering of

ipsints as they at — . There was a big banquet at night.

athletes ^

FARMERS IN INDIANA.

, IndianapoKa, Ind. (Special).—The harvest hands on the farm of J. G S H*1;

or* at the London ...

derson. of EngU Harbor. The bodies b^eakVng^rtinh^re^rdt*

-arc supposed to be .in the boat, which — lies in 30 feet of water. A wreck of the

s in 30 feet of water. A wreck of tiie 1 Hotsse of Lbrds reported that the acyacht Marguerite, of Hancock, was also | cession .declaration of the sovereign discovered between here and Eagle H*t- 1 might fiemodified t>. eliminate the porbeenl TWa her k*** j tion objectionable to the Roman Catbo-

v :

breaking

The select jcoi

House oft»rd* reported that

beet, near Lodi, were hurrying to get t wheat shocked before the bursting of

(Uw.j.atTKC^olfhon- j approaching storm, and Frank Bridge-

Tbe American

H. Duffey. the Georgett

Kracnxlein. the hurdler,. __

Kr^Irin |

littee of the British \ gether a short distance from the other

ported that the ac- hands.

Marrtod k* a {

. Pa-' (Special j.—Mis*

ung\daug'

SI

Mer

Chemical National Bank of New York told at $4050 per share last week, h is rumored there it to be declared

Sharon. Pa. (Spec;! Grier, the young \ daughter of Gner. clerk of courts, has the 1

tion of being the -only woman in Mer- I .honly a dividend on ! cer county »bo*tn« reriormed a mar- | St. Paul’s May earn HIS Z'ZZ’otLSJS 1 " , ' 1 S. ‘r-cU ^! Jrjsut, ■ office and procured a license. Thev the Gould system,

asktd that they be married at once, and The director* oi the ParroU Mining

jHiMi

The four men e ing about the approaching storm, whi suddenly there was a bright flash

lightning, followed instantly by a ter- - -rific peal of Ihnnder. Nearly all the men in the field were knocked down and rendered unconsciops. and Bridgewater. Webster. Wiggle and Stewart were in-

stantly killed by the flash.

The bodies of the four victims wtrt horribly burned and blackened, and tin bolt mutt have struck each of them before burrowing in the ground nearby. The men were fanners and owned farm* adjoining that of Mr. Halbert.

v Faker Flayer. Palls. Minn. (Special).-The *1 of Dr. Wintner

London (By Cable.)—A Blue Book 00 India just issued show, that £18,SXMMO was expended for the relief of Emmm

SEVEN HONORED UVES IN

PERIL

Excursion Steamer Mohawk Struck a

SCRAMBLED FOR LIFE-PRESERVERS. Wonea aad Cklldrca Wen Kaecktd Dews aad Tranptad Upea ky Tcrmr-slrkkea Mea, aad Dec CUid Had aa An Broket aad Aaetker atld Was Ser aasty Hart Akaat the BadyAcctdcat Da* to Cerelessacts of the PlloL South Norwalk, Ct. (Special).—Seven hundred employes of the John W Green hat factory left Danbury for an erursion to Glen Island, the steamer Mohawk being chartered for the trip. After spending the day on the island the party boarded the steamer for the return trip

e at<

abotfl 5 o'clock. The- steamer

0 min:

r had when

tt about 5

been under way about to minutes the excursionists were startled by a tr: aiendons crash, the ship having struck rock. A panic then followed, durir

iree launches which were nearby 1 the accident occurred had by this nearly reached the disabled steamer.

then 1

e of tin In the crush which followed women rod children were knocked down and trampled upon, One child had an arm broken and another was picked up seriously injured about.Ahe body. During the excitement the steamer had been steadily sinking, and ten minutes ■fter the crash the first deck was sub-

"tE

when

time nearly reached the disabled steamer. They immediately went to the rescue of

the passenger* who jumped overboard. The passengers on the second deck

were by this time in nearly as bad a predicament as their fellow excursionists on the first deck had been a short rime before. The water was just beginning to wash ov er the deck when the exenrsion

steamer Myndert Sate

the island and te ing passengers

The accident was canted by the pilot of the steamer going on the wrong side of the buoy which marks the course be followed by steamers to and fr<

the island.

John O’Rourk. manager of the excursion. said that had it not been for the fact that the accident happened in comparatively shallow water the loss of life would have been terrible.

FIVE YEARS FOR BARKER.

I *f Rev. Mm KcUer Recdrtt Al-

It tUTFal Penalty.

Jersey City, N. J. (Special).—A sendee of five years’ imprisonment in the tate prison at Trenton was imposed on Thomas G. Barker, convicted a few ti*7* ago of committing a felonious assault on Rev. John Keller, of Arlington. Neither Mrs, Barker nor Mr. Keller was present when sentence was passed. Albert C. Wall, of counsel for Barker, asked Judge Blair to consider the prisoner's previous good character and the fact that his life before this act of violence had been excellent His act was one of passion, instigated by love of home, and if his crime had. not been against a clergyman it might nave been *—■ 1 “*d differently, although legally ^it

invicted

by it

“Cannot Jersey justice,’' asked Mr. Wall in condusion, “take cognizance of these things? And cannot your Honor mitigate his sentence bdautc of them?" Judge Blair, in passing sentence, said to the prisoner: "Your conviction will teach a lesson. It was inevitable. While the conrt feels that yon are guilty, yet it also feds that there is something in your case which may be overlooked, and therdore the Court will not impose the JoiTterm of seven years, but will sentence yon to five years at bard labor in Stale prison.” WILL NEED AMERICAN GRAIN. Harvest la Gemaay Wffl Shew the IUs* Disastrous Deficit la Maay Yean. Washington (Special).—It is now recognized as inevitable that the cereal harvest of 1901 in Prussia will show the largest and most disastrous deficit that has been recorded in recent years, and the requirements of the German Emipect to foreign grown food- •***--- ■' any rocent

TOMS.

These statements are included in a long report upon the defidt in German breadstuffs received at the State Department from Consul-Geneia! Frank Mason, at Berlin. In view of the serious State of affairs, a memorial has been addressed to Count von Buelow, minister presidedt of Prussia, calling attention to the threatened calamity which overhangs the agricultural population arid, urging that the government conform to certain presenbed measures of rdief. • Fastiag as a Paaacea. Boston (Special).—To demonstrate '• that • ret ' " man famil; upon nature, ^imfcpendent ofjdnip or says there is no snch a thing at. or Christian science, and his purpose in fasting is to demonstrate that by physical culture and a regard'for the * nature diseases can be

nltarc law* or na

cured. He is a

pert, president .of the American Federation of Labor, is lying dangerouslyHll at his borne in this city, suffering from concussion of the brain and a possible frarture of the skull. While his condition is critical hi» physician sars be probably will recover. He was injured as be alighted from a car on which he had, been taking his two children for an out ing. Rataasri Caroegta’s Often New Castle. Pa., (Special).-The Gtj Councils of New Castle have rejected Andrew Carnegie t offer to donate money for a free library- The offer was made by Mr. Carnegie after a rc-

LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Sarp’is Remae Is

The compsrative statement of the government receipts and expenditures for fiscal year just ended shows an excess of receipts over disbursements of approximately *76,000.010 This it only shout four million dollars below the esnmate made by Congress at the beginning of the last session in December, tpoo, at which time the Secretary estimated the receipts from customs would be about $245,000,006 The receipts from internal revepue sources were tcimaled last December at $300,000,000. while the final figures will show over S307.ooo.eoo. The receipts from miseellanr -U' rources were estimated a! $34,600,600. These will also show a eoniiderable increase. The expenditures for the year will be seven millions in excess of the estimate. Dur mg the fiscal year 1900 the surplus revenues amounted to nearly $24x00.000, while the surplus for the present year will reach $t6x)Oo,cz» and possibly a sell

higher figure.

In view of the fact that the Krvep»e Reduction Bill passed at the last s tion of Congress will —

it the be] ' ttry offici

this source

dnetio

smount,

a year

the

if Congress will go into operation beginning of the fiscal year, TreasRcials estimated that the less from rce will be about $10,000,000. It soccted. however, that the net refrain this source will reach.that l as the officials look forward to of even greater prosperity than

the one just closing. If this expectation is realized, the officials believe that-ihe revenues from internal sources alone will not be greater than $30,000,000 below the figures of the present year., It is also confidently expected that the receipts from customs will materially increase during the coming 12 months. *0 that, notwithstanding the reduction made in the last revenue bill, the total receipts from all sources may even reach or ex-

ceed those of the fiscal year of 1901.

Rertaac Stamps os Letters.

In view of the fact that qiany thousands of-dollars' worth of war revenue stamps arc left in the possession of the public, about the redemption of which there will be much lost of time, it eras proposed that these stamps be used for pottage. This would enable the holders of the stamps to avoid excessive delay

rod possible loss.

Mr. John W. Yerjces. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, said: "This proposition seems to be a very rational one. You remember when the War Revenue act went into effect in 1898 it was a physical impossibility to print and distribute on time the stamps that were needed. Therefore, sheets of pos- ,: “iply run through the

- ’ the let-

thus transformed were used mentary stamps on bank grams, express receipts, el

nbw proposed would simply be rcv< what was done then and tumint

Grows.

A statement prepared at the Pension .. {j, e year end- ■ added to

tps on bank cheeks, teless receipts, etc. What is

limply be reversing and turning the

revenue stamps into postage stamps."

How Pcastaa Rtf

Sk'SSW? . ... original issues and 4.751 were restorations. The original issnes included the

following:

Survivors—Mexican War 15 Nuncs 25 The increases, reratings, etc., numbered 60.043. making the total number of certificates issued 109.655. as against ers on the rolls June 30, 1901. compared with the previous year, was about 2.500. The number of claims ending May 31, 1901, was 415-409. and on June 3c, 1897, 635^59Okject of Onset's VlsJ’.

pnvat nest, at no intimation lias been received throngh General Wood or other officials in Cuba that he intended visiting Washington to see the President or any officials of the Government. Although the officials may have no (finite information on the subject it ould not surprise them if the main purpose of the General's journey here is to look after-the interest of Cuban bondholders, and incidentally to make some araangemerits for the payment of the Cuban army for the time it was in the field prior to American intervention. New Office Created. Gen. Harrison Allen, of NortfP'Dakota. was appointed second deputy auditor for the Postofncc Department. .1 position created in the last postal appropriation bilL General Allen was appointed marshal of North Dakota by President-Harrison And has lived there since. _ He was given a reception by tha derks of the sixth auditor's office today.. . ^ Decrease fa Ceinfcrlciilag. he annuff report of Chief Wilkie, he Secret Service Division. Tre*>Department, submitted to SecretinGage, say* that in the 12 months ended June 30, 1901. there were placed in circulation but four new counterfeit notes, against an average of about ten for each year during the preceding ten years. Only one of these new notes sri all dangerous.

lie part of c the mJi-

CapUal News ia dtaxrsl.

the War Department 1

ent force of nearly five thousand men is held in Cube on the rtcs>mmendati»n of Governor General Wood, and the Secretary will depend 00 General Wood's advice as to the reduction of the force.

Oar New Fassxtssis

Acting Adjutant General Ward has received a cable message from General MacArthur announcing the arrival of the .transport Sheridan at Manila. Captain Wocdbcrn -d the Xiucteeuth Infantry has captured Samv^i: ca.ap ia itlMff nf froh >L Private Kraus

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