ROBBERS SECURE $281,IN IN SOLD.

Had Daf a Taaad L'ader Sdhy SacMlaf Warki, Callloraia.

THE THIEVES ESCAPE IN A BOAT.

Tkc Sdky Sadler b the Urt»U o» lk« Pacific Caasl-Orta Art Scat TWr* Fraa AH Parts at tka Watsra Star* larRHsctba -TW Warfcs Arc LacaM Near tkc Bay Skarc, A Cos I M Miles Fraa Saa Fraadaca

San Francisco (S| ing and Lead Com.

ipecial).—The SmeltCompany has been robworth of gold bullion, irred some time'Mondaj

Tht-rfieft occurred some time'Monday nighi. the thieves tunneling from outside the building under the vault at the Selby works, which jre located on the bay shore hbof ‘ c ”

Francisco. The

Francisco. They secured nearly pounds of fine gold, worth $iO an and escaped without leaving a t

’X ,o& U-,hc and remarkable ever

SIMMARV OF THE NEWS.

. treasury under President Buchan, an, died at Chicago at the hotn^of his son-in-law, Wm. 5. Newberry. He was 86 years old. The body will beHuricd

at Madison. Wis.

Senatot'-elect j. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, will wed Mrs. Mary Blackburn, whose husband lived in Martins-

ise husband lived in M

burg W. Va. Senator Blackbui

widower.'

Rain has caused considerable damage in Southwest Virginia, especially ^ a*. Roanoke and along the line of the Nor-

' Western Railwi

_ Jilway.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company on its Atlantic City branch is abating the dust nuisance by —— :

misance by _ _ _ the sides of the track,

The managers of the six reform organisation of Philadelphia have agreed to put in the field a complete fusion

State and local ticket.

Rev. Frederick W. A. Taylor was Vonsecrated bishop coadjutor of the Quincy (111.) Diocese of the Protestant

Episcopal Church.

d»-Pacific"Co.,., .nd & 1 *” d “*'*“* >• kt l »~ rf

work of skilled mechanics.

The whole affair was masterfully j icd and executed. It is supposed)

Xew York health authorii tinuing their crusade againsl

n leaders of a cigarmaker Tampa were seized and set

6ENERAL STRIKE ORDER IS ISSUED.

Ncv Begins the Great Baltic With Big Steel TnuL RESULT W) MAN CAN FORETELL

There b t Prospect el a Loaf aad Farieae Cosiest, la Which Tboaaaads Upoa Tbsaeaadt si Dsllsrs WIQ Bs Lost By Dstt SMn -The Order br tbs Strike inaed to AH AHalgaaatcd Lodge OHktoto.

Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).—President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, has issued the long-talked-of general strike order. What the result will be no man can foretell, bm judging by the expressed determination of both parties to the controversy the battle will be waged fast and furiously. Much money will be lost, thousands upon thousands of men will be idle, great suffering is looked. for, even bloodshed and death

isible and arc feared.

c call includes practically all ;d men in the United Sutes

__r*dentl;

It is the policy of the minii oid conspicuous work of defe

bank at the water's edge. The police’at all the bay

immediately notified of the crimf - ^ i ‘‘bavid'HooiL TbankeV.'d'roppe'ii dead | board has authocir

q £ tb ':'"M»"„“^s p pc„c : r

Adams, supenniendent of the JerseyXTvn'.ral Kail-

,a . re ! arrestrH in ’

imer

thic

is no prospect of se e in San Francisco.

The strike

Amalgamatec

Steel Corporation's employ not now on strike. It was issued frpm the Amalgamated Association headquarters and mailed to all Amalgamated lodge official; who ase expected to call their men into the strike. The text of the call fol-

lows :

"Brethren:

"The officials of the Unite4 Slat* Steel Trust have refused to recognize as union men those who are now striving '— •' : ~ u ‘ *- Tfanize. The execut-

ed'me to issue a • ited and other union heart to join in the fight for labor's rights, fight or give up forev.

consequently

working indcpei

It is the p

conspii should .

ing instead of previ Most of the engint mended stronger d« ministers will sanction. Maj. Edgar B. Robet

makes special trips.

and San Francisco, carrying the ores one day and bringing back the refined

'Sii 1 '° :

Bold lor loading ynjb, Maatnor tha Ic|nn , m . .. ,

tanV

! personal hberttes.

gion | "You will be told that you have signed

r agreed to sur-

31 be

tracts, bm .you

those contt

to sur-

!s to - the United

'orporation. Its officers sold to them jost as the

tracts and all.

emetnber before you agreed to any contract you took an obligation to the Amalgamated Association, ft now calls you to help in this hour of need. " ' settled on or be-

lills

oriT** * * e>

the out!

ed in their

Preparatory engineering over several weeks probably before the robbery could be ai

j Oberlin M. Carter, former captain of ired in the iron floor until an aoerture -

sufficiently made. It ■’

ociation.

you to help in this hour of

"Unless the trouble is settled on or b

_ _ t fore Saturday, August to, 1901, the mil ieneral oi the United States. 1 will close when the last tun is made c

attachments against all loans ! Tuesday, unties in Savannah held by! "Brethi

arge to admit a m:

made. It was then easy work to pass the treasure vdown into the tunnel and

»ad it into a boat.

>bbers

The robbers even took the-precaution to sprinkle red pepper in the tunnel in order to make it uncomfortable for any

0 pursue them.

fer to make e who migh

attempt to p

BALLOON TEST;* FAILURE--total Mars Brmz^toa Acroaaat s Eftort to

Cap!ore Preach Prize.

irlottesville, Va., C. S. Moore killed Emmet Branzell and wounded W. Boston Craddock, the Utters’ uncle. Moore accused Branzell of

stealing corn from his field.

Warden Hayes, of the New Jer*'® Asylum for the Insane, is being im

Paris (By Cable).—M. Santos-Du-mont, the Brazilian aeronaut, made

d on the charge of providing a poor and insufficient, food supply for

the par

AI be

clothing taken m

jiatients.

Albert Martin stole

and fnr- : *—

ken from the contagious hospital to storage house in Gloucester. N. J. A party of .Alaskan miners were re-

ntes were re4j days' snfit to resort to

hu

Hose husband was iing, N. Y.. for a long

mont. the Brazilian aeronaut, made an-1 A party of Abskan either unsuccessful attempt to win the . duced to such straits after prize, 100.000 francs, offered by M. ; fering that they were about Deutsoh, of the Aero Club, for a dirigi- cannibalism when rescued.. We balloon. He started from tne' Fayne Moore, whose grounds of the Aero Club, the Parc 1 sent to Sing Sinp, N. ) d'Aerostation, at Saint Ooud. and | sentence for playmg the headed for the Eiffel Tower. has asked for a divorceWhen over Longchamp ^the gmde Farelga.

mont got clear, but. finding he could not A Spanish royal decree fixes October cover the course within the time limit. 21 « «h« latest date for sealing 4 per he returned to Saint Ooud. eight and cent external bonds held by lorfcgner*

le-balf minutes after the start, having and banks prior to May 13. i8».

the Eiffe

bout one-hall

Tower.

the start, 1 If the dista:

M'KIKLEY SENDS CONDOLENCE

Washington (Special*, — President McKinlev has sent tne following mes-

sage to Emperor Wfjliam on of Dowager Empress Frederic!

prior to 1 .

lian officials take seriously tl

statement from St. Petersburg thaf Russia will forbid Russian farm Uborers to

cross the frontier.

Because of the death of the Dowager Empress, the projected reception at Hamburg to Count von Waldersee will

be-abandoned.

The United States training ship Hartford half-masted her flag at Kiel because

: Empress Dowager of

"State Department. V

ring mes- ford half-maste the death 0 { the death of

Germany.

fi.

Wil-

"His Imperial and Royal Majesty \S helm II. German Emperor. Berlin: I learn with deep sorrow of the death

‘ isty's 1 ‘ ‘ ' s and Queen Frederi

"l

of yoor Majesty's beloved .mother, the

Empress and Queen Frederick.

Dow Her

ary of state of Als patches from varioi many show that the fii

trial, crisis, is

> the American people,

se name and in my-oton I tender your Majesty heartfelt condolenc

"WILLIAM McKIXLL

whose n

UNLLY.”

States' Beaadary Hxei

Governor

Washington (Special). — Governors Benton McMillin. of Tennessee, and Tyler, of Virginia, at a conference here determined that each State sbs'.l bear fcalf -v— "< •*— :— «r

hat each Slate fIis',1 bes mse of the drifrnitation < r line between Tfn.vsse

and Virginia, now being made by commission appointed for that purp A peculiar feature of the case is tits Bristol the State line passes through city, but Ixnh States by legislali m ii agreed upon the middle of Mam st as the dividing line between the

- Commonwealths.

Waits to Be Wltfc. Vttermas. Columbus. Ohio (Special).—“P^n" De Lambs, a United Sutes prisoner from Alabama in the Ohio Pemtentiiry here, is preparing an unique request to the Unted States authorities. He offers to give bond in $100000 if permitted, to attend the Grand Array of the Republic Encampment at Cleveland. He says he never missed one. De Lamos - a« itntenced for a terlmipal violation of the Pension law. He is the nun who s' in the Speaker's elpir in the Alah; House as a tramp-and within two yi

was elected as

Herr' Von Koeller, governor of Schleswig-Holstein, has been appointed tary of state of Alsace-Lorraine. • *—" —, parts of Ger-

:ial and indns-

..ial crisis, is spreading.

. Valuable mineral deposits have been found along the river Jordan and the

Dead sea. in Palestine.

The British anurctic exploration sh:p Discovery sailed from Cowes for the

Anurctic region.

The steamer Gera, with Field Marshal Count von Waldersee, has arrived

off Heligoland.

A man giving the name of Bauman, id claiming to beBun American jourwas Vrested in Dantzic on the of bring a merchant -who fled

.. -olognc as , ,

charge of fraud.

It is repohed that the relatio: tween France and Turkey have b

iren. this is the call to preserve

our organization. We trust you and need you. Come and help us, and n

right come to a just cause.

"Fraternally yours, "T. J. SHAFFER.;

President Shaffer added this stalc-

FEAR FRESH OUTBREAK.

Fmlpcra Srttsct to lisatt m tbs Strtrts

•f Ptkis.

Pekin (By Gable).—Amei European residents assert th meaner of the Pekin popula stantly becoming more unfriei that as the alhed «roops de Chinese resume their old habit tling and enraing foreigners

streets.

The legation defenses are now approaching completion. Generally speaking, they consist of brick walls from fifteen to twenty feet high and from three to four feet thick, loop-

holed for rifles.

The ministers of the powers ignored the plan for a uniform system of de-

feasi submitted by the gei

the goverm

ify.

rican and that the dc-

e is cohndly and lepart the its of jos-

irals, ents

rs to

ifense, lesl

these should prove an irritant, proyok- : —f instead of preventing hostilities.

leers hare recom enses than the

1. of the sands the

United Sutes Legatioi

written to Mr. Rockhi . . . against what he calls “the defenselesi

'rgation." representir"

position of our legation." repre that it is exposed to attack on ioui sides. Mr. Rockhill has replied thai it is not intended to maintain a fortresi but merely a wall for protection againsi

1. ---i-- ti.. ....Ti

unexpected mob violence. The wall it made of brick, out of deference to Chi

brick, out

nese pride. The French

here. The no

ment to evacuate

fortnight causes some inconvenience tc the military' authorities. Only the German barracks have been completed The French barracks have hardly beer begun. The troops are grumbling ovej being compelled to give up comfortabl* quarters and to find temporary' camps

and Italians still remr.is n-fulfillment of the agree ~-\c public places in > some inconvenience tc

DEATH SfRKES PLEASURE PARTY.

Three Yaaac People Drowned la Slaepaxcai

Bay-Desperate Struck.

Salisbury. Md. (Special).—One pf tl iddest drowning accidents of the sc m occurred at Queponco. on Sinepu:

occurred

ent Bay. Tht

lost thei.

Queponco. on Sinepux-

"The call goes to the vice presidents of the districts in which there are mills

National

owned and operated by Steeel. National Tube and Companies, as well '

Companies, as well as to t»e officials of

the lodges in the mills.

“No notice has been or is being sent to the managers of the mills. We think their notice has come from the other side, and that they have had warning of this ever since the inauguration of the strike.. That ought to be sufficient"

LIBRARY FOR PORTO RICO.

Andrew Carnegie Expected to Make a Gill to That Ulead. San Juan. Porto Rico (Special).—Negotiations are under way between Andrew Carnegie and Education Commissioner Martin G. Brumbaugh, represent ing the people of Porto Rico, which will giye San Juan one of the famous. Carnegie libraries. The San Juan Council

idea to appropriate Wooo yearly as a maintenance fund. Mr. Carnegie's prjvije secretary, Jas. Bertram, wrote.that it was the millionaire's custom'to give ten times the amount oi the maintenance fund. However. Mr. Brumbaugh hopes,Mr. Carnegie may be induced to give $150,000. The idea is to combine with a public library at San Juan a distributing library for other portions of Ihe island.

■t their lives. They were: Miss Ethel Lcnore Philips, daughter of Mr. J. Chase Philips, .TOia Baker street, Walbrook; Mr. G. Grier Ratcliffe, a prominent lawyer of Salisbury; Mist Jennie White, ol Whitesburg, Worcester county. All ol

the bodies were recovered.

DOWAGER EMPRESS OF GERMANY DEAD.

Kaiser Wlllka's Motor Passes Away at Craahert.

ELDEST DAUGHTER OP VICTORIA.

The Direct Cease of Dsatk to Certified Is Have Beta Drspty Fettowiag Caacer. the Dropsy Havlag Onto sally Reacted the tkari-Her

UYE NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

New Postal Order Win Be Oteyed.

•Reform

•Reform in the handling and carrying !4pl second class mail matter, as contemplated in the recent orders of the Post-

he learned

ss

Majesty Was Ceaseless to tte Esd. Wkkfc

Waa Cats aad Palaksa.

in the reerr

Ister General, pronm

pectotions. So far »« ra those who have been illegally c

the one cent a pound rate are prepar to submit to the new order without protest. Reasonable time will he .allowed publisher*, of such periodicals.and books re excluded under the reeeni order imply with the regulation*, the pur- . . - l>eing not to work any undue hard‘hip by immrdately rutting them out of There was a disposition on the part of some of tlie firms that will suffer most tinder a strict enfuro *' **-- 1 —

item of the 1.

w regulations in court. ■> the postoffice officials

postmasters

Holy Land Is A»akcaiB(.

She was eleven months and 12 days ol _ Helena n. Sehl„.. ( -Hnl.ie.n irea.uS?h.,e ee-eml,

k, t

reign of three months, every moment c which was full of agony both mental an physical. His Empress remained by hi side and devoted herself to alleviate hi

•rileeinB. Al hi, death .he becan, Ihe | im „ „ Doaager hmpee,,. and her «n hgcame , H am, Tedder, ph^phai’e the tmperor. ,, „ . . .... ! most important of all deposits, and he

the immense fields of that mineral

ihemfaherof anEmpcror.lhea-ile yd g,,,,, ^ comnm .

ElS'anl aSSKT “ d “* '•” ! ‘W*:"

The Empress, like her r her. wished to havw her c< far as possible without c

eraet county, and Mis Powellvflle. Wicomii were at the bathiii_ White's farm at Queponco.

Tull, tty, a.

the

The drown t. Ratcliffe,

hei

i Stmt ..

bbi* White, ol county. They shore on Mr.

rned ladies, in «rimar.y with

ited from the

r three part

themselves in a deep hole .me frightened, and on

Idenly found The ladies

the selves going down, grabbed Ratcliffe and dragged him down with them. 1 Icy never rose to the surface. Ratcliffe was

naturally a good swimmer, but was able to do anything with two frantic

•men dinging to him. Baers Attack a Trait

soldier _ — —, st room. Transvaal Colony. July 6. says the Boers wrecked a train near Naboomspruit, July 4. One hundred and fifty Boers attacked the train guard and 28 Gordon Highlanders were_ killed.

:kcd a train 1

One hunt

d the train 1

Highlanders were d and 10 captured.

. engineer and firemen of. t

re subsequently shot.

Alateas Caastltatisa Makers.

Montgomery, Ala- (Special).—The Lowe substitute for the majority suff-rage-report was taken up in the constitutional convention. The substitute

imits the grandfather clause .and * —quirement for —* : -

omits the grandlather clause .ana makes the chief requirement for voting that those under 45 shall pay a poll tax of $3 for school purposes and those over

FIVE BUILDINGS WRECKED AND THREE PERSONS DEAD.

Philadelphia (Special).—A .terrific e

slock of six

, urki.

so strained that the French ambast

• ask for his passports.

plosion in a block of six buildings on Locust street, west of Tenth, wrecked five of the structures and caused the death of three, person*"and the fatal injury of perhaps eight more. The dead are an unknown colored woman, col-

ored child and a colored man. Over two score ol others were more

or lesj severely injured, it is st mated that at least 35 persons were in the five buildings when the explosion occurred and the exact number of dead will prob-

ably not be known for some *in*. The explosion occurred abont 0 30

What

jured people, many of whom fell i street unconscious. To add to the horror the debris caught fire and in less than five minutes the great pile was burning fiercely from end to end. A general alarm w»- * J ! - *— c ~~ —

ir.av ask for his pas spot

Difficulty in reversing the turbine wheels is said to have been largely responsible for the wrecking o( the British

toimedo bpat Viper.

Commandant Froneman was killed near Wiaburg. The British are reported to have captured a Boer convoy near

Boshoff.

The results, of the British navgl maneuvers are.'said to have justified the enticismii^irected against th-: Admiral- ^ No.attempt is to be made to pais bill in the British Parliament to cha the form of the King's declaration. The first elections were held in Scrv : a inder the new constitution, a novel method of balloting being employe 1 The grasshopper plague has become serious in the country about Naples.

eqd.

turned in for fire apparatus

~ the meantime

and ambulances, and in the meantime the work of rescue was begun by those in the.neighborhood who were not injured. Here an., there a person was dragged from the mins before the fire could reach him or her. several lives being saved by this prompt work. When the .firemen arrived tbe^flames had nude great headway and were igniting build mgs across the street. The fire, how

ever, was soon under control. The work of digging away the min!

was then begun in earnest. Near th<

edge of the debris several colot

lorcd men i the hos-

to th

remen and police

cerjfstores. With the exception of moB^fr^JJ, *everal* sectmns^of the'wreckage* the front wqlls of the buildings ^were cries were heard coming from the cel-

front walls .

blown into the street, while tl and the roofs shot upward and then

—— ; - u * *.o:the

upward

straight to,the ground. Almost every building in h radius of two Mocks about the scene had window panes shattered and was otherwise damaged. Every building on the opposite side of Locust

:et was damaged, but none fell.

floors en fell

Pompton 1-akev The

employed in the iusc department. ‘ cr was blown to atoms.

laatoatly UM By a Traia. Clarksburg. W. Va.

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad has ordered equipment, inlocomotii'rs and too freight

:xplosion aT tho Company has ordered equipment, hi- spondcnce 4er Works at eluding 3$ ' ■* * ‘

street was 1 —. — A terrible cry went up from the ruins

after the explosion. Men,

lunge ; a moment after the explosion. Men.

women and children, occupants cf the wrecked houses, could be seen crawling from the debris, while the agonizing cries cf others were heard in ,u *

rcn. ' .

mold be seen crawlirq ‘ lie the Agonizing :ard in the wreck-

^Frpm su/rouhding buildings came

Fatal Brt «

Seattle, Wash.

1 were I cars, to cost about. $t.o Deck-! American Locomotive

American Locomotive Company. A company has been formed capital of Ujooaooe to develop 18.000

(Special).—CortcHoogkong. July -2.

says: "Fire broke out yestcrdiy in the

shaft tunnel of the American

-<M^£%£ri%r3s. I nt

capital c. , — . acres of asphalt lands in Warren, Ed- r

—-td»(>n and P‘" —— 1 — tr ~

—rr tenBcr to the ships of , M qtOK.otax; «m_ 5 -

Elr.th legs

_ I»ts2 rd» off at the hio. lindaHrriB

linV grocery. Fifty men.

with rope andtokekie, were immediately put to work at that point and pulled away the roofing and flooring which

» roofing and flooi had fallen into a massed hea

" vote * * '

From the bottom of the pile, doubled up, were taken a man and a woman. The man was able to speak but the woman

was apparently dead.

While the work of rescue was going on in the exploded block hospital atlendants and others —- '

houi

e a search of

all the danuged houses on the opposite side of the street, tnd almost a score of persons were tgken to the several hospitals from thes

latiaaa’s Costly Droaykt

Richmond. Ind.(Special).—The continued drought means a loss in the corn.

iflng.to more than lao to every man,

and child in the State. Unless

crop of Indiana a

as possi!

e steadily It is of her t

r.ication in order to secure their

news was kept back from we. ,as was done when Queen Viet 'Osborne after her first stroke and publi" *

strength with the progible malady. The bad from week to week.

:toria was at of paraly-

AHEAD IN IRON AND STEEL

War Department is ii

athly report is at •* '

Mw, 1

lent is in receipt o t from the collector of

-'-lowing ii

Manila showing imports

of tie

of a

7or

Halted States Is ftow Leads AO Otter Cmu-

tries la PradaetiM.

Washington (Special).—The geological survey has issued a report on iron and steel at the close of the nineteenth century, prepared by fames M. Swank, general manager of the American Iron and Steel Association. It shows that this country leads, all other 'countries in the production of these articles. It puts the total world's production of pig iron in 1900 at about 404x10.000 long tons, of which the United Sutes made t3.7fi9.242 tons, or fully 34 per cent. The . total world's production of steel for 1900 was about 26,875.000 tdhs. of which the United States made 1 at87.322 tons, or nearly 38 per cent The bessemer pig iron pro- ' iction in 1900 was 7.94.V452 tons. The I—*: 1 ' steel

steel was

1900 was

maximum production of bessemer rails by the producers of bessemer ingots was reached in 1909, when the total was 2,361.921 long tons. The trul

otal was 2,361.921 long tons. The production of all kinds of rails in coumry_probably was • nearly

A noticeable feature of the report is the fact tfvit for the first time during American occupation the United Sutes heads the list of imports. The import* during May were valued at $2,460.43! and were brought from the following countries: United States, $549,323: England; $377,544: Chinese Empire.

. $377-544: Chinese Em|

_ . ; Japan. $ as distributed among a n

sentries.

The balance - raber of other

mtry probably was nearly 2.400.000 be pen The production in igoo df open ! to prevent

Ckimaaea Casco: UsC.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor received telegrams from shipowners and masters o? vessels lately ar rived in San Francisco stating lha: ing to the strike there they are ratable to unload their vessels and askiuq that Chinantcn employed on the ship; 1-e permitted to unload the vessels. The masters and owners guarantee to the ernment that the Chinamen will not lilted to go beyond the wharves

their escape. Secretary ilied, holding that this

govi be r

Mils 7.23W79 ’ ‘ f" ‘

long tons, and steel wire j elusion Act and refusing to allow uls 7.233.979 kegs of too pounds. j Chinamen to go upon the docks.

S T,r,j J«,kt f.t

- manufac- ' There is to be a supplemental report

1 by the board of awards appointed by Secretory Long to consider and report ipon the recommendations made by

immanding officers relative to rewards

An*rt e i., >nd , »•««* ’StL'^fSS

4 to the NlfkL

! npot com:

1 ra'

?• *> ?e,*5 ss..5«*a ■sjf'jsirfcsisrir

crlooked in

Imard acted, and attention of the called to these

Thomas Hyland. George Webb, trait

man.

. fireman was severely injui regular train was late at Medin;

considera-

cerved orders to run t<

lina, and redleport and

await the Pin-Araerican special. When the train reached Middleport they met the Buffalo theatre train, which they

thought was the special they

pa>& The passenger* of both train thrown into a panic by the shock.

Ncv

Siranv

piano tuner, married thre

Darker data Attacked.

The Secretary of the Treasure .-ml ihTreasurer of the United State; filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court of the . District of Columbia their answer to the

Yong Wlh's Awtol Fate. I petition for an accounting in connection

f * J« .

fiom she had been i iths, while curlini

'7j.c9a.wo

. . ..esc officials insert in their replies

T'Sii&jsr -.0

before the husband could extinguish

Mrs.^ Simmers, wreathed in

the flames. Mrs. Simmers, wreathed in fire, jumped frfm the fourth story of the house. ' Sne struck the sidewalk head first, and died two hours late, of

the bums and the fall. Bad Vktoity tor StoaaaHpa.

St. Johns. JN. F. A By - Cable).Xai ither \-essel was wrecked near Caj

itirm in law or in fact” They assert that the records of the Treasury Department fail! ta disclose any basis

for the claim.

Offices Advanced to PnsldcatU Risk.

The fol!owin_

: advanced

•ing fourth-class postoffices

will be advanced to the third class, giving them presidential rank dri Octobe: 1: National City and Arroya Grande,

- - Col.: Southiork and Red Lion, Pa.;

other vessel was wrecked near Cape Culver. Ind.; Barboursville. Ky.p HauRace in a dense fog. The Norwegian satonic. Mass.; Okarche. Okla.: Famitteanisbip Vera, boand from Liverpool ! land. Ind.; Humingtoa, Mass., and Fay

: or Louisburg. struck in Blackhead ettc, Miss. -

arg. ,sti

Core, near Rcnewi

where the Delmar *-!

month. The ship grounded ... »nd is fixed between rocks in Sfn upright aosilion and well above water. She is yaking considerably, her boiler floors

Bln __ a few yards from

:ked last

first.'

iy. nci

The

ihout

o land, n be Jfo

Capital News la Qcaerai.

'Consul Gudger. at Panama, say.* the Colombian Liberals detained a train at Matachin and captured some govern-

officials, but no looting was dt

■Sjj? “'ill,.,, miir : ySSZ”h"

ng was done. im Swift, of the ordered to reliev

floated again. 1s aa His Trail

irktown. has been ordered to relieve imroander Schrocdcr. Governor of

Guam.

After a visit to the President Senator Cullotn. oi Illinois, says there will be ao radical tariff legislation by CongrfAS at

its next »ession.

Shelby. N. C (Special).—Chief ol

lice Jones was shot and Instantly %

m "£°s2iF‘&£ ussr s-So-tti" te •sgiz

7™- Cry i ha* been found guilty of a breach of

[ whiskey without s

istra'ioo oi Manila. 'X-tw. will probably a into effect this week, when mo»: oi