816 SOVE IN RAILIOADS BamorB ci a Oi(arlk Deal la Pex-nsjl-

vaaia Stock-

OOtlD AND ROCkFELLER INTERESTS Saia « tl«»e Marft 0!tef to ikt Sjaileatc Whkk Bs* Ajr;*e to t'aacrarib ibc iliMO-MO-Ne* Peoafvh a ala S-'ort lo Tak* Over *ej- Psrl or 4? o! It That the S)a4ita:c *lsr Get. Nrw-Vorle (Special'.—TSe rUten^at

THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.

GREAT SLALGHTER 0F THE MOORS. The Atteck Made ty lr:rch Expedliloa ol 4.WW Men col a Strecj Force ol ArtlDery7b: OcttrocUoa o! the \cb.rated Moafla;

a Ircich Mdc.

ih.t 5 n oUtr

c Byndicate «"hicji rite the STS-OW* 00

fcak beet' made t-' « ■f.es a^ree*! u enden

re» Pcnaayjvanjs Railroad sti»ck at ajo by a vcr> ujt'.' rtant lirasicial :ntcre*t u.i take over any part or all of the stock that tray c -nte :nto the syndicate’s possfBti.ti. In fact, it is asserted that this ftnarcial interest is ready to r take all the new stock. It t* intimate*! that with its present holdings the possession of the new stock would probably carry control of that potential property. The identity of the interest which seeks control of Pennsylvania >* no: ‘disclosed, but mmor has lor sometime

attributed

very powerful finan

(By Cab’d.—' ci-.eJ a prc'tm-

Rockeicller-Gould interests u

lion. It is further stated that the _

posed purchasers have offered to take i a.cco women proj the stock at a f.xcd percentage over wed Miss Ida F. the syndicate price. | ploye of a deal

The possibility of such a deal— i City.

— **■ *■» that a return j Belleville. 111.. show that the body was

in silver, to tons of dynamite, y* tons of cannon Mack powder. Vtoo rounds of i-pounder ammunilion i..r-0he Hoiehkis» guns and to cases of fuse, all consigned to Governor Taft ol the Phtlip-

FlPe*.

A vslttable collection of maps and nisitn*crip:s covering the history of the French martne fr'm the thirteenth cmI tury to tile Franco-Prussian War has 1 !TcST',? Many documents At Bistoncal interest which lay ft r ;.6 years in the bottom of a tunuf-l leading to the Chicago-avenuc pumping station have *becn_ recovered Mi-s Clara Nichols, society editor of

Bnildinfp

\\ ith three other passengers. Col. \V.. H. Michael fell four stories in an tip*' vator at Wathmgtcn without - serious ftMrs. Mary McKnight has h«wn arrvited at Kalkaska. Mich., charged witl? Long Island. He had amas«ed a larj I fo !J. Bne .S° a l h -American trade 1 The Philippine Commission hes ei artedr a bill providing-idr the gtrven.

^.hcMoio, rzr v-w “srtfi?

on commanding hills surrounding the

FRENCH DESTROY MOSQUE Zestga Tribcsntn's Slrorghold Figuig

Ber.i-Ounif. Algeri

The French artillery oper.t sgtry fire at 5.30 o clock a. stronghold ol the rebelli tribesmen, tihd recently attack-

triei

cral Jpnrai

uig.

Zcnaga t

ed and tried to ambush Governor Gcn-

irt and his escort, of whom

thirteen were seriously injured. The actubl bombardment began at 7.30

tk *nd lasted until 11 a. ra.. when audestruction of houses had been ght. the mosque destroyed, and. it Reved, a great number of natives

yogtfhi is bellev

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.

The Rotlsirce ScaatfsL

The Postmaster General sprang another surprise when he’ •nnoanecd ihat arrants were sv.ortl Out in'Bahiniorr Inspectors J. D. Sullivan and K. H. S'mmoas for the arrest of Thomas W.

McGregor, a clerk in charge of the supplies for the Rural Free Deliveiy Service, and G EIfworth l pt*«i. of Baltimore. one-of McGregor's a ssi<:anu. on E* Smuk' of f BaTtr^c? io'ol'f 1

S’i’EEH'Ss | v is further stated that the pro- j Gov. \V. J. Bailey, of Kansas, to whom irehasers have offered to take j a.coo women proposed marriage, will

itablishment in Kansas

_ - . laltimorc, to defraud the

government In the purchase of the leather pouches furnished the rural car-

tlWThroughcut the country.

The indictment of Mr. August \V. Machcn. the former superintendent of tile Free Deliver) Service, hqd been expected, hut the arrest of the two subordinates in his department came without any notice. Their arrest makes seven in all since the investigation.., began. Other arrests arc expected to follow. "Thomas W. McGregor and C Elsworth Upton were arrjBted upon warrants sworn out in Baltimore by Inspectors J. D. Sullivan and R. D. aimmdhs, charged with a conspiracy with Charles E. Smith and others to defraud the .

United States government mi the pur- greatest

I Cjnml O’Cottnor ^ I 3 I punitive expedition, cons,sting of 4000 tha| McGr , or and UplDn agrccd with an ‘! i mer of the Foreign Legion and a Smith to obtan for him orders for many " ; strong force of . artillery armed with , hot , tlinH , nf nnnrhr. .nrh are ine.

BAHLE WITH COWBOYS.

Father aad Thre; of His Soot Are

KUktf.

McCcok. Ko'n. »Special'.—Sics ?cr

iamily 1

tnnihibiion of aintov

MILLS WRECKED; PEOPLE- PERISH :icu6bcrstB Catue Disaster la Scuta j

Carolina.

THE LARGE M1LLDAMS GIVE WAY. Bomvtime there has Leer, bad feeling

RescM >2.903.06)—A | In tv. cm men employed by the Dewar

ipar.y and a family nrr.-.cd

•ry c-.cr the poiKiiion of certain d. Bvry ar.d his four »ons are st d

e engaged in a battle with cow-

| bc.> ■. v, ...ieli rcsc'ted in the death ol lit

lathe

Property Losses

Might lag Ti

Aisy i

Rushes Tbrou(h two

owns la a Valley. Swetaloj Every | F.crr, thlut Beiore It—Storm Burst Over j taaburg it *tffbi—Two ol tbe Pscolet

MM* rnd Two of tbe Ctdtoa Pbats Of ! be.} •. „ ,-.!cli resulted in the death slruyfO—Tbe Pscolet Coapsoy Also Owo. j icther an ! three ol hi* son*, the fourth ed the Robe] Ml:t a: flalsesrltie—Hub-i being strioasly wounded. Whether anydreds ol People Kom|le<i sad Tbaufaads < ■- on the opposite side was killed or Out ol Work. ^ I wounded has tot been learned.

Spartansburg. S. G (Special}.—A 1

region, i

general destruction oi ipcrty. All the bridges and

trestles on the main line of the South-

torrential rainstorm vi.-if.-d resulting in general

Iting

and ps

. (Spec

Neb..

ici.-l).—A dispatch

way

destruction

occurred

&?sargcB>

been (rcqtjpntly ciscujsed 1 street, where it is thought oi normal conditions will

railroad own-'

dmg 1

.tronghold. At g .to a. m the French troops occupied June Hill and another eminence, both strategic positions, by a surprise movement. The ramparts of the town were then Jaoo meters distant and, like the houses which were half a mile behind them, built of compress^! cirth

very

ership.

It has beer, suggested that the quisition of an influential voice in P< sylvania by Rockeleller-Gould interests would put an end to the strained relations that have so lowg : J ' ^

the most imports in the country, ii give the Goulds

let to the ticularly ti wise a'dju which hav

the furtherance interest'' policy.

xisted between railroad interests

iniuch as it would _ oulds a much-di Atlantic seaboard,

this pc

j i Jpi'f cjlfa

As a result of a disagreement between hrst shots. Aurally the fire was conbricklayers and stonemasons, Pittsburg centrated on the mosQ|*e, which was contractors have locked out 4AX» men. 1 much venerated, and the edifice was it would j Samuel Parks, business ageni of a 1 b.Own to P ,ec '*-Thts destruction of ired out-' union, was arrested, charged with extor- j the mosque is expected to have a great ... ......STS'i^o.K:;&!“ 1 “" k '” s "i

wise adjust a number of diftculties! Italian rtrikers were driven away from ; ^e French bombardment, but withwhich have for a long time obstructed attacking workmen in New York by the ; cat etfect. the furtherance oi the 'comnmnity-of- police with dubs. i -AH the women and chitoen left the

' ^ i

■■ «■ '■’** 1 sis-,fiL"j'jrr i fii Xo ' 1h CTOto ~ i

Wot rata Beach. Fto. (Sp«al>.-. wh,, Wir,rf lo bt >n on . t"™ firootSout fiSKS?

the. lUion in Vineyard Haven with a fishing P^-Med during the bombardn«nt at

At it.30 o'cb smaller of 1

Palm Beach, was seen to be in flami The hotel building, powerhouse. Cory' block of stores, the Casino, south of the. hotel, and one of the large cot-1

0,0, north of hold Cof Illinois Vni.od Some furniture ,r^t the hotel was mv- Stctes consul at Cartagena, died at Coicn &ir 4 1 rsc b ii s^oSt-,^. ^

ft-miturc. Sj!oo,<»o; Casino, cottage^ and ^j; ss q ot1 i rvn. J u -w-

lent t

ictual numbered pouches which were mrc based exceeded ao.ooo, tor which the

rents each .or $18.reived and retained

Sio.coo. The

Smith to obtan for lym orders for many thousands of leather pouches such as are used by rural letter-carriers. The price agreed upon was 90 cents per pouch; the actual value was less than 50 cents. Smith was to pay to them the difference between 90 cents ar.d 50 cents per pouch. It is stated at the department that the

actual numbered p purchased exceeded 1 government paid 90 000 in all. Smith n of this ‘—

maininL

and Upton. The government could have bought the entire number of pouches from the manufacturers for $8,000. "McGregor was the clerk in charge of rural free delivery supplies and Upton was one of hi« assistants.” Inspector Sullivan is from the St. Louis dirisioq and Simmons from the Kansas City division of postofiice in-

spectors.

McGregor has been in the Postal Service since 1891. He came here from Nebraska as a messenger, and subsequently was promoted to a clerkship and finally was appointed by Mr. Machcn in charge of the supply work of the rural free delivery service.

iw~t 1 many people made Homeless.

Shortage •( $75.86) Alleged ames M. A. Watson, Jr., who has n deposit clerk in the office of the Auditor of the District of Colombia Since December, 1898, was arrested here

g« of C!

were current that V was alleged to be arly $75,000 short in his accounts. Hurried conferences followed, t

" the young man nbia road. The

home, ai 2020 Columbia road _ missioners. after a conference with Richard Sylvester, the Chief of

vz&sg&l® iovSS iSF-ST-

j caused a flurry on the exchange in that j - j 1 {eft*

Major Richard Sylvi Policy: Mr. Andrei

Coropration Counsel, and Mr. J. Petty, the 'Auditor, stated that the

iunted t

insurance.

tty, the' ;ed short;

.... the Chiel B. Duvall, the and Mr. J. T.

irtage amounted to about $67,-

Raysl Meda! tor K'Kim.

London (By Cable).—In order associate himself with the American tion and President Roosevelt in Yhe cent particular — '•> •'—

House. Fong

icide by

1 Ala.

obtained, but information from appar-1 town,” • cntly the most reliable sources showed | narj- de

particular remodeling Of the \Vhftg ttieiga. ( the situation to be as follows:' ! HeT^the Mn'-'U'i se. King Edward has awardedThe The trouble in British gevernroent River stagc 37 fc« 5 ,' nc !l c ’'! a mired contracti I cold medal for the promotion of ™le S the tariR q^onm.yl^d^bably a m. ^ mon,™. when „„ Mr Bfya

Made.

£t. Louis (Special).—So great is the extent of territory covered by the Missis-

river flood, so constantly changing

are the conditions as the water creeps

;her xnd renders the situation

at-tk, that a substantial summary of j most peculiar ever noted in the history

«* «- k i “A!, 0 ?,'

tion from appar- | town,” serving the District as an ordi-

: nary clerk at a salary of $1,500 a year. :• d in half a dozen enterprises.

on-if-law of John H. Brvant, rontractor. Mr. and Mr*. Watr. o : nificer*

•2-i*-* **"23 a gte ^ i zas&s&’ttaissi

Sta*P!«5£ff £>■, i£r*£Sx«£'2i. *>■

dtr.ner will be given in honor of Mr. n , er of ca l,inets and private the greater parts

memlicrs. irrespective of p.-.rn-. protested City, 11L. under 1

' * ' agsiust any dickering with British fiscal , Twenty-five tbouia

policy. : homde>/.

McKim at the Royal Institute ish architects, the invited gucs eluding Ambassador Choate.

Fogfb*. Fire With Goag*.

Peking (By Cable).—The extensive j ance^ Rcvesue and Rites caught fire. The

1 8r t Tit,: £ .7"” d " ™ .« ¥» - -

.ught fi < re - The ! They' wenf V^trip' toAe me

Board ol Revenue buildings were en- and j, c returned alone. Her foot, tirdjr destroyed by fire, and the so!- were traced to the edge of a bluff.

“hZm. -J probably ol

the flames to the foreign section. No, tfor’.d, together with estimates as to the hcajl of r.ock drowned. iniafe <>f the loss is obtainable at - nnnvtcr of warships in course of con-;

The revenue building ton- ‘ struct ion of ordered.

itaihs eight' feet of water.

;steps St. Louis flooded only along the water

front.

Entire property loss estimated at $3.-

Columbia road, and the

' young man and his wife have always and i been rc S ar< fe‘l a * '.veil-to-do persons. f anlte i Foe Faailn: Satlerers. ! The Christian Herald transmitted to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis a 1 check for $10,000 toward the establish-

’ fund for the (ami inese province of its deposited the

Uni “

£

ten factory coll : till the second

our feet deep—40 or _

ordinary watermark. The Converse Mill is utterly demolished, nothing standing except the picker-room building. which is badly wrecked. The Clifton Mill No. 3 also lost its boilcr00m. machine shops, engineroom and

mokestack.

The Whitnev mill* on Lawsons Fork

ged by the heavy rise of the

tc at |

building ton-; struct ion op o The burning 1 A move w

i- strut

tainrd 4XX>J«co taels. The burning! A buildings adjoin the legations, and the - Reichsrath foreign military guards tsre doing effec-1 tension of live service. The ChiJrse fire depart- the dan n.cnt. cquiupd 'chiefly with banners and ! outbreal

here an General

that he may drawcheck. Ever)- rep

State Department, either cable, contains the most of extreme destitution

Kwmngsi leading to the commission unnatural crime, such as the sale 'daughters into concubinage, and there are

even < hints of cannil

gongs, is helpless.

Locomotives Rolled Down the Hiil. Lonisvil'e. Ky. (Special).—A ger tra.ii on the Louisvill kiltc, from New Orleans t

was wrecked cn Muldraugh's Hill, 32

le.’ Nobody

trian |

.Lug to drawing the at-1 a Russian government to j

danger to gcreral reace involved in ! ireaks like-that at KishenefT. \

CArS WILD DASH

0,6". N<Sp,cid).-T>jl« p^- ■tfi.'r.k

A dispatch from Cor.siantmople tells Jcn s sgrre injured, one critically, by a era! million packages of seeds after the ctions of the Sultan tro iw ^ janiping the rails while dash- close of last year s distribution, which

mil,, iomfa ol Vouisvin,. Nobody X \ or bad just, passed through, a tunnel and 1 ^^tneb troeps occupied two s.rategic itartcdi and w jth : —

jumping the rails whi

the Orange mourttaic. That

not hurt was due to the hour, for every one more or less serious

The car was standing on an id the motorman had left it.

t rounding a sharj

Kwan-

money

ted States Consul Canton, by cable

amount of the

the

tbe that

commission of , troved rrr

Tfie <

Seeds (or FloaS Sufferers.

Secretary Wilson, of The Department Ti culture, said that there had been

. ; year*

could be distributed among from the Western floods if 1

them. He added that of the seeds are snital

ibution,

ig the sufferers

d by

.. .. desii nparativdy

ftfr planting at

ir. a * '‘Ve cf Preiii fob ‘ to death in trie.: Pan* hotel- .

icm for 1

Emperor William, in an address to tl -.ilrs., nu singitaf German folksongs.

Mary Shepard, of this city, who is 103 j ^ Dr.^Sachs. a young Vienew physician.

1 died ” ■ U c:efthfle n ^agS ,? ' *

ork.

Tirrd 0! Goveromeal Far*.

Tbe experiments which Dr. Wiley, chief of the chemical division of the Agricultural Department, has been conducting on a number of volunteers for j the purpose of testing the effects of borax and other preservatives in food

j will be suspended on June 31

an elevator accident in.*. Clevcbnd. O. <Speml).—LigTitnlngj 12 ^ C 7 h and *tba^ave*b*en ?iany com-

(Vtruck the spire of St. Paul s Episcopal r t,;m« since v\a»n weather ' at the c ' -

mertum dashed

h ever-increasing mo- j down the mountain. I

Used Ibc Phaae at 1U.

Poughkeepsie. N. Y. (Special).

loiiuj j Lltbtalai Strikes Cfcarch.

to’ the! at the ;■

ill be suspended on June 3&

The list of volunteers has fallen from

_ _ . , j i4. So 7, and there have been many corns'- P* u ' * Episcopal r i a i rt « since vr2m weather began from

Church, at the corner of Euclid and j the Government boarders, who want a Case avenues, daring a heaw storm, j change of diet No statement of the reThe spire was practically demolished, ai . tbt «J*™nenu ^ «“tdc for

vvRile two immense blocks o[/*tone I *° n,e tln,e '

near Berlin.' He be-, crashed ihrougb the roof of the church, Cbinese Minister’s Aiwa Mater. .a bcctCTio- e - U ;inff damage tc the extent of sev- Sir Chentpng Liang Cheng, the Chin- .. .. , erxl thousand' dollars. The Hama- ese Minister, will present his credentials n l ‘‘ C ! McCormick weddidg is scheduled to ‘ to President Roosevelt next Monday of Uepu- : tite nlaee at the church—Investigation ! afternoon. Immediately afterward he

(am- will go to Andover, Mass., to attend the

pairs annual coi langc it '

uld be etsary."

years old. held her first cduversatbn 1 die over the telephone. She called on Chief J

of Police McCabe at his home, cn AI- j MM. Rer-.raux and Guyct

»uls* if the Venezuelan ports recently doted by President Castro ol that action, tbe state department has given instructions that this decree is to be disregarded where it interfere* with American cora-

except in places where the govI is actually in possession of the port sought to be clotea. These instructsoos arg in line with the department's ... - .1,

m» ‘•OH1C. cn /vi-| mm. Kertraux and Guyct de ViUe* T McCormick w _ „

was playing a joke on her. ** Wife have been ordered tg leave Prussia. 1 "^ry!*

Veoczae’a's Closed Paris.

Washington. D. C. (Special).—Having

; arrangements 1

F (asocial.

?.lar.hattan's earnings for the last two months gained Jjw.coo. Tbe average price ol commodities is row bplow that ol a year ago. Atchison ha* lost nearly half a mile ol track on this side o! Kansas City. Prince reports a “slight improvement ol weather crop conditions east*of tbe Mississippi-" Hocking Valley Railway directors have declared tbe regular semi-annual dividend of a per cent, on the preferred stock and 1 1-3 per cent on.the com-

Phiitypiaes Ccasas.

Washing!o,,. D. C (Special).—A report has been received at the war department from General Sanger, who has charge of the census in the Philippines, in which he states that she work of taking the census of the islands Ip progressing very well.' General Sangea says that the reports thus far received indicate a Christian population of 7£00000 The population of Manilr is, fc round num-

iss., to attend the

Bent of Phillips Academy. from which he graduated in 1882. He will respond to a toast at the annual

dinner of the alumni association.

lath* Dr part meats.

There were no .further developments in the grand jury's investigation of the postoffice affairs .and no further indictments are to be looked few this week. The orders itsned for American ships to Valparaiso have been revoked. Secretary Moody announced tbe acceptance of the three lowest bids for three new battlwhips. Governor Taft in his report corroborates Lieutenant General Miles' statements as to the depressed agricultural conditions m the Philippines, but differs as to the method of improving things.

Lincoln, -Ne from Supcrioi

of the fight at St. Francis Kan, twcui the Berry family and some cow-

ashc-i away. The j La nd had been taken up by o'.d man of Hie and prop- | Berry as a homestead. The fcnc.-s ol : Pacolet, Clifton ! the cattle company interfered with his

I passage to and from the roads. \N reI cutting on the part ol Berry's family 1 - order to get the shortest possible

threat-

Pacolet, <

Glendale cotton mills.

Wires are down and reports conflict- j j n order to gcl ,h e shortest posut ing, but it seems certain that 25 or 30 ! read to town is said to have been t lople drowned, mostly mill operatives, i original cause of the quarrel. The c-

Hundred, u, p.up,, ^

and 2000 or more thrown out of employ- ] The rMU i, inK j n ,ht five deaths ment. ' came after a recent trie of the Berry - The Pacolct Cotton Mills Company ; family to town. The father and four

•u*tun, ,h,

thrown out of work..and in a few days

will be in need of bread.

A 6 o'clock it was noticed that the water was rising rapidly in the Pacolct

Berrys mounted quicklv and the cowboys fire. The eldest boy. John, war wounded, but stayed in his saddle. The farmers had the freshest mounts and soon were beyond accurate rifle

water was rising rar

river, but no special importance was attached to it by the mill operatives, who began to form in line to enter the mills. At Mills Jfos. I and 2 the water pressure soon*bccame dangerous, the boiler rooms were submerged and the wodtir.en were ordered back. A little \mcr the raging river struck Mill No. 1,

sweeping the plant entirely away.

The strong current then swept against

No. 2, demolishing that mill and leav- , heir The old ^ and the olhc ing only the clothroom standing. The ,. vo got inside the house. There big bridge over the Pacolct river, a wcre lbou; M cow boys. and they started

firvSM; i ~ t, fan

the dams. The wareroom, with nearly The old and ^ boT1

Ol r«ranr c n •*-- - - -u

on were beyond a

range. The cowboys kept uo a scatter-

ing fifsilade of shots.

Arriving home, the Berrvs did not think they had been pursued all the way and they were in front of the house when the party of cowboys rode up a hill a few yards to the north. The shooting began immediately. Two of the Berry boys were killed before they could reach their rifles. The old man and the othet

the dams. The wareroom, with ncs 4000 bales of cotton and 4000 bales domestic cloth, followed, all the cot

being carried down stream.

At Pacolct Mill No. 3 one-half the pickcr-room and five stories on the left side of the long building were washed away. The main building, supported by a thick brick wall, is still standing, but is very shaky, and may collapse at any time. The boilerroom is gone, but the smokestack is yet standing. The dam at No. 3 is intact. All the ma-

chinery in this mill is ruined.

At Glendale four warehouses filled with cotton and cotton products were swept away, along with the dam across Lawsons Ford and the trestle of the city electric raiway. The mill at Glendale was not materially damaged.

rent the main building of the •tory collansed. and the wat<

rose till the second floor of the mill wa

four feet deep—40 or 50 feet abo-

1 and Ujc bo vs attempted to

escape from the ^Ricr side of the house and were shot down in succession. Three of the cowboys were killed bv the farmers while they were defending the

RUN LN WAKE OF FOREST FIRES. Vast Tracks la New York State Preseal Scene •f WiM Desolation. Glens Falls, N. Y. (Spccial).-Ac-cordir.g to telegrams received sjicre, conditions are less favorable for the extinguishing of forest fires than they were twenty-four hours earlier. Thus far the State has been the heaviest loser in the Hudson River water-

shed.

and the water .bed. Eight townships lying in th

counties have beet

wavy rise of the es and a steel

were damai.

water and some hon

bridge at that point were swept At the TLcapau mills the water r the second floor of the bgjldin;

ic second : msidcrably

damaged

the bajlding a the machinery

Descffptioo «? the Mills. The Pacolct Manufacturing Company has three mills, capitalized at $700,000, but probably $1,500,000 would be more

. and is fitted 1

correct, and is fitted with 57.200 spindles and 2202 looms. The first mil! was built in t88t. has motive power of water and steam and makes heavy '—'— '''Se company built and own-

Mville mill which was dcrecently by a tornado.

Gifton Mills Comoany has a capital of $1,000,000. A. H. Twichcll. Sr. is president. The lant has 101,000

' makes sheet-

Sr. is president. The lan: spindle*. 32M looms and n ings, shirtings and drills.

Like a Johnstown Disaster. Oiarlo:tc,*N. C. (Special).—A special to the Observer from Columbia, S. G,

says:

“A startling report has just reached Columbia that D»ke Sapphire, in Western North Carolina, is said to have broken through its retainin'* walls and to have descended upon the 'lains below with great jury. This may affect the "cotton-mill industries on the Seneca river, in Pickens and Anderson

counties."

FLOODS AND DROUTH. CoadUleas Not Unnsaai, as Shown by Wealhc r

Bureau Reports.

Washington. D. G (Special).—Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau, was asked if his bureau had any information of the reason for the present great drouth in New England and New York, in view of the great floods and rain in the West and Southwest. Professor Moore stated that the records of the Weather Bureau show that

there was a series of floods rains in one part of the Not

v benever or heavy r

American cc

be a drouth or scan

ether portion.

ontinent tSere was sure t

'city of rain tn an

_ . Evans, itnander-ifi-chief of the Asiatic squadron, concerning the grave international situation in China, the assent- *-'!— -1 v:« squadron in Chinese wall here as significant. Kentucky and Oregon 1 cruiser New Orleans Cheefoo, the monitor

burned over. Esti1 of timberland* dc-

iships :

: towns!

50.000 acres.

Lumbermen who arrived here from Indian Lake state that the country between' that point and Blue Mountain Lake presents a wild scene of desolation. For miles there is nothing but

charred timber

SPACES FROM THE WIRES.

Day is responsible .. lockjaw in Pittsburg. Pa.

Estimates by lumbermen place tb from fires and drouth for Nonhcn

Eastern 'Maine at $3,000,000.

loss and

Arguments were begun in the United cd States Court in St. Paul. Minn., iu the case of the State of Minnesota against the. Northern Securities Com-

Hu

Deutschland York harbor, of seven ves getting off. The big lev - : -'t beloi

"Imer New

on the Mississippi St. Louis broke, and

of a f

burg-Amcricau

Deutschland went aground in "ork harbor, but with the assistai seven vessels finally succeeded

river just - __ the greater portion of a fanning i tion of 100.009 acres Will be flooded.

d at North To-

customs i was arrestee

ment.

E. F. Newman, a druggist, formerly ol Ithaca, N. Y.. committed suicide iu

Honolulu by shooting.

Lives lost in tbe flood at No peka, Kan., now number 78.

The strike ol the Philadelphia carpen-

ters was settled by compromise.

The Baptist church in Rochester,

Minn., was blown up bv dynamite.

Gcg, William Patton died at bis

btome. in Columbia.

The bodies of 7 more flood victims were found at North Topeka, Kan., and the list of known dead has reached

identified. ~

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statement of the conditions ia the nado-swept town, says the dead number 125, the injured 300. the hi

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home*

1500, and the financial loss $too. 00a Appeals have been issued for contributions of food and clothing.

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Four Bulgarians, con Wet ed ol panic* nation in dynamite outrage* at Salomex

nave been sentenced to death. legislative council in Bloemfdnt

^ - inanimouslt

ion.

ein. Orange River Colony, adopted the customs convctuioi

P. A. McHugh, M. P„ was arrested ai Sligo, Ireland, for contempt of court. Prof. Sir William Crooks, before tbe International Chemical Congress, in Berlin, spoke of the possibility of reducing all the element* of matter into a single form of energy. The Venezuelan government forees have reoccupied San Felix, on the Orinoco river, this being the first step in the march of the government troops upon Gndad Bolivar. An order was filed in tbe United States Circuit Court in Charleston, S .