HIE AN EARTBQEAIE T«« Tmm •! Dymiallc Are Ex^ieM by

HOUSES ARE ROCAEO BV THE SHOCK. A S*M* F«X» TkrM|k ■ Item* • Qaxrtcr •> • MHt Aviy —Now IlUrA. hal S»tr*l Mw*4—Tkt Ufk ■tot XUh T»» la Carallaai—CfcartMlaa Harkar Utkt Strack.

Akron. N. Y. (Specixl).—In a bca\-y thnndcr>torm liKhtning ttrurk a dynamite magazine ju»t outside.the town line. Two torn of dynamite belonging to the Akron Cement Company were exploded. There was arrmendou* concussion, and people hnrried from their houses, fearing an earthquake. House* roeked and glass was broken

for miles around.

A jo-pound stooe fell through the roof ..f the home of J. H. Price, clerk of Erie county, a quarter of a mile

from the scene oTlhe cxplo

The Catholic Church was so shaken

that candles qn the altar tipped

THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.

judge de Balt. 6f the territorial eircuit. refused to pant an injunction lo the Hawaiian Commercial Company against the Wailuku Sugar Company. A gigantic corporation lias ' been formed in Trenton. N. J.. to acquire and operate*department stores in all parts of the United States and Europe. The Missouri World's Fair Commission report that the collection of exhibits representing the different resonn'es of the State are progressing rapidly. One man was kifled and several others were injured by being swept oT their feet by the protecting ends of a hook and ladder in New YorkWilliam H. Matthews, of Brooklyn, has received a medal of honor for distinguished gallantry in action before Petersburg. Charles A. Could and his wife w-pre seriously, injured by being thrown from their automobile. Harry Howard, an aged negro waiter. killed sis white son-in-law in New

York.

. The shortage of Thomas W. Deavcy. 1 the absconding cashier of the Fanners .. and Merchants Bank of Newbern. N. C,

A number of cotton mills in Massa- ] chusctts have eluted down for a

j month.

] A national jinmigration congress is | to he held in St. Louis next June.

....... . In the Caleb Powers trial at Georgekilled. but seieral per- , , own Ky., the charge was made by the »<*»' were slightly injured. | defense that the jurors had been sum- • ! moned by partisan .agents. The judge Raleigh. N C. (Special).—A distas-1 oxrrtvM motion to discharge the entire truus ram and electric storm did great „ . ~ .. _ m county .boot Al- ! T 1 " U.b Boyer. Ctnopcr.tttr SoSnn%. Coro m thr lool.od. «». I oicon»ryrf to Trptloi^ S. )..

Octroyed. Four troeotrot hooM:. on i i 111 "

the edge of the town were 'struck and 1 ‘O^mouct department stores,

damaged l>y lightning, their occupant;

being severely shocked.

T*r family of Zagn Smith »<> to- . . . . .

ribly shocked, and hi* daughter«Addie I no « A ?« n ,0 . ^ u . was killed instantly. Her body was ,n •J »‘ Wr « 1 m P»a*o Dr. Henderbadlv scarred and disfigured. Her of the .°" ,v "» 1, r o' ‘ h *‘."‘T. ^ clothing was torn and hr? shoes were «»o«y *re the most d.sgraceful

taken completely off her feet. "’7** m ' h, i cou "‘ r T . .

* Henry S. Louchheim. of the 'f’hiladel-

w ’ phia banking firm of H. S. Ldhchhcin.

Charleston. S. C. (Special).—Ehirmg ; & Co, died tn Zurich, Switzerland^, a violent electric storm a negro woman f Will Hudson and Will Jones, loth was killed in her house in the suburbs : negroes, were hanged in Birmingham, and the harbor light of the United States [ Ala, for highway robbery, government hr St. Philip's steeple was Two sisters, aged, respectively. 18 and extinguished. I l.t years, were asphyxiated by gas in

The bolt is supposed to have struck • Philadelphia,

and demolished the pipe which furnishes Mary Lowe, aged JJ years, daughtbe gas. The woodwork in the belfry > ter of henry Lowe, engineer of the was ignited, but the flames soon were ! L’nited States Steel Corporation, died extinguished by the fire department. A I in Los Angeles, Cal. while her father lamp ha? been substituted in the steeple was speeding across the continent on a for the regular light. special train to reach her bedside before

—— j her death.

Top.la. Kan (Spodal) -Heavy rain. | D, ' 1 “- ’.'"‘Vi ^ h *' 1 tlvoilbout .hv va.ivvn and nntril pot- ! ™'aivd ‘b- P*v«lv nod" «hK« bv ja. tion. of the ua.e bate eao,d all the j f' 1 '**”* S \"' •noma to ritt The Smoky Hill. Blue aoereS&reel h.yaell to Ibe and Solomon Rieeea all in hiph 1 J'" ' “K I” 1 '" “d “ k 'd “ he eonMaoy peevot. in Koetb Topeka at; j ^ •„ Ja „

CWSH AT BASEBALL PARK The Collapw •! a Waft Crowded With

FOUR KILLED. OTHERS INJURED. A HaaOrtd aad Filly Merc «r Lest Sericasly Hart—The TcrrtAk Accidcal Dac to fte Cortoshy u Sm a Qaaml Bctwrci Drwak-

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.

May Save Ult *t Caeairy.

Post office Department officials believe George W. Bearers, former Superintrndenl of the Division of Salaries and Allowances, now under indictment, has left

New York for paru unknown,

• After Beavers was indicted by the Brooklyn grand jury for conspiracy to defraund the impression prevailed that he was where inspectors could put their hands on him at any time and that the Government did not care to make public the evidence against him at a preliminary hearing before a United State*

commissioner.

Many stories have been printed concerning Beavers' movements in New York, but they have all been second hand. The public has heard nothing from persons who have actually seen the

mysterious Beavers.

Post office Department officials are said to hare been approached within the last 24 hours bv persons who asked that August W. MacherTs bond be increased, to make it certain that be will not flee from the country to escape the charges which arc pending against him. Since the return of the indictments against Machen the Department of Justice is in charge of his case and must decide whether his bond is sufficient. It has been predicted that the former Superintendent of Free Delivery will leave the country and forfeit his bail, if there be no other way of escaping trial on the charges of conspiracy brought atninst him in connection with the Postoffice Department scandals.

Dcasestk Trad* Is OsoA

Internal commerce conditions in the United States are reported by the Department of Commerce and Labor, through its Bureau of Statistics, and shows that the first half of the current year compares favorably with the corresponding period of 1902 and 1901. With a few exceptions, the volume of trade thus far this year equaled, if not exceeded, that of last year, though occasionally falling below the high level of

STfeT herek^vr?”,,?.,,' ... ™ ,eif t 8 ””* Dakota, iheee .he had been Kane dajna.t ha. been d°non° repel.- I h „ , c „„ u , i,.,^ Om ot the May hood .. fared. ; >oM b ' h „ ,- h „ , hc f HIS STHAKOE REQUEST. A1 h«t P-'h* 1 - 'viler ol the Can- - too (Cyt) National Bank, lias been ar-

rested. Criminal proceeding* ha re been taken, charging him writh embez-

zling $22,000.

Conrad Schroeder, a millionaire -

Chicago (Special).—The body of the late John Gilbert Shanklin, of Evansville, Ind, was cremated at Graceland Cemetery, in this city, and the ashes were taken back to his former home by relatives. During his life Mr. Shanklin was •deeply attached to his parents. His jeal-

of Scranton. Pa, committed suicide by shooting himself. In Philadelphia. Annie E. Shapley confessed that she had raised United States postal order*.

I ertita.

Attorney General Finlay, in London.

: 'of them when they becanje, ordered the investigations of Promofeeble and old. and his grief at their E. T. H00ley in connection with death marked him a. an nnn.ual man.! ^Sapphire Cornndnto Mine ol CanAccording to hi* dying wish, impressed i Thf British commission reported time and again upon his executors, his fi i e , wcrc thc 4C1 j ve agents , r n disashes will be sprinkled over the graves seminal mg enteric fever among the ©f his parents. •Mr. Shanldin wa« widely , 0 idicrs during the Boer war. known throughout the Middle \\«t. he Colonel Schicl. who was a comroamlprospered through real estate^deals and anl ‘ , n ( he Boer army during thc was highly respected hr all who knew Transvaal war. died in Mnnich. him. His parents are buried in beautiful Andrew Carnegie has offered the Oak Lawn Cemetery at Evanss-ille. and Ci ty 0 f Dublin the sum of $140,000 brief funepl service* were held there toward the erection of a' frpe library, over the remains of Mr. Shanklin before j t wi5 reported in Vienna that Premier the body was brought here for incinera- Htdo-ry of Hungary had tendered his tioo resignation to Emperor Francis Joseph.

There was a fight between French troops and Moor* who had crossed the

frontier in pursuit of insurgents.

Whitaker Wright was released from jaiL satisfactory sureties for his $650,000

bail having been furnished.

King Edward has approved the ap-

Caaikl Caavicts Quickly.

Columbus. Ohio (Special).—Lewi* Hannon, the convicted murderer ol George Geyer. near Ahem Robert Shif-

flett. Franklin county, charged with bor«t stealing: Otis Kellar, another alleged ! pointment of Lord North cote as goverhorse thief, and Lewis Eyeting, sn al- nor general of Australia

ir

the county jail in broad daybsht l=* filing m cnt between the British . Admiralty off a bar in the bathroom, ibe work is 1International Mercantile Ma-

rapposed to have been done with a potato rsne Company.'

knife filed in the shape of a saw. Har- , \ number of Servian officers were arnxxi. Eveting and Kellar were captured rested at Belgrade on suspicion of conby the Marshal of Cabal Winchester, in spiring against the War Minister, thin county, about noon. Shifflett, thc; Siegfried Wagner has finished his fourth convict, was with them, but es- new opera. entitle^‘'Goblin." which will taped. be given its premiere at Leipsic.

ma. u.r*l. The government was defeated in the

Gtoats Ak* DM Mxrder. British House of Lords on threp Indianapolis (Special)—Rufus Can- amendments to the Irish Land Bill, trdl. the chief of the negro ghouls, who * An agreement has been concluded by is serving a sentence for grave robbery. | * h ‘5 h 300 01 , * nd

. . . . at Yongampho. tn Kcrea.

Im. made a ateorr, eottfeuion lo former, hJ... S ORar Superintendent Byers, and it was for- Convention was passed to a third read-

warded to lhc Attorney-General that the ing.

State may take action upon it. The con- Baron d Estoumrllrs de Constam has fession deals with several murders that written a letter to Foreign Minister Del-

LsskrS LIU a FltU *1 Bank.

n.iladelpfiit (Special).—Four persons are dead, at least 12 arc thought to be fatally injured and fully 150 •thers hurt, romc seriously, at the result of an accident which occurred at the Philadelphia National League baseball park. A boardwalk which overhung thc left field blethers fell to 4he street, carrying aoo spectators. Two games were scheduled between Boston and Philadelphia, and the attraction drew over 10.000 people to the hall park. The accident occurred at ! 5:40 o dock. while thc Boston team i was at Eat and in its half of the fourth inning 'of thc second game, and was I indirectly due to a quarrel between two I drunken men in the street. The Na1 tinnal League stands are built of steel I and brick, the brick wall extending ' entirely around the grounds. At the ' top of the Icfifield seats and extending ! from the grandstand to the end of the bleachers there was a walk about thrde feet wide, which overhung the street. 1 It was this walk which gave way under

[ the he*vy weight.

Men who were standing on the w-alk 1 were attracted by a disturbance in the street. They leaned over the side of the railing to see what the trouble was. and this drew the attention of other spectators sitting^ on. the lop rows bf the bleachers. Then occurred what it seen ahnost every day at a ball game —a rush to see what the other spectators were looking at. The walk became overcrowded, and without a moment'* warning 200 fret of it fell to the sidewalk 20 feet below, carrying all who were on it._ There were probably .woo persons sitting in the left-field bleachers, and the roar made by the

falling timber created a panic. In- | igoi. There is no evidence, says the , stantly the spectators rose en masse Bureau, of a gciteral recession in cotn- ; and made a rush down the stand into 1 n i erc i a l activities corresponding to the the playing field. It was one great I extraordinary shrinkage in speculative black ware of humanity. Men and j values. ; boys climbed over one another in their : Western staples for this year have effort to escape from the grounds. Not gamed materially over last year, receipts knowing what had occurred, the ball- I o( , ir e llock „ five markets having player* and others tried to stop the turned to 15.126.661 head, compared mad rush, but «hev were swept aside ■ » i|h bead in the first six in their unsuccessful efforts and sea- ( month* of 1002 eral persons were badly hurt in the! wheat receipts at eight interior marcr >. sn ... , , ; kets for the crop year ended June 30. Outside the grounds the scene was ; lgqA were 236/175^69 bushels, compared one of horror. For an entire block on Wlth bushels in 1902. , F.fteenth sireet-from Huntingdon The total shipments provisions from street to Lehigh avenue—men and boys ( Chicago and Chicago points for the first were lyinff writhing m agony. Some ; ^ of 1903 werw 621,133 »«>*. : wfrc haned under the wreckage others , against 653^17 tons in the same period were lying the f-uttw* and dozens l9CU jfifibJP tons m 1901. were stretched out in Fifteenth street j ~ on the car tracks. Some lay nncon- n .„ t ., u scions, others were rolling over suffer-j U.**rai waes ■ Rstircmrs, ing great pain and others attempted 1 • At noon Saturday Lieutenant General to get up and walk only to fall again. ! Nelson A. Miles rclingutshed the com,r*sr23 sSdeSf'.firs: o< .b. ^... r injured, of whom there were more than ; the retired list, in accordance with the too Indescribable confusion reigned statute requiring the retirements of offifor a time because of the g*eat crowd. : cert o( lhe Ann} . „ the ^ of 64 years.

^

1 saw what had occurred they-telephoned ; held a_ reception of .Army officers at hts

to the citv hall, and a general atnbu- j office in the headquarters ofrhc .Army, lance call was sent out. and a large number of officers in full While waiting for conveyance* tn , dress came to bid him farewell and pay carry the victims to hospitals thou- ; their last respects to the General, sands of willing hands looked after j Promptly at noon General Miles, acthe ‘injured. They were carried from , cotnpanied by Colonel Reber. his chief the street and laid on thfc sidewalk, j of- staff, left his office at Army headand some were taken into nearbv pri- quarters, walked through the corridors vate houses. All the bouses in the vi- I of the War Department and left that cmity were thrown open to the vie- I building just as the clock was striking tims’ One of the largest street-ear ] 12, walking across Pennsylvania avenue barns in this city is situated across the j to Seventeenth street and then proceeded street from thc bail park and all the to his home, on N street. wrecking cars and teams were gotten !

Sternberg Received.

Sagamore Hill, President Roosevelt's country home, was the scene of an interesting ceremony. Baron Speck von Sternburg, who has been Minister Plenipotentiary of Germany to the United States since Ambassador von Holleben returned to Europe and who recently, the retinsCftnt of Mr. von Holleben was elevated to the rank of Ambassador, presented to the President his credentials as .Ambassador and was received formally in his new diplomatic rank by President

Rooscvek.

CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED! Twegt)-Three People Were Killed la the

fc.wAES WORLDS FAIR.

' slot® kills Ooe Maa gad lajorcs Eight

Others.

St. Louis (Special).—One of the heave»t storms of the year, though of brief luration, swept over St. Louis. The iuriou* wind tore through the World'* fair Grounds, killing one man, probably fatally injuring another and seriously in:uring seven other*, besides causing famage to World's Fair buildings and Hher property generally throughout the sty to the extent of $10,000.

The dead:

Theodore Richter, of Kirkwood,

florist.

The injured:

A. R. Gark, carpenter; taken to hospital in dj-ing -condition —"

William Koch, carpenter

Henry Fahrnkopf. carpenter.

Ray Mannville, laborer.

John W Wheelhouse. Siaffworker.

Adrien Smith, painter

Phyneas L Going, carpenter. Charles Covington, laborer.

The day had been extremely warm, (hr temperature registering 94 degree?. Suddenly thc sky began to grow- dirk, and soon after the storm broke with the force of a gale. In the city pedestrians hurried to shelter and the wind swept through the streets, causing little damage outside of broken windows here and there, the falling of a few street signs and leveling of shade trees. . At the World's Fair grounds the agricultural building was -.truck bythe gale, and six laborers working on scaffolding

w ere hurled to the ground.

Theodore Richter, a florirt from tvirk-

snbiirb, was on the ground r

ENGINEER UYS IT ON THE BRAKES. Tw# SscOms *1 tbs Trsts Com Toietbef WO a Fttrlil Crash—The VkHws Sailer•4 Tartars B»t*re Dcsth Relieved Tbeti - ntttsl C*adM*a *1 tk* Woaaded tt They Were Tsket U the Bespits!. Durand, Mich. (Special).—An airbrake on the second section of Wallace Breakers' circus train refused to work in the Grand Trunk railway yards here, causing a collision between the two sections, in which 23 people were Iciilcd and about 30 injured. An official statement issued by the Grand Trunk road says that the airbrakes were not applied by the engineer of the second section, as he had claim-

ed.

The circus travels in two train* of about thirty-fis-e ears each. After the night's exhibition at Charlotte the two trains left for Lapeer, over the Grand Trnnk road, thc second section leaving a half hour after the first. It was .145 o'clock when the first section pulled into the west end of the Grand Trunk yards here. A red light was hung on the rear car to stop the second sec- |

tion.

Engineer Propst of Battle Creek, who was running the engine of the rear j

train, says he saw this light, and applied j ring to shelter the airbrake. To hi* horror, it refused ' struck him.

to work. He reversed hi? engine, but ] The World', Fair department turned . , , . . . . ■ out ann na«tiiy dug the tniured from the

the momentum of the heavy train be- 1 .... 7 ^ .

hind was too great, and. wi

that aroused all of the town near the yards, the second section crashed into

thc first. _ *

Three cars of the stationary first section were telescoped, and the engine and five cars of the moving train were

demolished.

Engineer Propst, Fireman Colter and Head Brakeman Benedict, who was also on the engine of the second section, all agree that if the brakes had worked there would have been no accident. The escaping steam and screams and cries of those pinned in the wreck made a horrifying spectacle in the gray of the early morning, when the trainmen in the yards and the aroused townspeople first reached the scene. Many feared at first that some of the menagerie bad escaped, as some of the animals could be heard crying. A fire whistle was sounded and the whole town was aroused. The rescuers could see un-

fortunates in the tangled wreckage and XHIeS by a BaU. j* "" “rhXme'fo fifi mforS : "*"« >*»' in 5 • it was on the scene in a few minutes, , ar( . e ow|lfd hr Brown, five

F T i miles southwest of this city. Mr. Brow n

flying plank

DcstractiM By Ugktaiaz.

Louisville, Ky. (Special).—Fire caused bv lightning destroyed the Bourbon Stockyard* and two buildings adjoining. Foyr hundred and fifty head of sheep were burned. The los, is about $250x100. with insurance one-half. Captain Eberhart Dillman and Pipeman Richard Moore were injured by falling timbers.

Kaacked Sea sc less by Ufhtattg.

Mishawaka, Ind. (Special).—^A storm at noon did great damage here. Five persons were knocked senseless by lightning. Several buildings were burned and chimneys, trees and fences were leveled. One of the injured men may

bringing tools and equipment it .

All the physicians and trained ftursei 1 . . . ■ , - • . . in Durand were sent for and those in V* an i. *T rK ‘ a,| ’ r ,n]nr ' d ' 1

nearby places were rushed to the seen* [ . ,

on handcars. The Hotel Richelieu was

j will recover. The barn was totally de-

converted into a temporary hospital, and | USE0 AX 0N WIFE AJO ifolFE ON SELF. the injured persons were taken there , ** f* 1 ’ 'J* rescuers could extricate | MntJ qjj Mss Atteapts I* kU His Sgaose them. The dead, many of them so ter- | . M , '* .. ., ^ ribly mangled that identification seemed I ° ' T “ ro,L well nigh impossible, were carefully laid ! New York (Special).—Edward Wood, the Riven iw,kI , .hort dulenc Inm, | y ^ lrirf „ M hi , Kit, end

'timself at their home on thc second floor *t No. 153 Morgan street. Jersey City. He struck his wife three times on the GbJaz&siEPJX&z i » tablekmfe, which had been

have occurred in this city, and the correctness of dates and circumstances .shows that Cantrell had an intimate connection with them. He admits participating in most of the murders and of haring a guilty knowledge of the others

ft Wateacs * Yta/s.

Henderson, Texas (Special).—I sham Strong, the negro surrendered by a mob which had taken him from the officers for thc purpose of lynching him, was indicted and placed on tri«l for attempted criminal assault He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for 99 rear?. He was taken to the peniten-

tiary this afternoon. J*ta Will Prsvt Fatal

Schenectady, X. Y.fSpecial.-K. Rea*ki. a .lad cmypioyed at thc works of the American Locomotive Company, is dying as the result of a cruel practical joke. n Bo rot In is under arrest, charged with retponaibltty for the act and orher arrests are to follow. A compressed air Was pressed, against the body of i and a quantity of the content? I on. The lad was taken to the al. screaming with pain, and it was that he was internally inicrod

ca**e giving the results of conferences between English and French statesmen with the view cf thc adoption of an

arbitration agreement.

Premier Balfour announced in the House of Commons that thc British minister at Peking had been instructed not to agree to the Chinese government* demand for the surrendering of the

Shanghai reform editor.

Seven hundred persons were reported to have been drowned in the disastrous floods at Chefoo. China, July 27- s Whitaker Wright, the promoter, was arraigned in London on the charge of isfuing a false balance-sheet of the London and Globe Corporation, and released

co $250x00 Axil

Three thousand letter* received by a Chicago bank indicate a depreciation in the crop condition exceeding 10 per cent. Union Pacific la?t fiscal year earned $51000000 gross. $22000000 net asd had a surplus of $15000009. The last sum exceeded «9Q* figures by $789000. William C Whitney and other horsemen have hurried away from Saratoga for Wall street, where a bigger game li going on. But John W. Gates is still watching the Saratoga rare*.

ready to transport thp injured to hospitals. One wrecking car was quickly filled with helpless men and rushed south of Fifteenth street to St. Joseph’s Hospital, more than two miles away. Others were quickly loaded Into wagons of ail descriptions belonging to the street car company and rushed to the Samaritan. St. Mary’s, the Jewish or St. Luke's Hospitals. Nearly every injured person taken away was covered with blood and the street look-

ed like a field of carnage.

Strri fly a Beltgla.

Atbury Park (Special).—A bdtpin saved the life of Mrs. McMichaei, who is staying at a local hotel- with her daughter. Mrs. McMichaei was one of a fishing party on the Shark river. While baiting their hook* the sharp crack of a rifle was heard and Mrs. McMichaei felt atmictbing strike her in the back. A second bullet whizzed oast Mr*. Beers, another of the party. Then the men srith the rifle, who were on the Beimar sidvof the rivet, were warned by shouts to stop shooting. They did jo and decamped harriedlv. . Investigation showed that the bullet had struck Mrs. McMichacTs beltpin and

had been deflected. Seas Tlrad ol tb: Stage-

Los Angrlcs (Special).—The twoweek vaudeville career of Mabel McKinley. which closed at the Orpbeutn here Sen day. was her last appearance in vaudctillc. for she has decided to quit stage life for good, oaring to objections of her father and husband. Dr. H. L. Baer, cf New York. As daughter of Abner McKinley, brother of the lamented President, whose favorite niece she was. Mrs. Baer gained theatrical renown, and in reality commanded her. own pncc. She wa* a clever artist, and sang with taste and finished style, but her name wxs her biggest drawing card. Mr*. Baer it a cripple, unable to take

a step without —

Xeillstille. Wi*. (Special).—During a. family fight in the town of Seif, Gottlieb Schultz shot and killed his daughter. Mr*. Patrick Leyden. Leyden himself received a bullet in the chest and is expected to die. Schultz's skull was crushed, but he a expected to recover. Mrs. Sthultz was injured also. Schultz has bn* «watting trial for an alleged

le (be Departiaea:* Major Edwin G Carter. Bishop Brent and Dr. Albert have been appointed at an opium commistibn to visit countries where the drug is used Rear Admiral George W. Melville, who was retired for age last January, relinquished hit duties as chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. The Navy Department authorized a dental of thc report that the European Squadron is destined for Chinese and Japanese watars. Lieutenant General Young issued an order assnm. -

army of the

Gen.'NelsosfA. Miles retired from the command cf the Amy, having reached

the age limit.

John F. Ct eran clerk of the — lor the Postoffice Department, formerly of Iowa, was arrested by postoffice inspectors on the charge of opening letters addressed to the auditor and appropriating-the contents. Matter sent in decoy letters was found on him. The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a temporary extension until <October tetb of the time within which railroads mutt complete their safety equipment. The President has designated lieutenant General Young to command the Army from August 8, the date of the retirement of General Miles, until Augtist 15. when the General Staff Law goes into cffqct.

. _ short distance from the scene. _ _ | “By 6 o'clock a corps of i« physicians , was operating on thc injured and dress- ' ing their wounds in the temporary hos | lital. Four of the injured died AL the ; ' before 8.30 o’clock and a finh at ;

noon.

When the wrecking-train crews had finished pulling to pieces the tangled and broken cart 17 dead men were Tying on the grass awaiting ' removal to the morgue. A minority of them were killed while asleep. Wallace Brothers say that their loss was very heavy, but have given no estimate of it ai yet This is the second wreck that the Wallace shows have suffered' within a month.

BLOOD TO FLOW IN MACEDONIA.

Straggle Likely t* Be a Bitter Oae—Kardt Befit g Armed. Salonica (By Cable).—A special messenger from Monastic reports that the Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited the Konak (governor’s palace) in the Town of Krushcvox. 23 miles north ol Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed. A detachment of Ottoman troops has burned the village of Dihovo, neat Monastir. - Eight Turkish battalions have beec dispatched to Monastir and three bat talions to Salonica from Kossovo. Telegraphic communication with Monastir is still interrupted. Constantinople (By C«blc)—Conju lar advices which were received hert from Monastir indicated that the situation in Macedonia was constantly growing worse. .At a meeting of the ministers it his been decided, therefore, to adopt measures of extreme severity tn order to suppress the revolution. It is reported that Albanian troops will be employed, in which event massacre* are almost inevitable. The Bulgarian exarch was summoned to the Yilditz Palace Wednesday, and urged to make a final appeal to his flock to deliver up their arms and thereby avoid bloodshed. The menacing attitude in Anficnta is causing inc at Erxeroum, Bitlis and Kharput. is asserted in some quarters that the authorities are secretly arming the. Kurds, while endeavoring to convict the Armenians of revolutionary inten-

ons.

Sofia. Bulgaria (By Cable).—The _rwtpapert announce that Prince Ferdinand is returning. SFARKS FROM THE WIRES. Announcement was made at the Building Trades Employers' Association rooms, in New York, that a general arbitration board had been organized to take care of all differences between " * unions which have arbitration. Co, member* of " ' have Job-

ground down to a raror edge. Wood and his wife are in the city hospital. The woman has a chance of recovery, but it is thought Wood will die. Wood has had trouble with his wits on various occasions and thc po'.ire say be served a term of t8 months' imprison mem for beating her. They have two sons. Edward. 26 years old, and Arthur, 23 years old. The sons on Monday last put their father out of their apartments, but allowed hita to sleep in a hall hbdroom. Wood had been drinking heavily, it is said, and had made himself a nuisance to the rest

of the family.

After thc older son had gone out. Wood knocked on the door of his wife's room and asked her for a drink of' water. She opened the door and went to the kitchen to get the water. Wood followed her. and on reaching thc kitchen picked up an ax and struck hi* wife three tiroes on the head with it. She fell to the flour unconscious. Wood then turned to a table, and picking up a knife drew it across his throat

Eartkqwaic* la CaHf.cs la. San Francisco (Special).—Reports received from different portions of California say but little damage was done by the seismic disturbance, although it was quite severe. The..trcmor was centered at San Jose, where numerous windows and much crockery was broken. Mrs. P. M. Lusson. a sufferer (n-xi heart disease, died during thc shock. Lick Observatory report* the shock thc heaviest in the history of the place. The indicator of the seismograph wxs dislodged, and no record obtained. In San Jose, the shock lasted from twem> to thirty seconds, and wa* from east to west. . .

Fcnazr Wardered By EaMsyc. nuts riser. Ind. (Special).—O Medworth. a fanner filing near Mount Ayr. eight mile* west of here, was murdered by his farm employe, known only as John. The murderer set fire to the home and thc bodies of both were found in the rum*. The man had worked for Medworth for three years, and always rtluscd to give his name. They had qcamicd over a settlement.

FstaHr Wared ia Wreck. Portsmouth. Ohio (Special).—Southbound Norfolk and Western passenger train No. 8 was wrecked at East Portsmouth by spreading rails. The engine left the track and turned over, and Engineer William Simontoit. of Columt, Ohio, wxs caught under thc wreck _ I fatally injured. Fireman S. N. McDonald, of Portsmouth, wa* alio probably fatally injured. Twenty-fir. we re j, more or test injured, but non*