AIRSHIP FELL INTO BAY Dr. Ocrth. However. H.4 Sotte4 Above

Prtoeo Two ttfin.

ENGINE OF ONLY SIX-NOKSE POWEE. S«Ui Ortr Sm FraoeiK* Rmitlat'iatf Lowerla| ttiatcii oi WH aoi Ckaat>M 11 •» Cowrot WHO Com—All Dr. Qrttk * Saall Sorioii Spent it ik: CoatiracUoa ol Ho Son Froncivro, Col. (Special Augu-c Grcth. a poor inventor, working alone an<l practically without funds, hai achiescd the mutt pronounced »occe»s in airship butltftng yet Wen recorded m the United States. - Without any advertising <*f «!te event. Dr Grcth surprised the people by sailing over San Francisco, raising and lowering himself at will, changing hi- course with ease and altogether demonstrating that he had his aerial courser under complete ‘control. 1 he success of his experiment is the more remarkable for the reason that his api-aratu* was of the crudest kind. Vhe airship being equipped with a cheap gasoline engine able to generate only

si* horsepower.

Dr Grcth had previously tested Ms airship by making ascensions with the balloon held captive by a long rope, bat Sunday was the first time that he had gone skyward free. The ascension was made front a lot almost in the heart of the city and Dr. Greth attempted to encircle a towering newspaper building about • mile eastward, hut found the high currents too strong for his power and then turned in an opposite direction. The winds carried him oceanward, and for a time he hovered in the vicinity of the Golden Gate, making various successful trials of his steerin- gear. The currents threatened to take him ont over the Pacific, and he decided to make a landing on the parade grounds of the Presidio military reservation, but made the mistake of letting out too much and landed in the bay. about aoo feet from shore. The crew of the lifesaving station rescued the aeronaut and the flying machine, which was litt’r damaged by the unfortnnate termina-

tion of the voyage.

The balloon of Greth is cigar-shaped and has p capacity of 50.000 feet of gas. with a lifting capacity of t8oo to 2300

pounds. The car is similar i

struct lor to Santo-Dumont*)

weighs about 800 pounds.

The engine is a 12-horsenowcr gasoline motor, and the total weight carried skyward, including that of the inventor and 260 pound* of ballast, was about 1400 pounds. . For some inexplicable reason the motor would not develop more than six horsepower, and Dr. Greth found considctjfclc difficulty in making headway against the eurHe expects to make another ascension in a few days, when he will, have repaired the minor damage caused by the salt-water bath and remedied the defects brought out by his two-hour

cruise in cloudland.

Already money mpn hasp proffered aid. and Grcth will at ryice construct a machine complete iiT all details. With S1000." he said. T can build an airship that will be controlled as easily as an automobile running on a boulevard My present machine representseveral hundred dollars of savings—al! the money I could command.” CRAZED MAN'S TER<IBLE~CRl'tf. Drives Ms Wife Got el tk; House sad Tbeo

Kits Mis There Children.

Asheville, N C. (Special)..—One of I the most terrible crimes ever committed in North Carolina occurred when Dr J- V. Jay. a well-known physician of Buncombe county, living at Barrardsvillc. 20 miles north of Asheville, kilted with a claw hammer his three children, aged two, four and six years. It is said Jay had been drinking heavily for nearly two weeks, and at night forced his vyife to leave home Mrs Jay returned in thimorning, and was prejarigg breakfav when her husband attacked her again and ran her out of the bouse She started for a neighbor's to get help, and left her children crying on the porch. While the mother was gone Jay killed all three of the children with a liammer. Mrs Jay soon returned with asiistmee, but arrived too late to save the children, whrtsc lifeldfs bodies were found lying on the porch. After committing the deed' Jay went into the house and attempted to set it on fire, but the men who returned with Mrs. Jay rushed kt and overpowered him and extinguished the flames. Jay was then bound hand and foot and Sheriff Reed notified.

IT PUZZLES THE DOCTORS

■to Sack Cast la the Books as Calvto Snyder

Prestats.

Clyde, N. V. {Special).—The strange case of Calvin Snyder is attracting the attention of the medical fraternity throb ghoul the country. Snyder is 72 His body is covered with 50 or more bunelike prctubcrancesr varying from one-half inch to five inches ht diameter. The like of these knobs has never been seen on a human body. They are as hard a* stone and the color of the skin The first appeared four years ago on the right side. Then ctlwrs came. Ii was only recently that Snyder revealed bis condition to his wife. She, in alarm called in a doctor. "The physician was enable to give r diagnosis Other doctors were eaHed and all agreed that the disease is no recorded in medical books. At *' se* won of the Wayne County Medical A* socialion Snyder was examined. -Hi eaae was declared unprecedented. Dor tors predicted his death would ocritoon,.but he still lives and suffers.

TflE LATEST FtWS IN SHORT ORDER.

RUN INTO WORK TRAIN

--X - --- ww-*® 1 ** I.sdc poison on the stt

»hflr luajrlni

Cathedral. . Secretary C. C Hamlin, of the Crip-! Seriows CalU stoa 00 the BelrUvft Branch

fUTVMAL CmtAL AFFAIRS UflOi SAI WINS BIS CASE i °' mMX 1™ “W™" 0

lacressc fa Hgral EatlaaU. I ✓ ; Army Officers Invesligate SHaafloa la Secretary Moody *»« approved the e> | 1* ft* Alggka Bos a Aar > Ua- Veaezada.

timatealor the sui^prt nfflhc Navy for I V

the na*t fiscal yea*, ai»i*eaommended

Washington. D. C. (Special).—In the

OF THE ACCIDENT. ; b tJ * ^hiefp of bairsus. amounting to CANABANS VERY MUCH CHAGRINED. -P'"™ of officers of the srmy and of ■ ■ _ .... „ . .— ■ - ibr Stair Dmirtrarn! the situation in

pie Creek District Mineowners' Association, issued a statement accusing the Western MinerW Association of seri-

al Ik: PcBoiylvsoii at Wasktoflaa Crosslag. toar Treat os-Allot the Victims hah laas—Tkc Desk Taira to tkt Morgae ead

Uk fafared la tk« Hospital.

.. v .. --7—. . „ . s, “' D rw' u "'"‘' .K, I... fi^.1 —r . DkridsJ la Favor of tkc Venezuela ts again bee.

propristed for the last fiscal year The summary of the estimates is as

follows:

Fay of the Navy, $19,824 otyjc psy, miscellaneous. $600000; contingent. Navy, $15,000; emergency fond. Skoooo; Bureau of Navigation, $ij$.i. ~

ot tkt Halted States Esccpt

Thai la KclatUo t» the Portlasd Cass'. Wkdch Csasds Miss—This Cooeessiss Wss Made ky the Amerfcsa Commlsslaatrs.

ous crimes.

At the convention of the Christian Women's Board of Missions in Detroit. Mrs. Jcslie Brown Pounds condemned modem tioctety at the mod-

em Babble of Babel.

William Sparger, cantor, or reader. 1 injured of the Reformed Temple Emmanuel, of New York, attempted to commit sut

'"j'he'two^cotTipa'nirv 1 oT^merican ar-! •"Ktons Crossing. Tbc persons killed j tion. Rhode IshUnd. $i4<°oo: Navaf Warf land Canal, which Canada wins, tillcry which occupied jsanta Clara, and injured were laborers who were on ) College. $8425; naval station. Croat jha; ,v«i remains to be done Cuba, and fcatter.es at Havana, sailed 1 a » or k tAin. and were on their wav B . ur ^* u -i* f .'^ rd * i wl ---

for the United States.

Trenton,. N. J. -(Special).—Fifteen ^

j>ersona were killed and about 40 more ' reau of Ordnance, $J.776.7tf>: Bureau Bowndary CdmmissKAn has reached

‘ n agreement whereby all the American

1—Naval 1 cuntemioos are sustained, with the ex-

. a collision which occurred j Equipment. $6^07.905 .Bureau ■ -«»Ssst. PM ‘

Prof. Charles E. Greene, dean of the Department of Engineering at the University of Michigan, died at hi* home in Ann Arbor. Plan* have been drawn for the conitruction of *a canal to connect th: cities of Providence and Worcester, to

1st $40,000,000.

■ i Docks (public works). $8,164,874 l! 1 reau of Ordnance (public works) . $248.-

critkaL

Important information of a political and military nature was brought «d the War Department by Cspt. C. B. Humphrey, of the Twenty-second In* , fantry. and Lieut. E. Van D. Murphy,

Londow (By Cable).-The Alaska rtle Twenty-seventh Infantry, who "— r “— l — Inn io.i THoncd Irom > .rent mi.-

sion to Venezuela. Last June these two officers were sent by the War Department to Venezuela with instructions to make a careful and conservative • xamination of the military status of the country, in view of the possibility that the United States at some not very distant day raicht have to land troops there to project Venezuela

complete the map which will aecompany the decision. On the map will be

Six r

ork tAin. and were on their way j j:

to work at Washingtons Crossing t _

repair washouts along the road. Only j 900; Bureau of ' Equipment (public narked the boundary line defiat tel) > j'j^jnst foreign ii two or three of those who are injured ; works), $7,800; Bureau of Medicine and , fixing the division <>( American and j The principal mission of these offiwill be permanently maimed. ' , | f r u'. - British territory, on such a basis that ! f cr ‘‘ •’^’vever. was to ascertain the true As soon as the collision occurred a ' Bureau Supplies 2d^‘Alums'.! no American citizen will lose a fo<A \ L'mted^u-es SFcZS* j special train was sent from Trenton $5,205,932: Bureau‘of Construction and , of land be already belies ed he held. | and ,},e possibilities of war between ‘with a corps of physicians, and the j Nepri". _$8.sy5ita4; Btuyau^of Steam j w-hile the United Stales ^ ^

will get all Venezuela

Colombia. Caputn

K* s' 1 K".'■ ; ---* : -c- ■ —— , ! ***s wini' _

blown high in the atr dead and injured were brought to; the waterway* to the rich Alaskan ter- Humphrey and Lieutenant Murphy natural gas well | , hi . ,. L _ c | fJ'A M * r,n * Corps -Paymaster.; n „„ spent part of their time tn Caracas and

became very well acquainted with President Castro. They were regularly accredited to the Venezuela Government

by an explosion at

near Worthington, Pa.,

fatally. . . . — —- .— 1 ■ - - - Charles G Wentisch shot and killed ' one or two exceptions, are Italian la- machinery. $j8&6Jloo: armor and arma- outlet she so much needed.

1 probably ' ,hi$ ci,J '- ,h * ' n i Bred ukea ,0 ' S.tlWS: ouartermaster. $1^)0.396. In- vitory. with the exception of the Pori- ] Francis’ Hospital. The dead men. with j crease of the Navy—-Construction and | land Canal, which gives Canada the

Reeves, who was trying to break into his home at Woodhavcn. L. 1 Irene Bonner was shot and probably fatally woended in Chicago by Rich-

ard Breen, a former suitor.

The Ohio plant of the Carnegie Steel Company at Young*town, employing

2500 hands, shut down.

The Supreme Castle. Knights of the Golden Eagle, in session in Harrisburg. Pa., adjourned, after electing officers and deciding to meet next year

in Washington.

The Federal officials ami local police officers who rounded up 350 Chinamen Boston were fiercely denounced by

resolutions adopted at a mass-meeting coac hev There were about t8o men Alexander Hoff, superintendent of . in thc two ca „ At >ooll „ th e acc i. the foreign mail branch of thc New ^ ctlt happened the Italians became York posloffice. was committed to jail | ( ran tic and made an attempt to do bodon the charge of embezzlement. ,]. harm to the crew of the gravel train. Three-fourths of the metal workers \y ord Ka , to T rfnt on for police of the International Silver Company, in a>M . ;an< - c . but thc men were final!.-

voted against the pro- j q Uielc< i by the foreman.

Meriden, G pnsed strike.

William F. Sicgnor. who shot and

woundedMiss Amelia Garrett in Pitt*- .. burg. _ Pa., died from self-inflicted mnass *ko Tovk PUc« of Girl Recplcfcers ! the Treasury Department ha'

STRlkINO GIRLS STABBED W RIOT.

Dr. H- W. Wiley, of the Department Agriculture, returned from New York, where he was in conference with

borers who resided in thi* city, tfc c m «»*-T , W 00 ^ ia >: e^'pnwnt. $400^x10

others being colored men. Their bodies were taken to the morgue for identi-

fication.

Thc train bearing the men who were killed and injured was made up of four cars, two coaches in which the men were riding and two flat cars in' the rear. The train stopped near Washingtons Crossing to receive orders respecting the passing of the regular passenger tram. While the train was standing on tbc track it was run in.o from the rear by a grtfhel train. The

" telescoped tbc

nurios.

| The five leaders of the Fort Leaven \

I north prison mutiny were con-ictcd of ; New York (Special).—In a riot, the murder snd sentenced to prison for rcv , lt of a stnkc a| , rag f aclOTy h, Albert Gcnten. .Heeri tkf.ultm, ' K'* *' vr "' «*'• “ al >^ clerk ol thc ITtird National Bank of' one of them so senously that she had

Louisville. Ky.. was adjudged insane, to be taken to a hospital.

A charge of extoftion was made . «nplosr*. about so in number, reagamst Waller S. Thompson, a retired 1' . , . ,. inspector ol the New York police ! cendy organized under the name of the

(one. 1 Soriers Union.

The Chicago and Alton Railroad of- ; Demands were made upon the Qpn, ficials have advanced wages ol the shop , which were refused, and a strike was deemployes from 8 to 12 per cent. j clared. To carry on their business the Tom Hall, colored, accused of shoot- 1 firm engaged a number of Italians Then mg a white boy. was hanged by a mob j the new union proceeded to station pickin the jail yard at Wickliffe. Ky. | cts near the factory. At night when the The report of secretary John Foord.; Italians came out of the factory a free of thc American Asiatic Assentation. | light occurred, and thc Italians, it is said, ■says tlie substitution of Russian for! used knives to defend themselves In Chinese soiercignty in Manchuria j the affray Lena Schwanz was slabbed means the beginning of rhe partition of . in thc neck. At the hospital it was said

the Chinese Empire, and the Unitfd | 3 hc would probably recover. pt their responsibility i Three other girls were slightly hurt.

in dealing with thc question.

George Duncan, a lawyer of New 1 York City, was accidcntllr shot and kill- - <-.d near Russellville. Ky.. while out I hunting. He is a nephew of George B

j Edwards.

I uetzu.

The'Japanese workmen at thc Port Arthur docks have been discharged. 1 he rxodu* from other parts of Manchuria continues. A, Japanese minister

that Japan.

and they were taken to their Jiomes. Two Italians were arrested and held

charges of felonious assault. TILLMAN IS NOT GlflLTT.

Sout'j Carsliaa Jury Readers a Verdict of

Acquittal.

Lexington, S. G (Special)—The trial J of James H. Tilhnan. who was charg-

stipulating cd *’•*8 ,be murder of N. G. Gonzales, me integrity* of Korean and Chinese j editor of the State, in Columbia on sovereignty, makes no point of the January 15 fast, ended in an acquittal military evacuation of Manchuria. ; The jury, before which Tillman lias It now appears that the governor of , ^ on trial , iocc September 28. Beirut. Syria, who wa, dismissed from , brougljt in a vfrdiel lhn> die governorship on demand of the 1 - - -

I'nitfd States, was told to return to Con:antinoplc “to be thc recipient of impe-

rial favors'

The physicians of Premier Zanardeili, of Italy, have advised him to take a rest from his ministerial labors, and he has so informed his colleagues. Two men held up a passenger train between Dur.aburg and Pleskov, in Russia. robbed the safe and baggage and escaped with the booty. L'ritcd States Consul General Skinner U in Pari* making preparations for the United States government's expedition

to Abyssinix

The Russian adrflinistrator of Niuchwang. Manchuria, proposes to organize a municipal council with one American and two British members, their decisions to be subject to thc administra-

tor’s approval.

Rear Admiral von Prittintz will take remmand of the German East Asiatic Squadron. There are now 10 German warships in south China waters and 3 ?ff the Japanese coast. ' M. Boeufe. chancellor of the French embassy at Washington, has been appointed representative o( the foreign >fiic<St thc St- Louis. Exposition. The Duke of Devonshire has condi•ionally accepted rhe presidency of thc British Free Food League. Col. Sir William Colville, the King’s rnastcy of ceremonies, died in London. Great Britain is sending two additional warships to China. The Earl of Hardwictce ha* been ap•oinled under secretary of state for In-, ia, and the Earl of Oonougbnwrc has ceived the appointment of under seenary of state for war in the British orenimefit. i 'i The Russian Ministers of War inn 'arme have announced that while not Thing to make any inovcjikdy to -cripitate hostilities in the Pay East, -ey arc prepared to meet any eventa-

ending a judicial hearing which hai ... grossed tbc attention of thc public of South Carolina -a* none other has in the last Quarter of a century. The jury was out lor 20 hour* before arriving a* a verdict. Never was a case in South Carolina courts more vigorously contested than this. The Solicitor was assisted in the prosecution by four other lawyers, while the accused was defended by seven lawyers, an exceptional array of counsel. More than a hundred witnesses gave testimony, about >■ many on one side as the other, and

lawyers argued before the jury. VICTORY FOR UNITED STATES.

Port Townsend. Wash. (Special) The plant of the Pacific'Wirelw Trie graph Company wia thrown open to thi poMic here. The apparatus worked si I isfactorily on the initial message, whirl afiviMd President Roosevelt of the com pleaitm of coMectn* at%>rt Casey. «r Whidby Island, wall the land line; « the b>g telegraph companies Following this, a lajgp number of rongratulatofi messages were passed between For Cssev and this city. r

Nearly all municipal bonds being seed now are put out at 4 per cent. Atchison is notably strong and the eying h said to be ol the he**. Amalgamated Copper directors de Krod the usual quarterly dividend of

Reported That Alaska Trtbaaa! Coocedes ifc:

London (By Cable).—‘The Morniny Advertiser announces that ij regrets to learn from a source which it regard* beyond question that thc decision of thc Alaska boundary tribunal Virtually

concede* thc American case.

The Morning Advertiser, which ap pears to be'thoroughly satisfied with thc reliability of its statement, says the news will be received in Canada with consternation. It gives a map and a detailed cxolanatiun showing how the derision will affect Canada, and add; that those who have followed (he ar content* have been thoroughly satisfiew ith Hon. Clifford Sifton't preparation

and presentation of the rase.

St. Louis (Special).—The dead body of Mrs. Kate Lauman, aged 56 years, aat found lying in a clump of btnbe* near the roadside at Normandy, a suburb of this city. She had been shot and robbed of several valuable diamonds. There is no due to the murderer. War m (hr Tay Pistol Columbus, O. (Special).—The State Boar dof Health adopted a resofwior by which their secretary was directes to take steps to prerent th£ sale

-toy

The lond-standing depute was only | by the State Department as the milrtaiy ,, 1 . . . , 1 __ attache* of the United States. On their KllW ,It«r , , '.k ol too. tryuiii. . „„ b „ k „ , ht Unkrf S T,t„ ,hc o»cret deliberation between the arbitra- ( cer * stopped on the Isthmus of Pantors. Even up to noon there was an ama, under orders received from the acute possibility that a disagreement ! % STr* wi !!l

I might result and the wTmle proceedings :

importers and the Collector of the Port fall to the ground. Lord Alverstonr. Engineers United States Army, who N. Stranhan regarding the enforce- though openly inclined to believe in thc hf ti£ it of the Pure Food law. I 0^ American argument Ihs, ’

1 ihe United States was entitled to the * anama \-anai s-ompany. heads of inlets, as contained in quev “ "?• intention ot either the lion ,. hdd out tfat C.n,d, h,d W ‘ r <” Id m.lc t.bli.lied her in oun.ton. a ,nd 3l I ‘"l' rtprdin, th« d..li«g »tth the PonUnd C.ial, i ‘ion »l Hnniphr,, .nd U""™Af.cr Innchra. Smutor Lod,.. Soc- i JP*. Mnrphy. bnl ,! u bnlm.td lhal miry Rooi and Sraator Tn.nc, h " -wn ba. tbtmn. con.,daraU« agreed to cede those ooints and to ,, * ht on ,he prf^rnt situation in Venstan the American bourSry line from j a . n n d ^ Ihl.’p^Tid’enl'CirtrTri thc bead of the Portland Canal, thus i J* ^* Md .^ '• rvint the Can.dian. that channd andl .dde^.d; ,0™ m.11 id„d. on .bid, there ate ^

only a few -disused storehouses. This accomplished, the majority of thc tribunal agreed to fix. with this exception, the entire boundary as outlined in the American case. Whether Messrs Aylesworth and Jette. the Canadian commissioner*, will refuse to sign the decision and make it unanimous is not yet known, but it will not affect the validity of the agreement if a minority

report is submitted.

The importers secured the approval of the officials to an arrangement whereby they will be allowed to remove goods from, the docks and warehouses without delay, upon giving bond to double the value of thc goods. Should any imports be condemned by the inspectors the dealers agree to return (he rejected articles itmufdiately for return shipment. The expense of rehandling goods will be much less, it is calculated, than the amount now paid out in storage charges while awaiting completion'

of tha official inspection.

On the recommendation of the tiro officials to their respective superiors. ^ — *» *--- issued

order embodying the regulations desired. This will expedite the handling of shipments in the import line.

New Csaalcrfeit la CtrcalaUoo. The Secret Service announced thc discovery of a new counterfeit ten-dol-lar United States note. The note in hand is of the series of 1901; Lyons, register; Roberts, treasurer, with portraits of Lewis and Dark. It is a wellexecuted lithographic production, printed on a good quality o' bond paper, without any attempt to imitate silk fiber. The color of the seal, numbering large X, with superimposed "ten” .he face of the note, is pink instead

of carmine.

NEW ALASKAN ROAD ASSURED.

All Federal Dcpartasals Assisi Uac Fran

Seward la Tbc Taaaaa.

Washing!oiT D G (Special).—John E. Ballaine. chairman of the finance committee of the-Alaskan Central Railway. who has been before the department for a week on work connected with the construction of the road, lias been

sueccessful in his efforts.

The projected railroad will extend

lathe Departwtais | from Seward, cm the southern coast of Gen. Frederick Funston Submitted j.Alaska, north to the Tanana river. 420 his report as commander of the Dc-1 miles, and will open, when completed, partment of Columbia, giving the re- ell of Central Alaska to daily communisult of hi* personal tour in Alaska. cation throughout the year. It is being Secretary Moody approved the cs-1 *~ ,h . « ^ ra ‘ e ° { '*5 » >'«'•• timales for the support of the Navy | Prcs ’ d « ,t Rposeixlt personally recomfor thc next fiscal year, amounting to 1 m “ d 5f. 10 , ! c }' ead5 dcl> w‘ n, £ nt ,? $102,866,449. ; expediting of the business Mr. Ballaine

The President received a number of

members of thc different military cietics that"have been in attendance at the unveiling of thc Sherman statue. Congressman Dayton, of West Virginia, says as the result of his observations abroad that, ship for ship/thc American^ Navy is the best in the

world.

The bodies of 83 American soldiers who died in the Philippines were interred at Arlington National Cemetery with military honora. The monument erected to General Sherman was nnveiled. President Roosevelt making the principal address. Other orations were delivered by General Henderson, General Dodge and General Sickles.. Leopold J. Stern, the Baltimore satchel manufacturer, indicted in coot nection with Postoffice Department contracts, was brought from Toronto in custody of Postoffice Inspector T^hc President removed United States Marshal Frederick A. Field, of the district of Vermont, for dereliction of

duty.

Captain S. L’H." Slocum. Eighth Cnvairy. has been assigned as military

attache at Bogota, Colombia.

Judge Advocate General Davis has reported that there were 5275 trials by general court-martial during the year

just closed.

The annual report of the Register e the Treasury shows the foreign bold

ings of United States bom)*.

Secretary Hay, at the Cabinet meeting. announced that the information in his possession from our represenu-. lives abroad indicated that there was no (car of an immediate outbreak of hositilities between Russia and Japan.

SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

nuitti

of .(lift.

The Union Veterans’ Legion, a. their convention in Dayton, O.. riectcd officers, and decided to hold next year'* .-on rent kin at Jamestown, N. Y.‘ There was a big drop in Crucible Steel on the Pittsburg Stwck Exchange, and a great deal changed bands during

rhe opening hour.

The firm of Zimmerman ft Forshay was-suspended from the privileges of the New York Stock Exchange. Former President Cleveland made an address at Armour Institute in Chirago on "Industrial Education.” M. Lassar, Russian minister <n China, has informed the Chinese gov cmtnrnt that if it reject* rhe demand* of Russia the occupation of Manchuria by the Russian troops will be perms

had with them, owing to the public importance of the enterprise in the development of the resources of Alaska. The Post office Department established a postoffice at Seward, the ocean terminus, and appointed Lillie N. Gordon postmaster. The Treasury Department ordered immediate action taken looking to the dcs ignating of Seward as a subport of entry. Tlie War Department promised to inclndc in its estimate for the extension of thc government cable along the south era coast of Alaska an appropriation sufcient to make Seward one of the cable'* objective points. The Interior Department gave final approval to the surveys of thc road. The Department of Commerce and Labor has requested the lighthouse Board to provide a lighthouse at the entrance to the Seward harbor.

Fflpptei ot Colas.

Lawrenceville. IIL (Special).—In the Lawrenceville Circuit Court here a jury trying the case of the state against George Ryan, charged with assault to commit murder, could not reach a verdict after being-ont 36 hours, when one of them suggested flinping nickels— heads to convict, tails to acquit. Each juror put a nickel in a hat. a shake and toss and the nickels fell on a table, c and six. necessitating another tow. The second trial showed four heads, and eight tails, resulting in aeiL The court accepted the verbal did not know how it wa;

v trial

Editor Coortctcl of Coo^wpL San Juan. Porto Rico (Special).— H&|>art S. Bird, editor of the San Juau News, and J. Medina, the Mayagucz correspondent of that paper, were Convicted in the Mayagucz District Court of contempt. Bird was sentenced to l« days’ imprisonment and to pay a $ioc fine. Medina was condemned to y days in jail and to pay a fine of $aoo There is no appeal. Newspaper Office Mobbed. Jamestown, N. D. (Special).—A mob ha* entered the office of the Journal at Keasal. spilled several cases of type in the street and wrecked the interior ol the office. Editor G L. Alien has been ling a lawless element in hi* paper. it it believed the members of that gang committed the outrage. .

Chicago (Special).—Albert Joerndt. r letter-carrier, is in jail awaiting arraign, ment on the charge of Mealing letter; and thc checks and money they contained. Joerndt confessed to Postudk* Inspector Stuart that be had been bet-

month 30 per cent, of the customs dues of Puerto Cabeflo and La Guayra and that the official papers of Caracas have been making it as disagreeable as possible for the foreign commissioners adjudicating die claims against Venezuela in accordance with the protocols negotiated by United States Minister Herbert W. Bowen and the diplomatic representatives of the foreign powers. Ju«t what thc result of this policy of President Castro will be it is impossible to state, but the General Staff of the army intends that in the event of any violation of the Monroe doctrine the army of tbc United States shall be in readiness to cope with the emergency. Extensive preparations are now being made by tfie General Staff of the array for thc gathering of information of military value from the countries of Central and South America. With this end in view officers of the General Staff will probably be sent to South America in the capacity of military attaches in

a few days.

For several weeks three or four officers of the General Staff Corps have been taking a course of instruction at the military information division of the General Staff preparatory to going to South and Central American countries for the pilose of gatj]pring information. They will, it is understood, go to their respective assignments with thc full knowledge and consent of the governments to which they will be accredited and in thc capacity of military

attaches.

In thc opinion of many of tbc members of the army General Staff and ol the Navy General Board the next wai in which the United States will be engaged will be in defense of the Monroe doctrine and will be fought, probably in some country of South or Centra) $wteyla| lojaoctioa. Hamilton. O. (Special).—Judge Bclden granted one of the mosf sweeping injunctions ever issued by an Ohio court. It was directed against the Hans ilton Typographical Union, the Hamilton Cooperative Trades and Labor Council and the Nonpariel Priming Company. puMishers of the county iradc organs. The defendants are enjoined from continuing a boycott on the Republican News or firms which ad vertise in h. and ordered that interference of every sort with the company's business must stop. The court said the constitution gave any company the right to employ whomsoeve* they saw fit. The boycott was to force the nlaintiff to unionize and abandon it* "open shop” policy. Lyacfted to Mcttaos. ..Hamilton. Mont (Special).—Walter Jackson, the convicted murderer oi Voonie Buck, a six-vcar-old boy. wai taken from the county jail here by a mob and lynches! The identity of the mob leaders is not known. Thirty-five minutes after the lynching Jackson't body was cut down by the Sheriff and Coroftfr and removed to the morgue, pic murder of little Formic Buck war a peculiarly atrocious crime. When the boy’* body was found it was horribly mutilated. Jackson was arrested, tried and convicted. He was sentenced •o be hanged, but hi* attorneys appealsi to thc Supreme Court. Killed His Father and Mather; Chicago (Special).—Earl Dlswonh, who confessed to haring murdered hi* ather and mother and a boarder at his lome in Woodstock, ML. waived a .-hangc of venue, for which he had ap>lied, and threw himzcl! on the mercy ■>4 the court. He was given a We sentence in the penitentiary.

I^acaster, Pa. (SpeeialJ —Dc- H. M. Alexander, the owner of thc Lancaster County Vaccine Farms, near Marietta, died at hit country home, at Conewago, aged $2 years. He established Ms vaccine farms in 1889. and they comprise thc largest vaccine establishment in the world, producing 1

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