POPE LEO TO
TAKE A HAND.
Head of tke Catholic Church Said to Fitor
Benoial of the Friars.
flelieves that with Settlement of the
Question that Peace and Pro
. perity Will Come.
London, July 21. The Rome corre
(Tpondent of the Daily Chronicle. says
the pep"? Is intensely displeased at the
way In which , th commission of car
dinals has conducted the negotiations
with Judge Taft in the matter of the
friars In,, the Philippines.
"I learn from an authoritative
source," says the correspondent, "that
besides annulling the procedure of the
commission of cardinals the pope has
summarily dissolved it, expressing his
view that the American demands were
reasonaole'and signifying his readiness
10 treat with Judge Taft personally
Rome, July 21. The following note
from the Vatican was presented .to
Governor Taft tonight:
"I hasten to acknowledge the receipt
or me letter oy wtucnyou kindly 'earn
municated to rrre the cablegram from
Secretary Root-, answering my rote of
July 9. which explained the counter
project of the Vatican for the regula
tion or religious affairs in the Philip
pines. While thanking you for this im
portant communication, I am happy
to assure you that the holy see has
learned with the liveliest satisfaction
the high consideration in which Mr
Root and the government of the United
States holds the fitness of the measures
which the Vatican independently of the
solution .or any economic question de
signed taking to ameliorate -the relig
ious situation in the archipelago and
to co-operate in the pacification of the
people under American sovereignty.
The measures are Indicated in my
memorandum of June 21, and by letter
of July . These declarations of Mr.
Root do honor to the deep political wis
dom of the government of the United
States, which knows how to appreci
ate the happy influence of the holy see
ror ine religious and civil elevation of
the people, especially Catholics.
"With equal satisfaction the pontiff
has taken into account the assucances
of Secretary; Root that 4ie .Ametisan-
luiuuiairtiiu .ine jrnuippiues ana at
Washington will put forth all possible
efforts to maintain the good under
standing happily established" with the
authorities of the Catholic church- On
his part -the 'pontiff will hot fail to
give the apostolic delegation precise in
structions according to my former
notes.
"The lines for future negotiations, in-
iicated in the iioteg. having been ac-
ceptea oy secretary Root, the repre
sentative of the Vatican in the archi
pelago will enter into relations with the
authorities in the Philippines on the
four points indicated by Mr.. Root at
the end of his cablegram.
ERA OF PEACE AND . PROGRESS,
"The Holy see does not doubt that
mutual confidence combined with trk
. action of its representative and that of
the American government will readll$
produce a happy solution of the pend
ing questions, auguring for that new
country an era of peace and true pro
gress. "It is my agreeable duty in "ending
this letter to be able to render rromaee
to tne very great courtesy and high
capacity with which you have filled
the delicate mission which the govern
ment and president of the United
States delegated to you. Willingly; 1
add that the favorable result of the
segotiations must be attributed in very
large part to your high personal qual
ities. , , -M '. ',
"While flatjfjffng myself that this'
3rst success will be a guarantee of the
.lappy issue of ulterior negotiations in
Manila, 1 have the honor to be,' etc.,
"RAMPOLLA."
The Osservatore Romano, ofTlcial o
an of the vaticaAflpilay publish an
jfficial note as folrcws: ' "The initiative
it the government the United States
frith the objectjjof, arriving at, an urf1'
lerstanding with the holy see about re
.igious questions In the Philippines, in
ahich is showy! frankness and fine
political tact, has reached t. happy
nding afteV negotiations conducted on
90th sides "in" a spirit of conciliation.
uia inenaiy aeiere-nce. . e
"The general lines of a common ac
:ord have been drawn up to the mutual
satisfaction of the parties- concerned
na in comormity witn the proposal.'
made to the holy see in a memuran- I
iuni.
"These general lines will serve as a
jasis for further negotiations as re
tards details, to be conducted ' and
orought to a conclusion at Manlla'.be'
tween an apostolic' delegate and the
jovernor of the Philippines." '' "'
AFTER A NON-UNION WORKMAN.
Shamokin, "Pa. Surrounded by 1,0W
nraged men and boys, at the Pennsyl
vania rallrcj.M station, Herman Patun
lin of Philadelphia', . a. nonunion fire
man at the Bear., Valley shaft,- anfl
Jacob Kramer, .lr-rnUy pofrce'mdn Of
Schuylkill liavfcn,-. vrere 'rushed ' on a
passenger train- and" taken to Sunbury
, tall. The former is accused of shoot -',
wig at Mrs; Willfarh Latshaw because
she Is said 'to hav- taunted him, for
working while others .were on a strike.
He was near the colliery. at. the time
and the woman. m ill a garden close
by. The bullet grazed her head! - Kra.
mer, who appealed: at the hearing' be
fore a local Justice-to testify liifpa'ton
tln's behalf, was; arrested' for carrying'
a revolver. The men'- were, unable to
procure ball. A iarge.crovyd! collected
I tne justices orqce, and threatened
10 hang the. prisoner's, but strike- lead
rr persuaded .t hi miners to disperse. ,
... ' '
Ta Aaaaajnata tha KMg? - '
London, July 20. A dispatch from
Oaa, Italy, to the Daily Dttfpatob re
SSrts the arres t at Bsa, 4af ;Tu'rln, 'of
a fmnm barber who receatly arrived
Cm from Patersoa, If. 1, The prU
'tC9 ftvsa Ma nam a .ffaaattl, -which
a mmm a. jfnvJffTt llt n ha aw ittM to ttofaaee l
THE SITUATION II SOUTH AFRICA.
Washington. D. C A report treating
in an interesting way of the, commer
cial situation in South Africa was
made public at the state department
today. It is fiom United States Consul
General Bingham at Capetown and is
dated May 2s. He says all enterprises
u ill be started anew, farms repaired
and lestocked and machinery bought.
and that it will not be possible to get
goo iiiiot he interior fast enough. lc
meet the demand that will arise.
All nations, Mr. Bingham says, are
awaiting this coming trade and are
preparing for it b establishing direct
lints of ocean transportation, except
the United States, which, barring an
occasional freight steamer, has no di
rect connection with "Cape Colony. The
United .States, he says, ships to Cape
Cf lony more than twice as much goods
as any other country, except Great
Britain.
"As British subjects will have a
great war debt to pay," says the con
sul, "they very naturally think that
the trade of South Africa belongs to
them and will leave nothing undone to
retain it. We cannot always depend
solely on the superior quality of our
goods. Greater effort on our part is
necesrary.
MAKE WNR ON TKE SHEEPMEN.
Cheyenne, fryo., July ,2J. A, special
from Lander, sas Fheepirrtepjaire hav
ing a hard time of it in -jvestern-cen-tral
Wyoming, ' At Atlantic City a
party of miners took possession of a
band of sheep owned by William Scar
let and j drove the animals-across the
Indian trail to Twin Creek. The min
ers were armed with pistols and rifles
and covered the herders while moving
the sheep. No violence was attempted.
Scarlet had been warned not to cross
the dead line and enter the mining
camps, but he ignored the miners. No
further trouble is anticipated here.' Se
rious trouble Is imrrfinent-in the "New
Fork country , south of Lander. It is
alleged .that the camp outfits of Jew
ell '& Wipper.of Rock Springs were
burned a few days, ago and the sheep
badly scattered. A large gang of cat
tlemen of the New Fork country moved
down' on the sheep camp and after
driving the herders away committed
the depredation. The sheep werg over
the dead line and their owners had
been repeatedly warned to stay out of
the cattle country. The sheepmen
have threatened to retaliate and tiiere
may be bloodshed.
M UNITED STATES IS NOT ASKED.
Washington, D. C, July 21. The
government of the United States has
not received an invitation to partici
pate In the antl-trust conference pro
posed .by the csar. The government
was not concerned officially In the In
ternational sugar conference at Brus
sels, to which the projected conference
is a" natural supplement. Therefore
it is not eblieved that it3 participation
in this is expected.
However, it would be clearly Impos
sible for the United States government
to enter into any undertaking with
foreign governmentsi concerning such
important matters as trade regulations
rfhd especially involving an Interna
tional regulation of tariffs in some
measure.
It is felt that congress would never
surrender any part of its constitution
al authority to regulate these matters,
so that even If the United States
should attend the prqjected conference
through a proper representative no ac
tion could be taken that. would in the
slightest sense bind the government.
SAY EN6LAND IS NOT VINDICTIVE.
London. (Speetai'.-p-Keplymg to"" a
question in the house of lords regard
ing' tlie position of affairs in China, the
foreign secretary, Lord Lansdowne.
said It was hoped to restore Tien Tsin
to.-he Chinese within a month.
Answering another question. Lord
Lans-iowne said that the Chinese in
demnity debt was a gold debt, tut
Gr(;at ijritain was not vindictive and
!n consequence of the serious denrecla-
I tlon of the ;value of the tael had sug
gested to the other powers a mitiga
tion of the terms by which during the
.Irsffctght, years China should not pay
more than she' would have done had
the .toer maintained the value at which
it flood when .the protocal' "was signed.
The other; pewjers-declded- to relieve
China, but differed as to the means to
be "' .rmplpyed. Lord . Lansdowne
tliougTif every effort would be made by
(ires - Britain to act with the other
powers v v -.'
?8EDjCTS A ' MONSTER CROP OF CORN
Chicago, . 111. Paul Morton,' first vice
President oft.the Santa Fe road, pre
dicts a bumper crop of corn for the
west. and the entire country this sea
ion. He estimates the total crop of
the country at' 2,600,000,000 bushels, and
declares that the railroads of the west
will have sll they can do to take care
.f'he Increased traffic that will re
ulf therefrom,, i
3iTr. '''Morton! .estlma.t. was . made
Vter a-oareful survey of ..(he. situation
uoDlemented by personal Inspection of
western.- states traversed by the lines
of" tne Santa Fe and by reports given
him by sgents of the. company, m near-r
ly every corn-bearing state. In the un-
0tU " '' '
' War VaXaty WIN UnJto. "
Vaawlngton. D.fC.-ThacansolWatloil
of the Spanish Veterans and the
B pnlsh-Am rlcaifWar Veterafft'protH
iaes to he aoM axctpHshd fcftor a
dissension which haw lasted tor several
lysara. A eoaamtttaa of tvt wswbirs
iron' oaek orfaaatloa has hata pra-
?tof xrr rvrr '"d
STRIKERS ARE
BACK AT WORK
Striking Freight Handlers Take Their . Old
Places With Railroads. '
Strika Was Expensive 1o Business
Men, Costing in Naighborhood
of $10,000,000.
Chicago, July IS. (Special.) Renew
ed activity on the part of Chicago busl
ness men followed the settlement of the
freight handlers' and the teamsters
strike and at the. close of . business
hours for the day thousands of tons
of freight had been sent to and from
the various freight depots. Kvery one
of the 24,000 strikers who could obtain
employment had returned to work by
2 o'clock in the afternoon. The strike,
it is estimated, cost the business men
of Chicago J10.000.000 and in order to
guard against a contingency in the .u
ture they, are preparing to Inaugurate
an educational campaign in opposition
to the sy'mpsrtrTetic-Vtrike.
The labor unions will be atked to
forego the uSTT!f ' tMs impotent wca
pon. . Business' interests which suffered
during the strike will Join in pledging
themselves, If is said, not to sign un
ion agreements which dc not guard
them against these strikes.
On the other hand the labor unions
are fighting to secure the right to abro
gate agreements for the purpose of or.
dering sympathetic strikes.
The freight handlers blame the na
tional officers of the teamsters for the
loss of the strike. They declare that
the strike shews the necessity for In
eorporatlng in all agreements a reser
vation which will permit strikes. '
Credit forhe settlement" Vests with
the state'boafcr of arbitration. ' It was
'the adoption of the suggestlort of that
board whlch led to the action of: the
freight handlers' union in declaring the
struggle with. the railroads at an, end
At the same time it is probable that
even had the state board not made its
suggestions, the fight would have been
practically over, as the majority of the
freight handlers had returned to their
work before the mass meeting at which
the strike was called off officially had
convened. It v. as a knowledge of this
fact that had much to do with the ac
tion taken by the union. However, the
proposition made by the state board of
arbitration enabled the freight han
dlers to retire gracefully from the field.
After ten days of strike the Chicago
freight handlers' strike terminated in
an unqualified victory for -the rail
roads. A meeting of the strikers, pre
sided over by President Curran, result
ed In an almost unanimous vote to re
turn to work, leaving. the wage scale
and other questions for settlement be
tween the men and their respective
roads. '
At the conclusion of the meeting the
strikers went by hundreds to the ware
houses to apply for their old positions,
and the teamsters who have remained
out in sympathy again took us their
reins. By noon Immense quantities of
freight which had been held back for
days was being rushed to the railroads
or taken from warehouses and cars.
Wrhere stagnation had ruled commer
cial activity again reigned.
Chicago merchants express unbound
ed relief at the termination of hostili
ties, but they are scarcely less happy
than the men themselves, although the
strike is. estimated to have cost thr-m
$10,000,000, to say nothing of the trade
that had beifh permanently lost to
them.
RUSSIA'S PLAN TO DEAL WITH TRUSTS
London. (Special.) Details of an im
portant move by Itussia, which have
evidently been suppressed hitherto by
the censor, have transpired in London.
This move is no less than a proposal
by the Imperial government for an in
ternational conference to deal with
trusts. - "
Baron de Rtaal. Bufsian ambassador
In London, about ten days ago present
ed to the. British government a, note
from M. de Wltte, the Russian minister
of liniiiite. which note also u a sent to
all the powers that-signed the liruss is
sugar convention, proposing that there
powers should consider. In Common,
means 'to protect International' com
merce against the crtlfjeial depression
of prices, not onjy. .by , government
measures, such as export bounties o
the control of production, but also by
the ' mach more dangerous processes
adopted by trusts, private ' undertak
ings or cartels, which tend artiflciuily
to Influence the International market.
This explains the mysterious reference
made In the Financial Messenger of St.
Petersburg early this week to a recent
note of M. de Wltte, which the paper
said "Is an application. In the eco
nomic domain, of the principles of The
Hague conference," . '
Lives Lost In Typhoon. '
Manila. A -evere .typhoon, swept
over the southern Islands July 14 and
IS.' The United States customs 'steam
er Shearwater was lost off the Island
of MarMboqae.'" Nineteen of Its crew'.
Including . three .Americans, were
drowned. - '
Not Oopoaod to Friers.
Rome. Father Hantlago Paya, pro
vincial of the Dominicans la the Phil
ippines, who Is staying here, when In
formed by a correspondent of the re
sult of Oovernor Taffs negotiations
with the Vatican on the subject of fri
ars sad their lands, expressed satis-
at, the 'acceptance of the Brst
I Omm.m1I Ik.
e&aay of slate, tat the mat-
to bo diss id at Manila Between aa
toaf'-l oetrgate a4 tko rrroraor la
GERMANY WILL FACE MEAT FAMINE.
Washington, V. C Consul General
Masun at Frankfort reports to the
state department the text of the regu
Iations governing the me-at inspection
laws of Germany, which Is of vital In
tert-st to meat packers of this country,
Aftera thiniugh discussion of theva
rious pijfUgiiiphs of the bill relating to
the Imnoiiatlon of meats and meat
producing animals into Germany, Con
sul General Mason says:
"Although the principal features ul
the law have long been made familiar
through consulifr'and press reports, i
brief resume of some of Its more 1m
portant provisions, especially those
which will affect the importation of
meats and animals, may be of present
interest. Under paragraph 12, fresh
meats can only be Imported In whole
carcasses. Carcasses of cattle and
hogs, but not of calves, may be spilt in
half, but the halves are to be left to
gether and accompanied in all cases
by the head, lungs, heart and kidneys.
Cow btc-f must have the udder at
tached and carcasses of pork must in
clude the tongue. Excepting hams, ba
con and intestines, no piece of pickled
smoked or otherwise preserved meat
weighing less than S.8 pounds may be
Imported Into Germany. When to all
this Is added the' prohl6llion of meats
preserved with "borax or boraclc acid,
or with any of several other antisep
tic salts, it will be evident that the
net effect of the new system will be to
more or less diminish the supply and
increase the cost of meats for con
sumption In this country. Already some
premonitory symptoms of such Influ
ence are noticed.
MEAT FAMINE IN SIGHT.
'The Berliner Tageblatt makes the
following comment: "The meat inspec
tion law throws its shadow before a
meat famine is in eight. Old stocks of
preserved meats have become exhaust
ed, and tlje countries which formerly
supplied Germany with meats have for
the most part' found other hiarkets,
and our import 'of cattle and fresh
meats is steadily diminishing. Ham
burg, and Berlin have this .week en
joyed a foretaste of what. will happen
when the meat inspection law shall
have entered into full force. It oc
curred at Hamburg on Saturday, June
14, that many butchers had no beef to
sell because Denmark had sent ' very
few cattle and because the rest of
Germany and Austria tiad . furnished
only a meager supply for part of the
week. Berlin had to pay on Saturday
at the cattle market, for the lew
available animals that were to be had,
actual famine prices.' "
6ENERAL JACOB SMITH IS RETIRED.
Washington, D. C Secretary Root
brought from Oyster Bay the case of
General Jacob H. Smith, tried by court
martial at Manila on account of or
ders issued to Major Waller.
General Smith was found guilty; of
the charges by the court and sentenced
to be admonished by the reviewing au
thority. The president has so admon-
she;d General Smith and retired him
under the law which provides that of
ficers having reached the age of 62
years may be retired at will by the
president.
Secretary Root supplements the rep
rimand of President Roosevelt In a
long circular, in which he explains the
conditions which resulted In the court-
martial of General Smith and shows
hat, although Smith issued the '.'kill
and burn" order, as a matter of fatet
very few persons were killed as a re
sult of that orde'r, the casualties being
confined almost wholly to the eleven
natives killed under Major Waller's
direction.
THE DREAM OF CECIL RHODES.
Washington, D. C Before many
ears the world may be astonished to
find that the long foufered dream of
the late Cecil Rhodes for the opening
up of the Dark Continent has become
a reality, and that a consecutive line
f steel-rails will stretch from Cairo
o Cape Town. The state department
haa made public an Interesting re-port
n railroad development In Africa from
United States Consul Havendal, at
Beirut, bearing date of May 30. The
consul says that by an agreement
igned at Urusscls the previous month
by liobi-rt Williams with the king of
he Belgians the German route was
r-undoned and the ra'liray Iron. Cairo
to iho cape is to t'? carried through the
Congo Free State to the upper waters
f the Nile.' From Stanley Falls on
the uf per Congo a railroad Is to be
built to Muhagl on.. Lake Albert Ny-
r.za, and this connection will supply
ht.misslng link between the, cape and
Egjptian railways.
Smelters File an Answer.
Denver, Colo. Counsel for the Amer
ican Smelting and Heflnlng company
have filed the company's answer tb the
ppllratlon of Attorney General Post
for leave to , file suit In the supreme
court for the dissolution of the com
pany on the ground that It Is at trurt.
Tli an$r. denii-s the right of , the
court to 'takes- original Jurisdiction, de
claring that no emergency exists sueh
as would -Justify such litigation. It
denies Inat "thecompnny Is a trust or
that public Interests are- Injured by
Its' methods. , . .
Court to Try,. Merger.
St. Paul, Mlnn.-Uoth litigants In the
case of the State of Minnesota against
the Northern ffc'curitle company et si,
being the so-called anti-merger suit,
have agreed to submit to the Jurisdic
tion of the United States circuit court.
The state waived and abandoned Its
motion to have the case remanded t5
the Ramsey county district court and
the defendants abandoned their mo
tion to set aside the service of .the
MBMnons. The defendants also agreed
to oator aa afpessaepe on rula Oasv
MINERS WILL
NOT STRIKE.
Miners la CoMHtion Practically- Decide
Hot Tb Wa h Out. -
President Mitchell of the Minora'
Union Assumes Conservative
. Attitude in Mooting. -
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special.) If the
voice and influence of President Mitch
ell of the United Mine Woikers pre
vail with the members of his organ
ization there will be no general strike
of the organization. In his speech In
the convention Mr. Mitchell advised
strongly against a strike and urged
that the bituminous miners continue
at work and that a system of assess
ment upon the members of the order,
which he outlined, be carried Into ef
fect as the best means of affording
aid and support of the striking an
thracite men in, the eas.t.
His recommendations would hae
settled the entire question for which
the convention was called and an im
mediate adjournment would have fol
lowed. A motion to adopt the sugges
tions of President Mitchell provoked a
long debate, In which the general sen
tlment was against the ordering of the
strike. The men from the anthracite
regions finally made a request that
they be allowed to hold a caucus to
determine upon an expression of c-pln
Ion as to what they thought the con
vention should do, and asked an ad
journment of the convention for this
purpose. Their request was granted
and the adjournment taken. The men
who were in .favor of a strike were In
a decided minority In the convention.
CONVENTION CALLED TO ORDER
The hour for calling he convention
was 19 o'clock. At ten minutes before
that time President Mitchell came upon
the platform and was greeted with
cheers. Secretary Wilson, following
close after, shared the applause.Prompt
to the second, president Mitchell
brought down his gavel, saying: "The
hour of 10 o'clock having arrived, the
convention will be in order." Secre
tary Wilson then read the call for the
convention and President Mitchell call
ed for the report of the committee on
credentials. The reading of this by
Michael McTaggart of the committee
consumed much time, as the report
contained the name of every delegate,
with a statement of the number of
votes possessed by each man.
JJelegate Campbell, a colored man
from Kentucky, moved the acceptance
of the report and the continuation of
Ihe committee. This was done and the
convention adjourned until 1:30 p. m.
When the convention met In the aft
ernoon a motion was made and carried
that the convention go at once Into
executive session. John P. Reese of
Iowa moved a reconsideration of the
vote by which this action was taken.
He declared secret sessions undesir-
ble.
The speech of Mr. Reese In support
of his motion carried the day, the vote
was reconsidered and it was decided
that the meetings of the convention
would be open to the public.
STRIKE OUT OF THE QUESTION.
The" action of the caucuses makes a
geneTilstrike practically out of the
question, as the anthracite men can
not carry their point without the aid
of Illinois, and with - that state and
Iowa and Ohio against them there-is
no apparent manner In which a strike
can be ordered.
The meeting of the anthracite min
ers held after the adjournment of the
convention resulted In nothing but the
conclusion that there was no way In
which a strike could be forced and
that those members of the anthracite
districts who were anxious for a strike
would be disappointed. There was a
long conference and a vote was de
cided upon, but when it was partially
taken It was Been that the result
would be ro "strong In upholding the
recommendations of President Mitchell
that the vote was not- considered.
While there is an element among the
anthracite men that Is greatly disap
pointed It Is not.;, likely that . any
fight will be made upon the floor of the
convention.
" V ..... . :. . - ' 1
'reside tit Alllcncii said: .
"I fcm greatly pleased with the out
come of work done by the convention
so far, and I hasvs-'no doubt' that'lhe
policy outlined In my speech will bo
carried out substantially. Some minor
changes may be made, but the policy
as a whole will be followed by the
:onvcntlon, I am certain,"
Hobson Saves Girl's Life.
St. Lculs, Mo. Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson of Merrlmac fame
tcsf'tied Miss May Cerf.a young womnn
weil kr.own In, St. Louis, soclvjy, from
drowning In the Mississippi river. Ml,s
Ceif wai standing on the deck of a
yacht and.'lofilng her balance, fell Into
tfw rtream: Captain Hobson, who was
In sniminlng nearby,' at once went To
the young woman's rescue and caught
hc-r r.i she wirti going down for the
wrc.nd time. Ho conveyed her to the
yacht, where she was resuscitated with
sornu difficulty.
Hold Up Rook Island Train.
Fort Worth,' Tex. Two men at
tempted to hold up a southbound Rock
Island passenger train between Bsgl
mi'v and Newark, north of this city.
They pieced a hug pike of telegraph
poles across the- track. The 'engine
struck the poles and came to -a stop.
Twj imwked-'msn attempted to climb
ap Into the englne.but Engineer Kn)gh
1 n1 Fireman M osier opened fire on
them, driving tbemjMiok. The robbers
scaped Mid tke underbrush end" oU
Irsia Mat on to Fert '.Wotfiif v4:
,;T,r7''-""'" I'.).. -
UNION PACIFIC WIS k NEW PUN.
New York. (Special ) The Union Pa
cific Railroad company announces a
plan for financing the balance of the
purchases of Northern and Southern
Pacific shares. A year and a half ago
the exnslve purchases of Northern
Pacific stoe k -were made in the Inter
est of. the Union Pacific company and
the shares acquired were vested In the
Oregon Short Line company. They
now consist of Northern Securities
stock, for which the Northern Pacific
shares have been exchanged.,-
Since that time the Union Pacific
company has also increased its hold
ings of Southern Pacific stock. The
Oregon Short Line Railway company
has created an issue of 4 per cent and
participating twenty-five year gold
bonds, which are to be secured by the
pledge and deposit with the Equitable
Trust company of New York, as trus
tee, of ten shares of Northern Securi
ties stoe-k for every 11,000 face value of
ton-Is Issued. The bonds carry 4 per
cent Interest, payable semi-annually,
and, beginning with the year 1903, are-
entitled to any cash dividends and In
terest which may be paid in cash dur
ing each year upon the" giving af least
three months' notice, the bonds-so re
deemed to be drawn by. lot.
The present Issue of these bonds will
be $31, WO and holders of the preferred
and common stock of the Union Pacino
Railway company, of record on Au
gust 1, have the privilege of subscrib
ing to those bonds at 90 and Interest
to Die extent of 50 per cent of the par
value of their stock. Arrangements
have been made for the sale of such
bonds as are not taken by the stock
holders. Subscriptions must be made
before the close of business AugUBt 15,
and accompariled by the payment of
$450 for each bond. The baiance flue
must be paid on or before September
15. Holders who desire- to anticipate-
the second payments .will be. allowed a-
discount of $1.66 per bond.
This transaction completes the. pur-
chase of Northern Pacific and Southern
Pacific stock without Increasing the
bonded obligations of the Union Pacific
company or Its capital account, and '
leaves the company In a position to re
tire obligations before maturity at a
slight premium. The rights to sub
scribe to the new bonds are estimated
to be worth a little over 1 per cent to
Union Pacific stockholders: This cal
culation is based on about 7 or 98 for
the new bonds.
KIN6 WAITS FOR THE CORONATION.-
London. The reports regarding King
Edward's health continue to be most
satisfactory. He will remain on the
royal yacht off Cowes, Isle of Wight,
until August 8, and will return to the
Roadstead after the coronation.
It has been definitely decided that
the British -fleet will- reassemble--off
Portsmouth for the coronation review..
The Japanese Bquadron has been In
structed to return there and It is un
derstood that other foreign countries
will also be represented.
The royal yact will, It is understood,'
remain off Cowes for about a fortnight
is the weather continues fine, and tho
king may then take a trip down the
channel. The doctors are anxious that
their patient shall not to occasioned
the slightest discomfort or Inconveni
ence, and instructions have been Issued
to skippers and pilots navigating ves
sels through the Solent to slow-down
when passing the Victoria 'and 'Albert
in order to prevent unnecessary Oscil
lation. The steamer Konig Wllhelm,
crowded with emigranri!,. passed Wed
nesday afteernoon so siowlv that com'.
ments were evoked from onlookers on
shore.
Tha naval review off Splthead has
been officially fixed' for August 11.
Water Famine at Denver.
lit nvcr, Colo. Scarcity of water In
the Platte river and the extravagant
uae c the diminished supply have
brought Denver face to face with a
water famine. The city ofncitihi be-
llevo that only vigorous measures will
prevent resultant epidemics. The dally
com;implion now Is dj,0uo,0uO gallons
and the water company says It must be
rehired to 3u,0'X),000 If the present .sup
ply Is to Inst until precipitation next
fal. .Cutting off water for manufac
turing, and Irrigation purposes is don-ter-iated.'
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Take Natives From Slums. '
Manila-The municipal health board
of Manila has decided to remove 40,000
natives from the slums to suburban
amro in an effort to check the spread
of chclera here. The object Is to clean
anl disinfect the disease centers. The
ai.ips v. Ill be sanitarily conducted. The
mui.lclpallty rents the grounds, builds
hj ciarps and feeds the Indigent per
sons.
Alleged Murderers at Balor.
Manila. The three Gulterre brothers,"
who arc 'charged with the murder of
a 1 . apprentice named .Vienville, who--
was a member of .the punty command
ed ty Lieutenant Commanr J. C. Oll-
moi-! of , the United Klules gunboat
yorkfown', captured by the Filipino
iri' April, Wj'J, have arrived at Raler.
Principe province, after having evaded
hi military and constabulary for twa ..-
' Nearly: every shop In Japan for the
sale of fqrslgn good Is furnished with ,
a eignln foreign language. No mat.
ter whether ( the language is Intelligible,
If It IS only In foreign characters, that
li'eriotign.' 'Many oftbese.slgns are a
study"; " Tne all countries boot and
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French hems leech.". "Cut hair shop.'
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