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fQR THE BUST MIIN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS. President S. J. Small's order for a general strike of commercial teleg raphers did not seem to meet with the response the union officials had ex pected. In Chicago the additions to the strikers^ forces were few, and in New York the order had little appar ent effect on the situation. The strikers said nearly all union men were out already. President Small said a fund of $-,00U,00O would he raised within two months. After he and Samuel Gompers had conferred the talk of arbitration was revived. President S. J. Small, of the Com mercial Telegraphers' union, arrived in Chicago, conferred with Samuel Gompers and other leaders and then issued a general strike order calling out all commercial operators not working under union contracts. It was decided that the railway teleg raphers should not strike. Commercial Telegraphers' union sent a warning to all boards of trade and commercial bodies to adjust their af fairs in preparation for a general walk out. President Roosevelt would not interfere in the strike, referring num erous appeals to Labor Commissioner Neill. The operators employed by Ar mour & Co. at Chicago and in the Union Stock yards at East St. Louis quit their keys. MISCELLANEOUS. Criminal and civil proceedings against all persons concerned in the fraudulent transactions in connection with the construction and furnishing of Pennsylvania’s $13,000,000 capitol were recommended in the final report of the capitol investigation commis sion.'made to Gov. Stuart, who prom ised that action should be prompt and vigorous. That the practices of the Marathon County Railroad company, owned by Lieut. Gov. W. D. Connor, are "un lawful, inequitable and socially and economically parasitic” was the con clusion of a decision handed down by the Wisconsin railroad commission. I. Warren Hastings, since 1864 a trusted official at the United States subtreasury in Boston, was arrested on tho charge of embezsliug $3,000 from the government. Several thousand gallons of gasoline in the Standard Oil company’s tank at ^rodhead, Wis., exploded, destroy ing the tank and causing a panic in the towTn. A suit to annul the franchises of 1900 which were granted to the Mil waukee Electric Railv\v.y & Light com pany was begun in the circuit court at Milwaukee by Attorney General F. L. Gilbert on behalf of the state of Wisconsin. A fake check for the exact amount of the fine recently imposed upon the Standard Oil company by Judge Landis at Chicago was received at the treasury department in Washington from an unknown sender. It was mailed at Toledo, O. Miss Elizabeth Gallighan, of St. Louis, leaned too near a fast revolving fly wheel in the shoe factory in which she is employed and htv entire scalp was torn from her head. The scalp was removed from the fly wheel intact and surgeons performed a rare opera tion by sewing it back in place. Attorney General Bonaparte, reply ing to criticisms of Wall street, as serted that his department would con tinue to prosecute wealthy men and corporations that violate the laws, and that honest business men should be glad of it The Burlington Railroad company was found guilty of violating the eight hour telegraphic law and was fined $200 by Judge thrall at Cbillioothe, Mo. During an excursion of the Vermont Association of Boston, to South Hero island, Lake Champlain, George Cou ture, of Burlington, was drowned and Mrs. Fletcher D. Proctor, wife of the governor of Vermont, narrowly es caped death. Assessor Henry Alexander of Abse con, N. J., has raised the taxes of wealthy bachelors In his district $100 because of the fact that they are bachelors. A large portion of the business sec tion of Princess Anne, the county seat of Somerset county, Maryland, was destroyed by fire. The Hudson river steamer Adiron dack caught fire and was grounded at Roseton, where her 500 passengers were safely taken off by other vessels. Fred Nye, a brother of the late “Bill” Nye and an assistant editor of the New York Sunday World, died of Injuries received by being struck by a trolley car. An agreement was reached for the ending of the strike of Southern Pa cific railway boilermakers. Averill Harriman, son of E. H. Har riman, the railroad magnate, was prostrated by heat in Omaha. Louis C. Bath, an insane patient who escaped from the asylum at Mid dletown, N. Y., has been captured through clews from souvenir postal cards he mailed. CLEVER TRICK OF THIEVES. Use Offensive Odor of Onions to Aid in Shoplifting. “Incredible as It may seem.” said Lecoq, the detective, “there are a num ber of shoplifters who steal by the agency of the onion. These aband oned men, before setting out upon their contemplated crimes, eat of raw onions abundantly. Then they stroll into the silversmith’s or the haber dasher’s or the jeweler’s that they pro to rob. ‘Shew me those Urge Receivers were appointed for the as signed estate of Alexander Crow, Jr., a mill owner of Philadelphia. The lia bilities are placed at $597,533, but it is believed the assets will nearly cover this amount. The Republic Iron and Steel com pany and the Western Bar Iron asso ciation at Pittsburg have agreed to the scale approved by the board of conciliation. Lipman’s dry goods store at Beloit, Wis., was robbed of $2,000 worth of silks and furs. J. Ogden Armour has bought two English gray shires and will exhibit them in Chicago. Diamonds and other precious stones, valued at $35,000, were stolen from "the mansion of Count Secken dorf, at Ramseys, N. J. Three big thread factories at New York, the greatest of their kind in the world, locked up their doors for ten days, because their employes demand ed a vacation on threat of strike. Robert Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, has been asked to accept the position of physical director in the school of instruction for policemen just organ ized by Mayor Charles J. Fisk of Plainfield, N. J. Will Clifford, colored, who had con fessed to assaulting and killing two white women, was lynched at Maple, ICy. Five persons were killed and many injured by the collapsing of a tene ment building during a windstorm in Chicago. Fires have destroyed about 1,500 acres of woodland on Cape Cod,_ the damage amounting to many thousands of dollars. King Edward arrived at Ischl, Aus tria, on his visit to Emperor Francis Joseph. The exchanges between the two monarchs were cordial and cer tain political matters were discussed and cleared up satisfactorily. George Wasser, 57 years of age, murdered his wife and was in turn slain by his daughter at the home of the women in New York. Wasser fired upon his wife and then exchanged shots with the daughter. The latter was not wounded. Vice Admiral Philibert reported Iso lated attacks on Casablanca which the troops easily repulsed, being assisted jby the shell fire of the French cruiser 'Glcire. A work tram on tne i^ong isiana railroad backed into a crowded street car at a crossing in Brooklyn, hurling the trolley from its tracks and causing the death of three passengers and the injury of 16 others. Seventeen summer hotels, 16 sum mer cottages and a score of buildings occupied by stores were burned in a fire which swept the eastern section of Old Orchard, Me., causing a loss es timated at half a million dollars. An urVnown man -was killed and two others were injured severely by a sofla water tank which exploded in a burn ing drug store. The fast Burlington train from Den ver to Chicago was wrecked a mile east of Russell, la., injuring 11 per sons, two of whom may die. Burlington passenger train No. 20, south-bound, was wrecked near Wes ton, Mo., resulting in the death of one man and serious injury to four other persons. The Belfast strike was settled, the men receiving more pay but giving up the “closed shop.” Miss Kate C. Knight, of Pittsburg, Pa., prominent as a club woman and philanthropist and president of 20 women's clubs about the country, died at a sanatorium at Danville, Pa., of (paralysis. Eight persons were Kinea, n were severely and 61 slightly injured as a result of an explosion in a dynamite factory in Doemitz, Germany. With an attendance surpassing all other notable day celebrations and estimated at‘40,000 North Carolina day was observed at the Jamestown exposition. Justice Warren G. Foster of New York settled the bigamy case of Her mann Keuhn by decreeing that he should live with one of his wives and support them both. H. A. Crow of Connellsville, Pa., former captain of the Tenth Pennsyl vania Volunteer infantry, was elected commander-in-chief of the Society Army of the Philippines at Kansas City, Mo. The meeting next year will be at Galesburg, 111. The American government wUl es tablish a great training school for the coast artillery at Fort Monroe. The strike of the Brotherhood, of Railway Trainmen members employed by the Colorado & Southern railroad was' settled by the granting of one cent an honr increase to yardmen and switchmen. It was agreed to arbitrate the demand for another cent. An heir to William Waldorf Astor's millions was born at Cliveden. He is the son of Waldorf Astor, Jr., and will be called Waldorf III. The lives of 60 strike breakers in the Erie machine shops at Susquehan na, Pa., were imperiled when the mam moth storehouse of the company was destroyed by fire. Capt. C. E. Fox is to command the cruiser South Dakota as soon as that vessel is put into commission as one of the new cruiser squadron intended for the Pacific coast. Ten men were injured, four serious ly, when gas, which escaped from a pressure main connecting with a large tank, exploded in a one-story brick building used by the People’s Gas Light & Coke company in South Chi cago. Gov. Folk, of Missouri, signed an or der commuting to life imprisonment the sentence of “Lord” Frederick Bar rington, who was condemned to death for the murder of James McCann. Dynamiters destroyed the dam at the outlet of Winona lake, Indiana, causing the lake surface level to drop several feet solitaires surrounded with pigeon-blood rubies, please,' says the jeweler thief. The clerk brings forth the tray of gems and, bending over it, the thief sighs with admiration. Ills face close to the clerks’, he sighs again. And the clerk’s nostrils quiver and he turns away his head. The inspection of dia monds continues for some minutes. Throughout it the thief keeps breath ing hard, the clerk keeps turning his head away And hence it is no wonder at the day’s end that a couple of cost ly rings are missing." « . - ' p David E. Evans, president of the Maryland Telephone company at Bal timore, Md., died of peritonitis. City Food Inspector W. P. Cutler of Kansas City, Mo., has notified the national government that* his test of California and Arkansas dried fruit, cured with sulphine, shows that the fruit when cooked is entirely whole some. Mrs. Helen Odell of Chicago and four other women were injured in a street car accident at Oshkosh, Wis. Distrust of the government’s atti tude toward the corporations, a threat ened monetary stringency in all the leading markets of the world and the financial embarrassment of the Pope Manufacturing company combined to demoralize the stock market in New York. Prices melted in sensational fashion and the average level of de clincs was-below that reached In the memorable Northern Pacific panic ol May, 1901. Stocks were sold lower than ever before in their history. The Maryland Republican conven tion made the following nominations: For governor, George R. Gaither; foi attorney general, Hammond Urner; for comptroller, James P. Baker; for clerk of court of appeals, Thomas Par ran. Nathan Jaffa, of Roswell, N. M.,1 was appointed secretary of New Mexi co to succeed Secretary Reynolds, re signed. • The primary election in San Fran cisco resulted In a sweeping victory for the Republican league or Ryan ticket, which stood for earnest support of the bribery graft prosecution and the present mayor and board of su pervisors. Lord Ashtown, one of the Irish land lords whose activity in the cattle grazing war has aroused bitter ani mosity, narrowly escaped death from the explosion of a bomb which partly destroyed the hunting lodge where he j was sleeping. Receivers for the Pope Manufactur ing company and its subsidiary com pany, the Pope Motor Car company, which are engaged in the manufacture of automobiles and bicycles, with j main offices and plant at Hartford, Conn., were appointed in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massa chusetts. The failure was ascribed to the stringency of the money market, i J. W. Meyer, of Chicago, was elected : worthy grand president of the Sons of | St. George, Illinois district, at Rock-1 ford convention. French officials denied that France intended to embark on a conquest of Morocco. Thousands of Moors re newed the attacks on the French camp at Casablanca and were repulsed with heavy loss. Judge Landis adjourned the grand j jury investigation of the Alton road until September 3 to give the govern ment's legal department a 'chance to convince him that the promise of im f munity should be fulfilled. It has been learned that Caid Sir Harry MacLean, Englishman in the service of the Sultan of Morocco, who has been a prisoner of the bandit Raisuli since early in July, has not been set at liberty, as previously re ported. Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, head of the Christian Scientist church, under-1 went a mental examination by the masters who had been appointed to determine her competency in business matters. The examination was made at Mrs. Eddy's home. Pleasantview, in Concord, N. H. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou has decided to distribute government funds to aid the movement of this year's crops. The plan pursued last I year, with some modifications, is to be | followed. The Hotel Brooklyn, at Central Moriches, L. I., was destroyed by Are. There were 300 guests In the hotel. No one was injured. Attorney General Bonaparte is re ported to have decided that the Inter ! national Harvester company belongs j to the class of “bad trusts” and that it j is the duty of the government to prose cute. The former Chilean warship, Magal lanes, which fired the first shot in the Peruvian-Chilean war, later converted into a lumber ship, foundered at sea. The crew was saved. Roger Wetmore, son of Senator Wet more of Rhode Island, was arrested in Washington, D. C., charged with having run down and seriously in jured Mrs. Mary Chase with 4lis auto- , mobile. So great is the demand for the gov ernment's book on “Special Diseases of the Horse" that over 1,000,000 cop- j ies have been printed and a new edi tion of 250,000 copies is being pre pared. Officers in the artillery service at New York say that Maxim, Colt, Milli meter and Gatling guns will soon be turned over to infantry and cavalry commands. Edward M. Morgan was appointed postmaster of New York city to suc ceed W. R. Willcox, whO resigned to become a member of the New York city public utilities commission. The Wisconsin Central Railway company has taken an appeal from the decision of Judge Page Morris in the United States court, fining that railway $17,000 for granting rebates to Minneapolis grain firms. The plant of the International Flax Twine company at Hazel Park, a su burb of St. Paul, was partly destroyed by fire. The loss is about $50,000. District Attorney Jerome and New York police declare the ringleaders of the Hunchakist secret society have been arrested and have confessed crimes, including the murder of Father Kasper Vastasian and the rug merchant Tavshananian. Mobs in Belfast made vicious at tacks on troops that were sent to dis perse them and the soldiers fired into the crowds, killing a man and woman and wounding many others. An Ambassador’s Butter. The practice of tipping is not entire ly bad; the recipients at least derive some benefit. A former butler of Mr. Choate, American ambassador to Eng land before Mr. Reid, has built a large hotel on the coast on the tips he re ceived from visitors to the American embassy, whose servants make more money than those attached to other embassies,-chiefly because of the num ber of wealthy Americans who visit the ambassador and scatter tips with traditional generosity. • ' " . » ------ -.- - ■ .. TIED UPI p/rrs&i/pa — tvsPATCH* Cl - HOUSE WRECKED; FIVE DIE A CHICAGO TENEMENT COL LAPSES DURING STORM. Victims Are Crushed to Death While Asleep—Structure Was About to Be Moved. Chicago. — Five persons instant ly killed, nearly a score of others seriously injured, three fatally; build ings wrecked, roofs hurled through the air, vast sections of the city in undated by torrents of water, was a portion of the toll exacted by a storm that swept through the city early Friday. The storm broke shortly after one o’clock. The heavy wind increased in velocity until at 1:30 o’clock if as sumed an extreme velocity of 45 miles an hour, carrying death and dis aster in its wake. The collapse of a tenement build ing at 55 Fry street, crushing out the lives of the five sleeping victims and dealing injury to lfi others, was the worst incident of the havoc wrought by the winds. Twenty-five persons were sleeping in the house when the dilapidated structure rocked by heavy wind, its foundations weakened by the razing of adjacent houses for a new city park, crashed to the ground. The dead are: Annie Marwaranski. 22 years old. sister of Mrs. Nosal; Mrs. Annie Nosal, 35 years old, owner of the rooming house; Kate Nosal. six years old, daughter; John Nosal, 20 years old, son: Albert Stehm, 33 years old, boarder. Mrs. Annie Nosal, one of the vic tims, was the owner of the ruined house, whioh had been raised on jacks preparatory to moving it away in order to establish a small park. Every- member of the household had retired when the crash came without warning at 1:30 a. m. STOCK VALUES MELT. Slump in Wall Street Sends Prices to New Levels. New York.—Distrust of the govern ment’s attitude toward the corpora tions, a threatened monetary strin gency in all the leading markets of the world and the financial embarrass ment of the Pope Manufacturing com pany combined to demoralize the stock market Wednesday. Prices melted in sensational fashion and the average level of declines was below that reached in the memorable Northern Pacific panic of May, 1901. Stocks were sold lower than ever be fore in their history. Of the several causes named, the failure of the New England corporation probably excited the greatest amount of apprehension. During the early session of the mar ket there was no hint of coming storm. In fact, it was not until the failure of the Pope company Became generally known that the list became unsettled. Then the speculators for a decline, en couraged by their successful attacks on prices during the past fortnight, renewed their attacks, concentrating their forces on the Harriman and Hill issues, Reading, St. Paul, the coppers, American Smelting and the steel stocks. Under vigorous hammering, a great many oyder to sell to stop losses were uncovered, and, as is usual in times of great excitement, numer ous accounts were thrown over and sold for what they would bring. Burglars Rob Bank. Crookston, Minn.—Bank robbers blew open the safe in the Farmers State bank at New Felden, a small town near here, Wednesday night and secured $2,200. The robbers escaped. Found Not Guilty of Peonage. Raleigh, N. C.—The jury in the United States court at Beaufort try ing E. A. Kline, the railroad construc tion contractor, Friday rendered a verdict of not guilty of peonage. Kline was held in $1,000 ball on an other indictment for peonage. Goshen Wins Choral Contest. Warsaw, Ind.—Goshen, Ind., Friday won a majority of the numbers In the National Junior Choral contest at Winona Lake. Warsaw and Winona also figured in the winning. Frisco Reformers Successful. San Francisco.—The primary elec tion in this city resulted in a sweep ing victory for the Republican league w Ryan ticket, which stood for earnest support of the bribery graft prosecu tion and the present mayor and board of supervisors. Made Secretary of New Mexico. Washington.—Nathan Jaffa, of Ros well, N. M., was appointed secretary ol New Mexico Wednesday to succeed Secretary Reynolds, who resigned re cently. -1 . .—..■■ TWO DIE IN MAINE FIRE. Blaze Sweeps Old Orchard Resort, Wiping Out Seventeen Hotels. Old Orchard, Me. — Two lives were lost and five persons were Injured, three seriously, as a result of a fire which swept through this sea shore resort Thursday night, causing a loss estimated at $800,000. Seventeen summer hotels, 60 cot tages and a score of buildings occu pied by stores were destroyed. The explosion which caused so many in juries occurred in Horgan's drug store on Old Orchard avenue. It is believed that the fire started from an over turned lamp in the annex of the Hotel Olympia. The total insurance on the burned property, it is understood, will nst exceed $150,000. As a result of the fire, the season at Old Orchard is brought to an abrupt close, as only one large hotel, the Old Orchard, remains. All trains, includ ing several extras, were packed Fri day with persons leaving the shore. The burned area extends east along the railroad, between the tracks and the ocean, for nearly half a mile. The people who were driven from the ho tels were compelled to spend the night on the beach. A stiff breeze blew in from the sea and brushwood fires were kept going all night, around which the refugees sat in shivering groups wait ing for the dawn and the warmth of the sunlight. TRUSTED OFFICIAL ARRESTED., J. W. Hastings, of Boston Subtreasury, Charged with Embezzlement. Boston.—J. Warren Hastings, since 1864 a trusted official at the United States subtreasury in this city, was arrested Friday on the charge of em bezzling $3,000 from the government June 7. The money was taken from a package containing $105,000 in bills prepared for shipment to Washington to be retired from circulation, and the shortage was made good by another clerk who technically was responsible, but who at no time was under sus picion. Hastings’ record for 43 years' serv ice was practically faultless. The one who made good the shortage because of his technical responsibility was J. H. Vassar, the specie clerk, who count ed the money previous to shipment. BLOODY TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK. Man Murders His Wife and Is Killed by Daughter. New York.—George Wasser, 57 years of age, murdered his wife and was in tarn slain by his daughter at the home of the women in Harlem Thursday. Wasser fired upon his wife and then exchanged shots with the daughter. The latter was not wounded. Mrs. Wasser soon succumbed to her injuries and her husband died a little later. The daughter was arrested. She asserted that the father had per sistently practiced cruelties upon his family. Maryland Republican Ticket. Baltimore, Md-—The Republican state convention Wednesday made the following nominations: For governor, George R. Gaither, of this city; for attorney general, Hammond Urner, of Frederick; for comptroller, James P. Baker, of Kent county: for clerk of the court of appeals, Thomas Parran, of Calvert county. “Lord” Barrington Not to Die. Kansas City, Mo.—Gov. Folk Tues day signed an order commuting to life imprisonment the sentence of “Lord” Frederick Barrington, who was condemned to death for the murder of James McCann. Michigan Woman Kills Her Husband. Grand Rapids, Mich.—James A. Con ley was shot and killed at 88 Com merce street Thursday afternoon by Madeline Conley, his wife. It is said another man was the cause of the trouble. The woman was arrested. Digs Out of Jail. Seattle, Wash.—George Everett, alias Burton, alias Munson, almost dug his way to freedom from the jail Wednesday night. He is wanted for burglary in Rockland. 111., and also in Detroit, Mich. Man 83 Weds Woman 80. Lancaster, Pa.—Amos S. Miller, aged 83 years, and Susan B. McClay, aged 80, were married here and set up housekeeping. They walked to and from the home of the justice who married them, four miles. Each liras married three times before. Japs to Settle in Brazil. Rio Janiero.—Three Japanese set tlements will be established in the state of Rio Janeiro. The government of the state has given its sanction to the project REPLY BYJBONliPiRTE ATTORNEY GENERAL ASSERTS HE INTENDS TO ENFORCE LAW. CAREFUL AT THE START Department of Justice Bound to Pun ish Wealthy Men and Big Cor porations That Are Offenders. Baltimore, Md. — Attorney Gen eral Bonaparte, in an interview given the Washington correspondent of the News, answers the criticisms of Wall street by a flat statement that he intends to continue the prosecution of wealthy men and corporations that break the laws. Ihe interview is really a statement carefully prepared by Mr. Bonaparte himself. In part he says: “I cannot understand how any sensible person could be affected in dealing with matters of business by any remarks which have been at tributed to me. I should say that business men ought to wish to have the laws strictly and impartially en forced. If this is done, everybody knows what he can do and what he can’t, and everybody has a fair field and no favorites. The department of justice proposes to do precisely this and nothing more. It is required by law to enforce certain penal statutes which make certain forms of action crimes against the United States, and also provide civil remedies for such illegal action. Careful Inquiry First. “The department, since I have been at its head, lias never taken proceed ings to enforce the laws without a very careful preliminary investigation to determine whether there was good reason to believe that the laws had been, in fact, violated. Moreover, it has consistently and frequently over looked merely formal violations of law, or offenses attended with trivial consequences, and has invariably re fused to intervene in such cases when there was any reason to suspect that its intervention was desired to further private ends. Is After Big Law-Breakers. “If the ground of complaint against the department is that it proposes to punish prominent and wealthy men or corporations having vast amounts of capital and engaged in very extensive business, when these are shown to have been wilful and persistent law breakers on a great scale and with grave injury to the purposes of the law, I must admit that these com plaints are well founded. That is pre cisely what the department of justice is trying to do, and, while I remain its very unworthy head, will continue to do, so far as it can.” POPE COMPANIES FAIL. Receivers Appointed for Big Concern in Several States. New York. — Receivers for the Pope Manufacturing company and its subsidiary company, the Pope Motor Car company, which are en gaged in the manufacture of automo biles and bicycles, with main offices and plant at Hartford, Conn., were ap pointed Wednesday in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massa chusetts. Similar action will be taken shortly in Illinois, Ohio, Indi ana and Maryland, where the com panies own plants. The petitions filed by the Monus Kelly company, of Toledo, O., asking for receivers, show the total assets of both companies to be $11,205,570, with total liabilities reaching $1,972, 826. The difficulties of the Pope com panies were the direct result of a cur tailment of loans and reduction of loans on notes. Albert Rathbone, counsel for Albert L. Pope, vice pres ident of the Pope Manufacturing com pany, who has been appointed a re ceiver in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, said that the troubles of the companies were the outcome of the present rigid monetary conditions. New Test for Mrs. Eddy. Concord, N. H. — Counsel for the “next friends” have agreed to the suggestion of the masters who are inquiring into the competency of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Christian Science leader, that they accompany two alienists to Pleasant View to make "tests” of her mental condition. Mr. Streeter, Mrs. Eddy’s counsel, ob jected, but will consult with his client before the next session of the hearing on Tuesday, and it is possible that he will then agree to the proposal of the masters. Burlington Railroad Fined. Chillicothe, Mo. — The Burling ton Railroad company was found guilty Friday of violating the eight hour telegraphic law and was fined $200 by Justice Crall. This is the first conviction obtained under the law passed at the last session of the legislature and which the railroads de clare conflicts with a federal statute. Negro Lynched in Kentucky. Cincinnati, O.—Will Clifford, a ne gro. was lynched at Maple, Ky., after he had confessed assaulting Mrs. Mary Cowan (white) and throwing her body into the river, also that he killed another woman. Big Fire in Buenos Ayres. Buenos Ayres.—The five-story fac tory building occupied by A. G. Kauf man & Co., cigar manufacturers, was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $100, 000. Several hundred employes were thrown out of work. Train Hits Trolley; Three Dead. New York.—A work train on the Long Island railroad backed into a crowded street car at a crossing on Coney Island avenue, Brooklyn, Thurs day, hurling the trolley from its tracks and causing the death of three pas sengers and the injury of 16 others. Los Angeles Celebrates Founding. Los Angeles, Cal.—The anniversary of the founding of the city by Spanish padres 125 years ago was celebrated Thursday under auspices of the So ciety Larrena DeLos Angeles. 1,000 DEAP AT CASABLAHCA MOST OF THEM ARABS KILLED BY FIRE OF THE WARSHIPS. Immense Quantity of Loot Recovered —French and Spanish Ready to Repulse Attacks. Casablanca, Morocco. — The town is quiet and business is being transacted. The French authorities are still engaged in clearing up the streets, burying the dead and collect ing property. The commandant is making domiciliary visits in search of loot, of which an immense quantity has been found. A meeting of the foreign consuls will be held to decide on its disposaal. It probably will be sold for the benefit of the sufferers from the bombardment and rioting. The number of persons killed in and about Casablanca has been great ly exaggerated. Probably about a thousand men were killed in the fight ing and massacre. The majority were Arabs killed by the fire of the war ships. Only 5,000 people remain in Casablanca; the others have fled to Gibraltar, Tangier or Spain. The town is completely under the control of the French and Spanish au thorities and no further trouble need be feared. French troops to the num ber of 3,000 are camped about a mile east of Casablanca. Their outposts are in touch with the Moors and con tinual skirmishing is taking place. Five hundred Spanish troops have arrived here and are camped in the town. Fifteen hundred more are ex pected shortly and two more French transports with troops are due to ar rive within a few days. Gen. Drude, the FYench commander, is holding a defensive position pend ing the arrival of reenforcements. The Moors have received large reenforce ments and the French and Spanish authorities hear that they are plan ning a great attack on Casablanca. There are enough troops available to repulse any attack. NATIONS TO CONFER ON FOOD. United States Expected to Call a Con ference on Adulteration. Washington. — It is believed at the state department that the out come of the present visit to Europe of Dr. Wiley of the department of agriculture will be the calling of an international gathering in this country to endeavor to secure uniformity of practice in the treatment of food adulterations. Although taking an ad vanced position in this matter, as re vealed in the stringent legislation con tained in the pure-food law, the gov ernment of the United States has been obliged at times to take sharp issue with some of the European govern ment officials as to the harmfulness of certain ingredients of our food ex ported. With the passage of the pure food act, with the authority contained therein to apply its provisions to im ported food and drugs and wines, the department finds its hands much strengthened in dealing with Euro pean governments, and is felt that it will not be a difficult matter to in duce other nations to second the ef forts of the United States govern ment either by an international gath ering or by diplomatic correspondence to reach an understanding upon a general set of rules relative to the use of preservatives in food products. CONNOR’S RAILWAY HIT. Wisconsin Commission Scores Prac tices of Lieutenant Governor’s Road. Madison, Wis.—That the practices of the Marathon County Railroad company owned by Lieut. Gov. W. D. Connor, are “unlawful, inequitable and socially and economically parasitic” is the conclusion of a decision handed down by the railroad commission Fri day on a complaint lodged against the road by Nicholas Streveler. The commission found that in some cases passengers were carried free over this road and, in many cases less than carload lots of lumber did not have to pay freight. It was also disclosed that the company did not publish a tariff schedule as is re quired by law. Accused of Grabbing Railroad. Washington.—A unique complaint was filed with the* interstate commerce commission Friday in which the Chi cago & Alton Railroad company is charged with having practically confls cated another railroad which now forms a part of the Chicago & Alton system. The complainant is John B Manning, of New York city, a minori ty stockholder in the Louisiana & Mis souri River railroad, and the defend ants are the Chicago & Alton and the Louisiana & Missouri River roads. Car Kills Bill Nye’s Brother. New York.—Fred Nye. a brother of the late “Bill” Nye and an assistant editor of the Sunday World, died ol injuries received by being struck b> a trolley car Monday night. Mr. Nye had written many humorous poems and the book of the comic opera, 'The King and the Broker.” Monster Explosion of Gasoline. Janesville, Wis.—Several thousand gallons of gasoline in the Standard Oil company’s tank at Brodhead. Wis., exploded Friday afternoon, de stroying the tank and causing a panic in the town. More Yellow Fever in Cuba. Washington.—Yellow fever appeared Friday in a new place in Cuba, as iisclosed by a cable report from Chiel Surgeon Taylor, dated at Marianao He says there are two cases at Ceiba Mocha. Bigamist ^Aust Support Both. New York.—Justice Warren G. Fos ter of the general sessions has just iisposed of a bigamy case in highly unusual fashion, suspending a jury sentence on the bigamist and allowing him to choose which wife he would live with after he had promised to support both. The man in the case was Herman Keuhn, a hatmaker. His two wives did not want Keuhn to go to jail. The older said that if he did she and her three children would have to go to i
