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THE M1DDLEBURGH POST. GEO. W. WAOEXSELLER, Editor and Troprietor Midlbtuirjr I'll . S-itCinlT 1". r.crlin is nhort 120,000 people of liat lio was nippose! to bsve. A jnst cotnplete.l census gives Lcr 1, C10.o"M The utilization of She phonograph to give thu complete burial or rvico of th Kpiecjpai Church, incl tilling tha hymns, iu tho ulisetice of a clorgrrnati, marketl th forethought au 1 enter prise of h New York Cormier a ilay or two ago. a j roniiu. tit electrical vnpinccr cl in m that twenty to thirty mile is alioiit tho limit for electrical trans mission to ol'tnin eotionii',al anil sat iafuotory results. Tho name engineer alM state that notwithstanding the fact tliat electricity is eotnparati vely tiew, it is ini.ro advanced thau any othtr lranch of engineering. ('ar.iiilu iiinl Norway are the only two ro'.ititrits on earth where tlio pson V r rate per ttnlo in a low iu th I'niti'l State per mile. The ht. r:i-c lu re is 2.'.) I cents ier tnile. In (ireut Jlritam it i .l euita for 1 1 r t elii'K mi l IJ.'J cents for scroti 1-clnm pax-eiiver. In I'rn'ii'n tli ehnre i i mil II cuts f'"i'-ct tvely fur the two ela'-rn. In Turkey the rut'M are ati'l V J certs r s . rt jvely. S .r . i the lywi st, with rules of l.ii u:id 1 ei lit, r. ;" cTivi 1 v. St .tt i"t recently eompileil show (lint in tho I'tiitel States 1 1 1 - coloied raen 1i:im HT'.l enilei'e-i an 1 n'lumU of higher i ducat inti, in which dpi touch ers; out 117"i are color' 1 ; 'J'5,v''i'l tenchers niiil 1, 1 ! 177 students in thu Common hc1.io!m; 'JiH newspapers, an 1 forty h Ten ninazitu s ; 2"; lawyers, mill nenrly that number of physicians ; an a;:gregHto wealth estimateil tit 8J03,tiiiO,(.i)n, nn J R .le-rce of ability and industry if possessed suflieieut to hnvo produced lust year Il.OO'i.iMlO pounds of cotton iujJ $!.", 000,000 worth of cereals Tho Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Mnxu., haa onlcrcd a bronzo tablet raat, which will be sent to Scrooby, England. It will bear the following ir.acriptiou : "This tablot is erected by tho Pilgrim Society, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America, to marV, ....aite of tbe nouae where lived William flrewcter, from 1588 to 1C08, where he organized the Pilgrim Chnrch, of which bo became ruling elder, and with which in 1C08 bo moved to Amsterdam; in 1609 be moved to Leyden, and in 1G20 to Ply mouth, where he died April 1C, 1011." A French electrician, M. I). Aron val, haa succeeded accurately in measuring the electric energy of the torpedo tinh.uud the result is astound ing. A fish fixteen incheB across gives au electric current of two to ten amperes, with a difference of potential energy of tifteeu to twenty volts, capable of lighting au incandescent lamp of ten cuudles. If the fish bo tensed it betrays ita feelings io violeutly that the carbon iilatucnt flica off into vapor. It is inero tish'a play for the torpedo to illume a Geissler tube or lire a dynamite cart ridge. M. Arsonval is of the opinion that tho torpedoes have a special ruuselo which instinctively or de liberately gives electrical instead of mechanical energy, another instance of tho cipiivalenco of all forms of energy. Says the Iiostou Post : The iron in dustry lies so ueur the foundation of commercial prosperity that great sig nificance attaches to the rapid and tteHily increase of activity iu that business at the f-'reat producing cen tres Thi increase is Tined notable. Tor the lirvt time in many years tho luills at Pittsburg are riiuiiiijgt!iruiu;h tho hot seu-ou ; the manufacturers cannot afford to stoji. iiuring tho past fortnight milU that havi been idle for two years have been leased and will be j Mi t in operation. Aud it is esti mated that there ure moro meu at work iu the steel, irou aud tin trades thau at any time since the panic, earn ing larger wages and assured of steady emiiloymeut into next year. AH this is made possible by the increase iu tha prieo of steel billets, ou which wages find business are based. And this in crease is caused by the larger demand for iron iu its structural aud commer cial forms for use in other industries. The country is building more, is manu facturing more, is extending old en terprises and undertaking new ones ; and the flush timet iu the iron busi ness only reflect tha prosperity grow iui; up all over the land- KEYSTONE STATE CDLLING3 PICKP0GKETS1NLUCK. Tbay Strike A Hich Field at the Union' town Fair. Pickpocket reaped a rich harvest at Iba State mid county fair at Volontown. From reports received at tbe police headquarters oyer 0,000 wia tnken one day. J. J. Parnhnrt, treasurer of Dunbar school board. was robbed '.d ti.U'Hl la notes aod checks and consider able money, while on a train bound for the tnlr. It. II. ltatnsey, who waa with lilm, wan relieved of HitO In rah. 1. 1'. Oibson bad 1 100 taken out ol his pocket while purchas ing a ticket at the box oflW. Numerous mailer robberies are reported1, .... . l'l-Tdl WoKK hf LlOtlTMSirl. During a henry etorm Thursday Mrs llciijamln Y eager, of near Altoona.was truk I y lightning aud lustautly killed. A Metho dint church wns also struck aad badly wreck- I. llutterruilk Falls, on tbe Coiieuiaugh river, east of Johnstown, want wild sgnln, as it did during the great Hood of 1 '. aud iniel'i an tixly washout of tho l'ennsyl vnnla riilirua l tracks, causing trains to be de layed several hours. I llll.tl VtTHot'T tlBAINS. The rnninins of a most peculiarly deformed child wero bnrleit Iu Fnlrvlew, ceumtery Mc Knesport. Th child was born nu Monday to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. I bapln, of Union avenue. lh body was perfectly formed, even to the Ini-e ntnl ears, but the child bad no skull nor I ruliiH, 'J ho In hint lived three hours. - - -nir. ji'MuiiH wr.ai: hrrt our. At tho dpnulnir of Pennsylvania htato col l"ite at liellrfout". the junior class was re tu' il iiilinlsioii. I ho students ami faculty arn tirtn in th stand they have taken, but I r-'-l'li'iit Athertun exjiresseil th hnjie that a si'ttlemetit would soon bo reached, but did tint n Iviiui-'i au oiiiilnu bow It would be doll", - IHI.II' I II 'I U I At SEll II I. II M ATH. Maud, the s .year-old ilnuehter of tieorire Shirk, died at Way teMiurtfli. from hydro. j puoLia, a:ir tiirea uuys terriMo mllerlnir. , 'I he el.ild iv n bilteti J.ily 'Jii by a shepherd j don, whieh it w.-n upe.'tnd bud ruble and i wai killed. II. Is tlie second death from nydruphoblii In the county within a uititli. - - Mrj. Aided l:ii liarn. of liellevi riion. took ni "nl pub uri'i'ii with sulellal Intent, an I do d in ternli.e airoiiy a few hours later, sdie inived hull a box of tlio poison and drank the whole doe. Mie wn found olIIH lllll'l niter In tl liar In a dWtii( condition and medical aid Miinuion. d, but she was beyond help. 'I lie suicide win tun rn-ult of nvntal aber ration, i: ( .!" th" unlortiitiaie woman die.! -be ri'ktaliie I consciousness and told those about her that she had a horrible illusion that she ti m 1 killed l imit and bad to five up her lite for the sin she bad committed Mrs. I.ichard N an lifii-ti woman. Her husband is employed at the llellevcrnon glats fac t ry. There Is much talk in Clearllcld of annox linrtho borough to Wot Clearfield. Albert Anderson was drowned In tho loughloglieiiy river near Oblo l'ylo. Archie, the 7 year-old son of John Ilesuh ley, of I'pper JSurrell township, W'estuioro land con my, was struck by llitbtiiiinr and killed. Ills 2-year-old sister was stunned, and a burn set ou lire and destroyed. Judi;e Kwlnir, of Vnioutown, revoked the lliUor license of Donalioe A Elliott, proprie tors of a boo at Ohio 1'yle, because of tcttluiouy that they bad sold beer on 8uu day. Tbe inhaeeo war,eboH i of ,,n 'Jf. t JHin. -Aii -.'iii"k !i. llrubaker aV Lancaster, wt destroyed by fire. Loss tllS.iKW. Tbe stocks of tobacco in tho adjoining warehouses of J. Ittiur.el 4 ons wero uriatly dauiajjed by water aud smoke. A charter was irranted to the Clarion Hall road Company, capital 110,0 id. It will be built eleven ndles uinu from Johnsonberit to lai;ascahetidu.ln l.lk county. 'J he President is l. 11. Jack, of I'.rudlord county. Joseph Norcross, ol Tayette county, com milled suicide by hauling himself in bit barn in Jeffcrsoti township. At lliueltou bote I.at.ihaw was killed by Itaiiuu miners, who also stabbed Andrew iluspauder so badly tbat bu cannot live, John Tracy was fatally injured at Krlo by a collision with a horse aud bugy while he was riding his bicycle. The veteran of tbe Sixty-seventh and One llaudiedth and '1 hiriy-third I'eiinsylvama rotfimeuta heid a reunion at Johnstown TuvsJay. W'iiiiain Hart, a brakeman t the I"t. Wayne road, was killed at iho ( on way yards. Jij cbi -tcr by laliing under the wheels. Joseph Cliuo of Franklin township was caUk'ht iu the lo t ol llrinir the barn of l'avld Keiuerur near I'.xport, aud jailed at (ireens burn. Ihe Hell Telephone Company of J.cllefoute has reduced the rates of siiUeriber In nelih boriiiK towns to that of llellulonte. Hailstones larger thau hens' eggs fell at V oilsboro, doiiiK immense damage. Court of quarter sessions at brie last week couvieted thirty persons for various ottensos. It is rumored a mil a thut tbe WasbinKton Klectrlc htrvet Hallway Compauy ooutem plales an extouMun to Canuoiisburrf. Stephen (iiiKbard was killed aud John l)i wisky fatally hurt by the falliutf of au Irou bar at the New I untie steel mill, William UTiounell, aed SI. was knocked ofl the bridge between Heaver l alls and New Hrightou by a train and was inaiautly killed. The Trie grand jury has Indicted Henry Inilly, J. C. stone and Wl liam Walruth (or torturing and robbing Oscar llnrtou and 1. is wife near I niou City, n year ago. Imrlng tbe races at tho llollidayobtirg fair Mr. John Tood, i f Altooua. was latully In jared by being knocked down by a horse wlule she was crosniiz the track. FIFTY-FIVE DROWNED. The Steamer Catterhun Driven on tbs Hoiks Near a Lighthouse. The Chinese steamer Catluruun, bound from Sydney to t biua, with si human beings ou board, is lying, many fathoms deep, off Seal Hock, near i'ort Stephen's lighthouse, only 2'i were saved. The terrible details of the eatasthrope 1111 many pages)of the Austra lian papers. Tho tullowlng ure names of drowned- H. I'rarer, H. smith, Mrs. Mathias, Mrs. Lorlug, Mits Lonug, Neil shannon, Liverpool master; W, 1'. 1'iuney, chief oltlcer; llurold l.elller. third ollleer; K. 11, Audersou, surgeon; J. (L Harper, Scotland, chief engineer; 1'. Wilson, second engineer ;J. W. Adams ;tblrd eogiueer; A. Woisteiidholiii, fourth engineer, It. Man ning, chief Stewart aud 41 Chinese. Ihe accident was due to tbe currents drift ing the steamer ou the rocks in tbe fury and darkness of the storm. At the coroner's In quest it wad emphatically proved that tbe steamer was being steered all right, aud that tho only way to account forthe vessel striking was l hat somu mysterious current curried bur tipon the rocks. Tho cargo was very valuable. Among the cargo ero lO.O'MJ sovereigns. 1 livers wltt Lb employe J to mover all the cargo possible. REVIEW OF TRADE. Wheat Bind Corn Comlns; Forward Rapid ly Iron Still JBoominv. It. O. bnnn A Co's., Weekly Itevlew of Trade says: A Slight setback, whl:b may mean much or notblng.according to tbs final outcome of the crops, la not unexpected at this season. If tbe government crop reports were correct, the situation would not be en couraging, liut not much confidence Is plac es' In the reduced estimate of corn, none at all in the estimate of wheat, and even tho most eutbusiastlo bulls do not think It worth while to ipiote tho government report on cot ton. 1 he fact Is that we are beginning to market not far from a.WO.OO.ooo bushels of corn, though only about Cou.COO.OOO bushels will be moved from the counties where It is grown; about t0,000,OOU bushels of wheat, of which tbe farmers are unwisely holding back a large proportion; aud about 1.m'),W) bales of cotton, If the latter indications aro Cot erroneous, as they very easily may be, to add to the stock carried over. If we are to have a large crop of grain and a small crop of cotton It is natural to infer that manufacturers may find large transact ions at the west, but not at tbe south, 1 here is In laet a very largo demand for goods at the West, and west-bouud shipments are un usually largo, although tho eastbound ship ments from ( hlcago for four weeks of August amount to only 21 u. .'US tons against V.IU.KI for tbe same week in Isul The largest output of pig Iron ever known, 101, Oi'J tons. Is apparently supported by a re duction of 1)4. Oi'O tons In stocks of pig iron unsold, but the fact that the great steel com panies have taken large iuatititles, which aro net included In the oltlclul statement, renders the account of stock less valuable. 'Ihe mar ket for tuilltiished products is a little weaker, with indications of hesitation on the part of buyers at l'hlla lelptna and 1'itt-burg, al though prices are nu the whole fairly main tained. ihe commercial stocks of cotton September 1, le re and abroad, amoune, .y 2. lno..Vis bale and domestic mills stocks were I)'. 1,1,1 1 bales, allowing not a single b.1.0 for iucreavj of stocks at .southern mills. rri 'i -,havn settled l a 'k a little during the pa-t week, notwithstanding tho gloomy de partment report. 1 lie wheat crop Is evidently latter than the de art ic id has istimated. Ihou.'h heLody knows how ti.u h larger, and is com ng for ward with more encouraging rapidity, no less than .'1. 771. 17:1 bu-lie Imviiig I a re. .elved at m-teru ports ng.iin-t .".I bio ol bushels for the same week ul year. :r .111 1 much larger crop, ihe inner- have un doubtedly I u keeping w i,e.,t ui. .-r u agreement among Hiem-eiM, but it does L it si-em a pr llta c "ra- '.Ion lor them. l.p. rt- from Vtiantic ports tor tlie two Weeks of Sip'eri- ber have hem ;'. 117. s7.' b'i-h :. Il oir lie-. tid ed, agnin-t .'. Hil.'.tji; bushi'i" .aet j nr 1 he price ilei'imed sharply, about 1 cents per bushel, with little ii.dicat.oii o! recc ry. The price of corn has also yb'ldel with it strong prospect el the largest -r p ever jiruwn, and at 1 1 cents at New 'lors a I arc" proportion ot the crop will Le intl j r ; 1 1 t u armer. 'Them Is a great pressure for dellvary r f Itructural products and plates, but bar iron Is still tpioted at I'lltsburg at 1. IU , and tank Iteel at 1.1' '. ihe tapld shipments of Mar iitto ore during th-past weeK. have sola" .IlllUetlCO Up II prices ol li' ssetlli'r pro lu .'ts. Nothing ot importance hi. ouourred 111 the iniior metals, although tiu has been stroiikter it times, with London buying, and topper .las been helped by the rcpert id u li sa.e of ake at 12.', c. l alliires lor tho week were is" in the ( nit fd Stales, against H'i last year, and ;il In Canada, against 11 last year. THE ADVANCEJN IRON. A Strong Feeing That tha End Haa Not Been Beached. Tba "Iron Ago" says: ' There has been a little less excitement during tbs past week, and there are Indications tbat there may oe a temporary IU.V. jy'.Vr SiSf 4YgJ Ht'tStPt bo no further advance In prices, there Is a strong feeling In tbs trade tbat tbs end is not yet. In some directions labor is growing restive again, and it may be deemed prudent to avert auy stoppage of work by granting advances in wages, in tbe hope tbat tbe con sumer may be made to pay for it. Tbla is particularly true of Conuelisvllle coke, wbtcb will probably witness a rue In wages, wltb a corresponding advance in prices, which fur naces will be asked to pay. Jn tbe central West, llessvmer pig aud steel billets have been rather quiet, although somewhat mys terious intimations have been thrown out that a very luigu deal in Jlessemer pig Is under negotiations. There have teun further ales of basic pig. Iu the West te Carnegie Steel Company lias taken 10.(110 tons addi tional, making ll.'i.UOO tons; the Illinois JO.OUO tous in ail; the Nvlderuighaus interests at St. Louis 12.UU0, and two other concerns U.iiuo together, so that the Tenuessee Company has now sold about S0.UUU tons outside of sales to l.asiern producers. Tbe steel rail makers have decided to make the advance fore shadowed by the steady rise Iu raw material, although It may appear at the llrst blush that 44 a tun is a pretty large jump. The highest point hvi been reached in pig irou produc tion in tho history of the Industry, On Sep. teu.her 1 there was in blast 211 furnaces, making weekly l'.'l.i 21 gross tons of pig iron. Since the beginning of the month additional furnaces have started and others are getting ready, so that It looks as tbougb the 200, 0o0 ton murk would be reached before the end of the current year. VALLEY RAILROAD SOLD. Baltimore and Ohio Buys the Line at Oood Price. Tbe Valley railroad was sold at Cleveland at public auction under an order issued I) United States Judge Licks. There was only one bidder, tbe Baltimore & Ohio railroad company, and the rice reull.cd was 3.u7i), 000. being jiiU.OOO more thau tbe liiiuluiun. figures set by Ihe court. It Is stated the road will bo Immediately incorporated under tho lans of Ohio with a capital stock ot about i,(iU'i.iKM The eulj company interested in tue sale, aside from the lialllmore A Ohio, is the Wheeling nud Lake l.rie. w hlcli has all ngreemeut uuder the reorganization plan whereby u gets unf ile facilities w hich will enabto it to bring a lurgo purl of lis iuke bu.-lhcs to Lluvclaud. RAILROADERS KILLED. Five Trainmen Met I'eath in a Collision in Minnesota, l ive persons were killed and 12 were in jured by a bead-on collision between passen. ger train on the Great Northern railroad ueur MitlLjr, Minn. The dead are: L'ngiueer J. K. Liuersou, Fireman Jas. S. Thlebodo, Express Messenger W. 1(. Kersersaw and Mall Clerk K. T. Johnson; of tbe east bouud train, and Engineer Ira S, Haines, ot the westbouud train, all residents of St. Paul. The west bound train bud passed Its meeting point at Melby. Several of the wounded mav die. The Railroads. 'Toor's Manual" for is'15 shows tbat tbs leugth of railroad track laid in the Culled Ktute up to liecember 31, 1S'J4, was 17y,27t n.iles, the In. 'reuse in the calendar year 1DD4 being 1.S21 miles. ihe total liabilities are put at ll..'iii.'.,(',00.:'u7. of which tiggmgate 5.t;.'iS.";U.21'J is funded debt and T5,l75.l2!t, 07U i etueg. Tho railroads carried 5s.l2il,. 070 passengers and U73.12l,747 tons of freight, and earucl altogher 1,00,ho5.015, of which iiiiX l'J,27G whs uet protlt. other receipts raised their tot.il revenue to ll'.0lti.71'J, but they paid out r42D.4l, tl.VI ill inluret, divi dens, rentals etc. or sin .1 s iivi o, i . their available revenue, lu oiber words. thev had a dellcit of I hut amount. THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK CANNOT FIX WAGES. Towsr of tho Government Concerning Corporations and Labor. In tba course of an address In fit. I'sul Vnlted States Labor Commissioner Carroll I. W right referred to tbs decision of tbe In terstate commerce commission in regard to the justne-s of freight rates, and said: "The adjustment of difficulties arising between the employes of railroads and corporations must rest upon precisely the same principles; yet It must b i emphatically understood tbat the government bas do right and no power to fix the rate of wages. It cannot, under any circumstances, fix tbe price of commodities. There is no room for complaint concerning lack ot employment in tbe Wheeling district. Hut few workmen are getting as much for their labor as they were three years ago, but wages are picking up slowly as tbe demand for labor Increases, and there Is reason to hnpo that by tho llrst of the year nearly all lines, especially iron, steel and glass, will I s paying almost the old rat". However, the increase In wages Is coming from bighet selling prices, and wages do not reach the rates which would have been paid wltb com modities selling at the same rate as three years ago, Ihe call for Iron and steel workers bas never been greater than at present. Every mill, furnace anil steel plant In Middle Ohio Vallev Is fully employed, and many ot tbetn aro arranging for increasing their produc-. Hon at au early date, ilie lie. seiner workers are getting the cream of the business, and the luruace men aro following second. Scarcity of Skilled Workmen. Tho Increasing activity In tho iron an J steel trades Is developing a scarcity of sklll-d workmen, says the iron A tie. 'Ilnis far no serious dihVuity has been experienced '" "" curing the men needed, tut the supply is seen to bo steadily g'owing smaller, lower applications are now being tuad when va cancies aro announced or when employers ad vertise lor additions to their force Only few months sinro the reverse was the case. A manufacturer could then mako a selection Iroiu an enormous number of men. Next year, it Is a pr heiided, tho lack of a sulll cient supply of gnod men w lil be felt 'iuitc severely. i'.- ecially is this the case In the lines lu which a long apprenticeship is es-eti-tial for the development ol tho practical skill required. - Coke Strike Ordered. The miners' delegate convention at Scott dale, l'a., asi'd the following resolutions, which declare a general strike. "Ilesolved, lliattlin convention indorse the acti'iL ol the convention held at Councils Vole, sicpt. .". l'.i:,, an. I eali on all n.eu li o'li-it work i.ntil sin ii time as the demands of the convention are granted. "li' soived, That tin- foregoing resolutions Hate from bj-diiy, Sc t. i. "Whereas, it bas been tho policy of the inch ot tins region to have all meu receive the advance beloro liny be allowed to work, therefore b" It "Hesoived, That any company granting tho demands for nil their worss bu allowed It run at said advance.'' They Want an Advance. At Dubois, l'a., Six hundred Hell, Lewis A Vales miners held u innss meeting aud deoldod to demand a uniform scale, now, uud au advance of 6 cent a ton, be ginning Outober 1, with n proportionate ad vance for machine mlnlug. A committee presented the demands to S. It. Elliott, gen eral manager ot tbe company, and returned wtib J!ie re.oortXhat ttar .would iia jm vanes under tbs present conditions. Have Secured s Big Contract. Tbe Colon Iron and steel company ol Youngstowu, Oblo. bas obtained a contract to supply tbe Staudard oil company and a few other linns lu a combination with US, 000 tons of boop Irou. The Irou will be uiue-slxteen, '2:1 gauge. Tbe rate Is 2H a ton. 'I bis coo tract will go far toward keeping the mills busy tbe next two years, at the end of which time the contract must be tilled. Employes of the Illinois Steel company threaten to strike If they are designated by numbers Instead of names. The II. M. Myers shovel company, of Hea ver l alls, states that the year jut closing has beeu rue of the most prosperous the company has ever enjoyed. According to tha promise given the n.eu about this time la-t seusotl. It is expected there Will bu un advance iu wages October 1 of 10 per cent. '1 he Pittsburgh and Lake Erlo railroad is having an exlra rd!uary rush of freight trutiic. The press has beeu so extensive that the officials were compelled to borrow Io locomotives from other roads entering Pitts burgh. W ithin a week more thau 100 new men for freight trulas have been employed. Hepresentatives of the Cambria Iron com pauy, of Johustown, l'a., were in lloiiidays b.irg, Pa., inspecting the (iaysport furnace with a view to au immediate resumption of operations there. This furnace wus aban doned live years ago, and Its renewal is due to the general activity In the pig metal In dustry, A large force ot men will be em ployed. DRIVEN OUT BY WHITES. Two Negroes Killed and Twelve Wounded. Two negroes were shot to death and sever al wounded by a baud of masked niou lu the northern ortiou of Holmes county, 1'lorlds. The tragedy occurrod uear a large saw mill owned by Oruves A Heatly. The tlrtn em ploys many negroes, and operates a small railroad from urn saw mill to the Choctaw batcheo river. A freight car bud beeu fitted up with bunks, aud within this about thirty negroes slept. The ear, in w hich the negroes were sleeping was surrcuudod by masked men who Immediately opened lire with wiuchest. era Ihe shots aud the screams of the ne groes brought (.raves, Heutty aud a numLei of while employes who live near Ibe si-cue and then tho masked men fled. Examination showed that Henry Johnson and Sam I vans, uegroes, had been killed, aud that a do.u had beeu wounded, some ol whom will die. The attack has so terrorized the negroes that they have relused to work for (iraves A Heatly louger. It la thought tbat the attack was instigated by whlto men who had beeu discharged by the owuers ol tho plaut. Wool and Cotton. Tbe toas of the lioston wool market Is toady this week, the only noticeable excep tion beiug domestic wools. The tales show a more decided decrease than fur several weeks past. The following are quotations of tbe leading descriptions: Ohio aud Pennsyl vania ileeces, X and above, 17(ij lHo; XX and above, lsra 1'Je; No. 1 combing. !i3c; No. 2 comblug, 2:1". Michigan. Wisconsin, etc, X Michlgau, lilralti'c; Illinois, ItieyUa; So. I Michigan combing, 'ill. The eottou report ol the Department of Ag riculture show a dealiue from Ihe August conditions of the crop which was 77.0 to 70.8 per cent., a dec line of 7.1 points, 'i bis makes tbe lowest September condition of the plaut since lssi, when it was reported at 70 per ceut. The uext lowest since lseT was tbe ooudltlou of low, trbeu it stood lor the ssois womb at 73.4. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS A list of killed In tbe Great Northern rail road wreck at Melby has Increased to seven. A still st tbs Kendall oil refinery, New Bedford. Pa., was burned wltb loss of 15,- oca Judgo Ewlng, of Volontown. Pa., revoked tbg liquor llosnse recently granted I'ouahoe V. Elliott, of tba Ohiop . le bouse. James Walsh, 60yel(-sof age, ran amuck near Pherldan, W'yo. . , id shot and killed II. E. llobluson snd Her rt Lvnvltle. Melville Scrauton ..i I Paul Hhuelete, of Eaat Saginaw, Mich., tere drowned In f up per Lake, N. V., wbl out boating. As tbs result of a family quarrel, Louis Hoffman, of Cbleiuo, shot bis wife and sent a bullet into bis own breast Loth will die. Mrs. liosln. of Toledo. O., was knocked down by a blow ot a stugshot by a footpad, at Louisville, her bead badly cut, and ber sat chel aud pocketbook stolen. K man and two children, names unknown, were swept away while attempting to cross tbe Verdigris river, bear Talala, I. T., aud several slmllai deaths are reported. A woman giving her name as Mrs. Joseph Pellah, Is victim ring many persons In tho west by means of bogus checks, drawn on tbe Market street national bank of Philadelphia. FROM THE OIL FIELDS Ths Wlld-Catter Has Had Poor Luck In Finding Pools. With nearly three-quarters of the year gone, and despite tuefact that there fans been au unprecedented activity in oil operations, there has not been a single new pool worthy tho name discovered north of the Ohio river, blioottug and cleauing out Increased the pro duction lor a time, but the i -action has set in and the oil wells are fast settling down to their normal cohd.tlon and are producing but little mom than when they began tinkering with them to Increase their production. Tho recent discoveries in Motiroo county, 0 , have developed i n Ihe part of operators an eagerness to get Into new territory. Tim fancy prices paid for leases Is evident that tho ml man has a good bank accuiit A slnglo Instance ol paying a I Ig boi ,s is that of thn Associated 1'roducers opeiatlng the Deist farm. A bonus of tlu.Ouj was pall for tbe farm, nnd at the time it was leased it was located more than a mile from developments, and contains but fill acres. It has been de monstrated, however, that tho farm, was elieaj. at the price paid. The four completed wejls have all been gushers and every aero ol the (arm shows for producing territory. This Is oun instanco ot success, but there Is another sldo to the story. Many farms In tho vicinity ot the Erciden pool wero b'a-ed early In tho excite ment at prices that ranged higher than that paid for tbn Deist, and yet they will never produce a barrel of oil. Vp to tho present time but six of 18 farms that have been tested in searching for an extension to tho l ouden development, have found oil iu paying quau llties. The showing la tho Dye-Hrooks pool bns been even worse. Aside from tho two Dye Hrooks gushers, but two small wells have been found, though test wells have been drill ed In almost every direction, in the hope ot finding a now lead. The Oxford Oil company's well on the L. M. Thomas farm, which cauiein Inst Saturday at tbe rate of 30 barrels an hour, Is now down to U0 barrel a day. Its rapid decline Is not unusual tor Keener sand .wells. Two miles southwest ot Wilson creek, in Washington eonnty, O., Kelley Hros. A Co., tave drilled throng's the sand on the Stephen 1 'J7& tfss,-a4 ! duMsr, - Jlsr J'sor Oil company's well on the Grey farm, near llraden pump station, Tyler county, W. Va., Is causing a little flurry In tbat locality. Tbe well is producing 120 barrels a day and Its owners will make wo new locations at ones. IN FAV0R0F DEFENDER- The Protested It ace Given to the Ameri. can Yacht. Tbe regatta committee of tbe New York Yacht olub, consisting of S. Nicholson Kane, Irving Urinnuli and Chester (Iriswold, rend ered a decision sustaining Mr. Iselin's pro test against Valkyrie and awarded Thursday's race to Defender. Lord Dunraven aud his friends beld tbat bis boat was crowded by the Defender, and tbat tbe accident was unavoid able, Tbe committee gave each side ample opportunity to state their case and took tbe testimony ot tbe captains of each yacht and of others' who were on board. The decision was in the form of a letter to Mr. Iselln mid was as follows: We beg to acknowledge tbe receipt of youi tetter protesting Valkyrie.. We have given tbe matter our careful consideration, aud be lieve that tbe foul occurred through tuo mis calculation of tbe distance between the two yacbtes at a critical moment. Erom our ob servation, sustained by tbat of others wbc were In good position to see, we find tbat tbe Valkyrie, lu contravention of section 11 ol racing rule 10, bore down upon tbe Defendei and routed asr )y tbe swing of ber matt boom when lutlllng to straighten ber course. We also consider that Defender allowed Val kvrle sufllcleht room to windward to past clear of tbs committee boat. Your protest is, therefore, sustained. CIVIL SERVICE RULING. Members of Boards Must Not Indulge in Partisan Activity. Replying to a recent communlcatien charg ing that a member ot a local civil service board of examiners for the internal revenue service was guilty of improper partisan act ivity In connection with a recent political cou veutlou, the civil service commission asked the accused for such reply to the charges as the facts may wurruut and in its letter to him added. "While attendance at a political convention as a delegate IS not In itself u violation-of the civil service rules the cotumisslou holds that partisan activity sulVioicut to impair useful ness as a representative of the civil service cotumisslou is sulUclciit cause for removal from membership lu any i f lis boards of ex umiuers." Train Blown To Pieces. Pussengers arriving by the steamer Mas fotte at Key West, Ela., report tuat big bat tle bas beeu fought near Camaguey between the lusurgeuts under Maximo Oomez and tbe Spaluards under (len. Melo. The battle is said to have last 4S hours and the Spaniards were repulsed wltb heavy loss, leaving over 60 killed and wounded ou tbe Held. Itoioft's band bas been active during the last week, having blown up a troop train by dynamite near Santiago de Cuba at a bridge bear Sagua. The Spaulards admit tbat the train was blown up, but claim tbat only t)ve men were killed. Advices received here state tbat nearly 100 soldiers were mangled by tbe explosion. China Is Defiant. Tbe Chinese refuse to execute a single mur derer implicated In the masuv:u of mission aries. They are assured that with the exe cution of the men accused all other d -uiuuds shall oease. Ihn work of (! ! - :h aud American jolut commission is t'- --re stop ped. Without the presence of .. .u.i ign lleut uo puulsbjient for tlieiiasnt)-c is probable. Tba Vegetarians are relying ou olllciai sym pathy to begin again seizing uud torturing Christians. SE7EN BURNED TO DEI STEAMER ON FIRE. Five Women, Tbe Stewardess Child Cremated. Tbe London and Edlnburg steamship - pauy steamer i ua, piyiug cetwocD LU London, caught ure on her trip t0 (lf end Monday morning. Ihe fire itrt, ber cabin, and Sve women and ens passengers, and tho stewardess Wersl,. to death and a number ol others sr, J burned and otherwise injured. The Hr rxuuguiFueu 17 me u 01 ine shlr apparatus. Tbe maunger of the cj mi1e tblH fnterrielit "The steamer lona left I.elth evening at 7 o'clock with 10 saloon t, gers aud 00 second-clas PaS"uor. part of the boat lu which the sc..ti passengers siepi was useu us a snln.m j ine uar nnu at nigui n was uivi.h. i . tltion Into sleeping compartments , , and men. At 2 o'rloek this morning nn iii-mm r, 111 .ii.j in-..' r "i" Bit llHjf port side. The flames spread so mm,! the clouds ol smoke were so stilling n, crew wer prvTei.ien iruiu securing nj passengers, being several times drivn from tue burning part 01 the ship.. was goiieu uuuer ruuiroi aoout 1 when the charred bodies ol seven t. were found lu their berths, so badly t as to be unrecognizable. Tbe cabin ou the starboard side of tb was oniy siigntiy injure. 1. the .,,., nam's 10 inai sine oeiuir cneciie.t hy i,. teetlng steel deck. During the r ,t the names tue wi..iest exeiteu,..,,! r,t auioug tue 1 assengeip, 1 11" sti. , j . gers. men. women arm cuicir-ii, r deck, some of them nearly linked, n,., , screaming and the children crying, :,u hot uitll the Tames were subdue I o 4. they were p.icl.'.ed." The I nia Is lying In .1 dock tit y The ladles' cat In was cou.pieieiy ).. Some of the killed a ear to have '1 tln ir berths in their efforts t their bodies w-re found a.ti.i -t 1:1 the floor.. Tr.i f'.re originated )u room, whl 'h a lj j.h"d the cabin. AS A LIVING TORCH. Train Load of Oil Explodes ni l 0:. is Burned to Dy.i'.h. Tbe Chicago. liurSington A . iin v . had a peculiarly t ad w reck ju-t . toonn. Ills. A west bound tr im 1 -. nud as tho frotit part slowed up at t!, tank the rear part ran Into the fr a car cl naptha to ignite. 1 1. . r--cars ol na hlha and ) etroleiim in and all were soon Ignited. The . hundreds of feet high. Three car. . witbterrillc force. Ihe bouse ,; j ( raver, near by, was set ou lire in. I , ed, and Mr. and Mrs. Craver I ar.y r wiiu lumr nvi-p, i-nujuei i eisu, jti r.-ii taut, a village llreruau, was c vu. burning oil nud burned to death. men were bndlv but not fatally b m.-d. The loss to the railway compan; i f;. Houses a quarter ot a mile away u'fe ed by the burning oil. C. O. an- u i motive Hreruan wus thrown from stunt injured about the head. Oil cn strewn along for hulf a mile. The tri twisted, telegraph poles pulled d trg. burned, trees blasted aud the -whole i one of rulu. ON ITS MISSION OF PEACE Columbia Liberty Bell Staited Tour Around the World. Tbe Chicago Columbia liberty Ml started on Its tour of the globe. Tbe train pulled out of tbe Van Purotf irrm tloo, Chicago, Saturday, coni-.:t bell-car, specially constructed by V' 1-1 Central railroad, and the engli.kts.-d car and a sleeper. Tbe present m:.J ot the bell is Atlantu, (la., but on lLi t stops will be made at all tbo prliioijn . on the line to give tbe people uuojjvrt. to see ana near It. At Atlanta tbe bell will be recked civic ceremonies, will be itii-tiilltd mi of the exposition, aod will p-rumi ut: close as one of the principal attracti "in. tne close ot the ( ottou states xr- -i:i bell will be carried through l innlat: Other gulf states to Mexico, wliers it welcomed by I'resideut Dias an I .: place of honor in the .Mexican Ihe bell nud Us escort wi.l tie 11 ft Atlantic to Eugland, where itwiliK at Hutinymede. in celebration of tli" 1 of Magna Churtu: and It will then Is- tn tho comment uud ou urouu 1 the wot.l MRS. PIETZEL TESTIFIE She Came Before an Indians 0 Jury: Mrs. Carrie A. Piet.ol, the wife acli of Ii. II. Holmes' victims, w.v It'.M oner Castor, of ludlaim nolis un.l the c graud jury Tuesday, with her Jm Uessle. She told the story of Holmes' run: 1 nmcuiuriy iu lenuiug uer ovr mr e rliilfl lis iva. n.i.Ltii.i wo. trill. htr .'li, She Ideatilled ber sou Howard s e d was prostrated by grief. Mrs. IK'-- described the garmeut as she packed September last. She also described the carmen! '';! It was then shown tn her Mie t'lni lamentations aud said: "It is oor II coat, ou, 1 must see him. Mrs. 1'letlll was an ,1 lut r ucted that It' vestigntlon was suspended, lu n 'l with her Mrs. pietzel said she w him take Holmes by tile throat. "N t tc ki lor I could net commit murder, but I ' see mm punished. ' Death In a Wre k. Passenger trains Nos. 2 and ! "ii tt Northern had a head-end o.l.i-; i. ; Miuuesolta. Wednesday inorn i.. " reiiiiing at a hich rain o; si ec I . t-l " getherwllh terrill.) force. l!i.''!'; James Thill dan. Ilretiiiui if N J l'1' engineer of N. a, and both I .!.- -'' of whom is thought to be John ll i"- I ivo were iniured. Includin.' I1'" clerks, oii brakemau and one 1 "''" No. 3. Wrecking crews w-re Lurr.-si scene, from lluriteavillt) nnd St. I'' UJ doctors from bt. Cloud, lirJ iJ Alexandria. Gave a $1,000,000 Mortgafs A million dollar mortgage was the auditor at Tacoma, w hiiiuk' given by tbe Tacoma Land t'"n.f ; Tacoma property, which Is valued SKIIIIIKKIII ,1,. l,,,l,ln 1 Ifri SD4 Company of Philadelphia, to secure 4 Tl.uuu.uuu, ine proceeds ar Ihe construction of 1 nniMou Wliets house, tha nurcbasu and tilling lu ol of the Tacoma tide llats aud dfl waterways. Flnaitiir s'rnm QuitO. Thn rsmni.nt ..I ll.o Fn I. Tvti 1 meut is fleeing from lullu toward iM1 ary of Columbia lhuri .it is ri'v-i ageuts of the late guvoruiiieut """I meu to take tbe field iigumsl 1 if"'" fur,. 'I'lu 1. ...... I I .1 ... I. ijrs. reaction, might be fomented by tl"" him i, let.-, I .,. .......... tr. 1 U tf 'l ...i tiu onl uvw.uivn w iftkrii VO I ' I I . i lion of armed forces hostile to Lib" j public.