THE ENTERPEISE.
WELLINGTON, . i OHIO.
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign Newt.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Chauncey Talbot, aged 23 years,
1he wife of a business man of Putnam,
Conn., drowned herself and her 2-year
old boy in the Quinnebuug river ou the
12th.
During 8 severe thunder storm on
the night of the 12th St. Jouchim's Ho
man Catholic church at Cedarhurst,
Long Island, was struck by lightning
and burned. Loss $30,000. The fejry
liont Jtobert Garrett, In the bay, bound
for Staten Island, was struck by light
ning and the lights extinguished. The
passengers were panic-stricken, bu
no one was injured.
Thomas P. Day, vice president and
cashier of the People's national bank
of Pittsburg, who was recently injured
at a grade crossing near L'nioiitown,
Fa., died on the 12th, never having re
gained consciousness. Mr. Day was
president of the Pennsylvania Hunk
ers' association.
Third Assistunt Postmaster General
Madden has promulgated a ruling per
mitting the enclosure of coin recep
tacles for subscription purposes with
all second and third class mail matter.
Their mailing with publications under
the usual rate hus heretofore been re
fused. The shops of the Pottstown (Pa.)
ibridge works stnived active operations
on the 12th after years of idleness.
The force will be steadily increased
until the different departments are
filled up with at least 1.000 hands.
' Thirteen persons already huve died
In and near New 'ork City from lock
jaw caused by Fourth of July pistol
accidents, and others are in a precar
ious condition.
Of the three battleships building at
(Newport News the Kearsarge is ad
vanced 92 per cent, toward comple
tion, the Kentucky 90 per cent, and
the Illinois 68 pen cent. Crnmp has
the Alabama 88 per cent, finished and
the Mnine 9 per cent. At Pun Fran
cisco the Wisconsin stands at 73 per
cent, and the Ohio nt 2 per cent. The
sheathed cruiser Albany in England
is SO per cent, advanced.
A dispatch from Manti, Utah, a town
of 2,000 people, says two creeks over
flowed their banks nnd flooded the
greater portion of the town. Xo lives
were lost, but the property loss is
heavy.
Gov. Poyntcr, of Nebraska, has re
ceived a telegram from Yokohama,
Japan, announcing the departure from
there of the transport Hancock, with
the returning First Nebraska regiment
and Utah battery on board. It is said
the health of the troops was excellent
and the Hancock wou'l reach Sun
Francisco on the 28th inst.
Eight more .' deaths from lockjaw
resulting from injuries caused by the
explosion of blank cartridges on July
4, were reported in New York City oil
the 13th. ' , ' ( .
Dvnnmite frrtna fire f n h nseil W IYia
.'.American troops To the fall camjriign
uf;miih me -riupuios. i reparations
are being made by the ordnance de
partment to supply Otis withsix Sims
Dudley dynamite pneumatic weapons.
'The tests made at the Sandy Hook
rrovina srnounds oj a piln of this tvn
fiuieu cr,y Buuhiuciury.
Manufacturers 'Of drill and seeder
implements have decided to make an
advance of IS pea. cent, in the price
of seeders and drills. This action
was tnken, it Is said, on account of the
large advance that has been made in
iron and steel.
At Norwood, Mass., on the 13th the
world's mile bicycle record was brok
en by Joe Downey, a 16-year-old lad,
of Jamaica Plain, who, paced by a
motor tandem, made the distance in
one minute, 10 2-5 seconds. The race
against time was run on a public high
way, the mile being straightaway and
slightly down hill.
The coal brenkcr at Plymouth, Pa.,
owned by Haddock & Shonk, was de
stroyed by fire on the 13th. The loss
is $90,000. About 450 men and boys
are thrown out of employment until
the breaker Is rebuilt.
A train of nine empty passenger cars
plunged into the Chicago river from
the Northwestern railway's Kinzie
treet bridge on the 13th. The con
ductor and brnkeman saved their lives
by jumping, the locomotive staying
on the trncks. The train was back
ing into the yards to carry a croud of
excursionists to Elgin when the acci
dent occurred.
The loss to tobacco growers of Hat
field. Mass., by damage of the crops
from hail stones on the 12th is esti
mated at $100,000.
The Illinois board of pardons has
postponed for one year consideration
of an application for a parole lor
jChnrles W. Spaulding, the Chicago
ibnnker.
' The White Oak coal breaker at Arch
bald, Pn., was entirely destroyed by
!fire on the 14th. It was owned by the
Delaware & Hudson Co. and its de
struction entails a loss of nt Umst .i0,
;00O. A locomotive spurk set lire tu
the breaker.
Xhe total value of the gem output
iof the L'nited States for 1S08. covering
40 varieties, was $100,020. Among the.
most important were sapphires. $:,:,
;f'00; quartz crystal $17,000, and tur
quoise $50,000.
Representative Hnwley, of Texas,
has arranged with the agricultural de
partment for the distribution of seed
to the sufferers in the lirazos valley.
The seed will be sent to the post othces
.near the desolated region for distribu
tion by the postmasters.
A scheme to establish a negro colony
at Oak Grove, near Flemington, New
:Jcrsey, is assuming form. The plans
eontemplnte a big shoe factory on the
o-operative plan anil the running of
:a branch of the Lehigh Valley rail
road Into the town.
, Business failures in the United
.States for the week ended July 14
'numbered 169, as compared with 215
!for the corresponding period of last
year, and 24 in Canada, as against 23
for the same time in 1808.
: The village of Three Oaks. Mich., has
won the cannon which Admiral Dewey
aent from Manila for the Maine monu
ment fund. The cannon was to b
piven to the city or village making
the largest contribution in proportion
to its population. Three Oaks, with
a population of from 800 to 1.000 peo
ple, rnised $1,132, representing more
tlinn $1 per capita.
The Baldwin locomotive works nt
Philadelphia have received an order
for 13 engines from the state railways
of tFinlund. These locomotives are to
be ready for delivery by January J,
'1000. ..
In Trie pust to days 32 iron mines
In northern Michigan, which had been
idle from four to 20 'years each, have
started up, employing fully 2,000 men,
while the Increased force ut the mines
already working exceeds. this number.
Tfce demand for are Is in excess of the
possible supply for this season.
The lihennnia silk mills at College
Point, I I., which employed more thun
300 band,, bus shut down lor an in
definite ptriod. on account of depres
sion in- thr silk industry.
At ISridgeton, N. J., 23 striking glass
workers have been arrested, charged
with complicity hi the recent riots. A
number Of the men are charged with
assault with Intent to kill, and were
held in $500 bail for a further hearing.
The charge against the others Is riot
ing and thev were required to furnish
$V0O. . . .. , . .
At Bainbridgc, Gn.,- on the 10th. 2?
business bouses, the pumping station
of the waterworks, the fire engine
house and the city hall were destroy
ed by fire. ' Loss $60,000; insurance
$25,000.
The war department has concluded
an exhaustive series of experiments at
Sandy Hook, X. J., with high explo
sives and light field guns that promises
to make a material advance in the ar
tillery branch of the service.
At Fall Itiver. Mass., the strike of
mill firemen for higher wages was In
augurated on the 15th, the night men
throwing down theit shovels at the
end of their shift and giving notice
that they woufh not return.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Miss Annie Wheeler, daughter of
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, accompanies him
to Manila; She goes out as a lied
Cross nurse without pay, and intends
to remain so long as health permits or
her services are needed.
The plan nnd scope committee of the
Dewey celebration committee, of .New
York City, has received word from
Charles Dewey, brother of the admiral,
that the admirnl will arrive in New
York about October 1.
Pedro Orizar, 14 years old, who was
cabin boy and bugler on the Spanish
cruiser Vizeayn, has enlisted in the
United States navy at the Hrooklyn
navy yard. He will be sent to the
training school at Newport, K. I.
Brig. Gen. liussell Lord, whose half
sister is the wife of ex-President Har
rison, is dead at his home in New York
City, aged 61 years. He was com
missioned brigadier general of Penn
sylvania volunteers during the civil
war and served us an organizer of
regiments.
Ma.j. Gen. Shaffer will have reached
the age limit in about three months
and it is said his friends are wOrl.ng
tn secure his retention in the service
for a few years longer.
Wulbridge Field, chief justice of the
supreme judicial court of Massachu
setts, died on the 15th nt his home in
lioston, aged 66 years. He hud served
a term in congress from the Third
Massachusetts district.
Col. Charles' H. Hrown, assistant
chief of thy division of loans and cur
rency of-the treasury department, is
dead nt l'ittsrield, Mass.
Judge L. W. King, a prominent law
yer and republican politician, well
known throughout Ohio, died at
Youngstown, O., on the 15th, after an
illness of several months. He was 45
years old.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
An Imperial edict has been Issued at
Pckin denouncing the universal pecula
tion in the collection of the Chinese
revenue nnd appealing for cessation af
malpractices which are increasing the
country's financial straits.
Marconi's system 'of wireless tele
graphy is to be put in operation in
Hawaii as a means of communication
between the different islands of the
group. An organization has been
formed, capital hus been subscribed
for the project and some of the ma
terial for the system is already on the
way.
The steamer Purissima Concepcion,
sunk by the United States auxiliary
cruiser Hist at Manzanillo, has been
rnised and will be put in condition to
resume running on the south coast of
Cuba, between Santiago nnd Batabuno.
Her owners claim it will cost $100,000
before she will be able to carry pas
sengers. LATER.
The appeal of the citizens' commit
tee of the District of Columbia asking
for aid for the Texas flood sufferers
is being rapidly answered in a sub
stantial way. Treasurer F.dson ul
ready has received nearly $1,000, which
will be forwarded promptly to Gov.
Savers.
Nineteen thousand tin plate workers
returned to work on the 17th for an
other year at, advanced wages, the
skilled workers getting 15 per cent, in
crease. Engine drivers on the Manhattan
"L" road in New York City have de
clined to accept the offers made to
them by the officials of that roud,
which were to take effect with the sub
stitution of electric motive power for
steam on their line.
The United States district attorney
nt Jacksonville. Kin., has been warned
from Washington to beware of fili
bustering expeditions from the Florida
coast against Honduras, Nicaragua
and other Central nieriean countries.
A dispatch from Victoria, 11. C, says:
The steamer Tees brings news of the
death of a party of 11 prospectors by
drowning near Windy Arm.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Middlesex County mink, of Perth
Amboy, X. J., which was wrecked by
Its cashier, George M. Valentine.
The wares of the weavers at the
Slatersville cotton mill in North
Smithville. I!. I., have been raised
again. A previous Increase which
proved unsatisfactory led to a strike
nnd that demonstration was followed
by a strike by the socialist employes
because several of their party hud
been discharged.
There have been six deaths in Bos
ton recently from lockjaw. The vic
tims were boys injured in Fourth of
July Occidents."
Agents of the Hrooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Co. have engaged 300 experienced
motormen and conductors in Philadel
phia to take the places of their strik
ing employes. Many of them were
formerly in the employ of the I nion
Traction Co., of Philadelphia, and lost
their places ns a result of ihc big
strike on that system a few yenrs ago.
At that time they claimed their places
were taken by Hrooklyn motormen
nnd conductors.
Frank Ammond nnd Charles Van
Dressen, aged S.I and 40 years respec
tively, were drowned In Pleasant Lake,
near Lowville, N. Y'., on the night of
the 16th. Edward White, who was with
the men, swam ashore. The men were
in a boat and attempted to change
placet, when the boat capsized.
DEWS OP OHIO.
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Gathered by Telegraph From All
Parts of tha State.
Jones Bids for a Gas Plant.
Toledo, July 11. Mayor Jones yes
terday made a bid for the lease of the
city gas plant. Four other bids were
received, ull being from local people.
Mayor Jones has formed a company
and will attempt to secure a lease of
the city gas plant under an ordinance
recently passed under his direction
which provides for the sale or lease of
the plant for a period of years. Mayor
Jones and his friends will run
plant on their own resources and vill
turn the profits, if any, into tl. city
treasury. The losses will be carried
by the company.
The Cost or War.
Columbus, July 14. A stntement
piven out by Stute Claim Agent Tol
ford shows that even if the govern
ment pays every penny of the war
claims of Ohio, the state will be out
$100,000 or more. Of the expense of
preparing the Ohio troops for war, $42,
245 has not been presented to the gov
ernment as claims; $45,000 was paid
to militiamen who responded to the
call, but got no further than Colum
bus; $14,134 was spent in the hospital
relief train sent south last f'lll. In
addition there is an unknown expense
still going on for making tip records
of the Ohio troops. This work will
not be finished before Junuary.
Bid $10,000 lor the Nomination.
Steubenville, July 14. II. P. Scott,
the inventor and millionaire manufac
turer of Cadiz, who asph-es to the re
publican nomination for congress and
who in his first public letter denounced
boodling in politics nnd stated that
he would not descend to it to be nom
inated, is out In a second letter. He
proposes to all the candidates Jhnt the
nomination be put up to the highest
bidder nnd knocked down at auction
nnd he staits with a bid of $10,000. ll.
agrees, if elected,, to use all the salary
in educating four students each year
from each county in some college, lie
believes this a legitimate way of spend
ing money.
, Won't IVlove Away from Canton.
Canton, July 15. Austin Lynch,
Judge Day'B law partner, is authority
for the stntement that President Me
Kinley is negotiating for the purchase
of the cottage where he began his
married life 30 years ago and where
he resided during the campaign of
106. The people of Canton rejoice
at this evidence that he will make this
city his residence, it having been
feared that the death of his mother
mid the severing of 'other home ties
might induce the president to locate
elsewhere.
A Boom In Oil.
Lima, July 15. Heads of the oil
operators were set in a whirl Friday
by a two-cent advance in the price of
Lima crude oil, making it the highest
since 1S95, when it touched $1.27,
then slowly declined to 41 cents, the
lowest since 15-cent oil, about ten
yeurs ago. The first jump yesterday
was a cent and was followed in an
hrnr nnd a half by another cent, mak
ing North Lima 91, and South Lima 86
cents a barrel.
Ruhserlbed far S75.O0O of stock.
Toledo, July 13. Toledo citizens at
a mass meeting last night subscribed
$75,000 for stock in the Ohio Centen
nial Co., which has in hand the work
of arranging the Ohio centennial ex
position in 1902. The meeting was
the first of a series to raise $500,000 re
quired to secure the government ap
propriation of $500,000. Mayor Jones
put his name down for $5,000 nnd five
others subscribed a like amount.
Hares and scofleld Get Commissions.
Washington, July 15. Webb C.
Hayes, of Cleveland, has been nppoint
ed lieutenant colonel of the Thirty
first infantry, volunteers. He was ma
jor of the First Ohio cavalry, and saw
service in Cuba and Porto Rico. Wil
liam M. Scofield. of Cleveland, late
captain of the First Ohio cavalry, has
been appointed a captain in the volun
teer army.
A Novel Lan-anlt.
Cincinnati, July 12. Mrs. Amnnda
Ptichtenoth, of this city, has entered
suit in Chicago against the Central
Stock and Grain Exchnnge for $51,000.
The suit, is under the Illinois law,
which provides that three times the
amount lost in bucket shop deals can
be recovered, nnd Mrs. Stichtenoth's
husband, it is alleged, lost $17,000.
Stabbed a Prison Guard.
Columbus, July 13. Otis Hurley, of
Dnyton, one of the four demon convicta
nt the penitentiary for whom the steel
cage is being built, stabbed Guard
P.lacker In the abdomen Tuesday
right. Hurley enticed Mucker into
his cell on the pretext of showing him
where a prisoner was about to escape.
Found apt. Brown and Son.
Lorain, July ( 14. The body of Capt.
Brown, of the wrecked steamer 01 will,
was found Thursday by the tug Daisy
near where the body of his son Ulan
chard had been found earlier in the
day. The corpses were brought here
and placed in the morgue.
Campaign Managers Meet.
Columbus, July 15. The first meet
hig of the republican executive com
mittee was held here last night. Judge
Xnsh and other candidates on the state
ticket w'ere present nnd plans for the
opening of the campaign were laid.
A Farmer Beheaded.
Springfield. July 15. At Aleony
Thursday evening Millard Shindler, a
farmer. lost his footing while sawing
wood nnd fell over a clrculnr saw. In
in instant his head had been severed
from his body ns nently as if it had
been done with a guillotine.
Phenomenal Yield of Wheat.
Springfield, July 15. The wheat
crop throughout central Ohio is a sur
prise, inasmuch ns the yield jer acre
runs from 20 to even 40 bushels. This
Is phenomenal in tilts section. The
farmers have had no such yield foi
many years.
t'oxcy In a New IXntrrprlte. '
Massillon, July 13. ,T. S. Coxey hni
purchased an iron building from tin
Spang Iron and Steel Co., of Pittsburg
the dimensions of which are 500 by 8i
feet. Coxey intends establishing unc
operating a steel casting plant, but
lias not decided just, where to locate
treet Ballwsre Consolidate.
Columbus, July 13. The Northern
Ohio Traction Co.. of Akron, with i
.capital of $3,000,000, was incorporates
yesterday. It Is the consolidation c
the Akron Traction and Electric Co
and the Akron. Hertford & Clcrclnnr
Electric Kailroad Co.
TAYLOR NAMED FOR GOVERNOR.
BepabHeane of KratarhT "Nominate
Candidates for Slate Omees-llnn
dreds of ftpeeehee Delivered.
Lexington, Ky., July 14. The repub
lican state convention adjourned last
night after being in session since I
a. m. What was called .the Deboe
Taylor state for the most part wot
ratified. ' Before the convention as
sembled most of the delegates wen
for Taylor for governor and when tht
nomination for governor was reachec
about all of them were for Taylor. Ir
the contests for minor places then
was a vociferous flow of Kentucky
oratory. In the contest for attorney
general there were 47 speeches by ac
tual count and during the day then
were 300 speeches. After the presen
tation speech of each candidate then
were a multitude of seconding
speeches.
The presentation of Taylor's namt
by his leading opponent ,Col. 8. H
Stone, and the seconding of the same
by Judge Pratt, hii other opponent,
was a dramatic scene, but the mosi
exciting time of the convention wni
during the contest for attorney gen
eral. The Taylor men, who had beet
mnking the race for that nomination
objected to being sidetracked by on
who hnd failed of another nomination
and they made an" aggressive fight.
Senator Deboe, Gen. Taylor and theii
close friends were active workers tn
the hall during the) balloting for at
torney general. They wanted Judgt
Prntt on the ticket 'and they finally
nominated him by an overwhelming
majority. Judge Pratt was the fu
terite of the colored delegates for gov
ernor. Some of the negroes of Lexington
are still dissatisfied with the nomina
tion of Gen. Taylor for governor and
nn effort will be made by them tc
place a negro ticket, In the field hit
fall. A conference will be held next
Friday nnd a ticket nominated. They
have no ide.t of winning, but they
claim they will cause Taylor to lost
the colored vote. ,
W. S. Taylor is 46 years old. ne
wns a .poor farmer boy and taught
school before he became countv clerk
in 18S2. While in that office he stud
ied law and afterward was elected
j judge. He has been a member of tht
republican state committee since 188f
and was a delegate to the national re
publican convention in Chlcngo in 1888.
He was elected governor general foul
years ngo, when W. 0. Bradley wat
elected governor.
THE SCALE IS SISNED.
Tin Plate Workers and Their Em
ployers Agree on a Waf e Nrhedule.
Chicago, July 14. The officers of th
American Tin Plate Co. and the wag
committee of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron and Steel Workers, whe
have been in dully conference for tht
past two weeks over the question ol
wages of the tin workers employed by
the American Tin Plnte Co., agreed on
a scale yesterday. The scale which
was signed grants a straight increase
of 15 per cent. The increase takes
effect July 1. The wage list as adopt
ed is to be the minimum scale for the
year ending June 30, 1900.
At Wednesday night's session bart
instead of billets, and a ratio of one
seventh instead of one-fifth was prac
ticably decided on as a basis for figur
ing the scale of wages. This was aban
doned at Thursday's session, however
the scale as adopted being based on
$4.25 as the selling py of a 100-pound
box of coke tm plat vl Oil each teri
cent increase in the price per box 2
per cent, advnnce on the scale as adopt
ed will be paid, while for each ten
cents decrease a deduction of 2 per
cnt. would be made. Over 30,000 tin
plnte workers are benefited by the In
crease. A LIVELY BATTLE.
ClaHblowers at Brldgeton, It. J., At
tack Protectors of Non-Iinlonlau.
Hridgeton, N. J., July 14,The ar
rival of 15 non-union glass blowers
here Thursday was the cause of an
outbreak on the part of the strikers.
The' strangers came from Indiana nnd
were met nt the stntion by a large
crowd of strikers who Immediately
stormed the train and captured the
non-union men. A lively fracas en
sued, during which many blows were
exchanged.
The non-union men were sent away
by the strikers on the noon train. Sev
eral of them, the strikers say, have
been here before and were sent away
in the same manner. It Is said they
come simply to get money from the
union as an inducement to leave. No
arrests have been made in connection
with the riotous demonstration. ,
Mannger King, of the Cumberland
Co., who was struck with a brick and
other missiles, is confined to his house
with a badly cut head and other
wounds. John Trlance, an employe
of the Cumberland Co., wns severely
wounded, ns was nlRO a Philadelphia
detective who accompanied the non
union men here.
Our Foreign Trattt for a Year.
Washington, July 14,The monthly
statement of the imports and exports
of the United States shows that dur
ing June the imports of merchandise
Into the United States amounted tc
S61.6S6.20S, of which $25,881,311 wan
free of duty. For the year the total
imports of merchandise amounted tc
$607,077,388. of which over $3I)0,000,OOC
was free of duty. The exports of do
mestic merchandise during June ag
gregated $94,828,732, a gain of about
$2,000,000. For the year the export!
amounted fo $1,227,433,425, a decrease
from last year of $4,038,905.
Dork Wrecked br a storm.
New York, July 14,The Brooklyn
navy yard dry dock No. 2, for which
$300,000 was appropriated by the last
eongreis for repairs, was so seriously
damaged during Wednesday niglit'i
itorm that it probably cannot be used
again for nearly two years. The bot
tom of the dock on the eastern sidt
bulged for a distance of over 50 feet
The bulge ranges from one to ten feet
In height. The rain water is supposed
to have worked down beneath the
dock and loosened the abutment. Tht
dock, which is a wooden one, cost
about $1,000,000 twelve years ago."
Three-Cent Fare In Detroit.
Detroit, July 14. Commencing to
day the Detroit Citizens' street rail
way will Inaugurate three-cent fares
It is supposed that the move is madt
with un idea of influencing the peoplt
toward Gov. Plngrec's municipal own
ership scheme, which has for its ob
ject the institution of three-cent fare
Arroas the Continent on an Antomoblli
New York. July 14. John D. Davit
and his wife started yesterday for i
trip to San Francisco on a gnsolini
anto-mobile. The trip will be tht
longest, if completed, ever made bi
an auto-moblle. ,
A MEAT TIE-OP.
Street Railway Men in Brooklyn,
N. Y, Strike.
Employes or the Electric Hoads De
maud a Bevlalou ol Time Tables,
the Knlorceraeut or the Teu
Hour Law and More Par
. for Overtime.
New York, July 17. Another trolley
strike is on in Brooklyn. So far it
has not been as effective us the strike
of ISO J, but there is no telling how
long or far-reaching it may become.
For some weeks pust the employes of
the lines controlled by the Brooklyn
ilapld Transit Co, have Deen complain
ing that the management did not live
up to the ten-hour law. The men de
mand a revision of the time tables at
the different burns and also cluim that
they should be paid 20 cents an hour
for over time, which is equivalent to
$2 a tiny, the price which they set for
a working day of ten hours.
General Master Workman Parsons
and District Master Workman Pines
hnd charge of the men's affairs and a.
strike was called nt 4:30 Sunday morn
ing. At this hour moil of the mo
tormen und conductors on the Brook
lyn Traction Co.'s lines hnd complet
ed their night trips and the lenders de
cided that this was the most opportune
moment to begin a fight with the com
pany. A heavy rain storm was in pro
gress at this time and there was very
little passenger traffic. The Smith
street. Franklin avenue arid Hamilton
ferry lines, which are controlled by
the Coney Islnnd Railway Co., having
maintained their regular terms with
their employes were not impeded in
the least, but on nil other roads trans
portation was stopped for a while and
a good deal of congestion occurred in
consequence.
Shortly afler midnight 1,000 police
men were convened to the different
barns and many were placed along the
routes comprising the territory cov
ered by the Traction company. Up
to 7:30 a. m. there were very few cars
run over these lines, and these that
were sent out from the barns were
policed by constables.
On the Putnam avenue line only a
few men refused to work, and scarcely
half n dozen of the cars on this di
vision were policed. The Flatbush
nnd Hergen Bench enrs, the Nostrand
avenue. Gates, Itulph and Myrtle nve
nue ears, 'ns well as the Third avenue
trolleys hnd a meagre service in the
early hours of the day, hut traffic on
the old Nassau lines, which comprise
FiMi, Seventh Park nnd Vnnderlillt
avenues nnd the Douglass nnd Butler
streets roads, were practically nt n
ttnndstill.
The men on the Nassau road were
most determined, and not one of the
motormen or conductors went to work.
The cars remained idle for several
hours, but by 10 o'clock about one
tenth of the regular rolling stock was
working. These cars were manned
by inspectors and linemen. In fact oil
ers and helpers were pressed into serv
ice so ns to maintain a partial running
of the system,
Many of the old conductors and mo
tormen reported for duty on the Gntes,
Ralph, Broadway, Myrtle avenue,
Flushing nnd Third nvenue roads and
President. Itossitor snirt shortly after
noon that pver 50 per cent, of the old
hands were nt work on these lines.
Later in the afternoon the cars nn the
latter rnnds were running nt intervals
of ten minutes, which meant that the
service was crippled about one-third.
Shortly before noon President Ros
siter's private car Ampere started from
the city hall and made a trip over the
lines. Coming back from Coney
Island, the president's ear traveled over
the Fifth avenue route, and ns it
neared Twenty-third, wrreet nnd Fifth
nvenue, those on bonrd found thetr
progress Impeded by n stalled car near
the Fifth avenue bnrn. Here a crowd
of some 500 people, many of whom
were women nnd children, hnd conere
gated, and the motormnn of the Am
prre, Howard .Tnckson. wns attacks
by several men who were strikers or In
sympathy with them. The motormnn
rec-ived some misty bruises. Secre
tary Wicke.s wns one of the first to run
to the mnn's nssistnnee and he wns
finnlly rescued from the mob. Six
arrests were made nnd the track Was
soon cleared.
Throughout the afternoon boulders
nnd pieces of grnnite were taken from
a nearby yard and placed on the tracks
in the vicinity of ilreenwood cemetery,
nnd r.s cars came nlong nt Intervals
of 20 and 30 minutes, their further
pros-res wns considerably delayed
until these obstructions were re
moved. No sooner did the enrs pass
than the boulders were laid on the
trncks again and the police were nn
r.ble to stop the efforts of the ob
structionists. During the day 300 additional police
were sent over from New York nnd a
close watch wns kept nil along Brook
lyn brldce to see that no person In
terfered with the trolley wires.
Several arrests were made during
the day among the ranks of the strik
ers nnd their sympathizers, but no
disturbance of a very serious nature
occurred.
All the roads with the exception
of three Green and Gates, Ilulsey
und Putnam and the Fulton street
lines shut down It 7 o'clock Inst
night by orders of President Uossiler.
The three mentioned continuing run
ning until midnight, when they were
ordered to stop.
Klondlkers Keturn w;tli Wealth.
Victoria, B. C, July 17. The steam
er City of Seattle, from Alaska,
brought down about 200 passengers
and $000,000 or $700,000 in drafts and
dust. The richest, man aboard is J.
I.arien, of Monternl, who has been on
Eldorado creek nnd In the Klondike
for a number of years. Another pas
senger hnd $13,000 which he made on
Sulphur creek in two years. Most of
file 130 miners on bonrd were in com
fortable circumstances. Lute arriv
als say the officials at Dawson refuse
to record any more claims on Bonaa.a
or its tributaries.
Loekjaws Victims Number 33.
New York. July 17. The number (
deaths from lockjaw In and nenr New
York since July 4 has been 32. Most
of the lictinis were boys who were
wounded In the hand by toy pistols.
Three boys died in this city Sunday
from lockjaw.
Kitten bf a Tarantula.
Minneapolis, Minn., July 17. Mrs.
Andrew J. Hammond, wife of a grocer.
Is critically ill as the result of having
been bitten by a tnrnntula which was
in a bunch of bnnanns. Tbc creature
fastened itself to her index finger nnd
Inflicted several bites. The doctor
entertains small hope for her recover.
A BOOM IN LAKE FREIGHTS.
Owner or China Bxpertenee a Time at
Cemarkable Prosperity.
Chicago July 17. The Lake Marine
News Bureau soya: "The boom in
lake traffic has at midsummer exceed
ed even the expectations of the most
sanguine vessel owners nt the opening
of navigation last April. The ad
vance In rntes has been steady from
week to week, first In one great line ot
traffic and then another until It has
reached the highest figures puid dur
ing the summer months In this deendo.
"Still with thk advancing carrying
charges freight has steadily accum
ulated. There Is more coal to be
carried than there are ships to take
it; there is more ore to go from the
mines to the furnaces than vessels,
nnd were It not for the new position of
the great trunk lines of railroads from
Chicago to the seaboard, grain would
be accumulating at upper lake ports
for lark of tonnage, to carry it to east
ern and foreign markets.
"Wages on lake vessels and on docks
have been advanced from 10 to 15 per
cent. Practically every demand of the
labor unions excepting thnt of the
grain shovelers at Buffulo has either
been granted o? a satisfactory com
promise reached.
"The direct cause of the boom in
lake business Is the yrent activity in
the iron and steel trade. The Iron
mining companies are putting forth
every effort to get down nil the ore
possible from the mines before the
close of nnvigntion. Notwithstanding
their efforts the movement of ore is
not sufficiently large to meet the de
mand of the furnaces. The Illinois
Steel Co. ut South Chlcngo is 250.000
tons short of whnt it ought to hnv
nt. this time of the year. The great
steel plants in Ohio and Pittsburg are
little better off, but they will need
every ton they enn secure. Less than
three months- ngo even vesselmen be
lieved a $1 rate on iron ore from Lake
Superior wns a thing of the past, yet
the iron mining companies are now
paying thnt "gnre for ships outside of
their own fleets.
"It seems likely thnt the northwest
will be In a bad way for fuel, owing to
the steadily advancing figure in coal
freights from Ohio ports. Instead of
moving their stocks early in the sen
son, the eonl shippers pursued the
tactics which had been successful in
the yenrs of depression. They got
together nnd mnde an ngreed rate,
more than which they would not pny.
The result was that when the coal
ought to have been going forward,
ships were running back to Lnkc Supe
rior without cargoes. At last when
the coal shippers found thnt they were
under new conditions and were not
masters of the situation ns they hnd
been since the panic, they began to
bid up, but in the meantime return
freights hnd also advanced and they
were as bad off as before, Vesselmen
say that it is now impossible, with the
ships to be hnd, to take a sufficient
supply of fuel to the northwest for the
coming winter, regardless of rntes.
"From now until the close of naviga
tion there will be nothing but rush in
the lake business. Thus far the losses
from disaster have been exceedingly
small and the season to date is ns pro
fitable to the underwriters as to the
vesselmen."
DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
Japan Takes a Big Step Forward In
Its Helatlous with the United states
and European Nations.
Washington, July 17. A new treaty
between the United States and Japuu
goes into effect to-day, at which time
also new treaties between Japan anil
nenrly all of the countries of Europe
and some of the South American re
publics also go into effect. It is an
event ol far-reaching importance in
the relations between Japan nnd the
l'nited States, as it does away with
the treaty methods which have been
In vogue for nearly 50 years and sub
stitutes an entirely new method of
procedure. The same is true in the
relations of Japan with other coun
tries. Taken as a whole the many
new treaties which go into effect to
day place Japan on un entirely new
footing with the world nt large, as
she is recognized for the first time as
an equal in every respect.
The treaty with this country wns
mnde November 22, 1S94 in Washing
ton between Secretnry (ireshum uud
Minister Kurino, who then represented
Jnpnn here. The chnnges it made
were so fnr-reaching that it was de
termined the treuty should not go into
operation until July 17, 1S99.
Mr. KoiiHirn, the present Japanese
minister In Washington, yesterday
gave nn outline of the more important
features of this arrangement. lie
aaid:
"The 17th of July marks the turn
ing point in the diplomatic history
not only of Japan, but of the Oriental
countries in general. It will be the
first instance in which the western
powers hnve recognized the full sov
ereignty of an Oriental state. Itiiu
action of the enlightened nntions of
Europe and America shows that if
any country is ready to assume a full
snare in me responsibility and nnalrs
of the world at large, these old and
enlightened powers are ready to nd
mit such a country to full comity
among nations. So we regard the ad
vent of this treaty as a very Import
ant step, not only for Japan but for
all the nations of the enst.
"The countries with which Japan
has made new trentles arc the l'ni
ted States, Circat Britain, (iermany,
France, Hussia, Austria, Italy, Spain,
Portugnl, Belgium, Holland, DenmnrK,
Sweden und Norway, Switzerland and
Peru. All of these go into effect
Monday except those with Frnnce and
Austria, which are deferred until Au
gust 4.
A Juatlllable Desertion.
Albany. Or.. July 17. Frank M.
Girard, a nvember of Company 1, Ore
gon volunteers, has arrived here from
Fan Frntieiseo In violation of orders.
On reaching Sra Francisco and while
still on shipboard he received a tele
gram thnt his mother was dying, and
asking him to come nt once, lie ap
plied to the officer for n furlough, of
fering the telegram ns a reason, but It
wns refused. By the aid of comrndcF
he was let down by a rope into a small
bont nnd went ashore .taking the train
st once for home. . He will return to
Mb regiment In a few dnys.
Whist Tournament Ended.
Chicngo, July 17. The ninth an
nual congress of the American Whist
league cume to an end early Sunday
morning nt the Auditorium hotel. The
Hamilton club trophy nnd the cham
pionship for teams of four go to tht
Buffalo Whist club; the Chicago Du
plicate Whist club secures the Minne
apolis trophy and the championship
for club pairs; nnd the American
Whist lengue challenge trophy be
comes the prize of the St. Paul club.
These nre the principal trophies for
which the expert whist players have
contended during the tournament, ','
" Uneasy Lies the Head
That Wears a. Crown.", ;
But such art not tht ony uneasy hud.
Overworked, htrtssed, anxious pteplt
of all agetK and both sexes art meaty ', ',
ivlth aches, pains, impure blood, dis-
ordered stomachs, deranged kidneys and '
liver. For all such, hood's SarsapariUa ',
is the effective and faultless cure. It
infuses fresh life through purified blood.
3HAPE OP AN ANAESTHETIC
As Described br an Eminent aell
lat Who Bad I'aed One la
aa Operation.
It U a Bath physician who tells tbe foDoir
iag: Some time ago I happened to spend the
night in a country town not far from Kata
and it happened that there was stappine
at the same hotel an itinerant eye special
lit. "We drifted into conversation, and
during the course of the evening he told
me some of the marvelous operations he
had performed on the eye. One esse in
particular he spoke of that hated tne
considerable astonishment, for I didn't
know,-1 confess, that the operation bad
been successfully performed. He said ha
had recently taken out a patient's eye,
scraped the back of it, and returned it to
its proper place. The patient, he said, wa
never troubled by bad eyesight afterward.
" 'That wot a difficult operation, doctor?'
said I.
" 'Yes,' said he, it was.'
" 'I suppose you found it necessary to
employ an anaesthetic?'
Yes, I did,' he admitted.
" 'What anaesthetic did you use, doc
tor?' I persisted.
" 'Oh, well, unless you are familiar with.
such operations you probably wouldn't
understand if I were to tell vou. But
well, it was shaped something like a spoon,'
explained the eminent specialist." Lewis
ton (Mc.) Journal.
A MAN OF PRUDENCE. ,'
- r
He Thonaht a C'rclone Cellar Mich
Come In Hand? When He
Was Married. -
"Speaking of wives and their dispositiona
and tendencies," said Mr. liiskum to thr
evening crowd in front of his cross-roads
tore, 'there was John Brunt, that lived
for ten years in the cyclone belt in Kansas
trying to raise corn and mortgages and
things like that, until he was able to bor
row money enough to get back to Mary
land again without walking more than half
way. John come right to me, and I let hint
have a job on my farm at $20 a month,
for he was a hard worker and thrifty. At
the end of the first year he had cot tbe
Widow Allen's promise to marry him in
October, and he rented a nice little farm,
to do business again on his own hook.
John was a widower himself, and being at
practical sort of a man, he went to work
right away putting the farm and the bouse
into shape. One day I happened over hi
way, and found him digging a hole in thr
back vard.
"'What's that for?' says I, walking
around and looking over things.
" "I'hat'a a cyclone cellar, Sir. Biskom,'
lays he.
" 'A cyclone cellar?' says I, considerably
astonished. 'What do you want a cyclone
cellar for? 'This ain't Kansas.'
" 'I know it ain't,' says he; bn job
know, Mr. Bisltum,' and ne got very con
fidential, 'I'm going to git married, and a.
cyclone cellai may come in mighty handy oo
caaioaally.'" Washington Star.
Justice In tha Weat.
"Heard a . muni nf onnA nn.i mi tlita.'
trio." announced one of Detroit's travelina- .
men. "At a little town in Oklahoma emit
was in session, and I dropped in while wait
ing lor tne train. I be prosecution had;
taken the testimony of a stationary n-
fineer, and the attorney for the defema
ook hold. "Where were you the day thi
tbing happened?' he inquired.
" Ttunnin' a in inn.'
" 'What tribe did he belong tor .
"The day before a case had been tried fa
which a man had climbed to the top of a
freight car laid up on a siding. He had
no business there, but loosened the brake.
The car started down grade, gained speed
rapidly for five miles, and then turned a
somersault over an embankment. His col
lar bone was broken and he got a verdict
for' $500 because a smart lawyer convinced
the jury that the railroad was guilty of con
tributory negligence." Detroit Free Pressv
Trophies of the Chase.
"What are those queer-looking trophira
the Filipinos wear around their Becks?"
asked the raw recruit.
"Them 'a the medals for the centnrr runs
they've made during the war." replied tha
Kansas volunteer. Philadelphia Korto.
American.
Makes That a Business.
Pilson Are you going to take part in that
guessing contest?
Dilson Oh. no; they'd rule me out as
professional.
t'li e : 14,1 "
i i uiensiuiiAi :
"Yes; you know I am connected with tha
weather bureau." Ohio State Journal.
sllchtlr Mixed.
Mrs. Henpeck The Episcopal funeral
service is so beautiful I I want it read over
me when I die.
Mr. Henpeck Certainly! There's some
thing in it about "Here endeth the first
lesson, isn't there? Kansas City Inde
pendent. Automobile or ought not to mobile terms
to be the question at issue. Cycling Ga-
Man once ate the cream, but now they
cremate the man. Chicago Daily News.
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