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Cbe Pioneer Press ——— ■■ '■■■■ ■■■■ ■ 4. A, BCtariKUD, rripthtw. a i ■ - MILLER, SOUTH DAKOTA. Portugal won't let Britain have Mozambique, unless Britain takes It The shah of Persia still refuses to look pleasant in any of bis portraits. J,ove letters are writs of attach ment, and there is no dodging the ser vice. Why should there be any flurry In financial circles? Pierp. Is still able to be up and around. Speaking oi an army, King Wheat calls for 10,000 harvester recruits In Kansas and Nebraska A season of protracted drought Is reminding the Texas people of Gen. Bherman's opinion of war. The breaking of college ties is sad. but not naif so melancholy as the counting of subsequent ties. What, asks the college boy, is the good of co-education if the girls are going to take it over in the next block? One of the latest and most sensible fads in New York this season is the throwing of stones at automobile racers. It is feared that one result of the Ruh!in-Bharkey light will be to bring the Hon. Jim Corbett before the pub lic again. Brooklyn advertises a “reliable bug exterminator,” which may be of use to any one who wants to exterminate re liable bugs. Mr. Bull understands himself to be the victor, but he will have to put his South African farm in order at his own expense. King Alfonso needs a guardian worse than ever, for he will probably fall in love with some nice lady aged about 46 years. After facing the perils of a mob Rudyard Kipling no doubt wonders bow Poet Laureate Austin has man aged to escape so long. By the time man has the forests thoroughly subdued he will have found, doubtless, some way of getting along without wood. Kansas farmers are dragging tramps from freight trains and compelling them to work in the harvest fields. It is such acts as this that make freedom shriek. / Bicycling Is said to be a craze again in the East. It must be unsatisfactory sport, though, for enthusiasts who have been running their automobiles over people. Herr Most has sounded the death knell of a free press in America. It Is certain that he will not take any more liberties with it for the next twelve months. Joseph Chamberlain and the colonial premiers are having some trouble In whittling out a zollverein for King Edward’s empire. They might try get ting up a turnvereln. The woman who has petitioned for a divorce on the ground that her bus band expected her to embrace the “new thought” and see ghosts ought to have her freedom. A Pueblo Indian whipped his Wife, was promptly castigated by his moth er-in-law and in his mortification com mitted suicide. There I<j no use In trying to civilize an Indian. A theater treasurer has nearly died from erysipelas contracted in hand ling money. There are probably, how ever, more cases of grip than ery sipelas in handling money. King Alfonso of Spain is hunting for a wife. Any good-looking princess who begins to get boxes of chocolate and cut flowers from Madrid should un derstand what they mean. It Is reported that William Waldorf Astor Is going to give his daughter $20,000,000 when she gets married. William Waldorf must think that Is about the price of a good, serviceable duke. "As girls grow older they think lege of love end more of money.” savg the "Pointed Paragraphed’ of the Chicago News. Good sign. Perhaps this "high er education” Is doing something for the girls, after all. A French army officer has perfected a device which suppresses the flash, sound and smoke of a ride or cannon. Now If he will go a step farther and suppress the bullet and shell he will do the world a real service. The fact that Mr. Schwab has given a $25,000 academy building as pay ment for the green apples he stole when he was a boy leads to the nat ural conclusion that his ideal of Hades is reminiscent of his youthful stomach aches. Rmperor William says that when a German can look Into the eyes of the empress he ought to have inspiration enough to last him a lifetime. How nice it must be for her If the emperor talks like that when company is not present. Cbe Hews Washington Mates. The ability of the Panama Canal company to give satisfactory title to the property will be investigated in Paris at an early day. Gen. Miles’ selection of Capt. R. C. Van Vliet, Tenth cavalry, as Inspector of small arms practice, on his staff, has been disapproved by Secretary Root. Secretary Moody will materially re duce the number of naval officers on shore duty, believing every man hold ing a commission in the navy should spend most of his time afloat. Personnl. Alex Yost, chief of police at Cattles bvrg, Ky., Is dead from sunstroke. Mrs. B. P. Cheney (Julia Arthur! has been operated upon at Boston for ap pendicitis. Mary Mac Lane, who wants to enter Radcllffe college, will not be barred by th t authorities. John Downs, 104 years old, died at Eprlngfleld, 111. He was born In Lim erick, and cast hi* first vote for Bu chanan. James 8. Stephens, one of the oldest pottery manufacturers In this country. Is dead at Trenton, N. J., from heart disease. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, sixty-two years ago. John Henderson, the executioner of Louis Riel, the half-breed, who organ ised the Riel rebellion In Canada, Is d*ad on his ranch, near Glasgow, Mont., as the result of a surgical oper ation. John W. Greeley, a cousin of Horace Greeley, Is dead, says a dispatch from Manchester, N. H. He was eighty three years old, and lived at Amherst, near the site of 'he house In which his Illustrious eousi;. was born. The most magnificent wedding that ever took place In the Berkshire Hills, that of Miss Lila Vanderbilt Sloane. daughter of Mr. and Mr*. W. Douglas Sloane, and William Bradhurst Osgood Field, was celebrated in Trinity Epis copal church at Lenox. Mass. The guerts Included mainly persons of wealth and social distinction. Criminal. Rev. D. C. Peabody of Decatur, Rh, mentally afflicted through 111-health, committed suicide with a revolver. TaraJ Klrr.an and wife of Paterson. N. J., hanged themselves by the same rope, by throwing It over a beam In the attic. A committee of the Ohio State board of charities finds that Nora Ferris died from the effects of being placed in a stralghtjacket. W. A. Reynolds, sixty years old. a nurse at the county house at Grand Rapids, Mich., was murdered and robbed by unknown persons. Walter Sherry. George Clifton. James Wl'son and George Long, awaiting trial for burglary, have escaped from the county Jail at Bessemer. Mich. B. W. Pyl? of Chicago, fearing the Nicaragua canal would never be built, so as to make his land in Central America valuable, committed suicide. E. E. Shannon of St. Louis commit ted suicide after confessing to his wife that he murdered two men ten years ago, for which crime he allowed a friend to be convicted and hanged. Embittered hy the perfidy of the man who had caused her ruin, an unknown fourtefn-year-old girl committed sui cide in Washington Park, Chicago, by drinking carbolic acid. Dr. A. J. Jennings of Chicago Is under arrest charged with extortion by a mid wife. who says the doctor was accom panied hy a man representing himself ss an officer. The doctor denies the charge. Dr. Mary Damon of Minneapolis, a member of a prominent Concord fami ly. ended her life at Weston. Mass., by cutting her throat at the home of a relative. 11l health and despondency Is the supposed cause for the rash act. Julius Lehman. convicted aldermanle boodler of Bt. Louis, received a sen tence of two years in the penitentiary. Peter Hendricks, postmaster at Or arge. W. Va.. w’as killed during a fight at church between the Hendricks and Jarrold families. Theodore Oelfeuer, the wife and child murderer, killed himself In his cell at Chicago. He was found hanging from one of the bars. Oelfeuer had walk’d the floor all night, cursing and assert ing that his act was Justified. After eating breakfast he hanged hlm«elf with strips from his undergarments. From Other Shores. The Jewels of an English peer, sold at auction in London, brought $450,- 000. Netty, daughter of the late Antonio Terry, Is married to Prince de Luclnge- Ftuclgny, in Paris. The efforts of Oen. Puller to place his action at Ladysmith in a better light, la proving a failure. During Socialist riots at voting places in Orte, Rome, over forty were wcur.ded, one-half being troops. Germany’s exports for the year end ing June 30 were $101,714,004, an In crease of *1,827,000 over the preceding year. There was a large gathering of not ables at Rmie, in honor of the twenty feurth anniversary of the pope’s coro nation. A large collection of rare Paxton books and enrly manuscripts has heen sold at London to go to the United States. The collection cannot be du plicated. It is expected that Gens. Botha, De Wet and Delarey will tour Europe, England and America, asking aid for the widows, orphans and crippled of the Boers. Philip Joseph Marey Fits Allen-How ard, earl of Arundel and Surrey, dle.l at Arundel Castle. He was the eldest son and heir to the Dijke of Norfolk, and w’as born In 1879. The steamer Harmony went ashore n*ar St. John’s. N. F., during a heavy gale, and the whole coast was swept, which must have resulted In much damage to fishing craft. • 01tbe UJoen »Y J N. Davis, E. G. Rust and W. H. Chandler were drowned while bathing at Galveston beach. Five men were killed and two Injured by lightning while stretching telephone wlrt at Offerman, Ga. Eight cars, well filled with tramps stealing rides, were wrecked t Chicago, but no one was seriously Injured. Fire at 305-313 Wabash avenue, Chi cago, caus-d a loss of $330,000. Guests in nearby hotels were much exercised. Mrs. T. N. Horn, her daughter Fran- and Miss McMahon of Nyaok, were drowned while (.ailing off Sandy Hook. While endeavoring to locate a leak in a gas pipe at St. Louis, Robert Golz was seriously Injured and his wife and daughter killed by an explosion. Robert Holbrook, an aeronaut, while 400 feet In the air, committed suicide by falling In the presence of several thousand people at Mt. Vernon, 111. By the burning of the general offices, shipping department and wholesale de partment of Swift A Co.’s plant at Chicago, a loss of $600,000 resulted. M ss Mabel Ward made her first bal lcon ascension at Woonsocket, R. I. She lost her seat In the parachute bas ket and fell sixty feet, receiving fatal Injuries. While at dinner at Chicago, Mrs. Car oline Demor and family were buried beneath the ruins of their two-story brick house, which mysteriously col lapsed. A large tank barge, owned hy the Tidewater Oil company of Bayonne. N. J., has turned turtle In the East river, opposite the foot of East Thirtieth street. New York. Between 400 and 500 barrels of molasses was spread over the surface of the river. A Are, starting from an unknown Bcutce, In Utttngs’ storehouse, Platts burg. N. Y., burned fthe blocks of W. W Vttings. W. M. Levin. Catherine Foy, James Haney. Barber & Co. and olher small business places. J.o*s, $125.- 000. Soldiers from the barraeks as sisted In stopping the spread of the flames. Kldrldge Finkle. fifteen years old. and his sister, thirteen, saved a train on the Poughkeepslt & Eastern railroad f'om being wrecked, by flagging the locomotive Just In time to prevent It from rolling upon spreading rails, which would have thrown the engine and six cars down a steep embank ment. A $1.000.000-water power plant is planned at Joliet by a syndicate, along the drainage canal. The wife of Archibald Watt, a prom inent clubman of New York, asks for a divorce, naming a Boston girl as co respondent. The Lowe Coke and Gas Securities company has organized at Dover, Del., with $30,000,000 capital, to manufactu-e gas from coke. Only twenty-two railroads In the United States, and those unimportant ones, are in receivers' hands, according to the Railway Age.* Sixteen students at the Northwestern University, Chicago, have formed a non-kissing society, and elected Prof. Cook an honorary member. The transport Logan, with 1.184 en listed men, twenty-seven prisoners, eight Insane and seventy-seven siek, arrived at San Francisco from Manila. Hotel Bedford. Bedford City. Va.. which will accommodate 250. has be?n purchased for an Elks’ home for aged and Indigent, and will be opened on Oct. 1. The keel of the battleship Nebraska was laid In Seattle recently, the first rivet being headed by Governors Sav age and Mcßride, of Nebraska and Washington. The plea of President Gompers for the reinstatement of Typographical Union No. 16. of Chicago, was of no avail, the union being defeated by a vote of 116 to 101. It is estimated that 1.000.000 people will be represented at the American Federation of Catholic societies, which convenes at Chicago Aug. 5, for a ses sion lasting three days. Emroachments of cattlemen nre re ported to be causing trouble with Indi ans in the Choctaw nation, snd over 400 cattle have been mysteriously killed during the past week. After four years, the great sixteen inch gun. which has been' In course of construction at the Watervllet arsenal, near Troy, N. Y.. is completed. It throws a 2.000-pound shell twenty-one miles. The Denver & Rio Grande Railway company carried two actresses through to San Francisco in an otherwise emp ty Pullman car. because they refused to transfer to another car on through tickets. At a meeting at Portland. Or., of the executive committee of the hoard ot directors of the Lewis and Clark expo sition a preliminary report was made in favor of the city park ns a site for the fair. The Democratic executive committee of the Fifth congressional district of Tennessee has declared Hon. James D. Richardson the nominee for re-election to congress. Mr. Richardson had ro opposition. , The Federal Sugar Refining company, which was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey recently, with a capital of $50,000,000. proposes to establish * chain of refineries throughout the Unit ed States. All unskilled workmen at the Pueblo steel works of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at Pueblo. Colo., were notified of an advar.ee of 10 sents In daily wages. These men number about 1,500. The advance was voluntary on the part of the company. The socialists of Kansas at their state convention at Toptka adopted a plat form and nominated a full state ticket. A. S. McAllister, an engineer of Her ington, was unanimously named for governor, and John M. Parr, a Topeka house painter and decorator, for lieu tentna governor. (u.n.111r.. General. HEROIC WORK OE RESCUE DARHO FELLOWS GO INTO MINE TO BRING OIT RKAD AND MAIMED BODIES. FIND EIGHTY-SEVEN DEAD BODIES BELIEVED THAT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTV IN LOW ESTIMATE OE CASUALTIES. SEVERAL ARt EOIND ALIVE • TRANSFORMED INTO RAVING MA NIACS HI HOIKS OE WAIT ING. ■ ■ ■ Johnstown, Pa., July 13.—At 1 o’clock this morning it is stated that of the 100 men supposed to have entered the mouth of the Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel company Thursday morning, ninety are known to be dead and twenty-two rescued. Pour hundred, so the mine officials claim, escaped when the explosion occurred, leaving eighty-eight still to be accounted for. Borne of these, according to those In charge of the rescue work, are dead, , but the majority, they claim, have ea ! raped. From physicians, heads of res | cue parties and others familiar with the 1 different headings in the mine, it is learned that at least fifty-two addition al bodies will be brought to the tem porary morgue at daylight, making a total list of dead 143. This, so President Powell Stackhouse, of the Cambria I Steel company, stated, will be the ex tent of the dead, but until all checks, by which the miners are known, are i presented at the office of the company, r.n accurate list of the dead will not be know'n. Some of the bodies, It Is ad j nltted by the officials, are entombed In closed headings or buried beneath slate. Some may be recovered, while others may never be found. Heroic Work of Rescuers. Johnstown, Pa., July IS. —Yesterday was a day of heroic rescues at the Ill fated Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel company. Thrilling experiences attended the efforts of the forty brave and daring fellows who went down Into the bowels of the earth with a very faint hope to spur them that still they j might be In time to restore to life some !of those who are entombed. Death j lurked everywhere around them, but, ! undaunted. they surged forward, swayed with the noblest of human purposes. The reward of their efforts j was the saving of the lives of fourteen of their fellow m»n and bringing them again Into the sunlight and back to loving families. | Dead and maimed bodies were lo cated. but no effort was made to bring them out of the vast theater of death until every human energy was put for ! ward toward seeing that no living soul might escape their aid. That done, the dead were attended to and put In train cars, brought up and exposed to morbid gaze while being transferred to wagons In which to be taken to the morgue. Eighty-seven dead bodies were recovered from the mine between daylight and night-fall. Still a party of officials and I Minora llnttleil On, three miles Inside the mine. Occasion ally word would come to the surface by some mysterious means that another heap of remains had been exposed to the vision of the searchers. There re mains dangerous headings in the Klon dike section of the mine yet to be ex plored. No one knows how many more dead will he found there. The mine of ficials refrain fron. guess work on the subject. The Impression prevails among the outsiders and certain employes of the mine that 150 is a low estimate of the casualty list. Fated Johnstown spent the day horror-stricken. From dawn to dusk flying ambulances coursed the streets bearing gruesome burdens from mine to morgue, from morgue to homes. , Great throngs surged about the pit i mouth, the Improvised morgue at the •armory and about the stricken homes iof the dead. Bulletin boards were 1 eagerly scanned for news from the | scene of the disaster. It was difficult to picture with any degree approaching Its full worth the work of rescue and the attending scenes and Incidents of j the day at the center of interest. How brave men went Into the Jaws of Destli In its most horrible form, encountered their fellows transformed into raving ( maniacs by hours of waiting In the I pitch darkness of the earth's interior, lifted them moaning from their beds of fallen rock and then bending and crawling on all fours, carrying them a quarter of a mile underground to where cars could be reached to take them outside. '* Along in the early part of the after noon ch?ering word came from the In nermost recesses of the mine that Ilf© yet lingered in some of the bodies found. The rescuers made first for No. , 4. left heading, which they had been un able to reach the night before. Deso late even for the scene of a mine in terior was the heading that stretched out before them. Falls of roof almost choked up the heading, but thronirh t and over the debris the brave men pushed their way. In the front young Patrick Martin, his brother Peter, Philip White and several cousins of the Martins made their way. Suddenly in an open space they were startled by the maniac laugh which emerged from i a blackened form that rushed at them from out of the darkness. The man grasped firmly a pick handle and tried In his frenxy To Bent Down His Reseners. He was overpowered and dragged back to the main heading to the cars. Thir teen other living men were found In * the chamber ard physicians wer® quickly taken to the spot. At 3 p. m. the train of mine cars came to the pit mouth where waiting ambn lancea stood. Fight men were lifted over the slles of the cars and half carried. wended their way to the ambu lances. They were all Poles. One big, ■trapping fellow among them collapsed as he reached the ambulance and th* doctors spent severu! minutes over him. As the incn were driven hurriedly to the Cambda hospital the train of coal cars with the physicians re-entered the mine. In another half-hour they came out again, this time with six liv ing hut almost dead miners. One man In Ills paroxysms had locked his Jaws so that force had to be employed to pry them open for the Insertion of llfe- Instilling fluids. These six were taken In an unconscious condition to the Cam bria hospital. One man brought out with this crowd died Just as he reached daylight. At that time three more headings, be lieved to be filled with the dead, were unsearched. PREMATURE CHARIVARI. Man Seriously Injured While Ex plaining That He la Not Yet Mar- Sloux Falls, S. D.. July 13.—Frederick Vandyke of this city lies at his home as the result of being struck on the head by an iron bar or rod In the hands of a member of a charivari party. Some of Vandyke's acquaintances were In formed that himself and a daughter of Mrs. Mary Vogler had been married. They proceeded to the home of Mrs. Vogler, armed with a varied assortment of tin pans, horns, etc., intending to serenadethe couple In conformity with the custom of some people on occasions of this kind. Vandyke was at the house, and after the crowd had Indulged in rowdyism for a time he went outside and asked the unwelcome visitors to disperse, telling them there was no oc casion for the visit, as he had not yet been married. They refused to go. and Vandyke, In his earnestness, stepped elose to the outer rank of the visitors. Without warning one of the visitors struck him with a piece of Iron about two feet long, an Inch wide and a quarter of an Inch thick. The blow landed upon his head and Inflicted a bad wound. His assailants will be prosecuted. CI.KVEIt SWINDLE. An Old Man Loses HI .000 by n Con- flilenee Game. Winona. Minn.. July 13.—An old man named Martin was cleverly victimized out of SI,OOO here by a couple of confi dence men. On the pretense of want ing to borrow money to close a farm deal, they Induced Martin to draw money from the bank and accompany them Into the country. When In the buggy they removed the money from the old man’s pocket and dropped him by the wayside. They left town by train before the police learned of the afTalr. so the chances for their capture are small. judge huihv mi iih «kd dead. Prominent l.n Crosse Man Pusses Aniiy. T,a Crosse, Wls.. July 13. Judge Harvey K. Hubbard, for fifty-one years a resident of this city, and one of Its very first settlers, died yesterday morning after a lingering illness of three months He was appointed post master under President Pierce and held that office for many years, being the youngest postmaster the city ever had. He was Judge of the criminal court foe many years also, and was in many ways prominently connected with the early history of Western Wisconsin. MURDER OR ACCIDENT. West Snperlor Cese That Pn».»les the A nthorlties. "West Superior. Wis., July 13.—Murder or accident? That is the question Cor oner Dudley Is asking concerning the death of Krlok Kvtala. a workingman recently employed at the shipyards, whose body was found floating in Tow er slip. A black eye is the only mark upon the man that is likely to lead to a clew, and the police are working on It. It Is evident that the body had lain In the water for several days, ns none of his acquaintances had seen him since about the Fourth. nixes \o Explanation. St. Paul, July 13. —Conrad Swenson of 133 Cook street, the young railroad man who disappeared a week ago last Sun day, a few days before his proposed wedding, returned to St. Paul yester day and Is now In Minneapolis. He re fused to give his relatives, they say. any reason for his unexpected flitting. His marriage with Miss Hannah Hai vorsen of Red Wing has been post poned Indefinitely. To Room for Boers. Minot. N. P.. July 13.—A delegation of Poers looked over land In this vi cinity last week with a view to locating a colony direct from Africa. There is scarcely any government land left nearer than fifty miles west of this ci‘v. and what there is left is being taken, good, bad and Indifferent, at a rate of forty claims per day. so it Is hardly likely that the Boers will locate here. Fonnri With \nother Wnn Winona. Minn.. July 13.—Mrs. Mattie TJnpall returned from Winona to Anti go Wis., this morning in company with her husband, who followed her here and found her at a street show in company with George F. Young of Antigo. The meeting was stormy and ended In the police station. Mrs. I.inpall agreed to return to Antigo with her husband, hut declared she would never live with him. Farmer Kangs lllmsetr. Roy, Minn., July 13.—While in a fit of despondency, after having been detained In the insane asylum at Inde pendence. P va. for a year, Hans Han son, a Swede living seven miles south west of here, hung himself in his barn. Prenaril in tlie Flood. Des Molr.es, Town, July 13. Tommy Crooks, w»U knojvn as a boxer and athletic mar.ager In the Middle West, was drowned in the flooded district last evening. He drove off the roadway In the flooded district into deep water. River Is >’ovr Falling. Keokuk. lowa. July 13.—The crest of the flood In the Des Moines reached Its mouth Inst night. The river Is expected to he falling In a few hours. Thorough preparations prevented Immense dam age to a large area of cucumbers. To finllit a High School. Baldwin, Wis., July 13.—At the an nual school meeting of the electors of this village 11,250 was appropriated to build a new high school building. KILLED BY TRACEY Rt MOK OF A DESPER ATE H \TTIR WITH FUGITIVES OIT- SIVfN Df PITIES ARE KIUED STORY THOUGHT TO BR GROUND. LESS BIT FACTS CANNOT UK LEARNED. Sl'Rfc TO BE LANDED BEFORE lOtyj BLOODHOUNDS AND DJIMriEj SCOURING THR COUNTRY FOR HIM. Seattle, Wash.. July 13.—Bloodhounds and scores of deputy sheriffs were un able to stir Outlaw Harry Tracy from concealment In the brush near Coving, ton yesterday. Because of the midnight battle Thursday night the posse were sure of the convict's whereabouts. \ cordon of experienced marksmen en. circled this place early In the evening, and there was no possible avenue of escape for the fugitive without a fight. Hounds were started on the trail early yesterday morning and worked In every direction, but without success. Dark ness fell with less encouragement for the hunters than on Wednesday even ing. Every kind of rumor was received from the scene of the deputies’ search yesterday. At one time a report was started that a battle had been fought, resulting in the death of seven deputies and the wounding of the convict. Dil ligent search for the source of this ru mor met with failure. It Is believed t» be absolutely groundless, yet it cannot be brandad until every part of The Pnrsnlng Crowd has been heard from. The nature of the country through which the chase leads would make It possible for a bat tle to be foqght in one of the ravines and little be heard of It in the neigh boring towns for many hours. At dawn yesterday morning the sher iffs and deputies of several counties making their headquarters at Auburn and Covington started for the country Immediately adjoining the place where Tracey was fired upon by four guards Thursday night. Every part of ths distance for several miles around was carefully gone over by the men w'ho expected at any moment to hear ths roar of the convict's rifle. The wily fugitive, however, was not to be fqund, nor was there a trace of him. It Is be lieved that Tracy was but a few feet distant when he was challenged by the guards Thursday night. He Jumped Into the brush at the sound of voices, but could have gone but a very short distant >•» iiefore sixteen shots were fired from tnelr rifles. Tt Is thought that at least one of the rifle balls must have found the mark. HIM M, CONCESSIONS. Striking Freight Handlers May Re- turn to Work To-Dav Chicago, July 13. —Mutual concessions by the freight handlers and by the rail roads have paved the way for confer ences between the managers and their employes which. It Is hoped, will lead to the settlement of the freight hand lers’ strike. These conferences which will be the result of the work of the Chicago board of arbitration, will be held to-day in the officers of the re spective general managers. After working all day upon the situation the board of arbitration last night made the following recommendation, which has been accepted by the railroads and by the freight handlers: “That * committee of five, four of whom must he employes of their respeccttve rail roads and havirg full power to act, meet with the proper officers of the said railroads during the forenoon of Satur day. July 12, to settle the existing dif ferences between the railroads and the freight handlers.” While not so expressed in the recommendation, it i* understood by ail parties that th* fifth member of each oompnlttee is *® he a member of the executive commit tee of the freight handlers. PRF.SIOEXT MITCHELL TALKS. Ha* Something to Say about the ll- ttonnl Cnnxenflon. Wllkesbarre. Pa., July 13. For tht first tirrr' since the mineworkers decid ed to hold a special national convention President Mitchell yesterday consented to say something for publication about the gathering. He said it was utterly Impossible to forecast the action of th* convention. From his remarks it 1* almost certain the convention will do one of only two things, either deoid* on a general suspension or provide » defense fund for the anthracite strikers. J. Bldgway Wright of this city, the leader of the citizens’ alliance which was recently organized in this Vicinity, yesterday sent' an oppn letter to Pres ident Mitchell, In which he calls th* latter's attention to alleged trtlmlda tlons, boycotting and other annoyance* practiced on all persons who are work ing In the mines. He pays a tribute to organized labor generally for the good it has done and reminds Mr. Mitchell that every man has a right to work oT remain idle as he sees fit. Convleteil of Treason. Manila, July 13.—Gen. Maxilon, vh® hns been convicted of treason at Cebu. Island of Cebu, has been sentenced t® ten years’ imprisonment and to pay A fine of $2,000. Gen. Noviso, who Jointly charged with Oen. Maxilon, n 9 sentenced to seven years imprisonment and a similar fine. Worst Is \o w Oxer. Kansas City, July 13.—The Missouri river Is falling despite the enormous volumes of water poured out by th® Kansas river. People In the lowlands have been driven from their homes and cornfields are Inundated. Thlrty-flxe nrownril. Valparaiso, Chile, July 13. Thirty five persons were drowned and a house was destroyed on the estate of Claudio Vienna, at I.as Palmas, as a result of the recent bursting of a reservoir there. LAW.