Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 20, 1901, Page 2

eee ! The Rerald--Heview. By E. C. KILEY, MINNESUTA, — GRAND RAPIDS, - Bats measuring nearly five feet from tip to tip of their wings have been found in a cave near Tanga, in East Africa. Mme. du Barry's hotel in the Ave- nue de Paris, at Versailles, is about to be sold. Louis XVII turned the palace into stables for many years past it has been disused. India is rapidly becoming an impor- tant factor in the coal market. The output last year was nearly 40 per cent in excess of that of the year before, and a still further increase will be seen this year. Exportation of coal from In- dia has already begun, The coal is found over wide areas. Over 50,000 acres of unoccupied lands in Nebraska, Wyoming and Kansas were disposed of during one week re- cently, the largest amount in any one week in the history of the land depart- ment. The majority of sales were to Dunkards, who attended the conference of that sect at Lincoln, Neb. Large numbers were induced to give up their Eastern homes—most of therh in Penn- sylvania—and settle in the West. A national fencing competition has just taken place at Bologna, and the championship was won by Signor At- tilio | Monferrito. This “maitre d’armes” is only twelve years old. He fought the most celebrated Italian fencers and beat them all. He used to be the fencing room assistant of the celebrated fencer Sartori, and he -has now succeeded in vanquishing his former employer and many other past- masters of the art. The Zion Lutheran congregation at Lancaster recently made its annual payment of one red rose to the descend- ants of Baron Steigel, who over a cen- tury ago donated the land on which the church stands. The anniversary proceedings, which are known as the feast of the roses were taken part in this year by thousands of people, each of them bearing a red rose. Miss Annie Boyer of Pittsburg represented the heirs of Baron Steigel and accepted the rose from the congregation. More people over 100 years old are found in mild climates than in the higher latitudes. According to the last census of the German Empire, of @ population of 55,000,000 only seventy- eight have passed the hundredth year, France, with a population of 40,000,000, has 213 centenarians. In England there are 146; in Ireland, 578; and in Scotland, 46. Sweden has 10, and Nor- way 23; Belgium 5; Denmark, 2; Switzerland, none. Spain, with a popu- lation of 18,000,000, has 401 persons over 100 years old. Of the 2,250,000 in- habitants of Servia, 575 have passed ee century mark. * he submarine Narval, convoyed by the sea-going torpedo boat Zouave, has returned to Cherbourg from a series of deep-sea trials. These trials extended over a period of fifty hours, and were eminently satisfactory. Rough weather caused great inconvenience to the tor- pedo boat, but the Narval sank out of the rough surface water and remained below in perfect security. Five times she torpedoed the Zouave, and on her return to port it was found that she ftill had a sufficient supply of oil on board for twelve hours’ consumption, although she had steamed from Cher- bourg to St. Lo and back. The statue of the late Empress Eliza- beth recently unveiled at Godollo Cas- tle, a seat of Emperor Francis Joseph, near Budapest, is a bronze figure of more than life size on a high pedestal in Gothic style. She is represented in a walking costume, such as she most frequently wore at Godollo; in one khand a sunshade, in the other a few wild flowers, and she appears to be resting after one of her long excur- sions. Her head is crowned only with rich pleats of hair. The figure is the work of the Hungarian sculptor Rona, and stands in a part of the park most frequented by the empress. It is hard to realize that the boot black is an invention of the last half- century, yet he is now celebrating in London the fiftieth anniversary of his appearance. He came upon the scene in 1851, the year of the great exhibition in London, the first of the “world’s fairs.” The city was full of vi-itors from all parts of the world, and the problem of the street Arab was a seri- ous one. Mr. Macgregor of the famous Rob Roy canoe suggested that the boys be organized into a great boot-blacking brigade, and he himself made the first box for holding the “kit,” the model of those still in use. Idlers jeered the boys at first, and sometimes stoned them, but the public found their serv- ices so convenient that the trade was profitable. It has prospered ever since, and is now, if not one of the learned professions, at least one with a his- tory. A Baltimore man, convicted on a charge of “having wilfully neglected to supply a dumb animal—a horse— with the necessities of life,” and sen- tenced to pay the costs, told the judge that. he might have the horse for the fine, but, the magistrate insisted upon getting the money, $1.45. The most curious cemetery is situat- ed at Luxor, on the Nile. Here repose the mummified bodies of millions of sacred cats. Their remains are side ‘by side with the bodies of king and emperors in mausoleums, % Washington Notes. Turkey has paid in cash $95,000 in- demnity claimed by the United States. James G. Stowe resigned the Cape Town consulate because the pay is too small, 4 \ Rear Admiral Crowninshield claims the authorship of the famous dispatch to Dewey. Secretary Wilson will-endeavor to put a stop to the exportation of inferior and counterfeit butter and cheese. The proclimation opening to settle- ment the ceded lands in Oklahoma named Aug. 6 as the day of opening. The Chinese government has filed a claim for indemnity on account of al- leged cruelty to Chinamen at Butte, Mont. Col. Mosby of Civil war fame has been appointed special agent of the generai land office for Minnesota and Nebraska. FA Arthur Ferguson, formerly secretary of the United States Philippine com- mission, has been appointed secretary to Civil Governor Taft. The that a large percentage of the inmates of reformatory, penal and charitable in- stitutes of the states are aliens, Secretary Root will be accompanied on his Western trip of inspection by Gen. Gillespie, chief of engineers: Col. Randolph, chief of artillery, and Lieut. Col. Carter of the adjutant general's department. > Personal Mention. Pierre Lorillard, the wealthy tobacco manufacturer, is dead, Prince von Hohenlohe, former chan- celllor of Prussia, is dead. Mrs. Barrett Eastman, daughter of the late Carter‘ Harrison, seeks a legal | separation. Rev. Sheldon of Topeka, Kan., says life, preparatory to writing a bock. Frank A. Vanéerlip, former assistant secretary of the treasury, elected vice president of the National City bank of New York. Capt. Sigsbee, U. S. N., who is at Hempstead, L. I., is greatly improved, but is still confined to his bed. Capt. Sigsbee is suffering from erysipelas. Sophia Adelaide Kent, who all her life has claimed to be the eldest daugh- ter of Queen Victoria, died in poverty in New York, and was saved from pot- | ter's fleid by the charity of a physician. Pierre Champeau, one of the few sur- viving founders of the Icarian colony at Nauvoo, lll., died at Keokuk, Iowa, | aged eighty-three. He was prominent in the movement which caused the emigration of the French to form so- cialistic communities in 1848. Mrs. Martha Patterson, last of the children of President Andrew Johnson, and who was mistress of the White House during the Johnson administra- tion, died at her home at Greenvill Tenn. Mrs. Patterson was born Oc 1828. Her death leaves only five vivors of the Johnson family. i Unfortunate Happenings. | Considerable damage w done but no lives were lost by the at Gale veston and at other point g the gulf, The Northwestern Ladder company’s plant and three frame buildings ad joining were destroyed by fire in Chi- cago. The loss was $60,000. Mistaking toadstools for mushrooms, three men employed as carpenters by the Austin Driving Association of Chi- cago were probably fatally poisoned. While the nineteenth pioneer battal- ion was practicing on the Rhine near Kehl, Baden, a boat containing sixteen soldiers capsized. Eleven of the men were drowned. Four from St. Louis was ditched through collision with a portion of a freight train near Clevelané. No pas- sengers were killed. J. W. Boyd, one of Roosevelt's. rough riders, who is now a ranch owner near San Antonio, Tex., met instant death in Chicago by accidentally falling over a railing into @ passageway below. Fire destPoyed the foundry of the Kansas Hay Press company at the foot of Fourth street, Kansas City, Mo., in the West Bottoms district. The ioss is $100,000, partially covered by insurance. broken it, causing it to explode. After careful investigation the police department has ascertained that the death of Esther Oliver, the four-year- one child who was killed by the ex- plosion of a torpedo in Denver, was due to an accident. The child had found a torpedo in the yard and had Horderus’ department stores, consist- ing of an eight-story building, fronting on three streets, were practically de- stroyed by fire in Sydney, N. S. W. The damage is estimated at over $500,- 000 sterling. The insurance amounts to $394,000 sterling, mostly in local com- panies. Foreign. Boers are charged wounded British soldiers. It is reported that Lord Roseberry will marry the Duchess of Albany. The Vatican scheme of leagues of Catholic workingmen proves a success, Appalling fatalities from the lague are reorted"from Amoy and Hongkorg. Germany is not interested in the ru- mored trade war against the United States. Filippino military and political pris- oners in Guam form a government, with Gen. Pio del Pilar president. The action of natives in stoning ond expelling two friars is indorsed by the Federal party in the Philippines. The Salisbury government suc seeded in carrying its educational bill by the handsome majority of 333 votes, against 215. Marais, the well known Cape rebel, was hanged at Middelburg, .Transvaal colony, yesterday. By order of the mil- itary authorities the execution was wit- Hq nessed by prominent residents of Med- , delburg. with killing immigration bureau discovers | he is going to Chicago to study slum | has been | The Southwestern limited on the Big | Sins and Sinners. In a gun fight near Plant City, Fia., Edward Franklin, a farmer, was killed and David Kinard, Franklin’s son-in- law, Mrs. Kinard and their baby were | Seriously wounded. Sylvester Green of McDowell county, W. Va., fatally stabbed his wife and i beat out the brains of his child with a rock because the wife refused him money with which to gamble. Green escaped. Upon the refusal of his father to allow him the use of a team Edward Windsor of Milford, Del., fatally shot his father, Thomas B. Windsor, a hotel proprietor. The son disappeared and is supposed to have committed suicide. At Muncie, Ind., Manning Alfen and Johnson Bradley, two barbers, fought desperately with razors. Allen’s chin was cut off and a dozen slashes were made in his face and body. The other escaped with slight wounds. Allen will die. At Albany, Mo., B. A. McConkey, a farmer, killed John Bryant and his son with a,club, The Bryants were neigh- bors. McConkey then attempted sui- cide, but is still alive. Temporary in- sanity, induced by the heat, is supposed to have caused the tragedy. Harry Daly, a health seeker from New York, fought a pistol duel in a Santa Fe (N. Mex.) saloon with Julian Arias of that city. - Arias was killed and Daly so badly wounded that he died within a few hours. A quarrel over a game of cards precipitated the shoot- ing. Ole MecMilllan, night patrolman of Humboldt, Iowa, was shot and killed by J. Metzner while the latter was re- | sisting arrest. McMillan’s body was riddled with a charge of buckshot. Metzner is said to have been abusing his family when the officer attempted to arrest him. At Griffithsville, W. Va., Minnie Waddell, twelve years of age, shot a burglar as he was entering her home during the absence of her parents, and then stood watch through the night over him until her parents returned in the morning. The burglar, who will die, has been identified. Alfred Thomas Gamage, aged twenty- nine, formerly a sergeant in the British army stationed at Hamilton, Scotland, is under arrest in Kansas City on a charge of stealing $500 from the crown. Gamage came here in 1900, and had been known as Sidney Thomas of Ham- ilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland. | Charles Dunn, the aged and wealthy lumberman held by the coroner on sus- picion of having killed ten-year-old Alice Cothrell, whose body was found , in a cistern beneath Dunn’s residence at Wallen, Ind., was arrested on a warrant charging him with the murder of the girl by choking her to death. * Miss Nita Lemon of San Bernardino, Cal., fought a duel with a French beg- gar, and swords were the weapons. The beggar invaded her father’s home while she wes alone. He refused to leave and Miss Lemon, who is an expert fencer, picked up a sword with which to defend herself. The beggar seized another’sword, but was “pinked” twice and driven from the house. Otherwise. America’s export trade shows an im- mense increase. The Kansas irrigation law has been declared to be constitutional. Strong efforts will be made to restore rates among Western railroads. The Pacific-American Fisheries com- pany has been absorbed by the salmon trust. Dowie says that if he were put in prison an angel of the Lord would let him out. Workmen at Frankfort, cently discovered Pere golden altar crucifix. Gen. Gomez, in a speech at a banquet, predicts the peaceful annexation of Cuba by the United States. Wisconsin live ‘stock men are consid- erably worked up over glanders, tu-~ berculosis and kindred diseases. Dun’s weekly review of trade shows that the extreme heat and rain had its effect upon all kinds of business. Gus Ruhlin gained two falls in suc- cession in a wrestling match with Fitz- simmons at Madison Square Garden. A discharged janitor of a Cleveland bank started a run on the institution by starting the rumor that it was un- safe, i A system of floating hotels has been inaugurated in New York for the bene- fit of business men during the heated season. The crops of the Northwestern states are still in good shape, but south and southwest considerable damage has been done by hot, dry weather. According to a report from Capt. Hawiey, commanding the training ship Hartford, the visit of that ship to Ed- inburgh and Leith were ovations. The Pere Marquette line is to estab- lish the new wireless telegraph system on its boats plying between Ludington and Milwaukee and Ludington and Manitowoc. A shower of eggs, good and bad, greeted Elder James R. Adams, of the Dowieite, church in Waterloo, Iowa, while he was entering upon a tirade of abuse of the churches and doctors. The government report of the crop averages on July 1 shows the spring wheat crop of the Northwest to be for- ty points ahead of a year ago, and five points ahead of the ten-year average. Mayor Phelan is in receipt of a letter from Andrew Carnegie, offering to give $750,000 to San Francisco for a library building, providing the city furnishes a suitable site and appropriates $75,000 a year for maintenance. From sources thoroughly well in- formed and entitlei to credence comes the statement that Princess Hatzfeldt has already began legal proceedings which, though not technicaly a will contest, amount really to an attempt to set aside, in part, at least, the last testament of her foster-father, Ceilis P. Huntington, - : Mich., re- Marquette’s SCORCHED BY SUN NINETEEN STATES AND TERRITORIES. SEEMS TO BE NO RELIEF IN SIGHT “Cry of Crop Damage Continues to Come From the States Affected— Safe to Say That Ha’ the Corn Crop Will Be Lost — Vegetation Shriveled by Sun’s Fierce Rays— Chinch Bugs in the Northwest. ‘Washington, July 16.—Reports to the weather bureau show that the hot weather ccntinued in nineteen states and territories of the great corn belt, the Ohio valley and various portions of the South. There seems to be no im- mediate eviderce of abatement, except in the South and Southwest, where lo- cal thunderstorms may cause some moderations. The states affected in- clude Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Ten- nessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi- ana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ne- braska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado and Michigan. It has become considerably warmer also in the upper lake region and in New England, Mar- quette, Mich., reporting yesterday a record-breaking temperature of 102 degrees. Hope of rain in the region af- fected by the heat was not fulfilled, only traces of it appearing in one or two sections, except at Galveston, Tex., where about one-third of an inch of rain fell and in Eastern Texas, where there were local thunderstorms. The temperatures reported yesterday show only slight variation from the extremes of the past few days and these are due to local conditions entirely. In Des Moines, lowa, the temperature was 100 and in Kansas City 102, in Omaha 102, while at Davenport, Iowa, Denver, Lit. tle Rock, New Orleans, North Platte, St. Paul and Vicksburg it was 96 or higher. Crop Damage in Many States. The cry of crop damage continues to come from. the various states affected. In addition to the damage from hot winds reports of serious damage to wheat from chinch bugs come from Southern Minnesota and portions of the Dakotas. ‘* a With no relief in sight, the fears for the crops are fast becoming realitts, and the scarcity of water and genera? ly dry conditions make the element of fire a most serious one. What the real damage to corn, the crop most affected, will be, is problematical, but it is prob- ably safe to say that half the crop will be lost. The supply of water is short in almost every direction and the ship- ment of cattle and hogs to the market to save them must continue. Prayers for rain were offered in a score of Kansas and Missouri churches yesterday. Weather experts say that rainfall under the present conditions fs almost an .impossibility. Weeks and months of torridity have rendered the lower stratum of the air so hot that the rain drops would be transformed to yapor in passing through it. Vegeta- tion is shriveled and crop estimates are being reduced every hour. Cattlemen are flooding the markets with livestock: they are unable to feed or water, and prices have dropped to record-breaking : figures. . ‘Western states report many pros- trations in the farming districts, and where work during the day is attempt- ed the farmer is likely to lose his horses from sunstroke. The situation is the worst ever experienced. MAY SOON RETURN. Foreign Troops May Again be Re- quired in the Chinese Capital. Pekin, July 16. — Gen. Gaselee, who commanded the British Indian troops here, left yesterday en route to Eng- land, traveling by way of Japan, Can- ada and the United States. There was @ special guard of American, German, Italian and Japanese troops at the sta- tion and also a number of Chinese po- lice. The presence of the latter was an unusual occurrence. Part of Gen, Gaselee’s stuff will remain at Tien-tsin with Gen. O'Moore Creagh, who will succeed Gen. Gaselee. The latter, when he arrives in London, will make a per- sonal report of the military and politi- cal-situations. His direction of the movements of the Indian troops was guarded, prudent, safe and diplomatic, he following the British policy in that he was neither excessively lenient, like the Americans, nor severe like the Ger- mans. Many officers anticipate that troubles in the near future will neces- sitate the return of foreign troops. Col. Alexander of the Sixteenth Bengal Lancers is now in command of the British troops in Pekin.» The Sixteenth Bengal Lancers, the Seventh Rajpuis, and the Welsh . Fusiliers will leave about the middle of August. Only 260 troops will be left as a legation guard. To Fool the Emperor. The Chinese officials are making elab- orate preparations to save the emper- or’s face when he re-enters Pekin. All evidence of the destruction wrought by the war along the streets to be trav- ersed by the emperor will be temporari- ly disguised. Great pagodas will be erected. The Chen Men gate, which was nearly demolished by the bom- bardment, will be repaired with wood and plaster, painted to resemble stone and the damage to the walls and outer puildings will be similarly masked. Li Hung Chang has deferred the with- érawal of the foreign troops from the temples and palace not later than Aug. 15.. The ministers of the powers have acquiesced and have notified the com- manders of their decision. The Ameri- cans and British will probably camp near the summer residences of the les gationers in the western hills unth their barracks are completed. His Boat Capsized. Eagle Pass, Tex., July 16.—The con- sulting engineer of the international poundary commission, P. D. Cunning- ham, was drowned by the capsizing of his boat in a narrow, rocky channel of the Rio Grande about twenty miles be- low Eagle Pass. He was a native of Nashville, Tenn. A tet Havana, July 16. — Gov. Gen. Wood, who is suffering from typhoid fever, has recuperated wonderfully and his clans are confident that he will be able to get up in a few days, __ ecm THE MARKETS, Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, July 16. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 63@631-2c; No. 2 Northern, 611-2 @ 62c. Corn — No, 3 yellow, 46 @ 47c; No. 3, 45@46 3-4c. Oats — No 8 white, 311-431 3-4c; No. 3, 30 4-2@31c. Minneapolis, July 16—Wheat—No. 1 hard 68c; No. 1 Northern, 66c; No, 2 Northern, 64 3-8c, Corn — No. 3, 44c; No. 3 yellow, 441-2c, Oats — No. 2 white, 311-4c; No. 3 white, 303-4@ 311-4c; No. 3, 30@301-2c; no grade, 2%¢ Barley—No. 5, 39c. Rye—No. 2, 441-2@ 44 3-4c. Duluth, July 16.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, cash, 72c; No. 1 Northern, 69c; No. 2 Northern, 64c; No. 3 spring, 60c; to ar- rive, No. 1 hard, 72c; No. 1 Northern, 69c; July, No, 1 Northern, 69c; Septem- ber, 67 3-8c; December, 68c; oats, 291-2 @29 3-4c; rye, 491-2c; flax, cash, $1.88; September, $1.51; October, $1.44; corn, 48 1-2c. Chicago, July 16.—Cach Wheat—No. 2 red, 68c; No, 3 red, 66c; No. 2 hard winter, 66 1-2@67c; No. 3 hard winter, 65c; No. 1 Northern spring, 67 1-4c; No- 2 Northern spring, 66 1-4c; No. 3 spring, 61@63c. Corn—No. 2, 51@52c; No. 3, 50@ Ble. Oats—No. 2, 33 1-2@34c; No. 3, 3@ 33 1-2c. Milwaukee, Wis., July 16. — Flour is higher. Wheat higher; No. 1 Northern, 681-2c; No. 2 Northern, 65@67c; July, 66c; September, 681-2c. Corn—Septem- ber, 523-4@54c. Rye higher; No. 1, 50c. Barley steady; No. 2, 541-2c; sample, 35@58c. Oats higher; No. 2 white, 4@ 35c. Sioux City, Iowa, July 16. — Cattle — Beeves, $4 @ 5; cows, bulls and mixed, $2.50@3.50; stockers and feeders, $3.25 @ calves and yearlings, $3@4. Hogs, $5.82 1-2@6; bulk, $5.87 1-2@5.90. Chicago, July 16. — Cattle — Good to prime steers, $5.10 @ 6.25; poor to medi- um, $3.90 @ 5; stockers and feeders, $2.30@4.40; cows and heifers, $2@4.90; Texas steers, $3.40@5.10; Texas bulls, '2.50@3.50. Hogs--Mixed and butchers, $5.75@6.25; good to choice heavy, $5.25@ 6.30; ‘rough heavy, $5.80 @ 5.90; light, $5.80@6.10; bulk of sales, $6 @ 6.12 1-2. Sheep, $3.25@4.65; lambs, $3.65@5.90. South St. Paul, July 16. — Cattle — Prime butcher steers, $5.10@5.40; good to choice, $4.50@5; fair to good. $3.75@ 4.25; common to fair, $3.25@3.60; prime butcher cows and heifers, $4@4.25; good to choice, $3.35@3.80; fair to good, $2.75 @3.25; canners and cutters, $1.50@2.60; good to choice butcher bulls, $3@4; bologna bulls, $2@2.75; good to choice veals, $4.50@5.25; fair to good, $3.50@ 4.50; good to choice feeders, $3.50@3.80; fair to good, $3.15@3.40; common, $2G@3; steer calves, $3.50@4; good to choice heifers, $3@3.25; fair to good, $2.75@3; common, $2@2.40; heifer calves, $2.50@3; good to choice milch cows, $35@40; fair to good, $30@35; common, $25@29. Hogs--Light, $5.75 @ 6; mixed and butchers, $5.75@5.95; heavy, $5.70@5.95; rough packers, $5.25@5.55; stags and boars, $35.25; pigs, $4@5. Sheep--Good to choice spring lambs, $4.50@5.25; fair to good, $3.75@4.20; fat wethers, $3.50@3.75; fat ewes, $3.40@3.60; good to choice stock and feeding lambs, $3.25@3.50; fair to good, $3@3.25; feeding wethers, $3@3.40; stock and feeding ewes, $2.50@3.25; thin sheep, $2.25@2.75; kiling bucks, $2.25@2.50. EPWORTH LEAGUERS STRANDED. Stripped of All Their Possessions by Gang of Pickpockets. Glenwood Springs, Colo., July 16—The thoroughly organized gang of pick- pockets operating at Colorado Springs is responsible for a party of about twenty Epworth Leaguers becoming stranded here. Men and women alike have been robbed, not only of every cent they had with them, but of rail- road tickets as well, and unless the railreads will issue tickets back home on their proof of having purchased and paid for rides to San Francisco and back they will be compelled to ask aid from the county authorities. In at least ten instances thieves even secured their victims’ trunks on the stolen bag- gage checks. Maj. S. K. Hooper, gen- eral passenger agent of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, authorized the Glenwood Springs agent to furnish passes to Ogden to stranded passengers who desired to continue their journey west. BROTHER KILLS BROTHER. Outcome of a Quarrel Over a Game of Craps. Carnegie, Pa., July 16.—Brother killed brother over a quarrel over a game of craps in East Carnegie yesterday af- ternoon. Paul Butler, colored, and his brother Frank, in company with several other colored friends, went to the hills back of East Carnegie, near Idlewood, and bezan to shoot craps. The men were all playing pleasantly when a quarrel arose between the brothers over 5 cents. They were sit- ting on the grass beside each other, and after several angry names had been called back and forward the two men rose to their feet. Frank pulled a 38-caliber revolver from his pocket and fired twice at his brother’s head. Both shots took effect, the last entering the abdomen, causing death. The murder’r gave himself up. WORK OF INCENDIARIES, Is Indicated in a Series of Fires in San Francisco. San Francisco, July 16.—A series of fires early yesterday morning indicated that incendiaries were at work. Stables were made the special mark of their torches. Twenty horses were burned. The fires occurred in the same general neighborhood, near Larkin street. At midnight the stable of the San Mateo Dairy ccmpany, with its contents, was destroyed. Twelve horses perished. While the firemen were at work an alarm was turned in from a stable on Ellis street, three blocks away. Six horses in the stable were rescued with difficulty. Shortly after 2 o'clock the stable of the Signal Transfer company on Larkin street caught fire. There were fifty head of horses in this stable. Eight of them were burned to death. Niagara Falls, July 16. — About 8,000 people saw Carlisle D. © ~ham make his fifth successful voya. hrough the Whirlpool rapids yesterday afternoon. The barrel is made of wood, of an oval shape in that it has a flat head. It is 5 feet 9 inches in length, 11 inches in diameter at the foot and 26 inches at the head. With its 100 pounds of bal- last, it weighs 146 pounds. The start was made from the Old Maid of the Mist landing, below the falls. Graham was bruised about the elbows and knees but otherwise was uninjured. > BIG STRIKE IS ON: ORDER CALLING OUT THE STEXL WORKERS GENERALLY HAS BEEN ODEYED. NUMBER AFFECTED ABOUT 74,000 The Workers From President Shaf- fer Down Seem to Be Looking for Some Sort of a Settlement—Milla Thought by the Companies to Be . Loyal Join Hands With the Strik- ers—Conference of Manufacturers. Pittsburg, July 17.—Reports recetved from all sources connected with the great strike of the steel workers yester- day indicate that the members of tha Amalgamated association have mat- ters well in hand and that the strike order generally has been obeyed. Tel- egrams from various points where the - mills of the American Tin Plate com- pany, the American Steel Hoop com- pany and the American Sheet Steel’ company are located told of the shut- ting down of these plants in large - nubers. In many cases the plants had been shut down by the first strike or- der, which affected the sheet steel and the steel hoop companies only. The- last order brought out all of the union plants of the American Tin Plate com- pany with the single exception of the~ new mill at Monessen, which is still. running. At the Amalgamated associa- tion headquarters it was stated that the figures given out Saturday night regarding the number of men who would be actually idle in the mills of these three companies had been proved correct. This number was placed at 74,000. While all the mills of the Unit- ed States Steel corporation are includ- ed in The General Conflict, these three companies are the first at- tacked. What the next move would be the workers would not say. The most interesting report to the Amalgamated association yesterday was the dispatch from New York which said that a con-. ference of the manufac:urers was to be held in New York to-day at which Warner Arms, vice president of the- American Tin Plate company, will pre- sent a detailed account of the experi- ences of the committee that met the Amalgamated association in this city last week. It was stated that the ques- tion of again extending the olive branch to the strikers or of taking up the fight and crushing the association would be determined. Generally speak- Ing the workers, from President Shaffer flown, seem to be looking for some sort of a settlement. It was stated yester- day that President W. E. Corry of the American Steel Hoop company, who is: tional BSteel company, had nothing to say con- cerning the plans of the companies in meeting the difficulties of the strike, nor as to what condition the mills were in where non-union men had joined the forces of the strikers. The Policy of the Manufacterers, it was said is to remain quiet and await developments. The officials of the American Tin Plate company are all in New York and the company’s side of the trouble was not obtainable here. In addition to the very general, and in some instances rather unexpect- ed compliance with the strike order the Amalgamated association last night added two more mills to its list, both of which were claimed by the comapnieS to be beyond the reach of the organiza- tion. When the William Clark Sons’ company mill, which all day non-union men came to shift turns, last night none of the skilled men reported for duty and the plant had to close down, Later the following was received con- zerning the mill considered by the man- afacturers to be exceptionally loyal: “Monesen, Pa. — The Monesen Steel Hoop plant is closed and has been or- ganized by district delegates of the Amalgamated association.. The deéfe- gates arrived in town yesterday morn- ing and went to work immediately. By 8 o'clock in the afternoon they had all the local men in the association and left last evening for Pittsburg after advising the men to stand firm.” also executive head of the > FIVE MEN KILLED. Head-End Collision Between Two Freight Trains. Parsons, Kan., July 17—A head end collision between two local freight trains on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road near Wymark, Ind. T., killed five men and three others are probably fa- tally injured. The collision occurred on a bridge over, the Arkansas river. The two engines came together in the middle of the bridge, the bridge col- lapsed and both engines fell into the river. The two trains caught fire and burned up the bridge as well as the cars. The two engines are reported to be buried in the quicksand in the river. The local freight was to have sidetracked at Wymark to let the other train pass, but the conductor made a mistake in reading his orders. KILLED IN A WRECK. Serious Head-end Collision on the Ohio River Railroad. Parkersburg, W. Va., July 17.—Two persons were killed, one fatally injured, several others less seriously injured in a head-end collision on the Qhio River railroad at Paden’s Valley at 6:30 last evening. The Ohio Valley express on the way from Cincinnati to Pittsburg, was run into at full speed by a lodse engine south-bound, and both engines were almost demolished. The baggage car of the express was smashed up considerably, but none of the coaches were damaged and only the engines left the track. Just what caused the ac~ cident cannot be learned, but it proba- bly was some blunder in carrying out orders. AUNT AND NEPHEW. Their Mysterious Disappearance Is Causing Anxiety in the Boy's Home. Chicago, July 17. — Doubt no longer exists in the minds of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Rogers of Evanston that their son Frank, thirteen years old, has been enticed away from home by his maiden aunt, Miss Florence Ely. The missing couple are believed to be hiding in Chicago or Milwaukee, and the police in these and intermediate cities have been asked to aid in finding them. i3