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Show AMERICAN EAGLE. ML A. Esploeton WILLI MIKN. PabilSB UTAH MURRAY. ELfcVUN STEAMBOAT PAbbENGi-K- j PARBOILED, UTAH STATE NEWS. of ftoUer Awful Horror tin.r. rr Utah bus 1,4 0 manufacturing estaban increase of 163 per cent la ten years. Two Salt Lake barbers last week forfeited f 10 each for shaving customer on Sunday. Tomatoes were f 3', per bushel la the Sail Lake market last week. All vegetables were high. Cattlemen in the vicinity of Mantl say good range fur their cattle next season is assured, owing to the raeant heavy raina. According to In p ssrvry, Utah's copper output for 1'jOO was 18,. 354,728 pounds. Compared with 9,584,740 pound in lSj. 1 Tbe recent storms in the mountains bare beeo of incalculable benefit to Vernal farmers, and another crop of hay is Dow assured. Bay Bean, aged IS, has decamped from his home io Lichfield, it being claimed that he took with him bia mother's watch and pocketbook. John Litster, aged 15, of Vernal, was Instantly killed Thursday of laat week by a load of lumber lipping over upon him while driving down Taylor mountain. The American Smelting ,fc Refining company last week increased it capital Stock from $65,000,000 to 1100,000,000, tbt filing fee puid to the state treasury being (8,750. The city eouncil of Pnyson went to the canyon in a body one day laat week to inspect the reservoirs, and decided to apend 81,000 on them this fatl to In- crease the irrigation supply, William R, Anderson lit Mantl met with a most painful accident while chopping wood. The ax caught on a clothesline and came back with considerable force, cutting an ugly gash just below the eye. Any attempt to divert the waters of the Webur Into Utah lake will be resisted by Summit, Morgan and Weber county farmers, who will ranks common cause against the project and test it In the courts. A number of eastern sportsmen last week started for Mount Haldy for a big bear hunt. The party will be under the guidance of an old hunter and trapper and expect to take home with them a number of Utah bearskins. Salt Lake prices for potatoes were a ahlgh as (1.35 per bushel, last week, A wholesale. partial failure of the early potato crop In the near vicinity of the city, which usually supplies the market, resulted In a temporary scarcity. According to a bulletin issued at the census office, there were 8'.5 deaths lo Salt Lake during Juoo. out of a population of SS.531, or 1.61 per cent. In the state of Utah there were 3,070 deaths of which 1,8'J1 were males and 1,258 females. Arthur Moyer, Lawrence Martin and William Carr, the three Salt Lake boys accused of taking $10 from the pockets of a bather In the Sanitarium, were convicted last week, but sentence was suspended, on representations of the parents, during good behavior. An affidavit in tupport of a motion for a new trial for King and Lynch, convicted of murdering Colonel Godfrey Prow-stu Salt Lake last fall, has been filed, charging thnt one of the jurors declared before the trial that he favored hanging the defendanUi. A shipment of ten cantor 258 tons of !" aiado by the Majestic and other talning companies of Heaver county last week, contained 20'.',470 pounds of copper, 81,130 worth of gold and 1,651 ounces of silver, the shipment being valued at $30,000, or $118 per ton. A cloudburst in the mountains east of Fairview has resulted lo a big mining excitement. J I caused a flood that washed out the bottom of the canyon and exposed several veins of mineral which contain large amounts of pyrites of iron and values in silver and gold. William Hoffman, sentenced to six months in the Sat Lake county jail sod to pay a fine of f 170 has been released on habeas corpus. He served the term of Imprisonment and was belug held for payment of the fine at 81 a day. The court ruled that he could not be Imprisoned for the Hue. Mrs Elizabeth Hums Ramsey, died last week at Lichfield of heart failure, due to breal.ing dow n from old age. She was one of the first handcart company to cross the plains, making the trip from Iowa City to Suit Lake City with her husband eutirely ou foot. On aecount of the smallpox epidemic at Kingston, in Piute enmnty, Judge MoCarty has revoked his order, issued some time ago, calling a grand Jury for the couuty, the venire being returnable August 77. (ourthas been postponed without date. County Commissioner S'teeo of Weber county received a severe electric shock while driving into Ogden through the storm Monday of last week, when the lightning knocked the reins from his hsnds and paruiied his lr(t hand and arm for a few moments, A wholesale randy factory will be established in Mount I'leusnnl in the near future. The rainstorm at I.ehi ou the 19th did some damage to the hay crop, but has done much good to the beets and other late crops. The trial of Seorge M.tdsen, who has arresieil for herding h:s sheep In North Creek ranyoti, Mount Pleasant, will be made a test eite by the sheep. men of that section, w ire combining to assist Mr. Madscg to carry the Usee through. U-e- Shm-II- 1.JUI oa ntrauter Philadelphia. While the steamboat City of Trenton, was on her w ay from Philadelphia to Trrnton, X. J., Wednesday afternoon, her port toiler exploded, killing eleveu a score of persons and injuring ov-others, l our passengers are miss. rig, but as n, any were slightly injured, it is tbought the misting may be among those who did not Hud it necessary to go to a hospital. Three of those killed were passengers whose names can not be learned, tlie other fatalities being among the ere i. After the explosion the boat took fire and was run aground in the mashes opposite Turresdale where the blackened hull now lies. Her hold is filled with water and it is feared more of her passengers an crew may be found in the bottom of tbe boat when the water is pumped out. The vessel left Philadelphia at 1:45 p. m, and exploded her port boiler at a point about sixteen miles from the city. averted." Scalding t, tea in and water poured Into the cabin, and sections of the Congressman Hull Iiupreued Wllh Philippines, woodwork of the boat were torn away Hull of Iowa, chairman Congressman Those by the force of the explosion. of the house committee on military of the passengere who were not sear-re- d who has arrived at home from and boiling affairs, by the scalding a five months' tour of China, Japan and water were struck by flying portions of the splintered cabin. Legs and the Philippines, is deeply impressed with the possibilitiesof the new AmeriSrms were broken and faces and bodies can possessions in the Orient. lie says: were parboiled. The water was only "If I was a young man I don't know four feet deep and many of the passI would rather go than to the where waded ashore. The vessel was engers For a man of industry Philippines. new, having been in commission less than two years, and the engineer and brains the islands open a vast prosclaims she carried less steam than the pect in most every line of business for one who has the grit to go there and law allows. stick to it. Nebraak Kepublieans Oiistire tiovernor "The mineral, agricultural and timfur Paroling Oetauitliig Hints Treasurer. ber resources of these islands constiThe Nebraska He publican State contute a field for commercial enterprise vention Wednesday nomiuated this that is practically unlimited, Of course ticket: the present conditions of brigandage J ustiee of the Supreme Court Samuel make it exceedingly unsafe for people Hedge wick of York county. to settle lu the islands away from the Hegents of University Curl J. Krnst of the military posts. lint protection of Lancaster, II. L. Gould of Keith. the people, or the great majority tiiue The action of (iovernor Savage in out of ten of them desire peace and paroling from the penitentiary former safety, ami are doing all they can to Slate Trensurer Joseph i. Hartley the troops attain this end." furnished as was expected, the only help real excitement of the convention. An Condemned to lile Fur IV riling-- Hook on I'rlvata Lif. of Sultau. effort lo dispose of the vexed question M. Georges Dorys, son of the late by an indorsement or disapproval of the Governor's action outside the con- prince of Samoa, a former minister of vention signally failed. the sultan of Turkey and formerly Supporters of the Governor did suc- governor of Crete, has been condemned ceed in having all the resolutions re- to death iiy-tsultan's courts at the ferred to the committee on platform direction of Abdul Ilamid II. This ac without debate, but the committee it- tion was taken in Constantinople beself reported in turn against the parole cause of the publication of M. Dorys' and, while not iiptigning the motives book, "The P.ivate Life of the Sulof the governor, demanded the eturu tan." of the The book so angered Turkey's ruler to the penitentiary and was sustained by the convention. that he exerted his influence iu diplomatic channels to have it suppressed In Mlourl Mob After l!(,eli Hend. all European countries llisefforts sucOno of the most dastardly crimes ceeded in Sweden, but the popular outever committed in the borders of John, such action in l'rfi is was so son county, Missouri, was perpetrated cry against strong that the government declined to Wednesday night at the little hamlet exert itself. of Columbus, ofr the railroad sixteen M. Imrys secretly left Constantinople miles north oMYarrensburg. Miss some lime ago ami is now resident in Mary ilcudcrsou aged 42 years, was Paris, where he has identified himself murdered In cold blood by Will Fraucis, with the young Turkish party. a negro after he had assaulted her. The crime was Canitidatrs for Major of ew York. committed at the farmhouse of Chap The conference committee of the Hyatt, Miss Henderson's brother-in-law- , a prominent cilUcti and once a Citizens' union of New York City has selected three out of the six names to member of the State Populist committee. A mob of several hundred is be recommended to the committee of looking for Francis lo meet summary 100 and later to the general conference of the organization, for justice to him. the fusion nomination for mayor of Double. Taiutloit of Hank IHvldeuds Nol Greater New York. The three names Intended, selected are: George Foster Peabody, The comptroller of the treasury has banker. Independent Democrat; Hird rendered a decision regarding the S. Coler, comptroller, Democrat; Seth question of a duplicate tax on bank Low, president of Columbia university, divideuds. lu this case a certain bank Ilepublicnn. As to w ho the other three owned stock in and received dividends names ou the list are, all is conjecture, from several other banks. These banks as none of the conferees would divulge had paid the lax ou the dividends dethem. clared by them, ami the question involved was w hether the Kaiser Will Humiliate Chines. original bank should be required to pay a tax on that A dispatch from Peking says: A part of its income which it received in telegram has been received from divideuds from the other banks. The Prince Chun stating that Germany has comptroller holds that it was not the determined that Chun, when he is reIntention of congress to asses a dupliceived by Kmperor William, shall bow cate tax upon the sumo identical three times, and that the secretary of or profits. the mission and other subordinates shall prostrate themselves and knock Neeretnr. l.oug III. their heads nine times on the floor beSurgeon John F Uric, who is stafore the Kmperor. The Chinese envoys tioned at the United States marine here appealed to the German Minister recruiting office in lloston has gone tc to secure a change in this plan, but he liuck field. Me. He will make a prothe arrangement has been that replied fessional visit of a forttiight'siluratiou made by his Goverumeut and ho could to Secretary of tha Navy J.ihu I). not act. Long, The City t.f ehu. Secretary Long s illness, it is said, i not of a serious The city of Cclni has nature, but a minor something like SOO.COO recurrence of a chronic stomach Iron-hiInhabitants, hut tbU popul.v with which he has leeu afflicted Hon is largely made up of people who for several years. Surgeou Urie is a are huddled together In native huts. They live year In ami year out on rice persoii.il friend of the Secretary, havand com. There is no hunting, hut come from ing Hiugham, Mass., unci thousands of small flih, less than six for several years has treated him proInches long, are caught aud dried for iu fessionally Washington and else- local consumption. where. I'ullce Hull Strikers at Man rranel.eo. China U ri.Tinj lint, tt, rower. A fierce fight between the Tin imperial edict forbid, ling the police on the water front and a gang of about importation of arms and munitions ol war into China is not satisfactory to 3'0 union men at Stewart and Folsom s treets San Francisco, occurred Thursthe foreign ministeis. A meeting ol the ministers has been called to discuss day. A ciowd gathered around a truck that hud broken dow n and jeered the the idict. H ignotes the vital f.ut driver. The mounted olticer who was that the prohibition applies to the escorting the truck tried ineffectually tc the crowd back. Kferv idle drive government and that it is part of the man on the street was attracted to the I hincse punishment. The edict makes scene and the street became impassable. it appear to bo merely the govern'1 he crowd resisted the attempts of the ment's voluntary act, prohibiting police to disperse them and would not I hiiie.se Mil is from importing hi nts give wsy until a d.u.-or more had ami amiiiiiui'.ion as the nun try is been severely clubbed. disturbed by brigands. Hwat Was IUHn( When lllown I p. Tin l'lsl Company Adttrtars for .Nnn-- I Nothing is yet positively known renlon Men, In pursuance of Its announced the cause for the explosion o' garding plan to ruu all of its plants the boilers of the City of Trenton absolutely m near Philadelphia Wednesday, but a the American Tin Plate company has commenced advertising for rigid Investigation is being made. A men. All applicant are revised list of casualties gives nine offered the t wages and permanent dead, forty wounded aud nineteen employment, but in every case the missing. Many of the passengers whe application must be personally presented and the applicant declare him- escape.! injury maintain that the boat self free from all union control. The was racing at her topmost speed w hen company lias n.t jet made an attempt the accident happened, endeavoring to to start either 'its Monongahrla or make up lost time, and but f..r this tha Kemmler plauts. but annoum.es that buth will be started soon, talamity would not have happened. r lishment, H.d fur Keapoiielbl totif . Adjutant General Cameron, in a report to Governor I'tockery on the receut Pierce City race war, I.o! ! Sheriff Maolove of Lawrence county responsible for the lynching of the three uoeent negroes. Adjutant Cameron, who was sent to Pierce City to Investigate the affair, a s in l.is report: "Will Godley and Gene Carter had been suspected and the sheriff and his posae went out to arrest them, but for some cause did not see fit to do so. Monday the excitement at Pierce City was intense and threats of lynching certain negroes, thought to be implicated io the murder of Miss Wild, were made openly. Under this excitement the sheriff saw fit to leave for his home at Mount Vernon. "It is generally believed in Pierce City that had Sheriff Maolove remained there during Monday when the exelte-luet&u high and threats of lynching were openly made, and asked the aid of the militia, the trouble and loss of life would have been HlMOari 1 st-a- m he I twenty-two-yeur-o!- d y non-unio- n K-s- ChlaM. Iupcrtor IkK"1""11' Killed. Unltci Mates Chinese Inspector at Tuscon, Arizona, was shot and kir" ! Tuesday morning at bis home. Ts Coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by the accidental discharge of gUD- The deceased heard a disturbance among his poultry during the night, arose from bed, took a shotgun and, attired in his night dress, went to Investigate. A few mordents later the report of the gun was heard. Mrs. Jossey ran ont and found Jossey prostrate, insensible, with a gaping wound in his left breast. Ills g"". which was sbout eighteen inchrt loti ST, was eight feet from him. The small step ladder which he attempted to mount to fire over the fence into ti poultry yard, had fallen aa hr stepped on it, and his B. V. Jossey, gun had evidently been prematurely discharged. The fact that he was accused of complicity Id the Chinese smuggling at Nogales at first aroused suspicion of suicide, but they wers absolutely dispelled by the evidence brought out at the inquest. Jossey was from Americus, Ga., and appointed to his position under Clrcland and leaves a widow and a daighter 13 years of Colorado Millionaire Killed la Saloon Row. Sam Strong, the millionaire mine owner of Cripple Creek, was shot and killed Thursday morning by Grant Crumley. The shooting took place In the Newport saloon, owned by CrumJoho Neville, Strong's father-in-laley. and Crumley got into an altercation. Strong believing tbat bis father-in-lawas in danger, drew a revolver. Crumley jumped behind the bar. grabbed a shotgun and blew a hole through Sam Strong's head. He gave himself up to the police a few minutes later. Strong formerly owned the famons mine at Victor which bears his name, and he had other valuable mining properties In the Cripple Creek w w cis-tri- Sheriff Kills Two Men In r Defending Agaln.t Mob. Walter Elaukenship wes killed and his brother Arthur fatally Injured while leading a mob at Ashville, N. C, Thursday, which attempted to take a negro from the sheriff and lynch him. The negro had been convicted of rape PrU-onr- and sentenced to hang September 20. Tho prisoner was spirited to Birmingham for safe keeping. The crime for which Brown will ehang was committed on May 7 near Illow to strikers. Tin Flat Company ! Springfield. Brown left the vicinity Plate company at once, first going to Birmingham Tue American has announced t M all mills started then to Anniston, and Atlanta, and during the ev rVice of the strike of finally to Charleston, S. C, where he the Amalgam'- rs''sociation will be was captured. n continued inif .'y s Hard Times Expected In Nome This Winter mills, and that 1 aen going to work The exodus from Nome is fairly on now will be reta tjcl repositions. and each steamer In the arriving from there This is the brings large numbers. About 1,000 firm. strike. Both siJe This action oiMsj American Tin have arrived from the north this seaPlate company iisbli.rtaut because it son, and from reports each succeeding has always beei as among steamer will be loaded with passengers until the ice closes navigation. Rethe strongholds 1 the Amalgamated association, and fm- defi appears to turning passengers report Nome as being remarkably quiet and filled with have been brough vhout by the associIdle men, many of whom are ation declaring willing to against the Tin Plate company alter the scale for work for almost anything in order to the year had been signed. Notwith- get passage money, but there is no standing the fact tijat the Amalgam- work and great anxiety is felt by resiated people claim jurisdiction on the dents as to what will be done with so ground that theirciwjbtitution provides many destitute men. for such procedural, the officials of the New Copper Combine Forming--. Tin Plate cofcJyoousijUir the action The Denver News says mining men a breach of trust audNsay that henceof that forth they are determined to cut loose that a city accept as true the reports world wide copper combine has from union labor entirely. been formed, Bnd competition In buy-In- g Loss of Life In Yellow Fsver Uxpsrluients copper will no longer be known. Jnstlftrd by Ileurlk'ial Itesulls. The combine is said to have been Dr. A. II. Doty of New York, discusseffected between the Amalgamated, ing the death in Havana of Miss Clara Calumet & Ilecla, Senator Clark and Maas, reiterated his recently expressed the Rothchilds. Papers have . been opinion that the results achieved fully signed covering a long term of warranted the experiments that are The consolidation of interests isyears. said being carried on in Cuba. to be financed by the National City "We must not look simply at the bank of New York, which is to be made deaths of the three persons in Havana," the depository for the consolidated said Dr. Doty, "but we must consider concerns. also the incalculable number of lives that will be saved by this absolute Czar May llroach Intervention In Transvaal A Brussels paper says it Is reported proof that mosquitoes carry yellow fever. This is the ouly way to find it in Russiau circles that the czar has decided to broach South African interout. "We now know beyond question that vention to Emperor William and President Loubet. He considers the time people must protect themselves by netting, especially at night, from mos- opportune for friendly mediation. The. paper adds, under reserve, that quitoes in disU'?'4fN"jted with yellow fever, and that they must get rid the czar, during his stay in France, by drainage and other: means of the will receive Mr. Kruger in private auunsanitary conditions (hat favor the dience and obtain from him a direct statement of the Boer position, with propagation of mosquiu)es." the view of formulating a plan for Inheritance Tax Kexultttions. Commissioner of Iniernal Revenue action. Yerkes has held that when a stock has Kehra.kau Killed by Footpads. been appraised subsequent fluctuations John J. Gillilund, a former member in the market price sh.ll oot be conof the Nebraska legislature, and one of sidered in fixing the amount of inherthe most prominent business men of itance tax on the same. Lincoln, was shot dead shortly after 11 Also that when a note or other pero'clock Thursday night by unknown sonal property has been appraised as men, supposed to be footpads. His being of no value, and subsequently was found on a residence street body such property is sold for a .valuable within three blocks of his home. He consideration, this fact shall be re- was (hot in the breast and there were garded as evidence that the appraisemarks of a struggle, his coat and shirt ment was incorrect and tax shall be being torn nearly off him, and papers levied on the amount realized. from the pockets scattered along the Lawyers I'etlttou l'rrstrtent to Remove an - - non-unio- u e Atanksn A petition, Judg-e- signed by walk. . fifty-tw- o Government mil rroaerute CarelMS Havana I'ostnfnce Clerk for I.ou of 94,000. The authorities will presecute for criminal regjirepce K. , C Westall, chief of the money-orde- r bureau of the Havana postotlice, who lost 84,000 of the funds of the postotlice in an omnibus while on the way to pay the money into the treasury Tuesday. The Havana secret police know who Btole the The gang consists of four money. persons, two Cuban boys and two negroes. All are at large and are believed to be hiding. rieetrlo Storm Throw. Huge Halts of Fire Over IfmtUga. Arkansas. Karly Friday Trxarkana, Ark., was visited by one of the most severe electrical storms in its history. The lightning hurled huge halls of fire all over the city. Professor Gasby's son was killed, his neck being broken. He was under an umbrella with a companion, who also was badlv shocked. The State Line Methodist church and Oak Street liaptist church, both colored, were struck and badly damaged. One resilience was destroyed aud others damaged. Trim l.rgl.latnre M DELAYED BY TYPHOON: mem- bers of the Nouisfcar addressed to President Mckinley, asking for, the removal of Judge Arthur II. Noyes of the United States district court of Alaska, has arrived at Washington. Dudley Dubose, the Nome attorney who is serving a six months' sentence In the Alameda county, Cal., jail for contempt of court in coouoction with the Cape Nome m ning cases, filed a petition iu the United States circuit court Tuesday asking for a rehearing. Tax Output of OU elL. The oii developers of Texas are confronted with a serious predicament io Hist the Texas legislature shows a maiked disposition to tax them 8 per cent on their gross earnings. A Urce dclegat.on of oil magnates from ltcaumout was before the house committee Tuesday to tight the tax, hut with little sueress as the committee is almost unanimous i fifing the 2 percent tax and ihe legislature, it Is w said, ill levy it if t,e opportunity 'Is offered. It is asserted b.T the oil people that this w ill prove a serious backset to the oil lu.lustrt. Teachers Prevented From Manila by Storm. Landing at The United States transport Thomas, having on I oard 600 teiichers, arrived at Manila Wednesday, hut their landing has been delayed by a typhoon. Preparations have been made to give them a great reception. The government has prepared a temporary barracks on the exposition grounds for their accommodation. Tnrks Killing Armenians. sheet issued in Taria asserts that the Turks have been looting and murdering in the Sassoun district siuce the beginning of July, and that several Armenian villages have been wiped out. Another Wreck In the Arctic. Ollicers of the steamer Oregon, from Nome, report the wreck ou July 18 in the Arctic, near Point Smith, of the San Francisco whaler Grampus. No lives were lost. The vessel was caught in the ice and driven ashore. A NEWS SUMMARY. SCHLEY IS TO RETIRE. afamy Promotion IV thm ill ttvoa be Creatod In . e made. The retirement of Rear Admiral Schley will promote two captains to the grade of rear admiral. They are Captains Frank Wildes and Henry Glass. Shooting Tragedy at Butte. the result of a family quarrel at Butte, Mont., Friday, John C. Kimball lies in the hospital with a bullet in bis brain, and his wife, Gussie, is also in tbe hospital with a bullet wound in her cheek, while Frank Yechout, the father of the woman, is confined in jail, charged with doing part of the shooting. The affray took place near the corner of Montaoa and Park streets shortly after 7 a. m. There were a few eyewitnesses of tbe affair. Those who did see it do not agree exactly as to the details. The parties were seen walking together when Kimball drew a revolver and began shooting at the woman. Yechout at the same time drew his pistol and shot Kimball. The Kimballs had not been living happily together. Some days ago the wife left her husband. It is believed Kimball meant to kill his wife and then himself. As Idaho Man Who Lives la I'tah Sentenced to Wyoming Pen. At Rawlins Friday Judge Craig sentenced James Caldwell of Idaho to ten years in the penitentiary for rape. Caldwell is a married man and his wife and children are now residents of Ver- nal, Utah. Caldwell's victim is the fourteen-year-ol- d daughterof a ranchmaD living near Baggs. Wyo. Caldwell met the child near the ranch and used a gun to compel her to submit to his desires. A posse arrested the fiend and he was taken to Rawlins, where a mob gathered to lynch Caldwell. Being assured that he would be severely punished if convicted, the mob permitted the law to take its course. It is asserted that had Caldwell been given less than ten years he would have been taken from the officers and hanged. Corpns to Release Yoong Man From Navy, An application for a writ of habeas corpus was filed in the United States district court at Seattle Friday, to which is attached a peculiar story. The writ is for the purpose of releasing Emmett A. Noland from service in the United Stales navy, into which he claims he was beguiled by deceit. He claims that a conspiracy was entered into by his father, a Portland attorney named Davis, and Deputy Sheriff Wagner of Multnomah county, Oregon, in order to prevent his marriage with Miss Lottie Elliott of Portland. It is alleged that he was accused of a crime, the nature of which was never revealed to him, and forced to enlist in the navy to escape punishment. Habeas BRITISH POSTOFFICE. Interesting Figures Regarding Its Workings Made Public. A blue book, containing the post generals for 1900 for Great Britain, presents some interesting statistics. The total number of postal packets delivered in the United Kingdom was 3,7)7,817,000. The experiments with motor-mai- l services are still unsuccessful, but recent developments have encouraged the hope of the ultimate establishment of this class of service. The public deposited in the savings banks 140.516,436, and the total amount due to depositors at the end of the year was i35.549.645. A Trade With Philippines Increanlng. continued increase in both the ex- port and impott trade of the Philippines is shown in a comparative statement, compiled at the war department, giving the commerce of the islands for the seven months ending January 31, 1901 and 1900. The total value of merchandise imported during the seven months ending January 31, 1901, was $17,999,167, as against 812,674,705 for the same period in 1900, and the merchandise exported was $12,617,359, as against $S, 205, 530 for the 1900 period. This shows an increase of 42 per cent in the value of imports and 52 per cent in export values. Nicaragua, Ecuador and Venezuela are now in misery. Their best people The killing of an Italian railroad are emigrants and are forced to flee laborer named Kin got ti near Ashdown, for their lives after Wing robbed of all Ark., Thursday, by a party of Ameritheir governments. The countries by can laborers is likely to develop into are now in a state not far removed an international affair. The Italian from anarchy. minister at Washington and the Italian The dead body of a w oman, supposed government have been notified. to be Mrs. BessStricgel of KausasCity, Count Gilbert Hohcnwart von Mo., was found in a room in the Lane Gcrlachstein, the block, Boulder, Colo. Beside her lay Minister to Mexico, accompanied by Bert Striegel in a dying condition. An his staff, will start shortly for his new empty phial labeled laudanum was lypost by way of New York. ing near by. The man may recover. San Francisco secret service officers It is said that arrangements are behave arrested three men accused of ing made to extend the strike in the passing bank notes purporting to be steel industry unless Something is issued by the State bank of New Brunsquickly done looking toward peace. wick,. N. J., an institution long The structural iron workers and brickdefunct, but the plates have never been layers are likely to be the first of the destroyed. outside trades called to strike. American agents are busy in Belgium Jake Logan and his two sons and two s for Wilson brothers were killed by West-msrecruiting Belgian service in the Uuilcd States Japanese and George Golden in a quarrel agents arc also offering high wages to over domestic troubles near Williamswho arc w illing burg, Ky., Friday. A posse has gone skilled to go to Japan to introduce tbe in- to the scene to make arrests and bury the dead, as the neighbors are afraid dustry there. to go to them. May Cause Trouble. Austria-Hungaria- glass-blower- glass-blower- s n The system has been established in the Honolulu postofSca. Northern Georgia was last Friday deluged with water, 3.60 inches falling during the day. Venezueliiu steamers have transported pOu men from Maracaibo to invade Colombia near Rio Hacha. y Important retirements and promotions in the United States osvy will occur within .the next few weeks. Among them is that of Rear Admiral Schley, who will retire from the active list October 10. Other retirements are those of Captain Fareohold, September 1; Captain Allen within a few days; Captain Robinson, September 2; Captain Forsythe, September 25, and As a Captain Ide, September 27. result of these retirements forty-fivpromotions in the service will be In Santa Rosalia, Cal., the winery of & Co. was destroyed by Ere, entailing a loss of 1150,000. General A. Lowther, secretary of the British embassy at Washington, has been appointed minister of Great Britain to Chile. Action has been taken in the Supreme) court of Uawii to test the legality of the income tax passed by the recent Legislature. Tbe government will soon commence the construction at Sitka of a magnetio observatory for the terrestrial division of the coast survey. The political situation in Venezuela No one is alIs more than serious. lowed to leave the country without special permission. Up to July 4th the catch of the whaling vessels out of the port of San Francisco is reported to have been 8,080 barrels of sperm oil. , Joseph H. Langor of Nebraska has been selected for Consul at Silingen, Germany, and his commission will ba issued in a few days. Dr. Calda'sexperiments with his new yellow fever serum at Havana will not be stopped by the death of two mosquito-bitten subjects. Lieutenant-Colone- l Marchand of Fashoda fame, has been promoted to the chief command of a brigade of French troops in China. An elevator company at Rochester, New York, is building two elevators for Buckingham Palace, England, on an order from King Edward. Goods imported Into the Colony of Natal from the United States during 1900 amounted to 83,220,816, aslight decrease as compared with 1S99. The imports In Cape Colony from the United States amounted in 1900 to 83,623,260, standing next to Great Britain with her 533,786,640 worth. The London Daily Chronicle has obtained from Lord Rothschild a denial of any connection with or knowledge of the rcportid American copper trust. Twelve million dollars will eventually be spent on the buildings and $25,000,-00- 0 on the whole St. Louis exposition, it is said, instead of the $16,000,000 now said to be available. The United States cruiser Philadelphia has been assigned for the annual cruise of the California naval militia, which numbers about four hundred W. H. Uotchkiss officers and men. It is stated that the funds of the Boer leaders in Europe are now ab- solutely exhausted, and it is certain that the rigors of winter have told on the burghers in the field. A recent party of explorers visited the summit of Mauka Kea.. on the island of Hawaii, and made soundings in the lake iu the old crater. It is 13,800 feet above sea leavel. Because two union beef butchers emat ployed at the Cudahy packing-hous- e Afmourdale, Kan., were discharged Friday, 125 butchers struck, causing that department to shut down. A has been inoculated with the serum which Dr. Caldas, the Brazilian expert, alleges to be a preventive against yellow fever, and has been bitten by two infected mosquitoes. The Texas house has refused to pass a resolution to impeach State Treasurer Eobbins for having a large amount of the state's money on deposit In the First National bank of Austin when it failed recently. The Torto Rico relief association of New York city has decided to give the remaining $10,000 of the fund sub scribed at the time of the tornado in the island two years ago, pro rata to the various hospitals of Porto Rico. The companies of the Fourteenth infantry, now in camp at the Presidio, will leave for the East iu a few days. Company A, corps of engineers, will also leave for the East shortly, their destination being Willets Point, N. Y. The plumbers' strike, which has been in progress in Honolulu for over a year, off aud ou, and has caused great loss to both sides, has been amicably adjusted. The plumbers demanded 83 a day, A compromise was effected at 85.50 per day. George D. Gillespie, a San Francisco Populist politician, shot and killed W. F. Griffin, a plumber, Tuesday night. Griffin was quarreling with his wife, when Gillespie interfered. Griffin attempted to use a knife and was hot dead by Gillespie. The Treasury department anounces that hereafter the department will refuse landing permission 'mi Chinese bound for Mexico unless it can be absolutely satisfied of their good faith to stay there on arrival and not returp to the United States. While Thomas Oalvin and G. M. Dancan, special cflicers attached to the Cnrtin detective agency in San Francisco, were examining a revolver it fell to the floor and was d:scharged, the bullet entering Galvin's abdomen and Inflicting a fatal wound. The warehouse of the Kennedy Furniture company at Butte caught fire on the night of the 20th insL, and before the flames could be gotten under control the building and contents were damaged to the extent of $10,noo. The orirfin of the fire is not known. The total receipts at the customhouses in Cuba during the calendar year 19iM were 8 16.0:19, 02.1, against 814.S25.2G1 for 1S99. The reccpts from duties on Imports were $11,273,141, against $1.1.1(10,610. and from duties on exports against $704,105, $l,0i-,o.oo- |
