Show striking printers are shot down in russia st petersburg oct 17 p m in an encounter between the police and kine printers at the government bureau of printing and engraving this afternoon forty persons were injured but none seriously the printers attempted to hold a meeting against ahe command of minister of finance ko kov who requisitioned the police and the strikers were driven from the building shootings Shoo tins has just been ic ported from the phel cotton mill in the eastern suburb ot this city where the strike broke out athla morning A telephone message says the disturbance is not serious IN bankruptcy ending of remarkable financial ca reer of sammons new york oct 17 james A simmons promoter and contractor has filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities placed at and nominal assets of in bonds of the richmond standard steel spike and iron company his liabilities are principally on notes tor borrowed money on open accounts and upon a deficiency fici ency judgment upon foreclosure of a mortgage most of the debts ft ere contracted in 1888 and 1891 some however between 1899 and of his liabilities 1600 are secured to turned bros by bonds ot the richmond steel company among sammons creditors are russell sage on three judgments on notes white national bank of fort waynee ind wilson county oil company of texis adam dutenhoffer Dul enhoffer and on frank walling ca the bankruptcy proceedings are the aftermath of the financial troubles of simmons and his partners which culminated in the imprisoning of simmons and one or two others simmons came here in 1888 from the west he devised a scheme for establishing a chain of banks which would permit him to back his projects he has been intel ested in the construction of the massachusetts canal the empire gas and electric light company and the north american dredging company and obtained much credit as a hydraulic engineer through digging the canal near new orleans he got several good dredging contracts for deepening the bay and harlem river and aspired to obtaining a nicaragua canal contract in the early nineties sammons was indicted under the federal statutes for relating the banking laws in inducing tho cashier of the sixth national bank to certify three of his checks for aach when he had no funds in the bank on may 26 1891 he was sentenced to six years imprisonment he was pardoned on november 22 1892 ELECTRIC PASSENGER COACH los angeki An geks calif oct 17 within a few day the first pas bender coaches to be built on the fa coast will bo turned out from the local shops of ahe pacific electric railway it la probable that these cars ten in number will decide whether or not the local electric railways will in the future purchase their rolling stock equipment in the east or construct it all in los angeles these new cars will be 39 feet ions beating 44 persons and equipped with two fifty horse power motors each WARNING TO AMERICA german says this country will yet need foreign trade york oct 17 Herr gold berger a ariy councillor and an authority on alio tariff question has jut published in the an art do which has excited much atla 1 03 here says a cable despatch irom berlin in it he discusses the question of a reciprocal commercial treaty between ae united states and germany although at present the are in a contented mood owing to their prosperity he saya a time will coma when heir demands will diminish and the states will absolutely need a larger elport trade for the count rys enoi industries if reciprocal treaties aro not concluded then the united states will find tha doors of all european stales especially bhoge of germany closed to them klerr admits however hat for the moment there Is no hope of a revision of the american tariff everything in the united slates points to the rejection by congress of mr Roosevel ts proposals for reform in the matter of railway rates and tariff and everything goes to show that the senate will oppose the presidents far reaching proposals henry west commissioner for the district of columbia however ho continues raises a warning bolce if no reciprocity treaty is concluded with germany the most favored nation clause cease to exist and in the end all european nations combine to oppose tha united states with protective tariff CLEVER SWINDLERS have been operating a mammoth I 1 bunco game buffalo N y oct lck alio police have discovered a mammoth bunco game which they say has been worked extensively on the niagara frontier by a gang of swindlers lers wm macon a buffalo grocer the police say is the latest victim he lost 1730 the game involved operations in the united states and canada and perhaps a dozen parties to carry it out A victim was selected and the profit of smuggling opium explained to him he was then token to a chinese merchant who agreed to buy all the opium the smugglers could deliver the swindlers lers accompanied their victim to a canadian city where confederates sold to them a quantity of powder said to be opium on their return to the united states in a row boat other confederates on shore fired blank cartridges at the men in the boat and called on them to surrender in the name of the law the conspirators spira tors in the boat hastily explained to their victim that these were government officers and threw th supposed opium overboard on the pretense of evading prosecution for glang the police say that two men from pittsburg recently were fleeced in a like anner so far they have been unable to locate the swindlers lers HENRY SEARS DEAD sail jose calif oct 17 henry sears retired of ahe farm of H dearsan Se arsan company of chicago died this morning at his home la this city aged 90 years mr sears retired from active connection with hia firm in 1883 settling near san jose |