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i BOA PROVES LAST STRAW. Ship Meets "the Rorcers" a Whale and a Ixme Szvimmcr. Or.Jy talft of the eea Is lacking- in the lojr mt tha Bhlmoea. Captain Champlin, In yesfrflay from Eastern ports. She passed "The Stowers." who toll all the tlmo in a Email boat as jrhoetly as the Flying Dutchman's, picked up a Lascar, wiio had been three days In the Red Sea, and in odd moments fiphting- off sharks; then rar.

into a whale, so the mate says. tan miles off Sandy Hook, and escaped the sea only to a big boa constrictor, when the chip had been berthed and everything snugged down. The last Kastern port called at by the Shltnosa Wai Singapore, from which she cleared May 23. May 13 found her In the Red Sea. her machinery running like clockwork.

Captain Chajr.j.:in about noon of that day, while plank- Ing bark and forth on the forward bridge, saw small object a couple of miles off the port bow. With his glasses to bear, he taw It was a man swinging, a brown arm shooting out of the water and over the head with mechanical regularity. The engines were slowed down, and, as man drew alongside he carelessly asked If he might come aboard. A Jacob's ladder was dropped over the port Bide and a Lascar climbed on board. He was sent aft to be questioned by Captain Champlin, and floored him at ones by nonchalantly remarking that he had been In the rater for three days.

Captain Champiin did not believe him, and Fent him forward to te.put to work with the other Lascars. With little encouragement the Lascar told his mates that he had fallen from a British steamer, end had actually been afloat about forty-eight hours. He said that half a dozen times he had been attacked by sharks in the sh-rk infested seas, and had saved himself by the use of his fheath knife, diving under them and ripping them open. The only thanks he got for his stories was the reputation of being the biggest liar In the Southern seas. The Shimosa touched at Suez, end there Captain Champlin learned that the LAPcar had really fallen overboard soon after midnight on June 11 from the British Imaun, from Karachul to Antwerp.

Soon after Gibraltar had dropped below pkyllne. on July 27. a dirty mist 6et in. Two of the crew. P'red Smith and O.

Olesen. in their watch below, broke Into the paint locker and secured some shellac. Thy tuck a stick and it around until everything but the alcohol had to it. Then the remaining alcohol "was thinned down a bit. and mixed with some rtolen rugar and lemons.

Then the men went en deck. As they looked overboard they saw a rowboat five men in it rowing toward the vessel. They were about to shout, they pay, when they paw the crests of the waves distinctly through the boat. This paralyzed their tongues. The boat kept coming on, hit the side of the Shimosa, and dissolved from Eight.

They then managed to report to the mate, but, between the and the shellac cocktails, got nothing for their pains but a lot of "work up" Jobs the next taw days. No one but Smith and Olesen saw the who are supposed to bring even Jnore dire troubles on the vessels they favor by Bitting than does the Flying Dutchman. Nothing happened until the Shimosa reached Hook. There the mate says they ran dor: an eighty-foot whale. No one else saw i collision, but the mate swears to the truth 'M the story.

He says that the whale was asleep Ito the surface when the Shimosa hit It amldwtlpa. This whale, says the mate, though cut in two, Bounded, and came up again riose under the Shimosa's counter, and swam slowly away, blowing contemptuously. The crew "when the mate raised the cry rushed to the rail. iwxpectlrig to see the ocean covered with blood and email sections of whale, but they all eajthey saw nothing but a great quantity of salt The mate, however, is positive that the Bhimosa gave some whale a hard bump. Finally, when the big steamer was docked in an East River berth, an old white rat climbed up from the main hatch and jumped from the rail for the pier.

He missed and fell struggling Into the water. As he swam toward a hawser, the bight of which lay slightly under the surface, there was a swirl and something green and ehot out from under the pier shed and the rat disappeared down the throat of a twenty-foot boa constrictor. The crew did not wait to see became of the snake, but bolted aloft. "When they had reached a sufficient height they looked down and saw the snake diving under the The Lascar and Chinese crew and the few whites among them said that this was the last Ftraw, and as a result two or three Cherry-st. boarding houses are crowded with sailors who are willing to ship on the craziest nib afloat rather than the Shimosa.

INSURANCE MEN IN FIRE. Between eighteen hundred and two thousand Inaurar.ee men belonging to the Prudential Insurance Company, of Newark, will meet next Thursday night in Pain's Amphitheatre at Manhattan Beach, to witness the great fire play of Decatur end the Mowing up of the Philadelphia, After that there be a epecialiy arranged programme In which President Dryden will get a. roast in a lire picture, jirevioup to the illumination of the Rock of Gibraltar and the Prudential 013 Guard in all the colors of the rainbow. TEAMSTERS' STRIKE TO BE AVERTED. It looked yesterday as if the grievances of the famFters employed by the Truck Owners' Association may be settled without the strike which was threatened this week.

employers, it is admitted, have violated the agreement that went Into effect June ft, but tbaM corapialnts. It is now are to be attended to. A general of the Truck Owners" Association will be he-Id this vek. st which the situation win bo discussed DOMINION LINER DAMAGED. Yarmouth.

X. July T.ie Dominion Liner Boston went ashore at West Cape Ledge, near here. to-day. The vessel was soon floated and came into port. Her stem was damaged by the rocks, and it be necessary for her to be withdrawn from the route for about a week, She left Boston yesterday.

LONGSHOREMEN SEEK UNITY, July Longshoremen from cities throughout the United States and Canada attended the opening cession of the Longshoremen, Marine and Transport Workers' Association to-day The first session was confined strictly to routine busl- Mas. Plans will be discussed for uniting all In whatever department of the marine and under whatever Hag. Montreal Is the tnost active candidate for the nest convention Furniture In the Key of Simplicity offerj a consistent in 'ths oi thi country this end we fcive up" ocr of Bedroom Furnitcre in vkiic eaini.il. wherein it; Ctestj (or writing of the Chilis offer i cbanatag scserae for qcict lad perfect tuts. Grand Rapids Furniture Company Street.

West. 155-157 Mitstt iron PASS LIE AT HEARING. A Lively Discussion Over tht Port Chester Road. The Railroad Committee of the aldermen had an adjourned hearing yesterday on the application of the Kew-Tork and Port Chester Railway Company for permission to crops certain streets In The Bronx. The committee made no decision.

James L. Wells. of the Tax Commission, was the first speaker, talking in favor of the Port Chester company' a application. MdweU S. Randall, who said be was a large owner of Bronx property, spoke in favor of the application.

With Mr. Wells, lie eaid tho committee should give whatever reason it still has lor delaying a report on the franchise. The. Port Chester company had proved its financial responsibility, and that had been the only question raised, and that only Indirectly. Charles H.

Lovett, Albert E. Davis, of the North Bide Board of Trade: W. C. Wood, president of the Carpenters' Union of Mount Vernon. and W.

W. Mills, of the North Side Board of Trade, also favored the application. William Peters, for the Chert District Alliance, declared that the lawyers who. at a previous hearing, represented themselves as authorised to oppose the franchise for alliance, had spoken without authority. The alliance, he declared, unanimously favored the Port Chester franchise.

James W. Osbome's partner. Mr. Hess, denied the charge that his iirm was retained by the New- York. New-Haven and Hartford Railway Company, and Eaid he would take oath to that effect.

One man demanded excitedly that be do so, but Mr. continued his argument He wanted Mr. Cotsrall and the Port Chester company to deny an affidavit by Mr. Robinson of Dick Robinson. that the Port Chester promoters had offered to Bell out to his clients, the Westehesti company.

At thin toe-Commissioner Wells asked Mr. Hess if he was retained by the bester company. He Bald that he was rot: that his firm retained by rive property owners of MamaronecJc William A. CoaUey, president of the Chester District Alliance, declared that he had a right to 6ptak Cox that body, despite what Mr. Peters had, Bald.

He wanted to speak for the members who paid their dues. Peters spoke for the men, he said, who never paid any dues. a lie: shouted Peters. The chairman rapped Tor order. John Keenun spoke in opposition to the Port Chester road, hecause it would tend to reduce tho voting population of New-York and The Bronx.

It would carry them out of town. John 1. Cokallon, who was a member of many organlaatlona in Bronx, denied that the people there favored the Port road. "We look upon Mr. Gotshnll and his crowd ns fakirs he said.

"Why don't they disprove or even deny Mr. Robinson's affidavit thai Gotshall has offered to sell out to him? Gotshal! is a fakir. Mr Gotshall, in ending for side, said his company not opposing tho Wesichester comtnrv lie was It should receive all it wanted He Bald that Mr. Dick, of Dick Rohinson had told Mr. Harding, the man who Is alleged 10 have made an offer to sell out that he would not "stand for" Mr.

Robinson's affidavit that such an offer had been marie. Frank Sullivan Smith, counsel for the Port Chester road, said Mr. Harding, who was a responsible man. had told him that the affidavit was false In Mr Robinson asserted that an offer was made to him of the Port Chester franchise. More than that, he said, his company would ale a penal bond in the sum of $100,000, and that ought to be a sufficient guarantee.

BATHERS IN RESERVOIR. Italians Use Drinking Supply of Port Chester and Rye. The water supply of Greenwich, and Port Chester and Rye, K. and many other large vlllagea and towns near this city Is obtained from the Putnam Lake Reservoir, about three miles from Greenwich. It was asserted yesterday that a number of Italian Laborers employed at or near Greenwich were recently seen in bathing In the reservoir, and it was also declared that a few days ago a watcher at the reservoir saw about twenty Italian children enjoying a swim in the water there.

The reservoir was made by throwing up a big dam across the outlet to Putnam Lake. The watcher at tho reservoir. It is said, has told John Dayton, superintendent of the Greenwich Water Company, which owes the reservoir, about the Italian workmen and children bathing there, and has aeked for extra helpers to keep people from trespassing on the grounds of the company. The reservoir Is really a double lake. lake Is about a mile long, and the other Is nearly double that site.

K. C. Benedict ex-President Cleveland, according to local tradition, spend pleasant days fishing there. From what cc-jld to learned last right, the residents of Greenwich have not yet heard the report about the Italians bathing in the reservoir. Steps to be taken at once to furnish the watchers with the necessary help to giiard water.

The Tribune recently called the attention of the Department of Water Supply of this city to pollution of New-York's water sources by Italian laborers on the new CYoton Dam, and as a result a regular patrol of the watershed Is now maintained by Commissioner Oa.k;> Stamford. July John Dayton, superintendent of the Greenwich Water Company. to-alght that he- knew nothing about bathlne: in the company's re He declarert the reservoir was constantly watched, and that It would be impossible for any bathe there unobserved. HER NERVES SHATTERED BY STORM. Woman Who Is Sent to Belle vne Suffers Constant Terror On Account of Lightning.

Fearful every moment that she ar.d hrr children will be killed by lightning, nnd driven Into an a gory of terror at every rumble of tho elevated trains her windows, Mrs. Mary Russell, twenty-eight years old, of No. was takfn to licHevue Hospital yesterday, and placed in tho psycopathic ward, at her husband's request. On last Tuesday afternoon, during a heavy thunderstorm. Mra.

Russell and two cf her children, a born only five weeks npo, and a eon, months oM. were sitting at a window. Suddenly the darkness of the was by a blinding flash, which seemed to strike directiy in of t'ne houie. Mrs. 11 grabbed up her children, rushed down two nights of stairs and would have out Into the downpour of rain hid not her neighbors stopped her.

then Mrs. Russell has In ceaseless terror. According to her husband. has tried to Jump from a window, but w.ia prevented. SUNDAY BALL PLAYERS HELD.

Magistrate Tighe Denounces the Arrests, However. Twelve, baseball players, who were arrested on Sunday for violating the Sunday law, as recently Interpreted by Justice Gaynor in thi Court, were held for examination on Friday I Magistrate Tighe, In the Butler-st. court yesterday. He denounced the arrests, however, saying that Sunday baseball was excellent thing in that it kept young men out of mischief. The to which those arrested belong, nr.d the places where they were on Sunday.

are St. Alphonsus's Baseball Fifty-six th-st. Si. Michael's Catholic Forty-second-st. and and the Bradfords.

Thlrty-secund-sr. and Becond-ave. Captain Kvans. of the Founh-ave. police station, made the arrests after ho had been by the Rev.

John P.ippere. psptor of the Methodist Church, and secretary of the Joii.i committee on ths observance of the Sunday law. MISS UNTERMYER HTJRT IN RUNAWAY Lawyer's Daughter and Son Thrown from She Is Taken to Hospital. Miss Irene Untermyer, daughter of Samuel Untermyer. who is now at Greystor.c, his country home, was severely hurt In a runaway accident In Yonkers last night.

With her brother she was driving ulons in the upper part of the city, when the horses took fright and became unmanageable. The bujjffy was overturned and Mr. and Miss Untermyer were thrown out. Both were bruised and Mies Dntermyer was stunned. A carriage which was behind was stopped, and In this they were driven to St.

John's Hospital. Mr. Untermyer remained only a short time, but Miss Untermyer is still there. The doctors say she is suffering from shock. The team ran to the centre mA wheru they brought the partly wrecked buggy into lr collision with a truck, wrecking the themselves down.

They were captured and turned over to a veterinary. GERMAN CRUISER VI ETA SAILS. Newport News. July German cruiser Vlneta. which has been undergoing repairs at the shipyard here, sailed to-day for St.

Thomas. Danish NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. 12. 1004.

RAILROAD PROSPERITY. Big Increase in Earnings 10,000 Killed in Year. Washington. July The Interstate Commerce Commission to-day announced its statistics of railways in the United States for the fiscal year ended June SO, 1303. They show that the par value of the railway capital then outstanding was which represents a capitalization of a mile.

The number cf passengers carried was 691.801,535, an Increase of t5.015.080 over the previous year; freight carried, tons, an increase of tons. The gross earnings from the operation of the total of 205,313 mllea of railway line, which is aggregate single track mileage, were 6.907, an Increase of operating an Increase of $141,290,105: net earnings, 1843.908,056, an increase of income from other sources than operation. net Income, available for dividends or surplus. Total casualties were of which represented the number of persons killed, and Uioso injured. Aggregate number of locomotives in service, 43.871; Increase.

2.046; cars in service, 1.755,589, an Increase of over 113.000 In the year. FAIL RIVER MILLS RESUME WORK. It Is Expected That They "Will Soon Be More Active. Fall River. July Most of the Fall River cotton mills resumed operations to-day.

a shutdown of ten days. Many of the manufacturers arc tirins cf the curtailment policy, which has been in force here nearly ionr months, ad soon as a new agreement, now being worked out by many members of the Fall River Manufacturers' Association, is formallj assented to, it Is expect-1 that the mills will bo more active. The operatives, of whom there are more than twenty-flva thousand in the cloth mills, are restless over the situation. They have sustained a in wages in the Bpring urv.i Bummer amounting to a reductioo of 40 per cent. It is expected that an announcement will Issued by the manufacturers in few days, whereby revision In wages will be made.

The textile unions expect the revision will be a reduction of at least 10 per cent. They take no action, the notices are ijjsulL THEIR TROUBLE NEARLY ENDED. Forty-second-st Merchants See Traffic in Thoroughfare Re-established. The lonsr suffering merchants of West are more confident now that their tribulations on that thoroughfare will soon be over nnd that Interruption to traffic will shortly cease. Joseph P.

McHugh told a Trilitino reporter yesterday that ho supposed the roadway was completed at last. The work of relaying the sidewalk was half done. The sidewalks were In an unfinished condition between Madison and Fifth a.yea., and part of the way between Fifth and Sixth ayes. Every week the contractors had saM that week would be the of the upheaval and littering of the streets, but traffic now between Madison and fiixth was carried on Without Interruption. It was a different story between Fourth and Madison ayes.

was a great deal of work to be finished hero and there, and old pipeo, tool boxes and flagstones disfigured street. There seemed to be a lack of Intelligent supervision of the work, but It looked as if it would soon be flntshe.l. "Thanks am to The Tribune- for that." remarked Mr. McHugh. "The work might have dribbled along nil rummer, but 'or wholehearted way In which The Tribune took up this fight.

I don't see how the workmen can stay around here longer, unless we Invite them to stay as our grists." A said yesterday that Dexnon Contracting Company hud expected to finish the work once and for all by July 1, bat dflay had been caused by the pipes. By Saturday nlKht next the fidewniks should be In condition, at Broadway, on the north side. The roadway was practically all finished permanently, So many Inquiries have been mi of Forty-Beeond-Bt. merchants regarding the i'ubllo Library that Joseph r. HcHugh has hired advertising space oppoFlte his Store, ai yesterday painter was busy painting In big letters and following statement: New-Terk IJI-mry, Aator, and TUdea plot 800 butldtni plan ii'M fact.

On Kirty ro- r. plot 270 feet Removal ti cr.m-n.e\c*A May. l'-DP Now 1800: Huiiiinr jMmary, UW2. Then follow the words. "Toe soon to My yet." Intended to answer Questions as to much the library will and when will be finished.

"Quite welcome," Bart ttatetneni in ooi acKnowiedglnj; the imacinary tbanka of those of an dring turn of miml. UINE V7ORKER3 IN SESSION. Decrease In Membership and Increase in Funds Reported. wnkesbarre, July Tho sixth annual convention of the First District. United Mine Workers of America, met In PHtston to-day.

Iwo hundred delegates, representing 78.000 mine workers, wen in attendance, which will remain In session for several days. President Nlcholls read his report for tho year. In It he recommends that an insurance plan bo adopted among the members of the onion. In outlining his plan recommends that 60 cents a month be collected from each man In tue district The payment of this amount will entitle each miner or laborer to JiOO If killed or fatally Injured In or about the mines. He also recommends that an organlzatlon committees also appointed In each local to keep up the membership.

lie read a letter from the Coal Company concerning the payment of check check docking bossoa. In which the company i to concede the dr-mands made by the miners, which were that the. mpany collect uio of the a rom the iges of the miners, upon the demand of tuij majority of the iinMrrs from any colliery. Umpire Wright iind the conciliation board decided this in favor of the miners some time ago. but some of the coal comyunlea refused to abide by the decision.

Secretary-Treasurer John Detnpsey presented his yearly report, although the financial condition of the is bettor than it was a year he regretted to report a decrease In the paid-up membership. The district treasury was in debt June SO, 1903, io sl and at the close present year. June 00. I'j-h, piijirij; expenses, id is left in the treasury, fiom ull sources of collection, INSPECTING NEW-JERSEY ROADS. New- York State Senate Committee Goes from Here to Trenton.

TKI.EOR.AFH TO THE TBIDUXE.) Trenton, N. July The. special committee of tho New-York State Senate, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor to report a bill for the improvement cf the of that State, was in this city to-nirht, havlnjj made a partial inspection of the New-Jersey roads between New-York and thla city. The parly HtarVd from New-Tork this morning, crossing to Stutrn Island, nnd thence making way to this city by automobile, the transportation arrangements havlr.g been made by the Automobile Club of America. With the New-Jersey State Road Henry Budd, the party went to Princeton thin afternoon over tho Mercer County road.s.

a large percentage oi which bave been constructed under the State Road act. by which the pays one-third and the county two-thirds of tho cost of constructing stone or macadam roads. One of thr Senators declared to-night that before attempting to revise the seventy-five-yearsold law under which New-Tork waa now Ung its roads, the committee had decided to make a thorough fitudy of the results attained by other States. New-Jersey been selected as tho sturr- Ing point because Btati Road Commissioner, Mr. Budd, had gained a national reputation for his work In roving tho At a meeting of the committee.

Mr. Uudd responded to an Invitation to outline what. In his mind, would be an Ideal law, provided passage could be accomplished. To-morrow the party will a tour of tho northern section of the State, passing through Union. Essex, Morris.

Paasaic and Bereen counties. They will strike New-York State near the Orange County ilne. rmrhtng Xewburg tomorrow Wednesday will Le dovoted to an examination of the macanwm and telford roads about Westchester, nft'-r which the committee will visit New- Kiisland, eoiui; as lar as Boston. BIG GAS DEAL CLOSED. Trust Believed estchested Co.

Incorporated Yesterday. Albany, July The New-York and Westchester Lighting Company, of Port Chester, was Incorporated to-day with a capital of $230,000, to operate in New-York City. Tankers, New-Rochelle. Mount Vornon and the towns and villages of Westchester County. The directors are Cortland Betts, of Morristown.

N. J. Frederick N. Gilbert, of Brooklyn, and Joseph Freeman, of City. The filing of the certificate of incorporation of the New-Yorlc and Westchester Lighting Company, in the Westchester County Clerk's otilce, at White Plains, yesterday, leads to the belief that the Consolidated Gas Company of New-i'ork has acquired the Westchester Lighting Company, which lights twenty-two towns and municipalities in Westchester County.

It has already bcon reported that the Consolidated Gas Company has had negotiations under way with President Dolan of the United Gas Improvement Company, which controls tl.e Westchester company. Tho territories of the two companies ara close together, and In some places lap. Nothing has been given out rogarding the proposed consolidation, for tho reason that W. P. Sheehan.

counsel for the Westchester company, has been away at St. Louis, and is cow at Esoptis. Vice-President F. A. Stratton.

of the Westfhester Lighting Company, said to-day that he had no of the New- York anil Westchester concern, and, 80 far as can be ascertained, it does not own a of pipe or wire in the county. The incorporation is for fifty years, ana the Lome otiice is to be at Port Chester, The Incorporation of th-new company Is assumed by many to bn the actual transfer property from one company to another, but this is not borne out by of the statements of the officers. RACE FEELING IN BALTIMORE, Insulting Action of Negro Woman in Streetcar Taken Up by Grand Jury. Inr to the Baltimore. Juiy The grand jury to-day took up the case of a negro woman who enraged a number of passonpers in a etrnetcar by Bitting In the lap of a young white woman because were no vacant seats.

A committee appointed to make a rigid Investigation, with the object of prosecuting the offender. Although the white became Indignant and remonstrated the conductor, he refused to Interfere, and the white woman finally gave up her scat. Other conductors of streetcars say that had the Incidei.t occurred on their ears they would have put the negresa even if they had lost their places by doing. The superintendent of the railway has also begun un investigation. The case ha-s Intensltied racial feeling.

STRIKE OF MEAT PACKERS LIKELY. Twelve Thousand in Kansas City, May Quit Work To-day. Kansas City. July Unless the packers recede from their position In the wage scale controversy. It la expected that the twelve thousand man and women employed In the Kansas City packing plant and who owe allegiance to tha Amalgamated Meav and Butcher Workmen's unions, will go on a strike, to-morrow nt noon.

The plants that will be affected are the Armour, Swift. Fowler. Ruddy. Cudahy and Schwarzsehlld Si Sulzbergrr. Louis Reinbardt, business agent of the Packing Trades Council, and lever.tli of the Amalgamatitd Meat Cutlen Butcher Workrrtii's Union, received the fblUrwtnfj dispatch from Michael Donnelly, presidfiit oi union, to-day: Union Headquarters, July 11.

Call out all ar noon to-morrow unless otherwise ordered. each man to all his tools when leaving the nr.d proceed direct to his home. During strike all ore ordered to obey the laws and use no Violence toward ar.y one. QUARREL ZKDS FATALLY. Slayer Escapes from Batavia, N.

and 13 Caught at Buffalo. Batavia, K. July Leonard Bcheer, a young farm laborer, was shot last night In a quarrel wttb U. it. Adkms, a member of a theatrical troupe, giving a tent show here, and died later at the Batavia Hospital.

The causa leading up to tragedy was not dear, but it Is generally believed that it was the result of a petty quarrel. A'lkina escaped. Dvflalo. July 11. Adklns was arrested this afternoon.

He. is seventeen yeurs oi.l and bis home is In Geneva, Ohio. TRIED TO EXTERMINATE A FAMILY. Ban Francisco, July Because ha was discharged from a place that netted him f- a week. August Oeber, alias BcheU.

tried to extsrmtmte tfo family of his employer. Uaitmaon, a painter. Geber was discharged for Insulting Charier Hartmann, a son of the employer. Oeber, who lived with the family, went upstairs, and returnlng with a revolvei Bred at ttartmann, sr Tho old man fled and bla sou George slammed .1 door In GfI.TR face. fired twice through the door, I entering Oeurge's arm.

George staggered back, end, Ceber, rushing through, knocked Mrs. Hartmann down with a blow In face, He then went to the front yard, where met young Charles Hartmann, whom he phot through the throat, eaitltng almost Instant death. then run Into the street nourishing his revolver, bur was captured by the police after a desperato fight. FLINT GLASS WORKERS MEET. Marietta, Ohio.

July The twenty-seventh annual convention of the American Flint Glass Workers' t'nion opened here to-day, with fo lr bui from all parts of the States and Canada In attendance. The business ttie convention will continue for two weeks. TEXAS LIVESTOCK FOR SOUTH AFRICA. TO TIIK TRIBINfI Austin. July A African syndicate has placed an order with James Mafelo, i.i Paso, for the purchase of shead of sheep, S.OM mules, f.OOO burros nnj x.tiOO broodmarea, These will purchased In Weal V- and New- Mexico, nrd shipped to South Africa.

The contract calls for the shipments to be made within 1 1 1 months. PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY. The following were among the petitions in bankruptcy filed ftOLJJDSn DItOWNQ paper maker, Canar.n Four Comers. Columila County. N.

no assfts. The ijrlnciiia! crvJltora Joaepb Mix Albany Paver Company. No, US Worth it. T. itwh ur Corners, Schedules filed by JOHN R.

NUGENT nri'l HENRY J. JACKSON. former Imiwi of tho Morton Houm, SbOWtai liabilities of 162.16S and upsets of principal creditors arc the CourtUnd I'ahntr estate, $18,000, geenred by on the furniture ami fixtures of Morton Bouse; Acker, Merrall K. liro. SlarWot.

Un lannla Kocent, No. 161 East si for money $10,000: L. Jackson. No. 151 Ka.it Thirty Btactb-St tB.TOO.

Tha uaeta oonslsi of cash. of groceries, $5oO; furnitura In hotel. counts, tsoo. JUDGMENTS. The following Judgments were among those filed yesterday, the first name being that of the debtor: Bufriim.

Chnu ww Owejo National Bank, of Owege, $799 Clapp. John II Shaw an.l ano Deaaort Robert Faulkner Plnallta Jacob On ami no I.4 in Helntzelman, Henry I. -xacutrix 723 Kufka, Mm, and Chan I.eavltt of the State of Naw-Tork Potts, Earl Kmlcn Roosevelt 31.:: 4 2 Francis 8 oil 443 8.003 Bfavanta, Bmanuellta M. O'Reilly Sires, Henry 13 mil nthul and uno (20 1. Bulklo; 1.103 Watson.

Thomas. Jesapa JJcKoe and Carson Archibald- A tli I.OM Pamo 1 ItSTSden 1,011 tir.m»— Herron 1.018 Kaitif 1.018 Hume--- 1 Watson 1,018 Kame Watsoa I.iHS fame t.nrv»ry 1,011 1,018 Watson I.o Ha.m« 8 A Patterson. 1.018 Youiiians, Vincent Butler 1,722 SATISFIED JUDGMENTS. foMnwtnir satl'fierl Judxmantl were filed jraaterdar; the first Is that of the debtor, the that of the creditor, and date when lilp.f: Hill. IVllett anJ another; February 1..

ISM $3,007 Eanborn. Samuel ft Rose and Archer li 11 flafilr Co; August 3.007 JUDGMENT VACATED. Be Anrelo, ICoca ami Gl vantU People of the of New York; June -7. lUO4 $1,000 JUDGMENTS cancsllkd, ll CoptUn.i, March 17. 1880 la ilarcli 17.

liOit 1111111 Ibis BLAMES NOAKES DRIVER Railroad Board Favors Van Cortlandt Grade Abolishment. Albany, July Ths State Board of Railroad Commissioners to-day announced its decision relative to the accident at the Van CorthusM station on. the Putnam Division of the New- York Central ar.d Hudson River Railroad, on June 12, In which a train struck the Noakes automobile, resulting In the death of ssan and the amputation of a woman's legs. The report ar.d recommendations follow: In our opinion, the accident wns caused by the chauffeur of the automobile, John Spencer, attempting 10 the crossing ahead el a train which he could have seen approaching Croat the south '1 he tact that a train was approacblnaj the station from ttie north clip's not excose Ms lack of ta nui. a train .1 proa ch ing from me Bouth, when his cf the i.rwk was practically unobstructed for more than a of a The volume of travel to and from Van CortUndt station the summer sswsoa very and it is our opinion that the crossing at thij place should be done with as spetrdily as boo bible by an agreement between tiie city authorities, who own the land on both sides of station, and the railroad company.

Until this 13 dono extra precaution should be taken and additional be provided. Safety of would be. increased if it were equipped with gates, it is. therefore, recommended, this be equipped with gates on both sides Ol the tracks, these to bo so arranged that when lowered thi will cover the sidewalk on the south fide of Broadway. That a OMB be on duty to operate the pates at all hours.

ELKS GATHERING AT CItfCDOATI. Grand Lodge to Begin Its Session Next Monday. Cincinnati. July Some delegates to the Grand Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Klks are now in The committee meets next Saturday to prepare the wivrk for the session on Monday. The opeulng of the grand will be brilliant.

Tue speakers will be Governor Herrlck. Mayor Fleischmann. August Hermann. Ruier of Cincinnati Lodge; Joseph T. Fanning.

Grand Exalted Ruler, and Charles E. Ptckett, Past Grand Exalted Ruler. The musical programme includes noted soloists and a chorus of ZCS from the May Festival Chorus. William J. O'Brien, of Baltimore, and Samuel H.

Needs, of Cleveland, are the candidates for Grand Exalted Ruler. For Grand Secretary the candidates are Charles Steger. of Toledo; Fred Robinson, of Dubuque. Iowa; R. A- T.

Burke, of Richmond. and CJeorge A. Reynolds, of Mich. Reynolds has en secretary for ten ana there Is now a Baht against him. The cities that candidates for the next reunion are Dallas.

Buffalo, Syracuse and Saratoga. WILL STUDY TAEIFP LAWS. Filipino Commissioners Also to Look Into Industrial Conditions. Chicago. July The Fllloino Commissioners to tha Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St.

Louis, who have been In Chicago for tha last week, have decided to make a study of the American tariff laws and Industrial conditions a feature of the remainder of their trip through thla country. Dr. Alejandro Albart. ona of the commissioners, who has already collected a fund of Information, on this subject, said to-nlcht: While we are gratified to find that our Manila hemp la exempted from heavy duty, still I think methlng should he done to make a more favorable market for some of our other products. We have the finest trade of mahogany In the Philipnines which could be used with Bront, both to us and yourselves.

All wo could ask la that American markets be opened to Flllomo products as wide as the Philippine markets are to American goods. FLOOD WATERS RECEDING. Kansas City Stockyards and Packers Resuming Business. Kansas City. July With exception of a of In lower nart of the flood water In the Kansas City, suburbs has practically disappeared to-day.

It will be several days, however, before some of the streets In the lower portion of Armourdale are dry. the river must fall below the sewer mouths to allow the water to drain out. The west bottoms are entlrelr dry. ar.d the rtockyards b-saa stock to-day. The Armouri pacaoars expeot to ready to kill to-morrow.

It win be two or days before some of the factories there can resume. Many hundreds of persons are still being fed by with ai.l of goVernment rations sent from Leavenworth. Ita. the streets, especially In the district, which Is drained by the Arkansas Rtver, is a decided change to-day for the better in the flood situation. Most of the In have, been cleared ot tho water to-day.

Washington. July Acting Secretary of "War Ollv.r to-day received the following dispatch from T. B. Gilbert. Major ol Kansas City.

Ai-cept sincere thanks of our people for prompt response to request fur rations for flood sufferers la Kansas City. Kan. LONG TRIP OF A FRENCH BARK. San Francisco, July The overdue French bark Moatebello. on which 16 per cent reinsurance was quoted, has arrived here, ISO days out from Swansea.

Her trip Is accredited to calms and headwinds. She reports speaking British ship Celtic Monarch in latitude youth, longitude west, lor the welfare of which considerable anxiety has felt. BASEBALL PITCHER KILLED BY A BALL. July Hiram Williamson, yean old. pitcher of the Providence (iiU.) I.

cluu. who waa hit In the back of head by a pitched ball on Sunday, died in X'niverslty Hospital bare cf concussion of tha brain. was played at Cherry Hill. and while at the bat In the fourth inning Williamson sustained hi 3 injury, but ha played during the remainder of tho tame. On reaching his home he became unoonsetoaa, and waa brought to the hospital ii.ro.

Williamson was married four ago, and his ronialnej at hia bedside until died. LYNCHERS IN NEW-MEXICO. Albuquerque, X. July headed by Under Sheriff Edward Newcomer, has gone to Las P.idtllas. ton miles south of here, where a mob has three- alleged cattle thlrves surrounded In a house and Is bent on lynching them.

three men were recognised by Deputy Constable Joseph Padlllas, of Las Padlllas, on the street in the latter place, and ha proceeded to arrest them. A running fight in the street followed. One of tho alleged bandits was wounded, and Padlllas was shot several times and almost instantly killed. The pursued then entered a house, ran the owners out and barred tho doors. A mi of several hundred people the bouse, and when the messengers started Albuquerque shot-) were I Ing exchanged between the and the nrteonan YOUNG MANUFACTURER DROWNS.

New-LoaGon, July William H. Merlden, thirty-three years eld, tad drowned In cty ti.ia afternoon. He was standlnc on th end of the Fisher's Ishuad 1 lion wharf ar.J suddttnly attacked with a fainting speD, It ta supposed. Ho never rose to the surface. He was Is son Mr.

an.l A. H. Jones, wan associated with hi? father t-i saovettr i In kterldm and 'a 11)1 parents lil- vai the way to island. The body waa not recovered. is as necessary to life as good food.

IS? tl S.STKiaA WATER possesses all the attributes of purity, flavor, and sparkle thabgo to make a perfect table water' Still and sparkling. fold Every he BLOWN UP WHILE ASLEEf, i Home of Mine Superintendent fig. stroyed by Dynamite. Ironwood. July home of Walton, superintendent of the Brotherton Sunday Lake mines, at Wakefleld, on end of the Gogebic range, was dynamite early to-day.

Not leas than pounds of dynamite were used. A lighted probably set oft the explosive. No could be found. Sections of the veranda were blown two hundred feet, but yu family, asleep upstaire, escaped serious Injury Superintendent Walton has no idea as to identity of the perpetrators or their strike occurred at the mines In January a 10 per cent cut In wages; and some of employes found their taken when mines resumed. As a result of the Sheriff Olsen has sworn In an extra deputies.

The Brotherton and Sunday Laks mines asi Important iron ore producers and by Joseph Sellwood, of Duluth. STORM DAMAGES PASSAIC, Fire Alarm System Made Uselen and Trees Uprooted. Passalc, N. July to the thousands of dollars was done to the Passaic and the surrounding towns by (tana here this evening. The city will have to large sum for street repairs.

Lightning put local fire alarm system out of business and the Fire Department was handicapped la two alarms of fire. One fire waa at home of Mrs. Maria Seaman. in Lightning struck a tree in the back yard, anil asa hit the side of the house, smashing windows. 1 part of the ceiling in the sitting room was tan? dawn, and Mrs.

Seaman was struck by falling gaS ter and badly Injured. OWNER FINDS STOLEN WATCH IN FI3H. Pickerel Thought It Morsel Burglar Dropped It la Lake Three Yean Afo, Morristown, N. July 11 A romwk. able recovery of a watch by Its rightful owner was that made by Mrs.

John Bidd.e, while flsaiag a Laka yasiarday. Airs. who at Mine Hill, caught a 12-pound pickerel, and ia stomach of the fish. the watch was found. Tho Blddla house at Mine Hill was robbed tlsas years ago.

and all the Jewelry in the place waj cap. rled off. When the burglar was caught that had rowed out Into the middle of Bund's Lake and dumped the stuff overboard. He was coovlcted and sentenced, but none of the Jewelry was ever recovered, because Budd's Lake Is ratiar deep body of water. For the first time In her life Mrs.

Bldd wtst fishing yesterday, and the only catch aads waa the pickerel. She Is now considering the ad- of fishing there every day. to sea gas cannot recover the of her Jewelry same way. SATURN'S NINTH SATELLITE. A Doubtful Discovery at Harvard Confirmed.

Boston. July II E. erlng. director of the Harvard Observatory, has Just Issued the following bulletin: Professor William H. Pickering, from an ami nation of photographs taken for the purpose with the 24-inch Bruce telescope, discovered.

In a new and faint satellite of Saturn, havtajt period of about a year ar.d a half. A forth sr cussion of a large number of photographs has served to determine the elements of Its Eleven photographs taken by Mr. Frost st tbe Arequipa station, undar the direction of Profeessr Bailey, enable us to follow satellite from Ajrtl is to Jum 9. and to correct Its A. full discussion by Prof-ssor Pickerlnic will mMiim In a few weeks In a forthcoming volume of tha "Annals." Meanwhile, to enable astronomers to observe it at once, Us position, angle and distance from Saturn may be stated to be on July 14.

77.4 decrees and 17.S minutes, respectively; ea July 24. 73.8 degrees and 14.3 minutes, and on guat 3, SV3 degrees and 10.5 minutes. Until recently Saturn was supposed to have only eight moons. One of these. Hyperion, was discovered by Bond, at Cambridge.

In Tas only ether discoveries of planetary satellites liy Americans besides this and the ore now were made by Asaph Hall and E. E. Barnard. The former first observed the two moons of Mars, at the United States Naval Observatory, in Washington. In 1577.

and the latter found the fifth of Jupiter's satellites at Lick Observatory. California, In ISO. The ninth moon of Saturn is only one ever discovered by scrutiny of photographs alono. All of the others now known detected by direct telescopic observation. CONSCIENCE CAUSES CONFESSION.

Chicago. July 11. Becoming conscience 1 stricken at a religious meeting in this city, a man giving his name a3 Charles F. Floethe. has.

according to police, confessed to having robbed his employers In Jersey City. St. Louis. Cincinnati and Chicago, of various sums. He gave himself Into the custody of the police, and la said to have surrendered teen pawntlckets ar.d a quantity of Jewelry.

His confession la being Investigated. TRAMPS CHARGED WITH MURDER. Norfolk. July John S. O'Brien and Joseph Day.

white tramps, arrested several days ago fur ehootlng an officer who was ejecting them frorv the freight yards at Pinners Point, are being held hi Portsmouth, charged with the murder of Jacob Ressler, the aped toUkeeper recently jatDed near Leaman Place. Lancaster County. Perm. Pennsylvania otflcers are expected here to Identify man. ANOTHER ST.

LOUIS BOODLER WEAKENS. St. Louts. July When the case of Charles J. Denny the third or the nineteen former ir Assembly, charged with bribery in connection with the city lighting deal, was called In the St.

Circuit Court to-day, the defendant tattered a of guilty. Sentence was deferred until 19. Deny Is the third of the nineteen MM rr.err.sers of the Municipal Assembly. Indicted en various charges of Doodling, who has pleaded guilty. Vi.th two exceptions the.

trials of Denny's have resulted in convictions. DIES FROM ASCENDING PARALYSIS. Syracuse. July H. Leo Smith, of North er.

years old. a student of Syracuse University, died at a local hospital to-day ascending paralysis. It is believed that fas was caused by an Injury he received on Jans 23 In celebration of Syracuse's victory at the races. While, with students, to place a wooden sidewalk OH a lie was struck back by bill LOSES LIFE RESCUING CHILDREN. Auburn.

X. July While endear. to cuo her two children from her burning house VlOn H. Levy was fatally saawassJV Tho children unharmed. PUTTING ON THE LID IN CHICAGO.

GUCBStt Mayor Harrison iselsrsfl I that priMflghta of everr sort. tactailai contests under the gain Cf "stove contests." aBSf. CCSM summoned of Police O'Xeil as, am orders that the Tr.ar.dste be libresdj Numerous exhibitions alrcudv arranged have called off..