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THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 24, 1901. 0 00000 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RAIN OF FIRE IN JAVA She was a five-mnstcd steel tinrk. of 3.80J tuns (iieo register, and hailed from Dunkirk. Shu was built in lHirj, at (ilasgow.) MORE MACHINISTS ARE 0DTM ORE IN Several Firms Grant Their Men the Nine-Hour Day, While Others Refuse, REGICIDE BRESCI BECOMES A SUICIDE The Assassin of King Humbert Strangles Himself in His Prison Cell, men are out In the American Bicycle Company shops at Springfield, Mass.

('Westerly, It, and Thomnsvillc, Conn. The local combination of employers at Bridgeport, has been broken by the agreement of the Capsule Machine Company there. Reports up to 5 o'clock to-night showed the following additional agreements: Indianapolis, two shops; Grand Rapid, two shops; Erie, the Eric City Iron Works and tho Cleveland Hendricks' Machine Company; Pittsburg, a half dozen oil-well supply concerns; Meadvllle, the Phoenix Iron Works. Several of the representatives of Southern railroad lodges arrived today, and others are expected by to morrow when the conference with Vice President Gnniiuu will probably be held. QUANTITY MORE TIMjUALITY The Old Claimant for Damages Was Not Dazzled by $1,000 Bill, HE WAS SETTLED BY ONES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VOTING C01P0N DAILY MAY 24, 1901 FREE TOUR TO THC Pan-American EXpOSitiOn (Buffalo) and Niagara Falls fOR THE 28 MOST POPUUR TUCIIlRS and pupils THIS IS ONE VOTE (Narat of Ttacher.) (Kama of School.) City or Town 0 State 0 0 0 0 INama of Pupil.) (Name of School.) 0 City or Town 0 State of 0 TM blank, wtien lilted nnr mu ONE vote for one lenrliar ah.

impll named thereon. If tent In to TUB i-HILADRLPHIA TIMES, PHILADM, rniA, (Exposition Tour Depart- mnt). within 10 days from Its dati. Coupons over 10 days cannot bo counted. 0 oooooooooooooooooooooooooo NOTICE 7ke printing of the above coupon a ccntinued to carrv out in good iiiih the offer of the Times Com-fiy.

of the closing of ihe contest wilt be given in A fevj days. THE BUCKET SHOP Something About How One la Conducted. From Hnrper's Weekly. The typical bucket shops In New York are generally dingy and Ill-lighted, because they arc located In old buildings whose landlords nre particular regarding tenants' ability to pay and care nothing for the tenants' business. A quotation board occupies one side of the room, as lu stock brokers' otBces throughout the land, and the customers sit before It and study the quotations from the New York Stock Exchange.

A "ticker" whirs and clicks away Impassively, and a clerk chalks the quotations on the board or else records thein by means of cardboard numbers. I'ptowu the quotations come by telegraph from a wire direct from the downtown" office. In certnln Instances bogus quotations ore given, but this seldom happens In the metropolis the patrons would not tolerate it though it takes place In inland towns. When a customer desires to "buy" a certain stock It Is really to bet on a rife In the price he gives the cashier his money, or, theoretically his "margin, and receives a "ticket," or re ceipt, wherein the firm acknowledges having purchased a certain number of shares of a certain stock for the customer's account aud risk, at the last quoted price. Thus, If you wish to go "long" of five shares of Atchison stock at 45, you deposit $5 and receive your receipt showing you have purchased the live shares at 45Vs the fraction representing the bucket shop coin-mission for buying, which is the same that is charged by members of the New York Stock Exchange.

Should the stock rise to 46 you would "cash In," or take your profits receive the difference between iti and 43Tji, the last eight being deducted for the selling commission, so that on a one-point rise you make $3.75 on your five shares. On the other hand, If the price declined point to i you are -w pen; you lose your entire iur cumuiiasii'iia 1115 auu eriiui ssious tor oiijing aim sen. rake-off and you real I af on Iv cents for your hL, are the house have a run of dollar. In the smaller bucket shops, where they take orders for two shares and even for one 6hnre they deduct both commissions at once, that your ticket would rend, "Bought one share of Atchison at 45V Instead of 4.Ti, ns In the others, or ns It would In a legitimate office. Should the price decline to 44Vi.

you are "wiped" the shop allows for a decline of but three-quarters of ft point, so that you get only a 75 cent run for your money. Where stocks fluctuate more than a fraction in a day and all active stocks usually do It Is very easy to be wiped out. If ymi sell a stock "short" the procedure la the same. TO REPLACE COAL Very Successful Experiments With Peut us New Fuel. From the London F.xpreaa.

Science has recently explored with start, ling results the possibilities of peat as a fuel, and meehnnlcnl Ingenuity hns devised a plant which promises to convert the Irish hog into a more valuable property than the Russian petroleum fields. By these new methods, of which certain details have been recently communicated, promise is given of an extraordinary revolution in the fuel problem. Machinery has been devised by means of which the moisture of the raw peat Is absorbed and complete disintegration effected at one simple and rapid operation without the aid of either kiln or grinder. It Is no longer a clumsy nnd Imperfect operation of months, but almost one of minutes only. A plant for the working daily of 1,000 cubic yards of bog can be readily Installed, and these 1,000 yards will yield SOO tons of peat fuel at a cost of as.

fld. to 5s. per ton. A step further converts these 300 tons Into neat charcoal, a product equal to the best ordinary charcoal, at an average cost of 15s. to I7s.

per ton. The new peat fuel Is practically smoke-lees and odorless, being almost free from carbon or hydro-carbon, excepting as primarily contained 1n the peat. Its specific gravity, calorific properties and cleanll. ness are also very powerful recommendations. It burns with a brlliant flame, yields Immense heat and is remarkably lasting.

For steam snd naval purposes the peat Is subjected to special treatment, the nature of which is at present a secret. It may be said, however, that no tar, pitch, petroleum or similar adhesive? are used, the special object being to avoid Bmoke, soot, gases and dirt. When Ireland, with her 3.000,000 acres of peat bogs, nnd the rest of the kingdom with two nnd a half millions, are taken Into account there Is certainly a call for the new process. To the Fishing Grounds Sunday Next. $1.00 for the Bound Trlp-Ponnsyl-varila Railroad (West Jersey and Seashore It.

It. Special train for Sea Isle City snd Corson's Inlet, Sunday next, will leave Market street wharf at 7.30 stopping at Had-don avenue, Camden and Woodbury. Returning from Corson's Inlet at ti.OO, and Sea Jala C.lt in (1M About One-Third of Inland swept by Cinders iiiid J.Hvn, DATA VIA, Java, May as. The volcano of Keloet Is In eruption, The lava Is threatening the lllltar coffee plantntlons and has endaiigered Kcdlrl. The district is In tutul darkness.

It is reported that there hns been great loss of life, many natives having been overwhelmed with lava. The population of lllltar Is fleeing, A heavy rain of cinders continued fulling to-day, covering six districts, aggregating one-third of the Islaml, Including Suninrnug, Kcdlrl mid Huinkiirta. (The Island of Java Is transversed lv mountains' thickly set with volcanos, both active and extinct. These rise to a height of from 11,000 to 8.000 feet, and one reaches an altitude of 12,000 feet. When In eruption the volcanos discharge large quantities of sulphur and sulphurous vapor, which bring death to all living things within their reach.

An extinct volcano near Itatar, culled (inevo I'lias, or the Vale of Poison, Is the horror of the natives. Its mouth Is about half a mile In clicumferance and every living creature that enters It, even the birds high up In the air. drop dead from the fumes of carbolic acid from Its bottom. Kedlrl, where the present eruption Is, Is a province ou the south coust of the Island.) MARTIIINUS PRETORIUS DEAD First President of Transvaal and Also President of Granite Free State. JOHANNESBURG, May Wessels Pretorlus, who nt ons time was President of the Transvaal, died, on May at the age of Kl.

(M. W. Prelorius was the first President of the Transvaal. He was a son of Andrlcs Pretorlus, who Joined the Hoer trek from Natal, in lNllt. lid became commandant general.

Martblnus was elected President by the Assembly of delegates at l'ochofs-troom In by 21 voles to 3. He was reelected in 1SIV4. receiving votes, as against 1.111 cast for Mr. Van Kensburg. He was elected for the third time In IK'iil, receiving votes io 001 cast for Vlljocn.

He was forced to resign In 1N71 and was succeeded by Thomas Francois) Burgers. At one time, In 18U0, the dissensions among the Boers were so acute that Pretorlus obtained leave of absence and went to the newly formed Orange Free State, which State promptly made him Its President. He left Schoenmann behind nt Pretoria as net-lug President of the Transvaal, but the latter promptly raised the standard of rebellion and defied the authority of the Volks-raad. Mr. Knitter, at the head of a commando, defeated Sehocnmaiin, and when terms of pence were arranged Kruger recalled Pretorlus, who was re-elected President of the Trausvanl.) Boer Attack on British Itopulsed.

Cablegram to THE PHILADELPHIA TlMns. PRETORIA, May 2.1-Wheu the Boers mined the railroad line near Vercenlglng the other day. and Major Heath, of the South Lancashire Regiment, was killed, they afterward attacked the train, but were beaten off with loss. Colonel Knox was on the train, but escaped Injury. ENGLAND'S TRADE MENACED London Merchant Thinks the Outlook Deserves Serious Consideration.

Cablegram to The Philadelphia Times. LONDON, May the aunual meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce to-day President Albert G. Snndeman, referring to the position of lirltlsb trade, raid the trade of the future, especially the exports, demanded serious consideration. The outlook had been rendered uncertain by the fact that owing to the termination of European treaties some suggested alterations were now under consideration. In regard to Germany the president said the chamber had received information that there would be serious Increases In duty, which, if adopted, would prejudice British trade.

Summing up the trade conditions the president said that after all the resources of the country and Its credit were such that British merchants need not worry over trifles. said that the future was assured so long as the British realized the country's possibilities, and were prepared to maintain the position they were entitled to among the nations of the world. The president wns loudly cheered when he expressed, on behalf of the members, the satisfaction with which ail regarded the approaching visit of the representatives of the New York Chamber of Commerce, who will attend the bano.uet on June 5. He taid be relied on the members uniting with the Council of the Chamber in giving their American cousins the warmest kind of a welcome. Lord Brassey was elected president of the chamber for the ensuing year.

MESSAGE OF DEATH FROM SEA Contents of Bottle Cast Ashore Tells Fate of ship and Crew. Cablegram to The Philadelphia Times. LONDON, May bottle was picked up at Granton, Scotland, on the Flrth of Forth, to-day, which contained a message slating that the Arrow Line steamer Croft was going down In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, with all hands. The Croft traded between Lelth and New York. She left lie latter port with grain and general merchandise on January 2.1, ISM), for Lelth and Dundee with a crew of twenty-five men, and wns never heard of.

She has long since been posted as "missing" ut Lloyds. (What may be regarded as a strange coin- deuce In this story is the fact that the bottle was virtually borne along the course that the vessel would have taken, and wns cast on the shore within a few miles of the port of Lelth, from which the steamer traded. The bottle was carried from mld-Atlantic past the Hebrides, and probably between the Orkney Islands and Ihe most northern point of the Scottish mainland. It mis then borne south along the east const of Scotland, a distance of over 240 miles, and finally thrown up In almost the home port of the Croft.) VAIN QUEST FOR Bit ESTATE United States Senate's Official Inqnlry About Death of London LONDON, May II. Gllfrey, a legislative clerk of the United States Senate, is now here endeavoring to trace the estate of William Baskett, supposed to have been a London banker and said to have recently died, leaving 0,000,000, the principal heirs being the Basketts, of Polk county, Ore.

A story purporting to have originated In London and giving details of the death was printed In a Salem (Ore.) paper. Mr. Gllfrey Is unable to find the slightest trace of Banker Baskett and no death of a man answering the description has been recorded at Somerset House, the office of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages. (The Mr. Gllfrey alluded to Is the principal legislative clerk of the United States Senate.) Furst Bismarck In Collision.

HAMBURG, May mail steamer Reichstag, of the Dutch East Africa Line, of this city, was In collision yesterday with the Hamburg-American Line steamer Furst Bismarck, near Brunshausen, and has returned to Hamburg. The Furst Bismarck was not damaged, and sailed to-day for New York, according to schedule. Liberals Ahead In Spanish Elections. MADRID, Mny 23. Although the official returns of the election are still Incomplete up to the present time returns Indicate the election of the following: Liberals, 244; Conservatives, 81; Tetuunlsts, 12; Republicans, IB; Onmnzlsts, 13; Romerlsta, 14; other groups, 22.

French Bark Abandoned at Sea. MONTEVIDEO, May Spanish bark Josefa, from Havana, arrived here today and reported having passed the French bark France, from Shields March 14, for Valparaiso, in latitude 34 south, longitude 4F, west, abandoned. The date of passing was not given. (The France was reported spoken on April a In a RIVER NIGER FOUND NAVIGABLE Immense Tract of Land In Afrlun Can Now bo Opened Up ly Cablegram to TUB PHILADELPHIA TIMES. PAItlS, May Temp to-day points out the slgntlcnnce of the news that l.enfant's mission hns succeeded In reaching (nya, Northwest Africa, In Oat-bottomed boats, with sixty tons of provlsloi.s to re-victunl the troops In the Interior.

The paper says that tills demonstrates the fact that the river Niger, notwithstanding the rapids, can bo used as a means of trans-pcirtj to the mouth of the river whence l.enfant stnrlod, of the products of enormous territory which has now been, acquired by France. The Niger between IHienne nud Sal, like the Nile, overflows Its banks for distance of kilometres, the width vnrylng from 100 metres to fiO kilometres. The deposit la most suitable for grain and cotton crops and Is capable of supplying France with all of these commodities, which she now purchases abroad. Another Marvelous Traot of Land Discovered by French Explorer. Cablegram, to TUB PHILADELPHIA TIMES.

BOltriEAlW, May I.esleur, the explorer, arrived here yesterday on the steamship Vlllo de Maielo, after two years' exploration In Western Africa. M. Lesieur went up the Benlta river, whose course was previously discovered by M. C'raiupel. He determined the course of the Benlta aud also that of the river Mem, which M.

Fournon visited in ISO- under the, name of Toiubony. I.esleur says the Nloin Is really the river C'anipo. He describes the country as marvelous, producing great quantities of India rubber und Ivory, The natives were hospitable. M. Lesieur established commercial stations ou the lower Bcultu.

BOUND FOR THE FROZEN DEEP Htenmshlp Erlck Chartered for a Trip to tho Silent North, Cablegram to The Philadelphia Times. HALIFAX, X. 8., May Peary Arctic Club has chartered for Its Arctic cruise this summer, the fifth of the expeditions for the attainment of the Pole, upon which Robert K. Peary has been fur three years ubseut, the steamship Erlck, formerly of the Hudson Buy Company's service, now owned by Captain J. A.

Faniuhar, of this city. The Erlck wns built nt Dundes, Scotland, anil is of M2 tons burden. She will be brought here next month by Captain Farqu-liar from Imdon, where she now is. Tho captain and crew for the expedltlou will be shipped In Nova Scotlu nud Newfound land. The cruise Is expected to be the most eventful of the series, and It Is expected by those Interested to mark the success of the enterprise aud to bring home Its lender with the attainment of his long 'cherished purpose.

The Erlck Is also expected to bring Mrs. Peary and Miss Peary, from whom nothing has been heard since the departure of the Windward from Gothaven last year. LABOR RIOTS IN RUSSIA Several Strikers Killed and Wounded by the Gendarmes. ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday, May In transmission).

The Oboukohoff armor plate ordnance works, a government Institution. niidwaT between St. Petersburg and Schlnsselbourg, was the scene' of a riotous demonstration and severe fighting between soldiers, mounted gendarmes and strikers to-day. Workmen numbering several thousand men struck on Monday. The windows of the factory on the Schlnsselbourg road were smashed and the gendarmes flreu on the strikers, killing several and wounding many.

The eight-hour movement Is apparently spreading rapidly. WUhelmliia to Visit tho Kaiser. THE HAGUE, May Wilhel-mlna and her husband will visit Emperor William of Germany, at Potsdam from Mny 30 to June 1, at the Emperor's Invitation. Venezuelan "Rebels" Captured. CARACAS, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 22, via Haytlan cable.

Celestlno Peraza and his followers have been taken prisoners near Cludad Bolivar. Brief Cablegrams The British 6team yacht Syharlte, owned by Wblttaker Wright and chartered by George J. Gould, sailed from Owes, Isle of Wight, for New York Wednesday. The German steamer Ascanla, which went ashore recently on Azalea Reef, In the Red Sea. and had eight feet of water in her fnrehold, has beeu floated and towed to the port of Terlm.

Six hundred tons of her cargo, which had been damaged, are being discharged, ABOUT THE POPES. Several of Them had Itoason to Xoto the Flutiro Thirteen. From tbe London Chronicle. On March 2 Pope Leo XIII, who was born In 1S10, entered upon his ninety-second year. Of all the bishops of Rome, for St.

Peter and his immediate successors can hardly lie styled popes, he, In point of age, is far and away the first. Of the 2D2 occupants of the chair of St. Peter, though there are nt least a score of well authenticated octogenarians, he Is the ouly nono-genarlau of that number. Though he has broken the record In point of years of life, it seems an Impossibility that he should break It In length of ofhYe, for his Immediate predecessor, Plo Nono, reigned for over 30 years, and the present pope has something like eight years before he will have beeu supreme pontiff ns long as that. A centenarian pope would indeed be a wonder of the world.

The Thirteen Club might claim the pope for one of themselves. When he was elected men not so much past middle age now can remember how Borne of the superstitious faithful begged of him not to be the thirteenth Leo. During the past century, of the seven popes four were Plus by title, two Leo aud one Gregory, and It wus seml-ofii-elitlly announced that when Cardinal Peoc! was chosen pope in 1878 he wns to become Gregory XVII. But his holiness defied augury and styled himself Leo XIII. There has been no nonogennrlan (sovereign for, after all, the pope is a sovereign withlu the recollection of man; tbe nearest approach was Kaiser Wlihelin the "old" German Emperor, who died on March 9, 18SS, Just 13 days before entering upon his ninetieth year.

The two European rulera nt present nearing the nineties are the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who will 84 next birthday, and tbe King of Denmark, 82 the 8th of next month. COON OATS OP MAINE A Industry Said to be Wonderfully Profitable. From tb Saturday Erenin Post. Tbe rearing of coon cats is a common Industry. Coon cats are worth to-day from $5 to $100 uplece, and ths supply does not begin to meet the demand.

Exceptional specimens have been known to fetch $200 or even $300. At the present time all of them come from Maine, simply for tho reason that the breed Is peculiar as yet to that State. Their popularity is such that the business of hreedlng them has been rapidly growing during the last few years lu that part of the country, and one shipper. not very far from Bar Harbor, exported In 18110 no fewer than 8,000 of the animals. Strange to say, there are comparatively few people south or west of New England who know whit a coon cat Is.

If you ask that question "down lu Maine," however, the citlxeu will seem surprised at your Ignorance, aud will explain to you In condescending way, that the creature question Is half raccoon the descendant of "a cross between a 'coon and a common cat." Coon cats have been recognised i.s distinct breed In Maine for so long that thn memory of the oldest inhabitant runs not back to their beginning. Vou will find severnl of them In almost any village in NO CHANGE IN CAMDEN The number or machinists on strike in Philadelphia mid vicinity for the nine-hour day remains about the same. Several flnns agreed to the demands of the workers yts. terdny and resumed operations, but the employes of several other flnns cumc out for tlie shorter work-day. The firms which granted the machinists' dciniinds yesterday were the Harrison Holler Works, 18 men; Smith, Drum 22 men, and the Tioga Forge fl men.

The machinists employed by S. Allen, 20; E. S. Harrington, Son 00; Stowe Flexible Shafting and O'Neill struck yesterday. The strikers are orderly and although special policemen nre ou duty nt nearly every machine shop where the strike Is In progress, there hns been no evidence of disorder whatever.

Several firms are for machinists, offering ellher iiltir-hour day or a 57-hour week, but the strikers plaint that attempts to secure men to break the strike lu this manner will fall. Edward A. Fries, one of the strikers, applied for work yesterday nt the office the Pencnyd Iron Works, It having been reported that another employment agency had been opened ihere. He was given a letter to tbe superintendent of the American Bridge Company's plant nt Trenton, N. where the machinists are on strlk, which wus signed by James ('bristle, mechanical engineer for the company.

Two men who applied for work yesterday at 2233 Richmond street, said to be Cramps' employment bureau, were sent to the But Pump Works, and put to work there. When Ihe strikers got wind of this they went to the place and had uo difficulty in persuading the men to quit. When the strikers at Moore White's Shop went for their pay they were request, fd to leave their tools 1n the shop a few lays longer. They found on counting up that they had been paid at the compromise rate offered by the firm, sixty hours' pay for fifty seven hours' work, These men believe that they will soon go back to work with the full reduction In hours. The strikers held a big meeting lust night at Broad and Clearfield streets, where a large number of new members were Initiated Into George Chamw Lodge.

To-night nt the meeting of Soathwark Lodge It Is expected that over ISO new members will be taken Into the union. Tbe strike in Camden shows no change. The machinists of the New York Shipbuilding Company who went out were paid off yesterday. The boilenuakers at that plant are ready to strike in sympathy with the machinists' movement and have asked the national officers of their organization for permission to go out. If they strike they will demand a nine-hour day also.

O'CONNELL IS CONFIDENT Says Monday Will Witness Kcsnmpllon of AVork by Msjorlty of Men, WASHINGTON, May hundred additions to the ranks of the strikers, two score or more firms signing the agreement with the men, leaving approximately 30,000 or 35,000 men still out and possible material aeceasions to the roll of Btrlkers In tbe course of the day, is, In a nutshell, the machinists' strike situation throughout, the country to-day. While several railroads have adjusted their difficulties trouble with other roads is Imminent. Meantime President O'Connell, of the International Association of Machinists, who it directing tbe strike, holds that the situation is getting brighter and stands by hU prediction that next Monday morning will witness the resumption of work by the gTeat majority of the men who went out. He said to-day that probably few of the men would care to return to work this week anyway. President Mulbolland, of the Allied Meta' Trades Association, telegraphed to-day that be bad Issued orders to bis men at various points to Join the strike In those shops where the employers are still holding out against the demands of the machinists.

This Is liable to add materially to the force of the strikers. In several of the large cities a break in the line of the employers re-fusing to make the concessions Is claimed by the strike leaders. On the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad agreements have been signed at the Washington, Indiana and Chlllleothe, Ohio, shops and 200 men have returned to work. Trouble on the Jersey Central Road has been settled, nnd, at the request of the strikers at the St. Albans shops of the Central of Vermont Railroad, Organizer Frederick Roberg has been ordered from Montreal to St, Albans to confer with the men.

The reports today show that 100 men have struck at Thompsonvllle, Ml at Marquette, and 100 at Frankfort, Ind. These figures are approximate. Addl-tionnl firms which have signed the agree ments and whose men are now back at work are; All firms at Qulncy, 111., Involving 200 men; Baltimore, one firm, 80 men; Beverly, one firm, AO men; Lynn, all of the twenty-eight Arms there; Athol Tool Company, of Alhol, 300 men; Morgan Engineering Works, of Alliance, Ohio, 200 men; New Castle, two firms; Rochester, N. three firms; Indianapolis, two firms; Boston, three firms. Involving 225 men.

None of the large concerns In Cincinnati has yet given in, although unofficial advices to headquarters here report several firms as agreeing to sign. None of the big concerns lu San Francisco hns signed and no Indication of yielding has been received from there. The headquorters of the strike will be shifted on Sunday to Toronto, where the convention of the machinists' association will open on June 3. The Crescent Ship Building Company, of Ellzabethport, X. sent notice to the Xavy Department to-day that It had been affected by a strike, although It Is understood that work on naval vessels Is still in progress at tbe yard.

This makes the fourth notification of strike from yards having contracts for warships. President O'Connell, summarizing the alt-ufltion, to-night said: The situation now shows that we are largely the gainer In the number of settlements made. The adjustments reported dnrlug todnv show a gain In New England of 1.500 In the number of men returned to work with the demands granted; of 500 or (IflO In Ohio, and probaly 1.000 In Pennsylvania. About 1.000 men struck today. Tbere are soma additions In Philadelphia snd lome In the Seaboard Air Lin shops at Amerleus, Ga.

Our policy Is to discourage bringing out any more men than is absolutely necessary to effect the sue. cess of tbe movement, Mr. O'Connel said a strike of the machinists on the Seaboard Air Line would occur tft-morrow morning. He said the strikers would number between 500 or 600. Advices to headquarters here Indicate that at San Francisco many of the smaller concerns are ready to grant the demands, but are not ready to sign the agreement.

At Indianapolis the American Bicycle Company Is reported as agreeing to ths demands, but refusing to sign the agreement. The mine condition exists at several other points, and ths matter is being left to the local organisations to settle. Mr. O'Connell said to-night that he could not understand such policy on the part of the employers, but was not disposed to haggle over a minor Issue, and, If necessary, he would not Insist on the men staying out on account of that tecnlcallty. He said the organisation of the men Is sufficient to enforce their demands and that the question of signature was comparatively trifling.

In Boston 89 firms, employing 1,650 men, have signed the agreements thus far, leaving HAD REPENTED HIS CRIME Cablegram to Tub Philadelphia Timer. ROME, May Tuesday night One tnno Broad, the I'aterson Anarchist, who assassinated King Humbert, tore his underclothing-Into (trips, of which he made a rope and strangled himself in the Penitentiary of Snuto Stofnno. When the wardens entered the cell next morning they found the body. Bresci recently wrote to King Victor Eiuanuel, the Ministers and his wife, declaring that he repented of ills crime and could not survive the remorse he was suffering. On the wall of the cell the word "vengeance" was scratched with his bloody thumb nail.

Kecently Bresci became very violent. This eventually culminated in his attacking a Jailer, in consequence of which he was placed In a stralghtjncket. Later the prisoner feigned docility in order to secure an opportunity to commit suicide. In the earlier days of his Imprisonment Urescl resented orders to keep silent and threatened to kill himself. Slguor Uiollttl, of the Interior, Informed the King at the Cabinet meeting to-day of the suicide of Bread.

Ills Majesty remained pensive for a few moments aud then said: "It Is, perhaps, the best thing that could have happened to the unhappy man." (Rresol assassinated King Humbert nt Monrti July and was sentenced to life imprisonment on August -1 of the same year, that being the most severe penally which could be Imposed under the laws of Ituly for murder. The assassin formerly resided at I'aterson and at Iloboken, N. J. He had lived also hi Flushing. six years ago, and was known there for Ills many eccentricities.

He was a reader ofi historical books anil was always telling his associates that they should learn to live without work. Urescl was employed In I'aterson from April isnit. to May VI, 1MHI. at Hamll lloolh's slik mill. He earn, ed on the average $14 a week and In the Investigation of his crime It was declared that he had some regular source of income outside his wages.

He spoke English well and he seldom drank. He was about years old. liresci had a wife and child In I'aterson wheu he went to Italy. The woman, who Is not an Italian, was left destitute. She made her way to West Ho.

boken and became a charge on the town. Another child was born to her after Bresci had been Imprisoned in Italy.) NO PLOT SAYS MRS. BRESCI Assassination of Humbort Was Simply the Work or an Individual. NEW YORK. May Bresci, who is now living In Hudson Heights, as very much affected at the news of the suicide of her husband.

She said, however, that he was better dead than Imprisoned In an Italian prison. Speaking of her husband's act la killing the King of Italy, Mis. Bresci said: He did not plan It with others. Now that he Is gone there Is no reason to conceal anything, and I can say absolutely that there never was a plot. It was said my husband was a leader and the agent of a baud of Anarchists in killing the king.

That is not true. His act was entirely an Individual act. He conceived it himself. The Paterson Anarchists were as surprised he did it as I was. We did not believe It at first.

SAY HE WAS MURDERED Paterson Anarchists Discount Statement That Bresci Killed Himself. PATERSON, X. May Anarchists of this city were much excited over the news of Bresci'8 suicide. That the assassin actually took his life the Anarchists will not for a moment admit. They say that Bresci was murdered at the instigation of the Italian officials.

Tedro Esteve, editor of the Italian paper, La Question Soclale, and one of the leaders of the Anarchists here, said there was no doubt In his mind that Bresci was murdered. SPY ARRESTED IN MANILA Jforweglau Resident Found In Possession of Incriminating Documents. Cablegram to The Philadelphia Times. MANILA, May 23. Kail Enkelsjon, a Xu-weglan, who has been living at four differ-tnt hotels here, was arrested today by Secret Service agents and held without bail on a charge of being a suspicious character.

It seems that Knklesjan was one of six spies acting as an informer between the Filipino Junta at Hong Kong and the in-surgeut array. Highly incriminating documents from Agulualdo, leading insurgents aud members of the junta were found in Ms possession, ns well as passes from Insurgent commanders. This same man embezzled J5.000 when the country was under Spanish rule, The Fourth and Sixth districts of Northern Luzon have been consolidated under command of Hrlgndler General Funst.m. This relieves Colonel Thompsou, of the Forty-second Volunteer Infantry, who lnu beeu In command of the provinces of long and Infanta. Punishment of Culprits In Manila Commissary Cablegram to The Philadelphia Timeb.

MANILA, May provost marshal has signed the findings and sentence of the court-martial in the case of Captain James C. Read, charged with participation In ihe commissary frauds, and the documents are now in General MncArthur's possession. It is expected that they will be published In a short time. Nothing has been yet officially announced as to the sentences that will be imposed on Captain Barrows and Licuteuant lioyer, who have been found guilty of commissary frauds. LORD MINTO CRITICISED Member of Canadian Parliament Attacks Governor General.

Cablegram to The Philadelphia Times. OTTAWA, May the House of Commons yesterday Mr.Bourassa charged' tbe Governor General with suppressing correspondence with Mr. Chamberlain In regard to commissions given to Canadian officers, and said that the government 'should teach his Excellency that he was not the servant of Downing street, but the head of the Canadian executive. Sir Richard Cartwrlght rebuked Mr. Steamer May Go to Pleoes.

UNION, B. May steamer Willamette, which went on the rocks some time ago, was floated on Monday and as soen as she wag lifted from where she had been lying she heeled over until her bilge caught on the beach. Now she lies half ovsr, with the water up to her hatches. With her bull emptied, It seems the heavy wreckage apparatus on her made her top-heavy. The union machinists and boiler-makers who have been at work on the Willamette have struck In consequence of advices from Seattle.

Swedish Army Bill Adopted. CaMram to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. STOCKHOLM, May Second Chamber, by 121 to 08 votes, to-day adopted the army bill, as amended In committee on May 6, Increasing expenditures by kroner making a total of 45,000,000 kroner ($12,060,0001. The bill nassed the First Chamber on Mav 13- Employers Grant Demands. Special to Tim Philadelphia Times.

WILMINGTON, May machinists of the Jackson Sharp Company. G. W. linker Co. Trump Brothers' Mnchlii' Company resumed work this morning, the employers having granted their demand for nine hours' work with ten hours' pay.

The Jackson Sharp Company Is to make an Increase lu the pay for piece work and to allow time and half-time for overtime and double time for Sundays. Union lenders de- el urn the belief that the strike In all the local shops will be over in time to have ull the men at work on Monday. The compa nies which nave nor uoceneii to me request are the llnrlan Hollliigsivnrlli Company, Hells Machine Company, ,1. Morton Poole Company, Delaware Machine Company and F. F.

Slocoinb tc Co. Some of the members of Ihe local union may go to Chester to slst the machinists there In la. iking their organization elective. PENNSYLVANIA LABOR TROUBLES "Clrou 8trlle" nt I'lttHton Causes Mine Shutdown. the first time In the history of the anthracite region a circus has caused a general strike.

When thu mines of the Plttston district resumed this morulug every driver nnd breaker boy re fused to enter the workings. They told the officials that they must have circus tickets for the Wallace show or they would not work until noon. The demand was bluntly refused aud the boys marched off In a body to the circus grounds. Ten thousand men were thrown Idle. SIIAMOKI.V.-Tlie l.OOn employe of tbe toriiin anil r.xcelsior collieries, owned ny A.

Robertson refused to end their strike this mornlne on the strength of a rumor that their demands were to he granted. A number of thein met this afternoon and decided that the tie up should last indefinitely unless the company agrees to pay them' twice a month hereafter, the funds to be disbursed nt each colliery, lu-slead of nt a central office, as heretofore. miners In the upper end of Dauphin county are ready to march to the Slate capital in the event of adverse action on the part of the Senate on the mining hills. The officials of the unions In the Lykens and Williams Valleys arc in couimunicallon with those of the unions in Northumberland nnd Schuylkill counties, and there nre reports among the miners that everything is ready for the mobilization orders, fust how many will participate is unknown, but it Is believed that a large majority of the Dauphin county miners have agreed to join the procession. OIRARDVILLK.A strike took place at the Glrnrd mammoth colliery, operated by the Philadelphia and Rending Coul and Iron Company, here to-day.

The firemen were given extra work and because they were refused additional help they threw down their tools, compelling the colliery to shut dowu and throwing six hundred men and boys out of employment. READING STRIKE IN PROSPECT Indications Point to a Iil Tie-Up in Iron Company's Plants, Special to The Philadelphia Times. READING, May Indications are that every plant of the Rending Irou Company In this city, where thousands of men are employed, will be tied up to morrow. For the past two weeks anout 1.700 employes of the Reading Iron Company's pipe mill have been on strike. To-day a committee representing the Iron and Steel Workers' Union, No.

7.518. A. F. of sVnt a letter to George F. Baer, president of the Rending Iron Company, containing resolu.

Hons passed at a meeting of the union. The resolutions ask that the wages of the pipe mill employes now on strike be Increased 10 per that the wages of the puddlers be increased from $3.50 to $4 ton and the wages of the plate mill workers be advanced fifteen per cent. Tbe resolutions also ask that the wages of all other Reading Iron Company employes be increased In proportion and that the hands be paid every two weeks Instead of every three weeks, as at present. The resolutions are signed by men representing tbe pipe mill, the oley street mill, the Ninth street mill and the sheet mm. Should these demands not be granted, it Is a general strike and tie-up of all the Reading Iron Company's plauta In this city will be ordered at noon to-morrow.

President Baer whs In Philadelphia when the letter reached his office, but Its contents was telephoned to him. At the company's office here It was- stated that no reply had been received from Mr. Baer and that there was no information to glvo out. T. R.

Flynn, one of the organizers of the American Federation of Labor, arrived here a)hts afternoon and nrougnt wnn mm lor ine support oi nie Min.no. SHEET METAL WORKERS STRIKE Employes of John Byrd Want an ElKht-IIour Day. The sheet metal workers employed by John Byrd, 1425 Catharine street, went on strike yesterday for an eight hour workday with present wages, aud recognition of the ii'ilon. Thirty-three men are affected by the stripe, and the sheet metal work on the new ferry house of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Federal street, Camden, was stopped, as was also that on the Llppinott building, Sixth and Locust streets, and St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church, at Broad and Catharine streets.

Business Agent E. A. Eblcr, of the Sheet Metal Workers' I'nlon, says that business Is very brisk Just now. and that as the other building trades are granted the eight-hour workday there is no reason why Contractor Byrd should not give his men the same. Ingrain Carpet Weavers Wagrei Fixed.

Secretary Bromley, of the Ingrain Carpet Manufacturers' Association, has notified the Weavers' Association that the manufacturers have decided to continue the present wage schedule for another year. This was satisfactory to the weavers. An effort will be wade by the workers to check, if possl-hie, the importation of the cheap Chinese mattings, which are to a. great extent replacing Ingrain carpets. The wage scale Just fixed affects directly 10,000 workers.

Railway Conductor Re-Elect Officers. ST. PACL. May E. Clark, who baa held the office of Grand chief of Railway Conductors since 1S0O.

has been reelected. Assistant Grand Chief Conductor Barrltson and Grand Secretary and Treasurer C. F. M.ixweli also were re-elected. "Dougherty's Faultless Bedding and Metal Bedsteads You may have a cool house, large, airy bedrooms, but if you have not Brass or Enameled Bedsteads, you fall far short of real solid summer comfort.

There can be but one BEST of everything. In Metal Bedsteads it's Dougherty's II North 11th Street, Above Market, From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "A professional compromiser who under, stands his business Is a most valuable ma a tl, utnft ...1 moil ui ujfc lillllUIMI, M1IU 0, New Orleans inwyer, apropos of nothing In particular. "It is a great art," he continued, "and I had the fact Impressed on me by something rather unusual that happened early lu my career. I had been In practice only a year or so, us I re-member, when I was engaged by a certain, railroad couinanv to rciiresent It lu a dam age suit brought by ail old fellow who had Immii hurt nt rrosslng.

I got the Job because the regular attorney and regular assistant attorney were out of town ou bigger affairs, and I threw myself Into It with unlimited enthusiasm. A little Investigation convinced me. however, that the company didn't have leg to stand on, and neither, for that matter, did the claim, ant, both of 'cm having been broken above tlie knee. So I advised a compromise and was told to settle It If I eoiilil fur .11 iHi "That fixed limit discouraged me, because' the suit had been brought for and I knew the opposition lawyers had been flllln; their client with rosy hopes, but I thought up a scheme that seemed promising. The claimant was an iguorant old fellow, who had been a laborer for years, and I took it fur granted that he had never bud us much us $100 nt any one time in his life.

'I'll Just hypnotize I said to nnd, going to bank, I got a brand new bill. Then I hurried off to his boarding house, found him in a dirty little back room aud made my proposition for settlement. "Just ns I anticipated, he declined It Indignantly. 'Very said 1, pulling out: the bill with a studied carelessness, 'In that case I II nave to return this money. Hut, By the way.

I added, 'did you ever happen to see a bill? It's quite a handsome bit nf Tn 11,1 tend mrl-iot awed by the thing myself, but to my amazement be took It Indifferently, glanced at It with no apparent interest and handed it buck. 'It's verra he said stolidly and went on smoking his pipe. "A few days afler this discouragiug experience," tlie lawyer went on, "Mr. Andrews, the claim agent of the Hue, happened to be in town and dropped in to Inquire about the ease. He was a veteron In the business, but he always Impressed me as being a man totally destitute of tact, and I never could understand how he held his Job.

He chuckled when he heard my story. "My dear ho said, 'you simply overplayed yourself. You expected that old man to drop dead at tlie sight of a $1,000 bill. Why, bless your soul, he didn't know what It meant! It was beyond the outposts of his Imagination. He was like you yourself when yon hear an astronomer tuik about ten billlou miles.

The figure conveys no Idea to your mind. It is loo big. But come with he added, 'and I'll give you an object "I was surprised nnd piqued, but I went along, and the first thing Andrews did was to get in $1 bills nt the bank. He cut the slips that held thein together, stacked them up in a loose heap and wrapped them lu a newspaper. Then he went to tbe boarding house and found the old man sitting In his little back room still smoklu' his pipe.

He didn't seem to have moved 6lnce I wns there before. 'Well. said the calm agent after a few general re marks, 'I've brought around that $1,000 and want you to sign a receipt in The old man got angry Immediately. 'I'll not do he yelled. 'I'll take what I sued for and.

not a cent 'You're said Andrews calmly. 'Xo Jury will give you over $1,000, and your lawyers will get half of that. You'd better do business with "lie had been holding the package of bills on his knee while he was talking, and Just then he made an awkward gesture and knocked It off. He grabbed at it wildly as It fell and, with one swoop, scattered the money all over the squalid little mom. It covered everything floor, chairs, table, bed and some of it even went into the wasii- Tlrpf'one' flip he shouted.

pnrt hnnrt will rm. snd help me gsther stuft Tne old maa n0 bllt sneechIess and tran8. bi9 month and fell into his lap. Meanwhile Andrews seized a broom and began sweep ing up the bills like dry leaves. 'Saints preserve whispered Connally at last, still staring stupidly at the litter.

'How much is 'The $1,000 you don't snapped the claim agent and kept on sweeping. In ten minutes he had collected the money in a big heap on the newspaper. 'Well, 1 guess I'd better be he remarked as he bundled It up. 'Hold on a said the old man, and before I fully realized what had happened Andrews had his autograph on the receipt. "The whole thing had been done so rapidly and passed off so much like some well rehearsed scene at a play that I wns simply dumbfounded and lacked language to express my admiration.

Andrews was very modest about it, though, and luslsted there wns nothing remarkable In what, he had done. 'When you undertake to spellbind a man with he said, 'yon must use denominations that he can Ill-Treated Her Chlldreu. Officers of the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty Investigated a case of alleged cruelty and yesterday Lemuel and Elisabeth Ellingsworth, of 3337 Wallace street, were arrested by Lieutenant Taylor, of the Sixteenth district, on a war. rant Issued by Magistrate Thornton. Neighbors testified that the five children, ranging from 9 to 2 years, were badly neglected by the mother, and also alleged that she was frequently under the influence of liquor.

Magistrate Thornton sentenced her to the House of Correction for three months nnd the father was held under his own. recognizance, It having been testified that he was sober and Industrious. The children were placed under the care of the, society. WQN GAS BILLS i THS Sib CENT A NEW DISCOVERY. BURNS ONE CUBIC FOOT OF GAS PER HOUR.

No Chimneys Is Break. ManUts Not Clacktn. Better than Electricity and Only 1-tOth ths Cost. IT a Hill ITTtMtKT-tgT A tllAMITtai Ken Incandescent 62s Light Ca 6irth I3th Philadelphia..