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FEATURES OF INTEREST OONOERNINQ PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOING8 OF THE WORLD. Cmrta and Crimes, Accident aa Tires, Iiabor and Capital 9aia Stock and Money Markets. Train Wrecked In Kansas, Topeka (Kan.) special: The engine, Ball car and baggage car of the Texas express on the Bock Island, went through a bridge across Hendrloks creek, near Alma, killing Fireman John Leggett and seriously injuring Engineer John Mc-Steen. The baggagemen and expressmen jumped when the shock came and wera wept by the waters in tree tops fn.m which they were rescued by William Graves, a fisherman. Graves also found the engineer unconscious and.

entangled In the limbs of a tree. The engine is at the bottom of the creek out of sight. One car is dangling from the end of the bridge and another is lodged on the bank of the stream, partially under water. That a heavy loss of life did not follow is due to the narrowness of the stream where the disaster occurred. A cloudburst had filled the creek and weakened the bridge.

Bloody Indian Battle. The bloodiest Indian battle of the Maya Indian rebellion has just been fought in Yucatan, according to dispatches received at Mexico City. It is stated a large body of Indians, who were supposed to have been subdued, made an unexpected attack upon a detachment of government troops. Sixty of the latter were killed or seriously wounded. The soldiers were forced to withdraw from the field, leaving their dead and wounded behind.

A number of Mayas were killed. Jeffries Holds the Belt. James J. Jeffries, champion heavy weight- of the world, played with Jim Corbett for nine rounds and a half before tb6 Mechanics' Atheletio Club, San Francisco, and then Corbett's seconds motioned to Keferee Graney to stop the fight in order to save their man from seedless punishment. 'The end came shortly after the beginning of the tenth round, when Jeffries planted one of his terrific left swings on Corbett's stomach.

Catholics Allowed to Vote. Pope Pius has expressed the intention of soon permitting Roman Catholics to vote in political elections, and in this way form in the Italian parliament a party whi will be able to sway any situation that would be detrimental to the interests of the church. Roman Catholics have been forbidden to vote in political elections since the pope was tripped of temporal power. Terrible Havoc. The State Department has reoehed the following dispatch from Consul Jewttt, at jrorr.

ue "Cane, cocoa and coffee crops total loss. Fruits and vegetables positively destroyed. Every town and village in-lured. Thousands of houses down. Deaths few.

Communication diffioult. Breadstuffs, provisions, galvanized roofing will find ready sale." Extra Sesalon to be Earlier. As a result of the conference at Oyster Bay, K. between President Boosevell lemembers or the senate sub-com mittee on finance. Congress may be called in extraordinary session in October.

The date of calling the extra session, if one Is convened, has not been deoided upon, but it will probably be several weeks earlier than 3ov. 9, the date previously decided upon. "Wreck on the Vaudalln. A dispatch from Terre Haute, says: The second section of No. 78, westbound Tandalia freight, ran into the section ahead, eighteen miles east of Effingham, ,111.

The engineer and fireman of the second section and another man were killed. A relief train was made up hero and sent to their assistance. Starvation Follows Storm. Kingston (Jamaica) special: The destitution in the hurricane district is appalling. Thousands of people are homeless and ill clad and are hurrying to the towns to obtain shelter and supplies, but as all the churches and public buildings have been demolished the misery is intense.

Imperial Army Defeated. Hongkong special: The Chinese Imperial troops hare been defeated by rebels at Hwei-Cbou-Fu, in the southern province of Kwang-Tung. Imperial reinforcements consisting of 3,000 German-drilled troops have arrived at Canton. Pnt to Death. Constantinople special: A court-martial which was held at Monastir, condemned the gendarme, Ualim, to death for the murder of M.

Bostkovski, the Russian consul at Monastir. The sentence was immediately carried out. Mining Town Destroyed. San Bernardino (Cal.) special: Manvel, a mining town on the desert, has been almost destroyed by a cloudburst. Bouses were washed away and one burned when struck by lightning.

A miner named Smith perished. Ate Toadstools and Died, Miss Maude Espy is dead at the summer borne of her father, Major John Espy of St. Paul, having eaten toad stools which she had mistaken for mushrooms. Mrs. Espy was poisoned also but will recover.

A Pennsylvania Wreck. The Pennsylvania "Seashore Limited" ran into an open switch at Van Wert, with fatal results. The engineer was killed and a score of passengers injured, acme fatally. Sixteen Hnrt Near Cincinnati. By the collision of electric cars on thl Cincinnati and Eastern Interurban line between Mount Washington and Bethel, Ohio, two crowded cars were badly damaged and sixteen persons hurt, four very seriously: Banks Effect a Combine.

The stockholders of the First National and the Coal and Iron National banks of Cleveland, at a -joint meeting ratified the proposed consolidation of the two concerns. The capitalization of the combined lianks will be $1,000,000 and the reorganized bank will be known as the First National. 'Woman Steals Her Own Child. Mrs. Arville Turner, armed with a revolver, entered the home of Mrs.

John Taylor at Newport, and carried oft her own 6-year-old child. Mrs. -Taylor fled at sight of the revolver, and Mrs. Turner broke open the screen door, secured tho child, and running to the street escaped in a wagon. Won't Mess with Negro.

A deadlock on the cruiser Columbiz has been in existence at Brooklyn navy yard for several days, because Chief Carpenter's Mate Isaac Miller, negro, insinti an dining with petty officers; Washington sBcIaK may Interfere. MAT BB GENERAL STORE TRUST. A Company Incorporated nt Trenton Has Unusually Broad l'owcrft. There was incorporated iu Trenton, N. the ether day at the office of the Secretary of State what is thought to be a department store trust.

The articles of incorporation were prepared in the office of James B. Dill, the trust solicitor, who procured the charters of the United States Steel Corporation and other great roneerns. The corporate title of the company is "The Cash Buyers' Union First National Co-operative Society," with an authorized capital cf $3,000,000, divided into 500,000 shares of the par value of $10 each. 250,000 thares to lie preferred, carrying a cumulative dividend of 7 per cent. The incorporators are Gerald A.

Griffin, SOO shares; Frank It. Series, 100 shares, and Joseph Gerrardt, 100 shares. These men are clerks in the office of the New Jersey Begistration and Trust Company, East Orange. The objects of the corporation are "to establish, conduct and manage general department stores in every State of the United States and Europe, to manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of merchandise; to manufacture all kinds of raw material into finished products, own, acquire and conduct printing, lithographing, engraving and publish ing business; to construct, own, operate or lease warehouses in every State of the United States and in foreign countries; organize and operate schools of instruction and libraries; to carry on any business of public decorators, sanitary engineers, electrical engineers and contracting in all the branches thereof; gas fitters, coal and wood dealers," and many other kinds of business. GREAT LOSS IN JAMAICA.

Storm Strikes Island, Plantations Devastated and Tele era ph Wires Down. The hurricane, only the fringe of which struck the western end of Jamaica Monday and which, it was thought, had passed, veered to the south early the following morning, instead of proceeding to the northwest, and struck Jamaica with full force, inflicting damage which it will take years to repair. Owing to the interruption of telegraphic communication it is impossible to estimate the amount of the losses, but they must reach mill-Ions of dollars. Every banana plantation in the eastern half of the island has been devastated. The situation in the western half is unknown.

Considerable damage was done to property in Kingston and its suburbs. The roof of the electric light plant was blown off and the machinery was disabled. Railroad traffic was interrupted and street cars were stopped. Many bouses were damaged by falling trees. No loss of life is reported.

NEAR GOING TO THE BOTTOM. Lake Passenger Steamer Is Beached to Keep Her from With the seventy-five passengers on board in ignorance of their peril, water rushed into -the hold of the steamer Enterprise, says a dispatch from Ottawa, until the fires under the boilers were extinguished. While the other officers were engaged in keeping the people on board from knowing the condition of the boat the captain changed his course to the nearest shore. The engineers by heroic efforts managed to keep enough steam in the boilers to keep the steamer under headway until shallow water was reached, and not until the lurch of the vessel told that her bow had struck the beach did the passengers know that anything was wrong. GIRL SLAVE IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

fold in Infancy to Ranchman, She la Rescued After Fifteen Year. A slave for fifteen of her seventeen years, Louise Haby has escaped and taken refuge in Chicago. The girl was told to a South Dakota ranchman for $25 when 2 years old, it is said. Her existence has been one of horror. Without friends or education, she was made to work on.

the ranch until a few days ago, when her uncle, John Mayer of Chicago, discovered her plight and formed a posse of neighbors, rescuing her and taking her to his house. Carrie Nation Wins Her Case. Carrie Nation's summary conviction for selling hatchets In violation of a city ordinance was declared illegal by Judge Newcomb at Scranton, when her application for a writ of habeas corpus came before him. The writ was sustained on the ground that the magistrate's record was defective. Mrs.

Nation's counsel will bring suit against the city for $50,000 damages for false arrest and imprisonment. Chicago Boy la Missing. The Omaha police are looking for Bordsall Ayres, aged 12 years, of Chicago, who has disappeared from Florence, a suburb of Omaha, where he had been for several weeks visiting an aunt. Several days ago the father of young Ayres came from Chicago to accompany the boy home and when he arrived nt Florence he found that his sou and another boy had run away. Tornado Hita Mines.

A tomado passed through the thickly populated mining district north and east of Pittsburg, destroying hundreds of houses, mine tipples and buildings of every description, and converting fcito ruin a -strip of thickly populated territory eight miles long and two miles wide, and leaving death and desolation in its wake. At least two persons were killed and fully sixty injured in the storm. Afraid of American Coins. The effort of the United States government to introduce its new currency into the Philippine Islands has not met with the success that was anticipated. Although a large quantity of the coins minted at San Francisco have reached the islands there is considerable prejudice against their use, especially in the provinces.

Cuta Off Children's Heads. Lizzie Aiken, a negro woman, 40 years old, was committed to jail at Columbia, S. for beheading her two daughters, 3 and 5 years old. The heads were severed with an ax and she threw them into a fire. The woman admitted the crime, saying she had -received a message from God ordering it Bnildins Operations Paralyzed.

Building operations in Chicago are paralyzed because of contractors' pools and the heavy cost of labor and material. The Union League has abandoned its plans to erect a new club house, and other persons who had proposed to erect buildings have decided to wait for more auspicious conditions. Omaha Man Is Miss inc. Carl W. Von Bichtofen, a partner in a bird store in Omaha, is missing and he is believed to have been robbed of $0,000 and killed.

The other day he received the money by express from an estate loft in Germany. He did not return home as usual that night and has ot been heard from since. Stockholders Want a Receiver. Suit has been commenced bystockhold-ers of the Standard Motive Power Com pany of Canal Dover, Ohio, to put the company in the hands of a receiver. The company is capitalized at 510,000,000 and the action is owing to alleged misrepresentation by Manager Blake.

Powder Mill Is Blown Up. The packing house of the Dupont powder mills at Carney's Point, blew up. No one was injured, as there were no employes there at the time. The loss is trifling. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

Fait Fork, O. Demolished. A tornado struck the town of Salt Fork, thirty miles southwest of Black-well, and completely demolished the town, though no one was killed and but one person, a section boss on the 'Frisco Road, seriously injured. Turkish Troops In Real Battle. An engagement near Sorovitcb between Turkish troops and Macedonian insurgents closely" resembled a battle.

Four battalions of Turkish soldiers, supported by several batteries of artillery, attacked 1,700 insurgents, most of whom were Bulgarians and well armed. The Bulgarians, although outnumbered nearly four to one, fought desperately and were only defeated after many had been killed and wounded on both sides. RARE FINDS IN CALIFORNIA. Bones of Extinct Animals in Caves- Indian Traditions Verified. The expedition conducted by Prof.

John O. Mcrriam of the geological department of the University of Califor nia, which explored the caves of Shasta County, has made several finds of inter est to science. Two nsw caves have proved rich in paieontologicnl remains, yielding up bones of animals now extinct and of a species hitherto unknown to scientists. Bones of mountain lions, a bison, a wolf, porcupine, a cave bear and a ground sloth were found, with all the bones of the extinct porcupine, and also an almost complete specimen of a small cave bear. In one of these caves an old tradition had it that an Indian woman wandering about had stumbled into a well, the bottom of which could never be readied.

This well was explored, and at the bottom was found the skeleton of a woman, fairly well preserved, who fell or was thrown into tho well about a hundred years ago. FEVER LEADS TO TRAGEDT. Buffalo Man Kills His Wife and Shoots Ulmseif While Inssne.1 Kent Stow, son of F. D. Stow, general agent of the Merchants' Dispatch and Transportation Company in Buffalo, shot his wife, killing her, and then shot him-self, probably fatally.

Stow had been suffering from malarial fever, but was about again, and the previous day he and his wife were out for a long drive, returning during the evening in good spirits. They had an infant child a year old, which Stow is said to have brought downstairs in the morning and left with his parents. A few minutes later his father heard pistol shots from above, and, rushing upstairs, found his daugh-tcr-in-Iaw dead and his son unconscious. Mr. Stow, believes that his son was suffering from temporary insanity, the result of the fever.

Young Stow is 24 years old. So far as can be learned the Stows never had any domestic trouble. They had been married about two years. ALL TRAINS TO CARRY MAIL. Plan lo Improve Postal Service Trainmen to'Handio Bas.

To improve the mail service all railway trains will be placed directly under the protection of the government if plans made by Postmaster General Payne are carried out. Mr. Payne would make every trainman a government employe empowered to handle mail. Letters and packages would then be sent in a manner similar to that used in distributing newspapers. Mail matter would be taken aboard a train without first being delivered at a postofflce.

It is understood that the railways favor the idea, for it would make every train a mail train, and it would be an offense against the federal government to stop one of them. OHIO BANK CASHIERDI8 VPPEARS Institntion at New Holland Closes I'endine Investisation. The village of New Holland, Ohio, is io an uproar owing to the disappearance of John IC Brown, cashier of the Union Banking Company. Brown closed the bank one night and since that time has not been seen. Every possible effort was made to open the safe, and an expert was cent for from Cincinnati.

Brown has been cashier for twelve years. His mother lives at Pleasant Bidge in Hamilton County, for which point he is supposed to have left. The bank has closed its doors pending an investigation. COLONIZING NEGROES IN WEST. Tacoma Colored Clergyman Settling Race Question in Prsctical Way.

Rev. J. F. Davidson of Tacoma is settling the negro problem in a practical way by organizing a colonization movement among the negroes of. the South.

Ho passed through St Paul the other day with-a party of twentyifive negroes from Louisiana, all of whom will take up lands in Washington. This is the vanguard, Mr. Davidson says, of a considerable of colored people from Southern cities to the farming lands of the West. Three Lives Cruahsd Out. The Cleveland Furnace Company's plant, just completed at a cost of nearly $1,000,000, was the rccne of an accident in which three men's lives were instantly crushed out The three men were inside the stack laying the last course of material when the huge bell at the top of the stack, seventy-five feet aliove where the men were at work, crashed down upon them.

Elinw Removes Cobb. Secretary Shaw has removed Henry Ives Cobb, architect in charge of the Chicago Federal building, and accepted the resignation of two employes who desired to quit the government employment because of dissatisfaction with Cobb's method. A congressional investigation of the affair is expected. Found Ueal in His Room. George A.

Patterson of Detroit, who traveled for George W. Lane tea importers of New York City, was found dead in his room at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis. He was sitting iu a chair, fully dressed, apparently not having retired. His death is attributed to heart failure.

Child at Bottom of Well. Little Ted who disappeared from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kendall, iu Indianapolis, and for whom diligent search was made by neighbors and the entire police force, was found dead in a cistern a few doors from the Kendall home. Priest Will Be Depcasd.

Because he married the divorced wife of a brother clergyman, Rev. George F. Kcttell, assistant rector of Christ Church, one of the fashionable Episcopal churches of Baltimore, has been forced resign from his position and will be deposed from the priesthood. Damaged by Canadian Revenue Cutter. The American fishing tug Silver Spray, of Erie, was fired on and damaged in Lake Erie by the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel while in debatable water near the boundary line.

Complications may ensue. Ghastly River Mystery. The dismembered and headless trunk of a human body has been found floating in the Mississippi river near the dam of the St. Paul Boom Company. It has been in the water so long that it was impossible to identify it.

W. S. Stoue Grand Chief. W. S.

Stone of Elden, Iowa, division. No. 131, lias been elected to fill the unexpired term as grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, made vacant by the deaths of P. M. Arthur and A.

B. "Toungson. Miner KiPed in Feud. At the O'Neill coal mines at Wilson-burg, W. Italian miners attacked American mine employes and one Italian was killed.

Pistols, shotguns aud bowie knives were used. Fatal Explosion in Canning Factory. In an explosion iu a canning factory at Rutland. Ohio, John Mutchlcr, Said Mar and Dele Rawlins Tere killed and a dozen others injured. Twenty Killed in Explosion.

Twenty men were killed by the explosion of an English boiler in the Santa Rita cotton factory in Canetc, Peru. The factory was insured iu native companies. Anarchist Attempts Assassination, A man supposed to be an anarchist attempted to assassinate Premier Combos of France at Marseilhs. CONDITION OF CROPS. GOVERNMENT FIGURES HEAVY DECLINE.

SHOW Wheat and Coarse Grain Crops Much Below Ten Years Average Rye and Buckwheat Molntain a High ConditionPotato and Hay Yield Good. Tho monthly report of the chief of the bureau of statistics of the Department of Agriculture shows the condition of corn on Aug. 1 to have been 78.7, as compared with 79.4 on July 1, 1003; S0.5 on Aug. 1, 1002; 5-1 at the corresponding date in 1001 and a ten-year average of S4.8. The following table shows for each of the twenty principal corn States the condition on Aug.

1 of the last three years and that on July 1, 1003, with tea-year averages: Aug.l, Jnlyl, Aug.l, Aug.l, 10-yr. 1003. 11)03. 1002. 10'Jl.

aver. Illinois 74 78 93 51 87 lows 72 71 93 57 SO Nebraska ..75 73 101 33 79 Kansas G7 73 103 ID 77 Missouri 71 74 100 20 87 Texas 03 33 43 74 Indiana 73 70 07 57 90 Georgia S3 85 7G 81 S9 Tennessee ..83 8'J 73 57 fcl Kentucky ..79 82 53 87 Ohio 73 75 91 73 88 Alabama 98 92 S3 77 84 N. Carolina. S3 82 87 74 91 Arkansas ..80 77 91 37 81 Mississippi .92 94 55 GO 79 Virginia S3 84 84 02 80 8. Carolina.

73 79 82 GO 83 8. Dakota 89 87 S3 03 81 Oklahoma ..71 S3 00 25 GO Tenna 80 81 02 0.2 89 D. 8 78.7 79.4 SG.5 51.0 84.4 Preliminary returns Indicate a winter wheat crop of about 410,000,000 bushels, or an average of 14 bushels per acre, as compared with 13.8 bushels last year. The following table shows the estimated average yield per aero in the twelve principal winter wheat States in 1903 and 1002: 1903. 1902.

Kansas 14.0 S.7 Missouri 8.1 18.2 California 12.8 15.0 Indiana 10.0 15.0 Fanner Sam The durned twister trip. Nebraska Ohio Illinois Pennsylvania Oklahoma Tennessee Michigan United States 16.4 22.0 13.7 16.0 8.4 16.6 15.6 13.0 14.G 11.6 13.4 9.0 7.1 G.6 15.5 17.4 12.4 13.3 The average condition of spring wheat on Aug. 1 was TT.l, as compared with S2.5 last month. 89.7 on Aug. 1, 1902; 50.3 on Aug.

1901, and a ten-year average of S0.2. The following table shows for each of the five principal spring wheat States the condition on Aug. 1 in each of the last three years and that on July 1, 3903, with the ten-year August averages: Aus.l, Julyl, Ang.l, Aug.l, 10-yr. 1903. 1903.

1902. 1901. aver. Minnesota ..77 84 83 83 83 Jf. 69 73 93 93 SO S.

Dakota ..87 86 93 OS 73 Iowa 2 87 SJ 83 80 Washington. 74 80 93 P9 01 U. 8 77.1 82.5 S9.7 8J.3 S0.2 The average condition of the oats crop on Aug. 1 was 79.5, as compared witli 84.3 one month ago, 89.4 on Aug. 1, 1902; 73.C on Aug.

1, 1901, and a ten-year average of 82.0. The following table shows for each of the ten principal oats States the condition on Aug. 1 in each of the last three years and that on July 1, 1903, with tho ten-year averages: Aug.l, Julyl, Ang.l, Aug.l, 10-yr. 1903. 1003.

1902. 1901. aver. Illinois 72 7G SS 73 81 Iowa 73 S3 83 81 84 Wisconsin ..87 90 97 79 SS Minnesota 87 94 89 87 Nebraska 83 90 SO 44 72 Indiana 73 73 9G 73 SO New York fll 87 lOl 79 89 I'cnna 0A 91 97 69 87 Ohio 84 84 90 89 89 Michigan 89 87 93 84 88 U. 8 79.5 84.3 89.4 73.6 S2.C Tho proportion of the oats crop of last year still in the hands of farmers Is estimated at 7.4 per cent, as compared with 4.2 per cent of the crop of 1901 in farmers' hands one year tfgo and 5.9 per cent of the crop of 1900 in farmers' hands two years ago and an eight-year average of 7.4 per cent The average condition of flax on Aug.

1 was 80.3, as compared with 80.2 one month ago. Thj average condition of barley on Aug. 1 was 83.4, against 80.8 one month ago, 00.2 on Aug. 1, 1902, SG.9 at the corresponding date in 1901 and a ten-year average of 83.4. The average condition of spring rye on Aug.

1 was 87.2. as compared with SS.3 one rsouth ago, 90.5 on Aug. 1, 1902, 83.C at tlis corresponding date in 1901 and a ten-yiar average of 85.3. Thi average condition of potatoes on Aug. 1 was 87.2, as compared with 8S.1 one month ago, 94.7 on Aug.

1, 1902, C2.3 at the corresponding day in 1901 nnd a ten-year average of S4.5. The acreage of buckwheat i less than that of last year by shout 500 acres, or .01 p.T cent. The condition of buckwheat on Aug. 1 was 93.9, as compared with 91.4 nn Aug. 1.

1902, 91.1 at the corresponding date in 1901 aud a ten-year average of 89.S. Preliminary returns indicate an Increase of 13 per cent in the hay acreage. The condition of timothy liny on Aug. "1 was 92.2, as compared "with 90 on Aag. 1.

1902, S4.1 at the corresponding date in 1901 and a nine-year 'average of 84.7. Reports as to the production of cloves' indicate that nearly a full crop will be harvested. In part 'bf quality the crop of clover is well up to high medium grads. Trie average condition of tobacco on Aug. 1 was 82.0, as compared with S5.1 one month ago.

The condition of rice on Aug. 1 was 02, compared with P3.5 one month ago. Edward E. Clements, the conductor on the freight train -which collided with a pasrenger train at Vlasaty, resulting in four deaths, is missing and his wife believes his mind has became affected. The automobile and motor works of Clifford Bonneville at New Bocielle, N.

were destroyed by fire. The fire is supposed to have started from an explosion of gasoline. FIRST AMERICAN CARDINAL TO VOTE FOR POPE flSR XT ft fMLm Sb sMbaV 1 V'TMssI atf ffssasW i If KsiVHlBBBBBBBBWAnasBl TBSXBB3B5SifSlE5QeSSSSSSB9BSSBHMwi CANDIDAL GUIDONS. Cardinal Gibbons is the first American cardinal to take part in the election of a Pope, and but for the delicate position he had to occupy during the Spanish-American war, which incurred the hostility of Spanish cardinals, he would probably have been a favorite for the papil crown, iu spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cardinals are Italians. He is a man of such learning, broad Christian spirit and conservative judgment that he is as highly respected on the continent as he is in the United States, where his popularity is great among men of all classes.

The cardinal took a leading part in the conclave held to choose Leo's successor, as he wa3 the representative of the new order of things. AWFUL DISASTER VISITS PARIS. Many Passengers of Underground Railway Lose Their Lives. An awful catastrophe occurred in Paris the other evening on the Metropolitan electric railway, which runs mostly under ground. Three trains were consumed by fire and passengers were burned or suffocated.

The total number of victims is estimated at nearly one hundred. One of the trains broke down at Menil-montant station, which is in a poor and Is going by without touching me this populous section of the city. This train was promptly emptied and the train which followed was ordered to push it to the repairing sheds. On the way these two trains caught fire, but the employes succeeded in escaping. Meanwhile a crowded train reached LesCharonnes, the preceding station, and the officials, seeing smoke pouring out of the tunnel, gave the alarm.

Amid the increasing smoke many attempted to return along the lino toward Belleville, and they were suffocated. The officials teem to have lost their heads and arc unable to say how many passengers went out. The firemen" for several hours were unable to enter the station or the tunnel owing to the dense which poured out in black cloads. Meanwhile tens of thousands of anxious people gathered about the station. All the police and fire authorities were on the spot and the excitement was intense.

Finally the firemen succeeded in flooding the burning mass and shortly afterward they were able to enter the tunnel. glW (OLLEfiES Columbia University in New ox City is to lose Prof. William B. Ware, for the last twenty-two years head oi its school of architecture, and the trustees have voted to make him emeritus professor. Dr.

John Huston Fearey will be ijau-gurated president of the College of the City of New York on Oct. 1, at which ceremony President Roosevelt and former President Cleveland will make addresses. Frof. W. L.

Carlyle of the Wisconsin Agricultural College has accepted the chair of agricultural and animal husbandry at the Colorado State Agricultural College and will assume his new duties in September next. The grammar schools of Chicago send out this year 7.902 graduates, and the high schools 1,200. Of the high school graduates, probably 30 per cent, or 370, will enter college. In 1S9C 21 per cent of the high school graduates entered college; in 1897, 24 per cent; in 1898, 25 per cent; in 1S99, 24 per cent, and in 1900, 28 per cent. Of the grammar school graduates not more than 00 per cent enter the high school, and as a rule not more than 35 per cent of tho'e entering the high school complete the course.

For example, only 3,551 of the 5.5S4 grammar school graduates in June, 1S90, entered the high school in September of the same year. Of those entering only 1,249 graduated four years later. The full term in the public schools from first grade to graduation iu the high school is twelve' years. Not more than 2S per cent of tli05e who enter the primary class remain in school through the eight grades, and not more than 15 per cent of the original class enter high school, and only 9 per cent continue through the second year of high fchool. In other words, half the children entering the public schools leave the clases at the fifth grade and only one in every seven enters the high school.

The conclusion is that fully one-half the pupils in the public school drop out at 12 or 13 years of age, with only an eleraentary education. Chicago Jnter Ocean. It is probably not generally known that the United States spends annually on elementary education about tlic exact figures for 1900-1901 were, according to the report of the United States commissioner of "education, 220,043,230. Europe spent during the same period approximately The enrollment in the elementary schools of Europe is, however, in ihe neighborhood of 45,000,000, while in the United States it is not much mort than 10,000,000, although it is eetjmat ed that there were in 1901 almost 22. 000,000 childrea of school-goingf age in this country.

Our yearly expenditure pc-i pupil averages PIUS X. IS CE0WNED. GREAT CROWD IN ST. PETER'S TO WITNE8S CEREMONY. Qorsjeous Spectacle iHever to Be For Cotten Fiftyseven Yesrs Since Similar Function Many Faint In the Crush Memorable Day in Bmc.

The ceremony of the coronation of Pope Pins X. took place Sunday in the basilica of St. Peter's, Rome, iu the presence of the princes and high dignitaries of the church, diplomats nud Romau nobles, and with all the solemnity and splendor associated with this, the most magnificent rite in the Roman Catholic Church. As Cardinal Macchi, the dean of the cardinal-deacons, placed the triple crown on the head of the venerable pontiff, the throng of 70,000 persons gathered within the cathedral burst Into unrestrained acclamations, the choir intoned a hymn of triumph and the bells of Rome rung out a joyful peal. It is fifty-seven years since the Romans and Europe assisted at such a function as was held in St.

Peter's Sunday. The great basilica, popularly supposed never tn have been quite full, was overflowing with humanity. The papal throne, a bewildering mixture of gold, red and silver, was erected iu front of the high altar. Contrary to custom on these ceremonious occasions, there were no galleries, and the basilica consequently bore more of its normal aspect. On the altar, which was dressed in white, stood the famous silver gilt candlesticks and a magnificent crucifix.

When the doors were opened thn inrush was terrific; many who started from the bottom of the steps outside were lifted oft their feet and carried Into the cathedral. It was a great human torrent let loose, thousands of people rushing, crushing and squeezing amid screams, protests, gesticnlations and cries for help. But once in the whirlpool there was no escape and the compactness of the crowd proved to be the safety of those caught in it Inside the Vatican palace there was movement nnd bustle as the papal procession, composed of about 500 persons, all of whom had gathered early In the apostolic palaces, was formed. Tho procession was a long time getting under way, but afterward, as it moved through the magnificent halls and corridors of the Vatican, it recalled forurtr days, when all was color and pictnresqucnecs within the palace. Pope the Central Flcure.

The central figure in the long cortege was Pius X. borne in the scdia gestato ria. Ills heavy white robes and the red and gold miter were worn without nn effort, making a vivid contrast to those memorable occasions on which Pope Leo XIII. wore them, for Leo seemed always unable to support their weight. Over the pontiff's head a canopy was hold by eight men, while the historic feather fans with peacock tips gave a touch of barbaric splendor to western eyes.

Surrounding Pope Pius were the noble guard in new red uniforms and gleaming helmets and carrying drawn swords, while in front marched the cardinals, a gorgeous bit of color with many handsome faces among them, the cardinal-bishops in their capes, the cardinal-priests, wearing chasubles and the cardinal-deacons in their dclmatics. The cathedral was illumined with twinkling lights, while the marble columns and walls rendered the color scheme more vivid. Overhead was the most magnificent dome in the world, up to which floated the harmony of the music. From the throne Pins surrounded by his suite, walked to the high altar standing over the crypt of St Peter, into which meanwhile Cardinal Macchi descended to pray. The altar was surmounted by a baldacchino supported by four historic "bronze pillars taken from the Parthenon.

The appearance of the Pipe in that elevated position called forth another burst of enthusiasm. The Pope then blessed the altar, and after saying the "indulgcntiam" the maniple, a sym bol of tho cord with which Christ was bound on His capture, was placed, with great ceremony, upon the Pope's arm. At the same time prayers for the coronation were recited by Cardinals Vannutelli, Mocenni, Agliardi and Satolli. Returning from tho crypt, Cardinal Macchi plac ed upon the shoulders of the Pope the pontifical pallium and attached it with three golden jeweled pins. Mass was then celebrated with great pomp and ceremony, the voice of the Pope becoming gradually more firm and sonorons until it was even audible in the most distant corner of the immense church.

Following this Cardinal Macchi performed the rite of Incensing the Pope, whom he subsequently kissed three times on the checks nnd chest, as did Cardinals Segna and Vannntelli. Tho whole sacred college gathered about the Pope, ringing Palestriaa's "Co rona Aurea Super Caput while the choir burst forth into song. Cardinal Macchi then recited the "Pater Noster Kostcr" and offered prayer. Placed the Crowe. Cardinal Deacon Sagna then raised the pontiffs mitre, and Senior Cardinal Deacon Macchi placed on the venerable white head the triple crowu.

At this moment the church was filled with tho ringing of bells, the blowing of silver trumpets, the triumphant strains of the choir and the acclamations of the multitude which could no longer be repressed. When comparative silence had been restored Cardinal Macchi addressed the Tope in Latin as follows: "Receive the tiara ornamented with three crowns. Remember thou art the father of princes nnd kings, the rector of the world, the vicar ou earth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, who is tha honor and glory of all countries." "Amen," burst forth from the concourse. When the ceremony was over all the exits to the basilica were opened, and within less than an hour tho vast cathedral was emrty. Brief News Items.

Charles Horan fell down a co.il shaft, Wilkesbarre, and was killed. Rev. J. Ij. Alsworth, Cape Girardeau, drowned while bathing In the Mississippi.

A tramp at Napoleon, Ohio, cut off Miss Dora Zertanna's hair because she refused him a meal, no also stole her earrings. W. E. Brubaker, recently of Topeka, fell from a bridge at El Paso, Texas, while trying to ridp across on his bicycle and his neck was broken on the rocks at the bottom of the canyon. While at work twenty feet above ground in Guthrie, O.

It. S. Bland, a lineman for the Arkansas Valley Tele-phono Company, touched a live wire with his back and was instantly kiilcl. The citizens of Pcruvillc. a village ten miles from Ithaca, N.

adniinislcri-d a coat of tar and feathers to Theodore Underwood, who a year ago was tried in Ithaca for the murder of J. E. Tcctcr. It is reported that Underwood drove his wife and three children from home. Secretary Moody intends that exhaustive experiments shall be made with all the submarine boats that the government has on its hands as soon as the summer maneuvers are over.

If not found satisfactory bo will recommend to Congress that no more money be appropriated for this class of craft Senator George F. Hoar, Secretary of the Navy W. H. Moody, Gov. J.

L. Bates, Lieut. Gov. Curtis Guild, Mayor E. F.

Fletcher and Dr. Gustav Andrews of Augustana College were among tho speakers at the celebration at Worcester, of the one hundredth anniversary' of the birth of John Ericcson, designer of the monitor. WILL RESIGN FROM CABINET TO SIT ON ALASKAN COMMISSKMti EL1HU BOOT. Elihn Root, who, it is given out, will resign from the secretaryship of war before he sails for London to sit on the Alaskan commission, has been a member of the cabinet since Aug. 1, 1699, when President McKinley appointed him in succession to Gen.

Alger. Mr. Root by many is considered one of the greatest lawyers in the country and thoroughly qualified for the work he Is to do In London. From 1867 until he entered the cabinet he was practitioner of law In New York. The Secretary was reappointed to his present cabinet position in March, 1001.

Mrs. Root has been desirous for a year and a half that her husband should return to the practice of law, as he made a considerable sacrifica when he succeeded Secretary Alger in 1899, for he practically abandoned his law practice. Mrs. Root never was fond of Washington society, and she felt that her husband should follow his profession for a few years before retiring. That Gov.

Taft will be Mr. Root's successor as Secretary of War, a Washington correspondent flays, there can be little or no doubt. He is familiar with many of the problems which the Secretary of War will have to meet and solve; he is a warm personal friend of the President, who has an abiding confidence In his ability and patriotism, and it la under-1; stood that he would welcome the change involved. Of course, his appointment as Secretary of War would necessitate the appointment of a new president of the Philippine commission. In all probability Gen.

Luke -Wright would succeed to the presidency of the commission, his work as a member of that body having been eminently satisfactory to the administration. TO CHECK DIVORCE. Union of Clersymen to Btein Our Rapidly Growing Natlanal EvlL More than 500,000 divorces have been granted in tha United States during the past twenty years, according to. Rev. William O'Brien Pardow, formerly Jesuit provincial of New York and president of St.

Francis Xavier College. He ejti-mates that 1,500,000 American children have seen their home ties broken np. The number of persons divorced would populate the State of Nebraska, or the city of Philadelphia. It is greater than the population of each of twenty-five States and territories of the Union. To remedy, or to try to remedy, this awful state of things, there is to be a union of the clergy of all denominations Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Methodist and many others.

Already a sub-committee has been formed. It Is to be a syndicate of churches of different beliefs, working side by side. It is to be a union of courtesy, not of law. civil or ecclesiastical. Briefly, when a clergyman of any church, whatever the denomination, refuses to marry a divorced person, clergymen in all other churches in the syndicate will by courte sy respect his action and likewise refuse to perform the Father Pardow makes a statement to the world, in the course of which he says: "Iu these days of modern civilization, we glory in the horseless carriage, smokeless powder and wireless telegraphy; soon we will be coming to the motherlcsrcSIId and the childless mother.

More than 500.000 divorces have been granted In Us United Stitcs during the last twenty years. Think cf the homes broken np. the children whose parents are the untold misery that such a state of affairs brings about! 'There are to day in this land probably as many as 1,500,000 children who have not what we call a real home not the home In which father and mother unite to bring up their children as God willed them to do. "In 1SS9, by authority of Congress, the United States commissioner of labor was ordered to report upon marriage and divorce in the United States for the twenty years from 1867 to 18S6 inclusive. He round that iu that time there had been granted 32S.71G divorces 637,432 people had severed the marriage tie.

"All we can say in estimating figures for the last twenty years is that the ratio is increasing every year, and that since those figures were compiled more than a round half million of divorces have been added to the number. This no mere speculation. The figures, 32S.7JC. were upon an estimated popu-lition of 50,000,000. With our present population of 80,000,000, the estimate of 500.000 divorces is little enough.

"During the same period in Europe, with its population of the number of divorces has been only With a population five times greater than the United States there have been less than one-half the number of divorces. "The religions penalty seems not to have the power of restraining from divorce. There remains now the question of social ostraci-im. If people in high life frown upon divorce and make it a social reproach, those who fsar such cen sure would be less liable to kick over the traces. Let society men and women subject the remarried divorced people to social ostracism, and sn almost universal alleviation of this curse would be secured." All Around the Globe.

W. Gates is said to have been made rich somo more by oil wells in Texas. The boiler of a threshing engine exploded at Brockton. instantly killing two men. There is said to be movement ou foot to erect a statue of the late Queen Victoria in Washington.

It is understood tfiat Gov. Hunt of Porto Rico has indicated his intention of relinquishing the island governorship, nis salary is SS.000 a year nnd his term of appointment, i four years. While continuing a debate begun in a country store near Reading, William Stamni, aged 4S. nnd Alfred Richards, aged 25, were killed by a train on the Philadelphia nnd Reading Railroad near Rickenbach station. Florence Westfall, aged 14 years, committed suicide at her home in Pittsburg, by shooting herself in the right temple with a 31-caliber revolver.

Her mother had reprimanded her only a few minutes liefore and the girl stepped into another room and killed herself. Internal revenue officers found in the center of Philadelphia a complete outfit for distilling whisky. Moses Silberstein was arrested as the alleged proprietor of the illicit still. Frederick W. Holls, secretary of the American delegation to The Hague peace conference and more recently a member of the interuational court died suddenly at his home at Yonkers, N.

Y. W. E. Ashton, describing himself as an American journalist and author, who was rrcsted in London, England, last month en the charge of forging checks' for in the name of Laird, Schulcs Co. of Philadelphia, has been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.

I "Trade advices from nB IOrlL nearly every sectidn cou- I tinue to show as favorable conditions as a year ago, and in many lines the volume of transactions has been Increased. Jobbers report fall business opening with excellent prospects, and manufacturing plants are well occupied, with the exception of the cotton mills. Distribution of merchandise is so heavy that railway equipment already proves inadequate, although crops are not the factor that they will be in a few weeks. Earnings for July exceeded last year's by 12.7 per cent and those of 1901 by 20.2 per cent," according to R. G.

Dun Weekly Review of Trade. Continuing, the report says: On the whole, news from the farms is less favorable, but no serious curtailment is assured, and many sections made very bright reports. A decline of 1.5 per cent in the cost of commodities during July is evidence that prices are less Inflated, flnce the change was mainly in meats and other food, which have been ruling at an abnormal position. Consumption of iron and steel is on a large scale, and In many departments the. last week has witnessed the signing of numerous contracts, but there is a tendency to.

delay purchases beyond early needs. This conservatism is not surprising In view of the uncertainty regarding the security and financial markets, together with considerable Interruption to structural work through labor controversies. The rate of consumption and the moderate size of orders, however, indicate that stocks are running low, which encourages furnace men and mill operators to hold quotations fairly steady. A' moderate tonnage of pig iron has been ordered, and in partly finished products the best feature just now is the bidding of agricultural implement makers. More pig Iron was imported during July than anticipated, and German billets are still offered at Pittsburg, but the domestic makers announce their intention of meeting foreign competition.

There Is less pressure for tin plates, the peculiar weather extending the canning season and giving more time for delivery of cans. There is full occupation in ail branchi of this industry, and in merchant pipe also the mills have. full order books for many months. No change is. noticed in the attitude of cotton goods.

Buyers appear determined to postpone bnsinefs until the read- justment of prices for raw material. Owing to the gradual reduction in mill stocks there is a similar disposition to delay undertaking new contracts, and the result Is further addicted to idle machinery. In view of comparative steadiness of retail prices and the activity in dry goods trading at many points, it is evident that stocks in other than first hands were larger than was believed when the speculative advance began. Although jobbers report bright prospects for fall trade. It is remarkable that they make so little effort to secure forward deliveries.

Irregular distribution of orders is reported in woolens, tome lines being withdrawn, while others make-little progress. An increase in number of buyers is enconragingv and in the aggregate sales are fully up to normal. Healthy conditions continue in footwear, some grades advancing in price, while New England shops are not able to accept orders for delivery in several months. There were ITS commercial failures this week in the United States, against 190 last week, 191 the preceding week and 196 the corresponding week of last year, and in Canada 19, against 19 last week, 19 the preceding week and 14 last year. Bradatreet'a Trade Review.

Summed np hi a sentence, it may be said that the past in trade and industry is satisfactorily secured, while the future, despite rome mainly sentimental drawbacks, is highly promising. Divided geographically, it is to be noted that the East feels the effect of speculative liquidation, and the dulling effects on manufacturing of high prices of raw material or of strikes, while the West and South contemplate the prospects of good yields of staple crops and remunerative prices for theFame with confidence, and even optimism. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending Aug. 0 aggregate 3,040,620 bushels, against 3,191,442 last week. this week last year.

8331.199 in 1901 and 3,318,760 iu 1900. For five weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 15,047,253 bushels, against 20,793.203 in 1902, 32507,145 in 1901 and 14,868,797 in 1900. Com exports for the week aggregate 884.428 bushels, against 928,839 last week. 70,011 a year ago, 990,714 in 1901 and 2.890,754 in 1900. For five weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 6,242,093 bushels, against 494,437 in 1902.

7,224,413 in 1901 and in 1900. rs HflQCfcZw Chicago Cattle, common to" prime, $3.00 to hogs, shipping grades. fL50 to sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; com.

No. 2, 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2, 33c to 35c; rye. No.

2, 51c to 52c; hay. timothy, $8.50 to prairie, $0.00 to butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c: eggs, fresh, lie to 14c; potatoes, new, 50c to 62c per bushel. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3UX) to hogs, choice light, $4.00 to sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $3-00; wheat. No.

2, 76c to 77c; corn. No, 2 white, 152c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white. 34c to 35c. St.

Louis Cattle, $4.50 to hogs, J4.50 to sheep, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2, 79e to 80c: corn. No. 2, 47c to 48c; oats. No.

2. 31c to 33c; rye. No. 2, 52c to 53e. Cincinnati Cattle.

$4.25 to bop. $4.00 to sheep, $3.00 to J3.50: wheat. No. 2, 79c to SOo; corn. Nc.

2 mixed, 52c to 53c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; rye. No. 2, 56c to 57c.

Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to hogs, J4.00 to sheep, $2.50 to $3.25: wheat. No. 2, 79c to 81c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 53c to 54c; oats.

No. 3 white, S4e to 36c: rye. No. 2, 52c to 53c. Milwaukee Wheat, No.

2 noithem, B2c to 93c; corn. No. 3, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white. 37c to 38c; rye.

No. 1, 51c to 53c; barley, No. 2, 59c to 00c; pork, mess, $13.27. New York Cattle. $4.00 to hogs.

$4.00 to $6.00: sheep, $3.00 to J3.50: wheat. No. 2 red. 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2.

5Sc to 59c; oats, No. 2 white. He to 42c; butter, creamery, ISc to 19c; ggs. western, ISc to 20c. Toledo Wheat.

No. 2 mixed, 79c to 30c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 52c to N'O. 2 mixed.

35e to 30c; rye. No. 2, 52c lo 53c: clover seed, prime. $5.65. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping 4-50 to $5.40: hogs, fair to prime.

$4.00 io sheep, fair to choice. $3.25 to $4-00; Iambs, common to choice, $4.00 to F6.00. A Msdill. I- disDatch savs William Cameron, a merchant, drank sulphuric icid, used in making soda water, and lied in about twenty minutes. It is not intent or not Ho was 38 years old and saves a wite ana three children 3 i i tr pPti' v-jrr.