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SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS

Domestic

It is said that the United States government is considering the ad-

visability of annexing the island ofon account of frequent dis

orders which threaten American interests there

In the mimic warfare off the NewEngland coast four warships attackedFort Wright on Fishers Island and ahard fight The claims tohave put all four warships out of action

In the naval maneuvers in BuzzardsBay the cruiser Brooklyn AdmiralCoghlans flagship ran on a rock andwas injured so that she will probablyhave to go in drydock

Simon Johnson col a burglar was shotand probably fatally wounded by Attorney Charles N Sheldon in ClevelandO as he was escaping from his homeThe sum of 3730 was thrown into thelarge American carried in the la-

bor parade in Chicago The money isfor the miners

Governor Stone of Pennsylvania willcall a special session of theto pass a compulsory arbitrationend the coal strike

William F Howe of the law firm ofHowe Hummel New York died ofheart disease at his home in that cityHe was 75 years old and was for many

rfyears one the leading criminalyers of the New bar

In Queens Borough N Y Jerry Hunter a negro was captured after he hadwounded II policemen and 3 citizensHis wife was seriously wounded Hunter fought to arrest

W Bissell a prominent capi-talist of Detroit received injuries in arunaway of which he died His horseswere frightened an automobile

The report of Special Examiner Mabeyin the Northern Securities case hasbeen filed at Minneapolis It makes amillion words of testimony

Two hundred and thousand pupils were enrolled pn the open-ing day of the pupils schools ofcago

President Roosevelt resumed his tourof New atabout 1235 where he made S speechHe left Burlington at lostopped at Proctor where hedriven through the town and made aspeech

President Mitchell of the UnitedMineworkers a rousing reception-in Philadelphia There were 12000men the parade and 40000 attendedthe President Mitchell made astirring speech

Chicago bitten bybelieved he would be attacked

with hydrophobia He told his family-to away from him locked himselfin a room and the malady quickly deve-loped

Gen Ell Torrance commanderinBrief of the G A R has issued anappeal to his for aid in theerection of a building for Confederateveterans at Mission Creek Ala

The Keystone State Telephone Comand the United Telephone and

Telegraph inPennsylvania will be amal-

gamatedPresident Roosevelt made a trium

journey from New Hampshireinto on a drawnsix horses Enormous crowds greetedHim at Cornish and at Windsor

Robert Edwards while coasting onhis bicycle at Harpers Ferry W Va

with a stubborn steer and wasthrown violently narrowly escapingwith his

Governor Cummins and staff of DesMoines will attend the launching ofthe cruiser Des Moines at QuincyMass September 17

Roosevelt Jr andleft Chicago en route to the North-west on a hunting trip

Alfred D Jones first settler In

Nebraska died at his home in Omahaaged 87 years

Three Italian workingmen employedin a sewer at Schenectady weredrowned

President Roosevelt has been invitedto visit Birmingham Ala

Foreign

Croatian rioters in Agram Hungarypillaged the and residences theServians Captain Witas being the principal of rioters

Ships arc forced to leave the ofBarcelona without discharging theircargoes because of the strike of the docklaborers at that place

Vessels are being sent to the variouspoints of danger on the coast of Mar-tinique to carry off the survivors of the

Pelce eruptionTorrential storms deluged the west

coast of England and Ireland and severefloods was reported at vari-

ousLord Connemars former British un-

der of foreign affairs died athis residence in London

The Emperor Empress of Ger-many and leading empireentered the Polish capital TheGermans received

but the Polish majority ofpeople were cold and no demon-stration

The British Trades Union Congressby a vote to thatthe South African wasThe president of the congress denouncedthe present governments reactionarymeasures

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PRESIDENT IN A COLLISION

Nations Chief Has a Wonderful Escape from Death at Pitts

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A SAD ENDING TO HIS NEW ENGLAND TOUR

Secret Service Agent Craig Killed and the DriverSeriously Crane of flassa

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Pittsfield Mass Special PresidentRoosevelt was the central figure in aropey car accident here in which Wil-liam Craig a Secret Service detective

up his life in his effort to save thenations chief

David Pratt driver of the carriagecontaining the President was

the car was severely injuredThe President was to

ground and cut and bruised about thelace and B CortelyouSecretary to the President was

Crane Governor of and George P

in Congressfrom the First Massachusetts districtescaped with only a few bruises Allthese were in carriage with MrRoosevelt

Under the sunniest of September skiesthe distinguished party was

in a landaudrawn four white horses the reinshandled Pratt the President and hiscompanions from Lenox

carriage was struck squarely behindwere sitting The vehicle was hurled 40feet across the road

Craig was instantly killed and groundunder the of the carinto an unrecognizable mass

The was thrown into the airjnd landed on the right side of his facein the

Mr Cortelyou was thrown out andalmost unconscious

Governor Crane who next to Craigwas the nearest to the immediatetine was thrown out but as previouslystated escaped with only bruins

Pratt was over bodily in the airitruck on his side and was after-ward to have received a dislocation ofthe shoulder besides bruises and cutsHe was taken to the Hospital of theSisters of Mercy

In fs a little hill Itdips into a valley where there was oncet brook this hill runs the tracksjf the suburban trolley line

Along the road had been greatcrowds and on the brow of the hill therehad been marshaled an of cameraenthusiasts because the position offeredi particularly good point vantage At

the tracks swervesharply

the hill came the Presidentscarriage Down the hill too came thecar laden with passengers whowere anxious to reach Clubgrounds before Mr Roosevelts carriage

The car was in charge of EuclidMadden as motorman and Kelley-is conductor

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Then he was nurled through the airmd fell under the car wheels

The car struck the carriage squarely-ust of the box on which satmd Craig

President Roosevelt was hurled intohe air and dropped fairly upon his rightpeek

When the car came crashing down thetill Governor Crane saw themost as soon as did He Jumped-

to his feet and instinctively threwrm in front of the as if heould shield him from the dangerThe crash came the Governor was not

hurt Hs jumped to his feet and saw the

President rising Again he threw hisarm across Roosevelts breast

Steady sir he saidGovernors hair was disheveled

and he wasAll this had happened in less time than

it takes to tell the Pres-idents had rushed to theoverturned and his first thoughtwas for the President Mr Rooseveltand Governor Crane were helped to aneighboring cottage andwere cared

Mr Roosevelts thoughts were allfor Craig whose body then lay on the

in the rear of the car whichhad brought swift death to him

said the PresidentHe walked over and looked at the

of the man who had scarcely beenbeyond sound of his voice since the

rtooseviK took the chair cfthe President

Then his thoughts reverted to thepeople who 1iad been for himHe turned to Mr Cortelyou

We will go on the journeyhe said Just as we have butlet there no cheering

Frederick S was an eye-witness of the accident sayshad gone to the of Howard Hillfor the purpose of securing a photo-graph of the President in his carriage

was near the Howard House whenhe saw the approaching

Mr Clark saw thrownout on the left side and saw the Governor assisted to his feet As thePresident rose to his feet Mr Clarksaw him walk to where the motorman-was standing after leaving the car and

to himPresently the carriage appeared In

a vast crowdhad congregated and when it droveup was the silence of death

was a picture that will not soonbe forgotten those who witnessed itPale covered with dust Iris black-ened from the bruise his cheek swelling visibly Mr Roosevelt rose

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devotion and the love Which heshowed for my children I beg ofthat there be no cheering no

of I thank yojiToni tire bottom of heart for thegreeting which you have given me

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jfititly the people who had come toRjeet him into each others

and knew that the President offlic United States had preached a fu

giant who guarded MrKsevelt with his life and in

msiiiiiKS in the While Housegrounds used lo to little Kermittlia beneath the funny pictures

the greatbig man who loved him could tell him

with the broad humor ofa Scotchman in whom was born a

eart which loved the little childrenffid which quailed never in the face ofhe strongest man

on to Bridgeport and then toBay

WANT MEAT COMBINE

Onrsbidows Evea the Billion Dollar Steel

K Trust Armour at the Head

Ill Special A gigantic

Combination of the packing houses of

to be known as the UnitedStates Packing Company with a pro

capitalization of 500000000 on

j yhich an annual business of from

7Sooooooo to tocoooooco will be transacted at a net profit of from 75 000000-

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j These are some of the details comingtj the surface in Eastern financial circlesdf the most farreaching of all the trustsiet projected

tive denials from Armour Swift andother interests the combine is

as a certainty It overshadows-the United Steel Corporation

It is understood that the basisment by the new trust to be known asthe United States Packing Company forthe corporations and firms it is towill be twentyfive times the earningsfor the year The earnings aggregated over seventeen millions of dollars

The division of capital amongthe principal interests in the 500000000

is as followsArmour 2ooooofxc

Swift Company 100000000 NelsonMorris Cudahy2cooooo Schwarzschild Sulzber

ger Company 35000060 othersStates 50000000 miscel-

laneous expenses including cost of promotion etc 25000000 Total son000000

T Ogden Armour is to be chairman-of the finance committee and head thefinancial departmer and if his healthwill F Swift is to bepresident The full list of oncers

board of directors J OgdenArmour president G F Swi treavrer general mansgsr

department Edwardchairman committee J Oglftr-Armour

Due to Action ol American Trusts

London By Cable Dear meatdue more to the action of certain Ameri-

can trusts than to the closing of theports against cattle is what the presi-dent of the Board of Agriculture RW told awhich he addressed at Shrewsburywhen defending the action theof Agriculture in prohibiting the impor

of stock Ministcialso expressed his approval recent

bases of and said hwould not have been sorry if a furtherduty had been placed on flour explaining that while raise theof the food of the half a centit would revive the milling industry ofthe country

Across Continent In a Dfllloon

Denver Special fli Glory onof the largest balloons ever constructedwas successfully started from this cityon a trip the purpose of which is tobreak the distance record-as well as all previous records for fastballoon sailing It is expected ulti-

mately to New The bal-

loon contains 140000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas and was built especially forthis The occupants the balloon are Capts and PercyHudson aeronauts

Ask Impeachment of Cubes Official

Havana Special The MunicipalCouncil of Havana passed almost

a resolution asking the House f

Representatives to impeach the sceneManuel Luciano

Diaz for granting a concession for thelectric Havana on the groundthat the act of the was unconititutional as the granting of municipalconcessions is ofMunicipal Council only It is thoughthat the of Representatives back

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NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS

Growth of the Nation

A moving picture of conditions inUnited States at decennial intervals from1800 to 1850 and annually from 1850

to 1902 is presented in ajust issued by the Treasury Bureau olStatistics

The area has grown from 827844square miles in 1800 tomiles in exclusive of Alaska andthe islands to the UnitedStates The population per square milewhich was 36 1810 was 261 in 1902The total wealth has from7000000000 in 1850 to an estimated94000000000 in and the per

capita wealth from 307 in 1850 toin

In 1800 the public debt was 15capita in 1840 it had fallen to 21 centsper capita in 1852 it wa 267capita in 1861 before the beginning-of the war 274 and thenrapidly until it became 7698 per capitain 1866 gradually again afterthe war is in 1902 Themoney In circulation amounted to 1385 per capita in 1860 and in 1902 2840

has ever reachedDeposits in savings banks

1138576 1820 and 2597094580-in Igor The individual deposits in national banks have grown from 500910

1865 to in 1902The number of farms increased from

in 1850 to 5739657 in 1900the value of farms and farm propertyfrom 4000000000 to 20000000000and value of their product whichwas not measured until 1870 grew from

1958000000 in that year to000 in 1900 The value of farm animalsincreased from 544000000 in 1850 to2081000000 in 1900The value of the of the man

ufacturing industries grew from 1000000000 in 1850 to 13000000000 ini9oo the number of peopletherein grew from than 1000000to 6 50000

Civil Service ReportThe annual report of the Civil Ser-

vice Commission has been made public-It opens with the statement that 47075persons were examined during the yearof whom 21028 were examined for thedepartment service The service doesnot include merely the departments atWashington but all the federal classifiedservices outside of Washington withthe exception of the Postal Customs

and GovernmentPrinting services Thus the railwayand Indian services aite divisions of thedepartmental Services Nearly 21000persons were examined for the Postoffice Service or a little over a thou-sand less than the number examinedfor the departmental service About69 per cent or 33739 of those takingexaminations passed and 14959 failedCompared the previous thisrepresented an increase 2112 thenumber of persons examined a decreaseof in the number who andan increase of 3140 in the number whofailed

The total number of persons receiv-ing appointment Philip-pine service and the municipal

District of ofwhich is subject to the provisions of thecivil act was 9870

In the entire executive service of thegovernment there are in round num-bers 235000 places of which numberabout 121000 are classified Of the114000 remaining unclassified 72498are of fourthclass postmastersThe annual expenditure for salaries forthe entire executive service is statedto be about 130000000 and of thus85000000 or nearly twothirds goesto salaries for positions subject to thecivil service rules

Ruling Upon Civil Service Law

President Roosevelt has made a ruling upon the civil service law whichapparently disposes of the case of MissRebecca J Taylor who is testing incourt the right of the Secretary of Warto discharge her

The Presidents ruling which hasbeen pomulgated by the Civil ServiceCommission as one of its own rules is

For the of allmisunderstandings and improper construction of saiddeclared that the term just cause asused in Section 8 Civil Service Rule 2is intended to mean cause otherthan one merely political orwhich promote the efficiency ofthe service and nothing insaid rule shall be construed tothe examination of witnesses ortrial or hearing except in the discre-tion of the the removal

Since the President is the fountainhead of the civil service rules this dec

has the force of a lawand is of equal force and effect with allother

Woman Peculiar Death

Hanover Pa plant-ing flowers the grave of sonseveral weeks ago Mrs Edward Baumgardner 55 old of Marburg tliiscounty slightly injured with-a rusty trowel she was using Bloodpoisoning developed and death resulted

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SET FIRE TO TIlE

Strikers Apply the Torch After Desperate

Battle With Guards

VOLLEY AFTER VOLLEY EXCHANGED

Fighting Between the Guards and the Miners

After the Firing ot the Pocahontas Mines

Situation Strikers Enraged

Because Several 01 their Number Were

Injured

Bluefieid W Va Special Thewest mine of the Southwest Colliery atPocahontas was set on fire by strikersThey broke the lock on the door olthe Bcartown entrance and carried ina lot of old lumber to a point aboutzoo feet from the entrance

The flames had gained considerableheadway when the alarm was given and

work of extinguishing them wasextremely

was entertained that if theflames were not soon extinguished thatthe accumulation of gas causean explosion-

A late report says that the fire companies while rushing to the scene olthe fire were shot at several times fromambush strikers The strikers arestill in the woods and an effort will bemade to arrest them

Guards and Strikers Exchange Volleys

Bramwell W Va Special Til-great mines of the Pocahontas Col-lieries Company are on fire Strikersapplied torch to various portionof the mine near the west entrancewhich is on the Virginia side and themine is now said to be burning furi-ously

The guards and strikers fired volleyafter volley at each other but athour is not known whether anyonewas killed

Officials of the PocahontasCompany claim that the fire In their

is practically under concrol and they apprehend but little moredamage

Three strikers are reported injuredthe result of the conflict withsoon after the fire was discovered

The iltlne in which the fire is inis known as the Baby Mine and

is the same one in which 20 miners andi number of officials lost their lives several months ago and the same where

miners lost their lives a dozen yeanago It is the largest on the line othe Norfolk and Western Railroad and

four main entrancesEvery entrance is now being hcavil

guarded Mine officials expect the gov-ernors of both Virginia and

to comply with their request forroops

TEXAS WHEAT YIELDS FOR

Crop Estimated at 8000009 Bushels SameQuantity of Oats

Austin Texas Special The following estimate of the grain yield of Texashis year has been issued by H B Dorley secretary of the Texas Grain DealIrs Association There are about

oooooo bushels of wheat in Texas thisrear and about the same quantity of

As to corn there is no whichi reasonably accurate estimate can benade However the crop this year isighter than it was last No oatsmere exported except for seed purposes

toast Something like 2000000 bushel-sf Texas oats were shipped last yearInd the same amount

Labor lIsa Its Day

Washington Special The annualcelebration of Labor Day was observed-in 33 States and in the District ofColumbia today Three other StatesLouisiana North Carolina and Pennsyl-vania set aside other for honors

to labor In Louisiana Novemberis observed as Labor Day in North

the first in Septemxr is the day and in Pennsylvania

Saturday in

Trolley Line Across Cuba

Cleveland O project-o build an electric street railway in

and a trolley line across theof Cuba was assured at a meeting

in this city by capitalists chieflynterested In the enterprise Denison

Co of city W H Park-f Youngstown and Geo F Penhalef New York are the projectors Theompany is at 1000000

of the company have notet been announced

Girl Commits Suicide

Meyersdalc Pa Special MissBrunton aged i8 years persuaded

girl companion to take a walk wither to a large tree about a quarter ofmile east of town where she suddenly

roduced a bottle of andrained the contents Her companion

for assistance but Bruntonied before a physician or her father

reach the scene No motive hasdiscovered

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