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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-03
Drought In the soutb.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 2.-The contin-
ued drought which prevails over the
southeastern states has severely dam
aged the crops throughout the cotton
belt. Corn especially has suffered.
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CHRISTIANIA, Norway, July g.
A disastrous fire has been raging at the
port of Laurvik, in the province of
Jarlsberg. One-quarter of the business
section of the port has been DESTROYED.
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New York Society Men.

New York society men are now wear
ing silk vests, but, says the Chicago
Record-Herald, we hasten to give them
credit for having thus far held out
against the hustle.
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Feminine Charity.

81 just dote on rainy days" said the
lemon-haired girl with the dreamy
eyes.
Doubtless | would too" replied the
angular maid, were l compelled to
wear my last summers clothes."-
Chicago Daily News.
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why He Went Away.

Mrs. Crawford-Are you going to
clean house while your husband is
away?
Mrs. Crabshaw-Certainly. That's
why he went away.-Town Topics.
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The One Slight Boast,

Old Mount Pelee was joking
In spite of our regrets.
Quoth he: although I'm smoking,
| don't smoke cigarettes"
Washington Star.
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Not Like Other sports.

"I'll bet the tide thinks itself heavy
sport"
"Why?"
Because it comes in every night
with long green roll."-Yale Record.
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she has bright future before him."
81 doubt if he ever catches up to it,"
IN. Y. Journal.
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A seis-Constituted MonopoIis,

That wisdom is the truest wealth
Is an assertion Just.
The egotist imagines he
Has organized trust.
washington Star.
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"Yes, had that put up in large let
ters so that he who runs may read.'
"Or, rather, he who reads may
run!"-N. Y. journal.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
For Three New States.

The House Committee OH Territories
favorably reported a bill providing
Statehood for the Territories of Okla
homa, New Mexico and Arizona.
It is the intention of the members OF
This committee, when the bill is consld-
cred in the House, to change the name
ot the Territory of New Mexico. Ihis
IS not provided for in the bill, but an
amendment will be offered TO that effect.
Representative William S. Knox, chair
man of the committee, is among those
who believe that the name should be
changed. IIe does not think that any
State in the Union should bear name
identified with that of any Latin country
upon the Western Hemisphere Several
suggestions have been made regarding a
new name but none has yet been agreed
upon Among the names mentioned are
'Montezuma" and Lincoln" The lat
ter tavorably impresses many members
ot the committee.
The bill will embrace the three Ter
ritorles, taking the place of separate
bill for each.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
New Chinese legation Home.

The Chinese Imperial Government will
have legation building of its own in
Washington.
Before Minister WI Ting-fang was
accredited to this country the legation
occupied a massive brownstone building
on Columbia Heights The present Min
lster'S taste ran to white stone and look
ing around for a residence he obtained
the beautiful and massive stone structure
It the southeast corner of Eighteenth and
2 streets Deeds were placed on record
conveying property at the northeast cor
ner of Nineteenth street extended and
Vernon avenue from Julia 7. Peck and
A. M. Ely to the Chinese Government
Tor a legation site. The price paid was
1880.
There recently has been a boom among
legations in this direction. The French
Government bought one of the finest
pieces of property in the city for new
embassy and plans for the building are
2ow being prepared in Paris by one OF
the national architects. For a while there
was talk of other legations clubbing to-
gether and building separate buildings
upon an entire block.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
THE TITLE TO THE
PANAMA CANAL
Senator MOrgan's Report Attacks the
French cOmr=sy.
BOLD CHARGES OF FRAUD MADE.
The Minority Of the Senate Committee Says
Every Link In the Chain Of Its Title and
Every Step 10 the Course by Which 1t Be-
came In Position to Sell It's Property Free
and Clear Is Plain and Satisfactory.

Washington, D. c., (SpeciaD .-Sena-
tor Morgan, from the Committee on
Isthmian Canals, presented to the Senate
the majority and minority reports OF that
committee on the question of the validity
of the title of the new Panama Canal
Company and its right to transfer the
Panama Canal property to the United
States for $4o,ooo,ooo.
The objections of the majority to the
title held by that company are based
largely on the relations OF the canal
company to the Governments of France
and Colombia, but the committee also
discusses at length many other phases OF
the question. Among these is the rela-
ton of the shareholders. who subscribed
$26o,ooo 900 to the old Panama Com
pany, whose interests, the report holds
cannot be lightly regarded. On this point
the report says:
The spectacle Of the United States
Congress authorizing the President, as
the agent of our government, to conduct
a trade with such a corporation (the
new Panama Company without consult
ing France as to the claim of independ-
ence, the Panama Company asserts will
be entirely new in the history of nations,
and its consequences cannot be lightly
disregarded.
Among these is the serious danger
of the United States being drawn into
disagreeable relations with a large and
influential body of the worthy people of
France, whose friendship for Us has been
cherished during the entire life of our
republic. Unfortunately the report of
the Isthmian Canal Commission reveals
the fact that the men who make lis this
offer are chief among those who defraud-
ed these 6oo,ooo or 100000 Frenchmen
of S2so.oooooo"
Speaking further of the obligations of
the new company to the old, the majority
say:
IF Mr.. Eifell and his associates get
$4o,ooo,ooo from the American people, it
is well that they are sheltered from the
claims of these defrauded and desOoiled
bondholders and stockholders by the al
legged despotism of French courts. They
would never escape justice in American
courts and would be compelled to ac-
count for every dollar of the money to
the bondholders and to the stocks bear
ing interest before applying any of it to
the propits of their speculation.
The minority report which was pre-
pared by Senator Kittredge upholds the
title of the new Panama Company, as
will be seen from the following extract
from the opening paragraph:
THE title of the new Panama COM
pany to its concessions and other prop
erty appears from the facts and docu-
ments which have been laid before the
subcommittee, and is clear and free
from any complications. For n transfer
of its concessions to the United States
the consent of Colombia is requisite but
this consent has been given by the gov
ernment of that country as fully as it
can be now given"
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Judge confesses He Is a DefauIter.

Utica, N. Y. Especial John D, F,
Stone, a prominent lawyer and until a
year ago judge of the City Court of this
city, appeared before Supreme Court
Justice Scripture, at the Justices cham
bers in Rome, and announced that he
was a defaulter in the sum of $1,000 in
the moneys of the Thomas L. Kingsley
estate, of this city. He told the Justice
that there was no way in which he could
make restitution and asked to be COM
mitted to prison to expiate his crime.
Justice Scripture refused to do this. He
adjourned the matter for 80 days and re-
quested that Stone make an effort to
have someone indorse his note and make
good the money which was due.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Big CONVENTION
OF MINERS BEGINS
Three Anthracite Coal Districts Repre-
sented by Many Delegates.
ACTION WILL AFFECT l25,OOO MEN.
The Failure Of the Operators TO Meet the
Officials of the Miners Union Was the
Principal Topic Of Discussion Many OF the
Delegates Are Insistent Ia Their Demand
for Recognition Of The Union.

Shamokin, Pa, (Specia) An impor-
tant convention of the United Mine
Workers of Districts I, 7 and 9 is being
held here to settle the question whether
$4,000 men are to go OH a strike.
District No. 1, comprising the Lacka-
wanna and Wyoming regions where
there is much dissatisfaction, practically
controls the situation. Should the dele
gates from that region declare Tor a
strike the remaining districts would be
compelled to accept the inevitable.
The chief grievance is that the OPP
orators refuse to confer with the miners
organization, adopting, instead, the plan
Of posting notices announcing their
wages. Recognition of the union Will
not be the only issue, though it will
probably be the chief one. The reports
of President John Mitchell and his as
Sistants in their efforts to settle existing
differences with the operators and the
replies received will be read. Recogni-
lion of the union, the eight-hour day,
grievances of fremen, and in some cases
an increase of wages are among the sub
lects included in these letters. 1t is
stated that the combined treasures OF
The three districts now contain $780, 600
available for use in case of strike.
District President Fahy called the
convention to order at ais o'clock.
President Mitchell was unanimously Sc
lected as permanent chairman. He made
a brief address, in which he said he
hoped the miners would be able to Sc
cure redress for their wrongs without
recourse to the methods of 1000 Mr..
Mitchelps appearance on the stage was
the signal for an ovation.
Secretary Easley expressed the opin-
ion that meeting could be brought
about between the miners president and
J. z. Morgan. He said
There is no question but that Mr..
Morgan will agree to a meeting He is
not opposed to labor organizations, as
some seem to think. Mr. Morgan would
rather consult with one representative
man rather than negotiate with many.
| know that before the big steel strike
he assured Mr.. Shaffer, the steel work
ers' president, that recognition would be
given his organization in two years if
the men would wait. The aversion to
recognition of the United Mine Work
ers' Association in the anthracite region
is mostly confined to men of set ideas
who are not progressive.
"ln the bituminous fields a different
feeling seems to actuate the operators,
It will not do for the anthracite opera
tors to say that they will have no deal
ngs with the miners organization Such
course is not in keeping with present
day progress. Nevertheless, the miners
must exercise patience and forbear-
Ance"
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Foreign.

The Official Messenger of St. Peters
burg published the text of the Russo
French conjoint declaration anent the
Anglo Japanese convention.
A number of citizens were arrested and
imprisoned in Hayti on the charge Of
:onspiring against the government
The Chinese rebels are continuing to
rush the imperial troops sent against
hem in the southern provinces.
Santos-Dumont accepted an invitation
% assist in organizing balloon contests
1t the St, Louis Exposition.
Achilles |, who called himself king OF
Patagonia and Araucania, died in a
modest apartment in Paris.
There was a sharp debate in the
House of Commons on the motion OF
he Liberal leader, Sir Henry Campbell.
Bannerman, for the appointment of a
committee to investigate the contract
system of supplying the troops in South
Africa.
General Ma attacked a Chinese rebel
stronghold, but was defeated by the
rebels, who captured and looted Fang
Cheng and seized or killed all the Man
1arns.
Cheers for the Hohenzollercs in the
Austrian Reichsrath created an exciting
scene. The Czechs declared they stooc
irmly by the Austrian Emperor
The students in St Petersburg are
circulating revolutionary tracts calling
upon the people to get together and figh
for freedom of speech and press
Mr. Brodrick, the War Secretary
stated in the House of Commons thai
Lord Wolseley's trip to South Africa
was on private business.
King Edward has made arrangements
for the entertainment of h; million
Of the poor people of Lo don during
coronation week.
General Emmett, a brother-in-aw OF
General Botha, was captured by Gen
Bruce Hamilton in the Southeastern
Transvaal.
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, the
Liberal leader in the House of Commons,
moved the appointment of committee
TO investigate the contracts for supplying
horses and meats for the army in South
Africa. Mr.. Brodrick replied that the
government did not fear an investigation
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Toroedo Factory Blows up.

Cleveland, (SpeciaD An explosion in
the powder-mixing department of the
Farmount Manufacturing Company re-
suited in the death of Anna Fritz, ~
year-old girl, and the serious injury of
Miss Christine Smitzer Miss Kittie
Howard and Frank Groch, who will
probably die Four others were also hurt
in the accident The front of the two
story frame building was blown COM
pletely out, and the plant burned out by
fire, which followed the explosion. The
company manufactured railroad torpe-
does.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
PIER FIRE DOES
GREAT DAMAGE
Ship, Lighters and CargOes Are Burned
at HObOken.
CHIEF ENGINEER SCOTT MISSING
The Property Loss is About a Million Dol
lars - Many Bales Of Cotton Burned
and the Piers of the Holland. American
Line and the Huge Campbell Stores
Threatened.

New York (SpeciaD A swift, and
in many of its details picturesque, fire
destroyed the pier of the Phoenix
Steamship Line, on the Hoboken On.
J) river front, with many bales of cot
ton and hay; burned that company 5
vessel, the British Queen; consumed sew
eral lighters and their cargoes, damaged
dock belonging to the Barber Steam
ship Line, and for a time threatened the
property of the Holland America Line
and the huge Campbell stores. The loss,
according to estimates, will approximate
100000.
Whether any lives were lost is most
difficult to learn. While the conf1agra-
ton was at its height and after it had
been reduced by the hremen and fire
boats, rumors were rife that several men
perished. 1t was tolerably certain at
midnight that Chief Engineer Scott, OF
the British Queen, was burned to death
on her, and that sailor named Jansen
met the same fate. One of the men who
escaped says that he saw several men
leap into the water when the steamer
became enveloped in FIRE, and he saw
few if any of these rescued.
The quartermaster of the ruined ship
said that the crew were in her forecastle,
and he surmised that if all escaped they
did so with difficulty Nevertheless, some
Of the British Queens officers said they
we're quite assured that all were safe
save Engineer Scott, who they simply
said was missing 1t is not unlikely
hat some of the longshoremen and ste.
vedores who swarmed about the vessel
may still have to be accounted for
The scene Of the fire was Seventh and
River streets, Hoboken Together there
are the docks and basins of the Phoenix
Line, the Holland-American Line and
the Barber Line The Phoenix Line
pier was a wooden structure, 300 feet
long, covered with a frame shed. On
this were many bales of hay and cotton,
which burned with the utmost rapldity.
How the fire started is not known.
The captain of the lighter Tonawanda
saved himself his wife and his child by
pushing a cotton bale into the water,
placing his family and himself upon it
and padding his strange life raft into
the river The stiff wind which had
blown all day gave impetus to the hre
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
To Combine zoV Stores.

New York, (SpeciaD TO prevent the
dissipation in legal warfare of large
part of the wealth left by George Francis
Gilman. the tea merchant, the heirs have
practically agreed to an amicable settle
ment of their claims. The basis of set
tlement is the formation of corporation
to conduct the $50 tea stores which Gil
man owned in the United States and
Canada, and to allot to each heir stock
in proportion to the amount of his or her
claim These shares form the bulk of
the estate and the residue, it is said, will
be divided on the same plan il there be
no interference by other claimants.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22

THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Domestic.


The Supreme Court of California has
decided that the property of ex-senator
Fair, valued at S2o,ooo,ooo, must be dis
.ributed among the children
w. G. Besler has been made general
manager of the Jersey Central Railroad
| Company
Henry Nye shot and killed his wife at
Stephenstown, N. Y. Jealousy was the
,ause.
Robert Johnson, an actor. aged IS
years, died at Bath, n y.
Paderewski is writing another opera.
An Indictment was returned in Louis
Vile against the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad by the federal grand jury
on the charge of violating the Interstate
| Commerce Law.
James Walker, negro driver, put
| arsenic in the coffee and hash which
we're served to the family of Dr. I. lay
| oe, in Washington, N. {.
John Young was hanged at Mount
Holly, N J.. for completely in the MUIR
der of Washington Hunter, the aged
farmer, of Riverside.
There was a fight between soldiers
and civilians at Fort Morgan, Ala, in
| which one man was killed and a number
wounded
Peter Lintz, a farmer living near
Berkeley Springs, w, Va, committed
| suicide.
Seven members of the crew of the
Monomoy Life-Saving Station, including
he captain were drowned while trying
o reach a distressed barge in a terrific
! sea off Chatham, Mass.
Strychnine was found in the stomach
Of Mrs Mamie Bell Wilkerson, and her
husband was arrested on suspicion of
having poisoned her
An attempt was made in Elizabeth, N.
| l., to kill Rev. DR.. Houst, of the German
lutheran Church, who denounced the an
| lrchists.
All the textile plants in Fall River,
Mass, resumed an advance of 10 per
ent. having been granted to the opera
ives.
The Sunday night fire will prove a Sc
.ous blow to Bryn Mawr College, as
Oenbeigh Hall, its finest building, was
destroyed
The National City Bank of New York
oaid out Sci 100000 dividends OF the
standard Oil and Consolidated Gas Com
)anies.
Mrs Brooks, in a New York court,
estifed that Florence Burns said she
would shoot Walter Brooks if he did not
marry her
The factory owners at Fall River,
Mass, have agreed to the 10 per cent. in
:rease in wages demanded by the strik-
,rs.
While speaking to a miners conven-
ion at Des Moines Iowa, President
Iohn Mitchell was taken suddenly i'll.
Gen. w. S. Smith states that the steel
framework in many of Chicagos sky
crapers is corroding and the buildings
nay soon become dangerous.
A new volcano is reported to have
burst forth near Kenal, on Cook In
et, Alaska.
Notices we're posted at the collierles
IF the Reading Company in the Hazleton
district that the present scale would be
continued for another year,
Edward Butler, a prominent st. Louis
politician, was arrested on a bench war
ant charging him with offering a brlbe
lie was released on bail.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Arsenic in the Coffee.

Washington, N C., (Special) DR. T.
Tayloe, of the State Board of Medical
Examiners, and his entire family were
poisoned by coffee and hash containing
arsenic, put there by James Walker, a
negro driver, who had often threatened
to kill the negro nurse. When Walker
was arrested rat poison containing
arsenic, was found in his pocket Quick
aid saved the poisoned family. all of
whom were seriously ILL., The negro
who is in jail, confessed that he put the
poison in the coffee and the hash, but
said it was only to kill the old nurse
who had "conjured" him.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
To Retain Census Clerks

BY vote of S to the House Com
mittee on Census directed that the bill
drawn by Representative Hay of Vir-
glnia, be reported, amending section S
OF the recently passed permanent Census
act, by peremptorily placing all of the
employees of the Census Office who were
on the rolls on March 7, 1909, except
unskilled laborers, in the classified serv-
ice
Fhe purpose of the measure is to re-
tain in the government service the large
number of census employees who would
be discharged under the construction
which the executive branch of the gov
ernment has placed on section 5 of the
new act.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Automatic River Gauge.

Chattanooga, Tenn, (SpeciaD Gable
and other supplies have arrived in thi.
city for the construction Of the test au.
tomato river gauge, which is to be placed
in the Tennessee river here by Observer
w. M Fulton, of the Knoxville station
1t will be the first gauge Of the kind ever
constructed, and the workings will be
tested for year before attempting gen.
eral introduction by the government.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
HAVE YOU A SICK TIRE?

One of those short-winded ones that
causes the rider so much trouble. and
many long walks. If you have, bring il
to Shores Tire Hospital Do not throw
away your old tire; consult the Tire Doc
tor first. Tires you think absolutely
worthless can be placed in perfect condi-
tion. All Tires neatly and promptly
vulcanized at short notice by experts who
thoroughly repairing We uss
no anti-leak whatever. Al a0ork gHdy-
dHteed
New and secondhand tires for sale.
FRANK SHORE,
IoI7 New York Ave, N. w.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Clerk Embezzled 100000?

New York, (Special) Max c. May
er, an employe of Rathborne & Sons,
brokers, of this city was arrested,
charged with the embezzlement of $780,
900 Mayer was confidential manager
for the nrm, and as such had access to
all accounts and made out checks which
he submitted for signature, A month
ago, it is alleged, an irregularity was
discovered and Mayer left his place An
examination of the books was made,
which resulted in the discovery of al
legged defalcations stretching over a pc
riod of two years Mayer was at one
time a partner in the firm of Rathborne,
Mayer & Rathborne
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
"Red Albumen" for Iiens.

The Postofhce Department issued a
fraud order against the United States
Salyx Company, of New Concord, O.
to prevent that concern using the mails
IN connection with an alleged scheme tc
defraud farmers and others in the sale
to them of a mixture guaranteed to
make hens lay more eggs in the winter
The company advertised "red al
bum," which, it was alleged, would dc
the work Samples OF the stuff were
analyzed by the Department of Agricul.
ture. The egg food, it is said, proved
to be nothing more than oxide OF iron
or ordinary red paint
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Pure.F Food LEGISLATION.

Jay Miller, of Chicago, concluded his
statement on pure-food legislation be-
fore the House Committee on Com
merce, and Robert H. Moses, of New
York, spoke for the National Confec-
TONERS Association in favor of pure
sandy provision
Mr., Miller held that stringent national
legislation was not necessary, as the
States were regulating the matter, but
If there is to be Federal law, he argued.
it should be confined to the prevention
Of transportation of deleterius arti-
cles.
Mr., Moses said the confectionery
clause of the Hepburn bill is satisfactory
10 the confectionery interests.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-22
Hosiery and Knit Goods.

The Census Bureau has issued the fol-
lowing preliminary report regarding the
manufacture of hosiery and knit goods
IN the United States in 1000 with per
,entage of increase since 1890 Number
of establishments o2E, increase 10 per
,ent capital $SI 10000, increase OF per
,ent wage-earners, average number
S3387, increase 40 per cent; total wages
S2435S,627, increase AZ per cent. mis-
cellaneous expense $6sooS65, increase
3 per cent. cost of materials used $751;.
o7IS5o, increase AZ per cent. value OF
products $os,4S2, 500, increase AZ pei
cent