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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Veterans Of the civil war are dying at
the rate Ct 100 day. Commissioner Of
Pensions Ware makes this statement,
and adds that applications for pensions
are being filed at an average rate Of 700
a day.
Prof. Won Shroen, of Italy, in paper
read at the St. Louis tuberculosis con-
gress, says he has found new germ in
pthisis and that the disease, when due
to this cause, is incurable.
President Roosevelt gave soldiers
widows work in making army clothing,
setting aside the war departments con-
tract plan.
fenced in Chicago to the penitentiary
for life, making nine in week who have
been given the extreme penalty for
armed robbery.
Russia answers the United States re-
quest for acceptance of American pass
ports without discrimination against
Jews and says it may be granted.
The arrest of bellboy in New York
led to the discovery of what is believed
to be band of bellboy thieves in New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and St.
Louis.
Joseph Chamberlain has reopened his
campaign for protection and says free
trade has almost made bankrupts Of the
farmers of Great Britain.
B. B. Holcomb made a new automo-
bile recor d between Chicago and New
York city, covering the distance in So
hours and As minutes.
BY the accidental discharge of gun
carried by w. E. Bany, Of Chicago.
Raymond Mold. near Joslin, Ill.,, was
killed, his head being almost blown OF.
Herr Most announced in New York
that he will establish headquarters in
Chicago next month and will deliver
lectures through the west.
William Waldorf Astor's taxes Of
$475,0O0 on his New York real estate
reveals the fact that his wealth in
Gotham is more than 31,000,0 900, and
his annual income from his realty
holdings there is $2,S5O,O00.
Gus Krege, aged 20, is dead from In
juries received by being struck by a
Pennsylvania train while crossing the
tracks at Wanatah, Ind.
Methodists decided to start q cru
SADIE against vice in Chicago and will
raise 100000 to pay the cost. The
crusade will be started about Novem-
Der l.
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WRECKED ON new
ENGLAND COAST
BOAT AND CREW LOST IN STORM
OFF CHATHAM, MAssA-
CHUSETTS.
lIFE-SAVERS UNABLE
TO RESCUE VICTIMS
Schooner Wentworth Is Smashed to
Pieces on Deadly Bar - Nine Per-
sons Are Thought to Have Been

Chatham, Mass, Oct. 15.-Driven
down the coast by a northeast storm,
the Nova Scotian schooner Wentworth
was thrown upon Chatham bar Thurs
day night and smashed to pieces in the
terrific surf. It is believed that not a
soul on board survived.
At seven o'clock Friday morning the
body of a woman was dragged out OF
the breakers by the government life
savers, who had been waiting on the
beach powerless to aid since the vessel
went on the bar. At eight No'clock
another body, that OF a man, was recov-
cred. It is believed that in addition to
the unfortunate woman the Inflated
vessel carried a crew of at least eight
men, besides her skipper, Capt Prid-
de-
Try to Save Crew.
It was just before dark that the
schooner was seen by the keeper of the
Nauset lights flying south before the
gale with her foresail set. 1t was be-
lieved she would be able to make safe
harborage behind the Handkerchief
shoal, but at eight o'clock the south pa
troll of the Old Harbor life-saving sta
ton, ten miles below Nauset, discov-
cred the schooner on the outer bar.
The Old Harbor life-savers, reinforced
by the crew from Orleans station, were
on the beach opposite the wreck in a
short time and began their efforts to
save those on the doomed vessel Sew
eral times lines were shot out to the
schooner and she was hailed through
megaphones and signaled by torches,
but there came no sign of life from the
vessel. although lights were shining In
the cabin. The life-savers remained on
the scene all night. At daybreak it was
seen that two of the schooner's masts
had gone by the board and that her
stern was washed away. Subsequently
the two bodies were recovered.
The Wentworth was a three-ma sted
schooner owned in Windsor, N. S., and
was bound from Hillsboro, N. B., 10
New York with load of plaster.
Wife and Children on Board.
St. John, N. B., Oct. 15.-At the house
where Capt Priddle lived in this city
it was said that his wife and three
small children accompanied him on the
voyage, which has ended in disaster
They left here some weeks ago. The
captain and his wife were both natives
of Newfoundland.
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LATER


From end to end General Kuropat-
kin's great line has been crumpled up.
Begun week ago the battle still wa
ges fercely, and the vast Russian and
Japanese armies are engaged in their
death grabble. Losses on both sides
are appalling. Russian losses exceed
so 900, and her wounded number over
5000.
Russians seize mail pouch directed to
the United States cruiser on steamer
Calchas.
President Roosevelt addresses letter
to the newsboys in new magazine de-
voted to their interests.
Bradstreet's weekly report shows
freer buying in the Northwest as result
of optimistic report from grain centers.
Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrich's flag
ship New York, during her target
practice last month in Magdalena bay,
Mexico, broke the worlds record by fir
ing eight-inch guns.
Private advices received at Washing
ton indicate that Venezuela is on Sc
rious revolution against President Cas-
tro's administration.
A dispatch from Hardin says that
hospitals there are preparing for the
reception of the thirty-seven officers
and l, 200 men wounded during the re-
cent fighting before Yentai
More than 100000 was given to va
rious charities, schools and churches
by the will of the late James Callahan
of Des Moines, Ia.
Josephine Vandenbogart was award
ed ST., 900 for the loss of her scalp,
torn from her head, in a paper mill at
Marinette, Wis.
Governor Odell announces that 49,
600 voters in New York will be chal-
lenged.
Robert Il. Roosevelt, uncle of the
president, is seriously i'll at Sayville,
L. 1.
The Episcopal convention at Boston,
votes down proposal to prevent mar
riages of Divorces.
Inspectors break up system of Chi
nese smuggling at Detroit, Mich.
Royal Bell drops dead in the last
days trotting at Lexington, KY.
King George of Saxony is dead. His
end was peaceful. His sons were
present at the deathbed. King George
succeeded to the throne of Saxony on
June 2l, 1902, few days after his
father, King Albert, died.
NJ. Jusserand, Frinch ambassador to
the United States, arrives in New
York.
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Will Paw Award,

Washington, Oct. 15.-Mr. Dawson,
American minister at San Domingo,
cabled the state department Friday
that the minister of finance had agreed
to pay the award of the arbitrators in
the case of the San Domingo I'm
provement company, amounting to
$4,5O0,O00. This award was rendered
last July. but the Dominican govern
ment gave notice week ago that it
would refuse to pay the award 1t has
now reconsidered this decision.
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Presidents Uncle Ill.

New York, Oct. 15.-Robert b.
Roosevelt. uncle of the president, is
dangerously ill in his country home
near Saiville, Long Island. Mr.. Roose-
welt, though so years old, is energetic
and keenly devoted to outdoor sports,
and his illness is attributed to a Sc
we're cold contracted during the recent
automobile cup race. He was minis
ter to The Netherlands during Presi-
dent Cleveland's first administration.
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Honors Of Fair Officials.

St. Louis, Oct. 15.-President D. r.
Francis and Director of Exhibits
Frederick ]. v. Skiff, of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, were Friday
made grand officers of the Order of the
Crown of Italy. The decorations were
conferred upon them by the king OF
Italy, and the presentation of the in
sigma was made by Baron Mayor Des
Planches, Italian ambassador to the
United States. The ceremony was
brief and simple.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

EX-PreSlQent cleveland Will preside
at political mass meeting in Carnegie
hall, New York, October e. 1t will be
his only appearance in, the campaign.
Everett Fowler, nominated by the dem
0crats for congress for the Twenty
fourth New York district, has declined
the nomination.
The republican national committee
has formally recognized the La Toilette
state committee by notifying that body
that speakers will be sent to Wisconsin
through the La Toilette organization.
Henry G. Davis, democratic vice.
presidential candidate, left Baltimore on
a ten-day campaigning tour of Maryland
and West Virginia.
Episcopalians in session in Boston dis
cussed majority report from the COM
mittee on canon favoring the prohibi-
ton of marriage of persons divorced for
any cause. A strong fight against the
proposition was made by the minority.
The convention of the Massachusetts,
branch, American Federation of Labor,
adopted resolutions condemning Gov.
Bates for his veto of the overtime bill
and calling for political activity against
him.
Gov. John l.. Bates, of Massachusetts,
appointed former Gov. w. Murray
Crane United States senator, to fill the
unexpired term of George F. Hoar,. re-
Gently deceased. Mr.. Crane has in
formed Gov. Bates that he will accept.
Wisconsin stalwarts have decided to
keep their ticket in the field.
David B. Hill injected a new argu.
ment into the democratic campaign
at Wheeling, w. Wa straightfor.
ward condemnation of government by
Injunction" and the demand for law
granting jury trial to persons held in
contempt of court, for the violation OF
q restraining order of federal judge
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Life-saver Proves Defective.

St. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 15.-While ex-
perimenting with patent fire escape
swung from the ninth story of the
Germania Life building Friday after
noon, B. M. Scannon and wife fell
from the third story to the stone side
walk and were horribly crushed. Both
we're taken to the city hospital and it
Is said they will die.
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Seven Injured.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-The Pittsburg lin
tied, the fastest train on the Baltimore
& Ohio railway, crashed into a Pere
Marquette freight train Thursday night
at Seventy-fifth street and Western
avenue. Seven passengers were in
jured, a number more bruised and all
exposed to great peril when the freight
train. which contained car of powder,
caught fire. The fire department by
hard work prevented an explosion.
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Charged with Several Crime.

Mansfield, O., Oct. 15.-Georgc W.
Spoolman, with several aliases, is un-
der arrest here, charged with numer-
GUS embellishments and forgeries, by
which railway companies were the
chief sufferers. The Wheeling & Lake
Erie company, American Express COM
pany and the Baltimore & Ohio COM
pany have all had detectives looking
for him. A detective employed by a
Baltimore Bonding company finally
captured Spoolman here after trailing
him over large part of the country.
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A Jury having been secured in Min
neepolis, Mimi, the third trial of former
MAJOR A. A. Ames for bribery and cor
ruption began 49,
The annual report of Brig Gen. J. F.
Weston, commissary general of the
army, says the total cost of feeding the
army during the past fiscal year was
$s,2s1.750.
John Harper, negro, was hanged at
Magnolia, Ark, for the murder of his
wife last February. He admitted his
guilt.
A marked conflict of views on the re-
marriage of innocent parties to divorces
may lead to the postponemento of consid-
Grafton of the proposed new canon by
the Episcopal church at the Boston con"
vention.
The interstate commerce commission
heard testimony in Chicago that agents
of the Armour Car line attempted to de-
stroy the credit of shippers who refused
to pay excessive icing charges, both the
shippers and the railways being in the
grasp of the private car industry.
The passing of the negro as a rousta-
bout. marking an epoch in steamboating
on the Mississippi, was witnessed in
New Orleans by large crowd which saw
60 white men go to work at the landing
in place of the colored men.
The employees of the Jeffersonville,
Ind, branch of the American Car &
Foundry company have been notified
that the plant will be closed Indefinite
ly about November 1. About 800 men
are affected.
More than 100000 was given to vari-
Gus public charities, schools and
churches by the late James Callahan,
of Des Moines, Ia. At the head of the
entire list is Booker T. Washington's
Tuskegee institution, which receives
100000
In, public speech, delivered before
the American Street Railway associa-
ton, President Francis declared that
the worlds fair has lost at least 81 ,O00,-
900 through being compelled to close
on Sunday.
Edmund Burke, of Chicago retired
shoe dealer and reputed to be mill
lionaire, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head Mr.. Burke
was 67 years old and is said to have
suffered from nervous prostration for
many years
Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gill,
who eloped from Ashland, Va, were
found dead, with their hands clasped,
near pond in that vicinity. A bullet
hole in the head of each told the story
of supposed double suicide or murder
and suicide.
While on his way to visit his daugh-
ter, whom he had not seen for 20 years,
George Krebs, of Kansas City, fell
from the platform of a Missouri Pa
ciflc train at Kirkwood, a suburb of
st. Louis, and was instantly killed.
The Iroquois theater cases, in which
Thomas Noonan and James E. Cum
ferred for trial from Chicago to Peoria
county, Ill.
Two unknown men, aged As and IS,
committed suicide at Bellaire, O., by
drinking carbolic acid.
The army's inspector general reports
that suppression Of the canteen has de-
moralized the soldiers
The duke of Connaught, brother of
King Edward, was picked up uncon-
scious after collision of his automobile
with a cart near Edinburgh. His in
juries are not expected to prove serious
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Cohen Reelected President.

Aurora, ILL.,, Oct. 15.-The Illinois
State Federation of Labor Friday re-
elected Barney Cohen, of Chicago, as
president. Cohen is president of the
Chicago Cigar Makers union. NJ. T.
Finnan, of Bloomington, was chosen
vice president; ]. F. Morris, OF Spring
field, was reelected secretary treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-19
TOP OF PIXIES PEAK
It is Not a Pleasant Place to
Spend a Winter.
A REAL STORM CENTER
HARDsHIPS OF LIFE IN THE
WEATHER BUREAU STATION.
The Observer is Completely Cut Off
From the Rest of the
World.
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Speclal correspondence OF Inc Evening STAR.
DENVER. Col. March II. 1894.
In response to a general demand from
western farmers, and from scientific men in
all parts of the world. the station of the
United States weather bureau on top of
Pixies Peak will probably be reopened. 1t
is the intention of the authorities to open
the station during the summer time, in
which case the extension of the Pixies Peak
service to the winter months Will come as
matter of course.
This will call for the insertion of a help
wanted advertisement. something as fol-
lows:
WANTED-AN ABLE-BODIED UNMARRIED AND
absolutely fearless man for weather bureau work
on Pixies Peak; must be without any heart trou-
ble on account of the dangers of the altitude;
must be willing TO the risk Of being struck
by lightning at any time: must be capable of
standing extreme exposure must also l'e capable
of noting the various scientific phenomena and
Of making complete daily record of the same.
No man afraid of mountain rats need apply.
Address UNCLE SAM.
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining good
men for this lonely and dangerous work the
government has not been able to maintain
a continuous service on Pixies Peak. The
expense of maintaining a station the
summit of this great mountain is also con-
siderable. A station was first established
on the peak in October, 1873. when Gen.
Greeley, the distinguished arctic explorer.
was IL charge of the weather bureau. For
years an attempt was made to keep in tele
graphic communication with the topsof the
peak. but the tremendous electrical storms
made constant repairs necesS3 airy. Often the
line would be put out of service a the very
beginning of winter and could not be OPEN
ed until late spring. In 1882 it was decided
to abandon the telegraph line altogether.
Observations We're continued until 1883.
however. when the Pixies Peak station was
temporarily abandoned. From 1892 10 1894
the station was reo9ened. Since that time
1t has been merely an object Of curiosity to
the thousands of tourists who go mp the
famous cog road every summer. The OBJ
servations on the peak however, have put
the weather bureau in possession OF a vast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-19
CONDITIONS OF TRADE
INTERRUPTIONS PECULIAR TO
sEMBLANCEs OF SPRING.
Wheat and Cotton Prices Dropped
Lower Than Expected-General
Trading Quiet.

Special trade advices from correspondents
of the Interna tional Mercantile Agency
throughout the United States chronicle IN
terruptions and changes ncldental 10
breaking from storms into semblance Oh
spring weather and the usual seasons IN
crease of labor disturbances The latter
despite their seriousness at New YORK, are
offset by the conservative action OF l9oooo
soft coal miners who have decided to ac-
cept reduction in wages.
Prices for wheat and cotton dropped fur
Their than many bears expected. over
considera BILE period wheat should range
relatively high on 5O000,00O bushels decline
in domestic visible and invisible supplies
within three years The long predlcted
freer movement of cotton from the INTERIOR
with growing short sentiment, has had the
natural effect.
The unusual accumulation of funds at
New York, by which banks are strength
ening against the day of Panama payments
and possible needs by banks at European
centers, is due in part to checked demands
for mercantile accommodation.
In Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago and
st. Louis there is d slackening in demands
from banks also. On the other hand, Bos
ton banks report no such check Except
at Chicago among these cities railway
shipping facilities have improved vastly
since last week, but Pittsburg reports many
cars needed. which have been sent to New
York Central, Lake Shore and Canadian
points.
General trade is quiet. st. Louis makes
the brightest returns, with business well
ahead of last year in dry goods and agri-
cultural implements and swelling volumes
of sales of clothing, drugs and groceries.
The entry of the Pennsylvania railroad
a buyer in the steel rail market leaves
no lingering doubt that the steel and iron
industries will take on renewed activity at
an early day and that prices in some Varie-
ties will be still further advanced.
The sentiment in New York financial cir
cles has greatly improved since the merger
decision, and standard stocks, which net )
per cent, with longtime money al AZ per
cent, are now beginning to have their nat
ural influence.
In the Canadian dominion congested traf-
fic has been relieved by milder weather.
There is considerable activity in the distri-
button of spring goods, particularly cot
tons, millinery and footwear. Building at
larger Canadian centerS promises to be
quite active. The increase at Toronto prob
ably will be % per cent as compared with
last year
The prospect is for heavy immigration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-19
PRELIMINARY STEP TAKEN.
Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnels in New
York to Be Begun Soon.

The American and English firms to which
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
recently awarded the contracts for the
construction of the railroad tunnels under
the North and East rivers at New York
city, have already taken the preliminary
steps necessary to active operations. The
contract for the iron castings, which will
be the largest ever let, viii be awarded in
a day or two The work on the tunnels will
require 322, 165 net tons of the castings
Practically every iron foundry in the world
is interested in the contract and has sub
mtted bids
The details of the tunneling of the two
rivers and the necessary facilities in and
about New York city, which will be in
keeping with the gigantic engineering
project, have been made known by the rail-
road company. The western tunnels Will
connect with the Pennsylvania tracks at
Harrison, near Newark N. j. The two
tubes, which will be placed thirty-seven
feet apart, will pass under Bergen Hin.
The tunnels viii be constructed in sections,
the first to extend to WeenaWken shaft, a
distance of 1910 feet The next section
extends from the shaft to the New York
state line, about the center of the river;
the distance from the shaft to 9th avenue,
New York, is 925T feet. With the eXcep-
ton of a small section of thirty-four foot
span, a section of 1,O9j feet of triple tun-
mel and a section of 61J feet OF four-track
tunnel, these sections CONSIST of two in
div,dual tunnels. The eastern division
from 9th avenue to Thomson avenue, Long
Island City, is 1880 feet long.
The railroad company, in awarding the
contract, paid particular attention to the
specifications relative to the making and
quality of steel and iron castings to be
used In the work. The specifications
quire that the cast iron must contain not
less than / per cent of silicon, not more
than siX-tenths of l per cent of phosphor-
Gus and not more than thirteen hundredths
of l per cent of sulphur. 1t is also specified
that no mill cinder white or burnt iron or
scrap shall be used in the manufacture of
the castings. The pitch, into which the
castings are to be dipped while in a white
heat will be distilled from coal tar and
must be free from naphtha. and the ma
terial deodoriZed by solution of 6 per cent
linseed oil. The tunnels will be lined with
cast iron or steel plates Hanged and bolted
together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-19
MANY VIOLENT DEATHS
I'D
Fifty Thousand Killed by
Snakes AND Tigers.
THE BoUNflIBs PAID
BREEDING OF REPTILES HAS BE-
COME AN INDUSTRY.
Man-Faters Owned by the Maharaja Of
Jeypore-How They Are
Captured.
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star and
Chicago Record Herald
AGRA India. February %, 1904.
A gentleman in Bombay told me the other
day that $4,000 persons were killed in India
every year by snakes and tigers, and his
extraordinary statement was confirmed by
several gentlemen to whom L applied for in
formation. They declared that only about
one-half of the deaths from such causes
We're reported; that the government was
endeavoring to secure. more complete and
exact returns, and was Offering rewards for
the destruction of reptiles and wild animals.
Under instructions from Lord CurZon the
authorities of the central government at
Calcutta gave me the returns for the last
ten years for British India, showing total
of 6,461 human beings and SS,O19 cattle
killed by snakes and wild animals during
the year 19O1'O2. The returns for 1902-'03
are not yet in.
This does not include the several native
states, which have one-third of the area and
one-fourth of the popula tion of the empire.
Nor does it include thousands of cases in
the more remote portions of the country
which We're not reported to the authorities.
In these remote sections, vast areas of
mountains jungles and swamps, the danger
from such sources Is much greater and
deaths are more frequent than in the thick
ly settled portions; so that my friends esti-
mate was lot far out OF the way.
The official statistics for British India for
the last ten years areas follows: