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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
puN's WEEKLY SUMMARY
Leading Industries Receive Large
Orders and Less Idle Machinery
Is Reported.

Business continues to expand in a
wholesale manner that promises well
for the future. Reports from the
leading branches of manufacture are
unanimous in telling of an increasing
volumns of orders and the percentage
of idle machinery steadily diminishes.
Textile plants make the best returns,
closely followed by footwear factor
les, and some divisions of the steel
industry are engaged so far ahead
that capacity is extended. Better
prospects for the crops removes the
only handicap that impeded the re-
vival of trade and favorable weather
for a few weeks will assure unprece-
dented production in the aggregate,
although the yield of cotton will fall
considerably behind last years. The
month OF July made a most encourag
ing exhibit in so far as statistics are
available, liabilities of failure being
smaller than in any month since April
1901, and railway earnings SURPRISING
last years by 81 per cent Foreign
trade at New York for the last week
shows gains of $l,77G,1S4 in exports
and $l,6OS,5G4 in imports. as compar-
ed with the same period of 1904
Quiet conditions in the leading iron
and steel markets do not prevent ac-
tivity at the mills, which operate
freely on old contracts, and are pre-
pairing for a vigorous fall campaign.
Prices of minor metals have risen
still further tin selling six cents high
er than it did year ago. Output of
coke is moderate, but the market is
quiet and prices are steady.
Leather is more active, especially
hemlock sole and oak backs, with
prices sustained. Prospect of still
higher prices for materials necessi-
tates conservative action by manufac-
turers of boots and shoes. New En-
gland producers of footwear are fully
occupied on current Deliveries. Fail
ures last week in the United States
are 232 against 230 the corresponding
week last year, and in Canada 26
against Is last year
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
TRAIN ROLLS DOWN BANK.
'wo Passengers Fatally and Several
Slightly Injured.

A broken rail caused a disastrous
wreck on the Somerset and Cambria
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, 10 miles from Johnstown,
Pa. Two persons, it is thought, are
fatally injured, and at least 10 others
are badly cut and bruised.
The train was late and had just
crossed a bridge over Stoney Creek,
near Kauffman's Run, when a broken
rail was encountered The drawhead
pulled from the coach next the tender
on the engine, and the baggage coach
and two passenger coaches went over
a 30-foot embankment into the river.
The engine and tender were left
standing on the tracks.
Two ties removed from the tracks
by workmen who were repairing the
track, are thought to have been re-
sponsible for the broken rail.
When the engine reached the point
where the ties were removed, the
engineer said he noticed a swapping
of the rails at about the time the To-
comotive was about half over the
Weakened spot.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
LAND FOR SETTLING
A Million Acres In Ulntah Reserve.
tlon to be Opened Up.

More than a million acres of the
Uintah reservation in Northwestern
Utah are to be opened to location on
and after August 2S. Registration for
right to locate in rotation to be
determined by lot will begin at Ver-
nal, Provo and Price, Utah, and Grand
Junction, Col, on August 1, and con-
tinue until 6 p. m, August II.
Every native born and naturalized
male American over the age of 21 who
has not availed himself of the home
stead right and is not the owner OF
100 acres of land can draw for land
and every woman Of the same citizen
ship and above the same age who is
the head of family or unmarried has
the same privilege.
The reservation that is to be open
ed comprises 2,245,0O0 acres, walled
in on three sides by the Uintah and
Wasatch ranges, and extending on
its eastern slope to the Green river,
whose tributaries drain it. For it's
greater part it is a waste, apparently
worthless, but here and there in 1t are
spots that can be used to advantage
These spots are Of various sizes
and varied utility. There are lands
available for farming under irriga.
tion, and these are to be allotted to
white men after the Indian has had
his pick of the farm upon which he
shall end his days. Other tracts
have a sufficient natural vegetation
sustained by the natural rainfall to
make them desirable for cattle ranges.
Other spots of limited area are
rich in gilsonite and other minerals.
In the mountain stretches there are
supposed to lie deposits Of precious
metals, but the limitations of pros
pecting have so far prevented the vein
hunters from fully establishing this
fact.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.

Maj. HarrOd of the Panama canal
commission, favors the old army can
teen for employees in the canal zone
Two inmates of the House of Cor
rection at Milwaukee are dead and
four are dangerously i'll as a result
of drinking wood alcohol
Great Britain will sympathetcally
approve any demands Japan may
make on Russia, and is Withholding
her support to movement for armis.
tice.
Fire burned out the plant of the
Baldwin Steel Company at Cold
Spring, n. Y, which was recently
moved there from Pittsburg. Sixty
men are thrown out of work.
Mrs. Fred Schneider, the 1S-year.
old wife of merchant tailor, of St
Joseph, Mich, committed suicide
about midnight by jumping into the
st. Joseph river before the eyes of
several hundred persons.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says it has been
decided to hold the Moroccan inter
national conference at Madrid the
beginning of November.
Preident Roosevelt, it is said, will
offer the post of secretary of agri.
culture to Congressman James w.
Wadsworth
A gasoline automobile driven by A.
H. Stull, of Pitsburg. exploded at Lud-
wick, Pa. The machine was wrecked.
Mr.. Stull and companion escaped in
jury. The machine was valued at $500.
A lifesize portrait of Carrie Nation,
recently placed in the State historical
rooms at Topeka, Kan. has been dis
covered in ruins, the glass and frame
having been smashed to bits and the
canvas slashed into shreds.
Near Spring Creek, in Leslie county.
KY, Nicholas Garrison, a wealthy
lumberman, shot and killed Felix
Hoskins, his cousin, also a lumber
merchant, during quarrel over
business matters.
The Milwaukee grand jury has in
dicted Charles f. Fisher, leading
citizen of the CITY, for stealing S14,-
600 given to him to arrange for gar
bage contract with the city.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
JAPAN PLACES ORDERS.
Bridges and Railroad Equipment
Wanted for Manchuria.

Japan has apparently a fixed and
firm determination not to relinquish
her hold on Manchuria. At least this
is the construction put on the hasty
and secret preparations for the exten.
sion Of the railroad which now runs
from Fusan, on the southeast coast of
Korea, to Seoul and across the Yalu
river for $50 miles into Manchuria,
Joining the Chinese Eastern railway,
probably at Liao-Yang.
Rush orders have been placed with
American corporations for the ma
terial, including $50 steel bridges, $50
locomotives and 1000 cars.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion, according to the New York
Times, has been given the contract
for the $50 bridges, mostly small
structures, the cost totaling $500, 900,
while the Baldwin Locomotive Works
has the contract for $50 locomotives
of the narrow gauge type at a cost of
$2,225,OO0. The cars are to be of
steel, there being two contracts
awarded, each for 1000 cars, the
total cost being $4,000, 900.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
WIDOW GETS S2,5oo,ooo.
Contest of the Will of William Zieg
Ier is Settled.

By payment of $2.5OO,OOO to the
widow of the late William Ziegler, the
Ziegler will contest was settled.
Justice Giegrich in the Supreme
Court of New. York signed an order
authorizing Justice Gaynor, executor
of the estate, to pay Matilda Zieg-
Ter S1,200,000 in cash and 5000 shares
of Royal Baking Powder Company
stock, valued at $1,300,OOO.
William Ziegler, the 14-year-old
adopted son of the testator, consent
ed to the settlement, which is a re-
lease of all of Mrs. Ziegler's dover
rights and other claims against the
estate. The will, the validity of which
this suit was test, left to Mrs.
Ziegler the use of the city and coun-
try houses of her husband and an in
come of $4,000 a year. The remain
der of the estate, valued at $4,000, 900
was given to the adopted son.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
RUSSIAN ASSEMBLY
Election for Members VIII be Held
In October,

It Is understood that the elections
for members for the proposed Rus
sian national assembly will be held
on October IA and that the first
meeting Of the assembly will be held
at st. Petersburg on November IA.
The emperor has the right to pro.
rogue or dissolve the assembly, as
well as to determine the duration of
the session, according to the amount
of business to be discussed.
The president of the assembly can
authorize the presence of the press
at the sessions, except at such meet
ings as are declared secret by the
president or a minister for reasons
of state.
The national assembly will be en-
titled to pronounce not only on all
government bills, but also on the pro-
visional regulations of the budget,
credits, cession of state property and
the formation of companies requiring
exceptional privileges.
Bills rejected by both the council of
the empire and the assembly will be
referred back for revision to the
minister responsible for their intro
duction. Bills approved by both
bodies will be submitted to the en-
peror with a statement of the con-
siderations which actuated both bod
les in passing them.
With reference to the right of inter-
pellation, the members will be en-
titled to bring the matter of infraction
of the law to the attention of the
ministers and to ask explanations, but
the request must be signed by 80
members. If the assembly is not
satisfied with the answer, the ques-
ton may be submitted to the emperor
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
JAPS PRESSING THE FIGHT
Delbenskoe Occupied and Russian
Army Put to Fliqht.

T'HiJ VI "
The following report has been re-
ceived at Toyko from the head
quarters of the imperial army:
"Our force on the island of SAX
halin advanced on the 27th and hotly
chased the enemy from early in the
morning. Our vanguard occupied Del
benskoe the same afternoon. While
our cavalry entered Rykoff another
detachment was sent against the ene-
my at Nomhiha and Ivovskoe, dis
lodging the enemys force holding
Vydernicovsky and vicinity, and i'm
mediately commenced pursuit. The
enemy holding the latter place con-
sisted of infantry with several guns.
"On July 2S detachment which
was sent south in pursuit of the enc.
my met the enemy's infantry, some
500 strong, at a point six miles south
of Rykoff and killed over 200 and
captured 500. The enemy's strength
opposed to our right column was of
some 5000 infantry and four guns
and four machine guns, and that op.
posed to our left column some 1000
infantry and four guns. The enc
my's loss in trophies is under inves-
tigation."
a Gen. Stoessel has been relieved of
command of the Third Siberian army
corps.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
CHECK JAPANESE ADVANCE.
Movement to Capture Passes is
Successfully Resisted.
THIRTY RIOTERS KILLED
Russian Troops Shoot Down STRIKING
Railway Workmen Who Try to
Stop Trains.

Dispatches received from Korea re
port that the Japanese have begun &
simultaneous advance from Kuachod
eri against the Musariet and Piatsa
bang pass, but that both columns were
checked under pressure of the Rus
sian advance detachments. The Rus
sian losses, the dispatches say, were
Insignificant.
Japanese warships are said to be
cruising off the mouth of Peter TIE
Great bay, on which Vladivostoll is
situated, their lights often being Wis
ible from Russian island
An official account received at St
Petersburg of the strike on the
Novorossisk-Vlad di-Kavkaz railway
describes a sanguinary encounter be.
tween the troops and workmen who
were attempting to prevent the de.
parture of a mail train
After one Cossack had been killed
the strikers advanced menacingly,
whereupon the infantry fired killing
30 of the strikers and wounding 22.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
TORTURED BY SLUGGERS
Man May Die Of Abuse Of Thugs in
Chicago.


Apparent evidence that labor slug.
gers maintain in Chicago place
where systematic torture is meted
out to those who incur the displeas.
ure Of the sluggers, has just come to
light in the strange case of William
II. Wilder.
Wilder was formerly an army
officer and at the time of the recent
teamsters' strike was claim agent for
Chicago package express company.
He disappeared July 6, was held
captive for three weeks and was then
set at liberty, half starved and so
dazed that he has not been able to
give a coherent account of his cap
tivlty. He was found by friend
wandering aimlessly about near the
Union station, at Canal and Adams
streets, and was taken to his home
at Downers Grove.
Physicians pronounce his physical
and mental condition such that he
may not recover. Much of the time
he raves wildly and, as though still
under torture, begs for mercy.
Marks all over his body show that
he had been bound with heavy cords.
Over 500 he is known to have had
on his person is gone.
Wilder Is an Englishman, who saw
service in the American army in
Cuba and the Philippines and held a
commission as second lieutenant in
the regular army. He is bold, out
spoken fellow of 81. who gloried in
his physical ability to take care of
himself and defied pickets and slug
gers to fntimidate him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
OHIO PROHIBlTIONiST
State Convention Meets in Columbus
and Names ticket.

The. Prohibition convention of
Ohio nominated the following ticket
Governor, Aaron S. Watkins, Hardin
county.
Lieutenant Governor, w. e. Foltz,
Summit county.
Judge of Supreme court, James
Sterling, Stark county.
Attorney General, w. l.. Lister,
Cuyahoga county.
State Treasurer, Hiram l.. Baker,
Athens county.
Member board of public works,
George w. Mac, Dark county.
All the nominations were made by
acclamation except those for State
Treasurer and for member of board
of public works. Delegates who fav-
ored the Endorsement Of John NJ. Pat
tison, Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor, did not mention the subject
when the call for nominations was
made. Mr.. Watkins is professor of
English literature in the Ohio Northern
university at Ada
The platform adopted declares une-
quivocally for the prohibition of the
liquor traffic, commends the National
administration for the construction Of
the interoceanic canal, demands the
exclusion of the saloon within the
canal zone, stigmatizes the Dow law
as unconditional, favors the election
of United States Senators by popular
vote, pledges the party to give equal
rights of suffrage without respect to
sex, recommends the inspection of
private and State banks, calls for a
uniform divorce law and labor legis-
lation. and advocates the initiative
and referendum in granting franchises
and in municipal and county affairs.
The new State Central committee or
ganized by electing J. w. McLain, of
Hiram, chairman, and j. C. Holiday, Of
Cincinnati, secretary. The new
executive committee to conduct the
campaign was at once elected. Frank
Mccartney of Columbus is chairman:
Walter l.. Mcdowell, of Columbus,
secretary, and John F. Gregg, of
Columbus, treasurer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
HYDE Will Return.

James Wilson, secretary of agri-
culture, has persuaded John Hyde,
former chief statistician of the depart
ment of agriculture, to return to the
United States and lend his aid to
the Investigation of the leakages and
manipulation of figures of the cotton
reports. Mr. Hyde went to England
on the Etruria, after he had resigned
under a hot fire Of criticism from the
Southern Cotton association. Mr.. Will
son sent to Mr.. Hyde cablegram
telling him that he was wanted in
Washington and had better return.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
DEATH ENDS DEADLY WORK.
After Killing Two and Shooting Two
Others, Negro is Laid Low.

After killing two persons, seriously
shooting two others, one a woman,
and slightly wounding two more, Ike
Kinney, a negro, was killed in a river
bottom at Doella, Ark. after a fight
with citizens who had surrounded
him. Kinney killed a negro at Stamps
on Wednesday, fed, and while being
pursued, shot and killed E. R. Fergu-
son.
Next morning the negro met Mr..
and Mrs. Stewart, of Greensburg, and
seriously wounded both, believing
them to be members of a posse.
Later, rs men with dogs closed in on
the negro, and he opened fire. c..
F. Nash lost a finger and Alvin Bar
ham was shot through the neck. Then
w. C. Nash sent a fatal bullet into
the negro
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
REFUGE FROM FEVER.
Two Towns Will Not Quarantine
Against the Plague.

BY official action of the City Board
of Health Knoxville, Tenn. has de-
clared itself open to the world and
invited all fever refugees, suspects
or not, to come within its gates. It
has been proved that yellow fever
cannot propagate in this altitude.
The City Council of Mena, Ark, not
only refused to quarantine against
yellow fever points, but invited refu.
gees from infected places to come to
Mena, which is in the Ozark noun
tains, 1850 feet above sea level, where
the yellow fever germs cannot exist,
doctors say
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
COAL FLEET DETAINED.
Crews Refuse to Go South Till Yellow
Fever Abates.

The Pittsburg coal fleet, with 5000.
900, bushels of fuel, destined for
points south, will be harbored in Gin.
cinnati and Louisville until the vel.
low fever has been stamped out in the
South.
Advices from Galliporis, which
point the fleet, with the Frank Gil.
more as flagship, passed, are that the
crews have refused to go farther
south than Louisville until the plague
is stamped out.
The captains have been served
with an ultimatum to this effect and
wired ahead that preparations to har-
Dor the greater part of the fleet in
Cincinnati be made.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
JAPS FEAR PANAMA.
Conditions on Isthmus Too Deadly for
Mikado's Subjects.

The emigration companies at Tokyo
object to sending laborers to Panama
to work on the canal, on the ground
that the conditions there are unsatis-
factory.
They assert that there are no ar
rangements to care for the sick, no
provisions for returning home the
families of deceased laborers, and no
allowance of passage money. They
also assert that the drinking water
and sanitary conditions are bad
The government placed the question
of sending tie lsborers and the con-
ditions before the emigration COM
panies, who fLrnG as above stated.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Weak Boiler Caused Disaster.

From an official source, it may be
stated authoritatively that the naval
court of inquiry will find that boiler
B, Of the Bennington. exploded, not
because of unusually high pressure,
but because of weak place and fail
ure to renew it. The court will not
censure the officers of the Bennington,
but will pass up the matter and the
to higher authority.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Rojestvensky Much Improved,

Admiral Rojestvensky's condition
has made satisfactory progress. since
the operation was performed on his
forehead at Tokyo. He is able to
leave his bed and sit in a chair. Pains
in one foot, however, prevent his
walking freely but no cause for I'M
easiness exists. The admiral has ex-
pressed his sincere satisfaction at the
treatment accorded him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Cashier Spear is Pursued.

George T. Cults, receiver of the
Citizens National bank, of Oberlin
has brought an action against A. B.
Spear, now in the penitentiary, and
the United States Fidelity Company
which carried Spears bond while he
was cashier of the bank. The plain
tiff's say the bank suffered the loss
of sl50,0OO through Spears dealings
with Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick. The
action is brought to recover the value
of Spears bond. $4,000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Claim Mrs. Rogers is Insane.

The record in the case of Mrs. Mary
NJ. Rogers, under sentence of death at
Bennington, VT, on the charge of
numbering her husband, was receiv-
ed by the clerk of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The case
is brought to this court on the plea
that the woman is insane.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
ARRAIeNs CONGRESSMAN
Prosecutor Heney Calls Williamson
Arch Conspirator.

In the trial of Congressman Will
hanson, Dr. Van Gessner and former
United States Commissioner Biggs
at Portland, Ore, Williamsons nep-
hew, Ernest Starr, testified that there
had been an understanding between
Gessner and himself that Gessner
should pay $500 for Starts land claim
when he secured the patent from
the Government. DR.. Gessner denied
Starr's testimony.
Prosecutor Heney began his argu-
ments for the Government. Mr..
Heney alluded to Congressman Will
hanson as the arch-conspirator and
accused him of having planned the
whole scheme.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Graft in Alaska.

Advices received from Nome by the
steamer Ohio, say that the people of
Nome are up in arms against the Gov
eminent officers and their alleged ac-
tions in filling on valuable mining
claims. The Nome Nugget charges
the officers with using illegal methods
and taking advantage of their position
to possess themselves of many valu-
able claims.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Must Clean Up First,

Until the commission shall have
completed its arrangements looking
toward better sanitary conditions and
the housing of employees upon the ca
nal zone and in the cities of Colon
and Panama, the actual digging of the
canal will be of secondary considera-
ton.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Equitable Officers Arraioned.

An action was instituted by State
Attorney General Julius NJ Mayer in
the supreme court, New York county.
in the name of the people of the
State of New York, against the
Equitable Life Assurance society. its
officers. directors and members of the
executive and finance committees, all
of which are named in the complaint.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Taft lands at Manila.

Secretary of War Taft and party
arrived at Manila on the steamship
Manchuria August g. Their arrival
was made the occasion of gorgeous
water pageant. Governor-G General
Wright, Maj.-Gen. Corbin and Rear
Admiral Train, with their STATS and
the official reception committee met
the party when the Manchuria anchor
ed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
Cholera Victims Dead in Streets.

A message from Madras, British
India, says: A serious epidemic of
cholera prevails among the refugees
from the famine-stricken districts who
have been crowding into the city for
weeks past. Numbers Of victims have
been found dead or dying on the
streets. The death rate is S9.7 per
thousand.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
DUTCH BEAT REBELS
Kill 260 Natives and Raze Fortifi-
cations of Town.

The Dutch expedition sent against
the rebellious native state of Boni,
in the Island of Celebes, one of the
Sunda islands in the East Indies, in
ficted severe punishment on the ma.
tives, 260 of whom were killed
The Notifications of Badjoewa, one of
the chief towns, were razed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-08-09
BOAT HITS SUNKEN MINE
Seven Sailors Killed by Explosion
During Morning Practice.

Seven sailors were killed and eight
severely injured by the explosion Of
submarine mine during mining
practice in the Sandman roads near
Stockholm, Sweden. A boat contain
ing the victims struck the mine and
was blown into the air.