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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-05-03

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-05-03

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-05-03
HOW IT FEELS To Be THE
TALLEST WOMAN IN WORLD
MISS ROSE wuosrEo. WHO ls
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SAYS SIZE IS a HAPPY WON
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with namum & ualleY's ctreua. saA y
Nhe il the Allpsl woman In tho
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-05-03
TURNER QUE TODAY.

Ruff Turner Nlil arrive % Seattle
this afternoon sud besin training
tautoffna in West Seattle There %
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-05-03
Drop In Informally and Listen the Music, See the Attractive
Displays, and Make Yourself Thoroughly at Home
No One Will Ask You to Buy---A Holiday At
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
PERSIA NEEDS A LOAN
Grand Vizier Mushir Ed DoWleh Will
Inauaurate Reforms.

Mushir Ed Dowleh has been appoint
ed grand vizier of Persia, and retains
the portfolio of foreign affairs, which
he held under Ain Ed Dowleh, the re-
firing grand vizier. An important
functionary has been sent to Kun,
where the mullahs recently establish
ed themselves, as a protest against
the governments actions, to endeavor
to persuade the mullahs to return
Teheran. The bazaars have been clos
ed and there has been complete stag
nation of business since their depart
ure.
The refugees under the protection
of the British legation now number
nearly $1,000. They continue to in
sist on their demands for reform. 1t
is believed the new grand vizier in
tends to initiate political and financial
reforms, including the negotiation of
"A loan, which is necessary to restore
normal conditions in the. country. 1t
is thought the loan will be negotiated
in Great Britain, probably with the
approval of Russia.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
IRON AND STEEL MARKET
Pig Iron Feature of Week; Unusual
Midsummer Activity in Fin
ished Material

The Iron Age" says: Simultane-
ously with reports of a further access
of strength in all the pig iron mar
kets of the country, comes the state
ment of the United States Steel Cor
poration, showing the largest quart
ers's earnings in its history. Lead
ers in The trade now speak with less
reserve concerning early 1907, after
having for some time limited their
predictions of good times to 1906. The
volume of orders on the steel cor
pOration's books on June 30, 6,S09 ,5S9
tons, is the largest mid-year total 1t
has been able to report.
Finished material markets show
unusual midsummer activity, distrib-
uted all along the line. At Chicago,
railroads have entered large orders
for track supplies. Rail buying for the
week has been light, but some export
business was done with Mexico and
Porto Rico. Car buying goes on stead
lily.
"A large order for 12-inch pipe line
for Western Pennsylvania adds to the
already phenomenal tonnage of pipe
and tube mills"
The Iron Trade Review" says:
The very heavy specifying by near
~ all users of iron and steel products
is leading feature of present strong
conditions. Much heavier contracting
has characterized some other periods
but the tendency not to specify on
contracts when business declines is
well understood in the trade. When,
however, specifications are received
in the great volume in which they are
now coming in, there can be no
doubt of genuine prosperity"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
TRADE REPORTS GRATIFYING
All Sections of Nation ENJOYING Great
Prosperity-Scarcity of Labor
Only Complaint.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
of trade says:
aside from the seasonable dull
ness in wholesale departments com
mercial activity is well maintained,
and early preparations are made for
autumn and winter business. August
| opened with no adverse developments
in the trade situation while crop pro-
gress during July was most favorable.
Trade reports are especially graft
flying from the Northwest ana other
points that are dependent upon agri-
cultural results, but all sections of the
nation enjoy great prosperity and
there is scarcely Il disordant note in
any of the dispatches.
Scarcity of labor is the only SER
ious complaint, output of coke being
curtailed, and there is delay in har-
vesting some crops, while strikes re-
tard the rebuilding of San Francisco;
but. on the other hand, slight modi-
ficaton of the 1903 scale has brought
back 5000 more bituminous coal
miners and the threatened struggle at
33 paper mills has been averted,
while advanced wages brought full
activity in the textile industry.
Commodity prices are fairly
steady, cheaper grain because of large
crops being Offset by strength in the
leading materials of manufacture,
while legislation in Brazil advanced
coffee sharply.
Railway earnings in July were
S.9 per cent larger than a year ago,
and foreign commerce at New York
shows gains of $3,353 900 in imports
and S4S3,O06 in exports, as compared
with the same week last year.
1T is not often that managers of
a leading industry are uneasy regard
ing the future because of too much
business, yet that is becoming the
situation at iron furnaces and steel
mills. Orders on the books are far
in excess of similar comparisons in
earlier years, and there is certainty of
congestion if regular fall business is
added
New England footwear markets
are quiet. Tanners report that shoe
manufacturers are buying sole leather
only to cover immediate needs, AMI
the quiet market would result in con-
cessions were il not for the light
stocks and the pronounced strength Of
hides.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
sA5Ys SKULL CRUSHED
Mother Attempts to Stop Fight.
Father Fells His Antagonist
With Poker,

Mrs. Peter Smith of Bentleysville,
Washington county, in an effort to
stop fight between her husband and
Daniel Balkos, held up her 1-year-old
baby, Annie, between the two men.
Balkos struck the child, fatally injur-
ing it.
The men had quarreled at Smiths
residence over some trivial affair.
Balkos seized poker and drew it to
strike Smith. Mrs. Smith then inter,
posed the child, believing that Balkos
would not strike, but the poker de-
seconded with crashing force on the
child's head, fracturing the skull.
Smith, enraged at the injury of his
child, seized the poker and almost
killed Balkos. DR.. E. z. French per
formed an operation on the childs
skull in an effort to save its life, but
it is expected to die. Smith and Bal
kos were arrested.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
MINE GAS KILLS TWO
Settling of Ground Causes Gas to
Escape Into Houses.

Owing to the settling of the ground
at Warriors Run, near Wilkes Barre,
Pa, terrific explosion occurred in
the mine of the Warrior Run Coal
Company and resulted in the death
of one miner, John Shumaker.
Through crevices formed on the
surface the gas escaped from the
workings below into the homes situat-
ed over the mine. Coming into con-
tact with lighted lamp in the home
of John Williams it caused another
explosion, knocking down his daugh-
ter Margaret, 16 years old, who was
burned to crisp in the fire, which
resulted before aid could reach her.
The settling of the earth also af-
fected the water mains of the village,
and as a result, nothing could be
done to save the home of Williams
and a neighboring house, both of
which were destroyed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
LOSS MAY REACH S3,ooo,oo
Firemen and Carbineers Are Injured in
Attempting to Save
Treasures,

Fire, which broke out in Milan,
Italy in the International Ex-
position, did extensive damage, the
sections devoted to the decorative
arts of Italy and Hungary being to-
tally destroyed, as also was the paw
ilion, in which were installed the ex-
hibits of Italian and Hungarian
architecture.
The damage is estimated at from
100000 to S3,0O0,0OO 1t is now i'm
possible to tell Just how great the loss
among the exhibits has been.
Several firemen and carabineers
were injured.
The fire was discovered in the
Hungarian section and spread rapidly
to the art sections in an adjoining
park. For time the British, Swiss,
Japanese and Netherlands sections
were threatened, but the firemen sue
ceeded in saving them
The jewelry and fine arts sections
also were threatened, but a large
force of carabineers carried the pic
lures, many of them almost priceless,
from the Gallery Of Fine Arts beyond
the fire zone.
The city was thrown into a state of
great excitement and vast crowds of
people collected about the exposition.
The firemen, however, succeeded in
saving all except the Italian and Hun
garian sections, though dangerous
sparks fell on the German, Persian,
Turkish and Chinese sections.
The origin Of the fire is attributed
10 an electric short circuit. The
scene of the conflagration was the
center of the most active portion of
the exposition. The palace of decor
ative arts, covering $4,000 square
yards and containing 1000 exhibits, is
a mass of ruins. The architectural
pavilion, which was also destroyed,
contained many exhibits of historic
value
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
TOLD ABOUT OTHER MURDER
Negro Delighted to Get Chance to
TeIl officers How Wealthy
Foreiuner Was Killed.

Through the arrest of Elmer
Dempster, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Pearce and children, Wash
ington county, Pa, officers cleared up
another murder mystery and placed
under arrest two negroes charged with
the crime. The men apprehended are
Gus Patterson and John Bucher, al
legged to be the murderers of John
Koboda, a wealthy foreigner, who
was mysteriously killed in Independ-
cnce township last spring.
Dempster gave the information
which led to the arrest of Patterson
and Bucher Koboda's body was
found lying along the Wabash rail-
road tracks, near Avells, in Independ-
ence township. on May l.
Dempster asserts Patterson and
Bucher told him they followed
Kodoba to a lonely spot between
what are known as the twin tun-
ncls," and creeping up behind him
struck him in the head with
stone. They said one blow killed
their victim, whose body, after rifling
the pockets, they dragged to one side
OF the railroad track. Dempster
seemed to be glad of chance to get
his pals in trouble.
officer Conley, armed with the
warrants, went to the Cherry Valley
mines and arrested Patterson and
Bucher
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
CHINESE REBELS ACTIVE
Take Large Walled City and De-
stroy Christian Churches.
SIX CONVERTS WERE MURDERED
Large Bodies of Disbanded Soldiers
Are Affiliated With the Rebels.

Advices were received at Victoria
B. c., by the steamer Empress OF
Japan that the rising in Kiangai and
Chekiang provinces is becoming a
grave movement and many believe it
will assume similar proportions to the
TAPPING rebellion.
Hain-Cheng-Hsien, Chekaing, large
walled city, was captured by the
rebels and looted. A garrison of S.
900 was left to prepare the city to
withstand siege by imperial troops.
Several corps of imperial troops have
been dispatched.
The Roman Catholic and the
Protestant churches were destroyed
and although the native pastors es-
capped six converts were murdered.
Large bodies of disbanded soldiers are
affiliated with the rebels.
Magistrate Shem of Hsn Cheng
was put to death by torture in revenge
for having summarily beheaded a reb-
el leader. 1t was this act which caus-
ed the rebels to gather at Sungchien
to attack the city.
Heavy loss of life Is reported from
Shanghai because of severe typhoons
with lightning and heavy dOwnpours
of rain. Several Chinese were drown
ed or killed by the collapse of houses,
and several natives in the French con-
cession were killed by lightning.
Capt. Train, son of Admiral Train,
United States navy, was one of the
heroes of the storm. With a boats
crew he went out to the rescue of an
overturned houseboat, and rescued
Rev. ID. McGillivray, a missionary,
Robert Law, manager of the Shanghai
Wharf Company, who accompanied
McGillivray and several natives, was
drowned. Several iunks turned turtle,
and their crews were drowned. Two
collisions occurred, the Russian war
ship Mandjur being damaged in one.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
MUT|NEERS TOOK CITY
Red Flag Hoisted and Arms of
Garrison Used Against
Cars Troopers.
ONLY FOUR COMPANIES LOYAL
Believed Now to Have Been Begin.
ming Of Plot to Seize Three
Big Forts.

A gigantic military conspiracy aim
ing at the simultaneous capture OF
Russia's three great sea fortresses
Cronstad, Sebastopol and Sveaborg
arranged by the revolutionary mill
tary league, was prematurely sprung
at Helsingfors by an attempt to ar
rest members of a company of sap
pers who had mutinied on account
OF the death of one of their comrades
alleged to have been due to ill-treat-
ment
The entire garrison of the fortress
at SveabOrg famed out instantly in
revolt All the artillerymen and sap.
pers garrisoning the place were in
volved. Only four companies of in
fantrymen remained loyal.
The mutineers seized 40 machine
guns and practically all the quick
firers and light artillery in the fort
ress, but even with this aid they were
unable to hold the main fort against
the loyal infantry. The fighting con
tinued all night long. The heaviest
firing was heard from 10 o'clock in
the evening until in the morning.
A detachment of civilian revolt
tionaries seized the marine barracks
on Skattudden island, hoisted the red
flag, and were joined by all the ma
rines. Nine cruisers, torpedo boats
and destroyers, lying in the harbor,
opened fire on the barracks.
This fire was answered from the
third story windows of the barracks,
with machine guns and rifles. The
torpedo boats and destroyers, which
were lying closer to the shore, were
subjected to such hot fire from the
barracks that their crews were driven
below decks.
They finally steamed out and joined
in the bombardment with the cruis-
ers. This sea attack was in CO.
operation with attacks by Cossacks
and infantry from the Landslide which
began at O'Clock in the morning and
continued through the whole day.
Finally toward evening the firing
ceased and the authorities announced
that the barracks had been captured
At one O'Clock in the afternoon the
COssacks cleared the square in front
Of the palace facing Sveaborg and
then drove the public from the entire
water front for the purpose of pre-
venting the sending of assistance
from the city to Sveaborg.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
SHOT WHILE HUNTING WORK
Two Negroes Were Making Their Way
Toward Strike Belt.

Two negro coal miners, en- route to
Sturgis. Ky, from Providence, KY,
were stopped in the road near Rock
springs by two men and were shot
down. One of the negroes was able
to make his way to town, though
dangerously wounded. The other was
brought here in dying condition.
Harvey Springer and Robert Hall,
active members of the miners union,
were arrested. A farmer says that
they stopped the negroes in the road
and inquired if the negroes were Cd
ing to Sturgis to work for the West
Kentucky Coal Company. The negroes
gave an evasive reply, whereupon
Hall and Springer are said to have
shot them down.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.

Albert B. Cummins has been re-
nominated for governor of Iowa
An innovation in banking methods
of Chicago was inaugurated, when a
24-hour bank opened for business.
With the exception of Sundays and
holidays the bank will be open at all
times during the day and night.
In accordance with an order issued
by the Emperor of Russia the Ameri-
can syndicate represented by Baron
Loicq de Lobel is authorized to begin
work on the trans-Siberian Alaska
railroad project.
Floyd Carmichael, the negro who
committed an assault on Annie Poole,
at Lakewood. suburb of Atlanta.
Ga, was captured. Identified by his
victim and shot to death.
James Fl. Sage, a nephew of the
late Russell Sage declared that the
will of the deceased millionaire will
be contested.
The plant of the Montgomery Bros.
e Co.'S planning mill and box factory
on Court street, Buffalo, N. Y, was
partially destroyed by fire, causing
loss of $4,000.
Advices received here from the Ar
menian town of Shusha, 1SO miles to
the southeast of Tflis, announcing
renewal of hostilitles between Ar
menians and Tartars there. Shusha
was bombarded for three days with 21
guns and fully set afre.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
KILLED BY DYNAMITE
Spark From Drill lgntes 400 Sticks
of the Explosive.

One man was instantly killed, two
others were fatally injured and three
were seriously hurt through the ac'
cidental explosion of 400 sticks Of dy'
Mantle in railroad construction work
at Rices Landing, Pa.
Pietro Posteraro was killed and An
tonic Maestro and Pasquale POlitono
were fatally injured. The seriously
injured are: Marion Rockwell, an
American; Joe Ross, construction
boss, and Dominica Martini.
All the men were employed by the
Greene Contracting Company which is
grading for additional tracks to be
laid by the Coal Lick branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
The accident occurred just after q
big charge of dynamite had been plac-
ed in a hole drilled in limestone.
Posteraro was operating steel drill,
with which the charge was being
tamped and the other men were near
by. The steel drill accidentally
struck the limestone, making a spark,
which set off the dynamite. Poster
aro was blown to atoms.
Maestro was employed as ensi-
neer of a dinkey engine, which was
standing close to the blasting charge.
The engine was blown to bits and
Nicastro was so fearfully injured that
he cannot live.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
ANNUAL RAILROAD REPORTS
Carriers Notified What They Must Do
Under New Law.

A circular letter has been sent by
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion to all carriers subject to the
provisions of the recently enacted
railroad rate law directing their
special attention to the provisions of
section 20, of the act which requires
annual reports from all common car
riers concerning the details of their
business, and providing that the Inter
State Commerce Commission may
prescribe the forms of .ny and all ac-
counts, records and memoranda to be
kept by the carriers. To these ac.
counts, records and memoranda, the
commission is to have access at all
times and the carriers are prohibited
from keeping their accounts, etc, in
any other form. The commission
says, In its circular letter:
The attention of carriers Is further
called to the requirement in the
amended section 20 that their annual
reports must be filed with the com
mission on or before September 80 of
this and each subsequent year, unless
additional time be granted by the
commission.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
MUCH MAIL GOES WRONG
careIessness Causes Big Loss to Let
ter Writers.

Over 100000 pieces of undeliv-
cred mail were handled by the dead
letter division last year, and the
average number received each day is
now between 10000 and $4,000. AS
sistant Postmaster General DeGraw
believes this number could be great
ly reduced by the use of ordinary care
by patrons of the postal service.
Not only are the writer's and ad-
dressees put to great inconvenience
and trouble by the non-delivery of
their mail, but the pecuniary loss is
considerable, as during the present
month alone over $4,000, for whrr
no owners could be found, was turn
cd into the Federal treasury.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-08-08
NO MORE POLITICAL JOBS
Notice OF Civil Service Examination
for Revenue Collectors.

The announcement of President
Roosevelt of a month ago that he
would make the experiment of ap-
pointing deputy collectors of internal
revenue through the medium of the
Civil Service Commission on COM
petltive examination took form when
the commission issued an announce
ment that examinations would -,be
held at Asheville, Salisbury, Char
lotte and Winstone, N. c., August 20,
for clerk and Office deputies, store
keeper, gaugers and division deputy
collectors.
1t is the first time in the history of
the Civil Service Commission that
"raiding deputies" must secure their
appointment under Civil Service
rules.