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Mylei, aged 18, a junior in the normal school at Westchester, Pa., died from injuries received by be­ ing struck on the head by a pitched ball during a ball game. Mrs. Lillie M. Walker of Philadel­ phia has filed a petition for a receiver for Oxford college at Oxford, Ohio. Plaintiff once owned the institution and the suit relates to an accounting. Louis Russell, colored, who killed Perry Stout, also colored, at a dance near Princeton, Ind., on the night of April 27, was convicted and given the death penalty. Erwin Calmer of Joliet, F1L, has been elected president of the Yale Fencing Club. At Moundsvjlle, W. V., John Mooney and Frank Friday were hanged on the same scaffold at the state penitentiary for the murder of James Hervey over a year ago. An earthquake along the southeast­ ern coast of Spain created a panic in a number of cities, but no fatalities are reported. Additional details from Guatemala Indicate that the recent earthquake there destroyed 4,000 lives and ruined a number of the more important cities and large plantations. H. Clay Evans said he retired vol­ untarily as Pension Commissioner, and not on offer of London Consul Generalship. The latter offer came later. Fire in the stockyards at Chicago endangered millions of dollars worth of property, but it was extinguished after a hard fight, with a loss of $100,- 000 to the German-American Packing Company and M. Wile & Co. Two hundred girls employed at the American Tobacco factory in Albany, N. Y., struck because their foreman had been transferred. The bakers of Peoria. 111., struck on being refused a demand for a ten-hour day with wages ranging from $14 a week for first men to $10 a week for third men. Striking structural iron workers at the Westinghouse Machine Company's plant ifi Pittsburg attacked a party of workmen and four were badly hurt. R. J. English, the foreman, was taken to a hospital. The shutting down of the Union Pa­ cific foundry at Omaha has been de­ clared a lockout by the executive board Of the union moldera, and union men in all the plants of the country have been instructed not to work on castings for that company. The Featherstone foundry of Chicago is now making these castings and may be the first company affected. John and Nicholas Mattson and Nester Larson, miners employed in the Armenian iron shaft, near Cry­ stal Falls, Mich., fell a distance of 250 feet and all are alive and able to tell of their frightful experience. A letter from Sergeant at Arms Casson of the house of representatives, who is with Representative Bab- cock of Wisconsin at Atlantic City, says Mr. Babcock has recovered al­ most entirely from bis recent illness. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States district court at New York by William R. Smith and George Mclaughlin, job­ bers in millinery, trading under the firm name of Worthington, Smith & Co. The petition placed the liabilities at $115,877 and the assets at $86,692, of which $63,300 is secured. The session of the Photographic as­ sociation of Illinois at Peoria was de­ voted to the discussion of a number of interesting papers appropriate to the occasion. The Democrats of Randolph county nominated a county ticket, expressed loyalty to W. J. Bryan as the party leader and censured the administra­ tion of affaire in the Philippines. Secretary Shaw modified the customs rules to admit free luggage taken aboard and giving $300 exemption on apparel. The Missouri beef trust inquiry showed that old meat is being sold by packers in cities after '•embalm- In*." It is reported at Helena, Mont., that the local representatives of the smelt­ er trust have recommended that the 600 employes of the East Helena smelter now on strike be recognized as union men. If true this means the ending of the strike. A farewell reception will be tendered to Governor General William H. Tart of the Philippine Islands by the Cin­ cinnati Commercial club. Many of the leading citizens will be present tp wish the distinguished Cincinnatlan god­ speed on his long journey, which will begin on the 17th inst. Potter Palmer, the Chicago hotel man, carried only $25,000 life insure ance. Conductor George Miller of St Jo- * seph, Mo., was killod in a. Chicago Great Western freight train wreck at ; £Talmage, Iowa. James Bonner of Carson, Iowa, made l wager that he could swim the Nish- uabouta river twice with his clothes sn. He made the attempt, was seized with cramps in midstream and was drowned before a boat could reach him. August O. Severo, a Brazilian aero­ naut. and a companion were killed in Paris by the explosion of their airship iuring an ascent. Severo had made several successful tests recently and was regarded aB the rival of Santos- Dumont. e Spain will follow England's example and entertain European princes and foreign delegates to the coronation. The king's dignity has astonished dip­ lomats. French election reballots gave the Ministerialists 128 and the opposition 40 members; the former gained 9 seats. Ten thousand persons attended the anti-wheat tax demonstration in Lon­ don and adopted a resolution denounc­ ing the government. Venezuelan troops attacked Carupa- no. aided by gunboats, and the rebels defeated them after seven hours' fight­ ing. Millerand, the French Socialist dep­ uty, has been re-elected by a small majority in the Paris reballoting. The Rt.-Rev. Sebastian Messmer, bishop of Green Bay, will be bishop of Manila. Troops under Viceroy Yuan Shih Kal defeated the rebels in southern China- German chemists and meat packers met at Berlin and protested against the government order against boracic apid. They say too little meat is eaten now. The J. P. Morgan steamship trust deal caused fear in London that rail­ way lines also may be bought up. Attorney General Crow, of Missouri, petitioned the Supreme court of that state to oust the Armour, Hammond, Cudahy, Swift and Krug packing com­ panies from doing business there. The charge is made that the firms control 90 per cent of the trade and violate ^he state law by raising prices. A new way to cook cereals in satur­ ated atmosphere has been discovered hv Dr. A. P. Anderson of New York. The starchy products can be made more healthful and a variety of flavors produced by his process. The New York Central railroad has leased Delaware and Hudson route, securing its own line to Saratoga and Montreal. A foreman's 'augh when a falling brick hit a workman caused a strike on a part of the Thirty-ninth street sewer at Chicago. The police stopped ihe balance ot the worK because the plans are unsafe. Four hundred union metal polishers struck at Cleveland because their em­ ployers refused to grant a nine-hour working day. Hetty Green has secured a permit to carry a revolver from the New York police to protect money and stocks which she carries. She declared the secret reason to be that lawyers might inspire attacks upon her. The Morgan steamship trust agree­ ment. published in London, shows that the White Star, Dominion, Atlantic Transport, Leyland and Richard Mills ft Co. lines entered the trust, the capi­ tal to be $170,000,000. Andrew Carnegie, In a London Inter­ view, said that England will not be the European power in the future and must make an alliance with the Ameri­ can republics. Cuban Inaugural plans include the escort of General Wood on the cruiser Brooklyn from Havana harbor after a farewell In the Plaza on May 20. The South Bend Watch company was organized by Clement Studebaker and others to fight the alleged Elgin-Wal- tham trust. It is capitalized at $1,- 000,000 and will have a Columbus, O., factory. The Michigan Central railroad gave a mortgage of $18,000,000 to secure 3% per cent bonds due in 1952; $10,000,000 to be used to retire existing bonds and $8,000,000 for improvements. South Omaha Live Stock Exchange adopted a resolution saying trust talk hurts producers, and asking the pub­ lic to withhold judgment. General Chaffee, in a cable to the War Department, Bald the Mindanao situation is satisfactory. There has been no fighting since the Moros es­ caped. The 6,000 mine workers employed in the ten mines of the Webster coal and coke companies, near Johnstown, Pa., decided to strike until the company signs the Altoona scale. As a result of the strike of the silk dyers' helpers, Ashley & Bailey, one of the largest weaving firms of Paterson, N. J., closed down a portion of the works because there was no dyed wool for the hands to work on. A committee representing the 500 members of the union employes of the Minneapolis flour mills demanded that the working hours be reduced from twelve to eight hours without any de­ crease in pay. Practically all the master carpenters of Paterson, N. J., signed the agree­ ment with the journeymen, and the men went to work. t The lumbermen's union, numbering 275 men, struck at Denver, demanding an increase of 8 to 12 per cent in wages. WEEK'S DOINGS Business Transacted by the House and Senate in the National. Capital. AID FOR VOLCANO SUFFERERS Senr.te Passes Urgency Measure Ap­ propriating $100,000 for Relief of Survivors of West Indies Holocaust --Sites for Industrial Plants. Labor leaders at St. Paul predict a general strike. Bricklayers and car­ penters are out, and the teamsters say they will strike If the other griev­ ances are not settled. The bakers will go out demanding $2 a week more and no night work. Walton Weber of Columbus was elected department commander of the Grand Army of Ohio on the first bal­ lot over five competitors. ¥he feature of the elicampment was the parade of the veterans, in which Gov. Nash par­ ticipated. Several thousand solders were in line. Three hundred and fifty boiler mak­ ers, who have been on strike in Cleve­ land since May 5 for 25 cents increase in pay and a nine-hour Instead of a ten-hour day, compromised on an ad­ vance of 15 cents with no reduction in working time. The Democrats of the fortieth sena­ torial district nominated H. 0. Minnls and W. O. Wallace for the legislature. President-elect Palma reached Cienfuegog, and said he would recom­ mend no treaty with the United States till the tariff reduction on Cuban prod­ ucts is known. Tuesday, May 6. The Philippine question again occu­ pied nearly the entire day in the sen­ ate. A house joint resolution making an additional appropriation of $10,000 for the dedication of the statue of Marshal de Rochambfau in Washing­ ton was passed, was a bill to ap­ portion the term of office of senators elected at the first general election in tb« Territory of Hawaii. Ninety pri­ vate pension bills were also approved. The house adjourned shortly after convening out of respect to the mem­ ory of Congressman Salmon of New Jersey. W«lDMd»j, May 7. In the senate the Philippine govern­ ment bill again had a practical monop­ oly of the time. The bill making ap­ propriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States in the Republic of Cuba, fixing the salary of the minister at $12,000, was passed. Mr. Culberson inquired wheth­ er the secretary of war had responded to his resolution concerning the orders of General Bell and General Smith. When informed that no response had been received, he offered a resolution directing the secretary of war to send to the senate copies of all orders, in­ structions, letters and cablegrams re­ lating to reconcentration in the Phil­ ippines, and also copies of all orders, instructions, letters and cablegrams relating to the order of Brigadier Gen­ eral Smith to Major Waller. Mr. Lodge said that, as a resolution of which the above was an amplification had been passed only five days ago, he would ask that the resolution go over, and it was so ordered. The customary ex­ ecutive session preceded adjournment. Consideration was begun in the house of the bill to enable the people of Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico to form constitutions and state gov­ ernments and be admitted Into the Union on an equal footing with the original states. The conference re­ port on the Indian appropriation bill was adopted after a vigorous but un­ successful fight led by Mr. Little (Ark.), was made on the senate amendment to open* up the Uintah In­ dian reservation in Utah. The senate amendments to the sundry civil ap­ propriation bill were nonconcurred in, and it was sent to conference, with Messrs. Cannon, Hemenway and Mc- Rae as the house conferees. Thursday, May 8. The senate devoted the entire day to continuation of the debate on the Phil­ ippines. A resolution was adopted de­ claring that the senate had heard with profound grief of the death of Admiral Sampson, and Messrs. Perkins, Gallin- ger, Quarles, Martin and Mallory were named as a committee to attend the funeral. A short executive session pre­ ceded adjournment. * The bill to place three new stars on the American flag again had the right of way in the house. General debate, the feature of which was an extended speech by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio in opposition to the measure, was closed at 3 o'clock, and the bill was then read for amendment under the five-minute rule. An amendment offered by Mr. McRae to consolidate the territories of Oklahoma and Indian Territory was defeated, 57 to 103. One offered by Mr. Overstreet (Ind.) to consolidate Ari­ zona and New Mexico and admit them as the state of Montezuma was pend­ ing when the house adjourned. The only amendment adopted was one pro­ viding that nothing in the act should be construed to legalize polygamy. In opposing the bill Mr. Grosvenor said if it became a law it would add six senators to a legislative body of ninety and only four representatives to a leg­ islative body of 356. Should New Mex­ ico and Arizona, he asked, be given power in the senate equal to that of New York and Pennsylvania? During the day a resolution expressive of the regret of the house over the death of Rear Admiral Sampson was adopted and a committee of seven .memberd was appointed to attend his funeral. The committee consists of Messr. Day­ ton (W. Va.), Payne (N. Y.), Gros­ venor (O), Watson (Ind.), Meyer (La.), Hooker (Miss.) and Bartlett (Ga.). Friday, May 9. Again the debate on the Philippines had the right of way in the senate. A joint resolution was passed to per­ mit steam railroads in the District of Columbia to occupy temporarily parts of streets for the benefit of the travel­ ing public during the national en­ campment of the G. A. R. in October. Yooag Rothschild Is III. London cable: The oldest son of Baron Nathan Meyer Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, member of Parliament for the Aylesbury division of Buckinghamshire, Is seriously tJll with pneumonia. Th» resolution offered by Mr. Culber­ son calling upon the secretary of war for certain information as to General Smith's order In the Philippines was at the suggestion of Mr. Culberson himself, indefinitely postponed. The resolution of Mr. Berry providing for the discharge of the committee on privileges and elections from further consideration of the resolution for tho submission of a constitutional amend­ ment providing for the~ election of senators by the people was withdrawn. The usual executive session preceded adjournment. The statehood bill for Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma was passed by the house. The rest of the session was devoted to private pension bills, eighty-Beyen of which were passed, twenty-eight original, fifty-four for in­ creases and five to complete military records. Among them were bills to pension Elizabeth G. Getty, widow of General George W. Getty, at $30 a month and to increase the pension of Lieutenant Colonel Horatio" N. Whit- beck of the Sixty-fifth Ohio from $30 to $60 a month. The latter bill led to a spirited debate In which it developed that Colonel Whitbeck had been three times wounded and carries in his lung a bullet received at Chlckamauga. Saturday, May 10. The army appropriation bill was passed in the senate and also an ur­ gency measure appropriating $100,000 for the relief of the volcano sufferers in the French West Indies. Mr. Per­ kins reported the fortifications appro­ priation bill and gav6 notice he would call it up Monday. Mr. Proctor re­ ported the bill making appropriations for the department of agriculture and gave notice he would call it up Tues­ day. A bill for the sale of sites for industrial plants in Indian Territory was passed. A resolution offered by Mr. Harris calling upon the secretary of the interior for information as to the sale of Indian lands in Kansas was adopted. Mr. Proctor offered a reso­ lution, which was adopted, calling upon the secretary of war for Infor­ mation as to how many Barbette car­ riages have been manufactured since July 1, 1893, and other information as to the disappearing gun carriages. A resolution by Mr. Patterson calling upon the interstate commerce com­ mission for information as to safety appliances in use on various named railroads was also adopted. After passing a few pension bills the senate went into executive session at 3 o'clock, and a few minutes later ad­ journed. The house transacted only minor business, including the passage of a resolution to print 5,000 copies of "Jefferson's Bible," and then laid aside public business to pay tribute to the memories of Representative Rufus K. Polk of Pennsylvania and Senator J. H. Kyle of South Dakota. MALC0MB FORD A MURDERER Shoots Use Hi* Brother and Than Revolver on Self. New York special; The end of the long existing trouble among the chil­ dren of the late Gordon L. Ford, mil­ lionaire and real estate lawyer of Brooklyn, came in the shape of a trag­ edy, which deprived literature and the athletic world of distinguished fig­ ures. Paul Leicester Ford, the author and favorite son of the millionaire, was shot and killed at his desk by his disinherited brother, Malcolm Web­ ster Ford, former champion all-around amateur athlete of America. Malcolm calmly surveyed his dying brother for a few moments and then shot himself dead. It was to Malcolm's devotion to athletics that the cause of the tragedy may be traced directly. Before the death of his father, nearly eleven years ago, the young man had attained the first rank among amateur athletes. His father was very much opposed to all this. The elder Ford had accumu-' lated a large fortune as a real estate lawyer and desired to have his son de­ vote himself to business, but the young man declined to accede entirely to his father's wishes. The result was that when Gordon Ford made his will he left Malcolm out of Its provisions. SUSPENDS HIS RIGHT TO VOTE Indiana Judge Seta Precedent In Case of Man < hargsd with Drunkenness. La Porte, Ind., special; Judge Tut- hill, presiding judge in the superior court, sentenced William Henke to thirty days In the county jail, a fine of $100 and disfranchisement for three years. This is the first time In the history of the state that a citizen has been disfranchised because of drink­ ing habits. Henke. is a confirmed drinker. Judge Tuthill took this dras­ tic measure to reform him. When so­ ber he is a good citizen. Ha miner-Throw Record. New York special: John Flannagan equaled the world's record for throw­ ing the sixteen-pound hammer at Fordham. He cast the missile a dis­ tance of 171 feet 9 inches. Train Strikes Barry; Woman Dead. 1 Kokomo, Ind., special: At a crossing east of town a Clover Leaf passenger train struck the buggy of Reuben Sel­ lers, a farmer. Mrs. Sellers was in­ stantly killed and Sellers may die of his injuries. Senate Confirms Sargent. Washington dispatch: The senate confirmed the appointment of Frank P. Sargent of Illinois to be commis­ sioner general of immigration. All oposition to Mr. Sargent by the friends of Terence V. Powderly, whom he suc­ ceeds, has disappeared. The selec­ tion of Mr. Sargent for tnis post was especially satisfactory In the West, where he is best known. Derailed Train Kills Hrltlslv London cable: Lord Kitchener re­ ports another accident to a train bound from Pretoria to Pietersburg, northern Transvaal. The cars were deratiad at a curve and an officer sad ten men were killed. Contain** Many Cigarettes. Kobe cable: The Murais cigarette factory at Kioto, which is chiefly owned by the American Tobacco com­ pany, was destroyed by lire. The loss is estimated at 400,000 yen ($200,000.) rive Die at Boll Fight. Madrid cable: During a bull fight at Linares the platform on which the spectators were seated collsfpsed, Wil­ ing five persons and injuring over fifty, many of them severely. Jewish Colonists for America. Frankfort-on-Main cable: Private advices from Bucharest say that 3,000 Roumanian Jews have left for Rotter­ dam, where the Jewish Colonization society will pay their passage to the U&lted States. Republican Convention Asks His Election by Next ' Illinois Assembly. OUTLINE OF THE PLATFORM High Praise fsr National and State Ad­ ministration* and a Special Koiogy ^r the Late Governor Tanner--In­ dorsement for State Civil Service. For U. S. Senator, A. J. Hopkins, For Treasurer, Fred A. Busce. For Supreme Court Clerk, Chris Mamer. For Superintendent of Public Instruc­ tion, Alfred BayllSs. For University Trustees, Mrs. Laura Evans, William £. McKinley, L. K. Kerrick. For Clerks of Appellate Courts--Second District, C. C. Duffy: Third District, William C. Hippard; Fouriu District, A. C. Millspaugh. Albert J. Hopkins of Aurora was in­ dorsed as candidate for the United States senate to succeed Senator Ma­ son, and the foregoing ticket was nom­ inated by the Republican state con­ vention at Springfield, 111. The platform adopted by the con­ vention, after high praise not only for the national administration b'ut for the state one as well, and after a special eulogy for the late Governor Tanner, declared for a civil service law which shall prevent the dismissal of state employes "on every change of administration," and favored a con­ vict labor law which, while keeping prisoners employed, shall prevent them as far as possible from compet­ ing with free labor. The indorsement of Congressman Hopkins for United States senator was the occasion for the only real fight of the day. The resolution of indorsement was passed after a ruling of the chairman of the convention, Lieut. Gov. North- cott, which not only denied to Speak­ er Lawrence Y. Sherman the right to introduce a minority report opposing instructions on United States senator but also prevented him from introduc­ ing his civil service plank. I^ieut. Gov. Northcott also refused to allow Speaker Sherman, Congress­ man Reeves, and other opponents of the Hopkins resolution to speak to the question. Regarding the action of the conven­ tion, Senator Mason said: "I will succeed myself as United States Senator for Illinois. I have made no fight for state delegates. The ultimate effect will be to elect me and to defeat Mr. Lorimer for Congress, defeat the Cook County ticket, and greatly endanger the State ticket." LAST RITES OVER C0RRIGAN Laid to Rest in Crypt of 8t. Patrick's Cathedral, Mew fork. New York dispatch: The body o t the Most Rev. Michael Augustine Cor- rigan, D. D., Archbishop of New York, was interred in the crypt of St. Pat­ rick's Cathedral in the presence of eight Archbishops, eighteen Bishops, more than 1,000 priests and a great multitude of people. The great funeral was conducted with all the impressive solemnity and ceremony of his church and was at­ tended by a remarkable gathering of the clergy. Almost with the break of day crowds began to assemble at the cathedral and when the hour of the funeral arrived a vast throng had as­ sembled to pay last reverence to the dead prelate. At the close of the service a death mask of the Archbishop was taken. The body was placed in a casket, which was taken to the crypt under the high altar and placed In a vault beside the bodies of Archbishop Hughes and Cardinal McCloskey. Bishop McQuald of Rochester said the final prayers. A wreath of Easter lilies, white roses, and snowballs was received at the Cathedral from President Roose­ velt. Another wreath bore the name of John W. Mackay. Rome cable: A requiem mass for Archbishop Corrigan was sung In the Church of the American College, Bishop MacDonnell celebrating. FIRE IN POWTIAC CELLHOUSE Coolness of Officials Averts Panle Among the BOO Inmates. Pontiac, 111., dispatch: A disastrous fire at the Illinois state reformatory destroyed the north cellhouse block, which was supposed to be the strong­ est and best of its kind in America. There were over 300 inmates in the cellhouse when the fire broke out and panic was averted only by the time­ ly assistance of officers who were off duty. The inmates were immediately ruBhed to tho south cellhouse and for a time it seemed as if this too would be burned and company F was called to quarters in case its assistance would be needed. Steamship line to China. San Francisco dispatch: Plans are being quietly pressed in the east for the creation of a new steamship line between San Francisco and Hong- Kong to run in conjunction with the proposed Canton-Hankow railroad. Mew Jesasy Boy a Giant. Freehold, N. J., dispatch: Probably the biggest boy in the state -is Jay Hopping, of New Monmouth. He Is fifteen years old, six feet two Inches tall, and weighs 207 pounds. Students Die In School lira* Richmond, Va., special: Burns Uni­ versity School, near Charlottesville, was destroyed by fire. Students Knox of Richmond and McNeal of Alexan­ dria are missing and are believed to have perished in the flames. Refase to ..Indorse Priaee Weary. Berlin cable: The board of di­ rectors of the Liberal People's party at Luebeck refused to sanction the nomination of Prince Henry for the Reichstag. Itil Cibr and Voufcdvy Company. . Trenton, N. J., dispatch: The West­ ern Steel Car and Foundry company, capital $1,250,000, was incorporated here to manufacture cars sad dQ M general foundry business. DIE OTJT. PIERRE Not One of Its Inhabitants ® Known to Hav# * Escaped. SEVENTEEN VESSELS GO DOWN Thirty Passengers and Sailors Arm Basoned from Ships la the Harbor and These Are the Only Oaes Mear the StHeken; City Who Ara Alive, Of the- 30,000 inhabitants of S$. Pierre, Martinique, it Is thought that not a single one escaped death from the terrible eruption of* lava from Mt. Pelee. * The indications are that the total loss of life from volcanic activity in and about the stricken city will reach 40,000. The eighteen vessels in the harbor of St. Pierre were all burned and sunk except the Roddam, which is a wreck. The total number of passengers and sailors rescued from the vessels in the harbor is only thirty. All ther others are dead. The governor of Martinique, N. L. Mouttel, who started for St. Pierre the day before, has not been heard from and is thought to have perished. His wife and his staff colonel were with him. Senator Knight, president of the general council, must also be dearf, as well as the United States consul T. T. Prentiss, and all the other for­ eign consuls. The wiping out of the city was ac­ complished In a few minutes. After a week of rumblings in the Interior of the volcano, followed by showers of lava dust Wednesday, the molten lava burst out suddenly at S o'clock Thursday morning. St. Pierre was destroyed and all of its inhabitants killed almost in -a twinkling. Those who saw the erup­ tion say that masses of fire fell from the sky. The red hot cinders that fol­ lowed the lava kept falling till 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Although St. Pierre is only fifteen miles distant from Fort de France, It is impossible to approach It on shores Hot ashes and ruins block all ap­ proaches. The telegraph line to the city is destroyed. v, * Every available vessel has been sent to the harbor of St. Pierre to rescue survivors, if any there be. The French cruiser Suchet, which brought the first definite story of the disaster, has gone to Guadeloupe for provisions.' It is thought that the residents of adjoining districts not overwhelmed, who were dependent on the city for their food supplies, will be in danger of starvation unless help soon reaches them. The commander of the Suchet re­ ported that he saw the eruption and went in as close to St. Pierre as he dared. He rescued about thirty per­ sons from vessels in the harbor, eight of them from the Quebec steamer Ro- ralma, which exploded and sank after It had been set on fire by the lava. All of the rescued persons are burned, some of them terribly. A number of the officers of tl^e Suchet were sent ashore in small boats, but they were unable to pene­ trate the town. They saw heaps of bodies upon the blazing wharves, but they did not see a single living being. They report that not a single vessel in the harbor escaped. The commander of the Suchet be­ lieves that not a single person In & Pierre at the time of the outburst es­ caped, that the entire town is des­ troyed and that probably many of the^ surrounding parishes are devastated. HOTEL MAN ATTACKS M'LAURIN. Mutual Friend Separates the Combat­ ants, Who Had Been Friends. Washington dispatch: With coat off and sleeves rolled up, Arthur A. Gates, proprietor of the Mansion House at Greenville, S. C., rushed at Senator John C. McLaurin In the writing room of the Raleigh Hotel. The senator clinched with his assailant, there Was a struggle, and only the interference of Loomis Blaylock, a formed South Carolina federal officeholder, a friend of both combatants, together with the manager and employes of the hotel, prevented serious Injury to Senator McLaurin. The combatants were finally separated, leaving the hotel by different doors, and Mr. Gates took a train for his home an hour later. Mr. Gates has been seen several times in the company of Senator Mc­ Laurin. Apparently the two men were firm friends, and not until the struggle came, with all its suddeness, was it known that had blood ejiistedbetween them. After the fr&^&s was over Senator McLaurin disappeared and could not be found. His friends cannot explain Gates' sudden and seemingly unpro­ voked attack. Democrats ta a Deadlock. Newton, 111., dispatch: The Demo­ cratic congressional convention for the twenty-third district after ballot­ ing thirty-five times without making a nomination adjourned to meet at Centralia on May 27. Parm Bi* Paper Company. ^Kalamazoo, Mich., dispatch:* The Munislng Paper company, limited, which has just been organized with a capital of $1,000,000, will build the largest pulp and paper mills in the United States at Munislng, Mich. Peaee in Sonth Africa Likely. London cable: The wife of Gen­ eral Lucas Meyer, the commander of the Orange Free State forces, who is in England, received a cable message from her husband saying that peace in South Africa is probable. Criticism of Wife Oauses Salclde. Terre Haute, Ind., dispatch: Frank Underwood, aged 25, a farmer who lived across the state line In Illinois, committed suicide with poison be­ cause he had received an anonymous letter criticizing his wife. PELEE BELCHES Fewer Than Forty Said to Have Escapedfi ; , with Their Lives. JN ACTIVE ERUPTION Many are Drowned in Endeavoring to Escape from Martinique to the la- - 4and of pon«iln4ca~-60p at 8t 'Vincent. • . A dispatch from the island of Do­ minica, British West .Indies, says that a man who has just returned from the boiling lake district of that island went within 100 yards of the lake and found that the water had disap­ peared and that from a vent ten feet in diameter in the center was arising a column of steam to a nelght of ^thir­ ty feet before spreading into the at­ mosphere. That the district otherwise- was apparently unchanged, but the sul­ phur gases were very strong. Later 'advices received from the is­ land of Dominica say. that boats ar­ riving there report that many persona were drowned while crossing to Do­ minica from the island of Martinique, where some of the outer parishes hare been inundated. The eruption of Mont Pelee in Mar­ tinique continues. The lava is pro­ gressing northward. The whole north­ ward region is now a rocky waste, de­ nuded of vegetation. Reports from the island of St. Vin­ cent say that up to the afternoon of Friday last over 200 deaths had oc­ curred there owing to the volcanic outbreak in that island. Definite news, however, is lacking. Many estates were destroyed and steam and ashes were belched forth from 7 in the morning until 9:30 at night. The erup­ tion is now visible at Kingston. Hoge dust clouds were blown eastward. Great distress prevails at St. Vin­ cent, where there are many injured persons. The latest news says th# about 500 persons have lost their lives at St. Vincent. The ̂ majority of the corpses are still unburied. The British Royal mail steamer So­ lent has gone from Barbados to Mar­ tinique with supplies and doctors. From the island of Trinidad the Brit­ ish Royal mail steamer Kennett has gone to Fort-de-France. The British second-class cruiser Indefatigable is on her way from Trinidad to St. Vin­ cent with stores for the relief of the • sufferers there. It is reported that Fort-de-France, Martinique, is threatened. Great ten­ sion prevails everywhere throughout the West Indies. St. Pierre was de­ stroyed in the twinkling of an eye and not forty of the inhabitants of the city escaped. Some of the outlying par­ ishes of the island of Martinique have been inundated. The whole northern portion of the island is burning. It has been denuded of vegetation and is a rocky wilderness. THE UTEST CASH MARKETS CHICAGO. Winter wheat, No. 2 red.f .81 0 .83 Corn, No. 2 «1%@ .61%. Oats, No. 2 42i4@ .48 Cattle 6.00 @7.20 Hogs 5.60 07.35 Sheep and lambs 3.00 @7.50 NEW YORK. Wheat, No. 2 red ..... & .80%. Corn, No. 2 @ .68% Oats, No. 2 0 .46 ^ St. LOUIS. Wheat, No. 2 red, cash.. 9 .81 Corn, No. 2, cash © .43 Oats, No. 2, cash @ .45 MILWAUKEE. Wheat, No. 1 northern.. 0 .77 Corn, July 0 .61% Oats, No. 2 white 44%0 .45 KANSAS CITY. Wheat, cash, No. 1 hard 0 .71% Corn, cash, No. 2 mixed .62%0 .68 Oats, No. 2 white 44%0 .44% PEORIA. Corn, No. 3 © .60% Oats, No. 3 © -43% MINNEAPOLIS. Wheat, No. 1 northern.. © .76 ' DULUTH. Wheat, No. 1 northern.. © .75% Oats © -44% Corn © .60 OMAHA. Cattle 8.75 ©7.10 Hogs 6.50 ©7.30 Sheep 3.00 ©6.86 Pestl:enoe Devastates Java Province. The Hague cable: Famine, flood and pestilence are destroying life so rapidly In the province of Dbmak. Java, that in some districts there are not enough survivors to bury the dead. One thousand deaths have been record­ ed within a few weeks. It is officially reported that cholera is developing In various places, and it is feared it will spread to Samaray. •levator Tower Vails. Buffalo, N. Y., special: One of the steel towers on the new Dakota ele­ vator blew down in a gale, falling into the Main street slip, which will be blocked for large vessels untir the wreckage is removed. Ltiaeh Largest 8all!aff Ship. Geestemunde, Prussia, cable: The five-masted ship Preussen, said to be the largest sailing ship hi the world, was launched here. She is 8,000 tons dead weight capacity. Dyers Retara to Work. Paterson, N. J., special: The ranks of the striking dyers' helpers at Lodl were broken when 200 of the 700 strikers from the Alexander Dye Works returned to work without get­ ting any concessions. Vaaeral of Brat Barta. London cablegram: Bret Harte, the American author who died on Mon­ day night, was buried at Frlmley, near Camberley, yesterday. The funeral w«a a gulet one.