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EVENTS OF THE DAY OATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprchcaalv Review ( tb Import, ant Uappenint tha Pat Week. Fronted in Condensed Form, Moa Lately to Prove laterestlag to 0 Maajr Mazatlan, Mexico, is now free from the plague. All Mormons have been ordered to leave Germany. Socialists threaten to make trouble il the czar visits Some. The flood at St Louis has placed 200 people in grave peril. President Koonevelt has ordered a thorough investigation of the postul scandals. Torrential rain at Spartanburg, S. C, rauesd 30 deaths and property losses of millions. Secretary Root is being boomed for the Republican nomination for governor of Sew York. The forejt tires in the Adirondack mountains have been subdued. The losses are estimatuJ at (4,000,000. Two men were killed and two fatally injured on a hand car that was run down by a train near Genoa, Neb. A report from the census director of the Philippines places the Christian population of the islands at 7,000,000. The Union Padflo boiler men at Cheyenne, Wyo., have had their re quests granted and will return to work. King Edward and Queen Alexandra will pay it visit to Ireland June 21. Fire destroyed the business portion of New Lisbon, VViH.j loss, $100,000. Fire in the plant of a Philadelphia dress suit case company caused a loss of (50,000. The wheat importers of Lisbon have formed a trust which takes in all the mills of Portugal. Glasgow, Scotland, capitalists have formed a company to make shipments of bananas from Jamaica to New Orleans. Strife between the Baptists and the Methodists at Rochester, Minn., has resulted in the blowing up of the form er church. On the charges of insolvency .and mismanaegment, a receiver is asked for the Campeche lumber and development company, a (1,000,000 corporation dealing in Mexican timber lands. Robbers rifled the safe of a bank at Vista, Minn., of (45,00. Roumaniaa is considering steps to Keep Americans out of its oil fields. The Lander-Rawlins, Wyo., stage was held up and the mail sacks rifled. The Acre rebellion is at an end and the chiefs have promised obedience to Brazil. Fire has destroyed the (50,000 plant ol the Midland manufacturing company at Turkio, Mo. The Mississippi capitol building. erected at coat of (1,000,000, has been formally dedicated. A treaty will be signed by the United States and Brazil for the admission of American flour into Brazil. The great state pawrbroking estab liahment at Rome has been gutted by Die, and damage of (2,400,000 done. The American consul at Canton re ports 1,000,000 natives in Kwang Si as starving, and makes an appeal for aid. Two large whales which pursued schools of mackerel find themselves inv prisoned in the Bras d'or lake, Cape is ronton. Ottumwa, la., suffered a loss of (400,000 by fire. A large planing mill, a printing establishment and ten resi dences were burned. The pope is suffering greatly from the intense heat. A storm which swept Valparaiso wrecked four vessels in the bay. Water in Kansas is falling and the situation is much improved. A. E. Ames & Co., one ef the largest nlrltlM l.nn... I n 1 1 1 .uk.iiK iiuusob 1U vailBUa, BUS ended payment. A nephew ot John Wilkes Booth de ares that the assassin of President incoln did not die until 1001. The supreme court has decided that Whitaker Wright, the promoter, can be extradited for trial in England. Chile is negotiating a loan for (500, 000 to cover the Installments due on two warships and meet debts to banks. A Burlington passenger train has been lost sight of and it is feared it hits run into the flood along the Missis sippi river. F.ight hundred are homeless as the result of the Georgia tornado. One hundred people wore killed and 150 others injured, of whom at least 20 1 win die. Chicago polUw.an are seeking for three Italians who killed a fellow maa and then placed a revolver in his hand to raise the cry of suicide. A goegraphical society expedition has sailed from Baltimore to explore the Bahama islands Many noted sci entists made up the party. The Japan bonus of representatives has adopted the appropriations for naval expansion bnt lias rejected the proposed expenditure far Formosan railroads and barber works. NAVV YARD OUTSTRIPPED. Private Concern Proves That It Can Build Warahlps Faster. Washington. June 9. Up to the pres ent time the Newport News Shlpbulld ing Company has shown Itself more than able to cope with the Govern ment In the construction of warships, and if the showing continues to the end, Congress will be forced to con clude that, so far as time Is concerned, imii iha finvprnmpnt ran best have its Navy built by private shipyards. rather than at uovernmeni .Navy yard s. TTnrfn,- tha tprma of the naval annro- prlatlon bill of a year ago. the Govern ment navy-yard at New rone was au- thorlrnri to aonntnlrt the battleshlO Connecticut, and a contract was award ed to the Newport News Company to build a slBter ship, the Louisiana. The navy-yard and shipbuilding firm com menced operations at the same time, the purpose being to determine wheth er the Government can get better re sults by building Its own ships or by having them built under contract. The New York navy-yard has been Handi capped, It is true, by labor troubles, hut nalHfl from this the Newnort News Company has taken and maintained the lead to such an extent as to call forth fnnornl comment. It. 1 true this company is undoubtedly making unus ual progress on tno Connecticut. Know ing It Is In competition with the Gov ernment hut the exnerlment has also demonstrated Hint Government navy- yarns are as nueiy 10 suner irom strikes and labor agitations as are the shipyards of private corporations. One of the great complaints made against some of the shipyards that hava had fJovernment contracts has been that they were hampered by labor troumes, wnereas, me uovern ment was not so affected. The experi ment at New York proves the fallacy of that assupmptlon. FILL QRAVB WITH WATER. Cremation Furnace AIo Blown ' Prevent Funerals. San Francisco, June 9. The boycott of the Cemetery Employes Union against Cypress Lawn Cemetery cul minated today in two acts of vandalism thnt will result in immediate action by the authorities of San Matoe county. The union men quit work today be cause the cemetery manager refused to reinstate three discharged em ployes. A burial was scheduled this morn ing, and Superintendent E. B. McPher son dug the grave himself. He then went to the railroad station to meet the funeral part. Upon returning to the burial plot it was found that the grave had been half filled with water, a garden hose having been used for the purpose. The water was balled out, and it was then discovered that the handles had been removed from the casket. The oody was finally in terred, but others were placed in the receiving vault. Later in the day a cremation was- to have taken place, and when the fires were started In the furnaces an explos ion followed, blowing out the back part of the structure. Investigation re vealed that a large quantity of crude on naa been poured into the flues. The two workmen who started the fire narrowly escaped death. FIRES REACHINO OUT. New England Forests Are a Oreat Mass ot Flames. New York, June 8. The forest fires In the Adlrondacks and New England are spreading at an larming rate and destroying millions in timber and hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth of summer cottages and camping resorts, Fires are reported in Vermont. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecti cut and Maine. Long Island, to the east of here, has been swept for miles. Over this city and all the region around the amoke from the forest fires is so dense that the sun Is ob scured. The big ocean-going vessels felt their way in and out of the barbor or else remained at ancnor to avoid collisions. The situation Is grave. In spite ot the efforts of the hundreds of men the fires are spreading. The most serious are now in the vicinity of Long Lake, east towards Newcomb Lake and Mount Marcy. Farther south fires are raging along the Cedar river and at Indian Lake. Mining Town Burned. Bakersfield, Cal., June 9. Fire com pletely destroped the greater part of the business portion of Randsburg to day. Fire started at noon In the Orphe lira Theater and snread rapidly to ad joining blocks. The loss is (100,000. Most of the building destroyed were of a flimsy character. The town of Randsburg is one of the principal min ing camps of Southern California. It 1s In the center of the richest district in Kern county and is In the extreme southeastern portion, just Inside the line of San Bernardino county. Aid for Chinese Sufferers. Washington,' June 9. The Christian Herald today transmitted to Assistant Secretary of State I.oomls a check for (10,000 for the establishment of a re lief fund for the famine sufferers in the Chinese province of Kwang SI. Mr. t.oomis deposited the money hero and notified United States Consul-Oeneral McWnde at Canton that he may draw for the nniount of the check. Every report that comes to the State Depart ment contains pathetic stories of ex treme destitution. 5an Francisco Firm Falls. San Francisco. June 9. Fpplngor & Co., of this city, one of the largest (train dealing firms in the United States, went to the wall today. The crash came suddenly and for a time threatened to completely upset the lo cal grain market. As It was, the an nouncement of the failure caused a big bobbing of prices on 'change and wrought up such excitement as has not been wltnesseed on the floor for ninny years. FIND NEW FRAUD POSTAL INSPECTORS CAUSE TWO MORE ARRESTS. Rural Delivery Sacks Were Sold for ninety Cents and Clerk Received Forty tor Their laflucacc In Securing Contract Schema Netted Them About $8,000. Washington, June 8. As a result of the 3eeping Investigation of affairs at the Postoffice Department, Thomas W. McGregor, clerk in charee of the aupaliea for the rural free delivery ser vice, ana u. mils worth Upton, of Bal timore, one of McGregor's assistants, were arrested today on the charge of conspiracy with Charles E Smith, of uauiraore, to defraud the government in the purchase of the leather Douch es furnished the rural carriers throughout the country. Their cases make seven in all since the investi gation began. Other arrests are ex pected later. The story of today's arrests is best told in the following offlcia! state ment, given out by Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Brlstow this af ternoon: Thomaa W. McGregor and C. Ells worth Upton were arrested this after noon on warrants sworn out In Bal timore by Inspector, Simons and Sul livan, charged with a conspiracy with Charles E. Smith and others to de fraud the government In the purchase of pouches from C. E. Smith, of Bal timore. The complaint seta forth that McGregor and Upton agreed with Smith to obtain for him orders for many thousands of leather pouches such as are used by rural letter car riers. The price agreed upon was 9C cents per pouch; the actual value was less than 50 cents. Smith was to pcy to them the difference between 90 anil 60 cents per pouch. It la said at the department that the actual number of pouches which were purchased exceeded 20,000 for which the government paid 90 cents each, or (18,000 in all. Smith, It is alleged, re ceived and retained of this tor his own use (10.008, while the remaining $8000 was paid to McGregor and Upton. The government could have bought tne entire number of pouches from the .manufacturers for (8000. 'McGregor was the clerk in charge or rural free delivery supplies, and Upton was one of his assistants. In spectors Sullivan ia from the St. Louis division, and Simons from the Kansas City division of Postoffice Inspectors. McGregor has been in the postal service since 1891. He came here from Nebraska as a messenger, and subsequently was promoted to a clerk ship, and finally was appointed by Mr. Machen to take charge of the sup ply work of the rural free delivery ser vice. Mr. Upton is a Baltimorean, and has been In the postal service for 13 years. Both the men arrested are married. They were taken into cus tody at the pastofflce shortly before the close of office hours. McGregor has been under the close 8uveillance of the inspectors for weeks, and has been subjected to a close examination for several hours a day during part of that time. The in spectors said that today they com pleted, the evidence they wanted be fore taking action. Postal officials after the arrest? would not say whether their inves tigations fn any wise Implicated Mr. Machen, who was general superinten dent of the system while the alleged transactions occurred In the present matter. TRUE BILL FOUND. Qrand Jury Indicts Machen on , Charge of Bribery. Washington, June 8. That the charges of bribery preferred against A. W. Machen, ex-Chief of the Free Delivery Division, by Postmaster-Gen eral Payne, rest on a good foundation is shown by the action of the grand Jury in indicting Machen today. This body has returned a bill charging Machen with illegally receiving $18.- 987.79 in connection with department contracts. The grand jurors, upon their oath, find that on June 30. 1900. Mr. Mach en. "with Intent to have his decision and action as Superintendent of Free Delivery in regard to a purchase of (iron fasteners Influenced thereby, did aBk of the Goft Brothers a promise that they woaid pay him 40 per cent or any sum which might be received by them thereafter from the UnlUd States through the Postoffice Depart ment in payment of such fasteners, the purchase of which might be pro cured upon Mr Machen's advice, and did receive the promise of the Groft Brothers in accordance therewith." Coal Barons Yield a Point. Wllkenhnrra Pn Tniu S Tho dan ger of a strike seems to be already na.Bfltnff ftwnv pon hofnra tha Halalon of the convention of miners which Is to meet In Pottsville within ten days. This is due to the statements of coal pnmnnnlpft' nfflMala mnA unai.inioml. ent that if the mlneworkers, at their convention, should re-elect the three district presidents as their represent atives on the conciliation board by a majority vote, there would be no fur ther objections to their legibility to serve on the board. This action will nrnhobly be taken at the coming con vention. Evan' Itove is Significant. Washington, June 8. Coming close on the heels of a long report from Renr-Admlral Evans, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic squadron, con cerning the grave international sit uation In China, the assembling of his squndron In Chinese waters it regarded as significant. The battleships Kentucky and Oregon and the protected cruiser New Or leans have arrived at Chee Foo. the monitor Monterey and the collier Pompeii at Shanghai. Iowa Is to Be Patched Up. Washington, June 8 Forty thoua and dollars Is to be ernonded on Im mediate temporary repairs on the bat tleship Iowa. She will be patched up and kept in commission until autumn. TURKS AWFUL DEED. Entire Population ! Village U Muif cred by Soldier. Monastir, European Turkey, June 6. Horrible detaila are arriving here of the slaughter of the inhabitants of the village of Smerdash, south of Lake Presba. Mar 21. h nshi unauuKi. u appears that nn tha r. rival of the Bashl Bazouks, Cbaka larooff'a band of Insurgents withdrew to the mountains without sustaining any loss. As no rebels were left In the village, the inhabitants exper ienced no anxiety until suddenly at sunset the Turks, who had completely surrounded the place, commenced a tegular bombardment, whereunon all the villagers assembled In the streets. mougn tne artillery ceased firing during part of the night, the Turkish infantry fired nil nloht lrn ti, ... - - O .1 p, . A Uv . tillery bombardment was recom menced at daybreak, but as it was in effective the Turks set fire to the vil lage on all sides and com men ran1 a general massacre. About 300 houses were burned and upward of 200 per sons, mostly women and children, were killed. The women nnH -iria were murdered while resisting outrage. wnoie nousenoids were Blaln. Not a living: SOUl Was left In the villa o-o The survivors, many of them half burned or otherwise injured, fled. Same of the fleeing villagers were cautured. and had their en nnrf nr.a. cut off before they were butchered. ine report adds that 1400 villagers were In the mountains without nrA or clothing: One band of these, con sisting of 40 women and children, were caught by soldiers in a ravine and were killed after horrible treat ment. RUSSIA WILL SOON FIQHT JAPAN. Officers Have Advised Chinese to Leave Manchuria. Victoria, B. C, June 5. The steam er Rlojun Maru, -which arrived today from the Orient, brings additional news regarding the crisis. The North China Daily News tells of the adon tlon of Russian tactics by Japan, which power is gathering forces into Corea in the guise of settlers. The Shanghai papers say, that while the Oninlon Of -the heat-lnformal man is that there will be no war this spring between Japan and Russia, there is not that feeling of certainty, which Is indispensable if commerce is to be uninterrupted. In Japan and Manchuria the most infammable mate rials are piled up ready for conflagra tion, and nn one ran ha aura that some accidental spark -will not start a lire wnose extent it is Imposible to rorsee. The North China Daily News says also: "Reliable news has been received by local mandarins of the great in crease of Russian fiolrilarv In Manehii rla. Port Arthur Is one succession of large camps, bristling with field artil lery and armed men. Russians state in answer to Chinese Inquiries without hesitation that they expect war with Japan, whose troops would be likely to try to enter Manchuria through the Western coast of Liatotung. Russian officers friendly with Chinese have earnenstly advised them to remove their families and return to China, and not come back until after the war, on the ground that the whole of Llao- tung ana southern Manchuria will soon do one great Dattieneid." TRAINS MEET HEAD ON. Disregard of Orders Caused Fatal Collis ion in Kansas. Topeka, Kan., June 6. A disastrous collision between Santa Fe passenger trains at Stilwell, this afternoon, kill ed nine people and seriously Injured six. Train No. 1 was going west at full speed and crashed into the Chi cago section of No. 8. east-bound. The trains were routed on the Mis souri Pacific tracks on account of the floods which washed out the . Santa Fe tracks. Orders were sent out by the train dispatcher today for both trains to meet at Stilwell. It is charged at the Santa Fe office here to night that the crew on the Chicago train disregarded this injunction, and ran a mile or more past the meeting place. No. 1 did not stop at Stilwell, but on running slowly by the engi neer saw no other train, and as he had a clear track according to his or ders he rudhed ahead. No. 8 whistled before the east-bound train had pro ceeded far, but too late to avoid a col lision. One Thousand Men Fighting Fire. Burlington, Vt, June 6. Al least 1000 men are fighting forest fires in Vermont, yet thousands of acres of valuable timber land have been burn ed over, and there is little prospect that the fires can be checked until rain shall fall. At Hardwick two res Idences were destroyed. The most serious situation is on Worcester Mountain, near the towns of Worces ter and Elmore. The fire there has burned oVer 1400 acres of heavy tim ber land, valued at $50 an acre, and is rapidly spreading. The smoke in that locality Is so dense objects a block away cannot be seen. Colombia Again Has Peace. Washington. June 6. A cable re ceived, today from United States Min ister Beaupre, dated Bogota. June 1, reads: "A decree issued today de clares public order restored through out the nation." This announcement is believed to have an Important bear ing upon the pending canal treaty, for it is supposed to indicate the suspen sion of martial law and the removal of the constitutional objections to the as semblage of the Colombian Congress under other than peace conditions. The Fastest Battleship Afloat. Vienna. June 6. The speed trials of the Austrian second-class battleship Arpad at Pola proves her to be the fastest battleship In the world. Her maximum speed Is 20.12 knots in a ilx-hour run. She was constructed by the Trlestes Shipbuilding Company. PAYNE MAY QUIT POSTEMASTER GENERAL AT OCTS WITH FIRST ASSISTANT. Recent Frauds are the Can of the Frictloa-Hcad of Department Holdi Airing I Too Free Roosevelt Will Pass on the Issue Payne Will likely Resign. Washington. June 5. Strained raia. tions exist between Postmaster-Gener al rayne and First Assistant Wynne and as a result, one of them will prob acy have to go, when the matter Is laid before the President. The prob abilities are that Payne will be the one, not because he has failed In his duty, but because the work has be come uncongenial to him, and the de partment is much too large for a Lman in his health. When Payne took the department it was expected that he would look after the political end of affairs for the administration, on account of his long connection with the National committee, and acquaintance with pol itlclans throughout the country. It was supposed that the denartment would run along very smoothly and would not require so very much exec utive action. But the develonments of the last few months have been such as to show that rigid care is necessary in the management of this depart ment, which handles bo much money and where there are opportunities for so many irregularities. The differences between Payne and Wynne resulted, first, from Payne's criticism of the First Assistant, be cause the latter was too free in giving out reports of abuses and irregulari ties to the press, while the Investiga tion was In progress. Payne believes that Wynne has also encouraged some newspaper attacks upon him. Wynne feels that Payne has not stood by him as he should, and is trying to prevent him from getting credit for the inves tigations as far as they have gone. When the matter is brought to the notice of the President Wynne's posi tion Will be flllftA Rtronir haf-fliiaa Via began the fight on Machen and Beav ers, wnen Wynne became First As sistant he found that the two bureaus presided over by these men were run almost independent of the First Assist ant, and both of them were inclined to defy him. He began to assert his position, and followed up the newspa per attacks upon the irregularities 6f the department. The fact that he has forced both of the officials out will no doubt help him with the President in any contest with Payne. Possibly Wynne will be made PoRt.moBtpr.nn. eral, but attention is directed more towaras fourtn Assistant Brlstow, who, more than any one else, has been responsible for unearthing the irregu larities in the department. PRIDE OF THE NAVY. Bids for Three New Battleships Opened Will Be Our Most Powerful. Washington, June 5. Bids were op ened today at the Navy Department for the construction of the Minnesota, Vermont and Kansas, the three 16,000 ton battleships authorized by the last Congress, each to cost not exceeding $4,212,000. The Newport News Ship building Company, of Newport News, Va., was the lowest bidder for one ves rel; the William Cramp tt Son Ship & Engine Building Company were the only bidders for more than one ship, These battleships will be the most powerful of the American Navy. They will have an acquired speed of 18 knots, a displacement of 16.000 tons a .main battery of fetir 12-inch, eight 8-inch, and twelve i inch bree'chload- Ing rifles, and a secondary battery of 12 four inch, one four-pounder rapid fire gun; twelve three-pound semi-automatic guns: six one-pound automat ic guns; two one-pounder semi-auto matic guns; two three-inch field piec es; two machine guns and six auto matic guns. Americans are Jewel Mad. New York, June 5. Americans are going diamond-mad, according to the figures given by the custom house here. Diamonds and other precious stones worth $2,442,000 were imported in May. This la greater than in any previous .month. More than $50,000, 000 worth of diamonds and other gems honi in"-'"l fT-e the wt May panic in 1901. The increasing emanu tor the stones has increased their price so that purchasers find they have proved a fine business in vestment. France Offers Terms. Washington, June 6. France has signified a willingness to adhere to the protocol providing for the submission to The Hague tribunal of the question of preferenential treatment growing out of the late Venezuelan blockade. She attaches, certain conditions to her adhesion. First, that the proceedings shall be In the French language and, second, that instead of limiting the counsel of the nonallied powers to one attorney, Wayne McVeagh, France shall be represented by French coun sel. Maine One Wall of Flame. Portland, Me., June 5. Maine to night is burning from one side to the other and in almost every section. Thousands of dollars' worth of pro perty and valuable timber land are being destroyed hourly by forest fires, and there is little prospect for changed conditions until rain has snaked tha p-roiinr) and wnoHlnnrla At lnoat 3n ' fires were reported tonight, and many others are raging. The fire line at Remis and Raining Lakes extends from one to twelve miles. larms japan. Incursion ofPXops Causes Protest to oe entered. Victoria, B. C, June 4. The crlsla in China grows apace, according to newi received by the Empress of China, for not only is the situation, grave In the north, but also in tha- south, for with the Incursion of 2000 French troops across the Kwang si borders, Pekln has become greatly alarmed. On the arrival of the French. force at Chinnan, Governor Wane; Chih Chung, of Kwangsl, asked asked the French Consal to de mand their withdrawal.- but ha re plied he had no authority over the forces. Pekin correspondents say that it ia considered at Pekin that the ae tion of the French in the south, ia taken for the purpose of creating dis cussion In favor of Russia. Aa in fluential petition has been received at Pekin from Hons- Konr aktnr for th. dismissal of Governor Wane Phih Chung on the ground that he Is in league with the French. The situation regarding ManchHria was very grave when the Empresa. sailed. Reliable reports published by the Japanese papers tohi of continued war preparations. A Chee Foo dis patch said that Russians were busily chartering steamers to carry troops and arms to Taka Shan and Yalu. It is reported that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has been asked to hold Its fleet in readiness for transports. Stories of large accHmulatlnnn of rwo vislons by Russians and Japanese are frequent in Japan papers. The Rus sian squadron was maneuvering off the Yalu when the Empress sailed on May 22. Mr. Sung envemor of Mnntrlon it. rived at Moji, and, interviewed there,, he said Russia aims at securing per manent possession of Manchuria and the mouth of the Yalu. LEVEE Q1VES WAY IN IOWA. Crops on Thousands of Acres About Keo kuk are Ruined. St. Louis, June 4. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Keokuk, Ia., says Six hundred square miles of rich farming land along the Mississippi south of here Is under water. The Egyptian levee broke during the night in two nlacen than 26 brakes in it. This levee runs rrom the Mississippi at Alexandria to- the Bluffs, and nroteeta tha shore as far south at Hannibal frost overnow of the Des Moines. A strip of country ten miles wide and sixty miles lonr la now nndar water and tha. crops, which never looked better, will De a toiai loss. Much of the land over flowed has not been flooded for 88' years. The loss will reach $1,00,000. .. The town of Alexandria, Ia., six miles south of Keokak, Is entirely sub merged, and the naonln ara llvlns- In the second stories or making prepara tions io move. A strip 300 feet long and 25 feet wide along the river front is the only land in the town that 13 not flooded This Is covered with horses, cattle, hogs, and people, with their house hold belonerins-fl. atiH tha nrohlom of transporting them is a serious one. vxruve lears are entertained ror the safety of the Hunt levee, which pro tects the bottoms from Warsaw to Quincy. on the Illinois side. Men are at work on it, and it can stand a few more inches of rise. Tha loaa of llva.. stock will prove very heavy. MINERS MAY OO OUT AQAIN. Operators Will Not Recognize Their Se lections for Peace Board. Wllkesbarre, Pa., June 4. Another -dark-streaked cloud loomed up on the horizon of the anthracite coal re gion today. The executive boards- of the United Miners, in ses sion here today, indorsed the se lection of their three district pres idents on the board of conciliation authorized by the strike commlsaiom, and if these members are not recog nized by the operators, the executive boards will contemplate calling a oon vention of mine-worker to declare a general suspension of work until tkelr members are given recognition. In a statement tonight the district presidents state that the operators objected on the ground that the mine workers' representatives were ap pointed by their organization aa it. ex ists In each district. Another meet ing will be held tomorrow to J.Ha. whether a suspension of work shall be- oraerea. Up to Danger Line. St. Louis, June 4. The Mississippi" river has risen to 80 feet, the danger line at Rt Tsui I a j t-..- a , - wu.w, huu V.UIIIIUU-3II IU' rise more than two feet a Say. Indi cations are mat tne if 4-foot stage at St. Louis, predicted by the signal ser vice bureau, will be exceeded. A 84 foot staen at Rt Tiuila m.an. - loss. Already thousands of acres t iauu, iuo iiiobc productive in the Mid dle West, on the Missouri and Illinois- idea ara iinrfaf w.f.. tj ... . - , - ..in . nuuurmi ui thousands have been lost to Illinois and Missouri farmers through ruined (jro-ia. Will Confer With Jews. Wafthlnirton T-n A a; has written to Swrcta n.i. an appointment to receive the erecu tive committee of the B'nal B'rith. which desires to make certain repre-' fentationa to the secretary respecting the treatment of Jews in Russia. The committee is understood to be forti fied with a large mass of detailed tea- tl'monv rocnoft i n rr V, -!. i i iin leirjLMt nap. penlng at Kichinef. The secretary has accordingly set Monday, June 15, as the date for conference. Ouam End at Cable Spliced. Manilla. June 4 Tha n.ui,.i. wi. - - - "nitou UHUIB- eteamer Angella. engaged In laylaff the Commercial Pacific cable, arrived at uuam at midnight. She had good weather throughout anil 1,0. - .... llljj LllllII this port was entirely successful. The Guam end of the cable was spliced to day, completing connection betweea Malay and Guam. FRl ALARMS