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lílBILL COUHTÌ REPOHIER. SHIPMENTS OF ARMS. Munitions of Wer D. I. AIBLRT, Publisher. Going to Central EDUCATING INDIANS. and West Virginia School Gives Them a Thorough South America. and Practical Training. i mwr wt(i STRIKERS Employes of FAIL AT the Camagit DUQUESi’.- Plant Did Not Com« Out as Expected. Lone highwayman was captured near Ashland. Insurgents of Colombia have besieg ed Bocas Del Toro. France requests the Turkish Ambas sador to leave Paris. Oregon’s Pan-American exhibit has been of much benefit. British bark Collessie wrecked on west coast of South America. Official trial race of Columbia and Constitution was without result. Labor Day was quite generally ob served throughout the United States. Philadelphia woman was arrested in London for the forgery of nearly $500,- 000. United States Consular agent re quests that a gunboat be sent to the scene. Burdette Wolf, who murdered a girl in Portland 10 years ago, is in hiding in Peru. The steel strikers were unable to get the men at the Duquesne mills to walk out. PULLMAN TURNED OVER. Roosevelt, In an address, said the cry against the men of wealth is not Mother Baptiste, of Denver, Wes Killed and justifiable. Three Others Weie Injnred. Courts of Hawaii do not agree on Durango. Colo., Sept. 2.—By the the question of the Constitution fol lowing the flag. turning over of the Pullman on the Francis, the Missouri murderer, is west bound Rio Grande passenger still at large. train at 11:18 this morning. Mother Frenchmen are excited over the com Baptiste, of Denver, mother superior ing visit of the Czar. of Colorado, was killed, and Sister Five American warships visited Erit Mary Nora and Harley McCoy, also ish ports simultaneously. of Denver, and Pullman Conductor Steel strikers declare they have Whan were injured. The accident oc curred at Lobato side track about .100 caused the Duquesne to close. yards from the high bridge, five miles Columbia defeated Constitution in east of Chama. Railroad men and the first race of the final series. I passengers alike are unable to explain Boers blew up a train and killed a i why the car turned over as the train promising young British officer. was slower than usual, the track in Venezulean and Colombian troops good condition and there was no are massed on the border near Cucuta. I breakage before the accident. The i car was dragged about 75 feet. A trust has been formed to control Mother Batiste was sitting on the the manufacture of laundry machin left side and the car turned to the ery. right. She was thrown across the An Illinois aeronaut fell 400 feet aisle and half way through an open from his balloon and was alive when window, her bead and shoulders being picked up. dragged between the side of the car New York banks affected by Sub« and the ties. She was dead before treasury operations and interior de any one reached her, her head being split open. Sister Mary Nora is hurt mand for money. internally and her injuries are quite Powder mills at Krebs station, Pa., serious. Harley McCoy was asleep were destroyed by an explosion and when the jar came. His arm slipped two men were killed. through the window and his hand was _ Montana train wreck on the Great ground off at the wrist. Conductor Northern was the worst In the road's Whan had his left hip crushed, and history. Thirty-eight were killed. was also internally injured. W. D. Nearly 10,000 Venezuelans are mass McDowell, state health inspector, was ed on the Colombian frontier In readi aboard the train and cared for the in ness to support the Colombian revo jured at Chama. lutionists. Th’te Men-of-Wersmen Drowned. Prince Chun's mission will be hur ried to Berlin. Washington, Sept. 2.—The Navy Shamrock had another satisfactory Department today received a cable gram from Captain Craig, of the Al trial in New York bay. bany. dated at Aden, announcing that Kitchener reports another case of Frank Schllz and Timothy McCarthy, Boers shooting prisoners. w'hile sleeping on the poop deck of the The Chinese are again dictating Albany last Sunday night, slid over terms in regard to the protocol. board during the heavy roll of the ves Nine persons lost their lives by the sel. Captain Craig's cablegram says he remained in the locality where the explosion of a Delaware steamer. accident occurred all Sunday night and Nebraska Republicans denounced until after daylight Monday, but the Governor Savage for paroling Bartley. men were not again seen and their A Missouri negro murderer is being bodies could not be recovered. On the pursued, and may be burned if caught. following Monday George Perkins Sante Fe line negotiating with Pa went overboard and was drowned. His cific Mail for trans pacific connec body was recovered and will be burled tions. ashore at Aden. The list of witnesses to appear be Forming the Plow Trust. fore the 8chley court of inquiry is made public. Chicago, Sept. 2.—Nearly thirty Burns, of the Window Glass Work plow manufacturers of the United ers, has a plan for settlement of the States were in session here today dis steel strike. cussing plans for a consolidation of all the plow interests in the country. A gang of thieves stole a three- After the meeting it was announced masted schooner from her moorings tn Sharptown. Mil., and got away with that the proposed consolidation was practically a sure thing from present her. prospects and that about >50.000.000 A Chicago policeman shot and kill would be represented in the organiza ed a boy. and says it was In self-de tion when it should be completed. The fense against a gang of young hood recent rise of ten per cent in the price lums. of plows and the proposed consolida New York yachtsmen are afraid of tion is the result, the manufacturers say. of an increase in the price of Shamrock II. every kind of material and a ruinous Inland Empire farmers are having credit system that has prevailed for a prosperous season. years. Sampson will be a witness at the Turkey Considering the Claims 6 hley court of inquiry. Constantinople. Sept. 2.—The Tur Members of the Nome bar petition kish Minister discussed the French McKinley to remove Judge Noves. claims Saturday. It is believed that Trans-Atlantic freight business out full satisfaction will be given to France. of New York is very light. The exp.atory mission of Prince Smiths of Oklahoma. Chung has been delayed at Basle. Guthrie. O. T., Sept. 2.—Today a Nicaragua and Co'orobia promise call was issued for a convention in Guthrie October 12 next of all persons not to mix in the Isthmian trouble. Rothschilds deny any knowledge of in Oklahoma by the name of Smith, the recent reported combine In cop to effect an organization for annual reunions. It is estimated that 2000 per. Smiths are In the territory. Tinplate officials deny that negotia tions are under way to settle ths Drilled Into Dynamite ■trike. Shamokin. Pa.. Sept. 2.—John Shen- The worst epidemic of plague in asky. a miner, was killed today and years Is now rampant in parts of several others were badly injured by Canton, China. an explosion of dynamite at the Scott One hundred fellows were elected shaft here. The explosion was caused to the Association for the Advance by a drill accidently running into a charge of dynamite. ment of 9cience. Pittsburg, Sept. 4—The steel strik Washington, Sept. 3.—A study of the Disaster On the Great Northern ers who have been trying for a week' results that have been attained at the of the State. at Kalispell, Montana. to get the employes of the Carnegie Indian school at Hampton. Va.. gives plant at Duquesne to come out, made a fair idea of what modern Indian edu COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS cation will accomplish when conduct THIRTY-EIGHT CRUSHED AND BURNED a last stand today and failed. A par ade from McKeesport to meet the ed under the most favorable circum workmen on their way to the mill at stances. The Hampton school is not A Freight Ran Wild Down a Steep Grade for A Brief Review of the Growth and Improve 6 A. ML and induce them to remain primarily an Indian school, but rather ments of the .Many Industries Through Sixteen Miles and Crashed Into Rear away, had been arranged, but when one conducted in the interests of the out Our Thriving Commonwealth. of a Passenger Train. the hour arrived there was no march colored race. Special arrangement ers and the parade was abandoned. was made by the Indian Office, through Large deposits of mineral wax nave the sanction of Congress, whereby not Spckant. Sept. 5.—All reports show The fight had been made in the open- been discovered in Malheur County. to exceed 120 Indians are educated at that the wreck on the Great Northern hearth department, but notwithstand A pocket of 50 per cent pure gold this school every year, and for which Railroad, 40 miles east of Kalispell, ing a house-to-house canvass by the ore was uncovered in the Virtue mine Congress appropriates $20,040. A study Mont., was the worst in the road’s his strikers last night, only two men re in Eastern Oregon. of the report of the superintendent of tory, and one of the most agonizing fused to return to work. Today the Reports are current that numerous works were in full operation, and the I Chinese pheasants are being slain un the school for the past year, insofar in the annals of American railroading. strikers argue there is little hope of Thirty-eight lives were lost and 13 per as it applies to the Indian students, is timely in the Willamette Valley. closing the plant. Superintendent Ackerman holds that rather interesting. Among other facts sons were injured. Three of the In Dissatisfaction is increasing at Mc jured will surely die, and the others Oregon voters have the right to say brought out are the following: Keesport. Last Friday about 40 strik whether more than eight grades shall There were at the Hampton school were seriously hurt. be taught in the public schools. By strenuous and heroic effort 15 ot ers returned to work at the seamless last year 119 Indians—54 girls and 65 A Pendleton bicycle thief got safely boys. They were chosen from 21 dif the bodies were taken from the wreck tube plant, and today their force was away with a wheel, then became ferent tribes, the Oneidas of Wiscon ed cars before the flames reached considerably increased. It is said pre frightened, jumped off. abandoned his sin and the Sioux of North and South them. All the other victims were cre parations are in progress for resump mated. including the bodies of Super booty on the street corner and ran Dakota predominating. A plan has intendent P. T. Downs and his son, T. tion of work at the National Tube away. Works, and that the machinists who lately been devised to encourage the Kirk Downs. A chicken-raiding owl, measuring There is a severe grade near the were compelled to cease work through five feet from tip to tip and with claws Indians to keep cows and study prac scene of the wreck. Two engines had as large as a man’s hand, was killed tical dairying. A number have been taken a train of 28 freight cars up this the strike, have been ordered to re the other day in the mountains above taking special training in the care of grade and drawn off to take water. port for work, for the purpose of get Weston. cattle and the making of butter and While doing this the 28 cars started ting the machinery in order. The Mononghela blast furnace de Webb street, Pendleton, is to be im cheese. down the grade. The runaway train proved by crushing all boulders larger There will go from the Hampton dashed down the grade at frightful department of the National Tube than a number seven hat. that can be school to the Oneida reservation with speed and crashed into the rear of Works is working full, and an effort found thereon. The street was dress in the next year a number of boys and west-bound passenger No. 3 near the is to be made this week to beat the ed with "graver- some months ago and siding at Nyack. Superintendent has been impassible for teams ever girls who have definite plans as to Downs' private car was attached to the output record since the strike started. At the Demmler tin plate plant, every what they will endeavor to accomplish. since. passenger and next to it was a day thing has been made ready foran early The Hampton institute pursues similar coach filled with railroad laborers Another rich strike has been made plans with all Indians, adapting the start. A report was current in Mc in the Copper Stain mine in the Mount work of the school to the special condi from Duluth. As the runaway train Keesport today that a large number of sped by the switch it struck a caboose Reuben district near Grant’s Pass. tions at their respective homes. Deputy Sheriffs had been sworn in to and day coach on the siding, wrecked Workmen, while drilling, noticed glis As far as possible Hampton is made them, and the fire started from the go to Demmler to guard the works at tening particles in the rock, which a miniature world where the young that place. The deputies have been proved to be gold. The extent of the people learn to deal with problems oil lamps in the caboose. The point ordered to report for duty Wednesday. where the wild train crashed into the vein is not yet known, but the rock is similar to those which they will meet passenger was several hundred feet worth many thousands per ton. in the outside world. Work in the va away and it was two and a half hours FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. rious trades is made more and more From parties who have been fishing before the flames reached the main on Bear Creek, it is learned that some a part of each boy’s course. The grad wreck. Meanwhile frantic efforts were Four Deaths In One Family Within a Month unscrupulous persons have again been uating class in carpentry has taken made to take out the dead and injured Cause an Investigation. dynamiting flsh in that stream. One for half a year one-half a day each The wreck was piled high and wedged man reports having seen any number week at bricklaying, painting and tin Into almost hopeless confusion, and in Calumet. Mass.. Sept. 3.—It is rather of dead trout along the banks where smithing; four hours at woodturning; spite of superhuman efforts the flames unusual for four persons in one family the dynamiters failed to gather them six hours at designing small houses: burned their way to the wrecked cars to meet death within a period of one up. He say>; he measured one such, and the remainder of each week is before the work was completed. J. H. which was exactly 26 Inches in length. spent at the carpenter bench. The Blair, colored cook in Mr. Downs’ car. month. Yet this ocurred in the case shoe department made 385 pairs of of Mr. and Mrs. Alder P. Davis and Hop picking has begun in several shoes; the harness department fixed was taken out alive but died in a few their two daughters'. Mrs. Irving Gibbs minutes. It was impossible to get at Oregon yards. 56 sets of harness;; the bricklayers the bodies of Superintendent Downs and Mrs. Harry Gordon, the latter ot Another contest has been filed in have laid 450.000 brick, besides making and his son. Chicago, the deaths taking place only all repairs to brickwork and plastering the Tillamook timber land case. a few weeks ago. on the grounds. The machine shop i Made a Mile a Minute. Cattlemen fired about 100 shots into turned out 179 gears, machined 700 Some one started a rumor that these The runaway tore down the hill at a band of sheep in Eastern Oregon. trucks, and did considerable work for lightning speed, rounding the most persons, or at least two of them, did Important changes will be made the electric light and power plant of sharp curves at a speed of 70 miles an not die from natural causes. Finally among the traffic men of the O. R. Hampton City, besides building a six- hour, where regular trains crawl along. the District Attorney ordered an inves horse power vertical engine. The With a roar it burst around the curve & N, Railway. tigation, and Joseph Whitney, of the woodworking machine shop has built Hop pickers are said to be very and sold 727 trucks; the tailor shop and what is most remarkable jumped ' state police force, was instructed to scarce in many sections of the Wil made 302 uniforms. The manual train a split switch, which would have | make an autopsy on the bodies of Mrs. turned it to the sidetrack and lamette Valley. ing department gives instruction to crashed into the passenger, i Gordon and Mrs. Gibbs. An under Richard Downey has been appoint every student in the school. No boy There was neither time nor’ taker exhumed the bodies and an au ed marshal of Vale, vice Robert graduates from Hampton without hav opportunity for escape. Mr. Downs’ ' ing worked in wood, iron and sheet car and that of the laborers was | topsy was held in the presence of med Draper, resigned. ical experts, including State Examiner metal, besides having taken a course Construction of the Lakeview-Silver in agriculture; no girl graduates with- [ smashed into kindling wood, the occu Faunce. State Detective Whitney. Pro Lake telephone line will be begun out having received instruction in pants of the private car meeting in stant death. The debris and shingles fessor Whitney and Professor Wood, about September 1st. woodwork, enabling her to mend and and lumber of freight burned like tin of Harvard College. While Professor make small furniture, or without hav A band of counterfeiter's captured der. The train crew was forced back 1 at Huntington had one of the most ing been taught to cook and serve from its work of rescue. One man 1 Wood had undoubtedly been requested meals and to make her own dresses penetrated as far as the private car 1 by Captain Paul Gibbs to attend the complete outfits ever found. and underclothing. All pupils receiv where he said he saw the dead bodies autopsy, he was also present as an A branch of the Sons of St. George has been organized by the British ed instruction in agriculture the past of Mr. Downs and his son. and from expert employed by the state, and to year. The head of the department where he' dragged the corpse of the ; his custody was intrusted the organs American citizens of Marshfield. year. cook. In the laborers’ car many of the j of the two bodies for chemical analy A dead Infant was found in a mill There are three courses in cooking 46 occupants were so penned in that race at Salem, but the presence was at Hampton—an elementary one in they could not be reached and burned | sis. This. In the minds of many, shows explained satisfactorily to the cor home cooking for girls who are not to death before the eyes of the spec-I that the authorities are looking for oner. likely to go very far in the school: a tators. The fire was so fierce that the ! poison. W. S. Walker’s threshing crew run more advanced class, and the normal rear sleeper could not be saved. J The fact that the Jacin House, five days on spring grain and aver course for post-graduate students who though it had not left the track. Its which was the home of the Davis fam aged 2500 bushels. The largest run intend to become teachers of cooking. occupants were hurried into forward ily, was set on fire four or five times in one day was 3100 bushels. That Besides the routine of the cooking cars, which were pulled ahead out of during the interval between the death is something big, and Mr. Walker classes, the girls are taught to care for reach of the fire. The flames extend of Mrs. Davis and her youngest dau would like to hear of the thresher tne dining room, to set a table proper ed to the brush alongside the track ghter is considered as naving an im ly and wait on the table. that equals it. and burned down the telegraph poles In the sewing department, the stu A wire break followed, which, with a | portant bearing on the case. Whether the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. dents show real enthusiasm, and a storm, greatly retarded telegraphic Davis are to be exhumed depends on Portland Market!. spirit of co-operation that is striking news of the wreck. 7 the result of the autopsy held tomor Wheat — Walla Walla, nominal In addition to the regular sewing row. The result will not become courses, classes in basketry and lace 56 4C per bushel; bluestem, 56 4 9 known for several days. TO CLOSE BUTCHER SHOPS. making were conducted during the 57c; valley, 55 4956. Flour—best grades, $2.6593.50 per past year. The head of the depart Overawed the Spanish. ment considers that as a training for New York Butchers Will See That the Sunday barrel; graham, $2.60. Madrid. Sept. 2.—While the British the hand and eye, basketry is in some Law Is Strictly Enforced. Oats—Old. $1.1091.15 percental. fleet in Spanish waters was maneuver respects superior to sewing, because Barley—Feed, $15915.50; brewing, inacurate or slovenly work can readily New York, Sept. 3.—The butchers ing today a torpedo which had been $15.50 per ton. be detected. of New Y’ork are determined that the launched stranded on the shore in Millstuffs—Bran. $27 ]>er ton; mid The study of mathematics is one of new state law prohibiting the sale or front of La Linea. A party of man-of-’ dlings, $21.50: shorts. $20; chop, $16. practical character. Each student delivery of meats Sunday shall be en warsmen was sent to recover it, but Hay—Timothy, $11(313; clover, keeps a cash book, showing what the forced. To this end an army of 2700 $7(49.50; Oregon wild hay. $5(36 per school owes him for work, what he men. all opposed to Sunday labor and was prevented from doing so by a owes the school for board, etc., and all eager to aid in carrying out the detachment of Spanish carbineers. ton. The landing party was strongly rein Butter—Fancy creamery.22’»(3 25c; each month an account is rendered by provisions of the law. will patrol the forced from the fleet, overawed the the student to the treasurer ’ s office. city tomorrow. It will be the largest dairy, 18920c; store, 11(312c per These two statemnts should agree, army ever organized in any city for carbineers and took the torpedo. pound. and if they do not. means are taken such a purpose and will be under the Eggs—17(317 4C per dozen. Will Accept Offer of United States. to discover on which side the error Cheese—Full cream, twins. 11(3 occurs. Articles are manufactured by direction of the Benchman's Associa London. Sept. 4.—A dispatch to a tion of Retail Butchers, comprising 36,- 114c; Young America, 12l2c per the students, and the cost of materials, 000 men. employed in butcher shops news agency from Copenhagen today pound. time, etc., is kept of record. Details in this city. The butchers came to the Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3. ih > m for memorandums concerning trans conclusion that the most effective says the new Danish Ministry has 3.75; hens, $4.50(85.50; dre-sed. 10« actions on the farm, in the workshops, means they could adopt to compel the decided to accept the United States’ 11c per jHiund; springs. $2.50(83.50 in the commissary and kitchen are stoppage of the sale and delivery of offer of 16.000.000 kreger for the Dan per dozen; ducks $3 for old; $3 <X) sent in for the classes to put in proper meat Sundays was to create a legal ish West Indies, thus announcing as (3 3.50 for young; geese. $5(36 per shape. In this way the Indians are vigilance committee of their own. The an accomplished fact what the dis dozen ; turkeys, live. 8910c; dressed, taught to make practical application ■ city has been divided into districts and patches of the Associated Press said of their mathematical education. the Ministry would do. captains appointed in each. 109124c per pound. Thorough instruction in vocal music I Mutton — Lambs, 3»4c. gross; Porto Rican Union Chartered Revolution in Persia. dressed, 6(87c per pound: sheep, is given to the pupils. Washington. Sept. 2.—The Ameri $3 25. gross: dressed. 6964c per lb. Cologne. Sept. 4.—A dispatch to the Ne<ro Murderer Extradited. can Federation of I-abor. with bead Cologne Gazette from Teheran, dated Hogs — Gross, heavy, $5.75(36; Okalahoma City. O. T., Sept. 3.— quarters In this city, has granted the Auguest 31. says: light. $4.75(35; dreesed, 7(37l2c per Will Favors, the Pierce County negro ' first charter for a general branch of A widesperead revolutionary move pound. Veal — Small. 899c; large, 7 porter, charged with the murder of that order in Porto Rico, The organ ment is going on in Persia, fostered ization tn that island is treated like Miss Gazelle Wild, a white girl, start by discontent with the government on 97 S’* I*r pound. account of the new loan negotiations Beef—Gross top steers. $3 5094.00: ed back to Missouri today in charge of any other state organization. with Russia. The Grand Vizier is ac cows and heifers, $3 2593.50; dressed officers from that state. Favors will New Oregon Postmasters. be held In Kansas City until It is con- ! cused of selling the country and fail beef. 6497*40 per pound. sldered safe to take htm to Pierce City, Washington. Sept. 3.—Oregon post ing to make reforms. Martial law has Hope—12(814c per pound. where three negroes have already masters were appointed today as fol been proclaimed in the capital and en Wool—Valley, 11913 4c; Eastern been lynched for the crime with which lows: virons. The agitation, it is said, pro Oregon, 8912 Sc 1 mohair, 209 21c j«r he Is charged. Governor Jenkins hon O. McCleary, at Garrison, vice E. ceeds from the entourage of the Shah, pound. ored Governor Dockery’s requisition Simms, resigned: F. G. Jones, at West who frequently finds threatening let Potatoes—$l(8$1.10 per sack. today. ters upon his writing table. fall, vice C. W, Madden, resigned. The Iowa at Acapulco. Preserved fruits, in a state fit to Washington. Sept. 2.—The battle have been eaten, have been taken ship Iowa arrived today at Acapulco from the ruins of Herculaneum. on her way to join the Ranger in look English cement manufacturers, ing after American Interests on the finding their trade threatened by the Isthmus. American product, decide to adopt Declared the Strike Off. the Yankee methods and machinery. Pittsburg. Sept. 2.—The seven hun The Southern Pacific railroad now dred strikers at the plant of the Mc has 95 engines equipped for the burn Clintock Marshall Company, at Ran ing of oil as fuel. It takes 21 harrela kin. Pa . met today and declared the of oil to run a locomotive a day. but ! strike off. They go back at the terms the cost is small Wmpared with coal. , offered by the company. Brazil produces 350,000 tons of cof fee out of the world's yearly crop of 600.000 tons. The population of the United King dom passed that of France for the first time In 1892. Holland has 10.100 windmills, each of which drains 310 acres of land, at i an average cost of 25 cents an acre a , year. Italy and Spain have fewer houses ' In proportion to population than any other country. The Argentine Repub lic has most. M c M innville ___ O regon . [MIS Of lilt MT Ail Interesting Collection of Item» From the Two Hemispheres Presented In a Condensed Form. New York. Sept. 2.—Special agents of the United States Government are constantly watching for the shipment of arms from this port, designed to fall into the hands of the warring fact’ons in Colombia, and the infor mation concerning the shipments of arms and other war materials from here to Central American ports is sent to Washington in the form of weekly reports. It is said that a report has been sent to Washington containing the information that during the week ending August 27 these amounts of arms and explosives were shipped from New York to Mexican, Central and South American ports. To Mexico—Seven cases of fire arms. 11 cases of cartridges and 28, 350 pounds of powder. To United States of Colombia—206 cases of cartridges and one Driggs- Seabury 15-pounder rapid-fire gun from Pan-American Exposition (latter weapon not manifested.) To Venezuela—20 cases of fire crackers and 429 cases of railroad ma terlal. To Santo Domingo—925 pounds of gunpowder. To Uruguay—100 cases of fire crackers. To Argentine Republic—One case of firearms and five cases of cart ridges. To Central America—One case of firearms and two cases of cart ridges. To Bolivia—36 cases marked "wheelbarrows.” Spark Fell Into the Powder. Altona. Pa.. Sept. 3.—At Munson, a mining town north of this city. Emanu el Rinus. a German miner, was empty ing powder from one cask into another at hie home, when a spark fell from his pipe Into the powder. The explo sion which followed wrecked the house and hurled the Rinus family in all di rections. The father, mother and two children were terribly burned and mangled. All are living, but their death is expected. Will Consolidate Governments. Miners Refuse to Work. Manila. Sept, 2.—Civil Governor Taft returned here today from the north. He is pleased with the con dition of the parts of the country visited. During his trip he establish ed civil governments at Launfon. Ilio- cos (South and North», Abra. Caga yan. Isabela. Zambales and Bocol. He I Intends shortly to amalgamate the provincial governments, abolishing the 1 cumbersome machinery of the smaller provinces. Coal Creek. Tenn., Sept. 4.—About 1000 miners refused to go to work in the Coal Creek district today. The Coal Creek Coal Company and the Black Diamond Coal Company’s mines are completely shut down. A >tw Wor d s Record New York. Sept 4.—John Flanagan threw the 36-pound bammar 171 feet 9 inches at the Irish Athletic Club gzrr.es at Celtic Park today. This is t new world s recr»ril.
