15 DEAD AND 59 INJURED Football Players Mangled in a Railroad Wreck. l.CW PERSONS WERE O.N THE TRAIN. Tbe First Coach Contaln'ng Members ol Per due University Team, Was Smash:d to Kind In? Wood and Ih; (todies of Ihj Vic tins Were Tearfully Mangled Death List Likely to Grow. Indianapolis, lint. (Special). Fifteen persons were killed and over 50 injur ed, some fatally, by a collision between special passenger train on liic Big I'our Railroad and a freight engine with a cut of coal cars. The accident happened on the edge of this city. The passenger train of n coaches was car rying 954 persons, nearly all of whom were students of Purdue University and their friends, from Lafayette to Indianapolis, for the annual football game between ihe Purdue team and trie Indiana University squad for the State championship, which was to have been fought in the afternoon. In the first roach back of the en gine were the Purdue football team, substitute players and managers. Three players, the assistant coach, trainer and seven substitute players of the University team were killed, and every one of the fifty-three other per sons were either fatally or .-eriou-ily in jured. From the tj coaches were coming the joyous cries of a thousand routers for Purdue, clad in gala dresses, with colors streaming, while in the front coach sat 10 muscular fellows, trained to the hour, on whom the hopes of a brilliant victory on the gridiron were confidently placed. Around a curve at the Eighteenth treet cut Engineer S.humaker found directly in front of him the freight en gine and coal cars moving slowly from a switch hading to a gravel pit. lie reversed his engine and jumped. The crash hurled the passenger en gine and three front coaches against the steel freights loaded with coal, that plowed their way through ami buried under a pile of wreckage weighing many tons fully Go human beings. The first car, in which were the players, was completely demolished, the roof bring torn away and landing across a car of coal, while the body of the car was reduced to kindling wood against the side of the steel ircight cars. The second coach, containing the band of musicians, was partly tele scoped, while the third coach was over turned and hurled down a 15-ioot em bankment. The other roaches did not leave the track. President Stone, of the univer sity, with his family, was in the filth coach and was not injured. Immediately alter the shock the pas aengers, men and women, began the frantic work of tearing away the wreckage and pulling out dead ami dy ing classmates and fraternity brothers. Young women performed heroic work. Though the bodies were in several in stances horribly mangled, .one com pletely and one partially beheaded, they took upon their laps the heads of the dying and injured and soothed their sufferings as best they could, until the surgeons arrive 1. Their bloodstained and grimy garments were gloomy wit nesses of their heroism. A general alarm was sounded, and every assistance tiie city could afford was rushed to the wreck, which was three miles from the business centre. Surgeons dashed up in automobiles, fire wagons, ambulances, express wa gons, undertakers' vehicles, private conveyances, and even delivery wa gons, were cut to carry away the dead and injured. While thee were being carried to the morgues and hospitals the work of tearing away the wreck and rescuing those pinned beneath went on. P.ig muscular students wept aloud as thev stool over tne bodies of their dead friends and fellow-workers or gazed helpless upon the sufferings of their college mates writhing in pain. To add to the horror the wreckage caught fire, but the flames were extin guished by the students after a hard tight. All the younrr men killed were in the first coach. They were found lying tangled and bleeding, with the injured pinned against them. The coach held about 70 persons. While the work r.f rescue was grim cm there arrived in the city over x0 cheering followers of the red and white f Indian University, at Bloomington. Banners waved, college yells were be ing hurled from the windows and streamers were displayed from the win dows of the car bearing the university football tram. As the happy and excited students poured from the train news oi tbe trag edy to the black and gold of Purdue was received. Instantly all was sad ness and sympathy. 'J he throng melt ed into sorrowing groups that separat ed to search morgue and hospital for friends, or took cars for the scene of the wreck to lend any possible aid. Welsh Miners Feported. Philadelphia (Special). Twenty two Welsh miners who were ordered deport ed by the immigration autliorities at Washington sailed on the steamship Noordland, which left here for Liver- yool. The miners rame here, it is said, an violation of the Contract I-abor I.aw to work in the mines at Ellsworth, Pa. Preacher Uses a PlitoL Gainesville, Ga. (Special). Rev. W. O. Petty, a well-known minister, shot at John B. Lipscomb at the former's place of business. The shot went wide of its mark and struck Jones James, who was inside the store, indicting a painful but not serious wound. The hooting occurred over an excoriation in the public prints of this city by Petty of Lipscomb. Lipscomb returned Pet fir's fire, but misted. Each swore out warrants lor assault with intent to commit murder. Fosfht lor Their Lives, New York (Special). Twenty-one men, three women and a 10-months-old la be were burned to death or suffo cated in a fire that started in the House 4 All Nations, a five-story tenement tiouse at 4J& Eleventh avenue. "1 lie IKtlicc and coroner believe the fire to ave been of incendiary origin. Some of the peculiar features. of the disaster, in addition to the t"r;I:ng loss 01 Inc. are that the fire was practically extin guished in twenty minutes, that the iKjIicc could learn of but one person bring injured other thi.il those who lost their lives. THE LATEST MiWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. A brilliant display of northern lights was observed in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and rther places. In some in stances the electrical conditions inter fered with the telegraph service. An attempt was made to launch the steamship Manchuria at the New York Shipbuilding Company's yard, at Cam den, N. J., but the steamship stuck on the ways. William Prater stabbed and fatally wounded Thmnas Ilarrett in a saloon in lirooMyn, N. Y., while illustrating a tragic scene in a play he had just wit nessed. Robert McCulley. aged 70 years, an in venti r of prominence, was accidentally :is hvxiatrd by illuminating gas in his home, in Philadelphia. I lie United States gunboat Nashville . ,.:l...i .-. L-: .. 1 I...I -.1 n v 11 lioiu imgsoil, J. I., miner se.u o orders, but lu r destination is believed to , be Colombia. I A strike of the lithographers in New j York was averted by an agreement to j submit existing differences to a board of I arbitration. ()!ier V. Buckingham, a cotton mer chant, fell dead from heart disease in the corridor of the New York Life Building. Three workmen were killed and four injured, one fatally, in the Newsam Coal Mine, at Farmingtoii, HI. An infernal machine was sent to the home of Peter Kuregliian, editor of Young Armenia, in Boston. I wo persons were killed and nine in jured by a tornado near Hydro, in Okla homa Territory. John Murray Howie, of Kssex, la., de clares that lie is the father of Klijah the Restorer. Vahtan Krikorian, the Armenian poet and journalist, pleaded "not guilty" to the charge of "political murder'' in con nection with the assassination of Sag- atel Sagouin in London when arraigned before a United States commissioner in Boston. Miss Henrietta Adams, of Ccntcr ville, Mich., secured a verdict of $,v. 000 damages for breach of promise against Kobert Stuart Baker, a society man, of (irand Rapids. Mich. 'Ihe American Public Health Asso ciation adopted resolutions favoring the army canteen. It was decided to hold next year's convention in Havana. Judge Newton C. Hlanchard and Gen. Leon (iercmski, gubernatorial candidates in Louisiana, came to blows at a nolitie.'i! meetiiiLr :it Ponrli.-itonl.-i Samuel J. Parks, walking delegate of the Houscsniiths and Bridge-men's j Union, was again found guilty in New j York of extortion. ne man w as burned to death and a number were injured in a tire that Ie- stroyed the Baltimore and Ohio clcva- j tor in Philadelphia. The strike oi the union boilermakers I of the Krie Railroad has extended to I all the shoos between New York and I Chicago. Major Robert L. llovvze, charged with cruelty in the Philippines, was ex onerated by the board of inquiry. William Hays, colored, was hanged at Uniontown, Pa., for the murder of Edward Perkins, also colored. The demand of the trainmen of the Pennsylvania Railroad for shorter hours was refused. Some minor conces sions were Rranted. The Illinois Tunnel Company, with capital stock of $.k,ooo,ooo, was incor porated at Springfield, III., to succeed the Illinois Telephone ami Telegraph Company, and will construct 50 miles of tunnel under Chicago streets. Tcrcign. Count Ca;iui, the Russian ambassa dor to the United States, in an interview in Paris, says the reports that Russia has "reoccupied" Mukden, Manchuria, are misleading. The German hattlcslun Preussen was launched at Stettin in the presence of the Emperor and the Empress, the latter per forming the christening ceremony. Lord Goschcn has been elected to the chancellorship of Oxford University, hi succession to the late Marquis of Salis bu ry. Emperor Francis Joseph has signified his approval of the new Hungarian Cabi net as formed by Count Stephen Tisza. President Loubet informed the French Cabinet council of the terms of the letter he received from the Czar, in which the Russian ruler refers to the policy of France and Russia for the maintenance oi general peace. A new plot has been discovered against the murderers of King Alexan der and Queen Draga in Servia, and the former aid-de-camp of the late king has been rearrested. The arrest of other officers is imminent. Professor Muminsen, the historian, has suffered a severe apoplectic stroke at his home in Berlin. His left side is paralyzed and there is little hope for his recovery. Forty-five persons aboard the To-kai-Marn were drowned when that ves sel collided with the Russian steamer Progress off Hakora, Japan. liaron F. Nordenskjold has arrang ed for a zoological and anthropological expedition to the frontiers of Peru and Bolivia. Count Apponyi has tendered his resignation as president of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet. (ireat Britain has taken decisive-steps for the annihilation of the Mad Mul lah's power in Somaliland. The Russian and the French foreign ministers held a lengthy conference at Versailles on the Far Eastern ques tion, and the Russian Minister pre sented President Loubet with a letter from the Czar expressing the Russian ruler's gratification at the course of France in extending the, cause of inter national peace. A serums riot occurred in front of the Labor Exchange in Paris, in which several policemen and a number of rioters were seriously injured. Russian troops entered Mukden. Manchuria, and reoccupied the guard houses because of the weakness dis played by the Chinese authorities. Unsocial. London is just now keeping its fin gers off the American stock market. Canadian Pacific engineers are ask ing for higher pay. Poor time to do that. , lie St. Louis Trust Company trou bles are reported by bankers there to be over. A New York Stork Exchange seat was soi l for $54,ooo, an advance ef Sjoro. Tbe Lackawanna Railroad's track improvements at Newark, N. J., will cost $4,000,000. St. 1 ,01: is is sending money back to New York. 'I he Standard Oil's idea of a fair com promise with Hcinze on the copper fight in Montana is anparcntly to swal low tiemze. Hut llcinzc objects. One of the Rockefellers says the ad vance in petroleum led to the rise in Standard Oil stock, as if anybody ever thought tne advance was made lur any o;ner purpose. It would "f cquire net earnings of only $4,2;o.ooo a mouth to meet all intercut on L'njtcd Slain Steel bonds. The corporation is earning an average 01 .9Iij.uuu.iajw uti cavil iiiuiiiii. DAY FOR THANKSGIVING President Theodore Roosevelt Issues His Proclamation, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF LIBERTY. Thursday 26lh, Appointed lor the Annual arv:ce ol Praise and Thanksgiving Why Wt Have Abundant Cause lo lie Grateful to Providence Our Responslbi. lilts ss a Sell-uovcrning People, Washington. I). C. ( Special). The President issued his annual Thanksgiv ing proclamation in the following terms: lly the President of the United Stales of America A Proclamation. The season is at hand when, according to the custom of our people, it falls upon the President to appoint a day of praise and thanksgiving to God. During the last year the Lord has dealt bountifully with us. giving us peace at home and abroad, and the chance for our citizens to work for their welfare unhindered by war, famine or plague. It behooves us not only to rejoice greatly because of what has been given us, but to accept it with a solemn sense of re sponsibility, realizing that under heaven it rests w ith us ourselves to show that vc arc worthy to use aright what has thus been entrusted to our care. In no other place, and at no other time, has the cx-IH-riinent of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country in the opening years of the twen tieth century. Failure would not only Ik- a dreadful thing for u. but a dread ful thing for all mankind. lecauc it would mean the loss of hope for all who believe in the power and the righteous ness of liberty. Therefore, in thanking God for the mercies extended to us in the pat, we Ivcsccch him that he may not withhold them in the future, and that our hearts may be roused to war steadfastly for good and against all the forces of evil, public and private. We (pray for strength and light, so that in the coming years we may with cleanli ness, fearlessness and wisdom do our al lotted work on the earth in such a man ner as to show that we are nol altogether unworthy of the blessings we have re ceived. Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose velt, president of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thank-giving Thursday, the 26th of the coming November, and do recommend that throughout the land people cease from their wonted occupations, and in their several homes and places of wor ship render thanks unto Almighty Cod for his manifold mercies. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this .list day of Octolier, it the year of our 1-ord one thousand nine hundred and three and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, By the President. JOHN HAY. Secretary of State. PEACE DECLARED? Western Union and Pennsylvania Said to be oa Qood Terms. Washington, I). C. (Special). It was learned from high authority that the dis agreements that have existed between the Pennsylvania Railroad and George J. Gould from the time that the West ern Union telegraph poles were cut down along the lines of the railroad arc set tled, and that cordial relations now ex ist between these two important finan cial interests. During the past week there has been increased activity in all the Gould stocks, led by Missouri Pacific and the Wa- iaslies. and there lias been large buying of Pennsylvania as well. It is lielieved that basis of settlement is tne snaring ot business 111 me nus- burg district between the Pennsylvania and the Goulds, who, with the Wabash extension into that section, now prac tically control all the rich tonnage that has its origin there, TRAIN HOLDUP FOILED. Tbe Life ot Ihe Fireman Was Saved by His Watch. r- . , c i trnr..-,.. 1.. 1.1 . imicugo 1 .special ) . i-iiuns 10 iniiu uii a fast outbound Chicago anil Northwest ern passenger nam s..-iil iiMiuy Usui here, it is lielievcd by the police, owing to the poor marksmanship of one of the kindits. Fireman I-ouis Ernst was shot, one bullet grazed Engineer Harry Eb- bets, and today live dynamite bombs were found near the scene of tne at tack. Detectives of the railroad and the jKilicc arc working on the case, but no clue to the identity of the man or men who did the shooting has been unearthed. It is admitted by the railway officials that the bullets must have been fired lv one or more ihtsoiis w ho were riding on the water tank or the platform of the first coach. J lie unknow n men made their escape in the darkness. The life of the fireman, who was seriously wounded, was saved by his watch, which deflected one of the bullets Johnstown Opera House Burned. Johnstown, Pa. (Special). The opera house here was destroyed by fire. The Adams Express Company, Ham mer's music store and several other stores occupied the building. The to tal loss will be about $100,000 on the building and a large sum 011 the con tents. Express Trais Derailed. Philadelphia (Secial). An express train which left this city for New York ovrr the Reading Railway at 8 o'clock a. m., was derailed at West Neshaminy Falls, Pa., a short distance from this city, by the breaking of an axle on the engine. None of the passengers was injured, but the locomotive struck and killed Joseph Gorman, assistant fore man of a section Rang, and seriously injured three Italian laborers. Two day coaches left the track and blocked traffic for several hours. Death-Dealing Tornado. Oklahoma City, Ok. (Special). Two persons were killed and nine injured, two perhaps fatally, and half a dozen farmhouses were demolished by a tor nado that formed three miles north of Hydro, in Caddo county. The tornado traveled over a course from northeast to southwest, sweeping nearly every thing before it for a distance of four miles. Farmhouses, barns and fences were completely wrecked and crops ruined. The property toss is estimated at jvi.ooo. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Millions Paid Without Audit. Various recommendations to cure de fects in accounting methods under which abuses in the postal service have oc curred arc made by Henry A. Castle, auditor for the Postoflicc Department, in his nrlnual report to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster Gen eral. He says that the defects pointed out make infinitely greater postal abuses than those already disclosed not only possible, but safe. The report says the aggregate transactions of the postal serv ice during the fiscal year were $1,026,-".tl.-48, as follows: Revenues. $l.?4. 224,44.1: exrnditures, $1.18784.488; total amount of money orders issued. $.?K8, W'S.584 : money orders paid, $.,64,856,803 Mr. Castle says : "Presumptively, there is a 'double au dit of all governmental receipts and dis bursements, hut literally, under existing laws and conditions, 00 per cent, of the postal transactions can have no cxamina. tion whatever in the Postolhcc Depart ment. Less than $150,000,000 of the $1,000,000,000 annual transactions can have the shallow of a 'double audit.' " As to claims for railway mail trans portation, aggregating about f40.oco.coo a year, the report says the auditor must rely wholly on the bald statement of the departmeutalauthoritics that the amounts certified arc due arid payable. The report recommends an amendment to the law prohibiting the payment of any salaries or expenditures pertaining to the business of the Postoflicc Department by order on a postmaster. It also recom mends other safeguarding amendments together with an increase of iqo clerks to handle current business and vitally important work necessary to the safe au dit of $1,000,000,000 a year. The Au ditor summarizes the recent investigation of the methods of his office and depre cates the fact that the auditor keeps no accounts for postage stamps, stamcd paper and envelopes, etc., bought by the Postoflicc Department from manufac turers or contractors, and urges a law to remedy this defect. The Auditor recommends that Con gress amend the laws so as to provide, when "any branch of the government de sires tou.se a patented article in the pub lic service, some just method of deciding on the value of that article, based on cost of manufacture, reasonable profit and fair royalty, and that the same be fixed at the price lo le paid therefor. The manufacturer would doubtless in all cases be willing to accept the price thus established, lie would have no motive for offering bribes to any official for ap proving the sale, and he government would secure the desired improvement at a minimum cost. If the manufacturer should refuse the price thus established, provision might be made for invalidating the patent as to articles required for the public service." Favors .Mclousse Boiler. ' At a meeting of the Naval Board on Construction it was decided that it will not be necessary to change the con tracts for the seven ships being built with the Niclaussc tyoe of boilers in stalled, so as 10 provide them with a different boiler. This action, it is understood, was taken largely as a result of the recent trial of the battleship Maine, which is equipped with Niclaussc boilers and which made such a satisfactory run from Hampton Roads to Culcbra and return. The boiler question is now one of the most important before the department. It has been held by some naval engi neers, prominent among whom is Rear Admiral George W. Melville, formerly Chief Engineer of the Navy, that the Niclaussc boiler is not adapted to the needs of the Navy. Besides the Maine, seven of the large ships under construc tion are to be provided with the Nic laussc boiler. Before retiring Admiral .Melville recommended that these new ships be given another tvpe of boiler. The action taken by the Board of Con struction settles the question in favor of the Niclaussc type. More Pay lor Marine Band. The annual report of Maj. Gen. Chas.n Hey wood, commander of the United State Marine Corps, contains estimates for the following, among other im provements, at the yards and stations named: Washington, enlargement of the pres ent new quarters and the acquirement ot a site for new barracks and parade grounds adjoining the navy yard; Nor- tolk, Va., the purchase of a site outside the navy yard as a site for barracks; Algiers, La., increased appropriation for the construction of barracks. Ref erence also is made to the need of barracks at the Charleston (S. C.) sta tion. General Ilcvwood expresses the hone that a site for barracks at Culcbra, P. K., be allotted in the near future, as the marines' quarters there under canvas are put to a great deal of suffering and inconvenience during the rainy season, lie has directed that the esti mates be made fur suitable barracks and officers' quarters at San Juan. Can Call for Troops. Captain Mercer, the officer mention ed in the dispatch from Fergus Falls, Minn., as subject to charges for alleged misconduct as agent of the Chippewa Indians, has authority from the War Department to call on the department commander at St. Paul for troops in case of any disturbance arising from the disputes in relation to the lumber on the reservation, lie has informed the War Department that the Indians are very much agitated and that troops may be necessary. It is stated at the War Department that the charges against Captain Mer cer are made by lumbermen who are not satisfied with his action in endeavoring to protect thj Indians in their rights. In (he Departments. The Navy Department is arranging to hurry the cruiser Dixie from Guanta namo, across to Santo Domingo, if an emergency growing out of the revolution should develop before the cruiser Balti more, now on the way, reaches the is land. The President appointed Sanford B. Dole to be United States district judge for Hawaii end George R. Carter to be governor of Hawaii. The terms of a parcels post treaty be tween the United States und Hongkong, China, were agreed upon. The KishencfT petition, containing 50,000 names, was presented to the Presi dent, to remain permanently at the State Department. The Missionary Council of the Epis copal Church in Washington voted to have suffragan bishops lor work among the non-American races. The transmission of tuberculosis from animals to human beings was discussed at the meeting of the Amer ican Public Health Association. Representatives from the Maryland militia will take part in the school ng tourney of the National Rifle Associa tion at Washington. SANTO DOMINGO REVOLT The Cruiser Baltimore Will Protect American Interests. ORDERED FROM NORFOLK IN Hl'RRY. Her Comm idler Bears Instructions From (h: State Department to Minister Pow.-ll lor Ills Qu dance Dur'ng the Revo'utlon on the Island The Entire Northern Pari ol tbe Island In Revolution. Norfolk, Va. (Special). The cruiser Baltimore cleared from the navy yard at a o'clock for Santo Domingo to pro tect American interests. Fresh ammu nition and extra bunker coal were taken on at the navy yard, and the vessel is prepared for business. It is understood that her commander has full authority to land marines and bluejackets if the situation demands it. The Baltimore will return here after the trouble in Santo Domingo is over to convoy the torpedo flotilla to Manila. Washington, D. C. (Special). A ca blegram received at the State Depart ment from United States Minister Powell at San Domingo reports that conditions in the republic arc in a state f great disturbance. The State De partment is making vigorous efforts to communicate with Mr. Powell by ca ble, but with unsatisfactory results ow ing to the fact that the insurgents ap pear to be in possession of the land telegraph lines collecting the capital, San Domingo, with the cable station on the east coast. Incidentally, this has interrupted communication with Ven ezuela. So to guard against any fur ther cable lapses lite State Department is sending through the Navy Depart ment written instructions to Minister Powell for his guidance during the rev olution, and these went forward 011 the Baltimore, which sailed today. Santo Domingo (Special). The po litical situation in this city is unchang ed. Quiet prevails, but serious trou ble may arise here at any time and the presence oi a foreign warship is de sirable. The Clyde Line steamer Cherokee, from New York, arrived here. She had been prevented by the Dominican gov ernment cruiser Indcpcndencia from calling at Puerto Plata. Samana ami Macoris. She reports that the whole of the northern part of the island has joined in the revolutionary movement. SALVATION ARMY LEADER KILLED. V.rs. Emma Booth-Tucker Victim ol Rallroal I Wreck. Kansas City, Mo. (Special). Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker, consul in Amer ica of the Salvation Army, wife of Commander Booth-Tucker, and second daughter of William Booth, founder of the army, was killed in the wreck of the eastbound California train No. 2, near Dean Lake, Mo., 85 miles east of Kan sas city, at 10 o'clock p. in. Col. Thos. C. Holland, in charge of the Salvation Army at Amity, Col., was fatally injur ed. Fifteen others were more or less seriously hurt. The dead and injured were taken to Fort Madison, la. Mrs. Boolh-Tucker was rendered un conscious and died within half an hour after being injured: Her skull was frac tured and .she was injured internally. Mrs. Booth-Tucker was on her way from a visit to ihe colony at Amity, Col., to Chicago, where she was to have met her husband. The wrecked train ran into an open switch just outside of Dean Lake. Only the three last cars, two Pullmans and a diner were wrecked. The Pullmans were completely demolished, while the diner was badly damaged. In the for ward Pullman Mrs. Booth-Tucker and Colonel Holland, who were the sole occupants of that car, had jut gone to the forward end for a consultation. Two of the Pullmans struck a steel water tank with such force as to move it five feet from its foundation and when the crew reached the scene, both Mrs. Booth-Tucker and Colonel Holland were found unconscious. They, with the other injured, were, after much de lay, taken to the depot platform a few blocks distant, where everything possi ble was done for them. " Assassinated lo His Horn:. Vincennes, Ind. (Special). In his own home William J. Fugle, secretary of the Vincennrs Distilling Company, was shot and died from the wounds. Eugle had arisen to take n train for St. Louis. He was dressing to go to the station when he heard a noise in the kitchen. He went down stairs, and as he reached the kitchen he was nut by a volley of shots. Two bullets en tered his head, and he fell unconscious to the floor. He remained in an uncon scious state until he died. Olliccrs are searching for the assailants. Mr. Fngle as one of the most prominent business men in this city. Lives Lost In Collision. Yokohama (By Cable). A collision occurred in a fog off Hakodate, Japan, between the Russian Ytishcn Kaisha Company's steamers Progress and Tokai-Maru. The latter sunk. Of Hie 100 passengers and crew on board the Tokai-Maru only 56 were saved. Negr Murderers Hanged. Luvcrne, Ala. (Special). Jim Cham bers and Lou Shaw, negroes, were hanged here for the murder of William sou Champion, another negro, in March last. Sale Arrington, an accomplice, turned state's evidence and was released. The hanging was public, and the military was used to help preserve order. Crank Calls at While House. Washington (Special). Edward Tan ner, 33 years old,' a native of Switzer land and a crank, tried to sec the Presi dent, but he did not get far beyond the doors of the Executive offices before hit condition was discovered. He was taken to police headquarters and later to St Elizabeth's Insane Asylum. His delu sion was that he was being continually pursued by airships. He thought the President would make them stop bother ing him. Shipbuilding Collapse. New York (Special). Andrew Car negie, who, with his wife and daughter, returned from Europe, believes that the collapse of the United States Shipbuild ing Company was not without good re sults. He said, concerning the failure; '"It was no surprise. The British papers have been-predicting it, right along. It will result in a salutary reduction of values and the bringing of everything to a healthy condition It's a good tiling to tqueec the water out of some stocks. The standard securities are as good as ever." ALSO WANTED ECKSTEIN TO DIE. Miss Ccchtel'g Murderer Commiltcl Suicide in His Cell. Allentown, Pa. (Special). Thomas Bcchtel, who was held awaiting investi gation of the murder of his sister, Ma bel N. Bechtel, at their home a few days ago, committed suicide in his cell in the Central Police Station. The police consider this act as a practical acknowledgment of Bcchtel's guilt. Bechtel was in cell No. 2, on the right side of the corridor. Several rela tives and friends were admitted to see him during the afternoon. About 4 o'clock he called across the corridor to Alfred Eckstein, Miss Bechtel's affi anced lover, who was also held pend ing the coroner's inquest: "lleito, A I, arc you there?" Ycs." answered Eckstein. "1 wish you were here with me now, that we might die together," Bechtel responded. These were the last words heard from Bechtel. A short time later Eckstein called Bechtel and gol no answer, but he thought he heard nn unusual gurgle. House Sergeant Frank G Roth had been through the cells only a short time before. , At 5.15 o'clock he entered the corri-' dor and called both men. Getting no answer from Bechtel he looked into his cell and was appalled lo see a pool oi blood on the cell floor. Bechtel had laid himself on the bench in his cell and cut his throat with a knife. He was dead when found. The knife lay near him on the floor. How he got the kniic is not known. He was carefully searched when, placed in the cell and no weapon was found. There is a rumor to the effect that a newsboy passed the knife to him in the cell. Bechtel was a single man and 30 years of age. He was a laborer, doing odd jobs about the town and in the country. He was a hard drinker, and when in toxicated was easily angered and prone to fight. The suicide was followed by the po. lice officials telling the story of the murder of Miss Bechtel gathered by them. La?t Thursday Eckstein accompanied Miss Bechtel lo Philadelphia. He left her there and returned home. Weisen berg met her in Philadelphia and ac companied her to Allentown, leaving there Sunday at 4 p. m.. and rcachins here four hours later. They rcmainec together until midnight. Thomas Bccli tel heard ot this and. being strenuousl; opposed to Weisciiberg. he upraided hit sister in her room upon her rcturr home. In his anger he struck her a pow-erfu' blow on the cheek, causing her to fal heavily against a bureau, contact will' which caused her death. Members of the family held a coun cil, and decided upon the story made public on Tuesday and upon the dispo sition of the body and clothing n found. Charles Bcchtel's slater'! hatchet was then used in striking s blow on the head of the dead girl tc give semblance of an assault. This happened immediately after mid night. The body was concealed in the home until Monday night, when it was placed in the areaway where it wa: found Tuesday morning. Eckstein knew nothing of the mur dcr, the police say. A PLOT TO KILL 300. Armeolao Leader in New York Says Ksjo-jo Fomented Trouble. New York (Special). The assassin ation of Sagour.i in Loudon has un masked a plot to massacre 300 com patriots in this city. In the Armeniar colony the scheme of extermination h the sole topic of conversation. Not in years have the New York Armenian! been so excited. Sarkis Havsopian, of this city, s member of the new Huntcliagist Soci ety of Revolutionists, against which an other section has declared a feud, re vealed the existence of ihe assassina tion plot. He said: "The fight is between the members of the old Huntcliagist Society, which mis appropriated some $..0,000 of funds raised by Armenians in the United States for assistance in freeing Armenia from Turkey, and ihe new society, which detected the irregularity of the first society. "Only a few days ago the members of the new society in New York city, of which there are some 300, received warning that their lives were in peril. Former members of the original Huut chagist Society have declared that wc shall pay the penalty with our lives." Some Armenians looked on the as sassination of Sagouui with compla cency. ' One recognized as a leader said: "Sagouui was undoubtedly killed by an Armenian, probably from the L'nit ed States. He is known to be a fo incnter of trouble and a Russian em issary. He has pretended to work for the Armenians, while in reality he has been in the employ of the Russian Czar. "I and my countrymen here believe that much of the slaughter of Armen ians is due directly lo Sagouui and sev eral others like him. Two ol these have lately been killed, and now Sagouui has suffered a similar fate. "While we feel Ihe means are ex treme, yet it seems to us that under the circumstances they arc justified." Killed Ihe Woman. Jacksonville, Fla. (Special). While attempting to secure her husband, who lived near Jennings, Fla., a mob of men shot to death Jennie McCall, a negro woman. The mob surrounded McCall' house, and, thinking he was inside, fired a volley into the house, instantly kill ing the woman. A posse is reported to be in pursuit of the assailants. Attempt lo Kill President Dial. , Guanajuato, Mex. (Special). Great excitement was caused here by an at tempt on the life of President Diaz, who was a guest of the stale govern ment during the festivities here. The President, his staff and guests were passing by the Cant.igor Garden in a street car, when a man 67 the lowei class named FHi Toscano approached the car shouting and fired five shote from revolver at the car. None Of the shots took effect. SPARKS FROM Till) W1RB1 A monument erected on the spot where Washington itood when he n furled the first American flag was ded icated at Somcivillc, Mass., Governor Bites participating in the exercises. Lieut. James Wi Walsh, constabulary supply officer at' Masbati. in the Phil ippines, was sentenced lo 10 years' im prisonment for embezzlement. A warrant was issued for the arrt of Mrs. Samuel Boswell. of CohunMi, who is charged with writing blackmail ing letters to Senator Hanna and. others. ' ' t THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest Nes ot Pennsylvania Told la Short Order, Thffe patents were issued to Penn sylvaniaas: -Charles D. Armstrong, Pittsburg, cork washer or disk and making same; Oliver Badger, Pitts, burg, warn air furnace; John V. Barth, Pittsburg, automltic cir coupling; An drew J. Cog.lt?, Carn'fc-;?, folclir.g box or crate; Lcdio II. Culburn, Franklin, upright tapping and boring niacaine; Lendell A. Conner, Jr., PutJuurg, jick; John II. Croskey, Pittsburg, lass fin ishing apparatus; William and John Floss, Meadow Lands, elevator saiety device; George W. G.moe, Philipsb'jrg, support for telephone rjc-ivers; Alex ander M. Gow, Pittsburg, apparatus for manufacturing ges, alio :sa.iu,'".:turinj glasj drawing machine; C, Herr- nian, Allegheny, frictio-.l draft riffling; Joseph Homoia, Allrr;''. ::iy, hose coup ling; Thimas I.. Iiov.wi, Sviithfield, railway track gauge; Alexander F. Humphre;-, Allegheny, rri liature sub marine boat; Michael Killeen, J. F. Lewis, Braddork, and A. P. Aiken, Port Perry, furnace br'.t!:ni a.isratas; John II. king and E. M. Volfe, Beaver Falls, apparatus for manufacturing fepmlcss tubing; Robert G. Kirk.vood, Pittsburg, fluid fuel heet?r end pump ing system, alio oil fe:dir,g and ttor-in:- system. Dashing through flames in a stairway to reach n bedchamber lo save his baby while lfls wife lay burning to death at the bottom of the stairs was the ex perience of a silk mill foreman, William Schwartz, of Pottsville. It was just be fore the hour for rising that Mis, Schwartz started downstairs to get the infant some milk. She dropped the glass kerosene lamp, which exploded, throwing the blazinrr oil tibout the stairway. Her husband responded to her screams for assistance. Despite his efforts she was burned irom head to foot and is dying at the Pottsville Hos pital. Schwartz was also badlv burned. While he was extinguishing his wife's blazing garments a pbintivc wail from the bedroom reminded him of the in fant's danger. The stairs were all ablaze by this time. He broke through the wall of flame and rescued the child. With the coolness that has charac terized him throughout and without a tremor, William Hays, colored mur derer, paid the penalty for his crime a! Uniontown. The execution was car ried out with remarkable celerity, and Hays was pronounced dead in nine and one-half minutes niter the drop fell. The crime for which Hays was hanped was the murder of F.dward Perkins, col ored, at Masontonn, November 14, 1002. Hays boarded with Perkins and his attentions to Perkins' wife led to trouble between the two which resulted in Hays killins Perkins. Hays leu a message lo the public warning all young men against drinking and gambling, the causes which led him to the scaffold. Forest fires which arc raging in the vicinity of Tamaqui and menacing val uable farm properties are doing Teat damage. Much valuable timber is be inrr destroyed and the flames show no sign of abatement. 'I he Tyrone Electric Railway Com pany, of Tyrone; the City Passenger Railway Comoany, of Altoona, and the Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Rail way Company, three Blair county elec tric railways controlled by the Ameri can Sreet Railways Company, of Phil adelphia, have been trrged und;r the name of the Altoona 81 Logan Valley Electric Railway Company. A mort gage of $4,ooo,xo in favor of the Equit able Trust Company, of Philadelphia, was entered figain:.t the eiectric liner, 'jf the allied companies. On the charge of selling blackberry brandy adulterated with tar and a pre servative acid, ten .persons were ar raigned before Justice Conrad at Potts ville and fined fjo each and the costs. Suits were also brought against five other persons on a similar charge. State Pure Food Commissioner R. M. Sim mers has some 250 similar suits to bring. If he has occasion to proceed against the same persons again he says he will ask that the full fine of $500 io $1000, fixed by the old law, be imposed. Isaac Scnchrist, of Moore's Mill, cn "Chickies creek, has been foutnj guilty by a local magistrate of using a fbli basket. The charge was preferred by Fish Warden James D. Parker. A fine jf $25 was imposed. Owen Owens, aged 50, employed as holeman at a quarry in Penn Argyl, tvas killed by being struck with a piece jf slate that fell from a slate block. Mentally unbalanced from brooding over religioua matters, Mrs. Lizzie Frcy, wife of Jesse I'"rcy, of Sharpville. look a large dose of paris green and died. While Mrs. II. Group, of Idaville. ftas boiling apple butter over an open fire in her yard, her dress caught fire and she was so badly burned that she died within a few hours. Within twenty-four hours after his son, Albert Leister, had dropped dead in the postotfice at Gilbertsville, Noah Leister, an aged resident of New Han over, expired. Walter, the nine-year-old son of Jef ferson Hcisey, of Colcbrook, was kill ed instantly by a fall from the third floor of his father's grist mill. William Mitchell, one of the oldt active boilermakers in the State, and the oldest employe of Roach's Ship yard, Chester, dropped dead from heart disease. Kate Higgins, 6?ed 14 years, was taken to the Pottsville jail cn a charge of larceny. It is taid she had been stealing 111 a systematic manner for many months. VVhen the home of MitJ Mary Koch was searched, over a wa gonload of plunder belonging to resi dents of the town was discovered. The property included chairs, rugs, InmpJ and other household goods, all t' which, it is said, the girl stole. A Lackawanna locomotive ran into a handcar at Gravel Place. F. Stalmack and George Burton were killed ana John Frank, G. Reeves, John Jukley, Paul Ridos and J. Keif were injured. The rr.r.n were riding on the handcar. All lived in Stroudsburg. The thirteenth annual session of the School Directors' Association of Northampton County, was held in Easton. Thomas J. Keckline, of Wil liams Township, president, occupied tha chair, and there was a large attendance. Negotiations are on foot for the merger cf Western Pennsylvania $ compsniM. 1 The congregation of the Goshcr.ho?- , pen Reformed Church, which owns considerable land surrounding the church, has decided to establish a park nn this land. A Germantown firm ol landscape gardeners has been engaged to carry out the plan. Not only will tree be planted in abundance, nit n baseball diamond and a tennis court wil. also be laid out. - The three thousand-dollar pipe orgn presented by Andrew Carnegie to the First M. E. Church, Mt. Carmel, has arrived. The interior of Ihe church js being remodeled, and when com- pleted will be one of the prettiest li the State. .
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