T A Hurricane Brings Death and Desolation to Cities. WATER FRONT FULL OF WRECKS Big Iron Steamers and Lighter Vessels Thrown Upon Beach by the Tide. A dispatch from Mobile. Ala., September 29, says: As a result of the tropical hurricane which has been sweeping the gulf coast for the past (10 hours, 75 are dead In this city, many are Injured and a properly loss of $:!.0mi,000 has been sustained'. Be tween New Orleans and West Pasca goula, Miss., 2i wrecked schooners were counted today, and almost the entiie distance (he land is submersed. The storm struck Mobile Wednesday midnight, the wind reaching a velocity of !i" miles an hour. Water from Mo bile bay was blown Into the city by the pale and f.ir a time the sea stood seven feet, deep In Hie wholesale quarter. The loss of life Is believed to be mainly anions negroes. Mobil. has been placed under control of the militia. R ports to the weal her bureau at Washington from I'ensacola, Fla., nnnotmco that the Cull' hurricane pas sed inland west of there, the win;l reaching 88 miles an hour at Pensa cola. Another dispatch from Pensacola, September 27, says: The worst sea storm and hurricane that the gulf coast has experienced since the vil lage of I'ensacola, on San Rosa is land, was swept away 107 years ago, began last night, and Is still raging late this afternoon. It Is reported that many lives be tween the city and navy yard have been lost. ( It is known, however, that many of ythe houses in that section are under from five to ten feet of water and Ur... lining nuiuii nut? uiTt'u luikcii 1 1 kf ill Becond-story windows and carried to safety in boats. The estimated property damage is 93.OOO.000. Every house in Pensacola has suffered damage and many roofs are blown off. Telephone and tele graph and electric light wires are among the mass. The water front Is strewn with wrecka.se for miles on either side of the city, and vessels are piled on the wharves, or where the wharves once were, In utter ruin. Bis iron steamers and many lighter sailing ships are lying high and dry up in the city, where the tide has never before been known to reach. Everywhere, for miles around, whar ves have been swept away or damaged beyond repair. , A report from New Orleans say3: All railroads, telegraph and tele phone communications was cut off. The roadbed of the Louisville & Nash ville was submerged at Lake Calher "" -fne, an inlet from the gulf, five miles cast of here. The New Orleans & Northeastern railroad reported that their trestle over Lake Ponchartrain was under water for a distance of 15 miles. Queen and Crescent trains were pre vented from entering the city by the rise in the lake. RICH ANTHRACITE FIND Will Require Half a Century to Ex haust the Vein. By the discovery or Uie-Lykens vein in the Mahanoy Valley by prospec tors of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company the assets of this mining corporation will, be in creased millions of dollars. The .seam averages 12 feet in thick ness and extends for over a mile in length and about an eighth of a mile In width. It contains millions of tons of purest anthracite and It will re--imire half a century cf steady mining to exhaust it. The value of the vein is variously estimated from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. ' Preparations are to be commenced at once to develop it. This will pro vide employment for several thous and men and boys. Prospectors say this vein runs 'he entire length of the Mahanoy Valley, distance of 12 miles, only that it Is , . li ll. ...U If ii-tMH-r hi. iiimhv uuiuia Limn nt.tritT , HH IIHt.ll HIKITIlVtfl fAI HUH UIUVCII. lull LITTLE FOR DEPOSITORS nk in Ohio Town Fails to Open. President Absent. -J... n H1l.lili,nnht 111,,., Urt- u nc vi ilium I 'ii v. uun,, u. o of the Middleport Bank, a pri- institution, which Jailed to open doors, after Vice President T. S. intront had discovered its cm- Used condition during the absence esldent E. C. Fox. 'Ham Hofden. an old merchant. ln:r so angered over the loss of a -it that he took a revolver and fit Vice President Armentrottt ut Isomer with the avowed purpose of fling the hanker. Hor.len was ln- ' nted before reaching Armentrout. is stated that the greater part of lepnslts, amounting to nbout $115 - are missing. Most of the deposit- are poor people and their deposits tescnlcd neariv all their savings. rice President Armentrout was ar- ted and brought to Pomeroy, where I gave bond for his appearance. "resident Fox was found at Toron- Ohlo, where his wife's parents le, and his arrest has been ordered. Escaped from Asylum. IBertha Beilsteln, the young Alle- eny woman who murdered her krther In October, 189S. and attempt- to take her own me, ana wnose t nrnmntpd two suicides, escaned bm the Western Pennsylvania Asy- m for the Insane, at Dixmont. where e spent seven and one-half years. Lleut.-Gen. Stoessel, who communA d the Russian: torces at Port Ar tur, submitted his resignation from he army. TAFT WILL ASSUME CONTROL Failure of Cuban Congress to Act Makes Intervention by U. 8. a Necessity. President Roosevelt's peace com missioners, although clothed with the fullest authority from him to intervene in Cuba whenever It became obvious that peace by harmonizing the war ring Cubans was impossible, have pat iently withheld their hands from tints setting aside Cuban sovereignty until the last hope had disappeared. This stage of hopelessness was reached when the great majority of all three of the political parties re fused to attend the session of Con gress called to act upon the resigna tions of all the members of the Govern tnent, and declared definitely that they would have nothing more to do with the government of Cuba. No sooner was the failure of the ad journed session of Congress and the declared intention of the tiovernment officers no longer to serve reported to Secretaries Taft and Bacon than the preparations for armed Interven tion were put Into operation. A telephone wire had been quietly laid in the American Legation to the battleship Louisiana and as soon as j Hie order was received lrom secretary Taft ISO marines were landed and pro ceeded quickly to the Treasury build ing, where they vent on guard. Memhi rs of "Moderate assembly de nounced the United States govern ment nuil condemned Secretaries Taft and Bacon at meeting held in Hav ana. The use of dynamite on foreign property was urged by radical mem bers so European powers would In tervene. General orders were issued regard ing the organization of the marines for service in Cuba. - DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOONS Chinese Newspapers Estimate Loss of Life From the Hong Kong Typhoon at 10,000. The Cagayaa valley, In the North ern part of the Island of Luzon, was devastated by a typhoon September IS. Barrios, Galluran, Anlung and Baggo were totally destroyed and four other towns were badly damaged. Cagayas is the principal tobacco section of the island and the crops were practically destroyed. A typhoon in Laguna province, Is land of Luzon, September 22, destroy ed a number of raids, damaged the crops and caused about $150,000 dam age in the towns situated in the path of the storm. Chinese newspapers estimate the loss of life resulting from the ty phoon at Hong Kong, September IS. at 10.000, and, Including the loss of the fishing fleet and damage to prop erty, the Chinese papijis, estimate the damage done at from $:i,000,000 to $15,0on,0iio. The insurance claims against the Hon.' Kdng local compan ies are said to total more than $1, 000,000. TROUBLE IN MEXICO Ssveral Reoorted to Have Fallen in the Fight. A courier who has arrived nt Hous ton, Tex., says the revolutionists and a force from Cludad, Porfirio Diaz, clashed at Victoria, about five miles south of Jimlnez. One ranger was killed and the revolutionists left sev eral dead. They scattered and are being pursued by Mexican troops. Jiminez Is not in possession of the lat ter. The affair Is regarded as posses sing but little of a revolutionary or political character. The following telegram was receiv ed at the treasury department at Washington from the collector of customs at Eagle Pass, Texas: Yesterday about 30 bandits and smugglers took possession of .Tlmlnez, a small town In Mexico, 30 miles above Eagle Pass. A fight ensued with Mexican soldiers and several men were killed. Sensational reports were sent out describing the fight as a revolution. Nothing serious in the situation is reported. WABASH TRAIN WRECKED Four Killed and Many Injured Cars Burned Up. Passenger train No. 8, of the Wa bash Railroad, running from Kansas City to Buffalo. N. Y., known as the Buffalo mail, ran into an open switch west of Catlln, 111., and crashed Into a section of a freight train. All the passenger cars but one turned over and burned. Four persons are known to have been killed. Several others are missing. Thirty-seven Injured are being tak en care of at Danville hospitals. The known dead are: Engineer J. S. Butler, of Peru, In J.: W. W. Elli son, fireman, Lafayette, Tnd.; Edward Harding, mail clerk, Ivcsvllle, 111.; C. H. Karnes, mall clerk. REWARD FOR CZAR'S DEATH Pamphiets Urging Assassination of Russian Ruler and Promising Pay Are Circulated. Thousands of pamphlets printed In Genoa, and Zurich have been smug gled across the frontier into Russia iiRcrin;; S25.0OO reward for the assas sination of the czar. The pamphlet ccucltt.iea: "Rest assured thnt the sum will be paid "you, or. If you die in doing the glorious work, to your re lations within three days after you have accomplished the act. You will free us from czardom and slavery aud Russia will bless you." The authorities are confiscating the pamphlets wherever they can be found. Three Drown in Squall. During a squall a rowboat contain ing two men and two women was swamped In Maumee bay at Toledo, and the women and one man were drowned. The drowned were: James Howes, bartender; Mrs. hate Karlin, aged 2$, and Mrs. Leslie Watson aged 37. i Evidence was found In the wreck of the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, which is expected to cause action to be taken against so called sugar trust BANKER GETS TEN YEARS Stensland, Former President of Chicago Bank, Admits Guilt. HE PUTS BLAME ON OTHERS Exonerates Directors from Participa tion in Looting but Blames Cash ier, Teller and Clerks. Paul O. Stensland, former president of the Milwaukee Avenue State Hank, pleaded guilty la court at Chicago upon charges growing out of the wrecking of the bank, and was given on one count an indeterminate sentence in . the penitentiary with a maximum term of 10 years. On another count, that of altering forged checks, he was fined $120. New disclosures of the greatest im- portance were made by Stensland to Assistant Slate's Attorney Olsen on the train on the way from New York ' to Chicago. The bank r broke down and wept several times during the cross-examination. ; It is said Stensland laid the origin of Hie allege, 1 lingeries of notes, to an liallan clerk lit the bank, ami that at that time they aggregated $:'.00.- , HOD. These forgeries were wiped out by the issue of others by a second forger. Tlie Italian was charged with working in conspiracy with Cashier Hering. An assistant from the state's at torney's office boarded the train at Cleveland with the questionable notes that have been unearthed. They were examined in detail by Stens land and some of them pronounced ' valid, notwithstanding the statement : of the makers that their signatures had been forged. Stensland exon erated the directors of participating in the looting of the bank and placed I all the blame on Cashier Hering, former Teller Frantzen and their partners. Stensland, In charge of Jailer Whit man, left for the Jollet penitentiary the same day. NEW YORK STATE TICKETS Republicans Nominate Hughes for Governor by Acclamation; Demo- crats Choose Hearst on First Billot. Charles E. Hughes, the New York attorney who probed the insurance scandals and caused such a revolu tion in the affairs of the big conl panles, was chosen the candidate for governor by the New York state Re publican convention at Saratoga. The name of Hughes was the only one to go before the convention, M. Linn Bruce, present lieutenant gov ernor, was renominated also by ac clamation. The ticket was completed by the nomination of John F. O'Brien for secretary of state; Merton E. Lewis' for comptroller; J. G. Wallenmelor. for stale treasurer; H. A. Van Als tyne, for state engineer and survey or, and Julius M. Mayer, for attor ney general. Immediately following Hughes's nomination came a telegram from the standard bearer, accepting the nomi nation "without pledge other than to do my duty according to my con science." William R. Hearst, congressman and newspaper proprietor, was nomi nated for governor by the New York Democratic State convention at Buffalo. The nomination came on the first ballot and the vote was as fol lows: Hearst, 309; Sulzer, 124; Dix, 17. Lewis S. Chandler, of Dutchess county, was nominated for lieutenant governor. Secretary of state John S. Whalen, of Monroe. Comptroller Martin H. Glynn, of Albany. State treasurer Julius Hattser, of Suffolk. Attorney general William S. Jack- j son. of Erie. State engineer and surveyor Frederick W. Skene, of Queens. TREPOFF WAS POISONED Autopsy Shows This: Doctor Arrest ed on Suspicion. It has been conclusively established that General Trepoff died from pois oning. An autopsy has revealed the presence of cocaine in the dead man's stomach, and in the palace kitchen a text book has been found treating of the uses and effects of the drug. What Is more to the point, an ar rest has been made of a man calling himself Dr. Sokoloff, charged with ad ministering or at least furnishing the paison. It developed that a week before the General died revolutionists sent a ci pher telegram to their followers say ing that he would be poisoned In a few days. THREE BILLION MARK PASSED Our Foreign Commerce for August Ex ceeds Record of Month. The foreign commerce of the United States has .crossed the three billion dollar line. In the 12 mouths ending with August, the Imports were $1, 254.3fi9.7a5 and the exports $1,759, 417,89!, a total for the twelve months of $3.013,S17,633. The bureau of sta tistics of the department of commerce and labor, in a bulletin says In part: The August figures of both imports and exports exceeded those of any pre ceding August in the history of our commerce. Confessed Killing Child. Jeannle Burch, the 14-year-old nurse girl In the family of Herbert Winship, of Cowles' Corners, N. Y., confessed to the murder of her employer's two and one-half-year-old child. Afterward she admitted that It was she, too, who had burned the barn and five times set fire to the house. Eighteen prisoners, convicted of crimes ranging from misdemeanors to murder, escaped from the Jail . at Ablngton, Va. PALMA REGIME RESIGNS Cuban President and Cabinet Yield to Insurgent Demands. Afrnlrs in Cuba reac hed u crisis on the 25th of September, when Vice President Capote and all the members of the cabinet tendered their resig nations to President Palnm. The resignations were accepted. President Palma called a special session of congress for Friday, when he will present the resignations or himself and Vice President Menilez Capote. The letter containing the proposi tions sent by Secretary Taft to Presi dent Pnltna was given out. it de clares the commissioners are Inclined to believe Illegalities were committed in the primary elections held Sep tember 2:!, 1005; that 15.000 men ap pear to be In arms against the gov ernment, and a niujorlty of the people seem to be In favor of the revolution ists. It Is declared on very high authority that American intervention in Cuba Is certain. Furthermore, It is ex pected that the proclamation of In tervention will be Issued from Ovster Bay. STENSLAND BROUGHT BACK Fugitive Financier Says Others Had Hand In the Th;ft. Paul O. Sl.'tisiand. under indict ment for wrecking the Milwaukee Avenue State bank of Chicago, arriv ed In New York by steamer from Morocco in charge of Assistant State's Attorney Olsen of Chicago and other officers. Stensland, accurdlng to Mr. Olsen, has made u complete confes sion. Theodore Stensland, who gave out the official statement for his father, declared the latter had made no sign ed confession, but had admitted com mitting certain offenses which consti tute embezzlement under the ml nols laws. To some of the indict ments for embezzlement his father would plead guilty, he said, und in the case of others he would turn state's evidence. Stensland made the further state ment, according to the son, that If the shortage in the bank was over $100,000 the money In excess of thut amount had been taken by Henry W. Hering, Hie lormer cashier of the bank, who was jointly Indicted with Stensland on charges of stealing over $1,000,000 from the bank and for forgery. ENTERPRISE BANK SUITS Receiver Seeks to Recover on Notes in Wrecked Bank. As receiver for the defunct Enter prise National bunk, of Allegheny, Thomas W. Rlunker entered suit in the I'nited States court against the Pennsylvania Development Company, a New Jersey corporation, the action Involving $4:17, 455.00, with Interest. William H. Andrews, T. Lee Clark, the late cashier of the bank, and others ure named In the body of the statements as co-defendants. All the defendants are residents of this coun ty except Andrews, who claims New Mexico us his home. The suit Is based on 29 protnisory notes In sums ranging from $5,00ii to $50,0110. They are made in the name of the Pennsylvania Development Company, Indorsed by T. Leo Clark and directors and delivered to Clark as cashier of the bank before matur ity. Clark, in disbursing the notes, is said to have done so without the knowledge of the other officers. RAILROAD STATISTICS Large Increase In Mileage, Traffic and Earnings. The Inter-state commerce commis sion made public statistics of railways In the I'liited States for the year end ing June 30, 1005, based on reports of the railroads as required by law. These show that on JunelO, 1905, 'the total single track railway mileage In the United States was 218,101, or 4. 190 miles more than at the end of the previous year. The operated ' mileage for which substantially complete returns were rendered to the commission was 210, 973 miles, Including 7,508 miles of line used tinder trackage rights. The aggregate length of railway mileage, including tracks of all kinds, was 3011,790 miles. The gross earnings from the oper ation of 218,973 miles of line were $2,482,400", or $107,308,315 greater than for 1904, and for the first time, exceeding the two billion mark. DEMAND INCREASE Switchmen's Union Asks for Advance of 12 cents an Hour. Grievance committees from every division of American railroads made a request for an Increase of 12 cents an hour for members of the Switch men's Union of North America. Such other demands as demand uttention In various sections are presented with the grievance of low wages. Foremen who now get 30 cents an hour want 42 cents. Both classes want an eight hour day. No word Is given In the written request of the committees to their respective superintendents, but It Is understood thnt unless action is taken wlthtn 30 days a general strike will be ordered, tieing up the roads throughout the country. Floods in Spanish Provinces. Ther ""m been severe storms In the provinces of Alicante, Granada and Murcla and sections of the coun try are inundated. Railroads have been washed out, crops lost .and numerous buildings destroyed. Twenty-five bodies have already been brought to the church in the village of Santa Meva. RACE RIOTS QUELLED Police Claim to Have Restored Order at Atlanta. Nineteen persons killed, one white, a policeman, and 18 negroes, is the exact death list as a result of the three days' of race rioting In Atlanta, Ga. Despite exaggerated reports to the contrary, the authorities of the city and state have overcome the hostile element in both races. Whole sale arrests of blacks were made and It Is confidently predicted the trouble It at end. DEATH-TRAPJFOH SGHIFF Infernal Machine Mailed in Phil adelphia to Jewish Banker. FOUND UNDER A MAIL BOX Examination Reveals That It Would Have Killed Instantly Motive for the Deed. ' An Infernal machine addressed to Jacob H. Schld, the New York banker, was picked up on the street' in Philadelphia by a colored boy, who found It near a mall box. The boy gave .the package to a postman who deposited it with outgoing mail. Supt. J. C. McKnlglil observed a grain of powder which fell front the box and Immediately threw (lie package into a pull of water. The box was 10 inches long, 4 Incit es will;- and one Inch In depth. Inside were placed two rolls of pasteboard which held in place a match box fill ed with gunpowder and bullets Matches had been sunk Into the powder, their bends restlnir against , the top of the matchbox which had been packed with sandpaper. To te lid of the matchbox w.T! fastened u piece of string with a Jewish New Years card attached to the othed end By pulling nut the card would remove the lid of the match box, Ignite the mulches and explode the powder, scattering the bullets. It was mailed under the guise of a Hebrew New Year's gift. That it was the deliberate attempt of some an archist to kill the New York banker, because of his aid In floating larg.' liussiun loans, the postal Inspectors and secret service men. who are hot on the trail, sav Is absolutely certain. BLOODSHED GOES ON Additional Rioting in and About Atlanta, Ga. Three mounted county policemen who, with others, were riding along their beat In South Atluta, near Clark university, a well-known negro college, were ambushed fiom an alley ahoitt 9 o'clock nt night with the re sult that Policeman Heard and an other otilcer, name yet unknown, were killed, and the third officer was shot and is dying at the Grady hospital. Still another officer is reported miss ing. The other officers, with a squad of militiamen pursued the negroes Into the woods. The casualties on the oilier side are not known. At Howells station, three nille3 west of the center of the city, the railroad operator has been killed, and nnother man In the same office either has been killed or wounded by ne groes. The city marshal of Edgewood was shot, but not seriously hurt, while trying to arrest a negro. The courts have taken a hand In connection with the riot. In the cltv police court Judge Broyles lnflicfil the extreme sentence on six young white men charged with Inciting riot, giving each 30 days in Jail and bind ing them over to the higher courts under bonds. The grand jury brought in true bills against negroes charged with assault with Intent to commit criminal assault on two young white women. STEEL RAILS FOR ISTHMUS Contract Closed With the United States Steel Corporation. A contract has been awarded by the Isthmlam canal commission to the United States steel product export company, which does all the export business of the United States steel corporation, for five thousand tons of seventy pound steel rails for use on the Isthmus. The price paid was $29 per ton. Several foreign flrni3 sub mitted bids for the contract, but all of their bids were In excess of the American concern. Proposals received a few days ago for supplying the commission with Chinese laborers on the canal con struction work are being considered by Chairman Shonts and the general counsel of the commission In New York. VETERANS' REUNION Annual Encampment Will Be Held at Washington, October 6. The official call for the National encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans was received by De partment Commander J. Walter Mitchell, who Is secretary of the National encampment committee. It states that the third annual en campment and reunion will convene at the National Guard armory in Washington, D. C Monday morning, October 8, the date having been ar ranged "to suit the convenience of Comrade and President Theodore Roosevelt, who will be present and participate In the encampment." Boston Wool Market. The wool market is more active and the majority of the dealers are shar ing in the business. Leading quota tions for the week: Ohio and Penn svlvanla, XX, and above, 34 to 34M.c; X, 31 to 32c: No. 1. 40 to 41c; No. 2. 38 to 39c; fine unwashed. 25 to 2fic; half-blood unwashed, 33 to 34c; three-eighths unwashed, 34 to 35c; quarter-blood unwashed, 32 to 33c; delaine washed, 3G to 37c; delaine un washed. 28 to 29c. Wrecked Ship Abandoned. The steamer State of Oh'o. which went ashore on Rattlesnake island, near Put-In-Bay, and which tugs have so far failed to release, has been abandoned by the owners and turn ed over to the underwriters. The State of Ohio has been plying the lakes for about 23 years and was val ued by Tier owners at the time she went aground at about $125,000. Medical advisers of the sultan of Turkey say thut Abdul Hamld Is suffering from cancer of the kidney. DUN'S VvcEKLY SUMMARY All Goods Being Forwarded as Rapidly as Shortage of Cars and Scarcity of Labor Will Permit. It. O. Dun's "Weekly Review of Trade" says: "Trade expand with the advancing season, and departments are forward ing goods as rapidly as tho shortage of curs and scarcity of labor will per mit. Mercantile collections are not as prompt as they would be If more nor ma! rules prevailed In the money mar kut. but there Is little embarrassment or complaint. Autumn conditions are most satisfactory and the outlook for winter Is bright because of the large crops that are now almost completely secured. "Manufacturing reports continued favorable und there was a conspicuous Increase in orders for cotton goods that was due to exliuns.ed stocks In the bunds of converters and Jobbers, and the belief that Mie raw material would decline no further. Woolens are still the lrust active cf the leading Indiistiies ami unless clothiers order liberally there will soon be much Idle machinery. "Trnlllc facilities are mill inadequate yet the railways report an Increase of 10.0 p,-r cent In earnings thus far com piled for September, us compured with similar returns last year. Foreign commerce nt New York for the last week shows u gain of $1. 591,544 in Im ports and a loss of $2,207,125 In ex ports, compared with the same week in 19115. "Text iD conditions show Improve ments, a notably better feeling exist ing In the primary markets for cot ton goods, despite the small decline In raw materials. Buyers are more will ing to pay full limitations, and It Is now rather a matter of delivery than price. "New England footwear manufac turers are receiving liberal case orders for shoes from Eastern Jobbers and wholesalers, chiefly In staple lines. Some supplementary fall business conies forward, but this Is about over for the season. "Liabilities of commercial failures thus far reported for September amounted to $1,012,507, of which $1, SS9.707 were In manufacturing, $1, !H!S,20(S In trading, and $184,594 In. other commercial lines. Failures this week numbered 188 in the United Slates, against 240 last year and 22 In Canada, compared with 21 a year ago." CONVICTED OF REBATING Camden Iron Works Is Adjudged Guilty of Collecting $1,230. In the l tilted Slates District Court the Caniileu Iron Works of Camden, N. .1., was found guilty of receiving rebates fiom the Mutual Transit Com pany of Buffalo, a lake carrier. The rebates, amounting to $1,320, it was alleged, were given by the transit company on a shipment of cast Iron pipe to Winnipeg. Manitoba, in 1904. An appeal for a new trial was filed, I and pending the disposal of the np I ileal sentence was deferred. J L. W. Lake, general Eastern agent i of the Mutual Transit Company; C. E. Campbell, general agent of the Great Northern Railway Company, I and the Great Northern Hallwav Com pany itself were indicted with the transit company, but each elected to be tried separately. The other cases are nwaitin j disposal. FOUR KILLED IN WRECK Switch Engine Runs Onto Track on Time of Passenger Train. Four ure dead and 15 or more are Injured as a result of a rear-end collision of a passenger train and a switch engine in the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad yards at New Prague, Minn., 10 miles south of Minneapolis. The dead are D. D. Demarais. Min neapolis, traveling salesman; F. E. I Brown, St. Paul, salesman; George E. Klinkerfuss, St. Paul, salesman, and Frank Wrabeck, New Prague. L. F. Day. vice president and gen- 1 ernl manager, said that the accident was caused by a switching engine i in the yards running onto the main track, on the time of the passenger train, which was about 15 minutes late. Fighter Killed in Ring. Jack McKenzie of Philadelphia was fatallv Injured In a 15-rotind bout with Terry Martin of Philadelphia at the Portland Auditorium at Portland, i Me. McKenzie received a blow In the ' stomach and died within a few minutes. Martin went to the police : station Immediately and gave himself j up. eK,-;nan Miller of Baltimore was scheduled to meet Martin, but failed i to show up and McKenzie was sub stituted. Slaughter by the Railroads. j During the year ended June 30, ! 1905, according (o a statement issued , by the Inter-State Commerce Commls- slon, an average of 26 people was i killed a day and 233 Injured a day on t railroads In the United States. The total number killed during the 'year I was 9.703, while the injured number i ed 86.00S. CURRENT NEWS ITEMS Europeans and Americans have ! contributed $2,000 and the Chinese i $25,000 to the relief fund for the i sufferers from the typhoon. J. P. Kennedy, son of a wealthy Troy, N. Y., merchant, and captain of the Lawrencevllle football team, was instantly killed in practice at Princeton, N. J. Gunboat Helena Safe. A cablegram received at the navy department from Commander Cutler, of the cruiser Galveston, at Shanghai. China, announced the safe arrival at that port of the United States gun boat Helena. It was reported that the Helena had been lost in the great hurricane which recently swept over the Chinese sea. The Independence league, of Massa chusetts, held a convention at Boston and nominated District Attorney John B. Moran as its candidate for gover-
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