DROVE THEM AWAY An Express Messenger Prevents a Train Robbery. Tvrrs llandlls Allnrk an Kxprfii Caron (be Southern I'neillt- Itoad, but are flit to Plliilit Alter a Hattle of Aluiont One Hour's Duration. Eugene, Ore., Oct. 24.—The north bound Southern Pacific overland ex press was held up by robbers near "Walker's station, 15 miles south of 'liere, at 3a. m. Wednesday and the express car badly damaged, but the •robbers secured little booty. Two •men boarded the train at Cottage drove ias the train pulled out. After passing Walker's, which is four miles •from Cottage Grove, they climbed •over the tender and covered Engineer Burt Lucas and the Hreman and his (helper with revolvers. The robbers -ordered the train stopped, after •which the fireman and helper were •compelled to uncouple the train be tween the express car and the first •coach. Engineer Lucas was then ordered "to pull ahead, the fireman and helper 3xMng left behind. After going a short distance the train was stopped and the robbers proceeded to the ex press ear, taking with them the en gineer. The express ear was blown open with dynamite and Express Mes senger Charles was ordered out, but ho refused togo and with his shotgun commanded the situation inside the car. The robbers told him to come out or he would be blown up with the -car, but he replied "Blow ahead." A •fusillade of bullets followed, riddling the ear. but the messenger, who was uninjured, kept up a continuous fire from the inside which held the rob bers at bay. A charge of dynamite was then thrown into the ear with a burning fuse, but Charles grabbed it and threw it outside, where it exploded. Xext the robbers compelled the en gineer to crawl up to the opening in side-of the car, hoping to use him as a protection from the messenger's shots, but the messenger kept up a •steady fire over the engineers head and still held the robbers at bay. The robbers then gave up their efforts to ■secure the express treasure and went for the mail. They secured the reg istered mail, then cut off the engine •from the rest of the train and or dered Engineer Lucas to pull -ahead. They ran to Judkins Point, in the outskirts of Eugene, where they dis embarked and ordered the engineer to return and get h>s train. The ■train arrived here about four hours late. The news was wired from Sag inaw and officers were sent out in isenreh of the robbers, but secured no trace of them. Portland, Ore., Oct. 24.—The South ern Pacific train which was held up ••near Eugene, arrived here Wednesday afternoon. The express car is badly shattered, but it was brought in with the train. "The first intimation T had of any thing wrong," said C. F. Charles, the •express messenger, "was when the train began to slow up near Walker's 'Station. The train came to a stand still and I was ordered to open the door. I refused to move. 'Open up ft his car or we will blow you to hell!' commanded one of the robbers. 1 made no response <and was given a .salute with dynamite. The first charge blew open one of the doors and knocked me down. My overalls •were blown into shreds and my legs -watched somewhat, but otherwise I •was unhurt. "Further commands to open up and threats followed, but without avail. I made no reply, knowing that the •object of the robbers was to locate me in the car and then try to put me out of the way, either by dynamite ; or bullets. I changed my station to "the other end of the car. The third shot failed togo off. as 1 had re moved my shoes and walked over to the dynamite and detached the fuse. Two more shots exploded, each of •them blowing a hole in the car. All told, four shots went off in the car. Two failed to explode and one I pre vented from exploding by removing ■the fuse. All efforts to compel mo to open up or leave the ear failing, 'the engineer A\as sent in through the opening blown into the side. I ordered him to get, out, and fired a .-•hot over his head with my shotgun. Tin 1 entire ceremony lasted about -10 minutes. The engineer retired after 1 fired the shot and ordered liirn to 'leave, and I was not molested fur ther." Kiidornod Kooncvelt'n <our«e. Chicago, Oct. 24. —Resolutions ap- 1 proving the course of President Uoosevi lt iii having Hooker T. Wash, angtion, the negro educator, dine with 'him at the White House were adopted «t. yesterday's session of the national encampment of the Union Veterans' union. The chief executive's action •was characterized as manly and in accord with tin- highest ideals ol .•American citizenship. Resolutions were also adopted extolling the vir tues of President McKinley, denounc* ing anarchy and calling ui>on con gress to pass laws which will effectu ally stamp out the evil. Murdcroua Train llobberit. London, Oct. 24.—An armed band ■boarded a train near Batoum, accord ing to a dispatch from Odessa, mur dered three officials and robbed the passengers of valuables. Ilroylii* I* <iener«nii». Pittsburg, Oct. 24. —Jn the apparent "extremity of the St. Louis National league club, President Dreyfus, of tha IJittsburgl J ittsburg club, proposes as a partial reief to donate two of his players to ■"St. Louis. 'Mr. I>reyfus says hi- does not know what other National league W'lubs will do in the way of donations, ■ but he is satisfied that the National (league will be represented by a strong ■team at St. Louis next season. .Mr. • Dreyfus will n'ot make known the tftames of the two players he will pari ■with, but the prevailing opinion 'seems 'to be that Conroy will be one of them. SCHLEY ON WITNESS STAND. Tells ol the Order* <;lven Him t»f" Admiral Sampson ami of tlie Block" ■do ol t'leiifuegws. Washington, Oct. 23.—Lieut. B. W. Wells, who was the flag lieutenant of Admiral Schley while the latter was in command of the flying squadron, occupied practically the entire time of the Schley court of inquiry yester day. On his direct examination he continued his narrative of the ('nl)an campaign. Lieut. Wells was under cross examination fur about two and a half hours, largely at the hands of Mr. Ilanna, whose questions were di rected mainly to the dispatches re ceived and sent by Schley. While this line of investigation was being exploited Mr. Ilayner, speaking for Schley, said the latter was willing to admit that he had received the "Dear Schley" letter on the Dupont which arrived at Cienfuegos May '-2, but he added that no duplicate of this dispatch had ever been received by Schley. lie said also that the ad miral admitted the receipt of two copies of Xo. 8, Admiral Sampson's dispatch, saying the Spanish fleet was probably at Santiago, and telling Schley "if satisfied that it (the Span ish fleet) is not at Cienfuegos to pro ceed with all dispatch to Santiago." Washington, Oct. 23. —'The Schley court of inquiry opened yesterday with Lieut. Wells, who was Schley's flag lieutenant during the Spanish war, still on the stand, but he was soon displt*ed to allow Yeoman Ma son, who had written the Brooklyn's log for the period covering the Santi ago campaign, to testify. Mr. Ma son explained the erasures in the log entry referring to the Brooklyn's turn on the day of the battle off San tiago. lie was followed by George K. Graham, who as a press corre spondent was with Schley during the entire campaign. Mr. Graham's testimony covered all the principal events of the campaign and discussed especially the bombard ment of the Spanish ship Colon on May 31 and the battle off Santiago on July 3. Mr. Graham testified to hear ing a conversation between Commo dore Schley and Capt. Sigsbee when the latter came aboard the flagship Brooklyn off Santiago May 20. lie said that he had distinctly heard Capt. Sigsbee tell the commodore that the Spanish fleet was not inside the harbor at Santiago. Lieut. Edward Simpson gave a graphic picture of the battle of July 3. and Lieut Fitzgerald, an assistant engineer who was on duty in the fire room on July 3, testified that an or der had been given early in the action to stand bv for a ram. Washington, Oct. 2."i.—Admiral Schley yesterday took the stand in his own behalf at the court of in quiry. He was summoned a few min utes after the court convened at 2 o'clock for the afternoon session and when the court adjourned at 4 o'clock he apparently had only gotten well under way in his testimony. The admiral gave a detailed narra tive of all the events of the campaign up to the battle of Santiago. Admiral Schley outlined the plan which he had indicated to his com manding officers before leaving Hampton Itoads, saying: "1 explained to all the commanding officers that as it'would be impossible to contrive a plan of battle that would meet un foreseen contingencies, the general plan of the squadron would be to cruise in line of battle, and its gen eral principle would 'be to attack the head and leading vessel, concentrat ing the fire upon them in order, first. to obtain the moral effect anil second to them into confusion, mak ing a victory over them probably very much more complete. I did that for the reason that the old plans of battle had all been to attack cen ters and rear, resulting in the escape usually of a part of each squadron." The flying -squadron arrived at Key West on May IT, and on the next day Admiral Sampson arrived and Schley talked over the situation with Samp son. "He showed me a number of orders. Among them was one which •stated that a division of the two squadrons hail been decided upon, one for the north anil the other for the south coast, of Cuba, in which he was given the preference of command. I asked him which ol' the two stations lie would take and he said he pro pose,! to hold tfie Havana or north one. lie also told me his confidential instructions, which he delivered to me verbally, were that we were not to risk our battleships against the forti fied places of the coast until after Ihf Spanish squadron had been dis posed of. '•] asked the admiral if there had been established any means of com municating with the insurgents, whether there were any puots, or ■whether any locality was known where they were to bo found. He told me that he did not know, but that when he got the situation better in hand he would communicate with me, but that he thought it would be better for me to start as early as we could get away and 'blockade Cienfue gos." Coming to the blockade of Cienfuc gos the admiral explained the forma tion of his fleet there, saying that the steaming which had been mentioned in the logs was for the purpose of overcoming the effect of a current which set directly into the bay. He said the ships were constantly setting into the beach and were obliged al most every hour to steam for a mile or more. "And that," he said, "ac counts for a good deal of what is stated in t'he logs about steaming." C'raiirincil Strike. Chicago, Oct. 23.—Trouble has broken out afresh at the Illinois steel works in South Chicago. The crane men, who handle the molten metal ladles, have gone on strike, alleging that the company demanded that they do machinists' work on repairs. A number of machinists also quit work. The trouble at the steel works is of long standing. The cranemen who struck are the only employes in ti u . plant who favored the Amalgamated association at the time of the great steel strike. The men claim they have been persecuted ever since the big strike. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1901. YALE'S CELEBRATION. 81-renlenulal of a Oreat I.'nlver«lty la Fittingly Observed Prenlden tlt oo«r --velt Attend* and Itceelve* a llrsrcr. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 21. —Yale university on Sunday began the cele bration of the two hundredth anni versity of the foundation of Yale college. The .bi-centennial of the great institution of learning 1 was ushered in with ceremonies essential ly religious. The city, proud in its function as a seat of learning, had bedecked itself in Yale's colors and presented a splen did spectacle. Blue draperies were intertwined with new cut evergreen and this general scheme of color was broken only by the graceful folds of the stars and stripes. From the simple school of 1701, Yale now finds herself a great univer sity, developed through the years from a one-building institution down ■through her "brick Vow," to a campus, thence to a second campus, and now to a third, and stretching out in her departmental buildings to j territory as great again. Within Battle chapel, where the bi centennial was inaugurated, the serv ices were participated in by au as semblage as imposing as the exer cises were simple. New Haven, Jonn., Oct. 24.—Repre sentatives of many people and creeds, of the learned professions and of the industries and literature were hon ored by Yale university yesterday and ill turn paid homage to the great, in stitution of learning which is cele brating the completion of the second century of its existence. The closing exercises of the bi-een tennial were held in the Hyperion theater. Classical music, a commem orative poem and a Greek festival hymn, both composed for the occa sion, a commemorative address by David .T. Brewer, associate justice of the United States supreme court, and finally the clothing with the hoods of •the honorary degrees of great men, these constituted tne day's exercises. President Itoosevelt and President Hadley entered the theater at 10:30. The president of the United States was led by the university's president to the seat of honor directly behind the orator's desk. President Hadley took his seat beside him. On this platform were Joseph 11. Choate, John Hay, Richard Olney, Chief Jus tice Fuller and Justice Brewer, of the United States supreme court; Presi dents Eliot, of Harvard; Patten, of Princeton; Faunce, of Brown; Harp er, of Chicago; Provost llarrison. r»f Pennsylvania, an:l other college presi dents. besides literary and churchmen of distinction. After the overture the commemo rative poem composed by Edmund Clarence Stedmaij was read. David Brewer, justice of the United States supreme court, delivered the commemorative address. In liM ad dress Justice Brewer elicited applause from the audience when he re.-7-rred to Yale as a place "where men are taught to recognize a Wash-Mgton, whether his name is George or Book er." The presentation of candidates for honorary degrees occupied about one hour. Secretary Hay, Joseph IT. Choate, Chief Justice Fuller, Arch bishop Ireland, Mark Twain, Seth Low and Rear Admiral Sampson re ceived tremendous ovations. When the long list had been fin ished President Hadley advanced a step or two and said: "There yet remains one name." Tn an instant the audience was standing. The presi dent of the United States also arose and the theater rang with cheers. Addressing President Roosevelt, President Hadley spoke as follows: "Theodore Roosevelt, while you were yet a private citizen we offered you the degree of L. L. D. Since it has pleased God to give Theodore Itoose velt another tii*o. we give him on that account a double portion of wel come." President Roosevelt advanced, bowed and tried to speak. Again tbe audience cheered, and it was ful ly a minute before lie was allowed to respond. The final official function of the bi centennial began at 5 o'clock. The affair was scheduled as a farewell re ception by President and Mrs. Had ley, bul the presence of the president of the United States, who assisted President, and Mrs. Hadley in receiv ing lent impressiveness to the occa sion. REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN. It Opened at Delaware, <>., and Wan Well Attended—Foraker, Nn»li, Mp- I pert and llanna Wore tlix Speaker*. Delaware, 0., Oct. 21.—The opening of the campaign here by the repub licans on Saturday was the most largely attended for years. A fea ture of the occasion, from tb open ing prayer of President Bash ford to tne closing speech of Senator Hnnna, was the remembrance of President McKinley and the appeal for the sup port of President Roosevelt. There was little reference to state affairs by Chairman Waraoek or by Nash and Nippert, who head the state ticket, and none by Senators Foraker and llanna. When Senator Foraker referred to President Roosevelt entertaining Prof. Booker T. Washington, "as a representative of the colored race," there was quite a demonstration. The greatest demonstration of the day was when Senator llanna de clared that he did not intend to quit politics or resign as senator or chair man of the republican national com mittee. An Old-Time I'olltlclnn Die*. Washington. Oct. 21.—C01. Charles James, a prominent figure in Wash ington, died at his residence here Sun day, aged st years. Early in life he I was an ardent democrat, but he be j came a republican in 1554 and was a | member of the convention that nomi ! nated Fremont for the presidency. When Lincoln was elected president ; he appointed Col. James collector ol | customs at San Francisco. He was chosen by Anson Burlingame to be his second in the prospective duel | with Brooks and started with his principal for Niagara Falls, but ' Brook.; failed to appear. MUST PAY TAXES. Illlnol* Supreme Court Deride* that Francbl*es and Capital Stork of Cor poration* Shall he Anmaed. Springfield, 111., Oct. 25. —The su preme court yesterday affirmed the decision of the lower court in the Chicago teachers' tax case, in which they insisted that the capital stock of corporations should be assessed. This ruling will add over $100,000,000 to the taxable property in Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 25. —The tax decision given by the Illinois supreme court relates to local corporations enjoying municipal franchises, including trac tion companies, gas companies and electric companies, whose total cap ital stock was estimated to be worth $368,000,000, all of which had escaped taxation previously and was likely to be omitted again by the state board, which adjourned last December with out assessing this vast amount of property. The trial of the case was begun be fore Judge Thompson, in Springfield. March 23 and the decision was hand ed down May 2, commanding the board to reassemble June 13 and as sess these corporations in accordance with the rules of the board in regard to the assessment of capital stock. But the board not only neglected to make the assessment, but, repealed the rules of the board on the subject, which had been in force over .'SO years and had been sustained by the United States supreme court as the only legal plan of assessment. Broad as is the sweep of this de cision in itself, its logical results are much greater, as the decision, it is said, really applies just as well to railroad corporations and every other corporation in the state and may lead to the collection ot back taxes. JUMPED THE TRACK. A l"a**eiiser Train 1* Wrecked and Several People Hadly Injured. Ottumwa, la., Oct. 25. —Two people were probably fatally hurt, five were seriously and a number of others slightly injured Thursday in the wreck of a Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City passenger train near Ex line, 60 miles from here. The train, while running rapidly, left the rails and plunged down a 40- foot embankment. The list of fatally injured is as follows: James Matey, Unionville, Mo., hurt internally. Wyman Seawright, Lancaster, Mo., hurt internally. Seriously hurt: John Seawright, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Sophia Peterson, Cedar Rap ids. la. George Freeland, Browning, Mo. Mrs. M. M. Freeland, Browning, Mo. Mail Clerk Moore, Bloomfield, la. All these were cut and bruised about the body. The engineer and fireman jumped and escaped serious injury. The train consisted of engine, pas senger coacli, mail car and combina tion cr.r. Thirty passengers were on the train and besides those already named a number received slight in juries. How the casualty list failed to reach alarming proportions is a mystery, as the cars were reduced to a complete wreck. A BOER AGENT. Elf ConiPi to Waalitnston mid Will Try to ICnlSit (lie A 111 ot FroMldent KCooncvelt* Washington, Oct. 2.*>.—Gen. Samuel Pearson, wlio is an adjutant on the staff of Gen. Botha, one of the Boer leaders, arrived in Washington yes terday. During a visit to Europe be fore coming, here. Gen. Pearson had interviews with Dr. Levds. the Trans vaal agent, and with other leading men from the South American repub lics. He says the Boers will not give up to the British, but will fight to the end. Pearson hopes to enlist the sym pathies of the people of this country in behalf of the Boer men, women and children who are now kept by the British in reeoneent rado camps. There is, he says, no reason for locat ing them in these camps when there are ample accommodations in the country for them. There are now 100,000 persons so situated and during tin' month of September the mortal ity among them approximated 2,400. During his stay in Washington the general will seek an interview with President Roosevelt to acquaint him with the situation in South Africa. He also will make a further effort to prevent the shipment of mules from this country to South Africa and to have the matter carried to the su preme court, of the United States. A PLOT TO KILL THE SHAH. liiii IJrotlier* and Son-ln-Laiv Were in the Co«i»pir.iey. London, Oct.22s"News. —"News has been received here from Teheran," says a dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Daily Mail, "of the discovery of plots •against the life of the shah. The leaders of the conspiracy were the shah's two brothers, the grand vizier and the shah's son-in-law. The two brothers have been banished for life to A'rdebil. The son-in-law was sen tenced to death; but on the scaffold his sentence was mitigated by the shah t<> flogging until lie revealed all the names of the conspirators. "The shah's favonte, Gavame, who was also concerned, was pardoned on the scaffold, but died subsequently in prison. The whole revolutionary party, together with the higher priests, were in the plot, and all will be beheaded or imprisoned for life. Molo ITloro (liai) Washington, Oct. 23.—The comptrol ler of the currency has received from Examiner Ewer a full report of the recent robbery of the Merchants' na tional bank of Lowell, Mass.. by the late teller, Smith, and Bookkeeper Swift. The report shows that the teller and bookkeeper entered the bank during the niglit and abstracted $',15,810 in cash $508,23!) of securities and $400,000 of collaterals. All of these securities and $112,000 of the cash were recovered through the counsel for Smith and Swift and the onlv loss the bank sustained wan about $115,000. PISTOL USED BY BOOTH. Deri-Inner with W'hlrh Lincoln Was Shot In Po**e**lon of a Phil adelphia Man. The assassination of President Mc- Kinley recalled to George Plowman, a theatrical architect of Philadelphia, the murder of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater, Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865. Mr. Plowmin is the possessor of the Derringer, a small vest-pocket re volver, from which Booth fired the fatal shot. "Several times it has been doubted that the Derringer which I have is the one with which was mur dered," said Mr. Plowman, "but there is absolutely no doubt that it is the same weapon. Three or four years after the shooting, while George K. BOOTH'S DERRINOEIt. (Picture of Pistol with Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot.) Goodwin and myself were running the Walnut Street theater in Phila delphia, the stage carpenter, who was working at Ford's theater the night of the assassination, putin an ap pearance at the Walnut Street the ater. He informed Mr. Goodwin (they had been friends for many j-ears) in a confidential manner that lie had in his possession something that had caused him great anxiety. The car penter, whose name I do not recall, told Mr. Goodwin in my presence that he had the Derringer that Booth had used to murder Lincoln. "The reason he had not said any thing about it prior to that time, he said, was because he was afraid of being arrested. The carpenter said he picked it up on the stage of Ford's theater after Booth had lied to Vir ginia. lie pocketed the weapon and kept it a secret. He drew up a state ment of the occurrence and signed it in our presence. Then lie gave the Derringer to Mr. Goodwin. When Mr. Goodwin died his widow made nie a present of the weapon, together with the stage carpenter's signed state ment." Mr. Plowman prizes the weapon very highly, says the Philadelphia In quirer, and no amount of money could purchase it. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Prof. Gporitp Kilunr Vincent May lie H«Uue»tPil to Take Churjce of tlie Institution, Prof. George Edgar Vincent, who is prominently mentioned as the pos sible successor of Setli Low in the presidency of Columbia university, is one of the most capable educators in America, and at present an associate professor of sociology in the Univer sity of Chicago. Ho is a son of Eishop Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for more than a dozen years he has been conspicuously asso ciated with the work of the Chau tauqua movement, the vast impor tance and possibilities of which ho was one of the first to see. In 1883 Prof. Vincent was graduated from PROF. GEORGE E. VINCENT. (Chicago Scholar Who May Be Made Presi dent of Columbia.) Yale and took advantage of an oppor tunity to study and to travel abroad. He was tendered his present post in the University of Chicago in 1892, and has collaborated with Prof. Small in the production of text books, upon the science of which he is a special stu dent and an able teacher. lie is not yet 40 years old, and hence inay be said to belong to the ever-growing group of young men who are gradual ly filling up the big places in Amer ican institutions of higher education. I)lKK<*Mt Tree In tlic Worlil. The largest tree in the world is to be seen at Mascali, near the foot of Mount Etna. Its trunk is 304 feet in circumference. The largest tree in the United States is said to be the gigantic tree near Tiear creek, on the north fork of the Tule river, in Cali fornia. It measures 140 feet in cir cumference. The famous giant red wood tree in Nevada is 119 feet in cir cumference. Automobile*) for TouriM*. A line of "observation automobiles" is to be run in Washington, D. C., for the benefit of visitors. Each vehicle carries 22 passengers and will be ac companied by a lecturer on points of interest at the capital. The fuel is kerosene and the motive powet steam. OVER THE FALLS] A "Woman Goes Over Niagara in a Barrel. the Trip WON .Hade on the Canadian Side and the Prrlurmrr »«« Only Slightly Injured—SUe la 5U l'ear> of Age and a School Teaeher— A Itemarkable Feat. Niagara Falls, X. Y., Oct. 23.—Mr*. Annie Kelson Taylor, 50 years old, •went over Niagara Falls on the Can adian side Thursday afternoon and survived, a feat never before accom plished and indeed never attempted except in the deliberate commission of suicide. She made the trip in a barrel. Not only did she survive, but she escaped without a broken bone, her only apparent injuries being a scalp wound half an inch long, a slight concussion of the brain, some shock to her nervous system and bruises about the body. She was conscious when taken out of the bar rel. The doctors in attendance upon her last night said that though she was somewhat hysterical, her condi tion is not at all serious and that she probably will be o«t of bed within a few days. Mrs. Taylor's trip covered a mile ride through the Canadian rapids be fore she reached the brink of the precipice. Her barrel, staunch as & barrel could be made, was buffeted through those delirious waters, but escaped serious contact with rocks. As it passed through the smoother, swifter waters that rushed over into the abyss it rode in an almost perpen dicular position with its upper half out of the water. As it parsed over the brink it rode at an angle of about 45 degrees on the outer surface of the deluge and descended as gracefully as a barrel can descend to the white foaming waters 15S feet below. True to her calculations the anvil fastened to the bottom of the barrel kept it foot downward and so it land ed. Had it turned over and landed on its head Mrs. Taylor's head must have been crushed in and her neck broken. The ride through the rapids occupied IS minutes. It was 4:23 when the barrel took its leap. It could not be seen as it struck the water below, because of the spray, but in less than half a minute after it passed over the brink it was seen on the surface of the scum-covered water below the falls. It was carried swiftly down to the green water beyond the scum, then half way to the Maid of the Mist landing it was caught in what is known as the Maid of the Mist eddy and held there until it floated so close to the shore that it was reached by means of a pole and hook and drawn in upon the rocks at 4:10 o'clock, or 17 minutes after it shot down the cataract. Ten minutes later the woman was lifted from the barrel and half an hour later she lay on a cot at her boarding place in Niagara Falls, oil the American side. She thanked God she was alive, thanked all who had helped her in any way, said she would never do it again, but that she was not sorry she had done it, "if it would help her financially." She said she had prayed all during the trip. The barrel in which Mrs. Taylor made the journey is 4'/ a feet high and about three feet in diameter. A leather harness and cushions inside protected her body. Air was secured through a rubber tube connected with a small opening near the top of the barrel. Mrs. Taylor is a school teacher and recently came here from 15ay City, Mich. Hay City, Mich., Oct. 25.—Mrs. Anna E. Taylor, of this city, who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, before leav ing here said she desired to attract the attention of museum and theatri cal managers in order to secure money to provide a home for herself. She said she was the owner of a ranch in Texas, left her by a relative, which was heavily mortgaged. BURNED AT THE STAKE. A liiiulnianii Negro .fleet* Dcalh at the IHsintl* of a .llob. Columbia, Miss., Oct. 25. —The negro Bill Morris, who assaulted Mrs. John Ball, at Balltown, La., was burned at the stake yesterday. After being captured he made an effort to impli cate others, but they proved their innocence. Morris was taken to the scene of his crime and chained to a pine sapling. His hands and feet were bound to his body. Pine knots and pine straw were piled about the body and saturated with coal oil anil the match applied. The negro made no outcry when the flames first reached him and only when lie was partly consumed did the spectators notice any movement on the part of the wretch. He made no resistance when being bound to the stake and said that he deserved his fate. Morris beat his victim on the head with a pine knot and thought he had killed her. Going back to Ball's store he took all the change in th« cash drawer. He then put coal oil on his feet and also on liis tracks when leaving the store. Mrs. Ball, however, recovered consciousness and crawled to her father-in-law's house. He at once gave the alarm and the ■neighborhood commenced a search for the negro. He was found at his home about four miles from the scene of the tragedy, and in trying to es cape was shot and wounded in the hip. Itlay fall Out the Military. London, Oct. 25. —An error commit ted by provincial police has led to the premature leaking out of the fact that the war office contemplates the possible contingency of having to call out every volunteer in the country. The war office has distributed to the police offices throughout the kingdom bills ordering all reservists, militia, yeomen and volunteers to report themselves to headquarters, with the view of active service. These bills are accompanied by letters ordering that the 'bills bekept in a safe place until orders to post them are re.' ceived. 3
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