ANNUAL .REPORT. United States Treasurer Issues HLs Yearly Statement. Treasury Never Stronger TIIUII at ('lose ol Prcaeutfixnl Vcar—Steady and llealthlul Growth In liold lurrrane ol $20,414,485 Over Ke% cuues ol IDOU. Washington, Nov. 1. —Hon. Ellis IT. Jloberts, treasurer of the United •States, in his report of the transac tions of his office during 1 the past fis cal year says that the treasury was never stronger than at the close of that period. The operations, which were of the first order both in vari ety and magnitude, resulted in note worthy changes in the paper cur rency, as well as a steady and health ful growth of gold in the treasury and in the general stock. The net ordinary revenues for the year were $587,685,337, an increase of ."$20,444,485 over those of 190(1, which were t'he next highest recorded. The increase came from each of the heads •of resources, but chiefly from inter nal revenue. On the side of the ex penditures, the total of $509,967,353 has been exceeded only four times, in 1863, 1864. 1865 and 1899. The sur plus of $77,717,984 was slightly under $2,000,000 less than in 1900. Inclusive of the transactions affecting the pub lic debt, the aggregate receipts were $1,146,489,306, and the aggregate dis bursements $1,077,063,052. For the first quarter of 1902, al though the act of March 2. 1901, was operative, reducing the revenues, the receipts were only $3,417,960 less than "for the like period of 1901, while the •expenditures for the same months were reduced by almost exactly $20,- 000,000. The reserve of $150,000,000 in gold required by the financial law of 1900 •has been kept intact by the substitu tion of gold coin and bullion out of the general fund for the notes re deemed. These redemptions, which amounted to $24,697,258 for the year, do not indicate any preference for g'old over paper, but simply the desire for large denominations, which are most conveniently supplied in g'old •certificates. The monetary stock of the country received during the year an increase of upwards of $88,000,000 in gold, $37,- 000,000 in silver coin and nearly $16,- 000.000 in notes and certificates. The -circulation per capita was $26.50 July 1, 1900, S2B July 1, 1901, and $28.52 Oc tober 1. 1901. Up tto the last date, from July 1, 1897, there was an increase of $403,- 130,458 in the stock of g'old, which was ■•then estimated at $1,160,353,790, and of this there was $908,718,436 in circu lation in the form of coin or certifi -cates. By October 1 the gold in the treasury, consisting of the reserve, the security for certificates and the isum in the general fund was $542,- 822,849, the highest in the history of the country and more than was ever held under single <»ont rol elsewhere in the world except 'or a few months. Arrangements are completed, sub ject to generous action by congress, for putting out notes and certificates, with the beginning of the calendar .year 1902, at the rate of 135.000,000 pieces annually. It, is hoped that thus the currency will be well sea soned before it is issued. The re demptions of national bank notes -were the heaviest in 22 years, amount ing to $147,486,577, an increase of $50,- .503,970 over 1900. The shipments of standard silver •dollars from the treasury amounted for the year to $38,338,519, and the •amount outstanding in December was $70,182,326, but this was reduced near ly $10,000,000 by July, in consequence •of the return of the coins to Washing ton. The shipments were 6.66 per cent, greater in 1901 than in 1900, and there was an increase in the first quarter of 1902 over that of 1901. The uncurrent coins transferred to the mints for recoinage were less in •stll kinds than in the preceding year, which probably indicate an improve ment in the condition of the metallic •circulation. Counterfeit silver coins iind paper currency amounting to $11,583 were detected during the year. MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. "Wife of Itlanasrr of a Skating IS In It at lloboken, N. J., I'uder Arrest lor Killing ller llunbuild. New York, Nov. I.—John C. Chart rand, manager of a skating rink at Hoboken, .\. J., is dead from the ef 'fects of a pistol wound in the head, •and his wife is under arrest pending investigation. Mrs. Chart-rand's story is that her husband had been unable to rent apartments for their accom modation of late and for that reason she had gone to live with her mother. •She visited her husband at the rink Wednesday night and remained with him all night. She says that when cshe was about to leave the rink Thursday morning her husband took >oift a revolver and offered it to her. Chart rand had arranged, she says, togo on a hunting trip to Toms river to be gone ten days and Mrs. Chartrand was to have taken care of the rink during his absence. lie gave her the revolver, she says, to protect herself during her stay at 'the rink. Mrs. Chartrand says that she put lier arm around her husband's neck to kiss him good by and that the re volver in some way was discharged. The bullet entered Chartrand's head behind the left ear, and he died be fore lie could be taken to a hospital. Attempted ,13nrrter and Suicided. Buffalo, V., Nov. 1. —Thomas J. Harvey, formerly a programme sel ler alt the Pan-American exposition, on Wednesday night attempted to shoot William J. McLaughlin, with whom lie boarded, in front of the Amherst hotel. The bullet went rwide of the mark and lodged in the hand of an Indian, Charles Brave, who stood near by. llarvey then ran to the rear of the hotel and shot him ■eelf in the head, inflicting a wound which caused his dentil Thursday morning. llarvey had been drinking heavily. He has a sister in l.'ing'- ham ton, N. Y. SCHLEY FINISHES. rhe Admiral Conclude* 111* Tefttla ■noiiy liilorc llie Court ol' Inquiry Itebuttal Teatimony. Washington, Oct. 20.—When the Schley court of inquiry adjourned Friday Admiral Schley had not com pleted his testimony. The chief event of the day was the admiral's relation of the events of .lily 3 when the American fleet sent Cervera's squadron to the bottom of the sea. He told his story of this occurrence in plain words, but the narrative was to the point. lie said that the Brooklyn for a time had sustained the fire of all four of the Spanish ships, and also the fire of the Spanish land batteries. Explaining the turn of the Brooklyn, he said that she had not approached to with in less than 600 yards of the Texas and that he never had considered that vessel in the least danger. He also stated that he had never luring the battle engaged in anycollo quy with Lieut. Hodgson and that he h;vd not used the expression attribut ei l to him by Hodgson. This refers to the alleged colloquy in which the admiral is charged with having said: "Damn the Texas." Schley said he warned Sampson, the night before the battle, that lie thought the Spaniards were coming out. Nevertheless Sampson went away early the next morning. He said the New York was not in sight when the Colon surrendered, ending the battle. After Schley had left the stand, Lemley said Rayner had made a pub lic demand that Sampson be called. He asked when Sampson should be brought in. Rayner answered that Sampson was in no condition to tes tify, and the occasion for his appear ance had passed. Washington, Oct. 29.—The cross-ex amination of Admiral Schley began Monday before the court of inquiry and hardly more than a third of the ground was covered when the court adjourned. Admiral Schley concluded his direct examination with a statement of the effects of the fire on the respective fleets at Santiago, showing that 36 per cent, of the hits suffered by the enemy were scored by the Brooklyn's five-inch guns, while his ship received 70 per cent, of the hits from the Span ish ships. Washington, Oct. 30. —The cross-ex amination of Admiral Schley was con tinued throughout Tuesday's session of the court of inquiry. The admiral gave three reasons for turning back. First., the statement of Capt. Sigsbee, who commanded the scout ship St. Paul, that the enemy was not in Santiago; second, the opin ion of Nunez, the pilot, that the en trance was too narrow and shallow for the Spanish ships to enter, and third, the ambiguity of the depart ment's telegram. Washington, Oct. 31.—The long or deal to which Admiral Schley has been subjected since Monday morn ing ended yesterday when his cross examination was concluded and he was allowed to leave the witness stand. One of the most interesting fea tures of the day was the development of the fact that the report of the battle written by Admiral Schley July 6, ls9B, was not the original re port. The original report never has been published and, in accordance with a previous decision, the court declined to allow it togo into the record. Admiral Schley was al lowed to explain, however, that Ad miral Sampson declined to receive the first report because it did not. men tion the presence of the New York. "I felt that the victory at that time," said Admiral Schley in ex plaining the matter, "was big enough for all and I made this change out of generosity and because 1 knew if the New York had been present she would have done as good work a? anybody else." Washington, Nov I.—ln the Schley court of inquiry yesterday a number of witnesses were introduced by Judge Advocate Lemly to testify in rebuttal of the evidence given in Ad miral Schley's behalf. The witnesses called in rebuttal were: Capt. Charles 1-). Sigsbee, Capt. Francis E. Chad wick, Capt. Jo seph <i. Eaton, Lieut. John 11. Roys and Chief Quartermaster Neil Ander sen, all of whom testified to incidents connected with the campaign of 1898. Capt. Chadvvick, in his statement yesterday, said that the precaution ary dispatches from the navy depart ment in regard to attacking the Spanish shore batteries had not been communicated to Commodore Schley. Capt. Sigsbee testified concerning his interview on the Brooklyn with Commodore Schley. Capt. Eator was the commander of the dispatel boat Resolute during the war and his testimony related largely to events which occurred before and just after the battle on July 3. Lieut. Roys served on board the Eagle and his statement bore upon the Eagle's meeting with the Brooklyn when the latter was en route to Cienfuegos, and again while that flagship lay off that port. He stated that Command er Southerland had asked not to be sent, to Port Antonio for coal and had asked to be allowed to coal from the Merrimac. Before these witnesses were intro duced for the department the court heard ( apt. T. S. Borden, of the ma rine corps, who served on the Brook lyn. in Admiral Schley's behalf. He was the last of the admiral's wit nesses, and he testified that the ad miral had borne himself honorably during the battle of July 3. Strike lironktm Strike. Scranton, Pa., Oct. 29.—Seranton has reached an unique position in the street railway strike. Because of the discharge of two of their number the non-union men brought here to take the places of the regular em ployes who went on strike four weeks ago have themselves inaugurated a strike. Eleven of them quit Monday morning and six more in the after noon. These say that there ars only 28 of the imported men left and that 20 of these will quit when they finish out an even week an J get their pa v. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THORSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1901. THE PUBLIC DOMA'N. Aliunal Iteport ol' the fommloaioncr ol tlie General Land Olllee. Washington, Nov. I.—The annual report of Commissioner Ilerrman, of the general land office, says that 15,- 562,796 acres of public land were dis posed of during the last fiscal year, an increase of 2,108,908 over the pre vious year, which was the banner year in public land sales. .The net surplus from the entire land and forest administration is $3,1.18,442. The report refers to the large num ber of prosecutions begun in Idaho and 'Montana for perjury and subor dination of perjury in entries of land under the timber and stone act, which entries, it says, apparently were made for a speculative purpose and have become (lie property of one man. This person claims he pur chased the land in good faith and without knowledge that the entries were invalid. The commissioner says that if this is true cancellation pro ceedings by the general land office would entail much hardships. He says, therefore, that the law should be repealed to protect innocent per sons who may invest money in lands to which the persons shown by the records to be owners have no lawful title. Following is a summary of the recommendations for legislation. Ap pointment of a commission to exam ine, consider and report on the sur vey and disposal of the public lands in the insular possessions'of the Uni ted States; forfeiture of lapsed right of way grants, repeal of modification of the act of June 10, 1898, to protect homestead settlers who enter the military or naval service in war time; compulsory attendance of wit nesses at hearings on reports of spe cial land agents involving the valid ity of entries of public land; the en actment of a general law to afford a supply of timber for settlers and other parties in need thereof, and at the same time preserve the forests for the use of future generations; extension of the Yellow Stone Na tional park so as to embrace the Yel low Stone timber land reserve, com prising 1,914 square miles, all that, portion of the Teton forest reserve lying east of the summit of Teton range, 1,050 square miles, and unre served areas of 30 square miles at th« southwest corner of the park in Idaho and 260 square miles at the northwest corner in Montana; es tablishment of national parks to pre serve prehistoric ruins, petrified for ests, caves, and for other purposes. Appropriation of at least $185,000 to prevent depredations upon public timber and for protection of public lands from unlawful entry or appro priation, and SIO,OOO to protect tim ber on unreserved lands against, fire; relief of .bona fide settlers within forest reserves who settled prior to the establishment thereof, but who failed from ignorance or from un avoidable accident to place their claims of record within the statu tory period. FOUND MURDERED. Dead Plan's Body Found at Clienun eook, Jle.-Tlie Wife and Two .Tien are Charged with the Crime. Bangor, 'Me., Nov. 1. —Thomas Gib bons, of Bangor, foreman for a lum bering concern; Fred A. Holt, of Au gusta, and Mrs. Gero are under arrest for the alleged murder of Thomas (iero, at Chesuncook, news of which reached here Wednesday night. J. E. Hartshorn, oi St. Johnsbury, Vt., a hunter, brought the story. lie said on Tuesday afternoon the people at the Chesuncook hotel noticed a flag moving on the shore across the lake near the Gero house. Thinking that assistance was desired for some rea son, some of the men went across, and near the Oero home they saw the body of Thomas Oero stretched on the ground, partially covered by a cloth, but terribly mangled. There were no less than 17 cuts on the corpse, and from its appearance it was evident that a fierce fight had occurred before lie had given up his life. The wounds appeared to be all made with a knife or a razor, save one in the side, which seemed to have been made with an axe. According to Mr. Hartshorn's infor mation,' Mrs. (lero and Fred Holt were considerably the worse for liquor. Mr. Barnes, a justice of the peace, who lives near by, was notified and Holt, Thomas Gibbons, who was stay ing at the Gero house, and Mrs. Oero were arrested. The events that led up to the trag edy have not 'been disclosed. .Mrs. Gero and Holt are said to have told conflicting stories. Two Killed and Two Injured. Logansport, Ind., Nov. I.—Two men were instantly killed last night and two others were probably fatally in jured in a collision on the Michigan division of the Yandaiia, at Judson, Ind., between an extra freight and a runaway cut of cars from another freight train. The dead are Richard S'tith, fireman, Logansport; John El labarger, brakeman, Terre Haute. In jured: Frank E. Gross, engineer, Logansport; John Lawler, conduc tor, Terre Haute. ■Exploded Too Soon. New York, Nov. 1.- —Three persons were injured and 50 or more windows were broken last night at Forty fourth street and Lexington avenue by the premature explosion of a dynamite fireworks bomb. It was just a moment or two before a big Tammany Mall ratification meeting commenced in the firaiul Central Pal ace, and the streets were crowded. In Trouble with the Court. Chicago, Nov. I.—Judge llaneey, of the circuit court, issued an order last evening summoning before him at 10 o'clock Monday the owner of the Chi cago American, Mr. William IJ. Hearst and six employes oft he paper to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court. The publications on which this action was taken were news items, editori als and cartoons reflecting on th« motives of the judge in a recent de cision in which the People's Gas Light and Coke Co., of this city, were in terested. THE POSTAL SERVICE. Nearly *130,000,000 Is Required for Its Operation the Next Fiscal * Year. Washington, Oct. -31. —The esti mates for the entire postal service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, aggregate $135,885,590. A half million dollars is asked for "trans portation of mail by pneumatic tube or other similar devices, by purchase or otherwise." The totai for rural free delivery is $0,250,000, an increase of $2,750,000 over the current year. The compensation for postmasters amount to $20,000,000; letter carriers and substitute and temporary car riers. $17,430,450; star route servico $6,715,000; railroad transportation, railway post office car service and railway mail service. $52,403,450. The grand total for inland mail transpor tation is $03,019,950, and for foreign mails $2,542,000. The issue of ordinary stamps for the next fiscal year is estimated at 4,870,710,731, against almost 4,500,000,- 000 during the current year. The postal cards are expected to reach an aggregate of 735,159,008. Ordinary postage stamps issued during the fis cal year closed July 1, 1901, numbered 4, 154,838,300, including 187,383,080 of the Pan-American commemorative is sue. Of all these 40,805,400 were of eight and ten-cent denominations. It is estimated that the issue of eight and ten-cent stamps for the next two years will increase about 30 per ce*it. yearly, and that other denominations and special delivery stamps will in crease at least eight per cent, yearly. The issue of books of stamps next year is estimated at 6,750,000. AN EXODUS FROM NOME. Ilundreds of Men I.cave an Alaskan Mining tamp, While Those Who ICeinain arc I'cniilless. Port Townsend, Wash., Oct. 31. The steamers Queen and Valencia ar rived here Wednesday from Xome. Each brought 800 passengers. On the Queen were 100 stowaways who succeeded in boarding the vessel by climbing up the anchor chains while the vessel was at anchor in the road way at Xome. Passengers report that 500 men were left at Xome, all of whom are penniless, wit h no means of making a living during the •winter and a reign of terror is pre dicted. During the entiire voyage of the Queen petty thefts were of daily occurrence. The Queen brought down a number of more important Xome personages who had waited until the last boat sailed. Only the small steamer Arc tic was left at Xome. The Queen left Xome October 23 in a blinding snow storm. Winter had «et in in earnest and the thermom eter had been steadily falling during the previous week. The steamer had a good voyage until within the last 48 hours before reaching Cape Flat tery. At times she was overtaken ■by a wind storm directly astern. The gale rose tf| 40 miles an hour and the seats ran mountain high. The culmi nation came Monday night when the ship began rolling heavily, dangerous ly, and just at the hour of change of watch, four in the morning, she took a final plunge and a turn which for the moment threatened to sink her. A CORNER IN CORN. It was Followed hy a Itlot 111 Which 'iO Perions Were Shot. San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 31. —Xews was received here yesterday that at Purandiro, Mexico, on October 28, a bread riot occurred in which 20 per sons were wounded, many of them fa tally. The cause of the riot is said to have been the action of specula tors in cornering the supply of corn. A corn famine has existed in that sect/ion of Mexico for monPhs and the government recently removed the im port duty on corn from the United States as a measure of relief. It is claimed that speculators cornered the shipments to Purandiro and raised the price 100 per cent. The starving people, driven to des peration, attacked the warehouses, the women and children leading the assault. They were shot down by the guards. The conditions in that section of the republic are depicted as terrible. Purandiro is about 50 miles from the railroad and the lust news from there was that the situation was critical and that more bloodshed was feared. The government has started troops to the scene. I>ecided to Ileuialn at Work. Fall River, Mass.. Oct. 31.—The mill operatives of this city last niglut de cided not to strike, the matter being decided by a majority of four votes dn the Loom Fixers' union. Only 1,- 702 of the 20,000 operatives of the dit.y. exclusive of those employed in the Iron Works and Bourne mills and the mills of the Xew England Yarn Co. attended the general mass meet ing of the unions, called for the pur pose of voting on the proposition to strike Monday for an increase of 10 per cent, in wages. Decision In a Famous Lsiwsnit. Xew York, Oct. 31.—A decision was handed down yesterday by the Uni ted States circuit court of appeals in the famous case of Brickiil vs. the City of Xew York, reversing the de cree of the Umted States circuit court and thereby relieving the city from payment of a judgment of sl,- 030,000, obtained against it for in fringement of the Brickiil patent, which was for apparatus for heating the water in the boilers of steam fire engines. Found Indian Wounds on Fair Site. St. Louis, Oct. 31.—David Ives Bush nell, jr., who is in charge of the arch aeological department of the Pea/body institute at 'Boston, while on a visit to the site of the world's fair in For est park, discovered six Indian mounds on the high ridge of ground where the art building and the state and foreign buildings are to be locat ed. Steps have been taken to save from injury at least one of the mounds for exhibition at the Louisi ana Purchase exposition. "The jn'ouudw are in the precise condition in which the Indians left them,'' sayn Mr Bushneil. | AN ALLEGED POISONER. tile Is Arrenled oil Suspicion of Hav ing Caused the Deaths of I'uur I'eo |»l<- Living in u Massachusetts Town. Nashua, X. IH., Oct. 31.—Miss .bine Toppan, suspected of having inur dered Airs. Mary Gibbs at Bourne, Mass., last. August, litis been arrested and taken to Massachusetts. Mrs. Gibbs died under suspicious circum stances. Bourne, Mass., Oct. 31.—-'Mrs. Mary Gibbs, for whose alleged murder Miss Jane Toppan is under arrest, was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Davis, of this place, and a sister of Mrs. Harry Gordon, of Chicago. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis died last July and within a few weeks Mrs. Gordon, who had come from Chicago to see her mother in her last hours, and Mrs. Gibbs died. Miss Toppan, a profes sional nurse and a friend of the Davis ■ family, attended each person. Barnstable, Mass., Oct. 31.—Miss Jane Toppan, who was arrested on suspicion of l>eing connected with the alleged murder of Mrs. Mary Gibbs, was brought here Wednesday after noon. She was taken to the local jail and will be arraigned to-day. Mrs. Gibbs' husband, Capt. Irving F. Gibbs, who is captain of the coast ing schooner Golden Ball, was away on that vessel at the time of his wife's death. On learning of it, at a coast port, he immediately returned home, and although there had been up to that time no suspicion of foul play, Capt. (iibbs believed that there should be an investigation and placed the matter in the hands of District Attorney Holmes. The bodies of Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Gibbs were exhumed and the stom achs were sent to I'rof. Wood, of Harvard university, and as a result of his examination Miss Toppan was ar rested on suspicion of having poisoned, the four members of the Gibbs family. The police assert that they have sufficient evidence to convict Miss Toppan. MADE HUNDREDS HOMELESS. Seventy-flvc Famllfe* arc Driven Into the Street by a Fire at Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 31.—Seventy-five fam ilies lost their homes and $250,000 worth of property was destroyed in a tire last night that started in Peter son & Co.'s picture frame factory at Union Street and Austin avenue. Fanned by a strong wind the flames got beyond control and spread to the small packing establishment of Fein berg & Stopp and a long row of resi dences adjoining. Two blocks of dwellings skirting Milwaukee avenue were wiped out before the fire was subdued. The Peterson factory, which with contents was valued at $17.5,000, fully insured, was destroyed. The bulk of the remainder of the loss was on residences, fairly well covered by insurance. There were many rumors of lives lost in the fire, but it is believed that all people living in the burned build ings escaped. Several people were rescued in an unconscious condition. One of the incidents of the fire wrfs the crema tion of the body of Frank J. Ruck at "his home, 14S Milwaukee avenue. He died in the afternoon of blood poisoning. So quickly did the flames invade the building that there was no chance to remove the body and it was incinerated. A SPECK Or WAR. A French Squadron Sails lor Turkish Waters to Obtiin Satisfaction from the Ottomnn Government. Paris, Oct. 31. —"The entire French Mediterranean .squadron left yester day afternoon," says the Toulon cor respondent of the Figaro. "While one division putin at Salins-D'Hye res, another composed of three bat tleships and two cruisers, under com mand of Admiral Caillard, pro ceeded to the Levant. Two thousand troops will be add ed to this force. Admiral Cail lard's orders are that, if complete satisfaction is not immediately given by the Ottoman government to all the claims of France, lie shall seize the custom house of the Porte near est his squadron. It is believed his destination is the island of Mitylene, or Salonika. The island commands the entrance to the Dardanelles and the (iulf of Smyrna." Several morning papers confirm the Figaro's Toulon advices. Rumors to the same effect were current in Paris late last evening, but the foreign office professed to know nothing about the matter. Nejro Shoots a Deputy Sheriff". Raleigh, X. ('., Oct. 31. —Late Wed nesday afternoon near the show grounds at Rutherfordton, X. C„ Dep uty Sheriff Butler was probably fa tally shot in the head by Bud Logan, a drunken negro, who with a negro companion had been abusing white men and had knocked down four of them. The negroes* had out pistols and the deputy attempted to take them when Logan tired. The whites opened tire and both negroes ran un der a shower of bullets. They were soon captured and are in jail. Should Deputy Butler die a lynching is like ly unless the negroes are shipped from the jail here. The lind of a Strike. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 31. —The strike of the Seattle and Tacoma iron mold ers, which has been on since June 8, has finally been settled and the men have returned 'to work. The Metal •Trades association conceded a 55-hour week, whiiieh means a Saturday half holiday. The I.ettcrs are Genuine. Omaha, Xeb., Oct. 31.—Chief of Po lice Donahue has received assurance from Chicago handwriting experts that the letters received by the chief, signed Pat Crowe, are genuine. The letters were compared with speci mens of Crowe's writing in the ar chives of a Chicago detective agency. The letters were received October ID and 21, and named' the conditions on which the writer offered to surren der to the chief of police. T.»e chief has about abandoned the idea that Crowe will give himself up, as he of fered to do iu the letters above r»- ferred to. PAID THE PENALTY Presidont McKinloy'o Assassin Is Electrocuted. When IMaood In tlie Itratli Chair ll* Btflarfil that He ivnn Not S»>rrjr HP Had II u r<lererf the l = r< ultlcnt A«-ltl I'ouiid Ovtr llio Crave of (lie A»(a»»lu. Auburn, X. Y., Oct. 30. —Leon F. Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley, was electrocuted at 7:12:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. lie was shacked to death by 1,700 volts of electricity. ! He went to the chair in the same manner as have the majority of murderers in this state, showing- no particular sign of fear, but, in fact, doing what few of them have done—talking to tlie witnesses while he was being strapped to the chair. "I killed the president because he was an enemy of tlie good people, of the good working people. lam not sorry for my crime." These were his words as the guards hurried him into the chair. A moment later, mumbling through the lialf-adjusted face straps, he said: "I am awfully sorry I could not see my father." Rev. Herrick, chaplain of the prison, was in the death chamber ready for any call that might be made for his services. He was not wanted by the prisoner, however, and sat quietly in the rear of the chamber throughout the execution. The clothing and personal effects of the prisoner were burned shortly after the execution. The body was placed in a pine cof fin and was taken to the prison cem etery, and an extraordinary precau tion taken to destroy it. A carboy of acid was poured upon the body in the coffin after it had been lowered into the grave. It is the belief of the physicians that the body will be entirely disintegrated within 12 hours. Waldeck C/.olgosz and Thomas Ban dowski, brother and brother-in-laiw of the assassin, called at the prison at 2p. m. Tuesday. They sent word to Warden Mead that they wished to see the body of Leon Czolgosz. The war den told them that the body had been buried for more than an hour and that if they wished he would send a guard to guide them to the grave. They said they did not care togo to the cemetery, but t'hat they were anxious to ar range for the collection of the insur ance on the life of the murderer and asked that a certificate of death be given them. The warden promised them a certificate and they departed. The report prepared by the autopsy .surgeons related entirely to the brain and was of a highly tech nical character. After describing to the minutest detail the brain of the dead murderer, the report concludes as follows: "Xo anomalies found. Tlie brain in general is wen developed, suffi ciently marked with fissures, and the lobes are in normal proportion." "MITCHELL DAY." iTHners In llio Anthracite llejjlon Cel ebrate the Victory Won L>a*t Fall. Hazelton, Pa., Oct. 30. —Mitchell day, named in honor of the president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, and which marks the first anni versary of the ending of the great coal strike last fall, in which the mine workers of the anthracite field won a 10 per cent, increase in wages and other concessions was celebrated here Tuesday. A parade in which 15,000 mine workers participated was held. A big meeting followed the parade at which speeches were made by Thomas Duffy, president of the Hazel ton district of the United Mine Work ers, Anthony Sclilosser, an organizer, and "Mother" Jones. The day was celebrated in Seranton with a parade of 10,000 miners from the collieries of Seranton and the ad jacent towns. The 400 street car strikers marched at tlie head of the line and were given a big ovation. Xo attempt was made to run street cars with the imported men, as it was feared trouble would be provoked. All the mines were idle in the Sha mokin region. Five thousand of the 15,000 mine workers between Shamo kin and Centralia paraded at Mount Carmel, after which a large mass meeting was held. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 30. —Mitchell day was observed here by the United Mine Workers by a parade in which 15,000 miners marched and which was headed by John Mitchell, the presi dent of the union. It was tlie great est outpouring of miners ever seea here. After the parade there was a mass meeting at which President Mitchell was the principal speaker, lie said he was opposed to compulsory arbitration, but was in favor of volun tary arbitration in the settlement of disputes between employers and em ployes. Woman Kill* a Hoy. Pittsburg, Oct. 30. —While indulging in preliminary Hallowe'en pranks Fred Bradley, aged 15 years, was shot and almost instantly killed last night by Mrs. Margaret Cameron. A crowd of iboys gathered around the grocery store of Mrs. Cameron and frightened her 10-year-old son by playing ghost. Mrs. Cameron secured a revolver after having warned the boys away, and fired four »hots into tlie crowd, one of the bullets entering ]>.'"idley'3 abdomen lloiirkc Cock run In lia<lly Hurt. New York, Oct. 30.—Bourke Cock ran was severely injured yesterday by being thrown from his horse while riding about his place at Sands Point, L.l. There was no witness to the, accident. Mr. Cochran was riding a spirited horse and he was either thrown or the horse stumbled. When he was found lie was unconscious on the ground and was suffering from bruises and a eu't on the head froin which there was a considerable flow of blood. The attending physicians say Mr. Cockran suffered a sever - concussion of the brain, but. thev hare it und no fracture of the skull. 3
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