HONEST AS A CLASS. I, I There Are But Few Malingerers ! Among Government Clerks. ' Most of Them. Hot It Men nn<l Women, I Cheerfully Attend to tlir Duties I Which Tliey Are KngUKCll I tu Perform. * TSpeclal Washington Defter.! TliK proceedings of congress are I carefully reported by the i most skillful stenographers; ! 1 and every word uttered in debate is ■ noted down, type-written, set into ' type and printed in the Congres- i Clonal Record. These proceedings j are accurately published, and copies j are preserved in the Congressional I library, the library of the senate, j the library of the house of repre- i sentatives" and in the library of the j department of state. Thus, from 184:2, when efforts were tirst made to j secure accurate and complete re- j ports, the utterances of our states men are recorded .*o that quotations ] may be made forever; and complete j reports will always be made. The legislative appropriation bill j vas under consideration recently, I and Mr. Hemenway, of Indiana, hav- j ing charge of the bill, was inter-I rupted by Mr. Robinson, of Indiana, I "with inquiries which led up to an in- j teresting subject. The debate was j •carefully reported, and ii appears in ] the Congressional Record as fol lows: Mr. Robinson—l desire to call the •attention of the gentleman to the •subject of the sick leave of employes In the departments, a subject to •which the committee addresses itself .largely in the report. 1 understand that in the executive departments in I Washington the heads of those de partments may require not less than tseven hours' service of employes and mot more than eight hours, and that these employes are granted an an nual leave of 30 daj's with pay, and j in addition to that they have 30 days' tick leave with pay each year. Mr. Hemenway—l want to call the gentleman's attention to this fact, just to correct the statement he makes. The law requires that they < shall perform not less than seven hours' service. The head of a depart- j ment may call upon them to putin j 17 hours a day if he is so disposed. Mr. Robinson —Under the law, can they be required to perform more 'than eight hours' work? Mr. Hemenway—Yes. Mr. Robinson- —Now, the gentleman lias said that there is no abuse of j the sick-leave privilege in Washing- I 10ll — Mr. Hemenway The gentleman j d>:es not want to misquote me. I say j that in instances there is abuse of j "the sick leave in Washington, that in many instances there is abuse of it; but on the whole the result is not Lad. Mr. Robinson —The gentleman does not hold the heads of departments responsible for this, because he says they are doing the best they can un- I •cler the law. This is only the position 1 in which I desire to place t lie gen- j tleinan. I believe he says that; but : the fact nevertheless remains that } this abuse exists, and I want to ask j him if his committee have considered i this branch of the question, that the j government employes here in Wash- , in'.rtoii have 60 days' leave of absence j •with pay, while the employes of the I government outside of the city of I "Washington many of them have no .'leave of absence at all, while others j have but 15 days' leave of absence, j and none have the sick-leave privi .leges unless they are connected with' HON JAMES M. ROBINSON. (Representative ir. tor.gr> ss from Twelfth Indiana District.) the executive departments here in the city of Washington. Now, has the gentleman's committee consid ered tlie question of reducing th>? sick leave, or cutting it away alto gether. as a privilege granted to the executive employes in Washington? I ratiier hoped he would do that so there would be some means of equal ization of the privileges of vacation of all employes throughout t'se United States. Mr. Hemenway—T wont to call the gentleman's attention to this fact, that there is no law giving to the clerks of the departments in Wash ington 30 days' sick leave. The heads -of departments may give them that leave if they so desire, but there is no law requiring it. On the other hand, the law requires that limited leave be granted for department clerks outside of Washington. In IN'.iO 1") days were given to the clerks and employes in first and second class post offices, and to the employes of the bureau of engraving and print ing, which was extended in ISiiG to compositors and pressmen in the au- Biijug division of that bureau. Mr. Robinson lf the gentleman will pardon me, this is not sick leave, i but vacation. In the first place, the printing department in Washington lias no sick leave; they get an an imal vacation of 30 days, but they do not receive a sick leave. Mr. Hemenway—l call the gentle man's attention to the error he ( makes —that there is a 30-dnys' sick 1 leave granted to other employes. The table on page 11 of the report shows that they do not get 30 days' sick leave; that the average sick 1 leave, over and above the 30 days' an nual leave, is only three days and a fraction. Now, observe the state ment: Von take all of the depart ments at Washington, and the av- FAINTED AT HER DESK. erage sick leave is only a fraction over three days. This debate was prolonged; but sufficient is here quoted to show the facts, and the animus of Mr. Robin- j son. Later in the day he announced that he had prepared and would in troduce a bill cutting off the sick leaves of employes of the govern ment. His attack upon the clerks has caused a great deal of consterna tion amoftg the civil service employes of the government. Not less than 7.*),000 people depend upon govern ment employment for bread and but ter. The readers of this column of cor respondence have been informed from j time to time of the facts showing that ! government clerks receive larger sal ; aries for less hours of work than tiny I other class of people in our country, j They who succeed in securing employ j nient in the civil service are exceeding j ly fortunate, l'ut, while it is true that they are fortunate in their envlron j ments, and while it is further true | that a majority of them do not reali/.e j j that they are to be envied, it does not j i not follow that they are dishonest nor ; dishonorable. There is no reason whj Mr. Robinson, of Indiana, or any other ! | man in congress should attack their j ! integrity and assume that they are a j class of malingerers. There are clerks who absent them selves from their desks and send word ! that they are sick, when that report is ! false. There are congressmen whose lives are as crooked as a dog's hind leg. j Rut it is not fair to assume that all of a class are alike dishonorable. As a general rule when clerks report themselves indisposed they are telling | the truth. It is customary for the executive de \ partinents to permit clerks to have 30 j days of sick leave every year, without I deducting their pay for absence. This i is merely humane. Rut the integrity | of clerks is manifested when Mr. ; Hemenway publicly reports that so | few clerks report themselves sick that i in all of the executive departments the j average sick leave is "only a fraction j over three days." That shows that thousands of clerks never take any ' sick leave at all, while other thousands take only such leave as they are enti tled to, on aeocunt of impaired health. The writer knows of five individual cases in which pood clerks after hav ing been absent sick for 30 days, were required to resign their positions on account of continued sickness. This I was a great hardship, to lose an in come when illness required the ex t pensp of medical attendance and med- I leal skill. In each ease the depart ments held- their positions for them, j and four of the good clerks recovered i and were restored within a year. If ! a sick clerk is absent more than a year, the civil rules will not permit restora tion to office. One of the clerks re ferred to above died within a year after losing his place. There are thousands of ladies in of fice, some of them in delicate health. They have children or parents or other dear ones dependent-upon them. They are conscientious and faithful. Many of them goto their desks to work when they have swimming headaches, or i otju r ailments, and they do not shirk, j Not many days ago a young lady | fainted at her desk in the office of the [ auditor of the post office department. ! She is a fragile creature, but bravely performs her dutj - for the benefit of , others. While worthy of commendation, ' that young lady is only one of a class I of worthy women, all of whom deserve ' praise. It is unfair that any censure or j shadow of censure should he aimed nt J them. They are worthy public serv ants all. And the majority of the men ' are like unto them for fidelity. SMITH D. FRY. Sonntor llonrN I.lttli* Joke. ' Senator Hoar is a joker. On receiv "• ing word that a friend who had been supposed to have appendicitis was suf -1 fering.not from that ailment, but from t acute indigestion, he remarked: "That i j< good news. I rejoice that the trou s ble lies in the table of contents rather - than in the appendix." Farm I.'tmU in A'Aikn* r, Alaska, it is said, can furnish home i- steads oi 3~0 acres each to 200,000 Xiiin CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1902. 31,000 DEAD. Estimated Loss of Life at St. Pierre, Martinique. Sixteen Hundred Dead ami M) 00 Destitute at St. Vincent. itiuiit IN*lee In Still Throwing Out 4'indern--Amerlcnn and Hrltlnli < anmilH Itodlc* Idem Hied , --Work ol Itellel' Is I'rogresnlnsj. New York, May 20. —The first offi cial estimate of the results of the ex- | plosion of Mont I'ehv have been an nounced, says a Fort de France dis- j patch to the World. This gives 28,000 as the number of people buried in the ruins of St. Pierre. Six thou sand persons were rescued by steam ships or fled to places of safety. I Three thousand probably were | drowned. This is the most complete estimate made so far. The bodies of Thomas T. Prentiss, j American consul, and James Japp, j Hritish consul, have been identified, J and will be brought here for ship ment. Both bodies are bruised by the fall of lava and stones almost be yond recognition. Washington, May 20.—Secretary Hay yesterday received the following cablegram from United States Consul S. A. McAllister at Harbados, W. 1., dated May 19: "Sixteen hundred deaths at St. Vincent; 4,000 destitute. Immediate wants supplied. Fort De France, May 21.—Yester day morning at 5:30 a thick, heavy cloud, lit up by flashes of lightning and the rising sun, rose from Mont Pelee. The people of Fort De France at once became panic-stricken, and in scant attire rushed excitedly through the streets of the town. Stones from the volcano as large as hazel nuts fell in the streets. Many of the in- j habitants hurriedly embarked on the vt ssels in the harbor, and it was with difficulty that they were eventually reassured. At 7 o'clock, however, the excitement was over and the people became calm. Washington, May 22. —Adjt. Gen. Corbin has received the following cablegram from Capt. Gallagher, date j of 21, Who went to Martinique on the Dixie: "Effects of eruption con- I fined to north portion of island. St. Pierre and neighboring village total- j ly destroyed. Thirty thousand is a} fair estimate of the loss of life in zone of destruction; physical condi tions normal, but people are panic stricken. This condition was in creased by yesterday's eruption, which was quite severe, but did not materially add to desolation. Sup- j plies of all kinds sufficient for eight weeks. What has been done was just what emerireney demanded and noth- i ing further can be suggested; govern- ! inent and people most grateful. Dixie j now discharging part of cargo; will proceed with what remains to St. j Vincent." Paris, May 23. —The government is ! considering the possibility of the necessity arising for the evacuation of Fort de France, and of the whole island. The ministers do not believe ! that any sueh emergency will arise, but they are taking all flic necessary measures to meet it if it does. Fort de France, May 2.1. —The corre spondent of the Associated Press has had an interview with M. Clerc, a member of the legislature of Martin ique, who recently explored the vi cinity uf Mont Pelee, in which lie said: "I started Friday last for Mont. Pelee by the road leading along the coast from I'asse Pointe and, ac companied by M. Tellaine Cliancele, chief engineer of'the sugar works "The pond which was situated near Morne La Croix is completely dried up. The rims of the crater have very much changed in appearance and the heat where we stood was intense, and the whole aspect of the moun tain was terrifying. Stones fell around us, and we picked up large pieces of sulphur, which, however, we were unable to retain. The whole spot was charged with electricity, which became so violent that we were obliged to retreat. "Our descent from (lie mountain was more difficult than our ascent. A blinding rain of ashes fell upon us, and the engineer was nearly killed by a large stone which fell near him. We succeeded in reaching Basse Pointe, on our return, after having been four hours on the mountain under the most dangerous circumstance*." Fort ib- France, May 24.—1t is re ported on seemingly reliable authori ty that a new crater is forming at Ajoupa Houillon, which lies on the side of the mountain opposed to St. Pierre, with its northern face toward the Atlantic. A huge fissure is said to have opened there which is vomit ing gases and volcanic matter similar to those thrown out from the crater at the summit. The volcano is now throwing off large quantities of ashes. London. May 34.- \ special dispatch from Ponte-a-Pifre, Island of Guade loupe, dated May 21, says a faint light was observed Thursday night in the direction of the island of Martin ique, accompanied by detonations, • and that fears are entertained of fur , tlier disasters. Will Tent tlie I.aw. Helena. Mont., May 21.—Life in surance companies operating in Mon tana have begun a suit fo test the constitutionality of the law requir -1 ing them to pay personal property tax upon the amount of premiums in ' excess of cost. Situation Im Improving. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 21. —The 1 nited States cruiser Topeka arrived yesterday to protect American inter ests. The presence uf the warship in , these -waters has had an excellent ef. . feet. The situation of affairs is im proving. O'BRIEN TESTIFIES. He Produces Dum I)um Bullets Before the Committee. Gen. fro/lfr Say* Tliey W>re the Hea ii I a lluii liu I let—Mo K>iiluslvc Itul- Irlk Have Itcrn Iwnued Mine tlie I'eternlMirK ton veil -11011 In IHBB. 'Washington, 'May 22. —'Corporal O'Brien, formerly of the Twenty sixth volunteer infantry, was before the senate Philippine committee again yesterday, anil produced the al leged "duni dum," or explosive bul lets. He said they were not like the ordinary cartridges because they did not have the letters "U. S." on them. Oen. Crozier, chief of ordnance, was next called. Gen. Crozier, in the course of his examination, said that the cartridges produced by Mr. O'Hricn were not dif ferent from the ordinary regulation cartridges. Asked if they were "dura dum," or explosive bullets, the wit ness replied in the negative. "They are perfectly normal bullets," he said. The regulation Krag-.lorgensen bul let, he said, often has practically the same effect as a "dum dura," or ex plosive bullet. This effect was not al way dependent upon distance. He re lated instances of laceration which hail come under his own observation, lie also said that no explosive bullets had been issued since the St. Peters burg convention of 1863. O'Hricn then was closely ques tioned by Senator Heveridge, who required the witness togo into very minute details respecting his charge that a number of American officers had violated the person of a Spanish woman at the time the town of lga baras was burned. The witness said that in addition to her husband, there were several servants residing in the house with this woman. Ho had first heard of the woman in the case because of the talk of her excep tional beauty, but that he could not remember whether the husband, when he told him of the crime that had been committed, had given the name of any officers connected with it. The man had stated, however, that there were four of them en gaged in the affair. Questions by the senator brought out the fact that there were then just four American officers in the town of Igabaras. "Consequently," said the senator, "if the statements made by the woman's husband are true, these four men are guilty of the crime charged." The witness as sented to this inference. Senator Heveridge asked the wit ness if he had made any report con cerning the treatment of the Spanish woman. The witness replied that he hail not made such a report, "be cause," he said, "I knew that if I J should have reported the affair I J would be dogged, and that my life j thereafter would be a hell." "Why, then, did you volunteer a statement in regard to the matter?" | "1 wanted the committee to know j the facts as they had come to me,'' j he replied, "and as I am now out of the army and a citizen of the United i States, I felt that I would be safe in j reporting the matter." lie went onto say that it made no j difference how just the complaint of j a man in the army might be the man I who made it was sure to be hounded j for doing so. RIOT IN WORKHOUSE. One Jinn Killed and Two Other* Are Wonniled ut I'antoii. Canton, May 22. —Three men were : [ shot in a riot at the Stark county 1 workhouse Wednesday morning. Guard George Jacob was instantly killed and (iuaril Homer E. Stone was fatally wounded. Stone was shot twice. The shooting was done by Charles Gigante, a prisoner. During the riot, Gigante was fatally shot, j Gigante, a Starlc county prisoner, j sent up for driving a horse to death, j jerked a revolver from the pocket of ! a new guard named Klotz and at once opened tire. Immediately the whole crowd of prisoners mid officials were in a panic. One of Gigante's wounds, it has de veloped, was self-inflicted in an ef fort to kill himself after he had killed | Jacob and wounded Stone. He lias j made a statement regretting the grief he has caused others, but ex : pressing satisfaction so far as he is | concerned. He expects to die. In his I statement he says that he was urged |to the act by other prisoners and J that it was a part of a plot hatched j by a number of them. Workhouse of- I ficials do not believe this part of his story, partly because none of the pris i oners made a hostile move after tne shot was tired. L# >j al Sport. (Madrid, May 22.—The royal buli ! fight, which is the most typically Spanish feature of the festivities in j connection with the crowning of the | king, occurred yesterday in the pres ence of the king, the queen mother, | the royal family, the Spanish nobles i and the special envoys. Many ladies | were also present. An interesting feature of the bullfight was the rr i vival of the old mediaeval custom iin ! dor which the scions of noble families s fought the bulls with lances from : horseback. Three bulls were killed in this manner. The most renowned bull fighters in Spain took part in yesterday's fight. HI ami I lie tu re of W'atclie*. Washington, May 22.—A special re ' port of the census bureau on watches ' and watch cases was issued yester ! day, showing a capital of $22,754,48.3 i invested in the manufacture of 1 watches and watch cases in the 411 establishments reporting for the I United States. This does not rcpre ! sent flic capital stock of any of the ! manufacturing corporations. The ' value uf the products is $14,506,571, Involving an outlay of sssi,sis for sal j aries of officials, clerks, etc.; $5,511,- | r»7O for wages; $889,952 for miscelli*- ! tieous expenses, BURNED AT STAKE. Nfgro Wlin Aumuilti'il a W'liltii Woman itlfcln all Awful fate. Longview, Tex., May 23. —A man hunt, which had been in progress since last Saturday, ended yesterday in the burning at the stake of Dud ley Morgan, a negro, who assaulted Mrs. McKce, wife of a Texas <X- Pa cific section foreman, at Lansing, Tex. Great throngs gathered at the Lansing switch and arrangements were made to burn the negro. The negro was not taken from the train on the side where the crowd was, and when the engineer started to pull out. several Winchesters were leveled at him anil others of the train crew. They were told if they moved the train an inch they would bn killed. The prisoner was identified by Mrs. McKce and several negroes who worked on the section with Mor gan. The negro was escorted by about 200 men, armed with Winches ters, to the place of execution. As he was chained to the stake lie made a statement in which be implicated anoUicr negro named Franklin Heard, saying Heard was to get r.irt of the money which was to be stolen. Morgan confessed to having com mitted the crime and after lie had been securely chained to the rail with his hands and legs free, the mob be gan to take railroad ties from a fire, already started, and burn out liis eyes. They then held the red hot and burning timbers to his neck, and after burning his clothes off, to other parts of his body. The negro screamed in agony. The negro's head finally dropped and the ties were piled around and over him. In half an hour only the trunk of his body remained. McKee, the husband of the woman assaulted, applied the match to the faggots. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. I'renldent Itooftevelt .tleetw tlie liurttn of tlie Nation—They Vlult W anlilng ton'a Tomb, Washington, May 21.—'Surrounded by the members of his cabinet, anil by officials high in all the branches of the government. President Roose vi* 11. yesterday received as the guests of the nation, the distinguished Frenchmen sent by President I.oubet to take part in the Koeliambeau ex ercises. The arrival in the city of the brilliantly uniformed French army and navy officers, and their escort through Pennsylvania avenue by a troop of I'nited States cavalrymen, gave picturesque interest to the occa sion, and to this was added the inter national significance of an extremely cordial exchange of greetings be tween the representatives of the two nations. After the president's reception at the White House, the French visitors exchanged calls with members of the cabinet and Lieut. Gen. Miles and Admiral Dewey. In the afternoon they journeyed to Mount Vernon, where (Jen. Brugerc, of the French army, placed a laurel wreath on the tomb of Washington and Count de Itoehainbeau planted a tree taken from the battleground of Yorktown. Last night President Kohsevclt had the French party as his guests at dinner at the White House. Annapolis, Md„ May 24.—The lunch eon given yesterday on board the French battleship Gaulois in honor of President lioosevelt was one of the most memorable incidents of the vis it of the distinguished French sol diers and sailors to this country. Tlie president was welcomed by Ambassador Camdon in the name of President Loubet, to which President Koosevelt responded briefly. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. lllaze at lOaftt IIIIHIIIO Cnllarl a I-'.* 11 ma ted at 8600,000 - One .Han Killed. Huffalo, May 23. —'Fire which start ed about midnight destroyed the trasfer house of the East Huffalo stockyards this morning. The flames spread to the hundreds of ears sur rounding the building and a great number of them were destroyed. Some of tlie cars were empty, but the miist of them contained valuable merchandise. The transfer house was a one-story frame huliding 1,000 feet in length. Owing to its location and the crowded condition of the tracks in the vicinity, it was nearly an hour before the firemen succeeded in get ting sufficient water to check the rapid progress of the flames. William Lester, a switchman, was struck by falling timbers from a par tially burned car and sustained in juries which resulted in his death be fore the arrival of an ambulance. The ear shops were saved. Nearly 600 cars were destroyed. The loss is roughly estimated at SOOO,OOO. .Heat ltlot. lioston. May 23. —"Kosher meat" disturbances broke out in the wesu end section of this city yesterday. About 300 Hebrews —men, women and children—assembled in front of a meat store, on Brighton street, and threw eggs and decayed fruit at the | building. The windows were smashed and the stock of meats ruined. The | police interfered and arrested two ! women and one man, who were the ! ringleaders. A customer, who was ! leaving the store with a piece of | meat, was assaulted, and a woman i was injured during the stampede of the crowd. Later crowds attacked two meat stores in the North End. Town Flooded. Minneapolis, Minn., May 23.—A spe | eial from Conover, la., says: The I town of Decorah, la., lias been shut j off from communication from other ' parts for the last 48 hours. The j storms of Tuesday night flooded the j valley from Conover to Decorah, | sweeping away railroad bridges, j tracks and telegraph poles and flood j ing the town. Two men drove from Decorah to Conover yesterday and I reported the water ran through th<* ! streets, carrying away bridges and I some of the smaller houses. They i said that two lives hn<! been lost. 100 MEN ENTOMBED. Gas KXplosion in a British Co luiiibia Mine. Little Hope Ijitrrialiifd of ■{ckciiliiz Any ol" the liilortuiinte .lieu /tllvo -■ I J-hir. n Hod tea Koiind—Victim* Are Foreigners. Vancouver ]!. C., May 24.—One of the most terrible 111 i.no disasters in the history of the frequent accidents in British Columbia occurred Thurs day night in the Crow's Nest Coal Co.'s mine, at Pernio, B. C. Over 100 men are either dead or imprisoned in the mine, and little hope is enter tained of rescuing' any who may yet be alive. Pernio is 300 miles up coun try and the limited telegraph facili ties have not enabled complete de tails of the disaster to be sent out. The management has a list of 133 men who are known to have been in the mine, and there were probably others. Of these only 24 are known to be safe. It is feared that few, if any, of the remaining men are now alive. What caused the explosion has not yet been definitely ascertained. Many of the miners were ignorant for eigners and one of the mine shafts was always more or less gaseous. The true cause of the disaster will probably not be positively ascer tained, for it is doubtful if any man who knows will ever reach the outer air alive, or be able to tell the tale. The explosion took place in Xo. 2 shaft, being repeated in a few sec onds in No. .'! with which it was con nected. From all available sources assist ance is being rushed to the scene of the calamity. Already the work of liberation has been begun with such means as are at local command and IS bodies have been taken from the mine. The presence of coal damp makes the work of rescue very dan gerous and is seriously hindering the efforts of the workers. These are the outlines of a most heartrending calamity, the only dis aster which has occurred in British Columbia exceeding it in magnitude being the death of 137 men in Well ington mine IS years ago. The is bodies already recovered were those of men who had been en gaged at work not a great distance from the mouth of the tunnel, and the fact that they were overcome would seem to indicate that there is little hope for those further in the mine. TRADE CONDITIONS. K. U. I> iiii X Co.'* Weekly I!uIletlu««<- lliimliicn* In Satlnfuctory. New York, May 24. R. (i. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Many minor labor controversies have been settled, but the situation in the anthracite coal region has assumed a more serious aspect. lJailway earn- continue satisfactory, roads re porting for two weeks of May show gains of 6.1 per cent, over last year and is.4 per cent, over 1000. No change is reported in the iron and steel situation, former conditions merely becoming intensified by the threatened decrease in supplies of fuel and the labor controversies in certain branches of industries. The railways are seeking rails, rolling 1 stock and other equipment, while contractors require much struc tural material. Slight concessions are now obtain able in some lines of footwear, al though the market as a rule is fairly steady, but dull. Leather is firmly held, especially desirable weights ad vancing. Print cloths are quiet at last week's decline. Quiet conditions have prevailed in the cereal markets, with only a mod erate volume of option transactions and fractional changes in quotation. Kxports of wheat, including flour, wore only 3,863,568 bushels during the past week from all ports of the United States, against .">,225,130 bush els in the corresponding week last year. Small receipts of corn, amount ing to only 1,263,15S bushels for the week, against a year agn, held the spot price at about 70 cents. Dispatches from correspondents of R. (i. Dull Co. indicate satisfactory progress with the new corn crop and a material increase in acreage. Failures for thi- week numbered 102 in the United States against ISO last year and 12 in Canada against 22 last your. murder and Suicide. South Rend. Ind., May 24.—John W. 'Churry, aged 31, a carpenter, shot and killed his sweetheart, Susanne Keeskenieti, aged 16, Friday morning, and then killed himself with the same revolver. Churry and the girl, with her parents, all apparently in good spirits, sat on the porch until mid night, when the parents retired, j About 15 minutes later, the mother | heard three shots. She gave the mat j tor but little thought, however, anrl I went to sleep. At 2 o'clock she awoke j and looking out saw fhe bodies of ' lier daughter and ( hurry lying on i the ground. The couple evidently ' had planned to die together. They I apparently had lain on the ground side by side. There was no indica tion of a struggle and no reason for the tragedy is known. Two ,llen Killed. Kaston, I'a., May 24. —Two men were killed and many men and wo ; men injured in a trolley wreck a few j miles beyond Kaston on Thursday night. The dead: Pdward Comino i dore, Nazareth; Joseph Derhnmmer, Kaston. An Kaston and Nazareth car left this city shortly before mid i night carrying s;i passengers. On :i j steep hill in l'ahner township, the j brake refused to work and the car j ran away, descending' the incline at a ' terrific rate of speed. At the foot of , the hill there is a sharp curve. Here I the car jumped the track anil tearing I loose from the trucks fell on its siuo. 3
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