Humor of the Autumn Season
By HARRY DANIEL,
Author of Minor Observations.
There is a great dcai of talk about autumn
being the season of sadness. In autumn the
vine is discovered clinging to the mouldering
wall in an apathetic and indolent manner that
is said to be very sad indeed. In autumn, too,
llie poor, dead leaves fall silently to the
H .JDIMHM ground, the fields are sere and brown, and the
very air seems permeated with a vague, inde
finable something which touches the most
subtle emotions of sensitive souls and arouses
in the breast of many a man indescribable
sense of bitter unrest, and he becomes touchy
and peevish without being able to tell why.
But autumn is also a glorious time and it holds for us all some
thing of joy and mirth and humor. Looking about us we can indeed
find much in autumn that makes for our merriment and laughter.
There is the man who is still wearing the hollow mockery an;l degraded
Telic of a straw hat that should have been retired from public life weeks
ago. Time has planted her foot heavily upon it and it has settled down
vver the tops of his ears, but lie still wears it in open defiance of cvery
•6ixly. We pass him on the street and smile, even though the season be
■solemn, petulent autumn. There is the school boy who is still wearing
a few choice freckles left over from the summer. On the first day of
school he put 011 a nice, new suit of clothes. It was only a little, new
suit like thousands of others, and yet with it was also bestowed upon
.him the priceless gift of a mother's love and a father's affection that
could never, never been indicated by the little muslin tag sewed onto
the back of the wrinkled little collar. It was a grand suit, the greatest
ever worn, he thought, and atfer a proud mother's hand had let out the
sleeves so that they came down nearly to his wrists, and after she had
taken out about two inches of slack from the back of the neck, it fit nim
*o neatly and nicely, he thought. And that first Saturday night when
die brought it home and tried it on and stood up in it for the neighbors
who had come into sec it and feel the texture of the cloth and throw
•out hints with the hope of ascertaining the price, ah, how happy he was
then! But to-day he became involved in a heated altercation with
<mothe r boy, who walloped him and his nice, little, new suit of clothes
around in the mud until he was sick at heart and weary of lifes fitful
fever. And now, in this dark hour and in the midst of his deepest
humiliation, he has gone up an alley where lie is trying to clandestinely
remove enough of the mud from his surface to enable him to meet his
father without danger of still further degradation. Yes, this all occurs
in autumn.
And out in the country, too, where the air is crisp and fresh and
sweet, we may also, perchance, find some cause for mirth. On a sunny
hillside a tall and angular calf has taken advantage of the bright morn
ing sunshine to practice up a little on a new dancing step, while down
111 the pasture a strategic farmer with an ear of corn in one hand and a
halter in the other is unsuccessfully trying to run in four different
directions at the same time in order to capture a horse that is feeling
all too keenly the fine autumn air. Over in the woodland the merry
shout of a nutting party is heard, while far up in the heights of a hick
cry tree, forgotten and unnoticed by all, an unfortunate young man,
-with his feet wedged immovably between the forks of one branch and
the back of his vest festooned over another, wrestles on with his fate
throughout the long autumnal afternoon.
And so if we desire to find the sad side of life, autumn can accom
modate us, but if we wish for mirth and humor, autumn, too, in her
vast bounty, can gratify our wish. - !
Be True
By PRESIDENT W. H. P. FAUNCE,
of Brown University.
arc two realms in which a man must face facts,
PII.HU I the realm of science and the realm of action. Every
I truly educated man wants to know the facts of knowl-
M edge and be true to them. Here is a man who will not
admit an economic truth because it will hurt his busi
ness. Can we trust such a man? Here is a man who
V j&slj w JU not admit the origin of the Scriptures. These
men love something better than truth. You cannot
follow them, for they are not true to things as they arc.
In the realm of action, too, it is necessary to meet facts squarely,
for that is the realm of conduct. Any life that is worth living has its
burdens and its difficulties to solve. The place where a man falls down
is the place for him to rise again. Love of truth in action is the car
dinal virtue of the modern student. I would rather have as my friend
the man in the ditch who is wholly ignorant than the scholarly man
who is false to me behind my back. Remember, it is the men that make
an institution, not money, nor buildings, nor expensive apparatus, not
beautiful elms, but men of high purpose and serious aims, men of chiv
alry and generous character.
Meaning of Loyal Citizenship
By HON. W. T. DURBIN,
Governor of Indiana.
SHE spirit of turbulence which manifests itself in
the lawlessness of the mob is the fruit of agitation
essentially anarchistic in its effect, if not always in
its purpose. It is the flower and fruitage of the' seed
of discontent and prejudice and hate sown in the soil
of ignorance or thoughtlessness. It has taken root
and grown, not because our country offers conditions
favorable to the development of seed so sown, but
because the planting and culture of patriotism has been a duty neglected
by the loyal citizenship of this republic.
The time has come for wider recognition of the fact that genuine
patriotism in this republic consists not merely in careless acceptance oi
our institutions and passive compliance with our laws, but that the
complete fulfillment of tile obligations of citizenship means the exertion
of an active influence in behalf of thr laws and the institutions which
give to citizenship its value. With the American people aroused to
their, responsibility no danger can threaten this government; it is theii
government, with legislation and administration so made subject to
their will that the suggestion of domestic hostility to it or outbreak
against it is palpably irrational.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THU <SDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1903.
M.ORK OPEN PORTS.
An American-Chinese Commer
cial Treaty Signed.
Brculor I'roleelloii lor < lilne«e I'lirlt
liun* UIKI Amerlean IIIMIOIIUIII'I
1» I'roiiiUcd by One «lan*r
ol tin- Netv Aifrrrmrnl
Oilier I'rovision*.
Washington, Oct. 9.—The state de
partment was informed yesterday
that the \meriean-Chinese commer
cial treaty has been signed at Shang
hai and also the Japanese-Chinese
treaty. The cablegram announcing ,
the signing of the treaty was sent j
from Shanghai and was signed by j
Minister Conger, Consul General |
Goodnow and Mr. Seaman, the com-j
inissioncrs who negotiated the instm- I
ment. An imperial decree by lliei
Chinese government has made the j
treaty effective so far as that gov- :
eminent is concerned, but it must be .
ratitied by the I'nited States senate j
before the treaty is putin operation, j
The negotiations between China !
anil the I'nited States, which culmin- i
nted in the treaty signed yesterday, |
were initiated tinder the provisions j
of the final protocol, signed by the ]
powers at Peking on September 7, j
190], terminating the anti-foreign j
outbreak of the preceding year. The ;
present treaty lias for its object to
p\tend the commercial relations be
tween the contracting powers by i
[unending our existing treaty of com- .
Uierce with China.
Articles 1,2 and refer to Hie rights
nf diplomatic officers, consuls and
citizens of the I'nited States in China
ami embody a number of changes
which have been sanctioned by usage !
in China since the treaty of ISSS.
Article 4 is the most important of
the treaty. liy it the Chinese gov
ernment, recognizing that the present
system of levying dues upon goods in
transit and especially the system of
taxation known as likin, impedes 1 he
free circulation of commodities to
the general injury of trade, under
takes after the ratification of the
treaty and at a date to be mutually
agreed upon, to abandon the levy of
likin and other transit dues through
nut the empire and to abolish all the
barriers and tax stations maintained
for their collection.
The United States in consideration
nf tlii•- change agrees." if all other
powers having treaties with China j
do likewise, to pay at the port of en
try on all its imports into China a
surtax of iy.. times the tariff import
rluly. l!y this payment they shall se
cure complete immunity from all !
other taxation whatsoever within the
empire. Kxports from China shall
pay 7' , per cent, ad valorem (as at
present), the whole amount of the
duty being collected at the port of
exportat ion.
iiy another article the Chinese gov
ernment agrees to the establishment
of bonded warehouses by citizens of
the I'nited States at the open ports
of China. By Article 7 the Chinese
government agrees, within a year
from the signing of the treaty, to
conclude the revision of its mining
regulations so that citizens of the
I'nited States may be able to carry
on in China territory mining opera
tions and other necessary business
connected therewith. Article 9 pro
vides for the protection of trade
marks in China. Article 10 provides
for the protection of patents and
Article 11 for the protection of copy
rights.
By Article l.'J the Chinese govern
ment agrees to take the necessary
steps to provide for a uniform nation
al coinage which shall be a legal ten
tier throughout the empire.
Article 14 relates to Chinese Lnris
tians and to missionaries. It insures
to the former the free exercise of
their religion and protects them
against the injustice of the native of
ficials, while not. however, removing
them front their jurisdiction.
At the request, of the Cninese gov
ernment an article has been incorpor
ated in the treaty by which the Uni
ted States consents to the prohibition
of the importation into China of mor
phia and instruments for its injection.
Another article of the treaty pro
vides for the opening to international
trade in the same manner as other
places now opened to like trade, in
( liina of the cities of Mukden and An
timg, the first the capital of the Man
churian province of Sheng Ching. and
the latter a port on the Yalu liver on
the road between Mukden and Wiju.
in Korea.
FATAL LANDSLIDt.
A Freight Train l« Wrecked Unsl
lierr Killed.
Oil City, I'a., Oct . 9 \ landslide on
the lintValo & Allegheny division of
the Pennsylvania railroad yesterday
caused the death of one man and
fatal injury of another. The dead:
YV. I). Nelson, fireman, of Pittsburg,
crushed under locomotive.
The injured: George lioale. engi
neer. of Pittsburg, pinned under loco
motive and burned bv escaping -leant.
Will die.
It is not known at what time the
slide occurred, but it took the track
with it for .'!() feet. This was not
seen by Kngineer Beale until he was
almost upon it, and then the engine,
tender, and five cars plunged front
the hanging rails and crashed down
flic embankment for 50 feet to the
water below.. The locomotive rolled
over and went into the river. The
fireman and engineer were the only
ones in the cab of the locomotive and
neither hail time to jump. Fireman
Nelson was terribly crushed, and died
in a few minutes. The tracks were
blocked until a late hour iast night.
Twenty cars had to be burned, their
loss being total.
( liiiiiiiv the Coke Oven*.
Connellsville. I'a., Oct. 9. The set
tled policy of the ftirnaecnien to bank
the furnaces one-tliird the time for
111e next three months..indicates that,
the closing down of coke ovens will
be continued eaeli week until one
third the ovens of the Connellsville
region are placed on the idle list. Of
the 22,.">K! ovens in Connellsville
region, are now idle. In the
ratio of restriction among the fur
naces, this number may be increased
to 0,000 or 7,000 ovens by the time the
hist quarter of the year is half out.
The :i.sto idle ovens means almost
that number of idle men.
ANOTHER FEDERATION.
Leader* <>l llulldiim Tradpa I nloin
■Meet at I milium polio unci I'lmi loi
One or ait ■ iiternatloiial i 'haracter.
Indianapolis. Oct. 9.—Leading repre
sentatives (if the national and inter
national organizations of building
and repairing' trades met yesterday
in conference for the purpose of
bringing their respective organiza
tions into nn international federation !
having 1 for its object the arbitration,
adjudication and conduct of building
trades affairs.
Among those attending are M. I*. j
Carrick. secretary and treasurer of
the Brotherhood of Painters, Dec
orators and Paper Hangers; James
llaniiilian, grand trustee of the In
ternational I'niott of Steam Kngi
neers; I'.Gubbins, president of the tin
tcruational I'nion (if Bricklayers and j
Masons; ,1. It. Cavajiaugh and YV. A. |
O'Kccfe. president, and secretary- j
treasurer of the Operative Plasterers' ]
International association; Frank Bit- j
chanan, president of the Bridge and \
Structural Iron Workers' Internation- i
al union; Herman l.illien. president
of the International Hod Carriers and j
Building: Laborers' union; Frank Duf- i
l'y, secretary, and I'homsis Neale, 1
treasurer of the Brotherhood of Car- j
penters and Joiners, and John Ma- |
ioney and S. B. French, of the Klec- j
trieal Workers. They represent TOO,- ;
000 workmen.
There is a very general disposition |
among- all of the delegates to have
the new international federation
work in perfect harmony with the '
American Federation of Labor and ;
other national federations in which j
different ones of the building' trades !
are represented. All of the organiza- '
lions propose to remain in their
present federation alliances and to
pay their per capita assessments.
SERIOUS DISCREPANCIES
Are Said to In tlie Account* of
llic President ol' a Corporation at
latiien«t<-r. Ha,
Lancaster. Pa., Oct. !». Rumors
which have been current for some
time affecting the relations of Will
iam I!, (iiven. president of the I.an
caster County lJailwav and Light Co.
with that company, culminated Thurs
day in the announcement that Mr.
(iiven has tendered his resignation as
president and that serious discrepan
cies, amounting, it is alleged, to SIOO,-
000 or more have been discovered in
his accounts.
Mr. (iiven has in recent years been
regarded as a man of large wealth,
and has been noted as an operator
on a very extensive scale in the stock
market.
The slump during 1 the past year,
and particularly in recent months, it
is said, carried with it such heavy
losses that he was unable to meet the
farther demands from his brokers for
margins and his accounts were closed
out. llis operations were reported to
lie large in Steel, Con so lid at ed Lake
Superior, Copper. I'nion Pacific and
Southern railway.
An expert accountant has been at
work on his books for some time.
Several ollicers of the company fully
conversant, with the situation, while
confirming the statement that Mr.
tJiven's resignation as president had
been submitted and acknowledging
that the investigation in progress had
revealed discrepancies, said that for
the present they did not desire to
make any statement.
The company of which Mr. Given is
j president controls all the electric,
railways of the county now in opcra
-1 tion, as well as the electric light
| Hid gas companies of l.ancaster and
I Columbia.
A VIOLENT LUNATIC.
Tried to Throw III* Child froin a
Train and Then lie .luni|ird.
Crawfordsville, lnd.. Oct, 9.-—Wesley
Hedges, traveling on a Big Four train,
j accompanied by his wife and three
children, suddenly became deranged
while on the train, and after arriving
i here held the police at bay for a long
j time.
While the train was running 20
miles an hour Hedges suddenly gave
ra scream and seizing one of his chil
| dren plunged through the car window
! into the darkness. His wife grabbed
1 the boy just as the man disappeared.
The trainmen stopped the train and
. with the assistance of the passengers
; a torchlight, search along the track
i was made
11c wafc picked up for dead and
placed in the baggage ear and
I brought to this city Shortly after
arriving lieie h • began to show
! signs of lii• • Left in the station un
i guarded, Hedges again became violent
j and sprang oi't <-f the station and ran
! down the streets pursued by the en*
I tire police force. Willi large stones
I which lie picked up lie kept his pnr
[ suers at bay. He was finally over
j powered and taken to jail.
Preparing to Demobilize.
Sofia, Bulgaria. Oct. !).—The feeling
j prevailing to-day is generally more
i hopeful than for some months past,
j It is based on reports which, while
i unconfirmed, appear to be well found
ed. These reports are to the effect
that the government is preparing to
discharge the recruits summoned for
three weeks' drill and that the Turk
ish and Bulgarian governments have
reached an understanding on the
question of demobilization whereby
Bulgaria will release 20,000 men and
Turkey 40.000 If this agreement, is
carried out Bulgaria will disband all
I the reservists recently summoned.
Death of (ien. I,e«rsett.
j Butte, Mont . Oct. !>.—Gen. John A.
i Leggett, territorial governor of Mon
tana under President Grant, died last
night at Hot Springs. Mont., aged 71.
Gen. Leggett was a native of Mich
igan, and was one of the founders of
the republican party.
I*«ued ail ( lllmatmn.
| Altoona. Pa., Oct. —Fresh from
1 Indianapolis, where he presented the
| grievances of the miners ligainst the
| Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co. to
I President Mitchell and the national
executive board members, President
Giklay. of the central Pennsylvania
| bituminous field, yesterday advised
! Eli Connor, of Cresson. general man
| ager of tlie coal company, of the
I action taken. Gildny's ultimatum
was that the company must pay foi
j the yardage at all its mines. This is
one of the provisions of the Altoona
! scale. It is expected that the miners'
' deiniuvj* will be granted.
CONVICTS ESCAPE.
Guards Overpowered at Utalij
Penitentiary.
One l*i-|«ouer Killed, Two Other* and
a (iuiird Wounded - Pone Willi
Ifloodhound* on Trail of (he
Two De»perate Jlrn who
(gained Their Liberty.
Salt Lake City, I'tali, Oct. 10.—As u \
result of a well organized and partljj
successful attempt at a wholesale de
livery of prisoners at the "Utah peni
tentiary last night, one prisoner was
killed, one guard was shot ami
wounded, another man was beaten al
most into insensibility, three prison
ers were wounded and two others till
der death sentences escaped. The
dead;
Frank Dayton, serving a 12-year 1
term for attempted highway rob-|
liery.
The wounded; Guard Wilkins, shot
iu leg. Guard Jacobs, badly beaten
by convicts. Convict Fd Mullen, serv
ing a :;-year term for burglary, shot
in leg. Convict Abe Majors, serving
life term for murder of Capt. Brown
of the Ogden police, shot in arm.
llarry Waddcll, serving seven year
term for burglary.
The escaped; Nick Ha worth, sen
tenced to death for the murder of
.Night Watchman Kendall, in Layton.
Utah. James Lynch, sentenced to
death for murder of Col. Prowse in a
gambling house in this city three
years ago,
A posse of prison guards with sev
eral bloodhounds was promptly start
ed on the trail of the two escaped
con vict s.
The outbreak occurred about fi:3o
p. in., just as the prisoners were be
ing placed in their cells for the night
by guards Wilkins and Jacobs. The
affair was exexcuted with such precis
ion that it must have been carefully
planned beforehand. Two of the
prisoners overpowered Wilkins and
Jacobs, the former being shot and
slightly wounded and the latter
frightfully beaten. The convicts
took the prison keys from the guards
and released five other prisoners who
had already been locked up. The
! seven prisoners then compelled Guard
j Wilkins notwithstanding his injuries,
' to march at their head, and with the
| assistance of ladders found near the
workshop, they proceeded to scale the
wall. Wilkins was made to ascend
j first.
| As the first, convict reached the top
i Guard N'aylor, who was on the south
: wall, opened tire. This was the sig
j mil for a general alarm and several
1 guards who were in the office seized
' their guns and hastened to the scene,
j Uuard Uriggs reached the wall just as
I IJayton and Mullen were descending
lon the outside, lie ordered them to
| halt, but as they paid no attention to
| the command, he lired, killing l)ay
; ton. A second shot struck Mullen in
: th<! leg as he was coming down the
! ladder, and lie dropped to the ground,
! his body falling over the corpse of
I Dayton.
|" Abe Majors was shot in the arm and
j fell to the ground. liawortli was
j also shot, and fell, but arose and eon
j tinned his flight. Waddell was shot
|in the leg. Lynch escaped uninjured,
|it is believed. After running about
j 100 yards from the wall liawortli
| dropped a rope made from blankets,
I which was found stained with blood.
| At the front of the wall were found
\ several cartridges which the convicts
I dropped as they came over. Two of
J the prisoners were armed with revol
| vers. Where they secured tlie weap
-5 ons is not known.
ENDED WITH A REVIEW.
Military Maneuvre* at Camp Voting
are Finished.
Camp Young. West Point, Ky., Oct.
10.—Thousands of men in khaki and
j blue, with the October sun shining
: athwart company alignments with
! arms at port, passed in front of Maj.
| Gen. Bates and his staff in the pres
\ ence of a large crowd Friday. The
j twice deferred review of all the
tioops at Camp Young was a most,
brilliant event and practically
brought to a close the combined man
-1 euvers of the regulars and national
J guardsmen which have been in pro
gress for ten days.
The alignments during the review
! were excellent, the Michigan brigade
making perhaps the best showing of
) tin? national guard regiments, with
Indiana a close second.
| All the national guardsmen were
j paid off Friday. The men were paid
i for the time beginning with mobiliza
| tion at their towns until their return
j and disbandnient there. They re-
I ceived the same pay as the regular
i troops.
The militia will commence breaking
camp to-day.
The umpires met yesterday and dis
cussed the maneuvers in which the
state troops participated. It was the
general opinion that the maneuvers
had been of great benefit to the
troops, but that most of them were
unprepared for such extended work.
Drew a Lolls Sentence.
New York. Oct. 10.—Walter Wilson,
42 years of age, whq pleaded guilty
Wednesday to four indictments
charging him with robbery and one
charging him with carrying chloral
"knockout drops." was sentenced Fri
day by Recorder Goff to years in
Sing- Sing- prison, lie was sentenced
to serve 19 years for carrying chloral
and 14 years on one robbery indict
ment. Wilson admitted having stolen
$13,000 in jewelry and money from
women in the tenderloin by adminis
tering chloral.
Two Steel Mill* Shut Down.
Homestead. Pa.. Oct. 10. —Notices
i were posted in the 35 and 40-incli
I mills at the Homestead steel works
J last evening- announcing a shutdown
j of both these big mills for an indefin
ite period. This is the most import
ant department of the 11 oiliest eat'
stt.-l works and employs over 2,00(
men, all of whom are thrown out ol
employment. The mill uses largely
Bessemer steel, but since the lies
seiner department was shut dowr
three weeks ago for tlie winter, it
has been working on open heart!
product.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.
It ( Minted «; r« .»I 111 tlie Kut -
New Vork < If) ami Pateraon. N. J.«
Siill'ii-rd Mux Severely Trullli wua
l*a raly/rd<
New York, Oct. 10.-- Torrential rain,
commencing early Thursday morning
nnil contHming with scarcely any in
termission until late Friday after
noon, Ouring which time tlie unpre
cedented precipitation of 10.04 inches
was recorded at the local weather
Inireau. laid New York City and all
the surrounding country under a
Hood, causing damage that will
amount to many hundred thousands
of dollars.
Reports of extensive floods and ser
ious damage to property and inter
ruptions of traffic came from almost
all sections of New Jersey and Long
Island. In Newark, l'assaic and other
large manufacturing centers many
factories were closed down owing to
the Hooding of engine rooms. In
many places electric light and power
plants were shut down for the same
reason. The Hamapo river at I'omp
ton broke. Hooding the valley for ten
iniles, but causing no loss of life.
Paterson was one of the worst suf
ferers and for a time there was grave
danger of a repetition of the terrible
disaster of last February.
Two deaths, due to the high winds,
were reported last night. At York.
Pa.. Walter lioyer, a 12-year-old boy.
was standing on 1 he bank of the city
reservoir when the wind swept him
into the water and he was drowned.
John Brown, living at ('rum Lynn,
a short distance from this city, was
drowned in the same manner, lie
was standing on the bank of ( rum
creek and was blown into the creek,
which was very high.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
f'oiinervntlnm ■« Hie Itllle In Nearly
All Itl-HlM'lll'N Ol' llll«lll<"*«.
New York, Oct. 10. — 11. (■• Dun &
Co.'s Weekly lleview of Trade says:
There have been no developments
of importance in the commercial
world. As a rule there is more cau
tion in making contracts, especially
iniong manufacturers. Uneasiness
regarding the financial situation re
cedes as the season advances without
producing any monetary pressure in
Connection with the crop moving.
The proposed reduction in pig iron
output has been endorsed by all lead
ing producers, steadying prices just
when changes in freight rates started
; another reduction. Other manufac
turing news is favorable except where
! the raw material markets are unset
! tied, or labor struggles cause trouble.
Kedueed dividends and curtailed
! production in the iron and steel in
! dustry show that conservatism is in
j creasing and that there is no dispo
| sition to disguise the fact that busi
| ness is not progressing without inter
i ruption. Yet there is nothing alarm
ing in the situation, and a few years
j ago the contracts now in sight would
| have assured full occupation for all
> plants.
j Prices receded as it became appar
ent that the industrial boom was in
; terrupted, and it is now fount! desir
| able to shut down plants not thor-
J oughly equipped. Already the effect
| is felt in the greater urgency to place
! contracts by concerns that were wait
ing for the most favorable terms,
j Railways are seeking much new
I equipment, giving this branch of steel
j products a better tone than other
! departments, while more bridge con
| tracts are being placed.
MINE DISASTER.
Tw® Men Killed and Five Kadljr In
jured by tlie Wrecking ol° a Train
of Coal « am.
j Johnstown, Pa.. Oct. 10.—The break
! ing of a "dilly" rope in the Sunshine
I mine of the Stineman Coal Co. at.
; South Fork yesterday, caused the
! death of two men and the serious and
i perhaps fatal injury of five more. A
1 long train of cars was being hauled
j from the mine by an endless rope.
| The heading leading out of the mine
| was a steep grade and when near the
1 top the rope parted or the coupling
i broke. The long train of loaded cars
| started backward at. a high rate of
| speed. When the bottom was
| reached the foremost car left the
| track. The remaining ears piled up
| in a heap, blocking the main heading
| for 80 feet.
When the train started for the
mine a number of men on their way
i home from work climbed aboard.
Owing to the swift descent of the
! "dilly" they were unable to get off
j and were buried in the wreckage at
the bottom of the incline. Irving
I Oakes and an unknown foreigner
j were killed, while five other foreign
ers were so badly injured that death
I will probably result.
A Fatal 4'olllnlon.
Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 10. —\ Lake
j Shore passenger train last night
I plunged into an open switch in the
I yards at West Seneca and collided
i with the rear end of a freight train
l which had just taken the siding in or
der to let the passenger train pass.
' M. Y. Burnham, conductor of the
freight train, was instantly killed.
Fireman Keller, of the passenger, was
! injured by jumping from his engine,
j The engine of the passenger train
I telescoped several cars of the freight
j and jumped the tracks. None of the
i passengers was injured, although all
i received a severe shaking up. The
j wreckage caught fire and several ears
I were burned. Conductor Burnham
| lived in Collinwood, 0.
Llpton Heparin.
New York. Oct. 10.—Sir Thomas
! Upton sailed for England yesterday
i on the steamer Cedric. He would not,
! talk about the possibility of his chal
lenging again for the cup.
Many .llllHluini-ii Pulxiiied.
Cripple Creek, Col., Oct. 10.— It is
i alleged that an attempt was made
"Wednesday to poison the garrison at
! Camp El Paso and it was so success
j fill that every man in the command
j with the exception of three who were
| absent, was laid on his .back with
1 cramps and diarrhoea. Altogether (in
men were affected, but all of them
i have recovered, It is believed poison
! was placed in the water tank of lue
! mine from which water is taken for
domestic purposes. Many of the
j miners were also poisoned. An an-
I alysis of the water is being' made.
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