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FATAL COLLISION OF
CARS IN ALBANY.
Five Persons Were Killed and Over
Forty Injured.
FRIGHTFUL WRECK ON TROLLEY LINES
Rate of Speed, Collide, and One Car Teles
scopes the Other--Women, Children and
Wreckage Hurled Into an Indiscriminate
Mass--One Motorman's Legs Cut Off.
Albany, N. Y. (Special).—Elzctric
cars racing for a switch while dashing
In opposite directions at the rate of 40
miles an hour cost five lives in a ter-
rific collision, in which over 40 persons
were injured, some fatally and all seri-
ously, The lobby of the postoffice
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS,
Domestic.
The Preshyterian General Assembly,
by an almost unanimous vote, adopt=d
the report recommending the revision
of the creed, after a conciliatory amend-
ment offered by Rev. Dr. Moffatt had
been adopted.
Miss Sarah Parker was killed at
by her lover, Sam-
uel Reed, who was jealous because she
received attentions f another man.
from
Frank Johnston and James
ment
the postoffice at Orange, Vi
John Speciale,
Frank Green and Sanders
Paul were
wounded, hysterical women and chil
administering temporary relief,
The scene of the accident was about
two miles from Greenbush, on the line
of the Albany and Hudson railway. The
place where the cars met on the single
track was at a sharp curve. So fast
were both running and so st
the collision that the motor:
time put on the
southbound car had gone
through the northbound
to brakes
of shrieking, maimed
motorman was p
smashed front ti
with both legs severed and
instantly, the other
but a few minutes.
Fully 120
formed a struggling. shriekir
mixed with blood, detached
human bodies .
cars. Some of the more
men extricated th
gan to pull people
of the two cars
were taken out ir
The few womer
escaped injury an
cal.” They added
shrieks of the dying
ith broken and
joints and bloody heads
to assist others who wer
Help had been
Greenbush and
ime the b
with the £
company, was loa
brought
and physi
the p«
and t
could temporarily
they were taken to
hospitals,
of
motorman
"
and the
arms
SINGERS MEET TRAGIC FATE
Inez Leonard and Edgar Beaucligh Shot and
Killed in Key West.
Key West, Fla. (Speci
two reports of a rifle at
cupied by the D'Ormon
Company, members
ushed o Miss Inez
and found Miss Leon:
dition. She was
and died without
ness. She was
side, just below
coming out on the
Edgar Beaucligh »
posite side
re
were engaged and expect
ried as soon as they
had apparently been no qu:
thing approaching a
them.
went
The Eagle, Not the Hen.
Chicago (Speci
hereafter be the model and en
the American Woman Suffra
Alice Stone Blackwell, of
ter of the woman's rig
Stone. in an address to
here during a reception to delegates en-
route to Minneapolis, said: “Hereafter
the American woman must cease to be
a hen which could do no better than
cackle and scratch. She must cease to
be a mere nightingale that can
feed her young and warble. She mn
be the cagle mother and her slogan
must be, "Woe betide the male chicken
hawks which swbop upon her ofi-
spring.’ ”’
' i.
al).—The
cagle
emblem
oni
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Mad Malish Again Heard From.
Aden, East Africa (By Cable) —It is
reported that the Mad Mullah has
formed an alliance with the Majertamn
tribe, and now has Bo.000 in
his army. The British Somaliland force
is preparing for an attack. and as the
natives are well armed a big battle is
expected.
The Mad Mullah was last heard from
on May 11, when he was reported fo be
preparing for a march on Berbera, the
capital of Samaliland. The British
headuqarters are at Adudleh, four days’
march from Berbera.
Boy's Skull Crushed by Burglars.
San Francisco (Special). — Robert
Hislop, a 13-year-old boy, was brutally
murdered by burglars at his father's
residence on Haight street. He was
alone in the house and in bed, and the
burglars, fearing, presumably, that he
would raise an omtery, repeatedly struck
him over the head with a blunt instru-
ment, crushing his skull. They then
ransacked the house and made their es-
cape, securing little of value,
soldiers
Vermont Official Under Arrest.
Vergennes, Vt
of counterfeiting
The United Presbyterian General As-
Des Moines, la.,
refused to discuss the subject of women
suffrage.
Rev. Louis Zahn, pastor .
cobi's Lutheran Church, in Quincy,
died while speaking at a
1
iaving
of St
corner
. “ id kills
opp, 10 years oid, Ki
week
in South
Russia
cemen and Cossacks were
odors Magers, bedro
Kaiser
3
arrsteqd al
he steamer
has been
saven charged with being the 1
wok three gold
expresses
sral revolt of
against Christianity has
Emperor Wilham f the trouble
in China, is desirous of withdrawal
of the German forces as speedily as pos-
sible.
President Altschensky, of the Khar-
koff Chamber of Commerce, a noted
Russian financier, committed suicide,
A bottle wtih a message stating that
the steamer Croft was sinking at sea
with all on board was picked up at
Granton and brought to London.
British weeklies make sarcastic refer.
ences to Carnegie’'s offer to the Scottish
umversities,
The eight-hour movement is spread-
ing in Russia. Strikers who attacked
an armor-plate works outside St. Pe-
tersburg., were fired upon by gend-
armes and several killed.
Sir Alfred Hickman, in the British
House of Commons, protested against
railroad companies controlled by the
government continuing to buy Ameri-
con locomotives,
Successful experiments
made between Berlin and
have been
rector of the Farmers’ National Bank,
which recently suspended here, and J.
W. Ketchum, a representative to the
ed by United States officers under in-
ity with Casluer D. OQ. Lewis in wreck-
jury last week, are in two counts, charg.
ing complicity in embezzling the funds
of the bank and falsifying the accounts,
Financial,
will sell much higher.
Chemical National
Bank of New
After this week money is expected to
The Secretary of the Treasury has
!
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value.
iron from Canada has caused % sensa.
tion in England.
Gross earnings of 61 railroads in the
second week of May increased 106 per
‘cent.
Washington
ment has
(special ).—The govern-
won its contention on the
in
Owing to the number of
more important issues involved
{ insular cases,
cases decided and the number of opin-
| ions and dissenting opinions read, there
{ was the greatest doubt in the minds of
hearers to the
: but a
the as
of the
so far
the
decisions carcful
words
study
of the justices shows that
issues mvolved in
: concerned the adminis
The opinion
by Justice
ithority to legis
Porto Rico, Hawai,
of our possessions that may
it deem
The Decisions Summed Up.
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST?
Elise Believed to Have Been Sunk by
Steamer Ohio,
conferring upon ther all
privileges and immunities enjoyed by the
people, products and ports of the several
states,
are preserved by those underlying prin-
ciples of the Constitution which apply
mercial regulations are to be determined
by Congress in the exercise of the power
vested by the Constitution in Congress
to make all needful rules and regulations
respecting territory belonging to the
United States
At the same time that the court has
sustained to the fullest extent the con
tention the government in these
decided, matter of
the Ding
impose du
Porto Rice
cession Porto Rico becos
territory of the United Sian
ore, i +»
as a
statutory that
Act could not be held t
on goods brought from
by
construction,
Gq
ceased to be
nsiderable dismay caused
cement of the nrst Jd
cases, whit
the
came
constitu
sment was the
maj
"
op
and
agreement
agreement
] o> be kn
Com
=
rats
A
'
hxed upon in wnmittee
of appraisers. Those who are said
have signed the agreement are: Cluett,
body & Co, HA. C. Curtis & Co
, in
Peabody
Holmes & Ide, George P. Ide & Co
ternational Shirt and Collar Company,
Searle. Gardner & Co., Wilbur, Camp
Stephens Company, United Shirt
and Collar Company.
a co
to
a AA
. ‘ t
Iron Company, two miles tayion
explosion of as | rmed
of
a terrific
collection coal dust
death of
by a
suited in the
all white, and most of them married and
re-
twenty-one men,
with families. The explosion wis caused
“blown blast.” It is the custom of the
miners to place blasts and fire them off
at quitting time each afternoon, leaving
' the coal thus thrown down to be loaded
and hauled from the mine next morn-
ing.
I'he Richland mine is destitute of wa-
ter, and hence great volumes of fine par-
ticles of coal dust, invisible to the naked
eye, accumulated at the roof of the mine,
forming a highly inflammable gas. Mon-
day afternoon at exactly 4.30 o'clock a
| dynamite cartridge was placed in posi-
| tion in one of the rooms for a blast, The
miners had just started for the mouth
of the mine,
The blast did not explode, as intended,
~ Kauer's Fortune Not Lost.
Berlin (By Cable.) The statements
| published in the United States by a
news agency to the effect that the pri-
| vate fortunes of the Emperor and Em-
press of Germany and other members
of the royal family had been almost swept
{away by the operations of a swindler,
| have been closely investigated here,
| with the result that the statements re-
ferred to are found to be absolutely
| without foundation. There are even
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f
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not any rumors afloat cofcerning these
{alleged losses by Their Majesties. The
denial of the r
{ lutely authentic Sources.
but instead a long flame thot out of the
blast hole and ignited this accumulation
of dust. Instantly a terrific explosion
occurred, and a seething mass of flame
tended 300 feet into the open air, scorch-
There were 34 men in the mine at the
tne
injuries. Twenty-one were killed, and
nine were terribly burned, most of them
fatally.
The force of the explosion caused
great masses of coal and slate to cave in
ied. Word quickly reached Dayton. and
proceeded to the mine. One by one the
blackened and horribly disfigured bodies
were taken from the debris and carried
to the mouth of the mine, where they
were loaded into a locomotive and car-
ried to Dayton,
Ihe two undertaking establishments
at Dayton were turned into improvised
morgues, where the mangied bodies were
dressed and prepared ow delivery to
their families.
First Yacht Race September 21.
New York (special). ~The Royal Ul.
ster Yacht Club has cabled the. New
York Yacht Club an approval of Sep-
tember 21 as the day for the opening
contest in the cup races, and that date is
finally and definitely fixed. The cable-
gram received by Secretary Oddie reads
as follows:
Beliast, May 26.
Secretary of the New York Yacht Club,
New York:
September 21 has been decided upon
as the date for the first race.
HARMAN-CRAWFORD,
Vice-Commodore.
| THE PRESIDENT AND PAKTY RETURNING
| Mrs. McKinley Strong Enough to Endure
| Transcontinental Journey.
San Francisco, Cal (Special). ~—Presi-
dent McKinley and party, after a so-
| Journ of nearly two weeks in this city,
have left for Washington. Physicians
| in attendance on Mrs. McKinley, whose
| illness curtailed the trip, held a consul
| tation and announced that Mrs, McKin-
| ley was strong enough to endure the
transcontinental journey, Mrs, Mec-
Kinley seemed elated ai the prospect of
soon being at home
from the Scott residence to the Oak-
land ferry in a closed carriage by a cir-
cuitous route, chosen so the invalid
streets. She was accompanied by the
President, Dr. Rixey and
nurse. The rest of the party proceede
directly to the starting point.
the ferry depot of the Southern Pacific
Railway. The large open space at Mar
ket and East streets was a solid mass
humanity, through which the police kept
open a passageway President
and his party :
for the
Heads were uncovered as the car
bearing Mrs. McKinley approache
there visible effort to
W3as a resirain
3 1t Beers Eu rverim es
outburst of applause as
passed sl through the thr
respected the frail
and
Conan
ferer
pressed
aere were
Good
the depot
tro cerine bl
wamite Works at Ken-
! Dover. No one
iding
was
a irame struc-
in the ground
ood The
in the
Was
hole
where it st
hat exploded was
ere it was t
from the
refrigeration
! a eo il
¥ aCCiQ
spent acid
1he ex-
ental over-
Captain Heil
"ashington >
ina
exoner
charge and
f substance
error of
the with
15 an
pioyecs
ficials
the various departments
the extent of the fire, which was
ing in the waste paper dump in the cel-
lar at the wall of the Assembly stair
case. A bucket brigade attempted to
extinguish the flames, but were unsuc-
cessful and the fire department was
called. The flames were extinguished
with trifling damage
and others
Cervera's Gloomy View of Spain.
Madrid (By Cable). Speaking before
the Naval Congress on the subject
whether or not Spain should be a naval
power, Admiral Cervera expressed fears
of the disintegration of Spain
he said, “that the interests of the navy
should predominate at the expense of
the other interests of the country, but,
observing as | do what is going on at
the present day, 1 am afraid Spain may
become like the Italy of the Middle
Ages.”
————
Wheeling to Have New Theater.
Wheeling, W. Va
contract for the building of the new
$150,000 Board of Trade Theatre and
| office building was let at the full esti-
| mated price of $140.477
and ready to open the theatre January
1, 1002,
| great bulk of the money being ex-
pended on this part of the building.
Scores of Miners Lost.
London (By Cable). An explosion
occurred at the Universal Colliery, at
Senghenydd, in the Rhondda Valley,
About a hundred men were in the pit at
the time of the disaster,
are still entombed.
Floods in North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C. (Special).—Governor
Aycock says all the lowiand crops on the
state penitentiary farm, known as “Cale:
donia,” was destroyed by the raging
Roanoke River, including 200 acres of
wheat. He says the flood damage in the
state amounts to millions of dollars, All
streams in this section are rising.
The Hague {By Cable). —~An official
dispatch from Batavia, Java, says three
Europeans and 178 natives perished as a
result of the recent eruption of the Vol-
cano of Keloet.
GERMANS CLASH
WITH AMERICANS.
Sentry of the American Guard Shoots
(German Soldier.
AN INVESTIGATION BEING MADE,
The First Trouble Experienced by the United
States Legation Guard--German Officers and
Soldiers Refuse to Comply With Regulations
«A German Officer Draws His Sword, but
Is Cuickly Brought to a Halt.
The new United
States Leg here has had its
first trouble sin it was
cing repaired near the
formed
Phy.
Ihe $
Americas sation, and an American
at with
sentry wi;
the place
orders 4
PM “ ro |
to it } arouna
side street obeyed
quest except
soldiers
aused the
and
One
EWC rd
wh
HEAVY STORMS ON GREAT LAKES
Steamer Ballimore Goes Down and
Twelve Lives Are Lost
T
Tawa Spec
¥
ste
the rescued.
experience
the water
nosed t
orth
bY
we
ast
Ca
were bound
1
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Ste
a
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1
A as
AN
heay
sieamer
Murphy
It is every man for hi
uted Captain Place,” con
“Th of desp:
was something
We took the
every man
as best he could
took to the rigging.
and 1 lashed ourselves
in a prece the after cabm
washed overboard short
$ont
00K
Of
Houses Washed Away.
Charlotte, N. C
remote counties
{Special } Reports
m the mountain
lictracts show great destruction by the
‘storm. In Bakersville 16 residences and
the Baptist Church were washed away
Quinter Moore and his son were drown
Every house in Magnetic City, a
village in Mitchell county, was destroy
wd. At Roan Mountain Station 20 resi-
‘ences were swept away Six large
stores on Big Rock Creek were carried
away and onc man, John McKinney
drowned, while an unknown man was
killed by a landslide.
Cadets Decline Positions
New York (Special). —Three of the
five West Point cadets recently expelled
for insubordination—B. 0. Mahaffey
Raymond A. Linton and Jolin A. Cleve-
land-—who were offered lucrative places
by Gen. Francis Vinton Greene, presi
dent of the New York and Bermuda
Asphalt Company, declined to accept the
positions offered them. They told Gen.
eral Greene and Gen. Avery [D. An
drews, both of them West Pointers, that
it was their intention to go to Wa.ling-
ton and there try to bring about u re
versal of the decision which has throw
then upon the world at a time when
their prospects seemed brightest
from
Death Caused by Sweating Blood.
Peekskill, N. Y. (Special). Francis
Lynch, in his 28th yeat, was buried here,
The cause of hix death was purpura
haemorrhagica, which is concidered guite
a rare discase. Young Lynch for some
weeks has been actually sweating blood
through the pores of his body. Noted
specialists from New York saw the case,
among them Dr. Woolsey, and pro-
nounced the disease an unusual one and
the case well developed. Lynch held a
responsible position as stenographer and
Rewrite with the Mutual Life Benefit
pany, of 137 Broadway, New York
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