THOMAS G. BARKER NOW ON TRIAL Case One of Most Unique in History of New Jersey, Beginning of the the Hudson County Court at Jersey City «- Eye-witnesses Identity Barker and Testify as to the Assault on the Clergy- man. New York (Special).—Thomas G. Barker was placed on trial in the Hud- son County Court, Jersey City, charg- ed with assault with intent to kill. February 3 last Barker shot the Rev. John Keller of Arlington, N. J.. vicar of Trinity Chapel in that place. Barker told the authorities at the time that he shot the minister because his wife claimed that Keller had been guilty of a criminal assault upon her. When Keller was shot he was on his way to Fort Lee to assist at the ordina- tion of a minister. Barker stepped out from the shadow of a hedge and fired at him with a revolver. One of the bullets fired by Barker went through Keller's facial bone from the right side, destroying the sight the right eve, tearin through the nasal buried it beneath the skin of the left side of the face. A second bullet shattered the of g SCil and, after bone, According Barker told shooting that viously Mr. she was alone an improper pulsed him, ace by Barker, violently ar ther said some days be n Mrs. Barker and nervous condi ed the wh He declared th refutation of hargc, Two strange be revealed band’s assailant of his of a man disfigured as the supposed morbid halluc of these counter claims is based on fact remains to be decided by the struck jury selected to hear the evidence. TO RESTRICT CHILD LABOR. Agreement Signed by the Owaers of Eighty. Eight Mills ia Georgia Monroe, Ga. (Special).—The Georgia Industrial Associ n hae taken action in regard to child labor in cotton i The § resolutions have been signed accepted by cighty-eight mills: “That no child less than 12 years old shall we at night in any cotton or woolen mill un any circumstances, and that no child less than 12 A shall be al therein at unless suc wid or physic 3 ! a Pa : ar jen iC tories will, trial- m in firing upon the alleged the other SETI TY ntl permanently therefore One ot a n wife's honor wronged TIAN 8 Whic h w tion C 1 i m OHOWINE and wk der ‘ ' i Years oir Le a 11 re all, wed mother depen of the read and tends year and under 10 ye: to any write Or “ : NCO i provided fu work CORN POOL MADE A MILLION. Three Hundred Profited by the Phitlips Cor. ner in the Cereal Chicago (Special). — proximately $1,000 000 the H. Phillips C points variously situated betwe and Mexico the nature of a dividend brated May corn deal. These checks gO om to about 300 ky individuals who had an interest in a pool of about 15,000,000 bushels of corn. The average profit so far determined is eight cents a bushel. This may be increased when the cash corn now on hand in various positions is disposed of or there may be no further profit The company hopes to cut another melon later. The largest individual interest in the pool was 500,000 bushels and the small est 5000 bushels. Mormon's Turn to Mexico. City of Mexico (Special).—A Mor- mon agent—James M. Cannon-—is here for the purpose of securing from the Government a concession for settling 1,000 Mormon families in Sonora. on the lands from which Yaqui Indians have been driven. Mr. Cannon says: “If the coricession is obtained a commissioner will be sent at once into the Yaqui terri tory by the Mormon Church for the pur- Checks were George the the on cele luc ndians and if peaceful a contract will be made and lands purchased from them. Want Picketing Enjolaed. Cleveland, O. (Special).—The Cleve- land Punch and Shear ( menced injunction proceedings against the striking machinists, asking that the men be restrained from icketing the works of the company. in its petition avers that the union pick- ets have terrorized employees who wish to work. The case will be heard Tues- day. Australian Ballot for Cubans. vana (Special).—Senores Bravo, Aleman, Betancourt and convention a commission the electoral law. he Ausiral he commission are study York law as a basis, 4 to nants Referred Here, able).-~At a cabinet y the Queen Regent held that any bm American sub- Restruction of the the United De Wet, to the uly to SUMMARY OF THE NEWS, Domestic. | Pantley, of Newburgh, N. Y. The cer jemony was solemnized while the parties i | boundary lines of New York, New Jer- i sey and Pennsylvania. { The marriage of Frederick L. Giles {to Miss Mabel I. West was solemnized {in Flower Hospital, New York, and | for appendicitis groom. Laura Madden, of Lewiston, | having been deserted in New York by promise of marriage, tried to commit | suicide in the river off the Battery, Charles P. Hibler, of Cincinnati, met Miss Estella ‘Krebs, of Philadelphia, on a4 train en route to Atlantic City, and upon arrival thev went to a preacher and were married A South Dakota cyclone people and destroyed much The McCormack out of the ruins barbed-wire fence. At the cremation of Dr. Hattie Mon tague, in Paterson, N. ] with her express direction, of her early re injured 10 property were | / house into family of their in accordance mance wa John Czech killed Kazmir Kochan ski in quarrel about fis her German d over the crash in is rep 3 oncerns hem In in in . p are ul Lord Kitchener repor Boers surprised 250 Victorian mounted riflemen, killing 2 and 16 and wounding 4 officers and 38 and taking a number of prisoners, were subsequently released Lord Kitchener reports that General Elliott engaged De Wet on June 6, and the British captured 45 prisoners and 4000 cattle. Three British officers and 17 men were killed. F. W. Hollis, the United States mem- | ber of The Hague arbitration announces that the court has been or- ganized, but the Transvaal War ques- i tion is not before it. A number of children were injured in a crush in front of the king's palace in Rome during the ceremonies of christening the infant daughter of the king and queen Berlin newspapers report that Field Marshall von Waldersee will be creat- ed a prince by Emperor William on his return from China Labor riots have again broken out at St. Petersburg. The military sup- pressed the mobs, A Russian cruiser and other vessels | together with government buildings and warehouses, were destroyed by fire and 12 lives lost at the Galleys Island ship- yard, near St. Petersburg Speaker Henderson, of the House of | Representatives, formed a most agree- able impression of President Loubet of France, who received him most cordially, M. Drumont, anti-Semite, in the | French Chamber of Deputies, bitterly at- tacked the government in confection with the administration of Algiers, The German government is ofganizing | an expedition of coal miners in the Rhine i Province to exploit the coal mines in | the Shan Tung Province. Fifteen persons were killed and 20 injured, the latter nearly all { an explosion in a cartridge factory in France. officers men men Wao tee e court, Wales and 16,804,347 females. Financial Atchison is still negotiating for | steamers to establish a Pacific Ocean line. It is said Conrad N. Jordan will be j reappointed Assistant Treasurer of New York. In the month of May 108 railroads gained $5,180,000 or 0.41 per cent. in ross earnings and $23.8R82.000 since Paeaty i. Fhe gold output in New Zealand in May was 36,457 ounces, valued at £143.303 as compared with 20.09% ounces valued at £111.860 in May of 1900. i SHAKE UP IN THE | Our Minister to Venezuela is Trans. ferred to Portugal, | NOT ACCEPTABLE AT CARACAS. Hundred Dollars to the Former Minister Taken By Herbert N. Bowen, at Present Minister to Persia. follow- posts have Francis B. Loomis Minister to ezuela, | ben trans- be inister to Portugal, vice Irwin, of Iowa, resigned W. Bowen, of New York to Persia, has been to Caracas, succeeding Mr Minister to Venezuela Griscom, of Pennsylvania Secretary of Lega- Constantinople, has made 1G Spencer J Eddy, of Ilinois, J 1).~The diplomatic Washington ing changes {Speci in been i 148 ferred to John N Herbert present Minister ransferred Loomis as l toyd { present | tion at Minister the been Persia resent } 4 been ai cretary ceed Mr ' iat second secretary has de first se onstantinople SUM LarisCon . : Arthur of Louis: i thir good deal lite. When 1 ambassador to WIS 3 res at Paris Rreat popularity tude of delicate 3 1 vey the seeds E 101 expec “MARRY” YOUNG DIED POOR of Ellas Howe, Jr. Bridgend 4 - xu s rt 4 Wi (Special). — m H. Youn kr widely known Made Them Chew Soap. SO : § ges | hours by hay their mouths, it remain n down their being + #4 * unin mn the ihr nroats, Kidnapper Callahan Held for Perjury. Omaha, Neb. (Special). —James Cal. lahan was held for trial in the District Court on a charge of perjury, alleged {Oo have been con mitted in one the Cudahy abducts fixed at $1500 PEOPLE H of FERRY BOAT SUNK IN COLLISION. Lives Lost ia Terrible “Accident in New York New side. wheeler Northfield, which has been | 1 the service of the Staten Island Fer- | Harbor--Many Leaped Overboard. ! i | rammed by the steel-hulled propeller Mauch Chunk, used as a ferryboat bythe Central Railroad of New Jersey. The collision occurred just off the Staten { Island ferry slip at the foot of White { hall street, and in Jess than ten minutes afterwards the Northfield, which was crowded with passengers, sank at the | outer end of the Spanish Line pier @@ {the East river. The Mauch Chunk, which was badly damaged, landed the two dozen passen- gers who were aboard of her. Over a { hundred of the passengers of the sunken Northfield were dragged out of the water by people along shore and the crews of the fleet of river tugs, which promptly responded to the ferrvboat's il for help. A few of the Northfield's passengers were hurt ir J the accident the police believe t i and hat some lives were lost, Captain Daniel Gully, of the tugboat Mutual, who saw the ferry crash together, says that immediately after the mn between twenty-five and thirty passengers leaped into the water, many of these perished ly tidy boats Lin { ap y also declares that he is hundred of were or) tugboat: i cure the rthfield’'s pas The captains were early on the however, and the between cemen i men and women 5 to the shore. FOUR KILLED BY TRAIN Eogine Strikes Carriage at 8 Crossisg In Flist, Michigan. Mich The quelle passenger train due clock a. n uck a venue Cr Mar here at ¢ ie carriage ssing. in the instantly kill- (Spe cial) dout Park. and ur well-known people Several factory buildings adjoin the milton and prevent a clear view of the traci Major Buckingham : irectly front the f high speed. The gine was broken by the and the bodies of terribly mangled of train liision ladies, is Uncle Shoots Nephew, (sa Thomas Swainsboro 1d and ye respectively fought an impro 85 a res Stroud ult of reproached Moxley io Rise StOrie about hin 11 bitter and Stroud i got here gead reuiating varrel gre wh Three Men Killed by Lightning. a +1 Alin} Allegan, Alich of During the terrible storm Allegany ty, the near Lake g. urned harred remame of Case were found John Yerger and hi of Mill Grove, were kiile ’y g. having sought refuge from the in a barn. Much damage to crops rifine Boy Probably Kidoapped. Dallas, Tex. (Special ).—E. D. Strong, of Texarkana, has given his seven-year. old son up as a victim to kidnappers. The boy was put on a railroad train at Waco Parents and friends have not m him since. wm 2%0 rules heard fre Exhibition in Chicago Six Injured. Chicago (Special). — A temporary grand stand at Sixty-eighth street and Stewart avenue, built for the purpose of accommodating an audience to wit- ness the annual held day sports of the Chicago Normal Schools, collapsed Twenty-five persons, mostly women and children, were injured. Several were hurt seriously, but it is thought none will die The stand, which was 100 feet long and seven tiers high, was crowded. The way, when on account of the general stamping of feet in recognition of a meritorious athletic accomplishment, the supports gave way, the spectators a short distance to the ground. Several hundred persons were buried under the timbers. The field events came to an abrupt ending and the participants joined in the work of rescue. The injured were removed to the Normal School nesrby, which was converted into a temporary hospital, with a score of physicians and surgeons in attendance, irjured ln a Collision in Rbode | Island. R. 1 River Point, (Special) —Two Company's trolley cars collided head | on in this village and five persons were seriously hurt and a number of others bruised and shaken The collision was between an open car and a big vestibule car. The open The | open car escaped injury, as did its oec- J. H. Fiske, motorman on the other car, had both legs broken: A. B. An. | drews, conductor of the same car, had | both legs broken and his hand hurt; | tained other injuries: Henry C. Johe- son, another passenger, had both knee- caps broken, and Eugene Capoone, motbrman of the open car, was cut and bruised about the head and face. Woman Suffrage in Alabam. a Montgomery, Ala, (Special).—An or- dinance proposing the regulation of wo stitutional convention by Craig, of Dal- las. The resolution, which caused con- siderable debate, provides that all wo- men who are permitted to vote must be over (wenty years of age, must be able to read and write; her husband must pay $5 in taxes or must have earned $300 the year preceding. 1f single, the womar must pay $5 in taxes or have earned $3.4 the year preceding. Divorced women, excepting those granted a decree on the ground of adultery, cannot vote, The Oregon Needs Extensive Repairs. San Francisco (Special). It is esti mated that the irs to the Oregon, which has just arrived from the Orient, rendered necessary by the dam sus- tained when she was wrecked in the Gulf of Pechili, will require about six months om the dry dock and cost fully $e50,000, a——— Death List Numbers 19 at Port Royal, Pittsburg Pa. (Special). —~Thomas Smith, aged 75 years, one of the men injured in the Port KR mine explo- sions, died at the McKees H ospital, nineteen, FOUND GUILTY. gree at Kansas City, TEN YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY. She Sheds Not a Tear As Apped May Be Taken Kansas, City, Mo, (Special). —A jury in the Criminal Court here decided that Lulu Prince Kennedy was guilty of mu: der in the second degree 1 killed her husband, Philip H on January 10, 1901, and fixed her pus ishment at 10 vears in the penitentiary When the verdict was read markablbe 20-year-old prisoner, cool, indifferent manner ha months baffled the ials, straight ahead of her. She burst out crying | a muscle Later she expres ! nothing more, in th the court clerk of the case father. GW Kennedy, this re for five locked neither gn against her be an to } her brothers o ¥ Er FIVE DIE ON ONE GALLOWS. Negroes Pay Penalty of Their Crime Ip Oeorgia--Knights of the Archer.” Sylvania ] A groes Hudson of their crin { Som : : Specia named Sar i anc hanged on At 12.20 the four were brok died of strangulat The crime Davis hanged was white men Milton Mears bers of an organization ‘Knights of the Archer.” and Harrington, in cers Of the law they were fired ders, MISSIONARIES KILLED AND EATEN Reve. James Chalmers and B. F. Tompkins Devoured by Cannibals. (Bs hites were $n cannibal orgy sent out oe - 1 yusers which expedition punished ving their villages a Pris } made by the natives on the troops, tale of the massacre and can- wd MN nn 2 ne a : mc ners taken « we w a 7 le th the “ ” nibalism General De Wet in 2 Big Fight London (By Cable). —Lord Ki er reports to the War Office from Pre. toria as follows “During the ma from Vrede Gen- eral Elliott's column engaged De Wet near Reitz on June 6. After severe fighting they captured 71 loaded wag ons, 45 prisoners, $8 rifles, 10.000 rounds of ammunition and 4000 cattle The Boers left 17 killed and 3 wounded Our casualties were 3 officers and 17 men killed, and 1 officer and 24 men wounded.” ~ 5 g arci 1 u Two Killed by 2 Tornado Memphis, Texas (Special). —A tor- passed across the northwestern part of Hall county and completely demolished the homes of W. R. Moore and a man named Wickson. Wick. son's family escaped to a dugout and were unhurt, but two children of were killed outright. Moore seriously injured, and Tom Mar- tin, a neighbor, who was at Moore's house, was probably fatally injured Mrs. Moore escaped to the dugout with her infant and was unhurt, Was Two Women Seek Death, Pana, ll (Special).—~Ten days ago Mrs. Otis Price attempted suicide by Heroic efforts saved her life. huarsday her sister-in-law, Mrs. Chas. Price, committed suicide by taking ar- The women were very intimate, almost continually together. Mr. Price says she will yet succeed in killing herself, as she has nothing to live for. Neigh- bors say the women wanted to leave their families and live together, so Mrs. McKinley is Stronger. Washington (Special). ~The improve- ment in Mrs. McKinley's health cone tinues. She sat up in her rolling chair during the day and chatted and laughed with the President and others at her bedside. The improvements on the President’s home at Canton, Ohiw, have been nearly completed and it will be in readiness for occupancy by July 1. If Mrs. McKinley's condition per. mits her removal by that time she will be taken to her Ohio home, where it is believed the chances for permanent improvement will be greater than in Washington, /FFAIRS, For the British Amersga Plan. Washington.—The news dispatches from Pekin convey to the official mind here the belief that what is gnown as the British-American plan of setling the in- demnity question making headway, anc thar it will in the end be adopted as the only feasible Although often mentioned, the details of the Brit- ish plan have not heretofore been given, and they were learned from an authori- tative ir as f OWE The Chinese government is bonds to of th pOWers amount of the indemnity LIVE NATIONAL is scheme, EOurce be issue to the These with amortiza- revenues, propo yu eg 10 each due each bonds are to bear 4 per cent interest, a clause providing V per Certain the Chinese specificall are to be cart of the bor £1 tion 101 designated in the arked for the ation ds A Commi J ap- nted by the foreign powers is to ' take ve of questions > $e thus ex arrange reiainn An Gaetatis r-marked nt Sta N Governor of New Mexico. The President ha rs 3 4 Hit reapg Heavy Imports of ank H Farm Produce nas average . Capital News ia Gear: Kini a 23. A “ s “r resicent Al of y general i ‘nited Sta The ates and Chilia Commismon decided adver Itata clamn against the U government, this winding up the ihe ¢ 1s10m The mail from Manila brings 2 from General MacArthur of the trials of guerrillas who were con- atrocious crimes committed natives Colonel J. H Washington to take cal department of geon General Ster Philippines Comanche Wolfe and ork © YTS omm report victed of iriendly ved - af in of the meds v during Sur. nberg’s absence the NE ia Lone the have joined opposition chietls oLhers in io che and Apache lands in Oklahoma Senator Allison, of lowa. announced Indians called protest the opening of their lands A delegation of ot agamst Wklaho- The United States Philippine Com- preme Court of the archipelago The Secretary of the Navy Mr. Conger. United States Minister to China, bad a conference with Presi dent McKinley. Our New Possssiaag Representatives of Genera! Cailles, he insurgent leader, signed the name of the general to an agreement to sur. render at Manila. Caiiles’' force nem. pers OVEr S00 men. Sevencteen judges including 11 Americans have been appointed judges to the courts of first instance in the The Board of Health of Manila is ene deavoring to obtain information which will enable it to take measures to pre vent the spread of cattle disease in the itland, as such diseases have proven very The Postmaster-General has been mo. tified of the arrest and trial of Bonificie Manalac y Reyes, a native mail clerk in the Cavite postoffice in the Philippines. He was caught in the act ‘of i the mails, and over 400 articles of mised lancous nature which had been taken {rom letters and € was sentenced to years’ imprisonment and 10 pay a of $1,000,
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