PATIENTS TORE AT PITILESS BARS Ten Persons Perish in a Fire at St. Luke's Sanitarium, Chicago. ALDERMAN'S HEADLESS BODY FOUND Men Afflicted With Delirlum Tremeans Burned to Death While Strapped to Their Beds Number of Others, All Escape Cut Off, in a Mad Frenzy Tug and Pull at the Iron Bars and Screen of a Window, ( Special) — Nine killed injured Chicago, men one woman were and about persons were in a fire destroyed the sanatorium conducted by St. Luke's Society, at the corner of Wa ['wenty-first street } 1 bash avenue and [he soc was long known as the Hotel Woodrufi A majority of the patients were seek the of harmful drugs cure from drink habit and the use When the fire broke the fifth floor a number of patients fering from delirium tremens and some who were deranged by drugs. Several of these were strapped to their beds, } it was found impossible to save rapidly did the fire spread through the building The fire originated mn basement of the building and spread rapidly to the upper stories through the elevator shaft The blaze was discovered by James Newell, a grocer, was driving through the alley sut and them, so the who in the rear of the building. He noticed smoke coming from one of the windows ran mito the engine room to cause. Behind the boilers in center of the cellar and within a few feet the elevator shaft he saw a small flame The next instant the caught by the draught ok and carried up with a ell shouted to the alley give the alarm and to alarm the inmates of the building. They the alarm, but by the first f had been carried through it air As the the building patients sprang fr beds and before they could | several to the pavement The Fire Department scene within a few windows were filled ing for help, th first efforts to s fire to burn of SAVINg a lar were firemen, it way that for those on t} building to make them as basement and discover its the i £ were several men in hurried floor of and w Cry Oi had jumped from carried gave there were or badly windows NO ARMED INSURRECTION Filipinos, Except Moros, Are Civil Government. Ready fer solid fering plates box and ¢} to the congregation, by property stolen, aggregates $2,000, while the grand organ. not long installed, 1s probably ruined by the heat. Rev. Henry Hess, the pastor, does not hesitate attribute the damage to his church t« the incendiaries I during the looting every alm building i fire damage and Fhe loss Oset to who have past few months started fires in a dozen or more factories and dwelling: neighborhood the $44 in Rivel Tobacco Trust { By Tobacco Company has received a report from the agents jt to the United States for the purpose of organizing a fight against the American tobacco com bine. This report says that a large num- ber of additional agents, buyers and ex- perts has already been engaged, and that architects have been commissioned to design a number of large leaf factories The Imperial Tobacco Company intends to start in the tobacco business at Green ville, Kinston, and Danville, and at other pointe throughout Virginia and North and South Carolina Palma Sigoes an Amnesty Bill Havana, (Special).— President Palma sigried the bill granting amnesty to ali Americans Londoy, Cable) I'he sent under sentence or awaiting begun by the courts to quash the com plaints against such Americans and lib erafe those who are in jail. Senor Acos ta, the cashier in the custom house who is under suspension pending an investi gation of his accounts, is now reported to be insune. Switched by Whitecaps. New Albany, Ind. (Special) Mrs Alice Hanger, wife of Otto Hanger, a city, was taken from her home by a band of 20 whitecappers, tied to a tree in the yard, and severely switched. Her husband was held under guard in the house by a portion of the gang while she was flogged. After wi the woman was warned by the band to be more careful in her care of her step children, or she would receive another visit from the mob, ‘ SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. Martin L. Colien and Abraham S. Ro senthal, importers of Japanese silks at New York, were arraigned United States commissioner on charge of fraudulent entries-of silk cotton goods from Yokohama Judge Lacombe, of the United State: Court in New York, dented the applica tion of preferred stockholders of United States Steel Company to prevent conversion of such stock into bonds Woodrow Wilson, head of the Depart ment of Jurisprudence and Politics, | elected president of Princeton Univer | sity in plgce of Francis Landey Patton | resigned Five persons drowned and a number stroved by the floods | district of Porto Rico George J. Winkler ure verdict | for $8,000 damages against the Philadel phia and Reading Railroad Company Pacific Mail steamer City of brought to San Francisce the 1 of houses de in the Patillas 1 S04 (4g « he Pe Hong-kong Home, h of Amer famine in ¥ 1¢ rmind f nted Chu re. Wis ld man who pa sed und Hill died at the . ' i th no relat Ww ! YO { I he $142,000 Seabright Pro battered rest ‘Bat’ were arrested in getting $28000 by gamblin from George A accordan W he hiding places of Br Education present the demns and officers edge and Dr. Paul Serre. of Berlin phiet upon Germany s expresses States will offers Chancellor Buelow ie Reichstag a bill abolishing the dicta rship paragraph Alsace-Lor ramme Constitution The condition of King ony 1s believed to be worse cial bulletins indicate Lord Goschen, former the exchequer, in a British House of Lords, of increased system bly deficient neces the United ch Germany that I wh the take 1¢ hand von introduced mn r t in the Albert of Sax than the off chancellor of the after speaking value of said that after a costly war and the borrow. ing of £159,000000, country might congratulate iself npon a situation show- ing such economic stamina The captain of the ship Avaurus, at Queenstown from Portland, Ore, re ports that on May 9 a severe vibration was felt throughout the vessel and the sea was violently agitated. Vessels leay statement In f1s0ls, the the agitations of the sea he British authorities have made plans to arrest Col. Arthur Lynch im. mediately on his setting foot in Eng land if he tries to carry out his plan of coming to take his seat in Parliament The British government has waived its claim for the acknowledgment by Mr. Kruger of British soveregnty over the Transvaal, owing, it is said, to his age and mhrmities, Fuancial | gold will be sent from the Klondike this | season The directors of the Atchison Com: | pany have declared the regular semi. Fannual dividend of 205 per cent. on the | preferred stock, I The old officers and directors of the | Baltimore & Potomac Railroad” Come | pany have been re-elected. | The Frankford & Southwark Pas. | senger Railroad Company has declared ia dividend of $4.25 per share, payable | July 1. (By great eruption of of morning, the detonat Cable) Mont Pe Saturday Kingston, St. Vincent, | During the | lee, island Martinigt were heard in the neighboring island and heavy {clouds of smoke sued simultaneously from the Soufriere 110 on thi he inhabitants by which alarmed nd of St. Lu obscured ABOUT 25,000 Strike Order in the Virginias Has a Wide Effect. EARLY BLOODSHED REPORTED. Every Important Mise in the snd New River Fields is Closed — Ten Thousand Struck at Tug River and 1,000 st Dingess A Great Surprise Was the Quit ting of the Hungarians Workers SAFE CRACKERS IN NORTH CAROLINA. They Rensack a Postoffice and a Railroad Station. Kings f Moun - city el tw $ 3 i SK ng the safe open and S200 worth of stamps robbers did in the safe, but ¢ explosive vers ide supposed, robbed uthern Railway city The Tr plac € Was not more made AWA and $100 in attempt to svne effectively from The same ga the station of Davidson, near secured at the than $100 For sometime a gang of expert safe blowers has been operating in this sec tion The government has sent secret service men bere, but so far they have been unable to apprehend the thieves i he not by at Bequeaths His Pairiotism fo Sens Sterling. 111. (Special) ~The will of tering in the depth the crater, hut | nothing could be though the party time. ‘The ascent occupied five hours The return of settlers to area 1s discouraged by if opinion continuing active, of waited a considerable the devas Professor that emit tated Jagge: crater SONo who 18 « the may po RAS without ng, and people from asphyxia moment, of 3 ni Columns of Steam. Wash steam are Ranier the heat of th of the snow and severa the 11H ns of phenom ther fax { re “i re "CROWDED TRAIN JUMPS THE TRACK Killed and Fifty Were Injured. One Man Persons ESCAPE OF SCORES OF PEOPLE. A Train eof Twelve Coaches Five Hundred People on an Under the Auspices a Michigan Ger man Ald Society Meets With Disaster Distressing Scenes Carrying Excursion of NATIONAL BANKS IN COMBINE Scheme for the Consolidation of Mansy Bank. ing Institutions. ihe North Amer h.Y cago. { Special) rust Company of New York forming a combination | hanks of the country which mciude one national bank in each financial center and 1 hie will be American Bankers Corpo which has been chartered in New 2.000.000, Ihe combination known as ration, Jersey with a capital of z irplu of $45.000.000 confidential It save Jankers Corporation be a large New York city bank New Yo will be the practical headquarters “Recently the been amended to perm this by all « the and =a lined in financiers American tO Yarons “The 1 Rona ™ national banking act has of expansion in establishment of ver the So Gur stm direction the small banks country ! of taxation, the organization of an hank with this little to prevent immense national lished with large enough surplus (0 ac sufficient number of hanks throughom the country place, after dividing his property. children, says: “I enjoin upon my son John and all of my sons that should the occasion arise (which God forbid) they be as ready to devote their lives to her defense as their father was in the dark days of 1861 and 1865. i Fatal Fire in Saratogs. Saratoga. N. Y., (Special) ~Five per- | sons were burned to death and three se- {yerely injured as the result of a fire here. The property destroyed was val ued at $300,000, with estimated insur Lance of $225000. Fortunately there was no wind. Otherwise the fire, which was i the heart of the city and not far from several of the largest hotels, might have developed into a general conflagration. | By hard work the firemen got the flames | under control at 5.35 A. M. Chief Shad- | wick was injured in rescuing Mrs, Hart fron one of the burning buildings. Shot to Death From Ambush. Grifithaille, W. V Booster. a farmer and stockman, living here. was shot to death from ambush Boster prominently have a clue to the guilty person wat 20 years old and known, ———— Cont Morgan Half a Million. hs understands that Telegraph Company for the famons Consul Gutmann collec. tion of antique silver and bronzes, in Berlin, is £100,000, Congressman Kera Renominnted. St. Louie, Mo, (Special) Congress. man Frederick J. Kern was renominated by Denwarats of the Twenty-first Ii nots Congressional district at East St Louis, JL | LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Chicago's Officers Were to Blame. The Navy Department gave out the following statement concerning the { ourt of of at Venice Inquiry which investigated the | case the American officers . y recommends Lieut. John S Navy; Capt Mari tant Surgeon Robert E fhe Court of Inquir of United States Wynne, { and A court-martial nited States ne Ledbetter, United States the charge of unbecom ng hel he and that no further action in the case of | Kress, {| Wilfred La { Corp A annroved 0 New Diplomats NR feared ng to the res We pre Ne Civil Service Crowding. Fhe Civil-Service Cot ston has de cided that no pers be re-instated a legal ch at the time has received at 100 por of the ap L pointments to which 3t is entitled under | the apportionment " inn the Government se who 1s resident of a State wh i at Jeast cent we Danish Treaty’s Life Extended. Secretary Hay and Mr. Brun, the Dan ish minister. signed a protocol, extending months the time allowed for exchange of ratifications of the Dan West Indies treaty his allows for adjournment of the Danish Rigedag the summer months without final action on the treaty of cession for twelve the 1h the ose Capital News in General Liberty Bell, en ronte trom Charleston to Philadelphia, was halted in Washing ton. where the Revolutionary relic was received with formal and placed on view for the day In the Senate Mr. Harrie made an ar gument in favor of the Nicaragua route Land Mr. Simmons advocated the pro posed Southern forest reserve The House passed the Will to protect the President and those in succession { and to prohibit the naturalization of an archists, Truman C. Palmer and Heyward C Leavitt testified before the Senate com- mittee investigating the conditions in Cuba: It ie stated that Preddent Roosevelt has decided upon the appointment of | Brigadier-Geuerals Bates and Davis for | major-generals, and Col. William N Forwood to succeed Brigadier-General | Sternberg as surgeon general of the Army. : The Navy Department has ssued or | ders for the assembling of the North | Atlantic, South Atlantic and European squadrons in the West Indies for exten: sive fleet drills, Ceremonies STEAMER SUNK, NINE MEN LOST Whale-Back Boat Cut in Two in Colli- sion in Canal. MEN LEAP FROM SINKING VESSEL. Duluth The The Down, One Sicamer About Canal apd tbe Whaleback (Goss Other Boat, After Also Partly Siaks Entering the Other Coming Out Down lostantly Rungioe ler SENTRY SHOOTS PRISONER “Dad’’ Cain, the Bad Man of Fort Sheri den, is Killed fier Beauty Won a Verdict Man snd Wile Whipped. £ Sow HR 1x : wife out mn ti hipped them with bug wintecappers Al hipping his } must leave he did it agamn. Mrs a serous condi. able to walk cused sul} 4 f brutally wv the Dem. Ww that he counts IR 18 reported to be in s, and Demnung is only Trainers Badly Hurt by Animale Cleveland, { Specialy Phee, Aime at Ww der. trainers and performers of an ans show, seriously imjured In transferring a lion, a bear and a leopard a railroad car cages. McPhee was probably fatally hurt by the mutilated hus and bods Vinge. Morell had right arm and <houlder lacerated by the leopard and Wadder's nght limb was crushed by the Dear " Ie soph \lorelh and Herman ad vyal were from fo on, which fimbe her Miser Lyached Bluefield, W. Va. (Special)-]lohn Wymick, a colored nuner, charged with assaulting Mary Green, was arrested here and soon afterward taken from the jail at Bonitown and lynched. Wymick was dragged a short distance from the jail and riddled with bullets, Sentenced to the Gallows Eikton, Md, (Special) «Lewis Green, colored, convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Carrie Price, red. in Oxford, was sentenced by Chief Judge James A. Pearce to be hanged. When asked if there was any reason why sentence should not be ime sored upon him, Lewis replied: “1 Killed Carrie Price, and everyone knows it, and 1 also tried to kill myself, but now that some time has clapsed since | did the deed, 1 see where the actions of Carrie drove me mad, was crazed, woud knew not what 1 did”
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