MASKED ROBBERS HELD UP TRAIN a Revolver. BANDITS DYNAMITED TWO SAFES. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. Harry T. Walters called on Col. of Customs Stranahan, in New and surprised that official by that he wanted to pay the Massarante collection, Mr lector Yor K, declaring on Garfield Poter, leader of a band of shall Pass. The Sheriff at Salida and Sher iffs of Adjoining Countles and a Dozen Posses Are in Pursuit. Salida, Col received here effect that the Denver and gauge left here during the by of (Special). —A report was before noo Rio tra; shortly narrow passenger night, was several Mar shall and robbed men gents Pass, The at Chester, Col. [he point of a revoly west robbery ver, CNRINECs masked n tender were officers of the pany any The alight side the tracks mn were relieved of valuables. Many of threw away money, jewelry among the re bers sear } t} [here tourists an assengers while it 1s not known how m robbers secured losses express 3.1 -4 } Hown open it It 18 asserica Express Com 10 se Rio Grande robbers failed | that plunder safes, 114 compelled ' h line up along Of from the passengers were from the cars and canyon, ail § their watche cks before ti were were The train Eauge passenger this seas four robbers I he 1s in a wild foot of Mars] The bandit appeared Marshall Pass sheriffs of was the Were adioining dozen posses are Mishap to Battleship Minois. Christiania. N ( By The Unit les! flagship Crowninshi THISETS rived squadron, her h x her engine the port struck punched ipartm crew . and th Con e¢ watertight de Must Not Sead Snakes to Hawail Wood Probably Head of Commission. : NA Preside Ie Wo carly of Mr the for his executive abi a that fact General Wood is ment = prot 3 A i ned as able f the isthmian ca nal n, to have general charge of the canal construction. It is under stood to be y that he may be sppointed as of the sion hy COMmMMIsSs! t unlike the head COMMIS Burs House of Noauslon Miser. Pa at 1 © Hazleton, — Unknown persons home of William Hussman, a non-union Special) raided the lock a m man at Upper Lehigh, and after getting Hussman and hi 1 tempted i the iurniture was extmguished the ed i ] mis bed ut- During and ali the Neighbors fey melee the stove upset destroyed Hue angers san wel | 31 and 18s stil was away IC man SINK Collaps: of the Campanile. Venice, Italy {By Cable) ~The bell tower) oR high, fell with a The cam- hich entirely detached from the cathedral, collapsed where it stood and is now a heap of ruins. The Cathedral and Palace of the Doges are juste sale, orner the royal palace was damaged. panile (detached Mark's Chur fapred at 1040 a great crash into t sanile, } meters m. and he piazza. «° “ Ww Was but a « of To Reward Loyal Men. Shamokin, Pa. (Special).-~The Phil- adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Tompany announced that a 10 per cent increase in wages would be paid in this region to employes who had remained at work since the strike started. The strikers say this increase is intended as & bait to lure them back to work, C—O i Ba Died Working on Mis Tombstone, New York (Special)Thomas R. Mills, 29 years old, of Clifton, § 1. who made his own coffin 20 years ago, was putting the finishing touches on his awn elaborate granite tombstone when | Le dropped dead from heart failure Mills was the Democratic nomince for sheriff 16 years ago. He weighed 400 jounds, He feared that his fam ly rould not secure a coffin large enough lo hold him without delay, sv RB : thought it best to make his own casket pefore he died. The tombstone was an other pet idea of his by a bullet from his own pistol, which A cloudburst at Thatcher, Ind., wash away of $25,000. had ed the with Residents of te los: barely time escape lives States training ship Mo Dutch Harbor, having i ntered head winds and been driv ¢ 3 Of her course way \ . L.ettier, of ( 4 . SRE 05S : Hicks-Bea hequer nounced Lord Sali [re CReELDOKC American from a ya He returs warded Rear Hire * it during the recent rega } Money and was re ninshield’s 101 wing ran agrou { He if flag L1 to a Pp Fatty ce of revolution: ¥ 1 reportea loza Puerto ( i abello, Venezuela ed States Govern ment will Marietta to La Gua FUunioa; ihe American cruiser Brooklyn ar rived ar Southampton with the remains of Lord Pauncefote, late ambassador of Great Britain at Washington. Full na val honors were paid to the dead diplo mat Sir Joseph Little, chief justice and nity governor of Newfoundland, died st. Johns, The United States steamer Ranger sailed from Panama for Chiriqui to pro American interests there. United States Consul Gudger went to Chiriqui with important papers for General Her rera from the Governor of Panama, pre sumably including peace terms The reputation of Albert Ballin, di- rector-general of the Hamburg-Ameri- can Line, is said to have greatly in| creased by his alliance with J. P. Mor. gan. He has also won high favor with fect Financial London traded in 15.000 shates of American stocks, buying chiefly Atchi- won and selling United States Steel Negotiations are practically closed for | the sale of the Detroit & Toledo Short | Line 10 the Grand Trunk line. Thus Grand Trunk secures an entrance into Toledo It is announced dat the Virginia-Car- cline Chemical Company's increased earnings arc due to the short corn erop LORD SALISBURY ~~ | SUCCEEDED BY BALFOUR And Failing Health as Reasons, LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Loss by 1901 Drought. port trade of 1902 Preliminary figures on the exports of PRICE OF CORN HIGHEST IN YEARS Present Boom One of the Wonders of Commercial World, MANY RUMORS OF OTHER CHANGES. exports, and a reasonably accurate The New Chief of the Cabinet, It is Stated, | Will Remain Government Leader in the House of Commons Chamberlain Is said to accept the New Sitgation in a most Cheerful Manner. eed him, Mr 3 i ind accepted BOERS LOST 3.700 MEN lad 75.000 in the Army apd 32.000 Were Pritopers. KILLED THE WHOLE FAMILY. Fortiand Maso Shoots Mis Wile, Her sod a Boarder. Parents { bs i q Te hat Held Officers at Bay. N Y } Jor n i village. { murdering i : in his d r 26 from wha! it be " % vehnine pe soning (% Sa e held msurance be heved 1 i Dvalatedt policies on Anderson s hie warrant y Dyalstedt’'s arres: issued by Coronel Mitchell, an = the dead man's stomach having shown that he had swallowed a large amount of strychnine. On the approach the constable with the warrant Dyalstedt took to the woods and was pursued by a posse. He resisted arrest, holding the posse at bay with two revolvers FOF Was analvsis § of Proposed Big Labor Convention. Chicago Fifty thousand longshoremen of the Great Lakes will be represented at the annual conven: tion of the International Association, to | be held in Chicago this week. The important work planned is an amalgamation of the association and the National Union of Dock Laborers in| Great Britain and Ireland, with 100.000 (Special) wow" wo. Dynamite in Jail St. Joseph, Me. (Special).— Sheriff | Spencer summoned a large force of | guards and armed them heavily, in the expectation that a second attempt would be ngide to blow up the county jail and | liberate many desperate eriminals, | Enough dynamite was stolen from a rock | quarry to blow up half the town, a con- | siderable part of which was discovered to have been smuggled into the jail, | Sheriff Spencer sent his family away, | No stranger is Primed to approach | the building. i ® ticles affected by the drouth of last year can now be thade, of nities and value of corn oats and oatmeal flour and other breadstuffs, also live cat tle, fresh beef and other beef products Xe as other Provisions and cornme ked reduc is in corn, the expor he principal ports hels in the fis against the pre of which 10 206.000.000 bushe 1902 ports 10r 1002 the ended June 30 being ™ 2 000,000 pre of S66. 000.000 bint t bout 7 Xi GOOG In Olt Fuel for Warships. med for coal Oleomargarine Tests ung ( nas 11h aleon argerine | 1 internal structions mmissioner issued of CON ior coloring mat Detailed direc are given jor making tests to dis cover coloring matter principally ring clcomargerine. The circu {a sample gives negative re tests above described. it concluded free re fests 4 usea 1 Ori hat it is coloration HH iat Tf esi, or the resulis should be forwarded to it there obtamed, is any the this of anaivers Depository of Public Moneys. weordance with a provision of the hilippine Civil Government Act the Secretary of War has directed that the Treasury of the Philippines shall act as depository of the public moneys of the United States withowt being required to deposit bonds in the Treasury of the United States or to give any other spe cific security for the safe keeping of public money tion of the Secretary of War.” Capital News in Gemersl jor Waller and Licutenant Day were received, showing that General Chaffee disapproved the findings of the court. Minister Wu has expressed his pur- The President has issued a commis- Director Merriam under the new Permanent Census Law as director General Chaffee has been relieved of ment of the Bast. Gen. George W. Da- vis will svcceed him in the Philippines. Capt. Eugene H, C, Luetze has been Wu Ting-lang, the Chinese Minister to the United States, has received an ap- pointment ‘hat practically means hs recall. DANIEL G. REID THE MOVING SPIRIT. Losses Sustained Last Fall in sa 3,000,000 Bushel Deal Caused Existin: Conditions Twenty Million Bushels of Corn Have Been Bought by the Ring for Delivery to if Duriog the Present Month. ago $51 MILES IN 460 MINUTES New Record Made by the Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore. Mer COFFIN NINE FEET LONG Lewis Wilkins, A Western Giant, Dies in Hospital in Chicago. is afflicted with a was eight feet good health he weighed ong rdinary <x ¢ hod great height to many discomfaris this city from Omaha the hospital an ambulance at the Polk : Was so tl tw mn a «1 wen A casket wide structed Ww feet - £5 wy as $2103 esl ected | un When he came to to be treated at awaited him i wy A an » al ES LH on i he not lie on the f« reed to ant tall t stretcher, iv on the floor of the vehicle and draw his lege up beneath him A special bed had be for him at the hospital A ring that Wilkins had worn on a finger of his left hand 1s so large that a silver half dollar can be casily passed through it. to constructed Twe Meo Killed in Railroad Weeck, Peoria, in { Special) wT WoO men kill ed, one fatally mjured and several more or less seriously injured is the story of la wreck on the Toledo, Peoria and | Westérn Railway. All the injured be. longed to the construction crew except Lepage and Meyers, who are traveling | salesmen. An extra engine and ca- | Boose were coming slowly towards Pe. orig, having received word 10 look out for the construction train, when the two met on a curve, The construction train was going at a high rate of speed. . Fatel Mistake of “Bad Men.” Davenport, lowa (Special).~Christo- pher Leonidas and his son, long-haired medicine men, wearing sharpshooter medals and heavily armed . boarded the Diamond Jo steamer Dubuque at Rock Island, IL, and attempted to take pos. session. Mate Dan Green shot and kill- ed both when the boat was in front of Davenport. The bodies were taken off here. The boat officers were held, At [the inquest Mate Dan Green was acquit. | ted by the coroner's jury on the ground | of self-defense, WOE IN JOHNSTOWN, Shocking Celamity Im Cambria Compasy Coal Mines. Pa been Jobn lohnstown { Special) by less frightful thar 1 BE own nas again sited an aj palling disaster. onl wil flood of Mas 11, Hundreds of homes are made desolate r xplosion whict Cambria Steel ( 11 Wie % ‘ LOOK piace ompar tmont under y have bees vs tO determin Southern Refiroad’s Addition. oxville, Tenn. (Special) It is re sorted that the Southern Railway the Ohio River and Railroad and will extend it from Hunt dale. N. C.. to Marion. N.C. to connect between Ashe: with order to have a coal wii eure Charleston the mam line and Salishury in road nearer 11s Washingion and Caro ma branch end without the long haul rom the Jellico district through Kno ville. ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad has advanced the wages of its telegraph WPErators, Gen, Calvin H. Frederick. a retired veteran of the Civil War, died at his some mm Omaha Juan Jimine:, the deported President of San Domingo, arrived in New York The spread of cholera in Manila is re ported to have slightly decreased. The report that J. Piet pont Morgan ix planning a scheme for the unification of the Turkish debt is denied. Mre, Joel E. Vaile, the authoress, died at her home in Denver, Col. Pracident Charles WW. Biot, oi Har vard University, was elected president of the National Educational Associa tion, in convention in Mmnmneapolis. Pa. pers were read by Secretary of Agricul tre Wilson, Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, of Cornell University, and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Charles Frederick Osborne, who was acquitted recently in Polic Court in Norfolk, Va, for the murder of his wife, Mattie, was arrested on the charge of having murdered a former wie in Stillwater, Mich, several years ago.
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