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.