H ZOLA IS ASPHYXIATED Victim of a Horror Like Those He So Vividly Described. WAS SUFFOCATED IN HIS BEDROOM. fis Wife Nearly Shares His Fate—Reported Evidence of Suicide Not Substantiated by Her Statement to the Magistrate Carbonic Gas From the Pipes of a Stove— Analysis Shows Presence of Carbonic Acid in Blood. Paris (By Cable).—Emile Zola, the famous novelist, who gained additional srominence in recent years because Of 11s of Dreyfus, was ound dead in his Paris home Monday defense Captain norning. Asphyxiation resulting fumes from a stove in his given as the cause of death. M. Zola and his wife had retired at to P. M. Mme Zola was found seriously ill when the room was broken nto in the morning. About noon she from the bedroom 1s | i { | une and magistrate what had happened. The couple had returned to trom their country house at Medar jay before. Owing to a sudden spell told weather the heating . sedroom was ordered to be stove burned badly and said to have been out of ogder. To the magistrate Mme. Zola said that she awoke early in the morning with a splitting She awakened her hushand and asked him to open a Wi dow. He and attempted to toward a window, aggered fell to the f 1 Zola fainted at i was therefore unable to ive The of the Zol aot hearing any master's apartment, entered the at 9.30 o'clock and found the nos lying with his the floor and Doctors were s «d to resuscitate A shight noticed the bedroom Zola's body 1 tried by the fumes vants opened th sent for police was also s It was reported evidences of suici Zola. Nothm substantiate ti ment made by istrate seen dined with vious evening an household ate of Skeleton in a Trunk. 5 Spe L jal ! stove In ighted. i the £ 1 pipes headache. rose move but st NSCIONS unc same moment servants move and shoulders 1 legs odor when the servants From the posit was evident t been to rise, physicians Bay Rappahannock, Va ard Wright, local agent for the CON ered a Weems Steamboat Company skel eton in a tri had been stored m the compan) about ecight years, The apparently that of a child 12 Some tattered clothing hung a the remains trunk was more than n t and the body was considerably nt in ler to it inside. Th unl ¢ ntents were thrown into the river and were carried down i There wi no name i i trunk. k which 's warchouse here for | skeleton wa YCars get stream tide By Cable) wara district, ne whelmed man persons drowned Shikishim: osuka, 15 expected slight dar were drives been refioated have been many fishermen, : at 1 Of them have there Se he feared ti the Alger Accepts Sematorship. Detroit Russel Alger, forn of War, for mally accepted Governor Bliss’ tender of the ad interim appointment United States Senator. He sent a tel egram to Governor Bliss in which said: “I duly received your telegram of the 27th inst. tendering me the ap pointment of United States Senator to succeed the late McMillan With a deep sense of the responsibility and the honor, I accept the appoint ment with many thanks" { Special) (zen er Secretary he Senator Mad Valor of a Boloman. Manila (By been received here that three companies of infantry, commanded by Capt. Eli A. Helmnick, of the Tenth Infantry, left Camp Vicars, Mindanao, Thursday, to reconnoiter the Moro forts and recover stolen arms. They encountered only slight opposition. The column captured and destroyed the Butig forts, A few Moros were killed. The American troops had no losses. A fanatical Moro, armed with a bolo, charged the column alone, Brig. Gen. Samuel 8S. Sumner is pre- paring to send a ctecond expedition against the Maciu Sultans, who still re ject the overtures for peace negotiations, Cable ).—~Advices have Mrs. Waggoner's Romance. Chehalis, Wash, (Special). chapter in the episode of Merrill an” Tracy has just been written. Mrs Mary Waggoner, of Napavine, the woman who, with her eight-year-old son, discovered the body of David Merrill, has eloped with Ben Merrill a brother of Dave. They are’ report- ed to have bought tickets for Seattle. Five Sallors Lost in Hurricane. British ship Claverdon, which arrived from Hamburg, reports having passed five of her crew. The storm was en- countered August 27. Heavy swept over the ship and washed every- with the exception of the lower main. sail, were carried away. Five of the crew were drowned and nine others in- jured. To lower boats and rescue the drowning sailors was impossible, SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. Sharkey, it is al Thomas J]. leged, caused death of Banker Nicholas Fish in New York, in dicted for manslaughter in the first de gree. Fhe United Mineworkers claim that nonunion men-are deserting the mines because they do not like to work und the guard of militiamen, Gust Z. Siefeld, a farmer, living neat Peshtigo, while beating his killed by his son, Ethel Belle McChesney, aged years, committed suicide at Sy N who, the { Wis wile Was 10 acusce, of Stony Creek, Va., eloped with Miss Mabel Lee, of same place, osten sibly to be married. When about 23 from her home, Mitchell sweetheart and with same bodies were found lying togethe: buggy Bishop Fallows rived in New York { the the anthracite regio opinion th the Lie miles his to death then kill : : ed himself the heir on a weapon spection ol and he solution problems lies in the est: labor de Richme the labor ment A negro Baber, mot i 3 cn a the n of state woun Albanian acedonian Reve winced the « Macedon Fhe Pekin Shan Hai Kwan was restored to he C1 govern ment the consent of the allies Sir ele wed i ceeding Sir Jos urrection nn Railr with Marcus Samuel was A London, Dimsdale General Von Gossler, favor of 8 1h4 eph formerly Pru of war, 1s dead Commander William H. Beehler, the retiring United States naval Berlin, visited Admiral of Prussia, the that he was anxious to visi! States agam and enjoy the hunting in the Far West An American woman who has a a student at Oxford University, stirred up a lively discussion in | don by a letter to the London complaining of the flth and fort of his college rooms. The director of Mount Etna Ob servatory there has been no earthquake in Sicily, but it is probable tiicre has been a submarine eruption between Stromboli and Sicily Advices from Salonica state that the revolutionists are marching against the Ferkish villages and more troops have been sent to suppress the uprising John W. Young, the father of Wil liam Hooper Young. charged with the murder of Anna Neilsen Pulitzer, in New York, interviewed in Paris, gays he believes his son that he is not insane, but hix mental | strength has been undermined by vi crovs habits, sian minister attache in Prince Prince and SON has aon 'imes discom- Savs is Financial, A dull market for hkely. Secretary Shaw will anticipate June as well as October bond interest and thus put into the banks $20,650,000. | happiest man in New York. largest individual money lender, | Bank of England's discount rate re- | mains unchanged at 3 per cent. | About 35000 tons of Welsh coal have been imported in the United States since i the anthracite strike began, Abscess of His Left Leg. THE BONE SLIGHTLY AFFECTED. Dr. Newion N. Shaffer, of New York, Was { { i Drs. Lung, O'Reilly, Urie and Stitt. It was Found That the Bose Was Effected. An Sun (Special), performed of the left leg of President the fo operation a simple relieve the trouble, 1 § with a knife 1 3 1all cavi Was been pro 1 icy Cyclone Kills Scores. tly {By Cable) coast Modica, 32 miles eee, that 100 bodies of vic! ready been found, and swep! southwest of Syra ; ims have al that the number of bodies by the torrent is vaknown [he newspaper Fracassa expresses the belief that 400 have been killed. The torrent destroyed every thing on the ground floors in houses in the lower parts of Modica. Bridges roads dicappeared damage amounting to dollars done aAWLY 4 and and miithions Oi was Avenged His Daughter. Columbus, Ga. (Special).-~Informa- tion has reached here of a double mur. der at Upatoie, Ga, 18 miles from this In a quarrel Arthur Comer in- stantly killed his wile. Louise, with a pistol. Shortly afterward J. W. Mur. phy. Mrs. Comer's father, hearing oi his daughter's tragic death, went to his son-in-law’s residence and shot used, Insane Patient Started the Fire Neb. shat burned the barn, horses and car- Lincoln, and threatened the building was started by Frank Acker son, a runaway inmate, He was found returned made a full confession, insanity is of such a type that he was regarded harmless, and he had been al- lowed the privileges of the grounds Superintendent Greene was revere v EARTHQUAKE ENDS MANY LIVES. Two Weeks. lerlin y i] A f Fashkent, Turkestan, reports a August 22, the intil September 3. dispatch wl { capital ol | terrible hocks re i i i i Russian earthquake continuing One hundred were killed at Kashgar, in Eastern Turkestan, 400 in | the village of Astyn, 20 at Jangi, while the town of Aksuksitche 1 i persons Many Villiages Wrecked. abad, India (By Cable) A dis the Pioneer from Kashgar Turkestan, says that : ed there the in the northern total of i patch { only ad { in the disturbances but that ages earthquake, wrecked many v nart. nl part SONK the province, the being 1000 were no premonitory savs the dis but a p 1 i +} rise In followed th HP killed here patch, pro temperature I'he rise during the subsequent cipal shock temperature were attended by a repetition nt quakes d Europeans lost Shocks in Mexican City. \ 1 i Viext {Spe BOSTONIANS TRY THE Apply in Court for Receivers For the Coal Corporations. Battle With Bulgarians. 151 LI (sa ana VA Hed by her father tax suit filed was filed at Paducah by agent, Frank | agamst « Central for back taxes for beoianing 1803 The total 1.000.000 University took of a train at and acts vandal y resulted in one of tneir num argest hack ever ntucky Hot 8 Cas $IINe Years nearly of the involved Students of Cah fornia Berkley wh POSSCSsIOm committed of sm ber beme arrested The W. C. T. U. in New York passed resolutions protesting agamnst the nse of the photographs of sch prominent men as Schley, Low, Hill, Depew and Jerome In an engagement between Bulgarian rer and Turkish troops In the vilayet oi Salonica both sides suf fered severe losses. Troops are being dispatched inte the interior of Salonica The Russian Foreign Office has not yet acted on the United States note on the subiect of the Roumanian Jews, and does not anticipate practical re cults from it Queen Wilhelmina discussed the sub ject of arbitration in general with U S. Minister Newel, the Mexican minis. ter and other diplomats A cyclone has done great damage on | the east coast of Sicily. The town of Maodica was inundated, several houses collapsed and a number oi families per- | Etna shows further { Testud fiat a President Koch. of the Reichsbank, Berlin, in a statement to the bank com- mittee, said that the monetary situa- German or other European markets, Further reports of the earthquakes Eastern Turkestan show that 667 Pietra Mascagni, the composer and director, arrived in Paris on his way The National Congress of French of an vighshovr day, The Russians have begun the evacu- ation of Manchuria, A Situation That is Appalling In Is Possibilities, er Popular Clamsr for Fuei Must Soon Reach Proportions That Neither the Anthra- cite Coa! Operators Nor the Striking Mine Workers Can Longer Ignore. Estimated Losses. The estimated losse { twentieth week of the figured out as follows |.oss at the end of 10 operators striker nA than Hooves other railroads in ea ness met men maintain 000 SK. o00 ons | $1,400, region and iron police, union workers fi100.000 . field $400,000 00 I'c Six Men in Blazing Wreck. {Spe a i Tricd to Throw a Ball 2 } An 2 mueement novelty romus, a muscul \fexican, cmnpted to throw a large bull by we horn | he hirst por tion of bition was the attempt Nerot gs toy excite the bull, which © . i he did by waving a red cloth before the animal and then side-stepping from its rushes. When he attempted to throw the bull the enraged animal soon had the Mexican in a helpless position and was gonng when Chief of Police ordered the animal to be las soed the exhibition ended. Only a few hundred people saw the entertain. ment him Corner and Favors Government Ownership. Boston ( Special) —Rev, Edward Eve rett Hale, of Boston, for his conservatism as well as for his ability, noted in response to an mvitation to act as a member of a committee to bring about a settlement of the coal strike, has writ- tenn a letter in which he says: “The strike ie bringing nearer the inevitable solution. This is the control or prac tical ownership of the mines by the State of Penrsylvania or ultimately by the nation. In a republican gqvern- right, that 20 men or 50,000 shall con. given for mankind” Statue to Kossuth in Cleveland. Cleveland, ©. (Special). ~A life-size satire to the Hungarian patriot Louis the presence of somo people. The statue stands on a pedestal and is about 20 feet high. The figure of Kossuth was the work of a Hongarian sculptor, Andrew Toth, of Debreazin, Hungary. The occasion was made the opportunity for a display of the affection in which the Hungarian patriot is held. Ad dresses were made by Mayor Johnson, Senator Hanna, Congressman Burton and Governor Nash, NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Promotion All Along the Line. diplomatic unced irom ador extraording to Russia the he Stat Crops Grown Without Irrigetion. Arid land crop « heretoiore Agriculture, w mspe« f11n onditions Montana Department of 1%- covered in a tour of which Elwood Mead, mm charge of the un gation work of the department, has just completed. Mr. Mead says he found much larger areas of arid land there with in successinl growth on them than he ever had supposed were possible. In a majonty of the sea sons, he says, crops can grow on these tracts without any irngation. White House Furaitarc Baraed. Upwards of some jo pieces of furm ture, some curiams and portieres and several heavy plateimirrors. all belong ing to the White House, were destroy ed by fire unknown origin in the upholstering establishment of E. A Kennedy, on Connecticut avenoe, The lots is estimated by the fire de partment at $5000. So far as knows none of the pieces destroyed were 0 historic fmportance. Newsy Items of Interest. Secretary of War Root is preparing to make an appeal to Congress to re peal the Anticanteen Law in conse uence of the reports of the various epartment commanders saying it hay resulted disastrously to the soldiers, President Roosevelt signed the order for the taking of a census of the Phil ippines, declaring that peace has beer establizhed. A telegram was received irom Come mander Patch, of the Montgomery saying that the blockade of Cape Hay tien was not effective. unknown the i Crops io
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