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
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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
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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.
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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