— FOUND MANGLED IN BED Miss Alice Matthews and Her Daughter Attackeua at Night. SKULLS WERE CRUSHED WITH AXE. House, No On2 Heard Any Suspicious Sound— Believed That the Murderer Crimi nally Assaulted the Woman. Shreve; Ort, La Matthews, Frank Matthews 3 Tat Aline aged 45 . a well-kn gineer, was bed, and her was fatally mstrument 1ISION re'zht Trains WORK OF TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. Others Siorm, One Person Killed Injured by a aad Very darzer Settlement munity three ounty ee street fartin raf iin 2 on tained and that big 2400-pound sl velocity of 2348 fe powder charge averaged ter oi a ton lor each charge less powder, and required ) and one-half pounds of black rifle pow der to sect fire to the at cach charge. 1 PP it 1% ee smokeless powder Alleged Lazy Man Sold for $6.50. Jackson, Ky. (Special). Brice Mar cum, aged 27 years, has been sold into servitude for six months under the Vag tancy law, He réputation for abhorrence of work that the highest bidfor him was only $6.50. The bid was made by William Griffith, who must pro- vide for him for the time he is in servi ude. Marcum i$ a member of a well- known family. United States Count Commissioner James B. Marcum is his uncle, had =vch a THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. Kate Wolsey, of Covington, Ky., author of “Republics Versus Wo men,” has written a letter resigning membership in the organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she was a charter member, 'be- | Mrs BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIND Great Discovery of Anthracite in the Wyoming Region. give women the right to vote, general of Illinois cer attorney ot ( ank | ty the names of 3000 corporaticns which have failed to with the Anti-trust Las and at official to proces not he attorney tified the Cou (Chicago) to state 8 Sell, Jr., shot and seri Mabel French, and davis and rt W lv wounded Miss who were irom a N. nited ph Ciough, ng : home grange eting, nester, gan of Jol sstment concern ents \ H +} Aye : the Bri an interns of his a to refusal to § concerts at clubs reside hough offered large sums The inhabitants of the district o Petrich, m European Turkey, have re volted, and Turkish troops are engaged trying to suppress the uprising of CARED In irtbotes much his mn misfortune u erica ¢ rive to and Financial, per cent. discount rate. Warwick Steel Company is doing a good business this spring. Northern Securities decision checked an upward movement of prices Keene's European trip will remove the biggest bear from the market. A Philadelphia banker said: “1 could loan $1,000,000 in half an hour if we had it. Money is scarce here.” President Loree, of the Baltimore & Ohio, has been elected a trustee of a iarge trost company in New York i for 200 Years The Marketable Value at the Present Time is More Than $1,000,000,000 i i { Mined. Veins of the made have Wilkes-Barre, that Pa. (Spe 1al) indicate the discovery greatest thy thracite co; 1 Pennsylvania since al first general discovery was the Lehigh and Delaware, Lac) near KILLED 183 MOROS. Captain Pershing Captures S'ronghold at Bacolod 1 arreste An Umbrella Fire Escape. Usin ft. pecially Ing { d! parachute, J : empiove es ap in Yonl street and then lames. When the flames had A policeman \ 1 1OFK ai um hin Ochav. a ed fro a ers shay fire gained headway aw floor opened an He landed arched While he was watching the man umbrella and sailed uninjured, save neck. 1 4 GOwn, tor a Gates Buys Mexican Mines. Monterey, Mexico (Special). John W. Gates and his associates, who for some years have dealt in Mexican min- ing properties, have entered the Sonora field. They have bought the Creston and Colorado mines, old properties, 15 miles east of Torreon, on the Sonora Rail- road. What price they have paid for these ix not known, but it is understood to be near $10.000000, This was ask- ed for the combined properties after the Aiserivery at nee deposita, NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Shakeup in the Postoffice. There were two important develop ments in the investigation of the fairs of the Postoffice Department first was the filing of charges that ad va information had been furnished wagon manufacturers regarding rural the other was the issuance of an Postmaster Van Cott, York city, directing of the promotion and extra clerk allow announced for for the charges hment vehicle al CC and order to of cases recently Yor} ance NCW City service ih esis 1 il re were filed Western manutacture 1 competis by in Ing ' the a the that benefit garding { appomtr Carrier foisessend complaining alleg gotten ot Lie ment gave Be Examinations for Nava! Academy. Accepted as Dangerous Post n the Departments {AICS COMMIsSsN ion of the intercontinental in South America direction the Secretary a class of gunnery specialists formed at the artillery school at Fort Monroe 11% fT 1 eme ol ficers for the general staff of the Army The volume on foreigns relations of press Hilary Bell Drops Dead. New York (Special).—Hiliary Bell, the dramatic and musical critic of the New York Press, dropped dead in the Barge Office. Heart failure is believed to have been the cause of death, Hiliary Bell was born near Belfast, Ireland. in 1857. He took up portrait painting after coming to this country, and later went into newspaper work. He went on the Press about the time of its in- ception as musical and dramatic critic and has been there since. Mr. Bell also wae editor of the Insurance Economist * i { i | KILLED ON A WARSHIP Twelve<lnch Gun Explodes on Board the lowa. AND FIVE INJURED. Three Pleces of the Gun Each Weighing Over a Ton, Passed Downward Through the Spar Deck, Falling Upon the Men at Mess Mis. siles Stopped by Coming Into Contact with the Heavy Steel of the Armored Deck. Pensacola trous explosion occur sp lowa w MERGER IS UNLAWFUL. Wins Northera Seq Salt the ritics Lompany Government Against Big Crop of © buy arranged its creditors General Davi ify GAVE ' . 1 am Ne the fing martial in Manila ¢ quitting laeut. Joel R. Lee. who accused of killing two prisoners of wars The St. Louis Grand Jury h the investigation of the alleged bnibery mn connection with State legislation on the subject of baking powder The special Panama Canal committee, consisting or Rear Admiral Walker, General Hains and Professor Bun, sail ed from New York for Colon, The s000 Moorish insurgents who at- tacked the fortress of Trajana April 8 were twice repulsed with heavy loses, and the explosion of their powder sup- ply also killed numbers of them. Heinrich Pariser, a wealthy money lender of Berlin, was sem to prison for two years and fined $2200 {or usury. Dwight Benton, artist and journalist, and formerly United States consul gen eral to Hawai, died in Rome, at the age of 6o years, * PEOPLE CRUSHED IN THER HOMES. Twelve Persons Killed in Alabama and Nine in Arkansas, Hanceville Ala passed over Hopewell half cial) ~A tornado settlement, one and a miles north o a yelock and as a 1 Wwelve person are , four are fatall score Practically Stamped Cul. fojurcd in Basket Ball Game an» D oud i fie ‘ that {s ! A eritered 11 a long k Bishop dre | shots at Webst, rard. went i and fred wu fell dead Caarina Reported 1 Paris (By Cabie). ~The correspondent of the Rappel at 5t. Petersburg says it reported that the Czar with peritonitis 18 1s seriously all Tues Aida Bloomington, lL (Special). Adlai E. Stevenson, formerly Vice -Presidont of the United States, los: his hair and mustache and received painful burns on his face, head and hands while trying to extinguish a fire in his home. The fire started in a bedroom. When Me. Stevenson. rushed into the room, the curtains were in © blaze. Without calling aid he attacked the flames. In a moment the hair on his head went up { in a puff of smoke. The fire then seix- Led hie mustache and blistered hie face.
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