LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE Two Tons of Dynamite Are Exploded by Lightning. HOUSES ARE RCCKED BY THE SHOCK. A Twenty-Pound Stone Falls Through a House a Quarter of a Mile Away None Killed, but Several Injured—The Ligh ning Kills Two in Carolinas—Charleston Harbor Light Struck. Akron, N. Y. (Special).—In a heavy thunderstorm lightning ruck a d a dyna mite magazine ide the } to the ‘ompany were a tremendous 5 glass was through Pric 1 rice, cit H HIS STRANGE REQUEST. Shankin's Ashes Scattered Upon the Grave of His Parents. Caught Convicts Quickly. Ghouls Also Did Murder. ; ( Special } —Rufus Can- 3 } of the negro ghouls, who hief ’ . ~ - Filion ons serving a sentence lor grave robbery, jon to former 3 and it warded to the Attorney-General that the State may take action upon it. The con- fession deals with several murders that have occurred in this city, and the cor- of circumstances shows that Cantrell had an intimate con- | nection with them. He admits partici- | pating in most of the murders and of having a guilty knowledge of the others. | His Sentence 99 Years Henderson, Texas (Special). Isham | Strong, the negro surrendered by a mob | . . i which had taken him from the officers | for the purpose of lynching him, was | indicted and placed on trial for attempt- | ed criminal assault. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment for 00 years. He was taken to the peniten- tiary this afternoon 4 Ts - has mace a Supetintendent was for- rectness dates and Joke Will Prove Fatal Schenectady, N. Y.(Special —K. Reas- « ki, a lad emyployed at the works of the American Locomotive Company, is dying as the result of a eruel practical joke. Stephen Boroski is under arrest, charged with responsiblity for the act, and other arrests are to follow, A compressed air hose was pressed against the body of Reaski and a quantity of the contents turned on. The lad was taken to the hospital, screaming with pain, and it was found that he was internally injured, THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER, Domestic. Judge de Balt, of the territorial cir- cifit, refused to grant an injunction to the Hawaiian Commercial Company against the Wailuku Sugar Company. A gigantic corporation has been formed in Trenton, N. J, to acquire and operate department stores in all parts of the United States and Europe The Missouri World's on report that the representing of the Fair Commis- collection of the State are CX different re sources Progressi rapidly. One man was ers were injured the several wept off Ol a killed and by projecting ends ladder in New York m H. Matthews, of B 1s received a medal of hon gallantry in being The gover British House amendments at Yongampho In the House of Commons the Sugar Convention was passed to a third read- Baron d'Estournelles de Constant written a letter to Foreign Minister Del casse giving the results of conferences French statesmen has arbitration agreement, Premier Balfour announced House of Commons that the in the British demand for the surrendering of the Shanghai reform editor. Seven hundred persons were reported floods at Chefoo, China, July 27 Whitaker Wright, the promoter, was arraigned in issuing a false balance-sheet of the Lon- don and Globe Corporation, and released on $250,000 bail, Financial, Three thousand letters received by a Chicago bank indicate a depreciation in the crop condition exceeding 10 per cent. Union Pacific last fiscal year earned $31,000,000 gross, $22.000000 net and had a surplus of $15.000000. The last sum exceeded 1902 figures by $780.000. William C, Whitney and other horse- men have hurried away from Saratoga for Wall strect, where a bigger game is going on. But John W. Gates is still watching the Saratoga races. CRASH AT BASEBALL PARK The Collapse of a Walk Crowded With Spectators. Hurt—The Terrible Accident Due Curiosity to See a Quarrel Between Drunk. en men-—Panic on the Locked Like a Field of Battle. ea 12 t t mjured and Saved By a Beltpia. Soon Tired of the Stage. (Special).—~The Mabel ville career of $ iast has decided good, owing to ob: ather and husband, Dr As daughter er vaudevi she sections of he 3 Baer, o New York President, whose favorite niece she was, Mrs. Baer gained theatrical renown, and mn reality commanded her own price, She was a clever artist, and sang with taste and finished style, but her name was her biggest drawing card. Mrs. Baer is a cripple, unable to take a step without crutches, Shot and Killed His Daughter. Neillsville, Wis. (Special).—During a family fight in the town of Seif, Gott lieh Schultz shot and killed his daugh- ter, Mrs. Patrick Leyden. Leyden him- well received a bullet in the chest, and is expected to die, Schultz's skull was crushed, but he is expected to recover, Mrs, Schultz was injured also. Schultz has been awaiting trial for an alleged attempt to kill his wife, and is believed to he mentally unbalanced. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, May Have Leit the Country. Postoffice Department officials W. Beavers, forn dent of the Division ¢ now under indi York for pa After Beavers George er dDuperinten- laries and lowances, New Brooklyn gran the where defraund vd s Department report that th destined for authe ¢ Euro iron 1% Japanese waters assuming the command of of the United States. Nelson A. Miles retired from the er (ren limit John F. Carnell, 63 years old, a vet- for the ‘Postoffice Department, for- merly of lowa, was arrested by post. office inspectors on the charge of op ening letters addressed to the auditor and appropriating the contents, Matter sent in decoy letters was found on him, The Interstate Commerce Commis. sion ordered a temporary extension un- October 15th of the time within which railroads must complete their safety equipment. The $i! Wi President has designated Lieu tenant General Young to command the Army from August 8, the date of the retirement of General Miles, until Au- gust 15, when the General Staff Law goes into effect. The Interstate Commerce Commis. sion gave a hearing to railroad com- panies which ask for time in which to equip their rolling stock with safety apphances. Because of his lack of Civil War Lippincott, of the Medical Department, sll not be retired. Collision. ENGINEER LAYS IT ON THE BRAKES. Two Sections of the Train Came Together With a Fearful Crash—The Victims Suffer. ed Torture Before Death Relieved Them Pitiful Condition of the Woundzd as They Were Taken to the Hospital 1 i BLOOD TO FLOW IN MACEDONIA Struggle Likely to Be a Bitier One Kurds Being Armed. ill interrupted {By Cable). ministers herefore, to adopt eme severity in the revolution. It 1s re will be en hich event massacres are al evitable The Bulgarian exarch was summoned Yilditz Palace Wednesday, and urged to make a final flock to deliver up their thereby avoid bloodshed ppress 3 arms ang is asserted in some quarters that the authorities are secretly arming the Kurds, while endeavoring to convict the Armenians of revolutionary inten- fons. Sofia, Bulgaria (By Cable). ~The newspapers announce that Prince Fer- dinand 1s returning SPARKS FROM THE WIRSS, Announcement was made at the Building Trades Employers’ Association rooms, in New York, that a general arbitration board had been organized to take care of all differences between employes and the unions which have signed the plan of arbitration, Hurlbutt, Hatch & Co, members of the New York Stock Exchange, have failed. The firm was composed of John H. Hurlbutt, E. S. Hatch (a board member) and J. F. Smith. The co- pannetship was formed Sentember 12, 1800. Simikic3 WORLDS FAIR, Others. One of the heay- Knocked Senseless by USED AX ON WIFE AND KN.FE ON SEL Jersey City Man Aticm and Cuts His mograph was diglo stained. In San ed from twenty to was from east to west Farmer Murdered By Employee. Rennselaer, Ind. (Special) Avr. eight miles west of here, was npr by his farm employe, known sony dered the bodies of both were The man had work. Medworth for three vefirs, and V give bi nam They setticmenn, house and alway & Torus d t had quarreled over a —— | Fatally Injured in Wreck! Portsmouth, Ohio (Spegial).— South. bound Norfolk and Western, passenger train No. 8 was wrecked at East Ports. mouth by spreading rails. The engine left the track and turned oder, and En- gineer William Simonton,’ of Colum. bus, Ohio, was caught under the wreck and fatally mjured. Fireman S. N. McDonald, of Portsmouth, was also probably fatally injured. Twenty-five were more or less injured, but none fatally. ; 8 /
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