COUNTERFEITED IN PEN Peansylvania Convicts Occupied Their Time Making Bad Money. DISCOVERED BY THE INSPECTORS There is a Belief That Certaln Employees Who Did Favors for the Prisoners, Such as Mailing Letters, in Violation of the Rules of the lostitutioa, Were Given the Bogus Money as Tips. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special) .—Coun- terfeiting within the walls of the East- ern penitentiaky, where more than halt a score of men are now expiating sm ilar crimes, is the latest sensational de velopment in the investigation that 1s being made into the alleged loose meth- ods in the Criminals, stitution in principally men who are undergoing sentences tor counterfeiting and it is believed at least one employe of the ered ture institution been discov- tit m a manuaiac- and circulation a large quantity « and quarte dence at TERRORIZED BY CRACKSMEN Safeblowers Take a Tow: and Rob thi! r Bank. : SUIT AGAINST LABOR UNIONS THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. D. E. Loewe & Co. hat manufac- turers, of Danbury, Conn. sued the national officers of the American Fed- eration of Labor and the United Hate ters, under the Sherman antitrust law. for declaring a boycott on the firm William A. Hoffman, who shot and killed his father-in-law, William Brandt, pear Maeystown, Ill, and threatened to take the lives of others, is under arrest in Belleville, IL Federal officials have not been able to find Isaac S. McGichan and George H. Huntington, New York lawyers who are wanted in connection with the postoffice scandals. Mrs. Leslie M. Secretary { the Shaw, wife of the of Treasury, and the American liner New York, Southampton. Frank Day, Detroit, was an automobile accident at the ‘air at Milwaukee while riding Cooper's machine in a five-mil race. Another ac Professor L test of big lent to ingley's aerodo Widewater, 11 i propelier yey Iie Va it the of vented pre the at snows fell upon the Antitrust Law, In the rt here D. E anufac- i offi f lL: dridgeport, Ct. (Special).- United States District Cou Loewe & C of Danbury cers of the American Federation « 1 ‘ bor, the national officers of the Unit Hatters of North Ar 250 members of these « dents of Danbury, who the en ploy of the pl The plamtff A rica and against gamazations, res. were formerly mn wintifis 5 allege that because they ie factory, upon demand of the union in the United States and in Canada, and in 1902 the union men employed by plaintiffs were called out on strike. Dam- Sherman anti-trust law, Shot His Wile While She Slept. Washington, 0. C man F. Denham shot and killed his wife and then ended his own life. diately after the first shot was fired en- tered the right temple of the man, cept that the husband was insanely jeal- ous of his wife, without cause, no mo- man’s conduct, - : from Athen is detern Porte insurrection Ices with the the ate [he Trades ester, Union Congress England, declared for in favor of an generally. hundred Turkish Macedonian Roumelia 5 #3 in an tation troops were by insurgents at Admiral Cotton confirms the reports that he can land 500 marines, if necessary Arthur W. Uler, a New York stock broker, dropped dead in a restaurant Earthquake shocks were felt Financial, A cablegram says an American Com pany has offered $60000000 for the clay mines in Dorsetshire, receivership for Lake Superior? little, it is quite evident, rate. There was a break in sterling rates of the large amount of cotton bills offers EXPLOSION ON OLYMPIA Terrible Accident in the Norfolk Navy Yard, : TWO KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED, The Master-at~Arms of the Cruiser Missing Drydock-—An Officer Orders That he Barrel Be Placed on Board. Norfolk, Va n of a (Spec ial). ~The | 4 aiconoi on explo the $10 barrel of the su perstructure of the cruiser Olympia, in at the Norfolk Navy severely injured set to 1 drydock | killed two men, HEV eral others and fire the® ship. The missing. master-at-arms of the vessel confine] by the The damage fire was | the deck of ! t dl vessel and emoraced 1 het | only the canvas awnings and the: {tures slight were iy mn JEALOUS OF MER BROTHER. A Cloclaoatl Gir! K'Vied Herscll Because posed to Hs Marriage Op POLICE CANNOT GET SOLDIER Pittgburg Arsenal did who the Lng I hefts of { the quent of late with removing copper and lead from the barracks have been fre It hat Crow wot § a gi . several ie x ¥ FTOOI8 « ley, the copper to halt when commanded, and the sol shot him. The others escaped. {he police authorities demanded the arrest of the soldier, but the command ant barred the gates and refused to surrenacer man Qicy ¥s a kitled Woman lie Loved. Mexico, Mo. (Soecial)~W, A, Rey- | nolds, 24 years old, shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss Ruby Kennett, 16 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kennett, in the east end of this county, and then committed suicide. Reynolds is supposed to have been iealons of Miss Kennett because she went to a circus in company with Al | fred Lehnen. Reynolds was from Kane, i I, and had worked for Mr, Kennett {until a {ew months ago, NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, —— Monthly Report on Crop Conditions. The monthly report of the Chief of | the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart- the con- | ment of Agriculture shows i Bo.1, August 1, been as 1003, B4.3 on Séptember 1, 1001, and a 10-year average oi 79.3 These figures, as well as those other Crops, | September 1, and no attempt 15 made | to anticipate the results from further weather conditions. | September I was X2 August 1, 1903, 80.7 on September 1, 1002, R18 at the corresponding date in 1901, and a 10-year average of 82.2 | The average condition of rye on | September 1 was Bq.1, against 87.2 one ago, 00.2 September 1, 1002, the corresponding date in 1901, a 10-year average of Bs.s. The average condition of buckwheat | on September 1 was 91.0, against 93.9 | one month ago, B64 on S ember 1 1002, 90.0 at corresponds 1001, and a Me date in 84.4 ir nax the 10-year average ondit on one i average « 1 was MO.8, 4 t Bo.1 8H.2 Or condition y { akgtr, SPE OTe AaVOT axe os tatoes and on September 1 Was In the Departments 1 sll Depa in ; Miss Todd at (are enwood, Del femovis vernment has instituted pro gs for extradition of leo id J. Stern, the Baltimore contrac or, who disappeared when indicted by ] jury the grand ial Tanaal Commerce Commis- report on Interstate sion has made a State reg- ulation and taxation of railroads showing a tendency toward more effici ent control of rates. The annual report of Commissioner of Pensions Ware shows the total num- ber of pensions now on the rolls to be oH. 548 Hugh HH. Price, surveyor gencral of Arizona, has been summarily removed from office as a result of charges made The Agricultural Department is us | ing every effort to enforce the provi sions of the Pure Food Act. Dr. Herran, Colombian minister, ad- mits that the terms of his government as embodied in ihe latest bill giving consent to the construction of the Pan. ama Canal are exorbitant. A dispatch to the Postoffice Depart: ment announces that Leopold J. Stern, who wae indicted several weeks ago for complicity in alleged fraudulent con- tracts for furnishing letter-carriers’ satchels to the government, has been located at Toronto, Canada. Because of the high prices of gov- ernment bonds, national banks are re- LLiring their banknotes, TRYING TO LIVE ON WATER | i The Effort Successful for Seventeen Days. ABSTAIN FROM SOLID FOOD 60 DAYS. And What Is Stil More Remarkable, the man | lndulzing bu the Fast is Hearty, Healty and Works Hard Every Day—A Physiclen Says | the Feat Is Phenomenal and Far Surpasses | That of Dr. Tanoer. New York (Special) —Without solid food for 17 muscular machinist, has managed to put ‘ ’ £4 in a hard day's work every 24 hours dur- days, Stephen Playsted, a period without feeling duly tired when night comes. Plays IR years | Myrtle avenue, has avowed purpose truth of the theory matier of been three pints regular meal hou days, but notwithsta not suffered in that a nds declare ADMIRAL COTTON PREPARES TO ACT. and Native Christians Clash, Several Killed. Mussulsmans 13508 mriment Constants ¥ ’ CMnIny ed Christiar : istan American College. The wounded. The fight bro while was on board the United States Brooklyn returning Rear Admiral ton's visit No further detail been received In diplomatic : here the affair is regarded as being sen ous and a renewal of the disturbances | is feared. An official version of the Beirut fair telegraphed later to the Ottoman ambassadors abroad for communication | to the powers says that Christians were t 1 ¢ Out 0 four Mussulmans, thot on the Road. Spartanburg, S. C (Special) ~Mil- ler McKinney, a merchant of Tacapay Mills, S. C., was shot and killed on the public road near Spartanburg by Harry Dean, aged 18 years, of Duncans, § C. Dean surrendered, claiming he shot in self-defense. and saying McKinney attempted to shoot him as the result of a quarrel over a debt of $2850 which McKinney alleged Dean owed him. Both Dean and McKinney were mem. bers of well-to-do families, MORE ISLANDS SEIZED. fo Have Made a Smar Protest. Cable). ~The to 17. Washington British made London (By Foreign Office 18 said have re- or coast at garding the recent of two off of British North Borneo by the Unit- seizure three islands the northeast ed States gunboat hese i (Juiros nnected with tal which hoisted. The have lat@®y ast hence northeast c« iy n SET FREE BY LEISHMAN. Natural'zed Americen is Punished Twice Syria. Ir A Fatsl Cave-ln Plsgur Sitpation st Merscilies Wreck on the "Frisco Fan un nvalid AR with SPARKS FROM THE WIRES yinte, a tire ne ng at G Oldfield While i Ba: ney and “the striking rac off the yd fatally injunng spectator {ther ac occurred during the day The steamer Laurentian, which ar. rived in New York from Glasgow, res ported having sighted a burning essed xt «ea. The crew was rescued American Mining Congress, in Lead. S. D., recommended } of a department of ani« track. of Chicas accused of merchant mm Janie Stewart Brown, go, who was wrongiually stealing goods from a North Carolina, is dying. Confessions of two sailors in New York indicate that certain tobacco dealers of that city are engaged in il licit tobacco trade, Near Spring Green, Wis, George Brandt willed his wife and motherin. lay and tried to kill himsell. He con- fessed, panion attacked the nonunion foreman {
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