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PLUNGES OVER TRESTLE
Engineer, Fireman, Conductor, Mail
Clerks Killed,
NINE DEAD AND SEVEN INJURED.
Fast Mail and Express From New York for
New Orleans, Running at High Speed,
Jumps the Track om Trestle Over Creek
Near Daaville, Va., and Locomotive and
Four Cars Fall 75 Feet lato the Water.
Charlotte, N. C. (Special)
97, on the Southern railway, the south-
f the
jumped from a tres-
north
mail, fastest regular
bound one «
trains in the world,
tle 75 feet high
Danville, Va.
Of the
half a mile
and almost
Was
crew of 16 men,
molished.
cluding postal clerks, on the
d and 7 injured.
were kill
[he eXpress messenger, W. F
caped uninjured
All of the
hurt and have b al
in Da s, The recovery of Mail Clerk
ind other clerks
injured men are seriously
1 to the hospital
Spies
are th iortal n-
juries.
CRUSHED UNGER FALLING TREE
Samuel King Saves Two Women and Three
Children.
New \ ]
two women
almost certain dea
caretaker of the est
at
crushed to death beneath
which
rence, Bronx:
trunk, from under
driven the women and children
For 3 King
tract of land
A massive poplar tree. with
feet in diameter,
several days has been
for bdilding
y
clearing a
operations
a trunk 24
near, and the branches
road. Two axmen were at
ing at-the base of the tree,
directing them
Just as the tree began to sway
women and children, who
been in the field picking wild flowers.
started directly across the path of the
falling tree
jumped beside them and forced
woman and two children aside. Then,
grabbing the other woman, who held a
baby in her arms, he shoved them from
beneath the tree just as it fell
was not quick enough to save himself
stood
work cut-
with King
three
tree crashed across King's body
uttered but one piercing cry.
Prohibits Boycotts and Blackiists.
Montgomery, Ala. (Special). — The
boycotting, blacklists, bans or picketing
in this state and provides punishment
therefor. The bill considered
strict and was opposed by
labor,
is
organized
Four Killed in Collision.
Marion, Ind. (Special). Four
Cincinnati and Louisville engine: head
cut nearly off. John Armour,
years old, of Marion, laborer on con-
struction train; instantly killed. Chas.
Lass, laborer on construction train:
mstantly killed. David Moore, of
Marion, and John Caldwell, of Rock-
ville, workmen on the construction
train were fatally injured,
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
Seattle's gold receipts from the |
North Friday amounted to $1,250,000, |
This great treasure shipment. came |
from Nome and the British Yukon on |
the steamers Ohio, Senator and Dol {
phin The three brought 820 |
passengers.
It is reported that the C dated |
Lake Superior Company stockholders |
will apply in the Connecticut court
for the appointment of a receiver for |
the $117,000,000 corporation.
vessels |
|
14 1
Onsol
schooner
The four-masted Gifford |
went ashore on the beach near |
San Francisco The ¢ vas saved, |
but the vessel I be a total wreck.
A sailor boardinghe keeper
int
ocean
Frew wa
in
were
Froes
and
bark
Rev. C.
putting
lan Hamilton, one of
ils who disting
Boer War, ar
| a former
ourt of I.
St
He post
ef t of
secretary, to succeed Joseph
colonial ry.
ahinet
Berlin
of omit men
winted police hay
!
The strike in
mohs
at an mnmtercession
London in pehali of
the ribed them “as
laboring under disabilities rendering
them practically laws deprived of
the elementary rights of humanity.’
The British Ambassador at Con. |
stantinople has been instructed to n-
form the Porte that neither Turkey nor
Bulgaria must expect support from |
the British government in resisting the |
execution of reforms in Macedonia.
It is understood that Lord Milner, |
Britiey high commissioner, has
y charge th
Maccoll,
held in
Mace lonians, a
Canon
service
out
been |
Premier Balfour, of England, in a
says the British government's
tria in preasing the scheme of reforms
The Porte has expressed a wish for
ships at Beirut,
Financiat,
Traders think Lake Superior is at.
tractive for a turn.
The price of plate glass at Pittsburg
has been cut 10 per cent,
The flood of cash from the Eastern
West.
Since September 1, $7,372,000 Gov.
ernment money has been deposited in
national banks,
Iarriman's entrance to the Erie Rail
road board looks as if he and Morgan
had forgotten the Northern Pacific
partic,
SHOT WIFE IN CHURCH
The Desperate Husband Then Fatally
Wounds Himself,
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
Dead Letter Office Business.
Eat
report of thie
The annual
| the Dead Letter Office for the
100%, h
will be embodie
|
| ended June 10,
at Lacrosse, Wis.—Man Whose Young
Wife Had Left Him Because of His Conduct
Follows Her Into the Edifice and Shoots
Her in the Presence of the Congregation.
Wi (Special). During
Morning communion service
at the German Lutheran Church here,
Herman Rosso v, a painter, entered the
church behind his wife and i mother,
h d then turned the wea
1 inf
NOVEL DIVORCE DECISION.
A Woman Whose Pica Was the Sentence of
Husband to Prison.
DYNAMITE IN THEIR PATH
Dissatisfied Poles Kill a Contractor
Wabash Railroad.
on the
f dy
lly tore the
stright ;
rg
ind threw
pieces
Ma
r
& left arm al
1d tear ng In
most from the socket
It has been learned that two
posed to be Poles placed the dynamite in
road for the purp« of killing Pay
master Ferguson, ad arranged t
explode it by means of a
men sup
the
d
n electric bat
tery
Two Swindlers Ran In.
Steubenville, O. (Special)
men who are charged with having
bed farmer John Kerr of $3000, and
who were captured after being pursued
last
William
Bostetter, alias
Houston Kep
~The two
rob
and shot by a posse of farmers
identified
Cameron
were as
Wilson and
out of $5000 in a card game in 1801. A
to be friends of Wilson and Bostetter.
attempt a rescue,
Millions to Found College.
Des Moines, lowa (Special) ~Fred-
erick M. Hubbell, one of the wealthiest
men in lowa, his wife, Frances E. Hub.
bell, joining, has conveyed property to
the value of about $5,000,000 to himself
and his sons. Frederick C. Hubbell and
Grover C. Hubbell, of Des Moines, trus-
tees of the Frederick M. Hubbel estate,
and to their successors in trust for the
trustees and their lineal descendants
with a limitation, over to the State of
Iowa, to be used in founding a college of
learning in the city of Des Moines,
Lives Lost in Riots
in the Depariments.
Sur
Lions
een
geon H.. D
delegate
Plague
convene mn
General
ha detailed as
International Sanitary
which 13 to
10
a the
Comference,
Paris
A composite address was issued by
Jers of the colored race, giving their
composite view of the race problem
The Attorney General
in opmion upholding the action
aptain Leary, when Governor
stam, in condemning the property of
October
iCal
has i
Jeutenant Safford for government
The State Department received ad
vices that in the riots at Gomel, Rus.
sia. eight Jews and five Christians lost
their lives. No foreign interests suf
fered
The Navy Department has ordered
the gunboat Nashville to proceed to
Blueficlds, Nicaragua, for the protec.
tion of American interests there,
Secretary Moody has instructed Sy.
erintendent Brownson not to permit
Rtas at the Naval Academy.
The Commissioner General of Immi-
gration will take action against the
American Textile Works, Pawtucket,
R. 1, for violation of alien contract la.
bor law,
The compromise between the Salva
dor Commercial Company and the Sal.
vadorean government has been ratified
by the national government,
The final details of the commercial
treaty with China are being worked
out.
Holdup of an Express Train Proves
Bootless,
Masked Men Shot Down by Messenger
When an Attempt Was Made to Blow Open
the Car— Engineer Wounded by the Same
fullet — Sheriff's Posse Captured Another
Robber, Who Was Badly Wounded.
nd, Ore
FILIPINO CHARGED WITH TREACHERY.
President of the Nationalist Party Arrested
on Serious Charge.
Flour Millis Shat Down
nn {Specia
capolis
the
every
the wheat all
ithed with the
1
in the mill
Of
mn g
ran
cave ol
fition, with out
are
operatives
There is no sign that four
independent com
the
sthad
irbed 13
Ciiiton Branhem Haoged
Va
Branham paid the penalty of wife mur-
der at Wise
lowes he made a speech of some length
claiming that he was justified in the kill
ing by the circumstances. He appealed
to those present for mdorsement of
his deed, and about 300 of the crowd
it is said, agreed with him. At 1.37 p
m. the drop fell, and in 28 minutes he
wag pronounced dead, his neck being
1 1
oy
Richmond, ( Special). Clifton
Before going to the gal
the fall
Girl Accused of Arson,
Waterbury, Ct. (Special) —Miss Mary
Maloney, 10 vears of age, hag been ar-
rested in this city on the charge of arson,
alleged to have been committed on Feb-
ruary 7 and 8 1903, when the woman
was employed in the boardinghouse of a
Mrs. Foster, in Melrose, Mass, Five
times within a period of 24 hours the
house wae set on fire. The prisoner is
said to have confessed that she set the
fires for revenge.
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APPEAL TO BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT
Christians Being Murdered While the
Sultan Talks,
iment
ituation,
reported.
COUNSEL WILL MOVE FO# NEW TRIAL
Kentucky Jury Convicts Him of Murder
of Cockrill,
24 a
will
grounds of
and er-
| then be
attorney will
November term to
nce for the anpeal
has authorized him
has nothing to confess
&o nfescion
i among themselves
proceedings in the
however. stat.
lots 11 rors voted
nalty and one for a life
agreed on the fifth bal
: 4
diva
u room {Ine 1uror
1"
i
for the death
Saved by Her Corset
Salisbury, N. C
dressed woman
(Special). ~The cor-
saved
She had come in from
set of a neatly
South Carolina and was walking along
a sieep embankment on the line of the
Southern Railway, when she fell a dis
tance of several feet and her body
struck the end of a crosstie in the
bridge connecting the two sections of
the city. There she was suspended in
supported by her strong corset, which
had been caught by a projection from
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Mr. Garfield Will Accept.
Cleveland, O. (Special).—Harry A,
Garfield, son of the late President Gar-
field, has accepted his appointment ‘to
the chair of political jurisprudence at
Princeton (N. 1.) University. Mr. Gar-
field's selection to fill the position means
his immediate removal to Princeton
and the probable dissolution of the law
firm of which he is a member, com-
posed of himseli, his brother and Fred-
erick C. Howe. Mr. Garfield succeeds
Dr. John Houston Finley, elected to.
the presidency of the College of the
City of New York.