6 KILLED BY LIGHTNING Five Stricken By One Bolt at Coney Island. MANY BADLY BURNED AND SHOCKED. While the Storm Was at Its Height There Was a Terrific Flash of Light olog, Which Struck a Flagpole About Which Were a Number of People— Caused Terror Along the Beach. Serie of A lence New York thunderst of over Greater New York Sunday. Lig! ims terrihc vi swept struck in many places and a num r of people were kill } Coney Island led In i bes rs and sight-s SCen( 1 SCOT and the vi score, Fi 28 were umbered ve people were kill miured, 1 1 1 KNOCKeO and cing se rendered un taken away ITCH OF BURIED LEG KILLS HIM. Conldn’t Scratch Amputated Member, Worried to Death. 11 Carrie's Picture Ruined. Topeka, { Spe S known per House and ¢ State Historical picture of Carrie which hung of tl destr the with Kan, tal) the followin sometimes Cus Thunder Burglar Alarm. 321 glars had Morton and ing the house, securing a ¢ of booty, when a thunders broke, waking daughter S hurrying to her father’s ri percewved the odor of the ed for help. Morton was reviv neighbors had worked for an hour over him, Smati ar terrible the y 3 when she WHT ed Beanlogton Dead, 64. San Diego, Cal. (Special) more names were added the list of the dead in the Bennington disaster, making the total dead 64. R. C. whose home is given as Toledo, Ohio, died this afternoon, after being uncon- scious for about 24 hours. Peter Niel. man, carpenter's mate, died this even- ing. Two to Csreiss, — LS —— Baron Komura at Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special).— Presi dent Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Baron Jutaro Komura, minister of for. eign affairs, and Kogoro Takahira, min- ister to the United States, the Japanese envoys to the Washington peace con- ference, Subsequently he had a long in- terview with them, at which all phases of the approaching negotiations were con- sidered. Neither the President nor his Japanese visitors cared to discuss for publication the nature of their confer. ence except in the most general terms. | * NEWS IN SHORT ORDER, The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapla Reading, Domestic) Noble J. Dilday, Ind Equitable 1.ife ice Presi Fifteen-year ran away Ir has lived Park, n the Mos according Child Dr. Doty | ays he 1s not n the cases rantine Japanese hown th and reso hrewd m Army, | trip i General Terauchi, Japanese min- | + Taft party party scenes at Switzerland, | with a luncheon garden There were Zionist Congress the question ation, The Japanese are now practically mas. ers on the Island of Saghalin and there | Ww great rejoicing in Tokio The Chinese boycott of goods in arousing much both sides in Shanghai Premier Balfour gave a luncheon inl the House of Commons in honor of! Senator Lodge General Durnovo was appoimed gov- ernor general of Moscow in place of General Kozloff, A plot against the life of the Sultan of Turkey was discovered at Kustenji, Roumania, i the | Basle, of "i t COON; American bitterness on The Russian police visited the houses of the president and secretary of the permanent burear of the zemstyo organi. zation and seized all the papers relat ing to the recent congress. The Annual Congress of Zionists was begun in Basle, Switzerland. Max Vor. dan pronounced a eulogy in memory of Dr. Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement. The British Channel fleet is to sail for the Baltic Sea. The impression is made that the purpose is to counteract the effect of the Kaiser's recent visit COL. AGUINALDO AGAIN Evidence That He "Confers With tle Ladrones. BIG CROWDS COME TO SEE HIM, Former Filipino Leader, as Witness ln Sult, Be comes Rattled on Cross-examination and lg Forced to Make an lacriminating Confession Dramatic Scene Producd by Presentation of Filipinos Who Had Been Mutilated. to that section, b CHINESE WANT OPEN DOOR. Will Probably Decline to Sige Any Exclusion Treaty. wer NEW CHICAGO TERMINAL Erect I , although 1 the Chicage purchasing No More a Sister of Mercy. N. H. (Special). —~Miss ng to appear that stern Indiana ir and Manchester, who the order of the Sisters of Mercy, un- der the name of Sister Cecilia, has sev. ered her tions with the order. having received a dispensation from Rome, secured by Bishop Delany at her own request. Miss Trull at an early age entered Mount St. Mary's boarding where she embraced the Roman Catholic faith, of which she still a member. At the age of 16 she entered the novitiate of the order and after the usual course became a professed nun. connec ¥ 1 SCHOO], is Didn't Collect Murder Statistics. Washington (Special). — Director of the Census North issued a statement that the Census Office has never gath- ered data on homicides and executions in the United States, but authority to make such a report will probably be asked of Congress at its next session. Director North also denies that census reports contain data on which could be based the statement that only 21 per cent, of the 15000000 families in the United States have annual incomes of more than MAKES AN AWFUL CHARGE Did Carlton Try to Make His Mother in-Law Kill His Wife? MRS. GORMAN ALLEGES THAT HE DID. In the Raymond Street Jail Carlton Expressed Himself Perfectly Confident That He Would “Get Out of the Scrape” and That as Soon as He Was Released He Would Marry Ellnore Vandeventer, late. i Ro Keppering, i of Carl that of the her He she AS m under oderiguer and brought Astor House His persuasive wave. her jewelry and left her with the intention of on a business mission, to return or send for hort time she never saw him rays that Roderiguez while was in the Astor House gave her some dates to eat just before leaving for Brazil and that she was ill for about 1% arried her y the o gays that again. She Kr proceedings recale witness leakage Secretary's in agamst Haas in the otton-report Judge Wright held tha Wilson's report puts Haas attitude of a defendant in a criminal proceeding, and that he could not required to answer questions tending to incriminate himself. He i8- sued an order requiring Haas to an. swer the questions as to whether he had ever lived in Washington had been employed in the Department of Agriculture, and excusing him from an swering those as to whether he knew Holmes or Peckham. Mr. W. A. Day has resigned his po sition as assistant attorney general of the United States to become comptroller of the Equitable Life Assurance So. ciety, The Navy Department has arranged the schedule of courses by the state naval militia organizations, Case al the d be or According to the monthly statement of receipts and expenditures, the gov- ernment is still spending more money than it is receiving. The resignation of George T. Moore, chief physiologist and algologist of the Department of Agriculture, was tendered to Secretary Wilson and immediately accepted. This act was taken as a re. sult of the filing of charges that Moore had exploited “nitroculture,” a soil fer. tilizer, for his individual profit, The Navy Department announced the arrival of Rear Admiral Goodrich at San Diego. A BILLION DOLLARS. This Probably Amount of lodemalty Japan Will Want, Japanese any of their gre und THE GRAIN REPORTS. in the Time of fication. D.C Begin (Special) A WOMAN AIDS HOCH She Secures Reprieve For Wife Murderer. the Condemned Records for am Case to Supreme Court Raising $500 Needed by Bluebeard to Complete Appeal of His of Illinois. FORESTRY ENDOWMENT. Establishment of It at Yale Usiversity. faken ties mm 1881 as rapidly lock , according to the system here Depart nent of 8 noon, ¢ operation at the ulture A annour change was made by Assistant Sec- retary Hays as follows "On August 10, 1005, the cr Pp esti ing | d of the Department of Agri. ure ¥ R y & I sek A M o'clock noon wil out the estimates on condition for United States as a whole as rapidly as they are completed for the corn, spring wheat and crops, which will be taken up in order named. The de- tatled estimates regarding the above mentioned crops and other crops em- braced by the August estimates will be issued at 4 o'clock P. M. on the date named.” statement ma meet at beginning at 12 Oat the Carpeg'e Gives $30,000, York, Pa. (Special). Rev. F. G. Got. walt, of this city, general secretary of the Board of Education of the Lutheran Church, has been notified that Andrew Carnegie, now at his home at Skibo Castle, Scotland, will contribute $30, 000 to the Wittenberg College, Spring- field, Ohio, for the erection of a new science hall. Mr. Carnegie makes a pro- viso that the trustees of the college be required to raise a like amount, A AAA AN Panama Policemen Mutiny, Panama (By Cable) A mutiny broke out among the police force here, but it was quelled almost at the beginning by Santiago de la Guardia, Secretary of War, who faced the mutineers with a drawn revolver and, backed by the offi- cers of the force, brought them to sub mission. The principal leaders were se- verely chastised by the Secretary and the other mutineers were placed in irons. Politics had nothing to do with the mu- tiny, 3 i work the SIX MONTHS FOR MITCHELL. Convicted Uni'ed States Senator Will Alse Have to Pay $1,000 Fige. 3 { Sn { Spey and, Oreg nator Mitchell, using fhce the ce of this city, further ' Mite the Jaw pract firm hell & Tanner, of was sentenced pay fine of $1,000 and to six months penal servitude. Pend- Ng a review of the Supreme Court of the United & n of the sentence will be Mean- time Mitchell will be placed under bail to the amount of $2000 IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. n demand in of e Aa the case by 3 exXeCuin dete red Union stonemasons are § St. Paul, Minn There are about 800 girl waistee it makers in New York, of whom 500 are in the umon The switchmen have paid over $30.,- 000 in benefits in the past three years, There is a mine workers’ union at Nome, Alaska, which hay a membership of over 10600. Over 100,000 the cork wood Southern Spain, The Intermational Association of Mae chinists has decided to elect officers by a referendum vote, Boston (Mass.) carpenters are seck- ing an increase of twenty-five cents a day. cy mow receive $3 for eight hours, people are employed in industry in Andalasia,
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