Wt lA HO AA SO
HUNDRED MILES
“ SWEPT BY FIRE
four Towns Gone in Michigan and
Wisconsin,
FOUR DEAD AND MANY MISSING,
Forest Fires Devastate Five Counties, Leav-
" lng Huodreds of Families Homeless and
Burning Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Prop-
erty— Nine Villages Partially Destroyed
Refugees Flee on Tralos.
Wis,
Milwaukee
Milwaukee, (Special) .—A special
dispatch to the Sent from
Mich
known
Escanaba,
“Four more
persons families
homeless, orth
property i
out and a
five counties
(uare
01 riped
smoke threw women and
i panic
“Gradually the
ing the night and
flames began to
fires still smolder anc
ipreading. :
them
will only
tO start AL ary
id igat
tan see there is sm
Detalls Jesus’ Words?
New Haven, Conn
1
Thos
Spe
¥
Seymour,
1 fragment |
oun |
Three Men Drowned.
Lawrenece, Mass.
Kehil,
{ Speci al) OTR
Andoer
three young Syrians, were dr wned in
the Merrimack River while anoe
They were inexperienced in the handling
of the craft and capsized in midstream
No one was near the scene of the ac
dent, but from the other of
river two men saw the canoe turn over
They rowed across the river as quickly
as possible, but the three conoeists had
disappeared below the surface before the
wonld-be rescuers arrived
Salem George and
to
ticle
—————
Czar Arouses People's Rage.
St Petersburg, (By Cable) A bomb
was thrown into the parhamentary camp
by a note received by President Mou
romtseff, of the lower house, from Peter.
hof, which, instead of making an ap
pointment for an audience at which he
and the deputation could present the ad
dress in reply to the speech from the
throne, contained the information that
Emperor Nicholas would not receive the
deputation, and that the address must
be presented through the ministry of the
court,
It was reported
Pennsylvania Rail
quire more
- 1 %
provement pians ti
by the f th
months
Vice President
Sale
notes
denying the
of Corp rations (
road reb
Oil Company,
First Vic
granted
Pre
Scar
York
| shot and kille
Second
i New
‘rump, of
1ed before
‘ommission
being
in Wall Street
road Compan
to carry
an the amou
¢ $50,000,000
od
»
Penns
ad
S$ Issued a
Of Commu
: $ 3 +} $
sarficld that
ites to
siden
urance
imnsylvani
ter- State (
2 graveside dur-
Austrian Si
ightning.
ns in favor of gen
ig place in front
Russia
as resigned, ow
amet
of the
Association
nicrence
nrisian
wvited
Ken-
, inspect the
to her daughter,
y-
a coup which would
appointed a dictator,
Sweden's first
the on of
Ase i
GISSOl
fete day since
the union of Sweden
siasm,
coast of Moroco
The general
metal workers
as
has
of German
to lock out
sociation
decided
On May Day, t
he political prisoners
gendarmer
and
by the
South Russia,
injured.
The St
new revolutionary
arrest the editor, |
ber of Parliament
The third worl
Young Women's
opened in Paris,
ie at Tekatermoslay,
some were seriously
paper, but could not
cause he 15 a mem-
of the
Association
I's conference
Christian
RATE PASSED
| Foraker, Morgan and Pettus Alone
| Opposed the Measure,
| DEBATE LASTED FOR 170 DAYS.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS,
Red Cross, to fill
Robert
iman of the Central Ce
A aN .
American Ni
place
O'Reilly,
who 1s
of igadier Genera
to atte
Acting Secretary Newberry, in a Re
mission All Amendments Voted Dowp,
txcept One by Mr. Teller to Strengthen
Loonstitutionality of Measure.
Pp. (C.,
8 Cont
Washington, { Spe
Friday,
Rat
vO
tiroad
take the responsi
jax
Senator Fulton
f the words,
preme (Cou
leclared,
ence the absence
could affect the measure
Tar,
:
“the words are retained,
will have explicit auth
it must necessarily
omitted.”
Locket Saved Graduate,
Joston, (Special) At the
of the Cambridge
graduates George M Dewolfe, aged 18
years, fired a shot at Lillian Thorough
good, aged 17 years, and then shot him
self in the head. Dewolf died an hour
later. A locket worn by the girl saved
her from being injured although her
clothing was set on fire. The two had
quarreled
of a
} 5
CiOse
feunion
Auto and Bonds Stolen.
New York (Special) —A $10,000 auto.
mobile, containing $2,400 worth of bonds,
script and other valuable papers, was
stolen by a daring thief, who jumped into
the machine while it stood unoccupied on
Broadway, near Forty-second Street.
Its owner, J. H. Clarke, an automobile
manufacturer, had steppen into a restaur-
int near by. He heard the auto puffing
as it started away, and, although he
rushed immediately to the street, the
thief sped the machine around a corner
and escaped.
topped
mad {
{ done b
Mr. A
i tnd §¢
sented to
lengths
1
red
Wa
Burned en His Ship.
{ Special }
i mate
Edgar Cl
Wf the
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
predict
Smelters
Bull Ww
mda,
specu f
*
Amalgmated Copper.
creased 406 per cent. over the
period of last year,
The “Manufacturers” Record publishes
a list of more than Boo
establishments, representing
same
oil
invest-
cotton-seed
an
and an output of more than $100,000,000
United States Rubber's annual report
shows gross sales in the year ending
March 31,1006, of $354,723000 against
$57,030,000 in the previous year, and $64,
£53,000 in the year preceding that. Net
sales were $32868000, against $32,031,-
000, and $33,306,000 in the two previous
years,
The depression continues in the Ne-
vada mining stocks. There have been
some pretty large declines. Belmont
A man identified prominently with the
Pennsylvania Railroad says: “I am told
that when President Cassatt arrives in
Europe, an impotiafit annoduncement is
to be made by Vices President Green”
Have American banks borrowed or
bought the gold in Europe which has
been engaged for export? This question
was answered by an international banker
as follows: "A good deal has been
borrowed. Some fo. been secured in
exchanged for American securities.
LOOTERS FOILED
IN BOLD GAME
Soldiers Fire at Them at the Frisco
Subtreasury.,
THE SUSPECTED MEN HRE BACK.
Ao Exciting Fray at Midoight— Members
of Company ©, Fleventh Infantry, Say
They Saw Men
Near the Entrance.
4
CHINESE DEFIANT ATTITUDE
Migisters of the Powers Teke Joint
May
Action.
AVENGES GIRL REVOLUTIONIST.
Unkoown Person Kills Officer Whe Maltreated
Her.
Sane by
passenger
attempt
rescue
Plighted Troth By Wire.
Oakland, Cal, (Special).«-Col. Edwin
Emerson, Jr, of New York, lecturer and
war correspondent, and Miss Edith Gris-
wold of city were married at the
home of Mrs, Robert Louis Stevenson
Col. Emerson proposed by teleghaph and
was accepted. Miss Griswold was Sssist.
ant editor of he Sunset magazine, and
is well known as a literary worker,
this
Accused Agent Viadicated,
Washington (Special) —Having sat.
isfied the State Department officials that
the charges against him contained in As.
sistant Secretary Peirce’s confidential re-
port were without foundation
and that he was the victim of mistaken
identity in some measure, Richard T.
Greener, late commercial agent at Viadi-
vostok, Siberia, will be given another
appointment in the consular service when
sufficient
a suitable opening is found.
TROOPS OUT TO SUPPRESS RIOT,
1,000 Unlon 280 Nosunion Men lis Pliched
Battle.
| severely
CARNEGIE HERO FUND AWARDS.
Twenty-One Men
Medals,
brave end Women Get
How Gapos D ed.
k
lamp
and ab vioded,
bed
Her screams aros but
by that time she
The hause was burn
¥
been cut of
ver her
arred re
irom
rescue
mains were found,
Killed Beside Grave,
London (By Cable) A dispatch to a
agency from Berlin 13
mourners who were at a graveside dur
img a funeral at Teschen, Austrian Sil
esia, were struck by lightning and killed,
while 20 others were severely burned.
news savs that
Doesn't Like Thier Money.
Northampton, Mass, (Special). Be
cause the college trustees lave accepted
girts from John D, Rockefeller and An-
drew Carnegie, Mary E. Bird for 14
Years an instructor m the astronomical
department of Smith College, tendered
her resignation.’ Mise Bird ave (ir she
will prepare a formal statement of her
position to be read at the cominencement
exercises in June, when the matter of
control of changes in the faculty and staf
are considered,