W—— GREAT CHESS EXPERT DEAD Ii. Nelson Pillsbury Succumbs to Stroke of Apoplexy. LONG ILLNESS ENDS IN HIS DEATH. Pilisbary's Career of Almost Unbroken Triumph and His Wonderful Feats of Biladfold Chess—A Massachusetts Boy Who Was 8 Master of Chess When Oaly Sixteen Years 0d, Philadelphia (Special) —H Pillsbury, of months. 5, 1872, at tha 2haca Lag CHCSS nagter master, after an illness 11 Pillsbu . So apoplexy Deschapelles Ch first notabl 4 In a Boston, ¥ New York City of seven. ou 1805 won tournament rin and Pill tld of David Belasco | Injured. Daughters rd NINE FOOT GIANT. Ate Seventeen Oracges For Breakfast Eighty Cigarettes Dally, Coal Lands Sold. Special). — Recor been filed Washington C courts showing the Pittsburg - Buffal Company has just completed a f the purchase of 632 lands in Washingto { in this same neighborhood recently at $800 an acre, this onsidered the figure for this purchase he new property 18 near the t« arsville, where contractors are now sinking two of the largest coal-mining in the world. 3: stars " Pittsburg ( and is shafts Firemen lojared at Fire, St. Paul (Special). — The six-story Ryan annex building was gutted by fire. The damage to the building and stocks of occupants is $430000. A of gas explosions prevented the firemen from getting at the flames and caused the blaze to spread throughout the struc. ture. Several firemen were cut by flying glass and 37 were overcome by heat and smoke. Ten of these were taken to a hospital and the rest to their homes All of them will recover with the possi SETICS ble exception of Lieut. W. A, Edwards. LATESTNEWS INSHORT ORDER DOMESTIC A pretty, dark Hind mented with gold an barefooted, was land, New York, called herself the The New York 1 Mrs, Alice Kinnan was porch in repel seeking to gain mother through The Black Lehigh Valley freight train west iocomotive otf stan girl, orna ilver jewelry, and m woman TY ore Liiamo the flye A committee between 1an Regiment i interiar men 3 init i DV were an explosion Haverford, hia Official inquiry into the death of Father Gapon, the Russian revolutionist, has re. sulted in a verdict of murder Capt, 5. C. Bull and four other British military officers were mobbed by natives near Tantab, Egypt. Emperor William has made Privy Counselor Goldberger a member of the expert commission to make an American collection for the Royal Museum of Ethnology A decree of divorce without a con- troversy is expected in the Castellane case, and an adjustment will be effected with Count Boni's creditors Twenty Greeks were killed and 18 wounded in an attack made on them by a superior Turkish force. The Turks lost three Prince Hidirbegoff was killed in the street in Kutais, Russia, delp Cif MASSACRE OF JEWS IN RUSSIA Terrible Battle of the Sects Rages at Bialystok, BOMB THROWN INTO PROCESSION. Huodreds of Victims«-Troops Unable to Restore Order~Beat Stores of the Clty Sacked-Jews Flee to Neigboring Towns, Pursued by Mobs ~ Said at St. Petersburg That the Outbreak Was Deliberately Planed. GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR FRISCO. | Leaders of Senate and House Approve Plans te Loan City Teo Millions. i WALLED HIM UP ALIVE Bodies Buried Under Shop. n (By Cable Ad women hi fa er explate i “Instead crucified, as had been intended, last moment it was rdered that walled up alive Previous to the final act in the tragedy Mesfewi was subjected to daily flog- gings “While the masons were working they were surrounded by a mob, who jeered Mesfewi. The first two days of his entombment the cobbler screamed con. tinuously, but the third day the living tomb gave forth no sound. It is pre- sumed the murderer died of exhaustion.” Dreytes Cane Again. Paris (By Cable). ~The Supreme Court began consideration of the results of the inquiry which has been going on for the last 27 months relative to grant. ing Alfred Dreyfus another trial. The hearings are secret, Procurator General Beaudoin and Maitre Mornas, respec. tively, summing up the arguments against and for a retrial. The private sessions will last four days, after which the public argument will be made. A decision is expected at the end of the month, be LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. hi Monies oe aout arguing come a8 ie % In an find there is any illegal combinati ting up the price of ice investigation to The House passed the jot resiricing the purchase of suppli equipment for Panama American bidder Ki Hed 3,114 lo Philippines. ton ( Special last, sh 1 - rE ana 1.11 ws there wer from that cause 283 cases and Auto Kills Wealthy Woman. Crs 1 Az wife of the president Trust C any, this instantly killed The large auto was riding with and driver, L with two trolley i Spe ial he other occupants of the car escaped Serious injury. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. W. L. Bull says there is still a big short interest in Reading. Gross earnings of the American Rail ways’ subsidiary companies for May in creased over $12,000. San Francisco has now returned $14, 500,000 of the $42000000 which it re- cently took from the East [here are rumors in bituminous coal circles that the Pennsylvania Railroad will purchase all the private coal cars on its lines. Erie will have cared this fiscal year, which ends June 30, about 134 per cent. on its common stock, which amounts to $112.000,000, N is proposed to float a large loan in Wall Street for the pupose of rebuild. ing San Francisco. ¢ sum to be raised will hardly be less than $75.000,- 000. A well-known Philadelphia Asur- ance man says the best. estimates put the total fire Joss at $285,000,000. DEADLY CRASH ON STEAMSHIP Explosion on Vessel at Liverpool, NINE KILLED AND FORTY INJURED. Officials of Company Advance a Theory That the Explosiason Was Csused by Ignition of Gas From Napthe Sosp—Report That sn Mysterious STEAMSHIP BURNED; TWO LIVES LOST, Shipping and Other Property Destroyed in Baltimore. the Victims Dismembered. A SURPLUS OF WOMEN. Fourteen Females to Thirteen Males io Washiogton. Mrs. Dowie Sues For Home. 4 . “ power cover summer hom only Dr. Brumbdsagh Elected, Philadelphia (Special). — Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh. professor of pedagogy at the University of Pennsylvania. was elected president of the public schools of Philadelphia by the Board of Educa- tion to succeed Dr. Edward Brooks, who resigned because of ill health. The board also increased the salary of the superintendent from $3000 to $7,500 a year, To Merge Coal and iron Companies. New York, (Special) Controlling In. terests in the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company and the Republic Iron and Steel Company have been meeting daily for the last week considering plans for the development and enlargement of their properties, The two concerns will be consolidated and a joint issue of securi- ties placed on the market Jona A Top. ping, the chairman, John W. Gates, C. Hanna and other practical steel men are participating. ws Wreckers After “Pegasy.’ Wife Saw Him Killed. : Patrick Gets Stay. y { Srv members widely scatiered on Alebama Miners’ Wages. Birmingham, Ala, (Special). — The district convention of the United Ain Workers accepted the scale for suing vear presented by the ¢ on scale. The only change § year 1s in differentials ———— Most Improve Meat Plagis, Chicago, (Special) ~The City Health Department sent its first official written notices to the packing companies at the Union Stock Yards+to improve the sani tary conditions of their plants. The packers were instructed that they must within three days discard the hithy tables and benches, provide cleaner rooms and tools and correct some of the pres. ent unsanitary conditions Structural changes in the buildings, including new toilet romms and more ventilation and light, must be made within 30 days. the en- rmmiltee last rom
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