sera. ————————— — The News Domestic. Three bandits executed a daring holdup on the Rocky Mountain Limi- ted, of the Rock Island Rallroad, go- ing through the chair car and pas- senger coaches, taking all the pas- sengers’ valuables at the points of revolvers. Dr. Edward Glasgo, a prominent young physician, of Brazil, Ind., is dead, and his wife though slightly wounded in the breast, was placed under arrest following a mysterious shooting on a lonely road. The federal grand jury at James- town, N. Y., has returned additional indictments against the Pennsylva- nia and New York Central Rallroads and the Standard Oil Company. District Attorney Jerome has asked for a special grand jury, presumably to consider the destruction of books previous to the merger of New York's street rallways. Burton Plummer, aged 19 years, confesses that he set fire to the Nor- mandie Hotel, at Columbus, O., be- cause he was jealous of the atten- tions of a clerk to a waitress. Willlam Sumner Lapworth, son of a wealthy Massachusetts manufac turer, has married a loom girl, the daughter of a farm laborer, employ- ed in his father’s plant. The Chicago office of the Postal Telegraph Company has sued the Telegraphers’ Union for alleged non- ers The date for the beginning of the trial of United States Senator Borah at Boise, Idaho, has been fix- ed for September 23. He is accused ment by securing of timber lands. illegal entry the Pittsburg Division of the Balti- was made to wreck the New York express by drawing splkes from the tracks. A fast freight train was de- ed * The cruiser Fylgla, with Prince William on board, sailed at dawn from Boston for Sweden. The Prince and Lieutenant Commander de Klercker arrived just after midnight from Buffalo and Niagara Falls. In New York the directors of the CHicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad declared the regular terly dividend of /2 per cent. on capital stock and an extra dividend of 6 per cent. The Btate Board of Railroad Com- missioners of Kansas issued an or- der for the establishment of a flat two-cent-a-mile passenger fare In that state. At Little Rok tional Co-operative and Educational Union fixed the minimum price middling cotton at 15¢. a pound. Charles H. Deeve, millionarie plow manufacturer, is in a private hospital in Chicago. His malady is said be fatal. City Engineer bury, N. C., was slaughter for the Owens. A great-granddaughter dent Zachery Taylor is a New York insane asylum The first shipload of immigrants to Savannah will arrive about the middle of October Instead leaving Canton, O., on the ident will depart go from there he will remain uz Alfred H. and gener { h York Central Railroad, must trial for a wreck on the road which 21 persons were killed George Bosworth, a Bowdoin Col lege student, who was working as railway brakeman get funds his education, was killed in jumping from a train. Three Black Hand Italians captured in the act of taking money from a New Yorker whose they had threatened. the Farmer's Na- for 2 C, of of McAnulty, Salis- convicted murder man- if Robert of Presi- confined | ¢ Ol Qant 3 to manager he stand in to were if life Foreign The Peruvian Chamber ties approved the contract McCune, of New York, the con- struction of the Cerro de Pasco, Nu- acho and Ucayali River Raliroads France and Spain will occupy the littoral ports of Morocco with their own forces and establish police or- ganizations of native Moors, in order to establish order A large force of reserves is digging in the snow In an effort save HO persons buried under the snow ava- lanche in Chill The Pressian nounced that sia who descended of cholera Emperor Nicholas mier Stolypin the Japanese Paulownia Dr. Maurice F. Egan, new Ameri- ean minster to Denmark, presented his credentials to King Frederick. of Deopu- of Alfred ¢ for to health a raftsman the Vistula officers an- from Rus- died has given Pre- permission to wear Order of the Sun of fegsor Koch in treating sufferers in ness was received In Berlin. An unfounded rumor that an tempt had been made on the at- a stir in Vienna. King Edward decorated M. lswol- sky, the Russian Foreign Ministe:, with the Grand Cross of the Vatican Order. The nounced a surplus, perience for the ment, A doctor declared Mrs. Amy Root, of Rochester, N. Y., who created a geene in Paris, to be insane, Germany is watching events in Mo- rocco, and will prevent the Egytiani- gation of that country. A Russian emigrant died suddenly on a train near Thorn, Germany, possibly from cholera. The anti-Jewish disorders, after being in progress for several days, were finally stopped. Fifty persons were buried under an avalanche of snow at Juneal, Chill, German finance ministry an- an unusual ex- imperial govern- ENGINE JUMPS TRACK Twelve People Killed and Seven Severely Injured. WAS TRYING TO MAKE UP LOST TIME. The Baggage and Mail Cars Telescoped and the Smoking Car Demolished All the Dead Taken From the Smoker-—Passengers in Other Cars Shaken Up. Waterloo, Ia. (Special). Twelve persons were killed and 12 others in- jured in the wreck of an express train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rallroad at Norris, Ia. The express train, northbound, jump- od the track while going at full speed and crashed Into a freight train standing on the siding. All of the dead and injured were in the smoking car, which was i{m- mediately behind the baggage and mail car. The smoking car was de- molished. The north-bound express was 10 where the freight train was awaiting. The express came along at terrific speed Just as the locomotive of the passenger train was about to pass the freight locomotives the trucks of the former loft the track and the moving engine crashed into the engine of the freight, wrecking both locomotive and tele- and demolishing the smoking car. The passengers in the two day coaches following the smoking car escaped with a violent shaking up. Rescuers were immediately at hand the dead from the wreckage. veiled In Drenching Rain. Buffalo, N. Y. heavy downpour of { Special) ~ rain and before the monument on Niagara dedicated this afternoon ly turned over to York through Hughes Great anxiety archist circulars threatening to kiil as President McKinley killed. There was no intimation would be a slaughter who took part circulars handed 1t« the recip city officials alert Four the a vast multitude, Square and State Charles was formal- of New E the Gov. was caused by an- recently distributed, Governor Hughes had been that there of These were terday by were >i te Pink (Governor wrion all day and detectives y surround- his carriage all along the line of march. No one all suspicious vas I allowed to appr i No attempt was made and th police breathed easier When the The Governor the od oity ity ed exercises were over not informed matter, to ke ep caremoni » less In stand Governor the a grandstand filled and professional men of Western New York and daughters consisting of the Grand ans, who always hailed Kinley as circle in front of the and on gleps of Interspersed with th t to their plain flags were Canadian troopers. the ightiest Was Comrade,” formed in speak the the 3 contras blue 1 and coated But the assemblage which banked the approaching the eve could and the roofs in the business vantage points 0 battle the scarlet. by far part of was the multitude Niagara Square i streets as far as of houses skyscrapers goction were used as from which view the monument and its surroundings [t was before just such a crowd that President McKinley, six years ago, delivered his last memorable address which breathed a spirit of amity for the Nations the Western Hemli- and spoke an extension of Pan-Americaniam {ts broadest sense, and . goo flops of nearby to of for in PLAGUE BEYOND CONTROL. San Francisco Appeals To The President. { Special) Washington plague in San tedly got beyond the control of the city authorities The Acting Mayor the city appealed to President Roosevelt to have the Federal ‘rancisco has consequence President communicated with Burgeon- In and Marine Serv. in full charge in the afllicted Dr. Wyman believes tha He tion for some time past, and had already been co-operating with the local authorities, . Boy Gets Life Sentence, Bath, Me. (Special). Life imprig- onment et hard labor in state prison was the sentence imposed hy Judge Whitehouge in the Supreme Court upon Sidney K. Preble, the 16- year-old "boy who was found gullty by a jury of the murder of his com- panion, Norris Wheaton. When the sentence was pronounced Preble bow. ed two or three times to the clerk and, looking around the courtroom, smiled for the first time during kis trial, CARTER WOMAN ACQUITTED —————_— New York (Special).—Mrs. Laura M. Carter, who has been on trial for & week on a charge of receiving stolen money, was acquitted by the Jury. 8he was accused of having received from Chester B. Runyan, the defaulting teller of the Windsor Trust Company, $5,000 of the $82, 000 he stole from the bank. One of the jurors said after the verdict had been returned that the jurors agreed that the testimony of Runyan, who was the principal wit- ness against Mrs. Carter, be entire- ly ignored on the ground that Run- van wag a self-confessed thief. Runyan testified thet he first met Mrs. Carter in the street and that he arranged with her to conceal him, This was before his sensational de- parture from the bank with $82,000 in bills concealed in his suit case. He testified that he told her he was short in his accounts. After taking all his money in his custody, he testified, he went to lve in a flgt with Mrs. Carter in Harlem. and that a day of two later she de manded $10,000 more, saying that if she did not get it she would betray him. This sum, he gaid, he also gave her. Mrs. 000, but said that ag she A8 sOON {ft to him and then betrayed him to police. She denied absolutely that she demanded additional $10,000, tifled. Immediately after the verdict Mrs. Carter was released from custody. She sald she had not or she would demand the for Runvan's capture, $7.400 or as Runyan tes- reward which to BANKER'S WIDOW HELD Said Burglar Killed Her Husband. 0 Deve 107 Cleveland, the (Special). ments in investigation into the J death of John J. Phillips broker, banker came thick and fast Wednesday, and took a sensational turn late in the afternoon, when Mrs. Phillips, widow of the deceased, was tajen tody by Chief of Police coal opera- tor, and clubman, i aristocratic # Mrs Phill nervous Monday which announcement her husband had mortally wounded Wednesday afternoon } and was not able to attend eral, which the Cleveland in a highly early of ter she took place from the with only nediate present It was rely this that Chief Stamberger Cleveland, announced that, conference with Deputy Corone Houck and others, he had taken widow into custody, and tl deputies would guard iN relatives followl of Eas after house the at our her in her ome until she recovers to be taken before peace The : and whether Phillips whether Can Ki which $ vil 06 Are re the; 11 1 cnipadie they merel) facts would she ve tragedy tery Surro at unding it this time TH \ The inn trys the inquest into Phillips was resumed by oner Houck Dr. C. L the first witness, testified been summoned until 4 A than three hours after shot He had phone. Mrs to the house Doctor, has happened! Mr shot by a burglar.’ He found the wounded man in bed He called Dr. Rhodes After they reached the house Phillips asked them to leave the bedroom a minute as he wished to talk with his wife Husband and wife were together alone for, perhaps, two minutes. He gald there wae a trace of blood on the stairway The bed which Phillips was found was much stained by blood When the physicians reached Phillips they realized im. mediately, Dr. Richardson sald, he not live but a short time He told them both he wanted been called by Phillips She exclaimed something d Phillips admitted “Oh, { ha " in could hed with the affair While the funeral arrangements were in progress in the Phillipe’ home the police ransacked the house gearch for the revolver or other evidence in connection with the case, but, as far as is known, no waz found Phillips’ secretary belief that, with the life insurance policies left by him, the estate would pay off all of Phillipe’ debts, and pos The policies, however, have not been found. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Another $500,000 gold was engag- There was a decline of 6 points in Pittsburg Coal preferred The “Iron Trade Review” gays: further weaken- ing of pig iron prices Blowing out of several Eastern furnaces is sched- uled for next few weeks, which is expected to have stimulating effect on market.” The interest on New York's $40. 000,000 of 4% per. gent. bonds will amount to about $80. 000,000 in the 80 years during which they run. Bankers comment adversely on such expensive financing. Erie Raliroad directors finally took action on the first and gecond preferred stock dividends. Cash dividends are suspended, but serip dividends are paid on both classes of stock. Great Northern Ore certificates ad- vanced 's points, accompanied by ru- more that a large extra dividend will be paid this year, UNCLE SAM WILL NOT BE CAUGHT NAPPING ———————— Government Preparing For a Clash With Japan. ALL READY FOR THE BIG FLEET. Extensive Arrangements on the Pacific Coast for the Care and Equipment of the Warships That Are to Be Sent There A Strategic Move of Vast Significance. Washington, D. C. (Special). —Ad- miral Cowles, chief of the Bureau of Equipment of the Navy Department, and Admiral Capps, chief of the Con- struction Bureau of the same depart- ment, have just returned from the Pacific coast, where they have been making arrangements for the care and equipment of the big battle- miles from ocean Admiral Cowles, the bureau of to who the ocean, has charge of department for the great fleet on its on the Pacific coast to when they arrive at the end of their journey. tion to the condition naval stations and ially those at San of the drydocks, Diego, Los An- and Brem- state He places in that Washington found at all these progress in carrying out the instrac- be of evervthing would systematic docking making such repairs and that for the the vessels and as wili be necessary when the arrives on the Pacific coast in fact, both the naval officers reported to the department that everything would be ready fleet whether ships make a or a long stay on the Pacific The only trouble anticipated present difficulty in procur- the Pacific coast, but this the offieers found glations to be satis. ton, ready fleet for the and for its short const was the g labor even despite all the naval factory condition Navy for care, the in on Vhile the ss Brana rine ni preparing Yo ¢ Pacific not fic eet in the heen ale all scout with Japan the 0M ment bas while the « or trouble nations f any Of any £4 oreign preparations } ials made for an department deny that ad “ # CCAR transaction officers ked, that Secretary was 1g home from the Philippines via "ladivostok, his arrival that place it not be d4iMm- cult him gtop there Jong enough to inspect the coaling sta- tion and the drydock Furthermore, the United States cruiser Chatta- nooga had recently visited Viadivos- tok and her officers had no doubt inspected the port and reported its availability te this government for a naval station Despite the perfunctory denials at the department in Washington that the vigit of the battleship fleet to the Pacific means anything but a cruise for instruction and experience, the feeling is gradually growing In Washington that it {8 a stategic move on the part of the administration, which while it does not ndicate any fear of immediate hostilities, is a move te prevent any such in the near future nag AS One gignificently Taft and that on would for to Lightning Strikes Boat. Orleans (Special).——At height of a storm on Lake Pontchart- rain the oyster patrol boat Majestic New the The crew had narrow es- getting away in lifeboats in The Majestic, which is State of Louisiana and regulate the oyster industry. Lightning Kills Five, Raleigh, N. C. (Special). —Light- ning struck the power-house of the plant at Buckhorn, killing five men and injuring between 20 and 25 others. Owing to the wires being down it is impossible to ob- tain the names of those killed and injured The extant of damage to the propery has not been learned. Ex-«Consul A Suicide. Washington (S8pecial).—Dr. Wil ilam H. Abercrombie, who was form- erly American Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, committed suicide at the fash. fonable Stoneleigh Court Apartment House, on Connecticut Avenue, by inhaling illuminating gas. None of his friends know of any motive for his act. His body was discovered shortly after 8 A. M., when a colored maid detected the ordor of gas and notified the clerk. I'he Nation's Capital ations Capila ‘Some Interesting Happenings Eriefly Told. The pleas of the fourth-class mid- shipmen that their sentences of dis- missal from the Naval Academy be reduced have been denied by Acting Secretary Newberry. The White House been newly painted, while 14 tons of old paint have been scraped and burned from the exterior of the mansion Richard Gregory, colored, confess ed having murdered Willlam Garner at Rock Creek Park, four miles from Georgetown. has Action upon the project to remove the Constitution from the Boston Navy Yard has been indefinitely postponed. All the Cabinet officers ex- pected to be at thelr desks in Wash- ington by the latter part of SBeptem- ber. are New the Charges of land frauds in of Miss May Grace Quackenbos, ber of the New York bar, given the title of assistant d attorney, and is doing special for the government in New The Navy Department Department Justice memes been istrict work Orleans has fat % 11 stated au- to create two battle. ship fleets. Central ministers hi Presi- for a American conferences invitation over Roosevelt's Peace COngress received $50.000 Exposition The Treasury a certificate of from the Managers. All records for work ma Canal were month of August Department deposit for Jamestown Two Cuba new were cages of reports a partment, The new 20.0 3 be designated : Congressman a candidate nd is regarded a Dght oh ws vi fg Preside rager to a finish between Roosevelt and Senator Fe Two of cadets recomn infractic § the four Annapolis naval ended for Alem {seal Coon 18 of the rules have sent peals Navy The ox Pendleton to be signed by Acting Navy Newberry The War Departmes d a new adit { SEVEN WERE KILLED. Wrought By A Stroke Of Lightning. igh, N. ( B1 ¥ Hav oC ecial) disastrous effect of a 1} Buckhorn show of the gtroke at ham C { unty gevYen men were killed and ten injured A heavy storm had forced 50 to 70 men to seek shelfer in the cement house of the Buckhorn Falls power plant. Lightning struck a large tres back of the house, and the tree splitting. fell over on the building instantly killing two whites and five negroes and injuring three whites and negroes, all of them resi dents this vicinity All of the victimes were employes of the Phoenix Construction Company, which charge of the plant David Pepper, Jr. gan Smith Company, are interested in the at the plant’ seven of and the 8. Mor of New York contract work Torn To Picces Hy Train, Kankakee, 111 A man whose body was three miles along track i1linois Central Railroad, near Clif. ton, was identified Superinten. dent Greene, of the Siate Insane Asy- lum, as Alfred B. Steinmaler, years old, who had been an inmat of the asylum for 12 years {8pecial) found the ov he fell in a fit on the railroad track. indictiuents Stand, San Francisco (8pecial). Terry lL. Ford, dietments against them was denied by Superior Judge Lawlor. 50 Buried By Avalanche. Santiago, Chila (By Cable) .—Fif- fed alive by a vast avalanche of snow that has rolled down the mountain side and obliterated the Chilean Cus tom Homee at Juncal, This station is on the Argentine frontier, high up in the Andes st" ii Oyster Bay, N. Y. (8pecial) ~The President appointed William B. Shep- pard Uni States district judge for the Northern district of Florida. % a ONLY T0 ROB THEM Dead Burglar Proves to Be Second Johann Hoch. A STRONG CHAIN OF EVIDENCE. Remarkable Discoveries Concerning Henry Hoffman, Who Was Killed While Trying to Rob the Flat of Charles Varrell, in New York--The Police Were Waiting for Him. New York (8pecial).—A second has Henry Hoffmann, killed Charles Var: in who discovered burglar was to rob The that police on Baturday declared Hoffmann was the murderer of Heckler, a servant girl found August and Tuesda they the be that murdered Mrs | in Brooklvn detective on the Schum Hoffmann Among the lief he A4iso Ana Schum, who was The work who ewe Hoffmann time before Gar identified rings ively YOUng won 3 merly lived with Mrs. Schum Props rss tl § The voung described that an eaying javaria bY She also and when a were shown picked out room those {« A pe small 1 # Hoffmann's ed by Miss | of Mrs. Behui lated identified the murdered wor nger ir of keys Lryr 8 room there for landlady Saturday was ki found that ied in fdentified gtolen from Heckler was Hoffmanry ast F to by entered the \ riday morni kill she turning wae discovered retired ageir the flat and after ng entire O71 early tempted family When this family had more entered the gas A short tin the sec ond attempt was discovered V gaw Hoffmann in the fiat and and killed him and he turn arrel shot Released After 16 Years, Madison, Wis (Special) .—With every indication thal was not : the murde: hich she already served 16 Wil- Rache was released from prison Her life sentence murder of Michael Sell, of Shawano County, was commuted by Governor Davidson. She went to the penitentiary when 17 years old. she of for w has Years helmina Waupun for the Bleven Perish In Hotel Fire. Tacoma, Wash (Special). —-Fire destroved the Well Hotel, at Shel- ton, 20 miles from Tacoma Eleven persons are known to be dead All but three of the victims were killed by jumping from windows Eight persons are reported unaccounted The hotel! was a three-story frame building, with front and side stairs, but no elevator. Cyclone At Fort Gaines, Ga. Mautgomery, Ala. (Special), — It f¢ reported here that a tornado struck Fert Gaines, Ga, a town of 1,000 people, 100 miles southeast of Montgomery. All communication by wire to that section has been cut ‘off. Efforts to reach neighboring towns by telephone are futile. The rafiroad operators repert that all tel. wgraph wires east of Union Springs) are down. :
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