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. :