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Urn Urn kkllUUU A W MU1VM., GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PENN TOOK HIS LIFE IN CELL. Thomas Bechtel's Suicide Con sidered Confession of Crime. Lives Lost In Tenement House Fire. 8lxteen KllleS In Railroad Collision. Tragic Death of Mrs. Booth-Tucker. Receiver Charges Fraud Parka Convicted Again. Thomas Bechtel, who was held awaiting Investigation of the murder of his sister. Mabel Bechtel, at their home In Allentown, Pa,, a few days ago, committed suicide Thursday even ing In his celLJn the Central police nation. The police consider this a practical acknowledgement of Bech tel's guilt. The funeral of the murdered girl took place the same afternoon at her home. ' Gathered about the bier were the aged mother, who is a physical wreck, three daughters and three of the four sons. The absent one was Thomas. He had been refused permission to attend the funeral on the advice of the district attorney. When he was told that he would not be permitted to go to the services he raved. His fury was Intense. The family also felt bitter. The police theory is that Miss Bech tel and a man named Weissenberg went to a hotel together Sunday even ing where they remained until mid night. Thomas Bechtel heard of this, and being opposed to Welsenberg, he upbraided the girl In her room upon her return home. He struck her a powerful blow on the cheek, causing her to fall heavily against a bureau. She was dead when picked up. Members of the family held a coun cil and decided upon the story made public Tuesday, and upon the disposi tion of the body and clothing as found. Charles Bechtel's Blater's hatchet was used In striking a blow on the head of the dead girl to give sem blance of the assault This happened Immediately after midnight. The body was concealed In the home until Monday night, when It was placed In the areaway where It was found Tuesday morning. The coroner's inquest into the death of Mabel Bechtel resulted In finding that her death was due to a fractured skull from a blow Inflicted at her home by some person unknown to the Jury. The verdict further said: "We be lieve that the Inmates of the house, Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, Martha Bech tel, John Bechtel, Charles Bechtel, and Alolse Eckstein are accessories after the fact of the crime." Warrants of arrests were served upon Mrs. Bechtel and the members of her family and Alolse Eckstein. They were taken before Mayor Lewis, who accepted ball for Mrs. Bechtel in $1,000, Martha Bechtel In $400 and Eckstein In $500. John and Charles Bechtel were committed to Jail 25 Deaths In a Tenement Fire. Twenty-one men, three women and a lO-months'-old baby met death either by suffocation or burns In a fire early Sunday in the five-story tenement house at No. 42G Eleventh avenue, New York, which the police and coroner believe to have been of Incendiary origin. Some of the peculiar features of the disaster are that the fire was practic ally extinguished in 20 minutes, that 'he police could learn of but one per sot being injured other' than those who lost their lives, and the property loss- was only $7,000. The dead are mostly Italians. Life nets played a principal part in the work of rescue. The firemen dropped men and women, dead and alive, from one floor to another and finally the men standing on scaling ladders on the first floor let them fall into the nets, held by polioemen and firemen In the street. The building was known as the "House of all Nations" because of the many different nationalities occupying Us rooms. Fire In the Vatican. A fire broke out at Rome at 8:30 Sunday evening In that portion of the Vatican containing the Hall of Inscrip tions, where the pope gives his audi ences and which Is adjacent to the famous Plnacotoca, or Gallery of Pic tures. The alarm caused much confusion and excitement in the Vatican. Stren uous efforts were made to control the flames and the firemen of Rome were called to lend their help. At 11:15 the fire was under control. No lives were lost. No Idea of the damage can yet be obtained. The pope came to the scene In per son and remained until the arrange ments to fight the fire were completed. Incendiary Fire at Coney Island. Coney Island was swept Sunday by the most disastrous fire In its history, about 250 buildings being destroyed, entailing a loss of not less than $1. 000.000. Two men, Frank Conly, a salesman, and Peter A. Skelly, a bartender, are under arrest, suspected of knowing the cause of the fire. They had been seen passing out. of the frame build ing In which the blaze was first seen. Although they deny that they are at all responsible It is thought a care lessly thrown cigarette stub or a hall smoked cigar may tell the tale. Improved Reorder Demand. Bradsireet's Review of Trade says: Cooler weather has stimulated retp.il trade quite generally throughout th country, and this is reflected In an im proved reorder demand for seasonable goods. . The movement of the grain crops follows closely the gauge of prices, which are held well up, and thou el) expo.t trade has been fairly good, the steadiness of prices limits operations. Cotton receipts have been large this week, and this has held down the mar ket, which would otherwise have been inclined to respond much more quick ly to the reports of killing frost and to the growing belief that the crop was likely to prove of disappointing yield. Making all allowances for underesti mation, the prospects are that a crop bo larger than the 10,720,000 bales gathered last year will be marketed. Business failures for the week end ing with October 29 number 217, against 104 in the like week of 1902. Tragic Death of Mrs. Booth-Tucker. Mrs. Booth - Tucker, consul in America of the Salvation Army, wife of Commander Tucker and second daughter of General William Booth was killed in a railroad wreck at Dean Lake, Mo., Wednesday night COMMANDER AND MRS. BO0TH-TUCKEB. When extricated from the wreck she was taken into the waiting room of the station at Dean Lake, wh"rt she was placed upon a mattress and surgical aid given by Dr. Charles Hun ter of Pittsburg. Kan., who was a pas senger on the train. The aid was ol no avail, however, her skull being frac tured, and she died two hoars after the accident happened. She was uncon scious all the time. She moaned piti fully for a short time. Disaster on the Big Four. Sixteen persons were killed and over 50 injured Saturday morning by a collision at the outskirts of Indian apolis between a special passenjrei train on the Big Four railroad and a freight engine drawing coal cars. The passenger train of 12 coaches carried 943 persons, nearly all atu dents of Purdue university, located at Lafayette, Ind., and their friends, to Indianapolis for the annual football game between Purdue and Indians university for the state championship In the first coach back of the en glne was the Purdue football squad. Three players, the assistant coach trainer and seven substitutes were killed apd every one of the 53 othei persona In the car was either fatally or seriously injured. The first car in which were the play, ers, was completely demolished. The second coach containing a brass band was partly telescoped while the third coach was hurled down a 15-foot em bankment. Allegations of Swindling. Allegations of wilful misssatement falsification, swindling and fraud in th: organization and flotation of the Unit ed States Shipbuilding company, of at tempts to mislead and deceive the 'n vesting public by erroneous prospec tus statements and of a deliberate plan to wreck the company by withholding the earnings of the Bethlehem Steel company, are contained in the repot I of Receiver James Smith, Jr., of tli shipbuilding company Just made pub lie. The report concludes with the rec ommendatlon that suit be broughl against all persons who received stock of the company without paying full value therefor, Including the promot ers of the consolidation, the venders of the constituent plants and Charles M. Schwab, to recover from them sucb amount as Is necessary to pay tht debts of the concern in full. Parks Convicted a Second Time. For the second time within twt months, Samuel J. Parks, walkl .g delegate of the New York House smiths' and Bridgemen's union local No. 2 has been convicted of the crime of extortion. It took the jury Just 12 minutes, dur lng which they took two ballots, tc agree on the guilt of Parks, who this time was accused of extorting $50( from the Tiffany studios, a. local firm of contractors, under threat ol keeping them from continuing theii work on buildings. Mrs. Burdick Given Trusteeship. Surrogate Marcus at Buffalo has handed down a decision in whict he awards to Mrs. Alice Hull BurdlcV the care of the property left to hei children as well as custody of theli persons. The estate left to the children if valued at about $60,000. It is probabl suit will be started in their name soon to have deeded back to the es tate several pieces of real propert Mr. Burdick deeded shortly before his murder to friends, with instructions tt hold the property for his children. Took Poison In Court Room. After being arrested on the chargf of arson for attempting to burn hit drug store in the Y. M. C. A. block ai Lestershire, Truman H. Wheeler tool poison in the court house In Bingham ton Thursday afternoon and died aboir an hour later in the county jail. Another Advance In Oil. The Standard Oil company Mondaj advanced the wholesale price of al grades of refined oil 1 cent per gallon CONTESTS IN 1 1 STATES. Full State Tickets Voted For In Seven. Close Contests In Maryland and Rhode Island Massachusetts Re publican Candidates All Renominat ed Lively Canvass In Ohio Pro lilbition and Populist Tickets. New York, Nov. 3. Elections will be held in 11 states today. Full state tickets are to be voted for in Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa and Mississippi, while In New York, Pennsylvania, Ne biaska and Colorado a justice of the upper courts, regents of the state unl versity or minor state officers are H be chosen. Municipal officials are to be selected In Greater New York, Sau Francisco and Salt Lake. The Prohibitionists have a ticket lu all the states except Colorado; the Socialists in all except Nebraska and Colorado; the Populists In two states, Iowa and Colorado, and the Socialist Labor party In three, New York, Mas sachusetts and Ohio. Fusion was ef fected In only one state Nebraska, though the Republicans of New York endorsed the Democratic nominee for Judge of the court of appeals. The most interesting contests in the East are the state elections In Mary land and Rhode Island, and the munici pal and county contests in New York city. In Maryland the offices of governor, comptroller and attorney general will be filled. Edwin Warfleld, the Demo cratic candidate, is fighting the Issue with Stevenson A. Williams, the Re publican nominee. The offices of governor, lieutenan governor, secretary of state, attorney general and treasurer will be elected in Rhode Island. Samuel' P. Colt heads the Republican ticket, and Lu cius Garvin, the present executive, oc cupies the same position on the Dem ocratic ticket. Last year Garvin up set the plans of the Republicans by securing an election, although every other successful candidate was a Re publican. Massachusetts will choose a full state ticket. All the Republican can didates were renominated. Bates, bo sides having been governor this year, was previously lieutenant governor for three years. Gaston, the Demo cratic candidate, was last year's nomi nee for governor. Pennsylvania will elect an auditor general, treasurer and two Judges of the superior court. Court of appeals judge is the oniy state office to be voted for in New York. Judge Dennis O'Brien, Demo crat, will have the race to himself, having been endorsed by the Republi cans. The Interest In New York will cen ter in the municipal and county con tests in Manhattan and Kings bor oughs. Seth Low, the present mayor, Is the fusion candidate, and George B. McClellan the Democratic nominee. Ex-Deputy Police Commissioner Dev ery is an Independent candidate, and the Prohibitionists and Socialists hare also made nominations. The Brooklyn organization, headed by McLaughlin, endorsed McClellan. but bolted the nominations of Grotit for comptroller and Fornes for presi dent of the board of aldermen. Grout and Fornes were the fusion candi dates, but on account of their endorse ment by the Democrats their names were taken off the fusion ticket, and those of Hinrichs and McGulre substi tuted. In the West the liveliest contest is ir Ohio, where Myron T. Herrick and Tom L. Johnson, both of Cleveland, are the leaders on the Republican and Democratic tickets, and Marcus A. Hanna and John H. Clark are strug gling for members of the legislature which will elect a United States sena tor. In Iowa, Albert B. Cummins is mak ing his second race for governor, his opponent being Jeremiah B. Sullivan, who is depending on the Democratic vote, the Populists having their own state ticket In the field. Governor Beckham is seeking re election In Kentucky, the Republican candidate being MorrlsB. Belknap, who has made a very active canvass. The Democrats will have a walkover in Mississippi, neither the Republi cans nor any other opposition party having put a ticket In the field. The contest in Nebraska Is for n justice of the supreme court. The Republican candidate is John D. Bcrnes, the Democrats and Populists fusing on John D. Sullivan. Two re gents of the state university are also to be chosen. In Colorado the Democrats made a straight nomination for judge of the Uipreme court, the Populists putting rp one of their own party. The fight for municipal control of San Francisco and (Halt Lake, partic ularly the former, "B very warm. Engineer Walker's Son Killed. La Junta, Col., Nov. 3. Santa Fe passenger train No. 6, eastbound, which was wrecked by unknown ner sons at Aplshapa creek last Friday, met with disaster again yesterday at Thatcher, where the engine left the tracks and turned over on its sidi), killing Fireman VV. H. Walker. Walk er was a son of th engineer who was probably fatally hurt at Aplshapa. Report of Receiver Smith. New York. Nov. 3. The report of Receiver Smith was a topic of genera! discussion In business and financial circles, but none of those directly In t?rct.ted would express an opinion. WAR ON HANDBOOK MAKERS. Mayor Harrison Has an Ordinance Foi Licensing Telegraph Tickers. Chicago, Nov. 3. In an effort tc stamp out the handbook system ol letting on horse races, Mayor Harri son sent an or' ince to the citj council providing mr the licensing ol ail telegraph "tickers" to prevent ths transmission of odds on horse racf for gambling purposes. In explana ton Mayor Harrison told the council: "The evils attendant on the preva lent craze for gambling on horse rac di certainly demand as vigorous meas ures as were resorted to '.ten tb( united sentiment of the nation en cted from congress the stem pins out o lottery gambling. "Handbooks today are made In large number of saloons, in billiard room 8, barber shops and cigar stores. Indeed, It Is asserted the suburban trains on various railroads are sys tcmatlcally worked by handbook ma kers, who also employ emissaries tc make daily rounds of office buildings The ordinance wil cut off all informa class and several students were lu- now given general currency through the medium of the 'tickers.' " RELEASE OF LYNCHEHAUM. London Globe Says It May Upset Whole Machinery of Extradition. London, Nov. 3. The release from custody of James L. Lynchehaum by I'ederal Commissioner Moores at In dlanapolis Saturday on the ground that while Lynchehaun's crime was brutal it was nevertheless of a politl cal nature, Is adversely commented upon by some of the afternoon nevs papers here, the Globe claiming thai politics influenced the decision. The paper says: "The next assassin cf p. president will plead Commission?! Moores' Judgment with irresistible force If he escapes across the Cana dian line. The Americans will havs no cause for complaint if the result throws out of gear the whole machln try of extradition between the United States and Great Britain." The Daily Pall Mall Gazette re marks: "By the same reasoning usee1 by Commissioner Moores it would a I ways be possible to refuse the extraii tlon of anarchists guilty of the mosi dastardly crimes." Guns For New Warships. Washington, Nov. 3. To aid th navy in manufacturing the 918 guns necessary for the 25 warships undei construction or contracted for, Real Admiral O'Neil, chief of ordnance, in his annual report recommends that tie navy call for assistance on the army gun factory at Watervliet and on pri vate concerns and that congress ap propriate $1,000,000 for the general increase of the navy gun factory at Washington. He says this will re. Hevo a serious situation. Establish' ment of an ordnance corps in the navy Is another Important recommon datlon of Admiral O'Neil. Mrs. Cook's Diamonds Stolen. Rochester. Nov. 3. A daring burg lary which occurred In this city last Saturday night has Just been mana public. Hon. Frederick Cook, ex-sec retary of state, and Mrs. Cook wore preparing to go to New York. Mm. Cook left he jewels In her room on the dressing table while at dinner Later It was discovered that the room had been entered by professionals and about $000 worth of diamonds and other jewels had been taken. There was no clue, but entrance had beer gained through an upper window, ths burglars leaving tracks outside. Tie police are Investigating but will give out no information. Status of Porto Ricans. Washington, Nov. 3. Resident Commissioner Degetau of Porto Rier has filed in the United States supremt court a request for permission to lilt a brief In the case of Isabella Gor zales, a Porto Rlcan woman, who rn der the immigration laws, was denied the privilege of landing in New York. Mr. Degetau contends that the cas Involves the status of citizens ol Porto Rico and that the decision of th( circuit court for the Southern district of New York, which refused to granl a writ of habeas corpus to the Gon zales woman is unconstitutional. Democrats Claim Ohio Legislature. Columbus. 0 Nov. 3. The estl mates of the two parties continue tt represent the two extremes. The Democrats give no figures on the stut( ticket and claim only a bare majority In the legislature while the Republi cans claim a larger plurality with t single exception than ever before or the state ticket and almost twice at latge a majority in the legislature a! ever before. The Republicans carrier Ohio last year by 90,000. Cuban Arrested For Murder. New York, Nov. 3. Charged will the murder of Miguel Pagarin to pro vent him from making a comprint tc the police Saturday night, Philip Le n'onta, a Cuban, was arrested and identified by a witness as the man w.ic killed Pajarln. A dispute over gambling debt of 25 cents arose and Pajarin paid under protest. Thinkin.s Pajarln was going to complain to tb police. Lemonta Is alleged to have shot and killed him. Duncan Case Settled. Lockport, N. Y Nov. 3. J. C. Dun can of Newfane, the young man wb.c had both legs cut oft In the trolle wreck at Burt Inst July 4, has settiet' with the railway company for $13,500 In the surrogate's court he petitioned to have his father, Charles Duncan appointed guardian. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Summary of the Week's- News of the World. Cream of the News Culled From Long Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape For the Hurried Reader Who Is Too Busy to Read the Longer Reports and Desire to Keep Posted. The Standard Oil company has ad vanced the wholesale price of all grades of refined oil 1 cent a gallon. Thieves entered the house of Guy Miller, the son of Warner Miller, at Herkimer, Monday night, and took $1,500 worth of silverware. Sagatel SagounI, president of the Armenian Revolutionary society In London, was shot and killed In the suburbs of that city by an unknown assassin. Three men were killed and three se riously Injured by being thrown from the bucket while descending Into the wheelpit of the Canadian Niagara Power Constructing company at Ni agara Falls. Thursday. Five shots were Ineffectually fired at President Diaz of Mexico in Guan ajuato by a noted criminal who had Just been released from prison. Three Armenians made a murderous attack on Prince Galltzin, Russian governor of the Caucacus. They led but were shot down by Cossacks. Henry Kissinger of Dayton, O., for mer commander of the G. A. R. of Ohio, was killed during a G. A. R. pa rade by being thrown from his horse. Prominent physicians in convention in Washington discussed sleeping cars as a menace to health, and the charge was made that blankets used therein were rarely cleaned. Alfred R. Eckstein is under arrest at Allentown, Pa., for the murder of Mabel H. Bechtel, the young womau who was found slain in the alley ad Joining her parents' home. Friday. Successful tests of an electric mo tor for towing canal boats were made before Governor Odell in Schenec tady, N. Y. John Redfield was killed aud many were hurt by the premature explosion of a bomb at a fusion meeting In Woodside, L. I. Witnesses told fully their version of the extortion of $500 by "Sam" Parks, Indicted walking delegate. They said he Invited them to get Mr. Jerome to mark the bills. Mrs. Booth-Tucker, second daughter of William Booth, was killed in a rail road wreck at Dean Lake, Mo., while traveling from Colorado to Chicago on the Topeka and Santa Fe road. George Jagers was arrested at nis home in Layton, N. J., on sus picion of having shot Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Bevans. He was spirited across the mountains to prevent lynch ing. Satuiday. Thomas Bechtel, brother of the mur dered girl at Allentown, Pa., cut his throat In a police cell while the funer al of his sister was being held. John Moore, a member of the Dutch ess county bar, committed suicide at Poughkeepsle by lying down on rail road tracks and allowing a train to hit him. The verdict of the coroner's jury on the death of former Recorder J. O. Brown of Pittsburg is that deceased came to his death from poison admin istered by person or persons unknown. Truman H.Wheeler, a druggist, trbfd to blow up his store In the Young Men's Christian Association Building In Lestershire, N. Y., and when ar rested for the offence he committed suicide. Monday. It was decided to bury Mrs. Booth Tucker in the Woodlawn cemetery, New Y6rk, and not in England, as nt first proposed. Ironworkers In New York postpone strike, having thrown over Parks' pro gram and agreed to consider the em ployers' arbitration plan. v Fifteen persons wero killed and twe score Injured In the wreck of a spec ial football train on the Big Four rail road near Indianapolis. Nine of the dead were members of the Purdue university football team. The president appoints Sanford B Dole, governor of Hawaii, Judge of tie United States district court of the ter ritory, to succeed the late Morris M. Estee. George R. Carter, secretary of Hawaii, is appointed governor to suc ceed Governor Dole. Tuesday. Professor Momnisen, the historian, died at his home, near Berlin, aged SG years. Twenty-five persons lost their lives In a burning tenement In Eleventh avenue near West Thirty-fifth street, New York. Utterances of President Roosevelt led to the belief that he accepted Sen ator Gorman's challenge on the ques tion of a race issue. Funeral services over the body of Emma Booth-Tucker, late consul of the Salvation army In America, wer held In Carnegie hall. In his preliminary report the re ct:i"er of the shipyard combination at tacked tne promoters, the dummy In corporators and tho permanent direc tors of the United States Shipbuild ing company, and urged the instil w tlon of suits agulnut thnso who Btnck bonuses. BURIAL OF THE SUICIDE. 3i other Who Cut His Throat In Jail Was Interred Beside His Mur dered Sister. Allentown, Pa., Nov. 2. The dls trict attorney and the police of tbis city are confident that the grand Jury this week will Indict four members ol the Bechtel family for being accessor ies after the fact in the murder ol Mabel Bechtel, on which charge they were arrested Friday night at the end of the coroner's inquest. They atsc believe that Alois Eckstein, the girl's lover, will be Indicted, providing he does not break the silence which his lawyers imposed upon him and show conclusively that he had nothing u do with the girl's murder and was uol In the house when tt was committed. The coroner's Jury thinks the mur der must have occurred on Sunday night. The body was found on Tues day morning. The district attorney said that the evidence presented at the inquest was sufficient, in his opinion to obtain an indictment for all ol those under arrest. The authorities expect to supplement that, however, with the result of the analysis of the spots found on the cellar stairs and upon the carpet in the room where, it Is alleged, the girl was murdered by her brother Tom, and also the apron and underclothing of the dead girl in the closet of Tom's room. This analy sis is to be finished by Monday. Tom Bechtel, who cut his throat in his cell on Thursday night, was buried Saturday. His funeral took place from the morgue, to which his body was removed from the cell. John ar.d Charles were permitted by the district attorney to attend the funeral, guarded by detectives. The funeral was pri vate, only the mother, her two daugh ters and the two boys, with a few friends, attending It. It came out that Tom Bechtel was to have been confirmed in the Luth eran church Sunday. The body was taken out to the West End cemetery and burled beside the newly-made grave of his sister. PENNSY TRAFFIC. No Further Falling Off In Business Ex pected and Prospects Are Brightening. Philadelphia, Nov. 2. An officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad company says: "The company's aggregate tonnage for September compares fairly well with that of August. As is well known there was daring the month of Sep tember a slackening of activity In some departments of the iron and s-teel trade. A number of furnaces shut down temporarily, and a fallius off In our coke and pig iron tonna:;e resulted. Our loss In business -e-suiting from the Inability of the Unit ed States Steel corporation to deliver Its structural material has been ex aggerated. "We believe that our October ton nage will be about equal to that of September. The policy- of retrench ment which was recently adopted by our directors will affect our tonnage only Inconsiderably. We lose, for in stance, the shipments of stone, sand and structural material, which would have been made on contracts which have been stopped. "Slackness Is still prevalent In some departments of the Iron and steel business, but we do not anticipate any further falling off in business unless the situation should be disturbed by another series of failures of banking Institutions " "The Indications seem to be that we will hold our present business and that our November tonnage may show a substantial Improvement over Octo ber, as a result of a change for the better In the iron and steel trade which I think is In sight." Winners In Telegraphers' Contest. Philadelphia, Nov. 2 William M. Gibson of New York, formerly of th? Associated Press, won the Carnegie medal and the world's championship as the best all-around telegrapher at the tournament of the American Tele graphers' association. E. E. Bruckner of the Postal Tele-g'.-Ovh company, Chicago, won th t,eco.il prize. Tho contestants had to send 25 mes sages and COO words of press matter and receive 25 messages and 50fl words of press matter on typewriter. The winners of the other event? were: Railroad operators Sending won by R. S. Bartley, Pennsylvania rail road, Philadelphia; receiving, won by J. W. Harrison, Pennsylvania rallrond Philadelphia. Women's contest, sending, won iy Mrs. N. B. Sieftson, Postal Telegraph, New York; receiving, won by Miss Rose Feldman, Postal Telegraph. Njw York. Oldtlmers' contest, receiving, open to all over 00 years of age, won by I. D Maize, Western Union, Philadcl 1 1 la. A Hunter Killed Himself. Somerset, Nov. 2. John Lelbert Aped 35. was found dead near Mur dork& Mills, n )t far from this place By IiU 6lde was found a douhle-har r.jled shotgun. It was evidently CiiS': of suicide, as a bullet had passed through his heart. Leibert left his home Friday morning, having an liounced bis intention of going hunt S. John Mitchell's Illness. Scranton, Pu., Nov. 2. President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers, who has been 111 In this city, has decided not to undergo an opera tion for (he intestinal trouble from which he Is suffering. He left for hi? home in Indianapolis Sunday. He does n.it punsldcr his ailmeut serious.
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