DEATH ATTENDS RACE
Keckleu Auto Sport Stopped Because
of Accidents.
SIX KILLED ANDMANY MORE HURT.
Aatowohlles Wrecked While dotal it Terrific
Speed la Prince Mircjl Renault, Winner
t the Parls-Vleaoa Roc Lul Year, and
Lwralae Barrowi Probably Fatally to
fared One Car Rum M Mllea an Hour.
Parif (By Cable). The first stage of
the Paris-Madrid automobile race will,
if the French authorities have their way,
be the last stage of a contest made dis
tressingly memorable by a series of dis
asters from start to finish.
Six or seven persons killed, including
a woman and a child ami two soldiers
who had nothing to do with the race,
the horrible deaths of two chauffettrs,
the probably fatally injuring of several
daring automobilists is the death trail of
the ran of 348 miles from Versailes to
Bordeaux.
In view of the number of accidents.
Premier Combes has forbidden the con
tinuance of the contest on French terri
tory. The second stage of the race,
which was to have been continued on
Tuesday, included a run over French
territory from Bordeaux to the Spanish
frontier. Premier Combes' action will
probably lead to the race being aban
doned. It is also reported that the
Spanish authorities have forbidden the
continuance of the race upon Spanish
territory.
Dispatches arriving from points along
the course are constantly adding to the
list of fatalities and accident The
most terrible occurred near Benneval,
19 miles from Chartres. where machine
number 243, driven by M. Porter, was
overturned at a railroad crossing and
took fire. The chauffeur was caught un
derneath the automobile and bunted to
death, while two soldiers and a child
were killed.
A chauffeur was badly injured by an
accident to his motor car near Angou
Jeme. A woman crossing the road iu
the neighborhood of Ablis was run over
fay one of the competing cars and killed.
Half a dozen cars were wrecked, and
Marcel Renault, the winner of the Paris
Vienna race last year; Lorraine Bar
rows, a well-known automobilist, and
Renault's chauffeur were seriously, it is
believed fatally, injured, while Barrows'
chauffeur was killed.
Moreover, an unconfirmed report says
a serious accident occurred near Angou
Ttmt, in which the two occupants of an
automobile, the owner of which is not
yet known, were seriously injured and
two spectators were killed.
This number of accidents has not
caused any great surprise here, in view
of the number of contestants in the race
and the great speed and power of their
machines.
DISQUISED AS WOMEN.
fVtectlrts m a Murder Case Make a
Straofe Discovery.
Kokomo, Ind. (Special). Detectives
here from Cincinnati and Greenville,
O., working on the Veager-Sutton
murder cases, claim to have made the
discovery that the supposed young
woman who was in Ycager's buggy at
the time the shot was fired was not a
woman at all, but a man dressed in
woman's clothing and disguised as a
woman. No footprints resembling a
woman's shoe were found near the
fclood pool, but a man's shoeprints
were distinct
It is claimed that, instead of there be
ing two men and two women in the two
'buggies, there were four men, two of
them disguised as women. The officers
are following this clue. Logan Englis,
Frank Eads and Willard Eads were re
leased from custody. They establish
ed strong alibis.
Litbtoint Strikes Electric Car.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). A terrific
thunderstorm, accompanied by a high
wind, struck this section, and besides
killing one man, did considerable prop
erty damage. Milton W. Robinson, a
Tesident of West Pittsburg, drove to
Schenley Park with a party of friends
Jor an afternoon's enjoyment. When
the storm came up Robinson sought
shelter Irom the drenching rain under
a big ash tree in Panther Hollow. He
Jiad been there but a moment when
lightning struck the tree, literally tear
ing it to pieces and killing Robinson
instantly. Robinson's four or five
friends, who were within 25 feet of hiin
at the time, escaped without cve.i a
shock from the bolt.
Explosion ol Locomotive Boiler.
Eric, Pa. (Special). While passing
Mays Siding, on the hill about seven
suites west of Kane, the boiler on one of
the locomotives pushing a Philadelphia
and Erie freight train exploded, killing
one man and injuring four others, three,
perhaps, fatally. The disaster was an
unusual one, insomuch as the train was
running at the time and also because the
crown sheet of the exploded boiler was
blown through the caboose, splitting it
in two and completely wrecking it, so
that it was set on fire and burned up as
the quickest way to clear the tracks. The
injured, except the engineer and fireman,
were in the caboose.
TweOlrls Killed By Tornado.
Clay Center, Kan. (Special). A se
vere tornado passed over Clay and Riley
counties. At Bala, two little g'rls named
Daub were killed and several persons
injured. Five houses were blown away
at Bala and many cattle killed. A Union
Pacific train narrowly missed the storm,
waiting at Wakefield until it had pass
ed. The track was then blocked with
trees.
Areteaal Blows Vy, Frlas Killed.
Santo Domingo (Special). The ar
senal at Santiago was blown up by ene
mies of the present government and
General Frias was killed and 21 per
sons mortally wounded. The troops
arc pursuing Gen. Jose Alvarez, who
is said to be the author of the explo
aioau The gunboat Colon, which was
conveying General Descliamps to San
chez, has been lost off Cape Espada.
Ueschamps and four others saved
themselves in a boat, but the remainder
i the crew was lost.
Child Ki.Ud by Colored Boys.
Klaville, Ga. (Special). Details have
just been learr.ed here of the killing of
the live-year-old son of Albert Wall, a
well known citizen of Schley county,
If two negro boys, aged 10 and it
-rear. The negroes enticed the boy
Sato shuck pen, where, with a heel
pin wrapped in a shuck, they attacked
tiin, breaking three ribs and inflicting
other injuries. Spinal meningitis re
sulted, from which the boy died. The
eaegro boys were caught and are being
tuti pending '"'1 investigation of
tbeir ct in by the grand jury
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER,
Domestic,
Henry G. Spinks filed a suit in
Trenton, N. J., to have $.1,700,000 worth
of collateral gold certificates of the
Asphalt Company of America can
celed. The story comes from Guthrie, Ok
of a mysterious stranger digging up a
box containing $2,000,000 on a farm
bordering on the Salt Fork river.
Four men were seriously burned by
the explosion of pulverized coal at
Martins Creek Cement Mill, on the
Delaware river, near Easton, Pa.
Emil Harttnan, a former member of
the House of Delegates, was sentenced
in St. Louis to the penitentiary for six
years for boodling.
Capt. Carl E. Hartoinn, who was
tried by courtmartial in the Phil
ippines on the charge of embezzle
ment, was honorably acquitted.
There was a sharp break iu United
States Steel due to rumors that the
corporation would shut down some !
its plants.
Miss Rosa Kaiser, of Manchester,
Ind., was brutally assaulted and hilled
by some brute and her father seriously
injured.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners in Philadelphia became affili
ated with the Council of Allied Build
ing Trades.
Albert F. Franklin, of Goodwater,
Ala., was arrested in Alabama on the
charge of keeping negroes in servitude.
Mrs. Sophia Krugcr was arrested in
Dcs Moines, la., on the charge of mur
dering her husband.
Edward 11. Lucas, a burglar, was
captured in Chaicgo after a terrific
fight with officers.
Mrs. ElTie L. Carson, charged with
the murder of Robert L. Rigsby, a stu
dent at a business college in Macon,
Ga., was arraigned for trial and plead
ed not guilty.
The bulk of the estate of the late
Capt. W. F. Norton, an eccentric capi
talist, of Louisville, is bequeathed to
the Baptist Orphan's home of that city.
Lawyer Robert A. Ammon was re
arrested in New York on the charge of
being involved in the Franklin syndi
cate get-rich-quick scheme.
The Junior Order of Mechanics, in
convention in San Francisco, elected
officers and decided to hold the next
convention in St. Louis.
The plate-glass manufacturers and
jobbers, in conference a: Cleveland,
discussed a proposition to eliminate
the commission men.
A syndicate has been formed to take
at $60 all the new Pennsylvania Rail
road stock not taken by the sharehold
ers. Three members of the commission
ers of Arapahoe county. Col., were con
victed of malfeasance in office.
Gen. W. E. Donaldson, of Jasper,
Tenn., shot and killed Thomas Choatte,
an intoxicated farmer.
Judge Meyer Sulzberger, of Philadel
phia, has made a sharp reply to the
statement of Count Cassini, the Rus
sian ambassador, that the troubles in
Kisheneff are due to an uprising of
peasants against money-lenders.
A final order was made by Federal
Judge Buftington in Pittsburg author
izing the Pennsylvania Railroad to re
move Western Union poles from the
railroad company's right of way.
The Elks' National Home, at Bed
ford City, Va., was dedicated in the
presence of 5000 people. Meade D.
Dctweiler, of Harrisburg, Pa., delivered
the oration.
The jury awarded Charles Broadway
Rosseau, who sued the Charles Broad
way Rouss estate for $100,000, a verdict
for the full amount, with $5,766 interest.
rerclgn.
The American consul at Hankow,
China, telegraphed on May 4 for a
gunboat as a result of the report that
American engineers had been attacked
by Chinese.
Count Sizzonaris, an Austrian-, has
challenged Prince Radziwill to a duel
as the outcome of a quarrel over a
game of cards in London.
By an explosion on the steamship
Coban off the Canadian coast one
man was killed and two others prob
ably blown overboard.
Padcrewski is suffering from acute
nephritis at his home, in Switzerland.
He has canceled his engagements.
The decision of the government of
the Netherlands to station warships
permanently in the Dutch West Indies
is regarded at The Hague as disposing
of the recurring rumors of the intended
sale of the Island of Curacoa to the
United States.
The Dalmatians have petitioned Em
peror F'rancis Joseph to intervene and
prevent further blK)dshcd in Croatia.
About 150 peasants, mostly women,
were arrested during the riots in the
district of Kreutz.
Maxim Gorki, the Russian novelist,
declares that men of the cultivated
classes led the mob in Kisheneff, and
that the recent massacre was the most
disgraceful of all Russia's dark deeds.
Warlike sentiment against Bulgaria
is increasing in Turkish military cir
cles. The Albanians planned to at
tack the Servian monastery at Dcchain,
containing Russian monks.
United States Ambassador McCor
mick, interviewed in London, said he
felt convinced that Russia meant to
preserve the 'open-door policy in Man
churia. The sister of Dr. Karl Nobiling, the
German professor who attempted to
assassinate Emperor William I. in
1K78, has committed suicide by poison
ing. The murderers of Governor Bag
danovitch, of Ufa, Russia, who was
shot and killed, have not yet been ar
rested. The government of the Netherlands
announces that, in consequence of the
political situation in Venezuela and the
interests of the Dutch colony at Cura
coa, it is considered absolutely neces
sary to station permanently a large
warship in West Indian waters.
Theodore Reichmann. a famous sin
ger, died of apoplexy in Vienna.
Financial.
Harriman and his party are buying
Union Pacific.
Rockeieller interest bought 10,000
shares of St. Paul for IJ3 at a private
sale.
Europe has bought more than $18,
000.000 worth of American stocks in
the past two weeks.
The National Lead Company has de
clared the usual quarterly dividend of
1 .1-4 lT cent, on the preferred stock.
The four largest stock markets on
this Continent are in New York, Bos
ton, Montreal and Philadelphia.
The United Lead Company has filed
papers at Trenton to increase its capi
tal stock from $15,000,000 to $.25,000,
000. President Ross, of the Dominion
Steel Company, says the unfavorable
reports concerning that corporation's
business are absolutely untrue and that
they were issued for a malicious pur.
pose.
The Bank o fF.ngUnd ha" at last re
duced its discount rate from 4 to 3 1-a
per ent. It was advanced from 3 to 4
per cent, on October 2, 1002, and rc-
Iniainid nnchangrd until May 22. .This
tvas an unusually long period of the
I'igh rat ,
HAYOC OF THE STORM
Destruction of Life and Properly la the
West.
SIX PEOPLE KILLED, SEVENTY HURT.
The List Will No Doubt Be Increased When
Commualcatlea with Several Points Is Re
established Oklahoma a Hotbed of Tor
nsdoes tbs Past Week Riln Has Fallen
Every Day for Two Weeks In That Section.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special). Re
ports of severe storms, attended by loss
of life, injury to many persons and the
destruction of tens of thousands of
dollars' worth of farm property, con
tinue) to reach this city from points in
Kansas and Iowa, and a report from
Wichita indicates that nearly every
house in Carmen, Oklahoma ha been
wrecked. So far 6 persons are known
to have been killed and over 70 injur
ed. Some of the latter will die. This
list will be increased when communica
tion with the country districts is fully
restored. The dead:
Two unidentified at Bala. Kan.; an
unidentified herder near Dodge City,
Kan.
John Coons, of Clarinda, la.
Carmen Brown, Oklahoma.
Scott Harvey, of Sioux City.
The injured: Fifty at Carmen, Okla.;
t2 at Bala, Kan., several fatally, in
cluding Mrs. J. H. German, at Eure
1., Kan., fatally; Mrs. Frank Samples,
at Eureka, Kan., fatally; six at Eure
ka, Kan., seriously; Mrs. T, Shane,
near Dodge City, Kan., fatally.
Former State Representative Har
vey and wife, Dickinson county, Kan.,
seriously.
Mrs. Hensinger, near Esterville, la.;
Frank Sample, Mrs. J. H. Owen, Essie
Owen, Christian Gullickson and Grant
Gullickson, at Eureka, Kan.
Ten miles southwest of Eureka
Frank Massett and his wife were in
jured seriously, their house being
wrecked.
A tornado struck Whitehead, Okla.,
demolishing the general store of N.
Filmore & Co., and several dwellings.
In the vicinity cf Watonga, Okla., the
dwellings of J. P. Atterbury and Rob
ert Payne were demolished. Mrs. At
terbury was carried 50 feet, but not
seriously injured.
Reports from Onawa. Sibley, and a
drooi other places in Northwest Iowa,
tcH of widespread damage. Windmills,
trees, barns and houses were leveled.
Some live stock was killed.
The track of the storm in Dickinson
county was a quarter of a mile wide
and jo miles in length, and it is esti
mated that $.10,000 damage was done
the crops alone.
At Augusta, Kan., the roof was
blown off trie schoolhouse and .the
Methodist church was damaged.
A tornado struck Whitehead, Okla.,
demolishing the general store of N.
Filmore & Co. and several buildings.
NEW TOWN DEMOLISHED.
A Week of Tornadoes In the Territory Tbs
Storm Losses.
Guthrie, Okla. (Special). Although
every effort has been made to secure
information from the town of Carmen,
Okla., regarding a tornado that visited
that city, there have as yet been only
meager results. Information via King
fisher says the town was wiped ott tne
map. Telephone communication from
Enid says three persons were killed
and 45 wounded. The wires to Car
men arc all down.
It is a new town of 500 people, on
the Orient extension into Oklahoma.
In some portions of the territory there
has been a tornado every day this
week, but the damage has not been
great until the Carmen storm. Rain
has fallen every day except two for
2.1 days. An unconfirmed report says
the town of Marshall was destroyed by
a tornado.
EIGHTEEN PERSONS POISONED.
Eleven Doctors Ssve Lives at a Boardlof
House la Ssn Juan.
San Juan (Special). Eighteen per
sons living at a boarding house here
were poisoned by milk containing pto
maines. Eleven doctors responded to
the alarm and the use of stomach
pumps saved the lives of all the suf
ferers. The Americans affected were Messrs.
Kellogg, Sisson, Gordon, Schultz and
Hallcn and Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick.
They are all out of danger.
At the Maternity Hospital the nurses,
helpers and some of the patients were
similarly poisoned, but were relieved by
stomach pumps. The incident has
caused alarm throughout San Juan.
Airs. Itadley's Home Robbed.
Indianapolis, Ind .(Special). Mrs.
Louise Hadlcy, the hotel chambermaid
said to have been discharged because
she refused to make up the bed of
Booker Washington, was robbed of
$15. The gold watch presented to her
by Indianapolis people was smashed by
burglars, who entered the Smith home,
where Mrs. Hadly lives, and chloro
formed everyone in the house, includ
ing her.
Accuse! ol Uxoricide.
Dcs Moines, la. (Special). Mrs.
Sophia Kruger has been held to await
the action of the grand jury at Cresco,
after a preliminary trial for the mur
der of her husband, whose body was
found in the river April 19, with a
stone around its neck. The slate
charges her with having brained him
with a pick as he lay asleep, and hav
ing hauled the body to the river.
Pssscnter Train Wrecked.
Columbus, O. (Special). A Norfolk
and Western passenger train ran into
an open switch at Valley Crossing.
Engineer McClure and Fireman Chas.
Flagler, Baggagemaster Steve Shotts
and Mail Clerk C. II. Hughes were in
jured, Flagler being the most seri
ously hurt. The injured men were
brought back to this city, while a new
train was made up at the. scene of the
wreck and the passengers carried on
to their destination.
Ocaeral F.slrsds Killed In Battle,
San Frantv.'co, Cala. (Special). Eu
gene J. Gruettner, an American of Salt
Lake City, who arrived from Corinto
on the steamer Newport, says that Gen
eral Estrada, the leader of the forces
of President Zclaya in Nicaragua, was
killed in battle with the insurgents near
Rives on April 27. His troops were
routed with great loss and the revolu
tionists succeeded in capturing a large
quantity of arms and ammunition. The
insurgents now have possession of the
port of San Carlos and have complete
rnmrnl of Lake Nicaragua.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Seven Dollars, Not Thirty Thousand.
Postmaster General Payne made pub
lic the answers of Henry A. Castle, the
auditor of the Treasury for the Post
office Department and Comptroller
Traccwcll, of the Treasury, regarding
the ToJIoch charges of irregularities in
the postal administration. The answers'
specifically deny allegations of wrongful
procedure.
Comptroller Traccwcll charges T. W.
Gilmer, formerly nn expert of his office,
with abstracting, but subsequently re
turning upon demand, the letter author
izing Mr. Gilmer to examine the ac
counts of any postofticc except Washing
ton and New York.
Mr. Tracewell alleges this letter was
written by Gilmer himself without any
auggestion from the Controller. Mr. .
Castle says that the sum of the tentative
disallowances by Expert Gilmer and the
Comptroller aggregated $932; that the
credits finally disallowed out of a total
of a quarter of a million were $165, of
which he claims only $7 was incorrectly
audited. This, Mr. Castle says, is the
basis of Mr. Tulloch's charge of disal
lowances of $30,000 or $40,000..
The Postmaster General's statement
says that the letters are made public at
the request of the two officials, and that
it will appear from them how much
foundation there was for the Tulloch
statements.
Mr. Castle, in his answers, says that
Mr. Tulloch shares in a prevailing mis
apprehension that an auditor is charged
with the responsibility of keeping other
officials "correct and honest," and in de
termining the necessities of the service.
The auditor says that such functions
would be fatal to administrative freedom
by the head of a department.
Regarding the settlement and subse
quent revision of an account of the late
Postmaster Willett, of Washington,
which involved alleged irregularities in
Porto Rico during the military opera
tions there, the auditor replies that every
item believed to be illegal was disallowed
by the auditor's office.
The wide discretion given in the lan
guage of the appropriations for military
postal sen-ice, according to the auditor's
answer, shows that Congress intended to
exempt the disbursements of those ap
propriations from many of the ordinary
regulations.
Dsufhters Makt Practical Gift.
A committee representing the Phila
delphia Chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution handed Sec
retary Root a certified check for $10,000
to be used in the erection of a memo
rial building at the new military post at
Manila, P. I. The fund represents con
tributions made by the daughters and
their friends in Pensylvania and else
where, a portion of which was collected
by Chaplain C. C. Pierce, United States
Army, stationed at the cavalry post at
Fort Meyer, Va., and is intended solely
for the benefit of the enlisted men of
the Army.
In the Departments.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for a big Fourth of July celebra
tion in Washington.
The State Department was advised
that a ministerial crisis exists in Co
lombia. The Bureau of Insular Affairs, with
the approval of Secretary Root, has
authorized the sale of 1000 sets of the
seven new Philippine coins that recently
have been made by the United States
Mint, at $2 per set, the value being 07
cents.
General Crozicr, chief of ordnance,
has submitted to the Secretary of War
a report of the board appointed to test
the new experimental magazine ritlc.
The report favors the 24-inch rifle bar
rel. Postmaster General Payne accepted
the resignation of the colored free rural
delivery carrier in Gallatin, Tenn.
Capt. William Bainbridge-Hoff, re
tired, U. S. N., died at his home, in his
fifty-seventh year.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has prepared a petition for an
order of court requiring President Baer
and other officials of coal-carrying roads
to answer questions and produce docu
ments which they declined to do at the
tecent hearing.
Secretary Hitchcock returned from
his trip to the West full of enthusiasm
over the progress he noted in Okla
homa and Indian Territory.
The year book of the Agricultural
Department has been prepared for pub
lication. No important evidence has been de
veloped, except that Rosseau, who is
suspected of having attempted to dyna
mite the steamship Unibria, was in
Washington for two days.
Postmaster General Payne has re
ceived the official report of the investi
gation of the recent intimidation of John
Allwood, the colored rural free delivery
carrier.
The Treasury Department has re
ceived a telegram from National Bank
Examiner Perkins announcing the clos
ing of the Southport National Bank
of Southport, Ct.
Great Britain has decided to accord
to China the same terms in the settle
ment of the Boxer indemnity as those
accepted by the United States.
It is gossiped in Washington that
President Roosevelt would not be un
willing to appoint a new secretary of
the navy in place of Mr. Moody.
A railroad will be established through
the Holy Land by the Ottoman gov
ernment. Pacification Work la Philippines.
Manila (Special). Seventy insur
gents have appeared fn the Bataun dis
trict. A company of scouts has been
ordered to co-operate with the local
constabulary in suppressing them. The
governor of the province of Misamis,
Island of Mindanao, has sent in a
requisition for a liunderd additional
troops. He says he believes the moral
effect of their presence will end the
partially collapsed uprising in Misamis.
A lllilor'cal Sight Marked.
Worcester, Mass. (Special). The un
veiling of the tablet by the Col. Timothy
Eigelow Chapter, D. A. R., marking the
site of the first schoolhouse in Worces
ter, where President John Adams taught,
took place in this city. The speakers of
the day were Dr. (!. E. Stanley Hall,
president of Clark University; Senator
Hoar and Charles Francis Adams, great
grandson of President John Adams.
The expedition equipped by Miss
Helen Gould to study economic condi
tions abroad sailed from New York on
tha Pntsdain.
FOUR PERSONS KILLED
Five or Six Others Injured by Accident
in Pittsburg Building.
TWO TON WEIGHTS FALL ON THEM.
A Dlstresslnf End of a Dall and Baaqu:t
Three Women and a Man Horribly Crush
edThe Floor Manager Prevents n Panic
One Man Pinioned Under Ihe Elevator
Wreckage tor an Hour.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). One man
and three women were killed and five
or six injured at 1026 Fifth avenue, the
building occupied by a dancing academy.
The cause of the fatalities was the snap
ping of the elevator ropes, allowing the
cage to drop 50 feet.
The dead were so badly crushed that
identification was impossible. .The only
one whose name may be correct is
Catherine Curtin. On her body was
found a railroad ticket with the name on
it.
At about to o'clock the elevator with
a load of 13 passengers started for the
banquet room on the sixth floor. When
that floor was reached it was found that
every place was crowded and the pas
sengers decided to go to the fifth floor,
where the dancing was in progress.
When between the sixth and fifth floors,
the steel, cable snapped and w ith a re
sounding crash that was heard blocks
away the cage dropped with its load of
human freight.
It crashed through the floor above the
cellar of the building and was stopped
by a braced post of wood three feet be
low the first floor. In this inaccessible
position the passengers were jammed
under broken timbers and twisted steel,
yet none may have been killed had not
the heavy iron balance weights, weighing
over a ton, come crashing down upon
them. All but four were able to scram
ble out. The others were pinioned un
der the heavy weight. Four were mashed
almost beyond recognition.
Albert Myers was held a prisoner for
more than an hour. While firemen and
volunteer rescuers were preparing rig
gings to lift the machine so as to be ac
cessible he lay pinioned under the wreck
age. Whisky and water were passed to
him with words of encouragement. A
fireman endangered his life by dropping
into the mass of wreckage and holding
the injured man's head. "Heavens, it
was hot down there," was the brave
man's first words spoken while being
carried from his prison to a hospital
ambulance.
That more people were not killed is a
wonder. The wreck of the elevator was
complete. It required dozens of firemen
to accomplish the work of securing the
bodies.
When the accident occurred more
than 400 men, women and children were
on the dancing floor. As the elevator
struck the bottom a cloud of dust blew
into the room from the open elevator
door. Quickly Harry Gilson closed the
entrance and cried, "Take your partners
for a two-step." Scores of policemen
were present and ordered all persons in
the building to remain quiet. In this
way the people were all allowed to pass
from the building by relays, avoiding a
panic that might have resulted in many
more fatalities.
BULLET CUTS SHORT AN ELOPEMENT.
A Brother of Ihe Girl Shools and Mortally
Wounds Her Intended.
Huntington, W. Va. (Special). Geo.
Ratcher, a clerk for the Wyoming Lum
ber Company, near Wyoming City,
was shot and probably mortally wound
ed near that place while eloping with
the daughter of. William Newcomb, a
wealthy farmer. Ratcher had planned
to come to this city to get married, and
with him and his sweetheart were two
friends.
Soon after Miss Newcomb left her
home her father and a brother, the lat
ter 20 years old, went in pursuit, and
on fast hor:cs soon overtook the quar
tet. Young Newcomb, it is said, open
ed fire on his sister's intended husband.
Two bullets penetrated the lattcr's
body, and physicians say he will die.
Young Newcomb gave himself up.
His sister is wild with grief, and says
she will end her life at the first op
portunity. Ratcher resides near Proctorsvillc,
O., and was a popular young .man. Mr.
Newcomb objected strenuously to his
attentions to his daughter.
A Collision In Chicago.
Chicago (Special). Twelve persons
were severely injured, five of them dan
gerously, and a score of other passen
gers thrown into a panic by a collision
between electric cars at Thirty-fifth
and Halstead streets. One car was
thrown upon the sidewalk by the force
of the impact. Failure of the brakes
on or.e of the cars is said to have
caused the accident.
Wou'd Be "All President,"
Tacoma, Wash. (Special). At a pri
vate dinner to President Roosevelt
given here by Senator Foster the Pres
ident is reported to have said: "I
would like to be President of the
United States for another term, but
this I will say: I propose to be Pres
ident this term. I would rather be all
President for three and a half years
than half President for seven and a
half years.'
Harness Trnst Now.
Trenton, N. J. (Special). The Amer
ican Saddlery and Harness Company,
capital $10,000, to manufacture and deai
in saddlery and harness of all kinds,
was incorporated here. The incorpor
ators are Eliot Norton, Louis B. Bailey
and Kenneth K. McLaren, of Jersey
City. The incorporation of the Amer
ican Saddlery and Harness Company
is the first step toward a combination
of the principal concerns in the United
States making saddlery and harness. A
meeting of the board of directors of
the company will be held in Chicago
Attempt lq Poison Assssslii.
Winchester, Ky. (Special). It has
been disclosed that an attempt to poison
Curtis Jett 'was made at the jail here
last Sunday. A stranger appeared at the
jail and asked to see Jett. He was ad
mitted by Jailer Boone, who remained
with him. Jett did not recognize the
man, who talked to him quite familiarly.
After a while the stranger drew from
his pocket a bottle of whisky and offered
it to Jett, and Jailer Boone took the bot
tle from Jett's hand as he was about to
drink. Jett protested, saying be wanted
the whisky, and Jailer Boone refused to
Irt him have it.
CUBAN INDEPENDENCE.
First Anniversary ol the Establishment of
lie P.epubilr.
Havana (Special). The celebration
of Cuba's independence day, the first
anniversary of the Republic's establish
ment, began at midnight with the illu
mination of the fronts of the principal
clubs, the sending up of rockets and the
screeching of steam whistles.
The weather was ideally clear, even
for Cuba. A pleasant ocean breeze tem
pered the heat and gave an animated ap
pearance to the flags and bunting dis
played in all directions. Business was
suspended and the streets were thronged
with people.
, President Palma, accompanied by the
Cabinet, city and provincial officials,
drove to the Punta, where he reviewed
the police and fire departments. Then,
accompanied by Secretary of State
Zaldo. he was driven up the Prado to
the palace, continually acknowledging
the salutations of the crowds which
lined that thoroughfare. ..
At noon the guns of Cabanas Fortress
a'.nounccd that exactly a year had
elapsed since the birth of the Cuban
Republic. Immediately afterward the
rural guards and artillery paraded on
the plaza in front of the palace and were
reviewed by the President. During the
review United States Minister Squicrs
wa the only foreigner in the President's
party, which occupied the central bal
cony of the palace. Standing on the
President's right between Senors Palma
and Zaldo, dressed in a gray business
suit, the American Minister was a con
spicuous figure, his clothes contrasting
with the black suits of the President and
Cabinet officers and with the blue uni
forms of the military officers. The fea
tur. of the review was the smart eppear
tince of the mounted rural guards, who
were enthusiastically cheered. At night
there were illuminations and fireworks.
Dispatches received here from other
Cuban cities indicated that the holiday
was celebrated throughout the island. 1
1,300 Slot Machines Burned.
Philadelphia (Special). Thirteen
hundred slot gambling machines, val
ued at about $125,000, were publicly
burned here by order of Director of
Public Safety Smyth. Seven hundred
of the machines were captured in raids
conducted by the Law and Order So
ciety, and 600 were confiscated by the
police authorities. The raids have ex
tended over a period of five months.
Director Smyth has in his custody 25a
ounas 01 nickels ana pennies which
ave not been counted. . Secretary Gib-
boney, of the Law and Order Society,
has nearly $1600 taken from the ma
chines captured by his agents. This
money will be turned over to the city
treasurer.
Europe Aided Our Trusts.
Berlin (By Cable). Prof. Ernst von
Halle, of the Berlin University, lec
turing on trusts before the American
Chamber of Commerce here, said:
"One of the most interesting things
about the building up of American
trusts, especially in their invasion of
England, was that it was done largely
with foreign money. The United
States was beginning to govern the
world industrially by supplying the in
telligence and organizing capacity while
the world supplied the capital.
Blinds Lover With Acid.
New York (Special). James Mul-
vaney, a young stock clerk, was blind
ed his face scarred for life by crrbolic
acid thrown at him by his dis
carded fiancee, Amelia Cooper, who
is 18 years old and lives at 1755 Third
avenue, the scene of her desperate act
Mulvaney is in a serious condition,
Miss Cooper's mother was present at
a stormy scene. The mother left the
raom and Mulvaney asserts his fiancee
requesting a parting kis. hurled at his
face a glass filled with acid.
Shot to Death by Mob.
Madison, Fla. (Special). 'A mob en
tered the jail here, having secured the
keys from the night watchman, took
out Washington Jarvis, a while man,
and lynched him. Jarvis was taken
some distance from the town, tied to
a tree, and shot to death. He was ac
cused of murdering his cousin. John
Waldrop, the night watchman, was
blindfolded and held captive until the
mob finished its work. The tree
where Jarvis was killed is the same to
which two negroes were tied and burn
ed some time ago.
Nine Injured in Wreck.
Raleigh, N. C. (Special). Nine peo
ple were injured in a wrejk on the
Southern Railway a mile and a half
southeast of this citv at 5 o'clock p. m.
The train, No. 136, left over half an
hour late. The wreck occurred at a
curve, ai.u is thought to have been
caused by the spreading of the rails.
Every car was ditched, turning com
pletely over. The coupling broke, and
the engine remained upon the ties.
Conleitcrato Kcanlon.
New Orleans, (Special). The thir
teenth annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans was opened in
the great auditorium on -. the laii
grounds here. The weather was per
fect and the arrangements by the local
entertainment committee were highly
successful. Thousands of veteran sol
diers, hundreds of beautiful women and
on every hand a profusion of flags
and streamers were in evidence. There
was martial music without limit and
enthusiasm unbounded.
Mrs. Bnrdlck Named.
Buffalo. N. Y. (Special). Surrogate
Marcus handed down his decision or
the application of Mrs. Alice Hull Bur- ,
dick for the guardianship of her chil
dren, naming Mrs. Durdick as such
guardian.
SPAKKS FROM TUB WIRES.
- F. M. Tucker & Co.. bankers and
brokers, of Boston, have suspended
Slow collateral in cotton trun-aciiuns
said to be the cause.
Twelve thousand schoolchildren took
part in the welcome to President
Roosevelt at Portland. Ore.
Mrs. Thomas Countess, of Meridian
villc. Ala., and a servant were struck
by lightning and killed.
The tinplate scale was signed by rep
resentatives of the Amalgamated As
sociation and the mills.
The commercial community of San
Francisco was startled by the informa
tion received from Chicago that the
Porter Brothers Company, which handle
a great part of the fruit crop of Cali
fornia, had been placed in the hands ol
a receiver.
Serious outbreaks are feared In St.
Petersburg on the occasion of the bi
centenary of the city. The rcctnt burn
ing of a factory in St. Petersburg,
causing a loss of about $300,000, is at
tributed to the workmen.
Testimony was taken in Paterson, N.
J., in the suit of Frank Tlce, who wants
$10,000 from Rev. A. S. Thompson for
alienating the affections of Mrs, Tke.
THE KEYSTONE STATE
latest Nevs of Pennsylvania Told h
Short Order.
Patents granted: Ralph D. Albright
DuBois, air pump operating device;
George W. Blair, i'ittsburg, lamp cliim.
ney holder; Thomas J. Bray, Jr., Put,
burg, tube handling apparatus; Adoni
ram J. Campbell, Media, sad-iron;
Francis L. Clark, rittsb'.trg. automatic
slack adjuster; Thomas Dixon, Mc.
Keesport, ingot mold) Ulysses S. Dra
per, Altoona, roping iron for railwji
cars; William M. Fawcett and C. 1.
Heislcr, Eric, road roller; George
Goss, Wallaccton, pool table, rack and
tally; Joseph M. Gulcntz, Pittsburg, ap
paratus for applying terminal wires tc
electric lamp globes; William H. Ham
ilton. McKcesport, shirt waist; John
T. Hovis, Clintonvillc, vehicle brake;
John Huxley, Washington, furnace
bottom; Cornelius Kuhlewind, Pitts,
burg, automatic controller for rolling
mill shafts, etc.; Benjamin G. I.amme
Pittsburg, puzzle; Oliver J. Mattax,
Washington, reclining chair; Harry Mi
MiCall, Pittsburg, electric igniter lot
hydrocarbon engines, also governor;
Jesse Morgenthau, Pittsburg, coin
operated weighing machine; Karl 0
Mauhlcbcrg, Braddock, drill chuck;
Henry A. Otto, Allegheny, overhead
traveling crane; Lemuel Patterson
Warren, mailing tube.
Pensions granted: Joshua B. Wil
liams, Tyrone, $40; Lemuel G. Edgar,
Beaver, $55; George T. Atkinson. Sii,.
pcry Rock, $12; Edward J. Hilsnn.
Pittsburg. $40; Susan C. Shue. Wash
inglon, $8; Alexander Clark, Ems
worth, $6; John A. Culbert, Jr., Haynie,
$30; Burton Jones Sharon, $14; James
B. O. Harboch, McKecsport. $12; Na
than C. Dobbs, Allegheny. $8; Violet
Nelson, Blairsville, $8; James P. Al
tum, Waynesburg, $10; David Reeder,
New Bloomfield, $12; Arthur McFad
den. Pittsburg, $10: Henry Grencr, Al
legheny, $8; John P. Norman, Monon
pahcla, $8; Jacob S. Snively. Green
Castle, $12.75; Daniel McFaddcn, New
Castle, $40; Thomas L. Hayes, South
Fork, $10; James B. Thompson, Edin
boro, $12; Reuben S. Gross. Warsaw,
$10; Luke Naughton, Tidioute, $8;
Maria Thompson. Tarentum, $8: Eliza
J. Ellifritz, Canonsburg, $ia; Manctta
Bowman, Mt. Pleasant, $8; Laura A.
Allen, Henderson, $8.
Attorney General Carson rules that
State insane asylums must admit all
insane persons committed by the conns
whether there be room or not.
Jesco von Puttkamer, grandncphew
of Prince Bismarck, a printer's appren
tice, who thought he would get a for
tune or a title because the German p
lice were seeking him, learns he is not
the boy wanted.
Beverly Robinson loses his sensa
tional suit to recover Pittsburg prop
erty worth $100,000 on the ground that
he was the father of the child that was
heir to it.
The Liberty Bell will bo to Boston.
.Mayor Weaver notified Councils that
he had approved the ordinance author
izing the sending of the bell to Boston
in connection with the anniversary of
the Battle of Bunker Hill, on June 17.
A councilmanic committee to escort
the bell has been appointed, but no
meetings have been held, thj attitude
of the Mayor not having been known.
A call for the meeting; will be issued in
a few days.
Frederick Milicr, a Uniontown boy,
has been lodged in jail at Uniontown.
He is charged w'ith taking $1500 worth
of goods from the store of Rosenbauni
Eros.
General Manager David E. Davis, ol
the Ohio Leather Company, of Youngs
town, O.i resigned to accept the posi
tion of assistant cashier of the Indus
trial Bank of Pittsburg.
Mad with grief over the death of
her husband. Mary Antonio, an Italian,
attempted to commit suicide bv buning
her head against the walls 01 the Al
toona hospital.
A deal is about to be closed with
Eastern capitalists for the purchase of
-ooo acres of coal land in the neigh
borhood of Stoyestown.
The members cf the Sixteenth Reg
iment Association are making arrange
ments for thj annual reunion, which
will be held at Monarch Park, near
Franklin, August 9,
Dr. Theodore B. Noss, principal ol
the Southwestern State Normal School,
tit California, is seriously ill at his
home, suffering with pneumonia.
The Jones and Laughlin Steel Com
pany has bought the Disciple Church
at Coal Center for $6000. It is sup
posed that a new coal road' will be
built across the property.
Mrs. Anna Barnard, of New Castle,
refused to leave her burning home on
Saturday. It was necessary to drajf
her from the house.
At a recent meeting the Grove City
Council awarded the contract for the
paing of North Broad street. Thf
contract amounts to about $12,000.
According to assessor's returns,
Mcnessen bhows a gain of nearly 50c
voicrs over the last registration, which,
along the line of usual computation,
give, the town a population of about
10,000.
The jury on the case of the trustee"
of the Greek Catholic Church at Mo
m.sscn, against Father Eugene Volkay.
charged with forcible entry, found a vcr
diet in favor of the defendant, and plac
ed the costs on the prosecutors.
George Everhart caught 0110 of the
largest catfish that has been taken from
the Shenango river in several years. H
was fishing above Sharpsville and suc
cessfully landed the fish af; cr an hour f
struggle. It weighed 43 pounds.
Two children, aged four and two, o'
Mrs. George Connors, of Coatrsville,
drank iodine, but a physician's effort'
may save their livo.
At the Wcsttown Fr'cnds" Boarding
School the corner-stone of the new
gymnasium was laid. The exercise!
were conducted by ihe faculty and cla
of 1903, the entire school participating
The Lehigh Valley Dial Company
distributed about ?.Hooo bonus money to
its 700 employes at Pri.nro'c Colliery,
Mahanoy City, being all back money
owing.
Dr. B. Frank Klugh. a prominent
physician of Florin, died from injuries
received by being sttUik by a freight
tiain. He was a native of York county.
While removing a kettle of water
from a wood tire the clothing of to
year-old Helen Koser. of Fruitville, be
came ignited and she was fatally burned.
Elam D. Hurst, for forty years a su
perintendent of the Farnum Cotton
Mill, Lancaster, is dcad'aged 75-
H. B. Mutthcrsbaugh. niirht bag
gagemaster for the Peiinsyhwiia road
and also chief of police of Driftwood,
discovered two burglars breaking into
the store of J. O. Urookbauk shortly
after midnight. The robbers saw the
officer at the same time and ordered
hint to halt. For reply he drew a re
volver and fired and the burglars both
began shooting. Mutthcrsbnugh be
ing in the open, a plan mark in the
moonlight, retreated behind some cars,
whence he emptied his revolver at th
two men, who were in the dark and
choltered behind posts. One bulli'
penetrated the policeman's hat . Mut
thcrsbaugh was reinforced by citiien
. t