LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE
Tw Toot ot Dynamite Are Exploded by
Lightning.
HOUSES ARB ROCKED BY THE SHOCK.
A Twenty-Pound Ston Filli Through House
Qiirter of MMe Away None Killed,
but Several loured The Llgh ning Kills
Two la Ciroilois Charleston Harbor
Ufh( Strack.
Akron, N. Y. (Special). In a heavy
thunderstorm lightning struck a dyna
mite magazine just outside the town
line. Two tons of dynamite belonging
to the Akron Cement Company were
exploded. There was a tremendous
concussion, and people hurried from
their houses, fearing an earthquake.
Houses rocked and glass was broken
for miles around.
A 20-pound stone fell through the
roof of the home of J. II. Trice, clerk
of Erie county, a quarter of a mile
from the scene of the explosion.
The Catholic Church was so shaken
that candles on the altar tipped over.
No one was killed, but several per
sons were slightly injured.
Raleigh, X. C. t Special'). A distns
trous rain and electric storm did great
damage in Stanley county about Al
bemarle. Corn in the lowland was
lctrAVI. T.J-, tnn..i.lt ll..Mf.e
the edge of the town were struck and !
damaged by lightning, their occupants
being severely shocked.
The family of Zago Smith was ter
Wbly sb.cked, and his daughter Addie
was killed instantly. Her body was
badly scarred and disfigured. Her
clothing was torn and her shoes were
taken completely off her feet.
Charleston, S. C. ( Special). During
a violent electric storm a negro woman
was killed in her house in the suburbs
and the harbor light of the United States
government in St. Philip's steeple was
extinguished.
The. bolt is supposed to have struck
and demolished the pipe which furnishes
the gas. llic woodwork in the be! try
was ignited, but the flames soon were
extinguished by the fire department. A
lamp has been substituted in the steeple
lor the regular light.
Topeka. Kan. ( Special). Heavy rains
throughout the eastern and central por
tions of the state have caused all the
streams to rise. The Smoky Hill, Blue
and Solomon Rivers all arc high.
Many persons in North Topeka are
moving out of their homes, although
there seems to be little danger. While
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tionof tl,P Mav'flnod is feared. I
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HIS STRANGE REQUEST.
Skaaklln'a Ashes Scattered Upon the Orave
of His Parents.
Chicago (Special). The body of the Conrad Schroedcr, a millionaire con
late John Gilbert Shanklin, of F.vansville, ! ,rac,?r .c,f prantim. pa. committed
- . ' , 1 suicide by shooting himself.
Ind, was cremated at Graccland Cemc- - Philadelphia. Annie E. Shapley
tery, in this city, and the ashes were ! confessed that she had raised United
taken back to his former home by rcla-1 States postal orders.
tives. During his life Mr. Shanklin was Ft reign,
deeply attached to his parents. His jcal- Attorney General Finlay, in London,
us care of them when they became ordered the investigations of Promo
feeble and old. and his grief at their tcr F.. T. Hoolcy in connection with
death marked him as an unusual 'man
According to his dying wish, impressed
time and again upon his executors, his
ashes will lie sprinkled over the graves
of his parents. Mr. Shanklin was widely
known throughout the Middle West. He
prospered through real estate deals and
was highly respected by all who knew
bim. His parents are buried in beautiful
Oak Lawn Cemetery at Evansvillc, and
brief funeral services were held there
ever the remains of Mr. Shanklin before
the body was brought here for incinera
tion. Caught Coovlcts Quickly.
Columbus, Ohio (Special). Lewis
Harmon, the convicted murderer of
George Ceyer, near Alton; Robert Shif
flett, Franklin county, charged w ith horse
Stealing; Otis Kcllar, another alleged
Iiorse thief, and Lewis Eyeting, an al
leged forger, of Dayton, escaped from
the county jail in broad daylisht Lv filing
off a bar in the bathroom. The work is
opposed to have been done with a potato
knife filed in the shape of a saw. Har
mon, Eyeting and Kellar were captured
by the Marshal of Canal Winchester, in
this eounty, about noon. Shifilett, the
fourth convict, was with them, but es
caped. Ghouls Also Did Murder.
Indianapolis (Special). Rufus Can
Irell, the chief of the negro ghouls, who
ia serving a sentence for grave robbery,
baa made a sworn confession to former
Superintendent Byers, and it was for
warded to the Attorney-General that the
State may take action upon it. The con
fession deals with several murders that
bave occurred in this city, and the cor
rectness of dates and circumstances
shows that Cantrell had an intimate con
nection with them. He admits partici
pating in most of the murders and of
Laving a guilty knowledge of the others.
Hia Sentence 99 Years.
Henderson, Texas (Special). I sham
Strong, the negro surrendered by a mob
which had taken him from the officers
for the purpose of lynching him, was
indicted and placed on trial for attempt
ed criminal assault. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to imprisonment for
99 years. He was taken to the peniten
tiary this afternoon.
Joke Will Prsve Fatal.
Schenectady, X. Y.( Special. K. Reas
lu, a lad emyploycd at the works of the
American Locomotive Company, is dying
as the result of a cruel practical joke.
Stephen Boroski is under arrest, charged
whb responsiblity for the act, and o'her
arrests are to follow. A compressed air
bote was pressed against the body of
Jieaiki and a quantity tf the contents
4nmed on. The lad was taken to the
tuwpital, screaming with pain, and it was
found that he was internally injured.
Hawkirls Again Tried.
Tana (By Cable).-The Humbcr
family fared a Judge and jury to meet
the charge of having perpetrated what
e-Premirr Waldeck-Rousseau described
as "the greatest swindle of the century."
Investigating Magistrate Leydet in May
decided to commit Theme Humbert,
. tier husband, Frederic and ber brothers,
Komain and Emile Daurignac, for trial
tm the charges of forgery, the use of
forged documents and swindling. He
dismissed the case against Eve Humbert,
Y seme's daughter, and Marie Daurig-,-
r br titter.
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.
Judge de Bait, of the territorial cir
cuit, refused to grant an injunction to
the Hawaiian Commercial Company
against the Wailuku Sugar Company.
A gigantic corporation has been
formed in Trenton, N. J., to acquire
and operate department stores in all
parts of the United States and Europe.
The Missouri World's Fair Commis
sion report that the collection of ex
hibits representing the different re
sources of the State arc progressing
rapidly.
One man was killed and several
others were injured by being swept of
their feet by the projecting ends of a
hook and ladder in New Y'irk.
William II. Matthews, of Brooklyn,
has received a medal of honor for dis
tinguished gallantry in action before
Petersburg.
Charles A. Gould and his wife were
seriously injured by being thrown
from their automobile.
Harry Howard, an aged negro wait
er, killed his white son-in-law in New
York.
A number of cotton mills in Massa
chusetts have closed down for a
month.
A natronal immigration congress is
to be hi Id in St. Louis next June.
In the Caleb Powers trial at George
town, Ky., the charge was made by the
defense that the jurors had been sum
moned by partisan agents. The judge
overruled motion to discharge the entire
venire.
I he Cash Buyers' Co-operative So
ciety was incorporated in Trenton, N. J.,
with an authorised capital of $5,000,000,
I"';;""1'"1- department stores
The shortage of Thomas V. Dcavcy,
the ahsconding cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants' Hank of Ncwbcrn, N. C,
is now shown to be $1.25x00.
In an address in Chicago Dr. Hender
son, of the university of that city, said
that county jails are the most disgraceful
things in this country.
Henry S. l.ouchheitn. of the Philadel
phia banking firm of H. S.Louchhcim
& Co., dud in Zurich, Switzerland.
Will Hudson and Will Jones, both
negroes, were hanged in Birmingham,
Ala., for highway robbery.
Two sisters, aged, respectively, 18 and
1.1 years, were asphyxiated by gas in
Philadelphia.
Mary Lowe, aged II vears. daugh
ter of Henry Lowe, engineer of the
L'nited States Steel Corporation, died
in Los Angeles, Cab, while her father
was speeding across the continent on a
special train to reach her bedside before
her death.
Charles J. Davis, a forger, who had
violated the parole under which he was
released from the Illinois State Re
formatory, surrendered himself to the
New York police and asked to be con
fined again.
Miss Louise Haby, .17 years of age,
effected her escape from a ranch in
c T-s , 1
South Dakota, where she
had been
held practically a slavc, having been
uiu uy iii-r muier w lien sue was a cnuu.
Albert W. Dcibel. teller of the Can
ton tO.) National Bank, has been ar
rested. Criminal proceedings have
been taken, charging him with embez
zling $2.2.000.
the Sapphire Corundum Mine of Can
ada.
The British commission reported
that flies were the active agents in dis
seminating enteric fever among the
soldiers during the Boer war.
Colonel Schiel, who was a command
ant in the Boer army during the
Transvaal war, died in Munich.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the
City of Dublin the sum of $140,000
toward the erection of a free lihrary.
It was reported in Vienna that Premier
Iledevary of Hungary had tendered his
resignation to Emperor Francis Joseph.
There was a fight between French
troops and Moors who had crossed the
frontier in pursuit of insurgents.
Whitaker Wright was released from
jail, satisfactory sureties for his $250,000
bail having been furnished.
King Edward has approved the ap
pointment of Lord Northcote as gover
nor general of Australia.
A parliamentary paper was issued in
London giving the terms of the agree
ment between the British Admiralty
and the International Mercantile Ma
rine Company.
A number of Servian officers were ar
rested at Belgrade on suspicion of con
spiring against the War Minister.
Siegfried Wagner has finished his
new opera, entitled "Goblin," which will
be given its premiere at Leipsic.
The government was defeated in the
British House of Lords on three
amendments to the Irish Land Bill.
An agreement has been concluded by
which Russia acquires 200 acres of land
at Yongampho, in Korea.
In the House of Commons the Sugar
Convention was passed to a third read
ing. Baron d'Estournelles dc Constant has
written a letter to Foreign Minister Dcl
cassc giving the results of conferences
between English and French statesmen
with the icw of the adoption of an
arbitration agreement.
Premier Balfour announced in the
House of Commons that the British
minister at Peking had been instructed
not to agree to the Chinese government's
demand lor the surrendering f the
Shanghai reform editor.
Seven hundred persons were reported
to have been drowned in the disastrous
floods at Chefoo, China, July 27.
Whitaker Wright, the promoter, was
arraigned in London on the charge of
issuing a false balance-sheet of the Lon
don and Globe Corporation, and released
on $250,00 bait.
FlataclaL
Three thousand letters received by a
Chicago bank indicate a depreciation in
the crop condition exceeding 10 per
cent.
Union Pacific lat fiscal year earned
$51,000,000 gross, $22,000,000 net and
had a surplus of $15,000,000. The last
sum exceeded 100a figures by $7X9,000.
William C. Whitney and other horse
men have hurried away from Saratoga
for Wall street, where a bigger game is
going on. But John W. Gates is still
watching the Saratoga races.
Norfolk ti Western's earnings in the
fourth week of July increased $194,450,
equivalent to about 16 per cent.
Mr. Schwab makes the direct state
ment he is the largest holder of United
States Steel shares. At one time Rocke
feller was the largest
New England has been forced to tell
out a large 'part of its ownership in
Atchison, Burlington, Union Pacific,
Amalgamated Copper and American
Telephone.
Illinois Central will soon declare its
ninety-seventh semi-annual dividend.
The present rate is 6 per cent., which
yields an income return of over 4'A per
cent, on h itrcteot orics of the stock.
CRASH AT BASEBALL PARK
The Collapse of a Walk Crowded With
Spectator!.
FOUR KILLED, OTHERS INJURED.
A Hundred ind Filly More or Less Seriously
Hurt The Terrible Accident Due to the
Curlosily to See a Quarrel Between Drunk
en men Panic on the Stands Street
Looked Like a Field of Battle.
Philadelphia (Special). Four per
sons are dead, at least 12 are thought
to be fatally injured and fully 130
others hurt, some seriously, as the re
sult of an accident which occurred at
the Philadelphia National League
baseball park. A boardwalk which
overhung the left field bleachers fell
to the street, carrying 200 spectators.
Two games were scheduled between
Boston and Philadelphia, and the at
traction drew over 10.000 people to the
ball park. The accident occurred nt
5:40 o'clock, while the Boston team
was at bat and in its half of the fourth
inning of the second game, and was
indirectly due to a quarrel between two
drunken men in the street. The Na
tional League stands are built of steel
and brick, the brick wall extending
entirely around the grounds. At the
top of the leftfield seats and extending
from the grandstand to the end of the
bleachers there was a walk about three
feet wide, which overhung the street.
It was this walk which gave way under
the heavy weight.
Men who were standing on the walk
were attracted by a disturbance in the
street. They leaned over the side of
the railing to see what the trouble was,
and this drew the attention of other
spectators sitting on the top rows of
the bleachers. Then occurred what is
seen almost every day at a ball game
a rush to see what the other spec
tators were looking at. The walk be
came overcrowded, and without a mo
ment's warning 200 feet of it fell to the
sidewalk 20 feet below, carrying all
who were on it. There were probably
.1000 persons sitting in the left-field
bleachers, and the roar made by the
falling timber cVcated a panic. In- I
stantly the spectators rose en masse
nnd made a rush down the stand into 1
the playing field. It was one great
black wave of humanity. Men and
boys climbed over one another in their
effort to escape from the grounds. Not
knowing what had occurred, the ball
players and others tried to stop the
mad rush, but thev were swept aside
in their unsuccessful efforts and sev- j
cral persons were badly hurt in the
crvsh.
Outside the grounds the scene was
one of horror. For an entire block on 1
Fifteenth street from Huntingdon
street to Lehigh avenue men and boys
were lying writhing in agony. Some
were buried under the wreckage, others
were lying in the gutters and dozens
were stretched out in Fifteenth street
on the car tracks. Some lay uncon
scious, others were rolling over suffer
ing great pain nnd others attempted
to get up and walk only to fall again.
The 10,000 persons within the grounds
left the place and crowded about the
injured, of whom there were more than
too. Indescribable confusion reigned
for a time because of the great crowd.
Fortunately there were at the game
several city officials. As soon as they
saw what had occurred they telephoned
to the city hall, and a general ambu
lance call was sent out.
While waiting for conveyances to
carry the victims to hospitals thou
sands of willing hands looked after
'the injured. They were carried from
the street and laid on the sidewalk, j
and some were taken into nearby pri
vate houses. All the houses in the vi
cinity were thrown open to the vic
tims. One of the largest street-car
barns in this city is situated across the
street from the ball park and all the
wrecking cars and teams were gotten
ready to transport the injured to hos
pitals. One wrecking car was quickly
filled with helpless men and rushed
south of Fifteenth street to St. Jo
seph's Hospital, more than two miles
away. Others were quickly loaded in
to wagons of all descriptions belonging
to the street car company and rushed
to the Samaritan, St. Mary's, the Jew
ish or St. Luke's Hospitals. Nearly
every injured person taken away was
covered with blood and the street look
ed like a field of carnage.
Saved By a Beltpla.
Asbury Park (Special). A bcltpin
saved the life of Mrs. McMichael, who
is staying at a local hotel with her
daughter. Mrs. McMichael was one
of a fishing party on the Shark river.
While baiting their hooks the sharp
crack of a rille was heard and Mrs,
McMichael felt something strike her-in
the back. A second bullet whizzed past
Mrs. Beers, another of the party. Then
the men with the rifle, who were on the
Belmar side of the river, were warn
ed by shouts to stop shooting. They
did so and decamped hurriedly. In
vestigation showed that the bullet had
struck Mrs. McMichaiTt beltpin and
had been denecteu.
Soon Tired ol lbs Stage.
Los Angeles (Special). The two
week vaudeville career of Mabel Mc
Kinlcy. which closed at the Orpheum
here Sunday, was her last appearance
in vaudeville, (or she has decided to
quit stage life for good, owing to ob
jections of her father and husband, Dr.
H. L, Baer. of New York. As dauehter
of Abner McKinlcy, brother of the la
mented President, whose favorite niece
she was, Mrs. Baer gained theatrical
renown, and in reality commanded her
own price. She was a clever artist, and
sang with taste ana nntsnca style, but
her name was her biggest drawing card.
Mrs. Baer is a cripple, unable to take
a step without crutches.
Shot and Killed His Daughter.
Xeillsville, Wis. (Special). During a
family fight in the town of Seif, Gott
lieb Schultz shot and killed his daugh
ter, Mrs. Patrick Leyden. Leyden him
self received a bullet in the chest, and
is exnected to die. Schultz't skull was
crushed, but he it expected to recover.
Mrs. Schultz was injured also. Schultz
has been awaiting trial for an alleged
attempt to kill hit wife, and it believed
to be mentally unbalanced.
Largest Dense la tit World.
St. Louis. Mo. (Special). The plant
and specification! for the World't Fair
Festival Hall, which it to stand at the
head of the main cascade on Art hill,
have been given to the contractora.
The pre-eminent feature of the Hall will
be a sculpture-crowned top to the im
mente dome, 360 feet high. The dome,
it is said, is to be larger than that of
St. Peter's, in Rome, which is the larg
est in the world. The auditorium in the
interior of the building will be I la feet
high, from the floor of the theatre to
flic soffit of tbe dome. ,
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
May Have Led the Country.
Fostoffice Department officials believe
George W. Beavers, former Superinten
dent of the Division of Salaries and Al
lowances, now under indictment, has left
New York for parts unknown.
After Beavers was indicted by the
Brooklyn grand jury for conspiracy to
defraund the impression prevailed that
he, was where inspectors could put their
hands on him at any time and that the
Government did not care to make pub
lic the evidence against him at a preli
minary hearing before a United States
commissioner.
Many stories have heen printed con
cerning Beavers' movements in New
York, but they have all been second
hand. The public has heard nothing
from persons who have actually seen the
mysterious Beavers.
Postofficc Department officials are said
to have been approached within the last
24 hours by persons who asked that
August W. Machen's bond be increased,
to make it certain that he will not flee
from the country to escape the charges
which arc pending against him. Since
the return of the indictments against
Machen the Department of Justice is in
charge of his case and must decide
whether his bond is sufficient.
It has been predicted that the former
Superintendent of Free Delivery will
leave the country and forfeit his bail, if
there be no other way of escaping trial
on the charges of conspiracy brought
against him in connection with the Post
office Department scandals.
Domestic Trade It Oood.
Internal commerce conditions in the
L'nited States arc reported by the De
partment of Commerce and Labor,
through its Bureau of Statistics, and
shows that the first half of the current
year compares favorably with the cor
responding period of 1902 and tool.
With a few exceptions, the volume of
trade thus far this year equaled, if not
exceeded, that of last year, though oc
casionally falling below the high level of
loot. There is no evidence, says the
Bureau, of a general recession in com
mercial activities corresponding to the
extraordinary shrinkage in speculative
values.
Western staples for this year have
gained materially over last year, receipts
of live stock at five markets having
amounted to 15.126)! head, compared
with 14.058.345 head in the first six
months of 1002.
Wheat receipts at eight interior mar
kets for the crop year ended June 30,
IQO.1, were 230,675,660, bushels, compared
with 221,766.387 bushels in 1902.
The total shipments of provisions from
Chicago and Chicago points for the first
26 weeks of 1903 were 621,133 tons,
against 653.217 tons in the same period
of 1902 and 566,029 tons in 1901.
General Miles in Retirement.
At noon Saturday Lieutenant General
Nelson A. Miles rclinguished the com
mand of the Army and was placed on
the retired list, in accordance with the
statute requiring the retirements of offi
cers of the Army at the age of 64 years.
All during the morning General Miles
held a reception of Army officers at his
office in the headquarters of the Army,
and a large number of officers in full
dress came to bid him farewell and pay
their last respects to the General.
Promptly at noon General Miles, ac
companied by Colonel Reber, his chief
of staff, left his office at Army head
quarters, walked through the corridors
of the War Department and left that
building just as the clock was striking
13, walking across Pennsylvania avenue
to Seventeenth street and then proceeded
to his home, on N street.
Sternberg Received.
Sagamore Hill, President Roosevelt's
country home, was the scene of an inter
esting ceremony. Baron Speck von
Sternburg, who has been Minister Pleni
potentiary of Germany to the United
States since Ambassador von Holleben
returned to Europe and who recently, on
the retirement of 'Mr. von Holleben was
elevated to the rank of Ambassador, pre
sented to the President his credentials
as Ambassador and was received formally
in his new diplomatic rank by President
Roosevelt.
to tbe Departments. ,
Major Edwin C. Carter, Bishop
Brent and Dr. Albert have been ap
pointed as an opium commission to
visit countries where the drug is used.
Rear Admiral George W. Melville,
who was retired for age 'last January,
relinquished his duties as chief of the
Bureau of Steam Engineering.
The Navy Department authorized
a denial of the report that the Euro
pean Squadron it destined for Chinese
and Japanese waters.
Lieutenant General Young issued an
order assuming the command of the
army of the United States.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles retired from the
command of the Amy, having reached
the age limit.
John F. Carncll, 63 years old, a vet
eran clerk of the office of the auditor
for the Postoftice Department, for
merly of Iowa, was arrested by post
office inspectors on the charge of op
ening letters addressed to the auditor
and appropriating the contents. Matter
sent in decoy letters was found on him.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion ordered a temporary extension un
til October 15th of the time within
which railroads must complete their
safety equipment.
The President has designated Lieu
tenant General Young to command the
Army from August 8, the date of the
retirement ol General Miles, until Au
gust 15. when the General Staff Law
goes into effect.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion gave a hearing to railroad com
panies which ask for time in which to
equip their rolling stock with safety
appliances.
Because of hit lack of Civil War
service ol at least one year Col. Henry
Lippincott, of the Medical Department,
will not be retired.
The Postoftice Department establish
ed 34SS rural free-delivery routes dur
ing July,
Secretary Root hat given notice to
the Merchants' Bridge Company of
St. Louis asking them to show cause
why the United States should not take
possession of the bridge.
Public Printer Palmer hat not yet
determined when he will consider the
charges that have been f.lcd against
Assistant Foreman Miller,
Major General Corbin will relinquish
his duties at adjutant peneral of the
Army when the General Staff Law goes
into effect.
CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED
TwenlyThrce People Were Killed la the
Collision.
ENGINEER LAVS IT ON THE BRAKES.
Two Sections of the Train Came Together
With a Fearful Crash The Vlctlmt Suffer
ed Torture B.-fore Death Rillcved Them
Pitiful Condilion of the Wounded at Tb:y
Were Taken to the Hospital.
Durand, Mich. (Special). An air
brake on the second section of Wallace
Brothers' circus train refused to work
in the Grand Trunk railway yards here,
causing a collision between the two
sections, in which 23 people were kill
ed and about 30 injured.
An official statement issued by the
Grand Trunk road says that the air
brakes were not applied by the engineer
of the second section, as he had claim
ed. The circus travels in two trains of
about thirty-five cars each. After the
night's exhibition at Charlotte the two
trains left for Lapeer, over the Grand
Trunk road, the second section leaving
a half hour after the first. It was 3.45
o'clock when the. first section pulled
into the west end of the Grand Trunk
yards here. A red light was hung on
the rear car to stop the second sec
tion Engineer Tropst of Battle Creek, who
was running the engine of the rear
train, says he saw this light, and applied
the airbrake. To his horror, it refused
to work. He reversed his engine, but
the momentum of the heavy train be
hind was too great, and, with a crash
that aroused all of the town near the
yards, the second section crashed into
the first.
Three cars of the stationary first sec
tion were telescoped, and the engine
and five cars of the moving train were
demolished.
Engineer Propsf, Fireman Colter and
Head Brakemnn Benedict, who was also
on the engine of the second section,
all agree that if the brakes had worked
there would have been no accident.
The escaping steam nnd screams and
cries of those pinned in the wreck made
a horrifying spectacle in the gray of
the early morning, when the trainmen
in the yards and the aroused townspeo
ple first reached the scene. Many fear
ed at first that some of the menagerie
had escaped, as some of the animals
could be heard crying. A fire whistle
was sounded and the whole town was
aroused. The rescuers could sec un
fortunates in. the tangled wreckage and
went furiously to work without waiting
for tools to extricate them. A wreck
ing crew is kept in the yards here and
it was on the scene in a few minutes,
bringing tools and equipment in plenty.
All the physicians and trained nurses
in Durand were sent for and those in
nearby places were rushed to the scene
on handcars. The Hotel Richelieu was
converted into a temporary hospital, and
the injured persons were taken there
as fast as the rescuers could extricate
them. The dead, many of them so ter
ribly mangled that identification seemed
well nigh impossible, were carefully laid
on the green sward a short distance from
the scene.
By 6 o'clock a corps of 12 physicians
was operating on the injured and dress
ing their wounds in the temporary bos-
tital. Four of the injured died at the
lospital before 8.30 o'clock and a fifth at
noon.
When the wrecking-train crews had
finished pulling to pieces the tangled and
broken cars 17 dead men were lying on
the grass awaiting removal to the
morgue. A minority of them were killed
while asleep.
Wallace Brothers say that their loss
was very heavy, but have given no esti
mate of it as yet. This is the second
wreck that the Wallace shows have
suffered within a month.
BLOOD TO FLOW IN MACEDONIA.
Struggle Likely to Be a Bitter One Kurds
Being Armed.
Salonica (By Cable). A special mes
senger from Monastir reports that the
Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited
the Konak (governor's palace) in the
Town of Krushcvox, 23 miles north of
Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed.
A detachment of Ottoman troops has
burned the village of Dihovo, near
Monastir.
Eight Turkish battalions have heen
dispatched to Monastir and three bat
talions to Salonica from Kossovo.
Telegraphic communication with
Monastir is still interrupted.
Constantinople (By Cable). Consu
lar advices which were received here
from Monastir indicated thaf the sit
uation in Macedonia was constantly
growing worse.
At a meeting of the ministers it has
been decided, therefore, to adopt mea
sures of extreme severity in order to
suppress the revolution. It is reported
that Albanian troops will be employed,
in which event massacres arc almost in
evitable. The Bulgarian exarch was summoned
to the Yilditz Palace Wednesday, and
urged to make a final appeal to his
flock to deliver up their arms and
thereby avoid bloodshed.
The menacing attitude of the Kurds
in Armenia is causing increasing alarm
at Erzcroum, Bitlis and Kh.irput. It
is asserted in some quarters that the
authorities are secretly arming the
Kurds, while endeavoring to convict
the Armenians of revolutionary inten
tions. Sofia, Bulgaria (By Cable). The
newspapers announce that Prince Fer
dinand it returning.
SPARKS FROM TIIK WIRES.
Announcement was made at the
Building Trades Employers' Association
rooms, in New York, that a general
arbitration board had been organized
to take care of all differences between
cinplocs and the unions which have
signed the plan of arbitration.
Hurlbutt, Hats-h & Co., members of
the New York Stock Exchange, have
failed. Th-; firm was composed of John
H. Hurlbutt, E. S. Hatch (a board
member) and J. F. Smith. The co
partnership was formed Sotcmbcr 12,
1800. 1
The Trust Company of North Amer
ica and the North America Trust Com
pany have agreed to merge the two
companies under the name of the Trust
Company of America.
Simon Booker and hit wife were mur
dered near Winchester, Ky., and their
cabin burned. They are supposed to
have furnished information leading to
the raid of a distillery.
John Alexander Dowie, general over
seer of the Christian Church, renounced
hit allegiance to Great Britai.t and be
came a citizen of the United States.
Governor Dockcry, the Secretary of
State and the Slate Treasurer were be
fore the grand jury at Jefferson City,
which is invcttig-tting the boodling rases.
STRIKES WORLDS FAIR.
Storm Kills One Man and Injures Eight
Others. '
St. Louis (Special). One of the heav
iest storms of the year, though of brief
duration, swept over St. Louis. The
furious wind tore through the World's
Fair Grounds, killing or.e man, probably
fatally injuring another nnd seriously in
juring seven others, besides causing
damage to World's Fair buildings and
other property generally throughout the
city to the extent of $10,000.
The dead:
Theodore Richtcr, of Kirkwood,
florist.
The injured :
A. R. Clark, carpenter j taken to hos
pital in dying condition
, William Koch, carpenter.
Henry Fahrnkopf, carpenter.
Ray Mannvillc, lalvorcr.
John W. Wheclhousc, Staffworker.
Adricn Smith, painter.
1'hyncas L. Going, carpenter.
Charles Covington, laborer.
The day had been extremely warm
the temperature registering 94 degrees
Suddenly the sky began to grow dark,
and soon after the storm broke with the
force of a gale. In the city pedestrians
hurried to shelter nnd the wind swept
through the streets, causing little dam
ape outside rf broken windows here and
there, the falling of a few street signs
and leveling of shade trees.
At the World's Fair grounds the agri.
cultural building was struck by the gale,
and six laborers working on scaffolding
were hurled to the ground.
Theodore Richtcr, a florist from Kirk
wood. a suburb, was on the ground run
ning to shelter when a flying plank
struck him.
The World's Fair department turned
out and hastily dug the injured from the
debris and hurried them to the hospital.
A. R. Clark was so badly injured that if
is believed he will die.
Destruction By Ugnfnln?.
Louisville, Ky. (Special). Fire caused
by lightning destroyed the Bourhor
Stockyards and two buildings adjoining
! rour niincreu ami litly Head ot sheep
1 were burned. The loss is about j2SO.ooo.
with insvrancc one-half. Captain Eher
hart Dillman and Pipeman Richard
Moore were injured by falling timbers.
Knocked Senseless by Lightning.
Mishawaka. Ind. (Special). A storm
nt noon did great damage here. Fi-1
persons were knocked senseless bv light-
I ning. Several buildings were burned
i and chimneys, trees and fences were
leveled. One of the injured men may
die.
Killed by c Bol'.
Hillside. Mich. (Special). Herbert
Cox, nged n years, was killed by light
ning while standing in the door of a
large barn owned by Jonas Brown, five
miles southwest of this city. Mr. Brown
was struck and seriously injured, but
will recover. The barn was totally de
stroyed. USED AX ON WIFE AND KNIFE ON SELF.
Jersey City Man Attempts to Kill Hit Spouse
and Cutt His Own Throat
New York (Special). Edward Wood.
53 years old, tried ( to kill his wife and
himself nt their home on the second (loot
at No. 153 Morgan street, Jersey City
He struck his wife three times on the
head with an axe nnd then cut his throat
with a tabltknifc, which had been
ground down to p razor edge. Wood
and his wife arc in the city hospital.
The woman has a chance of recovery,
but jt is thought Wood will die.
Wood has had trouble with his wife
on various occasions and the police
say he served a term of 18 months' im
prisonment for beating her. They have
two Sons. Edward, 26 years old, and
Arthur, 23 years old. The sons on
Monday last put their father out oi
their apartments, but allowed him to
sleep in a hall bedroom. Wood had
been drinking heavily, it is said, and
had made himself a nuisance to the rest
of the family.
After the older son had gone out,
Wood knocked on the door of his
wife's room and asked her for a drink
of water. She opened the door and
went to the kitchen to get the water.
Wood followed her, anil on reaching
the kitchen picked up an ax and struck
his wife three times on the head with it.
She fell to the floor unconscious. Wood
then turned to a table, and picking up
a knife drew it across his throat.
Earthquake In California.
San Francisco (Special). Reports
received from different portions of Cal
ifornia say but little damage was done
by the seismic disturbance, although
it was quite severe. The tremor war
centered at San Jose, where numerous
windows and much crockery was
broken. Mrs. P. M. Lusson, a sufferer
from heart disease, died during the
shock. Lick Observatory reports the
shock the heaviest in the history of
the place. The indicator of the seis
mograph was dislodged, and no record
obtained. In San Jose, the shock last
ed from twent to thirty seconds, and
was from cast to west.
Farmer Murdered By Employe.
Rcnnsclaer, Ind. (Special). Charles
Medworlh, a farmer living near Mount
Ayr, eight miles west of here, was mur
dered by his farm employe, known only
as John. The murderer set fire to the
house and the bodies of both were
found in the rums. The man had work
ed for Medworth for three years, nnd
always refused to give hit name. They
had quarreled over a settlement.
Fatally Injured In Wreck.
Portsmouth. Ohio (Special). South
bound Norfolk and Western passenger
train No. 8 was wrecked at East Ports
mouth by spreading rails. The engine
lift the track and turned over, and En
gineer William Simonton. of Colum
bus. Ohio, was caught under the wreck
and fatally injured. Fireman S. N.
McDonald, of Portsmouth, was also
probably fatally injured. Twenty-five
were more or lest injured, but none
fatally.
Talk of lynching.
Lewiston, Idaho (Special) William
Ilaiuilton, aged 34 years, confessed to
the murder and mutilation of Mabel
Richards, an II -year-old girl, whose
btidy was found near Anatone. The
child wat waylaid by Hamilton while
cn route to Sunday school. Hamilton
is in jail at Asotin. In all probability
he will bo lynched, nt hundreds of
people are now reported to be assem
bling in the town. The dead g'rl wat
a daughter of Sheriff Richards, of Assy
tin comity.
THE KtYSlONE STATE
.atest Nes of Pennsylvania Told Is
Short Order.
At a public meeting in the Court
louse at Bcllcfonte, Judge John G.
Love, representing the citizens of Cen
:er county, publicly presented to State
Fish Commissioner W. E. Median,
representing the Commonwealth, the
deeds for the lands donated as a site
ior a State fish hatchery. The event
as one of great importance to Center
county and the citizens showed their
interest by crowding the Court
house. The speech of presentation by
Judge Love was responded to by Com
missioner Median. The secretary ol
the commission then read the follow
ing resolutions which had been adopt
ed at a previous meeting: To the gen
erous citizens of Center county. Pal
At a meeting of the Fisheries Commis
sion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania, held nt Bcllefontc, this 6th day
of August. 1903,' it was unanimously
resolved that the sinccrcst thanks of
the Department of Fisheries be ten
dered to the public-spirited citizens
who so generously .donated the ground
to the Commonwealth for the use ol
:he Fisheries Commission, for the ercc
tion of a fish hatchery.
Conrad Schroeder, one of the best
known and wealthiest contractors in
Scranton. accidentally killed himself al
his home in Green Ridge, while hand
ling a revolver. He had taken the re
volver out of his trousers pocket and
was about to place it in a bureau
drawer, where he usually kept it, when
the weapon was discharged. The bub
jet entered his head and he died almost
instantly. Mr. Schroedcr built most oi
the important buildings in Scrantor
nnd was a man ni the highest integrity.
He was president of the South Side
bank and was interested in many o
the city's industrial establishments
Howard Flood and Lswrence Leber
man were badly burned while working
insi-le one of the large stoves at the
Warwick furnace, Pottstown. Both
men entered the lower bell for the pur
pose of making repairs while the fur
nace was in blast ami while nt work
employees lowered the upper bell. The
gas from the charge beneath rushed
upon tbe men and they were probablj
latally bttrnd. They managed tc
crawl down a spiral stairway on th
outside of the furnace and fell in 1
faint at the bottom.
Jcsfc Beer, aged 9. and Roy Rohr
aped 3, of Bath, climbed a tree to get
a hosnct's r.cst. The hornets were in
bad humor and resented the intrusion.
'1 here were several big spikes in the
tree, and the lads, in their eagerness
to get away, fell and caught on thest
spikes. Rohr had a four-inch gash cul
in his face and his companion has a
gash extending from half way from hif
mouth to one of his cars.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Stewart, ol
Oklahoma, arc visiting relatives and
old friends at Brockawayviile. The;
drove the entire distance from Okla
homa to their old home in a lighl
spring wagon, drawn by a pair of hard
Western horses. The trip was nnde in
forty-five days and the expenses cr
route were but $30.
The remains of James A. Harkins, ol
Philadelphia, were found nt the tipple
of the Keystone Coal and Coke Com
pany, east of Grecnsburg, near the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and taker
to the Grccnsbutg local morgue.
From papers found on his person hit
identification was established.
Produce Dealer Beverly Hatch's dog
went mad and bit Orlando Blackburr
severely on the thigh at Altoona. Whili
Patrolman Lloyd Vaugh was trying tc
shoot the animal it sprang at him anc
lacerated his arm with its teeth ai'tc
it had been shot once in the held.
By sawing off a bar in a window
Thomas Donahue and Robert Black
burn escaped from jail nt Washington
The space they went through was
by 13 inches and blanket ropes lowerei
them to the ground. Sheriff Carothert
has offered a reward of $500 for the
capture of the jailbrcakers.
Webster, the 14-year-oM son of Jas
G. Fox, a member of Legislature, wai
instantly killed near Gallagherville, bj
being struck by an express train of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bo;
was conveying water to railroad work
ers when the accident occurred.
Governor Pennypacker appointee"
William H. Lambert. Philadelphia; B
L. McFceters, Wilkinsburg, and Ed
ward Overton, of Towanda, a commit
tee to co-operate with committees from
the Forty-fifth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first. Onf
Hundredth Regiments and Battery D
Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the erec
tion of memorial tablets at Vicksburg
The 33 and 38-inch mills in the Car
negie Steel Works at Homestead were
closed down, throwing 500 men out 0
employment. Whether the shnt-dowr
is for repairs or due to lack of ra
material is not announced.
The Shamokin School Board decid
ed that blows shall not be inilictcd upor.
the head or hands of a pupil, and in nc
case shall a child be shaken violently
The Pennsylvania Railroad Companj
is building six dining cars and foul
buffet cars at the Altoona shops. Thes
are the first cars of the kind to be con
structed at Altoona.
While assisting a butcher at Reading,
12-year-old Wilbur B. Erb't arm ''
ground to piecet in a sausage machine
There was not a tingle death during
the month of July in Bangor, which hai
a population of over 4000.
Joseph Bontempee, an Italian of Ess
ton, shot his wife in the breast, alleging
that she had been untrue to him. H'
was later arrested in Philipsburg.
While swimming in the river at Nor
ristown in front of the High Schoo
boathouse, Leo Holmes, 10 yeart old
wat seized with cramps and wa
drowned.
Dr. Thomas Lloyd, his wife and nr?
mother, Mrs. Thomas Lloyd, of Shamo
kin, were driving home when the horses
ran away. The trio were hurled froir
the carriage and badly injured.
John Knier, Jr., aged 30 years, ol
Manhrim, accidentally shot and killer
himself while in search of ground hogs
Knier endeavored to crawl under
fence, dragging his gun, when the wet
pon exploded.
By the will of Catharine Baer, late ol
Lancaster, $joo is bequeathed to Zior
Reformed Church, Millcrsvillc.
The dead body of John Dmmorsk
was found lying in a street in Shcnan
doah. One of hit wristt wat alniot1
levered and he had two stab wound!
over the heart. It it supposed he wa
killed in a quarrel.
While attempting to crest the traclct
of the railroad at Port Kennedy Jonf
Baughman wat ttruck by an expre
train and killed. He wat 70 yean W
and for more than fifty yeart be wat tm
blacksmith of that village. -
An organization of the veterant d
the Spanish-American and the Philip
nine wart 1 wat effected at Potttville
Major' John Owens presided.
I The Reformed Ministers' Assoc!
!ion of Naomi Pinet has been organ
ized with Rev. J. W. Santee, of Phila
delphia, at prt-idcnt. The object o!
the organization it the building an
nainteuance of a house for aged liiinit'
ter nl ! Wr-. rl.ri