TOWN RUINED BY TORNADO Scvm Killed and 28 Injured at St Charles, Minn. SCORES OF HOUSES ARB WRECKED. The Victim Bartee) Uader tht Rolns-Oae Man Kllk4 by a Flaw Which Wn Buries T breath lb Air hy the Farce ol the Wia4 Sanrlvora Ant Seamed by the Cat astrophe. St Paul (Special). The town of St. Charles, in Winona county, was almost jped out by a tornado. Seven persons were killed and 28 were injured, many of tliem seriously. The stricken town is altogether cut tjff from wire communication. The main street was almost wiped out, hardly business place being left standing.. Forty-two residences were destroyed. The total property damage is estimated at $ 100,00a Among the buildings demolished were the Central School building, the Chicago Great Western depot, the Catholic church and Parrott's wagon works. The day had been abnormally sultry for this season of the year, and during the morning there had been showers accompanied by fitful gusts of wind. Toward noon the sky became heavily overcast, but indications of a tornado w ere lacking. People from the surrounding farms had gathered jn large numbers in the main street to do their customary Sat urday shopping. At a.30 o'clock the tornado cloud was seen approaching from the southwest, and there was an immediate scramble for places of safety. The tornado struck the town from the southwest and swept clean through it, following almost entirely the line Cif the main street and devastating build Jngs on each side. Then residences fur ther back from the business center were struck and many of them were blown completely away. It seems almost miraculous that there was not a greater loss of life, Four of those killed were in John Ebcn's saloon when it collapsed and they were buried beneath the wreckage. Two others were in a dry goods store, which was blown away, and they were killed by falling walls. Edward Peters was killed in a wrecked hotel. The telephone exchange was demolished and two of the girls were seriously hurt. A relief train was sent from Winona as soon as the news was received there, and physicians were soon busily en gaged in caring for the injured and maimed. The storm came upon the town with uch suddenness that it was filling the air with the debris of demolished build ings before the people fully realized the nature of the calamity. Many of those injured received their hurts from Hying fragments, while others were caught beneath the wreckage of their business houses or homes and remained pinioned until rescued by the relief Jarty. So far no reports have been received of any loss of life in the country adjacent to St .Charles. The storm ,in a wide Tath, seems to have followed closely the boundary line between Minnesota and Iowa, and damage to farm buildings, dwellings and grain stocks is reported. MINORS SUE GOVERNOR PEABODV. Aaatbcr 6atrowib of Marlal Law at Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek, Col. (Special). Gov ernor I'eabody was made defendant in two damage suits for $100,000 each, fil ed by Patrick H. MuIIaney and Thomas H. Foster, union miners, who were ar rested by military officers on duty in camp here and confined in the guard house IS days. They were set at liberty Wednesday after habeas corpus pro ceedings were instituted in their be kalf. Adjt.-Gen. Sherman Bell, Brigadier-General Chase and Major Thomas E. McClelland were also made defend ants to the suits. The miners allege that they were re strained of their liberty and were sub jected to hardships and disgrace. It is declared in the complaint that their arrest and imprisonment were without probable cause and without legal pr. less or authority. Suits asking more than $1,000,000 damages will be filed by all those who were similarly imprisoned. MILITIA CAME TOO LATE. Hah Get Their Qaarry Oat mat Qolctly Lynch ed llim. Marshall, Texas (Special). A mob ff several hundred men battered its j way into the jail, took out Walter Da vit, a negro, and marched him to the west side of town, where he was hang ed to a tree. The lynching was the result ol the killing of Constable Hayes while he was taking a negro to jail. The officer was sliot Iroin ambush, being literally riddled with bullets. Shortly alter the killing Walter Davis and two other negroes were arrested and lodged in jail at MarshalL A mob formed during the afternoon and attacked the jail, The local militia was ordered out and arrived at the jail after the mob had secured the negro While part of the mob was talking to the militia officers others slipped the negro out and spirited hint away. Everything is now quiet. Workaea Waal to Sell Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). The bulk ol the 60,000 shares sold by the United States Steel Corporation to its em ployes last year was subscribed for by Carnegie Steel Company employes. The 4;t cater percentage is carried by work men in Allegheny county. Since the preferred stock began falling from 9&2.50 per share from is to jo appli ca'.ions have been filed daily at the of fices of the Csruegie Steel Company by employes who wished to sell their holdings. Two Baaka faH. Washington, D. C (Special). The comptroller of the currency has receiv ed telegrams announcing the failure of two national banks the Packard Na tional Bank of Greenfield, Mass., of which Bank Examiner Frank L. Fish tat been appointed receiver, and the Kolivar National Bank of Bolivar, Pa.. ti which Bank Examiner lohn It. Cunningham has been appointed re receiver. The president A this bank telegraphed the comptroller that his tank wa insolvent and he had closed at duttr. THE LATEST IVEWS IN SHORT ORDER, Domestic. Suit was begun in San Francisco to foreclose the mortgage held hy the United States Security and Trust Com pany against the shipbuilding combine. The North Mahanny Colliery of the Philadelphia and Heading Coal and Iron Company, at Mahanny City, was closed, rendering idle 900 mine work ers. William Cox, of Hancock, shot his wife at Fctcrsbnro, X. II , inflicting a serious, though probably not fatal wound, and then committed suicide. Jack Stewart O'Neill, who had been forced into a bigamous marriage in Orange, Tex., by the bride's father, committed suicide in New Orleans. Fxcitcmcnt was caucd in the cotton exchanges of New York and New Or leans by the publication of the govern ment cotton report. Dr. Frederick A. Cook and two com panions were unsuccessful in their at tempt to reach the top of Mount Mc Kiniey, in Alaska. Employes of the American Sheet Steel Company threaten to go out unless their grievance at the Philadelphia plant is settled. Receiver Carrutt, of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company, has issued an appeal to the stockholder to pay an assessment of 50 cents a share to pre vent the sale oi the properties by the Speycr syndicate. Charles H. Cramp resigned as presi dent of the William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, and was made chairman of the board, a new office. An attempt was made to save the Van Wornu-rs from execution by send ing the warden a bogus telegram from the President of the United States for bidding it. One pasenger was killed and a num ber injured bv the collision of an ex press train on the Southern Pacific with a freight train. The employes of the Public Service Corporation, which controls a big sys tem of trolley lines in New Jersey. voted against a strike. Fifteen Chinamen allotted to have been smuggled across the Canadian border were arrested at Wcsthawkcn. Ilenrv L. Maxcv. m.m.nrpr for Al fred II. Post iS; Co.. committed suicide at his home in Brooklvn. Judgment has been given in the j Franklin County Circuit Court. Ken- ! lucky, against former State Auditor i Sweeney and his bondsmen, the Fi- ' delity and Deposit Company, of Bal- j timorc. Senator Thomas Kcarns. of Utah, in an interview suggests that Sir Thomas : I.tlltOll tfr.fllrl ni-ibn t , a . ,-..1 1 f P.-!,- Uh ambassador to the United States. Clorado Springs labor organizations have adopted resolutions calling for the impeachment of Governor Pcabody for sending the militia to Cripple Creek. Government jurisdiction of marriage is the solution of the divorce evil advo cated by Dr. Howard, of the Chicago University. The three Van Wormcr brothers were executed at Clinton Prison for the mur der of their uncle. Peter A. Ilallenbcck. The cavalry brigade of the Salvation Army which invaded the feud districts of Kentucky has returned to Cincin nati. A warm welcome was extended to Governor Hunt upon his arrival at San Juan. J. W. Dooley. a ranchowncr. was assaulted and robbed at Naco, Ariz. Swift & Co.'s efforts to corner the September lard market in Chicago has ended in a failure, and it is reported that their losses are heavy. Foicign. The petition of the men and women in the American missions at Monastir, Philippopolis and Salonica presented to the United States Minister and the British Ambassador at Constantinople for the admission of a corps of the Red Cross Society into Turkey is an urgent appeal to the proper care of the wounded and the homeless. Wayne MacVcagh opened in behalf of Venezuela the argument before the Venezuelan Arbitration Court. He contended that a strong power had no right to abuse its strength to exact pay ment of debts, and, consequently, the conduct of the blockading powers did not deserve to be rewarded by prefer ential treatment. Prince Ferdinand, accompanied by his mother and children, has returned to Sofia, and his action is regarded as tending to show that war is not ex pected. Turkish troops, however, con tinue to mass upon the Bulgarian fron tier, especially in the Adrianoplc dis trict. The Czar and his party bade farewell to Fmperor Francis Joseph and left Muerzstcg tor Darmstadt. As a result of their conferences on the Macedonian question it was decided that Austria ami Russia continue the Balkan policy arranged last winter. The Twenty-second Alt unc Battalion of the French Army, while engaged in maneuvers, got lost in the mountains during a heavy snowstorm, and Cap tain Alzieu, in command, fell over a precipice and was killed. At the annual conference of the con servative associations in Sheffield, Kngland, a resolution was propose J thanking Premier Balfour for having instituted an inquiry into the fiscal policy of the country. 'Ihe French Government has asked Turkey to indemnify M. Gaillac, a French citizen, of Beirut, Syria, whose shop was pillaged during the recent dis turbances at that place. , An investigation billowing threats upon the lite of Queen Charlotte of Wurtcmburg revealed an anarchist plot. The Berlin police, with drawn swords, charged riotous 'omnibus strikers in Berlin and 30 persons were treated at the Red Cross Stations for saber cuts'. financial Morgan no longer controls Eric. A $0,000,000 department store has been organized in Boston. J. D. Farrell is talked of for presi dent of Northern Pacific. The Midvale Comiiany. of Philadel phia, underbid the United Slates Steel Corporation and all others lor the contract lor $7,000,000 worth ol armor plate. Stock trading was very much less ac tive in September than during the same month last year, when the greatest bull market ever known culminated. The trading in Pennsylvania is pure ly professional. Under its new system of bookkeep ing Ihigh Valley 1 assets are worth $7,000,0110 more than under the old sys tem. That is what the re-valuation amounts to. Koek Inland people have been bearish since last Spring and they made enough on the short side ol the market to counterbalance the general strinkage in Kock Island stock. Som of Ibe leading bankers In Phil adelphia look for ' still lower stock prices. .The president ol one of the big gest banks says: "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid the decline ia not finished," DROWN IN LAKE SQUALL Steamer Capsized After Being Wrecked By the Wind. TWELVE PERSONS ARE DROWNED. The Vessel Was Struck by a Sadden Squall, Which Blew Away lbs Upper Works ol the Steamer Soon Afterward the Vessel Cap sized aod Went to the Bottom Some Man aged to Seize Floating Wreckage. Marionette, Wis. (Special). During a squall on Lake Michigan the steamer J .11. Hackley capsized nnd twelve per sons were drowned. The Goodrich Line steamer Sheboy gan rescued the other seven persons who were on board the Hackley after they had drifted all night in Green bay, clinging to bits of wreckage. The Hackley was struck by the squall when off Green Island, seven miles from this port. The upper work of the ves sel was blown away and the boat then turned turtle and went down in deep w ater. As the Hackley went to the bottom those who could seized on floating pieces of wreckage, while the women and three or four of the men, failing to find an object to which to cling, sank in the sea. The waves were rolling high and sev eral of those who saved themselves from immediate death lost strength and sank later. It was not until 7 o'clock A. M. that the steamer Sheboygan sighted the help less survivors and effected their rescue. The officers of the Sheboygan feel sure that they took aboard every per son afloat, but some of the persons who were rescued say that it is possible that one or more of the eleven persons miss ing may have escaped death. This view is not given much credence by the sail ors of the Sheboygan. The Sheboygan ran into Fish Creek when hope of re-cuing other persons Fccmcd improbable. The rescued per sons were so exhausted from their strug gles that they were unable for some time to tell anything about the wreck. Those saved by the Sheboygan say that with the cra-hing away of the up per work all persons aboard the Hack ley ran on deck. Hasty preparations for a plunge into the water were begun, but before any plans could be carried out the bont listed, turned over and went down like a rock. Search is still being made fnr anv per son who may have escaped death and for the 'bodies of those w ho were lost. COAL COMBINATION OF $100,000,000. Bigest Company In lb: United States is Formed By New Yorkers. Wheeling, W. Va. (Special). The biggest coal company in the United States has been formed by New York ers, whose identity is thus far unknown. The company will have a capital of $too,cco,ooo, and will take in the Flcm ington Coal Company, the Ncwburg Coal Company, all the companies along the Belington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, and will embrace a score -if smaller mines. Its headquarters will be at Grafton, and its territory will include over 50.000 acres of coal. The capital will be twice as large as the combined capital of the Fair mont, Somerset and Consolidated Coal Companies, now under one head, with C. A. Watson, of New York, president. Van Wormsrs Died Game. Dannemora, N. Y. (Special). The three Van Wormcr brothers Willis, Burton and Frederick were put to death in the electric chair in Clinton Prison between 11.35 and n.48 o'clock a. m., for the murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hallenbeck, in the village of Grcendale, Columbia county, on Christ mas eve two years ago. The first of the three to die was Willis, the eldest, chosen because Warden George Deyo thought him physically the weakest of the three and the most liable to break down. Frederick, the youngest, fol lowed Willis to the death chamber, and Burton went to his doom last. Jealous Man's Act. Augusta, Ga. (Special). After hav ing been reconciled to his wife, from whom he had been separated on ac count of jealousy, Barney Barnes, a tel egraph lineman, fired a bullet through his wife's heart and then shot himself through the brain. The two seemed in the best of spirits when last seen to gether. Slight Earthquake Felt In St Louis. St. Louis, Mo. (Special). A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Caron delet, the southern part of the city, at H 55 o'clock p. m. The seismic dis turbance lasted but one minute and caused alarm among the citizens. At the same time a slight shock was felt in the western portion of the city. Disastrous Toroado. Plainfield, Wis. (Special). A torna do which visited this section tore down many buildings and damaged much property. Mrs. John Fisher was killed, and Mark Wood, who was injured, has since died. Much stock was killed and injured, and the farmers are heavy losers. Want Shotgun Quarantine. Washington, D. C. (Special). Fear ing an epidemic of yellow fever, a num ber of .persons living along the Rio Grande have appealed to the War De partment for the establishment of a "shotgun" quarantine and that soldiers be ordered to this duty. While the officials of the department are alive to the necessity for action to prevent the spread of the disease, they have concluded 'that the present outbreak docs not justify such radical steps as contemplated by the request for' troops. Root Is Ssaa to Relara. Washington, D. C. (Special). Secre tary Root has informed officials of the War Department that he expects to sail for home on October at, which will be in time for him to submit his annual report to Congress. Mr. Root expects to continue his duties as Sec retary of War until January I. Mrs. Jcllersea Davis laprorlof. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). Mrs. Jef ferson Davis is rapidly recovering from her ill, jss. Her physicians believe slu will bl able to leave for her winter H',ma in New York next week. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Naval Stat on In Cuba. The purchase of lands at Guantana mo for the United States naval station has been practically completed without the necessity of resorting to condem nation proceedings. The total cost of the land is $I3, coo, of which the United States has fur nished $70,000. Of the $too.ooo appro priated, the other $30,000 will be used for the payment of the preliminary ex penses. The United States will pay Cuba the balance, comnrisine the cost involved in the purchase of private lands, later when an appropriation makes funds available. The payments niadc by the United States arc all cred ited as advance rent. It is expected that the American Government will shortly occupy the Guantanamo area, raising the flag there. The Bahia Hondit land purchases are not being pushed at present. The cost of these lands will be about $JO.ooo. The Cuba Eastern Railroad has pre pared a petition to the Navy Depart ment asking that the company be per mitted to occupy about a mile of the station territory so as to enable the railroad to carry out its intention re garding a bay terminal. The Guanta namo Railroad will, it is expected, re quest a similar privilege if its rival's petition be granted. Navy Short of Engineers. The pressing need of engineers in the navy has compelled Secretary Moody to utilize the services of officers who otherwise are ineligible for sea duty. When the subject of the appointment of a board of engineers to make a voy age in the battleship Maine to Culcbra and report on the performance of her boilers was under consideration it was fount that the service was without a sufficient number of engineers doing sea duty to perform the work. This condition is due to the provisions of the Navy Personnel Bill, which ex empts from sea duty engineers trans ferred to the line who were of or above the rank of commander. The new board is composed of Capt. J. A. B. Smith, president; Commander W. B. Iiayley and Lieut. -Com. W. M. Parks. Although the first two named officers come within the scope of the Personnel j law. the department finds no other alter- i native but to order them to temporary 1 sea duty. j Shew Will Aid Hawaii. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw in formed George R. Carter, Secretary of the Territory of Hawaii, that he would accept $t.jjj.ooo of Hawaiian bonds as security for deposits for circulation up to (xi per cent, of their face value. The territory proposes to issue $1. 000,000 of bonds under the Organic act. They are to be 5 per cent, bonds, and can be called in in five years. They arc limited to 15 years. The bonds are to be exempt from taxation in Hawaii, and will be a charge on the consolidat ed revenues of the Territory. Secretary Carter stated that after the issuance of these bonds the total debt of the Territory will be less than 2 per cent, of its taxable property, and less than the income of last year. Extra Session to Be Held. A good deal of pressure has been brought to bear on the President to in duce him not to call Congress into ex traordinary session in November; but to all callers who have spoken to him on the subject he has said this Gov ernment is committed to the proposi tion that the Cuban reciprocity treaty lc made effective at the earliest possi ble date nnd he believes, as a matter of good faith, that this country should keep its word. Mr. Roosevelt has declined, there fore, to consider any proposition look ing to the abandonment of the idea of an extraordinary session. Old Monocacy SolJ. Hashi Mote, presumably a Japanese merchant, has purchased the old Unit ed States gunboat Monocacy, now at Taku, China, for $11,325 in gold. This information was conveyed to the Navy Department in a cablegram from Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, dated Nag asaki. Persia at St. Louis Fair. Minister Pearson at Teheran, Per sia, has informed the State Department that Persia has designated the Persian Minister to the United States, Mufak-ham-Ed-Doulah. as special commission er to the St. Louis Exposition, with Tignan Khan, Persian Consul at New York, and tooshan Khan, as an advis ory committee. In the Department 1. Captain Shoemaker, chief of the rev enue cutter service, received a report from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, of the res cue of the Abbey C. Deering by Cap tain McClcllan, of the revenue cutter Manning. Gen. Charles Heywood transferred the command of the Marine Corps to Gen. Charles E. Elliott, and went on the retired list. Major General Corbin has been as signed to the Department cf the East and Major General Chaffee to station at the War Department. President Roosevelt has declined to consider any proposition looking to the abandonment of his purpose to call an extra session. President Roosevelt, in his message calling an extra session of Congress, will urge the ratification of the reci procity treaty with Cuba. Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer ol the United States, has submitted to Secre tary Shaw his report on condition o; the Treasury. A report showing the coal production of the United States has been issued by the Geological Survey. President Roosevelt declined to au thorize an increase in rank of the civil engineers of the Navy. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture, gives high praise to Dr. Salmon for so effectively stamping out .the foot-and-mouth disease in New England that Great Britain has raised the embargo. The gun trials of the battleship Maine have been completed. Dr. W. H. Wiley, of the Federal Bu reau ol Chemistry, reported that of 305 cargoes of imported foods inspected 10 per .cent, were condemned for contain ing adulterations. Alter a hearing Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallenbcrger and Assistant Attorney General Robb de clared the charges against Superinten dent Andrews and his assistant of (he postal-lock shop not sustained. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion will aak Congress for further ex tension of its authority. SEVEN PEOPLE ARE KILLED Big Copper Cylinder In a Distillery Ex plodes. VACUUM FORMED IN COPPER COOKER. Mass of Copper Also Cuts Down a Tret in Its Flight and Lands 25) Feet Away From the Building Three of the Four Wills of the Lartq Building Blown Out Loss Over $!00,090. . Tcoria, III. (Special). With a terrific crash a large part of Coming's dis tillery nt the .foot of Western avenue rose into the air. Out of the flying de bris shot a huge copper cylinder 20 feet in length and 8 feet in diameter. It was the explosion of this huge tube of copper that caused the death of seven men and the serious injury of five more. Every man who was in the build ing at the time of the explosion was in stantly killed, the injured having been on the outside. The great cylinder of copper crashed through the cast wall of the cooker room and on through the mill as if bricks and mortar had been tissue paper, shot in an oblique and downward course through the air, cut down a large tree in its flight, scattered a pile of lumber as if beams nnd timbers had been so many straws and landed 250 feet away from the start of its flight. Great gaps were rent in the walls. ! Nobody seems to have any clear idea j of how the accident occurred. The dam age to the buildings and machinery' w.-.s estimated by Manager Casey at about $100,000. It will be three montjis before the plant will be in operation again. The distillery is an independent con cern, owned by the Comings, and lias been in operation less than two years. HOW WAR MAY BE AVERTED. Insurgents Defeated in Long Fight and Their Villages Burned. Sofia, Bulgaria (By Cable V Dis patches received here from revolution ary headquarters assert that severe fighting continues in the Struma val ley. The insurgents, who had surround ed the Turkish post at the Trcdcl Pass, have been forced to retire. Another long fight, which took place between the villages of Obdim and Krcmen, resulted in the defeat r.f the in surgents. The troops burned both vil lages. The Turks were defeated at Belitza September 28. Much fighting is reported around Mclnik, but the results arc not yet j knowI1, j The war ministry has ordered out the annual contingent of recruits for October M, instead of at the beginning of the year, as usual. This step, though quite constitutional, has occasioned some surprise, considering the report ed improvement in the general situu tion. While the conditions are undoubtedly niore hopeful, there is a strong belief in many well informed quarters that the Macedonian question is still very threatening and can only be settled by war. The Bulgarian government, therefore, continues preparations for eventualities. How War May Be Av.vted. Paris (By Cable). Official advices from the Balkans show two distinct signs that war will be averted at least until spring. First The Bulgarian revolutionary committee, through General Sarafoff. has made overtures to the Bulgarian government, and unless hostilities arc actually undertaken within the next fortnight all preparations will be sus pended until spring. The purpose of this, it is understood here, will be to permit the decimating of the Turkish forces through the winter and the com pletion of the preparations for a deci sive move early in the spring. Second M. Natchevics, Bulgaria's envoy at Constantinople, has agreed to take up the negotiations. He at first refused to act on the ground that Tur key gave no assurances of a desire for an adjustment. Wis present decision is considered to indicate that Turkey has given adequate assurances. One of the chief features M. Natch evics will insist on during the negotia tions is that Bulgaria shall have a ma jority of the members aud the presi dency of the mixed commission having charge of the pacific adjustment of the Macedonian questions. The French government has asked Turkey to indemnify M. Gaiilac, a French citizen of Beirut, Syria, whose shop was pillaged during the recent disturbances at that place. From Admiral Cotlou. Washington, D. C. (Special).-The Navy Department has received a cable gram from Admiral Cotton, dated a: Beirut, saying that the American con sul had received word from Minister Lcishman that the new Turkish gov ernor general had started for Beirut At Admiral Cotton's request, the col her Alexander has been ordered from Port Said to Beirut to coal the squad ron there. SPAkkS FkOVt im wugs. A troop of cavalry captured the pro prietor and several employes of the Daily Record, the official organ of the Miners' Union in Colorado. The dying statement of N. G. Gin rales was admitted in evidence at the trial of James W. Tillman at Lcxing ton. S. C. Col. Harold C. MeGretv, of Indian apolis, was elected commander-in-chief of the Spanish War Veterans. Officers were elected 8t convention of the United States Veteran Navy, at New Haven. L. E. Johnson has been elected pres ident of the Norfolk and Western Kail road. Six veteran volunteer firemen were injured in an exhibition run at Chicago A mail train tin the Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked near Lancaster. Four robbers attempted to hold up a night watchman in Chicago. The Venezuelan arbitration tribunal has decided that minutes of the deci sions and awards in the question of preferential claims of the allied powers sliall be drawn both in English and French, and Wayne MicVeagh, senior counsel for the Lnitcd States, has. protested. HORRIBLE SCENE IS WITNESSED. Train Strikes Marry Parly Returning From Family Reunion. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). A merry party, composed of about a dozen per sons, was run dow n by a passenger train at Sharon Hill, killing five and injuring three others. The accident occurred in front of the Sharon Hill station while the party was waiting for a train. There had been a family reunion at the Farran home, and several members of the Farran family had' accompanied the guests to the sta tion. The Lamokin accommodation, fot which the party, was waiting, usually ras-cs the station on the fourth track This was known to some of the party, and when the train was heard coming in the distance nearly everyone passed ovct to the third or freight track. Before anyone could give n warning the accom modation train came rapidly on down the third track and plowed into the group. The engineer tried to stop his train be fore it (truck the party, hut he was un able to do so until it had ran several hundred feet past the station. A Horrible scene met the eves of the I passengers- on the train and the trair "cw. ynucr tne wneels ot tnc locomo; tive and on the tracks on both sides ol the train were scattered the dead and iniurcd. They were quickly taken frorr the tracks. The dead were terribly man gled and those that had not been killed were removed to a nearby physician'f office. Their injuries were of such a nature that it was decided to bring them to thif city, and they were placed on the accom modation train, which was still at th station, and brought to a hospital in West Philadelphia. CRAZY WOMAN IN LION HOUSE Whrn fis Beasts Roar Shs Becomes Excited Removed to Hospital. New York (Special). Found raving mad in the lion house' of the Bronx zo ological gardens a young woman, wcll- dressed and of evident refinement, was j ti'kcn to the Httrlcm Hospital, j The woman was noticed in the lion j house shortly titter noon, but her action at first did not attract attention. Sud denly, ;is feeding time grew nearer, the tmimals began roaring, and the woman became greatly excited. At first she talked softly to herself, but soon she began screaming and talk ing incoherently. The attendants ran tr her and attempted to escort her from the house. The instant they touched her slit struggled fiercely and they were forced to call for assistance. The woman was finally carried from the building and into the office of the park. An ambulance was summoned and one from the Harlem Hospital finally re- pumicci. in the meantime the womar was strrggiing to free herself and it was with great difficulty that the surgeon anc the Zoo attendants managed to get hci into the anibitlar.ee. On the way to the hospital she be came calmer, but declined to give hci name. PiCKINQ GC1N0 ON IN COTTON BELT Effect of the Weather on Orowlnj Harvests. Washington (Special). The Wcathet Bureau's weekly summary of crop con ditions is as follows: The temperature conditions of the week were generally favorable, although cool nights were detrimental in the South Atlantic, Eastern and Central Gull States, while light to heavy frosts, fot the most part causing no serious injury occurred in the more northerly1 districts eastward of the Upper Missouri Val ley. A marked feature of the week wa the absence of rain or the occurrence of only very light showers over much the greater part of the country east ol the Rocky Mountains, there being only a few areas of comparatively limite , extent in the, Upper Mississippi Valley. Lake region and the coast districts ol the Middle Atlantic States and South ern New England in which the rainfall exceeded the average. Drouth contin ues in the Ohio Valley, and with in creased severity in Tennessee and the Central and West Gulf States. No un favorable conditions arc reported frorr the Pacific Coast, although rain ir Southern California may possibly have caused slight injury. Southern Arizon? and Southwestern New Mexico receiv ed unusually heavy rains for that re gion, more than two inches being re ported irom several stations. The principal corn States have ex perienced weather conditions excep tionally favorable for maturing late corn, and, while frosts have been quite general over the central and eastcrr portions of the corn belt, no materia' damage is indicaf-d. Probably leaf than JO per cent, of the crop in Iowa i; unmatured, and. while the proportior yet expose:! to injury in South Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin is greater the immature will make good feed Farther south only a very small part o( the crop is still soft. Cutting is gen eral in all sections, and some new corr lias bcti marketed in Southern Kansas While the conditions have been fav orable for threshing spring wheat in the spring wheat region, reports of damp ness of grain in shock, as a result ol previous rains, continue. 'Harvest ii now completed on the North Pacific Const and threshing far advanced. Some tobacco remains to be cut ir Kentucky and Tennessee, where the late planted has suffered much from drouth but as a whole the crop is practically housed. He Cbcafcd the Oallowi. Jackson, Ky. (Special). Elijah Bolin wlio took morphine in jail here is dead Bolin had just been held by Judge Har gis to answer to the grand jury on 1 charge cf murder. It is believed th.V Bolin thought the gallows was certair for him under the new regime at Jack son ana giuea nim-.cu 10 cheat t. The Colombian Senate has approver a bill declaring the nation is not re sponsible for the damages caused to, foreigners by the rebels during the last revolution. Private Saa'.tarlum Burnad. Kansas City, Mo. (Special). One per son was burned to death and five were injured in a fire that destroyed the pri vate sanitarium of Dr. B. B. Ralph, two-story frame building in the southern part of the city. The tlames spread so quickly that the occupants were unable to escape by the stairs, and were forced to jump from second-story windows. The Convent of Amanlis, France, was besigrd by civil officials and gendarme aud the barricades were broken down' and a number of monks arrested. THE- KEYSTONE STATE Latest Neevs ol Pennsylvania Told D Short Order. Ignalz Klcnent, of Olyphant, n years old, accidentally shot and killed lis young bride of two weeks in front Df his home in that city. Klcnent waj married two weeks ago and had just re turned from his wedding trip with hij bride, who was but 17 years old. Abovt sue o'clock in the afternoon Klcnent announced his intention of going out hunting. He picked up his shotgun nd kissing his wife good-by started fot the gate. She followed him out into :hc yard nnd playfully called out: "Set if you can shoot me, Ignatz." Ignati 'topped at the gate nnd laughed. Then he raised the gun and pointed it at his bride, who stood only six feet away. 'I think I could. Annie," he said, "ij this gun was loaded I'm certain I could hit you." For a moment he stood tlun nnd then the gun was discharged. The charge struck the girl in the left tem ple, killing her instantly. As she fell her husband dropped the gun and bounded to her side. He knelt ovct her liieles body nnd kissed the cheeks down which the blood was pouring He has been arrested. The close of business for the month at the State Treasury showed a bal ance of ?!.1.0.l6,i9i.,V4 in the genca! fund, the largest amount ever held at the close of any month, nnd $700,000 more than at the close of August. Dur ing the month $.2,000,000 of personal property tax was collected, but three fourths of this will be returned to the couniics. Over $4,000,000 was paj.j out. of which $2,500,000 went to the public schools. The larger corpora tions are now paying their taxes, and a check was received at the Treasury for $9i6.ooo from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for tax on canita) stock. Four men blew open the safe in the postoflice at Houscville. securing the contents and binding and gagging Dr John, Tyler and James Strait, who in terrupted them in their work. Th? force of the explosion aroused the town's people, but they were held at bay by the robbers, who fired ,-.t them and escaped to the woods in the dark ness. The 'amount secured by the rob bers will not be known until an inven tory is taken. Armed posses of offi cers and citizens arc searching for the robbers. Marklcy B. Maxwell, of Chester, ivas convicted in court at Media of highway robbery and sent to the Eastern Ben: tintiary for six yer.rs. The crime was committed in Chester on February 5. toot, but Maxwell eluded the police' u-.itil about six weeks ago. Shortly after being placed in jail he tried to escape by sawing the bars of his cell. Henry Shite, a Spanish-American war veteran, was arrested at South Bethlehem and sent to inil on the --barges of personating the town's tax receiver nnd obtaining money from the foreign residents. The "receipts," which, it is alleged, Shue gave consist ed of shorthand characters and hiero glyphics scribbled on a blank taken from ordinary receipt books. The State Board of Dental Examin ers held its annual meeting in liarris burg and reorganized for the cnsuinn year. Dr. Hiram DePtty, of Pittsburg, was re-elected president, and Dr. H. li. McFadden, of Philadelphia, was made a member of the board. The bo.-.r.f issued a ruling to the effect that her after the New York State dental li cense would be accepted for registra tion in Pennsylvania without examina tion and that licenses would he accept ed in New York on the same terms. Mrs. Calvin Kami saw the fiist black bear of the season strolling quiet ly about her garden near Benton. Site informed her husband and a party start ed in pursuit of the animal. They trac ed it as far as Cambria, but faiLd to overtake it. The bear is said to be un usually large and all the hunters in the region are cleaning their guns and pre paring ammunition, anticipating a shot at the bear. While visiting; in Scotland this sum mer, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Rea, ol .V.cKccsport. had with them the pho tograph of Jas. S. Munroe, one of their rlose friends. Miss Devina M. Dun can, of Dundee, saw the picture, was interested, corresponded with the orig nal and became engaged by mail. Miss Duncan came over the sea and the cou ple were married at the Rca house. Charles Shultz, a 14-year-old boy ol Lancaster, whose limbs seem peculiarly susceptible to fractures, sustained a broken arm for the ninth time, while ivrcstling with a companion. Notices have been posted at the Reading Railway Company's Locomo tive Shops in Reading, that the plant will work sixty hours a week. For 1 time it was in oneration only fifty hours, with no work on Saturdays Several weeks ago the men were order ed to work until noon on Saturdays, and now they go 011 full time, with every prospect ot continuing so durinp the winter. John Beccher, a farmer living about three miles from Gettysburg, along the Mutnmasburg Road, was awakened by two robbers calling to him to let them in the house. When he refused they battered in the front door and started up the stairs. Being unarmed, Beechet jumped out of a window and ran to neighbor's. He soon returned with help, but the burglars had fled, taking with them some cash and. several hun dred dollars in Confederate money. Judtfe Bechtel, at Pottsville. rulee that illiteracy is no bar to a citizen serv ing as a juryman. Thomas Dcrr, ol Butler, asked to be excused as a jury man because he could neither read nui write. Judge Bechtel said that gooe" judgment and close attention arc as es sential qualifications for a juryman a education and he refused to dischargr Dcrr. Amos Kcnnard, a conductor on th Chester Traction Company's lines, sayi , that during the recent storm two large bullfrogs dropped from the skies in front ot him as he was on his way ionic. He caught the frogs and pre ented them to a Market street res taurant, where they are on exhibition. George Worthington Garwood, A'ealthy coal broker, aged 65 years, 'hot and killed Hilda Vogel, a waitres. aged 32, and then killed himself in room at Pittsburg. Jealousy was the catfse of the deed. Garwood was a re tired farmer, living at California, lie left a widow and nine children. Charles Mort, 28 years ' old, ol Wayne Township,, was lodged in the county prison at Lewistown by Con stable Temple, of Newton Hamilton, charged with having stolen a horse and buggy from his uncle. William Mprt. The theft was committed, some time Tlmrirlnv nioht unH the following morning Constable Temple followed the trail made by the buggy, wmcn icu toward Shade mountain. Temple fol lowed through mountain fastness, up hill and down dale, until he overtook .ind captured Mort in the southern eno f Perrv county, more than a hundred miles from wbero the theft was com' mutra.
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