sm rs —— — CITE rr, PROHBITON CONVENTION Rev. Silas C. Swallow Chosen as Presidential Candidate. GEN. MILES DECLINES TO RUN. Platform Covers More Issues Than Any Former Declaration Made by the National Convention. The Tenth National convention opened Wednesday in Tom- linson hall, Indianapolis, with ent. The hall was decorated with the national colors, many large flags being used. Over the platform hung pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Clinton B. Fisk and Francis Willard. The convention was call ty National Chairman Oliver W. Stew- art, of Chicago. George H. Peeke, of make the opening prayer. W. S. Dean, of Indianapolis, welcomed the dele- gates on behalf of the Prohibitionists of the city and State. His mention of General Miles was applauded. National Chairman Stewart made a brief reply. He introduced Homer L. Castle, of Pittsburg, temporary chair- man. of the convention, who delivered a stirring address. At the second session tion nominated Silas C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania, for President, and George W. Carroll, of Texas, for vice president. The platform was adopted without argument after a long dead- lock in the resolutions committee. Gen. Miles put an end to the move- ment to nominate him for president by sending to John G. “Woolley a tele- gram from New York asking that his name be not presented. This was con- sidered final, and the movement to Mr. Swallow was unanimous, no other name being considered. The roll of states was called for nominations for vice president. George Sandusky, O., to the conven- W. Carroll, of Texas, 1. H. Amos, chairman of Oregon, Col. Benjamin F. Parker of Milwaukee and A. TU. Coates of Perry, Ia., were named. The total vote for vice president was: Carroll, 626; Amos, 132; Parker 1. Mr. Carroll was declared the nom- inee. The platform declares: “The destruction of the system of the licensed and legalized sale of alcoholic beverages to be the most important question in ‘American poli- tics.” 1 x It denounces the “lack of manship exhibited by the leaders c¢ the Democratic and Republican par- ties in the refusal to recognize the paramcunt importance of .this ques- tion.” Six planks deal with the Prohibition issue, denouncing all methods of deal- states- ing with the liquor traffic, which recognize its 1ight to exist in any form, under any system of license or tax or regulation. It pledges the par- ty “to the enactment and enforcement of laws prohibiting and abolisting the manufacture, importation, transporta- tion and sale of alcoholic beverages.” Then the platform, venturing into a broader field, reads as folows: “We declare that there is not only no other issue of equal importancsa be- fore the American people to-day, but that the so-called issues upon which! the Democratic and Republican par- ties seek to divide the electorate of the country are in large part subter- fuges under the cover of which they wrangle for the spoils of office. “Recognizing that the intelligent voters of the country may properly ask our attitude upon other questions of public concern, we declare oursel- ves in {favor of: “The impartial laws. “The safe- guarding of the 13a rights by a rigid application of justice to all combinations and organizations of capital and labor. “A more intimate relation between the people and the government by the wise adaptation of the principles of the initiative and referendum. “The safe-guarding to every citizen in every place under the government of the people of the United States of all the rights guaranteed by the laws and the constitution. “International arbitration and de- clare that our nation should contrib- ute in every manner, consistent with inforcement of all national dignity, to the pernnanent establishment of peace between all nations. “The reform of cur divorce laws, the final extirpation of polygamy and the total overthrow o: the present shameful system of illegal sanction of the social evil, with the unsg trafic in girls, by the authcerities cf almest all our Boston Wozosi Market. An increased volume of sales and a gener8l improvement have chara cteriz- ed the course of the wcol market the past week. The market is strong and active and further advances are 2d lool for. Some o! the largest mills in the country have been buying TIreely. Pulled wools are quies, the old grades being about disposed of. Territory wools are firm and in fore Wools there is little trading: uc tations are: Okio and Pen XX and above, 33@31c; No. 1; 32@33¢c; Ne. fin unwashed, 22@2: : a eighths and one- halt blood AAwETheR 26@27c; fine washed delaine, 34@35c. Helen Keller Graduated. Helen Adams Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind girl whose wonderful achievements have made her name fa- liar throughout this country, was e central figure among the 96 young women of Radcliffe college, who re- celved degrees of bachelor of arts at the hands of Dean L. R. B. Briggs, Miss Keller was attended by Miss Sullivan, her teacher and companion, and when her name was called and she Tose to recc.ve her degrec, tae large audience broke into hearty applause. Prohibition | 4,000 | delegates, alternates and visitors pres- | | ed to order He introduced Rev. | FIRING ON PORT ARTHUR. Carry Line of Defense at Wolf Mountains. A battle has taken place about 10 miles north of Port Arthur. The Jap- anese occupied Wolf mountains after desperate fighting. A Russian regi- ment was almost annihilated. The next Mne of defense is close to Port Ar- thur The Japanese land forces are now within eight miles of the forts of Port Arthur and have begun to bombard them, the Russians replying vigorous- ly. The opposing armies see each other plainly. Two Russian officers | tried to break through the Japanése lines and were captured. On June 24, it is stated, the Japan- ese landed an independent division cf 10,700 men at their naval base on the Elliott Islands, either to assist | General Nogi at Port Arthur or Gen- eral Oku in clearing the railway. The Japanese now have 180,000 men in the field, including Kuroki’s army. THOUGHT TO BE ALIVE. Statement of Flamm Thought to Be . Case of Mistaken Identity. It was said at the State Department that there was still no news from any of the uepartment’s agents in Europe respecting the whereabouts of Fred- erick Kent Loomis, who disappeared from the Kaiser Wilhelm II, off Ply- mouth. The affidavit of Mr. Flamm, Japanese GREAT DAMAGE BY STORM Tornadoes and Cloudbusts Cause Serious Loss. TWO VILLAGES ALMOST RUINED. Almost 200 Persons Known to Have Perished in City and Its Su. burbs. A tornado swept the City of Mos- cow, causing enormous damage. Forty- five persons were killed and 13 injur- GREAT BATTLE IS IMPENDING. Kuroki’s Army Moving Along the Left Flank of the Russian Army To- ward Hai Cheng. An officlal dispatch received at St. Petersburg from Lieutenant General Sakharoff detailing the movements of the Japanese around the head of the Liao-Tung peninsula confirms the be- lief that the great decisive battle of the campaign between General Kouro- patkin’s main army and the armies of General Kuroki and Oku is immi- nent. The three armies probably ag- gregate 300,000 men, and their out- | posts are constantly in touch all along | ed are being cared for in the hospitals. Two villages near, in the track of the storm, wgre destroyed. One hundred ! and fifty deaths are reported there, while 85 persons were hurt. The tele- graph system was prosTrated, and rail- way communicaton is interrupted. Hailstcnes weighing three- -quarters of a pound tell during the storm. In one grove of 250 acres, ony one tree was | left standing. Reports received at Dallas, Tex., that tornadoes struck New Boston, Tex., and Denton, Tex. New Boston, which is near Texarkana, 1s said to have been at least partly wiped out. the passenger who deposed that he | saw Mr. LLecomis land at Plymouth, has | not yet reached the State department, | | but the officials have given close at-| tention to the newspaper abstract | of the affidavit, and are inclined to | think that this is a case of mista ken | identity on the part of Flamm, in view | of the accuracy which has hitherto] characterized the returns of the] steamship company as to the board- ings and landings of its passengers. However, assuming that Mr. Flamm | may be right, the theory most gener- | ally accepted here is the missing passenger may have been concealed by some of his friends in a sanitari- | um unil he shall have recovered from | his fit of abstraction. TRAMP KILLS WOMAN. Blows Out Her Brains on Being Of- fered Cold Victuals. - | Because Mis. J. W. Fix, wife of a| farmer of Wileyville, W. Va., refused to cook him a breakfast,.an unknown tramp blew off the top of her head with a shotgun. The stranger appeared at the Fix homestead just after the farmhands had’ finished breakfast, and asked for something to eat. meat, bread and butter, but in threat- ening terms insisted that she prepare a hot meal. He became impudent, and she ordered him from the prem- ises. He pushed by ber, seized a shotgun and shot her hecd almost from her shoulders. Men are scouring the country in search of the Birds So intense is the feeling tha t lynching may fol- low, TRACKMEN RUN DOWN. Two Are Dead and a Third Will Die in New York Central Mishap. Two men were killed, a third is not expected to live, and another is se- | riously injured as the result of a Char- lotte train on the New York Central railroad running throuzh a gang of track hands at Otis station in Roches- iter,’ N.Y. The dead are: John Toal, 43 years old; Joseph Otz, 46 years old. John Spahn, 46 years old, is at the Homeopathic Hospital with a broken back. Patrick Flynn, 45 years old, is at the hospital, where his right leg was amputated. : Investigating Colorado Trouble. The bureau of labor as the re- quest of President Roosevelt, is mak- ing an investigation into the labor difficulties in Colorazo, under the or- ganic act of the bureau, which charges the commissioner of labor®*to investi- gate the causes of and the facts re- lating to controversies between em- ployers and employes. The investiza- tion which is already under way, may last for some time, zs it is the inten- ticn of the bureau to go to the very beginning of the trouble and endeavor to ascertain exactly wiat the difficul- ties are and the czuses leading to them. GAMBLING DEVICES RAIDED. Cumberland Police iviake Away With Nearly 100 Machines. A raid was made on gambling de- vices at the Tal-State Carnival at Md., and all were closed. went to Cumberland, Richard Warnick, Baltimore, jail for 39) days in default of while James lark and Albe ton paid 320 each. r of the w The cr making away wiih mac nines which have Lee cons. The town was overrun professional gamblers. Great Cut in Working Force. The working force of the Penn vania railroad’s operating departmer has decreased 11 per cent, and cther departm 5 per cent red this effect company’s announced reduction will the system, both east and s Pittsburg. This affects more than 30,000: men, and it is the greatest cut made in years. Oregon’s Official Vote. The official canvass of the vote cast | at the State election, held June 6, has been completed. Tae total vote cast was 99,315. For Congressman, First district, Binger Hermann, Re- publican, received 6,818 majority over R. M. .Veatch, Democrat; Second district, J. M. Williamson, Repubiican, 14,353 over J. E. Simmons, Democrat. For State Supreme judge, Frank T. Moore, Republican, received 24,217 majority over Thomas Q’Day. He was offered cold |. | undated | and dwellings were swept away, high- All telegraph lines are badly wreck- ed and details were not obtainable at midnight. DAMAGE BY CLOUDBURST. Towns Along the Panhandle Railroad Near Pittsburg Suffer. Over 500 homes, business houses and schoolhouses, a short distance from Pittsburg on the Panhandle railroad, were inundated in fiom 2 to 10 feet of water in Robinsons run hollow and the Chartiers valley by a cloudburst that took place at about 7 o'clock | Tuesday night. Many buildings and bridges were washed away. A ter- ritory of 10 miles was ‘covered by the flood. There were rumors that several lives were lost, but these reports could not be verified. The family of James Ccle was said to have perished at Oak- | dale, although details were lacking. Families slept outdoors all night, railroad traffic on the Panhandle rail- road through the flooded section was completely tied up, tracks were wash- ed away and all means of communica-| | tion from many towns above and be- | low Oakdale and Carnegie were disa- bled. Many horses and cattle were d:owned. Camp Hill, Walkers Mill, Renner- dale, Oakdale and several towns around Carnegie were submerged for several hours and families fled from residences in confusicn. No storm that" has ever visited the territory played such fearful havoc so quickly or so rapidly subsided The valley of Robinson run for miles along its course in Washington and Allegheny counties presents a scene of desolation. The towns of McDon- ald, Noblestown and Oakdale were in- by Tuesday’s flood. Bridges ways were. obstructed and the whole area traversed by the torrent suffered | damage which is estimated in the tens | of thousands of dollars. It will be| several days before the extent of the | storm’s havoc can be accurately deter- | mined. McDonald will be a heavy loser. It is estimated that the borough will lose $15,000 on bridges and borough build- ings. Besides this, the loss suffered by | individuals will be much greater. Dwell- | ings through the whole course of the valley have been swept from their | foundations or damaged almost be-| vond repair. | Grain fields are covered with sand | and miles of fence have been swept away. Furniture and wearing apparel | from the deluged houses are strewn for five miles along the raging stream. | Scores of residents of the valley nar- rowly escaped with their lives; one | man battled with the torrents for a quarter of a mile before he was res- | cued. Colonel Brigham Dead. Col. Jeseph H. Brigham, assistant Secretary of Agriculture, died at Delta, 0. For many years he has been prom- inent in Ohio politics and has occupied his present position since the first ad- ministration of President McKinley. ROTHSCHILD’S GIFT. Will Provide $2,000,000 to Build Homes for Parisian Workmen. Baron Alphonse De Rotschild, Baron | +dmond ° De Rothschild and Baron’! Gustave De Rothschild, three of the chiefs of the Rothschild family, called upon M. Trouillot, the French minister of commerce, to inform him of their intention to give $2,080, 000 to provide cheap and healthy dwellings for the Parisian working classes. The details of the scheme have not vet been given out, but it is announced that the profits arising from the rents cf the proposed dwellings will be de- voted to the amelioration of the con- ditions of workmen. ! COMPOSER OF “DIXIE” DEAD. “Dan” Emmett, the Old-Time Minstre] | Passes Away. | A message received to-night from Mount Verne O., announced the sud- den death i t city of Daniel Em- mett, the old-time minstrel and fa- mous as the composer of “Dixie.” Emmett was about 86 years old. His public appearance was made four when he toured the States company. | last years ago, with a minstrel St. Louis Boodier Pleads Guilty. Edmund Bersch, former member of the Missouri house of delegates, plead- ed guilty in the criminal division of the circuit court at St Louis to the charge of bribery in accepting $2,500 for his vote on the city lighting bill. Bersch’s | bond of $35,000 was increased to $55, 000, pending sentence. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twaln,) sailed for New York from Naples with | the remains of his wife, which will be | interred at Elmira, N. Y. | | reported all correct. | became effective at once. | Jones the line. The Japanese evidently tried to| draw Kouropatkin as far south as pos- | sible, holding out as an incentive 8 check in the advance of Oku’s army. Meantime Oku swung snarply to the eastward to join Kuroki toward the | Chapan Pass, Kuroki at the same time | moving a strong force by the right flank toward Haicheng. The main Japanese advance contin- | ues along the main Fengwancheng-| Liao-Yang road, avoiding the Motien- ling pass by a detour to the northward. | The advance in all points is being at- tended by constant skirmishing. Nothing is known of the éxact point at which Kouropatkin’s main force is concentrated, though it is believed that a large part of the Liao-Yang force has been moved to a point be- tween Kinchow and Taschichiao. Kouropatkin is said to be in personal command at the latter place. According to a dispatch from Tas- chichiao, a large force has pushed southward from there against Oku. While Kouropatkin is thus extending himself, the Japanese, with great mob- ility, seem to be trying to concentrate for the purpose of striking the Rus- | sians in flank and rear. AFTER STANDARD OIL CO. | Ohio Man Files Suit for Receiver and | Dissolution as lilegal. | Charles D. Henderson. Jr., of Jer-| sey City, and Joseph M. W. Newlin, of | Philadelphia, counsel for George Rice of Marietta, O., filed In the Court of | Chancery at Trenton, N. J., a bill for! the dissolution of the Standard Oil! Company, a New Jersey corporation, charging that the company is illegal and that it exists in violation of the | anti-trust laws of the United States and of the decision In this State relat- | ing to monopolies. The bill charges that the Stand- ard Oil Company in Ohio was de-| ciared illegal by the courts of that State, but that the company, instead | of dissolving, in obedience to that de- cision has, by subterfuge, evaded the | Ohio decision and that the New Jersey corporation is mérely a holding com- pany for the Ohio concern. The bill | asks that the company’s assets he dis- tributed among its stockholders after paying off its outstanding securitie and that a receiver be appointed. BEANK CASHIER GOES WRONG. Charged With Misappropriating $50, 000 in Funds. Col. Jacob H. Plain, cashier of the German American National Bank of Aurora, Ill, has been arrested, charg- | ed with the misappropriaton of $60,- 000 of the funds of tae bank. The pec- ulations have extended over a period of three years, during which time bank examiners have several gone over the affairs c- the bank and ‘When brought before United States Commissioner | Foote, the prisoner waived examina- tion and was held to the July term of the Federal Grand Jury under bonds of $10,000. ’ Glass Workers Wages Advanced. The American Wrmdow Glass Com- pany has granted another increase to the workmen. The cutters will receive | 26 per cent advance and the flatteners, will be equally benefitted. A general revision has been made in the wage scale, and they are now almost as high as the original Philadeipaia scale. The increase is given with the understand- ing that the men work throughout the summer. SLOCUM’S HULK MOVED. Crowds With Uncovered Heads Watch Wreck of Steamer. Crowds with heads bowed and un- covered, lined both sides of East river Sunday as the blackened hulk of the General Slocum was towed to a dock in Erie basin, where it is to be inspect- ed by the Federal authorities. The flags on the tugs having the wreck in tow were at half mast, and when passing Barretto Point, where the Slocum sank and where so many lost their lives, the flags were dipped. All the craft in the harbor Sipped their flags as the flotilla passed. One more body, that of a woman badly burned | and not yet identified, was recovered. Merger is Ratified. The stockholders of the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston and the Mon- ongahela Railroad companies, both Pennsylvania Railroad lines, at spe- cial meetd held mm P lelphia, approve e agreement entered into by their directors to merge and con- solidate the two companies under the title of the first named. The merger | 11 Teacher Marries Millionaire, Marion Lintner, a Chicago kinder- garten teacher, has been married to | Samuel Park, the miilionaire banker and lumber merchant of Beaumont, | Texas. The wedding took place on the | day the bride was granted a divorce! from H. H. Newton, of Toledo, O. The mangled bodies of George F.| and Theodore Collins were] found on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie | railroad at the Lovedale crossing, a| short distance north or Elizabeth, Pa. | | wash against the boat. the water splashed into the submarine times | | State | plete TWENTY-ONE DROWNED Russian Submarine Boat Carries Them Down. WAS HANDLED BY NOVICES. Too Many Persons Were Admitted on Board and She Sank Before Manholes Were Closed. The Russian sub-marine boat Delfin | sank at her moorings in the Neva, off the Baltic shipbuilding yard, with the loss of an officer, Lieutenant Cherka- soff, and 20 men. due partly to the excessive number | of the crew, mostly inexperienced men and chiefly to the unfortunate at- tempt of a man to escape while his The accident was | LARGE COAL DEAL. Tract of 600 Acres Along Wabash Railroad Bought. The largest deal in Washington county, (Pa.) coal lands for many months past has just been concluded between the Washington County Coal Company and several landholders near Patterson’s mills on the new Wabash | railroad. By this deal about 600 acres of land pass to the coal company, ad- joining the 617 already owned by that concern and giving it a frontage on the Wabash The sellers are G. L. Scott, George Cunningham, J. J. Gillespie, J. C. Gillespie and George Gillespie and the" Gillespie heirs. The price paid was in excess of $100 an acre and somewhat below the price which tue same quality of coal in that section has brought in previous sales. FIVE WERE DROWNED. | Eight Others Rescued While Heavy { | comrades were screwing down the | bay off Forty-seventh street, Brooklyn, | manhole. The officers and men detailed for sub-marine boat instruction had assem- bled at the Baltic yard, and three of- ficers decided to go down in the Del fin, although her captain was not pres- ent, relying upon the experience of her crew. A crew of novices was anx- ious to go with the tanree officers The Delfin’s nominal capacity is 10 men instead of which 32 entered the boat, bringing her manhole in danger- ous proximity to the river level. Just then a tug passed, sending a heavy As soon as boat’s interior it created a panic among the novices, and one of them tried to get out of the manhole, which the older hands were screwing down preparatory to the descent, the sub- merging compartment having already | been opened. The water rushed in and, as the submerged vessel sank like a stone, | the officers and some of the men were saved by being blown up through the | manhole by the rush of escaping air. The Delfin shortly afterward was raised. . SLOCUM VERDICT. | Warrants Issued for Arrest of Officials | and Others. The coroner’s jury in the Slocum inquest has returned a verdict find- ing “That the immense loss of life on Storm Raged. Five persons were drowned in the by the overturning of a yacht during a heavy storm that swept over New York. Eight other persons who were on the yacht at the time, were res- cued by members of the second naval battalion, who put out in whale boats from their armory at the foot of Fifty- second street. Those drowned were Mrs. Kate Clarke, of Brooklyn, wife of Peter Clarke, the owner of the yacht; her two daughters, Lizzie, aged 10, and Louise, azed 4; her 2-year-old niece, Mamie Clarke, and Lizzie Izson, 16 years old. The bodies of Mrs. Clarke and Ma- mie Clarke have been recovered, OVER A BURNING MINE. Fairmont, (W. Va.) People Make an Alarming Discovery. Smoke is rolling out in volumes from the entrance of an old coal mine that lies under Fairmont, W. Va., and which has been idle for several years, Far back in the mine it was discovered to be on fire. Several of the most ex- pensive buildings in the city are lo- cated directly over the openings where most of the coal has been taken out, and if the fire is not extinguished | soon some structures will undoubtedly | sink. Frequent crashes have been heard under the ground as if the roof of the | mine was falling in. the General Slocum was due to the| | misconduct of the directors of | Knickerbocker Steamboat Company. “That Captain Van Schaick is crim- inally responsible. “That Captain Pease, of the Grand ! Republic, as captain of the steamboat company’s fleet, is criminally re ble in that he failed to properly the Slocum with fire apparatus. “That ‘cowardly manner.’ “That the action of Inspector berg should be brougnt to the tion of the Federal authorities.” Coroner Berry has Issued warrants | equip | for the arrest of the a.rectors and of-| ficials of the Knickerbocker Steam-| boat Company. Inspector and Mate Flanagan have been held in $1,000 bail each. Captain Van Schaick the | sponsi- | Skirmishing Continues. According to reports received at Russian headquarters the Japanese in- tend to attack either Kaichow- or Ta- Tche-Kiao from two sides. Their armies continued to advance from the soutll and west. Constant skirmishing is in progress between them and the Cossacks who | are observing the movements of the Mate Flanugan acted in a | Lund- | atten- | Lundberg | | is a prisoner in the Lebanon hospi-| tal. Captain Pease may not be ar- rested until to-morrow. Bail for $5,000 each was fixed for president and retary of the steamboat company and bonds were given at once. NEWS NOTES. v The First National Bank of Sarato- ga, N. Y., has closed its doors. Two children of R. J. Harris were sec- | killed and their mother fatally injured | by a tornado near Holmesville, Neb. Starling Dunham, a negro, was lynched ot Europa, Miss., for assault- ing a white girl. Two wealthy farmers near York, Pa., went to law over a piece of mince pie. William T. Cobb was nominated for | Governor by the Maine State can convention. Five persons lost their lives epubli- | in a{ wreck on the Mexican Central railroad | near Mexico City. Justice Peter Cook of who was tried at Mercer on of extortion, was acquitted. Forty-three firemen, four of the charge smoke and gas at a fire to-day in the sub-cellar of the double five-story brick building at Nos. 483 and 485 Broad- way, New York. The Brown-Ketchum Iron company, of Greensburg, Pa., 500,000 contract for structural iron. Of this big order one-half of it goes to New. York. Governor Pennypacker laid the cor- ner-stone for the new Homeopathic State Insane asylum, near Rittersville, Pa. Harry Huistrum and Ernst berg, Swedes, aged about 35 each, were drowned In the river just above As The George A. Fu reduce its capital fi ay Hel- years ler Company wil om $20,000,000 to $3,609,000 to States Realty H. J. Nleatstons correspondent sentery. The Brake Coupler compan porated at Trenton, N. i capital of $3,000,000. The incorpora- tors are 1. B. Daily. H. C. Coughlan and J. M. Mitchell. International Aut half dozen others were as the result of the explosion of a small bundie of fireworks in the store- room of the Diamond Firework pany at No. 826 Arch street, Philadel- phia. injured late Prohibitionists of Missouri convention, nominated a com- State ticket, headed by O. J. Hill, of St. Louis, for governor, and assed a resolution indorsing General Nelson A. Miles for Prohibitionist candidate for President of the United | States. i South Sharon, | has received a $1.-! All legheny | Com- | held a} whom | will probably die, were overcome bs y y | house. | high Three persons lost their lives and a | enemy. General Kuroki’'s army has ap- peared on the road leading westward from Siuyen and in the neighboring valleys. The success of the Japanese | plan would mean that Korea will lose its value as a base, Newchwang being available for this purpose. Another Cossack detachment has fallen into an ambush of Japanese in- fantry, losing a number of men wounded. NEGRO GETS NO MERCY. Taken From a Train by a South Caro- lina Mob and Lynthed. Cairo Williams, the negro who killed Th qurston O. McGee, white, at Scran- ‘ton, Williamsburg county, S. C., last February, was taken from the Atlantic coast line train at Scranton and lynched. Williams narrowly escaped lynching immediately after the killing, and was spirited off to the penitentiary in Columbia for safe keening. Last Monday ‘Williams was brought from Columbia to Kings Tree, the county seat, for trial. The result was a mistrial, and the Sheriff thought it safer to send him back to Columbia for safe keeping. As the train ap- proact hed Scranton a mob of lynchers, with blackened faces and wearing masks flagged it and searched the train. They found Williams and or- to de- This was refused and a scuffle ensued, in which the deputies weie much bruised. The mob then took the negro away and lynched him. | dered the Sheriff’s deputies liver him up. DROWNED IN CONDUIT. Water Turned Into Pipes Where 100 Men Were at Work. Thirty-three persons were killed by an accident which took place near Spanishtown, ten miles west of Kings- ton, Jamaica, in the main cenduit of the West India Electric Company. Nearly 100 laborers had been detail- ed to remove sand from the enormous pipe, which is a mile long and conveys water from the intake on the Rio Co- bra to the turbines of the power The work had practically been completed when orders were given to allow a small quantity of water to en- ter the conduit, go} Ce accident Or. care of the manholes en- esult that 33 persons | were killed. Counsel for Canal Commission. Charles E. Magoon has been appoint- ed general nsel for the isthmian canal commissic Judge Magoon has been the law officer of the bureau of insular affairs since the office was cre- ated in 1899, and his work has been of charagter and great value. ro ch “Wrecked by Lightning. Clintonville Presbyterian rch, of Lawrence county, Pa., was aged by lightning, which struck it a heavy storm. The spire, vas 50 feet:above the roof, was ially torn down and wil] have to be replaced by a new one. The total attendance at the World's fair for the week ending Saturday, June 25, was 540,485, an increase of | over 65,000 over the previous week and 402,777 over the total attendance for | the first week. Ea os GER] PUBLI I The A the ~ Gern ence Germ centur; bune. destroy part of istence ‘mands- haps— In re offered ingenic these « such d lowing their j Ther SCOOPS: size—v coins. The: These, spot, ¢ fluid t less t gather and m The: than mouth inhala The: for let presse recipie The: hallwe brella: forth The with ! the cu comm The carpet The germ cleans foun: poses. It no of ge: is alt rate, harm. condif the c bring; public In « still 1 feet dozen one | small and s day guard thiev And Ever; preve devis An hunte germ nume the ¢ good is a A cs ing a destr was only attac “W bulb 1 He press diate an ir deep. the man trous *D tile a sp This This come in th “A or. “Tt “All this fear. 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