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REGULARS FIRE ON MILITIA
One Guardsman Killed and Three
Wounded.
FIGHT RESULT OF AN ARREST.
United States and Ohio State Officers
Immediately Take Charge
of the Situation.
Soldiers, said to belong to Troop
F, Fourth regular - cavalry, and en-
camped with the First brigade, Ohio
National Guard, attacked a patrol of
provost guards on thestreets ol Athens,
killing one, fatally injuring one, and
probably wounding two others. The
fight took place in front of Sheriff
Murphy's home, adjoining the court
{| Lackawanna Steel Company is a for-
| midable rival to the Steel Corporation
house. Fifteen minutes after the
battle on the street, the city was de-
ckared : under martial law and hun-
dreds of soldiers were sent into the |
town to restore order. |
The dead: Corporal Charles Clark, |
21 years old, member of Company D |
of the Fifth Ohio Nationa! Guard, sta-|
tioned at Cleveland, but whose home |
is at Warren. He was a machinist |
Hy occupation. The injured—Wat-/!
son N. Ohl, private, Company D, |
struck upon the head with rifle and!
skull fractured; may die. Corporal |
Albert Heald, Company D, shot
through abdomen; may die. Ser- |
geant Blessing, Company D, shot
through thighs, will die.
The trouble, according to the reports |
of all the militia officers, started over
the arrest of several regular army
privates by provost guards in the town!
of Athens, since the opening of the
camp last Tuesday.
THg. ill feeling became extremely
bitter this afternoon,when Private Kel- |
ly of the Twenty-seventh was arrested i
Fie charee of drunkenness.
|
Kelly |
resisted, emptied his revolver without |
doing any damage and was finally]
clubbed into insensibility, bound hand
and foot and taken to jail. This pre-!
cipitated the trouble.
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BATTLE WITH MOONSHINERS.
Officers Had Desperate Encounter
While Demolishing Still. |
Deputy Revenue Collector J. L. Me- |
Coy, aided by Sherman Cope and |
Henry Freeman, of Breathitt county, |
Ky., engaged in a desperate fight with |
moonshiners at the head of the Lick-|
ing river, in which McCoy received |
two loads from a shotgun, one inflict-
ing a scalp wound, and the other]
penetrating the back, some of the lead |
entering the stomach.
The revenue man and his assistants |
had been searching for the still for the |
past week and had just discovered it
at the head of a ravine, which could
only be approached from one direc-
tion. When the posse arrived, they
found it deserted, although signs of a
hasty departure were evident. The
posse proceeded to break up the still
with axes, but as soon as the first
déstructive blow had been struck a]
shot rang out and McCoy fell. He|
soon realized his wound was not a
serious one, and while giving orders
to his assistants, the second shot was
fired, which compelled McCoy to re-
treat. Henry Freeman dashed out of
the building and rushed up the hill,
whence the shots came. He ran upon
four men in ambush and began a
fusillade upon them with a revolver.
The moonshiners beat a retreat into
the woods and escaped.
Freeman returned to the still and
assisted the others in completely de-
molishing it. One of the large vats
contained 1,000 gallons of beer and |
‘another a quantity of whisky. McCoy |
reached Jackson next day where he
was given surgical treatment. :
‘ Storm in St. Louis. :
A tornado of small proportions but
of extreme fury swept down on the
residence portion of North St. Louis,
resulting ‘in the death of one person,
John Ellington, injury to probably 50
and damage to property estimated to
$100,000. Herman Sauerwine, aged
10, was, it is believed, fatally injured.
John and Elmer Duke and John
Borden were injured by an explosion
in a coal mine at Bergholz, O.
WORK OF NOVEL READER.
Chiid Maltreated and Left Tied to
a Tree in the Woods.
Gagged, blindfolded and tied to a
tree dor 15 hours, after he had been
welted with a large carriage whip
from head to foot, was the experience
of Harold Brennan, aged 7, who is
in a serious condition.
Shortly before dusk Brennan, with
the whip and a long strap, started to
bring home a cow. Nicholas L.ombel,
aged 16, a confirmed dime novel read-
er, met the boy and took him to an
isolated spot in the woods and tied
him to a tree, using the strap for the
purpose. A searching party looking
for the boy came very close to him
several times, but every time he
moved his companion belabored him
with the whip. After maltreating him
in a frightful manner, Lombel left
him. Brennan remained tied fast to
the tree until almost noon next day,
when a passing miner released him. |
A well defined vein of radio active
ore has been found on Rhyolite moun-
tain, between granite and phonolyte
walls. The mountain is north of |
Cripple Creek, beyond the recognized |
gold producing are:
Russian Gunboat Sunk.
A Russian gunboat of the Otvajni
type, struck a mine and sank off La-
toti promontory, the extreme southern
point of the Kwang Tung peninsula,
on which Port Arthur is situated,
Thursday night. The Otvajni is an
armored gunboat of 1,500 tons dis-
piacement and launched in 1894, and
carries one 9-inch gun, cne 6-inch gun
and 10 quick-firing guns. She has
€¢wo torpedo tubes, has a speed of 15
knots and carries a crew of 142 men. |
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| ducts
| orders to agents to book wire business
| Company.
river at
| P. Ganong, of Clarksdale, Miss. and
| by the department for distribution and
| condition is serious.
STEEL PRICES CUT.
Lackawanna Company Reducss Rates
on Beams and Plates.
In the iron and steel trade the out-
look became serious when it was
learned that the lLackawanna Steel
Company had entered the list as a
competitor with the United States Cor-
poration by breaking associations
prices on beams and plates. The new
‘ompany has cut podl prices to the
amount of $5 a ton.
With its great plants at Buffalo, the
in the manufacture of structural steel.
Its finishing plants have been in opera-
tion a comparatively short time, but
the effect of its competition has al-
ready been felt keenly by its rivals.
Overtures were made recently by
the beam association to the Lackawan-
na company, but the latter declined
the offer of membership on the plea
that pool agreements were no longer
kept. The association’s price of $1.60
a 100 weight at Pittsburg has been
reduced by the new company to $1.35
the cut amounting to $5 a ton.
In the trade it is now expected that
war will be opened on the Lackawan-
na Steel Company, led by the United
States Steel Corporation. The fight
will also be directed against the Re-
public Iron and Steel Company, and it
is felt that the next reduction will be
in bars, which are manufactured by
the Republic company.
According to officials of the United
States Steel Corporation, the steel
company is now in a belligerent mood.
Although the reductions in wire pro-
was given out officially, still
more extensive cuts are permitted by
the corporation. It has issued secret
at any price, in order to protect their
customers against the Pittsburg Steel
AUTO PLUNGES INTO RIVER.
Men and Women Who Occupy the
Car Rescued from Drowning.
An automobile containing three men |
and a woman plunged into the Chicago
Rush street. All four oc-
cupants were seriously injured, but
will recover. R. C. Burroughs, owner
of the car, was operating lit at the time
of the accident. With him were A.
John T. Willens and wife, of Mem-
phis, Tenn.
The chain that bars the way of ve-
hicles on the south side of the bridge
when the structure is open had not
been placed in position, and the oc-
cupants of the approaching machine
did not see their peril until within 30
feet of the open draw.
With undiminished speed the ma-
chine shot into the air 20 feet above
the water. Then the auto fell, making
a complete revolution belore it struck |
the water. Shaken from their posi-
tions in the hottom of the machine,
the three men were thrown against
the canopy top, and the woman was
hurled some distance to one side and
sank from sight ‘in the water. They
were rescued through the bravery of
Louis Mohr, a sailor, from Allegheny,
Pa. and the crew of a tug.
TO PLANT THOUSANDS OF TREES
Site Selected for Immense Fruit
Growing Project.
Within the next year the agricultur-
al department will have planted near-
ly 100,060 fruit trees near Martins-
burg, W. Va. They will cover 1,220
acres of ground, about five miles from
the city named and will include pear,
peach, apple and cherry trees. The
seeds from these trees will be used
experiments. a
The tree-planting project will be
carried out under the direction of W.
M. Scott. The. plants will be placed
| during the coming fall and the re-
mainder early next spring. Five hun- |
dred acres will be planted with peach |
trees; 500 acres with apples; 20
acres with cherries, and 200 acres with
pears. The latter will include the
Bartlett and Keifer varieties.
C. H. Felt will be manager of the!
new government orchards, which will |
be among the largest in the country. |
Jehn Hock and George Ryan were
killed by an electric light wire in
Pittsburg.
Five Injured.
Five people were injured, one prob-
ably fatal, in a head-on collision be-
tween two trolley cars on the Wake-
field branch of the Boston & Northern
Street Railway, near the line dividing |
Lynnfield and Peabody. The accident |
was due to a misunderstanding on the |
part of the crew.
Work of constructing the Panama
Canal is about to begin in earnest. At
the headquarters of the commi
Washington city large requ ions
from the isthmus for dynamite and
powder or blasting are being filled.
Father Kills Son.
A man named Sheehan, employed!
at the Curwensville, Pa., tannery, shot |
and instantly killed his son, Thomas,
in a quarrel at the supper table. The
father fired five shots, only one of|
which took effect, as the son was try-
ing to hide in the cellar. Sheehan
was arrested, making no attempt to
get away. He is 50 years old and his
son was 23 years old. The wife and |
mother is crazed with grief and her
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Soon to Dig in Earnest.
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More Mob Law in Georgia.
Foliowing close on the heels of the |
lynching of Paul Reed and William |
Cato by a mob at Statesboro, Ga., for
the murder of Henry Hodges and fam-
ily, three morc negroes were killed |
during the following night or the
early hours of the morning. An un-|
known negro was found by the road-|
side, five miles from Statesboro, his
body riddled with bullets; two ne-|
groes, one an “old-time darkey,” and |
his son, 17 years old, were shot in
their cabin.
SEPT BY A TOAAOD
Many Killed and Great Damage
in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
UNROOFED.
HIGH BUILDINGS
Storm Cut a Pathway Half a Mile
Wide Through the Closely
Built Districts.
Death to 12 persons, injuries to
many others and destruction to prop-
erty both private and public, esti-
mated in round numbers at $2,000,000,
resulted in St. Paul and Minneapolis
from a furious gale which tore down
the valley of the Mississippi at 9
o'clock Saturday night, from a point
somewhere near the confluence of the
Minnesota and .Mississippi rivers near
Ft. Snelling. At about that point the
fury of the elemeats seemingly divid-
ed and with a roar descended on the
Twin Cities and their-environs.
Beginning at a point below Ft.
Snelling there is the first known evi-
dence that the storm struck with
damaging effect. It came from the
southwest and howling in its fury up-
rooted trees and demolished buildings
in its pathway toward St. Paul. It
tore off two spans of the high bridge
as completely as if they had been un-
bolted from the rest of the structure
and carted away by workmen. The
bridge was connected with the high
bluffs at West: St. Paul, and it is 180
feet above the river. This mass ef
steel was carried to the flats below,
where flying steel girders and heavy |
planks fell on several small houses of |
the flat dwellers and crushed them]
completely. None of the occupants |
of these houses were hurt. They, |
having seen the storm coming, took
refuge in the caves in the hillside,
where they were safe.
The storm tore along the flats, up-
rooting trees on Harriett ‘island, and
then struck St. Paul at the Wabasha
street bridge.
Underneath the debris of the Tivoli
were found when the storm had pass-
ed the mangled bodies of Louis F.
Hoakanson, one of the employes in the
concert hall, and George Wwenton,
one of the audience.
The storm then rushed on to the
northeast, over the wholesale district,
and here the greatest destruction to
property was wrought. After caus-
ing havoc in St. Paul, the tornado
swept onward to Minneapolis and its
suburbs. Here, however, the de-
struction of property was not so great,
although telephone and telegraph
wires were torn down in great num-
hers.
Of the 12 fatalities four of the vic-
tims met death in St. Paul, four at
Waconia, a small station near Min-
neapolis, three at St. Louis Park, a
suburb of Minneapolis, and one at
Minneapolis Junction.
The tornado cut a pathway about a
half mile in width and eight miles in
length through the business and resi-
dence district of St. Paul, leaving
ruin and devastation in its track.
The property damage was immense,
conservative estimates placing it be-
tween $500,000" and $1,080,000.
RUSSIANS HOLD THE FORT.
Desperate Assaults Kept Up by Japs. |
Pigeon Bay Taken.
The latest reports from Port Arthur
indicate that the garrison there is
hoiding out with wonderful tenacity
in the face of persistent desperate as-
saults. The only question is how |
long any body of troops can withstafid |
such awful punishment, and whether |
the garrison in the fortress can out-!
last the Japanese ammunition and |
men. The report that 30 regiments |
have been drawn from General Oku to |
strengthen the attackers is believed |
to .indicate that the Japanese South-|
ern army is in desperate straits, and |
seems to show that the Japanese have
not enough men to prosecute simultan-!
eous campaigns of great magnitude in |
the.north and south.
The Japanese have swept the Rus-
sians from Pigeon bay and captured
the northernmost fort of the western |
line of inner defenses at Port Arthur. |
The Russian artillery prevents the
|
| Japanese from occupying the fort on
Pigeon bay.
DEFEATED BY REBELS.
Fight Between Paraguay Army and
the Revolutionists.
An artillery engagement has been
fought between the San Jocomino bat- |
tery, of the Paraguayan army, and a
body af revolutionists, in which the!
latter succeeded in dislodging the
guns of the government force. The
losses on either side are not stated. |
There has been no bombardment of!
Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, |
since last reports. |
The insurgents have established a|
provisicnal government with the capi- |
tal at Villa del Pilar, 112 miles from |
Asuncion, and have nominated Gener-|
al Ferreira, their leader, for President,
and Gonzales Novero for Vice Presi-|
dent. Four secretaries also have
been named. One of these, Deputy
Soler, has started for Rio Janeiro and
other capitals to endeavor to secure |
the recognition of the revolutionists as
belligerents by the various govern-!
ments. This is taken tc indicate that
rapid operations by the insurgents
have been impeded through the non-
bomb nent of the capital, owing to
the intervention of the diplomatic
corps at Asuncion.
NEWS NOTES.
gements have been made for
Senator Platt, D. B. Hill and Timothy
Woodruff to speak at a county fair at
Depos N.Y
The United States monitor Monad-
nock and two torpedo boat destroyers
have been ordered to be ready to pro-
tect the neutrality of Shanghai.
The United States government has
again formally proposed to Russia the
opening of negotiations for the un-
restricted recognition of American
passports.
| protected cruisers Chitose and
JAP FORCES DRAWING CLOSER.
Shells Set Fire to Buildings Making
It Extremely - Dangerous to
Remain in City.
The Mikado has demanded the sur-
render of Port Arthur and agrees to
remove all non-combatants, but the
Russians have refused to accede to
the proposition.
According to the correspondent of
the London Daily Telegraph at Chi-
fu refugees arriving there bring news |
of a serious condition of affairs at
Port Arthur. They say that Japanese
shells have ignited lighters in the
docks which contained supplies of
coal, resulting in a terrific conflagra-
tion. Many of the buildings have
been demolished and the hospitals are
crowded.
According to news received at Chi-
fu the Japanese line has been drawn
still closer around Port Arthur. The
right wing of the Japanese line has
penetrated to the vicinity of ‘Pigeon
bay, while the center has moved for-
ward from Paling-Ching, which is
south of Shuslyen and two miles north |
of the town.
Passengers on board of the steamer
Decima, which anchored off Port Ar-
thur witnessed the bombardment from
Pigeon “bay. The bombardment be-
gan at midnight and lasted until
morning. The Russians did not re-
ply to the Japanese fire. At some
distance out five Japanese warships
were guarding the harbor.
BURNED AT THE STAKE.
Mob Overpowers Guards and Lynches
Condemned Negroes.
With clothing saturated with kero-
| sene, writhing and twisting in their
agony, screaming to heaven for the
mercy that the mob would not show,
Paul Reed and William Cato, negroes,
two of the principals in the murder
and burning of Henry Hodges, his
wife and three of their children, six
miles from Statesboro, Ga., three
weeks ago, were hurned at the stake
Tuesday.
A determined mob charged on the
court house, overpowered the military
guard, secured Cato and Reed, who
had been found guilty after a legal
trial, and sentenced to be hanged,
took them two miles from Statesboro
and there burned them alive.
The climax came quickly and unex-
pectedly. The forenoon had passed
quietly, the trial of Paul Reed, the
ringleader in the murder, being con-
cluded and a verdict of guilty render-
ed. Both he and Cato, found guilty
the day before, were sentenced to
hang September 9.
DAVIS NOTIFIED.
Democratic Nominee for Vice Presi-
dent Accepts - Nomination.
Henry G. Davis was formally noti-
fied at White Sulphur Springs of and
formally accepted his nomination by
the Democratic party for Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. The cere-
monies took place in the open air in
the grounds of Green Brier Sulphur
Springs Hotel, and were marked by
simplicity in every detail.
Mr. Davis was escorted to the flag-
draped platform at 1:30 o’clock in the
afternoon of the 17th inst. by Repre-
sentative John Sharp Williams, of
Mississippi. An invocation by the
Rt. Rev. Dr. W. L. Gravatt, of the
Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia
preceded Mr. Williams, who occupied
an hour in speaking.
It took Mr. Davis 10 minutes to read
his formal acceptance, but he pre-
faced this with a heart-to-heart talk
of like duration to the several ‘thou-
sand friends and neighbors who were
gathered under the trees as his au-
dience. Senator Daniel, of Virginia,
was forced to acknowledge a demand
for a speech, but declined.
Two Days’ Attack.
Emperor Nicholas has received the
following message from Lieutenant-
General-Stoessel, commander of the
military forces at Port Arthur, dated
August 16. “The Japanese made a
two days’ attack on our position in
the Uglovaia mountains near Louisa
bay. All their attacks were repulsed.
The Uglovaia, Vysokaia and Division-
aia mountains remain in our hands.
| The enemy’s losses were very great.
NOVIK DISABLED.
Russian Cruiser Run Ashore After
Fight With Jap Ships.
After a severe engagement with the
shima, the greyhounds of the Japanese
navy, the fleet Russian cruiser Novik
has been vanquished. The fight oec-
curred Sunday.
in a sinking condition, was run ashore
in Korsakovsk harbor on the island of
Sakhalien.
Squadron Leaves Smyrna.
Rear Admiral Jewell,
the American European
nouncing the departure of his com-
mand, comprising the Olympia, Balti-
more and Cleveland, from Smyrna for
Gibraltar. This action is taken on
the instruction from Minister Leish-
man.
The Pallada Sunk.
Official advices received at Wash-
ington state that the Japanese com-
mander-in-chief reports that the Rus-
sian cruiser Pallada was sunk by
Japanese torpedo boats on the night
of August 10.
Herreros Defeated.
Four columns of German troops at-
tacked the Herreros near Hamakari,
German Southwest Africa, on
night of August 11. The fighting con-
tinued all day August 12. The na-
tives were defeated with heavy losses. |
Five German officers, including Count
von Arnim and 19 men, were Killed.
Six officers, among them Baron von
Watter and 52 men,
The natives, who numbered
in the Waterberg mountains,
Tsu- |
After it the Novik, |
commanding |
squadron, |
{ cabled to the Navy Department an-
WAR SURNORS MEET AN
Veterans from North and South
Celebrate in Boston.
GREAT THRONG VIEWED PARADE.
Interesting Features Marked
the First Day of the En-
campment.
Many
A reunion of Grand Army veterans,
an exchange of happy recollections
and a fraternal mingling of Confeder-
ates and Unionists, marked the open-
ing in Boston of the thirty-eighth na-
tional encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic. A parade of
the Union ex-prisoners of war, blue
jackets from the United States war-
ships and others marked the opening
of the convention, together with its
| numerous subsidiary organizations,
including the Women’s Relief Corps,
the Ladies of the G. A. R., and the
sons and Daughters of Veterans.
At night, in historic Faneuil Hall,
a score of former Contederate officers
gathered around the banquet board as
the guests of Edward W. Kingsley
Post of Boston, as did also Lafayette
Post, of New York, and here were
enunciated declarations that the North
and South are strongly and insepara-
bly welded with the past strife for-
gotten. .
In the striking pageant of the day
marched survivors of three wars, the
Mexican War, the Civil War, repre-
sented by the United States ex-pris-
oners, and the Spanish War veterans.
The parade, composed of about six
thousand men, was reviewed by Mayor
Collins, at city hall, and Governor
| Bates, Senator Lodge and former
Secretary of the Navy John D. Long,
at the State house.
The grand parade on Tuesday was
witnessed by half a million people.
About 25,000 veterans were in line.
Five and one-half hours were re-
quired for the parade to pass a given
point, and it was a severe strain on
the old soldiers, but generally they
bore the hardship well. More than
three-score of them dropped from the
ranks from exhaustion and heat pros-
tration and were cared for at the field
and civic hospitals.
At the end of the route Commander-
in-chief John C. Black, of the Grand
Army of the Republic, held his review.
Several former Confederate officers
occupied places in the stand and the
preeminently picturesque feature of
the parade was the “Living Flag”
formed by 2,000 children dressed vari-
ously in red, white and blue, and
seated near the reviewing stands.
Every soldier of the marching army
raised his hat as he passed this pic-
ture, whlile the children joined in
“Dixie” and the “Battle Hymn of the
Republic.”
Gen. Wilmon W. Blackmar, of Bos-
ton, was elected commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic
by acclamation at the closing session
of - the National encampment to-day,
and Denver was selected as the place
for the encampment of 1905. The
other National officers elected were:
Senior vice commander-in-chief, John
R. King, Washington; junior vice com-
mander, George W. Patten, Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn.; surgeon general, Dr. War-
ren N. King, Indianapolis; chaplain-in-
chief, Rev. J. H. Bradford, Washing- |
ton.
Gen. Blackmar made the following
appointments: Adjutant general, John
E. Gilman, Massachusetts; quarter-
master general, Charles Burrows, New
Jersey; assistant quartermaster gen-
era] and custodian of the records, J.
Henry Holcomb, Pennsylvania; assis-
tant adjutant general, E. B. Stillings,
Massachusetts.
The: G. A. R. convention was ad-
journed sine die shortly after 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
principal business was the passage of
the resolutions declaring that any
modification of the voting franchise
should be along lines of “Intelligence
and fitness and not along lines of race
| and color,” and disapproving of the
admission of Sons of Veterans to
secret G. A. R. meetings, and the lay-
ing on the table of a resolution regard-
ing the proposed fraternal convention
of the survivors of the Union and
Confederate armies.
At the Faneuil Hall dinner, Gover-
nor Bates gave the welcome of the
Commonwealth, and several Confed-
erate officers declared for the spirit |
of unity between the North and
South.
Rurik’s Officers Lost.
The captain and all the. superior of-
ficers of the Russian cruiser Rurik,
| which was sunk by Vice Admiral
Kamimura August 14, were lost.
Twenty-three of her officers were
saved. Forty-four of the wounded
men from the Rurik have been taken
to the naval hospital at Sasebo.
Labor Leader Indicted.
The Grand Jury handed down an
indictment for extortion against Phil- |
ip Weinseimer, the leader of the
strike of the Building Trades alliance
in New York. Weinseimer is charged
with extorting $2,700 from George
Essig, a plumber.
Was Stabbed to Death.
For rebuking a crowd of Italians
who insulted him and two women
friends, Jeremiah Gorman, a popular
young man of Mahanoy City, Pa., was
stabbed in the breast. He died at
| the hospital.
Coroner Ordered Arrests.
the | dict,
were wounded. |
about |
6,000 fighting men, under old Chief |
Samuel Maherero, were concentrated |
At Defiance, O., the coroner’s ver-
fixing the blame for Killing of
three persons last Friday by the colli-
sion of a switching train and a trolley
car, was made public. The Peoples
Gas and Hiectric Company was made
responsible for the crime. Warrants
for the arrest of Motorman Andrew
Dean and Conductor George May, on
charges of manslaughter, were im-
mediately issued and they were ar-
rested.
FOUR KILLED AT CROSSING.
Train and Street Car Col-
lide in Chicago.
Four people were killed, another fa-
tally hurt and 23 severely injured in
a collision between an express train
on the Chicago Great Western Rail-
road and a train of three trolley cars
bound for the Hawthorne race track.
The dead are: Mrs. Frances Raut-
man; William Irving, died in hospital
after amputation of leg; Mrs. Jere-
miah Shuckrow, Danville, Ill; uniden-
tified woman, about 30 years of age;
Michael Ryan, motorman, had his
skull fractured. :
Express
The accident occurred at the cross-:°
ing of Forty-eighth avenue and the
Chicago Great Western tracks. The
train was coming into the city and
according to some witnesses of the ac-
cident, was running at a high rate
of speed. Others, with the train
crew, declare that it was not going
over 20 miles an hour. The trolley
train, in charge of Conductor W. H.
Condon and Motorman Michael Ryan,
approached the crossing at a rapid
rate, just as the train came around
a sharp curve. Ryan put on the
brakes in the effort to stop his car,
but the brakes refused to work, and
with undiminished speed the motor
car ran upon the tracks at the same
time that the locomotive came up.
AMALGAMATION ARRANGED.
International Association of Machin-
ists Formed.
An amalgamation of the member-
ship of the International Association
of Machinists and the International
Association of Allied Metal Mechanics
was arranged at a conterence between
representatives of those two organiza-
tions in Cleveland. The union will
become effective October 31. The
name of the new organization will be
the International Association of Ma-
chinists. Pending the formal merg-
ing of the two associations, charters
granted to new organizations will be
issued at the Washington headquar-
ters of the International Association
of Machinists. The president and
secretary of the two bodies will ar-
range the details of the union. The
two organizations will have a com-
bined membership of 100,000, making
it the second largest body of, organized
labor of a single craft, in the United
States.
1,000 HORSES FOR MANASSAS.
Largue Number of Mounts to be Used
in Army Maneuvers.
A thousand horses will be required
for use in the army maneuvers at
Manassas next month. They will
be used in transportation of supplies,
mounts for officers and in many otner
ways.
In the maneuvers arranged nearly
30,000 men will participate, and they
will be on a scale of actual war.
The engineers will go to the camps
fully equipped for bridging streams,
and in this work will use fourteen six-
line teams. For the medical corps
44 mounts will be required, 38 ambu-
lances, six escort wagons and a pack
train of 12 mules. This pack train
will be in the nature of an experiment
in the transportation of medical and
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The total attendance at the World's
Fair to date was 7,000,000.
Military boundaries have almost
| stopped the growth of Paris.
A cloudburst at Globe, Ariz., result-
ed in several deaths and the destruc-
tion of much property.
At Indianapolis Frank L. S. Feen
was killed in his auto by being struck
by a passenger train at a grade cross-
ing.
Clara Bourland, aged 16, was killed
at Madisenville, Ky., by lightning
while talking over a telephone dur-
ing a thunder storm.
William Poorman, of Canton, a safe
maker, about 48 years old, committed
suicide by shooting himself in Nimi-
silla park. A family survives him.
A trade and labor assembly of
Coshocton, has decided against a la-
bor day celebration. Its members ex-
pect to go to Newark on that date.
A telegram from Liverpool says that
the American line announces that the
steerage rate to Philadelphia will be
$7.50, instead of $10.
The strike of the miners of the
Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Company,
at Amsterdam, O., has been declared
off, and the eviction notices have been
withdrawn.
Kansas, having ceased to send out
calls for harvest hands, is getting
ready to offer inducements to thou-
sands of men to go there this fall to
pick apples.
Employes at the Baltimore and Ohio
shops at Connellsville, Pa, were ter-
rorized when a meteor fell slanting
over the yards and landed with a
great splash in the Youghiogheny
river.
Policeman Fv
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were attemptin
“Paddy” White
of New Castle, Pa.
‘What is thought to have been an at-
tempt to assassinate George Wine,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Akron
Belting Company, occurred when two
shots were fired through the window
at him while he was seated at his
Skidmore was
John Atkinson
ied while they
arrest Rosewell
bton, a suburb
desk. The bullets narrowly missed
his head. Mystery surrounds the
shooting. The police believe that the
shots were fired by some recently dis-
charged employe,
Judge Parker Will Speak.
After a lengthy conference between
former Judge Parker and a number of
his political advisers, it was announec-
ed that the Democratic candidate for
President would make speeches dur-
ing the early part of the campaign at
Chicago, Indianapolis and Milwaukee.
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Merrill, which has
struction for twelve
completed.
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