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Lk BLE Tl 0 ne F TRI ALE RESULT OF POLITICAL FiGHT.
» - d Li Relative of Foire Victim Declares
—_— Facial Resemblange Led to
Argentine Will Not Submit to] Fatal Mistake.
1sdowne, aged 27, form
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Smolensk-Like Tactics. inthe Idterfial Ravenuo
Eri nt of the evinaton (Ky.)
SURPRISED BY TROO dragged himself several hun-
atter receiving a fatal stab
= — the heart, and died soon
Insurgents Are Defeated and Their the threshold of his
/ y | I street, Covington. He
Vessels Captured by Uruguay- { jroet 2
rar y \rugus) that John Lieberth,
an Government.
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erth,
Collector
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Sf ~ma iia . | of Internal Revenue ia the Covington |
Aes osm : district and veteran Republican. ieader,
Revolutionary vessels are extreme-| paq stabbed him.
ly active. ' They are carrying men, | John I.eberth was arrested within
horses and arms, and searching all| gn hou r, charged with the murder.
passenger boats. _ An Argentine war-| pro o lienlv declines to discuss the
ship threatened to fire on the revolu- matter, further than to declare that
Uonary squadron, if it intercepted | pe did not cut or stab anybody. The
vessels flying ‘the flag of Argentine. ! y, etd m is a son of Mrs. Lansdowne,
A great sensation has been “n= waars puhlic librarian in
created here, owing to the surpris- COvinetan. and his father was promi-
ing, by troops of the government of pen: in politics and postmaster at |
Uruguay, of a Uruguayan insurrec- Grayson, Ky. Wallace Lansdowne, a
tionary force numbering 180 men, brother, is a storekeeper gauger in|
fully armed and equipped, under tne intérnal revenue district. About |
Colonel Pampillon, on a steamer on |
the Uruguayan coast but in Argentine
territory.
President Ordonez, of Uruguay, had
been warned that preparations were
activity’,
a year ago Wallace fiied with Presi-
dent Roosevelt charges of
in politics
George R. Lieberth,
are now being investigated by a gov-|
| Trades
“pernicious |
against Collector
and the charges | €Bce.
| the packers will
being made for an insurrectionary ex- crnment officer from Washington.
pedition and despatched two forces yyajlace Lansdowne said of the mur- |
with armed vessels to waten for the ger.
expedition. At night the government “It is all a horrible mistake. 1 am
the
troops attacked
insurrec:ionists
satisfied the intention was to kiil me |
| quarreled while engaged
with a continuous and merciless fire. | pecause of the charges I made against |
Many of the latter swam ashore, but | Collector Lieberth. My brother |
eight badly wounded, were -captured.| john and I resembled each other |
The fate of the others is not known. atly in facial expression and in
ary vessel was also e.”
captured and with ii a considerable Collector Lieberth deeply deplored
quantity of rlegraph’ apparatus. | the murder, saying: “My brother |
Diplomatic relations between Argen- has been in poor condition mentally
tina and Uruguay have become much fo; some time, and only shrdiushrdiu
strained owing to this incident. { for some time and I asked the police
GETS DIVORCE IN HOUR’S TIME.
4 : idan tid be found.
Mrs, Felzer Given ,Hern., Child and .gowne's
$20,000 Cash. . ta ing
In a suit which occupied less than |
an Loup fromathe time of filing, Mrs. |
Mary E.. Fetzer, of tChicago, was -di- |.
vorced by Judge Brentano from John
C. Fetzer, financier and managing re-
loaded his
i him
0 a sanitarium.
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tha
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he could be
He could not
1 am satisfied that Lans-
charges against
to do with the crime.
me had noth-
Son Fins Down Assassin and Shoots
ceiver for thé Chicage. Union Traction | - Him as [He Passes by on
Company. Lhe charge brought by | Train. .
Mrs, Fetzer was desertion. Mrs. Fel-| gam watson, of Bluefield, W. Va.,
zer was given $20,000 cash and the | ¢pot and killed Frank Underwood, a |
husband agreed -to pay her $15,000 pani pos He fled to the mountains
more within five years:: Mrs. Fetzer | 5,4 was foll owed by a posse of eizht |
was given éustody of-her 10-year-old 'p..pn he by a son ' of Underwood.
daughter. ‘the couple was married mney got within shooting distance of
19 years ago in Ottumwa, Ia. They | {yo pygitive twice and each time |
lived together until May, 1902, when | Young Underwood fired at him, but
they separated. | missed. Young Underwood noted |
~: we { carefully the direction Watson took,
STARVING IN Tug FLOODS. | left. kh ‘companions and walked across
Five Thsusand Persons Without Food the mountain to Switchback. He had
in Western Districts.
Word from Reno, Nev. states that |
cloud bursts and washouts in Tono-
pan and Carson and Colorado Rail-
roads are the most disastrous in the
history of these districts. People a
Tonrajzah and Goldfields are on the
verge of Siaryanion, They are being
temporarily relieved by the rushing
in of rin A via Croon Springs, Sil-
| mined
dale and
si
Young
son boarded a freight
was riding on top of a gon-
dola as the train was nearing Switch-
rwood ca
Unde
to shoot Watson on sight.
1
ght of him as the train passed.
aim at Watson and pulled
A brakeman looked around
né to see Watson fall headlong
the bottom of the car.
and the train +
ime up,
gun with buckshot deter- |
Wat-
rain at Coal-
ught
He
the
He
climbed
turned Watson over and
ver Peak and Candelaria by wagon d the engineer
trains. Ga : | ped. Underwood ca
But this js noly temporary, and as | ihe car
over 5,000 people must be fed in tl *] abot Bt vow
iffo to A tre i , as- Feadre Seas oT
different camps, extraord nary meas but the shot was too s
ures must be taken for their relief. hays killed
Food supplies are practically exhaust- Wats so
vaison so
edi: No lives have been .lost. |
St. Petersburg Builds Hopes. l
The latest information from the Engl
front is summed up in a dispatch from | E
Caifu, showing that the Japanese ir
the assaults on-Port Arthur August 21
and 22 were again repulsed i
heavy losses. The feeling grows
that (he ferocity of the repeate
iarks and the defeats must be
ually dissipating the energy of th
siegers, and har the Japanese
find that ‘they
on the stones of id t
pears that the balancé of s
the East is thoroughly upset pendn
the arrival there of the Baltic squad-
ron, which, with the. exception of the
battleship Orel, left Kronstadt cn a |
10-Jays’ cruise.
At the business
Ringgr'd cavalry at
Frederickt ow, it was decided to hold
next year’s af Washington, Pa.
This year's fe Sviiis ended with «
big camp fire on the public square.
tr Wi
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the
meeting of
its. reunion ‘at
General Beaver Sezioas fy 1. BURY
General James A. Beaver, former :
Governor of Pennsylvania and at pres- Bandits
Minister
you and I am glad
twice before,
iL Now 1
of it.”
’ i! Deliver Orders from Rus’
ia to ‘Commander of Smolensk.
Balfour announced
gnimerce.
ted
to
jvernment’
ine
Was
*n
‘gover
S$
n
e
ment has or-
{rem the squadron
pe; without de-
ian volunteer
Peters-
or-
that
‘with
and
them the
eriere
premier
was
appoint-
of the
The
2 meet-
by the
of tne
ded by rep-
others in-
r East.
at ¢
FiLIPINOS ALIVE.
been
ent a Judge of the Superior Court, Cz
dangerously ill at his home in Be! etail ©
fonte, Pa. Last Saturday General Has
Beaver fel] downstairs and injured the iol l.
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Ambuzh Constabulary, Killing
ptain Barrett.
native contabulary
ambushed
eyte by a superior force of
of
on the
stump of his amputated leg close to Captain H. Barrett, of the
the body. Abscesses formed and Gen- killed in the fight-
eral Beaver’s condition grew worse. jpg There ta been trouble in the
The family admit that s resul's | nroyince of Misamis, island of Min-
may ensue. danao, where bandits have looted sev-
men erd] towns. The native authorities
Will Fight Into Winter. | were defied and Pablo Mercado and
According to the correspondents of
the London Daily Chronicle with Gen-
eral Kuroki’s army, the japanese are
not likely %o retire into winter quar-
family
with t
Th
I were kidnapped.
do was accused of being too friendly
he Americans.
ree Chinese
stores
Merca-
were burned.
ters. Rather than to thus give the | pg,. natives were murdered, three of
Russians a breathing space they will | them being buried alive. Colonel
prosecute a vigorous winter campaign. | 3-hord, of the constabulary, is now
The correspondent says that the Jap-| 5p the trail of the bandits. Lieuten-
anese are accumulating immense
stores, ammunitiecn and guns at Hai-
cheng.
Another Steamer Stopped. :
News has reached England that the |
Russian auxiliary cruiser Ural stopped
and examined the British collier Pen- |
Pen-
ant Thornton,
met death by drowning near Dagupin,
of the constabulary, has
)rplau
Or Lae auitual
pration Of ile ound
and people assembled at
ome,
nome picnic and
im puder,
Ling ol tue
calenick on August 12. The oh Datong: fo dic He
calenick was bound from Cardiff for
Malta with coal for the British navy
- $50,000 for Missions.
Panic at Race Track The wui of Isaac Newton Topl ite,
By the explosion of some dynamite who died recently at Syracuse, N. Y,
caps and in the panic that followed it, 1 in Tigye pu) 0. The
three perscns were injured at the a at pies
Hawthorne race track at Chicago. It| slonary Wo! rod cr unocr
is supposed that the caps were thrown | tne direction files laches
on the floor of the betting ring with | of different ons
the idea of creating a panic, during |
which the cash boxes of the book-
makers might be robbed. An attempt
was made to rob one bookmaker, but
it failed. None of the injured are
seriously hurt.
Tou a
one
KILLS MURDERER OF HIS FATHER |
Packers Believe There Wili Be a
Stampede for Old Jobs.
NON-UNIONIST KILLS
IKERS WISH 70 CONFER,
ANOTHER. |
| and
Prominent Officials of Union Claim |
the Trouble Can Be Settled in
Fifteen Minutes.
Joth’ the union officials and: the
packers believe there will be sensa-
tional development in the great strike
of the butcher workmen. After five
hours’ disscussion by the executive
board of a line of policy to be followed
in asking the packers for a confer-
ence
Whatever
the butcher
ly be
plan is decided upon by
workmen will undoubted-
concurred in by the
conference i;oard.
aiterward President
ask the packers for a confer-
The answer to the request
will be the critical point in the strike.
The union officials believe that ‘if the
Imme-
diately Donnelly
will
RAINS BELIEVE
Potato Crop Threatened by Rot and
Blight.
crop report,
Bureau
The drouth prevailing in
the central valleys in the
been relieved by ¢
drouth continues
Western Tennessee, and is
tobe) felt in the Middle
Gulf States and over a considerable
part of ‘Texas. The Central and
Northern Rocky nountain istricts
the North Pacific coast region
are aiso suffering from drou.h, the
prevalence of forest fires being re
ported from Idaho and Montana
The part of the week was toc
cool in the rake region and unseason
ably low temperatures occurred in
the Northern Rocky mountain dis
tricts and upper Missouri valley on
August 21 and 22, but elsewhere east
of the Rocky mountains the tempera
DROUGHT.
The
the
weekly issued’ by
follows:
portions of
previous
bundant
in Cen
Weather’ is as
has
, but
and
Ring
week
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latter
i ture has been favorable.
Allied |
requests are granted the strike can
minutes. None of
discuss the question,
contenting themselves with the state-
be settled in 15
ment: “We will cross the bridge
when we come to it.”
Two negro non-union workmen,
in a game
of craps at the Schwartzchild & Sulz-
berger * plant and Leonard
killed Thomas Taylor. He escaped.
Same One Blundered.
In a
heavily loaded accommodation trains
on the Wheeling branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, opposite Hays
station, Pa., just across the Monon-
gahela river from the Glenwood yards,
man was seriously 4njured, and
may die, three others were badly hurt,
or
while a, score
{ hurt.
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1S GRATEFUL.
Thanks Americans for
! Given in Aid of Irish Cause.
John BE. Redmond, the Irish leader,
and those who came to America with
him, Captain A." J. C. Donelan,” Pat-
rick O’Brien, Connor O'Kelly
REDMOND
Mrs. Redmond, were tendered a re-
ception in Carnegie Hall, New York,
by the New York municipal council
of the United Irish League of Amer-
ica. Ten thousand dollars
either subscribed or paid in cash to-
ward the fund for carrying on the
| Irish movement. Mr. Redmond said
lin part:
“It is now two years since I appeal-
Americans for aid and for
what you have already done I have
nothing but thanks. The new
of conspiracy whereby the Irish
land
lords sued the holders of the
has been met, thanks to the aid of the
American fund. Never again will
free speech or trial by jury be denied
to us or arbitrary imprisonment be -
flicted.”
How Russians Were Driven Back.
“The Russians defending f.iao-
Yang have retired upon the town,
the Newchwang corres spondent of Lhe
Daily Express wires. "his is the
result of the retreat from Liandian-
sian. After a reconnaissance in force
by the Japanese they cecided that a
general advance should bé made.
more were slightly |
Contributions |
Duncan |
El | interrupted harvesting.
head-on collision between two |
and |
were |
form |
land |
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So |
the. reserve divisions which occupied |
Liandiangian and supp orted the recon-
1aizsance were ordered to the firing |
line. They made a forced march and |
the -Rus§ian front was attacked in |
places. The Japanese infantry
under the cover of a tre-
artillery fire and attacked
with great courage
advan ced
mendous
the Russian line
Cowboys Start Fatal Affray. °*
In a shoc ting affray at Silver City,
i eto Ro grigues
N.
was. killed, y
fatally and Patric
Chenoweth badly
who is foreman the
cattie outfit, in an effort to influence
several of § cophoys to return to
the ranch, became involved in a fight
which started the shooting.
Believed from Charlestown.
has been found in the park
American Falls with a card
on which was written,
“Goodby, world; water won't tell,
822. The police learned that the
key belonged to the Prospect House.
It fitted the door of a room engaged
by L. M. Halery of Charlestown, W.
Va. who mysteriously disappeared.
Tin Plate Millis Closes Down.
11alf of the 30 hot mills of the She-
nango tin plate plant has closed down
for an indefinite pericd. The others
will also stop. It is unofficially re-
ported that lack of orders caused the
suspension, which is also due in part
to scarcity of steel billets.
Nunn nt Howard
inded. Nunn,
“Diamond A”
WO
of
Suicide
A key
near the
attached
Making Cruisers More Formidable.
Luxury will be sacrificed for formid-
ability in the new
authorized by the last Congress. The
| water tight sub- division will be made
complete and there will be no piercing
of bulkheads by veatilating pipes or
other openings. This change fis in
the effort further to protect the ves-
sels frcm the damaging effects of tor-
pedo attack.
Strikers Lose Support.
| the
“num
| threughout
The principal corn States have ex-
perienced a week of favorable condi
tions, abundant rains having fallen
the corn belt, except in
portions of Ohio and Nebraska. Corn
has made satisfactory progress in the
States of the Missouri valley and is
generally improved in the Centra!
Mississippi and Ohio valleys, al
though a considerable part of the
crop in the Ohio valley has been in
jured beyond recovery. In the Mid:
dle Atlantic States and lower Mis
souri valley early corn is now prac
tically matured. Spring wheat harv
est is generally finished, except in
North Dakota and Northern Minneso
ta, where rust is continuing to cause
great ‘injury. Rains in Nerth Da
kota in the latter part of the week
_ Harvesting
is also nearly finished on the North
Pacific coast.
The reports respecting potatoes in
dicate that a good ¢rop is generally
promised in the more important pota
to producing States. Drouth has
impaired the outlook in portions'of the
Ohio valley, however, and rot and
blight are increasing in Pennsylvania.
Throughout the central’ valleys and
Middle Atlantic States the soil is in
fine condition for fall plowing, which
work is ‘in general progress and is
well advanced in some places.
NICHOLAS IS MERCIFUL.
Corporal Punishment Is Abolished in
Russia.
inner Nicholas’ manifesto on
the birth of an heir to the throne.
abolishes corporal punishment among
the rural classes and for first offences
among the sea and land forces; re
mits arrears owing to the state for
the purchases of land and other di
rect imposts; set apart $1,500,000 from
the state funds for the purpose of
forming an inalienable fund for the
benefit of landless people of Finland;
grants amnesty to those Finlanders
who have emigrated without authori-
zation; remits the fines imposed up:
on the rural and urban communes of
Finland, which refused to submit ta
military conscription in 19062 and
1903, and also remits the fines im-
i Done upon the Jewish communes in
of Jews avoiding military
The manifesto provides for a gen
eral reduction in sentences for com
INOR law pees while a general am-
nesty is rded in the case of al
political es with the exception
of. those in whi jon murder has been
done. i 3
"AT BCTTOM OF SEA. y
Exciting Experience of Crew ,of New
Government Submarine Boat.
While the submarine torpedo bcal
| Shark was being prepared for a sub
run near Brentons reef light
ship Monday afternoon, she sank tc
bottom in 100 feet of water anc
remained there for some time before
the crew could move her. The cause
of the sinking is not known.
Lieutenant Nelson was in charge o
he boat, with Lieutenant Shepley anc
a crew of he men dis
played no but tried
of experiments before the
conld be raised. Finally, afte:
they succeeded by use of
in bringing her te
merged
excitement,
ber
boat
40 minutes,
the hand pumps
the suriace.
Boston Wool Market.
The market for wool maintains ¢
firm tone, but the demand rules quie!
| under a light demand from manufact
armored cruisers |
| striking
urers. The strength from the mar
ket comes from its statistical position
hence, the result of the sales of wool
ens will have much to do in deter
the future price of wools
Ohio delaines hold firm at a cut 3¢
to 361%; unwashed Ohio delaines
251%; to 286. Territory wools firm
The scoured basis for fine is 55 tc
57c, with fine medium at 53 to 55
One quarter blood unwashed firm, 2§
@29c for Ohio, three-eights blood 2714
@28c; one-half blood 27@27%c. Mich
igan and Missouri one-quarter bloods
about 27@271,,
mining
Negroes for Iron Mills.
For the first time in the history of
the iron business in the Mahoning
valley, negroes have been imported
into the valley to take the place of
white men who have worked for
years in the iron mills. The men were
imported to take the place of the
Amalgamaied men at the
Girard plant of the American Steel
| Hoop Company.
The members of the Chicago Teams- |
ters’ Union who have been on strike
for several weeks in the effort to aid
striking buichers the
yards held a meeting to determine
whether or not they should withdraw
from the strike. It was d
the teamsters as a body would
to give any further assistance
the at
refuse
to the
stock |
cided that]
strike, and the question of remaining
on strike, or of going back (lo work]
was left to the vote of the various lo-|
| cal unions.
| ing all their attention on Port
Japanese Repulse Confirmed.
According to the latest information
from Port Arthur a furious Japanese
attack throughout August 19 and Au
gust 20 was repulsed with terrific
loss. There has been no serious fight
ing in this region, but there has beer
a small skirmish at Anshanshan
where Japanese troops attacked 2
Russian outpost and were driven of]
with a loss of six killed. The mili
tary inactivity is credited here to thé
fact that the Japanese are concentrat:
Arthur
‘it was when a
[ DEATH VISITS PICNIC GROVE.
Four Killed and Many Injured by Fall-
RUSGIAN FLAG LOWERED
ing Trees. Duri na Terrific Storm.
ETT X | A most disa = Ss Storm, with loss
of Ty passed over cen-
~ Tro, | of lite and pro; SD ;
Czar Orders Disarmment ‘of T wo | tral Chautauqua coy, New York.
Warships at Shanghai. | The very center of if was in the pic-
nic grove, near thet viilage of BStock-
= | ton, where 5,000 persons were attend-
OUT OF THE T TILL THE END} the a 1] town picn Light-
i 1g was incessant, rain 1 in tor:
HE ents, trees were blown do houses
Undsr International Law They Must, were unrgoled and in the picnic grove
; : #1 "3 where nien, women and Fares were
emain n "Port ® Until the Ey fa >
Rem : | nga ied in an effort at protection,
war. is Over. | yirnes many nee Two
—— rigs were crushed to the
1 : it Pe tal dling recs. .
The ‘eorrespondent of th When the storm struck the grove
Times at Shanghai in a
August 24, says that
g the utmost
orders from there was no
ad
ea
Emperor Nicholas have been conveyed! place of eas were scream-
to Captain Reitzenstein commanding ing and ih ying, while men
9 vi ire ns ne ASS EG en TIS LD 3 de ‘themselves with
Lim forthwith to disarm the cruiser! terror as they made repeated efforts
Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer tg remove, the dead and injured irom
Grozovoi and that “the flags on noth among the fallen timbers. « Several
vessels were lowered at once. | horses were kiiled outright, ne effort
THe fn a thur his being made to release the injured an-
The fina) assault on Port gfchur Hs imals until the men and women who
Imminent. Hundreds of Japangsep, pg’ yaopinhre were cared for; | Phy-
guns coniinue to pour a destructive] siclune were on the giound ani every.
ire into the city and harbor, along, thing possible was done for the relief
the lines of forts and entrenchaments,| of the “injured.
preparatory for the infantry assault. al
It is evident that the Russian lines | NEWS NOTES.
have been weakened and partly pene-|
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trated : in the viemay of Aniseman) Magistrate Richard C. Folk, of Sum-
ond Jisoshan forte Tn Se ne ter; S..,C., was: shot and kilied by
of | Russian deienses Immediately, oo, ney’ gnpervisor #W. HH. Seale at
about the harbor are within range of Providence. &. ©.
the Japanese guns. Bdward Whitman, aged 19 years,
Japanese official channels of infor-|
mation remain clesed, and the Navy
Department’s announcement of the,
striking of a mine by the batileship]
Sevastopol and the firing upon the
Russian forts by the cruisers Nissin
and Kasuga yesterday are the only
disclosures made for several] days. It|
is believed here that both sides have
suffered heavy losses, and that the!
final record will make the siege the
bloodiest since Sedan. y
The Japanese are supremely confi-
dent of the ultimate result The
leaders of the government .await the,
outcome in calm = assurance. The!
people are everywhere decorating murde s, were ha on the same
streets and houses and erecting jisies, seaffold at Roliing Fock, Mic:
and flagstaffs in preparaticn for a na-! Marshal Woolum® of Hanging Rock,
ri . ral ration ft} 2 ta ie-| =
i celebration of the expected ric Q., shot and killed i Williams, of
. «Kentucky, wtile trying to arrest him.
The National Council, Daughters of
Liberty, in convention ‘at Portland,
Me., voted ‘to meet next year at Chi-
cago.: &.f /
was killed in an explosion of fireworks
at. Manlkattan Beach.
Judge Martin J. Wade was renom-
inated "for Congress by the Democrats
of the Second Iewa district.
Democrats of the Tirst Indiana dis-
trict nominated Albert G. Holcomb, of
| Fort for Congress.
Dr. Editund J. James, of Northwest-
ern University, was elected president
of the University of Illinois
Henry B. Davenport,
Va., was nominated by Democrats of
the Third Congressional district.
Albert Davis and. Dave Fields, wife
ranch,
of Clay, W.
VOT
rer nN Zo
12d
PENSION OFFICE REPORT.
Appropriation Exceeds the pmednl)
Paid Out During Year.
The annual repott of Pension ‘Com: ~By the overturning of a boat to re:
missioner Eugene F. Ware, covering cover a hat blown ino the water,
the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, three persons were drowned at Bos-
shows that during the year the cost| ton.
of maintaining the pensicn system of | Rev. Henry Baas, 73 years old, of
the government has been $144,712,787.| Londen, who came to write a book on
The appropriation for this purposs the fair, died at the Inside Inn after .
was $146,419,296, leaving an unex- his return irom a walk.
pended balance of $1,706,508. During! Joseph Zink was suffocated in a fire
the year 47,374 persons were added tol
the pension rolls, 326 by special act]
of Congress, and the balance by the
petnsion bureau. During the same
period 49,157 pensioners were ot on
from the rolls. Of these dcath
claimed 43,020. The total number of
pensioners on the roll, as covered by
the report, is 720,315 soldiers, 273 841 y Q ;
gy hax ® F 2 General Goodnow at Shanghai that
yas 2nd dependents ans 606 army | on ws slips will not be used to en-
yor force Chinese neutrality.
Fire badly damaged the plant of the
Domestic Coal Company at Axleton,
Pai The loss is about $4,000, partly
insured : .
At Oquago lake, mear' Deposit,
¥., Robert Caufieid, of
SN. 1. and Amelia : and
of Brooklyn, N. Y., wer
which destroyed the Salvation Army
barracks at Stamford, Conn. William
Ferguson was probably fatally hurt.
St. Louis and San Francisco pas-
senger train collided’ with a west-
bound freight train near Sarcoxie and
11 passengers were injured.
The United States notifies Consul
ROB PAYMAST ER OF $5,000.
Daring Crime in Which Thieves Are;
: Well Repaid.
Four masked men held up
master White of the O'Rourke ‘Con:
structicn Company on the Ridge rcad,
near Patdson N. J., and robbed him
of $5,000. The paymaster, acecmpan- General Prince Fussimi,
ied by (vo other:men, was on his way irated. in .the battle of Kinchow, has
to the office of the company in a been appointed imperial representa-
buggy when the four men, one an! tive of Japan at the St. Louis Exposi-
American and the other three Ital-: tion.
ians, came out of the woods. sl Six
" The American shot the horse. The
robbers covered the threes occupants
of the buggy with guns and got away
N.
East Orange,
Edna Kramer
e drowned.:
who partic-
Pay-
pleyes of the Buffalo, Roches-
Pitts ilroad were seri-
Rochester, N. ¥.,
by a handear, aon which they were
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with the bag of money, which was in jumping the track.
the bottom of the buggy. All of they Wiliiam Westbrook, of Mononga-
¢ 3 1 t} $, Of Tonor
robbers were. masked and* wore blue bya, Pa., was sentenced to the West-
oOo 2 ey :
goggles. f rn penitentiary for four .years by:the
2 _— Washington county eoutt. He was
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t Wages Advanced. | convicted of assaulting and robbing
The > committee of the Amalg-| a pedcler.
amated Window Glass Workers of
Bayce, his wile: and their 6-
menths-cld child were found shot to
death in their home in New York city.
Boyce is supposed to have Killed the
woman and child, and then ended his
Tife.
America ‘has decide? to: ask the: man-
utfacturers for an increase, which will
bring the new wage scale 1p to where
28 per sont reduction
the middle of last year.
Negroes Kept Off Ticket.
The Republican State Convention
was held at Fort Worth. A full S
ticket was nomina.ed, as
Governor, J. C. Lowden; Lieutenant
Governor, San Davidson; Associate
Justice of the Court of Criminal Ap-
peals, Lock McDaniel; Attorney Gen-
eral, Charies W. Ogden; Comptroller
General, John M. Clarkborne; State
Treasurer, C. B. Dorchester, of Gray-
son county; Electors at' Large,
Charles A. Hoynton, of Melennan
county; J. H. Kurth, "of Angelina
county. The platform indorses the
National Convention. The total!
elimination of negroes from the State
made 11
was
it the nx
ans
g of the German Vet-
n in St. Louis, Julius
Dallas, Tex., was elected
Wheeling, W. Va, re-
66 votes for the next conven-
Joliet, Ill., winning with 84.
John § Linch, of Cll City, Pa. 18
years old, was convicted of voluntary
mansiaughter by a Venango county
jury. Linch is alleged to have struck
and killed Alfred Thumwood with his
fist cn July 2
Dick. Brcoks, the alleged partner of
Joe Laney, Jr., was arrested at Rome,
lL.aney, who is only 16 years oid,
under arrest at Atlanta’ charged
with embezzling $1,000 from the West-
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ticket was a feature of the conven-| ern Union Te.egraph Company, at
tion. i Dalias, Tex.
—_— | May Devin is dead and Joseph Men-
China Stops Repairs. z0.is critically ill at Augusta, Ga, as
Consul-General Goodnow, at Shan- a result of eating bread which had
ghai, cabled the State Department at been poisoned. Neal Williams is
Washington, that the Chinese Taotai wanted by the police for alleged con-
of Shanghai, through the British con-| nection with the poisoning
sul, had ordered that the repairs to: ‘The Muncie, Ind. Trust Company
the Russian cruiser Askold and the was appointed receiver for Central
torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi be Coal, Oil and Gas Company, Gopher
stopped. The order was made through |
Oil Company and Laroca Oil Company,
the British consul because of the fact |
combined capital $1,250,000, on com-
that the repairs were being made by | plaint of the Muncie Gas Emgine and
the British Dock Company at Shan- Supply Company that the companies
ghai. | are insolvent.
Pneumatic Tube Mail Service. Idle Men Reinstated.
Chicago’s pneumatic mail service | th the men employed on the Pan-
was formally opened on the 24th. handle division of the Pennsylvania
After the first batch of mail had been!
sent through the bore the system was
formally turned over to the govern-|
ment and was accepted on benalf of
the Federal] authorities by Postmaster
General Payne. The: system consists |
Lines West of Pittsburg are at work
again. Early in the summer fully
one-half of the men employed on that
division ‘were laid off. They have
all been reinstated and it is expected
of nine miles of brass tube through | that more men will be employed in
which bags of mail are transported; the near future because of the large
by compressed: air to various stations,| amount of repair work to bec dene and
including those located at all railway arge amount ‘of improvements
Swpots. re to be made.
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