PACKERS FINED S26000
Four Members of One Company
in Chicago Plead Guilty.
JAIL SENTENCES WERE WAIVED
Cases Concluded at Defendants’
ouest to Prevent Collapse
of One of Them.
Re-
Four
Packing Co. of Chicago, were filed an
agsregate of $25,000 by Judge Hum- |
phrey in,the United States
Court at Chicago. The fines followed
a plea of guilty to indictments charg-
ing conspiracy to accept railroad re- |
bates. The defendants were Samuel
Weil, of New York, vice president;
B. 8S. Cusey, traffic manager; Vance
D. Skipworth and Chess E. Todd, as-
sistant trafic manager.
Mr. Weil was fined $10,000,
other three $5,000 each.
With the entering of the plea, the
declaration was made that unless at
least one of the cases is immediate-
1y settled, the life of Samuel Weil,
who is vice president of the company,
and is one of the defendants, is in
Jeopardy. He is said to be a nervous
wreck, and fears were entertained
the
for his life, if he had been allowed |
to continue under the stigma of an
indictment.
The plea was entered, it is de-
clared, after an understanding had
been reached between counsel for de-
fendants and Attorney General W. H.
Moody. .
While in Chicago, the attorney
general was appraised of the condi-
tions of Vice President Weil, and,
it is said, agreed to the entry of a
plea of guilty, with the understanding
that the jail provision of the law
under which the indictment was re-
turned should be waived, and merely
a fine imposed. The same conces-
sion was made in the case of the
other three defendants.
The four defendants were charged
with unlawfully combining and agree-
ing to solicit rebates for the
Michigan Central Railroad Co., the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the
Grand Trunk Western Railroad, the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., Boston
and Maine Railroad Co., and the Mo-
bile and Ohio Railroad Co.
Charges were made that the de-
fendants ‘conspired with each other
in presenting pleas for danages
which were in reality for rebates,
BANK DEFRAUDED
Man Accused of Getting $3,800 by
Tapping the Wires.
Charged with being the principal
in an ingenious wire-tapping scheme
by which $3,800 was secured from a
bank at QGettysburg, S. D., B. V.
Dunnam was arrested there.
A telegraph operator, who had
acted as Dunham's accomplice, gave
to ‘the police the information that led
to Dunham’s arrest. Dunham, who is
also known as F. D. Miles, is charg-
ed with representing himself as a
cattle buyer, of Miles City, Mont. He
is charged with having applied to the
Gettysburg bank for $3,800, giving a
Chicago bank as reference, and ask-
ing that the Chicago institution be
wired as to his financial standing.
His accomplice, it is charged, sta-
tioned himself several miles from
town, tapped the wire and intercept-
ed the Chicago message.
later the wire tapper sent a reply,
ostensibly from the Chicago bank and
of such a character that the money
was paid to Dunham by the Gettys-
burg bank.
immediately followed.
To Consider New Inaugural Date.
District Commissioner McFhurland, |
Commit- |
chairman of the National
tee to consider the advisability
«changing the
for the inauguration of the President
of
of the United States, has issued a call |
for a meeting November ‘8. The com-
mittee is composed of the governors |
and Territories, and 15
the District of
of all States
residents of
bia. August 30
day in April have been suggested.
JAPS SEIZE ISLANDS
™ave Taken Pcssession of Famous
Kommander Groun.
News has been received in St.
Petersburg that the American steam-
«er Montana, having on board Baron
Bruggen, manager of the Kamchat-
ka Trading society, was seized by
the Japanese near Nikolskoe, Bering |
island, and that the Japanese after-
ward occupied the Kommander
lands and hoisted the Japanese flag.
Neither the date of seizure of the
vessel] nor that of occupation of the
island is given.
The seizure of the Mcatara has al-
ready been chronicled, but there has
been po mention of any occupation of
the* Kemmander islands.
Early in the war the governments |
United
to
of Great Britain ‘and the
States entered into an agresmeni
protect the seals at the Kommander |
islands until the termination of hos-
tilities. The Russian
«<cnsented to this arrangement.
Dr. James R. Chadwick, of Boston, |
was |
found dead just outside his summer
= lecturer at Harvard college,
residence at Chocorua, N. H.
German Trooos Kill African Rebels.
The German government received
jnformation from German East Afri-
ca that attacks by the rebels on
Mahenge have successfully been re-
pulsed, that the MIrorogo rebels lost
350 killed and that the Graw.rt2 col-
umn had arrived at Kilwa after in-
flicting severe losses on the
in six fights.
Sergius Witte, the Russian peace
envoy, will visit Emperor William
before he leaves Germany for St.
Petersburg.
officials of the Schwarzschild |
District |
Sch- |
‘warzschild & Sulzberger Co. from the |
Four hours |
The arrest of Dunham
date of the ceremony |
Colum- |
and the last Thurs- |
is- |
government |
rebels
FIVE KILLED; EIGHT HURT
Passenger Train Collides With
Freight Train on a Curve
Near Harrisburg, Pa.
Five men were killed and eight
| others seriousiy injured in a collision
on
between a pay train and a combina-
| tion passenger and milk train on the
| Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pitts-
| burg branch of the Philadelphia and
i . .
| Reading Railroad
at Roushs curve,
| near Mount Holly Springs, Pa. None
| of the passengers,
| three women, was injured.
[ « The dead are: Ephraim McCleary,
| engineer of milk train, 135 Vernon
among whom were
street, Harrisburg.
C. J. Shearer, fireman of milk
| train, 1411 Swatara street, Harris-
| burg.
John Hill, fireman of pay train, 6i8
South Tenth street, Reading.
Edward Lauchs, paymaster’s clerk,
Reading.
Thomas Marion,
train, Pottsville.
Hill died on the way to the Har-
| risburg hospital, the other four were
| kiled outright.
The injured: John E.
B. Zellers, Alfred Hawn, Isaac Mec-
Hose, Robert Richwine, reorge O.
Sarvis, John Miller and Harry Bom-
berger.
| The pay train, consisting of a lo-
| omotive and one coach, was going
west to pay the men along the divi-
conductor of pay
Amole, D.
sion, and was being piloted by
| Trainmaster Sarvis. The - combina-
| tion train, composed of locomotive,
combination coach and two passenger
coaches, was coming east. The two
| trains ran together on the curve,
| which is a sharp one, and is flanked
| by a heavy clump of trees.
IN CUBA
{ BLOOD FLOWS
| Leader of Liberal Party is Killed in
| Political Fight.
| Official dispatches received from
| Cienfuegos, Cuba, say Congressman
| Enrique Villuendas, leader of the
| Liberal party and the most able
lorator in the Lower House, and the
| chief of police of Cienfuegos were
| during a conflict between the
| killed
two political parties, the Liberals and
Moderates.
The Government advices say the
police had information that within
the hotel in which Villuendas resided
a quantity of arms had been deposited
and they went to the hotel to in-
vestigate the matter. As the police
ascended the stairs they were met by
a party of l.iberals, who fired on
them, killing Chief Illance. The pol-
ice returned the fire, killing Villuen-
das and wounding several others.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Cienfuegos says that six per-
sons were killed and 25 wounded
during the conflict.
ENGINES ORDERED FOR CANAL
Contract Awarded for 120 Locomo-
tives to be Sent to Panama.
An order was placed by the Pan-
ama Canal Commission with the
American Locomotive Works of New
York for 120 locomotives. This is
said to be one. of the largest sales of
the year, and aside from its new
steamships is* the largest: purchase
made by the commission.
A hundred of the locomotives are
of the largest type of switch en-
gines, to be used in pulling dirt
from the excavating machinery on
The other 20 are road or
freight engines, ecuipped with the
latest improvements. The deliveries
are to begin in December and to be
| completed by June.
the canal.
BOYS BATTLE WITH CAGLE
Bird Fights Desperately, but is’ Kiil-
ed With Ball Bat.
A bald eagle measuring 5 fzet frcm
| tip to tip of the wings was killed in
Vailsburg, N. J., by Felix and Edwin
Base
Ritters, aged respectively 12 and 13
years. The boys ware crossing a
field with a doz when the eagle
| swooped down on the Carine and at-
tempted to carry it off.
to the rescue and seized the eagle
by the neck. The bird fought des-
perately, tearing the lad’s clothing
into tatters with its talons, but he
held it fast wunil his brother killed
| it with a bascball bat.
| AGREE TO SEPARATE
i Lae
Union of Sweden and Norway Will
| Be Dissolved.
| After 1-ofracted sessions
ing over some weeks, the Norwegian
and Swedish delegates
Karlstad to settle the terms. of
| separation of the two countries, arriv-
| ed at an agreement on all
| The terms were not made public.
That Sweden never objected to an
| arbitration treaty, is shown by the
riksdag’s decision in which
ticn was first mentioned and which
perizet’y with Sweden's ex-
¢ desire for peace.
A protocol is now being drawn up
which will be presented to the repre-
sentatives of both nations
signatures. The protocol will be pub-
i lished simultaneously in Stockholm
| and Christiania.
| ah
| Agrarian disturbances are taking
| place in the Caucasus, where peasants
| are plundering estates and churches.
The first case of cholera has oc-
curred in Berlin, that of a canal
| boatman, who died of the disease.
| Twelve thousand spectators of a
bull fight at Nimes, France, broke up
the chairs, other seats and the boxes
| and set fire to the barriers surround-
ing the arena because the matadors
refused to kill ancther
cere after they had dispatched five.
The motorman wv killed and 15
passengers injured in a collision on
the Albany & Hudson Electric Rail-
when a pass-
milk car.
way at Nassau N. Y,,
| enger train ran into a
Edwin ran!
extend- |
who met at]
points. |
arbitra- |
for their |
pull as an en- |
BOMB EXPLODED PEKING
Wu Ting Fang, Former Minister
at Washington, Injured.
FOUR. KILLED; TWENTY HURT
Official Circles Fear Adoption of
Russian Methods by Native
Revolutionists.
At the Peking railway station, as
a train carrying one of the four mis-
sions ordered abroad to study foreign
political methods was leaving a bomb
was exploded inside a private car,
killing four minor officials and wound
ing over 20 other persons.
The wounded include Prince E.
Tsai Tche, who heads the most im-
portant of the missions, and Wu Ting
Fang, former minister to the United
States, both of whom received slight
injuries. The perpetrator of the out-
rage, who was in the car, was blown
to pieces.
The affair has-created a profound
sensation and causes apprehension
regarding the safety of members of
the court and leading officiais of the
government. The government officers
and the railroads are now strongly
guarded.
The edict appointing the missions
was issued July 16. The missions
were appointed to study foreign
systems of government. The dowag-
er empress intended to issue a decree
at the new year for the establish-
ment of a parliament 12 years
hence.
When the dispatch containing an
account of the explosion of a bomb in
a private car was shown to Sir
Chentung Liang Chang, the Chinese
| minister, at Washington he express-
| ed his horror over the occurrence,
| and said:
{+ “There
are two parties in China,
the new reform party, which is de-
| sirous of having the people and
| government profit by the adoption of
| whatever is for the good in occident-
| al civilization and methods, and the
| party that you call anarchists in this
| country. The leaders of the latter
| are really devoid of any principles.
| The late action in regard to the send-
| ing abroad of missionaries has es-
| pecially angered them.”
OOD & COLOOEIEAE 5 COO
3 Yellow Fever Record.
The official report of the Yellow Fever
Zecases in’ New Orleans up to 6 o’clock p.m.
Ser t. 24 is summarized as follows:
New causes, 24.
Total to date, 2,831.
Deaths, 2.
Total deaths to date, 367.
<o
Add
DOO 000
ADA AAA SOLA EDEDD
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
A severe earthquake shock was
felt at Turmeno, Venezuela, but no
damage was done.
The Roman Catholic church will
establish in New York a pedagogi-
cal college for women.
Federal authorities will begin
prosecution of railroads for giving re-
bates in violation of law.
Wang Tai Shei, first secretary of
the Chinese legation, at Washington,
has been designated as Chinese min-
ister to the court of Great Britain.
Adolf Hedin, a parliamentary
veteran, known as the father of the
Swedish riksdag, is dead.
sented Stockholm as a Liberal dur-
ing 36 sc2ssions.
President Roosevelt is aiding a plan
mall countries to form a big repub-
lic in the region of the Panama can-
al,
The
dist Episcopal church adopted resolu-
tions condemning Gov. Myron T. Her-
hi? i to
for kh!
r
1
8
1
TiC 5 action In threatening
veto the Brannock local option bill.
Venezuela has aroused great indig-
nation in France by offensive attitude
toward the French charge d’affaires.
1s
He repre- |
cr the consolidation of the several
I
|
hio conference of the Metho- |
| the Oneonta fair grounds.
ATTACK JURY DRAWING
Meat Packers Are Fighting
Every Little Point.
A plea in abatement was filed by
the packers indicted in the United
States District Court at Chicago on a
charge of conspiracy to monopolize
the meat industry. The plea is not
supported by aflidavits. It is signed
Chicago
by the defendants and their aitor-
neys. It is charged in the plea that
the date and hour of the drawing
were kept a profound secret, and the
packers were unable to learn who had
been selected to sit upon their case,
although the Government had an
opportunity to investigate cach man
whose name had been drawn.
Four men connected with the
Schwartzchild & Sulzberger Com-
pany, named in indictments charging
them with accepting railroad rebates,
are now in Chicago. They have been
notified to appear ; before Judge
Humphrey to plead to the indictment.
One of the men, Samuel Weil, vice
president of the company, has just
returned from Europe. The defend-
ants other than Weil are: Beth 8S.
Ausey, traffic manager; Vance D.
Skipworth, assistant traffic manager,
and Chess E. Todd, assistant traffic
manager.
TO RECOVER EQUITABLE MONEY
Paul Morton Will Try to Compel
Trust Company to Pay Back.
Paul Morton, president of the
Equitable Life Assurance society,
made public the fact that he has di-
rected Wallace McFarlane, as counsel
for the Equitable, to begin suit
against the Mercantile Trust Com-
pany to compel restitution by it of
sums aggregating, principal and in-
terest, more than $1,000,000. Mr.
Morton asserts these sums were ap-
plied under the former Equitable
management to improper or unauthor-
ized leans, and his report, which is
addressed to the board of directors,
throws light upon some extraordinary
financial transactions of the former
regime, both before and after the
death of the late Henry B. Hyde.
In this connection Mr. Morton also
refers to the $685,000 loan carried by
the Mercantile trust, which has been
the object of much speculation as to
the uses to which it was put by
James W. Alexander and Thomas D.
Jordan.
CHARGED WITH CANNIBALISM
Backsliding Christian Arrested for
Eating Other Africans.
Definite information contradicting
the reported death of Daniel Flick-
inger Wilberforce, the native African
missionary who, after being educat-
ed in this country, renounced the
Christian faith several months ago
and returned to heathenism, has been
received. Wilberforce, with several
other natives, has been arrested by
the English Commissioner of West
Africa, charged with cannibalism.
He declared his innocence, and in
case of acquittal asserted that he
would asK forgiveness and return to
the Christian faith.
PRESIDENT BECOMES DICTATOR
Reyes Imprisons Judges
Precipitates Riots.
Unconfirmed reports reached Pana-
ma that Gen. Rafae] Reyes, president
of Colombia, declared himself dicta-
tor September 8 and imprisoned the
members of the supreme court at Bo-
gota.
Mobs,
Gen. and
angered by this action, at-
tacked the presidential palace and
were fired on by troops, who Kkilled
or wounded many of the rioters.
The reports say revolution have
been started in Antiquia and Santand-
er.
Carried Away in Balloon.
Floyd Wallace, a 16-year old boy,
of Oneonta, N. Y.,, had and exciting |
ride in a balloon that got away from |
The boy |
had gone in the balloon, which |
up
i was pulled down in the regular man-
ner. When it was about 100 feet
from the ground the rope broke, and
| the balloon and boy shot up in the|
It is officially announced that Dr. |
Rosen, the new German minister
to |
Morocco, and the French government |
| have reached a complete accord on
the program at Morocco conference.
Frank A. Durban, of Zanesville, O,,
was elected president of the Ann
| Arbor railroad, succeeding
Ramsey, Jr. Durban is
i dent of the Detroit,
ton railrcad.
| Investigation of the New York Life
Joseph |
also presi-
Toledo and Iron-|
Insurance Company developed the
i fact that $300,000 was lost in one
syndicate transaction, although the |
| company on the whole made large
profits in such deals.
| When Smith College, at Northamp-
| ton, Mass., was opened President L.
| Clark Seylee announced that Andrew
Carnegie had promised $125,000 to the
college, provided friends of the insti-
tution will raise an equal amount.
Robert Blickensderfer has resigned
his position as general manager of
the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad
and {As Wabash Terminal railroad, to
become consulting engineer of
Wabash lines east of Toledo.
still five pencioners on
War of the Revolu-
tion, one of them being Esther S.
Damon, widow of a Revolutionary
soldier, and the cther four daughters
of such soldi Mrs. Damon is 91
years old.
Canal Boatmeon (Hold Reunion.
The twelfth annual rcunion of the
Veteran Canal Associa-
| tion was held at Blairsville, Pa., and
| the roll call showed that 150 of the
| old bcatmen were present. Pittsburg
| and Johnstown were well represent
| ed. The address of welcome was
{ made by the Rev. T. F. Pershing,
| of the Blairsville Methodist Episcopal
Church. The response was made by
| his cousin, Daniel Pershing, of New
| Mlorence. The Rev. Pershing was one
{ of the original canal boatmen.
There are
account of the
Boatmen’s
the’
The balloon rose over two miles |
before it disappeared from |
The boy, however, managed to |
the valve rope and let]
landing at Summit, 30
air.
high
view.
get hold of
out the gas,
miles away.
Damage by Flood.
A message from St. Louis, Septem-|
|
{
ber 20 says: The floodtide in the]
Mississippi river has about reached |
its crest, and is still below the 30- |
foot danger line. In the vicinity of |
St. Charles, 25 miles northwest, the]
Missouri river covers the bottoms for |
92 miles and is two miles wide.
Growing crops are ruined. About 150
families have been driven from their
homes to higher ground.
Dashed Over Bridge to Death.
William A. Furisch, the driver of a
newspaper delivery wagon, was
thrown over the railing of Williams-
burg bridge over the East river at
New York, and dropped 150 feet to
the stone ssidewalk. He died almost
instantly. An automobile frightened
Furisch’s horse, and when the wag-
on swayed the driver shot from his
seat and over the railing. He was
dead when picked up.
W. H. Hunt, formerly president of
the defunct Pan-American bank, of
Chicago, was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary and ordered by Judge Kers-
ten to pay a fine of $298.
Beavers Can’t Plead Guilty.
A decision has been reached by
the department of justice not to al-
low ex-Superintendent George W.
Beavers, former chief of the division
of salaries and allowances of the post-
office department, to plead guilty to
charges of conspiracy in the Dore-
mus cancelling machine contract
without trial.
Justice William J. Gaynor, declined
to accept the fusion nomination for
mayor of New York city.
or
MANY CALS FOR MONE
President of the New York Life
on Witness Stand.
SAID THERE WAS NO BOODLING
Told of Large Sums Paid
Company's Legal Adviser
out Vouchers.
the
With-
to
John A. McCall, president of the
New York Life Insurance Company,
while on the rack of the legislative
inquisition denied the New York Life
ever had made political campaign
contributions during the period of his
except in the three. in-
Mr. Perkins had al-
and he could not ex-
account those dona-
presidency,
stances which
ready detailed,
plain to what
tions had been charged up.
Mr. McCall volunteered the addi-
tional statement that Alton B. Park-
er, when chairman, had never misse-
ed a chance to. collect corporation
money for campaign purposes, and
that even during the national cam-
paign last year the Parker manag-
ers had been a source of continual
annoyance to him, dogging him with
their solicitations for money.
Mr. McCall denied with vehemence
that a dollar of the New York Life's
money had ever been used, with his
knowledge, in the effort to influence
legislation in New York or any other
state, but admitted that hundreds of
thousands of dollars of the company’s
money had been advanced solely on
his order to Andrew Hamilton of the
New York Life's law = department,
and that Mr. Hamilton represents
the company in ‘legislative and
taxation” matters in the various’
states, in this country, as well as in
Canada.
Mr. Hughes brought out admissions
that $235,000 thus advanced remains
unaccounted for, and that it is cus-
tomary for Mr. Hamilton to report
his expenditures exclusively to Mr.
McCall, who takes Mr. Hamilton's re-
ceipts and vouchers. The witness ad-
mitted the cempany has on record
no vouchers for any! of these ex-
penditures made by Hamilton and
has not had since the beginning of
“Judge Hamilton's connection with
it.
Sums aggregating this amount,
$235,000, were charged to the home
office annex account, with the ex-
ception of $36,000, which was carried
in the “suspense account.” The
payments to Andrew Hamilton, ag-
gregating $235,000, were made be-
tween December, 1903, and March,
1904.
FIFTY PERSONS INJURED
Large Circus Tent is Blown Down
During a Severe Windstorm.
During a windstorm, a large circus
tent was blown down at Maysville,
Mo., and 50 persons in the audience
were injured. The severely injured:
Charles IL. Robinson, scalp wounds;
Edward Booth, ribs broken; Mrs.
Edward Booth, leg broken; Miss Booth
leg broken; Mrs. Thomas Clark, two
ibs broken; John EH. Orm, arm
broken.
All the tents of the circus were
torn to shreds. All the injured will
recover.
Boston Wool Market.
The wool market has been more
dull than for some weeks. .The de-
mand is fairly well distributed. There
is a quiet demand for quarter blood
and low medium fleece wools. Ohio
mediums are quoted at 34w3be.
Pulled wools are scarce. Territory
grades are in steady movement.
Foreign wools are firm. Leading
quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania, XX and above, 36@37c; X,
34@35c; No. i, 40@41c; No. 2, 41@
42¢c; fine unwashed, 23@Z2%; quarter-
bicod, unwashed, 34@35¢c; 3%4-blood,
35@36c; %-blood. 34@35c; unwash-
HONORS TO MISS ROOSEVELT
Rides Through Korean Capital on
Imperial Palanquin.
Through streets crowded with white
robed Koreans and lined by the im-
perial bodyguard, standing at “pres-
ent arms,” Miss Alice Roosevelt, rid-
ing in'the imperial yellow palanquin,
triumphantly progressed from the
railroad station to the American lega-
tion at Seoul. The roadways had
been freshly paved and the shops
draped with Korean and hastily hand-
painted American flags.
Miss Roosevelt, Rear Admiral
Train, Senator and Mrs. Newlands,
the Misses Boardman and McMillin
and Congressmen Longworth and Gil-
lette arrived at Chemulpo on the
19th. American Minister Morgan and
staff, and a number of high Koreans
oreeted the party, which proceeded to
Seoul by a special train. The im-
perial car, which is only furnished to
royalty was placed at Miss Roosevelt’
disposal.
FUSION IN NEBRASKA
Ss
Rockefeller’'s Gift to State University
Spurned.
Fusion of Democrats and Populists
of Nebraska was effected. by the
nomination by both the State. con-
ventions of the following ticket:
Justice of the Supreme Court, Will-
iam G. Hastings, Democrat; Regents
of the University, D. C. Cole, Popu-
list, and louis Lightner, Democrat.
The feature of the Democratic
gathering was the speech of Will-
iam J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan commend-
ed President Roosevelt for what he
declared to be his advanced stand
on the principles long advocated by
Democrats. On these principles he
hoped every Democrat would uphold
the President. A resolution which
was promptly adopted denounced
the Rockefelier gift to the University
of Nebraska, criticised the Regents
for accepting it and demanded the
return of the gift to the donor.
RAINS INJURED CORN
The Weather Generally Favorable
for Crops, However.
The weekly summary of crop condi-
tions issued by the weather bureau
says:
While corn has experienced favor-
able conditions over a large part of
the corn belt, late corn in the upper
Ohio and Missouri valleys is maturing
slowly and the crop in the lower
Missouri valley has suffered seriously
from excessive rains and high winds,
especially in Missouri and Kansas.
In the first mentioned State a large
part of the crop hac been blown down
that in shock is beginning to mold.
Over the southern part of the corn
belt from two-thirds to three-fourths
of the cron is now safe from frost.
Notwithstanding frequent showers
in the spring wheat region, threshing
of spring wheat has been general,
shock threshing in Minnesota being
nearly completed. Considerable smut
is reported from the Dakotas.
GHOULS FAILED
Two Men Bent on Robbing the
Studebaker Grave.
But for the alertness of Thomas
Hackney, a guard whq is employed to
watch the grave of Clement Stude-
baker, the millionarie wagonmaker, of
South Bend, Ind.,. who died a few
weeks ago, his body would now be in
possession of ghouls. After midnight
Hackney saw two men crawling to-
ward him, and within 10 feet of the
Studebaker grave. As they rose to
their feet he fired. The two men
promptly returned the fire. He pur-
sued them and they fired back, but
all the shets failed to hit.
A spring wagon was in waiting by
the roadside, and as soon. ‘as. the
ghouls cleared the fence they sprang
into it and drove rapidly away.
CURRENT MEWS
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ed delaine, 30@31c; unmerchantable,
31@32c; fine washed delaine, 39@40c.
The state of Indiana will bring suit
recover money iost by ex-Auditor
in gambling at French
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Lick.
Erie Contro!s C., H. & D.
President Underwood, of the Erie |
railroad, made the following announ- |
cement: At a meeting of the board
of directors of the Erie Railroad
company, the purchase of a majority
of the stock of the Cincinnati, Ham-
ilton and Dayton Railroad company
was; authorized. By this purchase
the Erie system has acquired Dbe-
tween 3,500 and 4,000 additional
miles of trackage. At Chicago, which
is the Western terminus of the Erie,
it will connect by the new purchase
with a number of the principal cit-
jes in Ohio and Michigan.
Panhandle Given Verdict.
A verdict of $100,000 against the
city of Chicago was given the Pan-
handle railroad in a damage suit for
the burning of a number of freight
cars during the American Railway
union strike of 1894.
Near Madison, Ind., George Ford,
who is thought to be insane, ere-
mated his wife and three children
by setting fire to the house while
they were asleep. All four perish-
ed in the flames.
Verdict on Wreck.
The inquest into the wreck near
Butler, Pa.,, on the Western New
York and Philadelphia Railroad Sept.
7. which resulted in two deaths and
many injuries, was finished with a
finding that the wreck was due to
Engineer Popham’s watch being slow
and said: “We further find that the
orders by which trains were that day
operated on the Western New York
and Philadelphia division of the
Pennsylvania Company, were. in-
adequate for the protection of the
soldiers will be sent to the frontier,
but troops are kept on watch.
The barge George W. Robey, of
Cleveland, which went aground,
burned to the wharf’'s edge with her
cargo of soft coal. She was built in
1889. Loss estimated at $64,000.
The pope has given 340,000 for the
| relief of the earthquake sufferers in
Italy, the largest donation made.
The Standard Oil Company has ad-
vanced the price of refined oil 4
cent a gallon and gasoline 1 cent a
gallon.
The Toledo Tool and Machine Co.
of Toledo, Ohio, has been awarded a
contract by the Japanese government
for 19 car loads of iron, to be shp-
ped within the next three months.
M! Wiener, the French minister,
has lodged a protest with the
Venezuelan government against its
action in closing the station of the
French Cable Company and expelling
the manager of the company, M.
Brun.
The Japanese government an-
nounces that the Tokio riots were not
directed against Americans. It was
simply unfortunate that some proper-
ty owned by Americans got in the
way of the mob.
President Roosevelt appointed Ar-
nold Shanklin of St. Louis consul
general of the United States at
Panama to succeed J. W. Lee, who a
few days ago was appointed United
States minister to Ecuador. The
position pays about $4,500 a year.
Exchange of Treaties.
It can be- stated definitely that the
exchange of the ratification of the
treaty of peace between Japan and
Russia will take place in Washington
shortly after the treaty has been rati-
fied by the respective sovereigns. It
is probable that this will be done i
the White House as a compliment to
President Roosevelt.
There are six cases of yellow fever
at the Detention hospital in Cincin-
lives of passengers and employes.”
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