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FINE MEN WERE KILLED
Two Fatal Disasters Result from
Railway Collisions
RACE HORSES HAD TO BE SHOT
Animals Belonged to Eastern Men
and Were Being Taken to the
Blcomsburg Fair.
“Three men were killed and one in-
jured and a carload of race horses
killed or maimed in a wreck on the
Northern Central railway one mile
below Millersburg, Pa. A northbound
freight train parted and the cabin and
the horse car fell behind and were
run into by a passenger train known
as the Ncerthern accommodation.
James Scott, fireman, of Sunbury,
jumped from the engine when he saw
jt was impossible.to avoid a collision.
He was caught under the wreckage
and was crushed to death. Julius
Leist, the..engineer, of Sunbury, re-
mained at his post and escaped with
slight injuries. Charles Berry, con-
ductor, and J. Hecungershot,
man of the freight train, who were in
the cabin, were killed.
age toek fire and their
consumed by the flames.
bodies were |
: The horses belonged to several
eastern dealers and were on their way
to the Bloomsburg, Pa., fair. Most of |
the animals that were not killed out- |
right in the collision were so badly
maimed that they will have to bel
shot. Harry Peters of Harrisburg,
flagman of the passenger train, ran
back as soon as the collision occurred |
and flagged a fast express
bound south just three minutes before
it was due at the scene of the wreck.
The dead were taken to Sunbury.
{ Two members of the crew of a fast
freight train on the Philadelphia and |
Reading were killed in a rear-end col-|
ision at Royersford, near
Pa. They were Christian
aman, fireman, of Harrisburg,
Roose W. Montgomery,
eading.
Zimmer-
and |
brakeman, of |
Bubonic Pissve in Africa.
Bubonic plague has broken out at
hinde, in Portuguese East Africa.
Josey deaths are reported. Chinde
is a port at the mouth of the Chinde
wiver, and is connected by telegraph
with Blaatyre, a mission station and
settlement in British South Africa,
named after the Scottish birthplace of
Dr. Livingstone, the African trav-
eler.
Nine cases of cholera, three of which
were fatal, were reperted in land,
October 3. The trans-Balkal district
is declared to be threatened with the
plague.
Howells Accepts a Consulship.
Senator Dick is sin receipt of a let-
ter from J. A. Howells, editor of the
Ashtabula, O., Sentinel to the effect
that Howells has decided to accept
the position of consul at Turks Is-
lands, West Indies. - The position pays
$1,500 and $600 fees.
: . Yellow Fever Record.
The official report of the Yellow Fever
cases in New Orleans up to 6 o’clock p.m. 3
Oct. 8 is summarized as follows:
New cases, 19.
Total to date, 3,195.
Deaths, none.
Total deaths to date, 401.
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LEODAE OBEN
Negroes Lynched a Negro.
A negro was lynched, eight miles
west of Bainbridge, Ga., by a mob of |
this own race. The negro had assault-
ed a colored girl and.had attempted
to assault another, who cut him in the
breast. Deputies were bringing him
to Bainbridge, when they were stop-
ped by a mob of negroes. The negro
was strung up to a tree and riddled
with bullets.
Twenty- .Seven Persons Killed.
A mail train bound for Vladikavaz,
Russia, left the rails and was wreck-
ed. Twenty-seven persons were killed
and 35 were injured,
MORE RIOTS IN RUSSIA
Many Killed and Wounded in Conflict
With the Police.
Special dispatches to the
newspapers describe the
state of affairs at Moscow Saturday
and Sunday. Many persons were
killed or wounded
the Tverskoy boulevard at the site
«of the monument to the poet Alexand-
er Pushkin, and in the great
fronting the monastery, where the
troops used sabres and rifles, firing
point blank into the rioters. The au-
thorities have issued a proclamation
giving the police absolute power to
T.ondon
prevent assemblages.
The correspondent of the ‘“Stand-
ard” describes how 3
many of
arrested were nu t
Jet of a double
1ong, narrow cot ge
brutally striking them h 1!
and the butts of rifies until they
or dead zt the end of
At several bombs were |
thrown 2 Cossacks. The troops
Gired and general panic easued.
Many p 5s were killed or wound-
ed.
Nominated Horace Greely.
Louis Carmichael, the man history
gives cre for the nomination of
Fiornce for the presidency in
1872, found d in a barn
nev.N. Y.: He was 83: years
age. He took cha Gree
boom ani secured dSlegation
for him from Ne» and then
+H 3 »
arted the movemeczt in the of2
Gov. Toole of Mon
requisition of Gov. Micke
ka for Pat Crowe. The ecitic chacge
#s robbery.
brake- |
The wreck- |
train |
Pottstown, |
desperate |
in the rioting on |
square |
ENORMOUS COMMISSIONS
District Attorney Will Have Insurance
Scandal Before Grand Jury.
That the astounding total of mor
than $2,600,000 has been paid as
commissions by the Mutual Life In-
surance Company to two members of
the family of Richard A. McCurdy,
president ol the company, and the
| promise 3 istrict Attorney Jerome
that the i ance scandals certainly
submitted later to
grand jury, were
insurance investigation.
brought out by testimony
the legislative insurance com-
that Robert H. McCurdy, a
will be
ordinary
iin the
I It was
| before
ule
| mittee
an extra-
developed
son of Richard A. McCurdy, has re-
ceived as commissions on foreign
business $1,163,829, and on domestic
business $541,852; and that Louis A.
Thebaud, son-in-law of Richard A.
McCurdy, has received an aggregate
of $920,113
company.
in commissions from the
It was also brought out
that Robert HB. McCurdy expected
his income this year would be 2hout
$110,000.
W. F. Thumme]l, an attorney of ra
Mutual Life Insurance Company, tes-
tified he had paid to the chairman of
the Republican congressional eam-
paign committee $2,500 in cash as a
|e campaign contribution.
Mr. Jerome, in announcing in
| court “that the scandals would be
i submitted to an extraordinary grand
j'jury, said the inquiry ‘by the legis-
| lative committee had shown ‘great-
er moral obliquity and moral obtuse-
ness on the part of persons import-
ant’ in thé .business world than did
| the shocking” revelations in regard to
| the Equitable Life.”
EDUCATOR ARRESTED
| School Superintendent
Forgery and Embezzlement.
Prof. Newton C. Dougherty, super-|
| intendent of city schools of Peoria,
111., for more than 20 years, president
of the Peoria National Bank, and a
capitalist, was arrested on two true
| bills returned by the grand jury,|
Accused of |
|
|
|
| char ged with forgery and embezzle- |
ment.
The arrest followed an investiga-
tion by the grand jury of charges
brought. against Prof. Dougherty |
that the accounts of the school funds
which were deposited in the bank of
which he was president, were being
manipulated.
The investigation resulted in the
discovery that there was a shortage
of at least $60,000. The investiga-
tion covered only the period from
January, 1903.
Fatal Explosion.
The explosion of a keg of powder
| at California, Pa., caused the death
of one man and . probably fatally
burned another. The explosion oc-
curred in a brick house at Second
and Ash streets. The dead man is
Joe Eller; the injured man is Steve
Banht, who is expected to die any
time. The explosion was caused by
the two men trying to fill their cans
with blasting powder by the light of
a pit lamp.
Frick’'s Gift to Woostar,
Henry C. Frick, of Pittsburg, has
again made Wooster University the
beneficiary of his wealth. In 1889
Mr. Frick erected a $40,000 library
(building on the campus, which he de-
| signed as‘ a monument to his aged
parents; the structure to be known.
as the Frick Memorial libr ary. Mr.
Frick has now ordered the trustees
to have plans prepared for an addi-
tion, in keeping with ° the : main
structure. It is estimated that the]
addition will cost 300 000.
McClellan Re-nomirated.
Mayor George B. MecCizlin
renominated for mayor of XN
city "for the four years’ ter!
the Dem
Tamm
McClellan
ning Jan. 1 next by
city convention or
organization. Mr.
| rounding out his first term
| years, the State Legislature
recently amended the ecily char
| as to provide for a four years’
| of =office for officials of
New York.
About $5,000 was sec burg-
{lars who entered the bank of Spring
field, S. D. and blew open the vault.
ets i |
Japan's Financial Burden.
Former Foreign Minister Okuma,
leader of the Progressive party, be-|
| fore the Associated Chambers of]
Greater
| Commerce, referring to the sudden
| expansion of Japan’s finances, said
| that when the withdrawal of the
troops is completed, she will find
herself confronted with a
),000,000, the
| alone, roughly speaking, will be $75,-|
{ 000,000, ocr nearly twice the revenue
{of the country ten
interest oun which |
years ago. The |
per capita rate of taxation before the
war was $2. Now it is $6. The per|
capita in the naticnal debt be- |
was $6. It
fore the is. now $25.
in that vieinity, and it is
that after completing his
Vice President Mr. i
make Mansfield
home.
Three Children Perish.
Three children were borhdd to
death and their parents rescued and
in a dying eonqiting to St.
hospital, i
x from burns,
two firemen a fire in a
flat house in
Univ
has been
rament. |
| was the addres
enure |
| through 138 district
| people who
debt of $1,-|
being made of his
DEAIAND TARIFF REVIGION
Massachusetts Republicans Are
In Favor of the Move.
GUILD NAMED FOR GOVERNOR
President Roosevelt's Peace Efforts
Praised—Congressmen Charged
With Disloyalty to State's
interests.
With only voice raised in op-
position the Republicans of Massachu-
in State coavention at Boston
declared for revision of the tariff.
The radical wing cf the party, led by
Eugene N. Foss of Boston, did not
offer a substitute for the tariff plank,
although in a speech Mr. Foss de-
clared the revision favored in the
State platform was not sufficiently
wide in its scope.
General William F.
Ambassador to Italy, opposed in a
vigorous speech the adoption of the
tariff revision plank, contending that
one
setts
Draper, former
HORRIBLE DEATH
and Crew Fall Into the
Hands of Cannibals.
That his brother was horribly mur-
dered and given to sharks by
cannibals of Matticolo island, New
Hebrides, was the startling informa-
tion received by R. G. Pentecost of
the Thomas Wightman Glass Com-
Captain
pany, Pittsburg. Mr. Pentecost's
eldest brother, Capt. R. T. Pentecost,
captain and owner of the schooner
Petrel, was captured and murdered in
the most revolting manner.
So far as Mr. Pentecost has learned
his brother was tied to a tree and
transfixed with spears by the natives
of the island. While still conscious
he was thrown to the sharks, the na-
tives dancing about, after which a
cannibal] “feast was held. A French
warship was sent to the island and
during the attack and burning of the
village of the-natives, a marine gun-
ner and four natives were killed and
the murderers of Capt. Pentecost and,
his crew captured.
Capt. Pentecost was aged 50 and an
Englishman. He had been at sea for
35 years, trading in the southern seas:
CHANGES FOR CABINET
tariff revision would be followed by
financial and commercial depression.
The platform was adopted without
amendment, and contained in brief an
endorsement of the administration of |
President Roosevelt, special mention
part in
about peace between Russia
Japan, and of his enforceme
and |
laws preventing corporations oppres-|
sing the people, a recommendation
for the enactment by Congress of a
tariff provision which shall protect
American markets against discrimina-
tion and secure to the United States
the treatment accorded to the most
| favored Nation in. all foreign mar-|
kets,
crease of the navy aad the upbuiiding |
of the American merchant marine.
Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild,
Jr., was nominated for Governor by
acclamation. For Secretary of State,
State Treasurer and
M. Olin, Arthur B. in and Heary
E. Turner, the respective incumbents,
were renominated by acclamation.
A feature of the day’s proceedir
s of Senator Lodge in
reply to Eugene N. Foss, who critized
the Massachusetts Senators and Rep-
resentatives in Congress, charging
that they were not loyal to the State’s
interests. Senator odge censured
Mr. Foss for his strictures on the
Massachusetts representation at the
Capitol. Mr. Lodge said the time for
tariff revision was when the Republi-
can party was in power, and argued
gs
that “free raw materials” was but
another term for “free trade.”
RAMSEY REMOVED
Wabash Directors Elect Delano to
Succeed Him.
The directors of the Wabash rail-
road met and removed Joseph Ram-
sey, Jr., from the presidency, F. A.
Delano, first vice president was elect-
ed to succeed him. Mr. Ramsey was
removed on the ground that he had
made an attack upon the railroad, an |
unprecedented thing for a railroad
president to do, according to one of
the directers. At a special Sr
of the directors last Moaday.
Ramsey’s
tended frony October 1 to October 10,
the date of the annual meeting, when |
Mr. Ramsey hopes to get control of |
the road., Mr. Ramsey was present
at that me eeting and, entered a formal
protest against the "extension of his
leave of absence.
HOME FOR FOUNDLINGS
Recckefelier Proposes to Erect Build-
ing Costing $50,000.
a statement made by
r+ will cost abou
Lady Trl
Ci
“1 want the
enemy of
Rest
know that I am an
suicide,” .is the remark . Mr.
Ié'ler is said to have made to
officers of the society .in
race
Rocke- |
the
announcing
{ his plans regarding -his latest pro-.
ject,
FAMINE IN RUSSIA
———— —
Eighteen Millions of People Are Con-
Starvation. ”
with a terrible
which extends
and 23 provinces
a population of 18,000,000
will have to be fed until
the middle of next July.
The splendid hospital organization
of the united zemstvos is centered in
fronted by
Russia is faced
widespread famine,
and affects
| Moscow and relief work has already
| been begun,
but so- gigantic is the
| task that there is no hope of.supply-
her tenants |f{
avenues, | ico
) waned WI iter
| dont
| ing suiiicient food to the starving mil-
lions.
Finds Money.
g coins of gold
something like
by George
ed land in a
dos Moines, Ia.,
The coins
and it is
ried for
a Pot of
iron pot
volunteers
ivii war and
responded
in the beg
who never
Ten Men
Ten men
quarry of t
at Granvi
3 down
victims
late and
| ception
bringing |
nt of the |
and a resolution for the in-|
uditor, William |
leave of absence was ex- |
D. Rockefeller” will erect a
1 for foundlings' and -instdll
rein infant incubators, according!
officers of
The
er who
ri him charging
Postmaster General Consents to Suc.
ceed Mr. Shaw.
It is stated positively by a close
{ friend of the President that Post:
| master General Cortelyou will sue-
| Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
| when he retires in Eebruary.
The place was offered to Mr.
| Cortelyou some time ago and he de-
| clined the offer. - Since r then the
| President has’ renewed his offer, and
only a few days ago, it is said, Mr.
Cortelyou accepted.
Associated within this report is one
| that Commissioner of Internal Reve-
| nue Yerkes is to succeed Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Metcalfe when
| the latter becomes secretary of the
navy. Secretary of the Navy Bona-
parte, according to this program is to
become attorney general when Mr.
Moody retires from the cabinet. The
date of the retirement of Mr. Moody
has not been determined.
TWO KILLED
Gas Leak Causes Explosion in Cin-
cinnati Court House.
An explosion of gas under the floor
of the county commissioners’ office at
the court house in Cincinnati killed
George Zimmerman, chief clerk of the
commissioners, and Russell Blair, an
assistant clerk. The explosion tore
loose the floor and completely wreck-
ed the county commissioners’ room.
It also shattered most of the windows
in the court house.
The explosion was occasioned by
escaping gas coming into contact with
a lighted match in the hands of Pat-
rick Walsh, superintgndent of county
buildings, while he was looking for
a gas leak in the court house.
In addition to the injuries of Zim-
merman and Blair, which quickly re-
sulted in death, two others were
painfully hurt.
Boston Wool Market.
Although the tone of the wool mar-
| ket is strong, business has fallen off
¢ | noticeably. The sales have been in
| small quantities ranging from 25,000
| to 50,000 pound lots, and have oc-
| casionally reached. 100,000 pounds.
| Territory wools continue to attract
| general interest and are in good de-
mand. The grades on call are the 4
| and 8; combing and half clothing. In
| pulled wools the demand has been
| for fine long staple carrying grades
Foreign goods are active. Leading
quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsyl-
ND RECORD ON THE BOOKS
Contribution tc Campaign Fund
Was Not Recorded.
BLACKMAIL BY LAWMAKERS
What Insurance Men Have to En-
counter in Way of Proposed
Legislation.
That John R. Hegeman, president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance com-
pany, borrowed $50,000 from the New
York Life Insurance company at EA
per cent. below the market rate was
brought out in the insurance investiga-
tion, and President John A. McCall,
of the New York Life, testified that he
in turn borrowed $75,000 from the
Metropolitan at the same rate. This
was in Jaauary, 1903, the loan was
renewed in January, 1904, and ran un-
til March, 1905, when the rate of in-
terest was advanced to 2 per cent,
at which rate it is still running.
Mr. McCall enlivened the proceed-
ings further when he said that there
was no record on the bopks of the
New York Life Insurance company Of
the $150,000 paid to the Republican
National committee for contributions
to Presidential campaigns. While he
had no personal knowledge that the
money was paid,
because he had told the treasurer to
make these payments.
Mr. McCall, in detailing the general
legislation work of Judge Andrew
Hamilton and the counsel he employ-
ed, denied any knowledge of the leg-
islative pool which was disclosed in
the examination of Alfred W. Maine,
auditor of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance scciety last week.
President MeCall testified that the
New York Life’s expenses for legal
services from June 1, 1900, to August
31, 1903, were $1,103,920. Of (this
amount, Mr. McCall said, “Andrew
Hamilton received $476,927. In
States where Mr. Hamilton looked
after legislation, Mr. McCall said, he
was expected to deal with the man
who could produce the results.
Mr. McCall, on this question made
the startling assertion that three-
he assumed it was,
DO LITTLE HARM
Not More Than Five Per Cent of
Corn Is Now in Danger.
The weekly crop bulletin of the
weather bureau summarizes crop
conditions as follows: Tie weather
conditions .of the week ending Octob-
er 2, as a whole, were expectionally
favorable to agricultural interests.
Highly favorable weather prevailed
throughout the pr incipal corn States.
An exceptionally large and fine yield
of corn is now assured over much the
greater part of the corn belt, and
only a very small part of the crop in
the northern central portion, estimat-
ed ,at from two to five per cent of
the: total, remains exposed to’ injury
from frost, and this is maturing
rapidly.
As a whole,
FROSTS
the reports indicate no
decided change in the condition of
cotton, as compared with the pre-
vious weszk, a slight improvement
being shown in northern Alabama
and in portions of Texas while in
other sections of the latter State
there has ben a slight deterioration.
A light apple crop is reported near-
ly everywhere, only a few mimport-
ant apple producing States indicating
yields.
wing to the extensive prevalence
of blight and rot in the principal po-
tato producing States a light crop of
potatoes cof inferior quality is gener-
ally promised.
The fall season so far, has been ex-
ceptionally favorable for plowing and
seeding in the central valleys, lake
region and middle Atlantic States.
In portions of the Southern States
and. on the north Pacific coast dry
soil conditions have not been favor-
able for this work.
SHOT BY A MANIAC
Without Privosation Swede Fires at
a Stranger.
Without. any apparent cause An-
thony, Olson, a demented Swede,
shot aad possibly fatally injured
Hugh Hamilton, of Greensboro, Pa.,
in the Hotel Wilson, No. 10 Smith-
field street.’ After a hard struggle
Olson was lodged in Central sta-
tion and Hamilton was removed to
the Homeopathic “hogpital, where. it
quarters of the bills affecting life in-
of blackmail.
Neillie ¥. Towner, of Albany, was
called to the stand and disclaimed any
knowledge of the whereabouts of
canceled checks of Judge Hamilten,
of Albany.
Mr. Towner testified that he had
made deposits for Judge Hamilton,
but not while the latter was in
Frrove. | He: had taken, some can-
celed checks from the Albany Trust
company early in September, and had
thrown them into a drawer in Judge
Hamilton’s desk. He had had no oc-
casion to look at them again until
last week, when he received the sub-
pena to appear before the committee.
He was asked to bring these checks
with him, but when he looked for
them they were gone. He had no
knowledge, he declared, of where they
could have gone or who could have
taken them.
ROBBER KILLS GREEK
Two Blacks Hold Up and Rob Thirty
. Men.
Peter Pannell, a Greek laborer, was
killed at. Salts Run, near Rayland,
{O., by ome of two unknown negroes
who entered the. Greek’s sleeping
quarters for the purpese of robbery.
There were 30 Greeks in the room,
vania XX and above, 36@37c; X,
34@35¢c; No. 1, 40@4lc; No... 2,]
41@42c¢; fine unwashed 28@29c; % |
| blood unwashed, 34@35c; 33 blood, |
| 35@36c; 1% blood, 34@35c; unwash-|
ed delaine, 30@31lc; unmerchantable,
N@sze;
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
‘The commission TS Dota for the
purpose has recommended the es-
tablishment of pneumatic postal tubes
for Pittsburg.
President Roosevelt will speak on
the important policies of his admini-
stration during his approaching south-
ern trip.
Former
| Equitable society demands
| tion before he will testify
legislative committee.
{ The first fall meeting of the presi-
protec-
before the
dent’s cabinet developed the necessity |°
for better treatment of Chinese im-
migrants who are entitled to admis-
sion to the United States.
President Roosevelt has appointed
harles W. Russell, of Wheeling, W.
Va., formerly special
torney General in charge of the insu-
tice, to the office of Ass
ney Gencral.
Counterfeit $10 Bill Out.
t Chief Wilkie, of the secret service,
| announces discovery of a counterfeit
| $10 United States (“Buffalo”) note, of
the series of 1901, check letter B.
Lyons, register, Roberts treasurer. It
is said to. be fairly deceptive photo-
| mechanical reproduction on two pieces
of paper, between which bine and red
silk fibre has been distributed. The
| counterfeit is three-eighths of an inch
| longer than the genuine. The seal
{is a trifle darker. The back of the
| note is printed in very dark green.
| Canton Bankers | Indicted.
| The Grand Jury Canton, O., re-
| furned indictments W.. L.
Dav vice president, and Corwin D.
Bachtel, cashier of the nton State
bank now in the hands of
davig is held for
$15,300, and for
| same amount. Bachtel
receivers.
embezzlement of
grand larceny of the
is indicted for
and an addi-
against
on the
the same two offen
is
tional inc
| bank’s books.
|
fine washed delaine, 39@40c. |
Vice President Hyde of the |
Assistant At- |
|v hile a score or morg were slightly | neer was killed and three
lar bureau of the Department of Jus- |
tant Attor-|
{ all unarmed. ‘The negroes fired sev-
eral revolver shots and terrified
{ them. Then they ‘went from -bunk
to bunk, taking the savings of their
| victims ‘and secured about $325.
Pannell kad a bag containing $300
| to which he clung: tenaciously.
When he refused to deliver it to one
of the negroes he shot the Greek
through the mouth, killing him in-
scanty The two negroes male ti
escape ‘toward Wheeling.
T ng people of Hamburg, Mi
where an epidemic of yellow fever
raging, are appealing for aid.: The
| people have not the necessaries of
lite. The conditions are fearful.
Fatal Collision.
{ A
East,
atin at St.
leaving the Union
Paul, Minn.
passenger
collided
with; a
| stock train at the Fourth street, vi - (Cinpinmath Chicago & St. Louis (Big i
| The force of the collision sent |
| ive of the passenger cars down a 27
| fo ot embankment.
| dead and five were seriously injured,
duct.
cut and bruised.
| Lost in Typhoon.
The Inter-island steamer Canlabe-
| nia, 1,097 tons, was sunk in the re-
| cent typhcon off Ticao island, onz of
| the Visayan group. Apparently all on
board were lost. She carried five
Americans, one Spaniard and 11 na-
tive and Chinese passengers, and a
crew of 97 men and officers. The is-
land steamer Carmen also report-
ed lost. Details are lacking.
The Navy department has designat-
ed the armored cruiser West Virginia
as the vessel which will carry the
President from New Orleans to Ham-
pton Roads on his return from the
Southern trip.
New Rural! Routes.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen-
eral! De Graw reper that there
3
were 1,431
established
during
rural fre
throughout
September,
delivery
the
country
32 486 routes existi There a2
4,655 petitions for routes pend-*
ing.
Joseph Bain of Pittsburg acci-
dentally shot Milo Selter of Benton
Harbor, Mich., in stomach while fool-
ing with Selter’s revolver. at . the
Pittsburg exposition.
surance companies were in the nature |
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|
Soo line express train from the |
Chicago Great Western fast |
routes |
making a total of |
was said that he had a slight chance
for recovery. He was shot four
times and one bullet is still lodged in
his right Iu
Hamilton is a prominent potter at
Greensboro and is well known in
Pttsburg. He said Olson was an ab-
sclute stranger to him, and Capt.
John Wilson, sen of the. proprietor
of the hotel, said that he never saw
Hamilton with Oison. Hamilton had
been coming to the Hote! Wilson for
15 years.
MANY BUN DINGS BUR
Fire in Japan Coser a Loss of Prob-
ably $5,000,000.
A fire that broke out in an army
storehouse at Hiroshima, Japan, de-
stroyed 20 temporary buildings,. to-
gether with their contents, consisting
principally of provisions and clothing.
A large portion of the clothing was
removed from a new storehouse the
fire started.
In addition to the 20 buildings con-
taining clothes and’ provisions, seven
others filled with fodder were destroy-
ed. Although the buildings were con-
structed of light material, they con-
tained ‘an enermous amount of stored
RNED
flamable nature, the flames were
difficult to extinguish, despite the des-
_perate efforts of the troops. _The fire
spread with great rapidity. "It was
probably of incendiary origin. The
loss is variously estimated at from
$2,000,000. to $5,000,000.
Wants Money Returned.
Attorney General Mayér . of . New
York received the letter of Attorney
William = Hepburn Russell asking
permission to begin suit against John
A. McCall, president, and George W. )
Perkins, vice president of ithe’ New
York Life Insurance Company, for
the restitution of $150,000 contributed
to Republican campaign funds. Un-
der tne laws of the .State the sanc-
tion of the attorney general is re-
quired in order to br} ing a suit of this
che rac ter.
ENGINEER KILLED
| Serious Wreck on Big Four at
Terre Haute.
| The second section of a Cleveland,
I
Four) train ran into a- derail at the
27- hi
Orc passenier lo | crossing of the Southern Indiana Belt
| line at The engi-.
injured.
The engine and ten cars were demol-
ished and the track was torn up for
100 yards. The dead R. B. Brown,
engineer, Terre Haute. The injured,
Rev. A. W. luce, Hope, Ind.; J. S.
Shierbaum, fireman, Mattoon, Ill.;
Jesse Sykne!l, Carthage, Mo.
The engine went over the embank-
ment and the cars piled up. Engi-
neer Brown was caught under the
wreckage. The Rev. Mr. Luce was
moving his household goods from
{ Fort Branch, Ind., to Hope, Ind., his
new charge.
Mrs. William Wilcox, of
Pa., lifted a lighted lamp
| bracket to place it elsey
| ploded, setting fire to he
Terre Haute, Ind.
Johnstown,
from a
3, If ex
r clothes and
her body was burned to a crisp.
|
| More Cotton Indictments Found.
The Federal Grand Jury eported
indictments in the cotton crop
| report. leal against Edwin
| S. Holmes, sociate statistician of the
[furiouit ural department; Edwin A.
| Peckhaln and Moses Haas, of New
York. They cover the same ground
as the other indictments, but are be-
lieved to be more specific.
fe
John Clinton, a glassworker,
{ killed at the Wabast
i at Mingo Junetion, O.,
| board a freight train.
{new
ge cases
was
railroad bridge
while trying to
goods, and the structures being of in-’
other
I wa
“
et.