nek
[RH im
FALLING BRIDGE | -
PL
Workmen Drop Without Warning |
into St. Lawrencs River.
LONGEST SINGLE SPAN
Terrible Catastrophe
Time When
ing in
Men Were
the Evening.
Eighty
the” supersn
have boo
bridge ii
sank int
tween
miles
All
Struc 1 !
the Shere.
mass
that
en phanged
grand
uments
and
angled,
down
ng on
of life
The 1}
evening,
ped into
at ‘work on
structure, and
el at
w ¢ for the
of the
had just be
to quit
whistle Blown
for ‘the
when ther
from the
men turned to
ed and. an instant
“up, “The bridg:
The men made. a
but the distance
them to reach.
the bridge -. dr:
it. - The snapping
boomed like cra
Terror lent ficeiness
the flying workmen
shoreward. but only a
reached safety before the last
ironwork on the south
dragged into the
The southern extension
bridge which c¢ollansed
nearing the zenith
steel arch which 5:10 shan the
river. For 800 feet from the shore
the mu: e structure reared an
arch with no supports the piers
from the shore, and one in the
river, about 1. t. from the shore
while the outward extremity
feet above the wate
The end of the
trifle. and a
enormous fal
slowly at first, ther hoi t+
crash which was ] card
Quebce and which the whole
country x that the . residents
rushed of their houses thinking
that an edrthqguake had occurred.
Of the men working
bridge, eight so far have been
ered. Two are badly. injured
may die. Of the other S84, 16
been taken from the water, dead.
it is: fearcd that the great majority
the others have been either
or crusied by t falling zi
The horrors he
increascd by the
of wounded men
Th
wh had happen-
ine .cry
failing.”
rush
t
1
ery
vont
is
shorewa
was 00 great
The fallen section
1zged others after
rders and cables
artillery
feet
hes
piece of
was
hor
Sole
water.
the immense
of
stee]
save
pier
was’ 180
half bent
later the w
give: ‘way,
i1
1
100k l¢
out
92 on: the
recov-
they
$0
he
of. it situation
that a
inned
Tact
wore
heard the
at the water's
Near: the
the bridge did
face of the water,
men who remained above
rescued oud ta to: the
Levis.
ba
shore
1101
ken
DEATH
4Z2D-TO
MART
Maneuver
Austrian Troon: on
Heavily.
The long list casu
troops engaged
maneuvers, now
yeighborhood of Win
Poused widespread vt
and concern. 1;
haustion
hundreds
trated.
In the
alone 1)
ported
troops
responsible
Int
men
o'clock
hou
infantry,
marched 2
in
have
of ‘men
Droste
The
in. the
for
these many casualties
he case the 25t
were aroused
and
while tl}
which
miles
marche
one dav.
DEATH FROM PLAGUE
Wcman
San Francisco Dies and
Two More Cases
The health
cizen reported
from bubonic
tional Cases
Saturday.
woman in Berkeley,
from San Francisco.
within the limits of
Are Reported.
boards ar San : Franh-
lditional
and
suspicion
that
an afl
plague
under
The
adai-
since
of a
e bav
falls
statement b:
that all
Pacific having
course with trans-Pacific points
subject to anpearancs
the discase.
15,000 HOUSES ARE BURNED
Loss Cause by
Hakodate, Japan, is
at $15,030,000.
from
WoO
aeath was
case
the
sporadic
Confiagration at
Placed
Advices American conzu}
ate at Hakodat
by the conflagration
LY About 15,000 he
value, were
ace the loss equstd
yuses, varying in
burned and 60,000 per-
sons rendercd homeless.
Former estimates are regarded
ving been too low.
BRIDGE |!
there ath$175,000.- |
|
WILL SELL DAVIS. ESTATE.
Confederate
Goes to Heirs.
Chousands
| to rh
| will soon
ern States
av
Land Left Presiden®
|
of land deec
ing his lifet
several Sou
of
of acres
Davis dar
be i
to
estate.
wrtly after the close the
many Southern sympatl
ad saved some portion of
lceded properly to
One of the 1
over was by Mrs.
vqlthy wom!
plantation
proepert
of
Civi
amot
v7 5,000
and sold.
BRIBE. GF
dacres
ernor of Indiana Says the
sition Was Made to
Winfield Durbin,
i authority for the
mnt was made
the return © By CA
itive + zoverno: Ken-
that state. te. be presecuted
charge of conspirac} ) a82as-
Gov. ‘Goebel.
the murder of
came Indiana, wnere
wxined ‘since. Durbin
sed was upward of $9
return of Tavlor to
lished by extradition or ai
eang. Durbin might employ
IN FLAMING BALLOON.
Into a Tree from Height
200 Feet. :
Myrtle Rysdike, a 17-yvedr-old
Middletown, Y., narrowly
scaped death in making a balloon
snsion at the park. The ballsen
fire: when 2¢0 feet in
air quic
and the
Him.
governor of
atte
ause
on:
“| Bes) to
the
sinate
After
| On
Goebel T
he has
the
Lond i
+
LO
Says
he
GIRL
Drops of
Miss
girl .of
\T
LN.
the thick
halt YON COVE
and
none
save
the
rescued,
ches, was
was
a few
worse.
quick
scra
EARTHQUAKE SOMEWHERE.
Shock Is Recorded by
struments at Washington.
distinct
a. very
at. a- far
d. on ‘the
strument ;
lasted an
The
Severe
earthquake shock. indi-
3 seismic dis:
1 { point: was
Weather Jureau
ashington. The
F-and> a half.
recording first shock
nessed by Prof. F. Omori, a
logist cof Japan, who happened
pre S-—Pr—Omori is President
the janese Society for the Ins
i of Earthguake Causes.
uro-
in-
sSnocg
wit-
seizmeoe-
10
was
be
of
TORK Susy ON STEAL
Born Kroonland-
Arrived at New York.
stork took
r steamship
vd. in. New
werp. Pr. T.
ships surgeon,
hh 5 the
ert the
SHIP.
Seven Bahies
Just
The
on
passage on the Red
Kroonland which ar-
York to-day from Ant-
Shaepkens, the
time of it
babies were
sit
Sta
H.
had: a
voyage, Six
stork in the
ona the first cabin.
Among the passengers, -first cabir
ho came over on the Krosnland
vas TH. T.:] Tis. of Pittsburg.
ROTHSCHILD RO JBBED
Thieves Make Big Haul,
busy
hy
in
erage
but Pass Up
Americans.
throu
at Baden,
large arount
jewelry. Baron Goldsein
othschild, ranifort; who is
is reported to have
$20 0010),
Vienn:
fod
went zh one. of
Germs:
of
Ol
hotels
ie a
principal
3
of It
i races
from: 32.600 to
Jaroness ‘Kphrusi
which ware
as being nth
nanny
iewels
S15,
hotel,
se
ging With
lence Aimcng Chinese.
2
emic Rag Grewing Viru-
cholera. among
Yangtse
epidemic of
C hin ene
spreading.
2066 pal
Wu
i. and
ne
in the vor
in
Kiu
xpenditures.
monthly
Washington
the
penditures
incre: in receints
1987 about $2
Ww August 146
in
howev il} '}
=1x0u0,
dit
iQicures,
] ET)
0 have b
that the surp
rmonth wlil be
over 51,630,000
about
less
last vear.
The eivil
wenses will be over
I than for the correzpending month
year. The = War = Departme
greater by $2,006,000,
expenditures greater by
500.000, The public wor item
will also show a marked increase.
The receipts from: customs during
the last month show an increase
over August, 1906, of $704.333: inter-
nal revenues increased $382,265, and
miscellaneous raceipts increased
about
miscellan:
$3.00, great-
and
ig
la y nt
will also be and
the navy
32
=~
$1.126,067.
LYNCH NEGRO; RIDDLE BODY
e Makes Quick
Wh
Work of Fiend
no Attacks an Alabama
Woman.
from
Edward
resident
the
r’0S3
Columbus,
Windham,
of Pickens-
Alabama line,
Gibson, a ne-
vld, a
just across
attacked by John
while alone in her home.
negro was captured bv a mob
lynched, after Mrs. Windham
identified him. His body
with bullets.
years
ile,
<
and
had
tat. a
Gas
sume his career
The |
was riddied |
KILLED ON WAY TO FAI
Trolley Cars, Meet and Collide on
Steep Grade.
Along the Every
Two Miles for Transmission
cf Orders-to Cars.
Telephones Line
Fifteen persons were
killed
head-on
and
about 50 dniured in a colli-
sion between an interurban express
train, consisting ef a motor car and.
and a
&
fram
Charlestr
1
o trailer, traction car, on the
Alattoon Charleston electric line,
of
or-
curve , one
Ik A
Ie es over
said to have been
accident.
The cars approached each other
high ‘speed.—and the: impact was
terrific that the motor car and trail-
were telescoped the traction
Few passengers had time to
by jompine. Most of the
fengers were going to the
county fair at Charleston.
Mattoon sent special cars: to tlhe
wreck, and the deat and injured
brought the morgue and hos-
Several of the injured may
west
of
telephone
cause of
milé
confusion
the
the
is
the
at
SO
er bv
pas-
Coles
cape
to
pital.
die.
The
Ind.:
dead:
Thos.
Wm. Nelson,
Nelsen, young
Neil Fulgate,
Weakley, Mattoon, TI
North Okawa, Il1l.; » Chas.
son cof Wm. - Nelsor
toward Cole: ‘Coaks - Mills, 111; Zack
Vandeventer, Mattoon: Edward Reyn-
olds. Paradise, - I1l.; Albert : Smith,
Mattcon:= -W. A. : Price. Mattoon:
Douglas Logan, Humboldt, 111.; Edna
Walhalm, Cooks Mills: three uniden-
tified. :
“Doctors
Gavs,
hurried. from
dragazd
broken
and gave
The dead
and citizens
Charlesten to the disaster,
dead and injured from - the
of timbers and seats,
to the inaimed.
were laid bezide the tracks.
The victims could not he taken to
Charleston, because the track was
blocked in that direction, and the re-
linf car from Mattoon was awaited.
The line on which the disaster oc-
curred is 12 miles long, running be-
tween Mattoon ‘and Charleston, II,
has but a single track. Tele-
phones are placed every two miles
for crders to be transmitted to the
cars passing over the road.
and
FIVE KILLED IN WRECK
Cars Plunge Down Embankment, Car-
rying Passengers to Death.
‘hesapeake & Ohio passenger
6; was derailed a mile
Kanawha Falls as a result
de: and 11 injured.
The dead are: Wm.
neta, W Va.; Walter Saunders, Wen-
dall,- W. Va.: . Silas: Vaught, Gauley,
W. Va.; Allen Leving. expressman,
Hinton, MW. V., and an unidentified
white man. y
Injuries to others are so slight that
they will eontinue on their journey.
Spreading rails is supposed to have
been ithe cause of the accident. The
track was torn up for several hun-
dred yards. Trains were delayed
several hours.
train
below
five are
Campbell, Ve-
BALLOONIST DROPS 300 FEET
Mid-Air With
Amateur Aeronaut.
rtle Rysdike, 17 old,
Mia lestown,. N.: Y.. marrowly
a death in making a balloon
cension at Midway park .
She fell 0): feet tc the ground.
The balloon caught fire, and the hot
air quickly escaped. The = balloon
and the young woman fell rapidly to-
ward the earth
Several thousand
the young woman
death, but she fell
Save for a few seratches
none the worse for her fall.
Bag Takes Fire in
vears
expected
dashed to
tree.
was
people
to be
into a: large
she
Mustn’t Use Government Cars.
made at the
Washington that
will be used if
end to the use
otlicers of cars
nment fer tho
It: is gtat-
non-military
occupy the cars
it is considered
The is
war depar:m
disciplinary mgasares
nec ary to hut an
bv familics of army
chartered by the
transportation of
ed that persons. of a
character should not
without authority, as
detrimental to the best interests
tha service and a misuse cf govern-
ment - transportation.
announcement
eng at
esq
cover
troops.
of
Half a Million Fire in Houston.
Flames licked up half a million
dollars’ worth of property. and re-
anced three sanares of business and
residence section of Houston, Tex.,
to ashes. The biggest-loss. was to the
plant - of the Standard Milling . Co.,
valued at
Death of Richard M
Richard Mansfield,
American actor of
died at his summer
Oaks, in Ocean avenue, New London,
Conn., Aug. 30, after an illness of five
months. His demise was due direct-
lv to a disease of the liver, aggravat-
ed by complications brought on from
extreme nerveus debility. The end
was not unexpected to his family,
although a few davs -ago Mr. Mans-
field's “brother announced publiely
that he expected the piayer to re-
soon.
ansfield.
foremost
generation,
home, Seven
thie
this
Harriman Wants Suit Dismissed.
¥;. H. liarriman, through his coun-
cel, has the United States eir-
| euit court to smiss the suit bre ht
against him and other defendants
bv Henry M. Walker of New Jersey
for $500,000 for his services in organ-
izing the Fortland, Nehalom & Tilla-
I mook railroad of Or on before
| riman purchased it.
email
Tinited States Circuit Judee Priteh-
ard dec vided that the North Carolina
| railroad rate case is within the juris-
| diction of the federal courts.
asked
di
a=
~ i
TRAGEDY AT FAIR
Balloonist Falls 2,000 Feet,
Not Killed.
Nearly 5,000 pe
(Mass)
Maloney
stable
I'bonist
| earth, strike
the
and
Maloney
escape
afte not
the fi gazed upward
mpts to-cut his pare
i A sharp east-
the yYope which
knife amongst the
blown
os rand
him,
ed. along.
from’ =ahove
Tie
M
off h
torn and
A long
icked
hotel in barns
cians whe
he is not
recov!
CO LLECTIONS SLCW
Conditions
lron and St
Financial
teel
tions, and
taken
urging
consumpt
promisas
montns
, and many of
Mipments are cited
still very he:
continue so
10, but
trade
advatices
buyers
future d
decidedly
Hans
rrent
and
nany
thoso
have
there
and
to
to COT
branches the which
joved the
a deadlock be
ers. over prices
and the markets
There is little doubt that $19
2 foundry iron at Lehi
naces would he accepted
sized lots to satisfactory crsiomers
This has attractos little buving
and has brought fair. in-
of
greater
tween
for
are
1 sonie
ont some
I quiries.
|. railroads and
riSent.il,a
Har- |
{ cutter
Some
duced
furnace
Southern ma
their selling
for the balance
quarter and $19.50
quarter, but
transactions
RAILROADS EN JOIN
Express Companies eo Made Dz-
in Suit by Cream
ery Companies.
» Kohlsaat in the Uni
court at Chicago
injunction against 14
Ave
them
new raid
cream; milk and butter
The complainants Ww
erv - companies the
who ‘charg2d the railwav
compa ined
exces would
crean business
fendants
issned a
Wester!
express companios
restraining from
of Middle
ann
nies had comt
sive 1
ries
against
out of
the. j
tho vio and |
has filed with
Comme: Tol ission,
amery conn Ss,
considered. by the
test roposSet
the
brit
to the ere
nat Lao
i Year.
Kohlsaat i
the hearin:
a permanent inj
Indze
REBUKES PLA
KING
Performance
“Horrible
Idward
ad, and
SOR
Calls
King
Marien! after
the
protesi
of the
company
followed
all the Ameri
present.
Another St
The DBriu
1ce CK
arbitration,
that it will lead
standing on the
each nation to bind
to. arbitration. cases,
i= fur
that
countries
sclect.
Pe
tv
tory
hile
Packers’ Tele
About 40 telearag
heen |udline leas
packing houses of
ned to work,
or yo weeks,
will the
adjustment
aot
Increased Pav.
hoard
Bill
joint
reta
compose
ry Newberry
Mai
The
ing Sec
the navy;
the an
Secretary of
Winthrop, representing the
concluded
the text
resenting
the Treasury Beekman
servie has
labors and made public
hill to be laid
gress providing
in the pay of the officers
the three services
n x i
increas
before the
for-a general
but Was
Caon-
and men of
KILLED AT CROSSING
FOUR
Automobile Pe Struck
Electric Car.
by an
MACHINE CAUGHT ON TRACK
Levers Failed to Work and Auto
Nct Move as Driver Ex-
pected It To.
Did
*atherine
Mrs
Jano
orth
am Scandlinz
5 hoth of
stantly killed
automobile
and 13
rt. near Canond N. Y.
aldren went to Hopewell in
morning his daughter with
1zhtor: to visit at the home: of
and had taken the
hom were more
for ‘an "auto:
their way
cet
gna,
with
Soanaimng
mo I},
an-
fan-
accident say that
machine approgsehed the trolley
it was by the ne
to them. th 1
and Dr. Waldron
apparently th
cross before’ the
he staried again,
that Antonie did
dily to eo levers.
the and
‘own
hodics
seen ytorman.
slow-
vl Chim, on
thought
TACKS
out
Waldron,
around
school of medi-
“fresh. air”
and fre-
driving
add the
eatment.
an automo-
had mastered
aged: women
“anandaigua
miles
der
for
the
believed
much 2
ntly took patients
the rural districts
touch”
ouzh to
ishing
mo 0 JAR0 h
and
the crossing
i be moved the
od into it,
PRESIDENT CRITICIZED
Reso'uticn Offered at Meeting of Bar
Association.
on
Presic
upo
case in
adversely
and
the final
ASS0-
George
lent
the
Oni
iticizing
commenting
resolution
it for
the Beef Trust
year and
the presiding indee
was introduced
‘of ‘the American Bar
ciation “at: ‘Portland, Me.
Whitelock “of Daltin :
It. wos i
al: from
ago
; PrOY-
hall, “and
repeatedly
than IW
all. parts
President Alton grier
asked Mr. AVhit« kK .to
but Mr. Whitel insist
acted upon A
ock
tion
carried.
attemptl to
Dav fT
recoznition
sald the
ation ' has
President
i hold that
the Uni
icago,
shea
when
v Il
dent of
MAILED CORTELYOU
Mail
Have
Explosion in
May
ed Death.
Accidental
Philadelphia
Foil
ory
packa
State Sees Western Union.
General Bb started
sham ccunty (Mich.) circuit
sainst the Western © Union
Company to recover $75.
penalties failure to = file
incorporation as requires
ite law: The act: fixes a
uf $1,000 a month.
suit
for
Increased Wages.
for
cent increase
on by the
platers, b molde:
and silver workers’ union
national convention at Cin-
cinnati. The executive committee
will determine the date on which the
demands will be presented.
Demand
lemand an eight-hour
wazes
pol
per in
( metal
rass
Yop
irass
their
By the will of the late Henry L.
arney, « pioneer real estate dealer,
g115,0u0 is left to various charitable
institutions of Chicago.
‘NEW AMERICAN PROPOSAL
Court of 15, Four to Be
From This Continent
Toseph H. James
the
conference
Arbitration
Choate and
itt, for delegation
The
proposition
American to
peace at Hague,
drawn up a
to tho
Hew
th. respect
for
allotment of
judges ternational
Court: af
the United INOHUNCK
ountries
WOMAN KILLED BY A LION
Beast Spranc nto “Crowd at
Park.
ng with
Pitts-
nent
roari rage,
drome at Luna
and lcaped into the
easure seex-
dispatched
1010) 1
were fir more
took effect
Boy Aeronaut 400 Feet.
At
bhov
orons
Greenville, O.,
aeronaut,
miracle
airship
earth
haw. 7 A
ty: Inir
rd ©
ror, which
they ‘saw tlie y:
Lhe gas
1
Dy 1
Darke
the . down-
machine: in hor-
changed’ to relief when
nithiul operator
cotin-
visitors
are’
swing
sheer strer
the ground, making of it
slackened the speed
which
daseent sufficiently to permit
parachute
th
him
of
to leap to safety.
PLOTTERS ARE SENTENCED
Death Penalty for Some of Those
Who Seek Czar's Life.
court martial which
the: 18 ac
against Oror
1
Deen
yf
O01
has
trying
plotting
and .
fo ng
cused
Niche
May, 1
enko 8
Naumof?
sentenced
persons
om) as
the oo ast
thre Mikit
i and
and
hanging,
suilty and
years
found
im
four years’
prison-
sup-
Mtenee
prisonment, and
penal servitude,
were s
the
having
and were
himent and the los
while six persons, in.
a. Iawyer, at his
of
ported
demned
were acquitted.
Agrecable.
Salvador of
United States to
in Central Ame
he state depart-
Figuera
accept
Salvador is
the
bout peace
vas reecived. aft {
The not: E Pre
made pu
ident
The
Americ
expected.
the othr
is confidently
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
millionaire
Stuyvesant
Iarahan, and
and drive
a safe
Cleveland
wing his
Va-
resiaent
1D all
is citstoniary summer
has given
home for
cation in
the state
1
hi
N , because ol
health. is trouble
acute i
daring wild west
Cwvhen, a n hal : 9
street, New York, as
robbed of $800 in doorway of his
own place busil while hundreds
of people hurrying past
SOON
In fashion, Dern-
De
nd
up and
yr]
aru
of
were
1088
take the
service
offi-
over to
national
Magoon will
1ealth and quarantine
the hands »f the local
Cuba and turn it
appointed by the
of the Island.
(OV.
publie }
ont. of
cials in
officers
covoernment
Guiana has
of
in-
The governor
an apology expressions
to President Castro for
{ Venezuelan territory soi-
removed a quantity of sum
have collected or
ritory
the
by
to been
Ter
Gardner C. Lillibridge,
Plain Hill, Conn. Wi
he possessed
who
) of
aied Aug. 27, and
have put in a claim for
estate. The estate is worth
$150,000
35 cousins
consideral Te
already 4
a share of the
about