k LYNCHER GETS 15 YEARS A North Carolina Jury Quickly Disposes of Man Who Leads Mob. ( FIRST CASE IN STATE'S HISTORY Leader of the Mob Arretted Tuesday, Indicted Thursday, Convicted j and Sentenced Friday. Wliat Is said to be the first In stance of the conviction of a lyncher in the history of the state was fur bished when George Hal, a white ex convict of Montgomery county, North Carolina who was one of the party that lynched three negroes In jail at Salisbury for the murder of the Ly erly family, was found guilty of con spiracy in connection with that crime and was sentenced to 15 years In the penitentiary. The juiy was out but 33 minutes and returned with a verdict of guilty, after several witnesses had been tieard. Judge B. F. Long sentenced Hall to the maximum term provided for by law, 15 years at hard labor in the penitentiary. The evidence against Hall was overwhelming. He was remanded to Jail. But four days have Intervened be tween the time of the triple lynching and Hall's arrest and conviction. Mon day night the three negroes were taken from the Salisbury Jail, hanged from a tree and their bodies rid lied with bullets. Next day, Tuesday, Hall was arrested, Wednesday a special grand Jury was summoned and In dicted him for murder and Friday he was arraigned, found guilty and sen tence pronounced. The state Rprung a surprise in the trial when the offense against the prisoner was changed from murder to conspiracy. DUN'S WEEKLY SUMMARY Industry Maintains Phenomenal Re sults, Despite Labor Disputes. In some sections the Intense heat facilitated retail trade In summer goods and Improved the attendance at seaside resort, but the most Important development In the business world was the increased activity of jobbing and wholesale departments in preparing for autumn and winter .requirements. Crop reports are all that could be de sired, harvest and threshing returns surpassing all but the most sanguine exieetat!ons, the few unsatisfactory statements being far outbalanced by the numerous encouraging results, Mercantile collections might be more prompt at some eastern points, but the average Is well maintained by dis counted bills at the west and south. Manufacturing news Is still of good progress, the Iron and steel industry maintaining phenomenal results, des pite some labor troubles. High prices prevail in the footwear Industry and for most textile fabrics, but the gen eral level of all commodities reflects the cheapening of farm products on account of the big crops. Railway earnings In July were 12 per cent larger than last year. Failures this week numbered 174 In the United i Stales, against; 222 last year, and 13 I in Canada, compared with 19 a year ago. . Iron and steel are in unprecedented demand for a midsummer period: building materials, though less active at New York, show few signs of a let up at the Vest, where records of prev ious years have Deen broken. Bank clearings, while slightly below last week, are much in1 excess of last year. CASHIER CLAIMS INNOCENCE. Henry W. Herlng, of Chicago, cashier of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, which closed Its doors, was arrested In Chicago. He will be refused ball until his connection with the disappearance of nearly $1,000,000 of the bank's funds Is cleared up. Paul O. Stensland, president of the defunct Institution, Is still a fugitive, and. although nearly 100 detectives are searching for the missing presi dent, his whereabouts Is a mystery. Hering declared he did no know where President Stensland was and that ho hd had no communication .with Stensland for more than a week. Herlng strenuously denied any re sponsibility for the failure of the bank. Hering maintained that If he was guilty of breaking the banking laws of llinols, President Stensland was responsible. Hering declared he never had benefited a single dollar by Presi dent Stensland's system of banking. GREAT PLOT UNEARTHED. Leaders Arrested Confess to Wide spread Conspiracy in Finland. A mesage from Copenhagen says: A number of members of the Finnish revolutionary organization were ar rested, nd under pressure confessed I the plans of the patriots. They revealed a widespread plot to i blow up all of the government buildr ings at Helsingfors with dynamite, and to establish a dictatorship over Finland. This being sucessful. it was plan nod to march to St. Petersburg to uld the opponents of the government there. The government Is alarmed, and it is feared that Finland has been elect ed as the starting point for the revo lution. Bank Teller Commits Suicide. Frank Kowalski, for five years pay ing teller of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank, which failed shot and killed himself in his home, 340 North Carpenter street, Chicago. Criticism by neighbors and friends who accus ed him of a share in the downfall of the bank. Is believed to have driven Kowalski to suicide. By confessing that he killed Dom inic Murfic, In Franklin, Pa., two weeks ago. Pasquale Vaccare saved Pascale Ccutella from going to trial for the crime. All are Italians. BIG BANK FAILURE Two Principal Officers of Chicago Institution Are Missing. With a deficit in its accounts of possibly over $1,000,000 and with the whereabouts of two of Its chief ofll cers unknown to the authorities, the Milwaukee Avenue State bnnk, one of the larger outlying Institutions in Chicago, was closed by State Bank Examiner C. C. Jones. In .the excitement following, J. G. Visser, an officer of the Royal League who had on deposit In the bank funds or me organization, leu (lean, anil Henry Koepke, a grocer, on hearing the bank had suspended, shot himself and died in a short time. All his money is In the Institution. The bank had deposits amounting to about $4,000,000 and loans and credits to about the same sum. Riotous scenes attended the an nouncement of the failure, and 20 policemen struggled all day to keep an excited crowd of depositors, nearly all of whom were foreigners and many of whom were women, from rushing the doors of the Institution. Theodore Stensland, vice president of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, was arrested on a charge of violating the banking laws of the state. Earlier In the dtiy the institution was placed in the hands of receiver and Paul O. Stensland, president of the bank and father of the cive president, together with Cashier Herlng, were officially declared fugitives from justice. This action was taken by the au thorities after developments and showed the finances of the failed In stitution were In a deplorable condi tion and had been for a number of years. Besides the discovery of many irregularities In the management of the bank, it was also found that even the safety deposit boxes owned and rented by the bank had been tamper ed with and rifled. AMERICANS AMBUSHED Pulajanes and Igorrotet Attack Ameri can Troops and Constabulary.' One hundred and fifty Pulajanes pierced the military cordon, burned the municipal buildings, killed the ex-president of the town, two former members of the constabulary, and three policemen at Abuog In the Is land of Leyte, 20 miles from the scene of the recent fight. One hun dred soldiers and constabulary are In pursuit. Maj. Crawford and Capt. Kuauber, with a lieutenant and eight constabu lary, were ambushed by Igorrotes while shooting the rapids of the Abu- lung river In Northern Luzon on a bamboo raft. Maj. Crawford and Capt. Knauber and five men were wounded with arrows. They were unable to return the flVe because the enemy were hidden on the wooded banks of the river. This outbreak Is Inexplicable as hitherto the Igorrotes have been peaceable. Abuyog in the Island of Leyte Is only about IS miles from Burauen, where two encounters with the Insur rectionists have occurred within the last month. The Pulajanes first took the town, burning the records and murdering some policemen. Gen. Wood ordered an attack on the Insur rectionists and they were cornered by a detachment of the Twenty-fourth Infantry and the constabulary and 150 of the natives were killed while the American troops lost only one ser geant. PROSPERITY IN IRON TRADE Big Increase in Pig Iron Production Fails to Keep Pace With the Heavy Demand. The "Iron Trade Review," says: "All indications point to great prosperity during the remaining months of the present year, and at least the early months of 1907. "Seven new blast furnaces, having an annual capacity of 880,000 tons, have been blown In this year, and others will be In operation at not far distant dates, but if the present de mand continues. It Is doubtful whether even this added capacity will be sufficient. "Prices are advancing more rapid ly toward those of the boom period of 1902 than conservative Interests like to 'see, and In thi3 tendency lies the only danger, which now threatens a long continuance of prosperity. Car famine Is threatened. Leading rail road men admit that, In spite of the immense purchases of equipment dur ing the past 12 months, the railroads will not be In much better condition than they were last year to handle the crops, which will be very large. ROOSEVELT RESPITES TWO MEN Negro Confessed on Scaffold That He Committed the Crime. President Roosevelt granted a re spite until November. 1 of the execu tion of the death sentence In the case of Robert Sawyer and Arthur Adam, negroes, who are confined In the Wil mington, N. C, jail, having been con victed of murder and mutiny on the high seas. The stay was granted because of the confession of Henry Scott, who said on the scaffold Just before he was hanged that he had killed the three officers and the cook of the schooner H. A. Berwlnd, which sailed from Philadelphia July G, 1905, and -for which the three were convicted. Another negro also implicated in the mutiny was killed by Scott. Ore Discoverer Dies Poor. F.dgar Brown, a pioneer Iron man, 64 years old, died at Sault Ste, Marie, Mich. Brown discovered the famous Mesaba and Vermillion ranges In the Lake Superior district and developed them until they were worth $13,000, 000. He died penniless. Unemployed Riot at Capetown. A dispatch from Capetown says serious riots of unemployed persona occurred there. A mob of white and colored men looted many shops. The police Ivere almost powerless. FIIE SEAL THIEVES SHOT Thj Federal Officials Use Force in Dealing with Raiders in Alaska. SOME PRISONERS WE.RE TAKEN Washington Officials Say There Is no Danger of National Complications Over the Affair. A report of the killing of five Jap anese fishermen and the capture of 12 Jnpanese prisoners on Attu Island' the western-most of the Aleutian group, the prisoners having been tak en by the revenue cutter McCulloch, commanded by Captain J. C. Cantwell, was made to the Department of Com merce and Labor at Washington, D, C by Edwin W. Sims, solicitor for the department, who Is id Alaska to enforce the new law prohibiting all persons not ctitlzens of the United States from fishing In Alaskan waters The Japanese killed were shot by Americans on Attu Island before the McCulloch arrived. Because of the encronchment of Japanese fishermen and sealers In Alaskan waters Congress was obliged, during the session Just ended, to en act two laws calculated to encourage the fishing industry of Alaska among Americans, and to prohibit Japanese and other aliens from engaging In It. The cable dispatch from Mr. Sims does not make ' entirely clear the character of the offense of which the Japanese were guilty, but It does show that the officers and crew of the Mc Culloch were In no way responsible for the killing, and that those who were captured were trespassers on American territory. There Is no reason to expect In ternational complications, but there is no question that the situation In the Aleutian Island Is a delicate one, and that numerous difficulties are almost certain to be encountered In enforc ing the, laws protecting American citizens and their rights. CLAIMED MONEY WAS ALL GONE Entire Sum Alleged to Have Been Stolen Lost in Stock Speculation, He Says. Clinton B. Wray, charged with stealing $125,000 from the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, while employed there as a teller, was ar rested In Toronto, Canada. With him at the time was Grace Loughrey, member of a well-known family, of Klttannlng, Pa., with whom he be came acquainted two years ago by talking to her over the telephone while she was working as a central operator at Klttannlng. It was through Miss Loughrey that Wray was traced by Perkins detec tives alter he left Pittsburgh about three weeks ago. He will be brought back and committed to Jail, where Clifford S. Hixou, the Individual book keeper of the trust company, who con fessed that he and Wray stole $125, 000, Is confined In default of $20,000 bail. All hough the speculations of the two trusted employes extended over a period of three years, they were not suspected until about three weeks ago, a few days after both went on their vacations. Hlxson was arrested last week and, after being "sweated" for about 24 hours, broke down and confessed. Wray then said, In answer to ques tions, that he had lost all on stock gambling. SUIT FOR $500,000 Wife Alleges That Father-ln-Law Has Caused Separation. Mrs. George B. Rafferty. whose husband Is a son of Gilbert T. Raffer ty of Pittsburgh, has begun an action to recover $500,000 from the elder Rafferty on complaint that he has alienated the affections of her hus band from her. Papers In the action have been filed In the supreme court In Brooklyn, N. Y., by Cantrell & Moore. Mrs. Rafferty, whose father-in-law Is a retired coke manufacturer, was Deborah Mclntyre. Her. mother had a photographing business In Alexan dria Bay, N. Y. On October 28, 1901, the daughter was married to George Rafferty in Clayton, N. Y. Through his attorney, Archibald R. Watson of No. 31 Nassau street, the elder Mr. Rafferty declares he will spend $1,000,000 to defend the suit, but will not give a penny to settle It. AGAINST MORMONISM Democrats of Idaho Name Candidates for State Offices. After a strenuous two-days' conven tion, the Democrats of Idaho placed In nomination the following ticket: Governor, C. O. Stockslager, Blaine county: United States senator, Fred T. Dubois, Bingham county; member of Congress, Rees Hatta baugh, Idaho county; Justice of the supreme court, Stewart S. Denning, Latch county: lieutenant governor, Georga C. Chapln, Bingham county; secretary of state, Flournoy Galloway, Washington county. A platform was adopted in which anti-Mormonlsm is the keynote. Zion City's Debt. The first detailed statement of the indebtedness of Zion City was given to the investors. The table showed a total of nearly $5,000,000, which It is proposed by Overseer W. G." Vollva to pay by funding the entire Indebt edness for IS years and to issue bonds bearing 6 per cent interest. The proposition waB accepted. The Russlun government will give land to peasants and settle 'agrarian troubles without waiting for. new parliament. PROHIBITION TICKET Homer L. Castle of Pittsburgh Nomi nated for Governor. By a vote of 12 to 4 the Pennsyl vania stale executive committee of the Prohibition party met In Hanisburg for the second time rejected Lewis Emery, Jr., as a candidate for gover nor. Vacancies on the state ticket were filled by the nomination of the follow ing straight Prohibitionists: For Governor Homer L. Castle of Pittsburgh. For Lieutenant Governor H. D. Patton of 1-ancasler. For Secretary of Internal Affairs George Hoffman of Montgomery coun ty. With regard to Emery the commit tee took the position that he did not adequately represent those reforms for which the Prohibition party stands aud for which It freely and gladly sup ported William H. Berry, Democrat, for State Treasurer last November. The meeting was nn adjourned ses sion from the Pittsburgh session of three weeks ago, when Emery's name was first presented as a substitute for William II. Berry, who had declined the nomination for governor as tend ered by the state convention. The vote then was a tie. Since then the sentiment has developed strongly against Emery, and only four com mitteemen remained convinced he should be nominated even as a matter of expediency. BIG INSURANCE DEAL CLOSED Pittsburg Capital Takes Over Security Trust to Merge With a Local Institution. Control of the Security Trust & Life Insurance Company of Philadel phia was purchased by a party of Pittsburg men beaded by Robert Pit cairn and Identified with the Pittsburg Life & Trust Company. The deal was consummated in Philadelphia. About 70 per cent of the $500,000 capital stock of the Security was held by Thomas Bradley, who has been its president since the death of former Governor R. E. Patterson, who organ ized the company In 1895. This stock and almost all the re mainder outstanding Is taken over by the syndicate and It Is the purpose to merge the two companies and carry on the business In the name of the Pittsburg Life & Trust. All the offi cers of the Security Company have resigned and will take no active part In the new company, and the New York office wlir be abolished. The office In Philadelphia will be contin ued, with Pittsburg as headquarters. Mr. Bradley was quoted as saying that about $21,000,000 In policies car ried by the Security Company will not he disturbed by the sale of control. The company owns valuable real es tate In New York. PRISONERS BREAK' JAIL One Fugitive Charged With Murder and Another Refuses to Leave. Buck Klttlewell, ulias Frank How ell; Jeff. Taylor and Carl Gross, broke out of the county jail at Mor- gautown, W. Va., and escaped Into Pennsylvania. Klttlewell wns being held on a charge of robbing the Baltimore & Ohio railroad office here and was also wanted In Cleveland, O. Taylor was brought here from the Marlon county jail for safe keeping on a charge of murder, while Gross was serving a 30-day sentence for petit larceny. Walter Flum, held on a murder charge, had a chance to escape, but refused to Join them. Four steel bars were pried from the jail win dows. Jt Is believed they had assist ance from the outside. OIL FOUND IN PERU. Rich Strike is Reported High Above Sea Level. Near I lie shore of Lake Tlticaca, In Peru, the highest navigable body of water In the world, being 13.200 feet above sea level, petroleum in large quantities has been found by the Inca Mining and Rubber Company, news of which was received by Al bert E. Fowk, of Catskill, N. Y.. who for 29 years was In Peru In the em ploy of that company. The first three wells sunk had to be abandoned because of the pressure of flowing water from the lake, but In the fourth well difficulty was over come by fastening steel rails over the casings. Against Negro Supremacy. It Is being suggested In England that a small party of American negro preachers, who have been advocating the Ethiopian propaganda, "Africa for the Africans, should be deported from South Africa. The government has taken no action. The agitation against the preachers has been re vived by the recent trouble at Cape Town, for which they are held by cer tain London papers to be partially responsible. They have made no se crot of their mission to South Africa, advising the natives to use their ef forts to secure black supremacy in that part of the world. 1,500,000-Pound Wool Clip. The largest Individual wool clip ever grown In America has been shipped from Billings, Mont., to Bos ton. The clip weighed 1.500.000 pounds, and 4 cars were required to carry It. The owner refused an of fer of 24 cents a pound for the wool. Chinese Must Pay $300 Head Tax. The measure adopted at the last session of the New Foundland legis lature 'requiring Chinese entering the colony to pay a head tax of $300 each was put into force by the colonial cabinet. The proclamation conies Just In time to prevent the Importation of 500 coolies. The much-talked of general strike in Russia has proved to be an abso lute fizzle and the worklngmen's council has prepared a formal an nouncement calling it off. STANDARD OIL INDICTED Chicago Grand Jury Convicts It of Receiving Rebates. TRUE BILL ON NINETEEN COUNTS Maximum Penalty Is Forty Times Greater Than the Amount of Benefits Received. A true bill an Indictment for ac cepting rebates In the form of remit ted storage charges Trom the Ijike Shore & Michigan Southern railroad was found against the Standard Oil Compuny by the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago. The oil company was re quired by the court to furnish $25,000 bond. The Indictment contains 19 counts, each count constituting an offense. Tire violations of the law cover a per iod from August, 1903, to February, 1905. The Indictment, which Is aimed at the corporation, Is silent on both oindals of the oil company and the railroads. The Indictment Is drawn under the Elklns law. The punishment Is a fine of $1,000 to $20',000 for each offense, and the maximum In the 19 offenses Is $380,000. The total amount of re bates In monthly instalments Is $8, 501.72, The quick action of the Jury came as a great surprise to the oil attorneys. Details of the system by which the railroad company handles the pro duct of the Standard Oil Company were laid before the grand jury dur ing the morning by two officials of the railroad and one Government at tache. J. L. Clark, general Western freight agent and C. A. Slauson, local freight agent of the Lake jShore, and George T. Roberts, tariff schedule ex pert for the Inter state Commerce Commission, were the men who testi fied. J. .1. Clark, one of the higher offi cials of the railroad were on the stand concerning the entire system of the Lake Shore in handling Standard Oil products. Other witnesses who were present were Vice President D. J. Grammer of the Lake Shore; M. C. Tally, Audi tor of the freight accounts of the same road, and R. M. Hutchinson, General Auditor of the company. The reatlons of Standard Oil to other railroads, notably the Chicago & Alton, Illinois Central, Rock Island nml Evansville & Terre Haute, will be taken up next. BURNS HUSBAND AND SISTER Demented Woman Kills Herself and Relatives by Cremation. Dr. E. H. DenBlow, of South Bend, Ind., husband of the demented woman who saturated her clothing with gasoline und set fire to It, died from burns received while trying to save his wife's lire. Miss Eugene Balfour, sister of Mrs. Denslow, also died from the burns she received in an effort to extinguish the flames that were burning Mrs. Denslow to death. Mrs. Denslow, after saturating her clothing with gasoline, threw a pan of the liquid on her husband, and when ho endeavored to smother the flumes enveloping his wife he was In stantly a mass of fire. Mrs. Denslow was burned to a crisp. LIVES LOST IN FLOOD Train Carrying Prospectors Isolated at Small Station Bridges Down and Tracks Washed Away. Special dispatches from San Angelo, Tex., on the Concho river, a tributary of the Colorado, say: Thus far five deaths have been re ported here due to the flood. Al though, these deaths have not been confirmed, there Is little hope that any of the reported victims will be found nive. A train filled with prospectors Is Isolated at a small station between here and Ballinger, unnble to proceed owing to bridges and tracks hnvlng been washed out. i DEMPSTER'S FOURTH VICTIM Negro's Bullet Causes Death of Lit tle Robert Pearce. Robert Edward Pearce, the fourth member of the Samuel E. Pearce fam ily of Washington County, Pa., who was shot near Cannonsburg, died a week later from hemorrhages due to the bullet fired by Elmer Dempster, the confessed murderer now In the county Jail. To Prosecute the L. & N. The department of justice has re ceived alfidavlts from persons resid ing In Kentucky, Tennessee and Ala bama, charging that the Louisville & Nashville railroad discharged or threatened to discharge employes be cause they were members of labor unions. The department has Instruc ted the United States attorneys In these states to commence proceedings against the road. Nine Miners Killed. An elevator In which 9 miners were going down to the Marchioness coal mine at Charlero . Belgium, dropped 900 yards, smashing the car to atoms and instantly killing all Its occupants. Their bodies were so crushed as to be almost unrecognizable. Potted Stuff is Bad. Reports of the analyses of about 50 samples of potted ham, potted chick en, hamburger steak and luncheon sausage and similar canned meats sold by packers, submitted to State Dairy and Food Commissioner Ankeny of Ohio, show the presence of preserva tives, and in some cases traces of tin and zinc poison, attributed to the use of a poor quality of containers. One sample labelled "Potted Chick en' was found to be veal. PASSENGERS IN PANIC Emigrants Fought With Knives While Ship Was Sinking. The Madrid correspondent of the London- Central News wires that 4vhen the Italian steamer Sirio was lost scenes of horror attended the wrecking. The steamer was going at full speed ahead when she struck. Her bow was crumpled up and a great hole was ripped In her hull forward. Through this hole the water rushed In Immense volume, flooding the for ward holds In a few seconds. Panic seized the emigrants. The shock was terrific and everyone on the shlp'was hurled down by the lm pnet of the hull upon the rocks. Those sleeping on the (leeks were scattered about and confusion reigned from the instant of the accident. The passengers commenced to rush for the small boats, In which many were killed and maimed. The crew was unable to cope with the panic and finally Joined In the mad battle for safety. The emigrants drew knives, with which nearly all of them were supplied, and fought- like dem ons to obtain places in the lifeboats as they swung In the davits. Women and children were Ignored, some of the former fighting like men, though the majority were hurled aside or trampled to death In the stampede. Men stabbed one another in fearful hand-to-hand conflicts about the boats or fought barehanded With the feroci ty of animals. Of the women and children a num im- eft I elr I af J ber were thrown overboard and left to drown. Other women threw the children into the water and leaped ter them. The horrible strife on the decks of the ship lasted not more than a min ute, for within scarcely that period of time the ship filled and sank. She sank by the bow, which slipped off the rocks Into deep water. TWO MEN KILLED Panhandle Limited Train Collided With Locomotive. Train No. 1C, the CiiUinatl and New York Limited, known aY- he Pride of the Panhandle" among the railroad men, was wrecked, just be low Steuben street, West End, Pitts burg. Two men were killed instantly. They were: J. W. Umstoll, of Shera den, fireman of train 1G; frightfully mangled, with parts of his head and limbs ground off and scattered along the track; O. T. Cunningham of In gram, fireman of a freight engine with which train 10, was in collision; head crushed and partially ground off and an arm torn off. The injured: William Parker, bag gagemaster of train 10, thrown under a mass of trunks and baggage and confined until the wrecking crew got to work to clear the car. There were a number of unusual features about the wreck. Train 18 was speeding toward Pittsburgh at a rate of about 50 miles an hour In charge of Engineer C. W. Wolf of Allegheny. Just after passing. D U tower, where there Is a network" of crossings, It struck a heavy freight engine running light, which was at tempting to cross over from the west bound passenger track to the freight tracks. Although both engines were going In the same direction, the shock was tremendous. THREE NEGROES LYNCHED Taken from Jail, Hanged to Trees and Shot. A mob of 3,000 determined men forcibly entered Rowan county Jail at Salisbury, N. C, removed therefrom three of the five negroes charged with the murder of the Lyerly family at Barber Junction, July 13, and lynclfed them. Nease and John Gillespie and Jack Dillingham, supposed to be the prin cipals in that crime, were the victims of mob vengeance. , The remaining negroes, Henry Lee, George Erian and Bella Dillingham, were not molested, and later officers hurried them off to Greensboro. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Theodore Stensland, son of the fu gitive president of suspended Chicago bank, said he would, turn his fathers property over to depositors. While preparing for his wedding Dr. Samuel B. Crawford, 32 years old, died suddenly at the home of his prospective bride, Mrs. Rose Sykes in Chicago. Mrs. Emma Ledoz was sentenced to be hanged at Stockton, Cal., Octob er 19 next, on her conviction of the murder of Albert H. McVlcar, a miner, with whom she had been liv ing. The case will be appealed. As a result of the explosion of a gasoline stove in their home at Sey mour Park, a suburb of Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Thomas O'Donnell was fatally burned and five of her six children were killed. The offlciar inquiry made by the naval authorities luto the wreck of the Slrlo series Inculpates the cap tain and crew of the steamer for saving themselves first, abandoning the vessel and causing a panic. Announcement was made that the Rt. Rev. Joseph Weber of Lamberg. has been appointed by the pope as bishop for the United States to look after the welfare of the 3,000,000 -Poles in America. Surgeons Save Imbecile'. An operation, by which an osceous growth two and one-half inches long and two Inches wide was removed from his skull, has restored Amos Abbott of Hagerstown, Ind., to his full senses. For 24 years he has been an Imbecile, as a result of a fractured skull sustained when he was two years old. All false pretences like flowers fall to the ground, nor can any counter felt last long. Cicero.
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