ere are
nure in
ice when
by death
848.
ibed a chil
“long, white
s called to ac
ent, who said
be long, but not
the editor justi
rging that “a hue
fed with a cry.”
ion that a monument
Bonaparte be erected in
ause it was through him
nited States came into
of the Louisiana territory
ed as grotesque by western
I's. The suggestion was
mate by one of the vice
its of the St. Louis exposition.
United States is the greatest
producing country of the world.
ough this country represents but
e-fifth of the total civilized popula-
ion of the world, it produces more
han one-fourth of all foodstuffs. The
United States produces 74,000,000 tons
of grain of a total of 229,000,000, and
4,500,000 tons of meat of a total of 15,-
200,000 tons. The Americans also pro-
duce a large percentage of the dairv
and fishery production of the world.
There is talk of the establishment of
a women’s college of matrimony to be
located in Chelsea, England, where the
fluties of a wife will become the sub-
fect of a two-year course of study. The
curriculum will embrace not only the
usual branches of housewifery, such
as cooking, serving and laundry work,
but is intended to deal with physiol-
ogy and medicine as well, so that the
students will receive mental discipline
in connection with the manual train-
and plenty of it, may be
*d a boom and a blessing, the
of the twentieth century
auspiciously. The
Texas are con
discoveries
rst year
starts out
wonderful gushers in
temporaneous with new
in Russia which promise to rival in
copious output the great Baku wells
on the shore of the Caspian sea. It is
noted, however, thta the Texas oil,
like the Russian oil, is not of the
first quality for illuminating pur
poses. It will be mainly used as a
fuel.
most
It will interest other people beside
Great Britain
who
the register-general of
to know that of 3145
since the beginning of the South Afri
can war have ben pensioned from the
royal patriotic fund, 92 have already
remarried. These are certainly curi:
ous figures, and if other widows re
married the spinster’s chance of
husband would be reduced almost to
vanishing point. No doubt the patri
otic fund nossesses the full details of
these cases, Nand it is to be hoped
that commissioners will supply them
Mulhall places the, average age at
which widows remafpry in England at
39. but in all probability what may
be termed war widows are very much
and their chances in the
market for this and
are being en
widows
a
younger,
matrimonial
other obvious reasons
hanced.
The weekly house-to-house delivery
system of books from the public libra-
gry, established in Springfield, Mass., a
Tew months ago, is proving a success
in the district in which it has been
tried. The operating agreement is te
be renewed this fall, and if the plan
continues to be popular in this district
it will be extended to other scciions
of the city. Of the 150 persons re-
ceiving books in this way, more than
one-half had never before made any
use of the city library. It has been
gon necessary to raise the price of
delivery somewhat, and a choice
> given of paying 50 cents for six
weeks of (the service,”$1 for 12 weeks,
or $3 for 36 weeks. This is less than
the cost of street-car fare to and from
the library once a week. It must be
remembered, too, that the unit of the
system is the heuse and not the in-
dividual, and that any number of per-
sons in one family who are entitled
to hold cards can have a book apiece
for the expense of one delivery,
R STEAMER
TOPPLED OV
City of Golconda ‘Struek by a Squall
Dueing a Severe Storm,
N PEOPLE WERE DROWNED.
Disaster Occurred While pper Was Being
Served and Many of” the Passengers Were
in the Cabin-The Wind Struck the Boat
Without Warning and There Was No Time
for Those Dn the Inside to Escape.
SL
(Special).—The steam-
er City of Ripe: plying between
this city and Elizabethtown, Ill., was
struck by a squall during a storm about
7 p. m. as she was enroute to Paducah.
She turned over in ten feet of water
six miles above the city as she was go-
ing into Crowell’s Landing.
Sixteen persons are reported drown-
ed. Their names are:
Miss Lucy Barnett, of Smithland.
Miss Lizzie Graham and Miss Trixie |
Adams, of Greenville.
Mrs. David Adams,
Messrs. Watts Havis,
Livingston county; Clarence
of Lola, Ky., and three colored
hands.
The disaster occurred as supper was
of Smithland.
a farmer of
served, and many of the 75 passengers |
were in the cabin. The wind struck
the boat without warning and there |
was no time for those on the inside to
escape.
Capt. Jesse Bauer and Pilot E. E.
Peck were the last to leave the boat |
and swam to shore. They
eral persons struggling in the water and
left the survivors in a house near the
bank and came to the city. Captain |
Bauer, who arrived here two hours ai-
ter the catastrophe, said:
“The boat was getting ready to land
when the squall struck her and she
listed. Several passengers, who were
inside, jumped overboard and were
caught by the boat. The women, all of
whom were in the cabin, could not be
reached. The boat settled down in ten
feet of water over a reef and two of
the men who were in the cabin—H. E.
Worten and N. S. Quartermouse, of
Hampton—broke through the glass and
were saved. Three colored deckhands
saved a woman and child and I think |
she was the only woman saved.”
FLYING SHIP SOARED IN AIR
Gustave Whitehead Said to Have Invented a
Traveling Boat.
Bridgeport, Conn. (Special).—Gus-
tave Whitehead is the inventor of a
combined automobile and flying ma- |
¢hine and last Tuesday it is said he]
worked the contrivance.
which has a speed of twenty miles an
hour on the road, is equipped with an
acetylene motor, which also operates
the air propellers. In the test the ma-
chine after acquiring sufficient momen-
tum on the road was operated so that
it left the earth and soared away until!
it reached a height of fifty feet. After
traveling half a mile Mr. Whitehead
shut off the power and made a graceful
descent. While in the air the flying |
machine sailed around several large
trees directly in its pail
200 MILES AN HOUR.
Remarkable Speed Is Claimed for Cigar |
Shaped Elevated Cars.
New York (Special).—Within a few
days the American Elevated Railroad
Company will emerge from rather mys-
terious obscurity with the announcement
of an important transportation project.
At least this was the statement of Os
born Congleton, president of the com-
pany. At the last meeting the capital
stock of the company was raised from
$100,000 to $5,000,000.
The base of the project is a new form
of electrical transportation. It is a ci-
gar-shaped car running on a central rail
on an elevated structure. The electricity
is carried in two outer rails. It is said
to be capable of a speed of 200 miles ar
hour at a cost of but one-fourth of th
present method.
CRAZED BY A BLUNDER.
Station Agent Causes a Collision and
Loses His Reason.
Omaha, Neb. (Special).—Jas. Gr
station agent at Otha, Iowa, seri]
orders which brought two freight
together on the same track. He j
lying in the baggage room a
maniac as a result of his blung
strained by his friends from
struction. He is kept under t
ence of chloroform. In a f
self-reproach, Greene sought ft
throat, but was restrained.
came together on a heavy
the crews jumped and escape,
of
cut his
e trains
ade, but
injury.
Six Men Killed by Explosbn.
Little Falls, N. Y.
Mohawk and Malone
Herkimer was burned.
bert and an engine tender pamed John
Deck, assisted by residenfs of the vi-
cinity and members of tt idge-build-
ing gang, attempted to 1guish the
flames. While they w ghting the
firc a large quantity of
in the building explc
bert and Deck and
bodies of the four i
unrecognizable.
rourdhouse
Walchman Gil-
entioned are
Plucky
Birmingham (Sp
adelphia express
the high rock just
slide came down
just in front of
some extent. E
of Harrisburg, v
al).— As the Phil- |
st of here a small
triking the engine
b, damaging it to
was at the throttle.
was badly cut ut the face by rock!
and flying glasf@rom the cab window.
but he refused leave his post, and
took the train Harrisburg, a distance
of more han @e hundred miles.
rn Iron Trade.
Ala. (Special). --The
Committee, to which
rious railroads in Ala-
nessee handling the pro
iron furnaces and
Ksued its report for July.
ring is not a bad one, tak-
onsiderztion that the month
hé dullest of the year. The
cf iron from Alabama and
P for July amounted to 11. 754
e shipments of cast iron pipe
amounted to 18.030 tons
Birmingh
Southern
beleng th
bama and
duct of }
plants, h
and the
ing int
is usual
shipme
Tenney
tons.
for
Slayton, |
deck- |
saved sev-
The machine, |
(Special).—The |
at |
nite stored |
The!
passing around |
eer John Galagher, |
steel |
SUMMARY oF THE ATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
A syndicate compesed of Drexel &
Co., Brown Bros. & Co. and Harey Fisk
& Sons’ Co. has bid $9,022,500 for the
$0,000,000 314 per tent. water supply,
bonds of Philadelphia, and the city yg
accept the bid.
Two men were fescued from t
terworks tunnel! ~ 7d, 2
under Lake Ejie. rs impr
there for five days oN
be dead. “v
Seven ‘of the 14 n. \ $Y;
explosion of molten mod \! >
furnace departitent of the
the National Steel Company eo
town; are dead. jo \
By the premature explosion of x 8
used in target practice at Riley Reserv
tion, Kan., one soldier was killed an
| eight injured.
[ It 'is semiofficially announced that
| President Hays, of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, Has resigned. :
Company 1
To, Clevela
|
The American Tinplate
now running three mills
The Russian bark Neptune {is_ttoufl
to have been wrecked off the Blan
Coast in the recent storm.
The plant of the American Cigar fac-
loss,
|
|
and expect to soon start others)
|
|
| tory in Richmond, Va., was burned ;
| $150,000, partly insured.
Wm. E. Douglass, formerly assistant |
teller of the Guarantee Trust and Sav- |
ings Company of Philadelphia, who was
arrested in Boston, decided to return
| to Philadelphia without a requisition.
| Lack of rods at the American Steel
[and Wire Mills, at Joliet, TIL, Jwill force
| them to shut down increasing the num-
| ber of workmen out at tha place to
| 6000, many of them involunfarily.
President Search,
sociation of Manufacturers, will
meeting shorgly for the discussion
reciprocity with foreign nations
Rev. Charles W. Perkins, of Boston,
will become president of Denison Uni-
versity, Granville, Ohio.
Twenty-nine ships chaftered to carry
grain are tied up in San/Francisco har-
bor because of the strike,
John Winters, who robbed the Selby
Smelting Company, of California, of
$200,000, pleaded guiltfy.
Dr. D. Wood, fot
versity, Cal,
lumbia University.
A plan is on foot tO hase built a fine
bridge across the Missouri river at
Kansas City.
| The removal of tobacco tariff has re-
| vived business in Porto’ Rico.
| J. Spear Gilchrist vag found dead in |
bed at Elkins, W,
| Reports receiv :d
| state that the ship MN
| sailed nearly a ago from
York for Yoko{alld, and which has
been reported nfissing, was wrecked on
the desert island of Pikar,
| Ocean.
Mr. Charles! H. P. Sharretts, mem-
ber of the board of appraisers at New
York. will be/the American representa- |
tive in Ching in connection
i adjustment
The arre
St. Louff
ell a
of
' San
anchester,
in has led, it is claimed,
terfeit tickets and passes. The B. &
(3 s tickets were among those on the
ist.
A rom
ied in tl
| Lieut. Henry Watterson, Jr.,
| orita
| tiful C
i. “The
nce of the Spanish war result
marriage in Philadelphia of
and Sen- |
ban girl.
Jnited Fruit Company's steam- |
er Ethelwold, bound from Port Plata,
Jamaiza, for Boston, with bananas,
went ashore on Baker's Island. She
freed’ herself.
A number of the cotton manufactur-
ers pf New England are opposed to re-
ducing wages September 1, lest it
should precipitate a general strike.
The Chicago Board of Health is mak-
ing tests to ascertain definitely if bo-
1e tuberculosis can be communicated
human beings.
Col. John D.
rate officer, died
enver, Col.
Mr. Michael Davitt, M. P., addressed
an Irish-American gathering in Chi-
cago.
ex-Confed-
home near
Elliott, an
at his
Foreign.
A London hotel proprietor has refused
{ the demand of white American guests
{ that Afro-American delegates to the In-
ternational Ecumenical Council be placed |
in a separate part of the hotel.
A party of South African constabulary
surprised a Boer laager near Middleburg,
Cape Colony. The Boer losses were 23
killed. The British lost one killed,
wounded and 14 missing.
It is said that the Crown Prince of |
Germany will marry one of the daugh- |
ters of the Duke of Connaught, and |
that another daughter, Princess Mar- |
| garet, is betrothed to the Czarewitch of |
Russia.
The first Parliament of King Edward
VII. wound up its business and ad-
| journed. Some of the London news-
papers were severe in their comments
jon the work of Parliament.
A body of Kurds has been raiding a
section of Armenia. Twelve
have been destroyed, the men and boys
! murdered and the young women
ried off to harems.
Owing to poor crops in certain sec-
tions another famine is expected in one-
third of the provinces of European |
! Russia.
Hugh C. Kelly and Ethel.
were
America.
10
{of Sir Arthur Forwood,
in London and started for
Mr. Chamberiain, in replying
{ criticism of Sir William Vernon
court on Lord Kitchener's
| tion in the House of Commons,
regard to the devastation policy.
was nothing compared with
Sherman's campaign.
The editor and publisher of the Lon-
ion Globe has been ordered to appear
before the bar of
| mons for accusing Nationalist
bers of corruption in connection
private bill Jegislation.
Over 700 persons, mostly women, im-
a
said in
tha
mem-
with
plicated in the fire at the harem of the | 3
Yildiz palace, have been banished {rom
| Constantinople to Arabia.
Financial.
The Park Steel Company, of
burg, has declared the regular monthly |
dividend of 134 per cent. on the pre-
ferred stock.
Stockholders of the Commerciai Na- |
tional Bank of Chicago have voted to |
$2,000,000.
It is stated that W.
priced stocks of the Vanderbilt system.
including 20.0000 shares of Nickel Plate |
common and an equal amount of Lake |
| Frie and Western.
of the National As- |
Stinford Uni- |
has accepted ; call to Co- |
Francisco |
which |
New |
in the Pacific |
with the |
f the tariff of that country. |
of railroad ticket brokers |
to |
the exposure of a great scheme to coun- |
Bfinca Esther Casanova, a beau-|
SIX
villages |
car- |
daughter |
married |
Har- |
proclama- |
tit
General |
the House of Com- |
Pitts- |
increase the capital from $1,000,000 to
K. Vanderbilt |
has recently invested $8,000,000 in low- |
men Dead any Hurt
in Philad8 phia.
NZINE TANK EXPLODES.
Strikes a Tank
ration at Point 3 ertel a Short
Four or Five Big) la of Oil Are
Blaze--Many Were/ Injured by Flying
and Starts a
YT
~Nadelphia (Special).—During a se-
electrical storm lightning struck a
zine tank at the Atlantic Oil Refining
hpany's works, at Point Breeze, in the
thwestern section of the city. Four
tanks were ignited by the blaze from
e benzine tank and the five were de-
royed with their contents; also 63,000
arrels of oil and 28,000 barrels of ben-
ine.
® While a large force of firemen were
tl @ndeav oring to check the fire in a nest | attle ;
an | son,
| Bf burning oil tanks at 12.30 a. m.
nmense tank of benzine exploded.
Many firemen were in proximity to | Captain Foote, George AMan, third en-
| 3
the tank and fell victims to the blazing
oil'and fiying pieces of iron.
were badly burned before they could be |
rescued by their more fortunate com-
panions.
A general call was telegraphed for am-
bulances and patrol wagons, and the in |
jured were hurried to the hospitals in
the lower end of the city.
| The men were horribly
their bodies mutilated.
The bodies were hardly recognizable
when brought to the morgue. Some of
{ the injured will die.
Ten or twelve tanks of benzine and pe-
troleum were destroyed. The fire, it is
thought, will not burn itself out for sev-
eral days. The loss, it is estimated, will
reach probably a half million dollars.
ROBBED BY EMPLOYE.
burned and
| and
{ city;
| F.
I'S,
Three or four were killed and many | hooder
Night
{ off Douglas Island at 3 o'clock Thurs
| day morning while the steamer was or
| her way south with the largest numbet
| She
| The American Steamer ‘Avelyn (ioes Ashore
Secretary of the “New York Branch of Swift |
& Co. Short in Accounts.
New York (Special).—It has just be-
come known that the New York office
of Swift & Co. the Chicago packers
had been robbed of a considerable sum
| of money by its secretary and treasurer.
The local office is incorporated as a
New York corporation. Its
and treasurer was John Hayden,
years old.
Following his
Chapman, an auditor
offices of the company,
custom,
Chicago
this
usual
in the
came to
secretary |
35 |
| days awaiting a chance to come in.
John |
I city to make an inspection of the ac- |
counts.
turned over the books
| day Hayden was at the
short time, but the next day
be found. Mr. Chaplin continued
his work and at present the loss
variously estimated at from $10,000 to
$50,000.
Hayden met Mr. Chaplin and
to him. Tues-
office for a
could not
in
is
BRITISH SYMPATHY WITH STRIKERS.
| with spurts of go miles.
| damage to shipping in the bay and the
| Congressman Grosvenor ‘Says Englishmen |
Want Our Industries to be Cripp
(By Cable).—Prior
London to his
{ fishing fleet were badly damaged. 0
| of them sank, causing a loss aggregating
| departure for New York on the Ameri- |
can Line steamer St. Paul,
man Grosvenor, of Ohio, referred to
| the wide-spread interest taken in Great |
Britain in the American steel strike.
“The sympathy of the British pub-
lic,” said the Congressman,
with the strikers, not for any good
feeling for the men, but they hope our
industrial systems may be as damaged
and crippled as theirs have been. They
hope the closing of our mills will force
us to buy from theirs and permanently
defeat our prosperity.”
EXPECTS BOTHA'S SURRENDER.
Rather Incredulous Story Published in a Lon-
don Paper Concerning the War.
London
Congress- | : C
{ for Apalachicola with a cargo of cypress
“is strongly |
i tinguished
| Philadelphia,
| ington,
| ers now being constructed at Sparrows
Point by the Maryland Steel Company, |
were
(By Cable).—The Sun says |
it hears that the concentration of General |
at Hondweni,
announced
Botha's forces
ders of Zululand, in a
cn the bor- |
dis-
patch from Durban, does not foreshadow |
a fight with Botha, but his surrender. in
pursuance with an understanding reach-
ed between General Botha and Lord
Kitchener. The Sun adds that the gov-
ernment is satisfied that the war is vir-
! tually over, and that Lord Milner, now
on his way back to South Africa, has in
his pocket the draft of a complete con- |
stitution and plans for the future govern-
! ment of the annexed territor ies
FEVER TEST CAUSED A DEATH.
| Spaniard Bitten by an Infected Mosquito Died
| and Experiments Stopped.
Havana (Special).—Chief Surgeon |
| Havard has announced that the exper-
| iments in the investigation of the pro-
| pagation of yellow fever,
| involved the mosquito test, will be dis-
| continued. This decision was taken
because one of the non-mmunes who
was recently bitten by an infected
| mosquito died of yellow fever. The
man was a Spaniard, desired to become
tan immune and therefore allowed him-
| self to be bitten by an infected
quito. Another man who was bitten
is also suffering from a very bad case.
14 Ships for Morgen?
| in Glasgow that J. R.
Leyland Line, has bought the
tablished City Line of 14 steamers,
gaged in the East Indian trade,
price being nearly £1,000,000 ($5,000,-
000). Mr. Ellerman, according to ru-
mor,
and his associates. The City
owned by George Smith & Sons, of
Glasgow. The fleet has an aggregate
tonnage of about 535,000. With this ad-
dition and two Johnston Line steam-
ers recently purchased the Leyland Line
fleet. which was formerly composed of
58 vessels with a total tonnage of 246,-
en-
140. )
nage of over 301,146.
Castillo’s Widow is Dead.
Madrid (By Cable).—The widow of
|
|
|
|
{
|
so far as these |
jer
mos- |
|
{
IL.ondon (By Cable). —It is reported |
Ellerman, of the |
cld-es- |
| armed
the |
ts acting for J. Pierpont Morgan |
Line is |
| er
would have 74 vessels and a ton- |r
|
weeks.
{
| search
Senor Canovas del Castillo, former Pre- {
ner of Spain, is dead. Senor Canovas
[ del Castillo was shot and killed by
Anarchist at the baths of Santa Agueda,
at Guesalibar, August 8, 1897.
Cable Service Established.
WwW ashington
munication has
tween Calapan,
of Mindora, and Boac near the west
{ ccast of the island of Marinduque, in
{ the Philippines.
been established be-
| have
an |
| covering
{ Mayd.
| ville, I.
| Several
(Special).—Cable com- |
| Should the negro be run down his fate
on the northern coast |
|
SHIPWREC
Struck an Iceb
ass Island,
KS pucial), ~The steam-
Cr TST a as er steamer
of the Alaskan a by the
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
of this city, sin an iceberg off Doug-
las Island at 2 &clock Thursday last and
went to the bgttom, earrying down 63
to 80 souls, dncluding passengers and
members of the crew. Some of the sur-
vivors arriv here by the steamer
Queen. Thef report that as the vessel
went down the boilers exploded, causing
the death of many who might have es-
caped. Captain Foote was on the bridge
when the vessel struck and stayed there
and went down with his steamer.
Among the passengers lost on the Isl-
ander were: Mrs. Ross, wife of the gov-
ernor of the Yukon Territory, her child
niece; Dr. John Duncan, of this
W. G. Preston and bride, Seattle,
Mills, Victoria; Mrs. J. C. Hender-
son, Victoria; W. H. Keating and twa
sons, Los Angeles, Cal.; J. V. Douglas,
Vancouver; Mrs. Phillips and child, Se-
Mr. Tall, Victoria; Mrs. Nichol-
wife of Captain Nicholson.
lost are:
The members of the crew
gineer, Horace Smith, second steward
J. Pitts, cook; two Chinamen; Buck:
and Burke, oilers; two firemen;
Saloon Watchman Kendall; Joe
Bard, second pantryman; two waiters;
G. Miller, barber; N. Law, M. P. Jock,
| Porter and Moran, coal passers.
The number of victims of the wreck
ed steamship Islander is fully 65, and
| probably 70. Additional details by sur
vivors confirm the disaster, which re
sulted from collision with an iceberg
she had carried
passengers which ;
on the run a few
was replaced
months ago.
GREAT GULF STORM.
of
at Pensacola--Many Schooners Sunk.
Pensaola, Fla. (Special).—The French
steamship Cyrano, which arrived here
reports that the American steamship Ev-
elyn, 10 days from New York for this
port, went aground at 8 o'clock about
eight miles from Pensacola Bar. She
is listed and is fast going to pieces. The
Cyrona is 12 days from Savannah, and
experiened very rough weather. She
beat up and down the beach for three
The
Cyrano sighted the British steamship
Spennymoor, but she put back to sea and
was not sighted again.
During the storm the Portuguese bark
Propheta, laden with a cargo of timber
valued at $5,000 for St. Thomi, Africa,
was badly damaged. Her rigging was
carried away, masts srapped off and she
was stove in on the start 1rd side and
stern. The bark B. A. Bra, on was also
slightly injured. The storm”was one of
the wildest ever known here. * The wind
reached a velocity of 70 miles an hour,
There was great
water front property. Twelve or fifteen.
schooners of E. E. Saunders & Co.'s
Fo
$70,000 >
The schooner Tortugas, from Mobile
lumber, which put in for anchor ge, col-
| lided with another vessel and sank.
DESTROYERS IN WATER.
Three New Fighters Lauuetied at Sparrows
Point, Near Baltimore.
Md. (Special).—In
presence of more than 2000 people,
among whom were a number of dis-
visitors from New York,
Jaltimore,
the |
Wilmington
the three torpedo boat destroy-
launched with great enthusiasm.
The Whipple left the ways at 1.48, the
Truxton at 2.03 and the Worden at 2.13.
and Wash- |
The Whipple was christened by Miss
Elsie Pope, of St. Paul, Minn.
Truxton was named by Miss Isabelle
Truxton, of Norfolk; Va., the grand-
daughter of Commodore Truxton, ol
Norfolk, Va., and Mrs. Emilie D. N
Worden, of New York, christening the
Worden. After the launching the
guests were entertained at luncheon by
the Maryland Steel Company.
STEAMER SINKS PILOT BOAT.
: James Gordon Bennett Cut Down and Foun
Men Are Drowned.
New York (Special).—The Germar
steamer Alene, now running in the
Atlas branch of the Hamburg-American
| Line, ran down and sank the pilot boat
James Gordon Bennett No. 7 and
drowned three pilots and the cook oi
the Bennett.
The accident occurred near the Scot-
land lightship, while the pilot boat was
lying hove to on Sandy Hook bar,
about ten miles east of Sandy Hook
When the Alene struck the pilot boat
the weather was clear.
The survivors say the German steam-
came bearing down upon their ves-
sel and they were totally unable tc
avoid her.
CALIFORNIA STAGE HELD UP.
one Robber Gets ‘Money and Valuables From
Twenty Passengers.
San Francisco (Special).—One man
with a repeating rifle held up a
stage loaded with twenty passengers on
the Calistoga and Clear Lake road,
some eighty miles north of here. Af-
ter taking the express box, the mail
bag and watches and purses of passen-
gers the bandit ordered the stage driv-
to go on. He got a few hundred
dollars, but the exact amount is not
known. The passengers were all tour-
ists. The highwayman wore a hand-
kerchief over his face and had cut holes
in it for his eyes. This is the third
obbery in this section in the last three |
5,000 Men or His Trail.
Texas (Special). — The
Moses Wilder, the hali-
Indian who is said to
murdered Mrs. Caldwell near
Mayd, continues. Posses are
all the territory from South
Grayson county, to Wood-
T., a distance of 100 miles.
arrests have been made, but
were soon released.
Sherman,
for
breed negro
South
in
the suspects
is not a matter of conjecture. The offi-
The |
cers, however, are taking steps against
mob violence. Sheriff Shrewsbury says
there are 5000 men on the trail.
Al
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BURGLARS (
Two Men Attag
His Wife in,
Robber FE
Stores an
and Looted
These
sylvanwafs: Jacob
burg, $8: John Thy y 2.50;
Craner Clendennan, Warentum, $12;
Julia A. Lowe, New Castle, $8; Cather-
ine Copley, Warriors Mark, $12; Susam
A. Winter, Somers Lane, $8; Mary E,
Dunlap, Pittsburg, $8; Sarah A. Car
ron, California, $8; Helen Condon
Johnstown, $8; Geo. M. Vensel, Alle
gheny, $6: Isaac Vincent, New Era
$10; Joseph W. Russell, Grove City,
$10; Samuel Franklin, Lloyd, $6; Mar-
garet J. Tomer, New Kensington, $8;
Sarah A. Hixenbaugh, Roscoe. $8:
Denison B. Moses, Springboro, $6; Ab.
salom W. Boyd, Bradiord, $6: Law-
rence Watson, Nelson, $7; Wm. A.
Scranton, Lander, $17; Mary Ann Up-
ton, Sheffield, $8; Sarah J. James, Kit-
tanning, $8; Emma L. Leffard, Matta-
wana, $8.
The following postoffices will be
raised to the Presidential class on Oc-
tober 1: Cresson, salary $ri0o. The
name of the postoftice at Cooksville
Westmoreland county, has been chang-
ed to Pricedale, with Laura A. Wilson
as postmaster, Postoffices discontin-
ued: Ferdinand, Erie county, mail to
Union City; Itley., Juva, Sibleyville and
West Greene, Erie county, mail to
Waterford. The following Pennsyl-
vania postmasters were appointed:
Brownfield, Fayette county, W. H.
Walker: Clarksville, Greene county, J.
W. Virgin; Delphen, Greene county,
C. R. Hughes; Rockton, Clearfield
county, S. H. Beer.
It is believed that an organized band
of robbers and incendiaries is operating
in Lebanon county. Eight crimes in
four days have caused widespread
alarm. Zion Church, in East Hanover
Township, was robbed and burned
down. The same night $500 worth of
trousers were stolen from a factory at
Jonestown. At the same place John C.
Hetrick's farm was robbed of a wagon
load of provisions and Priscilla Wertz's
shoe store was ransacked, but nothing
stolen. The robbers raided the Phila-
delphia and Reading station at Rich-
land. Trunks, satchels and boxes were
pried open and the contents scattered
over the floor. The safe was drilled,
but not wrecked. The station slot ma-
chines were also shattered and rifled.
Two burglars entered the bedroom of
Alexander Kermichael at Springfield,
and in their endeavor to rob his home,
cut his throat so badly that he is not ex-
pected to recover. Mrs. Kermichael
managed to get out of the bedroom to
call for assistance, and in her absence the
burglars beat her husband into uncon-
sciousness and then fled without secur-
ing any valuables. Joseph Gieske and
Albert Kochinsky v.32 imprisoned on
suspicion of being ‘@-sagoild-be assas-
sins. They were*¢ rial 2g be ne Corbin
coal mine by Constaoes Swrre and Dig oer
bert, who had a lively struggle with the
men
When pretty Anna Tenerelli, one of
the Italian girls of Pittston, refused to
name an early date for her marriage to
Vincent Satelli, her sweetheart, he dre
1 revolver, it is alleged, and attempte
to put an end to their courtship b
shooting her. They had been engage
for some time, and Satelli wanted
carly marriage, while his sweeth
did not care to give up her liberty
a time. Satelli called on her and a
her once again to name an early
Angered at her refusal, she say:
drew a revolver and attempted t
her consent at the muzzle of
She still refused, and he
missed her.
There is trouble brewing. in the ranks
of the Coatesville Fire Department. The
Fire Commiitee of Council, all of whom
are members of the Washington Fire
Company, have refused the Brandywine
Fire Company permission to take its
chemical engine to the parade of the
State Firemen’s Associaton, in Philadel
phia, on October 3. Samuel Tueston,
president of the latter company, says that
unless permission is granted to take the
chemical engine the company will not
march in the line of parade with the
Coatesville department.
Four trainmen were injured by the
collision of two Reading Railway en
gines at the south mouth of the Maha
noy tunnel. The injured are: Baggage
master Harry Kleinhart, Brakeman
Howard Ettinger, Engineer Harry E,
Smith and Brakeman Fred Shugart.
The men live at Tamaqua. Both en
gines were derailed, but only slightly
damaged.
Mrs. David C. Zink. of Harrisburg,
wife of the State organizer of the Or-
der of Woodmen, tried to kill herself.
She secured his revolver and shot her-
self in the right temple. She was un-
conscious when found. Should Mrs.
Zink survive she will be totally blind.
Nervous trouble is the cause assigned
for her deed.
William H. Good had his arm man-
gled and narrowly escaped death at the
American Jron and Steel Works, Le-
banon. His coat caught in the cog
wheels of a machine and in order to
save his life Good kept his body from
the cogs with his arm. The flesh was
ripped off the arm to the shoulder.
William Carney died at Norristown
of a fractured skull sustained by being
struck by a train and hurled from a high
bridge over Stony Creck.
\ dividend about 16 per cent. it
is announced, will be paid to depositors
of the defunct Chester County Guaran-
rust & Safe Denosit Company.
The regular quarterly meeting of
I"ennsvlvania Geange. Patrons of Hus-
bandry. of Chester and Delaware coun-
ties, was neld at Lincoln University.
“he corrupt politics of the State was
condemned and farm crops discussed.
John Kitchruw, of Avoca. was run
down and killed by a passenger train
0: the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
Ile had just drawn hix pay at the But-
ler mines and it was through the cash
envelope that he was identified.
The 2-vear-old child of Lewis Perry,
living near Bredensburg. fell into a pail
of boiling water and was scalded to
death.
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