me —_— n
ne pastorate of a church when he
got to be 40. When I got to be 40 I
changed my mind, and thought 50 was
the proper age for retiring; then I
country is strewn with corpses.
The European manager of a large es-
tate had a race for
Accompanied by his wife, two children
and a nurse he attempted to keep ahead
of the flow of liquid fire, but the lava
life with the lava. |
"Company } ag Fo PRY
| scale of vjages as was paid in Augus
1899, whidh was the “boom” period ¢
{iron price:
A resolttion was introduced in tl
| Virginia Censtitutional Convention pr
R tic
d unless¥he railroads will iss
{ back home on their proof of hav
nstained | chased and paid for rides to San
MO0O00. It was but | cisco and back, they will be com
overtook the carriage and the nurse and | testing agaist the grandfather clause i
children perished, the parents escaping | restricting suffrage as tending fo creat]
by jumping into a clump of bamboo |a voting aristocracy.
trees by the roadside. | Peter Gruber, of Rochester, N.
Zo es {was bitten and nearly killed by his
cattle~nake
later came to see things differently,
and decided that when I was 60 I
should drop the work. But I don’t
give the matter any thought now.”
A undreds of reports, of | to ask aid from the county authorit
Rich the above are fair samples, should | In at least ten cases thieves even
have been reflected in the course ‘of | cured their victims’ trunks on stolen b
prices on the Board of Trade. | gage checks.
| Among those robbed are Dr. J.
~-.
y's |
pet
Epidemics of suicide frequently oc-
cur, just as epidemics of contagious
All works on criminology,
recog-
diseases.
as well as medical treatises,
nize a distinct class of cases, which
are called “imitational criminals” and
“imitational suicides.” It is well
“wa known that persons with an innate or
hereditary tendency toward crime are
easily influenced by suggestion. From
the psychologic standpoint every one
is more or less suggestible. Criminal
tendencies are more common than one
would suspect and are likely to break
loose: in most unexpected quarter
states the Sunny South.
Mercantile and industrial co-opera-
tion is making rapid strides in Cali-
fornia, according to a statement by
J. 8. Clark, one of the leading organ-
izers of the movemenf in that state.
Between 30 and 40 business houses in
the state are operating on the co-op-
erative plan. Each house was started
as a grocery, with just capital enough
to stock it, but with an assurance also
of sufficient patrons to keep it mov-
ing. One hundred and fifty families
are thought sufficient to make the
inning of a grocery store profitable,
and 100 more families added warrants
the broadening of the business.
Mr. Rockefeller gave a hard pre-
scription to the graduating class of
Chicago university in saying to them:
“If you are to succeed in life it will
be because you are masters of your-
selves.” A wiser than Rockefeller
that “he that ruleth his spirit is
than he that taketh a city.”
of a strong nature is the
victories. A man who is
Ss temper or by any other
Sions is not master of him-
who is the slave of any ap-
a cruel master. Mastery
ns more than self-control—
gelf-possession; the ab-
ver and direction of all
of mind and body. Very
ve complete mastery of
is perhaps why there
so few complete gnd
SUCCOSS in the h
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KILLED BY A MANIAC
Mects a Tragic Fate While a
Passenger on a Tra'n.
Rawlings, Wyo. (Special).—A man
named Rogers was shot to death by Ned |
Hadley Copeland, on the Union Pacific!
train No. 6. Copeland was traveling from
Stockton, Cal., to Council Bluffs, ka.
When at a point three miles eit of |
Wamsutter he walked into the car where |
Rogers was sitting and at once began |
shooting at him, saying: “There. take
that.”
entering Rogers breast and he died in-
stantly. Copeland was arrested and is
now in jail here. |
When asked what caused him to kill |
Rogers, he said: “He had me hypnotized |
and J had to de it.”
Copeland is undoubtedly out of his |
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Traveler
mind. As the killing took place in Sweet | burgh a letter was read announcing that | for $250, sent to him by “Pat”
Water county, Copeland will be taken to |
Green River and turned over to the au- !
thorities there. |
Boers Capture a Gun.
London (By Cable).——A dispatch
from Lord Kitchener, dated at Pretoria,
says the Boers attacked a constabulary
at Houtkop. in the Transvaal, July 11, |
capturing a 7-pound gun. He also says
the Boers were eventually driven off. |
The British loss is given as three men
killed and seven wounded. A noisy
scene in the House of Commons arose |
from a question as to whether the Brit-
ish wounded were left in the hands of
the Boers at Vlakfontein. Lord Stan-
ley, financial secretary of the war office,
declared the war office had no informa- !
tion on the subject.
The F rst on Record.
Boston (Special).—A petition in bank- |
ruptcy was filed by Stephen M. Mar- |
shall, secretary of the Tenth Congres-!
sional Republican District Committee of |
1808. The debts of the committee are |
shown to amount to about $800. This is !
the first time since the establishment of |
Se new bankruptcy law that a campaign
cdmmittee’s debts have found their way |
kf a bankruptcy court.
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Porto Rican Postmaster Arrested.
Washington (Special).—A cablegram |
received at the Postoffice Department |
fdbm San Juan announces the arrest on
Jdly 10 of Ricardo Navarez Rivera. as- |
iStant postmaster at Mameyes. Porto |
co, for embezzling letters containing |
uable inclosures. ‘
Desperate Struggle in Courtroom.
pper Sandusky, Ohio (Special).— |
During the progress of the Johnson |
mutder trial here Willis Miller, the de |
fendlant, attacked Guard Grundtisch. of |
the/ coy jail, who had just given tes- |
timo which Miller characterized as |
fe i A brother and sister of Miller
o he attaek on Grundtisch and a |
d struggle ensued. A general |
ved and the courtroom was |
a bedlam. A number of |
ted and others screamed in
en they tried to leave the
ere trampled on py the ex-
| canduct of the war in Soutl: Africa, will,
Randon Blood.
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The attorneys for Mre. Botkin are |
| preparing to take her case to the Su- |
| preme Court.
Emigration from ‘Germany during the
A Pet Frog Explodes.
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Wilson, wife and daughter, and Mrs.
Albany, Mo. (Special).—An accident, | R. Horrington, of Dover, Del. Dr. W
in which three children, a pet frog and | son's wallet, containing tickets for
| some dynamite figured, resulted in one | party, drafts on San Francisco bal
| first six months of thisiyear aggregated |
112.968.
Wm. J. Scott died at his home on the |
Potomac, near Shepherdstown, W. Va. |
The annual meeting of the Universal |
Peace Union began in Buffalo.
Foreign.
White has informed a |
United States in September, but whether |
he will return to Germany as ambassa- |
dor depends upon various considera-|
tions.
At a meeting of the trustees of the |
Carnegie Educational Fund in Edin. |
he had signed the deed placing $10,000, |
000 at the disposal of the trustees. |
It was announced in the British |
for the new Pacific cable had been se- |
lected at Queensland, New Zealand, |
Norfolk Island and Vancouver. |
The British captured manda]
| Scheeper’s laager at Camdeboo, secur- |
| ing a quantity of ammunition and stores, |
but Scheeper and the majority of his |
men escaped. !
Reports from Carthagena, Colombia, |
tell of a mutiny among the soldiers, in |
| which the mutineers attacked the guard |
| and
i wounded.
seven were killed and several |
The Bryant and May shareholders in|
special meeting in London adopted the |
{ plan of consolidation with the Diamond |
| Match Company.
The military commanders at Tientsin |
have directed the provisional govern- |
ment to destroy the Taku forts.
M. Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian
aeronaut, failed to win the prize offered
by Henry Deutsch for a manageable
balloon. He navigated the airship to
{the Eiffel Tower in Paris, making ex-
traordionary speed, but on the return |
trip the motor did not work properl:
ard the balloon descended int, a tree.
Disagreements hetween Lord Milner
and Lord Kitchener and increasing pui-
lic dissatisfaction in England over the!
it is reported, lead to Kiichener being
succeeded in the command of the Biit-
ith forces in Souvh.Africa by Gen. Sir
Financial.
The output of gold from the Rand dis-
trict in South Africa was 19,779 ounces |
as compared with 7478 ounces inf May.
England imported goods from the |
United States to the value of $740,000,-
000 last year and is by far our best cus-
tomer.
The Sue Canal in May, 10g vielded |
a transit revenue of $1.824.0g8 as com-
pared with $1,582,000 in M poo. In
last May 343 ships passed
canal. Forgghe first five'
year th

deatl: and the serious injury of two per- | and baggage checks, being stolen in
| sons.
| frog.
| on the frog ond exploded the dynamite. | to stranded passengers who desired
| A chisel, driven by the explosion, pierced | continue their journey west.
Curry, a contractor, found some dyna-
mite in the cellar of their home, and
thinking it was putty, fed it to their pet
A large toolchest afterward fell
the temple of the younger child and kill-
He shot threc times, the bullets | Ambassador ; ) |
| Berlin editor that he will return to the | €d it. Another child and Mrs. McCurry, f
who was in the kitchen above, were
seriously hurt.
Pat Crowe in Africa.
St. Joseph, Mo. (Special).—State
Senator A. W. Brewster received a draft
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The three children of George Mc- | crush at the depot in Colorado Sprin
Major S. K. Hooper, general pass
gen agent of the Denver and Rio Gra
Railroad, authorized the Glenw
Springs agent to furnish passes to Ogd
Masked Man Shot aad Killed.
Pottsville, Pa. (Special ),—Four ma
ed men entered the hotel of Peter Hq
at Yorkville, near here, and encounte
the proprietor and two guests, Mic
Ritzel and George A. Wachter. Dug
the fight that followed one of the
Crowe | pers was shot and killed, and Mr. HA
from Johannesburg, South Africa, to pay | was wounded in the leg. The three
an attoreny fee Crowe had been owing | maining burglars made their
a number of years. Crowe's name has
| House of Commons that landing sites | been connected by allegation with the
kidnapping in Omaha of a young son of
Edward Cudahy, the packer, who paid
a ransom of $25,000 in gold to recover
his boy. Several years ago Crowe was
under arrest in St. Joseph on the charge
of train robbery. The charge was findlly
dismissed, as the case was not a strong
one.
Loose Englae aad Express Collide.
Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special).—Two
persons were killed outright, one fatally
injured, several others were less serious-
ly injured in a head-on collision on the
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Ohio River Railroad at Padens at 6.30 |
p. m. l I
way from Cincinnati to Pittsburg, was
run into at full speed by a loose engine
The Ohio Valley express, on the |
southbound, and both engines were al- |
most demolished.
cape. T
dead man has not been identifi¢d.
Exonmerates Admiral Mellp.
Rio Janeiro (By Cable).—The Br
zilian Chamber of Deputies receiv
the report of a special committee a
pointed to consider the case of Rea
Admiral Mello, who was arrested la
April on a charge of monarchial pl
ting and who then appealed to
Chamber. The report declares that
accusations against the officer are
out foundation. It is considered [ce
tain that the Chamber will unanimou
confirm the committee’s conclusion.
New Device for Torpedo Boats.
Washington (Special.) —Orders we
forward from the Naval Bureau of Or:
nance directing that all the torpedo boa
The baggage car of | in the Navy, built or buildifig, shall
the Ohio Valley express was smashed | equipped with a new electrical device fd
up considerably, but none of the coaches
were damaged, and none of the train
| left the track except the engines.
Mail Carrier's Record.
Tamaqua, (Special).—Jacob Hartman,
aged 62 years, celebrated the 31st anni-
versary of his service as mail carrier for
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sending the torpedoes on their journe
through the water. By the new equi
ment an officer in the pilot-house ca
send the tubes overboard by the touch g
a button.
Two Men Blown to Pieces.
Denver, Col. (Special).—A dynam
the Reading Company between the rail- | magazine near the Grant smelter
way station and the postoffice.
his service he has been off duty
During | ploded. Two Italians were killed
but | several hurt.
Fragments of the vict
eleven days, four days of the time being | were strewn over ‘the prairie for |
due to sickness. Mr. Hartman makes dreds of yards. Windows in the Up
17 trips daily, and in the 31 years has | Stock Yards Bank, a quarter of
traveled 46,000 miles in the discharge of
his duty.
Explosion on an Excursion Boat.
Sunbury, Pa. (Special).—An excur-
sion boat anchored in the Susquehanna
| River at the foot of Market street, this
city, blew up with terrific force, killing
two bgys and injuring a dozen other per- | killed
sons, wo fatally. One man is missing | MOTD
and njay have been killed also. All of
the boys killed and injured were fishig
on a nearby wharf when the explg
occurred. The engineer was ah
ime, leaving the boat ig
at When he left therg
nds in the bd
d the fire door
away, were shattered. The dan
estimated at $5000.
His Life Was a Failure.
Crawfordsville, Inds (Speci
Judge James H. Sellars, forme,
of the legislature, and once ca
| the Democratic nomination fo
himself in his law officq
hine. He left a letter sa
a failure, and that his
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d States Consu,
burg (By