I J ‘ THE BULLETIN. ORIN, PA. JE SCHROLL, - Editor and Publisher, SUBSCRIPTION: Fifty Cents Per Annum, strictly in advance. Six Months, . - Bingle Copies, . . Brats Copies Free. Special Rates to Yearly Advertisers. Address all communications to— THE BULLETIN, Florin, Pa. 26 Cents. 3 Cents. Entered at the Postoffice at Florin as second-class mast matter. { Canada has 2260 miles of navigabla waters. That! is, from the Atlantic ocean to the had of Lake Superior, a vessel may sail that many miles with- in her own tephitory. d butter state” is the way will be known hereafter. a name that she is rightly en- o. Last year she ground out 26,630,500 barrels of flour and churned 60,000,000 pounds of butter. “Bread : Minnes Thi Before leaving for the Nofth Pole in a balloppn two years ago Andree “If You have no news of me July, 1901, you may give And it begins to have to take his said: by the end o me up for d look like we word for it/ Norway, which has just beén compleled, gives it a popula- tion Jt 2,200,000 \ against 2,110,000 in 189 This is an average of 16.80 in- haljitants to the square mile, making wrway the most thinly settled coun- Sg “try in Europe. A 999-year lease expired in London the other day and the property revert- ed to the origir % awner, the chapter of Westminster p.fish. This demon- strates that the church is more sta- ble than man. The officials who signed the lease long since passed away, but the church still lives. Reports of cases of hydrophobia a. current. It is significant that among them is one in which it is admitted that the disease was purely imaginary, and that the victim was simply frightened and worried to death. If the truth could be revealed, such would prob- ably be found to be the fact in many act is that only two ent McKinley's cab- niversity education. } wealth. The secre- sury began life as a secretary of war as he postmaster as a e secretary of the navy chore boy” on a farm, the secre- of agriculture as a plowman, the secretary of the interior as a esman. xperts who have looked into the latter carefully say that the consump- ion of oatmeal is falling off in Scot- and in proportion to the population, and that it is no longer the distinct- ive national aish in the country of Burns and Scott. But whatever our Scoten friends may be eating in these days, they are holding their own in the world quite as well as their fore- fathers held theirs. Brains will tell with any diet. The ease of locomotion and change has probably been the principal cause of the vast herding of human beings in great cities. The human stream has flowed resistlessly toward industrial and distributing centres, and many new varieties of experience have come into being. The rapid social currents set up in all parts of the world ‘are becoming ever more complex and diffi- cult to unravel, and the work of the economist and social scientist is cor- respondingly difficult, remarks the Christian Register. Cemeteries are choked with the graves of men that brought them- selves to premature death through worry. And the abodes of the living are densely habited by half wrecks and whole failure that came to this melancholy condition through the same agonizing process. Human records will never show the number and class of the millions that came into the world with goodly prospects and fair opportunities, but that went down to defeat und weight of woes that were never ized, or through the slaying suspeWe which was more po- tent to blast afd intimidate than would have been the actual happening of the danger feared. There is very little doubt among medical men and even ypskilled laymen thattheemotioncom- honly designated as worry has a pow- ifr as devastating and much more per- rwork, feflects a writer i THE BOER FARMS WILL BE SOLD. Lord Kitchener Proceeds to Carry Out Proclamation. A LETTER FROM SCHALK-BURGER. A Pamphlet Has Been Published im Pretoria Under Lord Kitchener's Authority Con- taining a Notice of the Permanent Ban- ishment of Several Boer Leaders Captured Since September 15. Pretoria (By Cable).—A proclamation has been issued providing for the sale of the property of burghers still in the field, in accordance with the terms of Lord Kitchener's recent proclamation. A pamphlet has been published here under Lord Kitchener's authority con- taining a notice of the permanent ban- ishment of several Boer leaders captured since September 15, and also a long let- ter from Lord Kitchener replying to a communication frem Acting President Schalk-Burger, of the Transvaal, receiv- ed Sept. 5. Lord Kitchener promises to send the Schalk-Burger letter to the Imperial Government, which, he says, reciprocates the Boer statesman’s de- sire for peace. He then proceeds to charge that the responsibility for the war rests with the burghers, “whose in- vasion of unprotected British territory opened the saddest page in South Afri- can history.” Lord Kitchener quotes a letter from a member of the Volksraad to a member of the Cape Colony As- sembly declaring that ‘the time is ripe to drive the English from South Af- rica.” In conclusion Lord Kitchener de- clares that, having annexed the two re- Publics to Great Britain, he ‘cannot reak faith with the people who have shown loyalty to the new regime.” MR. McKINLEY'S WILL. Estate of $225,000 Bequeathed to His Wife— Annuity of $1,000 to His Sister. Canton, O. (Special).—Secretary Cor- telyou came here to assist Mrs. McKin- ley in disposing of matters connected with the late President's estate. After . meeting Mrs. McKinley the question of filing the will was taken up. The try- ing task of reading it to her was under- taken by the faithful secretary. Mrs. McKinley made a heroic effort to bear up, and succeeded in doing so, although the ordeal was difficult for her. All legal formalities necessary for her to subscribe to were disposed of. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou went to the office of the probate judge and offered bate. They carried with them the fol- lowing : the administration of hi» e#tate and rec- Day and George B. Cottelyou as admin- instrators with the will annexed.” This ‘recommendation bears the date of: September 27, 1901. ___Esllowing is the text of President Mc- inley’s wil. “Executive Mansion, W C.—I publish the follow: will and testament, hereb former wills: “To my beloved wife, Ida S. McKin- ley, I bequeath all of my real estate, wherever situated, and the income of any personal property of which I may be possessed at death, during her na- tural life. I make the following charge upon all of my property, both real and personal. To pay my mother during her life $1000 a year, and at her death said sum to be paid to my sister, Helen Mc- Kinley. insufficient to keep my wife in great comfort and pay the annuity above pro- vided, then I direct that such of my prop- erty be sold so as to make a sum ade- quate for both purposes. Whatever property remains at the death of my wife I give to my brother and sisters, share and share alike. My chief concern is that my wife, from my estate, shall have all she requires for her comfort and pleasure, and that my mother shall be provided with whatever money she requires to make her old age comfortable and happy. “Witness my hand and seal, this 22d cay of October, 1897, to my last will and testament, made at the city of Wash- ington, District of Columbia. “WILLIAM McKINLEY. (Seal) “The foregoing will was witnessed by ~ request of the testator, and his name signed hereto in our presence and our signature hereto in his presence. “GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, “CHARLES LOEFFLER.” It is given out on authority that the McKinley estate will total $225,000 to $250,000, including life insurance of estate consists of real estate here and contiguous to Canton and of deposits in Washington banks. The will is in the President's own handwriting, and is on Eecutive Mansion letter paper. THIRTEEN MEN DROWNED. Prospectors Were Caught in Cloudburst in Texas. San Antonio, Texas (Special).—News has just been received here of a terrible Rio Grande river. Thirteen men who were prospecting for cinnibar lost their lives in floods caused by a waterspout or cloudburst. The men were in two parties camped one mile apart in a dry ravine known as Alaminto creek, in which there had been no water for 15 months on account of the drought. o'clock. There was a cloudburst several miles up the ravine. A volume of water of the ravine and swept over the men in the two camps before they were aware of their danger. Al were drowned. and only six bodies have been recovered. Filipino Official Accused. Manila (By Cable).—Juan Cardona, na, Province of Tarlac, and who was ap- pointed secretary of the Tarlac provin- cial government, has been arrested on the them. some saying they have even surrendered title deeds to property. natives holding pro-American views. the will of President McKinley for pro- ME Ida S. McKinley, widow of Wil- liam McKinley, deceased, hereby decline | ommend the appointment of William R. | | and name Loft If the income from property be us this 22d day of October, 1897, at the | $67,000. Aside from this insurance, the | disaster in Presidio county, near the | They were asleep at g | 20 feet high washed down the channel | who until recently wasPresideni of Gero- | charge of accusing persons of crimes | for the purpose of extorting money from ; More than 50 persons declare they | have been robbed by him in this way. ! : Cardona had | been considered one of the most reliable | SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. Frederick W. Hartman, an old farm- er, living near Hobart, Ind. fatally wounded his wife and then committed suicide. A sensation was caused in Pittsburg by the removal of 23 officers and em- ployees of the Department of Public Safety. In a quarrel over a crap game Willie Jordan shot Benjamin Walker through the heart at Norfolk, Va., and escaped. The jury in Newport News, Va., that tried Russell Van Arsdale for the mur- der of his uncle was unable to agree. In a shooting affray in Callaway, Ky., Josiah Ely was killed and Joe Gay fatal- ly wounded. In a fight between strikers and po- licemen in San Francisco seven men were wounded, one probably fatally. Four special policemen and a recently discharged naval man were assaulted by a mob. verely that he died in Harrison county. Texas. into the house of another negro he shot and killed one of them. H. G. Westall, of Asheville, N. C, was arrested at Knovxille, Tenn., charg- ed with having used the United States mails for carrying checks with the in- tention to defraud. Rev. Dr. Wm. C. Gray, editor for many years of the Interior, a Presby- terian publication, died at Oak Park, Chicago, at the age of 70 years. Capt. Fred. H. Smith and his crew of 30 men, of New Bedford, Mass., had a terrible experience in a storm on the whaling bark Kathleen. / Jacob A. Blodt, a prominent citizen of Cleveland, Ohio, out on bail on the charge of embezzlement, committed sui- cide. : Edwin M. Clark, connected with/ the Buffalo Exposition, shot his wif¢ and committed suicide at a hotel in that City. The guard detailed to watch the! grave of President McKinley is prepaying for a year's stay at the cemetery. / A passenger train on the/ Wabash Railroad was wrecked 11 miles south- east of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Three persons were fatally injnred, 16 seri- ously hurt and a numbér of others slightly injured. Citizens of Chicago have started a_se- cret organization knowyg as the “Re- public,” which is to be#extended over the country with the view to protecting life and property from gnarchists. James P. Thomakh. { roy C. Partridge Bank, of Ovid, N. Y,, was indicted on the charge of embezzle- | ment. J { Mrs. Lyon Pu 4 ; llman secured a divorce White men whipped a negro so se- | When they attempted to break | cashier of the Le- | Manila (By Cable).—A disastrous | fight between United States troops and Filipino revelutionists took place at Balangiga, on the Island of Samar. 4 A large body of Filipinos attacked Company C of the Ninth Infantry, kill- ing 48 and wounding 11. The company was at breakfast when attacked and made a determined resistance, but the | natives were in overwhelming numbers. The 24 survivors have arrived at Bassey. They include the 11 wounded. The strength of the company was 72. The survivors included Capt. Thomas W. Connell, First Lieut. Edward A. | Bumpus. and Dr. R. S. Grisweld, sur- geen. Capt. Edwin V. Baokmiller, of the Ninth Infantry, reports that General Hughes is assembling a force to attack the natives. The latter captured all the [in Chicago frojm George M. Pullman, | San Francsico. { who is now in = : d Brockway, wile of a Mrs. Howa i well-knawn mfisician of New York, and | [a railroad trfain on the New Yo i She had been | with melanfcholia. ccepted Gompers' challenge | Shaffer : Simon Burns as his member against the presidents of the n of Labor and the United | fers. : e inquiry into the disaster, held in Victoria, steamer B. 1C., 1 [and pilot were drunk. Smith Jones, 13 years old, was sen- i nced to prison for life in Booneville, | [ te | Ind., for killing a lad of the same age. Foreign. Henry Vignaud, vice-president of the | Americanists’ Society of Paris, who has made a life study of the early history of | America, claims that Columbus had | positive information as to the existence {of Jands to the westward. The Paris police suppressed a satiri- | { cal paper containing scandalous car- toons of Queen Victoria, King Edward, Lord Kitchener and others, | upon the war in South Africa. >rince Chun, | the Emperor of China. Fighting has occurred between Chris- | { tians and Mussulmans at Beirut, Syria. A force of 1500 Boers, commanded by General Botha, attacked Poritalia, on the border of Zululand. They were re- pulsed, with the loss of Commandant Opperman and 19 Burghers. The Brit ish losses were 1 officer and 11 men killed and 5 officers and 38 men wound- ed. British government officials deny that any British protectorate over Koweyt, the proposed terminus on the Persian Gulf of the Bagdad Railroad, is con- templated. London newspapers continues to re- port that Lord Kitchener will resign as commander-in-chief in South Africa be- cause, as one paper puts it, he desires more serious penalties for rebellion and wants better reinforcements. Major Burnham, the American scout, who was on the staff of Lord Roberts, has been given the honor of a companionship of the Distinguished Service Order. General Gaselee, who was command- er of the British forces in China, praises the American military authorities for their well-equipped hospitals and com- missariat in China. King Edward received Mr. Choate, the United States Ambassador, at the Marlborough House and renewed his expressions of sorrow for Mr. McKin- ley's assassination. The Chinese Government is consider- ing a Russian offer for the purchase of the Pei Yang Squadron, consisting of 10 warships. The Bulgarian bandits who kidnaped Miss Helen H. Stone, the American Missionary, demanded £235,000 for her release. The Cunard steamers Campania and | Lucania communicated by the wireless i telegraphy at sea a distance of 65 miles. | | Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramat- | ist and poet. is critically ill. Financial Standard Oil shares declined 30 points last week. Erie's net earnings in August increas- ed $221,873 over the same month of last | year. During September the deposits at na- 383.000. The loans of the Imperial Bank of Germany which throughout the crisis cate $225,000,000. as compared 1 $183.600,000 a year ago. bearing | head of the Chinese | | Conzinigsion of Expiation, left Berlin | [for China by command of his brother, | tional banks were increased by Secre- | i tary Gage from $96,373.000 to $100,- | her passengers was Consul McCook, of | of the burglars was fatally wounded. He daughter of Ojtis B. Boise, recently ap- | pointed to tHe chair of harmony and | composition Jat the Peabody Conserve- | | tory of Musifc, was killed by a fall from | rk Cen- | afflicted | mmittee to decide upon his | s testified that both the captain | New York (Special).—In the closest an { the old America’s Cup the white flyer | | Columbia beat the British challenger over a wire svard and leeward course of 30 nautice«r miles by the narrow, heart- breaking®““/argin of 39 seconds. As Lip- ton’s latest aspirant for cup honors must | allow the defender 43 seconds on account | of the extra 833 square feet of canvas in sh { her sail area, the official record, under the rules, gives Columbia the victory by I minute 22 seconds. As a spectacle the contest was superb. {| From the time the two sky-scraping | racers crossed the starting line until they | fled across the finish line, four and a half hours later, the result was in doubt, and the excitement aboard the excursion fleet increased until men became frenzied and women almost hysterical. So evenly matched were these two sci- entific racing machines that never after they started were the rival skippers out of each other’s hail, and more than three- quarters of the time they were so close that Charlie Barr. who had the tiller aboard the American, could have tossed CZOLGOSZ SENTENCED To Die In Electric Chair Week Beginaing October 28. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President Mc- Kinley, was sentenced to be electrocut- ed in Auburn State prison in the week beginning October 28, the earliest time permissible under law. Before sentence was passed the assas- sin showed a desire to speak, but he seemed unuable to get his voice above a whisper and his words were repeated to the court by his counsel. “There was no one else but me,” he said in a whisper. “No one else told me to do it and no one paid me to do it. I was not told anything about that crime and I never thought anything about the murder until a couple of days before I committed the crime.” Groans With Terror at Auburn. Auburn, N. Y. (Special).—At 3.14 o'clock Friday morning the train from Buffalo bearing Leon F. Czolgosz, as- sassin of President McKinley, pulled into the Central Station here. | Czolgosz was taken to the main hall of { the prison and was seated on a long | bench. He allowed his head to fall on | the bench, his eyes closed, and he began | More Gold Comes In. { Vancouver, B. C. (Special). — The | steamer City of Seattle has arrived from | Skagway with 314 passengers. Crowds are now coming out from Dawson, and | 200 were to have arrived in Skagway on the day that the Seattle left. The steam- er had $300,000 worth of gold. Among | Dawson. who is on his way to Washing- ton on Government business. He says much excitement is reported at Atlin on | district. THE INSUBGENTS DE Thirty-Seven American Sold Wounded—Company OLY BLOW. led and Eleven jreakfast. / | { stores and ammunition of the comp¥.1y, and all its rifles except 12. 4 Capt. Lawrence J. Hearn, 6. the Twenty-first Infantry, reports 7 sharp engagement with Filipinos near Cande- laria, Luzon, the Americans long one killed and two wounded. Tle Ameri- cans captured 30,000 pounds of rice and several hundred rounds of mmunitien. Washington (Special).—The War De- partment has received the ‘ollowing dis- patch from. General Chaff:e, confirming the news of she disaste. at Balangiga: “Hughes reports following from Bas- sey, Southern Samar? 24 men Ninth Regiment, United States Infantry—ir wounded—have just:arrived from Bal- angiga; remainder company killed. In- surgents secured all company supplies and rifles except f2. Company was at- tacked during breakfast morning Sep- tember 28; company 72 strong; officers Thomas W. Coanelly (captain), Ed- ward A. Bumpus (first lieutenant) and Dr.R. S Griowold (major surgeon) es- caped.” ~ COLUMBIA WINS FIRST CUP RACE. Challenger Led by 41 Seconds at the Outer Mark— The Contest the ost Exciting in History. 5 agers | If NAR T Zan TE THE COLUMBIA. la biscuit to Captain Sycamore on the | d most soul-stiring race ever sailed for | Shamrock. For miles as they beat their P way to the outer mark the black shadow | of Shamrock’s huge club-topsail was lumbia, for an hour on the run home, | with the two yachts flying like scared | deer before the following wind, they ran | { almost beam to beam, as if they had been | | harnessed tbgether. The memory of the races between the | Genesta and the Puritan, in 1885, and Lord Dunraven’s first Valkyrie and the ured by yatchsmen up to this time, will be forgotten after this magnificent duel. It will live forever in the memory of those who witnessed it. In the years to come the yachtsmen of the two nations will recount the thrilling story of the celebrated first race between the Co- lumbia and the Shamrock II., sailed off New York harbor in the first year of the nwe century. Yacht Start. Finish. Shamrock ...11.00.14 3.31.58 Columbia ....11.00.16 3.31.23 4.30.22 The next race will be over a triangu- lar course ten miles to a leg. Time. to groan. While his handcuffs were be- ing unlocked his muscles twitched and his whole body quivered. . The handcuffs unlocked, Czolgosz was raised to a sitting posture, but he had not strength to support himself. Prison keepers raised him to his feet. but his legs hung limp and he was half dragged, half carried, moaning as if in agony, into the office of Deputy Warden Tup- per, a dozen yards away. Keepers be- gan stripping him of his clothes, and he groaned louder than ever. Warden Meade feared total collapse and summoned the prison physician, Dr. Gerin, but by the time that officer ar- rived Czolgosz was clad in the regula- tion shoddy suit for condemned men and after treatment was apparently bet- ter. When he was assured that he was not to be harmed he became calmer, and 45 minutes later he was taken to his cell. Men Hurled in All Directions. New York (Special).—Six men and possibly seven were killed and seven in- jured by the explosion of an oil tank of the Essex and Hudson Gas Company, at Newark, N. J. The tank which ex- ploded was one of a number of im- mense steel reservoirs which was un- dergoing its periodical cleaning, it hav- ing been emptied of its oil in the morn- ing. Burglars Were Defeated. | Armada, Mich. (Special). — Three burglars broke into the general store of D. H. Barrows, where the postoffice is i located, and dynamited the safe. The | explosion awakened the town, and a | number of citizens were soon on the street. In the battle which followed one gives his name as John Graham. The burglars left the store and started for the railroad track after several shots had has been loaning money freely, aggre- | account of the discovery of what is be- | been fired into them by citizens. A run- with | lieved to be the “mother lode” of the | ning fight ensued, in which Graham was { wounded. Brevets for N djutant General Corbin urd of Brevets, recently af «eet at the!War D mead vote its attention solely e cases of officers and enlisted men Mfho especially distinguished themselve$ in the cam- paigns in China and the Philippines. It will have nothing to do with respect to the case of officers who rendered special service in the West Indian campaign. The latter class of cases was disposed of by a similar board, which concluded its sessions over a year ago. While the fact that a brevet had been recommended to Congress for Colonel Roosevelt was published at the time the nominations were sent to the Senate, it appears that the facts that there were two separate recommenda- tions, and the exact basis for the board action were not made public. Therefore the Adjutant General furnished these transcripts from the proceedings of the board: “Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose velt, First United States Volunteer Cav- alry, to be breveted colonel United States Volunteers for gallantry in bat- tle, Las Guasimas, Cuba, June 24, 1898.” “For gallantry in battle, Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to be breveted brigadier general.” : Armor Will Not Delay. Armor will no longer delay the com- pletion of battleships and armored cruis- ers under construction for the American pited to would de- avy. ‘ Rear-Admiral O'Neill, Chief or Ord- nance, has received written assurances from the Carnegie Steel Company and the Bethlehem Iron Company that they will shortly begin supplying the Govern- ment with $00 tons per month each, This is almost double the quantity that is now furnished. FE In order to make these deliveries if will be necessary for the companies ta increase their plants. This will mean a considerable expense, but in view of the size of the contracts on hand and the prospect that at the coming session of Congress additional armored ships will be anthorized the companies are willing to incur it. For Rural Free Delivery. The official estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1. 1902, which Post- master-General Charles Emory Smith i will submit to Congress at the opening of the session, call for an aggregate of $6,250,000 for rural free delivery service painted on the big mainsail of the Co- | Vigilant, in 1893, which have been treas- | 4.31.44 | throughout the country. This is an in. | crease of $2,750,000 over the expense of i that rapidly growing service for the cur- | rent year. ; t The total for the free delivery service | proper, which is that operated in cities, is $18,745,000, an increase of 9 per cent. { The grand aggregate for the entire postal ! iree delivery service, inclusive of hoth ! the free delivery and rural free delivery, 1 ic $24,005,000. Cotton Ginned in the United States. i } ' The Census Bureau report just issued | on the cotton ginned in the United | States shows the crop of 1900 to have been 10,486,148 commercial bales (bales ! as marketed), equivalent to 10,123,027] bales of the 500-pound standard, or t { 5:001,513,204 pounds. his 1s an ing of 840,174 commercial bales, or | than 8 per cent. in excess of th crop. | Presidential Appointments. The President has made the fq appointments: : | State— (George N. Dale, ot | United States consul at Coaticod t bec, Canada. , War—Lucien Bre ieutenant, artillery corp wt Capital News in General. Private Peter J. Devine, Troop H, Eleventh Cavalry, was tried by court- { martial for expressing satisfaction over the assassination of President McKin- ley, and sentenced to be dishonorably | discharged and to one year's imprison- i ment at hard labor. | The State subcommittee of the Com- | mittee on Military Affairs began the in- | vestigatjon of the charges preferred | against - Lieutenant Colonel H. O. S. | Heistand. Capt. F. E. Chadwick, president of the Naval War College, announced the close of the summer course of instruction at | that institution. The Sultan of Turkey appointed Alex- ander R. Webb honorary consul general at New York and decorated him. : Members of the Senate committee | made arrangements to hear the charges preferred against Lieut.-Col. H. O. S. Heistand. President Roosevelt has assured the friends of Commissioner of Pensions Evans that he will not be removed. Some unknown person sent $6150 in cash to Secretary Gage, the amount he had deirauded the government in customs duties. Assistant Secretary to the President Barnes asked to be transferred to a po- sition in one of the executive depart- ments. The Census Bureau issued a bul- letin showing the paper and wood pulp industry to be capitalized at $167,507,713. The receipts during August from the War Revenue Act were $6,000,000. | Qur New Possessions. A secret society, including members of the native constabulary, who were recently armed, has been discovered at Tarlac. in the Philippines, the object of which is the slaughter of the whites. The worst form of guerilla warfare also prevails in Tabayas and Bantagas. { The investigation into the Poniatow- iki concession in the Island of Pala- wan. which the Washington govern- ment referred to the Philippine Com- mission, is nearly completed. The Sul- tan oi Sulu has communicated with Governor Taft and Secretary of War Root. asserting his sovereignty over the island and indicating his desire for its early occupation by Prince Poniatow- i Slain by Her Brothers? De Soto, Mo. (Special).—Evidence was presented to Coroner Taylor that John Meloy and Mrs. Sarah Uren were murdered in the woman's house. Wil- liam and Daniel Greenhill. brothers of the woman, are under close guard. They say that excitement led them to mutilate with hatchet and axe what they believed to be their sister's dead bedy and that of Meloy. The testimony of three doc- tors who examired the bodies, however, was to the effec that the haichet wounds in the headsWhad been inflicted before the bullets were fired inte the brains of the victims.