THE MADRID HERALD.
VOL. I.
M A D R I D ; N. Y., THURSDAY,
GREAT
WESTERN
FLOOD
Douglass and Silver Star, Ne\ ., i a .
Water's Path.
SECURE
$3000
AND ESCAPE I
• '
"Wounded Man Now in HospltiU W h i l e
Seaperndoes Are 8urroun<Ie<l On a
Swamp — Whole
Country-sido
Is
Aionsed—An Army of E i g h t Hundred
o n t h e Hunt.
• Johnstown, Pa.—Charles Hayes, a
•driver, employed by the Puritan Coal
Company, is dead, and Patrick Campbell, the company's paymaster, lies
perhaps fatally wounded at the AIWma Hospital, as the result of a holdTip Ojnd murder on the township road
leading from Portage, this county, to
the mining town of Puritan.
• The two men were in a buggy taking
k satchel containing about $3000 with
which to pay the coal company's employes at Puritan, from the Adams
Express office at Portage, to the coal
town. When at a point about threequarters of a mile out of Portage they
Were suddenly fired upon by three men
armed with shotguns.
J
Hayes fell to the bottom of the buggy,
pierced by thirty-seven buckshot
/wounds in his neck and breast, and
died about half an hour later. Campbell was hit in the shoulder and fell
from the buggy. The highwaymen
came out from their places of hiding
in the woods to the right of the road,
secured the satchel of money, and escaped.
According to their usual custom, on
the Saturday nearest the first of the
month Campbell and Hayes started
for Portage about S o'clock in the
morning. Some time later William
Heisel, a farmer, who lives four miles
from Portage, was going home in a
spring wagon over the same road
which the paymaster and his driver
had taken. Three-quarters-of .a mile
from town, where the road is flanked
by woods, he .suddenly came upon the
body of a man, writhing in agony in
the middle of the road. Leaving his
.wagon, Heisel discovered Campbell.
The paymaster was drenched with
blood, which was flowing from a
wound in the right shmilder. Although
in agony, he was still conscious-, and
managed to whisper to Heisel that he
and Hayes, his driver, had been fired
upon by the robbers, and that, dizzy
from his wound, he had fallen from
the buggy, which had gone on.
Heisel staunched Campbell's wounds
as best he could with a handkerchief
and g-.bit of linen ripped from his coat,
~)H&3I, liton^krti? tmr wagourand started
on out the road in search of the team
•and driver. He had not gone fifty
yards when he came upon the paymaster's buggy, standing at the side of the
road, the horse, unharmed, nibbling
.grass.
When opposite the vehicle he discovered the seemingly lifeless form of
the driver, huddled in the bottom of the
buggy. He tried to lift the man into
his wagon with Campbell, but could
not. Hayes weighed 190 pounds. There
was no help at hand, and nothing to
. d» but turn back to Portage for help.
When Portage was reached, Campbell, who was by that time unconscious, was placed in charge of Dr. J.
A. Scb»field, and Heisel, securing assistance, went back for Hayes.
The body of the driver was taken to
Portage, where physicians discovered
that although Hayes was unconscious,
life was not quite extinct. He was
wounded beyond recovery, however,
and died within ten minutes after being brought into the »3ice.
After his wounds had been temporarily dressed, Campbell was conveyed
by train to Altoona, where he was admitted to the City Hospital.
News qt the tragpdy spread like
wildfiro through Portage, and, in a
quarter of an hour hundreds of people
were streaming over the road toward
the scene of the murder armed with
guns and revolvers.
The search for the murderers had
been made unremittingly since the
crime had been reported, and the posse
,was working In Rnmlall -when Justice
of the Peace McCartney, of Beaverdale, about six miles south of Portage,
reported to them he had seen three
men running across the road toward
Itlie, swamp.
The fugitives had just reached the
tedgo of the swamp when the first volley rang out. One of the murderers
fell,
His companions held the posse back
(with drawn guns, and the wounded
man managed to get out of sight in the
dense undergrowth with the assistance
of Ills companions.
The search of the swamp was continued all night, and it w«s expected
the three murderers -would soon be
dead or in custody.
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DESPERADOES iTOP~TEAiN.
Tolophouo Wire to Sod.tvillo Gives tlie
Sew3 and Then ,5reaks tt
"™-'»n«
Asked to Look For Bodies.
Reno, Nev.—As a result of a cloudburst the towns of Douglass and Silver
Star, near Sodaville, Nev.. are reported
to have been swept away. The news
was telephoned from the scene of the
disaster to Sodaville. The report was
that a flood in waves four or five feet
deep was sweeping away houses, and
that great property damage was'being
wrought. The schoolhouse and four
dwellings were swept away.
Ten minutes after the first news was
received at Sodaville the wire went
down, and it could not be learned how
many lives were lost There is great
excitement at Sodaville, as the people
have been warned to watch for bodies.
The volume of water is increasing at
that place.
Near New Boston, six miles north of
Sodaville, the Carsou and Colorado
Railroad is covered with water to a
depth of six inches for half a mile, and
at Rhodes, three miles south of here,
similar conditions prevail.
Kingman, Ariz.—Heavy rains iii the
mountains east of Truxton sent down a
wall of water thirty feet high through
the canon, washing out the Santa Fe
Railroad track, embankments, bridges,
telegraph poles and everything movable for twelve miles. Great steel
bridges were taken from their foundations and piled up against the walls of
the canon and massive stone abutments were crumbled and carried
away.
At Crozier everything movable, including the, station signal and box cars
were piled up on the big steel bridge
west of the station. At Hackberry the
pumping house and machinery were
destroyed and swept into the valley
miles away. The big well was filled
to the brim with debris. Houses high
above all known high water marks
heretofore were flooded and much damage was done.
Hundreds of men have been hurried
to the washout by the Santa Pe Railroad, but it will be some time before
the water subsides sufficiently to allow
the workmen to reconstruct the roadbed and bridges. .Many trains bearing
men and material J.iave been running
from Seligman and Needles to the
washout, and it is expected that the
work of repair will go on at once.
Many miles of telegraph lines are
down and it will take some time to repair them.
ThrCe miles of the Arizona and Utah
track were washed out, and if will take
several days to make repairs. A report reaches Kingman of a cloudburst
at Cedar, a mining camp eighty miles
sc uth of here, which carried away part
oi a twenty-stamp mill, gasolene pump
engine, blacksmith shop, forty horsepower boiler and other property. The
shaft .of the Arnold mine was filled
with debris.
BABY DOWN FORTY FOOT WELL
Fished Out Alive With Grappling
Hooks After Two Hours.
Jackson, Miss. — While L. Vail, a
farmer living in Montgomery County,
was boring a well which had reached
a depth of about forty feet, his eighteen-months-old child toddled out into
the yard and tumbled headforemost to
the bottom of the hole.
Grappling hooks were secured and
an effort made to draw the child out
The cries of the infant could be plainly heard at the top, and hundreds of
neighbors, who gathered after the
news of the accident spread, were
frantic in their efforts to save the
baby. A hrVd was finally secured on
the infant's clothing, but when the
tiny body was within ten feet of the
top the hooks loosened and the child
again slowly slipped to the bottom.
After working for nearly two hours
the child was finally brought to the
surface nearer dead than alive.
VIPER NAILED TO THE LATCH.
Indiana Man S -ipects Secret Enemy
of New Idea of Assassination.
Louisville, Ky.—An assassinntionplot
in which a deadly viper was to bite the
victim is reported by Clarence Nori'is,
who lives near JeffersonviHe, Ihcl.
Mrs. Donahue, a neighbor, telephoned
Mr. Norrls that she had noticed a big
snake on. his gate. Mr. Norrls hurried
to the gate and found that a viper,
over three feet long, had been fastened
to the harrier, with its head on the
latch. The snake had been so arranged
that It would scarcely be noticed from
the Inside.
After killing the snake Mr. NorriS
found that it had been securely fastened by a nail driven through its tail.
Mr, Norrls suspects an unknown enemy, and the police are working on the
Wounded Conductor, Get $7 and Es- case,
v
cape.
Big R. R. Orders.
• Delhart, Tex.-Armed with WinchesOrders have been given for ,ffi,000,0C0
tor rifles three masked men held up a
Hoclc Island express train In the small worth of supplies for the Harrlman
Btatlon of Logan, seventy miles west of railroad lines, 'These include •CO.'iOO
ithis place. In attempting to battle with tons of steel rails at $2S a ton and 1000
the bandits John York, the •conductor steel cars.
in charge of the train, was shot through
the left log, arid a score o"f shots were
France and Rome Break.
'fired to terrorize the other trainmen
The text of the French note severing
and the passengers. After York had
heen stretched unconscious all offert relations with the Vatican was made
Monslgnor Lorenzelli, the
at resistance was abandoned, The bur- public.
glars blew open the train safe and got Pupal Nuncio, left Paris for Rome. ,
only $7 and then made off. A posse of
Injured at Picnic.
fifty men Is In pursuit, and a report
Qoi-nian-Americans on a pichas reached here that the gang has nicSixteen
excursion were Injured in a trolIboon cornered In a wood.
ley crash near Cleveland, Ohio.
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Von Plehvo Burled.
China Wants Revolutionist,
1
The body of M. Plelrve, the Russian
Because of the lack of an extradition
Minister of the Interior, was burled at treaty the Chinese Government is
fit, Petersburg with impressive cere- baffled ln;!ts desire to gel: Quen. Man,
monies* The Emperor was present at revolutionist, under death sentence,
the funeral service. It is expected that
c\ successor to the murdered Minister Who 1M sheltered In n Presbyterluu mission. In Now York City.
iwill soon be chosen.
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More Mon Out of Work.
A Big Contract.
The throe plants of the Internationa J
The. Brio Railroad has made a con- Harvester Company In Chicago, III..,
t a c t with the Ahiericau Locomotive will be closed for an indefinite period,
Company for the"*opalr of 000 loco- an* 15,500 will be thrown out of ernmotives.
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1904.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
r
"Wound Paymaster of Puritan (Pa.)
Mines and Kill Driver.
AUGUST 4.
aensral Stakeiberg- Rejorte:! Cut
Off From Cerrcro.
Pittsburg has sold Catcher Carisch
to Jersey City.
Jones, the Brooklyn pitcher, is a
clever acrobat.
Lumley is still the hardest National
League batsman.
The Thilaaelphia Club contemplates
giving the . veteran Hemr.n Long a
trial at snort field.
St. Louis critics charjo Joe Corbett's
comparative failure to fondness foi
good living and cigarettes.
Manager Sei'ee attributes the decline
in individual base stealing to the prevalence of the hit-and-run play.
Pitcher Patsy Flaherty, who couldn't
hold his own in the American League,is making good in- the National.
President Pulllam has promulgated
notice j£ Alex. Smith's contract with
Chicago, . i of Pitcher W. J. Reidy'a
release by Brooklyn.
Mike Lynch is showing fine form,
and so far his pitching has been a surprise to even his most ardent admirers. He is r.lso batting well.
The level&nd Plain Dealer says
that Hulseman'si reputation as a batsman is well deserved, but he is the
slowest man in the League in going
around tha bases.
Clark Griffith has four last base run.
ners in Keeler, Eultz, Conroy and Elberfeld, who are iu such bad shape
that he does not dare to let them take
chances on the bases.
George Stovall, the new first baseman signed by Cleveland, is a brother
to tne Detroit Stovall. There are two
O'Neill brothers and two Isbell brothers also in fast company.
Small scores are* rules in both
leagues. What further proof do the
magnates want that the four strike
rule is a menace, to the game, for weak
hitting and the absence of runs do not
tend to make much excitement?.
NO.
11.
CZAR'S flNISTEir KILLED
formal Ceremonies at His Oyster
Bay, L. 1., Home.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Rear-Admiral George A. Converse
was appointed Chief of the Bureau
of Navigation in the Navy Departmen!
to succeed Rear-Admiral Henry O
COUNT KELLER KILLED IN BATTLE
OFFICIALLY TOLD OF NOMINATION Taylor.
Pigeons and other birds have taken
up their abode in the gilded dome ol
SiimioUon S;iiiV to 55a in tlie H-i-.uls o* the
the
Library of Congress.
Speaker Cannon, as Chairman of the
JaiV3 and One of ;Kuropaticin'3 StrongNotification Committee, Makes the
The Panama Canal Commission held
est Divisions Split F r o m Main Army—
Address—The President Replies After its final meeting pending its depart
ure for the Isthmus.
Itotreat of Csmr's Troops Toward Muka Warm Greeting by the Spectators—
Second Lieutenant Victor C. Lewis,
den Practically a Disorderly I'liffht.
Luncheon Served the Guests.
Twenty-eighth Company, Coast Artillwho disappeared at San Francisco,
Tokio, Japan.—Despite strict silence
Oyster Bay,.L. I.—President Roose- ery,
on April 22, just as his company was
on the part of the War Office, the revelt was notified formally of his nom-' about to sail for ihe Philippines, has
port became known here that the Japnation for the presidency by the Re- been dropped from the army list as a
anese, in a severs engagement, lasting
publican National Convention.
The deserter.
The War Department is paying old
two days, occupied Simuehen, on the
ceremony took place at his country
Pungwau-Haichen road, thus cutting
home at Sagamore Hill, three miles Confederate claims at a great rate.
Recently Congress appropriated $225,off Lieu tenant-General Baron StakelCrom this village. In accordance with 000 for the reimbursement of Confedberg, at the head of one of GenersJ
the wish of the President, the cere- erate soldiers who had lost their
Kuropatkin's strongest divisions, €rom
mony was made as simple as possible. horses or side arms on their way home
the centre of the Russian army.
The formal notification of the action after Lee's surrender.
}f the convention was made, on behalf
It is reported the Mikado's troops
OUR ADOPTED INLANDS.
a£ a committee representing every
practically have Insured the capture of
Porto Rican Day was observed at the
General Stakelberg's forces, and that
State and Territory in the United
Louis Exposition and natives on
it is likely that will bo achieved withStates, by Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker St.
the island cabled expressions of satisout large Japanese loss. General Staof the House of Representatives.
faction
to the fair officials.
kelberg practically is in a corner in
The day opened with ideal weather,
General
Leonard Wood, commanding
consequence of the Japanese success
and arrangements for the ceremony
at that point. No matter which way
were completed at an early hour. The the Department of Mindanao, Philiphe may attempt to ret'eat he is sura to
wide veranda of the house, extending pines, has taken steps to have swimbe confronted by strong .Japanese
almost around the building, was dec- ming taught the soldiers of his comforces and forced to surrender or acDrated with American flags hung from mand, as the result of numerous accidents in the water.
cept battle under conditions disadvanpillar to pillar.
tageous to- him.
In the Hawaiian Islands it is now
In addition many houses in the
neighborhood of the Roosevelt home recognised that forest preservation is
It also is reported here th» Russians
and in Oyster Bay were draped with a matter of great and immediate imunder General Kuropatkin are In full
the national colors. Across the main portance to the leading economic inSight northeastward. The inference is
street of the village there hung a terests of the Territory.
the Russian commander-in-chief hopes
large Roosevelt and Fairbanks banto escape to Mukden, whence he exuer.
DOMESTIC.
pects- to maintain communication with
LABOR WORLD.
The special train bearing the memCattle raisers applied to both packers
Harbin.
*
bers of the notification committee and strikers in Chicago and asked for
It is regarded as impossible he can
It looks as though firemen on the
get so far, because one of General Ku- Lehigh Valley may make a demand foe and the invited guests left Long Isl- a cessation of hostilities.
and City at 10.32 a. m., and arrived
roki's columns is operating between more money.
The St. Louis banks announced thai
here at 11.35 o'clock. Only three of
Liau Yang and Mukden, and there is a
were willing to loan the St. Louis
Attempts at coalition against the La- the members of the committee were they
possibility the flying division of picked
Exposition Company $1,000,000.
troops sent from General Kuroki's bor Ministry in the Australian Federal absent. They were James X Coombs,
The United States Steel Corporation
of Florida; Senator Chauncey M. Dearmy several weeks ago to strike west Commonwealth have failed.
The cigar-makers' international con- pew, of New York, who is in Europe, has bought the Trenton Iron Company.
ȣ the railroad and attack Liau Yang
Senator" Clarence D. Clark, of WyJudge Bradford in the Federal Courl
from the northwest already has crossed vention will be held in Baltimore, Md., and
oming. Included among the invited In Wilmington, Del., denied the applithe second Monday in September.
the peninsular railway.
guests were men prominent in all cation of the Northern Securities Com
If the railroad is cut above Liau
Official headquarters of the National walks of life.
Those present num- pany to pay dividends and distribute
Yang that will stop General Kuropat- Granite Cutters' Union will be trans- bered about 125.
stock and moneys.
kin's retreat, and the Russians will be ferred from / Washington, D. C, to
On arrival at Sagamore Hill the
Owing to a legal tangle tweuty-two
forced to surrender or to accept a gen- Quincy, Mass.
committeemen were received by Presi- Sing Sing (New York) convicts were reeral engagement. There now remains
Boston (Mass.) bakers have opened dent Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt and sentenced, getting shorter terms.
little doubt what the outcome of an ex- a co-operative bakery, and it is the in- National Chairman George B. CortelThe steamer Howard, from Baltitended battle between General Kurop- tention to establish branch stores ia you. All of the house guests of the
more to Boston, went ashore off Polloch
atkin and Generals Kuroki, Oku and various sections of the city.
President
were
gathered
on
the
veranRip, Mass., but was soon floated.
Nodzu would be.
The strike of cotton operatives at
and as the occupants of each carNews of the killing of Lieutenant- Bristol, Eng., has ended by a compro- da,
Russell Sage was ordered by United
riage alighted they were welcomed States
Court at St. Paul, Minn., to reGeneral Count Keller in the fighting mise, the reduction of five per cent, be- by.the President, and each was prestore to the Government certain lands
at Yangsce was received here. The ing agreed to for the present.
sented to Mrs, Roosevelt. •
he sold as trustee of defunct Hastings
Russian general, on whom General KuAt the conclusion of the informal re- ind Dakota Railway Company.
Carpenters at Havana, Cuba, and viropatkin placed, great reliance, Was
ception
the
ceremony
of
notification
cinity
are
paid
$2:50
to
$3.50
a
day.
struck by a piece of shell and died in
The Steel Trust declared its regnlai
They are paid in Spanish gold and the began. While the members of the
less than a half hour. He was thi first day's
livldend on preferred stock and elected
family,
the
house
guests
and
some
of
work
consists
of
ten
hours.
general officer of the Russian army to
i successor to Director.Schwab.
Worcester (Mass.) ironm'olders and the distinguished visitors were aslose his life in this war.
sembled
on
the
veranda,
a
majority
of
Rioting was renewed at the Chicago
The War Office refused to make any coremakers threaten an early strike. those in attendance gathered on the stock yards and efforts at mediation
announcement in resp.-ct of Port Ar- The trouble is caused by a proposed lawn facing the veranda.
made by the State Board of Arbitrathur. All sorts of rumors continue to reduction of twenty-five cents daily.
Speaker Cannon rose to deliv- tion failed.
come here from Chefoo, Shanghai and
At the Mynydd Newydd colliery in erWhen
his speech of notification he was
Health Department officials of New
other dubious f/urces, but no confirma- Wales there is to be found a unique greeted
with applause.
fork City confessed themselves powtion of any of them is given out by the chapel 125 fathoms under the ground.
At the close of Mr. Cannon's address erless to check the epidemic which is
There the miners worship regularly.
officials.
the President advanced to the veranda tilling hundreds of infants in the teneCredence is given to the dispatches
On January 1, 1904, the total num- railing, and standing under the great ments.
from Shanhaikwan, at which port mer- ber of branches of the Amalgamated festoon of American flags delivered his
The Court of Appeals at Frankfort,
chant vessels arrive dally after pasjing Society of Carpenters and Joiners was address in response to the notificathe Laotbie Promontory, well outside 881. The aggregate membership -was tion. As he faced the assemblage he Ky., granted a writ of error iu the
:ase of James Howard-, under life senthe four-mile limit, and the lower west 71,547.
was warmly applauded.
:ence for the murder of Governor Wilcoast of the Liaotung Peninsula, parThe Winona (Minn,) Board of EduThe speech of 'acceptance of the liam Goebel.
ticularly Pigeon Bay.
cation has discontinued the use of the President was short and was made up
The strike of the waiters at the St.
Stories of the Japanese advance over label of the Allied Printing Trades of a review of the accomplishments
Louis Exposition has been declared off.
Table Hill and the persistent shelling Council upon printed matter used by of the administration.
•f the Russian fortifications from the the board.
Negroes formed a $500,000 real estate
"Uncle Joe" Cannon was the first to
land side, as well as by Vice-Admiral
extend a congratulatory hand to Presi- company in New York City to combat
The
national
and
international
unions
Toga's fleet, while not permitted to be of building trades which have indorsed dent Roosevelt after the speech. Mr. .•he race prejudice by making mono'
published here, circulate privately, and the formation of the Structural Build- Oortelyou was next, and the mem- >ut of it.
are believed.
bers of the notification committee
Five minutes titer lauding its sevThere is a general understanding ing Trades Alliance have a member- [ followed.
enty-five passengers the steamer Post
among foreigners and natives in Tokio ship of 500,000.
Following the formal ceremonies a Boy sunk near Saugatuck, Mich., due
that important operations are in probuffet luncheon was served, and ;o striking a snag, which started a
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
gress at Port Arthur, and that news of /'
I after more congratulation and more 'jad leak.
the fall of the fortress may i.e received
Mount Wrangel, the Alaskan vol- ! hand shaking the long line of car- Suit was brought against Borough
at any hour.
I1 riages began its return trip to the sta- President Littleton of Brooklyn, New
cano, has been In eruption.
tion.
fork, by a Brooklyn asphalt company
Mountain
combing
is
taught
systemWHOLE FAMILY MURDERED.
» test the constitutionality of the
atically at Molding, near Vienna.
STEAMER HITS ROCK.
iight hour law.
The
only
cotton
mill
in
the
South
Farmer, His Wife and Three Children
New York milk inspectors, spurred to
that
employed
negro
labo/
has
failed.
Killed—Home Burned,
The City of'Rockland Goes on Reef in '(renter activity by reported poisoning
Charlottenburg is the first German j
Penobscot Bay.
)i fifty persons in Passaic, N. J., by
Statesboro, Go..—The mangled bodies commune to appoint a woman school
of Henry Hodges and his wife and doctor.
I Rockland, Me.—The Eastern Steam- ptomaines iu milk, reported that the
three children were found in the ruins
ship Company's steamer City of Rock- Supply of New Yorn. City is good.
In the face of the war, Japanese Ii laud
of their country home, six miles from
Massachusetts Republicans have
bound from Boston for Penobscot
commerce
increased
in
June,
instead
this place.
] River ports struck on Gangway Ledge jailed their State convention to nominof
falling,off.
Neighbors discovered the house In
In Penobscot Bay and was badly dam- ate a State ticket for October 7 if
Asbestos, said to be of long fibre and J aged. Her 300 passengers were taken Boston.
flames aftei midnight, but the fire had
made such headway that it was im- good quality, has been discovered at j oil by a tug and landed at Rockland.
possible to stay If. As none of the Woodstock, Vt.
The steamer ctruck the ledge while
FOREIGN.
members ot the family were seen durThe Grain Dealers' Association is I running slowly in a thick fog. She is
Venezuelan soldiers assisted in the
ing the fire the neighbors .took it for agitating for a deeper waterway j one of the largest and finest steamers seizure of the New York and Bergranted that the family were away through the La.kes.
i owned by the Eastern Steamship Com- tnudess Asphalt Company's properties
from home. At daylight the bodies of
Because of the war traffic over the I pauy. No one Was injured.
in Venezuela,
tun entire family were found in the Russian
railroad has been cut down
Germany has extended its plan of
ruins.
KNIFE. DUEL TO THE DEATH.
by twenty-five per cent.
governmental ownership of industrials.
Mr. Hodges' skull was -('rushed In as
The crew of the Italian bark San
though from the blow of an ax, and
Great Britain has received from RusVirginians in Savage Earnest in QuarMrs. Hodges head and body had been Pletro were found starving at sea by
sia a protest against the Government's
rel Over a Woman.
beaten with some blunt instrument. the steamship Tcnpdoa.
nllcgod failure to prevent shipments
A maphlne for sealing from S000 to
The body of the Ilttie girl was horribly
Richmond, Va.—Two men, one of contraband to Japan.
mangled. The bodies of the two other 15,000 envelopes an hour has been In- named Shepherd, the other Lankford,
It was reported at Tangier that the
children did. not show any signs of vio- vented by a man In Topeka, Kan,
] fought a .duel with knives at Blue Moroccan Pretender had defeated the
lence, and it Is supposed that they were
The problem of the scarcity of la- Creek, Mecklenburg County.
Sultan's troops; French cruisers
victims of fire alone.
bor on the Mexican plantations is beLankford was killed la the fight and peached Tangier, causing excitexnen!
On pieces of Umber in the yard were ing met by tile importation of Japan- jI Shepherd
died later from the wounds among the Moors.
found blood stains and bloody linger ese,
Lieutenant J. W. Clement, of the U.
j received in the encounter. The quarprints..
M, Eiffel has been using his famous ref was over a woman.
S. S. Kent-surge, died in Trieste of tyIt has been ascertained that Mr. tower on the exposition grounds at
LJhold fever.
New Mineral Found.
Hodges went to a neighbor's to bring Paris to measure the pressure of the
Two Frenchmen wore imprisoned at
Chemists
and
assayers
lire
considerhome his little child, who had been wind.
.
- -.
spending the day there,
ably puzzled over a new substance Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on susGlasgow
Corporation
tramways that has been discovered at Helena, picion of espionage,
All the bodies were dressed, indicatA public subscription has been starting that the crime v?a> -committed early yielded last year a net profit balance Mont. It is a zinc blende, possessing
hi the night, before any of the family of ^80,737, with a gross rovenue of , the property of efflorescence on being ed iu Holland toward repairing the
£724,851.
had retired.
I scratched with a knife blade, and is ruined cottage at Zaaudain, in which
Dispatched from Rome in a pigeon- , one of the curiosities of Montana's the Czar Peter the Great lived -while be
was working as a navvy in the docks.
flying competition in 1902, a carrier i mineral wealth.
Armenians Ambush Turks.
Official cablegrams from Constanti- pigeon has just returnsd to its loft at
The North Gorman Lloyd and Hamnople report that a band o'f Armenian Herve, In Belgium.
burg-American liners have united theli
Whitney's Big Fortune.
revolutionists ambushed is party .of solSuccessful experiments have been . The appraisal of the estate of W, C. efforts to break the Ounard's naonopolj
diers In the neighborhood of Mush. On made in the treatment of neuralgia , Whitney fixed Its value at $21,284,101, of the Hungarian-American omigrani
tin? arrival of reinforcements the Ar- ,nud hysteria with radium at the, Sal- i ou which an inheritance tax of $222,- traffic.
menians fled, setting are to three vil- petrlere Hospital, in ? arls.
Firo destroyed the largest wire cabb
i!22 was paid.
lages on their way,
factory In St. Petersburg, Russia, and
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caused. $1,250,000 loss.
Five Horses Killed.by Lightning.
Rear Admiral Taylor Dead.
Five valuable horses belonging to
Ball For General Slooutu Affair.
Russia increased her import duties
Rear Admiral Henry C. 1'aylor, chief
Judge Thomns held President Bar- Colonel Henry A. Du Pont, of Wilming- i bf the Bureau of Navigation of the twenty per cent, on shoot steel and a
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few
other products.
ton,
Bsl.,
-were
struclc
by
lightning
naby, of the Knickerbocker Steamboat
Navy Department at Washington, died
Company, of New York City, in $20,000 while standing in a field at Wintcrthur, , In the Copper Cliff Hospital, at CopTwo more British steamers wet's
ball, and the others indicted"'In the the Du Pont residence, and Instantly per Bay,. Ont., where he had been ill seized by Russian sftlps. Their linme
General Slocum horror lit IjioOOO ball killed.
dinte rcleaso was expected.
for several weeks.
each.
The Illness of ICiiij; Christian is noDied on His Wagon.
serious, and he loft ,Schwcrln for Co
Tbo
Drought
in
Germany.
Steamer Aground In Gale.
John Wood, a wealthy cnal merchant
German crops show further deterior- peuhflgeu.
The steamer City of Rockland, which of Harrison, N. Y., .died while on the ation
July 15, owing to) the proThe body of Paul Kruger, late Presi
wont aground uonr Rockland, Me., was seat of one of his wagons, And a horse longedsince
drought. Navigation on the dent ol! tlio 'I'runsvnM, was seat to Tin
Uoated In the teeth of a dangerous lie had driven I'M itwenty years tools Elbe is suspended
and. people are cross- Hague torn &toens. Switserland.
southwest gale, and was beaohiid for m »<% \<>,iM .coal office...
four Ihfl aitviM' at. Dread «h nil foot.
temporary, repairs*
\. de Plehve Assassinated in St»
Petersburg Thoroughfare.
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BLOWN TO PIECES BY A BOMB
She Assassin '.Catlly -Woohdeu by H I *
Own W e a p o n in Custody of Police—
ISxplonion K i l l s Minister's Concinnau
and Injures Otitera~I» F e l t 3Tor B l o c k s
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—Czar Deeply Affected b y tl»e Affair.
St. Petersburg, Russia. — M, d*|
Plehve, the Minister of' t h e Interior*
was assassinated by means of a boinhi
thrown a t his carriage while h e wast
flriving to the Baltic Station to take si.
train for t h e palace a t Peterhof, w h e r e
he was to make his weekly report to*
the Emperor.
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The assassination is believed"to bet
the outcome of a widespread plot, t h a
existence of which had been suspected!
for several days.
Numerous arrestshave already been made, including t h a t
of the assassin, a young man who ist
believed to be a Finn, n a m e d Leglo,
m d who is now in a hospital, Severely and perhaps mortally injured byr
Hie explosion of his own bomb.
An accomplice of Leglo, also appar*
ently a Finn, b u t whose n a m e 'is u n known, h a s been arrested. H e had; ii»
bis possession a bomb, which he triedl
to throw, but he was overpowered by;
the police just in time to prevent gi^eat
loss of life.
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The assassin-, who wore a * b r o w *
overcoat and a railroad official's cap,
stood on the sidewalk jn^t as M. d e
Plehve's carriage was about to cross;
the canal bridge near the station. Th&
Minister w a s escorted by a number of
detectives on bicycles, and one of t h e m
Jostled t h e assassin, who then rushed;
Into the road a n d threw the bomb after
the carriage, crying "Long live freedom!"
The missile struck the h i n d w h e e l
and exploded with fearful force, killing or wonndiug over a score of persons. M. de Plehve and h i s coachman
were killed outright, a n d an officer of
the guard w a s mortally injured,
One of t h e cyclist detectives arrested the assassin, "who endeavored t o
escape, though wounded by splinters
In the face, arm and abdohieh.
T h e explosive is believed to h a v e
been pyroxylin, as it gave off littl®
emoke. • T h e force of the explosion w a s
so terrific t h a t It not only- broke every,
window within a radius of half a mile,
but reduced the heavy paving Stones
to powder, heaved up the pavement,
and flung a heavy piece of t h e ironwork of t h e carriage across t h e canal,
sewering the thick mast Of a bar^«,
which fell, stunning t h e captain <if t h e
barge, Everybody in t h e street w a s
knocked down and more or lesabruised.
Immediately there ensued R scene of
the wildest confusion.
Police a n d
gendarmes hurried up from every direction a n d vast crowds gathered!
ibout the spot where the body of the?
Minister lay. I t had been partlallyj
jovered with a police officer's overcoat.
A few yards from M. de Plehve's
body lay the coachman's remains.
The news of the tragedy spread Ilket
wildfire throughout St. P e t e r s b u r g ,
jausing consternation everywhere. P o lice reserves were hurried to the scene
from all parts of the city.
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Guarded by t h e police, the body r e mained in the street until the arrival
3f the judicial officials, even in thejase of t h e most powerful Minister o f
the empire, the law requiring that t h i s
formality be observed before the body,
;ould be removed.
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When the officers of the law, headedi
by Minister of Justice Muravleff, had!
terminated the necessary formalitieitby drawing up a written report of the .
i :rime, the remains were conveyed to>
i m humble chapel adjoining the sta.' tion. The priests and people, withi
:haracteristic Russian piety, at oncaf.
Joined in a solemn requiem.
The body was then placed in a carriage, covered by a robe, and w a i
taken to the deceased's magnificent
town residence, adjoining' the Ministry;
5f the Interior, where it was; completely covered with a write shroud whicSi
soncealed the ghastly mutilation., it,
lay in a block and silver casket in ai.»
corner of the vast hall surrounded byj
luxuriant palms,
The, news was broken to the Minister's wife at Kyblnsk, ou the Volga,
while on her w'ay to their country seat
with their son, -who is thirty-sevei*
years old.
The Czai almost broke down •when*
he was informed of the Mlnlster'a;
murder.
The Czarina was not informed oft
the tragedy in view of the hourly expectation of the birth of .an heir t *
the
throne. WORKERS AT POLLS. i
WOMEN
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Pair Sex Takes Prominent Part in Wilmington, N. C, Election.
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Wilmington, N. C—Women took aiBactive.part in the municipal ©leetoitheld here under the Watts. State law:;,
upon the question of the establishment;
of a dispensary in the city and thar
operation of distilleries within the co~
operate limits.
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Near the polling places booths liacS
been erected from which, the ladie^-",
served refreshments to all dispensary^
workers. The antkdlspensary advo^
cafces won the election by. a majority!'
of 090 in a total vote of ifttg,. and' it*
the operation of distilleries there .wai*a majority of 461. In the morning theni*
was a parade of boys by the polls carrying banners proclaiming- against the*
saloon.
General Slocum Indictments. ...
The Federal Grand Jury liidicteS.
Captain Van Schaick and Insfreeteft.
Lundberg and Fleming for manslatfgh-?
ter in connection with tlie &ea'itfa*
Slocum disaster and Charged owcM?*
of the company, with abetting, thel- .
of
tare.
• '.'-j"-'Two feaved From ift%tei*.
• v.'
Clinging to a eapsipsed,sailing esvnos- ,,
In the Long Island Sound, 4,"j-,bui#ir
cottplo of Bridgeport, Cottii,, wef#' .
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