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GOVERNOR IN DISGUISE! Nebraska's Executive Goes to South i Omaha Stock Yards, | UNNOTICED AMONG STR KERS Aftfr Careful Investigation Governor John Mickey Concludes Not to Send State Troops to the Scene of TroubleDeclares the City to Be Safe?Mingles With Both Sides. South Omaha, Neb.?Disguised as a lahoror, Governor John Mickey, of Nebraska. mingled with the strikers anil strike breakers here, joined with the crowd in a run on the Armour plant and fell back with the others when confronted by a line of deputy sheriffs, and unknown in hiy working man's garb personally investigated the conditions in the great meat strike her?. I As a resut of his investigation the Governor now refuses to send any State troops to South Omaha for the present. He had been requested to send a company of the National Guard to protect the non-union workmen who, it was alleged, were being interfered with when they attempted to enter the packing plant. Tire Governor, when the Sheriff and packers had made the request for the , soldiers and stared their case, said , he would take the matter under con- : sidcratiou. Then after having seen the things the packers desired he should see, he returned to his home In Lincoln. He donned the clothing of a laborer ?n<1 miioflv rr>tnr?lP.1 tf> South Omaha. ] incognito, to make an investigation of ] the other side of the ease. At an early ( hour lie was mingling with the strik- ] ers, thousands of whom surrounded ] the packing houses. No one recog- \ nized him and he soon was heating the opinions of the strikers as to how ] long the trouble would last, how the ] plants were being run with non-union < men and what methods were consid- < erod to draw away the strike-breakers. | Shortly after Governor Mickey ar- | ] rived on the scene, the strikers sud- \ denly bi*oke for Armours, where it was reported an attempt to run in a ) carload of strike-breakers was being ? made. The Governor stayed with the strikers and ran to the plant. Before t reaching it, however, the crowd was ( halted by deputy sheriffs, and the Governor stood In the front row and s watched the strike-breakers, of whom : there were fifty, enter the plant and < go to work. The strikers attempted s no interference. ( For three hours Governor Mickey remained among the strikers and says p he received information as to how a j strike is run. Then he was recognized r by Sheriff Powers, who was amazed j at seeing the Governor in a working- { man's garb. But the Governor quick- i ly told his mission and then and there ( announced that no troops would be ordered to South Omaha so long as ^ the strikers remained ia their present state. "Things are absolutely saf^ in South < Omaha, and there is no reason to call out the troops," he says. "I know what I am talking about now. for I have seen and heard just about the whole ^ thing." J When Governor Mickey returned to 8 his home in Lincoln he was still wear- ? ing his disguise as a laborer. : BOY'S BLOW KILLS POLICEMAN. r t Youngster in Charlotte. N. C., Resisted When Caught After a Chase. \ Charlotte, N. C.?J. W. Brown, a | member of the Charlotte police force, , was killed by Faul Biggers, a sixteenyear-old white boy. Biggers had beon arrested for violat- , ing a city ordinance, and after the hearing the boy passed the police officer and laughed or sneered at him. Brown thereupon gave chase and laid hold of Biggers, who struck him in the stomach with his fist. The officer knocked the boy senseless with his i club. A large crowd gathered and threats against the officer were made, but the crowd was kept back and the boy was J taken to the police station. Brown :was taken ill shortly after as a result ' of the blow struck by Biggers. and 1 died a few hours later. 1 ( $25,000,000 FOR IRRIGATION. / ^ Fund For Reclaiming Arid Land In- 1 creased by Land Sales. Washington, D. C.?An increase of ( the arid land Reclamation fund held by the Treasury to approximately $25,- 1 000,000 is announced in the report of ' the Auditor for the Interior Depart- 1 ment for the fiscal year ended June ' 80. This is the fund accumulated from the proceeds of public land sales in California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota. Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. EX-GOVERNOR PATTISON DEAD. Pneumonia the Cause ?Was Twice Governor. : Philadelphia, Pa.?Robert E. Pattl8on, who was twice Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania and twice Controller of Philadelphia, died at his home in Overbrook, a suburb of this city. Pneumonia, complicated with a weakness of the heart, was the cause of death. He was tifty-four years old. h " Dead in Bathing Suit The body of a man in bathing clothes, believed to be Richard Reinbardt Fuenther, of North Tottenville, S. I., was found near Tottenville. Some days ago Fuenther disappeared, leaving his clothes in one of the bathing houses. ??? <" Mrs. Miles Dead. Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, wife of the I former Lieu tenant-General command-1 ins the army, died suddenly at West Point, N. Y., of heart failure. ,V Labor World. It looks as though firemen on the | Lehigh Valley may make a demand for more money. Attempts nt coalition against the Labor Ministry in the Australian Federal Commonwealth have failed. ' Boston (Mass.) bakers have opened a co-opcrative bakery, and it is the intention to establish branch stores in yarious sections of the city. ' The strike of cotton operatives at Bristol, Eng.. has ended by a compromise, the reduction of five per cent, befog agreed to for the preseol. .. ':. ROB TRAIN PASSENGERS j | Held Up Only Twenty Miles From j the City of Chicago. W Load of St. Lonis Excursionist* Are 1 Kolclty Ivobbed by Five Masked ni Men?One Victim is Sbot. Chicago, 111.?Five masked men held 1 w up an Illinois Central train within twenty-five miles of Chicago and lined up the passengers in the Pullman cars with pistols pointing at them and searched them for valuables. j The train that was held up was a dr special bound for St. Louis, filled with . C( 1~ frt *Iia \\rA>tM'c I excurstuiliais lu < "*- nvuu>i . Fair- j>e The robbers boarded the train be- . r twee 11 Flossmore and Matteson, and ' with drawn revolvers climbed into ! UP cab and ordered the engineer to stop, i le? The engineer brought the train to a , th< standstill at a lonely place near some j ' woods, and the conductor and brake- I a man, who ran forward to find out the wl cause of th^> train stopping, were also plf ordered to throw up their hands and 1 Es were searched for weapons. * I to1 After the engineer, fireman and the : qu trainmen had handed over what mon- j we ey they had they were marched back ari to the baggage car. The robbers were j H disappointed at finding that they had i pi? held up a train without an express t wc car, but determined to make the best ! dit of the job by robbing the passengers : be! of whatever money and valuables they | frc might possess. ' cai The passengers were ordered to in march out of the cars and line up be- sec side the train. Women and children, ca] terrified at the appearance of the * masked men. screamed and tried to th? hide under the seats. The robbers, j nic however, made a careful search of the i f#r cars and were sure they had all the I inc passengers under the muzzles of their ! He revolvers before they began to rob ! fro them. All had to hold up their hands. I SP' A man who was one of the last to j ^h leave the train, struggled against a ; ha< robber who was holding him, when he , ^ro rcne rlrn crcrnfl from the Dlatform. One i by >f the masked men drew back and in j b0( full sight of the passengers fired di- { *eetly at the man's breast and he fell j :o the ground dangerously wounded. i " "That's what the next man will get bio :hat acts that way," said a man who : y? seemed to be leader of the gang. | in After the robbers had secured all i ma he booty they could find, they backed j an< >ff to the woods and escaped. j "f' The train proceeded to Kankakee, sixty miles distant, under full steam, I md at that station Superintendent i 3ross, who was on board, left the j ns ileeper and notified Chief of Detectives ' I1"! )'Keefe of the road, of the robbery, j llft At 1.10 o'clock a special train With j on jolice officers and employes of the 111- j a"c nois Central left for the scene of the . obbery to hunt down the robbers who. ' ter t was believed, were either hiding in ! roa lie marshes near Madison or had dou- | >Ied and were working back toward i ' ?hiccgo. i .?.ov i the GAMBLER KILLED IN HIS ROOM. ! ' not Charles Bosworth Murdered in New ! wa Britain, Conn. New Britain, Conn.?Charles Bos- ! bel vorth, a gambler, aged fifty-three j sci< ears, was found lying unconscious in ' a. I n/\r?1 nf hlnnil in the h.n rk rnfim of tilt* i cia.1 i'k/V-" "? ? w.?. ;econd floor of Ward's Building, on x dain street, shortly before noon. He p#I lied in the hospital at 4 p. m.. not hav- tha ng recovered consciousness. He was life nurdered and the police have no clue woi o his assailants. anc When Bosworth was found there j injr vere several wounds on his head, his | A jockets were turned inside out. and a ! aril liaraond ring had been torn from his ; by inger. The room was evidently used aiit is a policy shop, as numerous en- | N ,-elopes containing policy slips were ' wil 'ound ou the table, which, with four j qu;i rliairs, comprised the entire furniture ! wei >f the room. j the j {fur HAITIAN SOLDIERS RIOT, I T ! bee i nri r attempt to Pillage Central Market and j ^a, Near-by Shops. j ?>f Port-au-Prince, Haiti.?The most se- j ious disorders are anticipated here. ! reP The population is very much excited by i mei :he continued rise in the prices of allf i nerchandise, and a band of soldiers' T nade an attempt to begin pillaging the j Central Market and the shops in that ' 'e-v ricinity. j Troops and police immediately inter- ; f rened and re-established order, but in | W1* :he fight many men were wounded, j ;\.il the stores in Port-au-Prince were ,'losed. I 3fT A number of Syrians were stoned in j T ;he streets. Two of them were wound- J'n' ?d, and their stalls, surrounding the : Central Market, were destroyed by sol- , floa iiers. 1 j PRICE ON HEADS OF BANDITS. Wc Railroad Offers $1000 For Men Who i Robbed Diamond Special. j ^er Chicago, 111.?The officers of the Illi- I Ro< nois Central Railroad increased the re- } sta ward of $1000 for the arrest and con- j thii viction of the bandits who held np tlie the Diamond Special near Matteson. III., to : In < S4000, a reward of $IOOU for each of the j the robbers. fire The passengers lost $1000 and a nurn- fine ber of watches by the robbery, which bee was at tirst reported to have been done at 1 by one man. Later it developed that j gla four men were concerned in it. The : onl conductor of the train is positive that ; fift the bandits were formerly employes of . has the railroad. ; bet Baldwin's New Airship. A successful ascension was made by ' Captain T. S. Baldwin's airship at i cj. Idora Park. Oakland, Cal. Tiio airship ascended about 500 feet, made a con- i siderable circle, and landed success- j , fully at the place from where it had i started. j IJ American Duchess Injured. j ? Consuolo. Duchess of Marlborough fra (formerly Miss Yamierimt), was xuruwii , (;o from a horse in Blenheim Park, and . < onsidernbly bruised and shaken. PromineLl Peoole. I n The Prince of Monaco is a first-class j , lecturer on deep-sea life. i J Prince Eitel, the Kaiser's second son, | . has accomplished the feat of swim- | rning the lihine, just above Bonn. The directors of the American Steel ? Foundries Company have accepted the . resignation of Charles M. Schwab as a director. rei King Edward VII. once wrote in a rj confession book that the person he dis- asl liked most was "the man -who p?ints fQJ at you Avith his umbrella and shouts u onL There he isl'" - IURDERERS' BOLD HOLD-UP round Paymaster of Puritan -a.) Mines and Kill Driver, ECURE $3000 AND ESCAPE ounderi Man Now in Honiiit.il While Dtsperadoe* Are Surrounded In a Sfwitmp ? Wliole Country-side Is Aiouted?An Army of Eight Hundred on the Hunt. Johnstown, Pa.?Charles Hares, a iver, employed by the Puritan Coal >mpany, is dead, and Patrick Camp11, the company's paymaster, lies rhaps fatally wounded at the Aiana Hospital, as the result of a holdi and murder on the township road iding from Portage, this county, to e mining town of Puritan. rhe two men were in a buggy taking satchel containing about $3000 with lich to pay the coal company's em>yes at Puritan, from the Adams :Dress office at Portage, to the coal (vn. When at a point about threearters of a mile out of Portage they >re suddenly fired upon by three men ned with shotguns. .'ayes fell to the bottom of the buggy, >rced by thirty-seven buckshot >unds in his neck and breast, and k1 about half an hour later. CampII was hit in the shoulder and fell >m the buggy. The highwaymen me out from their places of hiding the woods to the right of the ro:id, ;ured the satchel of money, and es?ed. According to their usual custom, on ? Saturday nearest the first of the nth Campbell and Hayes started Portage about 8 o'clock in the >rning. Some time later William isel, a farmei, who lives four miles m Portage, was going home in a ing wagon over the same road lich the paymaster and his driver i taken. Three-quarters of a mile m town, where the road is flanked woods, he suddenly came upon the ly of a man, writhing in agony in > middle of the road. Leaving his gon, Heisel discovered Campbell, 'he paymaster was drenched with od. which was flowing from a und in the right shoulder. Although agony, he was still conscious, and 3 TTA!rt/,l 4-K^4- UA ungeu. IU wuisyti" 11/ rztriaei iuut uu 1 Hayes, bis driver, bad been fired )n by the robbers, and that, dizzy m his wound, he had fallen from buggy, which had gone on. [eisel staunched Campbell's wounds best lie could with a handkerchief 1 a bit of linen ripped from his coat, ed him into the wagon, and started out the road in search of the team I driver. He had not gone fifty ds when he came upon the payrr.as's buggy, standing at the side of the d. the horse, unharmed, nibbling ss. rhrn opposite the vehicle be disered the seemingly lifeless form of driver, huddled in the bottom of the jgy. He tried to lift the man into wagon with Campbell, but could . Hayes weighed 190 pounds. There s no help at hand, and nothing to but turn back to Portage for help. Vken Partage was reached, CampI, who was by that time uncon?us, was placed in charge of Dr. J. Schofield, and Heisel. securing usance, went back far Hayes. he body of the driver was taken to tage. where physicians discovered t although Hayes was unconscious, was not quite extinct. He was unded beyond recovery, however. I died within ten minutes after bebrought into the office. fter his wounds had been tempory dressed. Campbell was conveyed train to Altoona, where he was adted to the City Hospital. ews of the tragedy spread like dfire through Portage, and in a irter of an hour hundreds of people re streaming over the rsad toward scene of tlie murder armed with is and revolvers. he search for the murderers had >n made unremittingly since the ne had been reported, and the posse 5 working in Randall when Justice the Peace McCartney, sf Beavcre. about six miles south of Portage, orted to them he had seen three u running across the road toward swamp. he fugitives had .iust reached the ;e of the swamp when the first vo!rang out. One ef the murderers [is companions held the posse back h drawn guns, and the wounded n managed to get out of sight in the ise undergrowth with the assistance Lis companions. he search of the swamp was conoed all night, and it was expected three murderers would soon be .d or in custody. DESPERADOES STOP TRAIN. rnnded Conductor, Get $7 and Escape. elhart, Tex.?Armed with Winchesrifles three masked mm held up a ?k Island express train in the small tion of Logan, seventy railes west of 5 place. In attempting to battle with bandits John York, the conductor charge of the train, was shet through left leg, and a score of shots were d to terrorize the oilier trainmen I the passengers. After Y?rk had >n stretched unconscious all effort resistance was abandoned. The burrs blew open the train safe and got y $7 and then made off. A posse of y men is in pursuit, and a report > reached here that the gang has >n cornered in a wood. Von Plehve Buried. 'he body of M. Plehve, the Russian nister of the Interior, was buried at Petersburg with impressive cerenies. The Emperor was present at > funeral service. It is expected that successor to the murdered Minister | II soon be chosen. A Big Contract. 'he Erie Railroad has made a conct with the American Locomotive mpany for the repair of 000 loco tives. From the Scat of War. "lie Vladivostok squadron sank a panese steamer in the Pacific. Chinese arriving from Port Arthur Cliefoo say 4000 Japanese took an tpost and were then blown up by a ne. .ue uerinan sieamer usuun ?ao pped and searched by a Russian rship in the Gulf of Finland, then eased. 7he Pacific Mail Steamship Line ced the United States Government protection against possible seizure Russians. KIMS HASTEN NORTH ieneral Stakelberg ReporteJ Cut Off From Centre. i IOUNT KELLER KILLED'IN BATTLE imnrbnn Saiil to Be in the Hands of th9 GREAT WESTERN FLOOD | Doug-lass and Silver Star, Nev., m Water's Path. , C Telephone TTIro to So<i4vi!Ie Give* tn? News and Then Break.*, Down?People # Asked to Look For Uodie*. ? Reno, Nev.?As a result of a cloudburst the towns of Douglass and Sliver Star, near Sodaville, Nev.. are reported I to have been swept away. The news ; was telephoned from the scene of the I f^ioaafai* trt CaiIh rlllo Thn rnnnrf wne t uiouoiv-i w wvuu riuti xuv, i. \_ jiui w 11 uo j that a flood in waves four or five feet J deep was sweeping away bouses, and j that great property damage was being | P wrought. The schoolhouse and four | a dwellings were swept away. t Ten minutes after the first news was \ j 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 peopJe J I have been warned to watch for bodies, i u The volume of water is increasing al ! that place. Near New Boston, six miles north of : P Sodaville, the Carson and Colorado j G Railroad is covered with water to a j i' depth of six inches for half a mile, and j o at Rhodes, three miles south of here, k similar conditions prevail. c Kingman, Ariz.?Heavy rains in the ! a mountains east of Truxton sent clown a ! h wail of water thirty feet high through j b the canon, washing out the Santa Fe f< Railroad track, embankments, bridges, ; ci telegraph poles and everything mov- j fc able for twelve miles. Great steel bridges were taken from their founda- u tions and piled up against the walls of * the canon and massive stone abut- tl ments were crumbled and carried t< away. ? P At Crozier everything movable, in- I eluding the station signal and box cars were piled up on the big steel bridge S west of the station. At Hackberry the^ r< pumping house and machinery were L destroyed and swept into the valley | P miles away. 'me Dig wen was nneu i u to the brim with debris. Houses high i a above all known high water marks j ? heretofore were flooded and much dam- I fi .age was done. j tl ' Hundreds of men have been hurried i to the washout by the Santa Fe Rail* I "S road, but it will be some time before j k the water subsides sufficiently to allow J fi the workmen to reconstruct the road- j e bed and bridges. Many trains bearing j li men and material have been running j ti from Seligman and Needles to the a washout, and it is expected that the ^ work of repair will go on at once. Many miles of -telegraph lines are G down and it will take some time to re- a pair them. R Three miles of the- Arizona and Utah r< track were washed out, and it will take- i s' several days to make repairs. A re- j If port reaches Kingman of a cloudburst ! g at Cedar, a mining camp eighty miles ! lc south of here, which carried away part I of a twenty-stamp mill, gasolene pump, 1 a' engine, blacksmith shop, forty horse- j tl power boiler and other property. The c< shaft of the Arnold mine was filled ol with debris. ti ol BABY DOWN FORTY FOOT WELL . . f! Fished Out Alive With Grappling | c Hooks After Two Hours. Jackson, Miss. ? While L. Vail, a C( farmer living in Montgomery County, was boring a well which had reached a depth of- about forty feet, his eight- , <jeen-months-old child toddled out into ^ the yard and tumbled headforemost to i ja the bottom of the hole. T Grappling hooks were secured and j an effort made to draw the child out. a] The cries of the infant could be plainly heard at the top, and hundreds ?f I fl] neighbors, who gathered after tlse j news of the accident spread, were frantic in their efforts to save the j ^ baby. A hold was finally secured on j the infant's clothing, but when the j ' tiny body was within ten feet of the j top the hooks loosened and the child j again slowly slipped to the bottom. : After working for nearly two hours ! F the child was finally brought to the j surface nearer dead than alive. VIPER NAILED TO THE LATCH, j J Indiana Man Suspects Secret Enemy ! ^ of New Idea of Assassination. Louisville, Ivy .?An assassination plot fl in which a deadly viper was to bite the : h victim is reported by Clarence Norris, |*p who lives near Jeffersonville, Ind. i rr Mrs. Donahue, a neighbor, telephoned j ir Mr. Norris that she had noticed a big j gi snake on his gate. Mr. Norris hurried i fi to the gate and found that a viper. ; tl over three feet long, had been fastened ; ri to the barrier, with its head on the ! latch. The snake liacl been so arranged ti that it would, scarcely be noticed from \ \ tbe inside. ! b After killing tbe snake Mr. Norria T found that it had been securely fast- : n ened by a nail driven through its tail. ' cl Mr. Norris suspects an unknown en- ! If cmy, and the police are working on the i v case. I f. Big R. R. Orders. ! P Orders have been given for $5,000,000 j worth of supplies for the Harriman j * railroad linos. These include fiO.OOO j " tons of steel rails at $2S a ton and 1000 S1 steel cars. 11 France and Rome Break. | j1 I J} The text of the French note severing , 1 relations with the Vatican was made I public. Mtnsignor Lorenzelli, the Papal Nuncio, left Paris for Rome. | J n Injured at Picnic. <j Sixteen German-Americans on a pic- I nic excursion were injured in a trol[ ley crash near Cleveland, Ohio. . I China Wants Revolutionist. Because of the lack of an extradition j I treaty the Chinese Government is j ? baffled In its desire to get Quen Man, ! ? revolutionist, under death sentence, I ^ who is sheltered in a rresbytcrian mis- ; ? sion in New York City. j ' More Men Out of Work. The three plants of the International 1 Harvester Company in Chicago, Illwill be closed for an indefinite period and 13,500 will be thrown out of em* s nJoyment. The National Came. Pittsburg has sold C-tcher Carisch to Jersey City. * Jones, the Brooklyn pitcher, is a p clever acrobat. ? Lumiey is still the hardest National 0 League batsman. The Fhilauelpbia Club contemplates giving the veteran Herum Long a trial at snort field. President Pulliam has promulgated T notice of Alex. Smith's contract with 1 Chicago, -i of Pitcher w- Reidy'a i' release by Brooklyn % - Japs and One of Knropatkin's Strojicest Divisions Split From Main Army? I Retreat of Czar's Troops Toward Milk- ! den Practically a Disorderly Flight. Tokio. Japan.-Despite strict silence n the part of tbe War Office, the retort became known here that the Japnese. in a sever* engagement, lasting [ wo days, occupied Simuchen, on the J i'ungwan-Haichen road, thus cutting J ff Lieutenant-General Baron Stakelierg, at the head of one of Genera! Curopatkin's strongest divisions, from ae centre of the Russian army. It is reported the Mikado's troops ractically have iusured the capture of leneral Stakelberg's forces, and that t is likely that will be achieved withut large Japanese loss. General Sta:elberg practically is in a corner in onsequence of the Japanese success ,t that point. Xo matter which way ie may attempt to ret-eat he is sure to e confronted by strong Japanese irees and forced to surrender or acant battle under (conditions disadvau igeous to him. It also is reported here th? Russians uder General Knropatkiu are in full igkt northeastward. The inference is he Russian commander-in-chief hopes > escape to Mukden, whence he elects to- maintain communication with [arbin. It is regarded as impossible he can et so far. because one of General KuJki's columns is operating between ,iair Yang and Mukden, and there is a ossibility the flying division of picked oops sent from General Kuroki's rmy several weeks ago to strike west t rue ranroau ana auac& j-iiuu i;uiy | ora the northwest already lias crossed ; he peninsular railway. If tke- railroad is cut above Liau i 'ang that wilL stop General Ktiropatin'd retreat, and the Russians will be j irced to surrender or to accept a gen- j ral engagement. There now remains j ttle doubt what the outcome of an ex- ! ?nded battle between General Kuroptkin and Generals Kuroki, Oku and odzu would be. News of the killing of Lieutenantgeneral Count Keller in the fighting t Yangze was received here. The :ussian general, on whom General Kujpatkin placed great reliance, was I truck by a piece of shell and died in j >ss than a half hour. He was tho first eneral officer of the Russian army to >se his life in this war. The War Office refused to make any nnouncement in resp.ct of Port Arlur. All sorts of rumors continue to >me here from Chefoo. Shanghai and [her dubious r -urces. but no confirmaon of any of them is given out by the tficials. Credence is given to the dispatches , om Shanhaikwan, at which port meriant vessels arrive daily after passing \ ie Laothie Promontory, well outside j le four-mile limit, and the lower west )ast of the Liaotung Peninsula, parcularly Pigeon Bay. Stories of the Japanese advance over able Hill and the persistent shelling r the Russian fortifications from the ind side, as well as by Vice-Admiral og?'s fleet, while not permitted to be nblished here, circulate privately, and re believed. There is a general understanding mong foreigners and natives in Tokio lat important operations are in proress at Tort Arthur, anil that news of le fall of the fortress may Le received t any hour. WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED. , armer. His Wife am'. Three Children j Killed?Home Burned. Statesboro. Gr..?'The mangled bodies ' f Henry Hodges and his wife- and j irce children were founrl in the ruins | T thf?ir country home, six miles from ! lis nlace. Neighbors discovered the house in ; ames aftei midnight, but the fire had , iade such headway that it was ira- 1 ossible to stay it. As none of the 1 lenibers of the family were seen dur- ' ig the fire the neighbors took it for : ranted 1hat the family wrre away nm home. At daylight the bodies of ic entire family were found in the jins. Mr. Hodges' skull was crushed in na j lough from the blow of an ax, and [rs. Hodges head and body had been eaten with some blunt instrument, lie body of the little girl was horribly langled. The bodies of tho two other liililr.Mi dill lini show ,111V siffns flf vio nee, and it is supposed that they were ictims of fire alone. On pieces of timber in the yard were Mind blood stains and bloody finger rints. It has been ascertained that Mr. I lodges went to a neighbor's* to bring i ome his little child, who had been i pending the day there. All the bodies were dressed, indicat- ! is that the crime was committed early . 1 Ihe night, before any of the family | ad retired. Armenians Ambush Turks. Official cablegrams from Constantople report that a band o'f Armenian evolutionists ambushed a party of soliers in the neighborhood of Mush. On lie arrival of reinforcements the Arlenians tied, setting fire to three villges on their way. Bail For General Sloeum Affair. Judge Thomas held President Bar- ! aby, of the Knickerbocker Steamboat j ompany, of New York City, in S'JO.OOO ail, and the others indicted in the ieneral Sloeum horror in ?.jOOO bail <1 Steamer Aground in Gale. The steamer City of Rockland. which rent aground near Rockland. Me., was oared in tlie teeth of a dangerous outhwest gale, and was beached for emporary repairs. Italians to Go South. The manager of the Society for the 'rotection ol! Italian Immigrants reorted favorably, after investigation, n a scheme to divert the tide of talian immigration to tbje cotton fields f Mississippi. Baltic Fleet to Sail. A cruiser division of the Baltic fleet j vill put to sea under sealed orders . vithin a few days. The Don and the I Jral, auxiliary cruisers, are on the j vay to replace the St. Petersburg ami ' he Smolensk in the Sea. ; ^ 1 ; V . : >TOWN FIGHTS A MADMAN Shoots Him After He Kills One and Wounds Eight ac!t Carr, a Carpenter of N>l>ra?ka City, Goes Iiiftane Snddenly?Shoot? From a Barricaded ITooin In a Hotel. Nebraska City. Neb.?For an hour the streets of Nebraska City were Gl'ed with armed men, fighting a battle with a lunatic who. armed with a rifle and revolver, fired from his window whenever he caught sight of a head in any direction. The man was Jack Carr, a contracting carpenter. Finally. leaving his room. Can* rushed into the streets and for ten minutes held his own. firing wildly, until ho fell with a dozen wounds. During his fight Carr killed one citizen. wounded six others, and also two policemen. Carr. at 7 o'clock in the evening, suddenly went insane. Stealing up l*?liind Christian Hartman, he deliberately killed him with a revolve:*. Then, standing over the dead body, he emptied his pistol in the remains. Shouting wildly and waving his revolver, he rushed to his hotel and barricaded his room. Chief of Poliw Schoonover and Patrolman Ingram arrived at his door ft few minutes later and Carr began firing through the panels, using a rifle. Schoonover was shot through the shoulder and fell down the steps,, from which he was dragged by citizens who- had begun gathering. Tn(rrnrrr fofurnnrl fha fira olurw chnnf Inpr through the door, but soon he-emptied his revolver and took refuge in nn adjoining room while- Carr paraded the corridors, firing at every guest who showed himself. Returning ti his room. Carr secured a shotgun., and' opened fire on the crowd which had gathered.. Before they could gat tocover he had wounded several. Then the- battle became general. Every man who had a gun began shooting at Carr's window, from which the madman continued to fire at every opportunity. Finally, Policeman Ingram secured a position from which he could see directly in Carr's room and soon made it too hot for him to stay there. The firing from the hotel suddenly ceased, and the citizens supposed Carr had been killed. But with a shout the madman rushed from the front doo'r; firing his repeating gun as he ran. The crowd again scattered, and for a few moments he controlled the situation. During these few minutes he paraded up and down before' the building, yelling and screaming. Then Ingram and a citizen charged on Carr. while other citizens fired at him. Carr fell to the ground, but they continued firing until he was hit no less than twelve times, when ho became unconscious and his guns were taken from him. Carr at first was thought to have been killed'. Although pronounced wounded mortally,, then? was loud talk of lynching.. MEMPHIS CHIEF QUITS. And Then the Commissioners Tell Him to Hold On. Memphis. Tenn.?Chief of Police J. J. Mason tendered his resignation to the Board of Fire and Folice Commissioners. Mayor Williams stated to the board that he exonerated both Vice-Mayor Henderson and Chief Mason from any guilt in recent occurrences and shouldered all the blame himself. The board then acted on the resignation of the cbief, the vote being two to one in favor of not accepting" the resignation. Mayor Williams and Vice-Mayor Henderson voted to retain Chief Mason, and Mr. Walsh, the third member, voted for his dismissal. . STRIKE MOB ATTACKS. Riot in Front of a Chicago Poiice Station. Chicago, Til. ? A mob of stockyard strikers and sympathizers attacked the Deering street police station in an attempt to seize Frank Cnstellano, a butcher, who had shot a striker in escaping from the mob. Two thousand men stormed the station after Castellano had been arrested. and for fifteen minutes the police, under command of Lieutenant Bonfield. were compelled to club and beat the strikers until they dispersed. NEW COUNTERFEIT NOTE. Poor Photo of National Bank of Commerce, of New York, Bill. Washington. D. C.?Chief Wilkie, of the United States Secret Service, announces the discovery of a new counterfeit $10 national bank note. It is on the National Bank of Commerce, of New York, series 1SS2: Bruce, Register; Wyman. Treasurer. It is a poorly executed photograph. Dropped Dead in the Street. Royal Luther Porter, forty years old, who had been living at the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, N. Y., went out for a walk. At Henry street, near Clark, he fell dead. The hotly was taken to tho Fulton street station, where it was subsequently claimed by J. E. Porter, his brother. Port Arthur Fort Taken. It was reported at Tokio that, after tlnee days of desperate tighting, the Japanese have captured Shan-tai-Kow. one of the important defenses of Par: Arthur. Injured in Tunnel. Robert Buchanan, who left for Albany, N. Y? from New York City, 0:1 a freight train,, was held up and robbed. A companion was fatally hurt in the Poughkeepsie tunnel, and Buchanan held him on top of a freight car until help arrived. Strikers Wreck Hons?. Strike sympathizers in Chicago. III., wrecked a house troni which a woman luul been evicted for non-payment et rear. Sporting Brevities. The seventy-footers Virginia and Yankee arc being refitted at City Island. X. Y. Now York entries won sixteen out oL" twenty-seven awards at the Atlantic City, X. J., horse show. C. M. Daniels won a fast race in a swimming tournament given by the Manhattan Swimming Club. Local oarsmen carried ofiL' the lion's share of the prizes at the Xew York Day Association rvsatta on the Har-> leoi River. Wfllmira WASHINGTON. ; E.v means of a rifle in the hands of an export marksman the pigeons which made their home in til.? golden dome of tup Laurary or wonsn.'? aim auu-ijiru readers by their lluttei .igs hare bc?. removed and the reading room restorea to its former quiet and dignity. The Panama Minister at Washington made a formal protest against the establishment of an American custom house near Panama. Thp State Department has informed (he Russian Government that damages will be claimed by American owners of the cargo on board the steamship Arabia. A woman crank called at thp White House to warn President Roosevelt that he was in danger of being '"blown np." The President appointed Commander Newton E. Mason to be Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. Xavy Department. Rear-Admiral George A, Converse was appointed Chief of .the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department to> succeed Rear-Admiral < Henry G. Taylor. OUR ADOPTED- TSLAXDS. Brigadier-General Randall, commanding the Department of Luzon, has issued a general order prohibiting the hiring of natives as waiters or dishwashers at company, troop or battery messes or for the policing of Govern- ' ment stables, quarters, kitchens or grounds, except wue.i specially auiuur- n izeil from headquarters. Sj Porto Rican Day was observed at tlitf BR St. Louis Exposition and natives onthe island cabled expressions of satisfaction to the fair official's; Geiftral Leonard Wood, commanding:. the Department of Mindanabv Philippines, has taken- steps to- haTe? swimming taught the soldiers of his command, as the result of numerous accidents in the- water.. DOMESTIC. The- automobile party, from NewFork to- St. Louis, reached' Buffalosafely. Midshipman George P.. Clay, of Grand Rapids, Mich., died in a hospital at New London, Conn., of pneumonia. Chicago packers assert that the-strikeis broken, 1000 more workers, being in the stoqk yards,, and live- stock, receipt* being large. ' ' . J'] The executive board of the Lackawanna and Wyoming, district (Pa.) eoal miners, with power to order- strike, met at Scranton. . . ' Forest fires are doing great damage in the timbered sections of the Plat head country of Montana.. SI Governor Terrell. of Georgia; has or- I dered troops to Statesboro. to protect H Paul Reed and Will Cato, accused of murdering the Gato familyPresident George F.. Baer; of tieReading Railroad, says there will be no anthracite coal strike. Miss Jane- ClsMuens, daughter of Mark Twain, was injured by being thrown from her horse in Lenox. Mass. Robert Culvert. fifty-LUree years oior, . of Carteret, N. J... was struct by a Long Branch train and died in theElizabeth (N.. J.) Hospital of a; fractured skuiL. Culvert leaves a widow: and family. Two boys were rescued from drowning in the Morris Canal at Centreville, N. J. Mrs. Nathan Fass, a patient in Mtw Sinai Hospital, New York City^'killed herself by jumping from, a fifth-story, window. A strike- sympathizer, William McLaughlin. was killed at St. Louis, Mo., by Sheriff Louis Burke, with whom > McLaughlin interfered while an .arrest was being made. Some of the Chicago beef strikers are said to be. in want. City charities referred their cases to the- president of the union. Cattle raisers applied t?> both packers and strikers in Chicago and asked for a cessation of hostilities. The St. Louis banks announced that they were willing to loan the St. Loui? Exposition Company $1,000,000. | The United States Steel Corporation ; Las bought the Trenton Iron Company. Judge Bradford in the Federal Court In Wilmington, Del., denied the application of the Northern Securities Company to pay dividends and distribute stock and moneys. Owing to a legal tangle twenty-two Sing Sing (New York) convicts wererej sentenced, getting shorter terms. | The steamer Howard, from Baltl| more to Boston, wont ashore off Pollock Rip, Mass., but was soon floated, j Russell Sage was ordered by United i States Court at St. Faul, Minn., to restore to tbe Government certain lands ! he sold as trustee of defunct Hastiugs j and Dakota Railway Company. FOREIGN. ; Minister Bowen was instructed te ! protest against the seizure of an as| phalt company's property in Venezuela. ; Drastic action is threatened. President Nord, of Haiti, accused the I foreign population of wilfully raising j the rate of exchange. ! The -Sultan of Morocco appointed a ; French army officer to command the [ Moorish police in the Tangier district. . ' Further trouble is feared at Tangier. ! The city guards have been doubled and I Europeans are warned to come within i the sates. The Japanese opened Ying-Kow ta i trade with practically no restriction. ' A Japanese battleship, a cruiser, three I gunboats and a torpedo boat arrived at the port. Great Britain has protested to Russia I against tJie inclusion of foodstuffs in i the list of contraband. In consequence of SI. Plehve's assass| ination the Czar's per.-ona! guards have be"' .ripied. . . . . . . ir. mamoeriain. in rue nouse or Kj i Commons, urged the Government to I tako the general eiection 011 the policy, ggg ; of preferential trade. flHj Germany denied the report that an RX j ultimatum had been sent to Haiti. 8BB Opinion in London is that the death H| I of Minister von Plpisve will hasten the H| end of tiio Russo-Japanese war. !9S ttiree men i^ere killed and six injured by a boiler explosion at the San Hj Iiafel Paper .Mills, near Mexico City. | Mexico. Bfl German exports and imports for tha FJ i last six months both show a large in- ID ! crease. y* [ HS ! Venezuelan soldiers assisted in the H j seizure of the New York and Ber- H ! mudez Asphalt Company's properties H in Venezuela. It was reported at Tangier that the Ml Moroccan Pretender had defeated the M Sultan's troops; French cruisers HQ reached Tangier, causing excijtviueat, Kb amous the Moors BB| '