The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, June 16, 1904, Image 1
VOL. I. N0.20.
CAMDEN, S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 16, 10O4.
$1 .50 PER YEAR.
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Washington* D. C., { Special),?
American marines have landed "in
Africa. Admiral Chadwick cabled the
.navy department from Tangier as
follows:
"I have placed a guard at the Bel
Sian legation, having been asked to
o ?o by our consul general here.
An Ample Precedent.
R is said at the state department
that there is ample precedent for the
employment of an American naval
force lor the temporary protection of
the exposed interests of another pow
er which has no available force at
hand. A few years ago it was _ the
common understanding that British
vessels should protect American in
terests in South American ports when
the United States had no warships,
and that the United States gunboats
should look after British interests
exposed hi the same way.
Wir also have looked after German
interests in Santo Domingo and else
where. It is stated that Admiral
Chadwick in landing his marines in
Africa for the first time in half a
century thlrefore was but meeting
the requirements of international
comity. It is supposed here that the
Belgium legation is in an outlying
section of tne city, easily accessible
to the tribesmen of the interior.
Sultan Will Meet Bandit's Demands.
Tanuier. Morocco, (By Cable). ?
The Sultan's letter in reply to the
diplomatic representations! made in
regard to the kidnaping of Messrs.
Perdicaris and Varley has arrived
here.
It is said by a person in the Sultan's
confidence that the Sultan lias given
orders t<> grant all the conditions de
manded by Raisouly, the bandit leader,
in order to expidite the release of the
captives.
The Sultan, in his letter, appoints
Herid El Barrada to be Governor of
Tangier, which step was included
among Raisouly's demands.
Barrada was a member of the coun
cil of Mohammed El Torres, the rep
resentative of the Sultan here, and
formerly \va9 Governor of Mazagan.
The authorities state that the raid
made by armed Anjera tribes on the
.home of an Englishman here, during
which they obtained several riHcs, was
only a co.nmon robbery and had no
political significance.
Chadwick Will Send Surgeon.
Washington, D. C., (Special).? The:
navy department received a cable-]
mm from Rear Admiral Chadwick at
Ttngier to the effect that he has
been informed that I'erdicaris and his
stepson- Varley, are in need of
medical assistance, and that the con
sul general has sent to Raisouly to
Inquire whether a surgeon will be
grv*n safe conduct. The admiral says
that, if so, one will be sent in cotii
Ditiy with ' the shereef of Wazan.
liaisouly's reply is expected June p.
The rumor wnich is agitating certain
European newspapers to the effect
that the United States government
intends to permanently possess itself
of a coaling station on the Moroccan
Cf*ast, as an incident to the settle
ment of the Perdicaris affair, is re
garded officially here as a jest. There
never v. a* mid ia not now the slightest
intint'on 0:1 the part of this govern
ment of making any such demand.
Moreover, it is stated that it is not
contemplated by this government to
seize even temporarily any Moroccan
port and custom /onse in connection
with the I'erdicaris case.
DENOUNCES DYNAMITINQ.
Western Federation Will Join In Offering
Reward for Arrest of Qutlfy Parlies.
Victor, Col., (Special).? At a meet
ing of the Mineworkers' Association
the dynamite assassination was dis- I
cussed. Deepest indignation was ex
pressed and it was the unanimous j
opinion that under no circumstances
should the murderers escape. Many
of the members pledged their in
dividual support to run clown and
punish the conspirators and a large
leward will be offered by the associa
tion.
The county commissioners and dif
ferent mine managements will offer 1
individual rewards also.
The local committee of the Western
Federation of Miners has authorized
the statement that they deplore the
wholesale murder. The following is 1
a Matemcnt given out by them:
"'No men who deserve to live would
or could approve the awful deed. The
fiends who planned and carried out
the devilisn crime should be detected
and punished to the full extent of the
law. The crime must be unearthed
ami the perpetrators punished. The
committee and all the local members
of the Western Federation of Miner <
are ready and willing to assist in un
covering the guilty ones and will use
every endeavor to assist the autrorities
in their cftort?# niid wo herewith
tender thr ? ervices of all our members
"We will also join in offering a
suitable reward for the arrest and
conviction of the guilty persons "
Mi?? LeUhmaa U Wed.
Paris, ( Hy Cable).? The Figaro an
nounces the engagement of Mi-*?
Martha Lcishman, daughter of the
United States Minister to Turkey, to
Count Lorn* de Gontaut-Biron, eldest
?on of Count Antoinc Gontaut-Biron.
An Eo*H?hman Sospected.
Havana, (Special). ? The Governor
of Santiago telegraphs the secretary
of the government that rural guards
have arrested James Stewart, an Eng
lishman. who is suspected of having
caused ?he dynamite explosion which
wrecked two engines and a large sec
tion of the tracks of the Cuban
Eastern Radway at Guantanamo.
Stewart was formerly an employee of
th? road, but was discharged.
HEWS W SMT Ml
Hi Latest ChIimiI tertofM
Counsel for Edward H. Harriman
and Winslow S. Pierce filed in the
United Slates Court in Trenton, N. J.,
amendments to their bill against the
^Northern Securities Company.
The King and Queen of Portugal
attended a Ball given by United States
Minister Bryan in Lisbon in honor
of officers of the American squadron.
, Bank-wrecker George M. Valen
tine, of New Brunswick, N. J., was
released after having served out a
term and was immediately re-arreated.
Fire that broke out in the seven
story drug warehouse of McKesson &
Robbins, in New York did $100,000
worth of damage.
Edward F. Rooney cut his wife's
throat at the summer home of the
Mystic Shrine, on the Connecticut
River, near Hartford.
Members of the Russian war party
in St. Petersburg are trying to force"
the resignation of Foreign Slinister
Lamsdorff.
The town of Northampton, Mass.,
celebrated its two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary. /
Judge Wickersham, of Alaska, has
ruled that Russian half-breeds and set
tled tribes of Indians in that territory
are citizens of the United States.
Albert* Pouch died in the hospital
at Elizabeth, N. J., making the fourth
victim of the murderous frenzy of
Joseph M. Pouch.
The Department of Physical Culture
of the World's Fair will present Alice
Roosevelt with a souvenir belt.
The biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Lgcomotivc Engineers
was concluded at Los Angeles,
j 1' rami in a contract regarding ir
[ rigative lands has been charged'
against F. C. Rutan, of Chicago.
The annual meeting of the stock
t holders of the Pennsylvania Railroad
was held at Pittsburg.
Bad weather mterfcied with the
Maccabee jubilee celebration at Bat
tle Creek.
The Minesota Building at the St.
Louis Exposition was dedicated.
Incensed over their failure to see
a Spanish bullfight, which the au
thorities had stopped, a riot took place
near the World's Fair grounds, in- 1
volving 2,500 men and boys who were I
unable to get their money back, and
the building was burned to the ground.
. Mrs. Eliza Ross, of Cincinnati, sue<L
in the United States Court the Jack
sontan Club, of Omaha, Neb., for the
return of $2,080 of her money which
X. son '?.st a* club at poker.
The entire sophomore class of the
University of Vermont, including
several women, was put on probation
for kidnapping three freshmen to keep
them from attending the banquet.
r rank Barker, of Webster county,
Neb., ^ who killed his brother and the
latter s wife to secure the farm in
order that he might marry, was con
demned to be hanged.
W. H. Dorry and his wife were
found dead in their home, in Philadel
phia. It is suppossed that Dorsey shot
his wife and then killed himself.
Edward McCormick, a young farmer
of Brownburg, Ky., shot and killed
John B. Wade and Arthur Blackwel'.,
who had attacked him.
A number of millionaires have pro
mised District Attorney Jerome to <
testify, when called upon, against the
gambling houses in New York.
An electric car in Burlington, la.,
jumped the track, ran against a tree
and 1 woman was killej and 16 other
persons hurt.
Worrying over the charge of being
cruel to her child, Mrs. Charles Eve- i
land, of Doylestown, Pa., went in- ]
sane.
Dr. Isaac If. Estcy, a famous faith-'
cure doctor, who would not accept ?
P?y for treatment, died in Cutler, Me. |
Statistics show a decrease in the 1
foreign iron and steel trade for the
fiscal year that will end this month.
Wind, rain and electrical storms
caused considerable damage in Ark
ansas and either states.
Mrs. 1* ranees Crane l.illie argues
in favor of putting girls in boys'
clothes.
I* rank T. Young, well known on the
turf as a horseowner and bookmaker,
was found dead |in a hansom cab in
New \ ork, having been shot. Mrs.'
Nan Patterson, who was in the cab j
with him, was hysterical.
Michigan commission men testi
fied before the Interstate Commerce
Commission that Armour agents had
threatened them it they testified be
fore the commission against the com
pany.
Curtis Jett. under life sentence for
the murder of Attorney J. B. Marcum
at Jackson. Ky., was taken to the
prison at Frankfort.
Dr. John S. 1' niton, of Baltimore,
was elected president of the Conven
tion of State Hoards of Health, in
Washington.
Foreign.
? A syndicate of German and Dutch
| capitalists lias been organized to
finance a cable from the Dutch island
of Mcnada Ttia, off the coast of
Ccicbcs. West Indie*, to the Island of
Guam, and thence to Shanghai. It is
proposed to eliminate British influence*
over the German and Dutch cable
business with Hast Asia.
YV. S. Champ, secretary of William
Ziegler, the explorer, will s n i 1 from
Norway July i, with the expediton
for the relief of the Ziegler- Fiola
North Pole expedition, which is on
board the steamer America.
The Hall given Monday night by
United States Mnistcr Bryan at the
American Legation in Lisbon in honor
of Rear Admiral Barker was a brilliant
affair.
A British warship has arrived at
Tangier, but reports that the Mediter
ranean squadron has been ordered to
that place arc denied at the French
Two regiments of Punjnbs, a moun
tain battery and a detachment of
engineers liave been ordered to rein
force the British expedition in Tibet.
French. Spanish and Britisii flrets
have been ordered to go to Tangier.
A young married woman named Jan
erot caused a sensation in a cafe at
Asnieres, France, by throwing vitriol
over her husband and another woman
a widow. The burning rtu^d dew over
19 persons, all of whom were more or
less injured. The widow was blinded.
The United States Fisheries Bureau
has stocked Argentina waters with
| several varieties of game fish.
?EN HjOVN TO BITS
b EqtaM ly ia kferul
lacfctoe.
TWELVE KU AMI SEVEN BUI.
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Crtrfto Creek Reflea? Three Naatfretf
fmmit 9i Dyunhe Are ExyMct Uatfer
the Depet u Mlaera Were Ahaat to Take
a Traia.
Denver, (Special). ? Twenty-two
miners are dead and many are injured
as the result of a day of anarchy and
terror in the Cripple Creek mining re
gions.
Thirteen of these were killed and
injured by the eplosion of an infernal
machine under the station platform at
Independence, six miles from Cripple
Creek.
Adjt.-Gen. Sherman Bell, at 7
0 clock P. M.f received a report by
telephone from Victor that seven min
ers had been killed in a battle at the
Miners' Union headquarters, on
I'ourth street, and as many injured.
Two were killed in a riot which pre- i
ceded the descent of the guard on
Miners' Union Hall and seven in the
battle at the hall. The report does
not give the names of the dead, but
all were miners, and the guards who
had engaged in the attack escaped
without even a wound.
The "bull pen" is full to overflow
| *ng now and is under a strong guard.
| It is reported that an attack may be
made on it at any time, and' every pre
caution is being taken to meet it.
General Bell has made all arrange- 1
ments to hurry troops from this city
and from other points in the State to
the scene of the disorder at a
moment s notice. The new Sheriff of
Cripple Creek and the guards there
say they belive that they will be fully
i able to command the situation. Ar
i rests are being made hourly, and an
! effort is being made to clear the
: streets, which are thronged with ex
| cited men.
The troops have been called out
> tor service in surpressing the riot
I ill the V ictor and the Cripple Creek
district. The Sheriff is empowered
to call out such troops in his own
county as are available for service
within that county. Under this law
the Sheriff has called Company H, of
Cripple Crccck, and 178 of these men
orders of Lieut. James L. Wallace,
are mobilizing in the armory to obey
who will be under direction of the
Sheriff for the present.
The Mayor has sworn in and armed
500 citizens to assist in the suppres
sion of violence and quelling the,
ciotera* ?
' The Western Federation of Miners
will investigate the dynamite outrage
at Independence. At the session of!
the Federation's convention a com- 1
mittee was appointed to go to the I
Cripple Creek's region lo make a
thorough investigation of the affair
and to spare no one in its report.
13 Blown To Bita.
; Cripple Creek, Col., (Special).?
Thirteen men were killed and six
were severely wounded by the explo
sion of au infernal machine at the
railroad station in Indepen Jence.
Eleven men were killed outright. 1
being blown to pieces, and two died i
later from wounds. All the killed and
| injured, with the exception of two :
j men from the Deadwood mine, were
non-union miners employed on the
I ni^ht shift of the Findlcy mine.
fhe infernal machine with which
j t lie murder was committed consisted
of a quantity of dynamite, probably
.too pound*, a loaded revolver and a
long, fine steel wire attached to the1
trigger. The revolver was fastened
so that the pulling of the trigger
j would not draw it away. The wire
ran from under the station platform
to the cribbing of the Delmonico
property, about 400 feet away, where
1 its end was fastened to a rung of a
cliair.
The dynamite was placed close to
the muzzle of the revolver, which was
discharged by pulling the wire. The
hall from the revolver and the re
sultant concussion exploded the dyna
mite.
Bloodhounds On Trail.
A man was seen running down the
hill from the Delmonico property after
the explosion. The troops in Victor
who were ordered out by Mayor
French were so stationed as to keep
people from passing over the path
taken by this man, and bloodhounds
were sent from Canyon City and 1
1 rinidad to trail the assassin.
The infernal machine used was
similar to the one exploded in the
Vindicator Mine on November 21,
igo.t, killing two men.
The men quit work at 2 o'clock in
the morning and were waiting to
board a suburban train on the
Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad
to return to their homes in Cripple
Creek and Victor.
A Gruesome Scene.
Fragments of bodies were hurled
several hundred feet. Several bodies
dropped into the pit made by the ex
plosion, but heads, hands, ears, legs,
arms and trunks were strewn about
on all sides. Pieces of flesh were
found on buildings 500 feet away, while
splashes of blood were found on every
thing within a radius of 50 feet. The
force of tin* explosion was felt, throng
out the camp, the crash awakened
everybody. The approaching train
was stopped and the trainmen rushed
ahead to the scenc of the disaster.
They were joined in a few minutes by
hundreds of persons and relief work
was begun at once.
Railroad Bridge Fell With Train.
Wilkesbarrc, l'a., (Special). ? With
a terrific crash the massive iroR Le
high Valley railroad bridge, at Tow
anda, gave way shortly after ti
o'clock in the morning and eight load
ed cars of a passing freight rtain were
plunged, together with one section of
the structure, into the Susquehanna
river, which it spans. No fatalities
are reported. The accident occurred
but an hour after the fast No. 8 pas
senger train from the West had cross
ed th? Undue.
UTE WASHIiW AFf AHBL
* PMMHterncy.
In answer to a summons from the
state department^ John Barrett,
minister to Panama, came to Wash
ington and had a long conference
with the Panama canal commissioners,
and afterwards saw the President,
Secretary Hay and Assistant Secre
tary Loomis. all with reference to the
settlement of the pending Panama cur
rency proposition.
It appears fropt advices just re
ceived that final artion by the Panama
Legislature is expected shortly, and in
the event that the decision is adverse
to the adoption of the gold standard
some action will be required im
mediately on" the part of our govern
ment.
It developed at ihe conference that,
although indirect, the interest of the
United States in the adoption of the
Kold standard by Panama in no less
than $25,000,000. This is based on the
belief that with a fluctuating and un
stable currency in Panama, closely
interwoven as it certainly will be
with the isthmian canal strip popula
tion, the contractors who must dig the
canal will be obliged, in order to
make themselves safe, to adJ at least
25 per cent, to their bids in order to
guard against changes in the cost of
labor and supplies which must be ob
tained from the surrounding country,
as are incident to currencies not
placed on the gold standard.
Caae Cm* Beet Satar.
In a report to the Department of
Commerce and Labor Consul Hossfeld
at Trieste, Austria, says that those
who hoped that among the beneficial
effects of the Brussels convention
would be a large decrease in the pro
duction and corresponding advance in
the price of sugar have been disap
pointed.
Mr. Hossfeld says the production of
beet sugar has decreased about 13 per
cent, during the last two years, while
cane sugar has increased about 9 1-2
I per cent. The Consul says the ten
,n.cy ,?* prices for sugar is again
decidedly downward and a change
for the better deed not be looked for
as long as the world's surplus of
2000.000 tons remain unabsorbed.
He adds that a foreign market must
be found for a surplus of more than
000,000 tons of Europe's production
and that within two years the world's
production of cane sugar has increased
from 4,063,000 tons to about 4,438,000
tons. The increasing production of
cane sugar, the Consu! says, has warn
ed the manufacturers of beet sugar
that they must be prepared to meet an
increasingly critical condition of the
market.
Ts Save CMaa Whole.
No matter how the war in the Far
East may eventually result, the
JUwjF^L States government Minds
?>fo insist upon the integrity of the
1 Chinese Empire.
! This fact was !earned from the
1 best of official authority.
I f 'i?1* some time there has been a
1 feeling in official circles that Euro
pean powers were planning to seize
parts of China at trie termination of
the war between Russia and Japan,
I and that no matter which won, plans
were being laid by outside countries
to take slices of China, as was t lie
case of the end of the Japan-China
I war. All of the now powerful infl
! encr of the United States will be
used to prevent such a grasping pol
| icy. and there is every reason to be
lieve that if Japan is victorious she
; iV1! wfjrk in harmony with the
j L nited Sta?es to save China.
Should Russia be victorious the sit
[ nation would be more complicated,
but even so, the State Department
would hope to save China, with the
possible exception of being forced to
recognize the. special Russian inter
ests and domination in Manchuria.
Vessels Par Medlterraaeaa.
Rear Admiral Chadwick reported to
the Navy Department by cable that
the British battleship Prince of Wales
has arrived at Tangier. He also re
ported the return of the Baltimore to
Tangier from Gibraltar. Rear Ad
miral Chadwick, by direction of the j
Navy Department, will make reports!
to Rear Admiral Barker on the situa
tion at Tangier as well as to the de
partment, Admiral Barker being the
senior naval officer in European
waters.
I lie Illinois, commanded by Captain
Bradford, has been ordered to Gibral
tar on die completion of target
practice at Martha's Vineyard, and the
Missouri, commanded by Captain
Cowles, has been ordered to sail
Thursday from Newport News for
Gibraltar. These two vessels belong
to the North Atlantic fleet, and are
being sent to Gibraltar direct, where
they will report to Rear Admiral
liarker, commander-in-chief of the
North Atlantic, and rejoin the fleet
wherever he may direct.
A Cart for Milk Perer.
riic successful treatment of milk
fever in cows by the injection of "fil
tered atmospheric air" into the udder
is announced in a bulletin issued by
the Department of Agriculture.
The air treatment described is sim
ple, and the experiments have been
successful in every instance. Milk
fever, heretofore, has been a fatal
malady, indicting great havoc in all
large dairy districts. The treatment,
according to the bulletin, has reduccvl
tlie mortality from the disease to al
most zero.
Congrcstloaal and Departments.
Minister John H^rrett had a con
ference with the Panama Canal Com
missioners in reference to the settle
ment of the pending Panama cur
rency proposition.
Thomas W. Hnskins, of California,
lias been appointed Chinese secretary
of the United States Legation at
Peking.
Chief VVillkie, of the Secret Service,
announces the discovery of a new
counterfeit $roo gold certificate.
No change will be made in the
itinerary of the fleet under Rear Ad
miral Barker.
Dominic J. Murphy was elected sec
retary of the Panama Canal Com
mission.
Large increases have been made in
the salaries of postmasters through
out the states.
BOMBARD WEST COAST
Chiacse Keptrt Big tattles at Part
Artfcar,
IEFEAT OF TIE JAPANESE REPORTED.
News Ftm Part Artlar ta4 the Pealauli Cat
Off hy JiputM Skips Ei|i(t4
lathe She (lag ?f the Caast at the Pealasala
Betwtta Hlaaf Ya Tcheag a ad Kalphlag? A
Battle Expected at Klachaa.
London, (By Cable). ? That great
operations have heen begun or arc
imminent at Port Arthur is. apparent
by the persistent rumors and uncon
firmed reports received during the
past 24 hours.
A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram
Company from St. Petersburg an
nounces that a telegram has been re
ceived from Mukden, saying:
"According to information here, a
Japanese squadron of nine vessels has
been bombarding the coast between
Siung Yu Cheng (tliung Yo Tcheng)
and Kaichou (Kaiphing, on the west
coast of the Liaotung Peninsula, just
below Niuchwang) since June 7."
Another dispatch to Renter's Tele
gram Company from St. Petersburg
transmits the following from, Liao
yang:
"The Japanese June 6, according to
Chinese reports, made several sus
tained and stubborn attacks on Port
Arthur simultaneously by land and
sea. They were repulsed with severe
loss. ,
"The position of the Japanese in
Kwantung is said to he precarious.
"There are rumors from the same
sources that the Vladivostok squadron
has effected a junction with the Port
Arthur fleet, that a naval battle took
fdacc, and that the Japanese lost four
arge ships."
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Morning Post telegraphs:
"General Stakelberg's Russian bri
gade marching in the direction of
Port Arthur, suffered a reverse on
Saturday, near Wafangtien, and re
tired to Tashichiao." .
Direct news from Port Arthur, the
T.iaotung Peninsula and the Yalu
River is cut off from Russian sources
by the Japanese- who are between the
Russians and the territory mentioned.
It is officiality asserted that the cables
connecting Japan with China are not
working, which would prevent Tokio
also from having knowledge of events
in that section of Manchuria. The
"interruption" of the cable work how
ever. is more likely to "be official"
and due to a censorship at Tokio.
Tokio, (By Cable). ? Pour Japanese
gunboats which made a close recon
naissance of Port Arthur Harbor at
midnight, for the purpose of examin
ing the entrance, were exposed to a
severe canonnade. Gunboat No. 4
was hit eight times and sustained
some damage. One of her sailors
was killed and two others were
wounded.
ELECTRIC CAR WRECKED.
Pasaeager and Package Freight Cars Met
Head'Oa.
Norwalk, O. ? (Special). ? In the
most terrible, accident in the history
of the Lake Shore Railway, six per
sons were killed and many others
badly hurt late in the afternoon as a
result of a collision between an east
bound fast electric passenger car and
a westbound "package freight" car at
Wells Corners, a few miles cast of
this city.
The accident occurred at a point
quite distant from any immediate
means of communication, and assist
ance was sent from Norwalk, where
every physician and nurse in the city
was called into service and hurried
to the place of accident 011 a special
car.
When the injured had been attend
ed to they were placed 011 a car and
brought to this city.
All those who were killed were in
the smoking compartment of the pas
senger car. and death came instantly,
the bodies showing no sign of life
when the rescuers went to work after
they had recovered from the fir^
shock of the accident.
The injuries ?>f several of those
hurt are so serious that they may re
sult fatally.
Just why the accident occurred is
not known.
Superintendent Strclau, of the Fre
mont division of the road, arrived
shortly after t lie accident and will
make a thorough investigation.
Head-On Collision.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special).? Nine
persons arc reported to have been
killed and many injured in a collis
ion of passenger trains on the Mis
souri Pacific Railroad, near Martin
City, fifteen miles south of Kansas
City. The trains, which met head
on, were the westbound Colorado
limited No. i and the eastbound Ifoi
siugton (Kan.) accommodation No.
36. A message received by Mis
souri Pacific' officials here ordered
them to send a relief train as soon
as possible and to get all the sur
geons obtainable, from which it is
inferred that many passengers were
hurt.
SI* Hurt la Fxptoaloo.
Akron, O. ? (Special). ? In an ex
plosion at the plant of the B. P.
Goodrich Company six persons were
injured, sonic seriously. The door of
a steam chest, weighing about a ton,
was blown off and it struck a pillar
supporting the floor above. A por
tion of the upper floor fell with a
number of employee.*.
Murderer Lynched.
Grangcville, Idaho (Special). ? T.
M. Myers, who killed George Brown
Ice and wounded Wallace Bennett,
near Crooks Corral, three weeks age.,
was taken from a party of officers
near White Bird and lynched. Tli.
lynchers were masked and outnum
bered the officers three to one. The
officers rode on to Grangeville. The
method of death is not known. Mycr <
was being taken to the county jy?!
when the lynching party overtook I
the officers. _ |
?ASKCI MEN IYN AMITE CAKS.
PassMftr Trala ? Dearer ami M* Oru4?
tlcM Up By
? Denver, Col., (Special). ? Denver
and Rio Grande passenger train No.
5, westbound from Denver, was held
up by five masked men three miles
west of Parachute, a small fruit sta
tion midway between Grand Junction
and Glenwood Springs.
One sealed bag containing species
was taken from the express car safe,
which was dynamited. The express
car was badly wrecked by dynamite,
but the robbers were forced to take
to the mountains before they could
gather up the valuables in the car.
Sheriff W. G. Struthers and Deputy
Sheriff D. M. Hardy, of Grand Junc
tion, are now on the trail of the rob
bers with a posse of farmers and
ranchers, quickly summoned from the
vicinity of Grand Junction.
Sheriff Frank Adams and another
posse from Glenwood Springs are al
so scouring the surrounding country.
When the train reached a point
three miles west of Parachute two
masked men crawled over the tender
of the engine. They placed pistols
at the heads of Engineer Allison and
his fireman, and made them stop the
train. Three men, who were wait
ing on the tender, then jumped down
and uncoupled the express and bag
gage cars. These cars, with the en
gine. were run two miles farther west.
The train crew received orders to
remain behind on pain of being shot.
When the point averted for the dyna
miting of the express car was reached
Messenger D. M. Shea refused to
open the car and piled the baggage
up in front of the door.
The robbers, with a stick of dyna
mite, blew away the side door of the
car and half a dozen trunks were de
molished.
The great iron combination safe
was the only one in the car. The
robbers showed that they were con
versant with conditions on the road,
for they did not even ask the mes
senger to open the safe. They knew
that he did not have the combination.
This safe can only be opened in Den
ver and in Salt I.ake City.
A stick of dynamite was then placed
against the lock on the. safe. At
this point Brakeman Shellenharger
who had been ordered to remain with
the passenger coaches two miles be
hind. caine running up with a lantern.
One of the robbers shot him in the
leg. He is now in a hospital at Grand
Junction.
When the robebrs saw that the
train crew was coming they fled to the
mountains. One of them as he jumped
from the express car grabbed one
sealed bag which had been blown
clear out of the safe. This was the
only plunder which was taken.
After the holdup the engine, bag
gage and express cars were backed
to Parachute, when the alarm was
given.
PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE.
Colorado Flyer Crashes Into the Accommoda
tion-Tramp Killed.
Kansas City, Mo., (Special). ? By
the headon collision of two Missouri
Pacific passenger trains near Mastin,
22 miles south of Kansas City, one
>erson has been killed and 19 have
>een injured, in. 1st of the latter being
passengers. The trains were No. 1
the Colorado Flyer, westbound, and
No. 36, a Moisington, Kan., accommo
dation train castbound.
Both trains were behind their sched
ule and were trying to make up time.
No. ^6 had orders to take a siding at
Mastin, but had not reached that sta
tion, and was met on a culvert a mile
beyond Mastin by the flyer. Both en
gines were demolished. The day
coach on the accommodation train
was telescoped, as was the mail car on
the flyer. All the cars of both trains
were thrown from the track and the
track and roadbed completely wreck
ed.
A relief train was 9ent from Kansas
City with ?. dozen physicians. Some
of the injured were made comfortable
at Mastin, and others were brought
to Kansas City.
Apparently Deed Child Revived.
Custer, S. D., (Special). ? 'After lyi".g
36 hours in her colltn, Mabel Fearing,
the five-year-old daughter of C. M.
Fearing, has been revived. The child
was saved through the invention of
I>r. E. S. Norton, a relative who was
at the house to attend her funeral. Dr.
Norton noted the rosy cheeks and
unchanged appearance of the child and
refused to permit the coffin to be
closed. He called other physicians
and an effort was made to revive the
child. At last signs of returning ani
mation were noted. Half an hour
later the stethoscope indicated a re
turn of strong heart acfion. An hour
later the child was sleeping in the
arms of its mother.
ballet Tea Maotbs In Hit Brala.
Watcrtown, N. Y., (Special). ? John
A. Powell, of Livingston. Ky., aged
30, a private of the Ninth Infantry,
Madison Barracks, died as a result of
an operation to remove a bullet from
his brain, v. hich had been there with
out apparent injury to his intellect
for 10 months. The wound was re
ceived in target practice.
Woraaa Stabbed to tbe Heart.
Philadelphia, (Special).? Mary Rich
ardson, a young married woman, was
stabbed through the heart by May
Richardson, lu-r sister-in-law, during
a quarrel The women met in a real
estate oflicc and after a few words
May Richardson drew r? penknife and
drove the blade into the other wom
an's heart. Jealousy was the cause.
FINANCIAL
One Wall Street firm bought $.too,
000 United States Steel 5 per cent,
bonds and wanted more of them. "It
looks." wired a banker to Winthrop
Smith ft Co., "as if they were switch
ing a big a -count from Steel preferred
info the bonds "
.statement h r.vs a net surplus <>f $^6.1,
Pennsylvania is an empire in itself.
Last year its output <rf anthracite
coil w.'H 66,331 .713 tons, valued at
$1 3*', 036,448. The average price per
ton was $.2.50, an increase of 15 cents
over the price at the mines in 1904.
CATASTROPHE IN PEORIA/
A Urge Distillery aai Stock YartfW
hnei
DEATH IN IIAZ1K6 WUSKETJ
Tea Mea Crnkcd Beaeath Bmriit Rain maJ
Over Three Tboasaad Cattle Are Saftacatef
aad Slowly Roasted te Death? Thirty
Thoasaad Barrels al Whiskey Burst laaeA*
ately late Flame.
Peoria, 111., (Spccial). ? An exphx
sion which occurred in the eleven*
story warehouse of the Corning Dis
tillery, the second largest in the
world, completely wrecked the build'
ing. The ruins immediately took fire
and communicated to three adjoining
buildings, burning them to the ground^
Ten men were buried beneath the
ruins and burned to death and
others were seriously injured. The
loss on buildings and whisky and
spirits stored will approximate $t,
ooo.ooo. The fire spread to the Stock
Yards district, where a dozen largo
cattle Darns, filled with cattle for
market. were burned.
The cause of the explosion cannot'
yet be determined.
The wildest excitemen prevailed af
ter the explosion, the immense plant
was surrounded by thousands of peo
pie, who, however, were unable to
get close to the structure on account
of the intense heat.
The warehouse, containing in the
neighborhood of 30,000 barrels of
whisky, was instantaneously a seeth
ing caldron, and it was seen that no
one inside the big structure could
escape. The warehouse in crushing
the smaller structure nearby set that
on fire, and the whiskey from the
bursting barrels flooded everything
in that section. Large streams ran
down grade toward the river, and in
a short time there was a foof" of whis
! ky in the cattle pens, east of the
| warehouse, where 3, .200 steers- were
chained fast. Their distress lasted
but a few moments, however, for they
were soon roasted to death or suffo
cated ?
They were the property o{ Dood
1 St Kiet'er, of Chicag>. It is impos
I sible to compute their loss, but if
i will amount to thousands of dollars,
j The two fermenting houses were
speedily food for the flames. They
are two structures 01 good dimension?
and both of them were practically de
stroyed.
The firemen got near the fire with
difficulty, and the water had little or
no effect. A high wind was blowing
and fanned the flames in the direction
of the Monarch Distillery, and for a
time it was feared that the fire would
sweep along the entire river bank.
However, the heroic work of the fire
men began to tell, and at 7 o'clock the
fire seemed under control, with no
likelihood of a further spread.
PRISONER SHOT DEAD.
Tried to Throw Captor lato River and Wat
Killed.
Minneapolis, Minn. ? (Special
Two military prisoners at Fort Snell
ing made an attempt to escape and
one ol litem, Tony Wisch, was shot
dead by Private Kennedy. Private
Reilly, who managed to get to cover,
was retaken later.
The men had escaped from the
sentinels while at work and had
crossed on the bridge leading to St.
Paul. Reilly was retaken and led the
way to a saloon where Wisch was
found. The party started back across
the bridge to the fort, and when in
the middle the prisoners tried to
throw Kennedy over the run into the
river below. Kennedy thereupon shot
Wisch. who lived only two minutes.
West Was a Good Marrler.
Washington, D. C. ( ? Special).-?
Officials of the pension office hava
been considering the case of an ap
plicant for government aid who has
the most extraordinary matrimonial
career, according to his own account,
of any man who has ever applied for
a pension. The man is Peter West,
a veteran of the Seventh Ohio Caval
ry. He has been married ten times,
and to do so has been compelled to
divorce himself eight times.
Commissioner Wart recognized in
the much married West a comrade of
the Civil War.
West was born in Prussia and it
63 years old. In his application for
a pension he gives the list of hi*
wives, the last one of whom is still
living.
Armenians Reported Massacred.
Pari.} ? (By Cable). ? The foreign
office hai been advised of the arrival
at Constantinople of the Russian
consul who took part in the investi
gation of the recent Armenian mas
sacres. The French and British con
suls, who participated in the investi
gation, have not yet returned. There
fore the foreign office doubts the cor
rectness of a Constantinople dis
patch. published here, saying that the
consuls unite in reporting that 5000
Armenians were massacred during
the recent ' conflicts between Turks
and Armenian*
Killed By Folding Bed.
Minneapolis, Minn. ? (Special^. ?
Mrs. A. M. Woodward, wife of the
president of the South Side State
Bank, died as the result of a folding,
bed accident. The bed suddenly
closed during the night. Mr. Wood*
ward got one arm out of t*e bed and
beat on the floor until help came,
when it wan found that three of Mrs.
Woodward's cervical vertebrae were
broken.
(iet*Fat*Quick Scheme.
Chicago (Special). ? The "get-fat
quick" contest* were abolished by
the Chicago Civil Service Commit
?don. Three candidate* for position}
in the city fire department who have
been dieting and exercising for a wecV
in an effort to roach 140 pounds, the
standard required by the civil service
rules, failed to accomplish the task*
One candidate succeeded, increasing
liis weight seven and a half pounds.
Instead of following the example ol
his fellows the successful candidate
tried what he termed the "rest curc.*