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Brutal Tramp Put tk Death by Enraged
Illinois Farmers.
HAD ATTACKED A LONE WOMAN.
$e Had Assaulted Mrs. Selnska, Wife of a
Farmer in Mannheim, on the Outskirts
' of the City?Friends of the Husband
1 Take Up the Chase and Kill the Man
I at Once?Stabbed With Pitchforks*
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.' Cbicaoo, 111. (Special).?A tramp met with
Lwlft retribution for an assault upon a wo
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man near Mannheim, Cook County. A
company of farmers, enraged and indignant
that such a crime could take place
With in sight of and almost adjoining the
Mty limits of Chicago, took the law into
:heir own hands. When they had finished
Jiey left his lifeless body lying face down
n a cornfield with as much indifference as
hey would have left the body of a rabid
i nog killed or the protection of the neigh- :
Kxrhood.
" Shortly after the dinner hour, when her
husband and the farm hands had returned
> 10 their work in the fields, Mrs. Carl 8einka,
the wife of a well-to-do farmer living
tear Mannheim, was startled by a roughlyIressed
man entering her kitchen, where
he was alone, attending to her houserork.
The man asked for food, which
tas given to him. While he was eating his
heal he learned that Mrs. Scinska was alone
r;. h the house. Without warning he at- 1
acked her. She struggled with him,
fweuntiug for help at the top of her voice,
^ but there was nobody near enough to hear
her, and the tramp's mperior strength
feoQn mastered her. He then bound
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f (HO woman s nanus uguuy. out? cuuwuucu i
to scream as Ion? as she had the strength. I
[ This enraged the tramp and he gagged
Iter, so that she could no longer raise her
Kice. He added to the outrage by slashJ
his victim's legs with a knife. After
j the assault the man started away from
^he house, leaving Mrs. Seinska
sagged, bound, and lying upon
the floor. After lying in a semiconscious
condition for several minutes,
the woman partially revived and at onee
began efforts to liberate herself. She finally
; paoceeded in loosening the knots which held
her and staggered across the fields, where
* she found her husband and some other men
'. fct work. To them she told the story of the
f- assault upon her.
fir * < A man hunt was organized without delay.
Ih? alarm was spread throughout the
neighborhood and fully forty farmers responded.
They were armed "with various
r kinds of weapons, rifles, shotguns, revolj
x rers, pitchforks, and axes. Two of them
had snatched up hoes and others had whifffletrees
and clubs. The pursuit was not
(lilBealt, for the direction that the man took
' pas learned readily by inquiry. The fugitive
bad made a snort out across fields,
Htdehtly intending to reach Chicago.
After a chase of three miles, the tramp
- pas sighted in a cornfield. At first he attempted
to hide, but, apparently fearing
f\ that his whereabouts would be discovered
pv waily, he started on a ran. The pursuing
v . tarty rapidly gained on him, ana, seeing
hat escape was hopeless, he turned upon
lis pursuers. Drawing two revolvers from
iti pockets, he opened fire. He shot withH
wot accuracy, for none of his bullets did
knv damage, although It was reported at
Brat that one man was wounded.
S& I The pursuers, grim and silent, waited
until they got within easy range and then
>. Opened Are. One hollet reached its mark,
miaMlng the tramp, so "hat the task of
N reaching him was easy. A volley from
rifles, shotguns and revolvers laid him low
and be fell with a'dosen wounds in various
j,\ baits of his body. The farmers closed in
upon the man, and though death was only
* a f nestloA oC a few moments he was beaten
With otohs, stabbed with pltchfolks and
& kicked to death.
.v I Having avenged the assault upon Mrs.
'Maskathe lynchers went to their homes.
(The body was left in the cornfield, and
' about 8 o'olock p. m., a telephone message
Informed the Coroner that there was a oase
f , Waiting him. No arrests have been made, i
norlajt likely that any will be made.
; Mm. Beta ski was badly injured in her
; . struggles with her assailant, and is in a
serious condition. She is a comely woman
under thirty. The tramp, who has not
been identified, was apparently thirty-five
years old. He had a dark mustache and
'mora a s6ft flannel shirt, dark clothing and
a black slouch hat. It is supposed that he
pras from Chisago.
r-, Mannheim Is a email station with only a
tew hundred inhabitants, a few miles west
?f Turner Part, en the Chicago,; Mii?
waukee and St. Paul Bailroad.
' KIDNAPPED CHILD FOUND.
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ISStOe MM Conway Returned to HM
; Home In Alkuqr, N. T.
John Conway, the flve-year-oid boy of
Albany, H. Y., who had been at the mercy
of kidnappers since Monday morning, was
returned to his parents shortly after 9
o'clock Thursday through the efforts of the
private detectives and reporters in the emi
1 ploy of the Argus. The child was abducted
j by his uncle, Joseph Hardy, and a com'
panien named H. O. Blake,
gw The child was rescued from his captors
In a dense wood near Earners, about eight
miles west ef Albany. Joseph H. Hardy,
the boy's nnole, is accused of being the
'* chief conspirator in the attempt to obtain
the ransom at the risk of the child's life.
To the cowardice of the boy's abductors
L Alone is it due that he has been restored to
J his parents. Hardy and Blake are under
arrest.
* Blake was caught in Schenectady and
was taken to Albany by train. The station
was filled with an angry mob and the police
had great difficulty In getting the culprtt
and placing him In the patrol wagon.
When they got him In the wagon fully 3000
I persons surrounded It and cries of "Lynch
himf "Hang him!" "Shoot him!" excited
the mob to an extreme point, bat the
horses were whipped up and they passed
- through the crowd which hang to both
aides etthe wagon until they fell off. Mayor
Thicker managed to get In the wagon and
? held Blake with one hand, while he held a
revolver with the other. At the police staEr
tion, some blocks away, an enormous crowd
had gathered, but the prisoner was landed
In the private office of the Chief of Police.
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Assassin Colli Executed.
Michaels AngloliHo, alias Golll, who shot
and killed Senor Canovas del Castillo, was
ft* executed at 11 o'clock a.m., at San Sebas
tian, 8p*ia, according to the sentence
P> of the court-martial imposed upon him.
,* Greece it Growing.
?" The United States Minister to Greece has
: supplied the State Department with some
> advance figures of the Greek census, taken
\ v last October. Thevshow a total population
s for the country of 2.433,805, as against a
total of 2,187,203 in tber year J889. There
? were 1,206,816 males and'i.166^190 females,
rv. There were twelve towns with a population
in excess of 10,000.
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After Cargoes of Grain.
The largest fleet of vessels that ever
left England in ballast has cleared for ;
? 9ff j>ort3<tt^getj:argoes^of grain.'
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* : . ; -ve.v.- DUKE
OF YORK IN DUBLIN. |
He Land* In Ireland With the Dachrii
and Receive* an Ovation.
The Duke and Duchess of York arrived
at Kingstown, Ireland, from Holyhead, and
all the ships in the harbor were brilliantly
decorated for the oocasion. The Guard
Ship Melampus fired a royal salute as the
Royal Yacht Victoria ana Albert entered
the harbor. At noon the Commissioners of
dcke or yobk.
Kingstown Township boarded the Victoria
and Albert and presented the royal visitors
with an address expressing the hope that
their visit would lead to the establishment |
of a royal residence in Ireland. The Duke
of York replied that he and the Duchess
looked forward to becoming better acquainted
with the people and the beautiful
scenery of Ireland.
On disembarking, the Duke and Duchess
were cheered by the vast crowd assembled
on and about Carlisle Pier. The cheering,
which was mingled with the booming of
cannon, was followed by the bands playing
the national anthem, during whicb the
whole throng uncovered.
DUCHESS OF YORK.
Tha ovation was repeated upon the arrival
of the royal pair in Dublin. All the
windows and housetops along the route
were profusely deoorated. There was an
imposing military procession and on all
sides were to be seen Union Jacks entwined
with the ereen flag of old Ireland..
The Duke and Duohess were received at
the Castle by Earl ot Cadogan, the LordLieutenant
of Ireland, and by Countess
Cadogan, as a royal salute was fired by a
battery of artillery stationed in Phoenix
Park. ,
The Duke and Duchess of York will visit
Ballsbridge Horse Show, where tho Prince
of Wales is an exhibitor; will inspect Trinity
College, will be present at a public ball
and a banquet givdn by the Lord-Lieutenant,
will witness a review of the troops in
Phoenix Park, and finally will be the centre
of attraction in the installation of the
Duke of York as a Knight of the Order of
St. Patrick.
STEINWAY & SONS SOLD.
English Syndicate Paid Over SO,000,000
For the Piano Business.
The great business and plant of the
piano manufacturing firm of Steinway k
Sons has passed into the hands of a
syndicate of English capitalists. The sale
involves one of the largest cash transactions
recorded in England in many years.
The purchase price, in round numbers, is
more than (5,400,000.
The name ot the reorganised concern
will be Steinway k Sons, Llnlited, and its
capital is placed at $6,250,000, divided into
75,000 five per cent, cumulative preference
shares of $50 each, and 100,000 ordinary
shares of ?25 each. I
The house of Steinway A Sons r,as
founded In 1853 by Henry Steinway, who
came from Seesen, near Brunswick, Germany.
He was a skilled piano maker, and
started the business in Varick street with
his three sons as partners, Charles, William
and Henry, Jr. The firm prospered from
the beginning. Stelnway Hall in Fourteenth
street was built in 1866, and in 1872 the
town of 8teinway, north of Astoria, was
founded, with Its houses for working people
and its public school. The great factories
were built there in 1877.
IOWA REPUBLICAN TICKET.
L. H. Shaw Nominated for Governor at
Cedar Rapids.
The nomination at Cedar Rapids of L. M.
Shaw, of Crawford County, as the standard
bearer of the Iowa Republicans in the coming
eampaign ended one of the most protracted
contests in the history of Iowa politics.
The report of the Committee on Resolutions
was adopted without a dissenting
vote. The financial plank is as follows:
"The Republican Party of Iowa reaffirms
and adopts in every part the declaration of
principles announced by the Republican
National Convention of 1896, and it pledges
for Iowa that the election iu November
next shall be a still more emphatic show of
the strength and justice of Republican doctrines.
It again especially declares for
protection and honest money."
The platform declares that the Republicans
of Iowa view with the utmost satisfaction
the result of the campaign of last year
and congratulate the whole people upon
the election of William McKlnley.
Mails For the Klondike.
The United States and Canada have entered
into a co-operative arrangement by
means of which mails will be delivered
twiee a month to the Klondike region. The
service will be under the supervision of the
Canadian mounted police, and the expense
, will bo borne jointly by the two Governments.
Anarchists Start tor America. '
In Anarchist circles in England it is said
that a number of exiled Spanish Anarchists,
who recently arrived in England, have
started for Atnerie*.. x
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'MAPPED FOB RMSOMJ
little John Conway, of Albany, N. Y,,1
Stolen in the Street,
CHARLIE ROSS CASE DUPLICATED,
Hit Father Informed by Letter That Unless
Hi* Captor* Received 83000 the Boy
Would Be Put Out of the Way?Coaxed
Him From His Play, It is SupposedAlbany
Clttxens Wild With Excitement.
AxBAxr, N. Y. (Special).?The kidnap,
ping of little John Conway is likely to be
as oelebiated an Incident In criminal history
as the abduction of Charles Ross. The
police are nonplussed. The parents are
almost crazed with anxiety. Friends are
searching the open country which lies
about the cities of Albany and Troy, and
despatches have been sent by Chief Willard
and his representatives to the authorities
of half a dozen cities.
That the kidnapping of the Conway child
is the result of a plot there is no question.
That more than one person is concerned
seems certain. The motives, the whereabouts
and all the relative circumstances
of the theft of the child are mysteries.
Mr. Conway says he has no enemies. In
this he is mistaken, for as night train
dispatcher in West Albany, for the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad,
he has been engaged in two or th *ee labor
disputes and has aroused resentment.
Whether the stealing of his youngest child
is an act of reprisal or merely c ?used by
desire to obtain a ransom of f.'IOOO cannot
at present be determined.
The Conway family,consisting of the father,
Michael J. Conway, his wife and three
children?William, Mary and John?have
lived in Colonie street for twelve years.
They now occupy a roomy, old fashioned
house half way down the hill toward Broadway.
Conway is in receipt of an excellent
salary.
Johnisflvo years old, the youngest of
the family. He is a verv bright child, and
his father said that the little one not only
knew his name, so that he could tell it
readily, but also where he lived, his home
number and his father's name.
The circumstances surrounding young
Conwny's disappearance resemble closely
those attending the kidnapping of Charley
Ross. Young Conway's abductors appear
to have been close students of tho Ross
case.
On the morning of his boy's disappearance
Mr. Conway returned to his ho ne after
his night's duties and ate breakfast is usual
with his family. After breakfast the father
retired and the flve-year-old boy was allowed
to go into the street to pliy. He
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hours afterward Mrs. Conway answered a
ring of the door bell.
A boy fourteen years old and poorly
dressed was standing there with i letter
addressed to Mr. Conway. This lid not
alarm her. as Mr. Conway had several men
under him at West Albany, and in case of
sickness or a desire to take a few hours off
a mau would sond him word. Thb letter
appeared bulkier than those usuilly received,
and instead of keeping it uotil her
husband awoke In the afternoon M:*a. Conway
took it to his room and he read its contents.
This was toe first intimation the
parents had of the kidnapping of the child.
The afTair is a mystery, and even now the
boy's parents would be at a loss to itccount
for his absence from home had lot the
principals In the plot unfolded in this letter
their plans to the boy's father, and demanded
a ransom of $3000 and absolute
secrecy under threat to kill both the boy
and the father if these conditions were not
compiled'with.
Mr. Conway read the letter aloud. Be- I
fore he had ooncluded Mrs. Conway had be- I
come hysterical. The letter was fairly well j
written. There was no apparent attempt j
to disguise the writing.
At first he could not appreciate the fact
that his little boy had been stoied. Then
he rushed out and made hurried inquiries
In the neighborhood, without result. Desperate
because of the apparent hopeless|
nes3 of his search, he went to the police,
but they have been unable to obtain any
clue to the boy's wnereabouts or his abductors.
The police ordered photographs of the
missing boy to be copied, and sent them
broadcast with the following description of
him:
"John Conway, kidnapped; age five
years; blue eyes, light colored hair, cut
J short; wore knee pants, pink stripe; blue
waist, light straw hat with brown stripe;
black stockings; button shoes."
Excitement is at fever heat in Albany
over the kidnapping. Hundreds of people
thronged the street on which the boy lived
all day long, and watched every visitor
closely, expecting some news of the abductors.
The police have had a score of clew9
that havo amounted upon investigation to
I nothing at all. Every one is at sea, and
the parents of the lost child are nearly
I crazed with anxiety, and uncertain as to
[ what step to take.
A reward has been offered by a looal
paper, and the entire detective and police
force, as well as hundreds of citizens, will
pursue their search.
Stirred by a Brutal Murder.
No criminal event in the history of Philadelphia
has so aroused public interest as
has the murder of William C. Wilson, proprietor
of the most widely known private
circulating library in the city, and almost
as widely known as a miser. He was
found dead in his store, within ten
| feet of the open door of the library, his
bead crushed in, a towel tightly tied around
his neck, and a heavy hammer, with which
the murder had been committed, lying at
his side. The motive was undoubtedly robbery.
Wilson was commonly supposed to
keep a large sum of money in the store.
Wilson originnllv came from New York.
He served in theCivil War, and at the close
had reached the rank of Major.
Held Up a Missouri Bank.
The Pineville (Mo.) Bank has been
robbed. Three men, supposed to be the
Indian Territory bandits, armed with
rifles, rode into Pineville between 9 and
10 o'clock a. m., and proceeded to intimidate
the people by firing their guns. They
then went to the "bank, which two of them
entered, while the other kept up the firing
outside. One man held up the bank cashier
while the other secured all the cash in
signt, netwecnsfbw ana ?iuw.
Choked to Death by a Son.
Frank Dickerson, aged sixty, was choked
to death by his his son, Leroy Dickerson,
aged twenty-two, at their home in Cortlandt,
N. Y.
Ameer Knuckles Down.
In response to the note of protest and
warning addressed to the Ameer of Afghanistan
by the Indian Government, in
regard to inciting Mohammedans of India
to revolt against British rule, the Ameer
has issued a firman forbidding his subjects
to join the Indian rebels. The Ameer has
prescribed severe penalties.
Minor Mention.
At Clinton, Ky., an acre of wheat yielded
108 two-bushel sacks.
Oats six feet high in the stalk are reportedlctfeuaty,
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THE NEVVS EPITOMIZED.
Washington Items.
"The question of a treaty between France
anil the United 8tates under the reciprocity
I clause of the new Tariff law Is under consideration.
Secretary Sherman has sent a reply to
the last note of Japan relative to the annexation
of Hawaii.
President McKlnley's congratulations
have been oonveved to the President of
Uruguay on the failure of the recent attempt
on the life of the8outh American executive.
W. W. Warbrick, of Cincinnati, has been
appointed Chief Law Clerk in the office of
Comptroller of the Treasury, at Washington.
The Treasury Department will permit
boats bound for Dyea, Alaska, to land at
j Skagway if weather be bad.
General David G.Swain, U.8. A.,retired,
died in Washington, aged sixty-three. He
vx?na >*r>rn 4n Sftlom OMr? fn 1R34 An/1 f?Am?
of ft family which has been represented in
every war ever waged by the United 8tates.
Domestic.
aECOED OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
Per Per
Clube Won. ]x?t. ct. I Clubs. Won. Lo8t. ct.
Bostor ...68 31 .687 Pittsb'g ..43 53 .448
Bait 63 32 .663 Louisv'le 44 56 .440
Cincin'ati61 33 .649jPhilad'a..43 58 .426
N'w York.58 37 .611 Brooklyn40 57 .412
Clevel'd..52 44 .542 Wash'n.. 39 59 .393
Chicago .49 52 .495 8t. Louis.26 74 .260
A meeting of coal mine operators was
held in Pittsburg, Penn., and an organization
was formed with the purpose of ending
the strike.
The convention of the American Bankers'
Association came to a close at Detroit,
Mioh.; Joseph C. Hendrix, of New York,
was elected President for the ensuing year.
Mrs. W. H. Thompson was arrested at her
father's homo, south of Terre Haute, Ind.,
for burying h ?r three-weeks-old baby alive.
When Detective McRae lifted the child out
of a shallow grave and found it yet alive,
though she says she had burled it three
days before, her onlv comment was: "I
thought it was strangled."
At the elevator of the Davenport (Iowa)
Glucose Works two terrific dust explosions
took place, as a result of which four lives
were lost and two persons seriously injured.
The dead are: John Raap, fell from top of
building, sixty feet; John Hamm, fell from
top of elevator; William Wolff, caught by
falling wall, and Paul A. Wolff, caught by
fallinir wall.
[ Joseph Perry was sentenced to life imprisonment
at" Fitchburg, Mass., for assaulting
Estelle G. Stratton.
The failure of packers on the Klondike
trail to keep their agreement caused the
gold seekers to take a determined stand, in
which rifles were shown to bring the packers
to terms.
Harvey Be Berry, colored, was hanged in
the jailyard at Memphis. Tenn. He protested
his innocence while on the gallows.
He was hanged for attempted assault on a
seven-year-old girl on October 8, 1896.
This is the first legal hanging for this
crime in Tennessee. ,
The Middle-of-the-Boad Populists, of
Iowa, held a State convention and placed a
ticket in the Held headed by Charles A.
Lloyd, of Muscatine County, for Governor.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition may
be able to return subscriptions and pay a
small dividend. Many exhibits will be sent
to Paris for 1900.
Jane and Minerva loung, sisters-in-iaw,
who live with their husbands on Beech
Ford, Ky., had a battle at the family spring.
Mirerva, true to her war-like name, was
armed with a big knife. Jane was armed
with a club. They fought for fifteen minutes.
Minerva wielded ner knife skillfully,
and after cutting Jane in a dozen places
followed her work by stabbing her in the
breast. Jane died an hour later.
Pig iron in Cleveland", Ohio, has advanced
from $9.25 to $9.30 for future delivery.
Statistician Neill, of New Orleans, says
the outlook this year is for a cotton crop
of at least 9,750,000 bales, conceding a
short crop in Texas.
George Leuthhauser, a Brooklyn electrician,
was killed bv a current of 2400
volts in a Unionport (N. Y.) power house.
The injunction against the striking coal
miners near Pittsburg, Penn., h^s been
made permanent, forbidding marching and
trespass.
Private J. H. Williams, of the United
States Marine Corps, at Charlestown. Mass.,
committed suicide.
High officials of the Pennsylvania and
Beading Railroad Companies said ihat the
demand for cars was so great that it
threatened a car famine,
There is great enthusiasm at Rome, N. Y.,
over the success of the new gas wells, and
four more wells will bo drilled at once.
At Middletown, N. Y., Austin, the elevenyear-old
son of George W. Decker, Jr., of
Warwick, was shot and Instantly killed.
Austin and his nine-year-old brother
secured a revolver and a loaded shotgun.
The gun was placed on a bed. The trigger
caught in the bedclothes, which the
younger boy pulled, and the gun was discharged,
the shot passing through Austin's
windpipe.
Receivers were appointed for the Massachusetts
Benefit Li'fe Association, of .Boston.
At Jacksonville, Fla., the situation in regard
to the floating hyacinths is growing
serious. The decayed vegetation blocks
the river front, and navigation is greatly'
impeded. An epidemic of fever is threat-'
ened. There is a movement on foot to appeal
to the State Board of Health.
May Anderson, arrested for the sale o!;
forged Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mileage
books, has been sentenced to pay a fine
of $500 and costs and to serve six months
in Cleveland, Ohio. If her fine be not paid
she will remain in prison four years. The
woman wept bitterly when sentence was
passed, and shrieked as she was taken
from the courtroom.
Mine operators in the Pittsburg (Penn.)
district said they would open their mines
at all hazards, and would use Gatling
guns to protect their workmen against
strikers. ,
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has discharged
500 city employes in abatch.
A cpnantlnnnl meatinc? r\f AnArchfats in
which murder was applauded was held in
New York City with police present.
William C. Wilson, proprietor of Wilson's
Circulating Library in Philadelphia,
was murdered at his place of business by'
robbers, who made their escape after committing
the murder and looting the office.
One of the first effects of the pronounced
public sentiment against lynching is reported
from Walker County, Georgia, where
Colonel Jones saved the life of Will Phillips,
who had assaulted bis daughter, and turned
him over to the authorities for punishment.
There was a wild scramble in New York
City to buy wheat, and every available
steamship around New York had besn engaged
for shipments abroad.
George L. Fish, who ha3 just returned to
San Francisco, reports intense suffering
among the gold seekers at Dyea, Alaska.
Storms did much damage around New
York City. Lightning struck in many sections
of New Jersey and Connecticut.
Foreign.
General Woodford, the American Minister
to Spain, it is reported, has been instructed
to ascertain the limit of neutrality
of the European Powers in the event of ah
offensive policy of the United States toward
Spain.
The religious leaders of the tribes in revolt
in t:ho Swat Valley, India, have offered
tQ submit on any terns.
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I BOMBS IN TWO CAPITALS
Explosions Occur in the Streets of
Constantinople and Paris.
SULTAN AND PRESIDENT MENACED
Aiiaiilnafion Mtj Hare Been Planned In
Both of the Countries?Office* of the
Grand Vlrler Wrecked at the Porte?
Explosion In Paris After President
Paure Had Left on a Train for Bnssla.
Londox, Eogland (By Cable).?Bombs
exploded la Paris and In Constantinople,
Wednesday, and it is believed that there
were plots oh foot to kill President Faare,
of France, and the Saltan of Turkey. These
fresh outbreaks of Anarchist fury have
oaused the wildest consternation throughout
Europe.
The explosion in Paris occurred in the
Boulevard de Magenta, five minutes after
M. Fauro bad passed on his way to the railroad
station to begin his trip to Bussla.
PRESIDENT EACRE, OF FRANCE.
No one was hurt, bat the bomb is believed
to have been of Anarchist make.
The wildest kind of terror reigns in
Constantinople. An Armenian was arrested
in the Imperial Ottoman Bank while trying
to exploae a bomb. Another bomb was
thrown near the police headquarters, but
did not go off. Still another bomb killed
a man and wounded several others. The
London police are said to fear an international
Anarchist plot, and are watching
all arrivals from the continent closely.
PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
The Saltan In Hit Palace Fearfal of His
Life,
Coxstaxtixople, Turkey (By Cable).?
The city la almost In a panic over the news
of bomb explosions, attempted or accomplished
at three different points. The explosions
aro attributed to the Armenians
or Anarchist s.
At 8 o'clock p. m. a bomb was thrown
iust outside the Police Headquarters In the
>era District. It failed to explode.
Almost at the same moment an Armenian,
whose name is believed to be Garabet, was
arrested at the Imperial Ottoman Bank, In
the Galata District. }He was carrying a
paokage of explosives which he was trying
to Ignite and. place near one of the main
entrances. The crowd whloh saw him
handed over to the police by the bank officials
would have made short work of him
If It had not been prevented.
Another bomb was exploded In a private
road between the Vlzierate (offices of the
Grand Vizier) and the State Council House.
Qne man was killed and several were j
severely wounded. The explosion shattered
windows In the neighborhood and *
did other slight damage. 1
Abject terror prevails In the Sultan's pal- 1
ace. The police and the guards there took
extraordinary precautions, whloh gave
: color to a rumor that the bomb-throwing is
Dart of a wldes Dread plot. ,
The polloe are reticent as to the reason
for' summoning tho Palaoo Guard and
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ABDUL HAMID, BULTAW OF TUBKrT. I
closing all the doors and gateways, but It is
rumored that a similar outrage was attempted
within the palace limits and that
the approaches were barred to prevent the I
exit 01 me wouia-De assassin.
In many parts of the city, particularly
around Polico Headquarters and t'io State
Council House, the shops were <"',osed. It ?
was necessary to call out the entire police e
force and the military before anything like
calm was restored. t,
Reports say that Abdul Hamid is in his
rooms surrounded by guards and fearful .
for his life. A
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BOMB EXPLOSION IN PARIS. ?
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Occurred Near the Railroad Station Which S(
President Faure Had Just Left.
Paris, France (By Cable).?A bomb was ^
exploded near Gare du Nord about the time ii
that President Faure was taking a train tl
from that station for Russia, and for a few 31
minutes great excitement prevailed. The si
explosion took place at the corner of tho h
Rouiayflrd de.JIjLzenta and Rue Lala^fitle- - -
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A TORNADO PLAYS HAVOC.
It Start* Two Water Spouta and Strike*
Near Valley Stream, L. I. A
tornado struck a half-milo east of tke
village of Yalley Stream, Long Island, and
wrought considerable damage, k hotel was ,
almost totally wrecked, the upper part of
another building was carried away, biff
trees were dragged from the earth and scattered
long distances, part of a big wagon ujl
shed disappeared, ana a horse was lifted
into the air and carried a considerable distance.
It was a marvellous storm. Following
upon the heels of a heavy rain-storm, two
towering water-9pouts arose out of the sea
off Rockaway. One passed to the northward,
the other started east. The first
spout, whipping over into Jamaica 9*7.
drove up through the channel with a roaring
that filled the air.
Following the channel, the spout made
its wav towards the raUwav trestle at Ham.
mel's. Just above the railroad spiling it
upset four boats, drowning the occupant*
of one of them. Collapsing upon the spiling
the water-spout subsided. A few yards b?- ^
yond, however, the oloud swirled down to
the water again and formed anew. 8ome
distance beyond it collapsed again with a
crash and was seen no more.
The second spout, after going eastward
some distance, swerved in towards the
beach, driving out a host of bathers and
clipping the edges of a bath-house and a
hotel.
After leaving Bockaway the cyclone s
plowed its course of destruction northeasterly
through 8pringfleld, Valley Stream,
Lynbrook and towards Hempstead. It
blew a big hotel seventeen feet from the
foundation, unroofed bouses, sucked up
the water from two ponds as well as from
the Hempstead reservoir, scattered a hennery
over a square mile of country and
Slowed a thirty-foot swath through cornelds
and orchards.
NEW RAILS FOR THE B. AND 0.
Preparing For the Business Boom by ** >
Laying New Track*.
The new elghty-flve-pound steel rail* ,. > J
that the Receivers of the B. and 0. purchased
several months ago, at an exceedingly
low flciirn aro now hfiinf? dfiliversA
at the rate of Ave thousand tons 4 month.
As fast as it comes it is being laid, and if.
the weather continues good at least 20,000
tons of it will bo in the track by Christmas.
Nearly a million cross ties have been bought
in the last year and placed in the track
ready for the new rail. Ballast trains have'
been kept busy up and down the line, and
the work has progressed with such rapidity
that when the new rail is down, the tracks
will be practically bran new from Wheeling T
to Baltimore. There are lots of good ratt
in the old tracks, not heavy enough for the
new motive power, which will be taken up
and laid on divisions where traffic is not as
great as it is on the main line. About ten
thousand tons of new steel will be laid on
the lines west of the Ohio River this fall, if
weather permits.
A KLONDIKE NUCGET.
A Returned Gold Miner Used It For ?
Poclcet-Pleee.
A miner, who has just returned from th?
Klondike, brought with him a nugget of almost
virgin gold which he sold in San
Iilp i
EXACT ?TCZE OP A KLONDIKE KUOOET VALUED
AT (231.
Francisco. Cal., for (231. It was small
snough to be carried, without inconvenenoe,
In the pocket as this cut, which givests
exact size, will show. 'if
CAPTAIN AND MATE KILLED.
Harder ?f the Officer* of the Schooner
Olive Pecker.
A cable message received in Boston, Mass.
'rom Rnenrm Avres. Argentine ReDublio
lays that J. W. Whitman, captain, and
William Saunders, mate, of the schooner
)live Pecker, whloh sailed from Boston o*;
Tune 27, have been murdered by the crew.,
rhe princiril owners of the vessel are J. P.
JUloott & Co., of Boston, who also sent out:
he barkentlne Herbert Fuller, on whloh
Captain Nash and his wife and Mate Bam>erg
were murdered.
The message containing the information
vas from a banking firm in Buenos Ayres,,
ind it gave only the bare fact of the murLer,
together with the statement that the,
ressel was afterwaro burned, but the crew
scaped and landed at Bahia.
Saying Balls Here for a Formosa Railroad.
Advices from Toklo say that Japan is
ibout to place a contract in America for j
he rajls and material required for the 1200
ailes of railroad which it is to construct' n
Formosa, with the object of opening up
o trade the phenomenal and as yet undeeloped
resources of that island.
Telegraph Line to Klondike.
The Canadian Government has submited
formal proposals to the United 8tatea
or the construction of a telegraph line to . ?
aaintain winter communication with the
Klondike region. The matter is under
onsideration by the Interior Department.
Where the Crop is Short.
The wheat orop in Minnesota and the
lakotas will be 30,000,000 bushels short of
xpectations.
Clam Crop Short.
There Is an appalling shortage in the
thode Island clam crop. '' v l
Cycling Note*. , VC$
Cycling has become so general in Mulch,
Bavaria, that a building has been
rected recently near the public abattoir J
a the meat market for the accommoda- /
Ion of butchers' cycles. ,
The Rev. Dr. Hancher, of the Grand
.venue Methodist Episcopal Church, of
[ansas City, Mo., has established not only)
bicycle check room in the basement of i , .A
is church, but a room where mothers may'
heck their babies while they attend divine
ervice. ,
It is estimated that there are fully 5000
rheelmen taking their vacations by "tour-!
lg through New England at the present
[me. The Berkshire Hills and the White
fountains are their objective points The'4
mall country hotels are reaping a rich
arvest from these travelers. M