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4 I K SPAIN'S ASSASSIN TO DIE. \ngiolillo, Premier Canovas's Murder- j er, Awarded a Death Sentence. EXECUTION BY THE GARROTE. ' The Trial Was Summary?Government Ordered It Hastened?The Assassin j Speaks In His Own Defense?rasslon For Vengeance Led Him to Commit | the Crime?IIorrified by the Scaffold. Madrid, Spain (By Cable).?Mlcnele A.ngiolillo, the Anarchist assassin of Premier Canovas del Castillo, who was tried by court martial at Vergara, was found guilty and was sentenced to death. Angiolillo will be garroted within the prison. . > - About 200 person's were present at the trial. The vicinity of the prison was almost deserted, the public being apparently in different, in view of the oertainty that the death penalty would follow the court mar* . , tial. Angiolillo. heavily manacled,sat between two gendarmes and immediately* in front of his Judges. On a table near by lay his revolver and other material evidence of the crime. ' The President of the court read the declarations of eye-witnesses, after which the written statement of the prisoner was j read by the clerk of the courl. Angiolillo, i In the course of the statement, said that he j left Fogsria in October, 1885, and went to Marseilles and Barcelona, where he took the name of Jose Santos. At first he had | no thought of becoming an Anarchist, but while at Corominahe beganto be interested In Anarchist doctrines. When the execution took place at Barco, lona, on May 4, of five of tho Anarchists j convicted of participation in the bomb outrage at the feast of Corpus Christ!, he con- I ceived the idea of assassinating Canovas. | Without seeking an accomplice 110 curriea out the resolution. Angiolillo went on to say that the passion for vengeance led him to commit the crime. As he was unacquainted with the manufacture of explosives, he used the revolver. The Public Prosecutor described the crime I as "premeditated murder," and asked the i eourt to impose the death penalty. Lieutenant Gorria, whom the court had j assigned as counsel for Angiolillo, urged that the prisoner was demented at the time of the shooting, and made a strong appeal to the benevolence of the judges. While his counsel was presenting this plea. Angiolillo listened in silence. Then he asked permission to speak for himself, which was granted. He thanked Lieutenant Gorria i for his efforts and deniod that ho had any accomplices or that ho was an accomplice of those who committed the bomb-throwing outrage at Barcelona, or that he had participated in secret gatherings of Anar- i shists. Angiolillo persisted in speaking of poli- j tics and of the wars in Cuba and the j Philippines. The President said: "All that | has nothing to do with your crime." Angiolillo replied: "I must justify myself." i The President retorted: "That is no justifl- | cation. Moreover, you can convinco no- I body in that way." Angiolillo began ngain, but the President i declared the trial ended, and ordered the j court room cleared. The judges deliberated for an hour and then announced the sentence of the court, j On hearing this the prisoner, who expected I to be shot like other Anarchists, looked startled and horrified. His flashing eyes and excited countenance gave a strange aspect to his haggard features, uncombed , beard and slight figure as the guards led him away to solitary confinement, from whioh he* will issue only to be led to death behind the walls of Nergara Prison. An- j giolillo will hear nothing of the outer world or see anybody but tho priests. j j A REMARKABLE PREACHER. He ia the Heart and Brain of the Unique Philadelphia Temple. Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell, pastor of the Grace Raptist Church of PHiladelphla, Penn., is oue of the most remarkable men : In America. Ha is the heart and brain of 1 ' the Temple, a church organization the like 1 of -which exists in no other place. Dr. j Conwell has built up a congregation large | enough for four churches, but he holds it together by the power of work. In the i Temple are four auditoriums, a college, an j academy, training schools for almost nvery j profession and calling, and the head- ) quarters for the direction of outside work of so large and varlod an order that no less f '/ / rev. dr. russell h. conwell. than a book would serve to describe It. To further unify this great business a twentypage weekly paper, the Temple Magazine, is published in the Temple, and makes a | profit for the church. Indeed the enter- j !>rises under Dr. Conwell's charge pay landsomely and the money is spent in helping poor people to learn how to help themselves. Dr. Con well is llfty-four years old. Ho has seen life in many countries and in many conditions in his own country. He fought for the Union when only a lud, and after the war became a lawyer. Thee j he dropped law and became a reporter od New York papers. He founded the Minneapolis Tribune, traveled around the world as a correspondent, abandoned journalism to return to tne iaw, wmcn in turn no gave up for the church. He has been pastor ol Grace Church since 1832, and by his active labor in those years he has built up a work that furnishes* a splendid object lesson io the matter of applied religion. Senator George Dead. Senator James Z. George, of Mississippi, died in Mississippi City, Miss., aged seventy' one years. He was a veteran of the Mexican War. aud fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. He was llrst elected to the United States Senate in 1880. <Jirl of Fifteen .Murdered. Dora K. Cushnian, fifteen years old, th ! daughter of Dr. A. J. Cushman, of Lincoln i Vt., was found dead in a pasture near liei father's house. The body had marks whict j indicated foul play; there was blood on the i leaves near the l<odv. Prominent People. \Y. L. rickaxll, the well-known artist, die-t at Marbleheml, Mass. Assistant Secretary of stiit" Day is a baseball crank. When -Jl>ay was a stub-nt i at the University of .Michigan he piayeri or; i the 'varsity nine, an 1 In; never lost iiitcresi ; in the sport. II" seldom misses a game in Washington, atnl is usually accompanied 'by one or more of his four sons. Au oM woman was picked up from onool ' the gutters of Hamburg, Germany, recent- j ly suffering from aleoholisiu au<l eoucus- ! sion of th- brain. Shortly after she had beeu taken to a hospital slits died. She wiis I I Countess Terlinska, a direct descendant ol . Sobieski, the great King of Poland THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items. W. W. Warbrick, of Cincinnati, has boon appointed Chief Law Clerk in the oillce of Comntrcller of the Treasury, at Washing ton. Tho Treasury Department will permit boats bound for Dyea, Alaska, to land at Skagway if weather be bad. General David G.Swain, U.S. A., retired, died in Washington, a^ed sixty-three. He was born in Salem, Ohio, in 1834, and camo of a family which has been represented in every war ever waged by the United States. Instructions wero issued by the Navy Department for manoeuvres of battle ships and torpedo boats. President McKinlev received the report of General Miles on the condition of military affairs in Europe. Nathan A. Hitchcock, of St. Louis, accepted the post of Minister to Russia offered tn him hv Hia The body of Pom Kwang Soh, formerly Korean Minister to this country, who died from over exertion while learning to ride a bicycle, was cremated in Washington. Domestic. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUES. Per Ppr Clubs. Won. Lost. e.t. I Clubs. Won. Lost. ct. Boston ...66 31 .6S0 Pittsb'g ..43 51 .457 Bait 63 30 .677 Louisv'le 43 55 .439 Cincin'ati59 32 .64S Pbilnd'a..42 56 .429 N'w York.57 36 .613 Wash'n.. 3S 57 .400 Clevel'd..50 44 .532 Brooklyn 33 57 .400 Chicago .47 51 .430 St. Louis.26 72 .265 Jane and Minerva Young, sisters-in-law, who live with their husbands on Beech For<I, Ky., bad a battlo at the family spring. Minerva, true to her war-like name, was armed with a big knife. Jane was armed with a club. Thov fought for fifteen minutes. Minerva wielded her knife skillfully, and after cutting Jane in a dozen places followed her work by stabbing her in the breast. Jane died an hour later. Tig iron in Cleveland, Ohio, has advanced from SD.25 to $9.c0 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 by a current" of 2400 volts in a Unionport (N. Y.) power house. The injunction against the striking coal miners near Pittsburg, Penn., has been made permanent, forbidding marching and , trespass. Private J. IT. Williams, of the United j Rfntoci Vnrinor'Arnc nf flhnr!pehr*\rn ^VT/lqc. committed suicide. High officials of the Pennsylvania and | Reading Railroad Companies said that tho | demand for cars was so great that it threatened a car famine, There is great enthusiasm at Rome. N. Y., overthe success of the new gas wells, and four more wells will be drilled at once. At Midilletown. N. Y., Austin, the eleven- ; vear-oldson of George W. Decker, Jr., of \Varwiek, was shot and instantly killed. | Austin and his nine-year-old brother I secured a revolver and a loaded shotgun. *j The gun was placed on abed. The trigger j caught in the bedclothes, which the j younger boy pulled, and the gun was dls- j charged, the shot passing through Austin's windpipe. Receivers were appointed for the Massachusetts Benefit Life 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 threatened. There is a movement on foot to appeal to the State Board of Health. May Anderson, arrested for the sale of forged Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mile- I age books, has been sentenced to pay a fine of ?500 and costs and to serve six months In Cleveland, Ohio. If her flno 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 court room. Mine operators in the Pittsburg (Penn.) I district said they would open their mines ' it all hazards, and would use Gatling j > truns to protect their workmen against i strikers. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has discharged 500 city employes in a batch. A sensational meeting of Anarchists in i svhich murder was applauded was held in | STew York City with police present. William C. Wilson, proprietor of Wll- j *on's Circulating Library In Philadelphia, ; tvas murdered at his place of business by j roDners, wno mane ineir escape auei comnitting the murder and looting tho office. One of the first effects of tho pronounced public sentiment against lynching is reported from Walker County, Georgia, where Colonel Jones saved the life of Will Phillips, ;vho had assaulted his daughter, and turned ; aim over to the authorities for punishment. | There was a wild scramble in New York "Ity to buy wheat, and every available steamship around New York had been onjaged for shipments abroad. George L. Fish, who has just returned to 3an Francisco, reports intense suffering imong tho gold seekers at Dyea, Alaska. The report of the Enrollment Committee jf the Citizens' Union showed 103,000 Greater New York voters pledged to support Soth Low for Mayor. Storms did much damage around New Eork City. Lightning struck in many sections of New Jersey and Connecticut. Frank Hinkcy, formerly a prominent football player at Yale, rescued eicht men from drowning in the Niagara River at Edgewater, N. Y. Three women cyclists ran down John Fossett, aged seventy-two, in Buffalo, N. i\, and rode away before their names could be learned. Fossett died of his Injuries. v.aptatn Alien, or ttie wnaie kock Jjignt, off Narragansett Tier, R. I., had a desperate fight with his rura-erazed assistant. The striking miners in various States, in obedience to the District President, gave up marching. An unknown white man assaulted and attempted to murder Mrs. Daniel Hascott and her thirteen-year-old daughter, in Chiekamauga Park, eight miles from Chattanooga, TVnn. The Sheriff was telegraphed for, and with a posse and bloodhounds went to the scene. The dogs at once took ! the trail and tho man was captured and ; lynched, being hanged to a tree within ten ! feet of the monument erected to the | Eighty-ninth Illinois Regiment. Charles Russell, of New York City, while j trying to avoid running down a child with : his bicycle in Brooklyn, was thrown to the I roadway and killed. Tho child was unhurt. The yacht Morao won the first race in . the series for the Seawanhaka-Corinthian trophy on Lake St. Louis, beating tho j Canadian boat Glencairn II. A fire, due to lightning, caused damnge j amounting to *'600,000 in Baltimore, Md. The ilaai heats of the National regatta on the Schuylkill, at Philadelphia, were rowed in the presence of 85.000 people. Maguire. of Cambridge, Mass., won tho seniors ingles; aud Lewis, of Worcester, Mass., the intermediate. Four of tho crew events were won by Philadelphia clubs, and one each bv the* Argonauts, of Toronto, and tho Institutes. of Newark. Congressman Ashley B. Wright Jropped dead at his homo at North Adams, Mass. j He represented the Fir9t Massachusetts Dis- j rie.t in Congress. He was born at Hinsdale, i Mas*. James Elbert, an anarchist, ran amuel.- 1 in a Pittsburg.(Tenn.) police station and, | aft'-r cutting live policemen, escaped. He ' was .shot in the arm ami recaptured. Forricii. The Canadian yacht Glencairn II. defeat- j ed the American boat Momo for the Sea ?uiiiiu!\<i-i riuiuiiiu uup near .uomrcai. , Tho cup will stay in Camilla another year. I Twenty Polish students were arrested In j St. Petersburg, Russia, suspected of Nihil- , ism. and hurried oft to Siberia. Steamer Queen arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, and. according to Purser Carroll, few of tho 1500 men in camp at Skag- j way and I)yea will g;-t over the pass to the j Klondike this winter. Packer, from Port- ; land, lost eight horses and packs by failing down a cliff. At least seven persons were drowned by th? capsizing of a ferry steamer at Drus- j deu, Germauy. IBOHfiS I TffO CAPIT1LS I ! Explosions Occur in the Streets of Constantinople and Paris, . SULTAN AND PRESIDENT MENACED Assassination May Have Keen Planned in Both of the Countries?Offices of the Grand Vizier Wrecked at the Porte? Explosion in Paris After President Fauro Had Left on a Train for Russia. London, England (By Cable).?Bombs j jxploded in Paris and in Constantinople, Wednesday, and it is believed that there ivere plots on foot to kill President Fauro, ot France, and the Sultan of Turkey. These fresh outbreaks of Anarchist fury have laused the wildest consternation throughout Europe. The explosion in Paris occurred in the Boulevard de Magenta, five minutes after M. Faure had passed on his way to the railroad station to begin his trip to Russia. ?, . president faure, of france. No one was hurt, but 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 explode 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 an international Anarchist plot, an.1 are watching all arrivals from the continent closely. PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE. The Sultan in Ills Palace Fearful or JETls Life. ? wmTVAnr t? HPn rl-QTT /"Rxr P/ihlftY ? The city is almost in a panfe over the news of bomb explosions, attempted or accomplished at three different points. The explosions are attributed to the Armenians or Anarchists. At 3 o'clock p. m. a bomb was thrown just outside the Police Headquarters in the Tera 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. tHe was . carrying a package of explosives which ho was trying to ignite and place near one, of the main entrances. The crowd which 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 Yizierate (offices of the Grand Vizier) and the State Council House. One man was killed and several were j severely wounded. The explosion shattered windows in the neighborhood and < did other slight damage. _ | i Abject terror prevails in the fiuitan's pai- 1 ace. The police and the guards thoretook extraordinary precautions, which gave color to a rumor that the bomb-throwing is part of a widespread plot. 3 The police are reticent as to the reason for summoning the Talaco Guard and ABDUL JIAMID, SULTAN OF TUBIiET. J ? closing all the doors and gateways, but it is rumored that a similar outrage was attempted within the palace limits and that cho approaches were barred to prevent the ] exit of tbo would-be assassin. In manv parts of the citv, particularly Around Police Headquarters und tho State Council House, the shops were closoil. It , was necessary to call out the entire police ( force and the military before anything like j caltn was restored. I Reports say that Abdul Haraid is in his rooms surrounded by guards and fearful for hi3 life. : BOMB EXPLOSION IN PARIS. i Occurrcd Near tho Railroad Station Which t President Faurc Had Just Left. Taius, France (By Cable).?A bomb was exploded near Gare du Nord about the time I that President Fauro was taking a train from that station for Russia, and for a few minutes great excitement prevailed. Tho i explosion took place at tho corner of tho nntilnrni-rl <1.. Mnm.nfn n nil linn T.ofn No 0110 was hurt. Tlio bomb was ex- , piodcil five minutes after the President Imd , passed that point on his way to the station. It consisted of a lead tube ten inches ions, , lilted with gunpowder ami nails, and was placed underneath a (lower stand on tlio | corner. The material damage was slight. N<> arrests were made. M. (iirard, Director of tlio Municipal ; Laboratory, declares that the bomb was j constructed by an expert. Fortunately the j tube was cracked; otherwise the explosion would most likely have killed or wounded J a number of persons. The President received an ovation from the public, large crowds of people lining the route from tin* Klysee Palace to the ' railroad station and greeting the President 1 with eiithuslastie cries of "Vive la Hepub- 1 liquet Vive la Iiusse! Vive Faure!" etc. ' President Faure was accompanied on his 1 way to Russia by M. Hanotaux, the Minis- 1 ter for Foreign AfYairs, and by Admiral Desnard. the Minister of Marine. 1 . A TORNADO PLAYS HAVOC. It Starts Two Water Spouts and Strike Near Valley Stream, I?. I. A tornado struck a half-milo east of tb village of Valley Stream, Long Island, an wrought considerable damage. A hotel wn almost totally wrecked, the upper parte another building was carried awav, bl trees were dragged from tho earth and seal tered long distances, part of a big wago shed disappeared, and a horse was lifte into tho air and carried a considerable dis tanco. It was a marvellous storm. Followln upon the heels of a heavy rain-storm, tw towering water-spouts arose out of tho se off Rockaway. Ono passed to tho north ward, the othor started east. The (Irs spout, whipping over into Jamaica Baj drove up through the channel with a roai ing that filled the air. Following the channel, tlio spout mad Its way towards the railway trostle at Ham mel's. Just above the railroad spiling 1 upset four boats, drowning the occupant of one of them. Collapsing upon thespllln the water-spout subsided. A few yards be yond, however, the cloud swirled down t the water again and formed anew. Som distance beyond it collapsed again with i crash and was seen no more. The second spout, after going eastwari some distance, swerved in towards thi beach, driving out a host of bather!! am clipping the edges of a bath-house and i hotel. After leaving Rockaway the cyclon plowed Its course of destruction north easterly through Springfield, Valley Stream Lynbrook and towards Hempstead. I blew a big hotel seventeen feet from th foundation, unroofed houses, sucked u; the water from two ponds as well as froc the Hempstead reservoir, scattered a hen nery over a square mile of country an* plowed a thirty-foot swath through corn fields and orchards. NEW RAILS FOR THE B. AND C Preparing For the Business Boom b; Laying New Tracks. The new eighty-flve-pound steel rail that tho Receivers of tho B. and 0. pur chased several months ago, at an exceed ingly low figure, are now being delivered at the rate of five thousand tons a month As fast as It comes it is being laid, and i the weather continues good at least 20,001 tons of it will be in the track by Christmas Nearly a million cross ties have been bough in the last year and placed In tho tracl ready for the new rail. Ballast trains hav< been kept busy up and down the line, ant tho work has progressed with such rapiditj that when the new rail is down, the track; will be practically bran new from Wheelinj to Baltimore. There are lots of good rai in the old tracks, not heavy enough for th< now motive power, which will be taken up and Juid on divisions where traffic is not a: great as it is on the main line. About tei thousand tons of new steel will be laid 01 the lines west of the Ohio River this fall, i weather permits. A KLONDIKE NUGGET. A Returned Gold Miner Used It For i Pocket-PIece. A mlier, wljo has just returned from th< Klondike, brought with him a nugget ofnl most virgin gold which he sold in Bar pit My m hMtd EXACT SIZE OF A KLONDIKE HOOOET VAI.tJED AT *231. Francisco, Cal., for =5231. It was small rnough to be carried, without inconvenenee, In tho pocket ns this cut, which gives ts exact size, will show. CAPTAIN AND MATE KILLED. Hurder of the Officers of tho Schooner Olive Pecker. A cable message received in Boston, Mass. 'rom Buenos Ayres, Argentino Republio iays that J. W. Whitman, captain, and A'illlam Saunders, mate, of tho schoonei 31ive Pecker, which sailed from Boston oE rune 27, have been murdered by the crew, rhe principal, owners of tho vessel aio J. P. SUieott & Co., of Boston, who also sont out he barkentine Herbert Fuller, on which Captain Nash and his wife and Mate Bamberg were murdered. The message containing the information vas from a banking (irm in Buenos Ayrcs, md it gave only the bare fact of the murler, together with the statement that the ressel was aiterware burned, but the crew escaped and landed at Bahla. Buying Rnllfi Here for a Formosa Ra! lroad. Advices from Tolclo say that Japan is ibout to place a contraot in America for he rails and material required for the 1200 niles of railroad which it is to construct n Formosa, with the object of opening up ;o trado the phenomenal and as yet uudoreloped resources of that island. Telegraph Line to Klondike. The Canadian Government has submit;ed formal proposals to tho United States or tho construction of u telegraph line to naintain winter communication with th? \londike region. The matter is under :onslderatlon by the Interior Department. Where the Crop is Short. ino wncai crop in jimuusuui uuu iuc Dakotas will bo30,000,000 bushels siiort ol ?xpectations. Clam Crop Short. There is an appalling shortage In tho Rhode Island clam crop. Cycling Notes. Cycling has become so general In Muaich, Bavaria, that n building has been erected recently near the public abattoir In the meat market for tho acoonmodatlon of butchers' cycles. Tho lie v. Dr. Hancher, of the Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, of Kansas City, Mo., has established not only a bicycle check room In the basement of his church, but a room where mothers may i-heok their babies while they attend divine jervice. It is estimated that there are fully 500(] wheelmen taking their vacation? by touring through New England at the present time. The Berkshire Hills and the White Mountains are their objective points Tho *mall country hotels are reaping a rich harvest from these travelers. A galloping cycle has been constructed and patented by an Englishman. Pedals, cranks and crank hanger are dispensed with in this machine, which the rider operates by simplv raising and lowering himself in his seat with a motion similar to that of a rider of a cantering horse. About 200 bicycle riders who took a spin into 1 In- countrv for nleasure had to walk lack to Milwaukee, u distance of seven or lit tniles, owing to puueture. Someone buried u plunk full of spikes in a bicycle path on the Ccdarburg road. and sue -ceded In disiiljliiti? 200 wheels before the enu.se of disaster was discovered. It is estimated that in England alone no less than ?so,n00.000 is invested in the making of the various parts of the bicyeio, in the.sOO.OOO wheels now in use, in agencies, ilopots, repairers, tho manufacture of bells, lumps and saddles, clothing and shoes, ami the keeping up of race tracks, clubs and riding nendomies. Tho annual expenditures are placed at ?00,000.000. . ' rTT"niT 1 nnnn nnn -n i htmahit I .. UMi M MJHSUE 0 d Little John Conway, of Albany, N, Y., \i | Stolen in the Street. R | S j CHARLIE ROSS CASE DUPLICATED. l* I -? ' g His Father Informed by Letter That Una less Ills Captors Received 83000 the Boj jj Would He Put Ont of the Way?Coaxed r, Him From His Tlay, It is SupposedAlbany Citizens Wild With Excitement, L. | Albant, N. Y. (Special).?Tho kidnap. It i ping of littlo John Conway is likely to be 9 j is celebrated an incident in criminal his? ;ory as the abduction of Charles Ross. Tho o I police are nonplussed. The parents are 0 | ilmost crazed with anxiety. Friends are a searching the open country which lies j lbout the cities of Albany and Troy, and 9 despatches have been sent by Chief Willard ^ and his representatives to tho authorities ? Df half a dozen cities. e That the kidnapping of tho Conway child i* Is the result of a plot there is no question. [. That more than one person is concerned t 3eems certain. The motives, the whera? abouts and all the relative circumstances P of the theft of the child are mysteries. 1 Mr. Conway saya ho has no enemies. In - zliis he is mistaken, for as night train i dispatcher in West Albany, for the New Tork Central and Hudson River Railroad, he has been engaged in two or three labor disputes and has aroused resentment. lt Whether tho stealing of his youngest child Is an act of reprisal or merely caused by y a desire to obtain a ransom of $3000 cannot at present be determined. The Conway family,consisting of tho faths jr. 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, ojd fashioned I house half way down tho bill toward Broad way. Conway is in receipt of an excellent f salary. J John is five years old, the youngest of Jhe family. He is a very bright child, and t his father said that the little one not only t j knew his name, so that he could tell It 3 I readily, but also where he lived, his home 1 number and his father's name. T The circumstances surrounding young ? Conway's disappearance resemble closely ' those attending the kidnapping of Charley 1 Ross. Young Conway's abductors appear ' to have been close students of the Ross > case. * On the morning of his boy's disappear1 ince Mr. Conway returned to his home after 1 his night's duties and ate breakfast as usual ' with his family. After breakfast the father retired and the flve-year-old boy was allowed to go into the street to play. He left the house a little after 8 o'clock. Two hours afterward Mrs. Conway answered a i i j ring of the door bell. A boy fourteen years old and poorly Iressed was standing there with a letter | ) ! addressed to Mr. Conway. Tills did not j j alarm her, as Mr. Conway bad several men I t i under him at West Albany, and in case of ! , sickness or a desire to take a few hours off I I a mun would send him word. This letter j ! snnonwi/l hnlL-iar f-hftn flinqA llSUallV re- i I ceived, and instead of keeping it until her husband awoko in the afternoon Mrs. Conway took it to his room and he read Its contents. This was the flrst'intimation the parents had of the kidnapping of the child. The affair is a mystery, and even now the j boy's parents would bo at a loss to account | ! for his absence from home had not the j i principals in the plot unfolded in this let- | | ter their plans to the boy's father, and de| manded a ransom of ?3000 and absolute j 1 , secrecy under threat to kill both the boy ; j and the father if these conditions were not j | complied with. Mr. Conway read the letter aloud. Bo- j .'ore he had concluded Mrs. Conway had be! come hysterical. The letter was fairly well j 1 | written. There was no apparent attempt ] to disguise tho writing. At first he could not appreciate tho fact ; that his little boy had been stoled. Then I | he rushed out and made hurried inquiries I in the neighborhood, without result. Desperate because of the apparent hopeless, I ness of his search, he wont to the police, I hut: thpv hRv? been unable to obtaiii any clue to the boy's wnereabouts or his abductors. The police ordered photographs of the missing boy to be copied, and sent them i broadcast with the following description of him: John Conway, kidnapped; age Ave years; blue eyes, light colored hair, cut short; wore knee pants, pink stripe; blue waist, light straw hat with brown stripe; black stockings; button snoes." Excitement is at fever heat in Albany over the kidnapping. Hundreds of people thronged the street on which tho boy lived I all day long, and watched every visitor closely, expecting some news of the abduc' tors. The police have had a score of clews i that have amounted upon investigation to nothing at all. Every ono is at sea, and the parents of the lost child are nearly ; crazed with anxiety, and uncertain as to i what step to take. A reward has been offered by a local paper, and the entire detective and police force, as well as hundreds of citizens, will oursuo their search. C+I**?*a#1 Kw a Unntal Wur/lnr. 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 privato 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 head crushed in, a towel tightly tied arouud 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 originally came from New York. Ho served In the Civil War, and at the close had reached the rank of Major. Hold Up a Missouri Bank. The Pineville (Mo.) Bank has been robbed. Three men, supposed to be tho Indian Territory bandits, armed with 1 rifles, rode into Pineville between 9 and | 10 o'clock a. m., and proceeded to intimidate the people by firing their guns. They j then went to the "bank, which two of them j entered, while the other kept up the llring outside. One man held up the bank cashier while the other secured all the cash in sight, between 8600 and 61090. Choked to Death by a Son, Frank DIckerson. aged sixty, was choked Kit l?la hia a?-*n T-ftrnv niAlfArunn L\J VICdLU UJ U1Q UW OWM, aged twenty-two, at their home In CortInndt, N. Y. Ameer KnuckleM Down. , In response to the note of protest and warning addressed to the Amoer of AfghanI istan by the Indian Government, in regard to inciting Mohammedans of India ! i to revolt against British rule, the Ameer I has issued a ill-man forbidding bis subjects tojointhe Indian rebels. The Ameer has prescribed severe penalties. Minor Mention. At Clinton, Ky., an acre of wheat yielded 10S two-bushel sacks. Oats six feet high in the stalk are reportid in Lane County, Oregon. j At Goshen. Iud., a disputed horse race i was decided by the revelations of a camera. | Bears nave oecii SO iiiick urouuu iu.iri') : I that it litis been said there was a boar for i every bushel. A resident of Skislmore, Mo., boasts of j | ; having nut up twenty-two three-ton stacks j of hay in one day. A Missouri free silverite incloses a half- ! | j dollar pieee or n quarter in each sack of ! | | flour sold from his mill, lio does it to at- j I tract custom. I , Swarms of grasshoppers, looking like f ] streaks of silver in the air, hnvo passed in j i a northeasterly direction kover Wilbur, , j Wash., lately. I)r. C. P. Carver, of St. Augustine, Fin., is experimenting for the extraction of the I sweet matter from watermelons, and it is , j said that he derives from tins melon pulp a I 1 syrup oijunl to that of the maple troy.- " OCR WliT I? HIT Price Ross Because of Tremendous Foreign Shipments. DOLLAR A BUSHEL PREDICTED, A Q F.icf na Mi r> flmln T?4>nr?li*>a ftia board It Is Tut Into Vessels and Vanishes?Statisticians Figure Oat a \ Crop of About Five Hundred Million Buslieli?Very Sliort Crops Elsewhere. New York City (Special).?Wheat still climbs upward, bringing untold happiness to the farmer, the retail and wholesale merchants and the speculator as well. The entire country finds in this high price for wheat the cornerstone upon which the expected prosperity is to stand. . The bijst expert crop statisticians figure out a total wheat crop of about 500,000,000 bushels. At tho present prices for cash wheat prevailing in Minneapolis, St. Louis aud this city the farmers are receiving about ninety cents a bushel for their pro duct. The wheit already sold of the present crop is about 72,000,000 bushels, which brought $57,600,000, at the average rate of eighty cents per bushel. The balance of the crop, even should cash wheat not go higher, will bring $415,200,000, an increase over last year of $128,400,000. Of the crop of 1896 there remained unsold on January 1 of the present year about 190,000,000 buslitels. This was sold for an average price of seventy cents, an increase of twelve cents over last year. The total received for these sales was $183,000,000, an increase of $22,800,000 over last vear. A peculiar feature of the present crop movement is that while the new crop is being rushed to market at a rapid rate there seems to be no increase in the stocks held at prominent points. As fast as the grain reaches the seaboard it is loaded into vessels and vanishes. The Granger roads? Burlington, St. Paul, Rock Island, Northwestern and Omaha?are so glutted with business as to And it difficult to And cars In which to move the grain ofTerod for transportation. All of the trunk lines and the roads running to Gulf ports are jammed with business. According to advices from portions of Europe where the wheat crop has been either a partial or entire failure the demand to be made upon this country to'supply the difficulty will exceed 200,000,000 bushels. The heavy buying by foreigners has been the mainspring in the upward movement. Should suoh an enormous amount go abroad the supply for consumption here will be curtailed. It is a dream of the farmer and the trader that wheat at a dollar a bushel shall hA rAAllvArl flcnin 17.vn?rfa fhft n>f>ain I trade predict that before the winter la half over the price will exceed that. A continuance of the present heavy export demand, It is believed, will make that hope a reality. The market for several days has reflected all these conditions. Favorable advices from home and abroad sent the brokers early to the Produce Exchange, where an exciting opening was looked for. It was not disappointing. At the sound of the gong for the beginning of business the. wheat pit was in an uproar. Both tho September and December options made new high records. September opened J^c. higher, at 83%c., and in the first half hour advanced lc. per bushel, at 89%c., closing at 89^c. December opened with simultaneous quotations rangiDg from 87j^c. to 87Ke., the 9xtreme price being an advance of %c. from the closing of the day before. It then sold up to 89%c. and closed at 88%c., a net gain of lj^c. per bushel. On Friday a reaction was experienced In the wheat market andj the price dropped to 2^c. a bushel lower than the highest point it reached Thursday.' The break was attributed to the report of St. Louis selling at Chicago, and also to easier cables. Dispatches from Chicago said that Eastsrn Indiana farmers were still holding off tnexpectation of ?1 wheat. LYNCHED IN NORTH CAROLINA. Sheriff Outwits a Mob, But Id Finally Overtaken at a Railroad Station. Miss Kitty Henderson, a crippled girl of Weaversville, N. C., was knocked down and assaulted by a colored man named Bob Brackett. He left her unconscious, i mob of farmers at once began to search for him. He was captured and identified by the girl. Later he confessed. He was taken to Asheville jail, but was spirited away later, while a mob beat at the jail doors. At 3 o'clock a. m. a mob of sixty men armed with guns, pistols, axes and sledge hammere boarded an east-bound train from isheville and met the Sheriff, who was to get on the some train, twenty miles from ishevilie, and took his prisoner from him. The mob grabbed the culprit and told the Sheriff to get on the train. The victim was taken to the place of his crime and hanged. SLAUGHTER IN INDIA. 1500 Native# "Were Killed by One Volley During the Recent Rlota. The London Evening News publishes a letter from Calcutta under the date of July 12, throwing light upon the condition of affairs in India. The writer says that 1500 rioters were killed with one volley of fortypounders in the recent rioting "near Calcutta, a circumstance which the newspapers have not revealed. All men in Calcutta, he says, go about their dally duties to their offices and elsewhere with revolvers in their pockets, not knowing what moment they will be attacked, and the houses are all equipped with revolvers, rifles and bayonets. The Largest Ilav Crop Ever Grown. Four hundred delegates and visitors at;ended the opening session of the fourth convention of the National Hay Association at Pittsburg, Penn. Addresses of welcome wero made by Mayor Ford and President Bindlay, of the Chamber of Commerce, after which the convention heard 1 ?i *u~m LIIO UUUUttl rC|IUfC3 U1 IUU vm^CiS ouvj | standing committees. The report of the Committee on State of Trade showed that j the present prospect is for the largest hay I irop ever grown in this country. Had the "Klondike Fever." J. W. Kendal^ of Tacoma, Wash., hai Klondike fever so bad that he swapped hii business for a farm, and being unable tc secure transportation by steamer for his horses toDyea, chartered a coal barge and, with the horses aboard, will have it towed north. Tive Deaths In One Day From Lightning. Five deaths from lightning were reported in one day at Louisville, Ky. Green Belcher, a Logan County fanner, was struck by a bolt and instantly killed while standing in his barnyard. Near Stephensport, on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, three persons fell victims to the lightning. One was a colored man named Head. The others were two farmers, Samuel Headley and Richard Jones. The twelve-year-old son - c T n T?m? /># rioTT.% trill Prtimtv V I a . Li. 11*1113, VI VU.t \J U1U, II W?4?W w?.*v, was instantly killed by a bolt which struck tk? house. Tlie National Game. Manager Selec is said to be negotiating tc purchase Pitcher Kennedy from Brooklyn. The signing of Eeckley was one of tho nost fortunate transactions of the year for Cincinnati. ti?,? r.iii r>f ftiA and Philadelphia cams is greatly deplored all over' the League circuit. New York hns won nine straight carries rom St. Louis? and Cleveland has won ight straight from Washington. Pitcher Cuppy, of Cleveland, says it's a nvsterious fact that every third year his inn goes back on him. and he can't pitch u :urve. Sin Fierce Duel Near Paris Between the Royal Youths. HENRI OF ORLEANS WOUNDED. The Combnt Grew Out of Statement* Made by the Prince Regarding the Conduct of the Italian Prisoner* Captured by King Xenelek?Details of the Contest?Great Rejoicing in Rome. Fabis, France (By Cable).?The duel be;ween Henri of Orleans and the Count of Turin, nephew of King Humbert,which grew , out of statements made by the Trince regarding the conduct of the Italian prisoners ?? i 1 uonotak . \viio were uujjiuj.cu uj mu^ uivuwa <nuing the recent disastrous campaign In Abyssinia, took place at 5 o'clock Sunday morning in the Bois des Marechaux, about ten miles from Paris. The fight wa? a desperate one. Tho Prince was severely wounded, and was removed from the field Uors de combat. The Count was slightly wounded. The place where the meeting occured is a favorite duelling groundi A majority of the Parisians treat it as an international event of the most tragio Importance. The victim is the hero of the hour, and bulletins from his bedside were read with breathless interest on the boulevards. Nothing, indeed, has thrown Paris into such a fever of excitement since President Carnot was assassinated. It was between 3 and 4 o'clock a. m. thai SIM. Leontleft and Mourrichon, seconds of the Prince, proceeded in a landau to the Bois des Marechaux, whither Prince Henri drove with his medical attendants, while the Count of Turin went to the trysting place in company with his seconds. Both Princes were attired in the garb which appears to be de rigueur on such occasion. They wore frock coats and tall hats. The encounter after all that had occurred * ? was bound to be no mere parade. Prince I Henri la tall or stature, ana, aunougn up ia j?^ of rather slight build, he was strong and active, the energetic life which he has led having considerably developed his muscles. He is an expert'fencer. The Count of Turin has also a manly figure. No time was lost in arranging the preliminaries of the combat. A glade had been selected bounded by lofty trees. It was convenient spot in every respect for the purpose to which it was to be adapted. It was exactly 5 o'clock when the duel began. Prince Henri and the Count of Turin, throwing off their waistcoats, took their positions, bareheaded, facing each other. It was a thrilling moment for tt)e seconds who were to witness the encounter between the scions of the houses of Orleans and Savoy. Each of the combatants hold, the Frenoh Prince in his bare, the Italian in his gloved hand, a rapier of the pattern most in vogue In his own country, but each, as expressly stipulated, of the same length as the other. The fight was directed by Count Leontieff, ind'as soon as the word was given the principals began with a will. There were in all five encounters, and the vigor with which j the attack was carried on will be easily unj derstood when it is said that several times j the duel had to be interrupted, as the prinj cipals had come to close quarters. They were well 'matched. Both were in capital condition, and both were expert swords- ' men. Each felt that he was fighting not only for himself, but for his country's honor. Hardly fiad the rapier been crossed, when Prince Henri attacked his opponent with the utmost energy, but in a moment it was the Count of Turin who, assuming the offensive, thrust with great skill, putting his adversary on his mettle. F.venttfallv the Count hit the Prince in the right breast, which brought the first engagement to a close. The doctors speedily examined the injury, but were agreed in pronouncing it so slight, the skin only having been cut, that the Prince was not im- v peded in any degree from resuming the \ combat. 1 The encounter which followed was car- fl ried on with even more vigor than the for- M mer one. The third encounter was very exciting. There was a sharp struggle at the close, in which the Count of Turin was slightly hurt In the right hand. Tne "fourth engagement was even more triwnrnnaiv flondueted than its nredfeces T?0W.V?wV * sors. The Prince ana Count thrust and parried with lightning like rapidity, and soon the point of Prince Henri's rapier struck a button on his opponent's clothing and was turned, so that another weapon had to be substituted. Had it not been that the button was there to parry the thrust, the Count of Turin must inevitably have been run through. The hottest of all was the fifth and final encounter. Scarcely had it been resumed when Prince Henri received the wound which put an end to the duel. A thrust from his adversary's rapier caught him in the right side of the abdomen, and Count Leontieff, who had been directing the fight with the utmost attentiop and impartiality, brought the encounter to an end. The Prince's injury was examined by the doctor, who, without the Slightest hesitation, declared that it was too serious to admit of a renewal of the flght. While his wound was being dressed Prince Henri raised himself, and addressing the Count of Turin asked to shake bands with him. The Count promptly responded, and they nroacoH ?nr>h other's hands kindlv. like gallant foes who have learned to appreciate each other. The Count soon afterward returned with his seconds to Paris, and later left for Italy. Prince Henri, after having his wound dressed, was able to walk to Ins carriage, and was driven to his father's house. ROME WILD WITH JOY. C,tnds Play the Koyal Hymn and the People Fill Sunday With Cheers. ~f' Rome, Italy (By Cable).?The result of / the duel between "the Count ol Turin, who was battling for the honor of the Italian army, and Prince Henri of Orleans excited great enthusiasm here. When it became I known that the Count was the victor crowds gathered in the streets and wildly j cheered him and the army. The people demanded repeatedly that tho bands in the public squares play the "" 1 royal hymn, which demand was cheerfully 1 complied with. So great was the popular i pleasure at the outcome of tho meeting J that a large number of people decoarted A their houses with flags. m The authorities feared that tho crowds might make a demonstration against the | French representatives hero, and special ^ guards were therefore mounted at the I French Embassy and Consulate. i Flour Rising in Price. I Flour has reached ?5 a barrel In Chicago J and traders expect still a higher price. M Waiting For Dollar Wheat In Kentucky. ^ Thero Is a general belief in Central Ken- m tucky that wheat will go to a dollar. Pur- I chasing agents who had been there buying Vg for export, made such poor progress that they left. Usually about 3000 cars are shipped from Lexington to the seaboard to (111 orders from English millers, who prefer H blue grass wheat. This year there will be H 3500 oars, but instead of 2500 cars having B been shipped by August 15, as usual, not H over 1000 left. H Effgs 817 a Dozen. H Ecgs aro now selling in Klondike for 817 M a dozen. Labor World. Minneapolis (Minn.) lathers organized. Columbus (Ind.) tanners struck against a cut. 98 Findlav, Ohio, has a Trades and Labor Assembly. Detroit (Mich.) Polish Alliance (union) demands >1.50 a day for laborers. Boston (Mass.) moldors struck against the introduction of the piece system. Cincinnati t'Ohiii-) Women's Union Label Leaguo has appealed t<? merchants to lian- H lie only union-labeled goods. H Indianapolis (Ind.) bootblacks have H asked the Central Labor Union to compel ^8 ' ?<lrnn thft nrnr>Hr>A nf fur. 1^1 ?uuu luacuuui.i -*vr ?v r?wv.4v? -- R| ~~ J