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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
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! 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
.
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.. UMi M MJHSUE
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d Little John Conway, of Albany, N, Y.,
\i | Stolen in the Street.
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S j CHARLIE ROSS CASE DUPLICATED.
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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
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