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MOB IN MEW YORK CITY.
Avenge Murder of Policeman Thorpe
by Attacking Negroes.
RIOTERS FIGHT 500 BLUECOATS :
I
Negroes Dragged From Care, House* am
Stores, Women Beaten and Men Shot
Stubbed aud Clubbed?The Outbreal
Lasted Nearly SI* Hours ? Quellec
by Police Roierrci.
N6w York City (Special). ? A race
war as tierce as it was sudden ragoc"
along the west side of this city be
tween Thirtieth and Forty-fifth streets
and alou? Sixth. Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth avenues Wednesday night. It
called for the services of 700 policemen,
commanded by Chief Devery in
person, and for six hours there was
virtually a reign of terror such as has
never been seeu in New York since the
Draft Riot days of war times.
The air was tilled with shots; negroes
were attacked on street cars and
dragged from bicycles in the streets.
They were pounded and beaten, in
some instances into insensibility, and
the police were at times wholly unable
to afford protection or to control
the mad, sweeping fury of the mob.
The riot was the result of tlie killing
on Sunday of Policeman Robert J.
Thorite, of the West Thirty-seventh
street Station by a negro, Ariiiur tiar-1
ris. A wake over Thorpe's body was
in progress. Feeling against the negroes
iu the neighborhood of Thorpe's
late home ha<l been at white heat for
a couple of days.
A drunken negro pulled a revolver
on two white women, friends of
Thorpe's family, who were standing
in front of the Thorpe house. That
started the trouble, which spread like
Wild Are.
Over two hundred negroes were badly
beaten. They were dragged from
street cars, pelted with stones, beaten,
kicked and jumped upon.
Then word passed from one police
station to another, and reserves came
out like quick-moving 'detachments of
troops. Rioting suppressed iu one
place broke out in another.
Saloons were closed by orders of the
police, and merchants, alarmed by the
crashing of bullets through windows,
were forced to close their storey.
At midnight the rioting had spread
to dozens of points along the entire
west side from Twenty-third to Fiftieth
streets. It was a scene to remind
the sober, staid citizens of New
York of the outbreaks in the South
on/i Smithvrpsr that drew virtuous an
ger from Northern cities.
Clubs were used until tlio policemen
were almost exhausted. Revolvers
were emptied into the air, and iu one
or two instances tired at the upper
stories of the negro tenements, from
which the negroes defensively tired
bricks, paving stones and other missiles.
That many negroes were not
killed outright is miraculous, for the
mob at times was frenzied.
Carl in Broadway and Eighth avenue
were stopped by the mob and terror-stricken
negroes dragged bodily to
th? street, where they were kicked and
beaten.
Terrorized negroes, pursued by the
mob. took refuge in many of the
Broadway hotels. Pistols, razors.*
clubs, bottles and stones were freely
used by both negroes and whites.
Store windows were broken by flying
missiles.
Even the negro women caught in
the streets suffered at the hands of the
mob.
Police reserves were called out from
oviry station I tot ween Charles street
and West 12T?th street. Inspector
Thompson at first took oh:n-gf. hut
i?. filler it,
when the magnitude of the war was
realized. Soon after his arrlva' Chief
Devery ordered out the reserves frouj
four east side stations.
In Eighth avenue alone there were
eight ambulances stationed to care for
the wounded, and 130 policemen were
scattered aloujs the few blocks.
Police Captain Cooney and two policemen
were wounded, one of them
Kennedy, the partner of the murdered
Thorpe, was fatally cut with a
razor.
Saloons in the vicinity of the riotins:
wore closed by the police. This threw
into the streets hundreds of half intoxicated
men. who hastened to swell the
ranks of the rioters.
Through the effective work of the
police the rioting was quelled and the
throngs dispersed about 2 o'clock a.
m. At least sixty negroes were
wounded, several of them probably fatally.
A general order was issued ertrly in
the morning suspending all "days off"
for policemen, and directing them to
remain m the stations when off duty j
in order to be prepared for any fur- |
tlier outbreak.
: SAVED BY TWO CIRLS.
riiey .Tittup Into a Lake atxl I'.eicue i
Young Man From Drowning,
WilU^sbarre, Penu. (Special).?Misses
Helen and Jenet Jones, sisters, teachers
in the public schools of Scrantou,
are spending their vacation at Harvey's
Lake. They were walking along
the shore when they heard the cries
of a young man In the water. The
Misses Jones are swimmers. They
hastily jumped into the water and in
o Klmrt time were lipyiilp the drowninc
youth. He proved to be Harry Weller,
ag<.d fifteen. He was tall and heavy
for bis age and tbe girls bad treble
In getting him to shore.
To Itepeol Goebel Law.
Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, Is
sued a call convening the General Assembly
in extra session. The call
names but one subject upon which
legislation can be introduced, the
amendment or modification of the Goebel
Election law.
Cleveland and a Third Ticket.
Grover Cleveland was quoted at Indianapolis
as having refused to head
a third ticket because of the state of
his health.
Minor Mention.
Dentists are scarce In Niagara.
The Czar has forbidden baccarai
playing in Iiussla.
Gilman, a mining town in Eagle
ounty. Col., has been wiped out by
fire.
Glanders has broken out among the
horses at the Presidio,' at San Francisco.
The fishing fleet on the Grand Banks,
off New Foundalind, is doing poorly
lately.
The military road from Port Valdes,
Alaska, has been completed for lflO
miles inland.
KILLED IN A COLLISION,
Two Michigan Passenger Trains Meet
Head On in a Fog.
Flyer Had Right of Wmy and Loc?
Wat Making For a Siding
w iion Thpv Clathed.
Grand Rapids. Mich. (Special).?Th*
worst wreck iu the history of tli
Grand Ilapids & Indiana Railroad occurred
at Piersou, twenty-nine miles
north of this city. The north-hound
"Northland Express," which left this
city at 4.05 o'clock a. m., collided
head on with passenger train No. 2,
due here at 0 o'clock.
Nine lives were lost and many passengers
wore injured, some severely,
Both trains were going at a good rate
of speed. The locomotives and baggage
cars were completely demol*
ished.
The dead, so far as they have beeD
identified, are:
W. H. Fish, engineer No. 2, southbound
train.
Gustav Grootveldt, engineer No. 5.
Charles M. Letts, conductor No. 5.
Ralph Levan, son of baggageman of
No. 5.
William Bert, fireman.
.Louis G. Boyle, trainman.
G. Piersou, passenger, of Franklin,
Ind.
Mark Blossom, news agent,was mortally
lujured. Other persons injured
are: H. A. Dennis, passenger, Grand
Rapids; W. M. Graves, negro waiter:
C.M. Fored,negro porter; Frank Poroff.
trainman; D. C. Powers, baggageman;
W. M. Barnes, dining room conductor;
Harvey Taylor, wiflter; W. C. Hartsliaw,
passenger.
The railroad officials announced at
noon that' the accident was caused
by Telegraph Operator Wells, at Mill
Creek, sleeping at his post. He was
Called up and asked if the express
train had passed, and wtis understood
to say, "No." when it was already
speeding on Its way.
The orders to the conductors of the
trains were based on this false information.
When the trains met day was just
dawning, and the fog was so thick
that the engineers could not see more
than 100 yards ahead. The traius
wore to have passed at Sand Lake,
two miles south of Plerson, at 4.52
o'clock. Train No. 2 was late and
was trying to make the siding at
Plerson. The Northland Express had
right of way and was scurrying along
at nearly full speed.
First news of the collision reached
here In a message from Pierson, which
said that the emgineers and firemen
of both trains had been killed, as
well as fife other persons. The superintendent
immediately started the
wrecking traiu from Grand Rapids,
I and ns many physicians as could be
hurriedly reached went with it to the
scene of the disaster.
Six injured persons were taken out
of the wreck in a short time and
eight more, one of them fatally hurt,
were soon sent to the hotel at Pier;
son, half a mile away.
The Northland Express was made
1 up largely of Pullman cars. It was
the finest train on the road, and carried
a Grand Itapids eoach, a day
I coach and several sleepers from Cincinnati
and the South. It was called
j "the flyer" and catered to the Northern
Michigan summer tourist population.
The other train was an early
local and there were not many passengers
aboard.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Harm Done by Extremes of Heat and
Drought and Heavy ltalns.
Washington. D. C. (Special). ? The
Weather Bureau, in its regular weekly
report, gives the following summary
of crop conditions:
The week has been intensely hot
from 1 he Missouri Valley eastward to
the Atlantic coast, including the
south Atlantic States, with practically
no rain over a large part of this area,
although heavy rains occurred over
the Missouri, upper Mississippi and
' Ked ltiver of the North valleys and
lake region.
In portions of Missouri and Kansas
corn, more especially the late planted,
has been materially injured, and the
crop has sustained damage in Ne
braska, Iowa and imuois, aitnougn in
Iowa the bulk is unharmed and well
advanced toward matuity, while in
Illinois a largo yield is still promised.
The outlook in Indiana and Western
Ohio continues very promising, but in
Central and Southeastern Ohio and
throughout the Middle Atlantic States
corn has sustained injury as a result
of drought and the intense heat. In
the principal States of the corn belt
the reports indicate that the bulk of
the crop will be safe from frost by
September 1 to 10, aud that the late
crop will be matured one to two weeks
later.
Heavy rains in the principal spring
wheat States prevented the completion
of the spring wheat harvest and
caused injury to the over-ripe standing
grain, as well as to that in shock and
stack.
In the Middle Atlantic States, including
North Carolina, Ohio and portions
of Kentucky, tobacco has suffered much
from drought and heat, but in the
last-mentioned State the general condition
of the crop is promising. Some
cutting has been done as far north as
Maryland and Ohio.
The intense heat of the past week
has not been favorable to apples in
the central valleys and Middle Atlantic
States, but an abundant crop is
promised in New York and New England.
Very little plowing for fall seed has
been done uuring the week.
Letters to Filipinos Captured.
The letters and papers of Aguin
aldo' captured by General FunstoD
were made public. Among them was
a letter from Dr. Montague R. Leversou.
of Brooklyn, to a Filipino agent
in which the doctor applied several
insulting epithets to President McKiu
ley.
Detective* to Watch AnarcliUts.
~ Fifteen Italian detectives have
sailed for New York to watch nnar
chists in the United States.
Neway Ula>tni?~8.
There were sixty suicides In Vienna
during July, double the average rate.
No yellow fever cases are reported
among the American soldiers in Cuba.
August Belmont's Miueola won the
coveted Astor Cup in the yacht races
off Newport.
The "standing up" method of punishment
is employed at th_- Jlnira
(N. Y.) Reformatory.
The cost of the war in the Philippines
has been $180,678,000, and the
number of deaths has reached 2304.
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C. P. 1IITIICT0H DM
Railway Kins: Stricken With Heart
Trouble in His Adirondack Camp.
ESTATE IS WORTH $50,000,000.
Do wm Apparently in Good Health Until
Teu Minnies Before Hit DeathCareer
of the ileuiarltable Railroad
Builder?How Bis Great Fortune Will
Be Divided Is Undecided Yet.
Raquette Lake, N. Y. (Special).?Col
lis P. Huntington died at. his camp.
Pin? Knot, in tho Adirondack?. Apparently
well on retiring at 11 o'clock
p. m., he was taken suddenly with
one of the choking spells to which he
was subject, and which was not
thought to be serious, but he became
worse. As soon as the seriousness of
the attack was realized, a messenger
was despatched to the neighboring
camp of Governor Lounsbury for a
doctor, and he was on hand in half an
hour. Mr. Huntington died without
regaining consciousness, not more than
three-quarters of an hour having
passed befween the attack and his
death. Mrs. Huntington and Mr. Huntington's
secretary, G. E. Miles, were
at his bedside when he di'*d.
On the day before his deaih'Mr.
Huntington appeared to be enjoying
the best of health, walking about his
preserve and taking a trip on his private
steamer Oneonta, and he remarked
to friends that he was feeling
unusually well. His adopted son, Archer
M. Huntington, v-is notified at
an early hour.
After much difficulty and delay the
news of the death was delivered to
W. West Durant, who was jointly con
? *<. 1% \T? TTnnf-in .rfnn ;n i hp
a'.Tll'U Willi .111. UUUHU}iVM
Itaquctte Lake Railway. Mr. Durant
will contribute his bor^, tcaras and
servants toward making the final arrangement'
for the disposition of the
body.
Mr. Huntington and his wife arrived
at Durant on Friday. August 30, in
their private car Oneonta. The
steamer Oneonta was waiting their
arrival at the wharf to convey them to
their mountain home. Pine ' Knot
Camp. H\irt disease was the direct >
cause of death. VYr-;
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Collis Poiter Huntington was born
In Harwinton, Litchfield Count}*, in
Connecticut, October 22, *o21. His
uncle. General Ebenezer Huntington,
died at eighty years of age, and his
great ancestor, Samuel Huntington,
signer of the Declaration of Iudependeree,
at sixty-five.
The Huntington family, founded in
Connecticut by Puritans, gave to the
coftntry a jurist, a writer, a painter, a
physician, soldiers, a clergyman a philanthropist
of fame and, in Collis Fotter
Huntin; on, r invincible maker
of millions. The dead magnate started
life without a dollar, and at his death
was estimated to be worth over fifty
millions. He was a railroad builder,
railroad owner, shipbuilder and ship
owner.
He was seventy-nine years old at
bis dentil, and had been one of the
country's strong men for forty years,
ever since he, with Stanford, Hopkins
and Crocker, built the Central Pacific
Railway, thus establishing the first
railroad across the continent.
It Is not known how his gr*at wealth
will be divided. His natural heirfc are
his widow, his adopted son Archer M.
Huntington, the Princess Hatzfehlt,
who is an adopted daughter, and H.
E. Huntington, his nephew.
DEUTSCHLAND'S NEW RECORD.
Covers Eastward Passage in Less Than
Five anil a llulf Day*.
Plymouth. Euglan.. (By Cable).?
Faster than the Atlantic was ever
traveled before, the Hamburg-American
Line steamship Deutschland?
which on her preceding and maiden
voyage oasr captured rhe blue ribbon I
of the sea?by the trip which brought '
her to Plymouth, England, lowered I
her own record by three hours and
twenty-one minutes. Never before
was there so quickly spuu a wake that
united the metropolis of the New
World with the snus; little island that
lies beyond the sea. ,
The Deutschland's record is:
Across the ocean on an average
hourly speed of 23.32 knots.
From New York to Plymouth, England,
in 5 days. 11 hours and 43 minutes.
Best day's run, 532 knots.
The course, ' '.072 nautical miles.
The Deutschland's hourly a\erage
speed of 23.32 kuois over the course of
3072 nautical miles is equivalent to
nearly twenty-seven land miles. What
the accomplishment means for the
German built steamship is indicated
when it is realized that the commerce
destroying cruiser Minneapolis, the
fleetest craft of the American navy
larger than a torpedo boat, made on
her speed trial?with picked crew and
picked coal, with only a part of her
weights, undei- forced draagl.t and favorable
conditions of sea aud weather,
off the Massachusetts coast?an average
speed of 23.03 knots an hour, and
that, too, over a measured course of
only forty-Jour nautical miles.
Legations Attacked Again.
Reports at Shanghai from Pekit
dated August 8, are to the effect that
the Chinese were again desperately
attacking the legations, which had
few defenders; it is said that Prince
Tuan and a hundred hijjh officials
have left Pekin, the news of the capture
of Yang-Tsun causing an exodus
of the residents.
A Dramatic Death.
Mme. Nemethy, nu opera singer,
while performing in Budapest. IIuugary.
draak poisou from a glass supposed
to be filled with colored water,
cai'smg her death.
Largft Gold Export*.
The largest amount of gold <?S.0G2.000)
ever exported at ou?' time from
the port of New York went out Wednesday
for England.
Chinese War Notes.
Restlessness is increasing in Southern
China.
The German army will use American
horses in China.
Canton officials are enlisting Chinese
at a month, twice the usual amount.
Russian troops have captured the
to#Q of Sakhalmin, on the Amur RivI
er.
I Japanese newspapers denounce Emperor
William's vindictiveness toward
China.
i Filthy camps of some foreign troops j
at Tlen-Tsiu n r<: r* moving a meuacc to
[health. .
I
X FATAL FAMILY" FEUD.!
Bittles and Laniers Quarrelled ?.\
Aberdeen, Miss., and Fight.
Two Southern Fatten' Families Battle
in a Public 8troet?Six txclianfjed
Kliota UotU Three Are Dead..
Aberdeen, Miss. (Special).?Three
lives vere sacriGccd in a family feud
near here, the members of both families
meeting in a pitched battle, -which
resulted in the death of two sons of
one of the families, and one of the
other.
The home Of J. S. S. Lanier is not
far from that of the Bittles. Once
on the friendliest terms, petty differences
caused a coolucss.and then every
trifling incident, was exaggerated oy
each until the families were the deadliest
enemies. There have been several
encounters between the young
men, but until the day of the tragedy
the difficulty did not assume a
serious aspect.
It must have been that both sides
were looking for trouble. Homer Blttlrand
his brother Walter, both armed
with Winchesters! were going along
the road leading to the home of the
Laniers, when they found their way
barred by their enemies. The elder
Lanier was accompanied by his sons,
George, William and Jefferson.
Murder would have been done then,
but that mutual friends, apprised of
the pending battle, rode up, and before
a shot could be flred had hustled
the meu back to their homes. They
were watched for hours, and then,
believing there was no more danger
of bloodshed, the friends departed.
Then the families sallied forth again,
each man in both parties heavily
armed. They met in the main road.
Not a word was said, but each,side
opened fire at once. Will Lanier fell
at the first volley, shqt through the
heart This made the ..battle more
even.
The interchange of shots was continued,
and the next to fall dead was
Homer Bittle. His brother, undismayed
at finding himself opposed to. i
three others, continued the battle UQ-.
til he dropped mortally woondedi
As he fell the frlenttajaMJlfe family,
who had hoard of the wB^appeared
on the scene, too late to^Kc^qther than
mrrv the hndips of the vumHi to their
homes. It is feared that njore bt this
feud will be heard of, for now the
other relatives of each family are flocking
here, and preparations are being
made to prevent more bloodshed at
the funeral. '
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of the Laniers.
WARSHIP SINKS A DESTROYER.
Thirty-two French Sailors Lost
Result of a "Mistake." .
Paris (By Cable).?In the manoeuvres
of the French fleet off Cape S& Vincent
a crash occurred between the
first-class battleship Brennus, flying
the flag of Vice-Admiral Fournier,
commander of the fleet, and the torpedo
boat destroyer Framee.
The Franmee sank immediately.'Of
her crew of flfty-six fourteen Sv'ere
saved. The losses include three officers,
Captain Maudit du Plessis, the
second lieutenant and the chief engineer.
England's Lord Chief Justice Dead.
Baron Russell, of Killowen, Lord
Chief Justice of England, died in Kensington
as the result of an operation
performed by Dr. Treves. He had
been ill about a fortnight from gastric
f n Tnrfl Pnccnll wnQ th<* fi
Irish Lord Chief Justice of EngfrrBd? ,
the first Roman Catholic to occupy.-'
that position since the Reformation. He
was born in Newry, County Down, in
1S32. He was twicc Attorney:General
in Gladstone's Ministry and succeeded
Lord Coleridge as Lord Chief Justice
o? England.
Lightning's Deadly Work.
Nine persons in tho vicinity Of Now
York City lost their lives in the terrific
storm which put an end to^.the hot
weather, and nine others were terribly
hurt?five of them, it is thought, will
die. During the storm, while the
flashes of lightning were almost incessant,
tlte wind attained a velocity of
seventy-six miles an hour, and ivitliin
ten minutes of the first rumble of thupdcr
the thermometer dropped twentyfive
degrees. .
Chicago Wants ar Jteconnt.
A movement Is on foot among many
influential citizens of Chicago to insist
on a new federal census of the city,
on the ground that the recent count
conducted by Supervlsior Gilbert was
inaccurate and not worthy of being
regarded as a true statement of the
population of Chicago.
Stelnltx, Mrtdter of Chess, Dead.
William Steinitz, of New York City,
chess champion of the world, died in
the Manhattan State Hospital for the
Insane a few days ago. He suffered
with paronoia and had been confined
in the hospital since May 1.
Conger's Plucky Message.
A dispatch from Minister Conger,
dated Pekin, August 4, just received
by the War Department, said that he
would hold out until relief reached
him, but hoped that it would soon
reach the capital.
Armor Plate Bids Rejected.
The Navy Department, Washington,
rejected all the bids for armor plate
submitted by the Carnegie, Bethlehem
and Mldvale steel companies, and will
issue new advertisements.
To Bring Back Volunteers.
Transports taking troops to China
will bring back volunteers now in the
Philippines, reducing the forces under
General MacArthur. An Insurgent
band numbering 185 has surrendered to
the Americans.
An Arilrohdnck Park Claim. h
Benton Turner has filed a clain\^
against the State for $128,03(5.23 forj
the taking, for the Adirondack Park.f i
of land known as a portion of the;
McCouib purchase, in Franklin County^
l'romlncnt People.
Wiiliam Clark, the thread iuanufnct*?
urer, of Westerly, R. L, 'lieJ unex-"
pectedly.
Abbas Hlmla II., the young khedive i
of Egypt,has recently had built a sum-1
raer palace on the shores of the Medit- '
erranean near Alexandria.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has re- i
turned from his vacation, which he j
spent with his wife, camping out in
the mountains of Colorado. j
It is perhaps not generally known {
in the United States that Wu Ting
Fang, the Chinese Minister In .Washington,
Is an Eugllsh barrister. " t
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mpKBesgirof
Train Crashes Into an Omnibus Containing
Twenty-four Persons.
ONLY THREE ESCAPED INJURY.
Dead and Injured Resident! of Slating,
ton aud WaluutpoTt, renn.?Had At*
? vnn...ai?Tli? Horani Draw
Ing the Vehicle E?cajied Unhurt?InJared
llurlcd Into a Creek.
Slatington, Pcnn. (Special).?A train
on the Lehigh and New England Railroad
crashed into a 'bus containing
twenty-four persons near Cherry Valley,
and killed ten outright. One more
died later. The party was returning
from a funeral. Ten of the party are
In a hospital. Most of them are injured
mortally. Only three escaped'
injury. The dead are:
Samuel Mummy, sixty, Walnutport;
Mj;s. Samuel Mummy, fifty-eight, Walnutport;
Eli S. Remaley, seventy, Slatington;
Mrs. Eli S. Remaley, sixty-five;
Mrs. James Kern, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Eli S. Remaley, thirty-two; Mra^
Elias Sourwiue, a widow, -three,
Slatington; Mrs. William Katie, fiftyone,
Walnutport; Miss Carrie Smith,
twenty-two, Walnutport; Mrs. Kuntz,
thirty-two, Walnutport; Mrs. James
Minnich, thirty-three, Walnutport;
three-year-old son of Mrs. James
Kern.
The Injured include: Mrs. William
Resch, of Walnutport, seriously hurt
Internally, wilF die; Miss Alice Nagle,
Walnutport, slightly bruised, will recover;
Louis Kuntz, Slatington, dangerously
cut about head and hurt internally;
Miss Carrie Nagle, Walnutport,
badly hurt internally, may die;
Harry Minnich, aged ten years, may
die; George Minnich, brother of Harry,
badly cut about head,"seriously injured
internally, will not recover; Byan
Walp, Walnutport, badly hurt Internally
and badly cut, will die; Miss
tjizzic Jones, Slatington, hurt internally
uid badly cut about head and
face, cannot live; Miss Distler, Wal2ini4
ln4nmo 11 rr m? rr ronnror
UUl[/Vll| UUi I miciuuilj! uilt/ 1VVVI v*?
The omnibus left here shortly after
1 o'clock p. m. to attend the funeral
service* of Mrs. James Shafer at Walnutport
The services were held in
St Paul's Lutheran Church, Walnutport,
land Interment took place in CherHemetery,
about three miles
place. The burial services
laded at about 4.30 p. m.,and
started on their return JourJourney
' soon came to an
?ver, for many of them.
About one mile from Cherry Valley
the Lehigh and New England Railroad
crosses the road at grade. There is
also a very sharp curve at this place,
and it is stated that it is sometimes
almost impossible to hear a train approach
the crossing.
The 4'.50 p. m. train from Slatington,
drawn by Engine 15, bound for Portland,
hove in sight Just as the vehicle
was on the tracks. The driver was
powerless to avoid a collision. The
loeoLUUUve SHUCK, me wuue ui uie
'bus. So great was the momentum
that .two of the bodies were picked
up 600 feet from the scene of the accident.
The train was stopped above
the crossing, and when the train hands
returned to the1 scene it was found that
ten of the occupants of the vehicle
had been killed instantly and ten badly
injured. Only three of the party,
It was found, escaped injury.
,^^^ecullari (coincidence connected j
Jfllhc accident is the fact tbat none |
l^^he horses attached to the 'bus j
was hurt When the train struckthe
'bus the force of the collision broke !
the traces and the shaft and tbe horses
ran down the road a short distance,
where they were caught by a farmer.
Many of' the injured were hurled
Into a creek which runs beside the
railroad at that place, and were only
saved from frowning by the prompt
attention given by the train hands.
Word was at once dispatched to this
place and all the physicians available
in the surrounding towns were hurried
to the spot.
There are rumors current that the
engineer of the train failed to blow
his whistle before approaching the
crossing, but this is doubted by many,
who say that the road does not employ
flagmen at any of Its crossings.
As a consequence engineers are very
careful when approaching street crossings.
At a liite hour most of the citi- '
zeu3 of Slatington and Walnutport
were at the railroad station inquiring
for fuller details of the accident and
for tiie condition of tlie injured at the
hospital.
THEY LOVED THE SAME CIRL
Tito Kentncklaim Quarrel, One It Killed
and Slayer Commit* Suicide.
Owingsville, Ky. (Special). ? Levi
Goodpaster and Edgar Conner, of good
families, were buried here a few days
ago. Goodpaster was killed by Conner,
who then committed suicide.
The young men were rivals for the
hand of Miss Julia Gooch. Each, with
his own party of friends, was keeping
late hours when the parties met, and
Goodpaster and Conner began to
quarrel. Conner fired three shots at
Goodpaster. When he heard some one
say "Levi is dead" he snatched the
revolver from the hands of a bystander.
who had taken It away from him,
and, saying, "I will end it here," shot
himself through the temple.
China's Strange Move.
China Is impatiently urging the foreign
Governments to order the envoys
out of Pekin.
Mttsiiacro In Armenia.
Two hundred men, women and children
have been massacred in the Armenian
village of Spaghauk by Turkish
troops under Ali Pasha, the commandant
of the garrison at Bitlis, in
aoiuvi\; j. ui ftvj mc ivuiuo cioataiuu
the soldiers in the slaughter.
A Pitiful Snlckle.
Bertha Koss, a beautiful Russian,
killed herself in New York City, be- |
cause her mother forbade her to marry 1
the man she loved.
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The National Game. (
Orth, of Philadelphia, has not made ;
1 wild pitch this season. <
Daly's work at second for Brooklyn
Is something marvelous. I
Collins, of Boston, has played fifty perfect
llelding games this season. <
In Chicago they claim that McCar- '
:hy is the greatest left fielder that ?ver 1
played on a Chicago team.
Sheehan. the new infielder of the 1
S'ew Yorks, was farmed out to the 1
Syracuse Club of the Eastern League.
Schri^er, of the Pittsburgs, has the {
listlnctlon of having gone through
lalf the seagou without etrUtlnjg out
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED '
WMhlncton Iteina.
The Kins of Sweden and Norwaj
has accepted the place of arbltratoi
In the Samoan claims case, the offl
cl.il notuicatlon of that fact having
been received at the State Depart
ment.
Tlie State Department, upon the
advice of the Solicitor-General, decided
not to try to force the extradition
of Neely while an aPPeal *? the Supreme
Court is pending. The Fed
ernl authorities were advised accord
ingly.
Major RusselMB. Harlson's claim of
$G77 for extra tray In the volunteer
army was refused by the Treasury
Department. \
The Secretary of Wat has approved
the recommen$*t|p? of the Board of
Ordnance and Fortifications that there
be no further action for the present in
providing new field artillery. ?
Rear-Admiral Watsoni, aboard the
Baltiiqore, will reach New York City
September 10.
Onr Adopted IilMdt. t
The Mataila Board of Health report a
that there are 30,000 lepers to the
Philippines.
The Council Havana rejected the
new charter, on which a commission
lias beeu at work for more than a
year. &?.. *&
Two hundred starving natives
walked from San Lorenzo to San Juan
Porto Rico, and begged the Governoi
for bread or work. Employment od
public roads was promised; them.
John T. McCutcheon writes from
Manila that Aguihaldo still retains
his supremacy nrapng Filipinos. ':|
August opened with thirty-toe cases
of yellow fever in Havana. There ire I
flfty-nine cases in the city, four-df the
victims being Americans.
HeMto reports for June and July
8how?flffiirming increase in the death
rate, especially among native HawaiiJps
and Japanese of the Island ot.
OahST Hawaii. The Board, of
is discussing a quarantine agBBH
consumption. ^
An appeal to^the Supreme . Court Wfc,
counsel for Offy; W. Neelygfrevenpl \
his extradition to Ctlba for /Ttlme.
At sungao. i?i immuau, ?tu>vw
is the most northeasterly of the hemp
ports of the island at which there'are
American troops, everything eeeqii
serene and in really excellent running
condition. '
An investigation of the present obnoxious
customs regulaijons at Manila
has been ordered.
Domestic.
Jere Washington, an employe
Pennsylvania Steel Works, sHHa^
killed Cora Jiles in Harrlsbu*^*^?..
and then swallowing two ouncEHsi
laudanum drowned bimaeljL UjJwfr
canal. Washington had I
his attentions upon the
Tamestown, Ohio, killed^mKv -(ff- niui
son-in-law, James Bradleyy|jlk?i??fi&
fatally shot himself about'the heart.
They had quarreled over CMRle transfer
to some property of MrK BiiiisaA
mob took Jack Betts, colored,
frnm the sheriff at Corinth. Miss., and
hanged him to a tree In tb? court
house yard. He was charged with
criminal assault on a ten-year-old
white girl.
Disappointed and despondent. John
A. Raycroft, fifty-two years old. chief
clerk In the ferry division under Mayor
Quincy, Boston, shot himself at the
supper table at this home, East Boston.
Death was instantaneous.
Sixteen buildings were destroyed by
Are at Hanover, Penn.. the loss being
sstimated at from $40,000 to $.10,000,
partly insured.
Philippine war veterans gathered in
Denver, Col., to form the Society of
the Army of the Philippines.
Mm<^ Elise L. Camacho, wife of the
Mexican Minister of Railroads, died,
of he.irt disease on a train }ust before '
reaching Jersey City.
Miss Alma Osborne and Melville M.
Wood, a schoolteacher, were drowned
near Washington, Ind. Mr. Wood attempted
to rescue Miss Osborne, who i
had fallen iu a sinkhole while wading j
In White Tiivei*
R. F. Harrington and Milton Means,
white, were driving home from Sylvania,
Ga., in their buggy. On the
road they met two negroes named
Alexander in a buggy. The wheels
of the vehicles came in collision. A j
quarrel ensued, when the negroes j
drew pistols and shot Harrington and j
Means dead.
The Rev. Ur. Cyrus Hamlin, a for- !
mer missionary to Turkey, and one j
of the most famous men in the Con- j
gregational ministry, died at Portland,
Me.
Charged with insubordination, eight
sailors of the British ship Kings County,
arrived in irous aboard the ship at
Pensacola, Fla.
The Rev. Father Stemmens, recrefnrv
to Arehhishon Chnnelle. arrived I
at San Francisco on the transport j
Sherman from Manila.
The new census gives Providence. R. i
I., 175,597, an increase of 32.88 per i
;cnt. over 1S90.
A thirty-eight-i-ch water main burst
under the sidewalk in front of the Hotel
Touraine, tn Boston, ind the flood
did $75,000 damage.
George Welch and B. Roberts, colored
waiters employed at the Hotel
Imperial, Atlantic City, N. J., were
found dead in their beds, having been
asphyxiated by gas.
A stranger thought to be Frank Rouick,
from Virginia, jumped from the
State House dome at Columbus, Ohio,
and was killed.
Cape Nome gold to the value of
?545,000 arrived at Seattle, Wash.
Foreign.
The Paris Exposition Jury has madt
42,700 awards to exhibitors. i ,
The Government leader at Panama.! j
Colombia, said the rebel casualties in j <
recent battles had been (500. i
The French have peacably occupied <
the Touat Oasis in North Africa. | i
The Ameer of Afghanistan has l>e-1 1
;un mobilizing, forces, and it was re-1
ported in Lahore, India, that he would
:ross the Russian frontier. j
The Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung says ]
that the relations between France and
Germany are continually Improving,
ind it learns from authoritative
sources of a military alliance. <
In spite of the fact that General
Christian de Wet is in full flight. South j
African telegrams announce a hurried
ixodus of civilians from Mafeking and (
:bat Lord Edward Cecil is preparing
:o stand another siege.
Germany will get 230 first prizes 1
from the Paris Exposition, more than
my other nation.
It is officially announced thq? there !
ire now do cases of bubonic plague in '
uondon.
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CEHt SDES FOB PEACE
We Refuse to Help Her Till Foreigners
Are Protected.
STILL ADVANCING ON PEKIN.
Edict Appointing LI Hang Chang Plenipotentiary
to Negotiate Wltji Powers
?Reply of tlie United Statea Govern*
ment to It-lYFaahlngton Confldent ol
na jr.any rroce-viiuuco o Aiaviruvuum)
Washington, D. C. (Special).?China's
expected appeal for peace has come,
and seven hours after It was received
the answer of the United States, in effect
a refusal to negotiate at this time,
was handed to the secretary of the
Chinese legation. The appeal is In the
form of an imperial edict, appointing
LI Hnng Chang as Plenipotentiary to
arrange a cessation of hostilities Spending
negotiations for a settlement of
the questions at issue between China
and the Powers. No proposal for an
armistice has yet been received by the
Government, but the President and
his advisers deemed the edict sufficient
groundfor making an immediate
response, which said that as a prelim- .
lnary to the beginning of negotiations
the Chinese Government mus?"domply
witlr the conditions imposed W the *
President's answer of Jnly the % 4|
appeal of the .Emperor Kwang% fori-^
xhe good offices of the United "States
'to bring about a settlement of tfie dif-l^
ferences between China and the Powers.
When this has been done, the answer
said, the Government wlBjflfecept -A
Li as the Chinese Plenipotenl&jflk
^The document containing
handed by Minister Wu to th'e 'Stata
"An Imperial edict forwarded by the
Prlvy 'Councii at Pekin, under date of
the 14th day of the Seventh Moon
(Augnst 8^ to Governor l?tian at
4sina&, snantGHg, who transmitted it
m tlft;.|7th of the samjjjLMoon
iateKS.tir *ho received K on the night
la. 1 ^1^ transml^^
severaJl^>on8idercd in a satisfactory
manner, 'and thtf^restilt of the negotiations
reported to us'for our sanction,
TtpanpH-' *??'
"The above is respectfully copied
for transmission to your Excellency
to be communicated to the Secretary
of State for His Excellency's information."
Minister Wu handed the decrec to
Acting Secretary of State Adee at
10:30 o'clock in the morning. After a
conference between Mr. Adee and
Secretary Root and a further conference
over the telephone between the
President and Mr. Root, at which the
terms of the antsrer of the United
States were outlined, the note to the
Chinese Government was prepared and
delivered to Miniate* Wu. 1
After his cOTversatlon with the Preslde^t-ASer
the ^jpleplione Secretary
RootjjgjP' a cjppMch to General Cliaffee^^fcCon^tiander
of the United
Stat&ipfedfttery forces in China, luformj^"AttSfc?f
the appointment of Li
Hung Olmng and his mission and the
charadier of this Government's reply.
LET IN HIS OWN SLAYER.
a
Adams Express Messenger Lane Wu
Killed by n Guest.
Columbus, Ohio (Special). ? Charles
R. H. Ferrell, a former employe of the
Adams Express Company, was arrested
here, and has confessed to the
killing of Messenger Charles Lane and
the robbery of the way safe of the
Adams Express Company on the Pennsylvania
east-bound traiu. Of the
money which he had stolen $1000 was
recovered. It Is believed that he stole .
not more than $1200.
He declared in his confession that
the motive of the robbery and murder
was to secure money on account of
his approaching marriage. The money
winch was recoverea he naa given to
Miss Costlow, to whom he was engaged,
to keep for him, saying he had
saved it from his earnings. He was at
the home of his sweetheart and in her
company when arrested.
He boarded the east-bound train at
Urbana and immediately went into
the express car. He had been friendly
with Lane, who made no objection
whatever to his riding ifi the car.
When Ferrell had finally nerved himself
for the crime he drew his revolver,
stepped up behind Lane unobserved
and fired three shots in rapid
succession into the messenger's back.
Lane rolled off the chair on the floor
on his face, and Ferrell quickly fired
the remaining shots at the prostrate
form. He then robbed the safe and
jumped off the train.
Indicted For New Orleana Rlota.
The Grand Jury of New Orleans, La.,
has indicted five white men for murrler
as leaders in tho mobs which, during
the recent anti-uegro riots, beat
and shot a number of negroes, aud six
negroes for assisting the negro murderer.
Charles, in resisting arrest and
in firing on and killing a number of
policemen.
Life Term For Lynching.
For participating in a triple lynching
W. B. Brooks was sentenced tc
ife imprisonment at Palestine. Tex.
The Labor World.
England seems to be on the verge
3f an Industrial crisis.
Baltimore & Ohio employes are given
medals for length of service. #
Ten thousand glassworkers have
struck work at Charlerio, Belgium.
Scotch miners' wages are to be ad
rancea 10 a poiut not reacnea in tnir:y
years. ,
The Brotherhood of Locomotive fireneu
has gained over 3700 members ia
:he past year.
Because of over production the ore
nines at Watts Station, Ky., havt
KC8 shut down. ?
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