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Boy and Girl Swsethearts Founi Shot
in an Oyster Sloop,
PARENTS OPPOSED A MARRIAGE
>Im Boy Captured by the Girl's Angry
Brothers Said That They Agreed to
Die Together and Then She Shot Herself
? Her Relatives Believe That He
Killed Her?Their Farewell Letters.
New York City.? Ida Dupuy, aged
aixteen, and Hermann Treetz, aged
eighteen, believed that they we/e all
the world to each other. Their parents
did not approve of their affection
Tar each other. They were found
lying side by side in the bottom of the
oyster sloop James K. Polk, off Fresh
" ctofon Telnnrt Roth were
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desperately wounded. The girl died
later in the Smith Infirmary.
Ida Dupuy was the daughter of
Austin Dupuy, a prosperous oyster
dealer of Staten Island. A few evenings
ago Hermann Treetz went to see
. her. He was not welcomed by her
family. The- families of both young
persons were quite "thoroughly worried
by their actions. Mr. Dupuy. who
did not know that Mr. Treetz, Hermann's
father, had just rebuked the
boy for thinking about the girl to the
exclusion of all other subjects, served
formal notice on him that he must
get out of the house and break off altogether
with Ida for a year. Hermann
agreed with apparent meekness,
tad after a protracted farewell talk
rwith Ida went away.
The following day one of the girl's
brothers saw her on a car going toiward
Richmond from New Brighton.
She was apparently alone then, but
later In the evening some one saw her
with Hermann Treetz in an ice cream
place in Richmond. As Ida did not return
home that night the Dupuys
started a hunt for her.
While this search was going on, anA+hon.
hmfhsr OhrtBfnnhor whft IcnPW
nothing of his sister's disappearance,
went for eels in Fresh Kill with a
friend. At 5 o'clock they reached the
outlet'of the creek. About half a mile
joff shore they were surprised to see
Austin Dupuy's oyster sloop, the
James K. Polk. On the deck they
made out a man. He was sitting with
his head in his hands. The young
man shouted to him. He raised his
head and they saw that he was Hermann
Treetz. After that they shouted
gain and again, but he paid no attention
to them. Christopher Dupuy
went home at once and told his father
that Hermann Treetz was out on the
Polk and that he had taken the boat
Irom Its anchorage. Mr. Dupuy made
np his mind then that Ida was on the
boat too.
"Get a row boat and go out there
and bring both of them in. Hurry,"
be said to Christopher.
Pierre and the other brother, who
bad been looking for their sister,
went along. Christopher and his
wAnf AM*- It* n y?r\xvr VkAof +rv f ho
sloop. As they came alongside they
called their sister's name and Hermann
Treetz's again and again. There
*ra? no answer until the side of their
boat rubbed against the side of the
Polk. Then they heard a faint groan
in the boat's cabin.
They leaped aboard the sloop and
' found their sister and Treetz lying in
the cabin. Treetz made a crazy
hinge at them as soon as they laid
hold of him. According to the story
told afterward by Austin Dupuy, without
contradiction by the boys, they
tad to use a good deal of force to
quiet him. The young men found that
their sister was quite unconscious.
There was a bullet wound in her
throat. Treetz's chest -was covered
with blood from wounds in his throat
ana b2ck.
The brothers threw Treetz into the
* ' bottom of their row boat and then
lifted their sister in rather more gently.
When they reached land they
tnrned Hermann Treetz over to Pierre
and Vignard. Ida Dupuy was carried
into the Washington Hotel in Richmond
and put to bed. Her two brothers,
half supporting and half dragSng
Hermann Treetz, took him to
ichmond jail.
Surgical aid was summoned from
the Smith Infirmary, and Ida was
taken there. Then the surgeon insisted
on seeing Treetz. He found that
the boy's condition was but little better
than the girl's. He, too, was then
removed to the hospital.
When Hermann was able to talk
be said that he and the girl had determined
to shoot themselves because
their families failed to understand
their love.. The revolver was his. he
aid. He said they were on the boat
together all day. Hermann said that
Ida had taken the revolver from him
. and shot herself in the throat. When
he Yas sure sbe was dead be sbot bim elf
twice. ,
In corroboration of the boy's story
were two notes found by the police in
the bottom of the boat. The notes
were addressed to the parents of the
two and contained their last farewells.
The police, who took possession of
the letters which were found on the
sloop, intimate that in their opinion
the girl had not' written the letter
signed with her- name, but that Treetz
lad written it. District-Attorney Raw*ou
went aboard the sloop with the
police and made a careful examination.
He found a bullet hole in the
forward part of the cabin which
looked to him as though it proved that
the girl had been shot while she was
lying down and that she had not held
the revolver herself.
Five Killed In a Fire.
- The Ratza family, occupying a floor
of a tenement honse in Pittsburg,
Penn, ..perished in a fire. The dead
sre: Francis Ratza, the father; Mrs.
Sophia llatza, thirty years old; Viola,
eight; Kashner, five, and Wabock, two
0 years of age. The fire was caused by
the explosion of an oil can.
Syracuse Girl*' Home Barned.
The Shelter for Homeless Girls, at
V. Syracuse, N. Y., was destroyed by
fire. Forty-one inmates escaped in
tlieir night clothes by the lire escapes.
Four Killed at a Crossing.
A carriage containing James Goodwin,
of Hinsdale, Mass.; William
Thurston, of Percy, N. H.; Thomas
Burns, o? Winooski, Vt., and Eddie
McCabe, of Lebanon, N. H., was
truck by the Montreal express at
Lebanon, and nil four were killed instantly.
The horse escaped with
slight bruises.
Chicago on Verge of B&nkraptcy.
The treasury of Chicago is empty,
and the city faces bankruptcy, with
police force reduced, all salaries cut,
streets uncleaned and ftl] public improvements
stoDDed.
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BLIND IS MADE TO SEE
Reason Also Returned After a Series
of Remarkable Operations.
Man Remained Tear* in an Asylum With
a Ballet in Brain Before Surgeons
Undertook Care.
Philadelphia, Penn.?Joseph Schenkel,
who for the last seventeen years
has been totally blind and whose reason
has been Impaired during that
period, has returned to hla home In
this city entirely cured by a series
of remarkable operations. Several
months ago Schenkel was brought
from the Norristown Asylum for the
Insane to the Jefferson Hospital, where
the last of the operations to which
he owes his wonderful cure was performed
by Professor Hearn.
In 1884 Schenkel, who was at that
time eighteen years old, was standing
in front of a shooting gallery in Second
street, and was shot accidentlly.
The bullet entered the skull on the
right side and penetrated into the
brain. The services of the best physicians
were obtained at that time, but
all declined to probe for ?the bullet,
saying that such a course inevit&bly
must result in death.
The first result of the accident was
total blindness, but, strange to say,
Schenkel recovered the use of both
eyes a few weeks later. A year later
the blindness returned, and with it
came a partial loss of reason. Schenkel
was sent to the Norristown Asylum
where he remained until a few
months ago. There were times wben
the cloud lifted from the patient's
reason and then he begged to be
brought to Philadelphia to be operated
Upon.
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Hospital, was asked to take the case,
but, as he was going out of the city
at that time, he turned the patient
over to his colleague, Professor Hearn.
Dr. William M. Sweet succeeded in locating
the bullet with an X-ray apparatus
and then precise measurements
were taken. The operation was performed
on June 30 and was pronounced
successful by the physicians, although
Schenkel remained blind. The
patient remained in the hospital under
careful treatment, and a few days ago
the lost sight suddenly was restored.
"OOM PAUL" A WIDOWER.
Wife of Former President Kruger of tlie
Transvaal Dies in Pretoria.
Pretoria, South Africa.?Mrs. Kruger,
wife of former President Kruger,
jf the South African .Republic, died
sf pneumonia, after an Illness of three
iays. She was sixty-seven years old.
PEES I DENT KRTJOEB AND HIS HTB WIFE.
Mrs. Kruger was "Oom Paul's" second
wife and was a Miss Du Plessls.
a name of prominence in South Africa.
Mr. Kruger's first wife was an aunt
of Miss Du Plessis. By her he had
one son. who died.
Mrs. Kruger's long separation from
her husband, combined with the death
of her favorite daughter, Mrs. Smith,
recently, had completely broken her
spirit.
SWAM FLOOD TO MARRY;
Neither Obdurate Parent Nor An^r?
River Could Keep Girl From Svreetheart.
Hagerstown, Md.?Miss Lelia C. Patterson,
of Augusta County, Va., was
married to John L. Cook, of Elkton,
Va., after overcoming obstacles of
which a father's objection was one of
the least.
The bride, a pretty girl of seventeen
Tears, procured one of her father's
horses and left home early In the
morning. She rode alone without a
saddle for ten miles and crossed the
Shenandoah River. The river was
badly swollen, and she was compelled
to cling to the horse's neck to avoid
being swept away.
She joined Cook at a place agreed
npon and they came direct to this
place to be married.
SCUTTLE A BURGLAR TRAP. .
After Hiding Thirty Hoars, Without
Food, Thief Surrenders Himself.
Boston, Mass. ? Thirty hours in a
scuttle without food and with little
air and the Inevitability of arrest, led
a burglar who had intended to rob the
clothing store of Spitz Brothers &
Mork to make his presence known and
to crawl out of his hiding place. A
watchman who discovered suspicious
signs unci oanea tne ponce, ana mey
took charge of the robber.
The man said he was Christopher
Connor, but the police have recognized
him as Charles A. McAvoy, a
housebreaker with an International
reputation, and he admitted that he
was McAvoy. He has served terms
in Massachusetts and In English prisons.
Declines to Releaae Americans.
In reply to the representations to
the State Department, at Washington,
the British Government has declined
to release the Americans who were
captured while serving in the Boer
army.
A Suicide at Seventy-six.
Extreme heat drove Jerome B.
Sturtevant, a wealthy resident of Belmnnt
N. H.. to suicide. His body
was found hanging to an apple tree
on his farm. He was seventy-six
years old.
News of the Toilers.
A strike of 1000 men has held up
building operations at Fort Worth,
Texas.
The Window Glass Trust is worried
by the organization of many co-operative
plants.
Over lOO.workmen have been laid off
at the Charjestown Navy Yard owing
to lack of funds
The strike situation in the mining
iistrict at Hossland, B. 0., affecting
1200 men, ig unchanged.
The Longshoremen's National Union,
In session at Toledo, Ohio, has reelected
President D. J. Keefe.
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THECUREOFTDBEBCOLOSK j
Or. Koch's Hopeful View Regarding ^
Prevention of the Disease.
CONSUMPTION THEORIES UPSET f
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The Famous Export Says That tha Whlta j
Plague It Neither Hereditary ?or
Transmitted From Animals ? Greatest
Cause of Contagion is the Spatum of
Afflicted Persons?A Bugbear Destroyed
London. ? Professor Robert Koch's
announcement before the British Con- t
gress on Tuberculosis that the disease y
in human beings and that in cattle E
were radically different and not transferable
from animal to man and vice j
versa proved to be the most sensa- j
tional feature of this remarkable c
c
meeting. j
In the course of his address, Dr.
Koch said his experiments had satisfied
him that human tuberculosis and
bovine tuberculosis were radically ^
different diseases. He had amply L
demonstrated that cattle could not be r
infected with human tuberculosis. B
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The counter proposition, that human
beings were not liable to infection
from bovine tuberculosis, was harder
to prove, owing to the difficulty of
?xperimentlng upon human subjects,
but personally he was satisfied that
it was the case. The professor resited
at length post-mortem evidence
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supporting tills belief. t
Dr. Koch said that If this point g
were conceded, it remained to determine
the chief source of contagion, t
Human Immunity to bovine infection g
disposed of the belief In infection I
I through dairy products, and he considered
this source of danger so t
slight as to be unworthy of precaution- s
ary- measures. Heredity was also an i
unimportant factor in the transmis- c
sion of tuberculosis, though the con- j
trary had long been believed. c
Dr. 'Koch said the chief source of ?
danger lay In the sputum of consump- s
tlve patients, and a remedy was to t
be found in a law preventing the con- t
sumptlve from throwing contagion t
about him. Several methods to this j
>nd were available. The surest of all
would be Isolation in sanitariums. T
This, unfortunately, was lmpractlc- r
ible, but he strongly urged the es- ^
tablishment of special consumptive (
hospitals, the obligatory notification :
\ to the authorities of the existence of E
, the disease, the disinfection of their e
quarters whenever consumptives ^
changed their residence, aDd the [
dissemination of information cO the .
people concerning the true nature of J
consumption as an aid in avoiding and ,
combatting it
Dr. Koch highly complimented Dr.
Herman M. Biggs, pathologist and director
of the bacteriological laborn- i
tories of the New York City Health
Department, upon the repressive
measures in regard to tuberculosis <
taken in New York City, where, he 1
i said, the mortality from tuberculosis <
had been reduced thirty-five per cent, i
j since 1886. He recommended the sys- 1
tem organized by Dr. Biggs in New 1
York City to the study and imitation
of all municipalities. I
Dr. Koch closed his remarks by ex- i
pressing his belief that tlr- ultimate 1
stamping out of tuberculosis was pos- <
sible. i
PEKIN DEADLOCK ENDED.
Ministers Reach Agreement as t* the
Payment of the Indemnity. '
Washington, D. C.?The State Der>ntM-mnnt
rcw>oivort n rllsnatch from
Commissioner Rockhill, in Pekin, announcing
that 5 plan for the payment
of the indemnity to the Powers by the
Chinese Government finally had been
adopted. Amortization of the bonds
to be issued will begin in 1902, and the
plan contemplates the entire liquidation
of both principal and interest by
1940.
It is expected that China will raise
$15,180,000 annually. This sum is
to be used to pay the interest on the
bonds and to form a sinking fund
for the ultimate liquidation of the
principal.
CHICAGO SELLING VEGETABLES.
Supplying Home-Grown Products to
Dronght-Strlcken Sections.
Chicago.?From four to six carloads
of vegetables are now being shipped
from Chicago daily to drought-stricken
section of Illinois and Missouri) !
which ordinarily supply this market
with nreriupe of this oharapter. TIir
shipments consist of home-grown
vegetables. Buyers have come here (
from Kansas City, Centralia and va- ,
ritfus other places. (
Boers Trying to Eacape.
The Boer prisoners of war confined
on Darrell's Island. Bermuda, make
almost nightly attempts to avoid the
patrolling gunboats Medina and Medway
and to gain the main land by
swimming. Several have succeeded
in escaping.
Hanged For Murdering Brother-ln-Law
Elmer E. Earner was hanged in the
jailyard at Harrlsburg. Penn., for the
murder of his brother-in-law, Isaac
Miller, last August, near Halifax
Penn. k
Sporting: Brevities.
flraf nrl^oa hnrn hoon WAn hv
New York exhibitors at the Atlantic
City Horse Show.
The New Haven Country Club combination
has won the team golf championship
of Connecticut.
Warren Zurbrick, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
has lowered the world's amateur competition
cycle record for five miles at
Vallsburg, N. J.
The University of Pennsylvania
crew of Philadelphia easily won their
race against the Trinity College, of
Dublin, crew on Killarney Lake, Ire*
lKnd.
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>11 Previous High Records in the
Central West Broken.
LAYERS FOR RAIN IN MISSOURI
'he Torrid Ware Most Intense In KtniU.
Missouri, Indian Territory and Oklahoma
? Other States Suffer From Unusual
Heat?Corn Crop Damaged Nearly
Fifty Per Cent.?Pastares Parched.
Chicago.?Sunday was the hottest in.
he great corn belt since the torrid
vave set in. From Colorado to Tenicssee,
from Arkansas to Manitoba,
ity after city reported maximums of
00 degrees and upward. Lines of
atitude cut no figure; it was hotter in
South Dakota than in Texas, and St.
>aul beat St Louis lower down the
Iver.
Professor Walz, looking over his
naps, saw nothing except heat and
Iryness throughout the whole contllental
basin. Nowhere was there
tioisture enough to produce a thundertorm.
Moreover, there are no disoverable
signs of any speedy breaking
up.
Reports, of' ruined corn, burned up
>astures and blasted oatfields come
rom all parts of the Central West,
idding terror to the situation for the
ariners. The drought in the Central
Vest has been almost unprecedented
nH cnir tha nnrn ppnn n1?
eady has been damaged to the extent
>f fifty per cent. Unless soaking rains
:ome soon this damage will be greatr.
Kansas City announced the most reoarkable
heated term in its history,
rbr thirty-two days the temperature
las risen above ninety degrees every
ifternoon, and for the last thirteen
lays the mercury has gone above 100
egularly. Since April 5 there has
teen only one heavy shower.
Much suffering Is reported among
he farm laborers, and In many disrlcts
it Is almost impossible to get
he wheat crop harvested because men
vlll not go into the harvest field durng
the hot weather. The railroads
if the Northwest also are experiencng
much difficulty with laborers, the
ection gangs being unable to carry
m their work. The roads are having
l severe struggle with small fires
ilong the lines, fields of grain, fences,
ies, bridges and every inflammable
hing is catching from the heat, com>ined
with sparks from passing en.Ines.
The heat wave prevailed over all
he drought-stricken region of the
Southwest?Kansas, "Western Missouri,
ndian Territory and Oklahoma.
Drougnt nas aestroyea tne grass in
he great pasture regions of Missouri
md Kansas, where grass is considered
dng of all farm products. In conseluence
the natural supply of beef,
nutton, pork and all the dairy prolucts
has been seriously affected. The
>ne hope for escape from the most
terious results of the devastation Is
hat a second crop of grass can be
natured before frost comes, and even
his cannot be done unless rain falls
loon.
Farmers of Missouri are feeding
vheat to their stock in some of the
nost parched sections of the State.
Niey say that they have found this
:heaper than resorting to the supply
>f oats in the present extremity. Large
itock owners in Missouri have been
ihlpping their horses and cattle across
ne river into parts or Illinois wmcn
lave escaped the worst of the wave
>f heat la many sections farmers
lave been cutting their corn for fodler.
ALL MISSOURI PRAYS FOR RAIN.
rhe People of the Drouth-Stricken Stat?
Observed the Governor's Proclamation.'
St. Louis, Mo.?On Sunday, which
lay Governor Dockery designated for
'astlng and prayer that the present
irought might be broken In Missouri,
ill records for hot weather In St. Louis
svere broken, the Weather Bureau
thermometer registering 108 degrees.
The Governor's proclamation was
generally heeded, nearly every church
n the city holding well attended services,
given up to prayet that the
irought which has prevailed several
months and threatens the destruction
)f all vegetation might be broken.
MOTHER'S FICHT WITH EACLES.
Stole Her Baby, But Parent Pursued and
Rescued It Uninjured.
San Bernardino, Cal?Advices were
eceived of an encounter between Mrs.
folding, wife of a stage keeper, and
;wo eagles on a mountain fifty miles
lorth of this place.
sue was sitting outsiae or tue stage
iouse by a cradle, in which lay her
iix months old baby, when suddenly
in eagle swooped down and seized
:he infant. The mother rushed to
where a mule was tethered and, puling
the stake pin. was soon following
ifter the huge bird, which found light
lifflcult with its heavy burden. .
The chase continued for a long dis:ance,
when the eagle alighted on its
aest in the mountains. Mrs. Golding
climbed to where she had seen the
jagle alight, fought the bird and killed
it.
Before she could escape the eagle's
mate appeared and the mother had
mother encounter, but drove the bird
iway. Mrs. Golding arrived at the
stage house in a pitiable condition,
rhe infant escaped injury.
lightning Destroys a Church.
The Reformed Dutch Church, at Accord,
N. Y., was struck by lightning
ind destroyed. Only the pulpit and
organ were saved.
Mrs. Grant's Gift to Mr*. McKlnley.
A box marked "Mrs. McKinley, Can
ton, Ohio," was brought into Charlott;
Harbor from Coburg, Ont. It con
a l-ntf waaIavi ohntiMor r*n rw
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for Mrs. McKInley. It was knit bj
Mrs. U. S. Grant, who is now at Co
burg.
Rhodes and Jameson In England.
Cecil J. Rhodes and Dr. Jameson
landed at Southampton, England, fqon
Cape Colony. They declined to discus:
South African affairs, saying they
were no longer public men.
No team this season so far has
scored more ;han four runs off Phillip
pi.
Never in his long League career has
Dahlen batted so poorly as this sea
eon.
Lajoie has done the ablest slugginj
by far of any batsman in either majoi
league.
President Hart, of the Chicago Na
tioiial League team, has released "Cu
pid" Childs and Third Baseman Hoff
man. Dexter will be played at sec
nnrt.
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WA8HIN GTOJT I ITEMS.
A' new tea dollar note, bearing a
nlM-nrA nf a Buffalo. Is hplnc eneraved
In Washington.
The State Department was notified
that Marquis Mallsplna, the new Italian
Ambassador, will reach Washington
In September.
A man claiming to be Senator Hanna's
son, but who is an imposter, was
arrested In Washington for swindling
jewelers.
The constitutionality of the Massachusetts
Electrocution law is involved
1n an appeal to the United States Supreme
Court taken by Lulgl Stortl, a
condemned murderer.
The Italian Government made representations
to the State Department
and instituted investigations through
consuls into the alleged lynching ol
Italians In Mississippi.
The new battleships recommended
by the Board of Construction are to
hp the lnrorpst fastest and most henv.
lly armored In the American Navy.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
' Five yellow fever cases were found
In a suburb of Havana, Cuba, and
four were removed to the city hospitals.
The fiscal of the*Havana Audiencia
said that he possessed already sufficient
evidence to convict C. F. W.
Neely of postal frauds.
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, Civil Governor
of Benguet Province. Luzon, P. I.,
was exonerated by the Civil;' Commission
of the charges against him.
Little opposition was shown in Cuba
to the decision of the United States
to occupy Morro Castle.
Gold and silver jewelry valued at
$223,413 was imported into the Philippines
during 1900.
Aguinaldo is considerably irritated
at his continued surveillance by the
American authorities at Manila.
DOMESTIC.
Counterfeit half-dollars were passed '
extensively of late in Massachusetts.
Carrie Nation was fined $100 and
given thirty days in jail for disorders
In Topeka, Kan., during her March
raids.
Four burglaries In one week is the
record against ten-year-old John Engelmeyer,
of Austin, 111., two horses
being part of his plunder.
Bufglars seized a bundle of notes in
the City National Bank, of Dayton,
Ohio, by using hooks.
After a wild life for several weekn,
Mordecai F. Washburn, a wealthy
brick manufacturer of Haverstraw,
N. Y., fatally shot himself.
Pardons were granted four prisoners
at Newburyport, Mass., for helping
Deputy Sheriff Ayers when attacked
in jail by other prisoners.
By the ruling of the fourth Appellate
Division In Rochester, N. Y.t a woman
is entitled to all the profits which may
accrue from her beauty.
The missionaribs of the American
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Doara win reium in i^unu v^miiu. iu
resume work In the early fall.
On the Midway of the Pan-American
Exposition, at Buffalo, N. Y., Ernesto
Z. Zeorzaya killed himself after
attempting to murder a concessionaire.
All saloons in Fort Scott, Kan., were
ordered closed and the mandate was
obeyed.
Greek and Austrian railroad graders
met at Sydney, Neb., in deadly combat.
Six Greeks were wounded and
one Austrian was killed. A drunken
row was the beginning of the difficulty.
The' vacant postmastership at New
Orleans, La., was filled by the appointment
of David G. Baldwin.
Revelations of a conspiracy resulting
in murder and the arrest of wellknown
citizens of Echols County, Ga.,
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mily ieau iu a. xcuu iu luai. puli ui wt
i State.
I "Golden Rule" Jones, Mayor of Toi
ledo, Ohio, was fined $5 and costs by
Police Judge Wachenlieiraer for contempt
of court. The Mayor promptly
> paid the fine.
Governor Jennings, of Florida, ar1
ranged for the transfer of Mullat Key
Quarantine Station, the most impor!
tant in the South, to the Federal Gov1
ernment.
! The historic Fairfax Inn, at Berke[
ley Springs, W. Va., over 100 years
! old, was burned. The guests had a
narrow escape.
FOREIGN.
I The London County Council Is about
to send a tramway manager and an
electrical engineer to study traction
systems in the United States.
John Henderson, the well-known
shipbuilder, died at Glasgow, Scotland.
Russia demanded from the Porte
concessions in the way of coaling
' stations.
Owing to losses in the Leipslc Bank
failure, Banker SalQ Rawez killed hlm;
self.
Boers captured and burned a train
. near Beaufort West South Africa.
Three British were killed and eighteen
wounded.
Fifty houses were destroyed by fire
at Port au Prince, Hayti. Many firemen
received injuries. The damage
is estimated at $200,000.
i The Chilean Government Is preparing
a bill which will effect a reor[
ganization to a large extent of the
i national finances.
The freedom of the City of London
was presented to Lord Milner at the
Guildhall.
Indians -who claim possession of Cal.
quhoun Island in the St. Lawrence
j River were dispossessed by the Canadian
Government.
The Belgian Minister at Washington,
Count de Lichtervelde, will be sue.
ceeded by Baron Moncheur.
! A dispatch from Tien-Tsin said that
Europeans there distrusted China's
: pledges.
1 Elections in many departments in
France showed small gains for the
Government party.
Lord Roberts, the Commander-in!
Chief of the British Army, issued an
, order that in future dismounted infan,
try officers are to carry carbines in
stead or sworas on active service ana
in manoeuvres.
Major Pine-Coffin surprised a Boor
commando at Honingspruit, Soutli
Africa, capturing Commandant HatI
ting and twenty-six men and killing
and wounding seventeen.
Ecuador's Consul-General in Chile,
3 Senor Alberto Arias Sanchez, was assassinated
in Valparaiso.
The Baldwin-Ziegler arctic explorj
Ing expedition sailed from Troiusoe,
i Norway, for the north.
Horatio J. Sprague, United States
, Consul in Gibraltar and the oldest
. Consul in the American service, is
'. i dead.
Drought, accompanied by severe
heat, prevailed through England
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INSANE MAN'S VENGEANCE
Kills a Man Who Sent Him to an
Asylum?Shoots Five Others,
Merchant Wm Slain. a Doctor, Folic*
/
Sergeant, Detective, Police n>an
and Lab*rer Wounded.
Leavenworth, Kan.?Michael Kelly,
an insane man, at th? office of the
Robert Garrett Lumber Company, shot
six people, killing one, probably fatally
wounding another, and more or less
seriously wounding the four others.
He was himself finally killed by officers
who tried to overpower him.
The victims are: John R. Garrett,
aged forty, junior member of the firm
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UL uuuen vjurrew LiumDer UOmpany,
died at the hospital; Dr. Charles Mc-'
Gee, aged thirty, shot In the back
and probably fatally wounded; William
Dodge, Police Sergeant, shot in
tho neck, wounds serious; Michael
McDonald, detective, shot in the leg,
slight; Joseph Falthager, policeman,
shot in the hand, wound slight; Ike
Healer, laborer at the lumber yard,
shot in the hand, wound slight.
Kelly had lived in Leavenworth for
years, and at different times had engaged
in minor business enterprises.
He was eccentric, and 'during the
Presidential campaign in 1890 lost his
mind entirely. At that time he threatened
to kill Garrett. He was arrested
and adjudged insane. Garrptt and four
others testifying against him. After
a year in the Topeka Asylum Kelly
was released. He had been acting
queerly again, and had declared that
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him to the asylum. For two weeks
past he has been practising shooting
with (i revolver dally at the Fort
Leavenworth range.
A few days ago he drank heavily.
Soon after 12 o'clock he appeared at
Garrett's office, and without warning
shot Garrett as he sat at his desk.
Garrett fell to the floor, and Kelly
deliberately fired four more shots into
the prostrate form. Kelly then ran
to the rear of the company's lumber
yard and began reloading his revolver.
Presently he returned to the office to
find Dr. McGee, who had been atr
tracted by the shooting, bending over
Garrett. Leveling his revolver, Kelly
took aim at the physician and fired.
The bullet struck McGee in the spine,
and he toppled over near where Garrett
lay.
Then followed an exciting street
fight between the madman and officers
who came upon the scene. Kelly,
flourishing his revolver, dashed
through the lumber yard. He met Ike
Healer, a laborer, and shot Mm in tne
hand. A few yards further on he
encountered Sergeant Dodge. The two
exchanged shots as they ran. One
bullet from Kelly's revolver struck
Dodge in the neck, but not before the
officer had shot Kelly In the shoulder.
Kelly kept running and was soon confronted
by Detective McDonald and
Officer Falthager. McDonald dropped
Kelly with a bullet in the neck. Dodge
raised bis revolver, but it failed to
work, and, catching up with the murderer,
he crushed his skull with the
weapon. Kelly
was carried to the- station in
an unconscious condition, dying soon
after his arrival there.
. HIS DAINTY LOVE_ CREW FAT;
Now She "Wants S5000 Becanses R.
Won't Marry Her.
Bowling Green, Ky. ? Miss Stella
Emslie has sued her fiancee, a prominent
young farmer, for SnOOO, because
he refuses to marry her.
In his answer the defendant sets
forth that the Stella of to-day is not
the Stella whom he promised to marry
eight years ago. He pleads that at
that time she was one of the fairest
and weighed 125 pounds. Now she
weighs 319 pounds.
He says that he, being a sm^n man,
would suffer exceedingly -with such a
huge mate, and he could no longer
hold her on his knees and caress her
as he is alleged to have done in the
happy days when Stella Emslie was
just a nice armful.
HANCED NEGRO IN CITY PARK.
tVest Virginia Mob Quickly Avenges the
Shooting of an Officer.
Elkins, W. Va. ? William Brooks,
colored, was hanged to the limb of a
tree in the City Park here, while Chief
of Police Robert Lilly lay dying in a
Cumberland (Md.) hospital from the
effects of a bullet wound inflicted by
the colored man.
The negro shot Lilly when the officer
was trying to place him under
arrest. The colored man then fled,
but later was captured. A mob gathered,
and as the negro was being
taken to jail the angry citizens took
him from the officers and hanged him
to a tree.
Fifteen Persons Killed by Explosion.
An explosion in the harbor at Stockholm,
Swedeu, of petroleum on board
the American schooner Louise Adelaide,
Captain Orr. killed the Captain,
ten members of the schooner's crew,
and four Swedish Customs officials.
Two of the crew were saved. The explosion
set the schooner afire, and
tho blazing petroleum enveloped the
vessel and those on board.
Found Fifty New Fishes.
President David Starr Jordan, of
the Stamford University, Cal., has returned
from Hawaii, where he has
been studying the fisheries and fishes
of the islands. About 240 species have
been collected and classified, fifty of
which ar> new to scleiice.
Lost on the Msitterhorn.
The Matterhorn has claimed its nrsi
riciims for this year. Three English
tourists and one or more guides fell
dowu a precipice on the Italian side.
The Doer Eeconcentrados.
A British Parliamentary paper gives
the number of persons in the concentration
camps in South Africa in June
oa fniiniv*- whitp. 85.410: colored.
-3,480. There were 777 deaths among
the whites in tlie camps, the list including
C7U children.
Newport's City Hall Hit by a Shell.
A stray shell from the battleship
Kearsarge hit the City Hall of Newport,
R. I., and caused considerable
excitement. The damage was slight
and lo one was uuieu or mjureu.
Neirij Gleaning*
There is a good market for American
Bliues iu South Africa.
The elm beetle is devastating many
sections of Connecticut.
A twelve-theatre vaudeville combine
has been formed in the West.
A Marconi wireless telegraphy plant
may be established at Cape Race, N. F.
It is stated that an American milk
company will establish a branch in
London.
[ A combination of soft coal interests
i was said to be just on the point of
completion.
SCHLEY COURT OF INQUIRY
Secretary Long Grants the Rear-Admiral's
Request
ADMIRAL DEWEY WILL. PRESIDE
L: ? . I
Statement* In Maelay's Naval History lu
Ground of Rear-Admiral Schley'* Ao> j
tlon?-Court, ConjUtlng of Three Members,
May Meet Early In September ?
Point* Investigation Will Cover.
Washington, D. C?Secretary Long
received a letter from Rear-Admiral
Schley, calling attention to the critic*
isms against him contained in Maclay's
"History of the Navy." and the
inuendoee ^hich have appeared In the
press for several days, and stating
that? In his opinion, the time had now i
come to take such action as would
bring the entire matter under the
"clear and calm review of his brothers
in arms." He asked that the Department
take such action as was deemed
best to accomplish this purposeAlthaugh
Rear-Admiral Schley did ,
not ask specifically for a court of inquiry,
but left the action to be taken
to the judgment of the Department,
the Secretary decided that such a
court would be the best means of
makins: the investigation which the
Rear-Admiral had requested.
After a conference with Admiral
Dewey, Secretary Long said that iie
had not had time to decide upon the
composition of the court, but in re- v
sponse to a question as to' whether
Admiral Dewey would serve upon such
a court. If requested to do so, the '
Secretary said:
"Admiral Dewey will do his duty." |
Although no positive declaration was
given on this point, It was assumed
about the Navy Department that Admiral
Dewey will be president of the
court, which will inquire Into the
whole controversy concerning Admiral
Schley's action during the Spanish
W^r.
There also is an impression that the
two other members of the court will
be retired naval officers, or at least
officers who had no connection with ,
the Santiago campaign.
The court of inquiry probably will
not proceed with its work until fall.
Following is the text of the corres- j
pondencebetween Rear-Admiral Schley, U
and Secretary Long: . J
"Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y.: j
"Sir?Within the past few days ai
series of press comments have been
sent to me from various parts of the A
country of a book entitled The His
tory or toe rsavy, written uy ouet
Edgar Stanton Maclay. From these;
reviews it appears that this edition
is a third volume of the said history,1
extended to include the late war with
Spain, which the two first volumes
did not contain, and were in use &3
text-books at the naval academy.
"2. From excerpts quoted in some
reviews, in which the page and paragraph
are given, there is such perversion
. of facts,* misconstruction of
intention, such intemperate abuse and
defamation of myself as subject Mr.
Maclay to action in civil law.
"While I admit the right of fair
criticism of every public officer, I muse
protest against the low flings and l
abusive language of this violent, parti- 1
san opponent who has infused into I
the pages of his book so much of the I
malice of unfairness as to make it |
unworthy the name of history or of I
use in any reputable institution of the *'
country. i
"3. I have refrained heretofore from I
all comment upon the' Inuendoes of
enemies, muttered or murmured in
secret, and therefore with safety to
themselves. I think the time has now
come to take such action as may bring
this entire matter under discussion
under the clearer and calmer review
nt mr- hrrtthprs in arms. and to this
end I ask such action at the hands ?1
of the Department as It may deem
best to accomplish tills purpose. J
"4. But I would express the request
In this connection, whatever the
action may be, that It occur in Washington,
where most of my papers and
data are stored. Very respectfully,
W. S. SCHLEY.
"Rear-Admiral U. S. N.
"To the Secretary of the Navy, Washington,
D. C."
"Navy Department, Washington.
"Sir?I am in receipt of yours of the
22d inst., with reference to the criticisms
upon you In connection with the
Spanish-American war. and heartily
approve of your action, under the circumstances,
In asking at the hands of
this Department 'such action as may
bring this entire matter under discussion
under the clearer and calmer review
of my brothers in arms.' The
Deparement will at once proceed in
accordance with your request. Very
respectfully, JOHN D. LONG.
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With respect to the matters to be inquired
into by the court of inquiry
the Post says that it might be difficult
to state briefly the exact questions
which will come before the court, but
that Admiral Schley condensed them
in a letter written to Senator Hale,
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Naval Affairs, on February 18. 1899.
This letter divides the criticisms of
himself Into four heads, n3 follows:
First?The alleged delay off Cicnfuegos,
Cuba.
Second?The alleged slow progress
toward' Santiago do Cuba from Cienfuegos.
Third ?The retrograde movements
on May 26 and 27. (This refers to the
turning of the fleet from Santiago toward
Key West).
Fourth?The battle of Santiago and
the destruction of Cervera's fleet
To Reduce the Philippine Army.
Cenerals Corbin aud Chaffee have
decided to reduce the army in the
Philippines to less that CO.OOO men
and by other economies to save sixty
per cent, of the present expenses of
occupation.
Xot to Roopen War Qnoitlon*.
The Spanish Senate has rejected a
motion, which has been opposed by
the Premier, Senor Sagasta, to determine
by inquiry who was responsible
for rho disasters to Spain in the war
with the United States.
British Wheat Prospects.
In estimating the wheat prospects in
Great Britain, the Mark Lane Express
says the wheat will be line both in
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?XUWA<V ^ pel UUl,
of tho area sown, and average on
twenty-five per cent Tho remaining
seventy per cent, of area sown will
inevitably produce a short crop. The
straw crop will be the smallest cinee
18y3.
Siberian Crop a Total Lost.
T)ispatcbes from Siberia say that
the crops, owing to the twe months'
drouth, are almost a total loss. Measures
have been taken to avert famine..
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