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MANY SHOT IN IINERS' RI01! I 1 A Mob Attacked Non-Union Men al! Shenandoah, Pa. TROOPS SENT TO THE SCENE A Conflict Deputy Sheriff mod MImti Led to n Terrific FaiUUdf-.l I Merchant Killed. Policeman Shot Mil { Striker* Wounded?A ttelgn of Tertoi , ?Cane* f the Trouble. t Harrifburp. Pa. ? The Kitflith and 1 iweinn regiuiems auu uir troop of cavalry were ordeml to Shv nandoab. The total strength of the troops nambers 1500. + Shenandoah. Pa.?A reign of terror, compared with which the scenes enact ed during the riots of 1000 seem insignificant. held Shenandoah in its gras|: Wednesday night. Centre street, one of the principal thoroughfares, was in { the hands of an infuriated mob. Twc of the borough policemen were shot, one perhaps fatally. Joseph Beddall. a leading merchant and cou-dn ot Sheriff Beddall. was brutally clubbed to death, and upward of a score of strikers whose names could not l>e as certalned were shot by policemen, and It is expected that many deathsrwill result. The trouble started al?out C o'clock p. m. when Deputy Stariff Thomi's Beddall attempted to escort two nonunion workers through the strikers' line of pickets. The workmen were dressed In their street clot be*, but one or mem carn?Mi ? a bundle under tils arm. and tbb aroused tbe suspicion of the strikers The bundle was torn from blui. and wben It was found to contain a blouse ind overalls the man was taken from the deputy and beaten almost to death. In the meantime Beddall opened Arc on the mob, which had gathered and emptied his revolver. Two of the shots took effect, one man being shot in the le? and the other In the foot. The deputy and his men were now compelled to fly for their lives, and took refuge in tbe Philadelphia and Reading Railroad depot. Tbe <k>pot , was soon surrounded by an angry mob of 5000. which was becoming more threatening and demonstrative every moment. Joseph Beddall. a hardware merchant. was seen making bis way through the crowd, and the mob. dinning that he was carrying ammunition to those Inside the depot, seised him and beat him with clubs and billies Into Insensibility. He died en route to the Miners' Hospital. Shortly after this the entire borough police force arrived on the scene and escorted the deputy sheriff and bis man to an enghle which had been backed Into the depot for that purpose. When tbe mob realised that they were about to escape tbey surrounded the engine c and tbe engineer was afraid to move. T*? Saw mompnfi hnir?vpr the im. 'Ire fired a volley, dispersing the crowd . * fbr a brief period, aod the engineer 1 turned on fall steam and sot away o with hia men. 8tones were now thrown thick and . fast about the heads of the police. 2 whereupon Chief John Fry gave the c order to fire. At the first volley the f mob fell back and several were seen to ' fall, 1 Their retreat however, was but momentary. ? They turned, and with re- ' volvers, stones and shotguns charged " on the little band of policemen and i made them fly for their lives. The policemen turned In their flight at short interval* and fired volley after volley at tbetr pursuers, but the mob seemed t thoroughly Infuriated and smoking revolver* seemed to have no terrors for them. / When the Lehigh Ballroad crossing was reached a passing freight train ' blocked the progress of the police, two : of whom were caught and brutally beaten. One of them. Stiney Yacopsky ? .was fatally injured. It is estimated that upward of 1000 hots were fired, and the wonder Is that more fatalities did not result. More Th.in fVMhr i(rlk?ri *11 nf whnm TP*ar?? ! foreigners, were shot, and at least tw? of them will die. BOY OF SIX KILLS BROTHER. Vtadi ? IHto Maul Tmr IkMttag Cat* ud Pall* Ike Trigger. Xorwalk, Conn.?George McMullen. the alx-year-okl son of Andrew McMullen, the sexton of Willowbr&ok Cemetery. Westport, shot bis eight-year-old brother Charles last evening witb a rifle. The Uttle fellow died. Mr. McMulleo purchased tbe weapon to rid the premises of cats. He left it In his bedroom, where tbe boys found It Little George told his brotbei that as eats were scarce he would make' a target of him, and taking aim pulled the trigger. Tbe bullet took effect in the boy's forehead. men 9AVCW, WIKLS UKUWNtD. An* Tamaf Winn RtwUati Lost on Lake Jaffaraoa. St Paul. Minn.?Three young women students of the State Agricultural Col lege were drowned In Lake Jefferson. They were Miss Eva Fasten and Mis* ' Mira Pye, ot Faribault, and Ml*s Ma- ' bel Wells, of Montlcello. They had gone boating with Professor C. L. Bingham and N. L. Hanson, of the college. The lake was rough, the boat Was overcrowded and It was swamped. All were thrown Into the water. The girls were drowned while their men companions swam to shore. Sfcot Hia In tad BlaMif. Dcuglas P. Dye. In a lit of insanity, at loutorllle. Ky., shot his son Carroll, aged eleven years, as the boy lay sleeping and then fired one shot Into his own brain, killing himself Instantly. Dye imagined tnat nis son was in danger or being kidnaped. MM* MI Treats. The London Dally Mall says there is reason to bellere that the power* will decline Russia's invitation to take part In a conference on the subject of trusts. C?iilaalaa to Make Boar War Ioqalry Kn tbe British Houxe of Common* Prime Minister Balfour said that the commission of Inquiry into the conduct of tbe war In South Africa bad not been formed beyond the appointment of the Earl of Elgin as Chairmau. Mr. Balfour thought seven member* would be sufllclent He said tbe commission would be non-political, with military and naval representatives. Vi Tlac-fiaBg to Bomala. Minister Wu Ting-fang bas been ordered to remain at Washington indefinitely P> 1 I ' L Bfllfeiiwiirf RIOTS MAR A FUNERAL Remarkable Scenes Attend the Burial of a Rabbi in New York City. < Mourner* Insulted Storm Building ana j lOa Cer?oni Arc More or U?i In* j J100.000 Honored the D?wi. j New York Cify.?One hundred 'iiou j t (and men. wotneu am! ehlldreu ?>f | :he Hebrew faith thronged one uatrow Unit Side street a few dnys ago to J xpress their great grief for the death 1 ?f their Moved rabbi. Jacob Joseph. < ate head of the orthodox Ile'irew conrregations of the United States. It < ivas a most remarkable demonstration ' ?f sorrow. Its like has never before ! leen seen in New York. | Fourteen .rears ago to the very day t according to the Jewish calendari saw I he streets of the lower part of this rlty dark with a great mass of hu- g nanity welcoming the holy man to i bese shores. From Wilna, Russia, he o arne. and thousands, who bad heard t >f bis fame as a pious and learned nan. aud as a clarlon-tongued preacher and singer of the devout chants of he synagogue, poured out to greet him. ( \nd those same thousands, augmeuted >y scores of other thousands, have 'ollowed him to the grave. ' Ag the cortege was passing the big Eloe Printing Press Factory at Grand g ind Sheriff streets, going toward the ferry to Brooklyn, the fiercest riot in ; be history of the East Side was pre t .-ipitUted. r Some workmen, oblivious to the reipect due to the dead, and Incapable of ippreciatlng the pic us grief of the nourning tbronrs, seized tne occasion :o throw missiles at the procession. There is n confusion of testimony ns 1 o the nature of the objects thrown, is well as to tbe identity of tbe mis- a reams. It is certain, however, that n he missiles llunjj at tbe paraders were c lufflcient to arouse their indignation v o tbe highest pitch. J Tbe lamentations of the mourning housands turned to frenzy ut tbe in- t lult to their dead, and a conflict eu g >ued In which scores of mourners were njured. Every window in tbe im nense establishment of tbe Hoes was >roken. and a vast crowd surged Into i be building. i c A riot call was sent out. and tbe ! ? eserves of half a dozen police stations -esponded. Tbe police charged tbe k rensied mot) unmercuuuy ami ireeiy pilled' the blood of the mourners. Ibout 2U0 persons were injured in the lgbtiug. including women and cbilIren. A second riot occurred while the prosession was passing the axle works of former Mayor VFureter, of Brooklyn, it Kent avenue and South Sixth itreet Some one hurled a heavy block >f wood from an upper window into he crowd, and a repetition of the tloody affray on the Manhattan aide of he river was narrowly averted. The arge force of police who were called ?ut did not hesitate to use both fists ' ind clubs. An impromptu meeting was held on he East bide and arrangements made or a monster gathering to protest c gainst the alleged police brutality. e At a meeting of business and profes- c ilonnl men. of the East Side. It was etermlned to organise an investigating ommlttee to take testimony for the * turpose of punishing those who were esponslble for the riot and for al- ? eged police brutality. Several fraternal and political or- J tanlxations held special meetings and c dopted resolutions denouncing R. Hoe i Co. and the police. t t THE CROWN PRINCE'S VISIT. j a loir to tk? lltntM Throaa to Bats b PImmwI Tlm?. Washington. D. C.?While the Crown *rince of Slam, during his approaching isit to the United States, will not he be guest of the Government, he will >e entertained and shown every conilderation. the money for this purpose ?elng taken from the contingent funds cnowy rstxcB or sun. available for uae by the President and the State Department Tiie Crown Prince will reacb tbi* country about Septeml>er 1. possibly Itefore that date. A committee of entertainment will be appointed by the State Department officials, and pains will be taken to make the Crowu Prince's visit an event of importance. CtiMctlral't r?Kh Cray. Tbe Connecticut Pomological society i baa Just completed a census of the < c-oiiilug peach crop of the State which j shows that it will aggregate 341.57?'? i bushels, or 683.152 baskets. It is estl muted that at least 273.0MO baskets will ( l?e shipped out of the State. . Kmw Ttrk't Poor Ray Crop. Harvesting of the hay crop is de layed in many sections by continued 1 win* In Xcw York State there Is little rut aud the crop will be of pmr < quality PramlMit Praplt. King Edward In n great lover of dog*, aud has had many favorites. The King of Portugal In no ardent tenuis player, devoting most of his spare time to that sport. Pope Leo recently gave an audience to Auna Morenl. 102 years old. the uurse of hb youthful days. Secrpfary Hay has left Washington, to spend the remainder of the summer at his New Hampshire home. J. W. Hutchinson Is the last survivor i ?f the famous Hutchinson family of singers. He still sings almost as well in ?*ver MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. President Roosevelt approved the court-martial sentences of Major Glenn ?nd Lieutenant Gaujot for cruelty to Filipinos, ami disapproved the acquit:;il of Lieutenant Cook. It was stated that Consul-General Bragg was likely to be recalled or ransferred from Havana a9 it result of lis criticism of the Cubans. , The Catholic Missionary t'nlon rewived a gift of for the estabishment of the apostolic mission bouse ivhteh is to be opened for the training >f Roman Catholic priests. i Secretary Shaw denied that he had established a five-year service limit In j Jie Treasury Department. Hannls Taylor. Former Minister to j ( ipain, was reappointed as Special , Counsel for the Department of Justice , lefore the 8panish Treaty Claims Com- , DlMlOQ. The Court of Inquiry which Investigated the grounding of the battleship i lllnois, while entering Chrlstianla reently, found that no blame attached to he officers or crew. .. i OUB ADOPTED ISLANDS. The typhoon which prevailed over >?-? r a? u?K?i.inJ /tUHUl LU^UU LUl BUU1L' UU?a OUI/OIUCU. A quiet meeting In opposition to the , riara was bold at Manila^ An analysis of the water at Manila < bowed tbat It was uncontamlnated. i A native, reared as a Christian in 1 Spain, wan said to lie tbe Sultan of he mysterious race of white Fill- 1 >lnos in tbe Island of Mindanao. Over 7000 cigar makers went on | trike at Manila. The bodies of tbe teachers murdered , d the Philippines will be brought to fie United States. , Tbe Civil Service Commission issued l statement expressing gratification it tbe remarkable showing made by tatlve Porto Ricans In tbe postal ser-Ice examinations recently held at San uan. Ross Douglass, formerly Treasurer of be Island of Cebu, P. I., was found 1 ullty of embezzlement. 1 DOMESTIC. An unknown negro, apparently with- j iut cause, shot and killed Arthur A i Schneider, at Chicago, and escaned. Albert Edward Tower, whose wife ' :iUed her sod and herself at Pough;eepsie. N. Y.. last April. wlU wed Miss iary Towne Bogardus, a former tele- 1 >hone girL 1 A premature blast at the Clay Mine. Cew Cumberland. W. Va.. killed two Qlners, who leave large families. Angry from drinking. John Dlckehon shot and killed Roe and Jack Dyer ( it a picnic at Vanceburg, Ky. Bad feeling over a lawsuit caused he murder of Sherman Dyer by Berry >onahue at Luttrell. Tenu. The Coroner's Jury that Investigated I he Johnstown, Pa., mine disaster, ox- 1 nerated the company from blame. 1 William J. White, cashier of the Joard of Public Works at San Franisco, Cal, bad disappeared and it was fflelally announced that be was sevral thousand dollars short In his acousts. The cloudburst In New York State ffected nearly eighty square miles of erritory and caused nearly $250,000 lamage. Because of Ul health Police Justice McKenny White declined the police asrshallhlp of Baltimore, Md. Incendiaries almost succeeded In ilowlng up Fort Stevens, a new miliary post near Astoria. Ore., and left . threatening letter. The Common Pleas Court, at Camirldge. Ohio, decided that the munlci?al local option law enacted last winer, known as the Beal law, is constlntlonaL Julia Plgg. colored, was fined 15 by 'ollce Judge McCann at Louisville. Ly? because she maliciously sat on he cat of a neighbor with whom she tad quarrelled. Th# Ronnhll^nna r\t \fnnH? Pnnnfr Coil, nominated M1m Kate Beerlng or Treasurer. As a result of a water (amine, Trlnllad, CoL, was without Are protection, ind water for domestic purposes had o be purchased by tbe bucketful. Mrs. Elisabeth Chase Ingalla, mother >f the late Senator Ingalls, died In laverhill, Mass. Lightning killed E. White, a farmer, ind his son, at Indianapolis, Ind. vouiox. The freedom of the city of Edln>urgh, Scotland, was conferred on tbe Colonial Premiers. Tbe provisional government of Haiti ledared General Firman, the revolulonary leader, an outlaw. Anxiety was expressed In Paris remrrflnir rha ratllUl nf fha AnTln-Ion.in. iso agreement oo Korea. The Costa Rlcan Government, It was innounced, will grant Chile a coaling itadon on Cocos Island, In the Pacific. Insurgents in Venezuela defeated renforcements on the way to General Dastro, and captured a quantity of immunitlou. Successful experiments in wireless elephony over a distance of more thau four miles were reported from Berlin. President Zelayn, of Nicaragua, comnuted the death sentence of Dr. Wllion Russell, an American. Mr. Balfour declined in the House of Commons to explain the Government's relations with the Morgan shipping ?mbine. Premier Balfour was rcqulstloned by the Tory leaders to distribute the jfflcew In financial proportion to the numerical strength of the Liberals and Conservatives. Further earthquakes and slight volcanic eruptions occurred on the Island if St. Vincent. Mr. George Wyndbam's administration of Ireland was hotly discussed in the British House of Commons. Oil was discovered io large quantities 3D tbe Island of Trinidad. It will be (forked uuder Canadian auspices. Thirty thousand persons took part in demonstrations in Paris growing out of the order for tbe expulsion or unauthorized religious teaching congregations. Cardinal Ledochowski. Prefect of the Congregation of the ltoman Catholic propaganda, died at Home. King Edward issued au official denial of the report that he inteuded to retire from the turf. Archibald W. Maconorhle. M. P.. gave a dinner in tbe British House of Commons restaurant to Prime Miulster Balfour, J. P. Morgan. Ambassador Cboate, Mr. Westlngbouse and Sir Thomas Lipton. EARTHOUAKESINTHEWEST Froporty Damaged and People Terrorized in California. fthocka In Kcbruka and Sooth Dakota Mujr Hour* Later - Dry Kl??r Bod rilled With Water. Santa Barbara. Cal. ? The worst earthquake Southern California has uail in years caused much damage from Lompoc to Santa Maria, the centre of activity evidently being nearly at the latter place. The first shock was felt a few minutes past 11 o'clock, vibrations continuing for several minutes. Shortly after there were fourteen distinct shocks, but none so severe as the first Nearly fifteen minutes elapsed betjveeu the first and final hocks. In the Careaga oil fields large fissures irere cut In the earth. Two tanks containing 3000 barrels of oil each were wrecked, oil flooding the district Nearly all of the surface pipe lines for conveying oil and water were twisted or broken in such a manner that renewal will be necessary. At Los Alamos adobe buildings were razed to the ground while in business places windows were broken and goods on shelves thrown to the floor. Lompoc, several miles to the south* west, shared badly. The city is practically without a water supply, as the ] mains were broken and water has been flooding certain districts. The Santa [nez River, which in summer Is usually a small stream but in winter a torrent was comparatively dry. Now water is rushing over the river bed as during a freshet No one will attempt to explain this phenomenon. The presence of such a large volume of water at this time is considered some compensation for the damage In other ways. Over 100 years ago the Franciscan fathers undertook to establish a mission at Lompoc. The large building was nearly completed after several years of hard work, when an earthquake visited the district and utterly destroyed the edifice. Further attempts I to build at that point were abandoned, j Omaha. Neb.?More tlian 100 towns ! In Central and Northeastern Nebraska I and Southeastern South Dakota were visited by seven; earthquakes shortly nfter noon. The disturbances came from the northwest and no great amount of damage was done at any one place. Because this was the first earthquake In the history of Nebraska great excitement was caused. The country over which the shock was felt Is 200 miles square and includes two Indian reservations. Here, I while no damage occurred by reason of the nature of the bouses, the greatest excitement was caused. The shocks lasted ten minutes, and were at Intervals of three, four and three minutes. Among the towns reporting the heaviest shocks are Nellgh. O'Neill. Norfolk. Tllden. Hooper. Battle Creek. Elgin. Petersburg. Ewing. Plulnview, Albion and Madison. FIFTH LYNCHING FOR A MURDER. Ntfro Who Klodtd Many Po?Mi mt Lait a anted Down by Mob. Clarksburg, W. Va.?in the mountains fifteen miles northwest of Beverly a mob with rides and bloodhounds, who have been bunting the murderer of Chief of Police Wllmoth of Womalsdorf. came upon the fugitive and a battle followed. The negro, who bail confessed the murder to another negro. stood at bay, and, with one arm broken, fired at least 100 shots at his pursuers, who closed in upon him. He was struck by several bullets, but none in a vital place and so the unequal combat went on until the murderer fell with 100 bullets in his body. A rope was then procured and the body was swung up to a tree with this placard written on a piece of cardltoard on it: "The days of the luted negr* have ended." After the shooting the mob dispersed. The name of the negro is not known, but that be was a desperate character, as well as a shrewd one. is shown by the long chase required to find him. He 1 eluded posse after posse and made a desperate fight with no show of escape. All negroes within a radius of ten miles of Womelsdorf have left. Four negroes have been killed, two of them admittedly Innocent, as a result of the death of Chief Wilmoth. N?|ro Lynched to Gtor|l*. Savannah, Ga.?John Wise, a negro, was lynched near Pembroke. Bryan County, for assaulting Mrs. John Smith. He was wounded before being caught, placed aboard a train and tfitran tn thn nf hid prlmn wht?rp be was banged to a telegraph pole. BOERS YET, SAYS BOTHA. Ua Telia the Beaton Army to Keep Up the Spirit of Nationality. Cape Town, Soutb Africa.?Generals Botba and Delarey. the old Boers leaders. in their speeches to their compatriots here have insisted upon the preserratioti of their nationality. General Botha said that darkness wns in front of them, hut that faith would carry them through. Africa was their fatherland. their birthright and inheritance. General Delarey said he respected nis British opponents, but grieved wheu he thought of the burghers who surrendered and became National scouts uuder the British. The conduct of the Boer women throughout the bitter stnggle had made the tighting burghers taste many sweet drops. Brltlab Cabinet Change. J. Austen Chamberlain. Financial Cecretary to the Treasury, will, it is an jounced at Londou. succeed the Itlgbt lion. Gerald W. Kalfour as President of the Board of Trade. Anti'IinparlalUU' Opea Utttr. f"i a:i open letter to President Kooserelt the ami-Imperialists' committee arraign tlie Army for cruelties in the 1'lillippiueK. and offer to sustain all charges before courts-martial. > ; Ijicaninft Korea has promise] to be representoil a; the 11)1)1 exposition in St. Louis. The cholen epidemic in the Far East Is said to be the worst in twenty years. A war agaiust the guillotine is being waged in France. with some chance of success. Emperor William has selected several army cithers to visit America to studj horse breeding and the remount system. Professor Wagner, of Vienna, thinks the .vliole of Venice is doomed. Th? foundations sinking so many years, be says, cannot support the buildings. A GflDO YHR FOR FAfillEBS1 A Summing Up of the Season's Principal Crops. j AN ENORMOUS YIELD OF CO,IN j Wheat Not as runtlfnl 11 It Wan Last Year, Bat Farmer* Have a Lot of th* ' Olil Crop la Their Bars* aad Control J tils Marast? Millioaa of PreflU E?tittuiie'l?Cotton Crop Oatiook. Wichita. Kan.?Wheat has all been harver^ed in the United State*, corn I has msselled and ripened beyond the ranger of a burning drouth, rye and barley, oats and millet are likewise j safe for the year 1902. Consequently j the farmers are beginning to look ! around to "see where they are at." In j Western parlance. And Just ft little looking?not more than a peep?will j convince them that they are on the right side of the ledger this year. There Is a bumper crop of corn. The ' wheat, while not quite as good as last year. ! sufficiently plentiful not to cause any strenuous kicking. Other crops are good. The early fruit did not produce a full yield, but late apples and peaches promise better results. Reports of expert statisticians place the yields of the various cereals of the United States for iuw as rowows: i Wheat, 033,500.000 busliela: corn. 2.- I 580.951.000 bushels; oats. 751.528.724 ; bnshels: rye. 30,350.900 bushels; bar- i ley. 120.900.850 bushels. A total of 4.128.220.500 bushels of cereals has been produced by less than 4.000.000 farmers on 841,000.000 acres of soil, the land being worth $20,000,000,000. The products in 1809 sold for $4,739.118.752. and the quantity of every cereal this year is about equal to that of 1899, excepting corn. There were raised this year 500.000,000 more bashels of corn than in 1899. The farmers have millions of bnshels of the 1901 wheat crop In their bins, and they can almost control the prices of grain In so far as the supplying of the export trade is concerted. On July j 1 of the present year they held seven per cent, of the crop of 1901 In their granaries. Hence the present wheat [ holdings of the farmers of the United j States more than surpass the total 1 yield for 1901. The annual export of i wheat from the United States to for- I clgn countries Is about 400,000,000 bushels. This wheat Is held by the fanners. Tne elevator men uave uecu i tinahle. so far. to buy the usual amount of grain. There seems to be bat little doubt that the farmers of the United States will clear from their wheat and corn a profit of $1,000,000,000. Besides these two principal crops the farmer has all others upon which to make up the $4.00C.000.000 income of 1890. The oats crop this year will reach the 750,000,000 bushel mark. There will be the usual crop of 30.000.000 bushels of rye and 126,000,000 bushels of barley. It Is difficult to figure the profit on these cereals. The potato crop is about the same as last year, except that 100.000 acres more hare been own to the Irish potato, and half the number of acres deducted from the acreages of sweet potatles. The crop of Irish potatoes will reach about 300,000.000 bushels this fall and the selling price has fallen from sixty to twenty cents per bushel. In 1901, 10.401.453 bales of cotton, weighing on an average of 513 pounds to the bale, were sold. This year the condition of the .crops is not so prom* tain* Dronths in the Carulinas and Southwestern Texas bare damaged the crop considerably. It is possible that the yield will be cut short of last year's enormous yield by twenty per cent. However. It is believed that the value of cotton exported will reach $300,000,000. or less than the crop of last season by $15,000,000. Many wheat fields of Oklahoma, Iudiqn Territory and ! Southern Kansas are being converted Into cotton fields. Even Missouri has become a cotton-growing State. The hen last year brought in $130.000.000 to her owners. The fruit trees, which are not exclusively owned by farmers, brought in twice that amount of money. The total value of farm products exported In 1001 was $951,028,331. ________________ BOLD BANK ROBBER CAUGHT. Caahiar tt FurtillU, lad.. Pmm a Gaa? Bat righta Plaeklly. Indianapolis. Ind.?"Give me $2500 and be quick about It!" said an unknown mun to Assistant Cashier Prittipo in the Fortvllle bank. Mr. Prittipo dodged behind the counter for a club kept ready for such emergencies. Quickly the robber opened fire. Two shots missed the mark. Then the banker rushed at him. A crowd collected and the robber hastily made bis exit, turning bis revolver on the crowd as be paused out of the door. Half a dozen armed men tracked the robl>er to a nearby wood, surrounded him and demanded his surrencer. He opened fire with his revolver, sending half a dozen suots among tne posse. John Bills, armed with a ride, returned the tire and at the secoud shot wounded the man In the hand. The ! robber then dropped his revolver anl surrendered. Later detectives from Indianapolis Identified ulin as C. A. Hall, of Marlon. Ohio. He formerly was a resident of Indianapolis. where he was engaged as a plumber. Bis Fir* la Albany, N. T. One fireman dead, one in the hospital fatally hurt aud a ouoioer seriously injured, in additon to a monetary loss variously estimated at from $300,000 j to $730,000, is the result of a fire which occurred in the heart of the business district of Albany, N. Y. Lightning Kill* Twaaty-flva Sheep. Lightning killed twenty-five Sourh- ; down sheep at one time near Charlotte, j N. C. Th?* animals had huddled under I a tree to escape the storm when the stroko killed them. I Two Chll?lr?* Die From Barn*. Nellie McTague. aged live years, and her three-year-old brother. William, j children of .Martiii McTague. were so badly burned at their home iu l*blla- | delphia that they died iu a hospital a few hours later. The ehildtvn were in bed at the tiuie they were burned, and ti'urn iilun* in fhi? rnntii I r iu uilliltiisPii they bad beeu playing with matches. i Rwtu-lUlIu Raptor* Mettled. The Swiss au<l Italiau Ciovernments hare settled thett- diplomatic rupture. : and the respective Ministers will re- | 8UPU? thotr r?i it? I A GIRL WAIF IDENTIFIED She Was Carried to Sea in a S.orm and Thought Lost rami 17 Resemblance Lad Father to Claim Poaaeaaloa, and Sew Orleans Judge Fcond In Hla Favor. Now Orleans, La. ? Judge Robert Hlngle. In the District Court of Plaquemlne. has decided the case of the wivlf of the Chcuiere Cammada storm in favor of Captain M. Torrebonne. declaring that the little girl in dispute was the latte^s child. The case had aroused a great deal of Inter* est as one of the most remarkable Identifications on record. On October 1. 1893. in the famous hurricane which devastated the Louisiana coast, the settlement of Cheniere Cnmmada was destroyed, and over 2500 people there and.on the coast were drowned. Among those lost at Cheniere Cammada were the family of Captain Torrebonne, whose wife and fire children. Including a little girl of five, were swept out to sea and reported all drowned The Captain and three sons, who were absent from the settlement at the time, escaped. Nearly all the bodies were washed out Into the Gulf and never recovered. A few months ago a negro woman reported to Captain Torrebonne that she had seen in New Orleans a child looking much like one of bis. The Captain came to the city, saw the child and claimed her as the daughter believed for nine years to have besn drowned at Cheniere Cammada. There was not the sllgbest evidence to support his claim, and the girl did not know or recognize him. She was named Mary Lee and was supposed to be the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lee. of Llbervllle, La. Upon investigation the Lees confessed that the girl was not their child, but bad been adopted by tbeiu from tbe children's borne at Beauvolr. MIm. A further investigation brought to light the fact that the child bad beeu brought to the home eight years ago by Sheriff Nunez, of St Bernard, who found ber in the possession of a poor fisherman named Galala Caballo. living In a palmetto but In the Lake Borgne swamp. The flaborman confessed that fire children did come to (pis hut with a German woman named Rosa. who. he supposed, was their mother. When taken to the children's home she wa? as wild as an Indian, and was with difficulty rescued from tbe fisherman, to whom she bad taken a liking. The Lees, who were well to do. had adopted and educated her and refused to surrender ber. The trial left little doubt that the girl is the child swept out to sea nine years ago. and believed to have been drowned, but how rescued will never be known. Tbe Identification was perfect, the strongest feature being the three surviving brothers, who bear tbe closest resemblance to tbe child, and a slight cut on the ear. due to an ear riojf mac uau uwu caugui iu suuir bushes and pulled out. TOWNS FLOODED BY CLOUDBURST Crap* ud Property Dtiur*4 la Vtitora Maw Tork-Oit Life Lo?t. Elmlra. N. Y.?Hornellsvllle and Canesteo were visited by a cloudburst which flooded the country, washed out the Erie Railroad tracks for miles and wrought heavy damage. The towns of Fremont and Howard were alao swept by the flood. Houses and barns were swept away by the flood at Hornellsrllle. It struck the tannery of A. T. Prindle & Son. breaking through the windows of the buildings. Their losa will reach $10,000. There was serious damage in Howard and Fremont Canandaigua. N. Y.?Another terrific storm has visited this section, doing great damage to crops and property that had not already suffered. Edward Chamberlain, living two miles south of Cheshire, was struck by lightning ns he stood in the door of a barn and was instantly killed. MARCONI NOT THE INVENTOR. Bis Pttnt Piper* Give Credit to mm Italian Naval OAc?r. London.?The Saturday Review says a startling denouement followed Professor Thompson's attacks in the Review on the validity of the Marconi patents, in which the professor said '??? ? ??f?l namoH Knlnri UU Iiuuau uai at uiuvvt, ? was tbe real inventor of tbe wireless telejfrapb system. It says: "Tbe Official Journal of tbe Patent Office contains a brief notice of a very unusual character. It announces tbat Guglielmo Marconi, wbo. on September 10. 1901. bad filed a patent In his own name for tbls invention, now seeks leave to amend tbe application by converting it Into an application for a patent for an invention communicated to blm from abroad by tbe Marquis Luigo SolarI. of Italy." MOTHER STRANGLES BABIES. fltd Twin About Thalr Nceki Whlla It Aleobollc Da ma at la. New York City.?When Richard Mead, a night watchman, returned to his home at Brooklyn, be found two of bis children dead in bed. choked with stout twine, another barely alive. and nis wire wrunini; uu iuc ?m;ui-u door in an alcoholic delirium. Tbere were three children in the family?Alice, aged three and one-half yean; May. one year old. and Hannah, two years old. the latter being the one survivor. It is thought by the police that in a frenzy produced by liquor Mrs. Mead strangled the children with string and then fell upon the door exhausted and unconscious. Nur Drovi?(t In T?iu Ftoo4a. Twelve persons have lost their lives In the doods of Pulaka and Bosque Uivers, Texas. Five victims were white, the remainder negroes who were camped in the river bottoms. Many houses have been washed away. A Death Sentence Commuted. President Kousevelt has commuted to dishonorable discharge aud dfteen years' Imprisonment the death senteure imposed on Private (Juy Steven-oii. Troop M. Xinrh Cavalry, by a eo'irtmartial in Samar. P. I. Saltan Hal<l *? Hoiligt. Captain John J. I'ersbiu?. of .he Fifteeuth Cavalry, who Is iu command of tbe Lanao. Mindanao. IV I.. ex|M*ditioo. has arrested the Sultan of Bluadayau as a hostage for tile delivery to hiiu of the .Moros who on .luue attacked two American*. The Sultan has ordered his followers to produce the guilty Mcros. Korea's Independence <?uarante?d. Great Britain and Japan have made ou agreement to maintain the independence of Korea in return for concessions. CONNECTICUT'S BUND MILLER. SomI Hyttaia by Which Ha Weljhs Grain and reed Which U? Sell*. Hugh Leo. sealer of weights and measures, a few (Jays ago. in his tour of inspection, stumbled on to one of the most remarkable business men in Connecticut. D. F. Dfckerman. who owns the grist mm on the Westtield road, formerly belonging to W. H. Baldwin, which he conducts in a very successful manner He is blind, but he has been at the mill so long that he knows every plank in the building, and without assistance is able to grind the grist of the farmers, as well as sell grain and feed to others. One of the most interesting portiona of his work is the weighing of the grain and feed which he sells. He has devised a system whereby he can weigh out any quantity with accuracy. He has a number of little sticks, which 11 rv L'Ul JUUl lllf It-llif" ?' lUUlft vu vu the arm of the iwalo the different weights. By selecting his fifty-pound stick, which he can pick oat by feeling its length, be placet it against the end of the arm of the scale, and tben mores the pendant up until it reaches tht other end of the stick. He has sticks ranging from fire to fifty pounds, and if he wanted to weigh eighty pounds be would take bis twen I ty-pound stick and place it at the op posite end of the arm. which is gradu ated for 100 pounds. After setting the scale to weigh wiiat he wants he put* his goods on the platform, and by putting bis band lightly over the arm is able to tell when the scales balance, and thus be weighs accurately any amount he desires All the different grains are kept io separate bins, and be knows where tc find every article in bis place. . He handily waits on the farmers who drive un to the front door to buy feed for tbelr atock. In operating tbe machinery of tbe mill be I* Just as methodical as clockwork, and any one watching bim would never dream tbat be could not see.?New York Sun. WORDS OF WISDOM. To bury a truth is to raise a lie. Every moral inheritance is entailed. Regeneration rioex more than reform. Moral exercise makes moral athletes. Hard living docs not make easy dying. All great work consists of small deeds. Blessings come in service as well a? after it. Men are either moulders or ar? moulded. The heart makes a good engine, bat a poor rudder. Growing and giving arc the best evi dences of living. * , Sponges gather easily, but they are quickly wrung dry. Yesterday's suc<-esi may be the secret of to-day's failure. It is better to lie saved in a storm than drowned in a calm. The edifice of character cannot be built without an architect. The first effect of knowledge is the consciousness of iguorance. ? Ram's Horn. British ??. Tanker Boy*. A stout Englishwoman said the other day that in ber opinion the American climate is "better for boys" than jthat of her native island. ".My first two boys were born in Yorkshire." she said, "and my younger three were born in Massachusetts and Ohio. Well. tbe*e three fellows are way ahead of their British brothers They have mor.? brain* and they're quicker to catch on to things." Her husband agreed with her so far as the intellectual superiority of bis American boys was concerned. He added, however, that the blessing was not an unmixed one. "The Ameriain boy has more check." be *aid. "He talks too much and t bio lea little of bis father. My English boys, when they were boys, used to look up to their pop. They thought me the clererest and bravest man on earth. That isn't what my Yankee lads think of me. They obey me all right enough, but there is something in their eye all tlx> time which makes me feel as if they set me down for a foreign old fool. They're too prowl of tbeir country. and everything rbat isn't American seem* small and funny to them."? New York Commercial Advertiser. Crowns by WholMal*. They did many thiugs better in the old world than in tlie new. Corona* tion processions was one of them. It is told of one of the ancient kings of Egypt that bis coronation procession occupied a whole day in passing through the city of Alexandria, and that &WO crowns of gold were carried by the servants. One crown was three feet in height and twenty-four feet in circumference. There were also carried in the processions sixty-four suits of golden armor, two !>oots of gold four and a half f?vt in leugtb. twelve golden basins, ten large vases of per fumes for the baths, twelve ewert, Ln?? ?i-i? m,i .1 innru number of nil} uinuca Kuu ? .?.Sv tables?all of gold Twenty-three of 3J0U crowns were valued at ?334.400 and it is not surprising that tbe procession was guarded by "JO.OJO soldiers. ?dt. James's ??az?-tfe. ITiiat Mb* ?ld. A litr.lc sermon which will be appreciated by nurses and doctors was innocently preached by a small girl who little knew tne beanng of her tale. lier auut bad been ill tor a long time, aud sotnv oue ask?*d Dorothy how the invalid was progressing. The Washington Post thus report* the auswer: ? _i_i. tinrnthv E ailOS Silk, dll3KtlV.M ? . "She hat the worst headachea. aud .she has to stay In a dark room. But -he's got lots of frauds. aud they try to make her feel lietter. They come to ate her every day. to see it there's anything they ran do. They scud her Jelly ami thing* to make her want to eat, l)Ui she doesn't eat a bit. Then they're always coming in to cheer her tip. It doesn't seem to <lo much good. !>ut." she added, with an effort to ?peak the speech of her elders, "she boars indictiotis nobly!" Wh?? It'* a HImiIbc. A national debt is a national blessing j to those Who hold the gilt-edged tecuriI tics.?New York News - ^