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FflTAL RACE RIOT
Militia and Mob Have a Battle
. io Evansville, lod? Daring
a Negro LyncbiBg.
SOLDIERS SHOOT TO KILL
Hardware Stores Broken Into---Arms
and Ammunition Taken From
Them?Martial Law.
Evansville, Ind. ?"**oj!owing four
days of Rioting and geueral lawlessness.
this city on the fourth night saw
the n)ost terrible of its experiences
with rioters. Seven persons are dead
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dUU I 'Jill ItCU die auvnu
seriously "with at least that number
more thought to be hurt.
At 10.30 o'clock the members of Company
A, First Regiment, Indiana National
Guard, after a day's vigilance
guarding the County Jail, and 100 Deputy
Sheriffs, uuder Sheriff Chris. Kratz,
tired point blank into a mob of 1000
gathered on Fourth, Division and Vine
streets surrounding the Yaudcrburg
County Jail, and attempting its capture.
From 7 o'clock a. m. until the hour of
the night's catastrophe the crowd
surged about the jail calling the militiamen
vile names, assailing them with
stones and berating the deputy sheriffs
who guarded the jail.
At I) o'clock the mob gradually became
more and more excited, its manifestations
of uneasiness more frequent,
and at 10 o'clock it was seen that nothing
could prevent an assault on the
jail. At 10.30 the rioters pressed slowly
forward and innocent onlookers followed.
Slowly they forced the militiamen
back toward the jail, until the alley
between Division street and the
stpne building was reached. Then the
leaders, with a bicycle in their front
as a shield to the bayonets of the
soldiers, attempted to enter the alley
and storm the alleyway entrance. Captain
Blum, of the National Guard, ordered
a charge on the rioters.
Gradually the crowd was forced
back, the soldiers using their bayonets
and butts of guns. Suddenly a rioter
fell. A soldier tried to drag him to his
feet, but before he could, was assaulted
by a rioter. Stones and boulders began
to fly through the air. A soldier was
struck with a rock and fell. A rioter
was knocked down with a gun butt
and then a shot was fired. The one
shot started a fusiHade of musketry
and shotgun fire from defenders.
The dead are: ,
Edward Sc-hiffman. painter; top of
li^ad blown off with rifle.
A Union "rnnvc nlri
(laughter of Joseph H. Allmun; shot in
breast with shotgun.
John Barrett, shot in the right lung.
August Jordan, nineteen, musician;
bullet wound through heart.
Edward Rule, twenty-three years old.
laborer; shot through body and head:
-killrd instantly.
Two men lying in front of the jail.
Fourteen other men were dangerously
wounded.
Six other rioters were seen to fall,
but got away before their names were
4 learned. At least that number were
suspected of being hurt.
Four members of Company A. First
Regiment, bullet and light gunshot
wounds on the body; one of them shot
through shoulder; another through the
ankle and other two slight scratches.
Two deputy sheriffs were slightly
wounded. \
All this time Robert Lee Brown, the
negro whose life the lynchers were
eager to take, was in jail at Vincennes.
He shot and killed Policeman Massey.
As Massfy lay on the pavement dying
no raised nimseu on ms eioow anu sour
a bnllot through the negro's left lung,
inflicting a fatal wound.
While the attack of the mob was
not unexpected it was supposed that
assurances that Robert Brown, the colored
murderer of Patrolman Massey,
was not in the jail would again be accepted
by the mob and that trouble
would thus be avoided, but the mob
refused to believe the Sheriff's statements
and advanced upon the jail with
battering-rams cut from telegraph
poles.
The mob. which had been hunting
all the evening for a chance to vent
its wrath on some negro, found one
about 11.30 p. m. and promptly lynched
him.
The troops hurried to the scene and
tried fc- argument and by threats to
induce the rioters to permit the black
man to co free. The mob would not
listen, however, and its leaders de
elared there should he a lynching then
and there. Th? members of the mob
clamored for the work to begin and
despite all the efforts of the troops
the work of hanging was commenced.
When the officers of the militia saw
how determined the crowd was and
that it would lie impossible to save the
nesro they reluctantly ordered their
men to prepare to shoot to kill.
The victim had been swung off when
'the firing actually began, and as soon
, as the soldiers shot into the mob its
members returned the fire. The sreat
number of casualties among the rioters
rendercd them furious.
The friends of the dead and injured
paraded the streets and threatened to
burn the .iail and the crowd increased
to 20,000 people, many of the women of
Dies Trylns to Save a Boy.
Elias D. Trimble, an old and wellknown
resident of West Nantlcoke,
I'a.. and a boy named Kyttle were
drowned in the canal near Harvey's
v.ioeK. .Mr. i limine macie an attempt
to rescue thp boy. and both were caught
in :in underbrush aud drowned.
The Jeanette I)iiaft!er.
The number of lives lost in the flootl
at Jean ctte. Pa., according tj the la tost
estimate was seventy-five; the properlv
lo*s is estimated at JfU ^50t>,0t)0.
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Prominent I'eople.
The King of Italy is five feet three
inches in height.
Ketcham has refused an offer "of
$100,000 for Cresceus.
United States Senator William A.
Clark intends to build the finest home
in Washington, D. C.
Commodore Peary, the Arctic explorer,
Is anxious to make another at
toinpt to reach the North Pole.
J. B. Greenhut, of Peoria, 111., has
started for Russia and various points
in Bessarabia, where he will study the
condition of the Jews.
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the oily whose sons or husbands wer? '
in the mob hi.viae joined in the throng
hi search foi them.
Everywhere throughout the city rhf? j
tragedy caused the most intense feeling j
and many who had taken no part in
the rioting armed themselves and ap-1
reared on the scene, swearing ven- I
geance against the men who fired with j
such deadly effect into the crowd.
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Governor uuroin was imuuum ui . nc :
killing of members of the mob by Ions:-,
distance telephone and was implored to
order an additional militia company
out. as it was feared that the shooting
would so exasperate the citizens that
the local company would not be able
to master the situation.
The Governor at once ordered the
company at Vincennes and the company
at Terre Haute to go to EvansriHe.
and special trains were hastily
made up at both places to transport
them.
Notice that they were coming was received
by the mob in some way almost
at the time the orders were given and
the train yards were taken possession
of by members of the mob, and it was
declared that neither company should ,
enter the city.
In the meantime thousands of people |
were parading the streets, condemning ,
T?" mf7 <iml Porvf "Rllim All HP
ronnt of the shotting, and doing: everything:
to intensify a feeling which was
already intense.
In order to provide themselves with
additional arms, the mob entered the
hardware stores again, and took everything
in the way of guns or missiles
that could be found. Bonfires were
lighted on the principal streets from
boxes secured from stores into which
the mob forced their way. and inflammatory
speeches were made upon every
street corner.
The Mayor of Evansville issued the
following proclamation:
"The condition of anarchy and lawlessness
that prevailed in this community
last night was a disgrace to civilized
people, and a repetition of its scandalous
proceedings will uot lie tolerated.
It is hereby ordered that all
saloonkeepers in the city close their
respective places of business at 0
o'clock p.m., and keep them closed until
G a. m. Tuesday.
"Ail fnTim-PMiinns rtf npnnlp either
on street corners or in other public
places, are hereby prohibited.
"All persons carrying arms, or any |
other kind of weapons for attack or
defense, or anything with which an
attack or defense could be conducted,
shall be arrested.
"Any boisterous or incendiary talk
will constitute sufficient ground for
arrest.
"The Chief of Police Is hereby in*
trusted with the faithful performance
of this order, and if it shall require a
special force of H00 men to restore
peace and Quiet, be is authorized to
furnish the same.''
Baptist Town is depopulated. Negro
families by the dozens left there, some
of them taking refuge in the open
country. New burg Road, leading west,
is lined with negroes, some in wagons,
and some camped by the roadside.
Nearly all are armed.
Patrolman Massey was buried by the
Kniehts Templar. There was a large
attendance, the funeral procession being
headed by a platoon of police.
The last work of the mob was to destroy
Blue^ Goose saloon, a negro resort
in Ba'ptist Town. The windows
and doors were demolished, and a hundred
shots were fired. There was a circus
in town, which brought additional
crowds of sympathizers with the different
races, and the police were kept
hard at work preventing crowds from
gathering.
CULTIVATING BACKYARDS.
Government Introduce* Pinjjree's Plan to
Wa?hin)Cton Children.
Washington, D. C'.?Professor Galloway.
of the Agricultural Department,
now has nine "demonstration gardens"
in operation here, teaching children to
cultivate back yards and vacant lots.
Fully 500 children are cultivating such
gardens, using seed furnished by the
Agricultural Department. Each garden
is in charge of a Government expert,
who directs the children how to make
the most of soil, seed and sunshine.
Professor Galloway's work is based
on the plan adopted by Mayor Pingree,
of Detroit, to utilize vacant lots fot
raising potatoes. In addition. Professor
Galloway is encouraging poor girls
to raise flowers, supplying them with
seed. Not only have children vegetables
to sell, but flowers as well, and
poor girls, instead of gazing longingly
in at florists' windows, now wear at
fine violets and pansies as any in tbfe
city.
Children who had no land to cultivate
have been given the use of small plot*
on the grounds of the Agricultural De|
partment.
HARRIET LANE JOHNSON DEADNiece
oT Buchanan, Who Entertained
rt-ijice of Wales at White If unite.
Pittsburg, Pa.?Word was received
here of the death of Mrs. Harriet Lane
Johnson, niece of President Buchanan,
at Narragansett Pier. Her body was
taken to Baltimore and buried beside
ber husbaud and children.
Mrs. Johnson was mistress of the
White House when the Prince of Wales
visited America as "Lord Renfrew,"
nr.<1 T...1C invito/) l>p Pl-psillpnt Rll
chanau to be his guest.
At that time she was Harriet Lane.
She arranged several pleasant trips for
the Prince, and accompanied the party
down the Potomac on the cutter named
after her to Mount Vernon, where the
Prince planted u tree at the tomb of
Washington.
Two years prior to the death of President
Buchanan Miss Lane was married
to Henry Elliott Johnson, of Baltimore.
Judge Parker In Georgia.
Chief Judge Alton B. Parker, of the
New York Court of Appeals, addressed
1 the Bar Association of Georgia in Tallulah
I-^IIs. Ga.
American Sailors Desert.
The Kleiner Journal in a dispatch
from Kiel. Germany, says since the departure
of the American fleet it has
been ascertained hat 105 American
sailors failed to report for duty ami
it is supposed that iliey have deserted.
Fire Wrecks a College.
Elliot Hall, of the Wesleyan Univer
I sity, Delaware, Ohio, and wliich contained
the laboratory. library and jryiu lasium
of the institution, was desJioyril
by fire caused by fireworks.
Minor Mention.
, There are 148 libraries in Mexico.
The Mexican Government maintains
fifty-eight lighthouses.
Hotels in Londor are overcrowded
with American arrivals.
> Over H00 miles of railway, mostly
single line, are owned and worked by
, the Natal Government.
The Episcopal Diocese of Oregon favors
the incorporation of the name
. "Catholic" in the church title.
t Atlantic City, N. J., possesses a nolics
> motor car whici in used solely foBj^L
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! Dak'ord Park, Pa., Swept Away an
Scores ot Victims i'erish.
MIL OF WATER 40 FEET HIGH
fleeing Victims Are Caught ir Narrow
Karine?Men, Women and Children
Are Drowned, Crashed and Electrocuted
in the Disaster?Car With Passengers
Vsihed From Bridge.
Pittsburg. Pa.?Another horror uimifar
to that of the great Johnstown flood
occurred at Oakford Park, half a mile
from Jeanette and between this place
and Johnstown, when, by the breaking
of a dam scores of pleasure-seekers out
for a holiday were drowned.
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known, and perhaps never will be
.known. Many bodies were swept
a\vay, while others were found crushed
nnd unrecognizable, the victims having
taken refuge in a building which collapsed.
Still others were burned and
blackened from having come in contact
with live electric wires.
The accident came so suddenly that
the people were caught penned in a
small space, and were uuable to escape.
The dam which burst was known as
Oakford Park Lane dam. It was a
forty-foot embankment, damming a
number of small streams. Four hundred
people had assembled at the resort.
The day had been a beautiful
one, but warm and sultry. Suddenly
the skies darkened, and a severe storm
swept over the park. The rain fell in
torrents. It was the worst cloudburst
ever known iu this part of the country.
Many of those at the: park sought
shelter in the car barns, while others
huddled in a small building occupied by
a restaurant. While the storm was at
its worst there was a crash like thunder.
Forty feet of the daiu had given
away, and a wall of water forty feet
high swept down on the pleasure seekers.
wlio were caught in the little valley
which forms the park. There is
sloping laud ou either side of a small
stream known as Brush Creek, and to
this higher land the terror stricken people
fled. Many of them, however, could
not get away.
When the wall of water was seen approaching
there was a panic in the restaurant
building. The forty people
who had taken refuge there made a
frantic effort to escape, which resulted
in the frail building collapsing. Some
were trampled to death in the excitement
which followed. While others
were hurrying across the street car
tracks the trolley wire fell and caught
theui. How many were killed by it
will never be known.
A trolley car which contained from
fifty to seventy-five people was crossins
the bridge over Brusl- Creek. The
motor man saw the great wave of water
frtmin?* nnri nut nn all the nower. It
was another race for life, but the wave
ran the faster, ami when the car
reached the centre of the bridge the
water struck it. The bridge was swept
aside as though it had been a log. taking
the car with it.
A number of bodies have boon taken
from the car but many others were
washed down the valley. A volume of
water about forty feet high and between
400 and ">00 feet. wide swept
through the narrow valley north of
Jeanette. washing everything before
it. West Penn Station. Jeanette Manor
and as far as Pitcairn are a scene
of ruin. Hundreds of houses have
been washed away along the banks of
the creek which parallels the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and has its outlet at
the mouth of Turtle Creek into the
Monongahela River.
George Wilhelm, of West Jeanette,
thirteen years old, was with eight boys
playing cards in a stable. The other
seven floated away on the roof and
were rescued, but Wilhelm was
drowned. James Westwood, thirtyfive
years old, of Penn Station, was
drowned. His wife and three children
were rescued. Mrs. Levi Baker, of
Peun Station, was sick iu hed. Her
house was carried away and she was
drowned. John Machjusky. forty years
old, was drowned. George Williams,
thirty-five years old, was drowned. His
wife was saved. Alex Victor was
dashed against a tree and died from his
injuries. Mrs. Nigga and her four children
were drowned.
Three members of a family were rescued
on a house floating past Jeanette
Manor. An unknown woman was
drowned at the Manor. John Sowers
and wife, of Greenburg, were rescued,
but in a serious condition. An unknown
man, about fifty years old,- was found
drowned at Penn Station.
M. A. Coffee, the superintendent of
the traction line, estimated the loss at
the park at about forty. Walter Hawthorne,
twenty-one years old. of Scottdale,
saw the flood coming. He caught
a telegraph pole floating by and was
l-psfiipfl Hp estimated that of fortv
people caught by the flood only live
were rescued. All the places of amusement
in the park were washed away.
The dam at Jcanette was, like the
one which broke at Johnstown, at a
pleasure resort. Several years ago a
resort was established about half a
mile from Jeanette and called Oakford
Park. Several small streams run
through the valley close to the park,
and it was decided to make a miniature
lake. A dam some forty feet high was
built, creating a lake about half a mile
long, a quarter of a mile wide, and
fifty-five feet deep. It was known as
Oakford Park Lake.
The resort is on the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and receives its patronage
from Greensburg, Manon, Irwin,
Derry and other small towns in
the vicinity.
Profeisional High Diver Killed.
Before a crowd of 3000 persons T. R.
Bergquist, of Rock Island, a professional
high diver, was dashed to death
at Grand Isle, two miles below Davenport,
Iowa, in the Mississippi River by
the breaking of a ladder.
Senator Quay'i Prediction.
Senator Quay ;>ays President Roosevetl
will be nominated by acclamation,
and names Senators Fairbanks, Hanna
and Foraker, Govi?ruor Taft. General
Grant and U. S. G ant as among the
Viee-Pi'-'Sjidential possibilities.
The Sportluj World.
Philadelphia defeated Kent County
cricketers in England by sixty-two
runs.
The Wahnetali Boat Club, of Flushing,
N. Y., has bought an eight-oared
racing shell from Columbia University.
H. K. Deveraux has purchased a very
fast green trotter by Bellini, 2.13'/4, and
will race him at the Cleveland matinees.
Frank Relnhart has just won the
Baltusrol golf championship. The
Princeton boy made tbe thlrty-slx boles
in 166.
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NEW PACIFIC CABLE OPEN
p.ioseveii and Taft Exchange Greet
ing-s Under the Sea. I
An Electrical Girdle Put Around till
Kartli in Twelve Minutes?An
Epoch-Making Event. \
New York Cify.?At last Puck'?
much talked of girdle around the'world
has been completed. That this was
true was demonstrated at Oyster Bay
when Clarence H. Mackay, President
of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company,
received from President Roosevelt
at 11.35 p. in. a message directed t
to him and dispatched from the same *t
office at 11.23 p. iu. The world had (
been circled in twelve minutes, and all j
records had been broken. This was
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not tu<? nrst message srui uwi mc >?... ,
Pacific cable, however, for one sent i
by President Roosevelt "was dispatched
to Governor Taft at Manila at 10.50 c
p. m., and a reply received at 11.19 .
p. tn. President Roosevelt was not at 1
the dispatching office, but was in tele-' *
phonic communication with it at his <
Sagamore Hill home. 2
The best previous time made in send- j
ing :i message around the world was
on May 1(5. ISO*;, when Chauncey M. f
Depew sent a message from the Na- *,
tional Electric Exposition, at the Grand ;
Central Palace in this city?time, fifty (
minutes. The message was sent to j
San Francisco, then back to New York.
then by Atlantic around the world to f
Tokio, and the same way back to New c
York. It was the best way a message
could be sent at that time. t
There had been some delay in landing j,
the cable at Honolulu because of the 5
surf resulting from n storm oft the v
Hawaiian group, and as the hours
passed it looked as if the cable might (
not be opeued on July. 4, as planned.
About 10 o'clock, however, Mr. Mackay [
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was informed mar me cauie uuu au a
last successfully been landed at Honolulu
at 9.30 p. m.. New York time; that |,
trial messages had been exchanged be- \
tween that point and the Midway Isl- ij
ands, the last points remaining to be v
connected. L'
Already President Roosevelt's message
to Governor Taft had been sent, 0
and prepa "tions were made for send- |
ing Presiacdt Roosevelt's message to i
Mr. Mackay. This was dispatched at j
11.23 p. m.. from the executive offices $
in Moore's Block, Oyster Bay. Those s
present when this epochmaking message
was sent, besides Mr. Mackay, (
were Secretary and Mrs. Loeb. and As- f
sistant Secretary D. 7. Barnes. Mr. s
Mackay received the message at 11.33 r
p. m. He tiled a reply to President I
Roosevelt, which was received within
the space of nine minutes', breaking 2
the record just made. The message '
from the President went westward 1
over the Pacific, returning by the At- 1
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laiHIC, lVIlIIC i ur iuj/ij i&wm ?
Mackny went over the Atlantic, return- a
ing by the Pacific. This evened mat- t
ters, for the day which had been lost I
in sending the message in one direction j
had been counterbalanced by the day r
gained in sending the other in the op- t
posite direction. c
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Dahlem, Sincr Hi* Marriage to Rich ]
Woman, Had Dunn Little Bnt Drink. (
Philadelphia. ? As all the circumstances
surrounding the murder of :1
Mrs. Sophia Dahlem by her husband. *
Adolph Dahlem, at their country home f
in Byberry, followed by his suicide, are f
brought to light, they' indicate that it 1
was the act of a man whom drink had J
nil hut ruined morally, and tfiat the 1
double tragedy followed a quarrel between
the two that began at their home
in this city andj continued until after
they had reached their Byberry home. '
Mrs. Dahlem, who was a sieter of
Gustavus A. Muller, President of the
Bergener Engel Brewing Company, |
was a rich woman in her own right, i
and since her marriage to Dahlem, t
eight years ago, he is said to have lived t
practically on her income. An archi- f
tect by profession, he worked very lit- g
tie at that, and for some years bad (
done practically nothing.
OFFICIAL KILLED BY HIS SON. f
City Secretary Moore, of Dallas, Shot to J
Protect One of the Family.
Dallas, Texas.?Intense excitement t
was caused in City Hall circles by a t
tragedy iu which one of the best known ,
municipal officials lost his life.
City Secretary S. A. Moore was shot j
through the heart and killed almost |
instantly by his son, Ernest Moore, who ,
until- recently was an assistant to his (
father. The tragedy took place in the \
family home. ?
For several days Secretary Moore
had been under the influence of liquor.
He became violent toward his family
and threatened to kill one of his sons, j
who is about nineteen years old.
Moore was powerfully built and he
seized the youth. Ernest, who is about ]
twenty-two years old, fearing his (
brother would be killed, tired 011 his ,
father, sending one bullet through his ,
head. Ernest Moore is under nominal ,
arrest. ,
Left Church For Wheat Field.
The burring of harvesting machines
made music in a thousand Kansas
wheat fields Sunday last, and 2o,0(J0
uien and a number of women abandoned
thdir accustomed places of wor- ,
ship to save the over-ripened wheat. ,
Church services were abandoned in
many rural districts. The people be- !
lieved it right to utilize a perfect day
for saving the wheat.
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Favor Historical Sabbath.
The Conference of American Rabbis ,
in Detroit, Mich., declared in favor of
"maintaining the historical Sabbath as ,
a fundamental institution of Judaism." |
To Prlaon For Peonage.
At Montgomery, Ala., in the United
States Court, George D. Cosby and i
Barancas F. Cosby, farmers of Talla- i
poosa County, pleaded guilty to the j
charge of peonage and were sentenced ;
to serve one year and a day in the (
Atlanta Penitentiary.
A Sen?e1e*? Hoax.
Enticed to Cincinnati by letters an*
ncuncing a prospective gift from Andrew
Carnegie, representatives of
T'...L...A tiio
ivuim v ? w
offer was a hoax.
Labor World.
Tailors at Edinburg, Scotland, have
struck for higher wages.
Toronto (Can.) marble workers are
on strike for higher wages.
Mexico will employ Chinese coolie
laborers in the hemp fields. ,
The Bricklayers' International Union
has a membership of over 80,000.
Rochester (N. Y.) masons have been
granted the new wage scale demanded
?$4 for an eight-hour day.
San Jose (Cal.) bricklayers have been
organized under the banner of the
Bricklayers' and Masons' Intern0*1"""^
Union,
MMVESf HANDSAT MOTION
Kansas Farmers Bid For Men to
Qll/a 4ka \A/U Pi?An
WUVQ 11112 fV MUUl VIV/UI
MOD WORKER GETS $6 A DAY
rrain* Held Up at Small Station* and
High Wiueps Offered to Passengers to
Stop Off and Oo to Work iu the Fields
?Three Dollars a Day Offered Foi
Stackers.
Topeka, Kan.?'The call for laborers
o help save rhe wheat crop coutinues
o come from the wheat belt, but I. B.
ierow, free employment agent. says
le has exhausted his resources and
hat the extra laborers must be found
u the State.
The wages in the wheat belt are in reasing
and tae farmers are now offerng
$'2.30 and $3 a day lor help aud are
mable to get the men. Many eallo
aine to the employment offices, bur
dr. Gerow says that only a few men
ire willing to respond. Sir. Jones, Division
Superintendent of the Rock Islind,
telephoned to .vlr. Gerow tint 1(XX)
non are needed along his road in the
vheat belt. The farmers in Pratt
bounty have asked for ."000 more men.
Jays City asks for fifty-five and Jew'11
City wants twenty-live. All of the
'armors who are wiring for help are
ifforing the highest wages.
Beloit. Kan.?Wheat harvesting in
he district of Beloit is uow in full
last, but is being retarded some by
carcity of hands. The prevailing
vages paid here are from $2 to $2.30 a
lay. The weather for harvesting is
ine, and the quality of the grain is
ierfect. Conservative estimates put
lie average j'ield for this'section at
lineteen bushels an acre.
Salina. Kan.?Councilman Taylor Miler
has received word from La Crosse,
tush County, that 500 or GOO harvest
mnds are needed in that county. The
vages are $2.50 for commou harvest
lands and $3 for stackers. *
Itussell, Kan.-.Two negroes were bid
iff on the auction block for harvest
lands. They were John and Harper
'offer and known as good workers,
.'he bidding was spirited, starting with
12.50 a day. August Iieinahart finally
lecured them on a bid of $3.21 a day.
At Victoria, just over the line in Ellis
'ounty. another negro asked for bids
or a hand who would pitch to the
tack all of the grain one header could
lit. On this condition the negro
nought a six-dollar-a-day bid.
Forty farmers of Rush County con:regated
at the station at Bison and
"held up" the west-bound Missouri
'acilic passenger train in search for
larvest hands. A red bandana handkerchief
was wrapped around a lantern
md the- fast west-bound train, which
lever stops at the station of Bison, was
wrought to a halt. The trainmen were
nuch surprised when they found the
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hero was some passenger to so west
ir some accident aliend. As thp train
ame to a standstill thp farmers
warmed on to it and. approaching all
lassengers having the appearance of
a borers, offered them $2.50 and ?3 a
lay to stop and help in the harvest.
In a few instances even a greater
imor.nt was offered, and at least throe
vceks' work guaranteed, as most of
lie farmers will thresh immediately
ollowing the harvest. A dispatch from
*ison says that at least 100 men are
vanted in the immediate locality and
>00 can be used in the county.
HARRIET LANE JOHNSTON'S WILL.
5300,000 For n School For Choir Boy* in
Memory of Her So?s?Other Bequests.
Washington. D. C?The will of the
ate Harriet Lane Johnston, niece of
^resident Buchanan and mistress of
he White House during his adminisration,
who died recently at Narragan=ett
Pier, was tiled here. It. bequeaths
>300.000 in memory of the sous of the
esiatrix and to be known as the
"Lane-Johnston fund" to the corporaioti
of the Protestant Episcopal CathIral
Foundation of Washington, for
lie establishment and maintenance of
i school for choir boys.
To Johns Hopkins University of Baliinore
$<>0,000 is left for the endowment
of three scholarships to De
(warded to poor youths.
One hundred thousand dollars is left
11 trust as the "James Buchanan fund"
'or the erection of a suitable monument
to the memory of President Bu hanan
at liis birthplace near Mercers>urg.
Pa. A number of other tequests
ire made.
CYPSY PRIN1CESS DEAD.
Lola Barry, Counted as the Hnuilnomest
of Her Itace, Dies Suddenly.
Mahanoy City. Pa. ? Princess Lola
Barry, who was regarded as the prettiest
gypsy woman in the country, and
ivho was the daughter of King Barry,
Trie of the oldest nomads in America,
lied while part of her tribe were en amped
near here. She was taken vioently
ill suddenly, and some mystery
surrounds her death.
Princess Lola was twenty-one years
)ld. and her beauty was striking. She
eceived many offers from artists to sit
for them, but always declined. She
ivas educated by her father, who is a
linguist and well read, and she spoke
several languages fluently.
Killed by an Auto.
Captain Harry I-Iauson, the- commander
of Harry Harkness's yacht,
vvliili* being instructed in running his
employer's automobile 011 Putnam
Hill, Greenwich, Conn., dashed the machine
against a mass of rocks, and was
burled 200 feet and instantly killed.
T)urant Flayed in Court's Decree.
In a decision that contained a rebuke
for William West Durant, yachtsman,
member of several clubs and sportsman
rent-rally, the Appellate Division of 1 lie
Supreme Court, New York City, declared
that lie has been for years withholding
from his sister. Mrs. Helen Durant
Rose, nearly $754,000, her share
of her father's estate. It also declared
he allowed his mother, now dead, to
become dependent while lie "reveled in
luxury," although she. too, was entitled
to a portion ol tue iiumous im u\ m-r
husbaml.
$7500 For Automobile Hurt.
At Philadelphia, Pa., a verdict of
$7."t00 was awarded to Daniel Quigley
for injuries sustained in being struck
by an automobile on April 17 last. The
defendants were George L. and Caroline
R. Thompson and their chauffeur.
James G. Florida.
151k Militia Encampment.
General Bates has informed the War
Department, Washington, that nine
regiments of militia from the Middle
States and thirty companies of regular
troops will assemble in encampment at
West Point, Ky., the last of the month
for mancuYres and instruction.
KILLED IN A COLLISION
Accident on the Southern Railway
Caused by Ignoring- Orders.
Pmurnger Train Ran* Into an <?t>eu
Switch at KocliiUh, Va.. Striking
Sidetracked Freight.
Charlottesville, Va.?Southern Railway
passenger train No. 35. southbound,
ran into an open switch at
Rockfish depot, twenty miles south of
this city, smashing into a local freight
on a siding. The passenger engine aud
express coaches were demolished, and
the baggage coach telescoped through
the second class passenger coach in the
rear.
In the latter was a party of immigrants,
all of whom were killed or injured.
The dead number twenty-four
and the injured twelve.
Identified, dead: James McCormick.
engine driver, of Charlottesville;
Charles Davis, engine driver, of Alexandria,
Va.; Thomas Sheppard, of
Charlottesville, brakeman ou freight;
Charles T. Cay, .or Charlottesville, tireman
on freight: J. E. Lowe, negro, of
Baltimore: Charles T. Litch, negro, dining
ear waiter: C. C. Owen, of Philadelphia,
boiler inspector; Adam Vucosavlievleh.
Austrian boy; Barllani Gughelmo,
Austrian woman: two unknown
Austrian women; unknown mulatto
woman.
The work of rescuing the injured began
immediately.
Dr. William A. Lambeth, of the University
of Virginia, was on the train,
and at once organized measures of relief.
The trainmen, under the doctor's
direction, cut through the panels of the
baggage and express car and took
out twenty of the dead. Probably a
score of injured were removed. ,
W. A. Ward, the Union News agent
on the train, was in the fatal coach,
but escaped. The shock of the collision
threw him through the window, breaking
his left arm.
The special train which went from
here to the scene ot the wreck returned
to the city about 8 o'clock, bringing
some of the dead and most of the
wounded. Thirteen of the injured
were taken to the University Hospital,
where their wounds were dressed.
Most of the immigrants were Austriaus
and were bound for points as
far distant as California.
H. A. Sharpe, of Knoxville. Tenn.,
narrowly escaped death. He and Mrs,
Sharpe were returning from their
bridal trip, having spent tbeir honeymoon
in Washington. Mr. Sharpe was
iu the smoker engaged iu conversation
with C. C. Owen when the collision occurred.
Owen was killed instantly,
his body falling on Sharpe.
W. B. Brubeck.of this city, conductor
of the local freight, is reported in a
critical condition. After witnessing the
awful sight, It is said, he became .suddenly
insaue, and when found was
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ENGLISH WELCOME OUR FLEET.
The Greeting at Portsmouth Harbor it.
Very Enthusiastic.
Portsmouth, England.?For the first
time in English history a foreign
squadron is lying in Portsmouth harbor.
The American squadron, fresh from
its peaceful victories at Kiel, has found
here a welcome which for cordiality
could not be surpassed. The latchstring
is outside.
The squadron came right in to occupy
the place'of honor just off the dockyard.
In fact, the Kearsarge. Admiral
Cotton's flagship,Nies at the railroad
jetty in the dockyard sacred to the use
of the royal yacht and the reception of
?'Aro 1 vSeifnrc<
Tlie channel squadron, composed of
the pick of the British Navy, i-onsisting
of six battleships and four cruisers, under
command of Vice-Adiniral Lord
Charles Beresford, was assembled iu its
honor. In the brilliant sunshine the
contrast between the gleaming white
bodies and yellow upper work of the
American ships and the grim gray
which is now the regulation color of
British war vessels was vivid.
The battleship Kearsarpe made the j
fastest transatlantic cruise ever recorded
by any vessel of her class.
MILITARY RULES EVANSVILLE.
Governor Dnrbin, of Indiana, TCushes.
Troops There to Restore Orrter#
Evansville, Ind.?Eight dead, two
wounded mortally and at least thirtyfive
either seriously or slightly
wounded, is the canvass of the battle
between militia and rioters at the court
house and county jail. Most of the
dead are young men. A girl. Hazel
Allman. aged fifteen, was shot through
the heart while fleeiug from the scene
with Iier parents in a bugjry.
Military rule Is enforced. The city Is
guarded by the entire First Infantry
of the Indiana National Guard under
command of General W. J. MeKee, of
Indianapolis. An artillery squad la
also present.
Three companies are at the county
jail and the court house opposite, and
the remainder of the city is patrolled
by 100 civilian and special police.
The negroes are extremely quiet and
every sign of a race war has disappeared.
Hundreds of negroes have left
the city and those who are brave
enounh to remain sleep in companies of
from fifty to 200. They arc in a state
of nervous fright.
"Goat Hlnch" Electrocuted.
William O'Connor, better known as
"Goat" Ilinch, was electrocuted at
Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y., for
the murder of Night "Watchman Matthew
Wilson, at Cobleskill. N. Y.. in
November. 1900. This is the,twelfth
electrocution at Dannemora. The current
was turned on at 11.38 a. ni.. and
one minute and fifteen seconds later
O'Connor was declared dead.
Murderer l'enltent at Sonfl'otd.
David Sh'aiul, who shot and kil'o.i
Mrs. Ida Backer and Policeman Cyrus
Shaefifer. was hanged in the jail yard :it
Lebanon. Pa. Before goiug to r!;(>
scaffold Sliaud said he was sorry i:
his crime.
E?tnte of Arlhnt K. Pennell.
J. Fred Pennell, administrator of the
estate of Arthur R. Penned, who was
killed in the CJehres Mono quarry, Biif*
falo. tiled an account i'i;; of ibe estate.
It shows Pennell had property vrotlii
^lil'1,108, including his iusurance.
Slide For Lite" h Slide to Death.
Clara Fox, of Omaha, was killed
while making a '"slide for lite" on a
wire stretched from the Court House
tower. Fort Dodge, Neb., to a telephone
pole half a block away. The harness
in which she hung became unbuckled
just after starting. She fell into a
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crown 1UU It'ei ueiuw. sihmh; !>. n.
Wheeler. of Fort Dodge, r.ml probably
fatally injuring him.
France's President In Kni;!:ind.
President Loubet of France visited
England and was warmly received in
Londou by King Edward, high liritish
officials and the ueoole.
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
It is believed in Washington that
Count Cassini. wiio'has gone home to a
Russia on leave, will not eome back to
this country as Ambassador.
TJ.ir.rtTi Vn? Qtarnhnpo roppivPf! formal
notice from Berlin of his promotlou to
the rank of Ambassador.
The appointment of John Barrett as
Minister to Argentina is probably the
outcome of his service in the last PauAmerican
Congress. Mr. Barrett is a native
of Vermont, born in 1866. He is
now a resident of Oregon.
Secretary of the Navy Moody declared
lynching so widespread as to
warrant a Federal law to stop the evil. 1
The Fourth was observed by a joint >" -JS
celebration by the Government and the
District of Columbia on the lawn of ;
the White House, where Ambassador
Jusserand and Sec-etary Moody made
addresses.
The Postoffice Department discontinued
the contract for purchasing time .
Indicators from the Postal Device and
Improvement Company, of California. v
Congressman Littauer wrote to Secretary
Root, offering to aid tlie investl- . .
gation of army glove contracts in any
way in bis power. *
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. A_ ?j
The transport Sumner, with - the ;;
Fourth Infantry on board, struck an \
uncharted rock and was beached on
the coast of Luzon.
Manila and its outlying districts are
shortly to bav? a new and more extensive
water supply, which will Insure
greater purity and increase oC r:
quantity equal to three times the pr&s- m
ent supply.
Opposition to the proposed opium
monopoly in thi3 Philippines is becoming
strong. Secretary Root recently
cabled Governor Taft to hold up the -,.i
bill until its opponents in this country
Ka l>ftir?rl
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DOMK8TIC. '
Many students of Eastern colleges
expressed their intention to go to Kansas
to work there as farm hands, attraeted
by the great dearth of harvest*
ers in the West. \
John Larikerslum, a Harvard student j
jnder arrest, confessed to breaking Into $
an establishment, stealing an antomo- ,
bile and touring the country around ?
Cambridge, in company with youag *
women.
A sequel to the elopement of the
wealthy Mrs. Do:V Sang, wife of a Chi- % ,:j!
nese physician, with her Chinese cOok, .
Chin Mon Yuen, iast February, came
In a teiearram to the police from Yuca- tan.
Mexico. Th? Chinese cook. wag
found murdered, the'crime having been %
committed by highbinders.
President Roosevelt and Mayor Low jjg
were guests of honor at the celebration
of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of Huntington. Long Island,
and made addresses. St. Clair McKelway
was one of the other speakers.
Senator Piatt advocated the re-election
of Chauncey M. Depew to the Cni- *#>
ted States Senate.
Joseph Eugene Lamothe, the man ac- .
I cused of the murder o? Miss Goddu. of
I Lowell. Mass.. died in St. Luke's Hospital,
New York City.
Without warning the union smeltermen
of Denver. Ool.. called a strike at
the plants in that city and the men
walked out, leaving the furnaces In
such shape that heavy loss may resqlt H'tXs
The men demand an eight-hour day. i
At Fall River. Mass.. the cotton sup- ^
ply is running iow, and many mills are X
likely to close next month; 800,000
spindles are idle.
The death of Mrs. Aunie Nenpert. in
Brooklyn, was attributed to the noise ;
of toy cannon and firecrackers near her
home on the Fourth.
William Nottingham. Regent of the
"University of the State of New York,
lost an eye in an explosion. Jd*
Recent gifts to Harvard, Wellesley n
and two other institutions of learning
? rrvrcrrn ta noflrlv W'flflft.. .' >
licttl wuoiuu J ?t?W
ooo. "
Fire at St. Joseph. Mo., did great
damage to ttie packing plants there. /
VOKEION.
An English correspondent quotes a a.
officer of high rank in the Turkish
Army as declaring that war with Bulgaria
appears to be inevitable.
President Loubet of France was en- > /
tertained at luncheon by the Lord
Mayor of London, and gave a banquet
in honor of Hint; Edward.
Advices received from Seoul, Korea,
say the Russians are laying a tele- *y;'A
graphic cable from An-Tuug to Yongan-Po.
across the Yalu River.
W. B. Harris-, the traveler and author,
who was captured June 16 by '
the bandit Raisuli, near Zeenat, Mo- . .
rocco, was released in exchange for a
number of native prisoners.
Concentration of Russian. British,
American and Japanese warships iu
I Pn.n.i.n <Wlnrmt in Parlia
rnent to have no special object.
A dispatch from Santiago, Chile, an
nounces that bubonic plague has ap- j
pearod at Valparaiso and Talcahuana. J
Although the American quick lunch fl
establishment at Loudon has been in
operation only a lew weeks it has been,^K
very successful.
The situation between Bulgaria and 1
Turkey is reported iu Vienna to be
growing more serious.
It is proposed to establish an ItalianMexic.iu
bank at Mexico City. The
capital of the bank is to be $500,000.
An international exhibition has recently
been opened at Athens, and will
last six months.
.Tames Juvenal, of Philadelphia, was
defeated by Beresford In his first trial
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The German Antarctic expedition in
the Gauss has readied the Cape of
Good Hope after nearly two years of
effort. Every previous well-fitted expedition
has iieuetrated farther'south
than it. f
Distinguished lienors were paid to J
the United States European squadron I
at Portsmouth, England. I
President Loubet of France .expressed I
J hope for closer Anglo-French relations fi
at luncheon in Loiulou Guildhall. BE
In a figlit between Bulgarians and m
Turks near Vodena the Iiulgarians lost ~ '
ten Killed and the Turks two wounded.^
An order of the British Board of \ H
Agriculture forbids the landing of H
Amerir:ui hogs and New England cat- H
t'.e in Eu;;iand. fig
.The Itussian Foreign Office intimated
that the i?reseoration of the Jewish pe- H
tit ion would be slighted. 10
Ti:e Gorman Foreign Office says the
report that Germany intends present-'
ins ro (lie CuLian Government claims iflfl
for .111 siiileiniiity for losses sustained
by Germans during the recent war is jgjjfl
ilussia aud Austria have decided*not
to allow Turkey to attack Bulgaria, and 1
have cautioned Turkey not to provoke
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