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DEATH IM MHO'S FUR? WIrlocnroarl I ns<? nf Life and Pron- I UIUW|;i VMV. -v?? ?? ? j- , perty in the West. BUSY TOWN NEARLY WIPED OUT The Village of St; Charles, Minn., Laid "Waste?Business Section Ruined and Nearly 100 Dwellings Torn to ricccs? Much Damage Was Done Elsewhere and Many Person* Were Injured. Milwaukee, Wis.?The story of a terrific storm sweeping across the State from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan, carrying death and destruction in its wake, is told by the dispatches which come from almost every city. Twelve were killed and a score or more injured. The worst of the storm was felt at St. Charles, Minn., just across the Wisconsin line, which was almost completely wiped out with a record of seven killed and twenty-eight injured, many seriously. The dead are: John Hebens, Sr.; William Hebens, his son; Will Adams, Oscar Crittenden, George Jesson, Ed I Murphy, Ed Peters, of Dover, Minn. The entire main street of the town ("was iiterauy wipea out, imruij u uu?iness place being left standing. Fortytwo residences were destroyed, and the total property damage is estimated at ?100,000. Among the buildings demolished were the Central School Building, the Chicago Great Western Depot, the Catholic church and Parrott's Wagon Works. At 2.30 p. m. the storm cloud was seen approaching from the southwest, and there was an immediate scramble for places of safety. The tornado struck the town from the southwest flunrter and made a clean sweep through it, following almost entirely the line of the main street and devastating buildings on each side. Then the residences further back from the business centre were struck and many of them blown completely away. ' It seems almost miraculous that there was not a greater loss of life. Four of those killed were in John Eben's saloon when It collapsed, and they were * 1 J 1 Twa iDurieu ueuettiu iuc mctnusc. ^^ bthers -were In a dry goods store which (was blown atfny, and they were killed by the falling walls. E. Peters, of Dover, was killed in the wreck of a hotel. The telephone exchange was demolished, and two of the girls were seriously injured. The storm came upon the town with such suddenness that it was filling the air with debris of buildings before the citizens realized the nature of the calamity. Many of those injured received their hurt3 from flying missiles, ;while others were caught beneath the wreckage of their business houses or homes and remained pinioned down antil rescued by the relief party. i The storm, however, aeems to have followed tery closely the boundary line between Minnesota and Iowa and damage to farm buildings, dwellings, and grain stacks, with injury to human beings and death to live stock, is re potted from several points in that locality. At Almond, near Waupaca, three .were killed, and at Blain, Wis., in the ?A?-r>sv ftrA nfhorfl mat dAAth. oauic uiou iw, bn v wuvtv mv. ? ? i"N\ isconsln was not alone In feeling the effects of the storm, for the wind swept the upper peninsula of Michigan, also doing considerable damage there. The dead at Almond and Blain are: Albert Holtz, Almond; Mrs. Holtz, John Holtz, aged lirteen years; Abram Johnson and Mrs. Johnson. i The storm at Almond came unexpectedly. The day had been muggy, but a sudden shift of the wind was followed by a tornado, which tore down a dozen houses in various parts of Waupaca County. The home of Holtz was destroyed, and all three occupants are dead. At Blain, In addition to the dead, Samuel Erlcson was found in the ruins of his home, fatally hurt. Robert Mank was found with his back broken. At Oshkosh the greatest trouble was due to falling electric light wires. Two men were struck and badly burned. jAt Baraboo tlie Baraboo River rose above its banks and flooded the business part of the city in a short time. ! At Houghton and Marquette, Mich., the storm blew in the plate glass windows and the hail did damage. Several were injured at Independence, ^An>n TTfft fi loff 1 n ivvis., uuu me ciiuic iu?ju mho i?i. in darkness by the burning of the electric light plant, due to lightning. ; One man was killed and twelve were Injured In Independence, where the property loss Is $100,000. < * In Racine. Carl Larson was struck by a falling electric light wire and killed. MISS RUTH BRYAN WEDDED. flhe Was Married on the Day After She Became of Age. i Lincoln, Neb.?MLbs Ruth Balrd Brj: lan, daughter of William J. Bryan, b? came the wife of William Homer LeavJtt, an artist, of Newport, R. I., at Falftj .view, the country home of the brftRre parents. . The bride was unattended and her father did not give her away. She was attired in a traveling gown of brown ribeline, with a hat to match. o l ? ai ALa *-V? ^ oxiuruj uiiti iutf tdeuivuj' iuc uuuc and bridegroom started ou a tour of the South and East. Their romance dates back five months, when Mr. SLeavitt, "who is the bride's senior by fourteen years, came to Lincoln to paint Mr. Bryan's portrait. Her parents thought Miss Bryan too young to marry, and she fixed her wedding date tot one day after she became eighteen. EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR MEN. I Eteain Cooker liluwj Up In Peoria Dls- ; tlllery Witli Deadly ReaoIU. ! Peoria, 111.?By the explosion of a | steam cooker in the plant of the Corn- j log Distilling Company four men were j killed and one man was seriously injured. The dead, who all were workmen in ; the distillery, are Neill Powell, assist- , ant engineer; James McManus, James j O'Kcefe, and George Schaffer. Five : men were badly scalded and bruised. Parka Keaten In Election. Frank Buchanan was re-elected Pres- i Ident of the International Bridge and i Structural Iron Workers by the National convention of that organization at Kansas City, Mo., by a vote of 43 to 40. The opposing candidate was B. F. Donnelly, of Albany, N. Y., Sam Parks' choice. Although Parks was beaten in the Presidency, he elected the Executive Committee, which is of more importance thau the Presidency. 'Pennsylvania'* Chief Jattlce Dead. Chief Jusdce J. Brewster McCollum, of the Supreme Conrt of Pennsylvajoia. im d*>ad PERfSH ON LAKE STEAMER Captain Bravely Meets Death While Trying1 to Save Wcmsn. Squall Strikes the E. L. Hacklej- on Lak* Michigan and She Turns Over?rassencers and Crew l)ro\rn. Ci. T> Tlin efrtini ouugeuu i5av>, ??ib.?iut unit ."vu.uI boat Erie L. Hackley. with passengers I and crew to the number of twenty-one I on board, went down in a squaii in I Green Bay. Twelve persons, including I three women, were drowned. The nine j others, eight men and one woman, were saved by a passing vessel, but not until S a. m. nest day,, after a night of such suffering that several of them are at the point of death. The Lost?Lawrence Barringer, Fish Creek, Wis.; Edna Barringer. sister of L. Barringer; Frank Fitzgibbons. Jacksonport, Wis.; Carl Kelly, Fish Creek; George Le Clair. Jr.. Jacksonport, brother-in-law to the Barringers; Nels Nilson, Sturgeon Bay. Wis.; Joseph V. Orus, Fish Creek, captain of the Hackley; Henry Rabitoy. Fish Creek: Freeman Thorp, Fish Creek; Truchay, cook, Fish ureek;iiiss Frances Vincent, Egg Harbor. Wis.: Miss Vincent, sister of Mis9 Frances Vincent. Although the Hackney was a small vessel, with a limited passenger list, the experience of those who rode with her in the storm that swept her to destruction was as thrilling as in any greater disaster of the sea. The boat left Menominee. Mich., soon after 5 o'clock p. m., bound for Fish Creek. She had proceeded out only about seven miles when she was overwhelmed by a terrific squall from out of the southwest. Angry seas crashed over the little vessel, threatening to engulf her. and Captain Orus decided to turn about and try to make the port she had just left. In bringing the Hackley about she fell into the trough of the sea. from which she could not get out. The captain threw the wheel hard down to port and then to starboard, working like mad to make the boat obey the rudder, but without avail. As the vessel was thrown up and down in the deep gulf of waters some of the freight shifted to one side. Immediately the vessel listed and filled with water, then plunged to the bottom. going down within two minutes of the sliding over of the freight. As the- vessel sank the upper works and part of the main deck were torn off, carrying with them most of the passengers and crew. Several of the passengers were so terrified that they were unable to help themselves, and these were instantly drowned. In the two brief moments before the Hackley took her last plunge efforts were made by some of the more selfpossessed to unlash the lifeboats, but before one of them could be put over the side the workers were struggling in the water. As the vessel settled men and women cried and shrieked in an agony of fear and ran about wildly and helplessly. If the upper works had not parted and remained above water not one person would have been 3aved. All night long those who had succeeded In getting hold of wreckage clung to their frail support, but one after another succumbed and sank beneath the waves. After fourteen hours of buffeting about in the storm Captain Asa Johnson, of the steamboat Sheboygan, from Washington Harbor, to Sturgeon Bay, discovered the wreckage, with the imperiled passengers and crew at 8 o'clock next morning. Boats were immediately lowered, and the now nearly exhausted persons on the wreckage were transferred to the Sheboygan, though the rescues were made with the greatest difficulty in the furious sea. POSTAGE ON CREMATED BODIES. Department Rules They Shall Be Classed as Merchandise and Pay Regular Rate. Washington, D. C.?Third Assistant Postmaster-General Madcien received a request for Information as to the postape rates on cremated bodies. Mr. Madden, after due deliberation, prepared a ruling to the effect that cremated bodies should be classed as merchandise. and should pay the regular rate of one cent for four ounces. As a result of his decision four airtight tin canisters, containing the cremated remains of a family, shipped from New York to San Francisco, were forwarded from the Washington postoffice, where they had been held up pending a determination of the postage rates for the journey. HARMONY COTTON MILLS CLOSE7300 Employes Oat of Work, a* th^ Sup- j ply of Cotton if Exhausted. By the closing of the Harmony Mills, of Cohoes, N. Y., 7500 employes are out I of work. The company says that its j supply of cotton is exhausted. This is a great surprise, since only a short time ago an officer of the company said that it was fully protected against any possibility of a shortage, having a long term contract wvth a cotton- grower. The company, however, found it profitable to sell from its supply, relying on a break.in the market to secure'cotton for its own needs. The market holding has forced the shutdown. A prolonged i-tAiinniTA ti*ill nniioA Ko t?/lc>l\lr\ in vciuoc uaiuoui|;. Gossip Caused Her Death. "I do find that deceased, Elizabeth Brenneman, came to her death from hemorrhage caused by cutting her throat with suicidal intent, caused by despondency, the result of gossip," was the finding of Coroner Lepper, of Tiffin. Ohio, sitting on the case of Elizabeth Brenneman, who ended her life after learning of the reports circulated by her neighbors about her. Suicide Left S10.000 to Brother. .Tnhti A Paul of Snnnnnit N Y. is $10,000 richer by the suicide of his brother, George F. Paul, formerly of Sanquoit, who killed himself by leaping into the Missouri River at Omaha, Neb. Tho dead man left a will giving all his property to his brother. England and the TarifT. Prime Minister Balfour, at Sheffield, said that England must have a tariff, to protect her against the competition of other nations as well as her own colonies. Lillian Mason Sentenced. At WIHimantic, Conn.. Mary Lillian Manson was found guilty of manslaughter for poisoning Julia A. Wilson ami sentenced to not more than ten and not less than eight years in State prison and fined $1. This was her second trial. Van Wormer Brother* In One Grave, The bodies of the three Van Wormer brothers, electrocuted at Clinton (N. Y.) Prison for the murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hallenbeck, were burled In one grave in Klnderhook, w r't " .r ' ' r? .. POSTAL SCANDAL CLIHAxI Senator Green, Former Postmaster Ty* ner and Nephew Barrett Involved; THIRTEEN INDICTMENTS FOUND riinnsands of Dollars Paid Tlie:n by Bond ; Investment Companies to Prevent Exclusion From the Mails?Jame* T. Metcalf, Harry C. Hallenberk, Norman R. Metcnlf and W. i>. Doremas Indicted. t Washington. D. C.?The climax of the postal scandal came a few days ago. when James Noble Tyner. who for thirty-nine years has been prominent in the service of the Government and was formerly Postmaster-General of the United States, was indicted by the Grand Jury for conspiracy to defraud the Government he had served so long. Seventy-seven years old, stricken with paralysis, disgraced by summary dismissal from the honorable place of Assistant Attorney General for the' Postoffice Department, Tyner was indicted. and at a hearing held at his house gave bail in $5000. Three indictments were found against Tyner and his nephew and former assistant in the Postoffice Department, Harrison J. Barrett, each charging them with conspiracy to defraud the Government, and two more have been returned against Barrett, charging him with receiving fees for services rendered or to be rendered in cases pending before him as an officer of the Government. In addition to Tyner and Barrett, James T. Metcalf, his son, Norman R. Metcalf, and H. C. Hailenbeck, of the Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Company. of New York, have been indicted in connection with the contract for printing money order blanks which that company held for a long time. An indictment against W. D. Doremus, another against State Senator George E. Green and George W. Beavers, a new indictment against W. Scott Towers and George W. Beavers and another against August W. Machen. make up the list of those returned by the Grand Jury and comply the first phase of the postoffice investigation, no further indictments being expected from the data now in hand. The Tyner aud Barrett iudictments present the most sensational featuri of the entire investigation, and the one which baffled the postal inspectors longest. The case, as finally ferreted out by Inspectors Vickery and Fulton, presents a remarkable story of malfeasance. It is charged that it was the duty of Tyner and Barrett?Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Atcorney for the Postoffice Department?to investigate the methods of concerns charged with improper use of the mails, and in case of guilt, to report to ha Prtctmn ctor CJonpriil nnri TPfom mend tlie issue of a fraud order; that in this connection they investigated the business of the bond investment companies and learned inat they were all carrying on a business tuat involved fraud or lottery or both, but that instead of recommending to the Postmaster General the issue of an order that would prevent the delivery of mall or the payment of money orders to those concerns and would thus break up their business. Tyner and Barrett conspired to give them unobstructed use of mails in order that Barrett might profit thereby. TWO CHUMS KILL THEMSELVES. Officials Believe the Pair Planned to Die Together. Indianapolis, Ind.?By shooting through the head, George B. Williamson, of Chicago, and Marvin Welch, of Janesville, Wis., clerks in the auditor's department of the Central Union Telephone Company, committed suicide. The two were brought here from Chicago four months ago, and were close friends. They killed themselves at their separate boarding houses. Officials believe the two planned the double sui- j cide. Political Paragraph*. Rhode Island Democrats nominated ; the following State ticket: For Governor. L. F. C. Garvin; LieutenantGovernor, Adelard Archambault; Secretary of State, J. J. Gilmartin; Attorney-General C. A. Aldrich; General Treasurer, Clark Potter. The Democrats in Massachusetts renominated W. A. Gaston for Governor i and named Richard Olney second for Lieutenant-Governor. The Democratic City Convention in New York City nominated Congressman George B. McClellau for Mayor. Edward M. Grout for Controller, and Charles V. Fornes for President of the Board of Alderman. Massachusetts Republicans renomin ated Governor John L. Bates and all j the State officers on a platform declar- I ing for Roosevelt and protection. Die of Vacelnatlon. Two children died at Marion, Ind., as the result of vaccination. Laura McHugh, .eleven years old. died of lockJaw. Physicians say that the tetanus bacillus was not in the virus used in the vaccination, but sained entrance through the open wound in the arm. Mark Hamaker, fourteen years old. died as a result of gangrene caused by vaccination. Football Kills a Coy. At Norwich, X. Y., as the result of I ir. or fnnthnll Rerkett .Teffrev. ; an awiuciit ui the thirteen-year-old son of Dr. Reuben Jeffrey, is dead. Strike on In XX. S. Capitol. The flne marble partitiprio for the Senatorial bathroom and barber shop were being placed in position in the Capitol at Washington when three I marble setters and three assistants went on a sympathetic strike with the cutters who are locked out in the principal cities by the Association of Manufacturers. A member of the association has the contract to finish the the Senate toilet room with marble settings. It seems now the work cannot be completed before Congres3 meets. Sporting Brevities. Golf has reached a fixed and definite QmnTic nnr national snorts. Quarterback kicking is to be a feature of this season's football games. Buffalo is a bit sore because Jersey City won the Eastern League pennant. According to reports of sportsmen the hunting season will be a failure in Pennsylvania if rabbits are taken into consideration. Hugh Duffy, once the captain of the Boston National League Club, has been engaged to manage the Philadelphia National League nine for 1904. 7 LANGLEY AIRSHIP FAIL! Makes a Straight Shoot For th Bottom of tho Fotomac. first Test of the Costly Aerodrome Aftc Years of Work Proves to Uo Faulty in Construction. Widewater. Va.?Dismal if not alto gether unexpected failure is the out come of Frofessor Langley's elaborat and expensive experiment in aeria navigation. The famous aerodrom lies a total wreck, after having dem onstrated not only its complete ina bility to fly, but the impossibility o alighting without self-destruction, evei could it be so perfected as to mak short flights. Carried swiftly forwar< by the impetus of the powerfu launching catapult, the machine spe< from the seventy-foot ways at an alti ~ C a. ml luue ui aiAij* icci, buii jjiaucLuuj into the Potomac, 300 feet from th launching track. It soon rose to th surface, where it was supported by th airtight cylinders provided for tha purpose. When it came to the surfac it was a total wreck, all the delicat machinery with which Professor Lang ley had attempted to. imitate the soar ing of a bird irreparably tangled am destroyed. Mr. Manley's application o Profpssor Langley's theory, afte months of preparation, had proved i total failure in ten seconds, and $50,00 of the Congress appropriation for arm; ordnance and fortification improve ments had been wasted, as well as i sum. the magnitude of which no mai knows except Professor Langley, froc the funds of the Smithsonian Institu tion. Professor Mauley at noon tested an< examined every function and detail o the aerodrome. The motor was trie< and found to work perfectly; the nev propeliors, braced with steel, withstooi the strain of the prelimanry tests, aui everything pointed to success. With propeliors working at the rat of 1200 revolutions a minute, the sprinj catapult was released, and all wit nesses held their breath as Mauley am his aerodrome quickly disappeared be neath the surface of the Potomac. 1 more deplorable wreck than that whicl the several tugs hauled on board piece meal and tenderly conveyed to th houseboat could not be imagined. Thi huge wings were limp and crumplei rags, and propeliors and frame wer torn and splintered scraps. Manley appeared, for the time, chiefi; concerned with getting into dry cloth ing. but later he made the followin; statement: "It must be understood that the tes to-day was entirely an experiment, an< the first of its kind over made. Tin experiment was unsuccessful. The bal ancing upon which depended the sue cess of the flight was based upon tin tests of the models and proved to bi incorrect." Professor L?angiey, wuw >>?? u Washington, was notified by wire o the failure of the test. The collapse o the machine probably ends the experi menting for this year. TORNADOES KILL FOUR. One Twister Hit* the Union Pacific Shop In Omaha. Omaha, Neb.?A diminutive twiste: struck the Union Pacific machin< shops, destroying a high brick wal recently constructed and killing A. T Ratliff, a carpenter, and seriously In juring L. Pennington, a foreman. wh< were at work on it, and Joseph Leon nrd and Nat. Brown, laborers. Ratliff'i home was ar Lawrence, Kan., when he leaves a widow and several children The twister which struck the ma chine shops also struck the headquar ters of the Union Pacific, the big build ing being badly shaken by It. Emporia, Kan.?In tornadoes tha raged at Hamilton. Greenwood County and at Allceville, Coffey County, threi persons-were killed outright, two fatal ly injured, and ? score of other's seri ously hurt. The loss to buildings am !_ \lir>oviI|p H tOWI crops IS ^nwiiuwuo, AMtw ? of 200 inhabitants, was almost wipei off the map. TURN PIRATES AT MINDANAO. Constabulary Officers Run Off With th< Steamer Victoria. Manila, Philippine Islands.?Inspec tor Hermann and Supply Officer John son, of the constabulary, have becomi pirates. They seizctl the thirty-seven ton steamer Victoria at Mindanao ant forced her to put to sea. using the mei under their command for the purposi of intimidating- the crew. Shortly afterward they discovers that the Victoria's coal supply wa: short, and they forcibly detained ai incoming steamer and replenished the:; Dunkers from hers, after which the: disappeared. Meantime the act of piracy was re ported, and an examination of the con stabulary safe showed that $0i>l0 hat been stolen. It is supposed that thi ia r,n hnmvl tlio Victoria. Tin constabulary despatched a fast coas guard steamer in pursuit of the pirates TERM FOR BANK OFFICERS. John TV. Newbury Gets S1000 Fine and Three Years in Prison. Freehold, N. J.?John W. Newbury president of the defunct Mercantile Co operative Bank of lied Bank and Jer sey City, was scnteuced by Jusric* Fort to a fine of $?10U0 and a term o; three years and six mouths art hart labor in the State prison. Rudolph Newman, acting tr2.isurer who was connected with Newbury foi conducting the banking business ills gaily, was sentenced to pay a tine o! $500. The amount of surety requirec for the release of the men was $300i for Newbury aud $1000 for Newman. RAILROAD BRIDCE BLOWN UP. &Ien "Who Are Trying to ElncJcmall tin Northern Pacific Carry Out Threats. Helena, Mont.?Northern Pacific Rail road officials have just received won that a bridge on the line near here ha: been blown up. This is undoubtedly tho wort o: m; blackmailers who for two mouths hav< been demanding $50,000 from the roai. and carrying out theh* threats bj wrecking trains and destroying prop er:y with dynamite. Healer* TTln a Suit. A decision of the Supreme Court ii favor of the defendant in a sui brought against the Rev. Irving C Tomlinson, first reader in the Chris tlan Science Church at Concord, X. H. by Mrs. Jennie Speed, is taken as es tablishing the right of Christ iai Science doctors to practice in Xe'\ Hampshire. Expect* More Cardinals. Cardinal Gibbons, in a sermon in Da! timore, Md., said he would not be sur prised to see a greater number o! American Cardinals in the next Con flave nf tlif? Ofltholip Cbnr<*h l'Z'-' ' 7 - 7 ?W.y V-'- ' ' ^'iminn rurMTn nrtut u/rn/ 'i 3 wiNuntvtimur intifttR" N WASHINGTON ITEMS. Commissioner Richards finds, on investigation into the Chippewa Indian a ails in Minnesota, to be opened for 4 settlement on November 10, that of the 763,337 acres about 522,000 acres arc swamp land. President Roosevelt is spending much jf his time in preparing his message to Congress. 0 Tho President has signed the com- f( e uission as ensign in the navy awarded 1 o Gunner Levin J. Wallace, of Mary- D e and. > p President Roosevelt will ask Con- f( gress to investigate the postal scandal. | d * General Corbin was given command a f at Governor's Island, General Chaffee, p n who is to succeed General Young as e Chief of Staff in January, taking CorI bin's place in Washington. ^ The President disapproved the appli- t( 1 cations of several officers in the ma- g '* cine corps with rank of colonel to be 3 * appointed to the rank of commander p e ind forthwith retired. ' h 0 e The President sent a special message p t to Lady Herbert on learning of the B death of Sir Michael Herbert. a e h OUK ADOPTED ISLANDS. & The measure prohibiting slave huut- J? 3 !ng has been passed by the legislative f zouncil of the Moro provinces, Phil- . r ;nnin(? T?l:inr1s : n I W? ? ? tI ? The rebellion in .Albay Province. p J I Luzon, was ended by the surrender of ^ ! 3eneral Ola and a uumbrr of his fol* p j ! lowers. , tl 0 j Ex-Mayor Fajardo, of Mayaguez. w Q i Porto Rico, has been acquitted of the A [. charge of embezzlement. ii About 200 of the representative cof- c ii | fee growers of Porto Rico held a meet- P f j Lng in San Juan to provide for a per- Q J i manent organization and establish in b i' I the United States a market for Porto r; 3 Rican coffee. 3 One hundred cases of bubonic plague Js' have been reported in one of the north- 1( 6 ern and most populous districts of Ma- ^ ? nila. , ? :* The Filipinos will petition Congress j, J for increased representation on the 1 j, ' Civil Service Commission of the isl- { * ands. a !i e Domingo Gomez, charged with j p founding the Union Obrera in the Phil- tl e ippines, an organization which was in- ; u ] citing the natives to rebellion, has been ; b e sentenced to four years and two v months' imprisonment and to pay o 7 fine of $300. o c ; DOMESTIC. I ? In defense of her life, Mrs. Kather- I J * Ine Snowden, who had just remarried ! a J at Chicago, 111., killed her former hus- ! s 15 band, Henry F. Smith, from whom she : ^ had been divorced only a short time. i r 9 Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn. | e failed to scale the summit of Mount tl McKinley, in Alaska. j b 1 A bullet through his heart killed o f j Albert M. Wetter, a prominent busl- j v f j ness man at Maslllon. Ohio, but no s - cause is known for his suicide. I h The Honourable Artillery Company of London was entertained by the | c Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- jj pany at Boston at the most magnif- j ^ ? icent banquet in the history'of Boston j * The United States Government has j f r purchased forty lots between Fort j s Monroe, Va., and Buckroe Beach in ?. I arder that the fort may be enlarged. ; * . It is proposed to cut a canal across a j * 200-foot peninsula. This will place j ) the fort on an island. j ? George F. Baer. President of the i ' 3 Reading, says that little loss was in J c 3 curred by the coal strike. Dr. Harper, of the University of Chi* cago, started a boom for Mayor Low c for the Republican nomination for I t President. ! i< t The milk controversy was settled in ; a way which insures Boston and New i j England plenty of milk at the same j t I price that was paid last winter. I c Members of the Bar Association, j r 1 New York City, plan an amendment to ? i their constitution, making women law. i 1 yers ineligible for membership. j St. Louis Exposition exhibit build- j ings eighty-nine per cent, completed, i j as against forty-four per cent, for the j j Columbian Fair seven months before j a i I opening. i c All the cotton shorts sottied with j g - ! Brown, of New Orleans, who had cor- ' i - I nered the supply, and he pocketed mil- | 1 I ll/\r?e nf ni'nflfa ] Dr. Lorenz declared that every case ; 1 treated by him in this country was ! ^ either cured or improving. i ? Relatives of A. J. Stephani, a life j . prisoner for murder at Dannemora (N. j | Y.) Prison, asked for a commission to { 5 i care for .a fortune of $100,000 left hin> ] J i by his mother. FOREIGX. Ebcrlein's colossal state of Wagner I * was unveiled in the Thiergarten of ! 1 Berlin. j I Lord Rothschild spoke reassuringly j j regarding the present British financial i I ftitiiatinn. In Germany tlie better grade of i American apple is selling at $0.50 pei t barrel. s i Peru to build national theatre from proceeds of one per cent, increase in t import duties at Callao. Of 10,400 houses in Monastir. Bulga ria. 9700 have been burned by the ' 1' > Turks. | * j' Turkish troops were reported to have | j 1 put revolutionists to flight and to have complete control of the situation in ; Macedonia. L_ Eighty thousand pilgrims have been r at Lourdes in the past live weeks. c 1 Favorable weather is greatly assist- o ) ing physicians in stamping out yeilow o fever in Mexican border towns. h Conferences between the ministers of the Czar and Emperor Francis JosepL* resulted in an a^ri'trui^m i? pui m 5 ation in Macedonia au amylided pro- a gramme of reforms. * o The. exports from the Berlin con- .A sular districts to the United Stares fo: J 1 the quarter just ended amounted to e 5 $2,00],010, an increase of SooS.Sl-i over those of the third quarter of 1002. | Tiie body of Count Pogio. formerly ; Italian Consul at Paris, was found in V the Seine a few days ago. He had M spent all his money, and then in a" c,1 moment of remorse he had committed " suicide. ,;I The famous masked balls held at tlW j Paris Opera House have been pro' c hibited by the police. A resolution sustaining Prime Minis' ^ ter Balfour's fiscal policy was unani, mously carried at the meeting of th< V Conservative Association at Sheffield, i< l England. T? r, thii- Hip movement n? 2 troops to Korea had no connection witii i n any trouble with Russia.' President Pa!ma, iti answer to an irj! '< quiry made by the Tribune, stated thaj t< 'f all creeds were welcome in Cuba. 1 A cousin of King Alfonso of Spaiij b was sentenced to two moutha1 lmjyrLi) Bi onaient ^ o ,, ISE, DYNAMITE ON TRAINS C orthern Pacific the Victim of a C Desperate Montana Ganj. lackmailers Who Demanded S."3,10? * Are Uslnj Explosives, as ThcyThrcatcaed to Do, If Not raid. Helena, Mont.?'The failure of the Ecers of the Northern Pacific Rail- e: )ad to meet the demands of the black- Sl mViA il Atifhnr I nn? 4fo i fl luutria wuu uuvc ucua ucouvjiuq na ? roperty with dynamite fcr the last ir jw weeks was promptly met by the 11 esperadoes ?vhen they planted dyna- ^ lite at two points along the Northern P 'acific lines, and in each case sue- c< eeded in partly destroying a train. si In expectation that some violence g< rould follow their refusal to submit a] > be blackmailed out of $50,000 by a ang of train wreckers, with no claims . f any kind on them, the Northern n. 'aciflc officials took every precaution ~ ) get speedily on the track of the ^ erpetrators of any fresh outrages. But although they had armed posses " t points along the line in this State j*' nd trained bloodhounds within a few * ours of almost any specific .spot, the * lackmailers, who, are evidently men ** f experience as well -as of daring. Jot way after blowing .up two trains, in uring several trainhands, and damag- j ig several thousand dollars' worth of rl roperty. jT The most disastrous of the two es? J' losions occurred at 10.30 oclock, p. m., ?' liree miles west of Birdseye station, j? .'hlch is eight miles west of this city. ? Ln extra eastbound freight approach- ** ig Birdseye ran into several sticks of ? apped dynamite, which had been ? laced on the rails in such fashion that d either a slow nor a fast train could rush them aside. There was a ter* [flc explosion at once. ^ Several yards of rail were blown out, lie pilot, stack and headlight of the >comotive were shattered and the oadbed was so torn up that all traffic d ver this branch of the road was de lyed for hours. That only slight in- 1 arles were sustained by the trainmen 1 } du^more to luck than anything else. ^ "fin-io short of a miracle that the ngineer and firemen were not killed. " The report comes from Missoula liat an eastbound freight was blown p at Avon. The engine was almost Dtaily wrecked, but the crew escaped t r-lfh slight Injuries. That the two outrages were the work ^ f the same band of wreckers is almost ertain. At any rate the Northern PaIflc officials think so, and every effort a 5 being made to round up the des- ^ eradoes. A special train carrying an \ n rmed posse and several bloodhounds ^ tarted for the scene of the Birdseye ^ ynamiting shortly after the report E eached here. ~ Not in the history of railroading in * be West have railroad men been so 0 arassed as are these Northern Pacific t] fflcers. They are up against a game j( rhich they do not pretend to under- ; a tand. Already they have sustained : a eavy losses by dynamite, placed on | heir tracks by a gang which has no I laims on the road and no grievances : n gainst it. but in politely written notes j H eclines to quit blowing up tracks, ! b rains and roadbeds until $50,000 has I ^ een deposited at a convenient spot j or them. ! j. To grant such a demand is obviously I tj mpossible. and at no time have the ' |r Northern Pacific people even consid- ! c red such a thing. j ^ ! 0 LORD" KILLS TWO, THEN HIMSELF. !oape, Lone 3 Mystery, Shoots Wife, Her Sister and Commits Sulcldc. q Sante Fe. N. M.?Word has been reaiT-ori horn tlmr at Luinbsrton. twen y miles from here. Albert P. F. Coape, j mown for years in this territory as p Sir Albert" or "Lord" Coape, shot and | c; nstantly killed his wife and her sis- I g er, Miss L. Hernandez, and then blew, I j: nit his own brains. The tragedy has j p emoved one of the most picturesque j ^ .s well as mysterious figures of the r, Southwest. I a Tall, handsome, splendidly educated | ^ md with all the" manners of an Eng- j v ishman of the upper class, Coape ap- I h eared at Santa Fe twenty years ago. ! p 3e was then twenty-five years of age \ 0 nd plunged headlong into the whirl j s ?f the early frontier life, drinking and j ^ gambling. He received at stated inter-! C( als the income of a trust fund in Eng- j v and. j tj After several years he married and j c >ecame a hunter and trapper in the Rio i s Vrrlba country. He followed this life J f, intil 1S93. I n "Lord" Coape's first wife died nine I <j \ilaa TTor. I rears ago, ana oe uiumcu .moo Uv. ( v landez. member of a very respectable ) o Spanish family. He gave up his hunt-. ng and moved to the settlements. He a :ried his hand at storekeeping. pros- p >ecting and dually saloon keeping at a jumberton. Of late years he drank ii )eriodically, his debauches lasting ur.- a 11 he was a physical and nervous tl vreck. It was while he was in one of t( liese debauches that the tragedy oc- sj :urred. d While in town a month ago he said si hat since comkic to this territory in 834 he estimated his !o>ses at cards o have been $100,000. He once lo3t 115,000 in two weeks. tl C Joseph Chamberlain'* jeeeseor. h Alfred Lyttleton war ..ppoizted Co- ? anial Secretary to succeed Chamber- C ain in tho rearrangement of the Brit- * sh Afinistrv. The Duke of Devon- P hire resigned from the Cabinet. Mr. Jalfour expressing his disapproval of be step in an incisive letter. n( Three Hoar*' Snovr in Minnesota. Suow fell at Fergus Falls, Minn., for loro than three hours, several inches d overing the ground. It was the 3rst g] f the season and was driven by a ^ igh northwest wind. 123 1-2 Miles an Ilour. A speed of 123Vj miles an hour was o ttainod on fourteen aud a half miles a f tha experimental railway between n larienfeid-j and Zossen, in Germany, f lII the passengers had previously pro- n urod special life insurance policies. T Says Bosicr Lay Tribute. TVorkmen at the National Tube Forks. in McKeesport. Pa., said that C :e bosses laid regular tribute on the ri uiployes. having meeting places at 0 Iiich they collected hundreds of do I- c< irs every pay day. Prominent People. The Duke of Koxburgiie will wea n [iss Goelet November 10. o London papers point out that while Ir. Chamberlain has resigned his pol- ^ ;y remains. e Sir Thomas Lipton assures a Michian "bachelors' club" that he will try ? ot to marry. a It is authoritatively denied that Preslent Roosevelt's weight has increased s ) 220 pounds. He weighs only 190. P Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, the writer of ooks for gtris. has just celebrated her P jventy-nlnth birthday on Milton Hill, par Boston. nuM| ' HflHNSBl JOLORADO'S MINE vBMBH ourts and Unions Arrayed Aga^^^^H Employers and Militia. ^RKH be Fight May Extend Over the EntiJF^BH West?Each Side Is Backed Up / flQj by a Fund of 81,000,000. J iflp Cripple Creek. Col.?One of the mtost ctrnordinary otruggles In history /Tor fl upremacy between trades unionism 1 nd employers has been in proxreM i the gold fields of this section foe, ^ J Itliijr ?v ccao. Vu luc uuc uauui m Western Federation of Mineri, suported in at least one phase! of it0 intention by the courts; on tfcfe otheC de is arrayed the Mine Owners' .> B )ciation, backed by Governor feeabodj; ad the militia. / I Directing the military withj an iron I and, and bitterly hated by the labof lement, is Adjutant GeneralJsherman- H ell, who was one of the Koosevelt B ough Riders. He is a close personal H lend of the President, who fcija char* cterlzed him as "the gamest man off game regiment." His chief lleutenot i3 General Chase, the active com- MB lander of the soldiers in the-field, &' lan also of indomitable courage.' The Western Federation of Miners If aid to be 48,000 strong, with a reserve *v?9 und for defense of more than $1,000,- . 3g? X). The mine owners have also ? und of more than $1,000,000, specifi- 1 illy for the great battle now on. The - MBK ght at present involves only about 1XK) miners, but it bids fair to ez- -jJjBflj ?nd all over the West, The mine &<B8 L*s declare that they will not longer ': H nbmit to the dictation of the union. he trouble may give the State tne emocrats at the next election. Within <1 week tbe strikers an- . |H ounced that they would Insist on ;KB nionizing every mine in tbe camp, ' |H rith the result of the closing down of Bfl 11 the big producers. A non-union liner at the Golden Cycle Mine-'was ragged from his home one night and HH bot In the back. The mine owners, .Tlca sked the Governor to send troops H| nd agreed to pay all the expenses oa ffi indition that the warrants would iter honored by the State. / More than 1000 soldiers were distrlb- B ted over the held, and armed guard* iirrnnnrlii/l nil thp larirp nroDerties ot mm le district Cavalry aquaua werede* HNS tiled to patrol the region. H A "bull pen" was established in the flj eadquarters of the military, and men Iflj rere arrested and imprisoned in it s ithout being informed of'the charge SffR gainst them. Writs of habeas corptnr ere issued for four of the men, and." mde returnable before Judge Seeds, he courtroom was' overrun with soliers, the street in front of the Court^H^H [ouse was filled with troops. GatiiiuflflM uns * ere placed at different f the street, and sharpshooters n the roofs of buildings. Judge tius surrounded, declared that iw was not in force in Teller nd upheld tbe civil authoi!tj^^^^^^^| gainst the military. nfflHH But General L'nase declareaTEnnnH er tbe orders of tbe Governor be nHRHEH ot obey tbe order of tbe Court,9^BnH le miners saw their comrades esc<^BB^Bx| ack to prison after a Court b^^HHBHfl ered their liberty. .^BHbBBH Influence was used on Gov ody to instruct General Cha ie order of the Court, and t^BB^B^HB ig the prisoners were releaiBK^^^^^^H ine owners are exerting ti^R|^HH9H > bring in new men from otiBBflBBBR C tbe country. MADMAN AT WHITE jflfflBBgjHR aards Overpower and Desperate Washington, D. C.?Fo^^SS^B^HflBS ?mpt to reach Preside^^H8|^B|^BB| eter Elliott, a demente^HJBfl^HHBBIE linist, formerly of MHflB89[^BBHM aged in a desperate ba^BHHMBH^B?g| [ouse policemen, who HH^BB^^HbE ossibly deadly errand B9BH^nBHB| ve Mansion. He ?volver, knife aud a pair nrl demanded an immediate *ith President Roosevelt' Before^^^^^^B isitor could be properly disposed e had given Policeman Clscle 'arker. on guard at the main entracc^^^H f the White House, and Chief UsherHESEn tone one of the liveliest tussles theylHH ave had in many a day. Ciscle pre-|RSI eded the madman to the hospital,H9j6 -here he had to have twelve stitehefj^^Hj iken in hi? right arm. which had beea^^HB ut so deeply as to sever an artery. HjS everal scalp wounds had to be dressed or the crazy man. At not time did the ffair involve the safety of the Presi-^KH ent, and he did not know of the oc-HOH urrence until the man was safely out|HH9 reach. No less than four "cranks," quietly rrested at the White House since the A. ?rwl Hrcfop RflV. 'resident reiunieu iivm v^.. nd \rithont ado quickly pronounced isane. are now confined in the asylum t Washington. Two others wereB^M ireatened with arrest if they returned ) the grounds. A drunken discharged lilor insisted on seeing the President uring the afternoon, but was per? jaded to leave. Jm General Bradley T. Johnson Die*. H General Bradley T. Johnson die<l at be age of seventy-three years in Roek jM 'astle, Goodland County, Va., the ome of his son. He was a native laryland, rose to high tank In 'onfederate army by gallantry, and -as prominent in Richmond and State olitics. j, Killed Bnll Moose in the Town fflH A bull moose was killed a few miles orth of Malone. X. T., a few days flB ?o, having been mistaken for a deer y a person not accustomed to' o much hunting. The animal had oubtless left the Adirondacks in an flQI ndeavor to reach its old haunts in tlie anadian woods. .. JjjJHB Tnmudn Kill* Three Women. jygQ A tornado passe3 two miles southeast f rrinceton, 111., killing three persons nd destroying a large ..mount of farm roperty. The dead are Mrs. Charles '. Sherwin. Mrs. Alvira Sherwin. her KB9 lother. and Miss Emma Welsh, of VBK iskiwa, visitor at the Sherwin home. jHW Big Iron Works in Liquidation. The Morse Iron Works, New York itj*. were placed in the hands of a 9| ?eeiver with $1,000,000 liabilities. "> fficers say the failure is due to a su?? JuH ession of unjustifiable strikes. Labor World. MM Sam Parks declared unions will get^HH 11 they demand in Ne<v York in snj^RBjK f employers. EmS 'Longshoremen- at Brunswict. emand an increase of two and a ba^H^^R Painters at Washington, D. C.. wirHHW emand an increase iu wages from $3HB99 to $3.50. Plans for the importation of 120^HH| trike-breakers are under way at CriEHn9[ le Creek. Col. The Philadelphia and Reading Cofl^Bjgg any will close its Shamokin col^ierie^BHW cvo days a week until further notice. ...