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FATAL IB TBI HUB Track Laborers in Cars Mowed Dowr Without Warning. FRANTIC SURVIVORS VENGEFUL Itm Kinployed to IJepair Flood Damapr* on Pennsylvania Kailroid Maimed and -ir.. W?V "Wnrlf?mT. teca Lives Instanlly Crushed Out and Nearly Two Score Persons Badly Hurt, Trenton, X. J.?The lives of sixteen tnen were snuffed out In the twinkling lof an eye near Summerset by a rearend collision of work trains on the Belridere division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. One unfortunate fellow susTired his injuries a few hours aud cx fired in St. Francis' Hospital, this eity. Besides the dead thirty-five arc injured. All of the killed and injured .were track laborers, nearly all of them Italians, and identifications have been difficult. The dead identified are: Bertrand Buroughs, colored: Joseph Brown, colored; James Horns. Francesco Beneditto, Natale Crea, Giuseppe Santino, Francisco Freeeia, Guiseppe Falcono, Vincenzo Beneditto, Benigna Sucidi, Edward Harris, Gracanio Ferraute, Soveno Chiappino, Tliomas Rogers. There are three bodies, those of two Italians and a negro, that have not been identified. The repair train which was wrcekeil tonsisled of two passenger coaches, in which were crowded more than a hundred laborers, a derrick car and a flat ear. It was at Washington's Crossing awaiting orders for passing a southbound train. Running behind it was a gravel train that left this city about 7 o'clock a. m. There was a drizzling rain which obscured the vision of Engineer August Connor, of the gravel train, which was running at fair speed. It is said that he had not been notified of the stopping of the repair train. Ho failed to see it in tiuie to even slow down, and his engine crashed through the flat car and the derrick car and telescoped the passenger coaches with their living freight. None of the crews of either train was hurt, but their efforts to rescue the injured were seriously interfered with by the laborers who had not been hurt. The Italians, half frenzied by fright, were too dazed to assist their fellows. They seemed to think that the trainmen were to blame for the catastrophe. The feeling of resentment srew to such an extent that the trainmen trofA in fonv fnr fhalv llrnc nn.1 not for some time could the work of rescue be begun. Then the dead and wounded were carried out. A relief train with a corps of physicians, Coroners and trainmen was sent to the scene of the wreck from this city, returning eventually with the dead and wounded. BOY PREVENTS TRAIN HCLD-U?. Crave Operator, Locked in by Robbers, Wires Engineer Not to Stop. Butte, Montana.?Two masked men rode up to the little station at Welch's Spur, twenty miles east of this city, on the Northern Pacific, and covering the operator with their revolvers, drove him inside his office and locked him in. They turned the signal light so as to stop the North Coast Limited, which was due in half an hour. Tlie operator, F. K. Law. a boy of twenty, threatened with death if he moved, crawled on his hands and knees to his telegraph key, and reaching from under the table, wired the operator at Homostake to tell the engineer of the North Coast not to stop, as the bandits meant to hold up the train at Welch's Spur. The train went through the latter place at forty miles an hour, and the bandits then rode off. FR3T SHOT ACCIDENTAL. Then Tdt?? Hunter, In Agony, Pat Bullet in Head. St. Louis, Mo.?Crazed by the pain of a terrible wound in his leg. caused by the accidental discharge of his shotgun, George Schwigler, Jr.. twenty years old, of Kaiiokia, ended bis life with a revolver. Young Schwiglw was spending the day with his uncle at Alton. They went out in the morning for a day's hunting and fishing on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. In some manner his shotgun was discharged, and the wound caused him such agony that he begged his uncle to kill him. The uncle ran to get their boat ready to take him back to Alton, and had scarcely turned his back when he heard a revolver shot. The young man had ftred a bulltet into his head. POSTAL CASE DISAPPOINTING. The Failure to Convict Sillier and Johns Annoying. Washington, D. C.?Administration ' ?~ r?'Vift hn va Kann iti_ ienutrib aiiu uiutiaio nuv ua?? wwterested in the prosecution of the postal cases were disappointed at the disagreement of the Cincinnati jury in tne conspiracy case of Daniel V. Miller and Joseph M. Johns. While a new trial will be demanded, it will have to go over to the next general term, and unless new and stronger evidence is obtained against the two accused men it is likely that the case will be noli prossed and both will escape punishment. As this was the first of the postal cases to come to trial, it is feared that the failure to get a conviction may have a deterrent effect on other juries when the cases are taken up. 5000 Loot in Old Mine. While digging for coal in nn abandoned mine near Dravosburg, Pa., Danonvl Kxnfli AI?O aH JCI KA'ift auu ivi viutio V?VM $5000 worth of clothing, which the police say has been secreted by a band of thieves that has been operating in the Monongahela Valley for a year. Early Snow Fall In New York State. Northern New York had its Srst snow storm of the season. The mountains about Lake Placid. Lake Loon. Chateaugay and Lake Titus are white witb snow. m San Domingo Yields to America. The Dominican Government has in formed United States Minister Powel that in view of his protest it will re call the bill now before Congress pro viding for the neutrality of Domini can waters and declaring certain liar hors to be free ports. Doctor Kills Ills Children. J. Y. Jay, aged thirty-five, one of th< beet known physicians of Bunco:ub< County, North Carolina, and a residen of Barnardsville, killed his three chil dren, aged six, four iiud two years irith a clawhammer. I versuy L-nnKs ruisuu. Daughter of a Prominent Milling Mi Kills Herself? Act Attributed to the Influence of a Hypnotist. Lincoln, Nob.?Miss Pansy Eallar 1 an eighteen-year-old student at tl 1 State University, swallowed a dose ' carbolic acid while kneeling; at tl 1 confessional i:i St. Teresa's Pro-Catli dral. Staggering to her feet a fe { minutes later she whispered to tl . waiting priest that she had poisont herself. Ten minutes later she w; dead. The girl was the daughter of Eli; . E. Ballard, a former banker at Wilbc but now engaged in extensive millii and wheat interests in Dodge Cit Kansas. She and ber sister came Lincoln a few weeks ago to attend tl i State University. The girl was a d vout Catholic and was desirous of o taining an education at the convei here. Her father was insistent thi she go to the university. She first wei to the convent and then to the un versity. For this she is said to hai , been chided by the sisters and urg( , to break away from the universit . She was to have had another intervie , with the mother superior during tl , afternoon, but rather than facc it toe . the poison. il,, 'R'lllnr X1 UI IUU lei S L 1UU1 Jl iUO 4iiioo ^uinii i had been of a morose disposition. Th was attributed to the fact that sever years ago in a spirit of girlish bravac and while accepting a dare from companion she placed herself under tl . influence of :i traveling hypnotist, wt gave an exhibition in her native tow The girl left no note, nor did si tell any one of her intentions < threaten at any time to end her lif : She left her boarding house withoi eating any breakfast, and going dow town, purchased the acid. She r paired to the church, and after spem ing an hour in prayer and meditatio: walked to the confessional and dran the poison. The first intimation tt listening priest had of anything wron was when the ear he held to tl aperture caught the sound of a fall ar a moan. BETTER PAY FOR ENLISTED MEf General Fnnston Say* They Are Untie paid?Faults of tho Uniform. Washington, D. C. ? Brigadier-Gei eral Funston, commanding the mil tary department of the Columbii makes appeal in his annual report f( better pay for enlisted men. He thinl privates should get $1S a month o first enlistment, corpoals $30, se geants $45 and first sergeauts with increases for length of servic "If these men are not worth there rati of pay," he says, "they are not wort nnrihin<* " ?A1J ?.UUI&. The trouble with tlic army. Genon Funston thinks, is that there is n< enough encouragement to include tL right sort of man to enlist. "There no disguising the fact," he says, "tin recruits are obtained with difficult; and that the most of them are not * ' satisfactory quality. Very fe w m*1 re-enlist after the expiration of the terms of service, while the number < desertions and of dishouorabie di charges is phenomenal. To get an keep a good class of men there mu: be a radical Increase in the pay of tli rank and file. The wonder is. not th: so few men enlist, and that so small percentage of them re-enlist after thrc years, but that we obtain and keep i many really good men as we do." General Funston recommends tL' abolition of the chapeau and epaulel for general officers. OLD P. Q. OFFICIAL A THIEF. HaCT, Superintendent of Foreign Mail Trapped. New York City.?Alexander naff. Si perintendent of Foreign Mails avid ft twenty-four years a postoffice en ploye, was arrested for stealing mone from the mails. There is no means < I telling how much he has stolen, but is believed the amount is not larg< Postoffics Inspectors Boyle and Meyei made the arrest. Boyle has know Haft since he started working in tt postoffice, the two having been clcrL together years ago, and there was a affecting scene when Boyle made Ha a prisoner. Haff refused to make an statement, and the inspectors are at loss to explain what he did with tt money, as, they say, he has no vices. RENEGADE AMERICAN CAUGHT. Herrmann and Tart of the Stolen Fnnc Foacd In Negros Island. Manila, Philippine Islands.?Inspe tor Herrmann, who stole funds of tt Mindanao Government and turned pi ate with Supply Officer Johnson, hj been captured by the constabular; Johnson was killed by the crew of tt native boat which the pirates ha taken from the steamship Victorii which they had seized, had bee grounded by her crew. Herrman killed four of the six members of tt boat's native crew, brought the bot to the shore and, although severel wounded, escaped to the mountains < Negros. The constabulary also reco' ered 1700 pesos in money from Her mann. Ohio Stops the Sale of Toy Pistols. The Ohio State Board of Healt adopted a resolution by which the secretary is directed to take steps I oolfl Af uf rvTr niatnlc on IJiotriJL IUC oaic vi. wvj other explosive appurtenances." Tt resolution recitos that 000 persoi were killed. 100 made blind, and 10C others injured on the last Fourth < July. The board therefore declar< it to be the duty of health authorith to abolish the evils attendant upon tt celebration of Independence Day. A Million-Dollar Fire. Fire swept through Aberdeen, WasL and destroyed 150 buildings, besidi causing the death of four persons an a loss of $1,000,000. Ten blocks in tt business portion of the city, iucludir the opera house, two hotels and tu banks and a hospital were destroye In order to stop the progress of tl flames dynamite was; used on sever i of the buildings. Aberdeen is situate on Gray's Harbor, and has about ."()( i inhabitants. Tiie chief industry is lui berlng. IjHhnr World. Organized labor in Canada is prepa I iiig for concerted action in the politic . field. Four of the glove factories at CI - crigo, 111., closed by a strike, resuun with non-union help. A sccret organization of railway fir ir.cn has bean formed to dissemina information regarding strikes. > Nearly 20,000 women are employi ? in England in the manufacture of jc t elry and delicate instruments. The Krupp heirs at Essen, German . who eu.'ploy about 10,000 workmc have declared against labor unions. I ''SUICIDE IN CONFESSIONA i f.irl ^niflorif af Till nol n. Nf?b. tl D i tn ? in_: ~ ~ 1 EXTRA SESSION- CALLED Congress is Directed to AssemtJ* on November 9. li!i SUBJECT TO BE CONSIDERED [)0 Cuban Reciprocity the Sole Business Ot Xameil For Extra Session ? Text of [jl> President Kooscvelt's Proclamation? p. The Commercial Treaty With Cuba W Will lie I p for Consideration. 10 Washington, D. C.?The President issued a proclamation calling the Fiftyeighth Congress in extraordinary seals sioti, on November 9, at 12 o'clock. The 'r. proclamation states that the purpose of the session is to consider the coramercial convention between the United ie States -and Cuba, which requires the approval of Congress. Following is the text of the proclamat ntion: it "By the President of the United States ii- of America: A PROCLAMATION. ><i _ .. ... ,,, _ "Whereas, I5y tne resolution or tne Senate of March 19, 1903, the approval 1C by Congress of the reciprocal commer(t. cial convention between the United States und the Republic of Cuba, .(j signed at Havana on December 11, is 11)02. Is necessary before the said contl*j vention shall take effect; and l0 "Whereas, It is important to the pub;l lie interests of the United States that 1'e the said convention shall become oper10 ative as early as may be: n "Now. therefore, I, Theodore Roose1(| velt. President of the United Slates of )r America, by virtue of the power vested p in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extrau ordinary occasion requires the convene. ins of both Houses of the Congress of | the United States at their respective n chambers in the city of Washington, r- i on the 9th day of November next, at 12 o'clock noon, to the end that they i? may consider and determine whether je the approval of Congress shall be givlt2 cn to the said convention. "All persons entitled to act as members of the Fifty-eighth Congress are 4. required to take notice of this proclamation. r" "Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington the i- 20th day of October, in the year of our II- Lord one thousand nine hundred and a. three, and of the independence of the >? United States the one hundred and ;s twenty-eighth. n "THEOrORE ROOSEVELT, r* "Bv the President: 0. "JOHN HAY. Secretary of State." e- It is well understood that the hope M of tlie President and of the political lenders is that holding this extra ses'' sion a month in advance may shorten the regular session by a month at least and that much of the inevitable ante* 10 campaign discussion may take place ls in the extra, rather than in the regular lt session. There will be no f*enoral loffis!* lation of importance at either session }* of Congress. p. The President's message for the exl? tra session will deal only with the Cuban commercial reciprocity question. 5" Mr. Cannon, who is to be the Speaker " of the next House, will name no committees until the regular session exl* cept that on Ways and Means, which must deal with the Cuban reciprocity n *-' ? 1 ?? DuIao n rwl X O* question. itnu iuu^c uii ikuno uuu. ? counts and Mileage. STEAMER PORTLAND LOST. :e ts Ve??el Struck on Cape Blanco Reef and Sank?Many PaaHenzcrs Drowned. Marshfleld, Oregon.?The steamer South Portland, which sailed from ^ Portland, Oregon, loaded with wheat for San Francisco, struck on Blanco Reef during a heavy fog. The vessel carried a crew of twenty-two aud fourteen passengers. Of these the fol *" lowing have reached shore: James Mclntyre. captain; John J* iveimer, a sailor, of San Francisco; ' Emanuel Pasonimis, chief cook; William L. Wilson, Jr., of Baltimore; L. Baker. Alameda, Cal.; Guy Bent, a boy of twelve years, of Nova Scotia; Albert Bailey, of North Dakota, passenger; Charles Bruce, first officer; James - Ward, chief engineer; T. Pizzonto, second assistant engineer; John McKeown, oiler; J. Driscoll, oiler; W. Hughes, seaman; W. Robertson, fireman; James Atwood, seaman; H. Webber, engineer; C. Johnson, seaman. Charles Huzon, the first engineer, died of exposure as they were taking it him off the life raft. Seventeen persons are yet missing and are probably c. lost. ie, The South Portland struck bow on r. going at a speed of about seven knots. tg Immediately she began to settle astern, r and in a minute or two slid off the reef and began to sink. Captain Mc(j Intyre, seeing there was no hope of a saving the ship, had the boats lowered, n One of the boats, with part of the n crew and some of the passengers was ie capsized as soon as it cleared, and when last seen was floating away in *" ~ ? 4 QAnl n hnn rrl y toe log WUIIOUL u living own. uw >f The captain's boat with about v. eighteen aboard was also capsized, and r. only seven were able to pet back to the boat. They consisted of Captain James Mclntyre. John Reimer. Emmanuel Fasominos, W. L. Wilson, L. Baker, h Guy Bent and Albert Bailey. They ir reached Port Orford. to a lifeboat on which the other snrd vivora embarked succceded in reachlng shore, is )Q War In the Eaat." 8ays Barrett."?! >f John Barrett, the new United States ?s Minister to the Argentine Republic, an *8 authority on the arituation in the Far ie East, believes that there will be no war between Russia and Japan. Killed by HIi Friend. Irving A. Kimball, of Newton, N. H., Is dead in Kensington, having been ac-s cidentally shot by his friend, Joseph id Osgood, wbo became unconscious after >e shooting. It is feared Osgood will become insane, ro d. Colombia In Stralta. The Minister of the Treasury at Boal gotn, Colombia, has announced at a se'<1 cret session of the House of RepresenW tatives that the national revenues are 30.0W.0iX> pesos, In paper currency, lcs? than the expenses. Football Notes. r. aj Rockwell is being developed into a drop kicker at Yale. ,5. Ilalph Bloomer, Yale's plunging I tackle, is a Cincinnati uvj. It does not look as if Harvard was e. developing anything sensational in the to way of a punter. Soft leather is mostly used for heade(j gear, but at Yale several of the players jy. use head pieces made of thick cloth. A Boston man who saw Pennsylvania j work several days says that the eleven ,u' I is the best the Quakers have had for ' J vf.i rs J' ; BRIDGEWORKERS KILLED Fatalities Attend Collapse of New Structure at Pittsburg1. iJye-TVitness Telia a Story of Shocking Casualty Above the 3IonoD?ahcla River ?Steamboati|to the Ilescuc. Pittsburg, Pa.?By the breaking of the ropes carrying live beams to their position, letting tons of iron fall upon the movable crane at the Pittsburg end of the new Wabash bridge being built by the American Bridge Company over the Monongahela River, almost a dozen workmen were hurled to death by a fall of more than 100 feet, striking the water and two barges beneath. Eight of the dead have been recovered. Five are seriously injured. Several bodies are yet pinned under the wrecked barge. The part of the bridge extending out over the river from the Water street side is a total wreck. The dead follow: William C. Fleming, forty-five years | old, married, with three children; George Wells, aged thirty years, of ! Herron Ilill; James McLoud, of Esplen; Frederick Sallinger, Homestead; J. Campbell, Philadelphia; William Kitlinger, of Sheraden, married; Frank Dalby, of New Castle; two bodies, at Morgue, unidentified. The bridge is of the cantilever pattern, and is building from both sides of the river toward the centre by means of overhead travelers. The men had been at work on the Pitt3burg end but a short time, when suddenly the traveler v/hich projected j beyond the finished part of the bridge j dropped and fell, landing on a section j of the bridge which was being placed in position. So unexpected and sudden was the crash that few of the workmen on the wrecked section were warned in time to escape. The falling bridge landed on top of a barge load of steel anchored at the pier, and several of the workmen there were carried down. John McTighe, a cousin of the Superintendent of Police and a blacksmith's helper employed at the city machine shop, happened to be on the Mononeahela wharf, watchinir the men at work when the accident occurred. McTlghv, in giving a description of the accident, said: "The men were preparing to ram in one of the pias on the-bridge when the accident took place. Before I knew what had happened I saw ,the entire top of the 'traveler' collapse and the next minute the man were falling through the air. "It was a terrible sight. The men turned over and over as they fell, and their bodies looked like so many flies. "One of the men who fell from the top of the structure alighted on his I head on the barge and rebounded several feet, falling into the water. His crushed body was taken out later. "One man was at work some distance above the barge, having hold of one of the ropes which was used in hoisting. He managed to escape and I saw h>m about the place later." When the "traveler" snapped the hoisting engineer realized what had taken place. He opened the whistle of his engine and blew a loud warning. This continued until the breaking sections of the bridge threw his etsam pipes out of gear. Near the new bridge was the United States snagboat E. A. Woodruff, whose crew with their skiffs soon had recovered four bodies, most of them badly crushed. Another victim was rescued alive, but succumbed to his injuries before he reached the shore. The towboat John D. Watson came across the river from the opposite bank and joined the work of reecue. It succedeed in taking two mangled bodies from the river. A dozen skiffs along the bank took two bodies from the steel-laden barge, while five men, more or less crushed, were taken to the shore. n TWO TRUST COMPANIES FAIL Liabilities of Baltimore Conccrnfl Estimated at 810,000,000, Baltimore, Md.?Refusal of the public to buy securities on which were founded railway ventures resulted in the suspension of the Maryland Trust Company and the Uniou Trust Company, of this city, the former with $2,125,000 capital stock and the latter with $1,000,000. Their joint liabilities are believed to exceed $10,000,000. Except in so far as the on* precipitated the other the failures of the two I concerns are not direcLly relntrd. The Maryland company was overloaded with the securities of the Veia Cruz and Pacific Railroad, and the Union Company with those of the South and Western Railroad, the one a Mexican scheme and the other a Virginia scheme. Announcements of these failures came in confirmation of vagne rumors that have been circulating for several days and upset the confidence that had been inspired by the prompt resumption of the so-called Seaboard banks, which suspended recently. Only the efforts of bankers and the traders In the local market prevented .worse consequences. MILLIONAIRE A SUICIDE. Insomnia Causes Isaac "W. Morton to Shoot Hlmrclf. St. Louis, Mo.?Isaac W. Morton, multi-millionaire, City Councilman and philanthropist, committed suicide at the Cuivre Club, at O'Fallon, forty miles from St. Lpuis. Sleeplessness, caused by thirty years' unremitting at tention to Dusiness, is ascnoea as uie cause of sudde. Before shooting himself Mr. Morton wrote tender farewell letters to memjers of his family and friends. He was a director of the World's Fah- and Washington University. Creseeus Lowers Record. Crcsceus regained the right to be called the king of trotters by circling the track at Wichita, Kan., in 1.59%. one-quarter of a second faster time than ever a mile had been trotted before, even with the aid of a wind shield. To Corner Chicago's Bread. Nine of the largest wholesale bakeries in Chicago have organized the Chicago Merchant Bakers' Club, which it is alleged will attempt to gain control of the local bread market. Fresbytcrlans Adopt Divorce Resolutions The Presbyterian Synod of Ohio li:ive adopted resolutions prohibiting ministers from marrying any person divorced for other than scriptural reasons. Dentil of Cordon McKay. Gordon McKay, millionaire inventor of shoe machinery, died at his residence in Newport, R. I., after a long illness from cancer of the stomach. Lelter Pays Debt?. "Joe" Leiter, the Chicago wheat plunger, says he has paid back nearly all of his $3,000,000 of debts. ALASKAN VICTORY OUBSl; Formal Decree Gives United States Disputed Territory, THE CANADIANS ARE RESENTFUL Lower Alaskan Gold Fields Belong to United States?Canada Gets One Waterway ? Dyen, Skacway, Chllkoot and "Whole Juneau Territory Under the Stars and Stripes. London.?Alaskan boundary tribunal's official decision just made public, grants main contentions of the United States, gives this country two strategic islands in the entrance of the Portland Canal, which latter goes partly to Canada. The Canadian commissioners refuse to sign the decision, and the pub lie meeting was abandoned. The Can* iiuiaiin, ill a iui UlUl ?LilLfui^iiI, that their country's rights have been sacrificed. As affecting the Portland Canal the award gives the United States two islands, Kannaghunat and Sitlclan, commanding the entrance of the Portland channel and the ocean passage to Port Simpson. This destroys the strategic value of Wales and Pearse islands, which are given to Canada. The mountain lino adopted as the boundary lies so far from the coast as to give the United States substantially all the territory in dispute. The lino completely clears all the bays and inlets and means of access to the sea. giving the United States a complete land barrier between Canada and the sea. from thfe Portland Canal to Mount St. Elias. Around the head of the Lynn Canal (he line follows the watershed, somewhat in accordance with the provisional boundary established by the modus vivendi. The Canadians feel very sore over the outcome. They almost openly accuse Lord Alverstone of partisanship. When the latter presented them to King TCdward, at Buckingham Palace, his Majesty vainly endeavored to induce Messrs. Jette and Aylesworth to say they were satisfied or that they accented the situation. But the two Canadians declined to express in any way acquiescence with this view. They simply shook hands formally and bowed. WASHINGTOX PLEASED. Toster Sends Synopsis of the Alaska Bonn> d?ry 'Award. Washington, D. C.?Secretary of State Hay received a telegram from former Secretary of State John W. Foster, the agent of the United States before the Alaska Boundary Tribunal I in London, containing a synopsis of the boundary award. The tribunal grants practically all the contentions of the United States, and the outcome must be regarded as a signal victory for this country. The valuable Porcupine River gold fields are to remain in American territory. Great Britain does not get acI ?- Al.. t +VlA cess to tue sea uy w;i.y uj. iuj.t ui wc so-called canals or estuaries which are nearest to the Klondike and the other British mineral region in the vicinity of the Yukon. One of the most important features of the award is that the j boundary line of the strip or lisiere of j Alaskan territory which separates the j British Northwest from the Pacific is ] so placed as to include White and Chil- | koot passes within American jurisdiction. The British Government, under the modus vivendi for a provisional boundary arranged in 1899. maintained I custom houses at these passes, which [ are north of Duryea and Skagway at the head of Lynn Canal. The dispute, over what was the Stikine River I boundary was settled by adherence to the present modus vivendi line on the Stikine. Disappointment In Canada. Montreal, Que.?A general feeling of disappointment and resentment prevails here over the Alaskan decision. The feeling is freely expressed that Canada's interests have been sacrificed. TWENTIETH VICTIM A - MANIAC* I Engineer "Was Powerless to Stop Short of J | Determined Suicide. Auburn, Pa.?Still laughing like a madman as the locomotive bore down I upon him, George Hain, of Milton, a middle-aged man, deliberately knelt before a passenger train on the Reading ! Railway here and awaited his death. Ho was ground to pieces before the | engineer, who saw the act, could stop the train. In the pocket of Hain's clothing were | a ticket from Allentown to Lewisburg and a slip of paper, upon which was written: "Good-bye all; forgive every i one. I am crazy." Also a brief note addressed "Mother," which related to f. check. His body was forwarded to he Morgue of the county. This was the twentieth fatality in which Engineer Sharp, of this train, had figured. TWO DEAD OF DOG'S BITE. Farmer Takes Homo Strange Pet, "With Terrible Results. Guthrie, Okla. Ter.?William Lamumion, living on a farm between Carrier and Enid, died a few nights ago In a series of convulsions following the bite of a rabid dog. The previous night one of his children died in terrible agony from the same cause. Lamumion was in Enid and took the dog home with him. At home he turned it loose in the yard, and when two of his children approached it the dog sprang at them, i biting them severely. .In his efforts rM.rtfof.fr tiio children Lamumion suf IV ?? - v fered his own fatal injury. Tho New Jersey Legislature Adjonrns. The special session of the New Jersey Legislature ended, at Trenton after the passage of the school bills and the making of provisions for the flood commission. No other business was transacted. Fire Rains Town in Indiana. Fire, supposed to bo of incendiarj origin, destroyed five business blocks and the railroad station, besides damaging several other buildings at Galveston. Ind. The loss is estimated at $75,000. College and Educational Xotes. The University of Chicago Is 700 students short of last year's record. For the first time in years there was a falling off in the freshman class at Harvard. The Sultan of Turkey has granted : Chicago University the right to exca' vato in Babylonia. j Statistics seem to show that the efflux to (jorinany is not keeping up to its former proportions. About $(50,000 was earned last year* by Yale boys who are putting themselves through college. | OUR TROOPS LEAVE CUBA The Last United States Garrison Evacuates the Island. Oevarture of the American* Made ? Formal Affair?Hevlew by President Palma?Ola Tribute to This Country. Havana, Cuba.?The two companies of American artillery which occupied Santa Clara and tlie INo. 5 batteries he?? boarded the United States Jransport Kilpatrick for the return home. The program as previously arranged by Major Brown, commanding. the troops in Cuba, and the Secretary of Government was carried out. A company of Cuban artillery, consisting of ninety men and 100 mounted rural guards, headed by the municipal band, paraded on the Punta at 1 p. m. Twenty minutes later the Americans appeared marching up the avenue of the Republic from Vedado, Major Brown at the head of the troops, who marched in platoons and ported arras when passing the Cubans, the latter presenting arms. The Americans continued around the,outer loop of the small park of the Punta, the Cubans taking the inner loop. The Cuban band and artillery then took the lead, followed by the American soldiers, with the rural guards cominz last. President Palma and his wife, the members of the Cabinet, United States Minister Squiers and Miss Squiers reviewed the troops. As ea^h company passed it ported arms, paused and then marched to the Caballeirla wharf, where the Americans lined up inside the wharf railing and presented arms, the Cubans marching by with port arms. The Americans then boarded launches and were transferred to the Kilpatrick. Probably 2000 persons were assembled at the Punta and 2000 more at the palace. The Americans were not greeted with much cheering. It was expected that President Palma would make a short address to the troops, but he explained that all he wisneti was to see tnem oerore tuey went. He said he wished them and their country prosperity wherever they might go. The departure of the transport was delayed by the work of getting stores aboard. Instructions for the final delivery of the batteries to the Cubans were not received prior to the departure of the American troops. President Palma granted pardons to three American soldiers who were undergoing short terras of imprisonment in order that they might accompany their companions on their homeward Journey. +$ RAILROAD DYNAMITER CAUCHT. Former Convict Arre?ted Charged With Northern Pacific Outrage#. Tl.Unn Tonii/i C t-.i ,-nlln to til xitrieiiu, jiuiu.?xoaui. uiutcuc 10 iu jail here on the charge of being connected with the dynamite outrages on the Northern Pacific. A watchman saw a man digging a 'hole under the rails. The man ran. Captain Keowan, of the Northern Pacific detcctives, and others followed the trail twenty miles Into the mountains and captured the man at his cabin. He was armed with a rifle and a revolver. He said his name was Plumber, but he proved to be Isaac Grevelle, who was released from the penitentiary in July. He is the person the detectives have been hunting for three weeks, his picture having been identified as that of the man "who was seen at a haystack near Townsend, where fifty pounds of dynamite was found in the haystack. GOLDEN PALATE IN HIS THROAT. Peculiar-Operation Prevents Strangulation of a Banker. Omaha, Neb.?To prevent death by strangulation a surgical operation was performed and a golden palate was removed from the throat of Charles E. Wood, a banker, of Talmage. \fr TlTnnrl n-sis hnrn with n flpft Tinl nte. ^or several years he has worn in the roof of his mouth a golden plate with a false plate attached. He was thns able to talk distinctly and with little annoyance. The golden roof became unfastened and the whole contrivance slipped down his throat. A local physician was unsuccessful in extracting the device after a day's effort. Specialists from this city were summoned. Mr. Wood was removed to a hospital, where an operation was performed. VAULT DEFIES DYNAMITE. Bandits Captnre Town, But Fall to Get Bank's 820,000. Ncwburg, Ore.?For two hour9 this place was practically under control of a gang of bandits, whose object was to blow up the building of the Bank of ftewburg and loot the vault. Though several charges of dynamite were exploded the steel vault failed to give yvay and the bandits departed on horseback toward Portland. The vault contained probably $20,000. The building was practically wrecked. Miss Hickman Found, But Dead. The body of Miss Hickman, a woman doctor, whose disappearance in London, England, two months ago caused! n sensation, has been found in an unfrequented part of Richmond Park decomposed and the head separated from the body, apparently by rats. It could only be Identified by a swimming medal she wore. The reason for her disappearance remains a mystery. Blinded by Golf Club. Professor George Hempl, teacher of philology at the university at Ann Arbor. Mich., was struck blind in the right eye while playing golf. H. A. Babcock was. in the act of driving, when the club broke, the head of the hrnssio hf>in?r driven with terrific force against Professor Hempl's eye, knocking him senseless. Japan Denle* War is Imminent. ffhe Japanese Government issued a denial of the sensational statements regarding the imminence of war with Russia. Woil-Known Author Kills Him?elf. Temporarily insane, II. S. Caufleld, author and newspaper man, killed himself at Chicago, 111., by cutting hia throat. School Room lacking In Topeka. Five thousand children of school age are reported in Topoka, Ivan., not to be attending any school. Vrwev Gleanings. A Virginia Delegate reports that his election cost him six cents. Farmers say that the rabbits have thick fur, which means a severe winter. The French, for the first time in many years, arc not to take a hand in south polar work. Map of the Kingdom of Saxony just ilAA cpuipil'ieu Ull Jl MJUIV Ui ViJC lU ? at a cost of ?1,000,000. A group of gigantic Tatagonian Indians is to be procured, if possible, for the St. LouL? Exposition. iMINflR FVFNTKflFTHFWFFII 1 milllMI LM Llliuui (III. |> arm WASHINGTON ITEMS. jtflS More than 70,000 passports bare been jfl Issued over the name of Secretary mM Hay. This is about 27,000 more thaa^^H any other Secretary has issued. The docket of the United States sflHI preme Court now contains 438 caseHflKj 132 having been added while the CornHB was in recess. The rural free delivery service wtu. require from the next Congress At. least $20,000,000, a larger appropriaLion than has ever before been allowed for it Last session there was allowedj^H $12,500,000. M B President and Mrs. Roosev*.c gavel^BB dinner to Lieutenant-General Sir Hamilton. mm Thousands of illegal naturalization papers are reported to have been issutd throughout the country, the courts not having observed the provisions of tMe 9 new law passed by Congress. Foreign individuals own United^H States bonds to the amount of The Naval Board of Constrnetroi^H has, after years of diversity of opinion, agreed that In the building of battle*' B ships speed is a most important actor : M and should not be sacrificed to heavy, B armor and armament. Secretary of the Navy 2 'oody bat? H prepared estimates of the expenses of. m the naval establishment for the year ending June 36, 1905, which ag? 1 gregate $103,000,000. . OUR ADOPTED ISLAXD8. JRf The eruption of Mauna Loa contgri^HM ues, and hundreds have left Honolu!n-^H by steamer to view the spectacle from H A. C. Haeselbarth, a New York news paper man, has been made director of H charities for Porto Rico, rice B. H. ,ffl| Osterhout, resigned. Returns from all the provinces shora^H that the natives up to date have kiUPH 17,000,000 pounds of locusts. xne sieamer lsjewtuui mucu uwu*JH] Honolulu for the Gilbert Islands witb. Sj 200 Gilbert Islanders, the last of, seT^jHj eral thousand imported in the course?Jfg of tlie last twenty-four years for plantation labor. As laborers they Dave JH proved' unsatisfactory. . Many of tb?^^B islanders are destitute. The Philippine Commission has noti^ H tied the Chinese Government that-an export duty of five per cent, has been ,1 imposed on caribao. tJHE Captain Harry B. Chamberlain, qiiie^sl termaster, U. S. A., has been convicted of Manila nf Rmii?sriiTis and sentenced'; H to pay a fine of $500, or to serve 100.-^j? days in Bilibid penitentiary.. . ' The Ladrone lender, Colonel Toledo,^? has surrendered with ten rifles anjflH thirty men In South Luzon, P. I. Hobart S. Bird, editor of the "sB H Juan (rorto Rico) News, and J. dlna. a correspondent, were convicted 9 of contempt. Bird was sentenced taT?| fifteen days' imprisonment and $\0G3H| fine. Medina to thirty days in jail ah^;^J ~~~~~~~~~ <, DOMESTIC. VfIB Discrepancies aggregating HMKl are said to have been found in the aroH| L'UUUIS U1 IUC laiu UUOCJ1U NyttUif;fra|^^n had been treasurer of P. P. Mast & Springfield, 111. fH The Honourable Artillery Compaay dfiyjB London left Boston, Mass., for after a two weeks' stay In this coun^VB Patriotic societies at Baltimore, Mm M celebrated Pegjy Stewart day. Indiana Baptist churches, In cofl^H vention at Bloomingdale, adopted r?60-^^H lutions against the seating of Berfajl Smoot as Senator from Utah. | Pursued by robbers, Edward >Re<j$ JflB fireman' on me steamer uijruiwhw jumped into the Menomenee RlvenH Milwaukee, Wis., and-was drowne^BHj John Flood and James Meiia, his pq^^H suers, were arrested. ligM Tuberculosis caused the death of thWHE polar bear. Miss Borealis, in the Cen^^J tral Park Menagerie, New York Clty.4^# Two steel plants were closed at &| Zanesvilie, Ohio, because of the condition of the iron and steel industry; oue of thorn will be sold and the busi-^H ness discontinued. Tho United States Board of Appraisers has decided in favor^^^^^H | free entry at Boston of herringflQ|^9B in the Bay Islands, N. F. A submarine fog signal dev^H^^^H successfully tested on the setts coast. Nine English glassblowers ported from Malone, N. Y., havHJ brought to this country in violatiHHH the Contract Labor law. Henry C. Jarrett, a forme^^B^H| known theatrical manager, York City, is de^d in London.^BBfi^9| senior member of the firm of Work on the Dalatial seasid^BH^BI near Richmond Beach, S. I., proj^H^HH by Charles M. Schwab for th^'^HBHj children of New York, has been dis^^mE tinned. FOREIGN. HHffl A commission, including a numb^^^B of Rnsslan Ministers, Viceroy Alexi^H^^ and the Czar as president, has be^^H| formed to manage affairs in the JH H East. The Japanese Minister denied the report that the army wa^HJ desirous of war. jK Emperor William unveiled in BerlUr^H statues of his parents, the Emptor and Empress Frederick. Messages were sent by the Marconi system from Pcliin, China, totli&flH coast. HMB Eight coovicts in the Central Prisoj^Hn at Halle, Prussia, killed one gtiar(^^H wounded another, took their weapoc^HN and escaped to a forest, where th^Hffl were captured in u nobleman's vid^^H after shooting a pursuer.- 'Hn A French sporting paper says tkftYS King Edward of Great Britain has of-VH fered the Nice Yacht Club a cup for aoHH international race from Gibraltar toflH Nice. 9H DhU'oU /awaI rrr* ff o d a to c>nM fn jLSLiuau nuuv 10 oum iv 4\;^HI been barred from the Amacura BivejHH by Venezuela. The Mezicaa Government has ylelflHjj ed to the contention of the ChinHH Commercial Steamship Company th^^fln it has a right to land Chinese coollei^KH at Mexican ports. This will make more^RS difficult the execution of the Chinese HE exclusion law in the United States. Government detectives are investb^Hj gating a i-^TOO robbery reported by th^BH postmaster at Port Greville, Nova Sc^HS tia. who says an unknown snatched a package containing money as he was carrying it homejtc^JB lor-k up. ' I> WH It is .said that King Leopold of Bel^^H gium had a very cool reception ia'Vlj^Bfl iMtno n?l?HliAr I)a wnnt frv nnllaf A trian aid in settling the Congo disputfi^H| A new Panama bill canal billJ|flMH been presented to the Colombian tHRhM Prince Ahmed Bedr Eddlne, a young*HB er son of the Sultan of Turkey. Is dea&^H from oneutnnnia MK t-.w| | ^M| s