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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.
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''SUICIDE IN CONFESSIONA
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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.
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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 $\0G3H|
fine. Medina to thirty days in jail ah^;^J
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DOMESTIC. VfIB
Discrepancies aggregating HMKl
are said to have been found in the aroH|
L'UUUIS U1 IUC laiu UUOCJ1U NyttUif;fra|^^n
had been treasurer of P. P. Mast &
Springfield, 111. fH
The Honourable Artillery Compaay dfiyjB
London left Boston, Mass., for
after a two weeks' stay In this coun^VB
Patriotic societies at Baltimore, Mm M
celebrated Pegjy Stewart day.
Indiana Baptist churches, In cofl^H
vention at Bloomingdale, adopted r?60-^^H
lutions against the seating of Berfajl
Smoot as Senator from Utah.
| Pursued by robbers, Edward >Re<j$ 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
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