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IN T1E1TRE HORROR
Chicago Scene of Greatest Cal
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amny in Hisiory 01 American
Stage.
THE IROQUOIS A DEATH TRAP
More Than 600 Men, Women and
Children Lose Their lives
in a Fire Panic.
Beautiful New Theatre, Supposedly Tireproof,
Crowded With Women and
Children Attending Matinee Performance,
Becomes in a Flash a Caldron
of Flame ? Electric Spark From a
Broken Wire Started the. Blaze ?
Draught Swept the Flames Almost
Immediately Into the Auditorium ?
Stairways Became Choked Quickly?
Bodies Tiled Three and Four Deep in
Aisles?Fire Exits Not Adequate?Terrible
Panic on the Streets.
Chicago, 111.?More than 500 persons,
mostly women and children, perished
by fire in the Iroquois Theatre. It is
estimated that the total number of the
dead is 563.
,The fire began while a matinee performance
of "Mr. Bluebeard" was beins
played. An electric spark from a
broken wire shot into the flies and an
explosion followed. Then a panic ensued.
From that time on until the flames
filled the place the death crush continued.
A mass of humanity was
i jammed into the balcony stairway, surrounded
by smoke and flames. The
mass soon settled back into a death
- ---? .*.1 At
pose, ana mere w ere iuuuu uj mtraen.
Trucks, express wagons and patrol
wagons were all in use carrying
away the bodies.
The asbestos curtain in the theatre
would not work, and the flames swept
at once to the pit and adjoining walls.
All the exits were soon choked by
frantic women and children, and those
on the inside, terror stricken at the
advancing flames and smoke, were unable
to move either way. Children
were taken from the ruins, some j
burned to a crisp, and others trampled
beyond recognition. Women by the
score were found in a tangled and
scorched mass near the stairway.
The theatre was almost in darkness
in the second act. The stage was
lighted only by the soft artificial beams
from the calcium, which lent beauty to
the scene during the singing of the
"Moonlight Song" by the double sextette.
A flash of flame shot across
through the flimsy draperies, started
L>y a spark.
i A show girl screamed hysterically.
The singers stopped short, but with
presence of mind the director increased
the volume of the music. Scores rose
in their seats as the stage manager {
shouted an order for the continuation
nf thp soner. It was obeved with feeble
hearts. The girls forced the words
from their throats until two of their
number swooned.
Clouds of smoke poured from the
stage into the auditorium, enveloping
the struggling mass of panic-stricken
men, women and children.
Behind the scenes all was confusion.
It required but a moment to perceive
that the fire had gone too far to be
conquered by the amateur fire brigade
formed by the stage hands. In the
dressing rooms as high as the sixth
story were the score of girls of the
ballet. At the first alarm the elevator
boy fled from his post, and the flames
soon shot upward in the wings and
made escape by the narrow stairway
impossible.
The screams from the imprisoned
girls in the upper rows of dressing
rooms came to the ears of the more
fortunate below, as they rushed to the
stare doors. Some stODoed for a brief
moment, thinking to give aid, but the
clouds of smoke, growing denser and
denser, forced them to flee. Their
cscape even then was miraculous.
The blackened bodies which choked
the aisles and stairways, the lines of
policemen and firemen carrying limp
forms from the building, the overtaxed
hospitals, the rows of dead and dying
in the surrounding buildiugs, which
were thrown open to the sufferers, tell
briefly the tale. Only a few of the
terrifying incidents will ever be
known.
Great loss of life was prevented and
' many lives were saved by the heroic
rescue work of the students, faculty,
janitors and workmen in the Northwestern
University building. The rescue
work of the people in the top balcony
was effectively done by the people
in the university building. The
platform of the theatre fire exits on
the top balcony was directly opposite
the third floor fire escape platform of
the university building and on a line
with the law school lecture room.
Kalsominers, decorators and painters
were at work in this lecture room,
using large planks to make platforms.
' The first seconds of the rush for life
Costa Rica Recognizes Panama.
Senor Calvo, the Costa Rican Minister,
informed Assistant Secretary of
State Loomis at Washington, D. C..
that his Government had formally extended
recognition to the Government
of Panama.
Ball Player Shot Dead.
Dennis Leahy, for several years a
player in the Virginia Baseball League,
and at one time a member of the Cincinnati
team, was shot and killed at
Knoxville, Tenn., by Frank Regan.
Labor World.
Kail KivCl" {Mass.; vtaut'is icv.cnuj
organized.
Montreal (Canada) firemen have been
granted an increase of ten per cent, in
their pay.
Machinists at South Boston, Mass.,
have organized and will seek to secure
a nine-hour day.
Sacramento (Cal.) Electric Street
Railway has increased the wages of
Its employes.
Cook County, III., has eight local
onions of railway clerks, with a membershio
of nearly 10.000.
f among' those in the audience were J
quiet, according vo tuo.se who live to
tell the tale. Few, if any, in that
throng realized what was to come.
They thought only of themselves as
they pushed and struggled for every
inch as they advanced toward the exits.
For an instant the stairways leading
from the balcony were a mass of struggling
people, with scores behind constantly
pushing closer and fighting to
get out. Those iu the van, unable to
keep their footing, fell headlong.
Those behind fell over their prostrate
forms, crushing and suffocating them.
The scene was then a bedlam. Women
and children were in the majority of
the fighting crowd, and their shrieks of
fear mingled with the groans of the injured
and the prayers of supplicants to
God.
Women seized their babies in their
arms, frantically clung to them, beseeching
ears that were deaf to entreaty
to save them from the terrible
fate impending. Had those appealed
to been so disposed they could not have
given ine assistance so pueuusij unsought.
In the last hope, born of desperation,
scores of those in the balcony, climbed
to the railing and leaped to the pit of
the theatre, many feet below. Their
bodies were found long afterward,
when the smoke had cleared away and
the firemen could grope their way with
lanterns into the place.
The dense smoke quickly rose to the
top of the building. To a score of those
who had sought to jump from the gallery
the smoke was kind, for it brought
death quickly. Three women were
found hanging over the rail, their faces
distorted with agonies of death.
I'rom a dozen sources the alarm went
to fire headquarters, but before the
vanguard of engines wheeled into Randolph
street a dense crowd had gathered
in front of the theatre. The firemen
were quick to act, but hundreds
of bodies were already motionless within
the walls of the playhouse so recently
opened.
An awe-stricken crowd stood fixedly
as those who had been nearest the
doors rushed out, their eyes wild with
fear. These yelled fire at the top of
their voices, and the cry was taken up
by the crowd and carried far into busy
State streei and the other avenues of
commerce.
None realized at that minute what
hud occurred. Each man asked his
neighbor if there had been loss of life I
or-injury. Not until the first black-1 i
ened and limp body was borne forth in
the arms of a policeman did the importance
of the disaster begin to dawn on
thoso in the street.
In fifteen minutes nineteen dead bodies
were carried out the Randolph
street entrance. Then they came so
fast that all count was lost.
Every hospital in the city hurried ambulances
to the scene, and with them
every surgeou who could be spared.
They were as nothing, though, as compared
to the need. Two and three, and
in many cases even more, were huddled
into the ambulance and hurried
off to the hospitals, where kindlier attention
could be given them.
The great majority of those who had
occupied orchestra seats escaped with
their lives, though scores were badly ,
hurt in the rush. Some were knocked
down, and with broken limbs were unable
to rise.
They were left to die with a number
of women who fainted from fright.
With these bodies were found the
corpses of those who had leaped from
the balcony and gallery.
In the exits of the balcony and galleries
the greatest loss of life occurred.
When the firemen went to remove the
bodies they found a hundred or more
piled in a mass in each place. The
clothes were torn completely away
from some of the bodies. Here and 1
there a jewelled hand protruded from
the pile. All the faces were distorted
with pain.
From beneath one mass there suddenly
came the moan of a woman. Trembling
hands plunged their way into the
tangle of human forms, and with a ,
mighty effort pulled to the surface the
woman. The blackened lips parted,
and a fireman bent over her to catch
the words. ,
"My child, my poor little boy. where
is he? Oh, do bring him to me." ]
Again the lips parted.
"Is he safe? Tell me he is safe and
I can die."
"He is safe," the fireman muttered,
and all knew his reply was best. She
died, and her body was lifted with |
those of hundreds of others in that one
spot.
The calamity was so overwhelming
that the firemen and the policemen,
who were the first to reach the upper
parts of the house, could not realize its
astonishing extent. They began by
dragging a body or two from the terrible
piles at the head of the stairways,
as if they did not know the piles were
made of human bodies. ,
Gradually the full significance of the
catastrophe dawned upon them. All j
the lights of the theatre had been extinguished.
The lanterns of the fire- j
men cast only a dim glow over the
piles of dead. From the bodies arose
small curls of steam. The firemen had ,
drenched the piles before they knew (
they were made of human corpses.
Then the work of taking out the inanimate
forms began. There were constant
appeals for more help. The bodies
of little children, torn and bleeding,
were tenderly lifted, each by a fire- .
mnn nr nnlioomQn nnrl <-?jirriprl tn th(*
street below. Two or three men were
needed to bear the heavier burdens.
Every now and then a form faintly
breathing was dragged out of the pile.
These were handled with even more
tenderness than the others as they
were carried down the marble stairway
of the gilded foyer. Now and then a
faint groan was heard coming from the
bottom of the pile. This was the signal
for renewed and frantic efforts on
the part of the rescuers to untangle
the human mass.
In the balcony scattered about the
aisles and among the charred seats,
were found many bodies. One mother. <
French Parliament Adjourns.
Both houses of the French Parliament
adjourned afl?r passing the budget.
Etienne Brisson was elected to
succeed M. Bourgeois as President of
the Chamber.
Embezzler Under Arrest.
Russell Beckett, wanted by the Chilean
authorities on the charge of em- (
bezzlement of $5000 from the Bank of
Tarapaea. was arrested on board the
ship YValden at Philadelphia, Pa.
Prominent People.
The Czar of Russia has sent his autographed
photograph to William J.
Bryau.
Sir Thomas Lipton has to pay taxes
on property in Chicago, 111., assessed
at ?3o0,000.
Count Rudolph von Welserheim has
been appointed Austro-Hungarian Ambassador
at Madrid.
B. W. Findon, a nephew of the composer,
is writing a new biography of
Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Dr. H. F. Swanbact, of Nevada,
j wears the iron cross of Prussia, given I
I kirn by Frederick IV. I
M
clasping her child, was found kneplln;
as if in prayer, with her back to tbi
stage, from which had come the deatl
dealing sheet of flame. She bad pro
tected her child from the flames, bu
the little one was dead in the arms o
its mother. As the work of rescue pro
gressed dozens of blankets wen
brought, and the bodies were carriet
down in these. v
The scene, immediately after the fin
was got under control and the work o
rescue began, was appalling. All tin
gilt and tinsel of the theatre, all thi
silks and plushes, all the rich bang
iugs, all the frescoes, had been wipet
out. The flames from the stage hhc
swept the entire theatre and left theii
blight everywhere. The upholstery 01
many of the seats was still intact
though. But for the failure of som<
one to act, when action meant life foi
hundreds, only a few might, have per
islipri The thin shppf of asbestos thai
could have saved all failed.
In a remarkably short time raer
whose wives and children had gone tc
see "Mr. Bluebeard" reached the scene
It was a hopeless task to try to tine
their loved ones. Through the tiers ol
dead and dying in the buildings al
about men and women searched witl
frenzied faces. Now and again i
searcher would find one for whom h(
looked. When the dead was found th<
searcher knelt in prayer.
One man pushed his way into th<
lobby of the theatre. His eyes wer(
blinded with fear and he did not se?
th? firemen pass out with unconscious
forms. Before a group of men he
stood for a moment. Then he aske<3
u any one had been injured in the fire.
"My wife and boy were there," he
murmured. "Did every one set out?"
Tears came to the eyes of the men ii
the little group. At that instant fiv(
firemen staggered down the stairs, eact
bearing a human form. One of th?
men pointed to them, and the husband
and father fell to the floor.
Amid even such sad scenes the pick
pockets were busy. The police kept
watch as best they could, but the
ghouls snatched many purses from the
dead and dying, and wrenched rings
from the fingers that could no longei
offer resistance. Several of these men
were caught in their work. Tbey re
ceived at the moment punishment all
too light for their crime. Only a few
were arrested and taken to the police
station, where they will be held tc
await the course of the law.
The chorus was compelled to dress
lt\ fliA \fonr r\P 4-Kn xvnmon
in the dressing room when the fire
started. Exit from the cellar was cul
off by heavily barred doors. The mer
were forced to break them open. Dur
ing this delay many of the girls re
ceived painful burns. The girls were
forced into the street wearing tights
They took refuge in the rnion Hotel
and the Sherman House.
Viola MacDonald. one of the most
beautiful chorus girls on the stage, was
in tights when the cry of :'fire" ranp
through the theatre. She turned to the
girl next to her and said:
"I'll not go out on the street in these
tights if I am burned to death."
She then ran down stairs to a dress
ing room to put on her skirt. She go1
into the skirt and then heard a crasl;
overhead. She found her egress barred
by falling and burning timbers. She
was the last person to leave the stage
part of the theatre without injury. She
was hauled through a coal hole bj
three brawny firemen.
Father McDonald of the Holy Name
Cathedral, in company with S. E. Car
roll, came along Dearborn street, whei:
the shrieks of the chorus girls who triec
to get out of the theatre reached them
Father McDonald and Mr. Carrol
rushed into the alley and saw font
Kirls trying to get out through a coal
hole back of the stage of the theatre
The priest and his friend rescued the
four women, who were taken to theii
homes. Their names are Violet Young
Dora Selfe^ Alice M. Bartlett and Dodie
V. Goodman.
In the basement of the theatre wber
the fire started, Maggie Levine was ir
charge of twelve girls who were pre
paring to appear in the scene entitled
"The Hunters." When Miss Levine
heard the cries of fire and the sounds
of the commotion following over hei
bead, she shouted, "My God, girls whal
can be the matter?''
A moment later a panic Strieker
crowd of fifty or more chorus girls
were struggling for their lives. Smoke
rolled down through the trap doors ir
suffocating clouds and almost oblit
erated the dim lights from the incan
descents. Doxie Marlowe. Dot Down
ing, Zaza Belasco and Marie Janette
were knocked down and trampled bj
their sister chorus girls and the few
men in the chorus. Doxie Marlowe
was so much overcome by the smoke
that she was unconscious for the time
being and had to be carried out.
James Gallagher, a member of the
men's chorus, took command of the
frightened and half-suffocated girls and
instructed them to take hold of one an
other's hands. He took the lead anel
prasping the foremost of the girls by
the hand led the way through the base
ment from the stage to the front of the
fheatre building, where he reached the
cirUn'nIL- in T>o?.
i uai tniai UUUCL luc oiutn a?a *u aiuu
clolph street.
With a stick he forced the coal hole
covers off and this sufficed to signa
the firemen that help was wanted
Ladders were lowered and each of the
fifty girls and their male companions
were drawn out of the basement.
Some had sisters and all had friend!
in the blazing building. The bitter col(
pierced them through and through, foi
they were clad only in their thin stag*
gowns, with necks and arms exposed
Nevertheless, they had to be draggei
from their station in the alley and int(
neighboring stores.
juuwyers x>uineu 10 jL?eum.
Two men were burned to death ai
the club at Troy, N. Y. One was
Moses T. Olough, one of Troy's oldesi
lawyers and the President of the club
The other was William Shaw, also om
of Troy's best known lawyers.
QUICK JUSTICE IN OKLAHOMA
Murderer of a City Marshal Caughl
and Killed in Half an Hour.
Guthrie, Okla.?City Marshal L. E
Ferguson, of Ringwood, was shot nn<
instantly killed by Clintou Fox, n
farmer.
As soon as the shooting occurred Foj
mounted his horse and rode out ol
town. A number of citizens quicklj
organized and gave chase. Fox headei
toward his home, but was overtaken it
little over half an hour. lie was lirei
upon and killed.
World's Fair Pointers.
The thirty-five miles of roadway a
the World's Fair have been practically
finished.
The Louisiana Purchase Expositor
covers two square miles?1240 acres
It is larger than the Chicago, Omaha
Buffalo and Paris expositions com
bined.
The design for the Russian buildinj
at the St. Louis Exposition has bcei
approved. It will be a handsome struc
ture, on the style of the Palace o:
Romanoff Boyarda, at Moscow, am
T~ ...
; COTTON BROKERS IN PANIC
t
f Opening Advance Succeeded iw
s . General Collapse in Prices,
t SMALL SPECULATORS WIPED OUT
x
^ ?
j Thousands of Bales Thrown Upon the
1 Marlcet?PriceB Thrown Down SoventyF
five Toints ?Heavy Bidding Alone
* Saved the Market ? Sale* Estimated
j at Over One Million Bales.
New York City.?Twenty thousand
t small speculators were wiped out by
the sudden slump in cotton, and many
J brokers declare that it was the bull
clique which engineered the slump in
1 order to get rid o? the little fellows
t who had overbought the market. For
' an hour there was a panic of the wild,
est description, while the market broke
? eighty points, or ?4 a bale. If the bulls
? had planned the break they did so at
i a tremendous risk, for they lost control
; of the market completely, and it was
j not until big supporting orders were
[ put in at New Orleans that they were
; able to stop the panic.
I May and July cotton were selling at
about 14.25c., when the break started
, selling from some quarter, causing the
market to ease off, and by points it
! went down to near the fourteen. Then
, came the rapid decline.
, It is estimated that there were at
i least 1,000,000 bales of cotton of different
options held subject to stop loss
orders, and they all semeed to come
on the market at once. Every broker
who held cotton for customers on the
i twenty point stop order tried to sell
before something worse happened.
, The market went down ten and
, twenty points at a drop. Brokers
J rushed to the pit and fought for places
in the inner ring, every broker shouting
I at the top of his voice and fighting for
, a chance to unload the cotton he had
, been fighting to buy only a few min,
utes before.
Within a very few minutes the active
. options dropped about seventy-five
, points. Then the bulls came to the
\ rescue and there was a rally. The mar;
ket swung back almost as rapidly as
J it had dropped. The market was hardly
less wild, and there was almost a3
. much noise around the pit as when the
k market dropped. A recovery of forty
points was made on the sudden recov[
cry. Then the market began te fall
again. After the partial recovery tne
market ruled very irregular, with sen\
timent very unsettled and trading fevl
erishly active. The close was steady
1 net forty-one to fifty-three points
lower, with sales estimated at 1,500,
, 000.
The slump served to wipe out nearly
all small speculative accounts. Since
t the upward movement in cotton began
, many thousands of young clerks and
> other employes have deposited their
, savings with brokers in order to get
[ rich quickly. Money has been drawn
> from savings banks 'by many to put
"r into cotton, and the speculative mania
among employes seems to have been
, greater In the cotton market than it
[ was in the stock market about a year
j ago. This, too, in face of the fact that
^ the heavy declines in stocks have
ruined many men and many houses,
j New Orleans, La.?A little clique of
. bears played havoc with the cotton
I market, driving May cotton at one time
down seventy-fiv^ points, or $3.75 a
; bale. This was followed by a slight
; reaction, and net losses for the one day
were from forty-nine to fifty-four i
; points. The loss for March was forty-'
nine points, or $2.50 a bale.
{ Thousands of bales were thrown on
( the market and prices dropped ten to
twenty points, while trades were being
[ negotiated. Brokers with twenty-point
, holdings grew frantic in their efforts
' to save their customers, and the scene
. became one of the wildest confusion.
l This condition lasted for an hour.
" until the tremendous buying by bull
( leaders checked the decline.
\ WOMAN MURDERER SENTENCED,
i
Mrs. Rogers to Spend Year Awaiting
Execution in Vermont.
> Bennington, Vt.?Mrs. Mary A. Rogr
ers, convicted of the murder of her huar
band, Marcus H. Rogers, was sen?
tenced in the Bennington County Court
5 to be hanged on the first Friday in Feb\
ruary, 1905.
Leon Penham, the confessed accom?
plice of Mrs. Rogers, was sentenced to
? life imprisonment.
[ If the sentence of death fs carried
. out Mrs. Rogers will be the second
I woman to be hanged in the history of
.Vermont, and the first prisoner to be
put to death in the State in twelve
T> rvl 1 TTrt tifoTT TTrh/Y
? .VUaia. 0,yiTt-9LCl UCll, Ul lianiaA, ttuv
was hanged in 1891 for the mnrder of
his wife, was the last one to pay the
death penalty. A session of the Legis.
lature, which holds the pardoning
I power, must intervene between the
sentence of death and its execution.
5 LABOR MEN INDICTED.
J A Texas Grand Jury Takes Action on
Dynamiting Cases in the State.
1 New Orleans, La.?The Grand Jury
of Bexar County, Texas, has found
1 twenty-five indictments against Frank
* 4-\y r\ eaorafflrv r\f fhft
t HUJtUIUU, IUC OCVICIIIIJ V*. iwv wv>w?
Car Men's Union, of San Antonio; F. C.
Boyd, business agent of the Carpenters'
Union, and T. D. Holcomb, a strikt
in? motonnan, for dynamiting street
? cars and attempting to murder the pas.
t sengers in them. The street car strikes
in Texas recently have been attended
[ In nearly all cases by indictments, most
of them for manslaughter.
Big Fire in Pittsbnrg.
For twelve hours thirteen engine
t companies battled with n stubborn Are
In the six-story storage warehouse of
Tlaugh & Keenan, at Third street and
; Duquesne Way, Flttsburg, Pa. (Crossed
' Moctric wires, ft is said, caused the fire,
1 Tho loss will be about $700,000, with
Insurance of $70,000.
f High Voltage For Murderer.
' Six electrical contacts were neees1
*ary before Frank White, a negro muri
rtrtrnr wiis nrnnounced dead in the
1 prison at Auburn, N. Y.
College and Educational Notes.
Good scholarship hereafter will be
t required at Princeton of all students
r who are candidates for athletic honors.
Dorothea Beale, LL.D.. has com1
pleted forty-five years as the head of
. Cheltenham College for Girls in Eng,
land.
The report of the treasurer of Cornell
University shows a total income for the
j year of $1,415,874. and expenditures
i amounting to $1,058,123.
, Sir v/iiiiam Muir, former principal of
f the University of Edinburgh, has just
1 had conferred upon him the medal of
the Royal Asiatic Society.
, i v\ W - - \ %? c'
JAPAN MAKES BOND ISSUE
Assumes Control Over the Seoul.
Fusan Railway,
Japanese Cabinet In Emergency Session
?China Appeals to Japan For Arms
?British Naval Reserves Warned
Tokio, Japan?An extraordinary
meeting of the Privy Council approved
the issue by the Cabinet of an eraergercy
ordinance authorizing the guarantee
of the principal and interest of
an issue of 10,000,000 yen debentures
for the purpose of expediting the worfc
on the Seoul-Fusan Railway, which is
expected to be finished by the end of
1904.
The ordinance also provides for all
possible military expenses for the protection
of the railway and other interests.
I
The President of the Seoul-Fusan
Railway has been dismissed, and M.
Furuichi, President of the Japanese
Railway Board, will succeed him.
Other Japanese officials are taking control
of the line.
London, England.?The latest report
in the Russo-Japanese crisis credits
Japan with insisting that Russia shall
reply to the last note before January
10 on the ground of the rapid approach
of Russian naval reinforcements to the
scene of action.
Portsmouth, England.?The 'Admiralty
has ordered the Naval Reserves
men to send the addresses from which
they could be summoned to active service
if required.
Pekin, Cl\ina.?Yuan Shih Kai, Viceroy
of Chili and the head of the Chinese
Army, has entered upon hurried
negotiations with the Japanese authorities
to obtain a million taels' worth of
arms and ammunition.
The Japanese, although they are desirous
of furnishing the weapons and
ammunition, are unable to do so unless
China agrees to take part of the
supply in models which are now obsolete
in the Japanese Army. Ten
' thousand rifles -and 2,000,000 rounds of
! ammunition, which were purchased
I last August to replace the obsolete
weapons used by Yuan Shlh Kai's personal
army, have not yet been delivered.
Yuan Shih Kal will probably resort
to Austrian and Herman makers unless
the Japanese Government permits
exports from her own reserves.
Lien Fang, Vice-President of the
l Board of Foreign Affairs, has visited
M. Lessar, the Russian Minister, and
asked him what Russia's intentions are
in regard to the evacuation of Manchuria.
M. Lessar said that nothing could
be done at present, first because the
cold prevents the moving of the troops
from the positions they now occupy,
there being no barracks elsewhere; and,
secondly, an evacuation while the Russo-Japanese
negotiations are proceeding
would endanger Russian interests,
as the Japanese might seize the occasion
to invade Manchuria.
It is stated that China is now so
alarmed at the possibility of becoming
involved in war that she prefers the alternative
of Russia retaining control of
Manchuria.
CRAZED HUSBAND KILLS THREE
Shot His Wife and Child in Her Arms
and a Man.
I Sergent, Ky.?William Shepherd, of
Letcher County, has been arrested and
j is lodged in Whitesburg. He went to
the home of Obadiah Fields, his fathering
w, and shot and killed his wife and
her infant child, and Riley Webb, a
teamster. Tue murderer fled, but was
captured, v
Crazed with drink. Shepherd walked
into the house and without provocation
fired a steel bullet through Webb's
body, entirely severing the spinal cord.
Then Shepherd turned upon ills wife
and fired a bullet through her body,
killing her almost instantly. The same
shot pierced the form of the babe
x^hich the mother carried in her arms
for protection. The little one died in a
short time.
RICH 1002 MINING PRODUCTS.
Quicksilver, Flint. Feldspar and Fuller's
Earth Report Issued.
Washington, D. C.?The Census Bureau
has issued a report on the mining
of quicksilver, flint, feldspar and Fuller's
earth for the calendar year 1902.
The figures relate exclusively to the
raining operations and subsequent reworking
of the minerals at the mine as
incident to the production. The product
follows:
| Thirty-four thousand two hundred
and ninety-one flasks of quicksilver
(each weighing 76% pounds), valued at
$1,467,848, together with 11,727 short
tons of cinnabar, valued at $82,242; 36,365
short tons of flint valued at $144,209;
45,287 short tons of feldspar, val:
ued at $250,424; 11,492 short tons of
Fuller's earth, valued at $98,144.
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DOWIE'S BIG FIGURES.
Testifies That He Was Offered $3,000,000
For North Shore Land.
W aUKegUIl, ill.?1U ills tAauiiuauvu
in the Circuit Court in an electric railroad
condemnation case Dowie said
tnat before the Zion City project was
well started he had had an offer of
first. $50,000, then $1,000,000, then $3,000,000
and then ?3,000,000. for his bargain
in North Shore land.
Attorney Grover. for the Waukegan
and North Shore Kailroad, cross-examined
him closely when .Dowie insisted
he should have $230,000 for allowing
the railroad to cross Zion City on the
lake shore.
Mob Threatens Jail.
A crowd collected around the couuty
jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa, threatent
ing to lynch two negro prisoners who
are held for an alleged assault on two
women. The Council Bluffs militia
company were called out. The mob
battered down the doors of the jail.
The mob finally dispersed, haviug
failed to secure the prisoners.
Macedonians Menace Turkey.
Four thousand Macedonians under
Bulgarian leaders are reported to be
mrtn.i/iinfr fho Turl/ifth frmiHor
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Newsy Gleanings.
Uncle Sara's printing bill amounts to
50.000,000 a year.
Florida'* orange and pineapple crop
is estimated at 52,500,000.
French officials made a strong denial
of the report that France intended to
interfere in the Far Eastern situation.
The arbitration treaty between
France and Italy is said to be practically
identical in terms with the AngloFrench
convention.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will
shortly establish its own sales department
for the disposal of the products
bf coal mines owned.
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New Classification*.
Dr. Francis R. Lane, until lately di|
rector of the high schools of Washington,
is fond of repeating the following
extract from a composition submitted
to him for approval during the days
when he was a worker in the school
teaching ranks. The extract runs as
follows: "Beings are divided into
names, according to that which they
feed on. The lion eats flesh?the lion
is carniverous. The cow eats grass?
the cow is herbarious. Man eats
everything. Therefore, man is omnipotent."
M onte Carlo Plangera.
A sensation has been created at
Monte Carlo by an Italian banker, who
Is playing the most daring game seen
here since the days of Wells, the "bank
breaker."
This gentleman, who hails from
Rome. Dlavs simultaneouslv on four
tables, and stakes the maximum at
every coup. He has just won something
like ?50,000, but he has lost far
more than that sum since his arrival.
Another big plunger, a rich young
American, is playing maximums at
roulette, and in one day cleared over
?20,000.
Three-times running he backed No.
31, and each time his number came
up amid the cheers of the excited
crowd of spectators, many of whom
were following his leads, but in modest
ten or twenty-franc stakes. ?
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Give Mother ? Pension.
A certain charitable organization in
the city had a request the other day
from a young Italian threatened with
consumption who wanted help tb get
back to Italy In the hope of saving his
lfe. An agent was sent to investigate,
tnd, as usual, asued the young man's
toother for a list of the members of the
family. The blanks furnished for this
formality have nine spaces left for
children. The agent filled up one blank
and still the list went on. She filled
two blanks without a word, the list of
children stopping at eighteen. When
she turned in her report, it embraced
the following official recommendation:
"That the boy be sent fo Italy, and that
the mother be recommended to President
Roosevelt for a pension."
Want No More Mutton.
A war against mutton is imminent
tn Willard Hall, the women's dormitory
of 'Nrwt-hwAatorn TTnivprsitv. Tin* vonna
persons have other grievances, but
their principal cause of eomplaint is
the i^utton.
"We count it a red-letter day when
mutton is not on the menu," said Miss
Charlotte Thompson, one of the leaders
in the strike- movement "We have
roast mutton for dinner and cold roast
mutton for lunch almost every day
in the week. The other day we have
mutton hash for breakfast."
The young women pay $6.50 a week
for their board, and say that at thle
price the university is making money.
?Chicago Tribune.
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doctoring for two ye
of her kidney trou
Lydia E* Pinkham's
Of all the diseases known with v
kidney disease is the most fatal. In fa
is applied, the weary patient seldom si
Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pii
study to the subject, and in producin
Lydua E. Pinkham's Vegetable
tained the correct combination of h?
dreaded disease, woman's kidney tr
in harmony with the laws that povei
there are many so called remedies f
ham's Vegetable Compound is
for women.
Read What Mrs
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den, I suffered so with female troi
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for me. For three months I tool
worse. My husband then advised
Vegetable Compound, and broug
blessing ever brought to our hoir
changed woman. My pain had d
clear, my eyes bright, and my entire
Weisslitz, 176 Seneca St, Buffalo,
Proof that Kidney Trouble can be Cured t
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham:?I fee
your medicine has done me. I had
growing worse. I had trouble wit
me I had Brigbt's disease; also hac
walk a block at a time. My back ai
so nervous I could not sleep; had h
all the time, had such a pain, in nr
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I took, in all, twelve bottles of Lye
pound, live ooxea 01 .Liver fins, <i
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work, and can walk two miles with
tell me that my kidneys are all rig!
and I feel that I owe it all to yo
Dalton, Mass.
Mrs. Pinkhara invites all sic]
She has guided thousands to he*
tcnnn forfeit if we cannot forth'
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Dull Bat Obliging.
The Globe was dull yesterday. On#
excuse is, \f e were coaxed out of print:
ing two items that were of real inter
' eat There is-.ai item in town to-day
I that would prove a valuable lesson, but ]
t we have been coaxed out of printing It
> There is nothing disreputable' aboni n
the item, but women and men have a*N j
> exaggerated notion of some subjects,
and we cannot print the item without
; feeling mean for a month, so many
- worthy people have asked us to keep U
out.?Atchison Globe. <
Hark Twain Mined the Boat
The success achieved by Mark Twain
during his boating days on the Mississippl
River was due not only to ths \
race that he was a skiiirm puot, dui
that he was an earnest one, as ^ell
During a talk over old times at llr.
Clemens' summer home, Quarry Farm, -<
Elmira, N. Y., recently, a guest
who knew Mr. Clemens in those days
told the others how the genial humorist
once missed his boat Instead of ^
Inventing an ?xcuse,<as m$ny of hU
companions did, he reported to his stn
perlor officer as follows:
"My boat left at 6.10. I arrived al
the landing at 6.20 and could not catjcfc
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FITSDermanently ouzed. No fits or narvotu* y
npssafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Orate
NerveBestorer.$2trial bottle and treatisetrac
Dr.B.B. Kline,Ltd^ 931 Arch St^PhlUu.Pa,
Xabor Shortage In South Africa. , 1
The Transvaal Labor Commission
has reported that there is a total short. ,
age or Z4i,uuu laoorers in aoutn Arnca, s;
the deficiency being chiefly felt in agriculture
and mining. There is a short*
age of 40,000 men in the railway work*
ings alone.
How's TlilsT* n
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for '
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Oatarrh Cure.
F. J. CncKXT <fc Co., Toledo, O*
the undersigned, have known P. J.Che* '
ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per-'
fectly honorable In all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any oplig**
tlons made by their firm. Y
West <fc Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists,Toledo,
Ohio. '
. WALDiNO,KijrHAM<kMABTiir, Wholesale Drag*,
gists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall'sCatarrhCurels taken internallJVMt j
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of thb syste u. Testi monlals sent free
: Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Foreign 'Waiters In London.-. < -V
According to the latest statistics, the
i English waiter in London is slowly
but surely becoming extinct. Ther?
are now 15,000 foreign waiters in that
i city, the greatest number of whom
> come from Germany. Italy, Austria,
t France and Russian-supply the rest
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Rheumatism'* Killing Pain.
k Left in quick order after taking 10 doaef .
' of Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure, in tablet
form. 25 doses for 25c., postpaid. Dr<
: Skirvin Co., La Crosse, Wis. [A.C.L.J
1 A spanking machine is in successful op>
' eration in the State Training School at
Redwing, Minn.
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ars, was finally cured;
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Compound*1
rhich the female organism is afflicted,
ct, unless pfrompt and correct treatment
irvives. . I
akham,,early in her career, gave careful
?her great remedy for woman's ills?
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