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THE LETTER FROM MOTHER. BY HOLIIAX F. DAT. Kip and sni^aml a flutter and flirt? The morning mail is in; The typewriter's rack-tack right and left With brusque, staccato din. Oi?lcr and tally, statement and bill, frpilit- rpopint and dun: He slaps them open with hasty hand, Assorting them one by one. "Respected Gentlemen.' "Honored Sirs," Formal and smug and trite, Empty phases of business life To start the letters right. "Sincerely yours," and "witii respect," '"Obedient servant," too! Satire tucked in a rebate claim Or angry threat to sue. Down through the thick of the stack he goes With the business snarl on his brow; There is never a smile in a postman's bag You'd imagine, to see Jam now. But under a letter of formal cut And sickly commercial hue, "Here is n missive that's trimly plump, With envelope honest blue. And he opens the flap with a careful hand, He pusnes the others by; The faltering lines and the faded ink He studies with softened eye. There's truth in the words, '"My precious ; hoy," For they're penned by a mother's hand, And there's something else between the lines Hi9 heart can understand. Forgetting the care3 of the business day And the roar of the city's throat, His thoughts go back to the farm the while He reads what mother wrote. "We all are well, and your father's smart, He's down in the woods to-day: 'Tell Joe I'm filling the woodshed up,' i He said as he went away. , *A?k him if ever he's found a spot That's auite so cosy and snug As the corner in front of our fireplace I With his back on the braided rug? Tell Mm there's plenty of birch and beech That's hankering now to burn, ' 'And lots of things in the bins downstairs Waiting for his return.' , I've had tine luck with all preserves And all my pickles, too. The house is full of the smell of spice! Sniff hard at this paper." True! i . He closes his eyes on the office walls, And the perfume the letter brings Whispers of jars on the cellar shelves 1 And apples in festooned strings. He scents the savor of autumn fields And the fragrance of heaped up mows, 1 The spicy waftings from cellar bins And the dewy breath of cows. Then down at the end there's the same au-ppt thrill i He found in the words above: "Come when you can, our precious boy. From mother, with all her love." And somehow the tasks of the busy day j .Are full of snarls and frets; , His thoughts are slow, and things move wrong, He blunders and he forgets. ' For the call of home is in his ears, < In his eyes the old home place; In his heart the yearning for two old folks ; Who are longing* to see his face. And he heaps on his wondering partner's desk t \ The whole of the business pile. , "You must run it a week, old man!" he says; I "I'm down with the folks a while." ?Youth's Companion. ^ - 1 mi 23 ZnS 1 CUPID, I CHAUFFEUR j: *T ; JXOEUF! Teuf! Teuf! Teuf! , 5 X Hrrr! Wough! The au- * ? I O tomobile ceased its inon- i ^ JR otonous chant, coughed 4 once or twice and sub- j tided into a state of silence, and, $ alas! immobility. In a moment the j chauffeur was off his seat, and poking j about in the machinery. Then he went i to the door of the carriage and touched <; bis hat. t "Beg pardon, miss," he said, "but c she's broke down an'll have to go to the shop. I'm sorry, but you'll have to t get around the city some other way." t The girl on the back seat?a tall, 1 handsome blonde with the bluest of c blue eyes?uttered an exclamation, c "If this isn't too bad! And I've got just a two hours to see Washington before c my train goes! Can't you call another c auto for me?" f The chauffeur glanced around him. t "Ob,' yes'm." he said. "Of course, c There ought to be some here on the j stand now. only there ain't. But I'll a go in au' telephone for one right a away." f "Do! Or stay, there's one waiting c at the postoftiee door now. Maybe t it's for hire." J The man looked doubtfully at the 1 mnr>hino indicated. "Don't think SO, iniss," lie answered. "That's a private machine, or I miss my guess: still, I'll ask." Leaving the girl lie walked over to the* curb and addressed tie young^ man sitting on tbe box of a handsome automobile. No one familiar with the new horseless vehicles would for one moment have supposed that the one in question was for hire. ''Racer" appeared In every line of its .build and costliness in the exquisite nicety of its const met ion. That anything but an instant negative would be the answer to his query "whether that machine was for hire?" had never passed bis brain, so his astonishment may be guessed when the young man on the box started, glanced at the girl still sitting in the injured vehicle a short ^stance away, Hushed < deeply, and replied in the affirmative. I Then, without waiting for further ex- planation, he promptly ran his machine to the side of the other, and halted to permit the girl to climb in. The next moment they were swinging down the | avenue at a lively gait. The girl leaned rorwaru. "Aiiem:" 1 she said. "Did the other man tell you 1 where I wanted to go?" "Said you wanted to see the city, 1 ma'am," returned the young man, re- ' Bpectfully, but in a curiously muffled ' tone. He had kept his head averted, ?lmost as if he wished to conceal his features?a wish?if it were a wish?in which he looked at the machine but not ' at the driver. "When the chauffeur spoke she started and glanced eurjously at him. as though his voice struck some dormant chord in her memory. "Yes," she < Baid. "I do want to see the city, but 11 want to get to the depot by., thro?! o'clock. My train goes out tlieu." "Yes'm. I'll get you there in time. Going East, ma'am*:" Again the girl looked at him curiously. "Yes," she answered slowly. "I'm on my way to coil?ge." "Oh?er?you believe in the higher education of women, then?" The girl's eyes wore dancing with fun now. "Under certain circumstances," she said. "Is that the Capitol?' i < < 7 \ . "Yes'm, that's the Capitol. Under certain circumstances. What circumaitanres -for instance?" V "Oh. a stepmother at homo, for Instance. How many Senators aw there?" "TIipao hundred and eiehty-six. I be !ieve. A stepmother might be a terroi to some girls, of course, but most of them can get away from one home tc another, without going to college." "How? By the way, is that the library?" "Yes. Why, of course, most girls have?have?can marry." The man was speaking eagerly now. but he still kept his face turned away and threw the words over his shoulder. "Married! Whew! That's a very radical remedy. It might be worse than the other trouble. How many books are there In the library?" "Two or three million, I believe. Oh, no! You wouldn't find it so. I'm sure. Think of growing into a spectacled old maid! All college girls do, you kno . Then think of that young fellow just Iouging to make a home for you?" "What building is that?" "That? Oh, the Patent Office or the Tension Office or something! Think of " "But suppose the girl has sent him away?" "Then let her whistle him back and see whether he won't come." The girl glanced at the broad back of the man before her, while her shoulders quivered with silent mirth. Then she puckered up her lips and deliberately emitted a clear, soft whistle. The effect was magical. Instantly the chauffeur swung around in his seat and faced her. "Bessie!" he ex* claimed, "do you mean it?" The girl smiled at him, though her eyes were dewy. "Of course I do, Prank," she said. "I never thought you would go away as fast as you did just for a word. No! No! Keep your seat You can say all that's really necessary from where you are." "And you knew me all the time?" "Of course! The minute I really looked at you. But you'll make me miss iny train." "Train? No train for you! I'll not take any chances now. Your interest in the city may have lapsed, but here's the City Hall. Shall I go in and get a marriage license, or?will "you go in svith me?" He had sprung from the seat and ItAUiwiM a??4> + V? /"v I {ffli f JIWU UUIUIU^ UUl IIio uauuo, Luc 3f love pleading in his eyes. . "Won't rou go in with me, Bessie?" he asked igain. For an instant the girl hesitated; then she took the proffered hand. 'Yes, Frank," she said softly. "I will jo with you now and always." "Bless that old gasoline rattletrap that broke down with you," he cried. 'It must have been one of Cupid's upto-date chariots in disguise.?Crittenlen Marriott, in San Francisco Call. Printed For Pleasure Only. The little town of Eucla, which is the iunction of the South Australian and iVest Australian telegraph systems, ias a newspaper of its own, the first lumber of the Eucla Recorder having nade its appearance last month. The ?ditor, in sending a copy of his jourlal to an Adelaide contempory, says: The paper has been written and jrinted, without any professional assistance, by the members of the South Australia ana west Auscrana j.eierraph staffs at Eucla. Until three nonths ago no one engaged in its protection had seen a printing press or ype letters, and the press we have i9 >ne of the smallest obtainable, with vhich we can only print a page at a ime. No pecuniary benefit is derived >y any person connected with the pubieation of the paper, the work beinj lone in order to promote good feeling imong the residents of Eucla, and to issist in turning to account some of >ur spare hours. The total population if Eucla Is forty; this includes four emales and seven children, and we lope we can lay claim to the position if being the smallest community in Australia which prints and publishes l paper entirely for pleasure. We are ill Australian natives under twentyive years of age, and the production if this paper is a little evidence against he cry we often hear that Young Australia is rapidly deteriorating."? Pall Mall Gazette. Cruel# Drugs of Brazil. A conspicuous feature of tlie rapidly expanding trade between the Amazon egion and the United States is the jrowth of the drug trade. Brazil pro* luces a long list of medicinal herbs, oots, berries, beans, balsams and other rude supplies for the manufacturing rhemist and perfumer. Many of these ire staple articles, and others are just jecoming known to the trade. Hereofore not much importance has been ittached to this line of exports, but atterly manufacturers have turned heir attention to this region as a source of crude supplies. With the argrly increased and growing demand 'or these products local merchants lave become interested, and without loubt this branch of trade will soon levelop into an important factor in :he exports from the Amazon region. -K. K. Kenneday. Influence of Automobiles. One of -tlie points of interest in the notor-car or automobile development is the fact that there is a tendency by people who have fine country house3 for sale to advertise them in first-class motor-car journals, the increase o? these advertisements indicating not DnJy that the class of periodicals men:ioned may become the natural medium for such advertisements, but that the facilities offered by up-to-date automobiles for traveling long distances quickly and easily and without regard to fixed time-tables, increasing the radius of a neighborhood and possibilities of combining with country life a command of city conveniences through accessibility to them, are making country houses more valuable.?Marshal Ilalstead. The Jolly Modern Weddinjj. Wrwl 11 i n ?r? .iro miinli inllior th!n<?R than lliey used to be. No tears! They are cousidered quite dowdy. All is fun and light lieartedness. How different from the old style of things! The change is typified by that which exists between the heavy, old-fashioned wedding breakfast and the Iigjit?very light sometimes?refreshments of to-day.? Loudon Truth. ? "? ? * ' * Japan's Mercantile Fleet, The mercantile fleet of Japan ranks seventh in the world's shipping.' .. " ... :'uV' ... , . . i JAPANESE SUfFER LOSSES' ; I Russians Repulse Charges on the Yalu River. ! Al FXIFFF IS NOT TO RFTIRF Mikado's Troops Still Crossing (he Yalu? Mobilization of Japanese Army Now Going On?Koreans Aiding the Japs? Russia is Strengthening Her Navy ?Manchnrlan Railway Blown Up. St. Petersburg.?The crossing of the Yalu River by the Japanese forces did ; not impress the Russians, in view of ; reports of ensuing Japanese reverse. < These reports caused an all-round rise ' in prices on the Bourse. But so far there has been no confirmation of them 1 officially. The general staff believes that one of | the Japanese columns while attempt- , ing to cross the Yalu River at Turen- ] chen suffered severe loss, owing to un- * J expected shelling by a Russian battery J j from the opposite bank, which de- J IfiilU^UU llltr iiupanvoc ^v/uiuimo. The Japanese, the general staff -says, t , tried to cross the river at six or seven J : different points, and succeeded only at ( ; one point. It is said that the Czar, replying to Viceroy AlexiefFs application for leave to retire from the Far East. h!?s telegraphed his refusal, adding that he ? hoped the Viceroy would be able to ^ send good news soon. c Feigner, the most celebrated tenor of t the Imperial Opera, who is an officer of s the naval reserves, has been called to J "the colors." j The draft of the treaty under which a American and Russian firms can sue in j their respective countries, in regard to c which Ambassador McCormick has been negotiating, has been received j from Washington and laid before the * Foreign Office. As it is no longer pos- ^ sible to obtain its ratification during T I this session of the American Congress, tl Mr. McCormick will probably allow I the treaty to take its normal course. T ? t Still Crossing the Yalu. a Paris.?A dispatch to the Temps from t ! St. Petersburg says: t "The Japanese continue to cross the s Yalu River in small squads. The Rus- a sian tactics seem to be not to seriously ii oppose these preliminary movements, c I "The staff of the Ministry of Marine gives credence to. but does not posi- i tively confirm, the report that the Vladivostok squadron sank two Japan- i ese transports bound for the Islaud of Sakhalin." Japan's Third Array. jj London. ? It is announced from u Shanghai that the third Japanese army R now mobilizing will comprise the Fifth ^ Division, from Hiroshima; the tenth. g from Hinieju. and the eleventh, from -j j Zentsuuji. Preparations are on foot u to mobilize a fourth army should it be- g come necessary. n The Tientsin correspondent of the Standard sends a report that 4000 Rus- p sians are harassing the Chinese vil- n lages west of the Shuang-Tai-Su River, u midway between Chin-Chow and Ying- ^ Kow. 0 ii Aid For Japan From Korea. a Seoul.?The mayors of the various u Japanese settlements in Korea, at a meeting in Chemulpo, have decided to present a congratulatory address to the Emperor of Japan. Resolutions E were pussseu lL2<ll tut; aciunucmo cwuomize ar.d contribute to the Japanese war fund. . The German steamer Amigo has ar- , rived at Chemulpo with bullion from 1 the American mines at Uusan. It is , reported that the mint at Osaka has guaranteed to supply monthly the spe- J* " ie necessary to insure the running of the British mihes at Eunsan, contracting to take the total output. The wage . payments at the mines amount to 1 about $7500 a month. The mint will pay in gold the difference between the mines' output and the amounts advanced. The uninterrupted operation . of both the American mines at Unsan . and the British at Eunsan is assured f while the Japanese are in control. Russia Strengthening Her Navy. t) Paris.?According to a report, the ti truth of which it is impossible to verify. the sum of 103.000.000 rubles has been appropriated by Russia for the purchase of several torpedo boats in E France, two Argentine cruisers and two German transports. Japanese Blow Up Railway. London.?The Daily Telegraph's cor- ^ respondent at Irkutsk. Siberia, says ' that Japanese have blown up a portion ^ of the railway at Khailar. in North- j, west Manchuria, but that the resultaut damage is insignificant. _ LONDON HAS $500,000 FIRE. J ' I Historic Church of the Holy Triuity is j For a Time Threatened. C London, England.?Four of the Lon- j5 dou and Northwest Railroad Coin- ? pany's warehouses, in the Monories dis- ^ trict of this city, were burned out in the night. While the financial loss is only $500,000, the conflagration threatened at one period to spread to adjoin- r ing warehouses and factories tilled t with cork, gelatine, cartridges and sim- t ilar highly combustible materials. a The historic Church of the Holy a Trinity, famous for its connection with t the Washington family, was for a time d in considerable jeopardy, but the fire- p men from its roof managed to stem the approaching flames. POLES KILL OFFICIALS. Deputy Police Chief and Commissary Slain at Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland.?While several po- ^ lice officers were attempting to enter a E fmiisp in the Dvorskv thoroughfare ! they were attacked by a band of men j armed with revolvers aud knives. Two of the officers, a deputy chief of 1> | the secret police and a Deputy Comruis- 1; I sary, were killed and two others were > wounded. News From the Far East. The new Russian battleship Alex-, auder III. has gone into commission. J Three hundred thousand men have 1 reached Manchuria. , The dispatch of E Russian troops will be for a time discontinued. ? Seventy of the United States Legation guard at Seoul were- ordered to Manila. j, General Pflug, in a dispatch from .j Port Arthur, denied, tliat tne Japanese t have crossed the l'alu. Rear Admiral Wirenius abandoned s the attempt to join the Port Arthur s fleet with his squadron._ c ACCUSED OF GIRL MURDER Mrs. De Witt Arrested For Poisoning Florence Mcintosh. Four Physicians After ail Autopsy on the Girl Declare Death Was l)uc to Arsenic Poisoning: Sidney, X. Y.?Hardly were the Coroner's words closing tlie inquest into the death of Miss Florence Mcintosh cold on his lips; when a deputy sheriff, plainly acting on a signal from District Attorney Fisher, crossed the courtroom and with a light touch on the shoulder, irrested the pretty girl's twice widowed mother. Mrs. Henrietta De Witt, in a charge of murder in the first decree. The seizure of the woman, who is a liaudsome blonde, forty years old. was the climax to one of the most exciting iegal inquiries in the history of Delaware County. It was made after witnesses had testified that both of Mrs. De Witt's husbands had di?d suddenly. AttT^ llOtlflc* flint *>uppuaeuijr uj IUCU i UU.IUO, ?.? ?*? be second of them, at any rate, carried i policy for $2000 in an insurance com>any payable to Mrs. De Witt. The policy on the girl's life was issued on February 11 last, and just :wo months later she died from a lin:erfng illness. Four physicians, folowing an autopsy performed by one )f tbem and witnessed by the three thers, expressed the conviction death vas due to arsenical poisoning. Their ittempt to ascertain beyond question he cause of the girl's strange taking ff was hampered by her mother's ac* ion in having the body embalmed hortly after Miss Mcintosh died. It ippeared the stomach had been irriated as if by poison, they said, and ill four united in saying the arsenic n the embalming fluid could not have a used the symptoms they found. Dr. McKinnon, who attended Miss Iclntosh in her last illness, insisted on n autopsy, although, he said, he was opposed vigorously by Mrs. De Witt rlien he informed her that he intended o perform one. Mrs. De Witt protested, and the body vas embalmed before the autopsy inally was performed. Dr. McKinnon sserts that the examination showed here was no organic disease, but that + /-?? tha efAmonh Ilflc HU3 ail 11 IHilllUU \JL IUC OlVJiia*.u uoh as might have come from poison, nd tliht the arsenic in the embnlmug fluid could not have caused the bad onditiou of the stomach. 'EXAS TOPS SIX-POUND RECORD fakes Eleven Hits a Minute, the Best Individual Score. Washington.- D. C.?Reports received ere relative to the target practice of he battleship Texas show the average jade by the twenty-four six-pound un pointers was equal to the best iniridual scores made by a six-pound un pointer on the Texas last year, 'he average number of shots per minte for the six-pounders is given at .83. with an average of 4.04 hits per linute. It is said that a single Six-pound gun ointed made fifteen shots per gun per linute, with eleven hits per gun per linute, the best individual score for lie six-pound battery. The percentage f hits out of shots with the twelveach guns is given at 81.8, while the verage uumber of shots per gun per linute is given at 0.97. GERMAN LOSSES IN AFRICA. Inormous Percentage of Von Glasenapp's Officers Incapacitated. Berlin. Germany. ? Captain E\annauer, the Lokal?Anzieger s corresponent with Major von Glasenapp's colmn in Southwest Africa, has sent a ispatch by heliograph via Windhoek, nnouncing that the losses of the colinn through deaths, wounds and sickess since March 13 have been, officers, ixty-three per cent., and privates, thirF-five per cent. Forty-four men are ow sick with typhus, besides those ent to Windhoek. The column was not molested by the nemy, but is'appareutly unable to unertake military operations. The roops are suffering from the night rosts and iieavy rains. A report in Reichstag circles is that urtlier large reinforcements are about o go to Southwest Africa under Lieugnant-General vou Trotha. SULTAN HONORS AMERICANS. Jestows Decorations and Engages Captain Buchanau as Naval Adviser. Constantinople. Turkey.?The officers nd crew of the Turkish cruiser Medi,1iuli ii-lil/ili hull!- flia fVnmno' hipyard, Philadelphia, and was delivred to the Turkish naval officers at Iytilene, were invited to the Yildiz Ciosk. the Sultain's official residence, nd many decoratioue were bestowed n them. 'General Williams, who represented Cramps, received the Order of the ledjidieh of the lirst class. Captain $uchanan received the Order of the )smanieh of the second class. The lultan engaged Captain Buchanan to e naval adviser to the Ministry of larine. Strike Agitators Sent Away. Major Hill, Commander of the Coloado State Militia, secured a special rain and sent away from Trinidad wenty strike agitators, and officer and squad of militia escorting them cross the line into New Mexico, where hey were taken off the train and orered to remain out of Colorado 011 ?ain of arrest and imprisonment. The aen are charged with violation of artial law regulations. Harris Dexter Not Guilty. Harris E. Dexter, the fourteen-yearId Randolph boy who has been on trial 11 the Superior Court, at Dedhnm, ilass., on a charge of causing the leatli of his brother barker, was found lot guilty. Dynamite Kills Two. While thawing dynamite at the ;itchen stove William Francis and his in by were killed at Owosso, Mich., and iirs. Francis and two children badly lurt, College Notes. By the will of Mrs. Esthpr Bycrs, of Uidover. Mass.. a bequest of $-10,001) s made to Abbott Academy for an art uuseum. Seven candidates have offered themelves at the University of California or examination for the Rhodes scholirsbip. irruiedsui; rv uuuuci i j icvjcm* y of Columbia University, has been ppointed to lecture on English litemure at Amherst College. Professor W. W. Fenn has boon elected to deliver the baccalaureate iermon to the Harvard graduating lass at the coming commencement. I UNI HURT IN TRAIN CRASH ! , Long Branch Express Hits a Florida Bound Flyer. ! niinnrn rcT Qi inklT VA/nilWn^ j mjunnu ul i uliun i ii vuiiww I Collision Dae to Accident to Air Tube j on Southern Train?UxprefcA Running I Forty Mile* an Hour Plowed Its Way Through Hear Coach?One Man Killed Outright. Elizabeth, N. J.?In a roar-end collision. which occurred a short distance west of the Pennsylvania Railroad station here, when the Long Branch Express, heavily iaden. ran into the rear of the Florida Special, one man was j killed and twenty-seven persons were I injured. Most of the injured received I />nlr clitrht IVOHndS. ; V1HJ O..QWV The collision was due to an accident to the Southern train, and could have I been avoided, it is asserted, had the engineer of the Long Branch train heeded the signal, which was set for hi3 direction. The Florida Express is composed of eight Pullman coaches. It had not gone far from the station in Jersey City when the air tube connecting the forward coach to the engine parted. That caused the automatic air brakes to be applied at once to the train. The extra strain on the engine caused by the application of the brakes caused the coupling pin between the tender and the first car to break, and the engine darted ahead, while the cars stopped within a short distance. The engineer at once applied the brakes to the locomotive, and as soon as he was able started back to pick up his train. He had just reached the coaches and was about to recouple them, when the accident occurred. The Long Branch Express wasjnak- j ing forty miles an hour at the* curve when the fireman in the cab saw the stalled train ahead. He shouted to the engineer, who at once applied the brakes, but not soon enough to prevent the collision. The engine struck the rear Pullman, CniYlnnd tnainno- itn wnv thrnill?]l IUC U"6'UUU, o ? J Othe coach almost to the forward end. The car was split in half and the parts fell to either side of the track. No one except a porter was in the car | when the accident occurred, and though some of the passengers in the forward coaches received a severe i shaking up. the injured were on the I two forward cars of the Long Brauch j Express. Dead: David Letts, fireman of the j Long Branch Express; body taken to the Elizabeth morgue. Injured: The Rev. Mr. Kelley. Asbury Park: concussion of the fcrain and internal injuries: taken to the Elizabeth General Hospital. Mrs. W. E. Armstrong. Long Branch, shock. Thomas Beatty, Long Branch, cut by glass. Mrs. E. H. Bennett, Ea?t Orange: back sprained. B. T. Benson, 30 Wall Street* New York City: teeth knocked out Mrs. E. Blancbard, 280 Macon street, Brooklyn; back sprained. Mrs. Richard Bottigheimer, 22 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn; nose broken. .Tames B. Brown, Asbury Park; leg broken. Mrs. W. L. Craig, Asbury Park; scalp wounds and cuts. George L. Crane, Long Branch; face cut. John F. Fontham. 58 West Ninety-nintn street, New York City; shock. Mrs. Emma Ferguesofa, Newark; sprains. H. 0. Goldsmith, Wall Street Information Bureau; chest wounds. G. Guning, Asbury Park; nose and face wounds. Mrs. Margaret Garretson, Asbury Park; teeth knocked out and face cut. J. A. Jones. Birdsville; leg broken. Walter Hall, Red Bank; sprains. Miss L. A. Lane, Ocean Grove; sprains. P. M. Layman, New York City; side sprains. J. W. Laughlin, Belmar; head and face cut. Mrs. Alice Mumma, Harrisburg, Pa.; sprains. Mrs. A. M. McCraig, Eatontown; shock. Mrs. John G. Sexton, Long Branch: spine injured. Mrs. Sadie Smith, 338 East Fifty-eighth strppt Nerc-York City: mouth cut. D. R. Van Brunt, West Spring Lake, N. .T.: sprains. Miss B. M. Weber. Asbury Park, N. J.: face cut. W. H. Wliitely, 57 Morton street. New York City; bead cut. Mrs. Clarence Whiting, Red Bank; nose broken. SHOTS AT SPANISH PREMIER. An Organized Plot to Assassinate Senor Maura. Madrid. Spain.?Premier Maura, wbo arrived bere, was sbot at, but was not wounded, while on his way bere from the Balearic Islands. The official report of the incident given out by the Minister of the Interior says: "As the train was running between Alicante and San Vincente some persons fired and others threw stones. The gendarmes accompanying the train ' -"S 4-1*.^ V/\!flw\i? fliA Pi?nni | reiumeu ujl* ulc. ikhuu *. icuiai j nor any of the other passengers was i hurt. Two arrests were made." Later details show that the attempt ! on Senor Maura's life w;\s an organ- I ized plot, itt which between thirty and forty men armed with revolvers were concerned. A regular fusillade was exchanged between the gendarmes accompanying I the train and the miscreants. Many mark3 of bullets were fouud in the train afterward. ' Drought Killing Cattle in Texas. Cattle are dying by the hundreds on the ranches in West Texas for want of water and grass. The drought is the severest experienced in that section for many years. Thousands of head of cattle are too weak to be moved to more distant pastures, and they have been abandoned to die on the range. Safe Blowers Cnuse $00,000 Fire. The fire that destroyed the Art Study plant at Janesville, Wis., was caused by burglars blowing open the safe. | The loss by Are was $00,000; insurance, ?1."3.000. There was no money in the safe. Miners Fall 2000 Feet. Til? collapse oL' a cage in the Robinson mine. ;\t Johannesburg, South Africa, precipitated forty-three natives 2000 feet to the bottom. * Newsy Gleanings. No appreciable damage has been J done to the peach crop in Georgia by \ the cold wave. The fanners' trust, with $30,000,000 i mnihil lins hopii incnrnnr- I ated in South Dakota. The Indian budget shows a surplus of $15,347,745 for tlio year, or $1,055,' | 000 uiore than was estimated a few weeks before the year came to a close. Whisky drinking is given as one of the causes of typhoid fever by Dr. George W. Webster, president i*f the Illinois State Board of Health. FIREMEN PERISH IN BLAZE | Two Killed and Many Injured al Newark. While Working on a Slied Explosion Wrecks Structure and Tbey Are Buried Beneath Walls. Newark, N. J.?Crushed beneath the i brick and timbers o? walls that crashed | upon them far above as they were fightiug fire from the roof of a onestory shed, two firemen were killed and seventeen of their comrades were I injured, two of them so severely there I is no hope they will live. The victims j occupied what they believed to be a i T\Ai'n f t?nnfn ii ti/1 onfaftr hnf tliatr ui \ aaia^u auu oaicij , uut IUCJ | were caught beneatli a mass of iron I girders, beams and tons of brick with ! such suddenness that not one escaped unscathed. The killed are: Fireman Jacob Bleyhle, Truck Company No. 3; fracture at base of the skull; died in the ambulance on the way to hospital; Fireman William B. Crane. Engine Company No. 3; fracture at base of skull, body crushed; died in hospital. The seriously injured are: Lieuten! ant Patrick J. Donahue, Engine Com! pany No. 7; several broken ribs, left hand badly crushed; general contusions; Fireman Leo Ross, Truck Company No. 3: fracture at base of the skull; expected to die; Fireman Richard J. Lyons, Engine Company No. 7; fracture at base of skull; expected to die. The fire was in the six-story building at No. 87 Mechanic street, occupied by Wiener & Co., saddlery hardware manufacturers. The origin of the fire is a mystery. In order to direct the streams of water with greater effectiveness Chief Engineer Kirkstead sent a squad of men to the rear of the burning building. Twenty firemen mounted to the roof of the Empire Gear and Top Company's building, a one-story structure adjoining the Weiner building. Three lines of hose were brought up and a great volume of water soon was being poured into the flames. It looked as if I the fire, fought from such a point, must be extinguished, speedily, and in fact the glow was becoming duller and the smoke denser, when suddenly there came a terrific explosion. The walls of the Empire Company's building collapsed like cardboard. At the same instant the walls of the big saddlery shop bulged outward, and the top fell, carrying girders, beams and twisted rods.of iron directly upon the heads of the firemen on the roof of the one-story building. As the walls fell out part of the roof gave way, and a half dozen of the men standing ou it were plunged to the ground. When the collapse came the uninjured firemen stopped fighting the flames and rushed to the aid of their comrades who were buried in the wreck. The rescuers worked with desperate energy, and in a short time all those who had been stricken down were taken out and hurried away for medical aid. Telephone messages had been sent to all the hospitals in the city, and many ambulances soon were at the place of the fire. The explosion that drove the walls out was caused by the naphtha stored in the Weiner building. The loss to the Weiner establishment was about $50,000 and to the Empire Company 53000. Adjoining buildings suffered slightly. An investigation of the cause of the fire was begun. Besides the blaze' which resulted cc disastrously, five other fires kept the Newark firemen more than busy within the last twenty-four hours. DEATH AFTER POISONED MEAT, One Woman Succumbs and Six Suffei ?Had Been Eating Meat Ball. ratersou, N. J.?One woman died and six other persons are dangerously ill after eating meat vitiated by some poisonous substance at dinner. The dead woman is Mrs. Isabel Boyd ninety-two years old. Those at the hospital are James Roy, fifty years old his daughter, Pauline, fifteen, and Ernest Hancock, twenty-four. The others were Mrs. James Roy-and Miss Lizzie Roy. All lived in No. 4S3 Gra ham avenue. .Another woman, whe was visiting at the house, was alsc taken ill, but will recover. In the opinion of the physicians, Drs ---? T.JJ ?.l,^ rt.illnr? jdiovmi aira iuuu, ?? u\j ??ac uucu the poison must have been an irritanl like arsenic rather than ptomaine, as it took effect so quickly. The coutents :of the stomach of the dead woman will be analyzed. An investigation is being made by County Physician Mc Bride and by the police. DEATH FOR '-LORD" BARRINGTON Murderer of McCann Almost Collapses When Sentence is Pronounced. St. Louis, Mo. ? Sentence of death was passed upon 4,Lord" Frederick Seymour Barrington in the' Circuil Court in Clayton. Barrington was con. victed of murdering James P. McCann his benefactor. Judge McElhinnj granted a stay of execution until July 23. Barrington entered the court room smiling and bearing himself with the self-possession that has characterized him throughout his trial. When the sentence was pronounced Barrington almost collapsed. Drought Ruins Bank. The Farmers' and Merchants' Xa tionai mnK, 01 xiooart, utuu., luueu for $12.3,000 as a probable result of the continued drought and the disquiet created by numerous recent bank failures. Hagerstown Women Clean Streets. About thirty women, the wives ol ! well-known residents of Hagerstown, Md., turned out one moruing recently with shovels, hoes and brooms and cleaned the streets in the south end of Hagerstown. They S;iid they grow tired of waiting for the street cleaning i department Fourteen Buried Alive. A fall of earth occurred in tlir? Corn Plata quarter of Madrid, Spain, lr.sry ing fourteen men. Promineit People. The favorite niece or rope rius a Miss Gilda ParoJin, is about to be married to a rich lauded proprietor ol Northern Italy. James B. Morrow, for many years editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Leader, has resigned his position. lie first became identified with the Leader as a reporter a score of years ago. A statue of Louis Joliet, the French explorer, will be placed in the little park in front of the public library building at Joliet. 111., to commemorate the memory of the man for whora the tojrn is named. n I iilii ' WASHINGTON ITEMS. Miss Alicc Rooserelt is suffering from a slight attack of German mea. fVnin th?* rPSf of I SICS. OUr 13 iwiaisa i I the household. # Rural free delivery carriers are to I be barred fr?m carrying newspapers | except in the mails or soliciting subscriptions to newspapers, magazines , or periodicals. These restrictions were agreed to by the House and Senate 1 conferences on the Fostoffice Appropriation bill. The House passed the bill provni.ug a temporary government for the Panama Canal zone after it had beea criticised roundly for the power it gives the President. The Presideut sent to the Senate the nomination of William Miller Collier, of New York, to be solicitor for the i Department of Commerce and Labor. 1 By a vote of ten to live the House Committee on the Judiciary postponed further consideration of the auti-injunction bill until next December. Senator Allee has been appointed a member of the Congressional Campaign Committee from Delaware. Al| lee and Ball could' not agree as to ' which should be the member, and Chairman Babcock settled the matter by choosing Allee. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.' The Moro chiefs jf the Lake Lanao , district division of Mindanao will meet Major R. L. Bullard, of the Twehtyeighth Infantry, at Taraca on May 4, | to organize a local civil government. The Fifty-sixth and Fifty-ninth com. panies of coast artillery, which have been stationed in Porto Rico, have beeu ordered to return to the United States. This leaves the forts without nnv <*nnq na thf Snnnish Government recently removed all its remaining ordnance from the island. The island' fortifications will have to be abandoned. I Frederick V. Martin, of Indiana, Commissioner of Immigration for Porto Rico, killed himself at San Juan by cutting his throat. The affairs of his office are believed to be in good shape. I W, S. Crouch, who arrived at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islauds. on the steamj er Korea, wasjlrowned while bathing in tlie suet at waiKim. aiauy uauiw*^ saw the drowning, and an uusuccesgful attempt was made to rescue him.' Vincente Lucban, who was an activel leader of the Philippine insurgents on' the Island of Samar in 1900. and Caye-'v' tano Lucban, his brother, who wa?: formerly Secretary of the Filipino RevJ olutionary Junta at Hongkong, hare/ each been sentenced to live years' im-; I prisonment for conspiring to overthrow, the Government. DOMESTIC. . Owing to the inability of the Fore > River Ship and Engine Company, ot f- Quincy, Mass.. and their striking em- . ployes to settle their difficulties, the . launching of- the battleship Rhode Isl. nn/t i??a Koon ;n11,>tinito!v nnnfnnnpri. i i UUU uuo UbVU juuyuuiuv.j |/w | It has been discovered that vandals ffl had entered the French Pavilion at the World's Fair and destroyed two H| of the most beautiful of the marble statues in the sculpture exhibit. At the close of a hearing which last* 1 eil two days, Charles L. Tucjuxy charged with the murder cf Mabeii w * Page In Weston ou the last day of B8 March, was held for the Grand Jurr H by Judge Enos T. Luce, of the Dis trict Court at Waltham, Mass. H While resisting arrest, Flo^d Cbap*. H man, moonshiner, was killed by Officer [ William Shafer, who was in turn killetl |H k** riUnnmnn vcrltA firnH flft thftl U V V^UApUiUU( tT CI*/ ulvia juov mm v??i officer did, at Charleston, W.'Va. HS The little hamlet of Devon, located gn on the Norfolk and Western Railwayfl| fifteen miles east of Williamson, W.> pH Va., was almost wiped out by fire. 38 William Gaston, twenty-five years' ffifi old, shot and almost instantly killedj his mother,. Sallie Gaston, at Courts land, Va. He says it was an accident,! HH but they had quarreled violently a] short time before. 89 A severe tornado struck McPherson,' Kan., demolishing six residences and; : causing more or less other damage to L I .? mi I k property. iurw mic uijuivu, j one seriously. ; M James Broderick. president, and W. Hp | L. Collins, cashier of the Indiana Na-i tional Bank, at Elkhart, Ind., were sentenced by Judge Anderson, of thel KJ8 United States District Court, on the pleas of guilty of violation of the bank-' H9 I ing laws which resulted .a the failure! BBj of the bank for $642,000. Broderick | was sentenced to ten years and Col-r RH L lins to sis years in the penitentiary. i HS j In the municipal 'lection at Peoria, 111., the Republicans etocted five Aldermen and the Democrats three. The contest was close In all the wards. HI More, than 1300 head of cattle were killed hailstones in the storm which KM i swept through the Las Cruces district BBfl in the State of Salt Luis Potosi, Mexico, a few days ago. The corn crop; H9j ' was destroyed. > T. R. Curtis came from New York4o Chicago to confess that he killed Har- H| vey Van Arkel oil March 29. and thus Hffl ease a troubled conscience that would not permit him to sleep in peace. MM FOREIGN. The Turkish embassy at London, England, issued a report that Arme- BD nian malefactors had attacked the Ma- JBm liometan village of Latcbghian, in the^^^H Sanjak of Mush, Asiatic Turkey. They^^H committed horribie crimes on the in-^Bfl|j habitants, men, women and children HH| A dispatch from Shanghai says thatHBH the Chinese warship Ha'.tien is ashore^BB on the rocks of the Elliott Inlands,HH which lie off the easterly coast of the^^H Liaotung Peninsula. A number of men who are fitting^HH j out the iron freighters at Collingwood,MMM Ontario, Canada, placed a rocket on^^n a post and lighted it. Thinking tlie^^H fuse had gone out, they again ap-BSS proachod the rocket, which sud^enlj^^HB | exploded, killing Thomas McLaughlic^^^a and Thomas Stanford, of the steameiH|H Newmarket Count Hans von Koenigmarck, lieutenant on the general staff, suc^H^I his father. Count Karl, in the Potsdan^H^H Law Court, for an increase of hisyearH^H ly allowance. The Court directed thi^HH f.-ithi?r ro n:iv him SI4.250. BHBI Leader Watson, of the labor partsJEHB of Australia, has boon summoned form a Ministry. KttHH "Tho Grand Trunk jrrain elevator, Midland. Ontario. Canada, was struc^B^H by lightning and totally destroyed. I^^mH bad a capacity of 500.000 bushels. hBHH| ' The Prussian Diet has sanctioned a^HB appropriation of 5.330.000 marks 273.300) for tbo erection of a palac^^^flj for the Emperor at Posen. me iyeuerai uovernniem ou ^usrnM^nn [ lia was defeated iu the House of resentatires on a Labor Party ament^^HH luent making the bill providing for tl^HH3 ' arbitration of labor disputes applic^^SH ble to State employes. RBH i. Km