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The l\[Fde l\forId 0^erq v j. c.. r=. f++++++t+ tt+ttt+ttttttttttttttt ||(g|) jcjjS WAS recuper?ting on a 1?1 G=!J New Mexican hacienda. At the death of my father ?- I had been left quite a comfortable little sum, and I haa at once started out to see the world, being at last able to satisfy my craving for travel to its full extent and having no parental ties to hold me to any one particular spot of the world's circumference. * Bat I had somewhat overdone the thing, not being possessed of a constitution that would stand much of a strain. So I had settled down at Las Vegas to take things quietly for a while, before going further. It was on the evening of October 12, 1SD6, that the news was circulated in the town that there had been an awful wreck on the Santa Fe just below Watrous. A special was rapidly made up of an engine and two coaches, and the call made for volunteers to assist in .*xiy way that their services could be of value. I made one of the number that promptly responded, and hastily clambering aboard, we started for the scene. T ?*?- " ? i suan never lurijei. iLiiii uisucso.iij, sight, as, reaching the spot, we leaped to the ground almost before the train had slackened speed sufficiently to make it safe to human life and limb to alight. There lay a tangled mass of wood and iron piled in heaps, from which came moans and cries from the Imprisoned passengers and crews. One of the forward coaches, together with the mail and express car. was in flames. While part of the improvised wrecking crews gave their attention to helping the poor unfortunates in the passenger coaches, others of us started in to save what part of the mail and express car's valuable contents still remained out of the reach of the tongues of the flames rapidly drawing nearer the end of the car farthest from the engine. I was one of those who started to work ou this car. and lustily I begau to pull out the sacks of mail and what merchandise could be reached through the tremeudous heat from the burning end of the ear. The last sack of mail.1 was not snatched away in time to prevent half its length being burned away entire. I had hold of the leather handles and gave a fearful tug. for the heat was now unbearable. For a minute the bag held to some object that weighted it down, then gave suddenly, landing me backwards, while a shower of letters and small packages completely covered me. After we had done all we could to save the contents of the car. and taken the last man from the twisted coaches, we started back to Las Vegas with our mangled, suffering human freight. It was after one o'clock when we arrived, and had tenderly carried the sufferers to the nearest point where they could receive medical and surgical attention, and, being quite fatigued with my Unusual exertion, I crawled into bed and slept soundly until the sun had arisen high in the heavens the next day. Being nearly dressed. I reached for my vest, when something fluttered to the floor. Picking it up I was surprised to find a half burned photograph. Evidently it had been caught in my clothing in some way when the mail bag scattered its contents over me as I lay upon the ground, and. when I arose to my feet, had slipped between ray vest and shirt. I said it was a half burned photograph, but that does not tell much. It was the photograph of a beautiful young lady, perhaps eighteen years of age. Beautiful? The most beautiful, I think, I nan ever seen. I sat down in my half dressed state and stared at it for many ions: minutes. And before I had finished starins at that beautiful image I had to confess to myself that I was helplessly in love with the pretty, rounded face, with its smiling eyes looking up so confidently into mine, that shapely, tempting mouth with its saucy, curling lips, that wealth of tastily arranged hair thrown back over the high forehead. Who was she? I cursed the flames that had totally eaten away the part of the card that might have given some clue as to whom the photographer had been, or in what place the photograph had been taken. If I could only know what town or city it would be enough. I would go at once to the place and search every artist's establishment until I had found some trace of my ideal. Up to this time I had bothered but little about women. But here was a dear little girl whose eyes looked up into mine so smilingly, so confidingly, so pleadingly., that my heart ached to have them something more than images on paper, to have those lips open and speak to me. to have those dainty little ears capable of listening while I poured my story of complete slavery Into them: ah. I was hopelessly in love, and i did not know with whom: With a photograph! A photograph, tossed at my very feet, roming to me by such a strange channel, to tease me, to o crr?r? i vc% rvir* t r* r o "7 r* mo* And then the thought came to me "that to every photograph there must necessarily be two sides. Perhaps the reverse side would tell me something; a new hope! I hold the photograph, and my fingers trembled and my heart beat furiously, fearing to turn it that T might be disappointed. At last my shaking fingers moved of their own volition. Writing: Feminine writing, in a neat, small hand. A?d then my first love dreagi received its rude shock of awakening?a mighty de:.th-blow. A sickening sensation overcame me. I turned sick, and Diy eyes blurred as I read the words which had evidently preceded a signature, of which the flames had removed all trace. "Tours, the wide world over." Mine? Perhaps by right of the possession of this bit of cardboard; but jar hear., had I that? Had I evea tho ?? . right to the bit of pasteboard, scare and crumpled by the devouriu dames? ''Yours"?another'sl I dropped the photograph to the floo and. short though my little love affai had lived, its death hurt me muct and with tcaful eyes I sadly gaze across the spreading plains lying b< fore my window and felt for the firs time all the emptiness and barrennes of a loveless world. * - * * * * Ten years have passed. I am n longer a reckless scapegrace of a fe low. The passing years have sonu what sobered me into a recognition o the fact that the world requires mor of a man than simply looking to hi own pleasures and chasing after mil ages that but lead him a merry danc and leave him worn out and disar pointed at the first point his maturin mind shows him the uselessness am folly of his course. However, much of the credit fo my change of nature should be givei to another party, a sweet, charminj little woman whom I met here at Ver sailles and who had quite captured m; heart. And to-night, as we sat close to gcther under the flowering trees, witl a fair moon casting pale shadow: about us, I felt how happy I was ii having won such a prize, for we wer< soon to wed. There came a little lull in our con versation and my mind was runninj back to my previous little love affaii the remembrance of which inciden had never quite left me. Then I mad* a resolution. Turning to my fair com panion, I said: "Vera, I must confess to a little de ception practiced upon you. ' Oh. don' start, it was quite harmless. You re member the other evening you askec me if I had ever loved before? 1 woman's natural question, and such : foolish one. And I answered, as mos wicked men will, and as the questioi justly deserves, perhaps, that I neve: had. I have thought upon it since, ant feel that truth is best, whatever b< the consequences. I have loved be fore." Vera gave her breath a little inwarc hiss and turned her flashing eyes upoi me in surprise, but said nothing. Sh< apparently awaited my further confes sion. "Some ten years ago I came by th< photograph of a young lady in a pe culiar way. It was such a dear littli face that, I frankly confess now. I fel in love with it. But my love did nol live long, for a few words on the re verse side of the card told me much She loved another. I have carried this card with me until now. and to-night after having confessed to you, I shal properly destroy it." I drew the card .from my innei pocket where I had carefully guardec it ever since the night I so strangelj came by it. and not without sotn< slight feeling of the old passion, placec my fingers in position to rend ii asunder. Then Vera asked to see it I promptly handed it to her. She gave a cry of surprise, and turn ing to me, asked hastily? "Where did you get that?" "I found the photograph in a rail road wreck in New Mexico. The flames from the burning mail car had re moved all trace of the name of th< photographer, or I should have?eh that is. I?" "Or you should have gone in soarct of your ideal. Am I not right?" "I?I?think so; but?but you see ] had not met you then," I stammeret in my confusion. "It seems we are old friends. Yoi would have gone in search of youi ideal! how long it hr> taken you t< find her!" And, 1 j my utter amaze ment, instead of being angry, as I liac supposed, Vera burst into a heartj laugh. "Ah, but Vera, you know as the tim< goes on our ideal change^" "Oh," pettishly, "does it? That i! too bad. I referred to the particulai ideal of ten years ago, not only the om of to-day." Her words mystified me. She sa^ my wonderment and asrain broke iut( a hearty laugh. "You foolish dunce! Yet hov strange. Have the passing footprint! of time stamped out all semblance anc erased the beauty in the original, th< substance, that you admired in th< shadow? That is a photograph I hat taken twelve years ago in San Fran cisco." At this revelation of the Strang* workings of destiny, I could only si and stare like a man bereft of hi: senses. Then I remembered the rudi ^hock I had received upou turning thi card. Again torments began to racl my soul. "And Vera, the?the wording on th( back?" "You foolish, jealous boy! I hai mailed this very card to my mother then in New York City, and tha scrawl was only for her. I had oftei wondered why she failed to receivi it." "And now. darling, you are mini truly, 'the wide world over'?" For answer she nestled closer to me ?Waverley Magazine. Turkish Booksellcrn. A writer who spent mu^h of his oar'.j life in Turkey obser,*'xl that Turkisl books and bo /.isomers were among thi curious features of the country. "Thi Turkish bookseller.'' h,e said, "has i soul above trade. lie rarely or neve attempts to push his wares, and treas ures some of his more valuable book: so greatly that he can hardly be in duced to sell them, although they forn part of his stock in trade. Many o the books displayed by the bookselle are in manuscript, which the ohl-fash ioned Turks esteem more highly thai print." The Koran he may not soil He gives it away?in retnrn for a proa out of its value in money. Rubber on the Wane. With an ever increasing use of rub ber in manufacturing, it is disappoint ing to have to record a gradual dimiuu tion in the shpply. Some figures hav been published purporting to show th total production of rubber in differen parts of the world, and according t these the production in the two year from 1000 to 1002 decreased by som 3500 tons?that is to say, whereas th t?tal output in 1000 was 57,700 tons that of 1902 was only 54,000 tons. Thi decrease is certainly not a large Ont but it is important as showing the ten dency of the rubber supply to diminislJ mm, - JIMTTLEWIIH UNION MiNEBS T r i i J ? Troop Under General Bell Ambushed ? Near Victor, Col. it) ONE STRIKER KILLED, K TAKEN 0 j Adjutant-General, in Command Under Martial Law, Taken 150 Men to Dunnf ville ? Miners There Had Plam.ad to e 1 g I Descend on Victor?Twenty Minutes of I Uphill Fijhtinsr Scatters the Miners. e Victor, Col.?Militiamen and deputies g fought a pitched battle with union mij j ners at Dunnville. about sixteen miles j from Cripple Creek. One miner, John r Carley, was killed, and fourteen were n ! captured. Several who escaped arrest ? I were wounded. The party, numbering in all about ^ 130 men. left in a special train, intending, if possible, to take into custody all j the miners who had retreated to the s i hills about Dunnville. Reports had i j reached Adjutant-Genera! Sherman % I Bell, who is here to enforce martial j j law, that these men intended to come I to Victor and endeavor to reiease the j 150 prisoners in the armory. * j The train carried ihem within a few j j miles of the place where the miners j t | were encamped, arriving about 3 J ; o'clock. The trail leading to the camp J - : passes through a deep canon, and just 1 ! as the soldiers were entering this the j . shooting commenced. ^ j The strikers were stationed at the _ i top of the walls on either side of the j ) canon and shot down at the soldiers. | 1 The range was awkward, and it is probably due to this fact that there were no casualties at the time. The ; soldiers tired a few shots in return, but j seeing the disad\antage of their posi* i tion quickly retreated. Once out of range they separated I into two squads. Advancing, they sue- ' ceeded, after a hard climb, in reaching j the top of the walls of the canon. The strikers slowly retreated, dodg- | * | ing behind rocks and trees and keeping j 1 I up a running tire. The soldiers par- j J j sued the same tactics, although they - ; were at a disadvantage, as the climb j was long and steep. Once at the top. I % ; however, they pressed the strikers I . j hard. B | They shot to kill, and tli 3 first one to j . ! fall was John Carley, who was shot i through the heart with a Ivrag-Jort gensen bullet. Carley. in the retreat. * was running from his hiding piace be- 1 * hind a rock to the shelter of a tree \ i some distance away when he was , killed. 1 i Carley's death seemed to demoralize i the strikers and they ran in every di. | rection. The soldiers gave chase and . j succeeded ia capturing fourteen. I General Bell estimates that fully thirr | ty-five men were in the ambushing } j party. Of this number fourteen were I captured. i. j.iiu soiuiers auu uepuues capiureu . three guns, the rest being carried away by those of the party in ambush who . escaped in the hills. The troops searched the vicinity for two hours, but could find no more men. The train with General Bell's party, the prisoners and Car ley's body re5 turned to Cripple Creek shortly before " 7 o'clock p. m. i! A sccond battle took place eariy the , same evening at Big Bull Hill, two miles east of Victor. l Seven soldiers went out on horseback to arrest union miners and found them , . Intrenched. The men refused to suri render and the soldiers opened fire, * j more than 200 shots being exchanged. I The smoke from the guns could be seen i from Victor through powerful glasses, r ! The miners opened tiro on the sol. rliArc nc ennn ic tlinv csixtr thoni st/in-tiunr J U" UUV" 1 u " O . | up the liill. No one was wounded. | Seven men were captured by tlie guards and taken to Cripple Creek. U. S. MARINES IN MOROCCO. First Show of American Force in j Africa Since Decatur's Time. Washington. D. C. ? United States | marines were landed at Tangier. It was the first display of American force in Africa since Stephen Decatur, ! just 100 years ago. whipped the Bar' bary prirates into submission. ! Admiral Chadwick cabled to the : Navy Department: | "I have placed a guard at the Bel| gian Legation, having been asked to do so by our Consul-Genera 1 here." ; It is presumed here that tlie Belgian Legation is on the outskirts of the city and exposed to native raids. j CAPTAIN WILDE A SUICIDE. i Army Officer in California Puts a Buij let Through Heart. i San Francisco.?Captain Frederick ! S. Wilde, U. S. A., committed suicide ! at Angel Island by shooting himself ! through the heart. A telephone mes' sage was received from the island, but it gave no details. j Wilde left several farewell messages, j ! one addressed to tlie wife of Captain i t~i \\r.?J.Iah .juuii .uauufii. .uumitfu ictcuuj . came into promiqence through the ! court-martiallinp of Lieutenant Rob3 iclion for his alleged conduct toward ! her. Mormon Bishop Killed, j J. B. Ashcroft. of Fruitland. X. 51.. a Bishop of the Mormon Church, was j1 accidentally killed while blasting rock j i in the construction of an irrigating i ditch for the Navajo Indians near " i Fruitland. He was knocked from a 3 j cliff by a falling rock, death resulting ; instantly. Broommakcrs Combine, i According to Chicago dispatches j broom makers have agreed to combine the seventeen or eighteen plants in ; the National Broom Company, with . a canital of $4,000,000. ! ' Expect Heavy Fruit Crop. ^ The expectation of a coming heavy I i fruit crop is causing some of the Mary! land steamboat companies to refuse i charters of their boats for excursions { | this summer. ! i j ' Personal Mention. '* | Senator Chauncey M. Depew is a e | director of seventy-four companies. ? Grand Duke Frederick of Mccklen- j ' burg-Strelitz, died, a seel eighty-four. I Mrs. McClellan, wife of the Mayor s of New York, is most unassuming and j cares nothing for society. e i Mine. Emma Mante Babnigg, a > I once famous operatic singer. lias just s | died in Vienna, at the age of eighty. ' King Victor Emanuel of Italy created i- Sir Thomas Lipton a Knight Comt mander of tbe Order of tbe Crown of Jtalv. i | KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF I ' Mad Act of Joseph M. Pouch, a Retired Undertaker of Roselle, N. J. _ Father KlHed Cffaprins: in Succession With Poison anil Pistol After Writing Tor a Neighbor to Lay TUem Out. ^ Elizabeth, N. J.?In a roar room in the two-story house at 13!) First avenue, Roselle, Lillian anil Mamie Pouch, 1 aged seven years and eighteen months respectively, are dead of carbolic acid I poisoning. In an adjoining room L? the body of i their five-year-old sister. Minnie, with i a bullet wound in her abdomen. A j thirteen-year-old brother. Albert, is in | the Elizabeth General Hospital, uuconi scious, with a fatal bullet wound in his I right side. I The lives of these children were taken by their father. Joseph M. Pouch, who then shot himself in the temple, dying almost immediately. Previousiy, Pouch had written to Mrs. George B. Reynolds, of Scotch Plains, that he intended "to send his children where his wife had gone." His wife j died a month ago. "All will be dead when you get here." Pouch wrote. He gave instructions as to how the bodies should be laid out. Mrs. Reynolds received the letter during the evening. She telephoned to the County Physician, Dr. F. \V. Wescott, of Fanwood. who sent Justice F. E. Wooley <uid Chief of Police Kenney to Pouch's house. They found the front door locked and all the windows but one shut. When they demanded admittance the open window was slammed dowu. The policeman and the Justice went after Dave Hennessey, the night policeman at Roselle, and brought him to the house. Hennessey gave tbe door a kick. As iie did so a shot was beard upstairs, then two more. Rushing upstairs the men found Pouch on the floor in a heap. Albert and Minnie in bed in their night gowns, blood streaming from their wounds over the sheets. The father had put his children to bed before he shot them. Iu a letter Pouch had started, which was found beside him on the floor, ho said: "I have been hunted by everybody? landlord and everybody. Boss dischargoj me to make matters worse. Things do not go right, or this would not have happened to-day. The bodies of the girls will have to be embalmed, but none of the rest; bury as soon Q 0 99 He is a nephew of the Pouch who built the Pouch mansion in Brooklyn. His father was a wealthy undertaker who disinherited this son. DEFICIT INSTEAD OF SURPLUS. Treasury Statement Shows Loss in May of $130,472. Washington, D. C.?The Treasury statement shows that the available cash balance is $163,287,516, a loss during the month of $57,631,072. Payments of the Panama Canal and the loan of $4,000,000 made to the St. Louis Exposition explain this largo falling off in cash. The receipts for May were $41.6S8.000, a decrease of $2,425,910 compared with May. 1903. The expenditures for the month were $96,418,472. Deducting the payments to the exposition and to the Canal Commission, the disbursements for May aggregate $41,818,472, and reduce the deficit for the month to $130,472. For the corresponding month of 1903 there was a surplus of $3,600,000. The Secretary of the Treasurv esti mated in December last that the surplus for the fiscal year which will end with June would be $14,000,000. The indications are that the Secretary's estimate of receipts will be realized, but that the estimated expenditures will exceed by several million dollars the Secretary's figures, and instead of a surplus at the close of . the current fiscal year there will be a deficit. Republicans Elcct Congressmen. Republicans have elected their Congress candidates in Oregon by large pluralities. Congressman Biuger Herrman, of Roseburg, Republican, has carried his district over R. M. Veatch, Democrat, by from 5000 to 7000. John H. Williamson, of Prineville, Republican. Second District, will carry the district by probably 10,000 over J. E. Simmons, Democrat. Mark Twain's Wife Dead. Mr?. Samuel M. Clemens, the wife of "Marl: Twain.'' tbe American author i and h-cturer, died of syncope at Florence. Itaiy. Half an hour before her death she had conversed cheerfully with her husband. The body will be sent to the United States for interment. Mrs. Clemens was married in 1S70. Her maiden name was Olivia L. Langdon. She wa's born in Elmira, N. Y. An International League. An international league for the promotion of woman's suffrage has been organized at Berlir Germany, with Susan B. Anthony as President, and airs. (Jatt, of Wyoming, as Secretary. Man Stoned to Death. George Staley. a young business man. was stoned to death at Chesterfield, Ind. His assailants have not been identified, and their motive is not known. Dewey Lays Corne stone. Admiral Dewey laid the cornerstone of the Naval Academy chapel, at Annapolis. Md.. and Secretary Moody made an address. Lightning Kills Two Girls. Two young women. Miss Mabel Flanagan and America McLoughlin. wore instantly killed by a stroke of lightning a few miles from Athens, j Ga. They were In a field,. and just in ! front of thom was a young man, Al- I bert Flanagan. The holt killed the | two girls instantly and the young man was knocked senseless, but will recover. Good Ilay Crop. Tn the principal hay producing Slates tiie condition of this crop is good. i. iULUIlJL'L I i L'UVJI'J. Engone X. Foss has given .%"0.000 to | the University of Vermont. The collose holds its 100th commencement cn July 6. Eleven courses in forestry are offered by the University of Michigan to its students the current year, as against six last year, aud none the year before. Miss Nettio Maria Stevens, of Mountain View, Cal.. research fellow in biology at Bryn Mawr, has been appointed a research assistant by the Carnegie Institute. PLOTTERS USE QUITE Non-Union Miners Murdered at a Colorado Railway Station. I INFERNAL MACHINE'S HAVOC ' Exploitive Placed Under Station Platform at Independence, Where Kisht Shift Was Waiting For a Train? Discharged by a Revolver Operated From a Distance by a Wire. Cripple Creek, Col.?A large quanI tity of dynamite placed under the platj from of the Florence & Cripple Creek I Railroad station at Independence was purposely exploded at 2 o'clock a. m., ! whiie a number of strike breakers i were awaiting the arrival of the train : from Altamont to go to their homes at | Victor and Cripple Creek. Fifteen of the miners were instantly killed and a dozen others were fatally injured. Following is a partial list of the dead: August Augustine, thirty-three years old; ' lived at the American House, Victor. Arthur Muhlesen, thirty-five years old: lived at the Erickson House. Victor. Henry J. Haag, Eleck McLain. shift boss; Charles E. Bnrber, Herbert McCoy. William Shandland, eager, thirty-four years old; came to Cripple Creek with Company I. First Regiment. *from Fort Morgan. J. P. Hartsock, fifty-five years I old: has a family at Cripple Creek. The explosion was the result of a plot against the non-union miners on the night shift at the Shurtleff. Findlay and Lost Dollar Mines, who had just finished work and were about to i return to their homes. The explosion ; was beneath the platform on which the men were waiting for a train, and hurled many of them high in the air, destroying the adjoining station and tearing a'great hole in the earth, j The machine which set off the dyi namite was found under the platform, i It consists of a revolver and 300 feet ! nf sfppl wirp Thp rru-nlvp/ wns nlficprJ underneath the platform close to the explosive, and the other end of. the wire was fastened to a chair leg. which was used as a lever at the cribbiugs of the Delmonico property. The conspirators evidently did not wish to kill or injure any of the crew In charge of the train which the illfated miners intended to take for their homes in Victor and Cripple Creek. When within seventy-five feet of the station at Independence the engine whistle sounded as a signal for the men at the station to get ready to board, and to warn ^ny laggards to make haste if'they wished to catch the train. The whistle was the death signal, for no sooner had the shrill blast sounded than a muffled roar was heard, and the mountain trembled as if rocked by an earthquake. The train, which was running very slowly, was brought to a sudden stop by the engineer, and members of the train crew ran hastily forward to investigate. When they appreciated the terrible situation, messengers were hurried away for assistance. The scene about the station was sickening. PoVtions of human bodies were scattered over the right of way, and in the twenty-foot hole made by the explosion were found severed I sKuns, arms, legs ana nanus, juvery object within a radius of fifty feot from the hole was bespattered with blood. Charles Rector, of the ShurtlefT mine, describing the explosion, said: "There were about fifty or sixty of us waiting for our train, which was coming up the track a few hundred feet distant. A number of miners who had not yet reached the platform were running toward it with their dinner buckets in hand. Tbo train approached the station at a moderate rate, and the crowd on the platform began to move around to secure points of vantage in getting aboard as soon as the train stopped. "At this moment a great explosion occurred right under our feet. The Impact shook the buildings in the town, and everything became absolutely dark. A few moments later the groans of the injured were heard, and people came running from residence? and stores to the scene. I was uninjured. The depot, the platform and the surroundings were rent to splinters. The work of rescue was begun nt once. Six badly wounded miners were nicked up at different points near the scene, and were nuieklv ear ried to the t&iin nnd sent to Victor. Th? d^ad were found after much difficulty." A soecinl train from Cripple Creek took the dead and injured to Victor. Tragedy Provokes Riot. Victor. Col.?Deadly rioting broke out In Victor during a mass meeting held to discuss the killing of non-union miners by the infernal machine at Independence. Forty shots were fired into a crowd in the str-;-: r. R. McGee, of Victor, was shot deid, and at least six persons were injured. Crump, an attorney, and the special representative of Governor Pea body, was wounded After llie riotinc: oesan Sheriff Bell or dered out all the soldiers in the region and appointed 100 deputies. Soldiers have already arrested 150 men, inelud ' ing three eilitors and printers of the Record and City Marshal O'Connell and put them in the "bull pen." Gro eery stores owned by the Miners' Union have been raided in Victor and Goldfield, and most of their goods thrown into the street. 4.000.000 Pounds of Tobacco Lost. Fire at Danville. Va.. destroyed three warehouses and 4.000.000 pounds of leaf tobacco. The American To bacco Company was the lessee of all i-U ~ T ^v^ct kA AlV\ .A uir inn 'mug*, iwcitru by insurance. Whisky Explosion Kills Ton. Ton mon were killed, a score injured flO.OOO barrels of whisky destroyed and 3000 catMe burned to death in an explosion at the plant of the Corning Distillery Company at Teoria. III. Sporting Brevities. Terry McGoverti and "Jddic Hanlou are pretty sure to eomr- together in the ring shortly. The Arsdale Golf Club, of Ensi Orange, is to have its course length ened from 2">00 to 3000 yards. Thomas, a Freshman at Purdue, set n new Stote record in the hammer throw at Lafivette, Ind., hurling the weight 158 feet. Findlay S. Douglas, the Metropolitan Golf Champion, was defeated for the title by Arden M bobbins, on the Garden City links. # v HANNAH ELIAS ARRESTED Woman Who Wheedled $685,003 Oat of Aged New Yorker Jailed. With Axes and Crowbars the Door* of Her Mansion in Faaliioiiabl* District Are Smashed in by Police. New York tTity.?The arrest of Hanj nali Elias, the negro adventuress, in a , | criminal proceeding, -which has been ! talked of ever since the aged John R. I Piatt brought suit to recover $685,000 1 I that he says she obtained from him by ! blackmail, was finally decided upon : and effected about midnight. Her law- , ! yer, who had waited at the house at 23G Central Park West until 10.30 : o'clock, had been gone about half an , ! hour when ihe battering down of her ! front door began. Before the door I yielded she had time to dress hereelf, 1 j but she hadn't done it. and she kept the detectives waiting for a long time i hofnrp shp was finallv nut into a cab I and driven to Police Headquarters. Four detectives and two policemen < battered at the heavy oak vestibule door for almost half an hour before it ! | yielded. It then took but a few rain- I j utes to force the iuner door, the upper i half of which was glass. Pushiug in side the police lighted the gas on the first floor, but found no one there. A . baby's cries could be heard from an upper floor Dashing up the stairs the detectives : found Mrs. Elias. not much excited, j She bade them wait until she had dressed herself suitably for a night in a ' j Police Headquarters cell, and the police waited. A servant said that the j baby whose cries had been heard was I the child of Mrs. Elias. The midnight storming of the octoj roon's castle followed a long confer| ence held at the house of John R. Piatt, 1 ! at 1 East Fifty-fourth street. Assist- , j ant District Attorney Lord. Magistrate | Ornraen. Mr. Piatt and his lawyer. Ly I man E. Warren, were concerned in this j conference. An attempt was previousj !y made to get Piatt to swear to a war- | | rant charging the negress with extor j tion. but he halted. | District Attorney Jerome declared j i that unless Piatt swore to a complaint . : upon which a warrant could be based . he would make public all his information rogarding the case, and also what he had heard of an attempt to effect a 1 settlement at half price or some other discount. At S.30 o'clock p. m. Assistant Dis: hrict Attorney Lord and Magistrate ! Ommen met Lawyer Warren at the 1 Plaza Hotel and the three w?nt to ' Piatt's house. The octogenarian was 1 in bed asleep, but he was awakened. A complaint had been drawn up set < ting forth the allegations in the case 1 All Hmfr tens InpU-inir xvna Plnft's cifrnfl. i ture. It was 10.10 o'clock p. m. before Piatt finally agreed to swear to the com- . plaint and then not without much per- j suasion. , i MILES M'DOXNELL KILLED. ! Man Who Killed Price in New York ( City Shot by R. E. Preusser. i Albany, N. Y.?Richard E. P. Preus- ' ser. of! the bucketshop firm of Preusser & Co., shot Miles McDonnell dead at 1 i o'clock a. m. in his room in the Hotel Ten Eyck. They had been together all- < day driuking. McDonnell was from ] i Boston. Originally he was from New j ! York City, where a few years ago he shot George Price, a fellow gambler, to death. Preusser was taken to the Second precinct station house and was looked ] i up. He refused to discuss the matter 1 afterward. ? 1 Tire shooting of McDonnell occurrcd. in his room after he and Preusser had i a quarrel in the grill room of the hotel, i After the quarrel Preusser went to his broker's office and procured the pistol < with which the crime was committed, i He then went back to the Hotel Ten Eyck. aud with the pistol in his hand . asUed for the number of McDonnell's | room. Shortly afterward the clerk | heard a pistol shot and it was found j that Preusser liad gone to McDonnell's 1 | room. ^ j KILLED BY A CHARIVARI. 1 Bride Dies After Three Days of Cole- \ bration by Fool Friends. La Crosse, Wis. ? Worn and dis- j turbed by a three days' charivari, following her marriage, Mrs. William f Asselin, aged twenty, died from brain * f^ver. She was formerly Miss Mary Lapene, of Durand, a country girl. J 1 She was unused to boisterous excite- 1 ment, and it is believed the unusual ' scenes were the direct cause of her death. Naval Cadet Drowned. Samuel H. Baldwin, of New Haven, ( Conn., who had passed his nual exam- { inations for admission to the Auaapo- j lis iAid.) Naval Academy, and would ; t have entered the institution regularly j ? on the day of his death, was drowned [ t 1 at Tolchester Beach, where he had gone ou an excursion. The body was i 1 recovered. Before coming to Aunapo- i lis Baldwin was a freshman iu the Sheffield Scientific School. _ ^ ? .. - c Submarine Fulcon a Success. 1 Naval men agree that the twelve- . hour submersion test off Newport, R. ! . I., of the submarine boat Fulton was J completely successful. The boat was brought to the surface several minutes * I nPf.-.,. rnnnit'oH Hmo liiiiJ nflSSPfl. I ' and the nine men on board said they I felt nothing the worse for their loug 1 coutiuement. ] I Father and Five Children Drown. n Alfred Lee and his rive children, of j I ! Muskogee, Indian Territory, were j e j drowned while trying to cross a small i I stream near the Arkansas Hirer. Lee j and the children were in a wagon | which was turned over in iiftecn feet ' s of water. ; o Cut In Wages Postponed. Cotton goods manufacturers in F.ill ! Riv?-r. Mass., decided to postpone in- o definitely the proposed cut of ten p??r i i: cent in tie way s o. employes. ; ii I r Newsy Gleanings. ! ? .Many persons were hurt in a riot be- | " fween whites and negroes iu Philadel- j phia. j ^ The New York City Mothers' Club j amended its constitution to admit mcu i -1 to associate membership. ' The Ottoman Government proposes , ' to award contracts for the work upon | the continuation of the Hedjaz Railroad. Marconi will establish a daily news n service to the Cunard liners, whereby a daily newspaper will be published p| while en voyage. N 1 NEW S - 0 F THE WORLD ' WASHINGTON ITEMS. Judge J. C. Pritchard. of North* Caroliaa. took oath at Washington aa . United States Circuit Judge. Miss Roosevelt, daughter of the President, returned to the capital from St. Louis. The President exp?cts every member of his cabinet to take the stump. * Secretary of the Navy Moody has issued a geaeral order regulating the liandiing of ammunition at target prac. tice on war ships. President Roos(?velt decided to go to Oyster Bay, L. I., on July 2. and there receive notification of his nomination. Secretary Snaw ordered a countervailing duty ou Chilean wines and llcohol. I The Supreme Court declared the Federal oleomargarine law to be constitutional. The President signed a proclamation providing for the opening of the ceded lands- of the Devil's Lake Indian Reservation, in North Dakota. Acting Chairman Payne of the NaSional Republican Committee appointed Senator Penrose as National ^ommit teem an from the State of Pennsylvania. The United States Supreme Court reversed the Supreme Court of Indiana i i the suit of a railroad against that State. Rear-Admiral Mortimer L. Johnson was retired for age. The United States Supreme Court adjourned until October. President Roosev?lt paid his first visit since assuming the Presidency to the Congressional Library at Washington. John Barrett, United States Minister to Panama, cai!?d on the President to discuss Isthmian work. OUR ADOPTED INLANDS. The domestic postage rates have been extended to ihe Canal Zone of Panama, as well as to Hawaii. Porto Rico, the Philippines. Guam and Tutuila, but will not take effect until oostoffices are established in-the Canal Zone. The Bakers' and Confectioners" international Uuion recently issued its first charter of :i local union of tlie craft in Porto Rico. t i In Hawaii it is shid that the sugar planters are contemplating the erection i)f a sugar refinery to refine the product of the various Hawaiian sugar plantations. i Samuel M. Lindsay. Commissioner of Education, and William P. WU? loughby. Treasurer of Porto Rico, arrived in New York on the steamship . Philadelphia. In a decision by the Supreme Court, nt Washington. D. C'.. the right of trial by jury was denied to residents of the Philippines. DOMESTIC. .Tilling TCussfll Assistant Attorney General, railed for Panama to assist Hj in organizing the government of the Hi :anal zone. A memorial meeting in honor of Sam- Hj lei Hoar was held in Boston. ?R A tent colony for consumptives, to bH serve as an experiment, is being estab. 32 lislied ou the bauks of the Illinoia ffH' River. , H E. C. Timanus iras sworn in as sac- Bj lessor to Mayor McLane, of Baltimore. N He Three clnldren of John Gentry, of Booneville, Ind.; were killed by light- jBjflj ling during a cyclonic electric storm Bflj ind three others were severely burned. Ml Agents of Japan inspected the Lake m submarine boat Tiotector at Bridge- gH jort, Conn. Xtt Judge Gray, of Delaware, made a strong argument for international arbi- IBM :ration at the Mohonk conference. raw Seven men Were killed on a trestle jridge at Hendersou. Ky.. by a Louis- Hj rille and Nashville passenger train. ISO After being adrift in the ice two Sjfl| nonths. four Newfoundland fisher- H lien brought ar. abandoned American- flflj lerring schooner to port. jjfjU William Dean Howells. the author, Till liave the degree of doctor of let* :ers conferred on him by Oxford Uni- 880 ersity. jaH Secretary of War Taft wa? the ^H ;uest of Kansas City, .Mo., and spoke HWt :o a large crowd at Convention Hall. |EHg Charles M. Schwab, former Steel BM I'rust President, sailed for Europe. Samuel Itcgers Callaway, formerly IBM President of the New York Central m Railroad, died from the effects of ap |H .peration for mastoiditis. Mfl FOREIGN. |H Mohammedan persecution of Arneri;ans must cease, Secretary Hay us- J^fl Two regiments of Punjabis, a moun* J?dH| ain battery and a dctachiueut of en? riueers have been ordered to reinforca fflfl lie British expedition in Tibet. MH The battle ship squadron of tha ^H8 [Jnited States North Atlantic fleet ar< ived at J.isburn, from Cuba. The Czar of Russia is indignant over IqbKo he attack made by Prince Dolgorouky ?a Minister of Foreign Affairs Lams- Hj lorff, and bus ilircrted an immediate WM >samination of the Prince in ordei Bfl| hat it may be determined legally EHH vh ether he is sane. Dutch troops, after losing thirty- Hgfl hroe men. captured a native fortres3 n Sumatra; 170 Arbincse were killed. BMW Former Mayor Setb Low. of New fork, was dined in London by the Mgjafl Pilgrims' Ciub. jOBBS A special cabie dispatch from Paris BH jiiiounces the death at Cannes of Mrs. HBB 'oik. mother of the Baronne de Char- Hfln tte and a deseandant of William BaNj American Ambassador and Mrs. DBS| IcCormick will leave St. Petersburg MR oo!i for a month's rest at Carlsbad. B|B[ The British expedition into Tibet aptured four guns. mH The difficulty between Great Britain HSfl nd Russia, growing out of the seizure E^BS f Canadian sealers in the Bering Sea, :l IS','-', wao setueu, liussia paying au bbm udeuiuity. A?l>i!l Lias Just bnen presented in the B9HB enate of Liberia for liic regulation of BH President Loubet received Governor NH >dell at the JSlysee Palace, in Paris. laBSH Tin battleships Kearsarge. Alabama nd Maine arrived at Lisbon, where HB .o^offieers were presented to the King nd Queen. 99B8 Secretary Hay asked France to use RM :s good urtices in the rescue of Perdi- HnjM lrdis at Tangier, Morocco. Four U. S. HqAS 'arsliips are now there. MB Henrj Sieskiewicz. the Polish novlist, at present in Berlin, is going to H^Sj [au-iiuria for literary materiai. sSSBhE