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WEINSEI1ER CONVICTEI Ex-President of Building Trades M liance Guilty of Extortion, END OF AN IMPORTANT TRIAL Jury Was Oat Over Six Hour* When th? Verdict WaJ Finally Rendered? Prl* oner's Wife in Court at the TimeWeinselmer Appeared to Weaker l'hyslcally at the End. Now York City.?The jury which had tried Philip Weiuseimer, ex-Prcsident of the Building Trades Alliance, on the charge of extorting $2700 from George T. Essig, a plumbing contractor, on the Chatsworth apartment house, at Seventy-second street aud Riverside Drive, rendered a verdict of guilty at 11.at night, after being out six hours aud a quarter. Weinseimor was remanded to the Tombs until sentence will be pronounced. When the jury cuuic^In Weinseimer stood outside the railing. Judge Newburger asked the foreman if a verdict had been agreed upon. Weinseimer was half smiling at this time, but the smile left his facc as the foreman announced that a verdict had been reached, and then replied to a second question: "Guilty, as charged in the indictment." Weinseimer trembled when the words were pronounced, and grasped the railing as if to steady himself. He gave a quick glance jX the jury and then at his counsel. The jury was then polled and discharged. Weinseimer's pedigree was r.ext taken. He answered the questions in tones so low as to be Almost inaudible, and the clerk had to bend his head to hear them. The wait during the evening was one of anxiety for both counsel for the defense and Assistant District Attorney Rand. When the jury desired supper at G.30. and afterward spent so long a time, without coming to a decision, counsel for the defense were jubilant. They sent for Weinseimer ahmif- 10 n>!ofk. nriil lif? Was sittlncr in the rear of the courtroom when the jury filed in with the verdict. Mrs. Weinseimer was in court during the evening. Only one ballot was taken by the jury previous to supper. The jury was at supper nearly two hours, and up to after 11 o'clock only one other ballot had been taken. A majority were al. ways for conviction, it is said, the jury standing nine to three until the last ballot, when the three were won over to a conviction. In summing up, Mr. Raines, for the defense, declared that the charge against "Weinseimer had been fostered by Charles L. Eidlitz. President of the Building Trades Employers' Association, in conjunction with George Johnson and other members of the Johnson-Kahn Company, building contractors, who put up the Chatsworth. Because of this fact Mr. liaines declared the charges had been tainted when they were presented to the District Attorney's office. Mr. Rand followed Mr. Raines and denied the story of the alleged plot against Weinseimer, declaring that the employers had acted like any other honest men who had become sick and tired of the way in which Weinseimer had been grafting on both capital and labor. Judge Newburger took only a few minutes in charging the jury. He said that no overt act need bo committed, ar any particular form of words used to inspire fear, according to the statute. The jury must determine from the evidence, he said, whether any money had been paid, but it was immaterial where Essig obtained the money he alleged he paid to Weinseimer. RUSSIA BUYING RAIDERS. Reported to Have Secured Several South American Warships. London, England.?The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Telegraph revives in a new form the story that Russia is obtaiuing South American warships. lie says that judging from the status of the officials who affirm the statement it must be true. It is to the effect that llussia has induced three of the South American republics to depart from strict neutrality anfl to sell warships, which will be used to prey on American and British trade with Japan. i:? t 1. ?1.1 v,iiii<; uuu .nijcuniiu n;i\e UHCll suiu three cruisers and Brazil one. The financial arrangements connected with the purchases were made: through banks in Berlin and other capitals where Russia keeps gold deposits. The actual payments are to be made in London to a citizen of a neutral State. TO RAISE NEW ARMY. Home Hears That the Czar Will Send 000,000 More Men. Rome, Italy.?The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Giornale di Roma says that, after a consultation between the Czar and General Gripenberc, it was decided to mobilize 000.000 more troops, and to abandon Manchuria for the present. Sakharoff Takes Village. General Sakharoff sent it dispatch telling of the capture of a village east of Shakhe, and adding that the Japanese were concentrating against the Russian centre. > Martin Female Collece Burned. Fire destroyed Martin Female Co! lege at Pulaski, Tenn.. entailing a los> ef ?40,000, with $30.(.hx> insurance. Th( cccupants all escaped without accident Baltic Fleet Sails North. The battleships of the Baltic flee sajled north from Danish waters, pre sumably starting for the Far East. .Diphtheria in Brooklyn. An epidemic of diphtheria broke ou in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) public schools. v From tho Seat of War. The Mikado issued a proclamation t nis people to prepare them for a Ion war. The first troops of tbe Russian Impt rial Guard left St. Petersburg for th front. Extraordinary bustle in Mukden ind cated that the long expected battle ha begun. Japanese gunboat and 285 men wer destroyed by floating torpedo at Poj Arthur. " " A battle was reported being fougl south of Schili- Elver, with the Ku; sians attacking. j?LLiV.. -V. V : ?>, ] 'YOUNG MOTHER IS SLAIN! Shot by Assailant of Her Honor. After Desperate Struggle. _______ i x Mrs. Frank llusinger. of Shiloh. X. ,T.; i Found Dead by Her Young Husband AVJxh Their Baby. i ' Bridgeton. X. .T.? T\"it!i her baby; i nine months old. nestling on lior breast, Mrs. Frauk Itasinger, twenty-four i ' years old, was found dead in her honie j in Shiloh, near here, by her husband. ; A charge of heavy bird sijot had been ! tired at a range of a few feet into i her left side, just below the heart, j Death had been instantaneous, a cir- ' , cular wound two inches in diameter reaching nearly through the body. A posse of farmers began scouring the country for the murderer, their wrath increased by the emphatic statement of Kasingcr that his wife was attacked before she was killed. There was every indication of a des- I perate struggle in the house, and it is j thought that after the young mother lulu been overpowered sue was murdered to keep her from making known the identity of her assailant. The sliot was fired from Rasinger'-s double b:ir- j reled gun, which had been standing j in a corner of the kitcbeu. each barrel i containing a charge of Xo. 4 .shot. Rasinger loft his wife at the house I with their baby at 1 p. m. She was ironing in the kitchen, but walked a short distance from the house with him, and, kissing him good-bye. returned to her work. He went to a remote part of his farm to examine some j cattle and was returning wtten he heard the report of a shot in the dircc- j tion of the house. He has told the po- j lice lie thought the sound was that of a j door banging. When lie entered the j kitchen he found his wife dead on the : floor, lier head close to his feet. Ap- I parent!j* slic had been shot down when j trying to flee into the open. The baby had its arms around her neck and was crying pitcously. It had upset ils cradle and crawled across the floor. Its j hands were stained by its mother's i blood and the front of its little white | frock was crimson. Rasinger was so overcome by the dis- : covery that lie delayed iu looking for i the murderer. "When he did sive the ; alarm no sign of the mysterious crim- j inal was to be found. Escape from the j farmstead was easy, as big areas of i ; the surrounding country are covered j thickly with timber. As soon as the j news of the murder had spread through i the little community the posse was or- j ganized aud a thorough search begun, j All towns through which the murderer | might pass were informed of the crime j aud close watch was maintained at all these points. Rasinger went with the | posse. Mrs. Iiflsinsrer was a daughter of ! Ananias Wentzell. of Seeley. She was j married about two years ago and Lad j been happy. KILLED BY MEXICAN BANDITS. Soldiers Battle With Brigands Near Mexico City. Mexico City, Mexico.?Three killed and fifteen more or less seriously wounded was the result of an outrage by brigands and a subsequent battle between them and a party of soldiers near here. Crazed by drink, the three bandits, Flores, Saledo and Herrera, went to the residence of Vincento Godinez. at Santa Julia, a northern suburb of this city, and called for (.iodines. When he came out, accompanied by Laurino Frias, a servant, the bandits opened fire upon them. Frias was instantly killed and Gofliuez badly wounded. When news of the tragedy reached the authorities of the city, twelve rurales were at once dispatched to a plantation, whither it was learned the desperadoes had fled. A pitched battle ensued, in which nearly every soldier in the squadron was wounded and two were killed. wviTftT? \?Tv*T.'n Tn m.'yrnv Arkansas Official Accused of Immorality Denounced by Citizens. Little Hock, Ark.?A mass meeting ; of citizens of Perry County was held 1 at Perryville to take action against j State Senator Albert W. Itison. against | whom charges have been preferred by his older brother. It. K. Rison. A committee reported, stating that the ! charges have been fully investigated ! and found to be true. With the evidence offered was a i copy of the divorce complaint of 11. K. I liison against his wife. A resolution i was unanimously adopted requesting j Senator Itison to resign his seat in ! the State Senate, and if he refuses to \ do so, a committee was appointed to j prefer charges against him and en- i deavor to have the State Senate expel ! him. The Senator says lie will not | resign. SEXATOIt PROCTOR HE-ELECTED ; Democrats in Vermont House Voted For John H. Senter. Montpelier, Vt. ? Senator RedfleUl Troctor was re-elected to the United states senate ny me \ ennont j^egisiaiure. The election will be officially confirmed when the two branches meet in joint session. In the upper branch of the Legislature every vote cast was for Senator Proctor, but in the House the Denio: crats supported their candidate. John H. Seuter, of this city. Of the i votes cast, 'JO.-) were for Senator Pi* -, tor and ol for Mr. Senter. South Dakota Beats North Carolina. The United States Supreme Cowit ? made its decree against North Caro? litm fiivil iii ih<? suit hrr.nirht l?v South . Dakota to have certain repudiated bonds of the former State declared valid. t Tort Arthur Ships in Danger. ! Advices from Tokio say that the Russian warships at Port Arthur were ! suffering severely from the Japanese t tire, but that no attempt at a sortie has been made. Promineii People. The Emperor of Germany usually ? rises about 5 o'clock. Canon Nichol!. of Streatham, London, 0 lias been seventy-two years in holy orders. i- Charles Taylor, ninety-nine years of d age, drove a race at the Waterbury. Vt., fair recently. e The fortune of David Livingstone :t was not one-tenth of that (-$750,000) loft by Sir Henry M. Stanley, it Ex-Mayor James M. Brenton, of Dcs s- Moines. Ia., weighs 390 pounds and began life as a circus clown. LUNATIC RAN CLD IN SHOP" After Pursuing Many, Patrick Harrigan Cut His Throat. DYING, HE FOUGHT HARD i Khlerly Widower, Suddenly Bccomlii); Incline in h Jtrooklyn, X. T. Sliop, Unshed Through the liuiMinjj Armed "With a llazor?Panic Among Girls as He .Slashed at His Neck. New York City.?Becoming suddenly iusano in the brass finishing sliop of Slants & Dillmeier. at oU-10 South First rtreet, Brooklyn, Patrick Hnrrigan. a widower, sixty years old. after trying with a razor to wound his fellow employes and terrorizing everybody in the building, cut his throat. Notwithstanding the fact that his inwnrn fuhlt. ll(? fotisllt Po liceman Fallon, of the Hoilford avenue j station, like a tiger ami cut llie policeman's left hand. Harridan's wife died a year ago and it is said lie never recovered from the Mow. He kept house with his sixteenyear-old son. Some time ago he lost a job in a brass finishing plant through a strike, and he has since hung around Staats & Dillmeier's shop in an effort to get employment. William Dillmeier, a member of the firm, took pity oji the man and gave him a job as brass moulder. Harrlgan's mind did not appear to be on his work, but Dillmeior said nothing to him. At 7 o'clock in the morning Harrigan reported for work and was at his bench until 10 o'clock. Then he suddenly screamed, and, drawing a razor, ran at the other workmen, slashing at them with the steel. They outran him and escaped without injury. Schneider Brothers, shoe manufacturers, and .T. Albert, a manufacturer of cut glass, are in the same building. Harrigan ran up to SchneiHfntliors' Ill-lClV wllPfti fOl'tV CU'lS were at work. In their presence lie cut his throat. The girls became panicstricken ami rushed frantically down the stairs to the street. A number of them fell and were trampled on. Meanwhile Harrigan had entered Albert's shop and tcrrilied the employes there. All this time he was hacking at his throat. All the people in the building ran into the street and left the madman in complete possession. Policeman Fallon was attracted by the tumult. Fallon drew his club and entered the building. Harrigan was behind :i door and lie made a savage attack upon the policeman. Fallon used his club, and although lie struck the maniac again and again, the crazy man seemed to be possessed of superhuman strength and succeeded in wounding Falion. Harrigan finally broke away from the policeman and ran up an iron stairway. Fallon followed. On the second landing they had another desperate fight and botli rolled down the stairs. Harrigan arose and staggered into the yard, where he fell on :t pile of ashes. .. ,! 1 ?t.~ .~o.. ??,i i' anon men uisuriuuu me iuuu ium quickly sent for an ambulance to the Eastern District Hospital. Dr. Cameron found Harrigan dying and took liim at once to the hospital. The Rev. Father O'Brien, of Sts. Teter and raid's Church, was summoned and ho administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church to Harrigan. Some of the women who had been chased ont of the building were afraid to return to work and went home. FOUR DAYS IX LOCKED CLOSET. Woman Who Left Homo While Delir- ] ions Found in Critical Condition. New York City.?Locked in a dark I closet of a building at 1 Thatford avr- J jiue. East New York, Mrs. Ray Singer I was found half starved and blue from cold by Mrs. Rachel Levy, a tenant. She had been there four days without food or water. Mrs. Singer, who has been ill. eluded her nurse and escaped from her home at 40 Thatford avenue, while delirious. Though her absence was discovered in a few minutes, the young woman seemed completely to have vanished. Her husband appealed to the police of the Liberty avenue station, which is only a stone's throw from the house in which she was found, and the police sent out a general alarm for her. while 4Vtrt?i.1c* /mntiniiorl tlio OJll^UL miiu mvuuo * i/iuiiiuw search for her daily without result. For a few days the tenants of the house at 1 Thatford avenue have heard strange noises in the building, but thought little of it and made no effort to trace them. Finally, however, Mrs. Levy, while passing through the lower hallway, heard scratching and cries coming from the closet, which is rarely used. She was frightened and. run- j ning into the street, called several men, who burst open the door. On the floor they found Mrs. Singer, emaciated and moaning. She was in a state of collapse and a doctor was called. Russian Troops Withdraw. The withdrawal of Russian troops from the Herman frontier has again given rise to reports that Emperor William has guaranteed the security of this part of the empire. Italian Socialists' Manifesto. Italian Socialists issued a manifesto setting forth their platform in the campaign. A number of bishops have appealed to the Pope to permit Catholics to vote. Italy's Coming Election. Italy's general election will take place on November l.'J. The Government's platform includes bettor education. State control of railroads, reform in taxation and conversion of the national debt. Jumps From Bridge. Faul Godard, of n distinguished French family, despondent over money matters. leaped to death from the new iTr:iii??,c.K?,.rr iir;ri.rr> nver the East Kiver, New York. College Notes. The University of Michigan lias 4100 students. . The attendance at Lehigh University in all classes is U15. Hubert Ogden has given an organ to the college for use in chapel services at Barnard College. Professor Pea body has been granted a leave of absence from Harvard during the second half-year. The number of students registered ns resident candidates for the degrees and diplomas of Teachers' College is uoav JID. - WRECKED SHIP IS SAVED Waterlog-gecl Syanara Worked 18D Milos Off Carol in as?Man Saved. Sailot* liuil.l Fire of Woml ami Fat and Then Flash a Ll;ht. by lUI<in; Caver*? llroujilit to New York by Cly.le Liner. New* York City.?Five men. who constituted the crow of tin? British three masted schooner Nyanaia. of Barbados, who for seven days battled the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina were brought to this port by the Clydf liner Apache from Jacksonville and Charleston. The men were rescued about 3.30 o'clock in the morning, at improvised flarelight from tho fore castle stove having attracted tho attention of the officer on the bridge u) the Apache. The S'a mini's finrolighi. bids fair tc go down in marine history in :i class all by itself. When the vessel became waterlogged and her rigging bad beer swept away. Captain Morehouse <lis covered that he had 110 tiarelights on board. He accordingly bad the forecastle stove removed lo the deck and tilled it with grease and wood. Every once in a while one of the crew would remove the lid of the stove and then quickly replace it. It was a week ago that the Syanarii ran into the gale that was to prove her master. The wind freshened early that morning, and by night was blowing at a hurricane rate. The starboard dock load stanchions gave way first. Next the port stanchions went, and with them tiie deck load. The seams forward then opened, and in less than two hours the Syanara's hold was full of water. For four days the storm raged Willi unabating fury, and then when darkness came the Syanara was level with the water, her decks awash, and not a shred of her sails remained in place. At this time the craft was 250 miles off the South Carolina coast, and Cap tain Morehouse realized that his onlj chance of rescue lay in getting: bacfi into the track of the coastwise trade. Accordingly, CJeorge Kttdolph, the mute: Seaman Ay berg and Jack J.on don, a negro, sot to work lo rig a jury sail. To do this they took the forestaysail boom and lashed it to the break ol' the forecastle. Then they made a square sail of part of the mainsail, and with this managed 1c work what remained of the vessel t< within seventy miles of the roast. Then it was that the Apache found them. WEDDED IN SMALLPOX WARD. Magistrate. Four Miles Away, Used 'Phone to Unite Patient and Fiancee. Philadelphia. Pa.?A marriage by telephone was performed by Magistrate Mecleary. Mrs. Eva Lyons became the wife of Frederick Mehren. a victim of smallpox, standing at the man'? bedside in the Municipal Hospital Seated at the telephone in his office, almost four miles from the wedding party, Magistrate Mecleary asked the required questions and heard the answers from the sick room. William I. Morgan. superiutende,n'l I at the hospital, repeated the Magistrate's words, and the sick man, propped up in bed and watched by mill !i mirco iiili>n;!\ si ml replied in :i feeble voice, 'flu young woman. however. talked through the telephone directly. Mehreu was in a critical condition and his bride, once having entered tin smallpox ward must remain there four toon days, in which time slur will be constantly exposed to the disease, lie fore entering the hospital she was, vac cinated. TIBET INYADEItS SNOWBOUND Iload Obliterated and Expedition Mas Not Iteach Home This Year. Pari-.Tong, Tibet.?The headquarter.' of the British Tibet force, consisting ol two companies of mounted infantry the Eighth (Jurkhas. and the Fortietl Pathans, was snowbound at Pari ui fortress near Boutan). The column marched through Pari Jong Tass in the midst of a blinding snowstorm, duriug which it went ink camp. Two men died during tiie night The snow was drifting and the roai has been obliterated. BANCIIMEN IN PITCHED BATTLF Seven Hundred Sheen Driven Over a Cliff and Killed. T>!_ Ti: KNil'illH X>lj; A illU, )? ,> U. UiUHIH l.1 <<11I<I1I. here from the vicinity of (Jr.iy's Uivoi report a pitched battle between tin sheep and cattle forces between tin river and Piney Creek. Seven hundred sheep, the property of tlie Butterflehl ranch, were drivei over a high cliff and killed. CUB AX POLITICIANS TO Pill SOX Heavy Sentence For Frauds in San tiago Province. Havana, Cuba.?The Audiencia. 01 Santiago Province, has condemned tb< members of the Provincial Board 01 Canvassers to fourteen years and eigh months' imprisonment tor fraud in tin recent elections. Seven Lives Lost at Sea. Seven lives were lost by the founder ing of a vessel oft' the Florida coasl during a hurricane. Dr. Bryec is Honored. Dr. James Bryce received the LL.D degree from Columbia. Two Appeals Granted. The Court of Appeals, at Albany. X 1\, granted a new trial to Police Cap tain Moynihan, of New York City, wh( was dismissed from the force in 1002 The court also affirmed the right ol public school authorities to excludc children who refused to be vaccinted The Emperor Unveils Statue. Emperor William unveiled the sta tue of his father at the Museum of Art in Berlin, ami referred to the impress sionist school. Labor World. Barbers of Montreal. Canada, arc dissatisfied with the Provincial Bar bers' Association. Receipts for the fiscal year ending May 31. 1004. for the International Typographical Union were ?1U0,005. The National Patternmakers' League has succeeded in obtaining a raise of wages for patternmakers in the Washington Navy Yard to $3.52 a day. As the result of a strike of telegraph operators on the Missouri, Kansas ami Texas Railway, the management resorted to telephones for traiu despatching. b s RUSSIA LOSES THOUSANDS1 a May Prove to Be thQ World's Greatest Battle. !1 j CZAR'S CASUALTIES ABOUT 30.000 ! < Torrent# Swel'cd the Streams ami Tre- I vented tli^ Itetreat of the Artnle??The ^ | Japanese Sustained But Small losses j In Comparison?Mnny Guns Are Cap- i j I tured by Brown Men. ^ Tokio, Japan.?There is a strong ap- i i peal for peace in the appalling tragedy | t which has been under enactment in . > Manchuria. Both armies had been , f fighting around Shakhe ferociously for 1 a week, and the desperate fighting still 1 continued. It is probable that the t death roll will be largely increased be- i 1 i fore the final shot.is fired. , . The preliminary reports indicate that j ^ I in this battle about 00,000 men of both j c 1 sides have been either killed or j 1 wounded, the larger portion of them ( being Russians. 3 j Field Marshal Oyama estimates the ( i Russian dead left on the field, includ- j j iug those killed in the latest fighting, ' i at over 10,000. Detailed reports re, ceived here show that this estimate r will probably be exceeded. : t It is reckoned, applying the usual calculation as t? the ratio of killed to . wminded- that the Russian casualties | exceed 40,000. 11 The Right Army (Kuroki's) alone has j J buried 4500 Russians. A dispatch from I the Japanese field headquarters says: j I "The losses sustained by the army .r i opposing our Right Army so far as as- ^ certained are as follows: r "Bodies left near Pensihu on the left | \ bank of the Tai-T.se River, 350: in j j front of our Pensihu detachment, 1500; I t | at Talien, 300; near Tumentsu, 300; be- j ] fore the right column, 200; near Klou- f inkok and north of Tumentsu, 1200; | f . near Chlenlao, 300; north of Panlassan , j and near Wumingsu, 150; before the | j , left column near Shaotakou and north- j < ward, 200; total, 4000. ( "The number left in other places has , ; not been counted yet, but it is large. | . . "The enemy's loss in this direction j ! ! must exceed 20,000. Among the tro- ! j , j phies reported captured are 200 shells, j j , six ammunition wagons and much un- j , . counted munition." . j ' The total of the Russian dead left in j , j front of the Centre Army (Xodzu's) is j estimated at 2500. General Kuropatkin's story left the Russians still tenaciously holding the , north bank of the Shakhe River, but ; the general belief is that this is only : < j the desperate fiuale of one of the great- I | U51 lliuilill uiauiaa ujl , auu iuuw . < tlie Russian army as a whole was re- j , s tiring toward Mukden, having suffered | at the most conservative estimate a ( ' loss of over 30,000. , > The weather conditions were even ' worse than during the retreat from ( . Liaoyang. Streams were bank liigh j | ! and fords wer.- impassable, but it was j | impossible to say how this wonkl affect i , the final situation. ; ( Fragmentary reports of the Japanese j ] t casualties are coming in. General Oku | t tost 3500 meu. j i Estimates of the total Japanese j losses were not possible, but they were J small ill comparison with the frightful j losses of the Russians. BANDITS IIOLD UP TOWN. ; | Scared From Plundering Bank They ! | j Defy Armed Citizens and Escape. j Lakota, N. D.~An attempt was ' J | mime to diow up me saie or me Jteo- j pic's State Bank. Two explosions ot dynamite awakened the citizens, wlio ; . turned out with shotguns and revolvers. The bandits forced the guests r of the Grace Hotel, nearby, to keep insiie the building on penalty of be- I , ing shot. Among the guests was E. j . I Y. Sarles, the Republican candidate j ' for Governor. The bank safe was wrecked. An ! ' alarm was given before the inside j ' steel chest could be blown open and | the robbers didn't got a cent. There I I were five men in the party and all es- I ( 1 raped, although hundreds of shots j ' were fired. i! 1 i KING OF SAXONY DEAD. I I . King George Passes Away in His i Seventieth Year. L Dresden, Saxony.? King George of; Baxony died at his castle of Fillnitz j r &t 3 o'clock in the morning. His son I pnd successor, the Crown Prince Fred- j ? crick, was at his bedside. King George was an old man when ' lie ascended the Saxon throne. He j was born August S, 3S32, and was con- , i sequentiy iu his seventieth year when ; lie succeeded his brother. King Albert, ' Tniwi inn? Vivo wppks After his I . ascension he was attacked by pnen- j mouia and never fully regained Lis ; * health. Report of Slocum Committee. The report of the General Slocum in- j f vestigating committee recommended j j. the dismissal of a number of Federal \ j officials, and censured tlie steamboat 1 company. Gale Off Newfoundland. A pale raging in Newfoundland : ^ caused fear for the Ashing fleet re- j turning from the Grand Banks and the j Labrador coast. General "Worth Retires. Brigadier-General Worth, U. S. A.*, retired, died, aged sixty-four years. For Anglo-American Alliance. The Rev. Minot J. Savage said in a * sermon that with an understanding he- i } tween England and America the j * world's peace could be kept. General W. S. Worth Dead. General William Scott Worth died at (he home of his nephew, Dr. John T. ; Sprague, at Clifton, S. I. ' Baltic Fleet Starts. The Baltic fleet sailed early i". the morning from Libau. Sporting Brevities. Society largely attended the horse show at Morristown. Conn. George Heath, winner of the Vanderbilt Automobile Cup race, sailed for Europe. The Bostons won the American League pennant from the New Yorks by a single game. The autumn hunt season opened at i Meadow Broolc with P. F. Collier as master of foxhounds. Newton A.'s driver in, the 2.11 trot- ( ting race at Lexington, was thrown 1 , from his seat, but not injured. ( DIED FROM OVER-EATING Ian of Dubuque, la-, Ate Eighty* five Pounds of Meat. s >n a "Wajrer "Flill" Melloy Gorges Himtelf For the Last Time?Held KecorJ a* Champion Katcr ot the World. Dubuque, la.?His stomach distended o three times its normal size after be lad eaten eighty-five pounds of raw )eof, "Phil" Melloy, who posed as the vorld's champion eater, died in terrible igony here. He was found dead on he floor of his bedroom by his wife, vith bis band on his stomach, and his ace distorted as if intense suffering lad preceded death. An autopsy was >erformed by six doctors, and they ound the walls of the stomach literaly permeated by the Juices of the meat. Melloy issued a challenge to auy man u the world to eat agaiust liim for a vager of $500. He was intensely proud >f his gastronomic feats, and it was :he taunting of a dozen youths that irove him to death. Melloy met the ouths in a resort in the heart of tho rity. Talk turned to his wonderful jerformauces in eating, and Melloj] joasted he could eat eighty-five pounds >f beef in twenty hours. One of the roung men in the party then offered to )et Melloy $100 that he could not eat :be amount. Melloy hesitated in ac?epting the bet, and was laughed at :or a "quitter." He was called "fakir"' ind "four-tiusher,"-and was told that iny one in the party could equal him it eating when at his best. Unable to bear the derision, Melloy inally said he would make the bet. The money was staked, and fresh beef ivas obtained from a packing house. Two doctors pronounced it of excellent luality, and Melloy was locked with it n a room. A guard was placed over he room, and at the end of nineteen ! jours Melloy knocked to be released. I rhe door was opened, and only a few | small bones were found in the room. Drdinarily Melloy was trim in ligure, iut he came out of the room bloated. So elated was he with his prodigious capacity that he went to a restaurant ind ate three, large cans of salmon ind four apple pies. Melloy was hardly able to walk aoine. He gave his wife the $100 he lad won and then staggered to his oom. Four hours later Mrs. Melloy 'ound his body growing cold. He had apparently slipped from bed to the floor. His head was slightly lower Hinn hi.s hortv and some of the beef vvliicli Lad sot into his throat prevented him from making an outcry. A short while ago Melloy ate ISO raw ;ggs in twenty minutes and wound up jy devouring five largo porterhouse steaks in quick succession. At his regular meals he ate sparingly, hut when" lie set himself down for a contest he seemingly could consume an unlimited quantity of food. Some weeks ago Melloy went into a restaurant and ordered all the steaks, chops, chickens, Ish. oysters and vegetables in the place ;o be prepared a ad set before him. He cleared the restaurant of everything ratable, and then said he wished he iiad something more to eat. Melloy's itomach stretched like a tiny balloon, and he had a special suit of clothes to wear at his eating contests. / EXGIXEER DEAD, TRAIN FLIES. I'iroman Learns Truth in Time to Avert iieaiL-uu i.ouis;u;i. McCook, Neb.?James O'Connell, an engineer of the Burlington road, was stricken dead from heart disease at his throttle some time after the train his locomotive was hauling had left here on its run to St. Louis, Mo. The train was running at fifty miles an hour when the fireman chanced to glanc? at the engineer. He saw a pallor had overspread his face and his body was rigid. He touched the engineer and was shocked to find he was dead. The fireman backed the train into McC'ook. ar.d when another engineer was supplied it went on to Sr. Louis. If the fireman had not discovered the engineer's death when he did his train doubtless wo'.ild have met i:i" collision with a train coming in the opposite direction and many lives wo'.:!d have been lost. N'EIGHBOK KILLS IIEII AND BABE Husband Exacts Quick Vengeance by Shooting Slayer Dead. Jackson, Miss. A shocking triple tragedy was reported from Calooga, Webster County. A mother and her ' a- .1. .. i.i. i? .. oaoe were snot to mam uj iciguum, who in turn was shoe to death by the angered husband and father. Mrs. Dixie Beard and her young baby were shot and instantly killed by ' Jim" Stalling*, who ill turn was sbot down by Beard. The tragedy occurred while Beard and his family were passing the home of Stallings. The trouble grew out of u land dispute. JOE WALCOTT DISABLED. The Pugilist Shot Through Ili.s Right Hand?Another Negro Killed. Boston, Mass.?While at a dance at Union Park Iiall. Joe Walcott, the famous colored pugilist, shot and killed Nelson Hall, another colored man. Walcott was shot through the right hand, and it will probably be of no more use to him in the ring. It is said that the shooting was acci<rnr1 llflnnrMlPfl while Walcott was fooling with a revolver. Japs Fall Back. The Japanese were compelled to fall back along the entire '!ue on the Shakhe River, according to a dispatch from Mukden, the determined attacks of the Russians finally breaking the centre of their opponents, the losses on botli sides being extremely heavy. A. C. Twining Gets Six Years. Albert C. Twining, former director of the First National Bank, of Aslury Tark. X. J., was sentenced to siy years' imprisonment. World's Fair Jottings. Ohio and German days were celebrated. One hundred and fifty jinrikishas are in use to carry visitors over the grounds. Colonel J: A. Shaler, of Panama, has been nppo-lnted official delegate of the Republic of Panama. There are 103 varieties of apples shown in the Indiana exhibit in the Palace of Horticulture. Two exhibitions are given daily on the rifle range of the Forestry. Fish ami Game Denartment. H r^H Pretty Girl Suffered From KervoutnesJ and Pelvic Catarrh?Found Quick fij Belief in a Few Days. I ^ > fl i iH?IIE^^**<!?^SIP*IBII1^HBI^?^SHBBS^B^H ^ ' * flS NERVOUSKEsfAM WEAKNESS CURED] BY PE-RU-NA. I Kiss Sadie Robinson, 4 Rand street, IbB den, Mass., writes: IB "Peruna was recommended to me abotH year ago as an excellent remedy for t^H troubles peculiar to our sex, and as I founjH that all that was said of this medicine true, I am pleased to endorse it. H "I began to use it about ?eve^| months ago /or ireqlenesa and tter^H ousness, caused, from overwork ??? sleeplessnend, and found that {? few days I began to grow strong', tnJB ' appetite increased and I began JHj 1 sleep better, consequently my Herra I ousness passed away and the tceat^B ness in the pelvle organs *oon dimB appeared and 1 have been well atmm strong ever since." IfR Address Dr. S. B. Hartraan. Pmidenf^E The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, <^E for free medical advice. All corresponds ence strictly confidential. wheh vou fisit new tott 9 Do not fall to co jn "touring newyork.? H mtit n ^ r: ' Cheapest and most LnexoemlT# means of iMb^B ! irervthiwrfobe^een. Electrtc'.niomoMlfs j Dept. B- 941 Fifth Avenne, New York. ^w^tswiSflu LiFrfiui1 ryiK 151 Beat Coach Syrup. Tastes Good, uao QH STENOGRAPHY* art. TYPKMSITLnBH O Complete courses given-by uorrMpoiulenoik Si 8. HLXK, U>H?rtinent A, Box-496. Hartford. Co^^B gag^2Thmi?M'?E|???? Slay Hirt Pierced Coin*. . The.difficulty of distinguishing tfli current German nickel pieces from ver coins of the same size has IndueMH the Chamber of Commerce, of Glqdba^H to address a petition to the Gove^H ment asking that nickel coins shall.^f provided with a bole in the centre. fl| New Luxury of the Bltb. j^Kjj A new luxury is added to the b^B by the improved rubber spoirge, wh^H is very thin and provided with an elH| tic band to slip over the hand, tlfl enabling one to wield the sponge w^H the open palm. flH A New Mnemonic. gmB A Vienna society lias been formed^H aid persons with short memories. card is issued, upon which the purch^H er writes the date of an engagem^BB and posts to the society's office. HH 1 the first post on the cay or nis mm gagement the card is received by H| purchaser. State of Ohio, City or Toledo, f ^Bg Lucas County. J ' Frank J. Cheney make oath that h^^H | senior partner of the Arm of F. J. CnExd^H ; Co., doing business In the City of TohHRS County and state aforesaid, and that firm will puy the sum of one hundred ' labs for each and every case of cata^HS j that cannot be cured by the use of Ha^Hh Catabbh Cube. Fbank. J. Chene^^M Sworn to before me and subscribed ln^BH ,?>?, presence, this 6th day of Pec^BH < seal, } ber, A. D., 188ff. A.W. GleasoioH ' ?r?1 Notary Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,HH acts I'Lreotly on the blood and mucous faces of the system. Send for testimonSH free. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, ^EU Sold by all Druggists, 76c. SaK Take Hall's Family Fills for constipatBBB Kaiacr Adopts British Motto. The German Emperor has ord^HS from a Berlin firm a quantity of HU rate notepapcr stamped with the Hn perial eagle surrounded by the rit^ES of the Order of the Garter (of w^H| he is a Knight), with Its. motto, soit qui mal y pense." * Rl An Hoar Too l.atc. 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