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ww*BIG GAS TANKS EXPLODE Charging Station of Pyle National Headlight Company Destroyed. CHICAGO BLOCK IN FLAMES % Four Dead Ksdie# Were Removed While Fire Still Burned?Many Were Injured ? Twentj-two Tanks In AU Wore Exploded ? Fire Caused by Torch In Band or Laborer. Chicago, HI.?Twenty-two acetylene gas tanks exploded tbc other morning in the charging station of the Tyle National Headlight Company, in Soulfe Chicago, where forty odd men were at work. Four bodies have been taken from the ruins of the station; two were moriauy uun uuu mcuy others suffered injuries. Tbe force of the explosion wrecked the entire building, covering a city block, carried debris a mile and a half, reduced to particles most of tbe windows in bouses within half a mile and threw the walls of hundreds of houses out of plumb. The trembling of the pound from the explosions and the deafening roar resulting so frightened people that within a few moments every house within a radius of half a mile was deserted. The streets were crowded by persons fleeing, their arms heaped with their valuables. Storekeepers left their shops wide open, and the scene was one as though a volcano was in eruption. That the frightened ones bad good reason to fear is shown by th? fact that all of the buildings with. in a block of the charging station were so badly damaged as to be unhabitable. Tbe Pyle Company was a tenant of tbe People's Gas Light Compauy, the many huge gas tanks of which were nearby. The police completely sur.roujded the property occupied by tho gas company, but kept at a distance -lent assured safetv. The firemen for a time were forced to throw water on t^c lire from a block's distance, momentarily expecting to be hurled to the ecrth by the explosion of the big tanks. The flames were sliootiug hundreds of feet into the air, accompanied by clouds of black smojic from the burning gas. Great masses of bricks and iron from the burning tanks were thrown into the air by explosions. To prevent the explosion of the gas In the mammoth tanks the gas company officials ordered the waste pipes ?;>ene<L These pipes run outside of tlio plant, and in a short time the big tanks were discharging gas into the air. This was a dangerous undertaking, but it was chanced, and proving successful, prevented a larger destruclion of property. Across South Chicago avenue, directly opposite the gas storage buildings, was a large coal shed filled with coal. The huge coal pile was ignited, and in a few moments the blaze there was beyond control. The twenty-two tank3 were each charged with 2250 pounds to the cubic inch of acetylene gas. They are the tanks that are connected to railroad coaches for lighting, and each gives | lijjht to a car for six months without recharging. Eleven tanks exploded inquick succession, and were soon followed by the blasts of the remaining eleven. At the first explosion all of . the men employed in the charging sta-' tion started, to escape. Some of them got outside with slight injuries; others were caught on the verge of safety and were seriously hurt, while those in the rear must have met death instantly. The dead were buried under tons of l>urDing timber and hot brick and iron, making it impossible to remove their bodies for hours. Firemen poured water on that part of the building in which the dead were thought to tye buried until the flames were Mbdued sufficiently to permit of the four bodies being removed. It is eflicially reported that the aceidcnt was due to an employe entering the charging room with a torch ard meeting gas coming from a leak in one of the tanks. Those whose bodies have been recovered were Ralph Wells, superintendent; George Muehl, engineer; Amos Watkins, assistant superintendent, and John Jennings, laborer. Those who will die of their hurts are W. M. Maloney and Alfred Cox. rUT ON* CRANK SHAFT AT SEA. Mcansmp jersey uity spent a week Doing It. New York City.?The steamship Jersey City, in from Swansea, after a passage of twenty-five days, reports that when nine days out she broke her crank shaft. She was a week refitting with a spare shaft, theu resuming her voyage. She had no passengers. Shortage of Iron Ore. Though it is generally conceded that the current output of iron ore is not sufficient to enable all the merchant blast furnaces to operate continuously up to the opening of navigation next yrar, it is now considered doubtful whether the operation of all these furnaces will prove necessary, as the principal furnaces are uot anxious to see the aggregate production grow larger than the demand. ? Troops Protect Embassy. Troops protected the Austrian K:nfmssy at Rome against a mob enraged by the Innsbruck affair. Sandbagged by Robber. John G. Styau was sandbagged and robbed in-West Eighty-ninth street, New York City, and his jaw was broken, but he was laughed at by a policeman and admonished to "run along home." jenerai Jtiuertas j^esigns. General Huertas, the Panama commander in chief and leader of the insurgent movement, resigned his ofti-of. This practically puts an end to trouble on the isthmus. Education Brevities. Enrollment at the New York University Graduate School has leached 233. Herman Robbe. 1906, has been elected editor of the Columbia University Monthly in place of \V. F. J. Piel, resigned. A recent addition to the Rochester University library collection is a cirrulating musical library of about 500 folumes. The Harverford library lectures for ^be year 1904-1903 will be delivered by Justice David J. Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court. Wkh' te SOUND STEAMER BURNSjJ Central Vermont Line Freight Boat ! Destroyed by Fire. j V The Mohawk Caught Fire at Nicht When ' Off Cornfield?One of Her Crew Lost? j r Remainder Rescued by the Boston. Fall River. Mass.?The Fall River Line freight steamer Boston arrived at her pier in this city about 9 a. m., three hours late, having stopped to rescue the crew o? the Central Vermont j Railroad freighter Mohawk, which the j Boston overtook, on fire, in Long Island 1 Sound in the night. The Boston j 11 brought twenty-seven persons from the j a Mohawk, including twenty-five of the j ei crew and two women, wives of officers j oi of the Mohawk. Andrew Larsen, the night watchman of the steamer, a . Swede, was lost. As he was the per- j cnn tt-hn chnnM hare discovered the h' fire, and as no report from him was j ir received by the officers of the ship, it is supposed that he was overcome by ! e: the flames and burned to death. The x members of the crew remained in Fall ; e: River only a short time, taking a train I tl for Providence. The captain of the ! Boston gives the following account of i y the disaster: j a The Boston came up with the Mo- i u hawk at 12.45 o'clock in the morning, I about a mile east of Cornfield. The n Mohawk was then about an hour's run b from New London, her usual terminus tt oa the eastward trip. The Mohawk i h was stopped and was burning furious- ! tl ly forward. She signalled the Boston, j n which ran up as close as possible and : a stood by to give assistance. A boat i si containing two women and some mem- j E bers of the crew put out from the Mo- ; ci hawk almost immediately after the < Boston's arrival, and the two women si were placed safe on board the Fall Riv- a er line boat. The boat crew which had jj come to the Boston put back at once, i a An hour later, driven by the spreading j hi of the flames, the Mohawk's crew i ol abandoned the burning vessel and | ir reached the Boston in two boats. As | they drew away it was seen that the.; tl Mohawk was ablaze from ead to end, j 01 and shortly after they had reached the j o, Boston a heavy explosion occurred on t b the Mohawk, which lifted the deck. ! ai The smokestacks flew upward, fol- j E lowed by a burst of flame and dense e.* columns of black smoke. Then the Ji flames leaped up to a great height and | tl continued burning fiercely. It was ap- : K parent that no further purpose wt>uld | ai be served if the Boston remained by. | ir and she resumed her course for Fall | d< River. ' | T The Mohawk's men said that the fire , T was discovered by those in the pilot j house shortly after midnight. It was ; pretty well forward, and the crew were tt at once sent to their stations to fight 1 the flames. The great heat, however, ! prevented them from getting close to j the blaze, which spread and steadily ; Yi drove back those who opposed it until | the entire vessel was doomed." As the ! night watchman was the person who [ . should have discovered the fire, and as no report from him was received by d) the officers of the ship, it is believed that he attempted to quench the flame9 tQ and was overcome and burned to death. ^ The Mohawk's cargo, it was said here, was one of the heaviest in [n months. It included nearly 1000 bar- m rels of sugar, a large quantity of baled jg rags, besides oil and gasolene. Those at who were on board of her were unable i to estimate her value or to approxi- ! a| mate the value of her cargo. j ^{ j p, FATAL COLLISION ON THE ERIE. ; of ! a ' Ik Milk Train Crashes Into Caboose, Set- j g ting It on Fire?Conductor Dead. j w Tort Jervis, N. Y.?A fatal collision ; J?,1 on the Erie Railroad occurred at 7 j o'clock at night at Buckley's Yard, two i miles west of here, in which Conduc* j ~r tor JoseDli Warren was "burned to i ,e death, in his caboose. The two train- . men, William Whalen and> B. W. . Adams, were sent to the Port Jervis Hospital badly bruised. Whalen'a right arm and a rib were broken and his elbow dislocated and one of j Adams' ribs was fractured aad his right leg injured. ? | p KILLED IN MINE BLOW-UP. \ . ; al Morrisey, B. C.t Scene of the Disaster, i B Caused by Coal Gas Explosion. ca ci Fernie, B. C.?Fourteen miners were w killed in the Carbonado mines in Mor- re risey as the result of an explosion of [ ai coal gas. The disaster occurred in No. i 1 mine, ten miles west of Fernie. All j bodies have been recovered. ! ie ! fii Mexican Rubber Crop Good. j w The Mexican Journal of Commerce says that the gathering of rubber has I* been very good in many parts of the B State of Vera Cruz this year. In the N canton of Acayucan, from the plantations of San Vicente Escamada, of Las 1' Palmas, of El Rosario, of Pedrosa and tll vi x\uuiu iov quuuuis vaiueu au | 000 have beeu exported to New York i direct Clergyman Sent to Jail. j x A Baptist minister, of North Brook- ! field, Mass., was sent to jail for con- j tempt o? court; being unable 1:0 pay | fi bis due- | m Prince Fushirai Brings Gifts. ? m Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Hay re ceived priceless silks and other cii'is , R from Prince Fusiiimi on behalf of the ! si Mikado. | ni ?_______ Irrigation Congress Opens. The National Irrigation Congress be- j gan its session at El Paso, Texas, with > pj a letter of greetiug from President C; Roosevelt iu cc Russians Repulse Enemy. st Geueral Sakharoff reported that a ! Japanese attack on the position in j front of Lone Tree Hill was repulsed, j Queen Wilueimina Home Again. 1 tt Queen Wllholmina, a special cable j 111 S'.Mhvs ll.'is rotnrneri tn TTnllanfl i 1)1 New.<y Gleanings. Paying: visits by airship is the latest fashionable novelty .in Paris. Both at Bonn and at Breslau new * colleges for girls have been opened. Hoy & Martin, a law firm composed of two young women, was formed in New York City. yi The French Postal Department has hi decided to replace its mail coaches by electric motor cars. Qj From opium poisoning, presumably rt done with suicidal intent, Ferdinand Harff, a manufacturer, of Cincinnati, ^ dted at New York * ^ APANESE HELD BY FIRE I i /ere Repulsed by the Czar's Troops > in Manchuria. i i IVE HUNDRED LOST IN ATTACK i j fhole Country Between the Annie* is a Waste, Not a Single Owellinc Being: Left St-anding?Both .Si.le* Occupy | Strongly Fortified Position*, ami B;jth ' Have Loit Heavily. Zandagawr Manchuria (by Courier ; > Mnkden).?The Japanese lost r?on len in the attacks of November 17 ncl 18. and "were evidenti.v distieart ned. On November 10 th\v sent J nt several battalions from Double j [umped Hill, but their movements j icked decision. The Russians opened re from PoutiiofE Hill and a neighbor- j ig eminence. Several sliells burst i the midst of the advancing Japan>e columns and auickly checked them. ! heMapanese also tried a turning op ration at Chanlindza. but there also i ley were dispersed. There was a slight encounter No- j ember 20. Russian scouts penetrated j short distance into the Japanese I nes, but without much result. During the last two days the Chi- I ese have been moving iu large nuni- I ers from the east to the northward, i iking their wives, children and house- j old goods in order to save them from j le Japanese. They say that the j hole country between the Russian j nd Japanese lines is a waste, not a ! ingle dwelling being left standing. j larth dwellings shelter the soldiers j jnifortably. Mukden.?Both armies occupied stich i irongly fortified positions that neither j >pear inclined to attack, though the ; apanese probably have the more | vailable troops. Their superior mo- | ility was lately shown by the activity ' * their centre. Both armies were be- j ig reinforced about equally. On account of repeated reports that i le Japanese intended to give battle j i November 19 the attack on Poutil Ef Hill ou tbe night of the 18th was j elieved to be the signal for .1 general j ivance, and consequently the entire :ussiau army began hostilities - both 1st and west of Poutiloff Hill. The j apanese arrived within fifty yards of i le Russian trenches, but there the ussian fire was too deadly for them 1 od they had to fall back., Next morn- J ig disclosed about eighty Japanese 1 ead, which the Russians buried later. j he Japanese carried off 200 wounded. ; he Russians lost half a dgzen men in j le trenches. The Russians continue daily to shell j le Japanese position at Linsheapu. THIEF CAUGHT BY AUTO. rounds a Cashier in Platte Center, j Neb., and Rides Away. Platte Center. Neb.?William Hoi- I en, a farmhand, during tho noon jur entered the Platte Valley Bant, ?manded the bank's cash, and on. the >fusal of Cashier Barney Schroeder ' surrender it shot the latter in the reast, inflicting a Serious but not ortal wound. He made his escape . a buggy without securing any oney. Holden -wiw-captured by Sher! Carrig. after the robber had fired ; his pursuers. The Sheriff took up the pursuit in r.n itomobile. tho posse accompanying . m on horseback. Holden was essed hard about nine miles west | r this city and overhauled. Fie took ! close range shot at Charles C. Kngle- | )rn. whose horse shied and threw i nglehorn into a barbed wire fence, here he received severe injuries. The isoner was brought back to Piatte enter and Sheriff Carrig had heard ork to save him from mob violence, e was positively identified by Schroe;r, even though he had changed his | othing and removed a glass eye that ] ? was wearing when he did the shoot- ; * Holden says his home is in Michi- j in. He is about thirty-five years old. 1 FIGHT OX EMPIRE STATE. assengers Frightened by a Row Between Four New Yorkers. Albany, N. Y.?Four men who got j ioard the Empire State Express at j uffalo got into a row in the smoking ! ir shortly after the train left Syra- | lse the other afternoon. A pistol ; as drawn, a shot was fired, and a j sign of terror existed for some time . nong the passengers. Two of the men. who' described tem3elves as William and J. B. Rid- j y. of New York City, brothers, were : aally bundled into the baggage car. i here two of the train hands sat | ?on them until the train reached this ; ty. The other two. who said they | ere Frank Eisman. an electrician of ; rooklyn, and Thomas A. Gardner, of ! ew York City, were held down by issengers. Detectives took the four men from i le train and 'locked them up ou the , uirge 01 vagrancy. RAILROAD MfiN SHOT. , 1 birty Shots Fired Over tbe Mius Barricade at Zeigler. III. Duquoiu, III.?Thorty shots were j *ed from ambush about noon over the j ine barricade in Zeigler. Nothing irther than this can be learned, the en there refusing to give details. It is believed by the Illinois Central , aiiroad employes who were doing vitching there at the time that a ; amber were wounded. Grand Duke Hag Escape. According to a special cable dis- j itch from Naples, the Grand Duke i rril bad a narrow escape while jour- | ?ying by rail to that city, a rock be- | >ming detached from a mountain and liking the side of his car. Threaten Milk Adulterers. Judges of the Court of Special Ses- j *ns. in New York City, announced ! lat any one convicted twice of ad- ; Iterating milk would be sent to ! risen. Personal Mention. Promier Bait'our's private iucome is J.19,000 a year. The Rev. William liar, the oldest I lethodist prpacher in Kentucky, died I feently. Ewald Hering, of the German Uni-, srsity at Prague, has just cele* rated his seventieth birthday. Mrs. Russell, widow of Henry Gnn- , all Russell, of Providence, R. I., is the j chest woman in New England. rlhe Right Hon. Sir Fraucis Leveson ! ei'i -? will Ku<N"?-Mt Sir Edward Mou- | )n Eugiish Ambassador to Fraud'. 4 LIFE PRISONER ESCAPE Recaptured After Hiding1 Beneatli Wharf Near Sing Sing. Charles W. Johnson, Murderer of Brooklyn, H. V. Miser, Abbott. At tempts Uacape From His Guards Now York City.?Nearly starved a frozen to death, Charles W. Johnsthe life prisoner, who killed ':01d Ma Abbott last summer, and escaj; from the State Prison at Sing Sing, Y.. was captured while clinging tc plank, his body half submerged in 1 water under a pier near the prls while kepeers and detectives w scouring the country between Si Sing and Brooklyn. His sufferings were terriblo. a when he was capturcd by strategy was so weak from exposure that could not stand and had to be carr to the prison hospital. There the doctor said the man's c< dition would nropably make the 1 term very short and carry him off w pneumonia. ' Johnson was in such a terrible sfc tbat he could not answer any questic as to how he escaped, and even the plies that he made were in keepi with the general report that he is sane. "He is the shrewdest insane mai ever saw," said the warden, "and the song says, he is a wise old guy. Johnson was caught late at nig Warden Johnson knew that as an convict he would be familiar with pi on signals. Warden Johnson, coi dent of the watchfulness of the guar was satisfied that when Johnson c appeared he found a hiding ph somewhere near. A close seal failed to disclose the hiding place. The outsidp guards had failed to f and those in the inside and towers t not seen Johnson clear the prison w Warden John3on gave instructions the prison engineer to give the sign to call off the guards on the outsi believing that Johnson would und stand them and make a breali for I erty. The engineer sounded the wi tie, but the guards kept their pos Not so with Johnson. Principal Keeper Connaungton v wuicumy juai uuisiul- iuc suuiu n and about fifteen minutes after calling in signal had been given white body was seen climbing from river to the pier near the end. The figure of a man wa3 clearly o lined fn the electric light, and wl he reached the freight platforms fell forward on his face. Connaugh and the guards fell on him, but it v needless. The man was Johnson. He v nearly frozen. He could not speak move. He was nearly nude. Ui the top of his head was strapped bundle containing his prison clotl aud some underwear. Johnson v carried to the prison. An examination of the hiding pli of Johnson under the pier shov that the only way he could keep < of sight was to keep his body nen submerged. With the temperati about at the freezing point, it is cons ered marvellous that the man k alive for two days. Warden Johnson said that Johns liad escaped from Elmira and L been shot~in"the leg by a keeper. TUP. PHTftf TV EUFAULA. Mayor Calls Out the Militia to Prot Goods Moved Into the Street. Mobile, Ala.?Fire at Eufaula, A at an early hour destroyed a fine bl< of buildings, and the loss is estima at $500,000. The Fire Departm worked untii nearly noon to extingu the blaze. On account of the valuable go< moved into the street the Mayor dered out the militia. The Eufa Rifles responded promptly, but were a disadvantage, as their armory and their guns and equipment were stroyed. The loss is partly covered. DROWTH TIES UP PITTSBUI Stagnaut Water Froths When Heat Making Engines Helpless. Pittsburg. Pa.?Therailroads in Pil burg announced that they were una to move more than one-half th freight. The long drouth is said have been the cause, as the engine were unable to get fresh water their locomotives. The stagnant wa rretus wnen neatea m toe Doners ;i engines are quickly made helpless. Draga's Jewels to Be Sold. The jewels and costumes of the 1 Queen Draga of Servia will be s at auction in London. Eng.. on ] crmber 8, and the sale promises to cite great interest. Senator Piatt Gives Breakfast. Senator Piatt gave his "buckwli breakfast" in Owego, N. Y.. to n brate the election of President Iloo velt. Steamer Goes Ashore. The ocean steamer Sicilian Prii losing her bearings in the fog v aground off Long Beach, L. I., with ( souls aboard. General di Cesnola Dead. General Louis P. di Cesnola. dir tor ot" the Metropolitan Museum Art in New York City, died. Charges Against Japan. General Balashoff, head of the I) Cross at Port Arthur, charged th" anese with violation of the Ceiif Convention. Chinese Bandits Rising. It was reported at Harbin that 'U Chinese bandits under Japanese le: ers were moving to cut the railway 1 low Tie Pass. American Cruisers at Rio. The American cruisers Brooklyn n Atlanta arrived at Rio Janeiro, Bra: From the Seat of War. A peace offer made by Japan rcsi ed in failure. Russia's inquiry into the North S affair began at Vigo. Spain. An effective wedge has been driv into the northern defences of Port j thur. Refugees arriving at Cho Foo fn Port Arthur tell horribie tales of a ditions in the town. A rev.ised list of the Russian los; in the battle of Sbakhe River pln< the total casualties a33.2!i0. - :s KILLED TEHEiENT LIRE UNO L 1 Holocaust in Brooklyn, N. Y., Wipes ^?Ier ... dent si Out Two Families.. 110th Roman tu? ton. * SUFFOCATION CAUSE OF DEATH renvoi | Panam j terstati Closed Window# Make the Air Unbear* The uu . nouace on able and Flames and Smoke Clioke na{jonj tn?? Their Victim*?Many Reach Safety by Federa )(?d "le *",re E?cape??Delay in Sending la is Stat xt the Fire Alarm. Mite fd States a New York City.?Smothered before friar la the they could reach the rear fire escape on, I in the frame tenement house at 1SG Ot ere j Trautman street, in the Williamsburg Few nS district of Brooklyn, a dozen persons been 1 n(J inet death shortly before 2 o'clock in lle the morning. According to Coroner he I Flaherty and tfie ambulance surgeons, ied all the victims were suffocated, but ; Secrc the bodies were badly burned' before leans, they were taken from the ruins by the Tbe ith j firemen. rMs I The wininc out of two families was ? ; ate ; complete with the exception of one J >Ds | member in each. ,, re* The house at 186 Trautman street is ejl9, 'PS in the centre of a row of three-story in* frame tenement houses, and for many Sandu: blocks in every direction these wooden cl 1 I Louses stretch on either side of the va- Thre );as rious streets. Only two of the houses, less mi f the one in which the fire broke out, him of bt j and 184, next door, are occupied by The ex" Italians, the rest of the neighborhood nouuce p'ia* being peopled by Germans. No. 180 improv afi" contains the only store on the block, a much i d*8. grocery kept by A. C. Minaldi. All the ^ Us- persons killed and injured lived on the lce third floor above. The family of Min- g. p, :cb nidi and the persons living on the second floor got out in safety. J' ind There are two theories as to the ori- e "id giu of the fire. One is that it started Louisv all. in the cellar of the grocery, where a jewels 1 to tot of inflammable material was stored, Gove ak including kerosene oil. The other is his ho dev that it began in a woodshed in the bridge er? rear of the grocery. report! lib- Once under way, the fire spread like Polic lis- lightning* through the house until it had a sts. entirely cut off the families on the two St. Be floors above the store, except by the house, ra& rear fire escape, the only one on the killing all, building. Minaldi, who lived back of the the store with his family, got them out jloa ^ o after the smoke had awakened him, \yheei the and those on the floor above climbed gcij00[ down the fire escape. ~ >ut- it was on the floor above that death ?rer ien reaped its harvest. All the bodies he were found in the rear room. It was "te ,W1 ton evident that a concerted rush had been " onmen pas made for the fire escape, as me uoors below were a seething mass of flames, Pres fas and flight In that direction was impos- tend t or slble. The windows of the room were at For )on tightly closed, however, all having per- Thre I a [shed even before one could be,opened, ing to ties Precious moments were wasted in 0f stril ?as turning in the first alarm. There is andria a bos in Central avenue, near Traut- Elev ace man street, a short block from the ten- baye j red ment, but tho first alarm came in from j*rancj aut the box at Hamburg avenue and Starr tracjj0 rly street, three blocks- away. Engine 18, . are whose house is a block away, was the ftScier iid- first to respond, but it went a block Geogrt ept in the opposite direction before the er- new 01 ror was discovered. A second and a The son third alarm were turned in, and the were i lad vicinity soon was choked with appar- adelpli at'is. in the In all, the police say, there were An a about thirty-five person-? living in the suppli< building, and as the ruins have been Southe carefully searched, all but t^e four- Blind cct te^n accounted for evidently escaped. Prof, The police made little progress in their versit1' investigation of tbe fire. Policeman la-> Low, the first to reach the blaze, got 7 ? >ck hold of Minaldi. the grocer. The gro- ( ted ;er refused to say anything other than Coloi that he was awakened by smoke and ville, I isb had managed to drag out his wife and Courie family. from J )ds it was said by neighbors that the Dr. ( or- families killed were clothing finishers, rated ula The houses at 184 and 186 Trautman Clncin at street are owned by Mrs. Ossmann. of > Lizzi all ! 18 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn. The fifteen de- police estimated the total damage to many fiery thins at $10,000. system she wc tQ. MURDERED BY TRAMPS. . Four _ caping ed, [ Three Forced to Jump From Moving C^0l?l Freight After Robbery. missio: :t3- Elk River, Minn.-Heino Ludeen, of resign; ble Moorliead. was murdered on a Northelr orn Pacific freight train, about two to | miles west of this place, and H. H. An ; era | Kenuer. of Elberon, Iowa: A. M. Free- United for | man. Rudolph Bjorquist and another signed ter | companion from Moorhead, were com- a Ui ad j pelled to jump from the moving train, power The men' were beating their way to an(j j Minneapolis. They got on a freight : train at Staples, as did also two other the r( ate men, all paying the train crew some- provin 0ld 1 thing for the privilege of riding. As add q6. ! they neared. this place the two strail- ? .. ex.J A'ers waked the others up and robbed t | them, intimidating them with a revol- Brazil i ver. Ludeen refused to give up his ! money and was shot through the p?Pe i head. The other four men did as they ||on ^ ?at I were bidden and leaped from the train, oicycli >ie- j They escaped without serious injury, ! The sa- j and at once came to Elk River and re* od by ported the murder to Sheriff Ward, Czar a j who telegraphed to Auako to have the a m train searched. The body of the mur- tion a j dered man was found in the coach, but persod ice | the murderers had escaped. A p, U2 1 fraSe Reformed Burglar Gives Up. i Finlan w ! TCipl unaries ;u;t.^uu, xmuAamcu, I (lered into a police station at Hacken- tire in ec. | sack, N. J., and proclaimed himself a ! was f 0j. j reformed burglar. On liim was found naval ' the loot of a robbery at a club in Rich- battles | mond Hill. L. I. Deuts< In a Chile Supporting Colombia. notinc! ;?d i Chile is said to be warmly .support" tljc ip. j Colombia's plan.for a canal across i'.:? 1 ti0nva Isthmus of Darien. Sign spatch Cripnte Creek Miners Freed. ue*e ^ j Cases against forty-three of the n "7 I miners indicted in connection with the Pu,p. ,l(1* I Cripple Creek riots were dismissed. "a"l>e*! Alfrt Crusade in Brooklyn. states i Fifty Brooklyn (X. Y.> churchcs he- ^wajai il(j jran a crusade to reclaim the fatuous atupla y\\ \ ' Bedford gang" and its offshoots. Amen The The Field of Sports. :i Thirty riders took part iu a fo-i hunt Tvith I lIt_ j on Long Island. . and a Mrs. Robert Sbaw carried off the from . ! honors in the fos chase of the Meadow swept Brook hunt. Tller The automobile school of the West Freud en Side Y. M. C. A.. New York City, was lr* opened with 13G students. Reichs Cornell easily defeated Pennsyl- that tl Dni ranla in the annual cross country run tariff oa* between these two universities. tries. W. E. Schutt, D. R. Porter and T. M. a b< *es Young. American athletes, won ovenf9 Fernm :es at the Oxford freshman jjames. ,0i:i ( n ?^. ^ 8fflOTTHEEI[, WASHINGTON. J 10,000 persons heard the Pre3i- c peak at the celebration of the . anniversary of St. - Patrick's Catholic Church in Washing- * President offered Senator Coqk- ' Missouri, a place on either the . I a Canal Commission or the In- c e Commerce Commission. h Secretary of the Treasury an- a d that he would require those <3 lI banks which have on deposit I 1 moneys the security for which j e or municipal bonds to substi- e ir those bonds either United f bonds, Philippine certificates or :nd bonds. j a c IR ADOPTED ISLANDS, disturbances of any sort have eported from the Phillipines. <. is believed that the re^nt re- k is now well under DOMESTIC. >tary Taft sailed from New Or- f La., for Panama. ' $ Sicilian Prince, with 541 immia board, went aground on Long t LI1 S. Thompson, twice Governor 'til Carolina, died after a long ^ lie coal steamer was burned off I1 sky, Ohio, the crew escaping othed. e highwaymen held up an arm- a xn in New York City and robbed b $350. f New Haven road, it was an- a d, is hastening the work on it3 t ements to cost $20,000,000 as c as possible. z in supposed to be insane was arfor disturbing the services iu x trick's Cathedral, New Y ork e mploye of a transfer agency in r ille, Ky.. confessed to stealing ^ worth $20,800 from Mrs. Holley. a rnor-elect Higgina returned to t me in Olean, N. Y., from Cam- s Springs, Pa. His health was t ;d to have been recovered. t eman Larkin, of Now York City, c desperate battle with a largo t rnard dog in the dark under a a and was severely bitten before j the animal. \ Sara Tracey left nearly a milollars to Bishop Donahue, of ing, W. Va.. for an industrial and two orphan asylums, iff Erlanger, of New York, will I a thousand lawyers to co-oper- 8 th him in framing a bill for the g lture to do away with irnpris- ^ t for debt in Ludlow street jail ' ident Roosevelt expect3 to athe reunion of the Rough Riderd t Worth, Tex., next spring, e non-union glass workers, goElwood, Ind.. to take the places kers. were badly beaten at Alex, Ind. en Japanese and six Chinese been denied a landing at San sco, Cal., because afflicted with ma. ttific members of the American iphical Society are foriniug a ganization. . crew of the brig C. C. Sweaney rescued and brought into Philia. Pa., after having been lashed rigging for twenty-four hours, idvance in the price of building ;s has been agreed upon by the rn Yellow Pine Sash. Door, & Manunrcturers Association. essor Chittenden, of Yale Uni- ^ , published the results of dietperiments conducted by him up- : ?xtensive scale. ael Henry Watterson, of Louis- ? iy.. and editor of the Louisville 1 r Journal, and his family sailed srew York City, for Europe. Charles W. Dabney was inaugu- t president of the University of a uati. f e Jacobson, of New York City, t years old, was arrested on complaints that she has been a laticalty robbing houses where ^ >uld hire out as a nurse. ' ^ men were asphyxiated by es- j gas in gas works at Dover, N. J. g el Frank J. Hecker resigned as f iber of the Panama Canal Cora- f n. The President accepted lii? ition, a FOREIGN. r arbitration treaty between the L States and Germany was ? utional elective body, having * to make laws, control revenue t >termine the legality of the Ad- i ration's actions is asked for by \ ?presentatives of the Russian r cial councils. DOMESTIC. spatch from Rio de Janeiro s;iid aim had been restored through ^ Pius X., in receiving a delegaom Lucca, expressed iutert'st iu tv ng. . zemstovs" representatives adopt- 0 88 to 10 the memorial to tlis v isking for reforms. ob at Rome mide a demonstra- 1 srainst Austrians and was dis- f by troops. i oposal to establish woman suf will be submitted to the Diet ol { d. c Germany, was in holiday at c houor of Emperor William, whc iresent at the swearing in ol recruits and the launching of a ;hip which was christened 0 ;hland. 0 special Genera dispatch the an- ^ ?ment was made of the signing Q Anglo-Swiss treaty of arbitra- d a or Spelterene. a special cabie de- t stated, sailed across the Ber- t i!p.s in a balloon in intense cold. ; Carlos and Queen Amelia were f of the city of London at Guild- ^ Hi l'C. Moe. consul of the United j it Dublin, and Albert \V. j. i. United States consul at Soulh- t ii. sailed for Europe on I he . can Line steamer New York. Labrador mail boat reported ? ie winter was severe in that re- j Ihe land is already covered . Tom three to .six feet of snow n ice-pack was driving sou lb Baffin Bay. A fierce storm the Newfoundland coast. 0 were rumors in Paris that the 1 Cabinet would be reorganised, (he opening of the Austrian rath the Premier announced le country must adopt a customs ia order to protect home indus>mb was exploded in the C'.aile ado. Barcelona, injuring six p?i* me ot them.fatally. V"1 A Doc With "Con^tetloiu.'* ? At the disruption of 1848 the bulk of he shepherds joined the Free Kirk. Jut one colle held by the Establishaent principle and refused to "com* iut" Every Sabbath he went alone o the Established Church, where ho tad been wont to accompany his maser. His master refused to coerce him. 'Na, na," he said; "he's a wise dowg: 'U no meddle wi* bis convictions." Tho ollie's adherence to the Establishment ad, however, a disastrous end. He wa?iccustomed to lie oncthe pulpit stair luring the sermon, no "doubt better to tear the discourse. Below him wero ilaced the long stovepipe hats of tho lders. On one unfortunate day he ell asleep, rolled off hi3 step and manged to get his head firmly fixed Inside ne of the hats. Bitterly mortified, he dog fled from the kirk, and evef fterward, as his master said, "had lae troklngs wi' religion."?London Spectator. The Valtto of To-day. "I bejieve," said Senator Hoar, that iMM^better than yesterday, and MHpw will be better than to[ay." Contenment and hope! With these wo, and no more, we can (solve the lddle of life. "To-day Is better than yesterday!" Relieve it, and remorse flees; regret It tot; and memory becomes what it legtlmately should be?a joy. Yesterday Is what we made of it? nd there is no yesterday which should e perfectin the light of to-day. Whereore, be thankful that there Is a to-day, nd that with it comes the opportunity o build better, nobler and stronger up>n the mistakes of yesterday.?Maga;ine of Mysteries. Finest Crown Jew?li ia the World. The late King of Saxony left the ricfr+% sst collection of crown jewels in ope. One glass case in the "green ^ raults" at Dresden contains assorted i eta of the most costly gems. In one Is lothing bat sapphires, in another emerilds, In another rubies, In another dU* nonds, in another pearls. The largen# ubies weigh forty-eight and fifty-nine :arats. The rarest gem is a green din-, Qond, weighing forty carats. There ire two of Martin Luther's rings and ?ne of Meianthou's. "WHACKS" And What They Moan. When Old Mother Nature gives yon i "whack" remember "there's a reaon" so try and say "thank yon" then iet about finding what you have done o demand the rebuke, and,try and get >ack into line, fot> that's the happy dace after all. f!iirlnnn hnw m.mv Iiicrhlv orcanlzed eople fail to appreciate'and heed the Irst little, gentle "whacks" of the good Id Dame, but go right along with the labit whatever it may be, that causes ier disapproval. Whiskey, Tobacco, Coffee, Tei or other unnatural treatnent of the body, uutii serious illnew* lets in or some chronic disease. Some people seem to get on very veil with those things for awhile, and Mother Nature apparently cares but ittle what they do. Perhaps she has no particular plaoa or them and ttflnks it little use to vaste time in their training. There are people, however, who seero, o be selected by Nature to "do things." Dhe Old Mother expects them to carry >ut some department of her great tfork. A portion of these selected ones ift and again* seek to stimulate and hen deaden the tool (the body) by lorae one or more of the drugs?Whiskey, Tobacco, Coffee, Tea, Morphine, StC. You know all of these throw down he same class of alkaloids In Chemical malysls. They stimulate and then de-? >ress. They taice rrom man or woman lie power to do his or her best work. After these people have drugged for t time, they get a hiut, or mild "whack'* o remind them, that they have work to lo, a mission' to ^perform, and should )e about the business, but are loafing ilong the wayside and become unfitted or the fame and fortune that waits or them if they but stick to the course md keep the body clear of obstruction# io it can carry out the behests of the nind. Sickness is a call to "come up hlgh>r." These hints come in various orms. It may be stomach trouble or towels, heart, eyes, kidneys or general lervous prostration. You may depend ipon it when a "whack" comes it's a \ varning to quit some abuse and do tha ight and fair thing with the body. 1 Perhaps it is Coflfae drinking that ? - * ~e 'trends, xuac is one ui iuc gicaira<. auses of human disorder among Americans. Now then if Mother Nature is gentle vith you and only gives light, little 'wliacks" at first to attract attention^ [on't abuse her consideration, or she vill soon hit you harder, sure. , . .i And you may also be sure she will lit you very, very hard if you insist on ollowing the way you have been gong. It seems hard work to give up a habt, and we try all sorts of plans to barge our ill-'feelings to some1 other ? ause than the real one. Coffee drinkers when ill will attribite the trouble to bad food, malaria, verwork and what not. but they keep n being sick aud gradually getting rorse until they are finally forced to iuit entirely, even the '*on!y one cup a [ay." Then they begin to get better,, ud unless they have gone long enough o set up some fixed organic disease, hey generally get entirely well. It id easy to quit i.-offee at once and or all, by having well made Postum, rith its rich, depp. seal brown color vhich come3 to the beautiful golden >rown when good cream in added, and he crisp snap of good, mild Java is iiara if Hii? Pnshnn has been boiled ong onoagli to brius it out. It pays to be well and hap?7 for ;ood old Mother Nature then sends us ler blessings of many and various Linda and helps us to sain fa mo aud ortune. Strip off the handicaps, leave out the leadening habits, heed Mother Naure's hints, quit being a loser and beanie a winner. She will help you itire if you cut out tbe thiugs that keep rou back. "There's a reason" and a profound Look in ?aeli package for 'a copy or the famous little book. "fTfce Road tfellville." mnanu