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I. HONS i PIC IB ! t SEE m. LOMGWORTH! She Pulls Flag Off McKinlsy | Status to Divert Crowd. f; i WOMEN WERE TRAMPLED DOWN ' ( ! ' Terrorized Thousands Stampeded in ' Columbus and Exercises Arc | Postponed and Completed at Night?Scrambles For Relics. Columbus, Ohio. ? To prevent a panic and save human life the exercises attendant upon the unveiling of the monument to William McKinley ! .were brought to an abrupt close. The thousands of people that J packed the Capitol grounds and ad- 1 Imniru* struts tn witnpss the unveil- i ing of the monument became so un- ! ruly in their efforts to see at close j range Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth that she was compelled to re- j lease the drapery which covered the statue and withdraw. The addresses | on the program were postponed until I night. Nothing like the wild rush that the ! ;> people made was ever seen in Ohio : before, and no such crowd of women was ever gathered here. More than 50,000 people, at least 40,000 of | whom were women, pushed and shoved, yelled and wept In a mad ! fever to gain vantage points when i the guests appeared on the platform. ( i Five acres of swaying persons scrambled and pushed until those in front j were jammed against the stand. Scores of women fainted, while ; thousands were pulled and tossed ; about in the surging throng. Two women were trampled on and re- j moved ill amouiances. ineir garments were torn, their hats tossed j askew and their hair disheveled. At last Mrs. Longworth, without ceremony, stepped to the front of the Bpeakers' stand and tugged at the ribbon till the flags that veiled the ! statue of the late President fell. A J cheer went up, and Mrs. Longworth j stood ^niling and bowing. It was thought that, her part in the program over, order would be re> stored. Instead, the crowd made a j rush for the ribbon with which she j Jiad drawn the veil. It was torn into j . hreds, and then a dash was made for j the wire which had held the ribbon ' in place. The brass ring3 were torn from it. Many were in danger of be- I ing cut by the wire, which the mob was trying to tear into pieces for j souvenirs. Unable to proceed, Governor Harris announced the suspension of tha exercises until night. The program of exercises was car- ! ried out at Memorial Hall. The im- ; men3e hall was filled with people, j Governor Harris presided. The j speakers were William R. Day, Asso- ! ciate Justice of the Supreme Co.urt of the United States; John W. Daniel, .United States Senator from Virginia, N and General Joseph McKay,of BrookPatv-i m n nH av nf HlD ! ly II, IN a LAUliCli VUlUmauuci w4. vuv j "Union Veterans' Legion, and General R. B. Brown, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. I Mrs. McKinley was unable to attend the dedicatory exercises, but she was j represented by her niece, Mrs. Ida ; McKinley Day. -'' I The McKinley Memorial was built j at a cost of $50,000, half of which ; sum was raised by public subserip- j tion, the other half being provided by j the Ohio* Legislature. The memorial is in the form of a ! semi-circle, In the centre of which is I the pedestal, surmounted by a figure ; of the dead President, nine feet four inches in height. On either side of the semicircle are allegorical pieces. FOUR KILLED IX A TORNADO. b-: Others Fatally Injured in Storm rj ; Which Passes Over Nebraska. Tecumseh, Neb.?Two violent and seemingly distinct storms swept over / Johnson County, causing the death of lour persons, the fatal injury of two ftjiy and the painful injury of five others, k .The dead are: 0/ L. Giel, August Zieman, Royal Carmine and George Koehler! X UC Hi Ol c uuuvt M I threshing machine, which was shat- I tered by lightning. A companion was severely shocked. The second storm, a tornado in violence, passed west of Tecumseh, demolishing a school house, killing George Koehler and fatally injuring , two other school children and inflict- i Ing severe injuries on four others in ' the school house. Many barns and i windmills were blown down. CRIPPLES FORM A UNION*. * Composed of Men Who Have Lost Arms or Legs. Chicago.?The only union of crip; pies in the world was organized here. The union is composed exclusively of the one-armed and the one-legged men who tend switches or wave flags at railroad crossings. In the city there are about 1200 i , cripples who earn a living by acting , as switch tenders and flagmen. They 1 complain that advantage is taken of | them because of their physical de- : fects. They work from twelve to six- ; teen hours a day and seven days in I the week at wages ranging from $40 j to $50 a month. Most of them are : old railroad men who have lost a leg or an arm in an accident, and they [' are regarded as pensioners by the ' railroad companies. Laughed Herself to Death. Mrs. George D. Baker, a well- j Icnown summer resident of New Lon- ! don. Coffn., laughed too heartily while attending a play in the Lyceum Theatre and as a result died at the j Ciocker House. Insurance Agents Besiege Bank. ! The run oa the Hibernia Bank, in j San Francisco, was caused by dis- j gruutieu agcuu ui a, mo iujuiuu>.v I company. The National Game. ? Overall and Walsh are the only ^bachelors on Chicago's payroll now. # [ It is announced that Patsy Donovan will again manage Brooklyn next season. i Jake Weimer wants to be the best JattiaS pitcher in the National League, After winning fifteen straight games the New York Americans were .defeated by Boston. j When Flynn, of the Holy Cross College, joins the Boston team there jwill be five college players on the , team. SC9ICH HPHESS WRECKED [ Crowded Special jumps the Track at Grantham Curve. c -? v Flying Midnight Train Dashes Over Embankment?Coaches Burst Into names ? ah bngianu rmucKeu. P London. ? Just getting over the shock of the terrible railroad catas- ^ trophe at Salisbury/ England was horrified to read that the crowded Scotch express train on the Great Northern Railway, from London, was wrecked, at midnight outside of Grantham, a railroad junction twen- a ty-three miles southwest of Lincoln. ? The train should have stopped at S Grantham, but failed to do so. tl Shortly after passing the station r the train left the rails and jumped a bridge. The engine and several coaches were dashed over the em- 0 bankment, the engins turning turtle, si Several coaches immediately took fire. n There are many passengers beneath the debris. Of ten extricated, five have died. The number of lives ldst is not known, but is believed to s<* be large. Many were injured. ii The coaches caught fire , and the tl fire brigade was called out. ( a At the spot where the express was d derailed there is a curve, and it is supposed the brakes failed to act. ir The train appears to have gone up a Q siding, smashing the parapet of the U t : J rtAmnlotal v ohot- 1\ U ilUgCy WJLLllyU VTUO tClJ Wi*v*v | w tered. A later report states that the engi- ( R neer and fireman are dead under the n engine, that the superintendent of o the mail car is missing and that seven ir injured persons hiive been taken to ti the hospital. w At 5 o'clock a. m. it was officially tl stated that ten persons had been ir killed and sixteen injured. Y A dispatch from Grantham stated ai that the fire was well under control, ai ai TYPHOON DEATH LIST GROWS. ei ... re Several Thousand May Have Heen ^ as Lost at Hongkong. jc Hongkong.?It is estimated that ai 5000 Chinese perished in the ty- p< phoon, many within short distance of the shore. The property losses are d< estimated at several millions of dol- w lars. Only a few Europeans are P' missing. One launch that was.cap- F sized had 130 Chinese on board, cc They were all drowned. Over 1000 st sampans and junks are missing. y< When the typhoon 9tarted Bishop ol Joseph Charles Hoare, of Victoria, G was on his way to visit some neigh"- ai boring islands on the yacht Pioneer, fc which stranded in Castle Peak Bay. Mrs. Hoare went in a Government ai launch to search for her husband. ?1 The harbor is strewn with wreck- ly age. The rivfcr steamer Fatshan fc drifted into collision with a French w mail steamer. The entire Chinese \ tfe crew climbed aboard the French 01 steamer and left Captain Thomas, who was injured, one officer and the tl engineers to navigate the Fatshan to P( ShelteT Bay, where she was blown ei ashore. ai The people are incensed at the officers at the observatory for not re- ei porting the approach of the typhoon, SI and an inquiry has been demanded. w rl DIED UNDER X-RAYS. ,u' * in ' C /. P M. F. Murphy, Pennsylvania Banker, ^ is Strangely Stricken. jr Philadelphia.?While undergoing fe an X-ray examination, Martin F1 ol Murphy, a banker of Renovo, this tl State, died suddenly. tl Mr. Murphy was fifty-eight years tf old. He had developed what was ir thought to be cancer of the throat bi and was sent to the Polyclinic Hos- b pltal for examination. He had been a: examined exhaustively before the si rays were turned upon him, and no organic weakness of any kind was n found. His body was bared t<? the o waist and the rays were turned diag- j\ onally down upon hini, striking the c throat on the left side two inches be- ci low the ear and penetrating down- ri ward toward the rieht to a point of | rr emergence below the eighth rib. At the very moment the rays were p turned on Murphy he rolled from the chair. Death was instantaneous. F DOWIE OUSTED, 1911 TO 6. Voliva Made Zion City Overseer? ^ Heavy Vote by Women. ^ Chicago.?Wilbur Glen Voliva was o chosen by the people of Zion City as j] their leader by the overwhelming vote of 1911 to 6 for his opponent, A. y E. Bills. The election was held un- ^ der the direction of Judge Landis of i the United States District Court, who d was asked some time ago to settle t the controversy between John Alex- t ander Dowie, founder of the church, t and Voliva, as to who should have a control of Zion City. j u About half of the total vote was ! s cast by the womsn of Zion City, who j s went to the polls singing hymns and j y praying. Eight-Hour Law Extended. President Roosevelt extended the I eight-hour law to apply to all public , work under the supervision of any | ? department of the Government. This order from Oyster Bay, N. Y., affecrs , more particularly work on river arid ! . harbor improvements. Oklahoma Land.Opened. | I President Roosevelt opened for set- | Clement 503,000 acres of fertile land j e in Oklahoma. J e Starving Out Americans. American arriving at New Orleans from Havana say Americans on the I Isle of Pines are threatened by a food I famine. r E Pure Food Law Enforced. t The Pure Food law special commis- t sion anuounced its tentative rules re- r garding labels. They forbid false and a misleading statements of all kinds. , General Nicolaieff was shot and killed in Warsaw, Russian Poland, by I terrorists, the murderers escaping. < The Field of Labor. India has no labor unions. New Orleans, La., union plumbers have been on strike since the first of a the year. c Slate workers in Maine have ob- , tained a nine-hour day and a ten per j cent, increase in wages. 1 William Foley, of Boston, Mass.. .is the new head of the International g Steel and Copper Plate Printers. 1 San Francisco, Cal.. is to have a t building trades temple. Employment in the British build- i ing trades shows a general Improve- < ment as compared with a year ago. 1 I isilfiis moue T FOR PF1CF II filRa I VII hllVh III w*/i u _ | V lends Taft and Bacon to Havana s, in Haste. ? c 1ATT AMENDMENT AUTHORITY t, a h resident Warns Cubans That We j] May Intervene?Letter to fcenor b Quesada, Cuban Minister to the n United States. t) h Oyster Bay, N. Y.?As the result of g] six-hour conference at Sagamore ^ [ill between President Roosevelt, tl ecretary of War Taft, Secretary of a le Navy Bonaparte and Acting Secetary of State Bacon, Messrs. Taft b nd Bacon were directed to start at " nee for Cuba as the special repre- c entatives of thte American Governlent. It will be their mission to g lake a thorough investigation and j, 5 render such aid as may be neces- c iry to the task of bringing about an t; nmedlate cessation of hostilities and a le permanent pacification of the isl- p nd, which is declared by the Presi- A ent to De imperative. i , This decision was made public by leans of the following letter to Senor w uesada, the Cuban Minister to the P nited States, which was given out t< y Secretary Loeb: c< "In this crisis in the affairs of the I fj epublic of Cuba I write you not [ lerely because you are the Minister p f Cuba accredited to this Governlent, but because you and I were in- ? mately drawn together at the time hen the United States intervened in " le affairs of Cuba, with the result of * taking her an independent nation, tl ou know how sincere my affection tl ad admiration and regard for Cuba p re. You know that I have never done jj ad never shall do anything in refer- ^ ace to Cuba save with such sincere sgard for her welfare. You also know le pride I felt because it came to me e 3 President to withdraw the Amer- w an troops from the Island of Cuba ii ad officially, to proclaim her inde- e endence, and to wish her godspeed n i her career as a free Republic. I ^ ssire now, through you, to say a v ord of solemn warning to your peo- le. whose eanrest well-wisher I am. or seven years Cuba has been in a >ndition of profound peace and of C: eadily growing prosperity. For four P jars this peace and prosperity have s< jtained under her own, independent o overnment. Her peace, prosperity 'j id independence are now menaced, Q >r of all possible evils that can be- ., .11 Cuba the worst is the evil of larchy into which civil war and rev- " utionary disturbances will assured- " throw her. Whoever is responsible f' >r armed revolution and outrage, ^ hoever is responsible in any way for f: le condition of the affairs that now D )tains is an enemy of Cuba, and juble heavy is the responsibility of le man who, affecting to be the es;cial champion of Cuban independ- t] ice, takes any step which will jeop- * rdize that independence. n "Under the treaty with rour Gov- is nment, I, as President of the United 1 s tates, have ?. duty' in this matter 0 hich I cannc : shirk. The third arti- ^ e of that treaty explicitly confers pon the United States the right to itervene for the maintenance in " uba of a Government adequate for le protection of life, property ana f idividual liberty. The treaty con- p (rring this right is the supreme law c f the i-tnd and furnishes me '/ith d le right and the means of fulfilling a le obligation that I am under to proset American interests. The infortation at hand shows that the social onds throughout the island have een so related that life, property nd individual liberty ar^ no longer 0 tfe. f "I have received authentic infor- p lation of injury to and destruction a f American property. It is in my 3 ldgment imperative for the. sake of uba that there shall be immediate ? sssation of hostilities and some arangement which will secure the per- s lanent pacification of the island." f ASSEXGERS KILLED IN CANADA t I a atal Collision Retween Regular and Harvesters' Excursion Trains. I Sudbury, Ont.?Thirteen persons ? rere killed in the wreck of two i ianadian Pacific Railway passenger I rains near here. Seven were killed i utright, the other six dying of their i I'uries since. The accident occurred near the illa?e pf Chelmsford, just past | Lzilda, twenty miles west of here, 'he Winnipeg east-bound train was * ue to pass a harvesters' excursion rain at this point. TJlie harvesters' rain was already on the siding when i be regular from the West, dashing j long at a high rate of speed, came t p to the station. The brakes were et, but failed to work, and as a reult the two engines came together 1 fith a fearful impact. ? Cuban Congress Meets. The Cuban Congress met in special * ession without a quorum in either 1 louse, and by party vote granted 'resident Palma means to carry on he war. Marines from the cruiser )enver remained oil board their ship I u Havana Harbor. c > 1 i ?? Pmiicnn Pftucnc TTVPI from An f LIIKTilLt4.il VlUlOtl VMMOVW JU..V.VW...W... g The arrival of the American cruis- , ir Denver at Havana, Cuba, caused ixcitement in the city. 1 1 Baltimore Fire Jubilee Ends. The week of the jubilee celebrating l Jaltimore's recovery from the fire of ( February, 1904, ended with an auto- ? uobile and bicycle parade and a car lival. About 15,000 persons in gro- : esque costumes participated. A fund 1 las been started to erect a $50,000 ( nemorial commemorating the fire .nd rebuilding of the burned district, i Big Demand For Traction Men. '< The New York City traction com- j >ine had to raise wages on account >f a scarcity of men. ( Labor World. One hundred thousand macninisis , vill be involved in the demand for an . jight-hour day. The City Auditor of Cincinnati has ssued an order requiring a union { abel on all city printing. ! The Wabash offices in Pittsburg idvertised for 5000 mechanics and aborers for a Western extension of he Gould lines. Organized labor has protested igainst the plan of Postmaster Ow;ns, of Milwaukee, to equip street Linked States mail cars. The Ago of Machinery. We live in the age of machinery, 'he thinking, directing mind beomes daily of more account, while ier? brawn falls correspondingly in alue from day to day. That eccenric philosopher, Elbert Hubbard, ays in one of his es:ays, "Where a machine will do better work than the uman hand, we prefer to let the marine do the work." It has been but a few years since lie cotton gin, the "spinning jenny" nd the power loom displaced the and picker, the spinning wheel and tie hand loom; since the reaper and inder, the rake and tedder, the lowing machine took the place of tie old cradle, scythe, pitchfork and and rake; sinc4 the friction match uperseded the flint and tinder; since lie modern paint factory replaced tie slab and mulier, the paint pot nd paddle. In every case where machinery has een introduced to replace hand laor, the laborers have resisted the hange; and as the weavers, the empstresses, and the farm laborers rotested against new-fangled looms, swing machines and agricultural nplements, so in more recent times ompositors have protested against presetting machines, glass blowers gainst bbttle-blowing machines, and ainters against ready mixed paints, .nd as in the case of these shortighted classes of an earlier day, so 'ith their imitators of to-day, the rotest will be in vain. It is a proist against civilization, against the Dmmon weal, against their own welire. The history of all mechanical imrovements shows that workmen are tie first to be benefited by them, he invention of the sewing machine, istead of throwing thousands of 'omen out of employment, increased ae demand to such an extent that iiousands of women have been emloyed, at better wages, for shorter ours and easier work where hunreds before worked in laborious lisery to eke out a pitiable existnce. It was so with spinning and reaving machinery, with agricultural nplements?in fact, it is so with very notable improvement. The lultiplication of books in the last ecade is a direct result of the inention of linotype machinery and ist presses. The mixed paint industry, in which arefully designed paints for house ainting are prepared on a large cale by special machinery, is anther improvement of the same type, 'he cheapness and general excellence f these products has so stimulated he consumption of paint that the deland for the services of painters as correspondingly multiplied. Beore the advent of these goods a rell-painted house was noticeable rom its rarity, whereas to-day an illainted house is conspicuous. Nevertheless the painters, as a ule, following the example set by he weavers, the sempstresses and he farm laborers of old, almost to a lan, oppose the improvement. It 3 a real improvement, however, and imply because of that fact the sale f such products has increased until uring the present year it will fall ot far short of 90,000,000 or 100,00,000 gallons. Hindsight is always better than oresight, and most of us who delore the short-sightedness of our anestors would do well to see that we o not in turn furnish "terrible exmples" to our posterity. P. G. A Word toitho Wise. The late James E. Martin, brother f Bradley Martin, was a man of oldashioned integrity, and the illegal iractices of many noted financiers .nd^ corporations angered and hocked him. In a discussion of a certain muchnvestigated company Mr. Martin aid one day: "Th$ concern seems always to have ound ft easy to break the law. It Las been as ready and resourceful as , tenant I once had. "My tenant was an enthusiastic >igeon-flyer. One day he took a pigion in a bag to the Grant Monument, ntending to time its flight home. Jut when he took the bird out of the >ag a policeman came up and said: " 'What are you doing there?' " 'Getting ready to fly this pigeon, laid my tenant. " 'You can fly no pigeon here,' said ho policeman. " 'Why not?' the tenant asked. " 'It's against the law?that's whj lot,' said the policeman. 'If you trj t on I shall he obliged to lock you ip.' "My tenant placed the pigeon on he ground, stroked it and said to it jravely: " 'I can't toss you up here, for- it's igainst the law, so you must walk lome. Do you hear? You must valk home.' "?Pittsburg Press. Not For Publication. The engagement between a wealthy Jaltimore belle and an impecunious :lubman of that city was at ono time ast winter perilously near the 'breaking off" point, and all by reaion of the unfortunate mistake of a lorist's assistant of whom the young nail nau oraerea nowers tor 111s ueoved. It appears that tne young fellow lad hastily dispatched to the florist's istablishment two cards, one bearing >n order for roses to be sent to ih( roving lady's address, and the othei ntended to be attached to the flow' ;rs. What was the astonishment anc ndignation of the beloved one when )n taking the roses from their box ihe found affixed the card bearing :he legend: "Roses. Do the best you can foi P3."?Harper's Weekly. Her Age Still Unknown. Rather than tell hor age, Miss renie Fristoe went to jail at Columbus, Ohio. She was defendant in ai attachment suit, and one of the firs questions put to her was, "How ok are vou?" "It's none of your business," Mis: Frlscoe promptly replied. The Court ordered the woman t< answer, but she steadfastly refusei and was sent to jail for contempt She was released that afternoon 01 a writ of habeas corpus, but her as ia still a mystery. "SUCH CROPS IIEIfEB KNOWN Nine Principal Staples Estimated to Be Worth $2,898,720,000. \ Year Like This Docs Not Come to Farmers More Than Once in a Decade. New York City.?The estimated returns available at this season for the nine principal crops of the United States, excepting hay, indicate the unparalleled total value, at December prices* of $2;898,720,000, which is about $130,740,487 more than the wealth produced by the farmers last year in these staples. Although it is usual for final returns on the principal cereal crops to show a diminution from the September estimates (which test year amounted to 8,924,000 bushels in corn and 11,467,511 in wheat), the concensus of opinion among the experts seems to be that this year the final estimates will show even higher yields than are at present indicated, so that the final total of values which will be issued in December may be expected to show even higher figures. Further it is not higher prices, but record-breaking production that makes this year the greatest in the country's history. The following table compares with last year's figures the estimated yields and values of the nine principal agricultural products: Crop.' Yield. Dec. Corn? Bushels. Price. Value. 1906... .2,7S0.000,000 .42 $1,167,000,000 1905.,.. 2,717/,993,540 1,116,696,738 Wheat? ; .: ;. 1906.... 759,671,000 .71 549.366,000 1905.... 692,979,489 518,372,727 Oats? . . 1906.... 851,482,000 .31 263,959,000 1905.... 953,216,197 277,047,537 Barley? ' 1906..142,969,000 .40 57,197,000 K)05.... 130,651,020 55,047,166 Rye? 1906,... 30,000,000 #.60 18.000,000 1905.,... 27,616,045 16,754,657 Buckwheat? 1906.... 14,274,000 #.65 9,278,000 1905.... 14,585,082 8,565,490 Potatoes? lfiOfi.... 298,859,000 *.60 179,320,600 1905.... 260,741,294 160,821,080 Cotton, bales? 1906..,. 12,000,000 *$50.00 600,000,000 1905.... 11,320,000 50.00 566,000,000 Tobr ('.o, pounds? 1906.... 600,000,000 .09 54,000,000 1905.... 633,033,719 . 48,674,118 Estimated. It will be noticed that this year's crops, both in production as well as in valtie, are far in excess of those of 1905 with two exceptions, oats and buckwheat. It is also expected that the returns from the hay crop, when they are in, will make a poorer showing than last year's. Hay/was damaged by the same July and August rains which were the salvation of the corn. Such a year as this, with new records established in so many staples, doe3 not come to the farmer usually more than once, in a decade, though last year, too, established its own records in wheatjand corn and produced a cotton crop which had been only once exceeded. The banner year of the nineties was 1891, not in point of total yields, but in the distribution of fine conditions and the establishment of new records. That year saw new high records fixed for wheat and cotton, while corn was only surpassed by the great year of 18S9. Wheat broke all records in 1898, though cotton was second in the list of years and corn fourth. In 1879 wheat production exceeded the best previous record by 28,000,000 bushels, corn beat its previous record by 159,700,000 bushels, and the cotton crop jumped 687,000 bales ahead of the greatest precedent. Of these "record years" al! marked were periods of great prosperity ex cept 1891. Last year was the only one in which there was great money | stringency. FIFTY FORGERS CAUGHT. Band Included Sons of Prominent 1 Frenchmen?Made $40,000. Paris.?The police discovered a 1 band of expert coiners having international connections, and fifty memi bers of it were arrested, including several Latin Quarter students whose : parents hold high official positions. The students are implicated on acjount of having passed the money, ' most of which was in ten and twenty franc pieces. The process used by the counterfeiters was a perfect one, the coins being electroplated with gold dust. ' [t is estimated that 200,000 francs of ihis money has been passed in the [ last six months. The band operated also In England and Germany and was making preparations to open business in Chicago ind Buenos Ayres. l KILLED HIMSELF WHILE JOKING i Revolver Flourished in Hilarious ; Mood Ends Owner's Life. Beloit, Wis.?Charles Parker, aged j twenty-five, a painter by occupation, while in a hilarious mood from liquor, placed a revolver at his head ' Lo frighten his wife and a friend, and blew out his brains. It is not believed he had any intention of killing himself. He was in his room in a< boarding house with his wife and an> other boarder, and, when remonstrats ed with for carelessly handling the > revolver, remarked: "No one need be afraid; I am not going to point it toward anyone but p myself?see." Placing the muzzle ' under an ear the revolver was discharged. r 5 CLOUDBURST SWEEPS VALLEY. > Wave Seven Feet High Does $100,000 Worth ol' Damage. Jackson, Neb.?Water from a cloudburst rushed down the valley, I sweeping away hundreds of tons of , hay, drowning hogs, flooding cellars, wasning away rauruau uatM uuu doing other damage, aggregating ' $100,000. The wave of water in the creek when it struck Jackson was seven feet high. Prominent People. , John D. Rockefeller says his for( tune is less than one-third of a billion dollars. . James Henry Smith, the richest bachelor in the country, is to wed the 1 divorced wife of William Rhinelander Stewart. 3 All the property possessed by Mr. Seddon. Premier of New Zealand, who - died recently, was a $1000 life ini su ranee policy. Dr. Frederick Hegar, the foremost a Swiss composer, lias retired from a public life after forty years' activity as a conductor. 808 ISLANO EXPRESS PLUMES Ml 3RI06E Passengers Swept Miles Down a River in Oklahoma. MANY EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPES Few of the Saved Float Miles?Day Coach Carried to Bank With Occupants?Loss May Never Bo Known?Cause of Disaster. Guthrie,K Olcla.?Buried in the treacherous quicksand or floating down the rushing current of the Cimarron (Spanish "wild") River are a score or more passengers and the wreckage of more than half of a Rock Island passenger train that plunged into the river off a high bridge near Dover, Okla. Eight persons are known to be dead/ twenty were badly injured, either in falling with the cars into the water or being battered with driftwood before they were rescued, and some twenty others are missing. Several children are among those drowned. Locomotive, tender, baggage and mail cars, smoker and day coach of the train that left Forth Worth dropped into the flood-swollen stream when it reached the bridge, which had been knocked out of true by a mass of driftwood. Passengers who escaped say twenty-five or thirty men were in the smoking car, and in the struggle to reach its doors as it rolled over and over down stream only a few escaped. This car was carried by the current a quarter of a mile. The mail car and the locomotive sank like lead. The mail and baggage men swam ashore. Those fortunate enough to fight their way out of the death trap and catch pieces of drift rode down the stream for miles. One man was taken off a piece of the wrecked bridge nine miles down stream; another rode thirteen miles before being rescued; a,third was nearly dead i when rescued twenty miles away. Another, a negro porter, when seen fourteen miles down river, shouted to men on shore that he would get off at the next station. It may never be known how many were drowned. The present estimate of twenty to thirty may be reduced when those who may have drifted down stream are all heard from. The train was ?n hour late and was running at high speed. The engineer did not see the condition of the bridge until he was within a few yards of it. Sheriff J. P. Love, of Kingfisher, 3aid: "Just as the car was turning on its side I fought my way to the rear and forced my body through the door. When I came to the surface [ was swept down stream. In the last stages of exhaustion I touched bottom and drew myself up on the bank. There were at least thirty others In the smoking car. I saw two besides myself escape." L. H. Coy, a salesman of Kansas City, who was in the day coach, said: "I jumped and landed on the short nlpr>? nf that did not. sro out at the south end. .The chair car came up within three feet of me before it stopped, and all that saved my life was the fact that the engineer threw on the afr before he jumped. The 3rag of the heavy Pullmans caused the train to break in two." WINSTON CHURCHILL BEATEN. Floyd Nominated For Governor of New Hampshire on Ninth Ballot. Concord, N. H.?Charges M. Floyd, of Manchester, was nominated for Governor, on the ninth ballot at the Republican State convention, receiving 404 votes out of a total of 799. It was the most exciting political convention ever assembled in New Hampshire. The delegates were called to order at 11 a. m., and it nrtf nr\f il O ffnt? 1 A V* TV* tliaf flH. journment was reached. The convention was marked by disorder throughout, and progress was delayed by ballot-box stuffing, three votes being declared void bv reason of the total exceeding the number of delegates entitled to seats. The feature of the convention was the fight put up by Winston Churchill, the novelist, for the Gubernatorial nomination. NEW YORK PRIMARIES. Murphy Retains Tammany Leadership, Parsons Defeats Quigg. New York City. ? In one of tile hardest fought primary elections ic the political history of Greater Ne\v York in which the organizations of both the Democratic and Republican parties were threatened, Charles F. Murphy, of Tammany Hall, and Herbert Parsons, with the Roosevelt backing, won sweeping victories? Murphy over the McClellan-O'Brien rvinii. i i'Ji l-cc, au\i a. uiovum w ? c* buv Quigg faction. Both the Democratic and Republican primaries were turbulent. There was much repeating, many assaults and money was openly used. Life-Savers Under Charges. Charges of cowardice against Captain Vau Wicklen and his life-saving crew at Long Beach have been made to the Treasury Department, iu Washington. Stricken While Preaching; Dies. Rev. Dr. Frank Woods Baker, of New Haven. Conn., died at Islesboro, Me. He bad been spending his vacation at Castine and went to Islesboro to officiate at Christ Episcopal Church. During the service he was stricken j with heart failure. Merely Bryan's Private Opinion. William J. Bryan disclaimed any purpose to compel his party to ac Cepi IU5 UUtClUucin unuciouiii views. Pulujanes Broken Up. Reports from the punitive expeditions sent into the interior of Leyte, Philippine Islands, in pursuit of the Pulajanes state that as the result of recent attacks by troops the Pulajanes have broken up into small parlies. The large band near. La Paz has been dispersed. : I Russian Revolutionists Terrified. The "Flying Group" of Russian I Revolutionists, terrified by numerous executions of their members, returned ' to the main body. 1 ????? ^vijj FADED TO A SHADOW. Worn Down by Five Years of^uffering From Kidney Complaint. Mrs. Remethe Myers, of 180 South Tenth St., Ironton, O., says: "I have worked hard in my tinie and have been exposed again and again to changes. . | -. of weather. It is no wonder < my kidneys gave out and I went -v -"T?- all to pieces at last. 1 LVFjjpw For five years I was fading away ' and' IP* finally so weak that for six months I could not get out of the house. I *7as nervous, restless and sleepless at night*and lame and sore in the morning. Sometimes everything would whirl and blur before me. I bloated so badly I could not wear tight clothing, and "had. to put on shoes two sizes far gen. than uaual. * The urine was disordered and passages were dreadfully frequent. I got help from the first box of Doan's Kidney Pills, however, and by the time I had taken four boxes the pain and bloating were gone. I have been in good health ever since." Sold.by all dealers. . 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ; A School-Made Philosophers. One of the earliest American satirists was Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The following parody by him Is said to have had the result which It is evident he intended?the effect of altering the style of questions asked in the examinations of" that day. Professor?"What te a salt-box?" Student?"It is a box made to contain salt." js?1 7 jj "How is it divided?"** f "Into a salt-box and a box of salt." "Show the distinction." "A salt-box may be where there Is no salt; but salt is necessity to the existence of a box of salt." \ "Are not salt-boxes otherwise divided?" "Yes, by a partition." "What is the use of this parti- J tion?" "To separate the coarse salt from the fine." "How? Think a little." f "To separate the fine from the / coarse." k "To be sure; to separate fine from the coarse. But are not' salt-boxes otherwise distinguished?" "Yes, into possible, probable and . positive." v "Define these sorts." '* . "A possible salt-box is a salt-box yet unsold, in the hands of the join- j < er." "Why so?" "Because it hath never yet become a salt-box in fact?having never had any salt in it," "Very true. Now what is the probable salt-box?" , j i "It is a salt-box In the hand of one going to a "shop to buy salt, and who hath sixpence in his pocfcet to buy It with; and a positive salt-box is one which hath actually salt in it." "Is there no instance of a positive B<-box which has na salt in it?"This proves a little puzzling to the student. The professor helps hfm out by observing, "There'is one mentioned by some authors. It Is where a box by long usage has;become impregnated, as, for instance, an empty mackeral kit." ' *" ' j And so it continues for eight or ten pages of this exhaustive method, v Danger in Drinking Ice Water. It is as unscientific to cool off the human body by flooding one's internals with ice c<#d water as It is to cool off a stove by dashing cold < water on it. Water fresh from the well or faucet Is a good , deal better for a person than water from the ice . ^ pitcher. In Europe they never put Ice into water but set a vessel containing water in the refrigerator, When it soon - becomes as cold as 6hould be taken into the stomach. The ice water nabit nas acme me American people a lot of harm.- The slavery of some people to ^lce-'water would be amusing if it wasn't amazing.?The Epitomist. Kansas Cliiggers. * Mrs. McCown is superintending the chigger department of a picnic this afternoon at Flat Docks, whereat the Steeles, Mrs. Bortoa, the Harises, the Kenneys, and the John Steeles of Kansas City are disporting themWlves.?Emporia Gazette. r Oa Street Cars ia Germany. In some towns in Germany children are allowed to travel free on the street cars it tney are unae:r a certain height, which is marked, on the doors of the vehicle. WELL PEOPLE TOO Wise Doctor Gives Postum to Convalescents. A wise doctor tries to give nature (ts best chance by saving the little strength of the already exhausted patient, and building up wasted energy with simple but powerful nourishment. "Five years ago," writes a doctor, "I commence.* to use Postum in my' own family instead of coffee. I was so well pleased with the results that' [ had two grocers place it in stock, guaranteeing its sale. "I then commenced to recommend it to my patients in place of coffee, as a nutritious beverage. The con-: * ~ '? ^Anfn la* 6equence is, every oiuic m iu?u. now selling it, as it has become a household necessity in many bomes. "I'm sure 1 prescribe Posl.um as often as any one remedy in the Ma- X teria Medica?in almost every case of indigestion and nervousness I treat, and with the best results. "When I once introduce it into a ifcmily, it i3 quite sure to remain. Ii shall continue to use it and prescribe' it in families where I practice. 4'r~ frnni nn^nirinnia. typhoid fever and other cases, I give it as a liquid, easily absorbed diet. You may use my letter as a reference any way you sea fit." Name given by Tostum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellvllle" la pkgs. " TUero's a ra&wa."