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I1TMULIM1LUlHLf SB By DENISON HAILEY CUFT. 1 Ul Fate, from the very outset of his ^Hrlef college career, seemed disposed Lot to favor Neilsoa. He registered ^ or serious work in the department ( civil engineering; but shortly after jne fall semester had opened, he HVlelded to the demands of his college ^ nates and appeared on the football ^Beld to try for the eleven. |jgH He came from * Madera, a small own in the sunny San Joaquin ValEjHey, where he had been flume-climber ^ or his father's lumber company. Hut to the enthusiasts of the univerj^Jity world he was transformed from |;he commonplace Clay iseiison, numeilimber, to the great and more s:gllficant "Bull" Xeilson, "varsity" lalf-back. His name became associated with he veteran squad, and his line-buckng made the coaches secretly jubiant, until there came a day, shortly efore the big California game, when lis ankle snapped in the last pracice, and his meteoric career was >ver. He took his disappointment with stoicism for which no one could ccount. In the hospital after the ame he spent his days absorbing rinciples of hydrostatics and study Ing critically designs of arch ribs, while his ankle slowly knitted. One day his nurse handed him a etter from his father, asking him to :ome home. The flume "boss" of ;he Madera company had deserted, md Neilson alone could fill his place, 'or the timber harvest was at its So when his ankle was strong mough again he returned to the nountains, and the mountains wel:omeu him. The hills and valleys vera freshing into green once more mder the soft pelting of the first ains. The snows upon the mounains were resolving themselves into nyriads of tiny streams that rippled >ve^ stones and gravel, wandering hrough hedges of witch-hazel and aanzanita until they joined one anther at the openings of the gullies Imd raced down through the valleys ind the canons. Among these valleys and mounSlns the Madera lumber flume, which a the longest in the world, threads Is way. Far up among the redwood (brests it begins, and winds down taong dense groves of spruce and rellow pine, crossing chasms and :ataracts on trestles of steel, and 'esuming again the wooden skids rhen it crosses through the canons .nd shallow ravines, skirting sheer liffs and boring through the tunnels >f the hills, till it falls at last into he San Joaquin River. A3 climber, Neilson kept the flume tt repair. Often he had to climb imong the maze of beams and [irders, high in mid-air, calking gaks in the great V-shaped wooden Ifcaute, down which, redwood logs and liiilway ties were shot from the mountains to the river. U Along the flume were two tunnels, lone, the long tunnel, just beyond the Brinkhead, a towering blufE skirted by the flume. In this tunnel a leak sprung one day, until the loss of water interfered with the traffic. The tender at Geyser Peak, close to the river end, first noticed the falling off of the current. "The flow is dropping!" he called through the telephone to the head ot the flume. The head logger called to Neilson. At once the climber ordered the drive stopped, and seizing his kit, he lifted the narrow flume boat into the chute and drifted down toward the tunuel, tour mnes away. "We'll cut off the feeders for an hour, so watch your time!" the head logger called after him. "Another thousand feet must go down before 6." It was then 3 o'clock. The short boat carried Neilson rapidly along the^ great lumber-flume, now close along the ground, now bridging canons and basins of granite, past the Brinkhead, until at last the blackness of the long tunnel enveloped Elm. he grade lessens here to an angle of fifteen degrees. Neilson hooked the boat to the side, and climbed over the edge to the flume-step. Here the great V is built up from three feet to seven from I its ueutie, tuat tuts lugs uidv uul leap out in their mad race through the tunnel. Lighting the candle in his miner's pick, he began crawling along the ?dge of the flume. Darkness closed In tight about him, close and appalling. He crept on deeper and deeper, listening for dripping water [above the lick, lick, of the current in the flume. The candle threw a -wavering circle of light about him. Far behind him he could see the entrance of the tunnel. After searching a long time he found the leal? The licking of the water in the immense groove was I lost in the drone of the tiny cataracts leaping forth between the sprung planks. Nellscn stuck his candlepick into the wooden chute, and began hammering with his calking-iron forcing the oakum thceads into th< teams, and tightening the bolts. H< hurried, for he knew the drift woulc soon be resumed above. I Still the water escaped. He threv Iff most of his clothes and droppec Iter the edge into the running watei pf the flume, to work the better fron L The rnndle snuttered overhead ^^fckering fantastically, and th< (\?ater, dark green in its steady flow each moment running swifter, tor< about his legs. Swift and certaii were his strokes, and soon the leak! were closed. Then, as he stood silent, shiverinj violently, listening for trickling sounds, a faraway rumble came t< vie oars Tt beean hollow and lov Ifcnd ghostly, and increased to th? (thunder of rapid firing. Instantl: fNeilson knew what it was. The hou; "r ""r;v.v:*''v, " has passed, and the logs were rusl ing down upon him! Like a flash he dropped the call ing-iron and sprang for the top < the gigantic V. His one thought wj to leap over the side. But althoug he had done it hundreds of times, li bungled that once?the once that ii volved his safety, perhaps his lif< He excitedly threw one leg towar the ridge?and struck the candle Instantly ho was in total darknes: his grip torn loose. The approaching roar increased t the crash of thunder as the grez redwood trunks swept down towar him. Again and again he struggle for the top, and each time he fe back in the face of the renewed fore 1 of the stream. His brain becam dizzy, his agonized voice returned t mock him. Then he throught of the flum( boat, fastened to the flume not fa from him. He struggled ahead an reached for it blindly. His hand closed upon the hook that held i' While his brain echoed to the roar c the logs, he crawled upon* it, release the fastenings and shot down th flume. The drive came on, scraping an rending and crashing. He lay flai rinnhled ur>. easnine: and wheezing He was conscious only of a dynami rush and throb in his head. Hall dazed, his senses returned just as th drive struck the flume-boat. Neilso was shot along the tunnel with tei rifle speed. The air swished pas him and the water cut into his face j blinding and stinging him like drif pings of molten lead. Still clinging to the boat, he wa hurled out of the tunnel into the bril liant sunlight. Ahead he saw, a through a veil, a white, frothing sea dashing always into his eyes. Ther as in a dream, he realized that deat awaited him at the jump-off, whe he should be hurled out among th logs into the river! There was bu one chance. If the tender at Geyse Peak should see him he could sto the flow. But would there be tim enough to allow the'water to ceas and the logs to settle in the chute? Meanwhile, with a swiftness h had never before thought possible the lumber forced the boat down th flume. Behind him the logs boome and thundered in headlong, inexora ble pursuit. He was carried through the gloor of the short tunnel and over the big steel trestles as one dropped froi a precipice, me uuuie siucs uaaui lower and lower. The speed dt creased in the lower canon, and a Neilson looked ahead, the convergin blurs took shape in faraway mour tains, snow-capped in the pale rad; ance of the early twilight, and i thick forests of redwood and yellow pines, shaggy ani gaunt upon th mountain slopes. Over the spans that bridged th boiling streams sped the drift, o and on and on, hurtling and tumblin and booming, winding now throug the lower canon toward the rivei The jump-oil was 6nly four mile away. Could he throw himself ove the edge before he reached it? H tried to lift his legs, but he was to weak. Neilson prayed that the ter der at Geyser Peak would be at hi post. It was his one chance of life. The timber rushed on, mors swifl ly now, close upon Geyser Peah Neilson was alert again. As he wa hurled past, he cried out in a voic tense with agony, the love of lif strong upon him. Had the tende seen him? Had he heard? Th climber's face was stung with th rush of water, and his eyes wer blinded. The drift reached the last gradf The hills and cliffs gave way one more to confused blurs, the swis of air flung back his hair from hi face. Mountain and hill and blu whirled past him, unseen and uc cared for. Neilson still clung to th boat, huddled up, helpless with tei ror. Miles behind in the mountain lay the long tunnel; three mile ahead was the jump-off! Then suddenly, as Neilson grippe the flume-boat and prayed desperate ly for life, he felt the rush of th craft slacken, and the terrific fore behind him lost its vitality. Ne^ life sprang into his veins; he thrille with the sense of his hopes com true. Gradually the drift slackenec the water ceased in its flow. Still th impetus of the logs hurled the boa , on, now scraping against the woode . sides of the flume, until at last tb friction brought it to a standstill. As Neilson lay upon the boat, wea and exhausted, the river-drivers cam i running up the trail from the rivei , and found him. And listening, Nei i son heard how the tender at Geyse Peak had seen him whirling by, an i had signaled to the head of the flum j for the flow to be shut off. To-day a new climber swing , among the girders and beams, an , Neilson, who assists at the head c the flume, is always careful when th | drifts are resumed after a delay an the climber is at work. The cautio ! has become part of the man.Youth's Companion. "Wolf in Italian Town. i It is not often that European eyf ?at least in a town area?witn'es ! the spectacle of a wolf trotting lei! ! urely through the streets in broa > daylight, and with little apparei ; concern. Such an incident happene ; the other day at the Italian town < Annezzano, the animal sniffing in tli - direction of one house and then c , another as he went along. ; Passing by the hospital, an atteni ; ant of sporting instincts saw tt I game, and rushing for a gun, ga^ chase. Before long he got a chanc j for a shot, which hit the wolf badl; 1 and following this up with anothe r the beast was slain. Its presence i 1 au^u txi tuuioiaiiLco 10 aiA uuiucu iv by the theory that the beast had bee hunting over night away from h 2 haunts, and after eating to satiel and sleeping through the night, w< j making his way back to the lair.j London Globe. 3 With the Financiers. r Sometimes we send a thief to catc ' a thief that robbed a thief.?Life. 3 ir The Earl of Liverpool, Lord His ? btewarci OI tne iving s nuussnoi j died at Kirkham Hall on the 23d ill r at the age of sixty-oa$. .. 7.-' i I 1* i; H I! Man* Customer?"Look here, I bought 3 week, and all I've got for using it is a ( Hairdresser?"Good gracious! I s bust-developer in mistake!"?London ( i, l? f*?)oons Worth a Fortune. k "Spoon" comes from"spon," meann ing a small piece of wood. But ? metal spoons were used in Biblical days, for in Exodus the Lord tells r Moses to make spoons of gold for p use in the Tabernacle, and to-day e there are to be seen in the British e Museum spoons which certainly were used in the early days of Christianity, e besides others found in the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. ? ' Anointing spoons are as old as the time when Nathan, the prophet, 'FT1 e 1 i !i ! n g g ' Elizabethan Spoon. e ir anointed Solomon as the ruler of e Israel, and they have been used to e anoint kings from that time to the e present day. The spoon with which Edward VII. was anointed by the ). Archbishop of Canterbury is at least e 600 years old, and has been used for b the purpose of anointing the kings of s England ever since it was remade for Ef the coronation ceremonies of Charles i- II. e Another spoon of great antiquity is the "Pudsey spoon," given by Henry s VI. to his friend and protector, Sir s Ralph Pudsey, in 1446, at the time in which he was concealed in Sir d Ralph's house after the Battle of > Hexam. This spool has the peare shaped bowl of the usual form of all e ancient spoons previous to the Res* toration; the handie is octagonal, and d at the end is flattened out to form a t seal, on which is carved the King's I., badge, a sinj'.e rose. Inside the e ? ? it . . - V | ' * SANTOS-DUMONT'S SUC ;< A fifty horse power aeroplane with wh js lution of the "heavier-than-air" j 5- ? d Protected From the Spirits. ,0 The Indian shown in this photojl graph?who, it must be owned, bears ie a distinct resemblance to the Pre)1 i- ' "" " jFt ' / mier, is wearing a ring of cedar bark, ;h j in which he believes no spirit, save u> | the protecting spirit 01 nis ancestor, | i | dare vgaturq,?London Skotch. | ' i .. ; . ' - j ' 'J' * } aWA'LAhJZi i ire a bottle of your hair restorer last jouple of large bumps oil my head!" must have given you a bottle of our Opinion. - ' bowl, near the shaft, is the hallmark of the thirteenth century sterling silver?a leopard's head?and on the back of the bowl is the mark of the maker?a heart in outline. This spoon is the most anci?nt known piece of silver in existence that bears the indisputably authentic hallmark of the English "Goldsmiths' Company." All the earliest spoons have pearshaped bowls. It was not until the latter part of the seventeenth century that they began to elongate toward the egg-shaped spoon of the present time. Probably none of the old spoons equals in interest the Apostle spoons, which came into fashion in the sixteenth century. It was an English custom at that time for the sponsors to give these spoons to the children for whom they made themselves responsible as baptismal gifts. The value of these old sets of Apostle snnnns will he understood when some of the prices paid for them are known. One set sold In 1903 for $24,500, while another, of less ancient date, brought $5300. A single Apostle spoon, bearing on its handle a figure of St. Nicholas, and on the stem the inscription, "St. Nicholas, pray for us," sold in London five years ago for the unheard-of sum of $3450, the most exaggerated price ever paid for a single spoon so far as can be ascertained. The Apostle spoon shown in the cut is an Elizabethan spoon of St. Matthew, the nimbus chased -tfith St. Esprit. The date of the hallmark 19 1560, and the spoon realized $250.? Philadelphia Record. HON. HERBERT KNOX SMITH. He Succeeded Mr. Garfield as Commissioner of Corporations. \- Vv:-' ' "v - , * v; ' ' * * - . " '"41 : . .. , </>, .... . . : ' . ' ' . ' ' ' . './ $ >4k ' mm ': JCESSFUL AIRSHIP. lich the inventor gives promise of soproblem in aerial navigation. Bayonet For Thin Red Line. beverai new patterns 01 uayoneia liave been sent to Ald^rshot for experimental purposes, with the object of selecting one that will be the best adapted for use with the new short rifles. It has been recognized that our troops are greatly handicapped in this direction, owing to the very small sword bayonet they have at present in use, and the new patterns nrp in rnnseotience very much longer. Efforts have beeu made to keep the weight of these new weapons, down to the lowest, while increasing their length to compensate for the reduction of three inches in the length of the new short rifle. Among the patterns under trial-are those in use in the United States and Japanese armies and a three cornered weapon very similar to the old fashioned bayonet but very much lighter and straighter. ?London Daily Telegraph. Three times within five weeks Governor Hanly, of Indiana, has set aside I the sentences of convicted murderers. - y-v / . .y. r: : K 0 ORCHARD TELLS All j nTftiiimuiA tii r mmum m Confesses at Boise How He Murdered Steunenborg. HIS VICTIMS NUMBER EIGHTEEN Witness Describes How He Heard Explosion of Fatal Bomb as He Was Running From Scene of Last Crime. ( Eoise, Idaho. ? Harry Orchard, alias Hogan, alias Green and alias Dempsey, who admits that he planted the bomb that killed ex-Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho, for whose murder William D. Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, is now on trial, and who ; says that Haywood, Charles H. Moyer and George A. Pettibone, respectively the secretary, the president and an executive board member of the Western Federation of Miners, nlonnoH fho mnrHor onH Viirorl Viim tr* I trittuutu ?UV iUUIUW uuu ?.v do it, told on the witness stand here what is probably the most extraordinary recital of crime ever made in a court room. Orchard lifted the total of his own murdered victims to eighteen, detailed the circumstances under which he tried to murder former Governor Peabody, Judge Goodard, Judge Gabbert, General Sherman Bell, Dave Moffatt and Frank Herne. Incidentally he confessed to a plan to kidnap the child of one of his former associates. Under cross-examination Orchard confessed guilt of the sordid social crimes of deserting his young child and wife in Ontario, fleeing to British Columbia with Hattie Simpson, the wife of another man, and committing bigamy by marrying a 1 third woman at Cripple Creek. . Through the shocking details of murder plots, stories of secret bombmaking and tales of man hunts with sawed-off shotguns and infernal machines as weapons, the withess went on in the same quiet, off-hand manner that marked his demeanor pre6 viously. His voice dropped to lower keys as the pitiful story of the long hunt for Steunenberg narrowed down to the last day, and he told of the race from the hotel to the home to beat his victim with the .death trap and the meeting In the evening gloom as the victim'walked unconsciously to his doom. Through it all he winced but once, and that was when the defense made him name his six sisters and his one brother and give their residences in Ontario and New York. The defense fought the story with a multiplicity of objections and succeeded in heading oft an attempt to [ tell the story of the murder or Arthur Collins at Telluride and temporarily shut out the contents of a telegram received and a telegram sent by Orchard after his arrest. Except for this the State managed to get in 1 its story intact. These are the principal crimes to which Orchard confessed: Blew up the mill of the Sullivan and Bunker Hill mines at Warder, Idaho, on April 29, 1899, killing two men. Exploded a bomb in the Vindicator mine at Bull Head, near Cripple Creek, in 1903, killing Superintendent McCormick and Mel Beck, a shift boss. Shot and killed, in Denver, In 1904, Lytls Gregory, a deputy sheriff, who had been active in seeking out perpetrators of crimes In the mining regions. Blew up, In 1904, the railroad station at Independence, Col., and a train standing by It on which were 100 non-union miners, killing from twelve to fourteen men. In the same year, in San Francisco, maimed for life Frederick Bradley, a mine boss who had been against the union in Idaho, by planting a bomb so that Bradley exploded it when he opened the door to leave home on a morning. Attempted to assassinate with dynamite, in 1904, Governor Peabody, of Colorado, but was foiled; later tried to shoot Governor Peabody, also tried to murder other prominent men. TOiiori at Denver a man named Wally, in one of several attempts to assassinate Judge Gabbert, Wally. falling into a trap set for the jurist. Tried to assassinate Sherman Bell,v former Adjutant-General of Colorado. Second attempt to assassinate Judge Goddard by dynamite. The crowning crime was committed at Caldwell, Idaho, in 1905, when" Orchard assassinated ex-Governor Steunenberg. This is how Orchard told of Steunenberg's death: "I located him just before evening. It was in the saloon part of the hotel playing cards and I came out into the lobby and I seen Mr. Steunenberg sitting in the hotel talking to another man. I went up to his residence as fasi as I could walk and I placed the bomb at his gate in such a wnv that when the crate was opened it was fastened with a string and would explode. "When I was going back toward the hotel I met Mr. Steunenberg, and I ran as fast as I could. I was about a block and a half from the Saratoga Hotel on the foot bridge when I heard it go off. I hurried as fast as I could and went into the saloon part of the hotel and met the bartender there and helped him tie up a little First Decision in Eddy Suit. The court denied the petition of the Eddy trustees to be substituted for the next friends as plaintiffs in the action for an accounting of Mrs. Eddy's estate and an adjudication as to her mental condition. Home Rule Bill Withdrawn. t The British Premier announced the withdrawal of liie Irish Home R"'e viii ??/? n/4^A/1 thof on ] of|. IJIH, anu auutu kuuw mi* ?v.. . ants' restoration measure would b? ' introduced. Newsy rarngraphs. Tne French seamen surrendered to the Government. Guatemala began to fortify along i the Mexican boundary. t Suits against the Minnesota two- I cent fare law were started in St. I Paul. j mi? r* irt OmitViarri Phinq iq I f 1 lie up11aij.ib ah uuuvuvi.. ? : regarded as a revolt against the dynasty. Russia, with Austria and Germany, opposes any discussion at The Hague of the question o1 limitation o? arma.^ | Tnanto. t ' I parcel, aud then went up to my room "I was going to clean out somi stuff In my room, some sulphurii acid, chlorate of potash and sugai and plaster paris and some othe: things, and when I emptied this acic out of the bottle into the washbowl : put the bottle in my pocket and i minute or so afterward there was t flash like a gun and I felt like it ton my coat all to pieces, and I wai afraid it would attract the attentioi of the people In the hotel, and I re membered then that ,1 had left j giant cap in there a few days before an old one, and I was going to tr; and see if it was good and I forgo it, and when I put the bottle in there there was a little acid there that fel out on the cap and it went off. took off my coat and put on anothe: coat that I had there and hurrle< down stairs and went into the dininj room to dinner." The effect on his hearers was con fusing. Many believed he told somi truth with many lies. The jury wai the most phlegmatic of all. At n< time did any member seem to shov interest. Haywood and his kinsfolk listenec quietly to the long recital, and abou their first show of feeling was one o amusement when Richardson begai his onslaught and brought out Or chard's domestic crimes. Under rapid-fire cross-examinatioi of Richardson, counsel for Haywood Orchard was subjected to a grilling for five hours under which an ordi nary witness would have gono t< pieces. That he is not an ordinarj witness became apparent early ir the proceedings and his narrative o: murder and assassination was no shaken on any material points. He admitted he was a powdei thief, an ore thief, a bigamist, a mur derer, a stool pigeon for the min< I owners' detectives, the fountain heac ! of crime in the district. He admittec he was a detective of the mine own ers'. secret service in Colorado ii 1903 before he had been six month) in the camp and before he had mad( the acquaintanoe of Haywood, Moyei or Pettibone. Orchard admitted that the firsi time he met the officials of the Fed eration in Denver the trip was taker at the suggestion of K. C. Sterling chief of the mine owners' secret ser vice, and D. C. Scott, railroad and Citizens' Alliance detective. The lat ter paid all the expenses and accompanied Orchard to Denver. Orchard introduced, himself to Haywood anc Moyer. The understanding between Scott and Orchard was that Orchard should "get next" to Moyer and Haywood and connect them in some way witl the violence in Cripple Creek. Orchard's admissions that he ha: been faithless to every man an' every woman with whom he was dr terms of friendship, betrayed botl sides in the mine war, killed cighteer persons and said he was sorry he did not kill more, has somewhat shat tered the confidence of friends of the tl.'rt ?ftlA nn o /lafanfira xtro c O Id IU. 1113 l UlC ao a, ?u nu? presented in the afternoon. It was due to the fact that he had not beer paid for killing McCormick and Beet and had not been selected to wreck a train. CALL FOR 'KNOX. Pennsylvania Republican State Convention Indorses Him For President. Harrisburg, Pa.?The indorsement of United States Senator Knox for President; the nomination of John G Sheatz, of Philadelphia, for State Treasurer, and the adoption of a platform indorsing the policies and administration of President Roosevelt were the net results of the Republican State Convention. The platform also commends the course of the Fifty-ninth Congress; indorses the action of Senators Penrose and Knox and the Pennsylvania delegation in that Congress, particu1 larly in upholding the hands of President Roosevelt; declares adherence to the principle of protection tc American labor, American industries and American products; commends the administration of Governor Stuart! indorses the work of the recenl Legislature, and demands speedj prosecution of those who profited bj the alleged frauds in furnishing and equipping the r-w State Capitol. ' UNWRITTEN 7xAW FOR NEGRO. White Southern Jury Frees Him Foi Vengeance in Home Circle. Columbia, S. C.?The unwritten law was applied to John Jacobs, a negro, by a whi'e jury in the Circuit Court of Richland County, acquitting him of murdering his wife, Bessie Jacobs, and her paramour, John Johnson, on the night of May 5. Jacobs went home on that night, and, finding his honor compromised, killed both by beating in their hsada with, a hammer. He interposed the tomnni-aru insnnitv. hut the JJiCU. KJL c, jury was appealed to on the plea ol the unwritten law, and this is what it based its verdict on after fifteen minutes' consultation. The verdict was cheered by the large number of negroes present. LITTLE GIRLS TAKE POISOX. Two Children Relieve Grandparents of a "Burden." Cleveland, Ohio.?To relieve theii grandparents of the burden of sunporting them, two sister3, Margaret Curtis, ten, and Helen Curtis, eleven, mixed arsenic with their food and swallowed it. They died later in St. John's Hospital. This was the fifth time they had tried to end their lives, and Mrs. Helen Curtis, their grandmother, says they inherited a suicidal mania. Their mother Is dead and their father is in Marysville, Kan. Helen M. Gongar Dead. Heleil M. UOUgar, mtr nvvjii auunu temperance leader and lecturer dropped dead at her Iiome at Lafayette, Ind., of heart failure. Miss Gougar was born.at Hillsdale, Mich. July 18, 1S 4 3. Governor's Views on Merger. Governor Guild announced to the Legislature of Massachusetts the proposed merger of the Boston anc Maine and the New York, New Haver and Hartford railroads, and urged laws against the watering of stock. TRIAL BY JURY FOR TRUSTS John R. Dos Passos Proposes Amend mcnts to Sherman Act. Washington. D. C.?John R. Do: Passos, of New York City, nas wru [ ten to President PLOOsevelt submit ting proposed amendments to th< Sherman Anti-Trust law. He say: J the matter of the trusts must be tak I en out of politics. Mr. Dos Passos proposes that thi act, contract or combination allego< must be Injurious to the public to b illegal and must be passed upon by ; 1ury. 0 ' ' /. ' ; FATAL STORMS RAGE | IN TWO STATES i 1 ; Hood in Kentucky and Tornadoes ; in Illinois Wreck Small Towns. j nninuiiii i r i/u (Mirrrno ainrt 3 uitflut villi., i\t.,durrcka muai s ?: * Creek Rises Out of Its Banks and Crushes Houses?Water Piled 1 Up to a Height of Ten Fee< j Rushes on the Village. 5 Louisville.?As the result of violent storms In widely separated ' parts of Kentucky, Illinois and In-. 5 diana at least twenty-nine persons j were killed, many were seriously in? ' jured, and great damage was done, j Gradyvllle, in Adair County, Ky.. t suffered most from a flood which f killed fully twenty-one persons. A 1, tornado killed five persons in New Minden, 111., about twenty-five miles j southeast of St. Louis, and another , killed three persons in York, 111., on ; the Indiana border, about twentv five miles southwest of Terre Haute. : Gradyville, a village which had ? 175 inhabitants, lies in a valley l through which runs Big Creek. The f stream normally is only a few feet t deep, and along its banks were many houses and several business buildr ings. Rain began to fall about 10 o'clock i and, near midnight, an almost solid 1 stream of water descended above 1 Gradyville and poured into Big - Creek. The water piled up to a l height of ten feet, and this wall of 3 water rushed down upon the town., 3 Everything was swept before the ? rush of water. Six houses, a mill and some smaller buildings were knocked t to pieces. Four persons were crushed in the debris and the others i were drowned. , The dead are: Mrs. L. C. Nell, wife of State Senator Nell, and four I children; Mrs. Lum Hill and one child; Mrs. Carl Wilmore, daughter .. and granddaughter; Paul Wilson;: I Mrs. Hartfleld Moss and six children; 1 Mrs. J. W. Keltner and -one child; Miss Mary Moss. t State Senator Nell, who is a phyl sician, escaped because he was out I attending a patient when the flood i :ame. The tornado struck New Minden i and destroy 3d a number of cottages. ! The German Lutheran Church was i badly damaged, the roof being blown i off. The church bell was hurled i through the large pipe organ below. I The parochial school adjoining the church was demolished. i Henry Weihe, his wife and two i children were killed In their home. i A child of Carl Stuhmeyer was killed i and his wife seriously hurt. ; The tornado broke over York, 111., : while most people were at supper. Entire families were buried in ruins of houses. , The Methodist Protestant Church was demolished. The proprietor of a saloon was hurled through the door into a hedge fifty feet away. Many horses and cattle were blown into the Wabash River. The loss to property i in York is about $150,000. The dead are: * | Henry Rook, blown sixty feet and [ struck by flying timbers. N L Mrs. Luclnda Pinkerton, blown . 700 feet into a treetop. Mrs. John Bostick, buried in ruina of home. , Heavy damage was caused at Grayville, Ind., just east of York. The home, of James Layton was demol' ,ished. : v E. H. HARRIMAN DIMUNE. , Decision Reached at White House i Conference on Trust Question. 1 Washington, D. C. ? That E. H. [ Harriman is immune from criminal ' prosecution as the result of his testit mony before thelnterstate Commerce ! Commission in New York recently, that the question of prosecution of bituminous coal carrying railroads should be left in the hands of the At* torney-General, and that prosecution of the anthracite <y>al rjads will begin in Philadelphia, were conclusion? reached at a notable conference held at the White House. The Harriman case and the cases of the coal carrying roads were discussed for three hours by President Roosevelt, five members of the Cabinet, two members of the Interstate Commerce Commission and special counsel foi the Government. PUBLIC UTILITIES BII/L FAbSiil* ! Wisconsin Assembly Rejects Referen* ; dum Provision in Measure. Madison, Wis.?The Assembly passed the Public Utilities Regulation bill, conferring on the State ! Railroad Commission the power to regulate the rates and service of all heat, water power and light companies of the State. The bill was passed under suspension of the rules after an amendment proposed by Assemblyman Carl D. Thompson, of nui?,?,,i,oo RnMnI nemnr.rat. attach | lUiiivauauw^ muv.W. ?- ~ ? - ? ?, . ing a referendum provision to it, had been rejected. The measure is the most stringent evar passed by any | State in the Union. | Pennsylvania's Big Loss. ' There was a decrease of $1,2C9, 300 in the net earnings of the Penn' sylvania Railroad and its allied lines in the four months which ended or April 30. King Leopold Exonerated. ' The report on Congo conditions de > manded by the parliamentary commission was made public at Brussels. 1 It exonerates King Leopold and gen erally defends the methods of administration. Stock Exchange Sea^ls at Low Ebb. A Stock Exchange seat was report I ed sold in New York City at $75,000, i which is the lowest price since lasi I i summer, and $4000 below the price reported at the last previous sale. Femir.Ene Notes. Miss Helen Gculd is in Venice. A woman sixty-five years old has just entered Vassar College as a ? freshman. Sarah Orne Jewett recently res reived a legacy of $20,000 from Mrs. g Susan B. Cabot. * The pope has sanctioned the long debated proposal to establish a j Roman Catholic college for women at i Oxford. e Women are endowed with full vot-; a | ing privileges in the States of Col-; I nrafln Wvnminz. Montana and Utah?i J ? ? ?