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II* ?? n^?????? THE CANDLE. 44Nor do men light a candls and p?_ it under a bushel"?-Matt. 5:15. lYoar candle is so small, so small. It makes scarce any light; The feeble word you may let fall. Has neither strength nor might? 'And there be many greater ones Who outshine you by far. !As do the sky-illuming suns Outcrow the farthest star? But of all good sounds ever heard There is none half so fair Ah one unealculated word That soothes some dim despair. And what a dull sky it would be If all the points of light [Were gone, and we might only 6ee * 1 The suns of wondrous might. He who holds up his little flame ( , Knows not what straining eye? May iind it guiding them from shams J-nto a paradise; All may not climb the lofty steep, I All may not lead the throng. But each may shelter and may keep Aglow some word or song. 1 iWe know not how our candle gleams, It may be sconced in gold. Or it may send its cheerinc gleams From some cup worn and old. And that, which fate has held apart From pathways wide and grand, May glow with light whica rinds a heart ' Attuned to understand. ' ( The little word, the little smile, _The little song you know? I These make tne canaie an ine wnue That we must keep aglow, 1 'And we may think ita trembling light , Unnoticed by all eyes? J3ut there is greater dark of night \ When that lone candle dies. < ?W. D. Nesbit, in St. Louis Republic. fmuml V 1 ^ By HERBERT COOUCCE. ^ To the east of Mount Shasta lies i the country that was once Lanook's. "There in the days of his youth he ; chased deer and antelope and led his , people against -the marauding Modocs. The valleys are all fenced and ] farmed now, and Lanook in many j respects is "all same white man." But lie loves the old wild Indian days, loves to roam again in the land , of youth and strength and achievement The old man was a daily vis- ( itor when I lived in the country that once was, his, and time and time . again he would bare his forearm and knee, show me the deep, livid scars of a grizzly's teeth, and tell me the following story. ( Long before the whites came he and Nishka, now many years dead, were returning from Pitt River with -a big catch of salmon strung on a pole carried on their shoulders. ( Nishka walked ahead. Before them ran Lanook's little dog. clearing the path of chipmunks and squirrels. As they descended a slope which overlooks Fall Valley, they heard the IP i n OTQI f foQT UlUC UU? JCip a-J ll 1U 1VUI , and saw bim burst from a manzanita i thicket. He was pursued by a giant ] grizzly bear. Nishka fled. Lanook scrambled up ( the nearest tree, a scrubby juniper. ] The bear followed the dog straight for the master's perch, until, catching sight of Nishka's buckskin garments flitting through the brush, he turned and gave him chase. 1 Lanook, with breath held and eyes "bulging, watched his friend's flight. He was racing like the wind, but it 1 was as if a toddling baby should at- , tempt to outrun his father. The ] great slouching brute gained as if the , fleet Indian had been hobbled; in al- ( most no time he was close upon him. j The poor fellow, in despair, dodged, j barely escaped the beast's claws, and , made a dive into a laurel thicket. j The bear crashed after?then all was . silent. . , """The^silence awoke Lanook. He leaped from his tree, gathered up ] tho how he had thrown aside before < I climbing, and ran to Nishka's rescue. The bear must have heard the rush , of moccasins on the trail, for as Lanook drew within close arrowrange, the grizzly emerged from the < thicket and reared on his haunches, i -baring teeth that were dripping blood. l^anook greeted him with two ar- i rows, then fled for his tree. The hear, wounded and furious, chased him as he had chased his friend, ( with the fearful speed no man could equal. Nevertheless, the Indian reached his juniper and ran un it like a chipmunk, this time retaining his hold on his bow. In a pouch hung from his neck Lanook carried poison made from black spiders, the fang-sacs of a rattlesnake and juice of wild parsnips; and while the grizzly pursued the howling cur round the tree, he tipped three arrows with this death-dealing ointment. The juniper which Lanook hal climbed was the first tree: at har.d? not at all the one he would have chosen to escape a grizzly. Stout branches projected from the very ground; besides, the tree tapered abruptly, and was not very tall. Round and round it raced the dog. Finally he made a quick dash, d:?-ted into a big patch of deer brush, and there succeeded in eluding his r*-irsw3r. Soon the grizzly c?.me back to the tree, squatted on tiis bauncnes. ana satflercely watchingtheIndian. Then, his breath recovered, he stood upright on his hind legs, and stretched a terrible, claw-horned paw upward. And how he did stretch! Lanook said it was as if the animal's limbs pulled out a hand's length at each joint. He climbed till he feared the tapering treetop would break. The bear soon gave up the reaching idea and began to climb. In this he was as awkward as he had been agUe in the chase; but with the lower branches affording support for hind and forepaws. it seemed likely that he could work his way upward. The great weight of the brute made the little tree bend alarmingly, . "he* ifriorfYlorl O n fl ' dUU **UO*l iit *? 1 4 CC1 U.UI& UUVUVU, both of which he did very violently, l.anook felt like an ant on a spear o? grass whipped by the wind. Hope left the Indian; in its place came desperate resolution. He descended as far as he dared, fitted one of the poisoned arrow to his bow, and waited. The bear ceased his struggles a moment, and threw back his head to look upward. Quick as the snake strikes, Lanook buried one arrow, then another, in his shaggy breast. The tree lurched so then from the bear's furious climbing that the third arrow flew wide of the mark, and splintered itself on the stony ground. Lanook dropped nis Dow, gave a flying leap, and ran. still without hope, for his life. He surprised himself with his rut.' ning, and the bear surprised him with his awkwardness in getting disentangled from the tree. Lanook was a long way down the slope and buoyant with hope before the chase began. Filled with new strength, he sped onward like a bird. The ravine he had chosen for a runway was smooth-bottomed and clear of brush; the descent wa3 gentle?just right for a long, sweeping stride. And yet the grizzly gained, at first by leaps and bounds, as a rolling rock bears down on one embedded; then he came on with ipsspTietl snppfl. hut. still sainine. When he was close behind, Lanook's second wind came, and he began to pull away from the bear rapidly. He knew then that the poison from his arrow-tips was working in the blood of his enemy, and hope grew strong within him. Had his runway remained dear, Lanocfk could have escaped easily, but fortune favored the bear. For the ravine suddenly became blocked with brush, and the Indian narrowly escaped being scaught in a corner. As it was, the bear was crowding him close before he could get out of the gully. Here the brush was thinner, but he had to take a winding course to avoid bushes and thickets, while his pursuer crashed straight through or over everything. The bear was at hi3 heels in no time, and Lanook, to protect his head and chest from the beast's claws, threw himself on his back and kicked out with both feet. The grizzly seemed stupid and sluggish, but nevertheless made a savage dive at the Indian, and buried his teeth in his leg just above the knee. Lanook began throwing dirt into the enemy's face, whereupon the grizzly released his leg and caught him by the forearm. Still undaunted, the Indian sent a handful of dust and fine gravel fairly into the brute's eyes. Half-blinded, the bear backed away, pawing his eyes furiously. Lanook filled his fist with dirt, and lay motionless, waiting. But the bear never returned to him. He conunuea oaciuug auuui ami i uuuiu^ his eyes, and finally retreated into the thick brush, scratched a shallow' hole there, and lay down. There he was found the next day by Lanook'8 tribesmen, stone-dead, i Lanook managed to drag himself back to the trail, where he was shortly discovered by another party of fishermen, and carried home. Nishka was found and cared for also. He had feigned death throughout the bear's attack, and although crippled, lived to tell his children's children of Lanook, his friend and rescuer, and af his battle with the giant grtzzly bear.?From Youth's Companion. HE'S THE WHOLE CREW. Skipper Hall the Cook and the Mate and the Bo's'n Bold of the Angler. Captain Parker J. Hall, of Nantucket, skipper of the two masted schooner Angler, is his own mate, 3teward and crew. His stated reasons for it are not that he is moody Dr fond of his own company, or that it is more economical, but simply Lhat, because of an impediment in his speech, he feels that he can think >ut and execute his own orders more rapidly than any crew could understand him if he tried to talk. Captain Hull is a native of Duxbury, Mass., but his home is his schooner, and on board her his young wife goes about her housekeeping iuties just the same as she would were it an ivy grown cottage. The Angler nerself is no chicken, :?va the Rnstnn Herald She was built in 1854 and her owner found ber an abandoned hulk, half buried in the sand. He bought her for next to nothing, fitted her with second hand spars and began to make a living and a name for himself in the coastwise trade. His brother mariners find fault with him fpr recklessness, on the ground that his holding irons are not big enough. Skipper Hall is forced to put up with anchors much lighter than those of the average craft of the Angler's build carries, because it would be impossible for any one man to raise the heavy kind unaided. i-ie recently macie a recora run across the Sound under full sail and came up into anchorage iu fine shape, before the admiring gaze of half the town. To enter the harbor dkipper Hall had to make a run through the heavy ice between the jetties at the bar. The drift of open water was very narrow, and the revenue cutter Gresham ran down to see if she could bo of any possible assistance. The crew of the Gresham are talking yet of the surprise their captain got when he saw one man bringing a two masted schooner through the narrow drift. Giants and Dwarfs. In life giants are usually weakminded, as well as frail of body, and as a rule they do not live long. Dwarfs, on the other hand, are often nimble witted and stand a good chance of longevity. An Austrian empress in the seventeenth century took the whim to round up all the giants and\dwarfs in her empire and turn them in together. Apprehension was fslt that the big ones would terrify the small ones, but it was tho other way. The giants were compelled to ask for protection from the impisn nitixs ut taw uwiins, uiiu i,u?> had to be separated before peace reigned among thein.?Philadelphia Telegraph. Hybrid Golf and Fish Story. Some time ago a northern golfer drove a ball a fine, low, skimming nV?r*f oorACi? i rii.'Dr Tticf n c? tlia Ko 11 was nearly over a salmon leaped at the ball and caught it la its mouth. Such was the pace of the ball that it carried the salmon on to the river's bank, where it was immediately secured with the ball tightly wedged in itg teeth.-r-Golf Illustrated. IN THE PU DAVID JOSIAH Associate Justice of the Supreme WITCH HANGING. < Home of One of the Victims May | Change Owners. There is not in all New England ? a house having sadder associations ( than those that cluster around the T old Rebecca Nourse house, in Dan- j vers, Mass., twenty miles from Bos- j ton. One cannot read any extended 1 account of the terrible witchcraft ] days in Massachusetts without find- { ing some account of Rebecca Nourse, ( who was taken from this house to die j because she was supposed to be a { WltCQ. The Nourse house is one of the oldest houses in New England. The exact date of its erection is not known, but it Is believed that it was built as early as the year 1635. The builder was a man named Bishop, and he sold it to Francis Nourse. Rebecca Nourse was the wife of Francis Nourse. She was arrested in this I ^^ r ^ ^ ^ ! The Rebecca Nourse House. (A memento of the famous witch banging days in New England. It nay soon be purchased by an historical society.) house on the charge of being a witch, on March 23, 1692. Of course, the poor woman protested her innocence, but this did not keep the justice before whom she was tried In the nearby town of Salem from committing her to the Salem jail. This jail is still standing, and is now a part of the residence of Abner Goodell, of Salem. Poor Rebecca Nourse remained a | prisoner in the Salem jail, with others accused of witchcraft, until April 11. when she and her unfortunate companions were taken to Boston for trial. The jury brought in a verdict i of not guilty, but the witchcraft de- 1 lusion was at fever heat at that time, 1 and a violent protest was made i against the verdict of the jury. The 1 mob in and out of the courtroom be- < came so Violent and made such i I J STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK IN BAS Coin Holder. As desirable as it may be, it is nevertheless impossible to stack a ; | KlKmn of coins with any degree of assurance that with the least knock I BLIC EYE. BREWER, Court of the United States. threats that the jury withdrew and soon returned with a verdict ot guilty. Rebecca Nourse wa3 then taken sack to jail, and on July 3 following she was led in chains down the isle >f the First Church of Salem, and vas solemnly excommunicated from :he Church of which she had been a laithful member. On July 19 she vas led out to Gallows Hill, in paem, and hanged as a witch, amid he hootings and execrations of the :rowd that had assembled to wit less the aged and infirm woman die .'or crimes it was impossible that she >r any one else could have commit;ed. Hundreds and thousands of strangers have visited the old Nourse louse, but it was not until the yeat L885 .that anything was done to place t permanent mark on the spot. Then he Nourse Monument Association irected a monument to the memory >f Rebecca Nourse on the old homeitead, and now the Danvers Histori:al Society purposes to buy the old louse to use it as a home for the lociety. The house stands a short distance rom Salem's famous Witch Hill. It s on this hill that eight supposed vitches were executed at me time, ind the Rev. Nicholas Noyes said, as nnnr oroafiiroq hlinc in the air! "What a sad thing it is to see eight irebrands of hell hanging there!" The Rev. Nicholas seems to have njoyed the spectacle; and when he witted one of the women with being l witch she turned on him and said, vitii pardonable fury: "You are a liar! I am no more a vitch than you are a wizard; and if 'ou take away my life God will give rou blood to drink!" Caviare Grows Dearer. Frequenters of the principal Lonlon restaurants are not a little fretul at the sudden rise in the price of :avlare. It has jumped so suddenly hat the worst is feared. Is the supply coming to an end? ,ney 3.SK. illy 10 uuw ooiing in London at twenty-two shillings l pound, whereas at the beginning )? the war between Russia and Japan t was only ten shillings. The reason put forward is that as i result of the great w^r the sturgeon Ishery fell into a state of compara:ive disuetude. There is apparently 10 lack of sturgeon, but the fishery ias not been worked lately, so Lon3on< is crying out at the increase it 1 price of more than 100 per cent. OBISPO CUT. PANAMA CANAL. they will not fall down and probably go rolling in all directions. The disadvantage of most coin holders made for the purpose is the necessity of having separate holders for each sized coin. A California man has de signed a coin holder which will hold coins of any size, as shown in the illustration. It is made of two pieces of spring wire, bent to shape and pivoted together. The top of one piece of wire serve3 as a holder for the catch on the other piece, so that the two sections can be interlocked. The coins are stacked in the holder, and the sections clasped as stated. It is impossible for a single coin to become loosened, nor UclU HU.y UC lcmuvcu nivuuub ing the clasp. The coins can also be thus stacked in rows without fear of being easily knocked over.?Washington Star. The English wife of a Chinese "magician" summoned him for desertion. He explained that she had grown so stout tnat it was now impossible for him to perform his trick ot turning her into a duck. MUTINEERS SURRENDER ! TO FRENCH ARTILLERY Whole Army Poured Into Disaf- j fected Winegrowing District PREMIER CLEMENCEAU UPHELD ( Chamber Cheers as Civil War Cloud , Blows Over?Battalion Marched Into Beziers, Where the Inhabitants Gave Them Food. Paris, France.?Six hundred and seven men of the Seventeenth In- ] fantry Regiment deserted with arms and ammunition near Beziers, in the Department of Herault, and jointed the insurgent winegrowers. , On receipt of the news General Bailloud entrained for Beziers with artillery and other troops. This display of force cowed the mutineers and the battalion agreed , to return to the regiment. After the terroristic events of the day before thfe aspect of Narbonne next day was comparatively calm. Soldiers were everywhere in such great force that the inhabitants were at least temporarily coerced into inactivity. The wreckage resulting from the riots still litters the streets 1 and all the stores and banks are closed and barred. Two additional regiments of infantry and two of cavalry arrived at Narbonne during the morning and , detachments of artillery are on their , way there. The authorities of Narbonne have , I ffOn rt/1 Ara f Vi n + nrvAnifin miifno I looucu ui uuio tuai? o^/ov/iuv ivuico must be followed by those attending the funerals of the riot victims in the afternoon. The routes will be entirely isolated by troops in the hope of thus preventing dangerous demonstrations. The grave view the French capital takes of the revolutionary events in the sotith of France and the tragic outcome was evidenced by. the scene in the Chamber of Deputies when the Government was interpellated H)n the measures it proposed to take to re-, establish order. " Premier Clemenceau lost no time in imparting to the Deputies the news from Narbonne, adding to the information already published the fact that over a hundred sojdiers were wounded in the fighting with' the rioters.. The peasants from the surrounding villages, terrified at the shooting, took the-first trains for ' their homes. >> Then, amid impressive silence, the Premier gave the official version of the mutiny of the battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry and its march 1 to Beziers, and concluded by demand- 1 ing a vote of confidence in the Gov- 1 ernment, so that the Ministers could j r:arry out the work of repression on which in the future so much de^ 1 pended. ? The Opposition Deputies fiercely attacked the Government, accusing 1 the Ministers of sending agents to stir up the populace in the South, asserting that the Cuirassiers acted j like Cossacks, that the troops fired without provocation and without notification, and that women and children had been slaughtered, and insisted that the release of M. Ferroul, ex-Mayor of Narbonne, would alone restore calm. Otherwise, one of the speakers asserted, "the bloody rioting of to-day will be the revolution of to-morrow:" ? ? * - - ^ ?~ Ux-Minister -or u.umineixe muiciand's denunciation of M. Cfemenceau was particularly violent, but fell flat, as he is strongly suspected of a desire to succeed to the Premiership. After six hours' debate the Chamber decided by 327 to 223 votes to support the) Cabinet. Details of the mutiny in Herault show that a battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry Regiment sent from Beziers to Agde on account of the soldiers' sympathy with the local winegrowers, mutinied there, raided the magazine, filled their pouches with cartridges, and with fired bayonets and flags flying marched out of Agde and entered Beziers. When notified of the mutiny General Croiaade, commanding the Sixty-first Brigade, met the mutineers at Villeneuve and attempted to persuade them to return to duty. "SnirUprs" he commanded, "kill me or obey me!" The soldiers replied that they had no desire to kill, the General, but were determined to return to Beziers. A detachment of gendarmes tried to bar the road, but after the mutineers had fired a volley in the air they were permitted to pass. The mutineers, although without officers, marched into Beziers in perfect order at 6 o'clock a. m., the cheers of the local crowds mingling with the rolling of the drums and the strains of the bugles. The people gave the mutineers the warmest welcome and furnished them with ample provisions and supplies of straw, upon which the tired soldiers threw themselves, after stationing pickets and proclaiming their determination to defend their lives in the event of being attacked. Colby Football Player Drowned. While boating with a fellow student and twi young women on the Messalonskee River at Waterville, Me., Oscar B. Peterson, fullback of the Cblby College football eleven last fall, was drowned. Peterson and another of the party in attempting to change seats upset the boat. Peterson was to be graduated next week. New Government For Des Moices. By an overwhelming majority the citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, have adopted a new plan of government. It provides for five elective commissioners, one to act as mayor and the others as heads of departments. All m *" ?* A rt nnni n + ! tto OtUer omcsrs arc luauc a^^umta? w. I New Records in Pig Iron. The production of pig iron continues making n^w' records without depressing prices, and the cotton mill:: have contracts assuring activity far into the future. Feminine Notes. Paris society has been shocked by a society ho3tees giving a cockfight in her conservatory. Dov/ager Queen Margaret of Italy has offered a cup as a prize for successful balloon passage of the Alps. The Women's League and the United Women of America were at war nver the olatforms of their du plicate clubs. Lawyer Ezra A. Tuttle offered to give the womeu teachers, of New ,York 91000 to form a union, to fight for equal ray. ^ :v V -J .. . v LflTtE GIRL'S BODY f BURIED I1T HE, Irwin Lewis, of Landenberg, Pa, Accusftd of Murder. R CORPSE DUG UP ON HIS FARM Child Lay on Her Face in a Shallow a Grave, With Cloth Over Her j. Head and Gagged, Under Earth a Packed Down. p \ r West Chester, Pa.?Five-year-old Mary Robbins Newlin, of Landenberg, v who it was thought had been kid- v naped, was buried alive, according * ta the appearance of the body, which a was dug up on the farm of her step- t father. 4 Irwin Lewis, the young stepfather, ? Is held until the finding ?1 the Cor- f oner's jury. He asserted nis mno- p cence, and when in collapse and rav- ? lng repeated his protestations that he was not guilty, It is the conclusion of the autopsy physicians that the fair-haired child, one of the prettiest thecountry round, was not dead when buried. From all appearances she was seized from behind and gagged with a burlap bag. This tough cloth was then pulled over her head and down on hor neck, where it was tied with a tough hempen string. While the girl's streams were stifled she was thrown face down into a ready made grave. As she lay on her face the grave was filled and the earth packed down. The girl disappeared several days ago, but the family said nothing. This delayed the search, it excited the suspicions of District Attorncr W. W. McElree, of Chester County, and members of the family were questioned separately. Lewis announced with conviction, seemingly, that his stepdaughter had been kidnaped. ThexDistrict Attorney becan to feel doubtful of the man. Some weeks ago William Sheller. a farm hand on the Lewis place, sa;-; ^ he noticed that Lewis had dug two ? holes in the ground that were shaped like graves. Shelley asked Lewis '< what the holes were for, and he an9wered that he intended to fill them 1 with refuse. While harrowing In 2 the field back of ue barn hi? work 1 brought Shelley close to the hole that 1 Lewis had left open. He noticed that T the hole had been filled; up. He c asked a friend, John W. O'Brien, Jr., ' to help him do a little digging. * The men threw away the earth 2 with spade3, and they had cone down I only nine inches when they uncovered I a part of the little white pique dress 1 and the end of a child'i patent leather belt. No longer doubting they ( had discovered the body, Shelley and c O'Brien again covered the grave. 1 Then they started on horses fc. t>a 8 District Attorney,v only to meet hjm 1 on the road bound for the Lewis J farm. There were 400 men around the ? grave, and a silence fell, broken only by the sound of tne'diggars. The District Attorney waited until a chubby fist stuck out of the ground * and tnen he again charged Lewis with murder. Again Lewis denied. this time more vehemently than be- . fore. Men pressing close and looking . Into the grave began to sob and emo- ^ tion spread through the crowd untl 5 the only man apparently unaffected . was Lewis. I!e stood beside' the I grave, his face, set like marble, his ) mouth 1rawn -iralght and tight, his ,j eyes cold and hard and his. fists , clinch- * bef^ > him. j TUTOR STABS PUPIL. I ( l i Iravers J. Edmonds, of Cheshire ' School, Wounds C. O. Freeman. - j Waterbury, Coan.?Frantic with 1 fear that he was about to be hazed ] by his pupils, Travers J. Edmunds, a young instruc' r in ^English at the 1 faTnous old Cheshire School, In ^ Cheshire, stabbed Calvert O. Free- 1. man, of Medford, Mass., a member off the graduat.ug class. The youth 1 was sent to the school hospital with ^ his parents at his side. The instruc- j . _ al. i.V - I tor was place in me me guo^u; , Constable Daly at the Town Hall. J At the annual pajama dance of the seniors around the campus bonfire, I several of-the youths playfully sprang at Edmunds, who fought vigorously | Then there was a scream and : ;ung , Freeman came reeling out of tl i ] melee with two wounds In his back. , He was hurried to the Infirmary, ( where it was found he had been < stabbed with an ordinary pocket' , knife. ' i Instructor Edmunds is a resident j of Lebanon, Ohio. He wa9 graduat- j ed from Yale in 1906. 1 BANKERS SENTENCED TO JAIL. ( Convicted of Attempt to Defraud j Government as to Lands. 1 Omaha, Neb.?Because they con- i spired to defraud the Government out of a half million acres of open ( range lands, Thomas M. Huntington j and A. B. Todd, prominent cattlemen | and bankers of this State, were sentenced to pay a fine of $1000 and serve three months in Jail. Fred Hoyt, Indicted and tried at the same * A-iArtA All +V. 1 time, was nnea jivwu. nu miw took appeals at once. Todd Is sixty- 1 Ave years old and in bad health. Hl9 ] attorneys say imprisonment prac- < tically means death to him. i Hard Times Prediction Disputed. ] Frank A. Vanderlip, addressing the Virginia State bankers at the James- < town Exposition, predicted an era of hard times, but most business men interviewed for the New York World in the various centres of the United 1 States saw nothing ahead but con- . tinued prosperity. Progress in Haywood Case. Judge Wood, at Boise, Idaho, refused the motion of the defense to instruct the jury to acquit Haywood, ! The State rested its case. Government Has Secret Report. A copy of a secret report of the , proceedings of the Advisory Committee of the Immigrant Bureau of tho Western Passenger Association fell into Government hands. It supplied information on which the freight and passenger traffic pools of the great trunk line railroads and the , Steamship Trust can now be at tuuiveu. Kansas Tornado Kills Two Children. A tornado at Seminole, Kan., demolished the house of A. Q. t?ett, a farmer, and fatally injured two of his young children. IEAR-END GRASHKILLSIWAKY assenger Flier Dashes Into a Crowded Work Train at Hartford. ? ' ' I len on Work Train Believed They Had Right of Way?Railroad Officials Silent. Hartford, Conn. ? In a railroad ma ah-iir> in the home section Of* lartford nine workmen were killed nd thirty-five injured, some fatally, t passenger train cn the Highland Mvision of the New York,, New Ha en and Hartford Railroad ran into a rork train which was backing into be city and crushed the cars. The work train had been out with gang of men who were repairing racks, and was bringing part of hem from New Britain. It had ixty-five men aboard when it left hat city, and had dropped about fteen of them at intermediate t oints. The engineer and conductor f the work train understood that hey had the right of way on Track lo. 2 until 7 o'clock, as the other rack had been used for traffic dur- , Qg the day, in order to give opporunlty for the repairs. Near the Sigourney street crossing, where there is a sweeping curve, he passenger train, which had gathred good speed as it came out of - ~J? 1 Mr> t ut; aiaiiuu, ap^caicu uu nav/a. a?w. !. Both engineers tried to stop, but hey had* little time, and the trains ame together in a bad smash. # Some if the trainmen and workmenumped, but most of those on thel york train were caught. The en-: fine of the passenger train tore hrough tba cars and piled up on top >f the debris. Dead and injured were scattered liong the street for some distance, >ut many men were caught under the vreckage. The survivors and men rom neighboring houses quickly itarted the work of rescue, and they vere soon joined by scores of others. Tire started in the wreckage, and he firemen were summoned. After luenohing the flames they became escuers, and with axes and saws vorked 'hard until the arrival of a quad of fifty railroad wreckers. Is one instance it took an hour ind a half to rescue one workman vho was pinned between trucks. His lead was hanging down backward, ind he suffered agony. The rescuera cept encouraging him while doctors * ^ eached between the framework vhich held him and treated wound? :j in his face and head. 1 When the train left New Britain here were sixty-five ' workmen iboard. Before the rescue was com- - ; J )lete darkness set in, torches- were >rocured and the men continued tc __ abor for the remaining dead. Coroner Calhoun, of Hartford bounty, held a preliminary inquest >n the scene,, and will summon wit* lesses for the regular hearing, when , / in effort will be made to fasten the flRnrmsitailitv on the train dispatchet >f the Highland division. Superin* indent Pollock arrived late on th<? scene, bu.t refused to talk. 4 KILLED; 40 INJURED. If. Y. Central Pansenger and Freight Trains Collide at High Speed. Rochester, N. Y.?In a head-on col? ision between a passenger train and i freight train on the Auburn Division of the New York Central Rail-oad, a mile east of Pittsford, four persons w^-r-e..killed and forty injured. 3everal of" the injured will also die. The trains were both running at a Ugh rate of speed. The passenger . :rain was No. 23') and left Rochester it 10.30 o'clock at night. The impact when the two engines came- together crushed the passenger coaches into splinters, and men and women were hurled through the air. As soon as news of the accident oanhorf this r.itv a snecial train was made up, carrying Trainmaster S. P. Emery and hi? assistant. Michael Welsh. On the train were several physicians. All of the physicians of Pittsford were pressed into service. Among the injured is Engineer James Lyon, and also his son, tfho was in the cab with him. Both vere fatally hurt. / 'i SLAIIT BY BLACK HAITEX 1 Ransom Refused, Captors Strangle Eight-Year-Old Child. New Orleans, La.?The finding of the body of Walter Lamana, an jight-year-old Italian boy, who waa kidnaped by the Black Hand two*1 weeks ago, the confessions of several jf the participants and many arrests jxcited this community* and there were rumors of plans for wreaking vengeance on the kidnapers, who? failing in their demand for $6000, jut to death an innocent child when :he pursuit bccame too hot for them.. The body was found twa miles ia' the interior or a Dig swamp near im? :ity? and was headless. He had been' strangled to death and hi? neck apparently broken, causing the head to become separated from the body, when decomposition set in. Th& lead was found. Armed deputies guarded the jail to prevent the lynching of five Italian prisoners, some of whom confessed. Low Bids For-Warships. The bids for the two American Dreadnoughts, at Washington, D. C., were surprisingly low, the Newport News and Fore River shipbuilding companies being the probable winners. ROCKED BOAT, FOUR DROWNED. Dne of a Pleasure Party Cost the Ti nt All Mnskezon. Muskegon,1 Mich.?Gus Hammer, Ola Pearson, Lydia Olin and Anna Johnson, all residents of this city, were drowned in Muskegon Lake. The four hired a rowboat for a trip on the lake, and it was capsized. A. party in a launch passed just before the accident and declared that one of the girls was standing up? rocking the boat. Full Wheat Crop Expected. With an aggregate wheat prospect of nearly 635,000,000 . bushels, as,, based on the Government's June re-; port, there will be no reason to expecfcj ? tinnorrv Tnrttiths this vear. To' man j "-w ?-? ? ? bo sure, the promise is 100,000,000(| bushels below last season's record,: but it is over 110,000,000 above the! outturn of 1900 and the condition iai less than four per cent, under the ten-' year average. General Duffield Dead. General W. W. Duffield, said to b?J Columbia's oldest graduate, died tat Washington- D. G