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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
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^ 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.
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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
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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