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published three OSAKA BURNED Thousands Are Homeless in the Japanese City. FAMINE THREATENS The Burned Area Is Four Miles Square, on Which Stood Twenty Thousand Buildings?The Num ber of Casualties Not Known, But the Hospitals Are Filled. A dispatch from Osoka, Japan, says confusion still prevails there as a result of Saturday's disastrous; fire. Thousands of persons are homeless and hunger is staring many of them in the fact. A system of relief has been or ganized by the municipal authori ties, but it is inadequate to supply all needs?. Outside cities and towns are generously sending in contribu tions to be used in alleviating tne suffering of the homeless and des titute. The number of casualties ( has not yet been determined, but hundreds of injured persons are crowding the hospitals. The latest estimate is that 20,000 buildings are destroyed, these includ ing banks, the Stock Exchange, the Museum, Government edifices and factories. While at present it is im possible accurately to state the loss, theBe are given roughly at several million yen. It is feared that some of the insurance companies will fail as a result of the heavy losses they will have to pay. -1 The conflagration lasted more . than twenty-five hours, and the burned section presents a deplorable sight. The streets of the city ar? very narrow, and the houses were mostly of wood construction. Un der a strong breeze therefore the buildings were easy prey for the flames, which jumped from one to another with great rapidity. Once /hope wale almost abandoned (thar the conflagration could be arrested. The firemen fought valently against the odds of lack of water and the. high winds, and many of them fell unconscious while working bravely at their posts. Had not the water supply been curtailed' by the existing drought, It |s believed the fire would have been quenched with out great damage. During the first the greatest con fusion prevailed among the spinning igirls in the factory quarter, but for tunately no serious loss ol! life oc curred there. The belongings of the people who were able to save anything from their burning homes are piled in great heaps along the railroad tracks from Osaka to Kobe, where they were-removed early Saturday morn ing when the fire broke out. In the gray of the dawn of Saturday thousands of .persons heavily laden with household effects were to be seen fleeing across the numerous canal bridges and away from the" fire - .zone. When they had reached plac es of safey, the burdens were laid down and able-bodied members of families returned to 'he city to as sist in fighting the flames, leaving the old people to guard their ef fects from thieves. All day long Sat urday and far Into the night tae people assisted tne firemen and tne troops in quenehi.-jg the confla^ra ti m. An acre of over four miles square, containing some of the city's hand somest structures, including thj Buddish Temple, the largest in the world, was entirely burned. The Stock Exchange, one of the most important in this country, was entirely destroyed. This loss, it is believed, will tend considerably to dislocate the business of Osaka, with its manufacturing concerns, is one of the cheif commercial cities of Japan. Many touching sights were to be seen during the fire. The women were terror stricken, and fled higher and thither with their children, some of whom later cried plteously for food that could not be obtained for them. * Falling Gun Kills Child. At Darlington the children of Mr. Watson Baker, while playing with a watermelon, rolling it around the room, roiled it against a gun that was standing in a corner ol* the room, causing the gun to fall and be discharged. The load entered the breast of the 4-year-old daugh ter of Mr. Raker, killing her in stantly. County Treasurer Resigns. Treasurer Detyens, of Georgetown county, has resigned, and the resig nation was accepted by Gov. Ansel to take effect on August 1. The treasurer was short $6,$00 in his accounts. He has a bond of $20,000, and may be prosecuted. The res ignation takes the matter out of the hands of the governor. Many Revolutionists Shot. A dispatch from Sebastin, Spain, says 10 court martials sat Thursday and Friday and that the number -of revolutionists condemned and snot is estimated at 120. About 3. 000 revolutionists were killed or wounded by machine guns or rifle fire. * TIMES A WEEK. . TRAINS CRASH TEX PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES AND SIXTY ARE HURT. Several of the Heavily-laden Coaches Are Crushed and Occupants Are Hurled Through the Air. Ten persons were hilled and at least 60 were Injured in a head-on collision of two electric trains at Caldwell, Wash., on the Spokane & Island railway late Saturday after noon. i Both trains were going at the rate of about 15 miles an hour. They crashed together without warn ing. The heavily laden coaches were crushed and the men and women In them were thrown from their seats, some being hurled to the tops of the coaches, while others were sent flying through the windows. Sev eral coaches left the track and pas sengers were caught under the brok en wood and steel. Uninjured passengers at once hur ried to telephones to call ai<l. A special train of physicians hurried | from Spokane. Others hurried from Coeur d'Alene and other places. The Coeur d'Alene hospital is now filled with the injured. A partial list of the dead includes: Will Alea, Weuinche, Wash.; Walter Dalqulst, Spokane; A. T. Whitney, an attorney of Memphis, Tenn. Unknown wo-1 man and son. POLICEMAN SHOOTS DETECTIVE. Mistook Hint for a Gambler and Fired on Rim. At Birmingham, Ala., W. M. Bur gee, a city detective, was shot through the lung and probably fatal ly injured during a faid on an al leged gambling house Saturday af ternoon. Detective D. M. Cornett, who accompanied him, was fired up on, but escaped injury. The shoot ing was done by W. M. Waggoner, a special police officers had gained entrance to the house and with pis tols drawn had about 12 men stand ing with their hands up. Burgee" and Cornett, two plain clothes men, came up the steps on their regular rounds and Waggoner, not knowing them, ordered their hands up. Bur gee and Cornett refused and drew pistols. Waggoner then fired quick ly five shots- The special officers were recently secretly employed by the mayor and were not acquainted with members of the regular police force. ? FARMERS' UNION ADJOURNS. Two Important Committees to be Appointed. At the last session of the State Convention of the Farmers' Union held on Friday two very important resolutions were adopted. Both of the resolutions were Introduced by Dr. J. H. Price, of Orangebung, one being: "That the executive committee be instructed to appoint a vigilant legislation committeie, wh|Ose duty It shall be to appear before the committees of the legislature to ad vocate any measure which would, in their judgment be to the interest of the agricultural classes and to op pose any measure detrimental to same." The other was: "That a commit tee,, of three be appointed to meet and formulate plans for financing the cotton crop," the committee being authorized to confer with any capi talist looking to perfecting these plans. The last met with some oppo sition,, but it was finally carried by a large majority. ? Fined a Preacher. At Spartanburg F. L. McElree, a preacher, pleaded guilty before Mag istrate Wetmore to the charge of cruelty to animals, and sentenced to , serve 20 days or pay a fine of $."o. j The case against the preacher was made out by J. B. Lee. president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals, alleging that he beat a mule unmercifully, and failed to give the animal the proper atten tion and feed. * Fell to His Death. At New York the hody Of a man I who pawned the shirt off of his back to get carfare so a< to ob tain work awaits identification In I the morgue. With his coat closely I buttoned about Iiis shirtless body. I he went to work as a window cleaner and a few minutes later fell from a third story window, which he was washing, to the yard and was killed. Shot by His Dog. ! At New York Joseph Talobarian is believed to be dying in a hospital from a gun shot wound received in i a peculiar manner. He laid a fully ; loaded and cocked shot gun on a chair in his home and his pet Span iel, Mercy, sniffed at the weapon and pulled the trigger. Talobarian re ceived the full charge of birdshot in his side. Fatal Kai I road Accident. As a result of a switch engine , dashing into a heavier loaded subur ! ban street car in the southern part of Memphis, Friday morning one person was killed and five injured. * '0 ^ OKANGrEBTJEG. ? GREAT TRIUMPH Aviator Makes Ten mile Flight Carrying Passenger. ALL RECORDS BROKEN The Younger of the Two Famous Brothers Accomplishes the Most Difficult Flight Ever Planned for an Aeroplane, and Meets Success fully the Final Test. A special dispatch from Wasn ington says last Friday evening Orville Wright attained the zenith of hard earned success. In a ten mile cross-country flight in the fa mous aeroplane, ,bu\ilt by himself and his elder brother, Wilbur, and accompanied by Lieut. Benjamin D. Foulois, an intrepid officer of the army signal corps, he not only sur passed the speed requirements of his contract with the United States gov ernment, but accomplished the most difficult and daring flight ever plan ned for a heavier-than-air flying ma chine. Incidentally he broke all speed records over ^ a measured course. And he established beyond dispute the practicability of an aeroplane in time of peace and in time of war. His speed was over 42 miles an hour; he made the ten-mile flight from Fort Myer and back in 14 minutes and forty-two seconds, in cluding the more than twenty sec onds required for the turn beyona the line at Shuter Hill, the south ern end of the course. He attained a height in crossing the valley of Four Mile Run of nearly 500 feet, and the average altitude of his practically level course was about 200 feet above the ground. President Taft, who had become an enthusiastic spectator of the aeroplane trials, although two years ago when Secretary of War, he is said to have expressed to officers profound scepticism as to the ac complishment of such a feat as that of which he saw the completion, ar riving upon the parade grounds at Fort Myer just in time to see the aeroplane land and to participate in the wild demonstration which wel comed the triumphant aviators. He sent an officer to oear his congrat ulations to the victors. A terri?c wind and rain storm early in the afternion seemed provi dentally provided I; clear and quiet the atmospheric v jndiMons in pre paration for the flight, which was delayed only by the failure of the army field telegraph line from Fort Myer to Shuter Hill. It was still out of commission when Orville Wright, seizing the moment of the best weather conditions he had yet had for the speed test, had the ma chine placed on the starting rail and gave the motor a final test. The engine worked perfectly, and the crowd seemed to realize that an epoch-making moment was at hand. They pressed forward against the lines, which held them back breath less, intense, eagerly watching every movement of the aviator and his ma chine. The signal corps detail hoisted the great weight in the start ing derrick which gives the machine its initial impulse. Lieut. Foulois, lithe, wiry, brown as a berry, in his khaki uniform and leggings, at a sign from Orville, climbed into the /passengar'e seat beside the motor. Wilbur ana Charley Taylor, the Wrights' "me chanician," took their places at the propellers. Orville turned on the sparker of the motor, and they whirled the blades around. The mo tor picked up the impetus, Orville' turned on the speed, and for the first time the propellers of tlie Wright aeroplane were whirring at their maximum capacity. The smooth and even song of the engine aroused the crowd to ex cited cheering. Orville clambered into his seal and gripped the levers. Wilbur, at a nod from his brother, slipped the cable which released the weight, the aeroplane shot down the track rose before it reached the end, and skimmed over the surface of the ground for a hundred feei or more. As if drawn up by invisible pow ers, tlie white-winged man-bird rose higher and higher, reached the end of tlie field, turned ;ii a slight angle, and faced a bout. Climbing up as it were on the air, higher and yet higher, Orville brought tie- niacine at great speed once again fully round the field. Then with a short turn be swept about and started southward over the center of the drill field. "They're off." a thousand voices shouted as one. Lige a giant bird circling the sky until it marks its prey, this man bird then darted off toward Shunter Hill, live miles to the south. Unwavering it kept Its straight course, and seemed to be rising even higher, as it passed over the di verse and heavily wooded country in the distance. Soon it was a mere speck against the pearl sky above the horizon. The Finish. Suddenly the speck was lost to view and as the seconds passed a silence grew upon the crowd, a si lence that spoke of deep concern. i. C, TO BS DAY. A?3U COST FIVE LIVES GASOLINE EXPLODES WITH TER RIBLE RESULTS. Five Persons Are Dead, Six Are Injured and Four Are Missing as Outcome of Accident. At St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, an explosion of gasoline, followed by a destructive fire in a four-story building is known to have caused the death of five persons and the in jury of six others. The police believe the bodieB of four others are still in the ruins. A search for bodies was continued late Saturday night. A large quan tity of charred timbers and bricks must be removed before it can be determined whether more of tliem are in the debris. The dead: Rosa Bousaka, 3 years old. Mrs. Gagon, 50 years old. A child supposed to be Clifford Gamble, 3 years old. Two unidentified men. It is reported that Mrs. Gamble, the mother of Clifford Gamble, a supposed victim, is among those buried beneath (the timberte. Ar nold Kuhla, president of the. Kuhlo Manufacturing Company, and a young man named McCauley are also thought to be among: th;se buried. ? It was a gasoline machine invented by Kublo for filling tanks of auto mobiles that caused the explosion. He and McCauley were experiment ing with the machine on the second floor when people in the neighbor hood were brought to their windows by a deafening roar. The explosion blew the building to fragments in an instant, broke windows across the street and set fire to and badly damaged the central police Btation and another adjoining building. Passers-by had narrow escapes. On the top floor of the wrecked buRdUng lived Mrs. Horan, police matron, her adult daughter and two children. Mrs. Horan escaped with slight Injuries, but the daughter and one child are as yet unaccounted for. The property damage is small, the building destroyed being of little value. Chief of Police O'Connor suffered an irrepairable loss In the destruc tion of his private gallery of crooks, a collection of 20,000 pictures which cannot be replaced. BLIND TIGER BOOZE. Crazes a Chester Merchant and He Tries to Kill. A dispatch from Chester to The News and Courier says J. E. San ders, a merchant on Gadsden street, who is ordinarily sober and quiet, while crazed with liquor, tried to shoot the wife of a neighbor, and was on the point of committing other misdemeanors when taken in charge by the police. He was conveyed to the lock-up, but when he reached there was in such a condition as to m'ake it unsafe for him to be kept in that place of confinement through the night. He was carried home, where he soon recovered, and got on his war path again. He was sub dued, however, without further seri ous results. No doubt Sanders had tanked up an blind tiger loaded with cocaine as no whiskey is sold legally in Chester county. * A WHITE FIEND Assaults a White Girl in Lancaster County. It is reported that a young lady living in the Van Wyck section or Lancaster county was criminally as saulted Friday by a prominent young man of Waxhaw, N. C, who has since left the country for parts un known. It is said that the young lady was so overcome with humilia tion that she attempted to commit suicide by taking carbolic acid, and that it was with great dilliculty that her life was saved by physicians. We hope that prominent young Ilend will be caught and that his neck be cracked as soon as he could be tried. * Hanged for Murder. March Washington, colored, was hanged at Greenwlpod Friday for murdering bis paramour. He was about thirty years of age. Every thing passed off quietly, there be ing no hitch in the proceedings. Wilbur Wright, standing with level led glasses beside his sister, stra'ned his gaze in effort to catch sight of the areoplam: when it. should rise again above t he. sky-line. Seconds seemed minutes, and as the inter vale became seemingly alarming, great beads of sweat stood upon his brow, and his agitation was evident. Suddenly the speck came in sight over the distant hill. A cry iwept over tie watching crowd. "There it is." everybody said, and gave a sigh of relief. On it came, growing with the sec onds. It grew and grew, nn'il at last almost every detail was visH.-le. Before you knew it, they were home again over the drill ground, flyirg low. At a height of perhaps twenty feet it swung round again to the southward, and landed easily far down the field. The task was done, and in triumph. ? ST 3, 1909. Mexico shaken Chilpancingo is Destroyed, Aca pulco Partly Razed. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE Loss of Life is not Definitely Known, But is not Thought to be Very Great?Mexico City Saved by Made Ground, on Which it Stands. Shocks Extend Over Large Area. A dispatch from Mexico City says with Chilpancingo destroyed and Acapulco partly razed and the los? of life problematical, Central Mexi co from the Atlantic to the Pacifl: and from Queranto on the north w Oaxaca on the south, an area of more than one thousand square miles, was shaken at an early hour Friday by a series of the most se vere earth shocks felt in the re gion for the last quarter of a cen tury. The quake was severe in Mexico City, but not prolific In destruction. Reports telling of the loss of lifrj are meagre, but the official figures thus far given show fourteen killed and more than a score mortally in jured. While word comes from G. Poy ros, an American commercial travel ler at Chilpancingo, Guerrero, that that city was destroyed and the in habitants are living in the open, suffering from the elements, the loss of life Ib not definitely known. The shocks continued at Chilpancingo Friday night, with subterranean rumbling and Sashes of lightning, rain and hail. Acpulco Guerrero, was partly razed, but the extent of the damage is not known, as communication with that part of the Republic is not well established. According to observatory records, the first shock was at 4:15 Friday morning, the oscillation being from east to southwest. It was severe, causing- the bells of many cathedrals in Mexico City to toll, breaking crockery and in some Instances lev eling walls. The inhabitants of the capital had hardly recovered from the fright of the quake when a sec ond' and more severe shock ? caused an outpouring of nearly all the res idents to the streets and open pi azzas. This movement was of a twisting character, and lasted with severity for ninety seconds. Tall buildings swayed and in some instances crack ed, the pavement opened in places and in the poorer quarters a number of houses collapsed. So far as can be learned, six lost their lives in Mexico City and envi rons in this second shock. Two were men of the lower class, the others being three women and a child. Four now in hospitals can not recover, it is said. After the second shock no one ven tured indoors again until daybreak. The large American colony escap ed unscathed. They, with the entire native population, remained in the piazzas or squares iunUl daylight gave them courage to enter their dwellings. * SUMMER HOTEL BURNED. Hundreds of Vivistors Flee From the Building. A night watchman's prompt work I in sounding the fire alarm enabled I the hundred guests of Hotel Tybee, a summer resort on Tybee Island, to escape safely from the structure when it burned before daylight Sat urday. The lire consumed the main building with a loss of $65,000, about half of which was covered by insurance. / When the fire brok out the hotel was in total darkness but the guests got out with remarkably little con fusion, a number of the guests lost valuable jewelry, and it is said that the baggage of many of the guests was loot.-d, a number complaining that all of their money had been stolen. .Messrs. Stubbs and Keen, propri etors of the hotel, state they will I rebuild at once. Their loss is e. j timated at nearly $100,000 with in surance of neariy one-third that amount. An interesting feature of the burn ing of the hotel vvsu the aid render ed by a large number of negro con victs in stripes from a couvicl camp on the island. The negroes ga\ ? valuable assistance in saving prop* I * riy oi i he guests. Killed by Train. A shocking accident occurred at 1 ntoii Saturday afternoon wnen the I train from Lockhart ran into ana instantly killed and decapitated William Lawson, familiarly known everywhere as "Sugar Bill," a sub istantial farmer of the West Springs i section in Hogansville township. * Japanese City Burned. At G o'clock Sunday morning the terrible conflagration which has re duced to ashes a large part of Osaka, Japan, was under control. Up to that hour 13,000 buildings had been destroyed. An area four miles i square was swept by the flames. * wmrn TW( AND CRUSHED TO DEATH ON TRACK NEAR NEWBERRY. Charlie Williams and Ernest Bouk night, Two Yonng White Men Killed Instantly by Train. ChaTlie Williams and Ernest 3ouknight, two young white men, were struck and killed by the Co lumbia, Newberry and Laurens pas senger train, No. 53, bound from Laurens to Columbia, about three hundred yards above the passenger depot in Newberry, shortly after 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, both be ing horribly mangled. The former was killed instantly and the latter lived but a short while. The tragedy occurred just a few yards below the crossing- at Cline's shop, immediately in front of the residence of Mr. M. M. Satterwhite. The Southern and Columbia, New berry and Laurens roads are paral lel and very close together at this point. The young men were walk ing down the Southern track from Helena to Newberry, when they saw Southern Passenger No. 11, fron: Columbia to Greenville, which had just passed Newberry, approaching. They stepped off the Southern tracK on to the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens track, with the intention of continuing their walk to Newberry, which placed their backs towards the approaching Columbia, Newberry and Laurens passenger. They had taken but a few steps when they were struck. The dead body of Williams and Young Bouknighr, with barely the breath of life In him, were brought to Newberry and placed In Undertaker Baxter's par lors. Bouknight died shortly after. The two young men were em ployees of the Newlerry Cj'.-.on Mills, and bore very excellent repu tations in the community. The former homes of both were at Chapin, where their bodies were taken for interment on the train. Mr. Williams was a son of Mr. C. P. Williams. He was about twenty one years old, and was a member of the Red Men and of the Pocahontas. An escort of Red Men accompanied his remains to Chapin. Young Bouknight was a son of Mr. E. B. Bouknight, and was about seventeen years of age. Both young men had ju3t begun their summer vacation of two weeks. When the tragedy ?eeurred, tne Southern train, out of the way ot which the young men had stepped across to the other track, had just passed the crossing. At about this point a negro who had not purchased a ticket jumped off the train. After reaching Hele na, the Southern passenger, the con ductor having learned of the tragedy from passengers on the rear of the train, and thinking possibly the pas senger who had jumped off the Southern trnjn had oeen injures, backed in to Newberry. Some months ago a negro was killed in almost exactly the same spot, and in the same manner, hav ing stepped off the Southern track to avoid an approaching train and stepped on to the other track to be struck and killed. * FATALLY BITTEN BY RATTLER. ?-Jr^ Young Lad Lived Cdfty Ten Hours After Being Bit. ?CT The Hendersonville Hustler says Pinckney, the fourteen-year-old son of John Stepp, who lives heyond the power house plant on the Polk coun j ty line, was bitten by a rattlesnake Thursday about noon, and died from the poison at 10 o'clock the same night. Pinckney, with his brother. ? was getting tan bark near the edge of their field. Their dog barked and the boys went to find him. and found him I barking around a log in which they [expected to find a rabbit. Pinckney was barefooted and went to the end of th?- log to peep in. Just at that instant the snake -truck him on the out^r side of the ankle. The other boy killed the snake and I hurried home with the unfortunate brother, who meantime became very sick. Neighbors were called, and all remedies known to them were I thoughtfully used, b it tiie deadly I poison was too much. They sent across the mountain to (Pana and called for a physician from Hender J son vi Me, but it was late before he j arrived and the poor hoy died three 1 hours later. Peeped His Last Time. A special from \V( listen, a town sixteen mile- from Maeon, in Hous ton county. Ha., says: Saturday night at. C:C0 o'clock Sim Ander son, a negro, was taken from a depu ! ty jusl outside that place and shot ' to death by a posse of citizens. 1 Friday night the negro was caught j : peeping into the room oecnped by I daughters of W. I'. Bell. * Destructive Floods. News has reached this country of i a terrible flood in the province of j Chang Chun, iManchuria. In the city of Krin, situated at the head of steam navigation on the river Sun gari, 225 miles from Muken. 1,000 J people have been drowned and 7,000 ; i houses submerged. The water is still ' rising. i ? ) CENTS PEE COPY FAMINE FOLLOWS M.xican Earthquake ?nd Condi tions Are Awful. A SMALL TIOAL WAVE The Water Receded Thirty-Three Feet and Then Rushed Back With Great Force, Snbmerging Docks and Hers ? The Earthquake Shocks Continue. Telegrams from the City of Mexi co say that details which are be ginning to arrive from the State of Guerrero, show that the recent se ries of earthquakes in the valley of Mexico and along the Pacific coast were the worst experienced in years. It is now certain that the towns of Acapulco and Chilpancingo have been practically destroyed. What the earthquake of Friday failed to do was accomplished by the strong er one of Saturday, which either levelled or rendered uninhabitable every building in these places. In additi lO the ruin caused by the earthquake, Acapulco now faces a famine. All of the markets were destroyed in the shocks of Satur day and the country people are afraid to bring more produce into the town. The people are camping in the public squares. The few buildings that remain standing are being levelled by dy namite, as they are little more than tottering walls that are constantly falling as new shocks come. During the heavy shock yesterday the water in the harbor receded a distance of thirty-three feet and then rushed back, covering the docks and piers. The people are suffering consid erably, not oniy for want of food, but because of their exposed posi tions. The tents in the public squares and streets do not serve to keep off the heavy rains which fall at this season. Funds are being raised in Mexico City to relieve the distressed of Guerrero. In Mexico City the shock of Sat urday was heavier than any yet ex perienced. As the work of examina tion continues, more and more evi dence of damage is found, though so far as known, no lives w*re lost in the last agitation. Many tourists who were stopping at the local ho tels are leaving for the United States. A second telegram from Acapul co states that the quakes continued all of Saturday night and through out the greater part of the day. No building or dwelling house of any kind is inhabitable. The city au thorities are conducting affairs in a temporary shelter under a tree in the main plaza. They have telegraphed to Presi dent Diaz for federal assistance and asked that gun boats with supplies, bedding and medicine be sent as soon as possible. The message says that tents and food are immediately need ed to prevent great suffering. ? ANOTHER CASHIER SKIPPED After Looting the Bank of Fifteen Thousand Dollars. The investigation of the affairs of the Citizens' Bank and Trust Com pany at Southern Pines as far as it has progressed shows that Cashier George A. Kimball was short in his accounts at least'-', '$15,000. How much more the directors-can not say. A notice was posted on the closed bank Saturday giving the status, of affairs. It transpires since Kim ball's departure that he took with him the books of the Niagara Grape and Fruit Company, of which he was treasurer, and whether Kimball's speculations have extended to that concern is a matter that is worry ing the directors. Kimball was last heard from at York Beach, Me. He has a wife and several children. * Killed in Bis Office. Dr. Luke Wing, Chinese vice con sul at New York, a graduate of Leigh and Yale universiti. and married to an American woman, was mortally wounded at his office in a lower Broadway building, Nf,w York, a few afternoons ago by a man of his own race, who gives valuable but confused and contra dictory reports of himself in pidgin English. Dr. Wing died shortly alter in St. Gregory's hospital, lie had been shot in the back with a revolver. c Locusts Attack Hungary. Myriads of locusts have made their appearance in the district of Nagykoro, in Hungary, where they are devastating the crops. One hundred and eight hose and steam rollers have been collected from far and near, and are being driven across the open country, crushing crops and insects together, as this has been found to be the only way to check the plague. Tariff Bill Passed. The tariff bill passed the Honw* Saturday by a vote of 195 to 183 just as it come from the conference committee. Two so-called Demo crats voted for it and twenty Re publicans voted against it.