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' ? ?J f: 1 1 ! V I |p( ^ I ' i:%' VOL. X. GZOLGOSZ IS SENTENCED Doomed to Die in the Week Beginning October 28. LAST MEETING WITH hAMILY Pathetic Scene Jr. tho A**a**in'? Coll When Father Met HI* Wrotehetl Son ?" Woe Unto tin; Day of Yr?ur Birth!" the Agril Piirrnt Exclaimed ? Crolcoaz I?e?;lare?l Ilo Alone Wa? CSnllty. ltuffnlo, N. V I.con F. Ozolgosz, tho assassin of President McKinley, wns sentenced to die in tlio elePtric chair in Auburn State Prison in the week beginning on October 28, 1901. lief ore sentence was passed the assassin evinced n desire to speak, hut ho could not pet his voice above a whisper and his words were repeated to tho court by his counsel. "There was no one else but mo," the prisoner said in a whimper. "No one else'told uio to do it. and no one paid me to ?lo it. I was not told anything about the crime and ij never thought anything about it unt|H a couple of days before 1 committed the crime." t'zplgosz sat down, die was fairly mini. His cheeks wore a trifle pnle jnd his outstretched hand trembled. There was an expression of the profouudest fear and helplessness lu his eves. He danced about at the Held >f homls which croWdeil together In ofTorts to get a look n. Llm. Kvery oye was cold. The prisoyier's eyelids rose ami feii tieuiulousl/v". and then he ttxed his gflZu on tlitf floor in front of hiui. At this point former Just lee Titus ?muc over to the prisoner and bade him good by. Cxolgosz replied faintly, lotting liis eye rest upon the man who has been his counsel. t.Joodby," lie sit hi weakly. <'znlgnsz was then hurried down stairs and throuah the "tunnel of sobs" to the jail. 1 A few hours later the assassin was taken from .Buffalo to Auburn State i'rison. Although the ilia annonneed for 'lie opening of eouri was 'J o'clock. ">very sear and every foot of standing rdor.t wer occupied before l.flo ami scores were clamoring outside for cdn isalon. The doors were locked nul a ? more w re admitted to the room. Witen ti?e prisoner was brought into tlie court room lie was sworn and his record was taken as follows; Age. tv.iiiryrighi years; nntlviry, ri'eiroit; resilience. Broadway,Nowak's, ttultnlo; occupation, laborer; married >r single, singlet degree of edumion, oinmon school nnd parochial; rellgl tis instruction. Catholic; parents livug w dead, father living, mother, lead; tqmperate or intemperate, ternaerate; formei conviction of Clinic, aoue. When asked if lie had any legal fa use to slio\A* why sentence should iui in* |ironoii?" > >' ujjuniwi uiui. ijziiirosz replied. "1 have nothing to say tbout that." "Have you anything to say?" asked fustier Wl?it*>. "Yes." replied the prisoner. Czolgosz s;tid: "There was no one ?lse but inc. No one else told me to i<> it: and no one paid me to do it." .Mr. Titus, the prisoner's counsel, relented,it as follows, Awing to the prisoner's feeble voice: "lie says no one lad anything to do with the commixlion of his crime but lilniself; tliat his rather and mother, and no(one else, had anything to do with and knew nothing nlpout it." Tlie prisoner continued: "I was not ) told anything about the crime, and 1 ; lover tho/ught of anything about it j intil a o??uple of days before i com- I uiitted tli'< crime." Mr. Titv,s ''gain repeated as follows: [ 'He nevi'r te'd any one about the crime au/d never intended to commit it until jn couple ?*?f days before Its Commission." Then .Justice White passed sentence as loUows: "In ta/kiug the life of our beloved1 President you committed a crime Which shocked and outraged the moral tense of the civilized world. You have confessed that guilt. You have said. according to the testimony of creditable witnesses and yourself, that no other person aided or abetted you In ( the commission of this terrible, net. Hod grant it may be so. The penalty Tor the crime for which you stand onvl'ded is fixed by this statute, and t now becomes my duty to pronounce ills judgment against you. "The sentence of the Court is that in the week beginning October -8, 111)01. at the place, in the manner and means prescribed by law, you suffer ib?> punishment of death, llemove the prisoner." l'attl Czolgos::. the father, Waldeck. the brother, and Victoria, tlie sister, who had come from Cleveland. Ohio, to see I.e -n Czolgnsz, son and brother, before he had paid the law's penalty for the assassination of President MeIvinlcy, were given permission by lUstrict Ati-i.ne.v IVnney, to see Leon in bis cell in the County Jail. Th? a?s.,?..!u was bitting nn tlie b< :icli m lib cell when tile members ol' bis family arrived. He had been prepared for the meeting, but displayed no eagerness, nor did lie appear ashamed. His pretty sister, Victoria. with a pathetic little cry, ran to hilli, threw her arms around his neck and subbed as if her heart would break. The father stood erect. jrazinj; at his unnatural sun with a nun-tied expression ?>f MifferluK and unrelenting me-rer. "Would that you had never been burn." ho said, v.ith souiethinu .?3 )RT ] 1 Hvf* n monn. Wnldock. the brother of the assnssii. kept himself under control, but hU grief was evident. The assassin alone was unmoved. The expression of Indifference did not leave his face, and he received the reproaches o* his father without a murmur of cefense or expression of regret. After half an hour of conversation the th*ee visitors were led away sobbing, with their handkerchiefs to their eyes. The family left for Cleveland immediately ifter the interview. The girl said It was their intention t change th<ir name and move away from Clewland in order to escape from the mwelcome notoriety forced t'pon then by their relationship to t lie assassin. cnrwi) hoots r/oi.cosz. 1 Tl>ti l,rl?rn??r Complrtnljr ItrcnUn Down Iltpoi Kntortnc Auburn 1'rlsnn. An hurt, X. Y.?Czolgosz. President MeKlnhy's murderer, in the custody of ShenfT Caldwell, of Erie County, arrived in Auburn at J1.1."? a. 111. Awaiting the arrival of the train there was n crowl of about 200 people. Either for fear of the crowd, which was not very demonstrative, and made no attempt to harm the man. or from sight of the prison. Czolgosz's legs gave out, and t*"o Deputy Sheriffs were compelled to practically carry the man into <tie prison. He was plaeed in a sitting posture on tie bench in the main hall while the handcuffs were being removed, but lie fell over and moaned ami groined. As soon as the ruffs were unlocked the man was dragged into the principal keeper's office. As in the case of all prisoners, the officers lmnedlntely proceeded to strip him anl put on a new suit of clothes. During the operation Czolgosz erie?l nid yelled. The prison physician. Dr. j(hn Gorlti, was summoned, and ho examined the man and ordered his renoval to the cell in the condemned r>w. which he will occupy until he is liken to the electric chair. Tile doctor leclnrcd that the man was suffering rotn fright and terror. 1ml said that ue was shamming to some extent. The collapse of the murderer was a surprise. En route front Buffalo lie showed no Indication of breaking down. He talked some and expressed his regret for his crime. He said: "I ant especially sorry for Mrs. McKinley." He reiterated his former statement that lie had had no : complices, lie says the handkerchief was not tied. He went behind the Tempi' of Music, arranged the kerchief so as to hide the weapon and then took his place in the crowd. Through .taller Mitchell he sent litis message to his father: "Tell him I'tn sorry 1 left such a had name." FRANKLIN MURPHf NOMINATED. Unanimously Nminul I'or Governor l?y the New .Jersey Heim1iUc?nn. Trenton. N. .T.?Franklin Murphy, of Newark, was unanimously nominated for the governorship of the State by the Republican Convention. The delegates were called to order by State Senator K. ('. Stokes, temporary elinirntan. As he stepped forward. beneath a black draped portrait of President McKinley, the band played softly. "Nearer, My <Jod, to Thee." Everybody in the hall arose and sang the hymn through. Kormor Attornoy-Oeneral Or legs was made permanent chairman. The platform contains an eulogy of the late I 'resident MeKinley. It points to the fact that more than $8(Xi,(WXt has la-en applied to the redaction of local taxes, and appeals to the people to support the Kepubllcan party because of the fultilinent of its promises. After the adoption of the platform j Mr. Murphy was unanimously nominated for (Inventor. lie made a brief speech ef ace ptance. and the adjournment was taken. It had been one of the shortest conventions in the history of the party in this State. MOTHER DROWNS CHILDREN. Iliirln TIii-iii Into n Well, nml Ttion Tnlcoft Her Own I.lfe. Cleveland, Ohio. The small town of Little York, near here, was the scene of it terrible tragedy. Mrs. I'erry Curtis, the wife <?f a farmer, thirty-eight years old, drowned her four small ehildreii in a well and then committed suicide hy juinpjng in herself, lier husband, I'erry Curtis, was in Cleveland with a load of potatoes and knew nothing of the tragedy until he rend an account of it in the newspapers. Following are the names and ages of the,dead: Mrs. I'erry Curtis, thirty-eight years; Itosa Curtis, two years; Anna Curtis, four years; Ilarry Curtis. tive years; llarold Schudder, nine years. The last named was Mrs. Curtis's stepson. Mrs. Curtis was released from the Masslllou Insane Asylum recently as cured, and it is thought that it was while suffering n relapse that she com in it 11-< I the terrible deed. GIRL'S MURDERER A SUICIDE. Shoot* Himself iii the lloart When I'oMg llt'lll* Hill) In. Holla. Mo. l'rol'esaor .1. S. Croswdl, tin- inslruetor ia tin* .Sehuol of .Mim-s iliiil Metallurgy who nli.it ami killed .Miss Mollie l'owell. in whom he liail lii'i'U paying attetiti ais, shot 111111 si?lf when a | -nr. u nun hint in a barn where no nail sirn toil himself in tho suburbs ol' tbo city. Croswell usoil ill.- ri'volvi'i' with wbn'li bo killed .MlSS 1'OWl'll to Solid ill: bllllot tlllllUgll bis own In-art. Tho posse of fill: 'in* had boon in pursuit of Croswell for two days. Wbou tho barn bail boon surrounded demand was niailo ou Croswell to surrender. His a. -?.ir was tln> .shot front tl,- revolver, turned upon himself. t itizi us, i.ateviut; the barn, found hi:n dead. ?-? -, . ?' TORT MILL, S. C., WEI I ninirm nini r- in innnnrn ! PAUIHU UABLt IS ASSUIitU It Will Run to Hawaii, the Philippines, China and Japan. WILL BE READY IN TWO YEARS The Coinuii'rrlnl Pacific Cablo Company Incorporated to Connect Xpw York Cltv Witli the F?r K??t?l'reaent Cablo ltaten YVI1I lie Iteduced 1'roin Thirty to Sixty l'er Cent. Albany, X. Y.?The Commercial Pacific Cable Company has been incorporated with a capital of The general route of the company is from New York City across the United States to California, thence under the t'acilie Ocean to the Hawaiian Islands, thence to the Philippine Islands, touching other islands in the Pacific Ocean. The directors are John \V. Mackny, of Virginia City, Nov.; George G. Ward, Albert Beck. William W. Cook, and George Clappertou, of New York City; Albert B. Chandler and Kdward (\ Piatt, of Brooklyn, and Clarence H. Mackny, of ltoslyu, L. I. In explaining the purposes of the new company John W. Mnekay said tlint tlie Commercial Pncltle Cable Company hail been organized for tfie purpose of laying a submarine cable from California to the 1'hllippiuc Islands by way of Honolulu. In the Hawaiian Islands. The length of the cable will he about 8500 miles. The part first laid will be from California to the Hawaiian Islands, a distance of about 2UOO miles. It is expected that this portion will be lit operation within nine months. The time required for the laying of the remnlmler of the en hie from the Hawaiian Islands to the Philippine Clauds will depend upon how quickly the cables can be manufactured. Mr. 5 .Maekay believes that the whole cable I will he in operation within two years i from this date. i Mr. Macka.v further explained that ] ! the new cable, when it reached the j I Philippines, would connect at that I point, with the present submarine est- I i hie numing from the Philippines to j i .Inpan, and also the cable running i front the Philippines to China, and that a direct route from China and Japan to the I'nited States would thereby he established, which he believed would he of the greatest benefit to the growing commerce and trade between the United States and the Far East. At present cablegrams from China to the l'ni<eil States have to be sent by way of Europe. Mr. Maekay also stated that the present cable rates from the United States to the Philippines and to China and Japan would he reduced, when the new cable is laid, from thirty to sixty per cent. SAMPSON CIVES UP HIS POST. Kcrnunn of 111 ilr-iilth 11 o Is I>r turlwd From tlin lloston Navy Yard. Washington, 1). C. ? Hear-Admiral Sanipsop has requested the Navy l>epartinent to relieve him of his present duty as commandant of the lloston Navy Yard on October 1. on account of the had condition of his health. Secretary Long lias granted the request. .......-.minimi .uoruiuer I.. Johnson, commandant of tlie Port Uoyal naval Ktntion, assumes command of the Boston yard. Admiral Sampson "will retire 1 ?y age limit on February ' ?. I'.arj. He could retire before if lie wished under the forty years' service clause on his own request, or he could apply for retire- I meat to take effect immediately oil account of poor health. However, as naval officers generally take pride in serving out their full term, it Is probable an extended leave of absence will keep Admiral Sampson on the active list until lie is retired automatically. GIFT OF S 1,000.000 TO A CHURCH G?orRi< W. llowimtn, it Mine Owner. Kn(linrri ilie I'enple'it Clinri-li of America. Chicago.?CJeorge W. Bowman, a mine owner, lias deeded to the People's Church of Chicago $1,000,000, earnings from two gold mines in Arizona and New Mexico. He lias told l>r. Hiram \V. Thomas that several more millions are ready when they are wanted. Several months ago It was announced. shortly after the incorporation In Springfield of the People's Church of America, that a wealthy mine owner had given a large sum of money to push the work of the movement of which Dr. Thomas is the head. The name of the donor, however, was kept secret. HANNA TO TAl K wn MI-idc ? - W munti I >i(<n?tor Suya Ho Will Never lie Interviewed Aeiiln. Cleveland, Ohio. "I am done with being interviewed for nil lime." Raid Senator IIanna when he was asked to make a -dntein -r.t as to how lie regarded the policy of President Uoosevelt so far as it had been expressed, and what sort of an administration he believed the new President would give.. "Have you decided no; to attain publicly express your opinion V'.was asked. "So more," was the brief answer. null k .lu-tlco Kor Nrjro Ansniiiln. I After a thirty minutes' trial Ilall I Frninptmi. colored, was cntoneed to | life imprisonment at Nebraska City, Neb., for killing his stepdaughter. I X 1 JNESDAY, OCTOBER MISS STONE'S CAPTURE Brigands Surrounded 1h?* Missionary in a Narrow Valley. Story Totil hr MInoIonnrloR Tnkrn WltH llrr ami Artrrwnrd Kelrn?r><t? Itonril of MUgioni* to l'uv ik ltimimii. Boston. Mjiks.?Detniiv of I lie recent rapture of Miss Stone the American missionary, ami one of l.or helpers, by briRands in Turkey are made known ill a letter Just received here by the American lloa-tl of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The facts became known to one of the missionaries of the board in Satnokoo. European Turkey. who were members of the party with whom Miss Stone and her assistant. Mrs. Tallkn. were traveling when the capture was made. They could Rive 110 information as to whore Miss Stone and liet* companion were taken, as the two women disappeared in the nlRiit and the rest of the party were detained under Riiard for n time. Finally the robbers relieved these captives of watches and ether valuables and departed. The missionaries made ilioir way at once to Samokoo. According to the story lohl by these victims the capture was made at 4 o'clock in the afternoon on September H, while Miss Stone and Mrs. Tiika, the wife of on Albanian preacher, were travel lug with friends from Kntisko to Hjumao. There were fifteen to eighteen in the party. The bandits confronted them in a narrow valley and compelled them to wade a river and ascend a wood mountain for about nn hour. There appeared to ho about forty brigands. dressed like Turk*. but speaking good Bulgarian. At length a stopping place was reached. Tito noxt morning Miss Stone and Mrs. Tallka were missed, and it was apparent that the main hody of outlaws had departed, leaving only a guard. T.ater this guard coinpolled the captives to give tip their watches, money and jewelry, after which they disappeared up the mountain. leaving the missionaries free The authorities did not leant of the capture until nearly twenty-four hours after it had occurred, and it is thought this gave all the chance the brigands needed to reach a safe hiding place. It is thought that they may have entered Bulgaria. and the army has received special instructions to guard the border closely and follow tip any traces of the marauders which they may tind. Washington. T>. <\ In reply to the inquiry from the State Department as to wind her it would pay the ransom demanded hy the Bulgarian brigands who kidnaped Miss Stone, one of its missionaries, the American Hoard of Missions has said that it has charged lis representative in Constantinople to pay a ransom for the woman, leaving the price to he arranged by him. WHITNEY QUITS ENGLISH TURF. tie IVItlidrawt llerttUHP American Horsemen Are Not I'aiily Treated. London.?The retirement of William f. Whitney from the English turf occasions regret, but hardly surprises those wbn lin\*o not.wl ........... > ..u.vu till" ICVt-lH HCliU Df evi'nts. There Is a widespread i 11^ tlmt behind Mr. Whitney's published reasons for withdrawing, iiis realization :>f tlu* fnet that the attitude of tin* Itritish turf authorities toward Amerieans is no longer marked l?y the :iI?solute impartiality whieh characterized their dealings prior to the preluinenee of American owners, horses, trainers ami jockeys. There iiave heen many eom]iiaints that American horses were too iieavily tiandieapped, that the jockeys were harshly treated, and that interferences during the races were whitewashed, which would not have been tolerated ou the part of American jockeys. TROOPER WAS A MOTHER. Poat Tailor I.r?l to DImc-Ionc ller Sex by Her Chlhl'a Injury. Chicago.?A recruit who had served for the past four months at Fort Sheridan was led l>y iter motherly affection to disclose her sex. tier disguise In man's clothing had heen successful until witnessing the attack of a doff on her three-year-ohl child threw her Into hysterical weeping. During the months that the woman had been at Fort Sheridan she had been living with a tailor. Jtnfus White, and had passed as his lo ot her. She was, in reality, Ids wife. The little girl who accompanied the "brother" was reported to have lost her mother il few months before coining fori. The child lived in the house of Hospital Steward Manning. The two post tailors ate at the mess hall with the soldiers and other attaches. 870 PEOPLE CLAIMING $21,000. Numerous "Tlitnl Cnustlim" Wuiit u Nlinre ??f Mrnzo Shunt's Kstnte. I'tlen, X. V. -A remarkable case is on trial in special term of the Supreme Court in Herkimer. Mcir/.o Slwiul died and left $lM,tNMi to he dt\Ided I let ween those related to hint" as third cousins. In his will ho wrote: "Ity the term third cousin 1 mean the children of those persons who it re related to me its cousins." Might hundred and seventy persons from all parts of the I tilted Slates are asking for shares in the estate. They are represented hy forty-ihv?e attorneys. The cousins are divided into four classes, and the court will ho called upon to decide which class is entitled to the part of the estate left after cos's are paid. \ !* . j . r !:?' / '1 "v IME 2,190!. INSANE ASYLUM BURNED Institution at Norfolk, Nob., Destroyed and Two Inmates Killed. Lniiittlm Uosrucil Willi 1>I faculty ? Mirny IloiUlril tlio KflTortfi MriIo to S?v? Them?Durlnii Work of Attendants. Lincoln, Neb.?fflie Norfolk Asylum for Insane, the second largest iti the State, was destroyed by tire. There were T.12 paMcuts, male and female, in the institution, and some forty attendants and workmen. During the excitement eight patients gut away. | xjjvsl* wvrc mi iontui. only one man perished in the tire, lie was Victor Casper from Itrown County, lie ran back twice Into the building ami the last time tlirew himself into the tlauios. One other, a patient named Jepherson, from Knox County, was [ fatally burned. Several others wore (slightly burned. Many of the patients resisted and had to be taken out by force. In some eases the rescuers had to batter down stone casings and wrench out iron bars. Prompt and daring work of the attendants. who ran up burning stairways and climbed shaky ladders to bring down territled and sometimes unwilling patients, saved at least two score lives. The flames were so close that in a number of instances both rescuer and rescued were burned. The lire started from defective wiring in a tunnel which contained the electric wire and heating pipes. This tunnel ran underneath one wing at tho extreme end of the rectangle of buildings. When discovered by tho night j watchman the tire had attained a headway and was Irresistible. In fit'- | teen minutes the water supply was I ' exhausted, and the whole row of brick ;and stone buildings was at the mercy ' of tin' ilanics. j The ollioers kept the patients in the I distant wings under lock and key. ! hoping it might not he necessary to turn them loose. Those released were ' quickly huddled in groups, hut the I roaring Unties in the blackness of the night acted like an irritant on the nerves of maniacs, ami they tilled the : sir with shouts. | The asylum is three miles from the to\\*h of Xt.rfol!:. and it was not not i help arrived from ilit city that the i maniacs were ?t under control, ami it was safe to release them from lhcir | r lis. Special trains were nimlo tip : in :t few hours ami "??< of the patients i w? re brought to Lincoln. Vl'KINLEY MONUMENT MOVEMENT. Commission National in Scopn to lie j formed In Have Cliargo of lln? Wort;. | I f'levelantl. Ohio. Initial steps Intve ] been takett toward the erection at. | Canton through popular subscription of v.iiat is hoped will be a titling anil magnificent monument to the memory of the late President Mclviidcy. At a conference, attended by Senator 11.anna. Judge William 1J. Day. of Canton, and Colonel Myron T. Derrick it was ilcelded at once to organize n commission thai will ho national In its scope to take charge of the work. It is proposed to have as members of litis body representative citizens from ' till of the various Stages of the I'nlon. The organization "will he chartered under the laws of Ohio, and will probably bo known as "The MeKinley Memorial Association." 1 Those interested in the matter express the belief that Congress will at jits coming session unit:.. > I it ?<?? ! i I propria!ion toward the erection of tlit* I inonniitoiit. and litis, iojr??iwith the large sum tlint is believed will ho subscribed by the people of the country, will htiihl a splendid ntoiiiorial in lion , or of the martyred President. CHICAGO ANARCHISTS FREED. Court I'.rlraiii'il six SusprrtM For I.act; of l'tvi<lenro Amii.iRt Them. i Chicago ? The six Chicago Anarchists. arrested on the night of September t'? in this city on suspicion of hoing implicated in a plot to assassinate President MeKinley. were released on habeas corpus proceedings by i Judge < 'ltetlain, of the < 'ook County Superior Court. ! Attorney Howard P. Taylor, repre- ] Renting the city, said to Judge Chetlain that as no evidence had been se- 1 cured against the suspects the eity did | not wish them to be held longer. The attorneys for the suspects asked ( for a hearing so that their innoeenee ( could be cstnbllslicd, but the Judge ruled that it was unnecessary, in view of the fact that there was no evidence to support the charge. The suspects arraigned were: A bra- ' hnut Fsaak, editor of Fret* Society; Abraham Isaak, .lr., Clarence Pfuttzuer, II. llnvil. Alfred Schneider and 1 Ifiirc Tfiwoifi 1 /* [ CATTLE ATE DYNAMITE. It Win I.eft In Open l'a?tnr<'H? Wmiy An- , IiiihIm III.-. | Princeton. Intl.? Several large Mock raisers in I his county have lost many t head of cattle the last few clays l?y | reason of the animals eating tlyna- t tnite. which hail hcon left beside a Idg ditch now heing constructed across ( tlie county. There lias been no work j done for several months, and the dy- , uamite had been nbtindoned. Owners of the land through which the ditch .tins knew nothing of the ! l?roscnce of 1 lie explosive, hut not until a few days ago was stock allowed to rim at large in that neighborhood. The cattle have hceii dying in terr.hle < agony since, and others are still ?e rlously affected. The owners have 11 taken steps to sno the constractlou I company. \ S. NO. 20. Sm TTASH1NOTON 1TF.MS. The trial of Mrs. Peninc for killing Census Clerk Avres in Washington will ho called in November. Secretary Root approved the final draft of the Philippine InrifT nnd Governor Taft was so Informed. Cubans railed upon Secretary Hay to urge tlie cause of reeinrocity he mk vii hum niiiiury iimi i mm, Mr. Roosevelt declared his intention to art as President without partisanshin to any locality. or It ADOPTEH 1SI AMIS. Tho (leatil of President MeKlnley has revived the movement to pet rid of Hole as Coventor of Hawaii, which was squelched hy the President. United States .Tudpo Usteo decided that the Constitution of ihe United States was extended to Ihe Hawaiian Islands hy the N'cwlands resolution, sustaining the decision of Circuit Judge Hear and reversing the Supreme Court of Hawaii. Aguinnldo's hodvpuard. commanded hy Maior Alliatuhrn. sttrrctidered at v ltaler. I.uzon, P. I. The United States transport Puford. went ashore at the mouth of Rio Cratide Rivr, Mindanao Island, P. 1. The British steamer Rthelhryhta arrived at Santiago. Cuha, with yellow fever on board. noH KSTIC. Secretary of State Power died at Jackson, Miss., of pnetimonia. Purglars blew open with nitro-gly eerine tin* iron sate in the MyersvllIJ* Hank at Mycrsvillc, Mil., and scoured over }>('.< hm>. Ira Williams, twenty-eight years old, accused of forjrery, hanged liitiisclf in jail at Home. N. Y? witti a rope made out of a blanket. Warren Ciller, a butcher, shot and killed his wife in the street at Sliamokln, IVnu.. after a quarrel, am'Jatally shot himself. Fedcriek Fraley. one of Philadelphia's oldest and most prominent citizens. died at the aire of ninety-seven years. The torpedo boat Nicholson and the Holland submarine boat Porpoise were launched at Flizabelli, N\ .1. Mrs. O. 11. P. Itelmotit christened the former and Miss .lessie M. Moore the latter. Came Warden Frank Maloney. of Cunuison. Col.. was found juiliy of manslaughter in killing W, A. Woinoi-k. a poacher. For embezzling S'JH.Otlil from his ward. W. S. Young, of Chicago, was sontetieed to serve an indeterminate sentence. The death sentence was Imposed at Itirminghntn. Ala., on Frank Human, who killed a policeman while committing robbery. The National Atnerienn Patriotic 1 .caguc, which aims to clear the country of Anarchists, was organized at Milwaukee, Wis. The forest tire which threatened the town of Kldora, Col., ami neighboring mining camps with destruction has subsided. Fifty-six arrests for spitting in street cars were made in ltoston, Mass. i!p*iih1 \rmv ?! ?* m-oc .x' ?*--1 ?' I VIM1 IJ t llii> l'an-Anieriran ISx position at liaf* ralo. .lolin Armstrong Chattier. the former Imsl'Miiil of Amelia Itfves who escaped from IMnmningdalo Asylum. in New York City. last, year, I as reappeared in Virginia. Indictments were found against Detect i\.s Cramer and Tarey and Lieutenant .Joyce, of Chicago. 111., for conspiracy to defraud the State. Ill the belief that Czolg isz will J>e executed in the prison at Auburn, N. Y.. more than Km nersoiio have nn. plied let Warden Me:ul to witness the elect mention el' the assassin of President MeKlnle.v. It was learned in Chicago that close ' friends (if MeKitilcy are planning for Hie erection of a nntionnl monument to his memory at Canton. National lawmakers are agreed that stern measures must be taken to repress anarchism, and /Senator Allison. of Iowa, says that Congress will probably take action. The Pan-American Kxpogltion authorities set forth the patriotic duty. In view of the national calamity at Ituffalo, of making the closing weeks if the fair successful by co-operation in the part of all the people: Mrs. Caetano Bread, the widow of King Humbert's assassin, who runs it boarding house In ClifTslde, N. J., was ardcred by Major Xeumnii to leave town. FOREIGN. An explosion, caused by n fire. In a louder factory nt Rlpault, Prance, lias resulted in the death of eleven persons and Injuries to seventeen oth rs, a majority of *? hom will probably Ho. , Tito .icrman coal syndicate has sctured one-fourth >1 f tin- coal contracts or the Danish railways, as against, the cndcrs of Hritish initio nwrics. Kal>or WJlbcliii made an unexpoctv.l visit to Russian Poland, driving nto a frontier town and distributing liarity for the Czar. It.'turning contl.lence is taking the ilacre of the alarm eat:- d in ICnglaml y the reefct I?ocr sue- -~os i:i South \friea. Lord Roscbery unveil.-d t 1k> statu.s if King Alfred the t treat at Wincheser, Knglnud, many Americans belli,; resent. Three Iloer prisoners of war osoap: .1 'roiu Darrell's island, llcruiuda.