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VOL XVII. MOT IN PRISON. * Exciting Times in Kentucky Penitentiary. RIOT I ASTEL FOUR I1GUKS. Tin* Mutineers Finally Surrend er. One Prisoner Mortally Wounded ami Two Others Seriously Shot. A special from Frankfort Ky., says. The otlU'ials of the State penitentiary and the eiti'/.ens of Frankfort were t hrown into a state < f wild exeiteinent Wednesday by a riot in the prison started by an attempt to gain their liberty of t hree desperate murderers, Lafayette llr< oks of Morgan eounty, and Wallace Itishop and T. Mulligan or Kenton county. before the Hot, which began at ii o'clock and lasted until after 10, was (jiielled the unit inous convicts were captured, bishop being fatally wounded, Mulligan shot in the shoulder and a negro convict, Albert. bansome of Louisville, whom the desperadoes had pressed into service, was hit by a rltle hall. The rioting started while brooks, Mulligan and Itishop, one of whom had a pistol concealed about his person, were coining out of the dining room to answer a hospital call. Suddenly one of the. convicts drew a weapon and compelled Guard A. II. Hill to give up his arms. Guard l<\ i \ Hurst who rushed to < Jill's assistance, was also captured by the convicts. Capt. Mat Madigan, acting warden, then rushed forward with six guards and tired on tlie bunch, hut no one was wounded. The < onvlcts then ran across the road and at the entrance to the reed department of the chair factory captured Willis, of Clark county, a foreman. They covered him with their pistols and placing him between tin-in ami liii" Junius retreatee u> uie rocker department in the chair factnry, whence the> could command a good view of the entire yard. At a window they stationed Willis, and Brooks with a revolver in his hands, took a position just behind t lie captive, resting the muzzle of the weapon on the foreman's side. The convicts then defied Warden IdUard to attempt to capture them, shouting that they would kill the foreman at the first move made against them. By this time several hundred persons, many of them heavily armed, gathered at the prison gates, but the warden denied admission to all. lie issued orders for all the shops to close and for all the prisoners to lie returned at once to their cells. lie then placed a guard of <>o men around flic building in which the desperadoes had barricaded themselves and called on them to surrender. The convicts only reply was a taunt. For the protiWtion of Foreman Willis, t lie warden fnen determined to starve the desperadoes into submission. .lames Buckley, former city workIwdiwo l/nnnnr \I/?vimn lhon-oe ? former guard at the penitentiary, climbed to the roof of a residence overlooking the building in which the convicts had taken refuge and flred several shots into the room where the desperadoes were entrenched. They were compelled to desist, however, as Foreman Willis was forced to the window in the line of lire. Finally a letter was dropped from the window saying that if the warden would come to the head of the steps leading to the reed department the convicts would surrender, lirst sending their weapons down by Frank Brooks. Warden Lillard prepared to accept the terms of this note, and as a matter of precaution a half dozen convicts were placed in the hospital overlooking the reed department. Warden Lillard accompanied by eight men then proceeded to the foot of the stairway. The prisoners emerged from the reed room as they had promised with hands up, but as they proceeded down the stairway, Bishop dropped his hands to his side as if to daaw a weapon. lie had hardly made motion when one of the warden's party tired, the bullet striking Bishop in the breast indicting a fatal wound. When Bishop fell Mulligan and Brooks sank to their knees begging the warden to save their lives and at I0.:t() o'clock the two desperadoes, I.^.,11., .,l>A/.bln/l nn/1 nAAAtv?^..niAi1 K.. Ill'ilVIIJf Dliavmuu 111' I <H ' 'MI I 11.1 I 1 I' ll ny ten men with drawn pistols, were placed in their cells and quiet had been restored. \A Had Wrock. A regular Pennsylvania train on the New Vork and Long branch railroad, l)ound north, was run into from the rear at the Itelmar station Tuesday night hy a special Central railroad of New .Jersey train. The Pennsylvania train had stopped at Helmar station to pick iip passengers. The Central train was running north also and was empty. The engine of the Central train telescoped the rear of the Pennsylvania train. Six cars were wrecked, several persons were killed and a number injured. At midnight two ladles had l>eon taken from the wreck. A little girl was killed as she was lieing put aboard the waiting ? train. The engineer and fireman of the Central train have not been seen since the collision, it is believed they are under the wreckage. The little girl killed was Alice Hlggert., thirteen years old, who lived at Itahway. The first body taken out was that of an unknown "man about thirty-five years of age. The man was poorly dressed and looked to be a laborer. iLl : it... ?i WHERE THE MONEY GOES. Might 11 u ml rod Million l)olliir? Spoilt l?y I'roHont ('oii/jim'sh. The volume containlng statements I of appropriations, now otllces, etc., j ro<|ulre<l by law to be prepared and j published at the end of each session of congress, under the direction of the ! committees on appropriations of the , senate and the house, has been completed for the llrst session of the "?7111 congress by Thomas 1*. Cleaves and .lames S. Courts, chief clerks respectively of these committees. A summary on the appropriations shows the grand total of $8,000,(124.- ' 49(1. The details by bills are as follows: ! Agricultural, $5,208,900; army, $91,- j 780,180; diplomatic, $1,957,925; Dis- i trlct ofColuinbia, $8,514.4(19: fortiiica- 1 I tlon $7,298,956; Indian. 4h,D38,U28; i legislative, $25,898,981; military acaj demy, $2,(127,824: navals. $78,85(1,3(18; i pension, $189,842,230; postolllce, $ 138,i 110,598; river and harbor, $20,771,112: i sundry civil, $80,103,859; deficiencies, $28,(150,007:miscellaneous, $2.722,795; isthmian canal, $60,139,000; permanent appropriations, $128,921,220. Ln addition to the specific appropria- ! tions made, contracts are authorized j to be entered into for certain works j requiring future appropriations by ' congress in the aggregate sum of j $202,711,406. These contracts In-1 elude $21,0(19,500 for additional ships ! for the navy and for permanent itn- | provemonts of increased facilities at I certain navy yards; $15,948,(150 fori add it ions to old buildings and t be con- ; struction of new public buildings in various cit ies of the country; $88,88(1,1(10 for improvement of rivers and harbors; $8,500,000 for reconstruction of old and erection of new buildings ai 1110 in unary aoa aemy at West I Point, and $180,000,000 for tlie construction of an isthmian canal. The now olllccs and employment of a civilian character, specifically authorized, number (1,38(5 with compensation for t he year of $0,343,595, and ! those abolished or omitted aggregate 1,105, at an annual pay of $1,289,080, a net increase of ">,221 at a yearly cost of $5,054,514. In addition to tlie new civilian employments shown the volume also shows an increase of (i."> in the military establishments, at an annual cost of $42,308, and 300 otllccrs (including 28"> additional midshipmen) together with 3,000 seamen in the naval establishment, and 1,550 additional men in the marine corps, with total annual pay of $1,343,777. A comparison of the total appropriations made at the last session of congress for 1903?$800,024,496?with those of the preceding or short session the 50th congress for 1902?$730,338,676 shows and increase of $70,285,920. TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE. ! Newport Shocked By the Suicide of a Disappointed Dover. I >isappointment over a broken matrimonial engagement is believed to have been the cause of the suicide at Newport., II. 1., of Robert Reading Remington, of New York. Mr. Remington went over to the club liouse from his rooms at the La Forge cottage alxmt I o'clock Monday afternoon, and, after reading the papers for some time, went to the committee rooms on the second lloor. An hour and a half later ! two inulllcd reports were heard, hut I those in the building paid no attention to them. Later Mr. Remington's body was found by a member who went to the committee room. Remington evidently had been dead for some time. A local undertaker took charge of the body. Mr. Remington was well known among the summer residents of Newport and had been closely identified with the social world of that resort for the last seven or eight years. His engagement to Miss May Van Alcn, daughter of James Van Alcn and granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor, has been discussed for some time. At first it was denied and then affirmed, but it is generally believed there was a definite engagement, which, however, was broken some three weeks ago. It is said that Mr. Van Alen was greatly opposed to the engagement from the beginning. Since then Mr. Remington has been despondent., although when asked about the engagement he steadily afHrmed that lie was to he married in the fall, lie left the city ahout ten days ago, breaking tip his domestic arrangements and sending away all his effects. On Thursday of last week, however, he suddenly returned to Newport. He had frequented the leading clubs of Newport, but seemed to desire to be left alone. When tbe body was discovered blood was coming from the mouth and a revolver was found by the dead man's side. A physician found that three shots had been fired from tbe revolver, and an examination of the head showed that all three had taken effect. The first bullet apparently ploughed across the forehead, cutting a deep gash, and the second glanced up over the head, making a furrow on the top of the cranium, but still not entering the skull. The third shot was fired through the mouth and the bullet entered the brain, death probably resulting instantly. The revolver was a 118-callbre. Mr. Itcmlngton was about .'15 years of age and a member of the firm of Kcmington Brothers, of New York. He always had been known as a man of very quiet taste. His death has caused a tremendous sensation in Newport. if pio CONWAY, S FOR THE TRUSTS. I> A Pair of Labor Union Haters on . the Bench. t _____. WOULD STARVE ALL STRIKERS. ? I i . Tliey Think that Working Men ! I I llnvo N'? Ki^ht* Which | ! i IrustN Arc Hoiiim! to ^ ItCNpCCt. C The "vampire'' speech matte by N Jud^e Jackson of West Virginia when | lie lixctl extreme penalties on theja labor representatives who were work- ' in^r for their order is one of titose lit-; terances that have in them the ele- * ments of all sorts of dissatisfaction t and disturbance. s Periodically there comes t? the c bench a man who is absolutely out of v I I sympat hy with the spirit of his time, y and such a one is very likely to regard v his elevation to the position as a war- L, rant for assuming tii.vt he is privileged v to hector and scold as well as to lix , penalties and decide disputes. These arc the Judges who are most, y given to using their power of commit- t inent for contempt of court. j y The men Judge .lockson has sent to j jail for periods of two and three j months disregarded the injunction , that forbade t hem to persuade men to f Join a labor union. It will be a long | time before America is ready to ac- ( eept the ruling of this court that talk- , ing to the employees of a particular j y concern Is an otTcnse so grave that a sweeping injunction can make it con- t tempt of court. I That such a ruling is of use to t he (j Clarksburg Fuel company is obvious. and there have been judges who have y found warrantor law for prohibiting y anything that rich corporations found j to their disadvantage. L Does anybody believe that if the v Miners' union applied to this or any s other judge for an injunction prohibiting the Clarksburg Find company from inducing its employees to remain outside the union they would get even a hearing? The description of the union organ- \ i/.ers as "vampires that live and fatten \ on the honest labor of the coal miners j of the country * *. * and have noth- j ing in common with the people who o - (H are employed in t he mines ot the Clarks- j, burg Fuel company" is part of Judge N .Jackson's trade. H Certainly the dignity of the courts \ is more jeopardized by such a re vela- \ tion of temper and bias on the part of s a judge than it ever could be by the , disregard of his injunctions. t The lawyers who practice before , Judge Jackson "have nothing in common" with the litigants they rcpre- N sent, but he would hardly describe s them as vampires. t The walking delegates are a part of t the sceme of unionizing labor a s scheme that has done more for the a betterment of conditions among those t who toil than any other element, of 1 our civilization. Without their un- e ions the employees of any corporation t are utterly at its mercy, ity concerted F action they can make a stand against a injustice that they never could do as 1 individuals. Without the organizers 1 there would he no unions, a situation I that would doubtless satisfy the own- a ers of coal mines and possibly Judge i Jackson, but one that would he mcl- t ancholy for the men who have to work f with their hands. ( The last word as to government by ; injunction has not been spoken in this t country by any means. f The power to punish for contempt f of court was given judges as a pro- f tcction to themselves at their scs- i uinnu It. ivnu n n.... r mnaxi f Div.iui A VI VIUO IIV TUI J 11V <1111, IAS liiuatu new crimes or to furnish a weapon for employers as against their men. There is another aspect of this case. Every person bcforcacourt is required to treat that court with respect, and courtesy. The obligation of the particular citizen who happens to be chosen to sit in judgment on his fellows to treat others with respect and courtesy is equally binding. The judge who is there to decide the rights and wrongs of disputes and administer the law generally, is neither a preacher nor a professor of morals. Sermons and lessons are as far from his duties as abuse and tyranny. Calling men vampires because they are intrusted by their fellows with a function of which Judge Jackson disapproves is ncitheir law nor manners. .ft***** JL * I One more crime lias lieen added to < the catalogue. { Judge .Jackson by his injunctions i made It a punishable otTense to ask a coal miner to join a labor union, and > now Judge Keller, another West Vlr- t ginia jurist has Issued injunctions for- t bidding the establishment of strike < camps, which are established in connection with she purchase and distribution of food for the striking miners. The lawbreaking railroads, which j mine coal illegally and in defiance of ? their charters, are to be congratulated , on the presence on the bench of two \ such convenient justices as these. , If they do not win the strike, it will < not be the fault of Judge Jackson and j Judge Keller. I The splendid response of the union ( conference in the matter of strike ben- i etits made it impossible for the coal 1 operators to carry out their beneficent \ scheme of starving the strikers into * abandoning their union, so this in- ( junction, directed at the leaders of the h national executive committee and oth- t ers charged with the duty of providing t supplies for the men who are out on c It VII 1 V.C . O., T1IUKSDAV, A itriko, comes alon^r in the very nlrk of time. 'The encroachment on the liberty of he miners is greater with every ex- , nnple of this misuse of t tie power of ' lie federal injunction. There was a time in tlie history of lie struggle between capital and its ,-mployecs that it was a serious penal !. Il'ense for a man to accept or demand 11 ore than a rate of wages so low that t seems Incredible that workmen were ] iblc to live at all. it was no mere, nake believe law either and was hutressed by anotlier that made it punshable by imprisonment, to refuse to vork at the prevailing rate. It was from this condition of skivvy tlial labor unions rescued the men vho do t lie world's work. The injunct ion principle would attain and flic hands of labor and make if ' ibsolutely depend* lit on the generosit y { if employers. I \ It is not for the law to say that men t hall not join unions tor their mutual icnetit or that they shall notendeavor , o get ot hers to join them or that they ;c hall not. form camps or do anything ilse that is not in itself unlawful, and t vlien the law is turned and bent to ( nake t lie: e t hings eiiminal, to the end hat some man or set of men may hire i 1 * Ufi r\v I r? * 11 * i i 11 y , I iiriu I l" 11^' I'll' II' I I'M \ l contempt lor laws that may not al-!' vays be confined to the judgo-mado I. ulinvrs. The progress of labor has been over , .he wrecks of just sueh obst acles as j1 hesc, ami It Is absurd to suppose t hat sIds progress can be halted now. The ; njunctions of Judge Jackson and lodge Keller will never become preoolents. Whether they tire sustained ' or the present or not, they will soon ' >e overruled by the court of public J ipinion, against tin* decisions of which jo injustice can stand in a free conn- ' ry. Within ;i generation these injunc- ' ions w ill be as great curiosities in the 1 bstory of the struggle for hotter conlitions for laboring men as the old law } eferrcd to uhove tliiit. made it a crime o refuse work for ti small and arid- ' rarity set rate of wages. ' The law is what the people make it, .nd the people of the i'nited States j vill never lie a party to the erection of ucli tyrannical and one-sided rulings 1 is these into part of the legal system. : ? New York American and Journal. A Had Tragedy. , A special from Yorkville says: Early iVcdnesday morning, at Pleasant tidgc, tiliout eighteen miles above lore, in Gastonia County, N. C., Jesse Harris shot and wounded Harvey Dick- I on and a short time afterwards shot md killed himself. Moth parties are ! veil known white eitl/.cns of that ( lection. The facts surrounding the 1 .ragedy arc as follows; Karris had had .rouble with his family and as a re- 1 a I b had not been living at home for nore t han a year. Yesterday he re.urncd in a bad humor, being intoxl- I a ted. Mis wife and daughter were if raid to stay in the house with him 1 vithout protection, and asked Dick- 1 on, a neighbor, to come and stay in heir home during the night and unit the husband and father became ,ober. Dickson came to the house ifter dark, and lie and Karris sat on lie front piazza and talked in a frlendy manner for an hour or more, at, the I Sid of which time Dickson retired to he room that had been assigned him. i uibsequent ly Karris went to Dickson md said that he was going to shoot ; dm, and said to his family that "the 1 ights will burn all night tonight." ( lickson was not alarmed at the threat ind only realized that it was not an die one when some time later a load if shot was emptied into his thigh I rom a gun lired through an open winlow by Jesse Karris. Immediately ifter firing the shot Karris went to die rear of the house and shot himiclf through the head, dying in a iliorfc time from the wound. It is laid that Dickson will recover, Ills ivound not being serious. Murdered llis Landlord. The coroner's Jury investigating the 'obbery and murder of Watkins Newnan and the partial cremation of his iody in his home near Jefferson City, Term., reported Wednesday, recomnending the arrest of William Wat- , <ins. The accused was a witness be'ore the jury and was at once taken nto custody and jailed at Morristown, 1 Penn. The testimony brought out ( mowed mi;il flc.ffman nan necn mur- , Icrcd, tied to his bed and the house let on lire. Ilis arms and legs were aimed olT, and an examination showed 1 ,hat robbery had also been committed. 1 Ml the testimony was damaging to iVatkins, hut that of 0. T. Itankin, a awycr, was especially so. Watkins ( iad liccn ejected from one of Newnan's houses and went to Itankin to onsult liim concerning a suit for damiges. lie asked the attorney what ivould lie flie elfeet on the suit if Newman was out < f the way and could lot, testify, lie made the assertion three times in 11is attorney's presence that he would get even with Newman. )ther arrests are expected. Killed at n Meeting. At a county campaign meeting icld Tuesday, August 19, at Wilson's Store, in the upper section of Green- i rillc county, 'Carey Styles shot and i tilled Walter McCarreli and seriously ivoundcd his younger brother, Emmet Styles, and Earnest McCarreli. Styles las been arrested. The shooting took place about 200 yards from where the < candidates were speaking. Rye witlesses say that Earnest McCarrell and < lOmmct Styles were engaged in a tight, vhen Carey Styles appeared and began .hooting ids first bullet striking his >wn brother in the leg. Styles then < ihot Earnest McCarrell in the right irm, and upon the appearance of VVal- i .er McCarrell Styles tired at him, proluclng instant death. tftali T<UST 28, ll)<>2. A RACE RIOT. Six Persons Seriously Wounded in a Fight In Mississippi. TROUBLE CAUSED BY NEGROES 1 I I liicltod by it Mouthy I'rciu lii-r. Ilicv Iliivo Secretly Organized ami I Armed TiiiMitNrlvi'H lor I'nliiwt'ul I'iii'Ikisch, Six persons seriously shot and a j1 lumber injured is the reported result ' d' a race riot in the south end of Lee t Joiinty, near Shannon, Miss., which \ vas reported to he still in progress on 1 he 20th iust. Three negroes and 1 hree white men are hadly injured and it hers probably more or less so. r This is the result of a r.iee ri??t par- f lei pa ted in l?ya see ret. organization of iJ legrocs tiring upon and wounding the J 'hihank brothers while on their own , iremises. The .shooting oeeurred on t I'uesday, soo.i after dark. Posses in ' nirsuit had a lively encounter with |( ,he negroes six miles south of Shannon , Wednesday evening, when more or less ; ihooting was done. < hie white man i ind three negroes were hadly wounded iiid several more negroes wore slightly inrt. other posses were in pursuit at ast accounts and the alTair was not t'et over. A dispatch from Tupelo, Miss., la ted the 21st, hist., says: ivputv sheritT Temple lias just readied the! ity, with eight desperadoes hound with chains and under a heavy guard, lie reports f>00 men under arms and (ays great excitement prevails. For some months negroes at Shan-' I..., .....I V..HI..I I I - : - - i - - - I iwii <vim n rttiri' mi mil*" ih'i'ii i \ i (1 j considerable trouble, secret Societies! being formed under the guidance of a former school teacher or preacher. These organizations are said to I?c for the. purpose of resisting white men j ind protecting negroes in deeds of lawlessness. The alleged inst igator of the serious outbreak is a negro preacher named lelf. Rogers, lie has been held under : suspicion by t he whites for some time us a bad character, lie is a negro of some educat ion and has considerable Intluence in bis church. The tirst serious trouble broke out some time ago, when a negro named Ciiles Jackson assaulted the Laudcrilales in a corn Held, seriously wounding them. About, a month ago t his negro died in the county jail from wounds indicted while resisting arrest,. A few days ago a negro was seen taking corn from a lield belonging to Mr. IOubanks, who lives close to Shannon, and when spoken to about it lie became insolent and defiant and a warrant was sworn out for his arrest. On Tuesday evening a son of IOubanks, living just across the road, noticed a number of negroes congregating around his house, lie supposed they meant to attack his home, and he crossed the road and joined bis father and younger brother. Shortly lifter IOubanks went to Ins father's house a command to lire was given, illd a blindim/ vollev nun/ mil frnm Lhe guns carried by t lie negroes. lioth | of the younger 10ubanks wore hit and i badly wounded. After the shooting of the Eubanks brothers the whites immediately or- i Rani zed themselves into an armed posse to bring to justice the guilty | negroes. Wednesday evening, headed i by Marshal Itandolph, of Nettlcton, ] and Marshal Irby, of Shannon, this ( posse went after two members of the ( negro mob, who were supposed to be < hiding in a cabin about six miles from j Shannon. The posse reached the cab- ] in and ordered the door opened, but tin command was unheeded. After ( waiting a moment Kandolph pushed < the door open, lie was met by a vol- \ ley of birdshot and fell across the | thresh hold, with blood gushing from < Ids face, and shoulders. The negroes ; ran out of the house, over the pros- ( bratc ollic.er. They were met by a < volley from the posse, and three negroes were injured so badly that they were left lying on trie ground. The others escaped in the darkness, some lea vine behind traces of their wniindu A deputy has returned from Shan- , lion and reports everything (piiet there ; now. A lloud master Killed. Road master Fred Stovers of Stevsrs, Va., was sliot and killed and .1 im , Mithell, a negro porter, was dangerously wounded in a fight with disorderly negroes on a southtmund Sea board Air Line train near Middlcburg, Va. The n ok roes had taken seats in the coach reserved for whites. Conductor Clements ordered them to the coach for negroes. Tlie negroes protested but obyed' the order. When In the "Jim crow" coach one of the negroes, named Joe Cole, struck at tin; i conductor I load master Steve rs came to the conductor's rescue. The negro pulled a pistol and Stevers clasped him I around the body, but the negro t wist- ? ed his arm around, and getting his pistol against Stovers' head, shot him, < Ste vers falling dead on the coach iloor. i Mitchell the porter rushed towards ' Cole as he pointed the pistol at Con- < doctor Clements and was shot In the abdomen. Passengers captured three of the participants and two Jumped from the train, escaping to the woods. ' Blood hounds have been sent from ' Weldon to chase them down. The 1 dead body of Stevers was putofT at j Henderson and Jifn Mitchell, the colored porter, was brought to ltalcigh where an operation was performed on him. The physicians fear lie will die. 1 A* - TRAIN WRECKER ARRESTED. t wo I'hhucoomhI'iiI Attempt* Muile Near Chester. The prime of train wrecking Is ^en 'rally supposed to have heen contemporaneous witli that ot' train robbing. I'.ut while trains are not wrecked I're- I ipiently nowadays, It is liecause the railroads, through their "section tosses" keep a superb patrol of the) treat highway of eommeree, and frus- j rate whatever attempts are made. A bold attempt t? wreck the S??u11? m's fast train between Columbia and 'harlot te a few nights ayo failed miaculously, and a subsequiil attempt lie nieht following also failed. There ,vill be no more attempts for tie u'tfio llcnd is in jail. The arrest was j nade by Mr. <?eo, W. bishop, special itfent of the Southern railroad. The fast train which left Columbia : it tt.2f> last Thursday evening ran inl?< in obstruction at the Shannon place ust beyond Corn well's. The engine ! ,vas vtolnn at a mighty clip, something ike an miles an hour, and t he obstruc ion whs on :? curve. II. is marvelous hat the train was not derailed, "specially when the nature of the list met ion Is known. Flat, on t he outer rail on the curve tvas placed a piece of tlat iron about in inch thick and four feet Imp;. This , Use If was almost enough to throw the wheels of the engine from the track. Hack of this was placed a "llsh-platc" ir piece of iron which is used to tie i.lic ends of rails. This was almost a aire ag'iit of destruction. Ifut to nake I lie tiling doubly sure, the would* ?c wrecker placed on each rail a Hint rock weighing 12"? pounds. When the groat engine struck this o.nhinat ion ol obstructions if hurled lie iron bar far Into a Held nearby, ossed the "llsh-plate" to one side and pushed t he rocks from the track. Friday night t he attempt was releafed; this time a smaller rock was iised. There was some delay in reporting the matter, but in less than wo days after he got the information Mr. bishop had secured a confession from John Wallace, a negro boy 10 /ears old, who lives near the scene of he at tempted wreck. The section master suspected a coram negro, but the latter, in proving lis innocence, threw some light, on die crime and stated that two or three negroes whom he named had been >een in the neighborhood about that lour. An old plantation darkey corroborated this statement. John Wallace was among the boys named. Mr. bishop found the boy and charged him with the crime. Wallace wilted md Ids suspicious act ions led to his i i-i.... I < ?.. I I... ....... ? .. il... ' > > 1 I...-.u. wii im- ?<i> to iiic jilii in* admit t<mI having made the second attempt hut denied responsibility tor Lite first. He had no motive except Unit he wanted to do something devilish. When visited by ids parents at jail John Wallace was asked what lie did with liis younger brother with whom lie had started to church. It developed t hat Wallace had protested against Lhc younger 1 k?y going with him, and when they arrived near the scene of Ids intended crime he left his brother >n some pretext and slipped down the railroad track. After some evasion lie. finally confessed his guilt in the lirst attempt, lie would have used more elaborate methods the second night but was frightened by the approach of the train. It is (11 tllcult to appreciate the enormity of tills attempted crime. .John Wallace waited for the short, train, or local, to go by, and his efforts were directed against the vestibule whicli follows shortly afterwards. This train arries upwards of lf>0 persons every lay. From the topography of the locality, the speed of the train, etc., it is easy to believe that the loss of life would have been appalling. The law, it is said, is not severe enough. Last year over in Lexington Bounty an attempt was made to wreck i passenger train coming down the lit 11 at Lccsvillc. A spike was driven securely between the ends of rails and x link used in coupling was thrown Dver the spike, making a formidable instruction. A white man passing the spot saw luc oostruciion and with a lightwood knot drove the spike from its secure position. It required frantic efforts to remove the spike Ik;fore the train I'amc rushing l>y with 1 i:t persons aboard. The guilty party, a negro, was caught and was given 18 months in jail, hut little more than an ordinary thief would be given. A railroad man said Wednesday that the author of an unsuccessful attempt at train wrecking should he sentenced for life with the stipulation that a pardon by a governor would not be recognized in such a ease. Drowned Hi* Four <'liildren. Joseph Anderson, a fanner living near Salina, Kansas, in a tit of despondency drowned his four children, three Kiiis and a boy, in a cistern, and then shot himself with a revolver. Anderson is probably fatally injured. Financial matters had affected his mind. The crime was committed luring the absence of the mother. The oldest child was six years of age and the youngest a baby of four months. Anderson left a note on a table, notifying the mother that the children could be found in the cistern. Severe Storm* in town. Another series of severe lightning md windstorms passed through S mtli3 as tern Iowa Tuesday evening, doing much damage. In the last few weeks more than UK) barns have lieen struck by lightning near Keokuk and more than that number in Southeastern Iowa. Many Northeast Missouri counties have sulTerod the same way. SIXTEEN KILLED. Territfic Explosion of Two Steel Digesters. VICTIMS MANGLED AND BURNED Details of' a ltlooil-( 'urdllng OccurI'i'Hcc lii Doluwnre I'ulp Mill*. Tlir W orst Is Ycl to llo Tolil. Many IVmoiiH A re Missing. A special from Wilmington, Del., says sixteen workmen art; known to have been killed, six are inissi ig at <1 three others are badly Injured bv I he explosion of two steel digesters in t lit? Delaware I'nlp mills, in the .lessup \ Moore I'aper company's works, on the Christiana, Wednesday afternoon. The dead are: Frank Harris, Wrn. hurke, .lames Nagle, John MeCormlek, Zaehai ins Collins, colored, .las. Stokes, Joseph laimhacher and (iranville Waters. The missing: William Soott, Joseph Henry, Joel llutton and Wm. Ruth, firemen; K. II. Mousley and James Sweeney. The injured: James Jeter, badly burned, recovery doubtful: John <'oliins, burned and inhaled dames: Ceo. Durham, burned and scalded, recovery doubtful. The digesters were located in a t wostory building. There were ten of them in the building, each one resembling a vat and about six feet in diameter. They were used for reducing wood pulp. Kighteen men were at work in the building. There were two terrific reports, and the next instant the building and other mills about the structure were completely wrecked. One digester was blown Into tin? air and fell to the ground 2.r>0 feet away. A dense volume of smoke for a time prevented the outside workmen from going to the Immediate rescue of those who wore caught in the ruins of the falling building. Several men made their escape without any injury. An alarm of tire was sounded and the entire department of the city and a large force of policemen were soon (in the ground and the work of rescue was immediately begun. Several of the workmen were taken out unconscious, only to die after tieing removed to hospitals. The wreckage was piled up for more than thirty feet and the escaping steam made the work of rescue rather diillcult. Those who were killed outright were mangled and burned by escaping acid that flowed over their Ixxlies from the broken digesters. Up to this writing eight persons are dead, and according to the officials of the company at least six others are in the ruins. To add to the horror of the situation, the wreckage took lire, but after some difficulty the fire department manured to subduo the flames and the work of rescue was continued. Steam was used in the digesters. The olllcers of tiie company tliink that too much steam was generated in them and that this was the cause of the explosion. The monetary loss Is estimated at 435,000. A Murdered Girl. The Spartanburg Journal says: Miss Minnie Mitchell, who was cruelly murdered in Chicago, a few days ago, was a sister of iiobert II. Mitchell, who married Miss Minnie Trimmier, of Spartanburg, and who is well known here. The Chicago papers recently have contained long stories of this brutal and sensational murder. The body of the young lady was found buried under some rubbish in the very heart of the city, where it was discovered several days after the murder had been committed. A bullet hole was found in her head and her clothes were badly torn, which showed there had been a struggle. The American, one 01 unicago s leaning newspapers, lias taken great interest in the alYair, having offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture of the murderer, whose identity has been fcrrctted out by the reporters of that newspaper. 11 is name is VVm. Iiartliolin and lie was a suitor for Miss Mitchell's hand. Every effort is being made for his capture. Nearly a .Million i'eiiNionor*. Congress has lieen running a race with death, and congress lias won, says the Baltimore Sun. The civil war pensioners are now dying at a rapid rate, and yet the pension list Is increasing. Thirty-seven years after the close of the war there are more pensioners than ever before. The number lacks only 074 of being a round million. This was an increase at 7 U->7 ulnon 1 WOll 'I'lw. ovha.). on.. V/I I I/M I nillVV/ 1 A. 1IV/ C.\ |A/ ft l/t? i"?4A JT it is Die high-water mark, and that from now on the increasing death rate will decrease the pension list. This has been predicted each year for the psist twenty years, but each time congress has rallied to the rescue of the lisl and added more names than death could take off. dlrl Murdered In Kentucky. /(Mia, the tiftecn-year-old daughter of C. M. Vle.k, a prominent farmer of Ilussellville, Ky., was killed Wednesday, in slight of her father's house. She had gone to a spring for water, and failing to return, a search was instituted. Later the body, with the head crushed, was found in a fence corner, partly covered with leaves. One hundred men with bloodhounds have gone to the scene of the crime, and if the guilty person shall be caught a lynching will follow. The Vick home is about tivc miles from here, near the asphalt mines.