WOSEVELT WILL NOW ACT 1 Cwfenace on ih: Strike l« Meld at the

WUlekoase.

I HA NY SUOQESTIONS ARE MADE. TV PmMeat Tilkcd With Metm. Kmi. Pi'ut Aad Governor Crt»f, Who Reviewed TV U|»l LtailUdoae ol Federal taldicre ace—Gore rase al'i Haade Are

Tied at PrcacaL

Washinaton, D. C. •(Special).—President Roosevelt realites that it is now "up

| ■■ do hhn" to act in the case of the coal | strikr. At two Cabinet meclinRS lield

a* t^e temporary White House Tuesday the subject w'Sis fully discussed,

t It h said that the President will act. I . Whether from an economic or political

f' Viewpoint is uncertain. It is the r ■ Orderstanding in Washington

[. recourse will be had to the spurts to i terminate the struggle between the I: miners and operators and compel the rc-

! sumption of work at the mines. It is stated that Secretary of War Bihu Root has a plan for meeting the situation and will be relied upon by the

.President, Attorney-General Philander

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw spent the day on Wall street discussing ■the financial situation with bankers there. He issued a statement more folly explaining hi* proposed-method of putting more money in circulation. Judge Summerville.'of Illinois, has decided that a man who sells his wile mitst insure delivery or he is guilty ol obtaining money under lalsc pre-

tenses.

Miss Alice Hay, retary of State, w Newbury, N. H., worth, of Gcncssee. Henry C. Scheel. a cc New York, despondent on account of the miners' strike, shot himself and is likely to die. The Rock Island fast mail was wrecked at NcwlorfT I*-. 12 cars of merchandise being thrown into the

te genera 1 that re

mikpos ■ledgcd t “iKo

ttomey-Genei —

>x, it is asserted, has acknowthat he sees no way out pf the

way out of ti

lings if taken, according to irmation obtainable will be

istration's spokesman, but Mr. Ron* Will be the diicf adviser. Attending the Two conferences with the President were Attorney-General Knox. Secretary of the

Attorney-General Knox. Secretary of t r Navy Moody, Postmaster-General Pay and Gov. W. Murray Crane, of MassaC thusetts. The morning conference continued ior more than an hour, and the one in the afternoon was of almost equal

Governor Crane's presence

brought into prominence d

. begun in the Massachus

- accurc the apr~ - *

the coal prop<

d that the situat _. met successfully by this method. Thost who took part in the conferenres were non-communicative when questioned. Enough was learned, however, » warrant the assertion that the President now intends to act.

SUMMARY—OF

LATEST NEWS.

I. ZOLA IS ASPHYXIATED Victim of a Horror Like Tboie He So Vividly Described. WAS SUFFOCATED IN HIS. BEDROOM.* His WMe Nearly Sham Hit Fate-Reported Eridrnc: of Sakldc Not SaVtaatlated by Her Statemret la IV Maflstrale-Carboak Gas From the Pipes of a Steve—Aaalyals ce of Carboak Add la Blood.

, James W. WadsN. Y. coal merchant of

of

streat

An attempt was made Reading Railroad Pottstow

Suns

ted fc

0 wreck a train near

1. Pa.

1 J. Sharkey, who. it is alused the death of Banker ~ in New York. «as inislaughter in the-first de-

ineworkei re desertir

ic United Mini

rlairn that

ting the mines to work under

The

because they do no{

the guard of militiamen. •Gust Z. Sicfeld. a farmer, living Pcshtigo. while beating his wife

killed by his son.

Ethel Belle McChesney. aged ^ears. committed suicide at Sync R. Bannister Mitchell.'a young man of Stony Creek. Va.. eloped with Miss Mabel Lee, of the same place, ostensibly to £e married. When about 25 miles from her home. Mitthcll shot his sweetheart to death and then killed himself with the same weapon. Their bodies were found lying together

a buggy robe.

"V.^pT.u^; o. chic,. h„

rived in New York after a careful in- lying with his head and shoulders spection of the .1— a k;. t».„« „„ t

cure the appointment of receivers for the coal properties, but the opinion was expressed that the situation could not be

A Naval Stores Combine. -Savannah. Ga. (Special).—The Consolidated Naval Stores Company was - incorporated 1n Jacksonville with a capital of $2,000,000. The concerns'going into the combination arc the * Southern Naval Stores Company, at , Savannah; the Ellis Young Company. : ir.Si.'Eif’.rabSisa Stores Company, at Jacksonville: the . Gulf Naval Stores Company, at Tam- ? : j^on'a S S S S3 , SrSSi 8 £&*!£ is expected to do an annual business

ol $11,000.01

in the ct

ment of state coarts of, labor. A negro shot and wounded J. I

Baber, a motorman. in Richmond. Va.. Zola's bo ' when a lot of carmen started to tried to 1 » the negro a crowd of his friends by the fni

licen

tme to his rescue and a riot folwed. A number of men were hurt

Paris (By Cable).—Emile Zola, the famous novelist, who gained additional prominence in recent years because of his • defense of Captain Dreyfus, .was found dead in his Paris home ‘ Mondsy

morning.

Asphyxiation resulting from the fumes from a stove in his bedroom is

given as the cause of death.

M. Zola and hi* wife had retired at 10 P. M. Mine. Zola was found seriously ill when the room was broken into in the morning. About noon she was removed to a private hospital, where she recovered consciousness for a short liitic and was ab’e briefly lo explain to a magistrate what had happened. . The couple had returned to Pans from their country house at Medan the day before. Owing to a sudden spell of cold weather the heating stove in their bedroom was ordered to be lighted. The stove burned badly and the pipes ai

said to have been out of order.

To the magistrate Mme. Zola said th she awoke early in the morning with a splitting headachk. She awakened her husband and asked him to op^n a window. He rose and attempted to move toward a window, bnt staggered and fell to the floor uncpnscious. Mme.

:—j _ t same moment, and

II to tl

ola fainted at

ia* therefore unable to give tl The servants of the Zola It hearing any movement

NATIONAL CAPITAL >

The following important diplomatic appointments have been announced from

the State Department?:

a dor

to Get

Robert S. McCormick, of Illinois, now ambassador extraordinary and plcnipo-

t £ McOm

ador extraon y to Austria-Hun|

tordinary

igary, to and pi ci

tentiary 1

bassador ex tract tiary to Russia.

Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, now envoy extraordinary and minir.ster plenipoten'tiary to Spain, to he ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-

Hungary.

PiESIDENT LiNDER KNIFE Uadergoca a Second Operation on the

Abscess of His Left Leg.

THE BONE SLIGHTLY AFFECTED. Dr. Nesrloa N. Shatter, ol New York, Was Called la Coosaltatlon and the Operation Was Performed By Dr. RUey. Assisted By Brs. Lug. O'Reilly, Urte aad Stilt ll was Foaod That the Bone Was Effected.

NEGRO DIES IN FLAMES.

Wf Colored Msa Is Lynched In Mlsslsilfpl

—Coalesces to Crime.

voy pole

ftentiary to Spain.

Charles Page Bryan, of Wtiu >vo/ extraordinary and ministi

Corinth, Miss. (Special).—Writhing

fagots piled by hun-

Ircds of citizens, Tom Clark,alias Will

In the flames of f;

D. C.

Washington,

other operation wa day on the abscess the President.

the former

(Special).—Ani performed Sunof the left leg of

• Utbson, a young negro, was burned at it the stake here. Clark had confessed to one of the most atrocious as- | i®tills and muidcrs-rin the history of Missimippi, and said that he deserved Carrie W^i&el^th^^rifc 'o/Y w'cHknown ritizen. was found dead in her

Jr

1 practically severed from her tody. Toth Whitfield and his wife were re-

1 relieve the trouble, dignation of the people knew 1 urgeons with a knife | bounds. Corinth and the surrounding " tavity, 1 country was scoured in an effort to ap-

found prebend the murderer, but diligent search failed to disclose his identity.

jiecdle was used

but this time the surgi

made an incision into the small

:posing the bone, which was

and minister pleni j to be slightly afTecied.

Potentiary to Brazil, to be envoy extra- j xhe President's case has been proordirvry and minister plenipotentiary tc 1 g re ., s j ng satisfactorily, but it is believSwiticrland. ed by the physicians that the further D^.-id E. Thompson, of Nebraska, tc optration raa de will hasten his combe envoy extraordinao- and mimsei , [llctc recovery. While none of the docplenipotentiary to Brazil. _ I tors is willing to be quoted, they give These appointments are to take eneci | t j lc mo „ positive assurances that there when Ambassador White leaves Berlir | js no , , hc | east cause for alarm, and in November. t 8a y that on the contrary there is every

»«- no.

The report that the government ol Jn d will not result in any impairment Roumania has discontinued the issuanct ] of the President's limb, and that there of passports ,0 J- intending ^o emi fdTr^'b^ ‘^isS grate to America, though not offi^aH) ; yh . confidently expect that the Presiconfirmed. is regarded by; the Washmg; denl u on his fecI within a rcaton authonties as an immediate ant | time and wi . h h is robust conduct recognition by Roumania of th« atitution to asfUt recovery, soon will

:E 'S-psr-

Wiethe

rch fai! .

Two detectives from Chicago were employed, hut their efforts were fruitSeveral suspects were arrested, 1 each case an alibi was proven, umittec of 12 citizens were named ntimte the search for the murand these men have been very in their work.

On Monday last it became known that Tom GarK. a negro living near here, had harf'trouble with his wife and that the latter threatened to disclose the secret Aoi a crime. Officers apprehended the woman, and she told enough to warrant the belief that Gark had murdered Mrs. Whitfield. Gark was arrested and only Saturday was brought before the committee of twelve in Corinth. The negro finally confessed to the murder and also told of other crimes that he had cotn-

-itted.

ih his head and s the floor and his legs on the Doctors were summoned, but they

iuft-itate hit

Newton M. Shaffer, of New mitted.

vho long has been acquainted > He said that several years ago he

mmtfasaHnE

ed to resuscitate him.-

A slight odor of carbonic gas was j noticed when the servants broke into j

ihe p

consultation at 10 o'

I It was noticed that thci | slight rise in the Preside

id a policeman injures

President Williams, of the Seaboard. ion of the

intimated that if the absorptii Louisville and Nashville by lafftic Coast Line ■

of the

nllc by th suited in ; t-ocal -t

attacked President Roosevelt's | ^giving Congress mbve powci Samuel Greenage. who killed Conable Harry Bucks in Greenwich 1.:_ v* . committed suicide.

Gave Ufa tar Her Meet. Mobile. Ala. (Special).—While defending her 15-year-old niece. Helen Robertson, from an attempted assault. Mrs. Helen Dickson, who lives in a suburb south of this city, was raqrdered in her room by an unknown man. Miss Robertson. ,Miss Dieks6n's_ niece, and a 3-year-old son of Mrs. Dickson, were in the room when the murder was committed. The girl was aroused by' some unknown person who had entered the room and who .attempted to assault her. Her cries for help aroused Mrs. Dickson, who was sleeping beside her. and in the struggle that followed Mrs. Dickson was choked to death. Dr. ttarCMrt oa Coal Baraas.

al).—A

ing to the North Amt

says: ‘'The Rev. Df. Richard Harcourt, pastor of the People's Methodist Church, of this chy. and formerly of Grace Chnrch. Baltimore, declared : "

the coal strike v"£«n

Philadelphia (Speci - from Reading to the

trace C

n interview pn tl

g desperate will have t

dispatc mcrica

The Irish League has demanded the esignation of William O'Doherty from he House of Commons because he atided the coronation of Kin^ Edward.

vin^ Edwar

The post-mortem examination shot ed that M. Zola's death was due to asphyxiation. His wife was prostrated

on learning of his death.

Solicitor Pcnfteld concluded the > r - guments for the United States before The Hague International Tribunal in

Hague

. . Pious Fund The Norwegian barks Bothnia Winona were wrecked at sea. the e being safely landed apd the s

and

r . thing despet —rtn-—L--- —— “ * Why not hang a few cm! barons?

That would settle thirtgs. 1 in Caliiomr- — J —

_ When I liv-

mra and we had similarilanr —

The Maryleborve Borough Council 'declined Mr. Carnegie's offer of $150,000 for the establishment of free libra-

ries.

Children playing with fire resulted in the almost total destruction of the village of Voshnik, Russian Poland. General Velutina. as agent -of the Venezuelan government, has caused the arrest of the manager of the French Cable Company at Carnpano. A Venezuelan cruiser is suspected of having cut the cable. The French manager! have protested against the "arbitrary action of the government." The second cyclone that swept over tjie Island of Sicily Sunday added to The great loss oMife-by the first storm. Several ships were wrecked. The bodies of 6po persons are awaiting ' irial.

mized and thoi

tre strung up to lam tinkers of my church

committee.

- ible

mpposts. Some

Mis* Rath Haaaa to Marry.

Chicago (Special).—Announcement was made here of the engagement of Miss Ruth Hanna, youngest daughter aator Hanna, and Joseph Medill _ rmick, son. of Robert S. McCormick. whose appointment as Ambassa-

of Senator Hanna, and Joseph McCormick, son. of Robert S. Mi 1c, whose appointment as Ami to Russia was just announced. T3jte

prospective bridegroom is connected with a Chicago newspaper. This announcement was confirmed by Mrs. M A. Hanna, at Geveland. who said that the report was correct. She added,

the. date for the s

fixed..

however, that

' bad not >et been f

ley KIM

pcshtigo, Wis. (Special).—Gust Stifeld, a 1 farmer living near here. 1 fchot and killed by his son. whb-nse shotgun loaded with buckshot. Sciteld, h is N*id, was beating his wife, and the boy >hot hi* father to save her. The boy then drove to fown and gave himself'up after sending a doctor to care for Itis father. Seifeld .died before the

ima. Japans (By Cable).—In a a tidal-ware swept .the Oda-

the evils from which the Jews

police was also summoned. ; are suffering at present, and tlu_t fact. It was reported later that there were in the end, by attracting tjie attent evidences of suicide in the death of M. : of the powers and exciting the hum Zola. Nothing has so far developed to i scntiir*"'* .-tuHirMion u,l: ' orc *

substantiate this thcorv. and the state- 1 araelii men! thadc by Mme. Zola to the mag- j Jews,

istratc seems to disprove it. M. Zola

o'clock.

had been a i's temoera-

:n local symptoms,

reached that

mid be

tension or swelling which wat and also to drain the wound. The operation was pei'tomnd and 3 o'clock in thdffrernt

loon. :d to

>n I and. while we may ec

d. I deep c^icern in the bettermem . il- 4 condition of the Roumanian Jetts, the j United States government must, f^r the (

Sola's body it was evident that he had ! ^As to the effect ujion the Jews them- Ij* tried to rise, but had been overcome \ selves of the suspension of the right to the fumes from the stove. The ser- I emigrate to America, the opinion ex-

its opened the bedn it for physicians. ,

’ ,1k, _tun>Rionea. , . .K nunv. .■ »>«««. •>» "SZJSZ t«,n , inJ 3

An application allay tho N pa»

the operaiuin very w-cll and subsequently expressed his satisfaction at

... . ,, -vi- • . 1 the successful result. Dr. Rixey. the ^ - r . .s , %KS? , ^'V'ff ri TSS!

SlOf.s evenmg and servants of the j annna | report of the Commis- ; ,h e President's regular physician, tsehold ate, of the same drthes. | sionfr o , p ension5 EuR ene S. Ware, I Dr. O'Reilley. who also was pres-

under the million mark July I, despite a net gain of 5732 pensioners since 1898.

n * ,c • : n 16 lotal enrollment July x last was Boston . (Special).—A committee of . against 997.735 last year. The

Bostonians sought relief in the courts j lota ] comprises 738,809 soldiers and from the present coal shortage and high ; 260.637 widows and dependentt. The

■ t sssn, sssraffi companies and coal-carrymg rail- The numbtr o{ dealh notices of old

soldiers, not now in the service, received by the bureau during the year 1.128. but only 27,043 of them

Mi”, ■c&'is ,h„ F hrs.,4‘a been suspected of having committed any of these crimes and had covered up his tratks in a way to deceive the

officers of the law.

HOTEL BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE. Tk Lives of Thirty People Endangered-Man

Cent mils Suicide.

Washington. D. G. (Special).—Frank McKee, a young machinist, wrecked the Golden Eagle 'Hotel, a modes: ho»-

• of New Jersey ave.

namite and blew

i yut his own brains.' His dead body

BOSTONIANS TRY TME UW.

Apply la Court for Receivers For the Coal

priet coal

king — — ; lies and coal-carrying rail-

roads. A bill in equity was filed in the State Supreme Court against the follow-

50,12!

were pensioners. The report says among the p«wioi

lo*the rolls from other causes will be

-bout 6000.

The total amount paid for pensions luring'the fiscal year was $137,504^66

that the death rale jers for the coming 40.000 and the lo*

Company.

Philadelphia and Reading Iron and

Coal Compuy.

Central Railroad cf New Jersey. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. 5 Delaware and Hudson Company. New York, Ontario and Western Rail-

road Company.

•Erie Railroad Company. ; sions proper, agg Pennsylvania Coal Company. j The pension system. s«j» The petitioners ask that a receiver be ; since the beginning of the Govt appointed for the benefit of all concerned has cost $2,992,509,019. exclusi' upon such terms, in such manner, with : establishment of the soldici such agents and servants, with such rates ’ — “T of wages arid other conditions of employ; j Cotton Crop Injored.

ment and at such prices for g? 04 ®* , pr0 ' j A number of special agents of the duced and sold as the court-'ShaU, from j Dfl)artn ,ent of Agricul-

South,

during'the fiscal year was $i37.504- : and the yearly cost of operating a maintaining the bureau and the agt ties, outside of the payment of penaggregates $3,590,529.

stem, says ('

lustve

-c’

nment, _ of the homes.

id sold as the court’ lime adjudge proper.

: ture have left Washington for the S

Mid Valor of a Bolomaa. \ for the ptjrpose of investigating

, tain features of the cotton mover ' Statistician - - Hyda's estimate of

_ . i amount of

Eli A. j i n g the year 1901-19O

(By

been rticived here

to, | gfegfcfcf that three com

three companies

of infantry,, commanded by Capt. Hclmnick. of the Tenth Infantry, Cam$ Vicars, Mindanao, TJtursda.'

Actually grown dur1902, and the repon

I the

i to the amount both differ con-

irketed

Several steatnera and a Japanese battleship were driven ashore in a typhoon that swept over Y’okohanu. Five hundred persons arc reported to have been

drowned by a tidal wave.

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. in a speech n the British Education Bill, said the trongest non-conformist could not believe, that Parliament would abolish de-

-nominationaL schools.

It is reported that Queen Maria Christiana, the mother of King Alfonso of Spain, has married her master of the Jiorse. Count de la Escosura. Fighting between Turkish regulars and Albanians is reported from Mitrovitza, European Turkey. The- Turks shelled two Albanian villages; The Macedonian Revolutionary Comlittee announced the outbreak of an

isurrection in Macedonia. The Pekin Shan Hai Kws

day, to ] ginned during tbfPyear botl

recover f siderably from/the amoun stojen arms. They encountered only : according to commercial r< slight opposition. Ilie column captured j department believes and destroyed the Bntig forts. A few | made up largely of c Mores were Wiled. The American troops j from preceding years had no losses. A fanatical Moro, armed ; repacks. . No expens. -... — - - ith a holo, charged the column alone, it is said, m an investigation as tc

ekm

was restored to

tent with the conset Sir Marcus Samuel

layer of London, siicccejlini

eph Dimsdalc.

General Von Gossler. formerly Priissian minister of war.' it_dead.

Commander Williai rctirhiK United Stall

Berlin, visited

f Prussia.

0, artnei

with a bolo, charged the column alone. Brig. Gen. Samuel S. Sumner is preparing to send a -econd expedition against the Macin Sultans, who still reject the overtures for peace negotiations.

Alger Accepts Sexitonbip.

Detroit (Special).—Gen. Russell AAlger, former Secretary of-War, formally accepted Governor Bliss' tender of the ad interim appointment as United State? Senator. He sent a telegram to Governor Bliss in which he said: "I duly received your telegram f the 27th inst. tendering me

lount

reports. The difference if

itton carried ovei and of linters anC

! repacks. . No expense will be spared it is said, in an investigation as to wtaa.

the commercial crop re “ to and what it consisted — statement of the result will b*

ointment of L itceeed the„ h

^ Senate:

ith a deep"sense of the responsibility id the honor. I accept the appoint-

ent with many thanks." Mrs. Waggeaer's Romtsce.

Chehali*. Wash. (Special).—Another

oi %

1 Hai Kwan Railrpad the Chinese govern-

oF the allies, as elected Lord

ig Sir JosChehalu,

chanter in the episode,

am H. Bechler. the Tracy has just been written. Mr* les naval attache in Mary Waggoner, of Napavine. th( niril Prince Henry 1 woman who, with her eight-year-old and the Prince told him j sou. discovered the body of David

that, he was anxious to visit the United | Merrill. Jits eloped with Ben Merrill

States again and enjoy the sport of | a brother of Dave hunting in the Far West. j ed to have bought

other of Dave. They are report o have bought tickets (91 Seattle.

typhoon.

want district, near Yokohama, and over- ! Scci

whelmed many ,homes. Five hundred ' well a* October bond interest and persons are reported to have beer put into the banks $203150.000. drowned. The Japanese battleship High money make* Russell Sage the . driven.,ashoye Mt 5 ok- happiest man in New York. He it the

\ oxotttma. It is j largest individual ' *

A dull-market for

likely. .

Hit tadtars Lost i» Hurricane. San Francisco. Cala. (Special

weeks teems . j British ship

anticipate June as from 'Hamburg, reports interest and th* lhro igh a hurricane'with the

Shikishima t

rwcka. 15 miles f.

gr.

five of her

countered August 37. Heavy seas

•op really amountec isisted of. and a ful-

atement ol the result will ba madr

iblic by the Statistirian.

30 P

curtains and portieres anc several heavy plate mirrors, all belong ing to the White House, were destroyed .by fire of unknown origin in the upholstering establishment of E. A. Kennedy, on Connecticut avenue. The loss is estimated by the fire department at T'.oob. So far as knowr none of the pieces destroyed were ol

historic importance. AU (be BUs Rejected.

The Navy Department has decided o reject all proposals submitted for Jie construction of the concrete and granite dry dock, to be known as "No. 3" at the' Norfolk Navy Yard. The bids for this work, which were opened

at the department some days

all high and

temined to —- --- — after making some changes

specifications.

telry at the corner of N md D streets, with dytu

jut his own brains.’ His dead body was found in his room in the hotel buried in a mass oi debris. The whole ■"iiFLto’S,, ,l„ proprkior ol ’——• ign no reason for Mc-

he army, and here- {j, e hotel, t

:nt. is in charge of the | daughter of his landlord, but 1 of Hygiene and Mcdi- j vigorously denied by the girl's parents.

i and in view of the fact that the girl is

He is reported to have d with Sophie Brandt, the ■--- '— J '—' *—* this i-

surgeon general < tofore has been

the case. Dr. Edwan

of those present, is Naval Museum of H

Cttl School _ _ j iiid in view of the fact that the The physicians took a roseate view (, ut J4 years 0 |j t |u f explanation seems of the President s prospects for get- freely plausible. McKee is said at ting out again. He has become seme-; . |j mes to have been of irregular habits, what restive because of his dose confine- Happily his life was the otilv forfeit of ment and the physicians are constd- his crin ie. Mr. and Mrs. Brandt and enng the advisability of permitting him , their j ani i ly _ a ton an d the daughter to take a ride in a few days. The phy- Sophie—escaped with only trifling instcians say the questmn now is simply j june,. nor were any of the guests in one of the heal mg' of the wound and , he hole , Kr jously hurt. The building reiterate that this will be Hastened by js badl> . wrtc |<cd. however, and it may ' * rebuild the iUM

.0 o-d« k k K'

was stated that the President was do-

te necessary to

was stated that the President was t ing very well and that no additional " ' *’ *e issued. Late in

statement would be issued. Late the evening Dr. Shaffer, while he declined to discuss generally the President's case, authorized in the most positive manner the statement that there need not be the least cause for anxiety or alarm regarding his condition, but said, on the contrary, he coud give every assurance of the belief that the

President will so

1 soon recover.

Six Me® la Blaziax Wreck.

lins, Wyo. (Spec

debris of a bad freight wreck which occurred here it is believed there are at least six men. The wreck burned fiercely for hours. A fruit and stock . special train crashed into the rear end of another stock train. Fifteen car* ' were piled on top of th^ engine and almost instantaneously burst into v-—: t>-. throtr—

■Justice

Burlington. V*- (Special).—Ji David J. Brewet of the United States Supreme Court, was quite badly burned about the face and hands al his summer home, at Thompson’s Point, Lake Champlain. Judge Brewer has remained longer at the Point than have the other .cottagers and was cleaning up some brtjsh abort his cottage. Liberty Hall. He'-usea a small amount of gasoline to make the brush bum and was in the act of lighting the pile when the

accident

promptly. t nursing hi

days without scars.

;-fate. Rescuers succeeded in clearing away the wreck sufficiently to talk to Engineer Patnoe. but they wen able to get him out and he was a overcome by the smoke, and flan

ighting the .

accident occurred. His burns were

' attended to. and with good

' o*‘- '

to. ant

g he hopes to be oflf in a few

rithot

Cyclone MBs Scores.

ite, Sicily (By Cable).—A tertlonc has swept over the east Sicily. It is reported from 32 miles southwest of Syra-

cuse, that too bodies of victims have already been found, aud that the number

by the torrci]

Head Cat Otf aad Burned.

New Y'ork (Special)—James B. • Craft, a wealthy resident of Glen Cove, . Long Island, was brutally murdered in ■ the Empire Garden Cafe. 38 West J Twenty-ninth street, a resort in the j "Tenderloin," only a few doors from , Broadway, where he had been drinking , with a woman. His body was roughly ! pulled out of the cafe, down two ! flights of stairs to the cellar, where j his head was hacked off and thrown into the furnace. Most of the clothing | that he had worn was also placed in

‘ the fire, and an effort ■

| obliterate every trace < ’

cremation.

bit was made to 6 of tbf crime by

of bodies swept away by tne torrent j Wltcax Created New Trial. is unknown. The newspaper Fracassa ; „ , . , V! - c ■ ,, 1 .. .. expresses the belief that 400 hav* been | Raleigh, N. C (Special).—fhc North killcd..-Tbe torrent destroyed every- j Carolina Supreme Court granted a new .ihing on the ground floors fn houses I tr j a i f or Janies Wilcox, under sentence in the lower pans of Mod tea. Bridges ! tu t* h an ged Elizabeth Citv for the and roads disappeared ‘and damage 1 •

r " of dollars was 1

ig'on the ground floors fn houses I tr j a | f or James Wilcox, under sentence he lower parts of Modica. Bridges ! tu t* h an ged *t Elizabeth City for the i roads disappeared •and damage n-urder of Nell Cropsey. The new trial amounting to millions of dollars was 1 j ; on the grounds principally that demon <5one. ■ ■ ! nrations of lawlessness and intimida-

tion occurred during ,the- closing scenes of the trial to influence the jury

again!

A rested Bis Daatbter.

Columbus. Ga. (Special).—Informa- j tion has reached here of a double mar- I der at Upatoie, Ga., 18 miles from this !

* of the trial t 1st the prisone

Pteaty o' Caal Saya Baer.

t some d _ .. _ _ complicated, so it was de- Jj* daughter's tragic death, went to his readvtrtise_ for the wont, j wn -in-Uw's residence and *hot him tanges in the , dead ^th the same weapon Comer had

used.

Crept Grew* Withest Irritattaa.

Arid land crop conditions in Central Montana, heretofore unknown to the Department of Agriculture, were discovered in a tour o( inspection which El wood Mead, in charge of the irri-

the department, has

Princet learned

l Gttt te Priacetea.

N. J. (Special).—It was j on good authority that 1

c bequest to Princeton of Miss !

J. Winthrop. of New Yi formerly reported to be

, , will amount to $1400.0

rtfya * •it:

I before ily." he ^omg to

irciiy of coal this winter i* simply r. There will be plenty of coal in Y’ork before the cold weather." ODDS AND ENDS OF TflE LATEST NEWS

luest to Princeton of Miss Mary j .glrTLrt'and ^aw'his*' wiie^nboni

''ork, which was be found, unfaithful in New Y’ork. He

I .- 1’ _ 1 .v

comptated^Mr! Mead *ay* be Kmna WB

whh h cro^ f in^sir"-*^ d —| be used'for tire further

them , f LThc n e4r

’Zi's

1 New York, i station, told oi 1

placed under arrest. District miners’ president. Xichoils. accused an ex-mine

cut Jtartto bribe