SALT COMPANY CONVICTED |

MUlafalalaf Monopoly Contrary to

Sherman Aatltrnat Law.

THE PLEA OF GUILTY WAS ENTERED. Thl* Cue Mark! the Plrat Coavlcllon Under the Sbrnaia La«. Wfcxh Went Into Ellect

Morrow Ajulrin (be Sane Conpiay. San Francisco, Cala. (Special)—Be-

fore Judge DeHaven. in the United States District Court, the Federal Salt

Company, of which D. E. Skinner

president, was convicted of maintaining a monopoly contrary to the Sher-

is opened counsel withdrew it* orig-

oT no

pleade

te indie

When the inal plea guilty to

Judge DeHaven will pronounce sentence on Thursday. The maximum fine is $5000. This ease marks the first conviction under the Sherman law. which went into effect in 1892. The attorney general's office won a civil snit last fall before Judge Morrow agatrst the same company on the same evidence. The successful termination of that suit abolished the contracts the Federal Salt Company held. The Federal Salt Company was organized in New; Jersey in 1900. It established a business in California, and quickly secured a monopoly of the product on the coast, raising the price from $2 and a ton to $30 and $35. PRESS 0*0 BILL A LAW. Pccasyfraala Oart.-nor SJj*! the Gr*dy-Sil«« L bel Measart. Harrisburg. Pa. (Special).—Governor Penny-packer approved the Grady-Salus libel bill, and at the same time issued a long statement giving the reasons for his

action.

The ( bill. which was in the Governor’s hands for more than a month, goes into effect immediately and repeals all laws 01 parts of laws inconsistent with the

new act.

The Governor says in his statement that the questions raised by the bill are of very grave importance and affect large business interests, the freedom of speech and the press, the right of the citizen to be informed concerning current affairs and the conduct of government, as well

THE UTEST NEWS IN SHCRT ORDER,

j Domestic.

C Judge Dickinson, of the Nebraska -I State Court/ in Omaha, has issued an I injunction against the business 1 and proprietors more sweeping < than that issued by the federal ci

against the unions.

Nicholas Gable attempted to commit suicide in Vailsburg. N. J. Mrs. Francis Sweet, a widow, aged .•ays that before he took car>olic acid he struck her with an ax because she —

fused to marry him.

Anthony Fiala, leader of the second

polar expedition to be sent out by william Ziegler, sailed for Norway, where his ship America is awaiting the

arrival of the scientific staff. The Western Missouri Court of Ap-

peals has decided the members of a church congregation are no: liable in law for the payment of the pastor's

salary.

A number of students from Missouri University endeavored to lynch a negro circus employe who had assaulted

one of their number.

Nearly 5000 delegates are attending the twenty-ninth biennial convention of the Order of Railway Conductors

at Pittsburg.

Governor Pennypacker has approved the Grady-Salus Libel Bill and issued ^ statement giving (iis reasons for his Rjchard Henry Stoddard, the poet, at his residence, in New York

government, as w ct his reputation a

ear-

>• will be located

died

The British Embassy wi at Newport this summer. Col. C. M. Watson, secretary British Commission to the St. Louis Exposition, said in New York that British manufacturers would not exhibit their new ideas, being fearful that the Americans would copy them. There was the wildest excitement in the cotton market in New York, caused by another rise. The market quieted down about noon, but there was another rise, followed by another scram-

ble in the afternoon.

The Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Railroad filed with the SecreUry of State in Des Moines, la., amended articles, increasing its capital stock $20,000,000 making the total capita!

stock $145,000,000. Four of the 11 pre

Yup Society Francisco for «

is of the See ted in San

nspiracy to murder the the Chinese Society of

300 members of 1 English Educatit

The 428 Portuguese immigrants rested from the stranded barkentine Vera ruz had a terrible experience, but are now being cared for at Portsmouth. N.

as his right to protect his repul home from the injuries that

careless or ncgligte-:.

s false ri

1- ~)imon uiey arc 01 initiunancc 1 \_a5n1cr L/ra[ . rther reason that whichever | Bank of Asbury Par way decided the fact that they arc raised not guilty to tfie char| indicates a widespread ■dissati<'-.ction bank records,

with existing conditions, and their cor- Filipino women have petitioned Archrect decision is likely to have an rffect bishop Guidi, the apostolic delegate in within and without the cctumonv.cr.ith. j the Philippines, asking for the reten-

| Charles and Henry Lierman, brothers. were reunited at the Soldiers' | Home, in Milwaukee, after a separa-;

THE IGROS ARE PUNISHED Three Handrcd Were Killed by CtJamii

Under Captain Pcrshlnj.

AMERICAN REAR WAS ATTACKED. Ocneral Davis Reports the Return of tlw Column After Havlai Taagbt a Sstatary Lesson te the Hostlles—Commended Ocneral Samncr tod Congralnlacd

Sccrc.ary of War Root

(By Cable).—The latest news idanao received here shows that

captain

Manila

from Mini

300 Moros were killed in the recent ture of Taraca. Mindanao, by Capu

Pershing's troops.

Straggling Moros attacked the, rear guard of Captain Pershing's column, Bacolod, Mindanao. Saturday morning. wounding Lieutenant Rutegles and one soldier. The guard killed all the at-

- ‘ era.

igadier-General Sumner, commanding the Department of Mindanao, has issued a congratulatory order to Captain Pershing’s troops. Washington (Special).—The War Department has received the follow ing dispatch from Brig.-Gen. George W. Davis concerning operations in the Island of

Mindanao:

"Manila, May 10, 1903. l-fruerol, H’ojhington:

John J. Pershing has completed

Lanao via the east

coast from Camp Vicars. Had a sharp fight at Taraca. Captured to forts, many prisoners. 36 lantacas and 60 rifles. All

Saltaa Farced to Ap*lt|lze.

An indication of the troubles experienced by Mr. Leishman, United States minister to Turkey, in his dealings with that government is disclosed in the Turkish diplomatic correspondence just made public at the State Department. In a telegram to the department Mr. by Leishman complained that the Grand b Vizier, who had repeatedly declined to 7 see him, bad countermanded and annulled a number of matters upon which the Minister of Foreign Affairs had

acted favorably.

In order to exhaust every effort, Mr. Leishman demanded an audience with the Sultan. Mr. Lcishmi *~ J

'‘-civ. Jotm J. F, ircuit of Lake

iraca. 1

irisoners, 36 lant _ friendly. Liberated pr

ad lant

prii

mtacas.

two killed and four wounded. Every hostile Lanao datto has now been chastised. All Moros know our friend-

freely extended to

icr dal—

ers, destroyed hostile forts and li Our loss, two killed ar J *

R H?,rra & «.t°

position of umpire in the settlement of Germany's claims against Vencd Capt. Frank Pennell, chief of the n Quebec police, died on a train while en

ncgligfcu. as well as rialici- | route to New Orleans to attend the ous false report. • convention of police chiefs. ffiSST S-'X' tKK! nS.’lr JESS?- pL? K. ! S£5S.

.U- .U-. .1. Jised j not goiUy lo t fi e charge of falsifying t he «'ves from police headqi

1 —'- the Charles Street Polk

INSULT TO FLAG RESENT2D.

ship is valuable and is freely extend all who deserve it. No property, hostile forts, has been molested. Ti returning to Vicars via the west lu-n. More labor eager for employment on the roads and shelter buildings: former about finished; the latter progressing rapidly. Troops have behaved splendidly, not only in contending with fanatical savage foe. but a dread disease, and. besides. had to construct many miles of road through tropical jungle. No more hostilities are anticipated beyond occas-

: ~nal sniping.”

Secretary Root sent the followiag

cable to General Davis:

I congratulate you on the work done in Mindanao. Express to Captain Pershing and officers and men under his command the thanks of War Department for their able and effective accomplishment of a difficult and important task.

A BUTTON AS A CLUE

Itallsn Recognizes the One Fonad to Dyna-

mite Bex.

New York (Special).—Two detec-

luarters visited

Station "in

Hoboken, and had a conference with the chief of police and Detective William Vedder. Sergeant Veddcr has discovered what may prove a clue to! the persons who sent the infernal_ma-: chine to the Cunard Steams

pany's pier on Friday. Tfie Sergeant saw ii

Minister Bowen Peremptorily Dcmendzd

w.. h ,r^ i-^-1 j! I

mg account of the action of Minister | session in Savannah, Ga., elected ofti- 1 na niite box, and went the rounds of the Bowen, at Caracas, in demanding an , cers. second-hand stores in Hoboken, most apology from the Venezuelan govern- j Foreign. I which are kept by Italians, and tnent for the improper use made of the I As a result of British operations in , sh n*„t d *ItaUan^rJ^o^ized American tlag by the commander of tfie 1 the Sokoto and Karro districts 100,000 I . • / , button that had

Ssnx ! ar i

Relations." Mr. Bowen, without waiting “ Br.mh upon the nat.ves was a a ^ d “ n anc ho r How Ae butto^/s srrrJT. | ^ i .. .>« .s,

7 —— n(fairs and said to him: 1 . Df. Schlamp. the largest winegrower 1 ,s .1— a— : ! in Germany is under trial at Nierstetn. I - ,

visit Of :sult. Vedder and men went together

ow up the button clue. Thei r colony of Italians in West Hundreds of Houses Burned.

^ wa, Ont- (Special).—A fire.

King Edward and Qnccn Alexandra pcctcd of being of incendiary origit Id a court and levee in Holy-rood dcl4roved hundreds of houses and mil-

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.

his telegram to £ less the audience

1 requested

iry Hay that un-

rss the audience was granted and not mly the questions at issue, but the principles involved in them, satisfactorily settled, he be given permission to demand his passports. He said further “that it would be worse than useless and derogatory to the dignity of the United States government to continue relations with the. Sublime Porte, if. after weeks and even months of hard and patient work, business which has been fully settled with the Minister for Foreign Affairs is to be rendered unavailing by the Grand Vizier’s conflicting and countermanding orders." Snbsequenth- Mr. Leishman reported that the Sultan had expressed the wish that he overlook the discourtesy

at he

shown him, on the ground that I grand vizier was an old man and not feeling well. Emphatic instructions

feeling well. Emphatic instructions were sent by The Sultan to the grand vizier to receive Mr. Leishman at all times in a manner "befitting the dignity of the representative of a great power’ when Mr. Leishman consented to re-

sume relations.

Mr. Leishman subsequently resumed relations with the Porte, and a diplomatic rupture was averted. Other Cbstges Arc is Follow. Postoffice Inspector Fosnes took charge of the free delivery service. Postoffice Inspector in Charge Thorpe, of New York city, who has been assisting in the investigation of the department, will remain with. Acting Superintendent Fosnes to assist him in handling some of the details of the work. The investigation may result in other changes in this branch of the service. One of the possible results of the present situation is the abolition of the office of general superintendent, on the ground that it is a place the functions of which are covered by the superintendent of the city free delivery service and the superintendent of the rural free

delivery.

Postmaster General Payne said that the transfer of the free office of the fourth ass MachenV indefinite leave was n.vu »..t full knowledge and acquiescence of First Assistant Postmaster General

Wynne.

Seymour W. Tulloch, former cashier of the Washington city postoffice. who in a newspaper interview made grave charges against the administration of the postal service at the time of his removal several years ago, was in the city. Mr. Tulloch said, as a matter of ourtesy to the Postmaster General, he

•ou|d await a reasonable til

TROUBLE OVER PANAMA President Marroqoln, of Columbia, la Compt lied to Resi|n. HE WILL BE SUCCEEDED BY REYES. Three Political Elemrsts Opposed lo Ratification ol the Canal Trcily—One Objecls to Olvlai the Uol ed Stales Perpetual Control, Another Urges Thai the Indemnity Is Not

Snlflcital.

Panama, Colombia (By Cable).—It is reported here that President Marroquin has been compelled to resign office on account of politick troubles, and that Gen. Raphael Reyes, second vice-presi-dent of Colombia, will assume the presidency. Friends of the canal arc anxiously awaiting confirmation of this report. It is currently reported here that the Panama Canal Company has offered the Colombian government $12,000,000 of the $40,000,000 the company receives from the United States government for the

canal property.

A dispatch from Panama said the convocation of the Colombian Congress for June 20 was believed by those acquainted with government affairs to mean that President Marroquin was confident of having sufficient support to assure approval of the canal treaty. Gen. Raphael Reyes returned to Colombia last March from Mexico City, where he represented Colombia at (he second International Conference of American States. When interviewed at Colon he spoke guardedly on the matter of the Hay-Herran convention, and was not disposed to discuss the probability of its ratification by the Colombian Con-

Hc seemed to have that the recent inter

ison to believe

that the recent interpretation of the United States of its obligatory rights to maintain free transit across the isthmus and its runner of enforcing these rights had creawd a very unfavorable impression throughout Colombia. He said the politicians who would be called upo^ to decide the fate of the canal would not be likely to forget the humiliating incidents which occurred during the recent insurgent hostilities on the isthmus. General Reyes, however, in no way expressed himself as opposed to the construction of the canal by the United

CZOLOOSTS BROTHER ARRESTED,

tfels HcM 1

foreign affairs and said to him: . . "Your captain dishonored the Amcri- ; "J

can flag; he should be ordered to praise j charged and salute it, and your government j ' ,, . s P ro '

i jvir i

''The facts that I have.presen-.ed to you \ d'>ned French vessel Star of the Sea, DOKen - - are indisputable." said Mr. Bowen, "and j were rescued by a Russian steamer. 1 » n

five you only 20 hours, for I feel , af«er being many days without food, j

the end of that-time I must cable | and 1

inded at Cherbourg.

,. w , g Edward and Quet_ -grets were ex- I held a court and levee in Holy-rood ezuela and the - Palace, Edinburgh, the first of such funcruns. : lions to be held in that historic palace in

‘ 80 years.

Cities AskeJ le ExMML | Armenian revolutionary bands have

a considerable number of American 1 trou bles.

citifs will maintain municipal pavilions Frau Ferenczy/wife

that at t(

the facts to my jjovei On the following day pressed on behalf of Vi

flag was

municipal

as part of the "Model (Sty," municipal exhibits as part of eral exhibition of the Louisi:

chase Expositiot has made an ap

the Central Theater, o >ted singer, is dead. In an engagement bet

ihe Louisiana Pur-i In .5 ng * g ' mcnt betw ®« a BulganNew Ycrk already >ns and Turkish troops at Igapan near

jropriation of $10,000

Boston is at work on "" ‘ » - —■«*-

riation and prcliminen taken in Washing-

for the purpose. * similar appr<.

ary steps have been taken in Washington. Secretary Charles E. Reeves, of the committee on legislation, has addressed to the Mayors of the 25 largest cities of the United States a letter urging that each city make a representative exhibit as a parf of the general

municipal exhibition.

Tyreaz Threatened.

Cresson. Pa. (Special).—Word was

* saying

forest fire* are now raging in

received from Tyrone saying the fierce

called out

thre

v raging in the moun-

tains north of that place and that the Tyrone firemen have been called out to protect the suburbs, which are threatened. The fire is dangerously near the town. Forest fires along the Cresson and Coalport Railroad burned over a tract near the little settlement of Spindle City, destroying two houses and a large amount of timber. The fire is said to have partially burned several small buildings along the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad below Tyrone, but the extent cannot be learned at pres-

III Yean OW. Un>er Sandusky. Ohio (Special).— Pete? Stansley died in this city aged tio years. Hr leaves a widow aged 103. They were married in 1816. Stansley was not only the oldest man in Ohio, but the couple were, perhaps, the longest married persons in America. Both claim to have been the offspring of Alaskan pareafis. but during their long residence here were regarded as negroes. Deceased said he witnessed the battle of Lake Eric off Sanduskv in 181.1

onastir, many m id 74 made prisoners. The big European powers are satisfied with the correctness of Bulgaria’s course and will not tolerate the adoption by the Sultan of stem measures against Bulgaria on account of the Salonica outrages,

try invt

.raud case completed, and The husband and her committed for trial

gery-

King Edward and Qu arrived in Edinburgh to monial visit to Scotland.

The French Mini: decided to present fore the Court

Paris Hum her I

c bet of fo

Alexandra their ce*e-

tlinister of War has not tm the Dreyfus case beef Cassation. The laying of the duplicate German Atlantic cable was commenced at Borkum, an island of the North Sea.

The Russian government bat authorized a denial of the story circulated by the Central Committee for Relief of the Kishineff Sufferers to the effect that there have been terrible massacres of Jews in that town, and much suffering among them in other parts of Bes-

sarabia or Southwest Russia.

Banks are ahead of the Subtreasury

this week $650,000.

American Cement earnings in April

increased ao per cent

J. P, Morgan was elected a director

iwa,

ol beini

destroyed hundreds of houses and millions qf feet of lumber in this city. John White, who had just been released from the penitentiary, after serving a term of imprisonment for arson, was caught near where the fire was first discovered. He was taken to the police station. and charged with starting the conflzpratSbn. The fire originated within

a stone’s throw < ‘ "

fire of April 26,

iginated wtthin

of where the great Hull

1900, was checked.

Poor Msd’s fOcb Rad.

became

ioore, a flag-

Raht

known

man at the New Brunswick avenue crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad, _ on Wednesday, a check for $21.1 which fluttered out of a window of the Branch express as it passed

here. The check

I way, N. J. (Special).—It be II here that Patrick Moore, a

r Brunswick avenue e nsylvania railroad, found, r, a check for $21.00a

• few off

rc

tewar

undi

_rin but the eipherab

the lost property

road.

National Bank of Chi--f Mrs. Isabella Ste

of Mrs.

of the maker

chfck

was undetumed in to

irtmeat of the rafl-

Blocked By Ice-Bcrgs.

Sl Johns, N. F. (Special).—The immense number of icebergs off the Newfoundland coast and the Gfand Banks interfere seriously with steamer traffic. Several liners which hare sighted Cape Race report icebergs of great size and in unusual abundance covering the entire shipping track. The Allen Line steamer Cartagenian brings a similar report. This steamer had to stop for four hours owing to fog and bergs. She has on board 650 immigrants bound for Western Canada.

Tbrre of Hamberts Held.

Paris (By Cable).—Magistrate Leydat has concluded his investigation of the Humbert fraud case. He has decided to commit Mme. Theresc Humbert, her husband Frederick and her brother

. P. Morgan was elected a dire of the Michigan Central. ' Michigan Central last year earned f3.577.578 net. a decrease of $166,731.

There were fewer commercial failure. M^Hum! Apnl than in any other month for bcrti hey husband and brother will prob-

ably be heard in luly.

•ges of forgery, the icnts and swindling, smissed the cases

icial to act o letters from

time for that est for copies

the request ...

uc-Post master General

Emory Smith, Comptroller Tracewell, Postmaster Merritt, of this

and Fousth Assii

Tristow

a! Br Tulle

loch declined to say whetht he would then make public the informs tion in his hands to sustain his statt ments. though insisting that he had am pie data to corroborate his charges.

Federal Clerk Cunfesaes For*cry.

Frank M. Barnett, a clerk in the United Sutes Bureau of Ethnology, was arrested on a charge of forgery. Barnett’s offense consisted- in opening pris-ate mail addressed to officials in the office and abstracting therefrom two checks for $175. which he cashed at a local banking house. He admitted his guilt, and said he used the

pay off a debt of $200.

rs

a debt of $200. He was from Alabama 15 months :

ried.

years old and unmarried Officers Accused la Alaska.

The officers who were implicated in the charges of irregular transactions in commissary supplies at Skagway, Alaska, and whose court-martial hi ordered are Major Charles A. Seventeenth Infantry, now at T ver. Wash., and Capt. F. L. Knudsen, 'Eighth Infantry', now at Fort St. Michael, Alaska. Other officers may be ordered before a court-martial

Ck'uese Tbsnkfal for AM.

United States Consul Robert M. Mc-

cafiled to the State

quested appre-

Wadc, at Canton, <

tribi — — ing persons in Kwangsi. Consul M Wade also says that more help is 1

gently needed. fa the Depsrtmeats.

Postmaster General Payne has made public a letter making a second request upon S. W. Tulloch for information in substantiation of his charges against

the Postal Department.

The State Department has sustained the action of Minister Conger and his associate commissioners in effecting agreement with China for the pay-

■ * Mi |

lent of the Boxer indemnity.

Dr. Thomas Herran, Colombian

— --

: d'affaires

for

mitj;

■ran, Coiumuian Washington, has

the resignation quin. • Postmaster General I nounced that there will establishment of free until July

e issi tors

irnment excavations riolating the Eight-hoar

i! deliver

the charge

Law.

i°5

The monthly crop report shows the

ndition of winter wheat May

average condi

1 to be 92-6, against 97-3 April 1; acre-

age, 33,107.000.

Director Roberts, of the Mint Bureau, purchased 175,000 ounces of sil-

thd?

investigation of the )

CRUSHED UNDER B’.Q ROCK SL’CE. Accident In a Tunnel on the Norfolk and

• Western R. R.

Roanoke, Va. fSpccial)-—Nine men wire killed and five others injured, three of them fatally, by a slide of rock m the east end tunnel No. 2 at Eggleston Springs, Giles county, on the Nor-

folk and Western Railroad.

Railroad contractors were engaged in double tracking the tunnel at the point named, and when the tunneling force had icmoved the earth and stone for the railroad track* at the point where the calamity occurred a hu-'c slice of solid

the mountain sid«

[le of about

lity c

stone, gave way

and came down at an angle of about 45 degrees, striking the gang of laborers at work fairly and crushing the life out of nine men. This strata of solid rock was connected only by clay seams, and when the foundation was removed the strata, some 50 feet long, fell without warning, catching the men in a death

trap.

One man was in a niche of the tunnel way and was only grazed on the face and head, escaping with slight injuries. He was removed witnout great difficulty. A second man. who stood on the outer edge of the slide, was only slightly hurt, but three others were more unfortunate and were injured >0 badly that it is feared that they will die. The bodies of the nine men. some .of them are white, are still under the

mountain slide.

A wrecking car and derrick were taken out from Radford, but thus far they have been of no avail There is no likelihood that the bodies can be recovered soon, as the rock will have to be dynamited and removed bit by bit. This is considered dangerous, as the length of the strata cannot be ascertained. and iherk is imminent danger of a second crash as soon as the base--:s removed and a consequent loss of other It has been impossible thus far to secure the names of the victims. They are known only to the contractors, and they can judge only by the missing members of the force. One thing that is known is that it was a mixed gang, composed both of white and colored The accident did not delay traffic materially on the main line. The trams were delayed, however, by another slide in Big Tunnel, at Montgomery, 20 miles east of Eggleston, and trains were held at this slide ove^four hours. The latest advices from an official source, so far as the Norfolk and! Western Railway is concerned, are to the effect that only seven men were killed outright, but a well-known con tractor coming to Roanoke from the scene of the accident gave the facts as

above.

ACQUIRE BIO VIRGINIA CONCERN. T C. Williams Co.. Orest Rival of Brltisfc-

Americao Company.

New York (Special).—On Monday next the British-American Tobacco Company, the oversea brother of the so-called'

been lodged against him, the "police I Tobacco Trust in this country, will acsimply detaining the man on suspicion quire absolute control of one of the until after the President shall have left j )argest exportjn g , 0 b 1C co companies in-

It is n 5drtut Czolgosz has been liv- I ?he.United Sutes.

ing iff this city for several mont being employed in a tamale factory. His ' *— *---

Los Angeles, Cal., (Special).—Acting under instructions from the Secret Service Bureau at Washington, the police arrested a man who is suspected of being one of the brothers of Czolgosz, the assassin of the late President Mc-

Kinley.

Great secrecy has been

about the infonnation

eerning the man. ft is known, how- J ever, that he was arrested and confined in the city jail. No charge has been lodged against him, the police j

ecrecy has been maintainec arrest, and practically nc

i been given o~* in. It is knowi

Hv- I the United Sutes. This is the T. ( iths I WiU'ams Company, of Richmond, Va.,

ipany, of Richn h has been in e

his relation McKinley.

! Tlie T. C Williams Company is to be i acquired by out-and-out purchase, the

MU-CHUWANQ IS RE-OCCUPIED. { price being in the neighborhood of $2.I ooe.coo. For several days negotiations Rossis Makes Sodden and Surprlslot More io have been under way in this matter in-

I v*— York, and Hugo von Rehzenstein,

Zable).-

have

put garrisons in the foits at the mouth ]

of the Liao river. They arc f: :ed to be making extensiv

New York, and Hugo von Rehzenstein,

.-Th, »K«u„, i,;

ipied Niu ] city to be present at the final act oF

d have also I transfer.

preparations.

The news of Russian activity, which cosies from a most trustworthy soui Nin Chwang, adds that on their 1

*“• Chwang the Russii

to Niu Chwang the 1

brought with them several large guns. A large force has been ordered to rc-

occupy Tien-Chwang-Tai.

' rt — Russians have 14.000 troops bethe mouth of the Liao river and

KILLED WHILE EATING BREAKFAST, laborers Ctu(ht In the Wreckage of a

Caboose sod Burned.

Paul. Minn. (Special).—Reports received of a serious accident

! have been r_

!I?° P5 i * l Dexter, a small station on the Canadian Pacific Railway. 50 miles west of Port Arthur, Ont., in which t2 lives were

lost.

, A large number of labortrs were with

■MX™ «, ™o r „ b,

iructing forts on the hills near Ltao-, side track and the mcn Wfre at breakfast

Port At

structing forts Yung, commani

there and

arranged to have , provisions delivered

A dispa

to h«ve » large quantity of crash «l into the caboose, wh.

delivered at Nut Chwang. dispatch from an r-'*- 1 -'

indications

Chwang says indications point strongly •- these active preparations being m-

* —inst *—

official at Niu

t strot being

Sparrows fa a Bank. New York (Special)'.—President George Carragan and Cashier Emmet Hamilton were busy receiving de its at the Bayonne Bank, Bayonne, N. J., when two sparrows flew into the rooms. The birds flew about the apartment several times, and finally perched on the railing of the desk. They were not molested until one of them attempted to carry away a $5 bill. During the afternoon the birds flew in and ont of the bank, and each time they entered carried whisps of straw, which they deposited in the derby hat 6f Mr. Hamilton. When he went for his hat after the bank closed he found in it the beginning of a nest-

Aa Anarchist Toast. Tacoma, Wash. (Special).—"Here's to the noble and great man who slew President McKinley." The speaker was William Dorenson, in the Pioneer saloon, drinking with a troop of companions. He was sentenced to 50 days in the chainganr. Dorenson admitted anarchist and was proud of

Straa|k< la Her Room.

P»ri» .

murder of Mme de Briennc, who

found strangled in her room here, has aroused widespread interest. The police

at first followed a due indicatit

(By Cable).—The mysterious of Mme de Briennc, v'

r room h .

ic poll K that

but they

now claim that an American is implicated. The police do not know the name of the suspect, but they are following vague descriptive dues. The victim, who was a well-known figure, came from

car, at the ssenger train rhere the men

overturning the car. The-

wreckage caught fire almost immedietdy

gine. Of the men in the car

into the caboose, whe iting. overturning the

:age caught fire almost it

from the engine. Of the men in tL. .. 12 were instantly killed or burned todeath in the wreckage, where they had been pinned by the overturning qf thecar. Eight others were seriously injured, and still others less seriously hurt.

SPAKKS FROM THE WIRES.

Eight hundred employes of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad—conductors,, brakemen, yardmen and baggagemen— went on strike lor a to per cent, iacrease in wages for freight service and a 7 per cent, increase for passenger

service.

Sergeant-at-arms ktjnsdell, of theSenate, received word from President Roosevelt to expect a summons for an extra session of Congress immediately after the fall elections. George Reynolds, «n Englishman,, was arrested in New York 00 the charge of stealing $10,000 worth of valuables from August Belmont, who had

employed him.

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Morrison guilty of th Uing Mrs. Ohn Castle. Day, of Syracuse,

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lancellor Day, of Syracuse, susled the entire freshman class until

repaired the damage some bers had done to the buildings.

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A warning letter received in time prevented an infernal machine being loaded on the Cunarder Umbria at New York. G. N. Benedict, a stenographer, committed suicide beside the bier of his dead wife at their home, in Chicago. Charles Yarnell was held in Philadelphia for the action of the grand jury, Bella Boyce, aged 23. who died oi burns in a hospital, having informed a policeman on her deathbed that the accused ,man had ponred oil over her and then set her on fire.