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OUT OF SULTAN'S CONTROL The Situtioe ta Terfcbh Entire Teods That Way. - VIGOROUS ACTION IS NECESSARY.

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Watatof Lttekaui'i Rtpojti U the Suit Def—I iber that AMftcan la Syria aid Other Part* at the Otlaaaa E«pire Reeeirc Prelectiaa AHertcd by War*hip»ferala ioo SpnadiatWaahington. D. C (Special).—Although the tragic side ol the situation in Syria has now disappeared by the official news that Vice Consul Magels- • sen, at Beirut, was not assassinated, but simply fired upon, the fact nevertheless remains that conditions in 6y*ria and throughout the Ottoman Empire are alarming, and that Americans residing there require the protection afforded by American warships cruising in the nearest waters. It is this consideration which caused the administration to determine that the error of the operator and its correction should make no change in the program, and that the orders to the European Squadron should not be recalled. Every dispatch from Minister Leishman and every communication from missionaries and other outside sources contribute to the belief that Turkey is in a state which closely _ approaches that of China when a horde of howling pikesmen shut the foreigners up in their legation compounds and drove the Em-, press Dowager from the Sacred City. Minister Leishman’s latest cables ^are known- to contain much confidential matter, detailing the symptoms of dorest and the actual disorder which is now spreading all through Turkey and developing into anarchy beyond the Saltan's power to control. , Exactly what measures will be adopted to protect those persons situated at a distance from the > seaboard is not yet decided, but in this Admiral Cotton will be given a free hand, and should the conditions warrant, he may land forces of marines. At the State Department it is said that this is an extreme measure, but warranted an-1 der the law of nations whenever the ruling sovereign proves unable to afford safety and protection to foreigners within his domain. The department has already received assurances, informal in their nature, from each of,tlje powers interested in Turkish affairs that no ob- - stacks will be placed ia the way of the United States, regardless of the mode of procedure. No change has been made in the dees to the European squadron to ----- as soon as possible for Beirut. The Navy Department has been advisee that the Kachias sailed from Genoa lor Beirut. The San Francisco and Brooklyn are at Genoa and will sail . for Beirut immediately. Acting Secretary Darling sent a cablegram to Rear Admiral Cotton informing him that Vicy-Consol Mageissen had no; been killed, but had been fired .upon. This was done to apprise the commanding officer of the squadron of the true situation at Bcimt. The collier Alexander was reported at-Malta, on her way to Manila with coal for the Asiatic Station. She’wiil next report ai Port SaidJ and if the exigency is then necessary she will be held to supply the cruisers of the ' European squadron with coal. The State Department has instructed Minister Leishraan jo notify the Turkish government that it roust keep the peace.' and that it wall be held to a strict accountability for any lawless acts toward American citizens. How.-d Dows By ArdTery. Salonxa (By Cable).—The Bulgarian insurgents have sustained a severe reverse at Smilovo. one thousand of them being killed. The insurgents to the number of 3000 occupied a position on a height, which was ttormvd by six battalions of Turkish troops commanded by Scrvct Pasha. After losing many of their number the Bulgarians fled in the face of the heavy Turkish artillery fire, which mowed theni down. The Turkish losses were insigni-

ficant.

WOOLOMAn WAR NEEDLESS

ORDER.

Signor Mar sn.o returned to New York from Europe, brought four inventions which he believes overcome all important defects in the-system of

wireless telegraphy. *

A syndicate bought the entire-hold-

ings of the Metropolitan Securities Company of New York, preparatory, it is believed, to a. merger of the surface and underground railway, electric

and gas intercats of the city.

The "war game" off the coast of Maine ended awd the umpires will de-

cide w hether army or hary wen. Attorn ear-General Crow began pro-

ceedings before the Missouri Supreme Court to annul the (£.wrtrrs of the companies composing the so-cailed terminal

monopoly m. St. Louis.

Mgr. Mooney, vicar-general of the Arch-diocese of New York. —

POWERS IS FOUND 611ILTY Sentenced to Be Hanged nt Georgetown, Kentncky.

THIRD TIME HE IS ADJUDGED GUILTY. lisa Brea Twice Before toerirted and Each Time Received the Stn'rsc* ol JwprisonDcsl for Life—Bro her o! Mardered fl»ver s - aor Broke Down From the Strain—Powers

Makrs Eloqieit Plea.

Georgitcwn. Ky. (Special).—The third trial of ex-Secretary -of State Caleb Powers for complicitv in the murder of Gov. Wir.iatr..Goebel in January, ion. closed shortly bofore noon, when the jury brought itv a verdict of guilty,

__ ap- i with the extreme penalty of hanging inted auxifiary bishop by Archbishop ( or t hc prisoner. Powers had been " F.rlfy. nrf it. Pop. •pprovrt ft, ^riicti.ry |„r ,h,„ ,,.rs or 1

sentence.

The verdict of the jury, "guilty and the punishment of death.” was reported into-court at tt.aa Several hundred people crowded the courtroom when the verdict was read. Intense sii lence prevailed. The jury was polled

ST'S . .

the. appointment.

A sailor stabbed the mate. Peter Francis, on thc British hark Calcutta,

in New York harbor.

Three persons were drowned near Pittsburg as thc result of the vehicle in which they were riding falling over ibankmcnt in|o a swollen strt ~

Langley's airship houseboat, in the | and each man declared the verdict of Potomac River, slipped her moorings ! gully to be -his finding, and drifted two miles before’ her — -•

<«uvfcttmr Adapted by the

Mystic. Conn. (Special).—The Uni* venal Peace Union at rti closing session here adopted a series of resolutions or “convictions." The preamble states that with all the encouragement for the demand lor peace. *Ve are still confronttjl with the obHgztkms resting upon peace societies and all advocates ol peace tp remove thejpuses and abolish the custom

ol war.”

The resolutions set forth that the duty of the hour is to overcome all condition; that make war possible by teaching th< principles of puce and. arbitration ir schools and universities, by practicing them in evenrday life. and by multiplying courts of arbitration. The increase of the army and navy, thc building. o‘. battleships tor Turkey and other foreign Governments with all the improvement; of American genius, the "farcical and expensive playing of naval battles on the coast of Marne.'' and the unrestricted sale of firearms, is viewed with alarm. Lying is declared to be a monstrou* peace-breaker, and S'.alc and nations' legislation looking to its suppression ii demanded. Race hatred and prejodict is pronounced a menace to peace. mm DM fir Sstsrda Law. Springer, S. M. (Special)—Comc'i Gonzales, on attempting to enter tlx house of Mrs. Sarah D. Solano, who war at booe with her two children, has beer killed by the woman with an ax. - woman struck biro over the bead six times, breaking the skull in. as man;. • • brother-in-!aa

chors caught. game the enemy made important captures at Portland. Me., which were afterward disallowed by the Vhe Southern and the Louisville and Nashville Railways engaged in a right-of-way war northwest of Knoxville. Satisfactory arrangements have been made for the construction of a railroad to connect Colorado with Northern The annual report of the Chicago and Northwertem Rsilroig shows gross earnings of over $50,000,000. Hezckiah Butterworth, of Boston, made the opening address at the Peace Conference, at Mystic, Ct. Herbert O. Shaffer eonwnitted suicide in Chicago by taking carbolic, acid. President Roosevelt discussed with Acting Attorney-General J. P. McReynolds and C H. Robb, attorney-general of the Pestoffice Department, and Congressman Charles H. Fowler, of New jersey, the proposed financial legislation and the pending postoffice investigation. The last official letter of General Miles to the Secretary of War. containing important recommendations and 'criticizing certam^methods in thc management and organization of the army, notably what he declares to he the useless expense for cavalry, is made public. Rt£abl*: advices froifTthe Leach Lake Reserve state that an outbreak of the Pillagers and Bear Island tribes is imminent. Because of continued disas:< men have quit work in the Tredwell Mine on Douglas Island. Alaska, ^ The third section of the Bamum & Bailee circus -train was wrecked kt Wildwood, Pa. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad will establish a new lire of steamships between Pensacola. Fla., and the most important parts of Southern Eu“IV. Carrcll L. Wood, who is opposing Governor Davis, oi Arkansas, as candidate for a third term, knocked the latter from a speaking stand. The Ohio Democratic Convention indorsed the Kansas City platform and invited William Jennings Bryan to speak on its principles. Hitiga. - Adianople. Turkey, is reported burning. and the Turks are alleged to hr massacreing the Bulgarian population. Morocco insurgents inflicted a severe defeat 00 the Sultan’s troops. At least 10,000 t.in workers in Wales on strike. The split among German Socialists .is growing more serious. Emperor William, in a speech at Cassel, said that the early training by his teachers fitted him for his life o'. hard work. _ Joseph Chamberlain declined. *c sanction thc proposed loan for the relief of the Jamaica sufferers. The Macedonian Committee ha* appealed to Prince Ferdinand to show greater interest in thc Macedonian situation. declaring that if Macedonia h not soon liberated the position of BclE ria will become critical. /General ntekeff is said to be orgahizing a body of 5,006 Macedonians to cross thc ^rentier. The Liberals scored ;a victory in tne parliamentary bye-election, the first .-c-ntest on the fiscal question. J. S. Ainsworth. Liberal free-trade candidate, was tlcsted by a majority of i.£6 over Charles Stewart, Unionist protection candidate. The date for the first meeting of the arbitration tribunal on the Venezuelan matter, set for September t. has-hern postponed because of the iaabtlity of Or. Lardy and Professcr Matzcn <0

rve.

Four men and several offiedrs cf the Bavarian Army, stationed at HoSnmeiburg, are suffering from typhus fever. The British Foreign Office has in structed the* Bthish Commissioner ir Eait Africa to facilitate in every way the work of the committee appointed b the Zionist Congress at Basle. Switzer land, to investigate the offer of ihBritish government ol a she for a Jewish colony. It is rworted that the leaders of th Persian Mohammedan Church havr •erved notice on the Shah ‘hat

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.

Powers sat apparently unmoved while his attorneys ased for tiim make a motion for a new trial. He had nothing to say regarding the

verdict except to express his surprise that ntch a result could be reached from thc evidence presented and to announce that he would take an appeal

and continue hia case to the last

■sort.

Arthur Goebel, thc brother of the victim and a merchant in Cincinnati, who has spent his time and fortune for o-.-er three years in the prosecution of those accused of being in a conspiracy to kill bis brother, broke down from the strain upon bearing the verdict. Special Judge Rrfbbins in the afternoon formally overruled a motion for the granting of a new trial to Powers. He then passed the sentence of death upon him. Powers made only the declaration: iTra not guilty. Judge!” The Court then fixed November 25 next as the day for the execution. The attorneys for Powers secured the granting of an appeal for the* case to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and. if unsuccessful, they may tiy to get the United Stnes Supreme Court to take, •it under consideration. Powers was immediately removed to the Scott Copnty Jail to be held there pending the appeal of his case to the higher courts. - Artelggyam from Indianapolis states that ex-Gor. W. S.- Taylor said: “This verdict affects me very much. I cannot say a word.” Powers has been convicted twice before. this being the third trial in which the jury brought in a verdict of guilty ‘ against’ him. On his previous trials he escaped with a sentence of life imprisonment. as the evidence was lK)t considered sufficiently strong against him to lead the jury to inflict the extreme' nenahy. All three of the trials were, held at Georgetown and ia each of thefn-he had the assistance of the most hie lawyers who could be procured. The trial just closed was made not3le by Powrrs addressing'the jure in is own behalf. In a long review of the .jse he showed himself to be a competent ally of his counsel, while his eloquence ia pleading for "his life as^anished those who had watched him carefully in thc past trials of the case. Story of Goebel's Harder. The crime for which Powers was con.icted was being accessory to the n-.urdcr of William Goebel, who had been the Democratic candidate for Governor of Kentucky at the preceding election, and who was making a contest before the Legislature. While on his way to the State House at Lexington. Ky. January JO. 1900, Goebel was ;hot by some one located r. the rooms of the Secretary of State, :n office then held by Powers. NEW IDEAS BY MARCONL

Nat .ffavernaeat Mocty. Commits;:ner Richards, of thc General Land Office, made g statement in reply to a publication that some of the officials of the Treasury Department are criticising the action of thc Secretary of the Interior respecting the deposit of the funds received from the sale of thc town sites In the Kiowa and Comanche reservations, which was made under Mr. Richards’ direction in 1901. He says the expenses of the transaction were r*'d from the receipts of the respective sales and properly, accounted for to the Secretary ol the Interior, and the balance of the receipts, amounting to $yvo»l. deposited in the Sub-Treasury at St. Louis, against^(hich is to be charged $5,284 expenses incurred in thc surveying of the town sites, leaving a balance of $724,917. The Commissioner adds: "No porrimi of'this balance belong* to the Government. By the act under which these town sites were sold it is to be disposed of under the direction of the Secretary of thc Interior, in the manner provided in the act. The Secretary- is the trustee of this fund, charged with the duty of seeing that jt is expended in the manner provided b)’the act. The money was deposited m the Sub-Treasury at St I-ouis. There was no direction in the law that it should be so deposited. It might have been deposited elsewhere, in thc discretion of the Secretary.”

WIND FAILS THE BOATS Tic Fourth Race ia Yacht Coaiest Declared Off.

will precipitate a revolution.

An express train from Budapest fo: Constantinople was blown up by dym mite bombs south of Adrianopie, a-v

N Its (Mar Drives Tbta Off. The Department of Agriculture is investigating the virtues of the cchnumvirides, a plant from Northern Nigeria, and experts say that if all that is claimed be proved ocimumvirides will soon be all the rage as decorations for entertaintr.ents and dinners daring thc summer

social season.

It is conceded it is not as beautiful as Bride roses or orchids, but it will remove mosquitoes, and in this fact its popularity is expected to lie. Place a pot of ocimumvirides on the dining-room table or the veranda of a summer cott: ge and the mosquitoes will leave and not return so long as the plant ii around. Motouitoes object to the odor the plant •exudes. This resembles thymian and eucalyptus. The department, before giving its unqualified indorsement to the ornamental mosquito exterminator, is first^oirg to find out if the insects wifi

cultivate a liking for it. Ka Oar-Stfed Alaska Exhibit.

Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock issued instructions to the xommissiot having in charge the Alaskan exhibit a! the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, direeftng that the exjpbh shall not be ir the interest of any particular business 01 enterprise, or of one section of the Territory against another, or of one class ol people as against another, but must bt arranged along broad lines, illustrating the products, resources and industries ol all sections and all people.

Na Pay Buriat Abseacc.

Comptroller Tracewell in a decision given Public Printer Palmer rule* that W. A. Miller, the assistam foreman in the bookbinder)' depzrtment of thc Government Printing Office, whose casc'hai attrae'.cd so much attention, is not entiled to pay for the time of. his absence

from the printing office.

Miller was absent dv*, »“<! 'f Ik* claim had been valid there would be due him $352. The Comptroller holds that Miller is not an official o< the Govem-

ment, but an employe, and ruled that a m

prerequisite of his' pay is that he should sw is be present and actually perform the labor

required of him.

He Briggs Fear lareatioas for His WlrcieAS

Systca-

New York (Special).—According to William Marconi, who arrived here on the Cunard liner Lncania, the system of sending wireless messages to any neeejpare distaste under any conditions has been perfected, and within three month* hi* company wifi accept commercial messages for transmission to Europe. ' ' * " ' * .. * 1 Of most importance is his positive statement%hat one of four new inventions he brings with him will make it impossible for a rival to interfere with the rending or receipt of messages. . When told of the interference a rival company is said to have created in the reporting cf the yacht races Tuesday, *0 that his instruments were poweriess to receive bulletins on the races. Signor Maeoni laughed and *aid that with the new* inventions all that would be impossible. He had so perieeted his system that any number of instruments could'be flashing messages through the fame rpace and they would not in any

way interfere with his own.

If this proves true the greatest ob- : ect:on which scientists and commercial house* have found with the system has

been obviated.

Yacaacics Net Fined.

St. Petertburg (By Cable).—In conse--rcnce of the refuse' of Dr. Lardy, the Swiss Minister at Paris, and Profesor Matzcn of the Copenhagen University tc *cnc as arbitrators at The Hague in the rlaims of the allied Powers for prefer--etial treatment in die settlement with Venezuela, the Foreign Office has re-

Lootals to Lectore at Newport Francis B. Loomis. First Assistant Secretary of Slate, will leave Washington this week to be absent for about a month on vacation. He will first deliver a series of lectures before the Naval War College at Newport. R. L, upon features of diplomacy and their relations to the navy which have come under his obser- .- _L_... . ,n.

report has been received at thc Nivy Depzrtment from the command>f the navy yard at New York, saying that an. examination of the Massachusetts since she had bcefl in drydock shows that it will cost $4?.ooo to repan the damages which she recently sustained near Bar Harbor.

tEUANCE WAS FAR iN THE LEAD. '■haltcagrr OalssHrt, Oaiprialtd. ssd Oattooted by Yaakoo Yscbl-lt Was a Process'aa froai Suit to FWsb—Tb* Sbs»rock Atr odea sly Haadlod—Wrtag* Oat ■taenrered la Straggle lor Pasliloc.

New York (Special).—With Reli■nce less than a third of a mile from he finish and Shamrock 111. hull down m tha horizon, fully two miles astern if the gallant defender, the fourth race ;rf the present series for the America's •up Thursday was declared off because if the expiration of the time Emit of ive and one-half hours, as happened m Thursday last Although, officially, it was no race, Jse defeat administered to the challenger was so ignominious that whatever ingering hope remained in the breasts »f the triends of Sir Thomas'^ boat vanished into thin air. Reliance's vicory was in every way more decisive •han that of last Saturday. Outsailed, lulpointed and outfooted. it was a protession from start to finish. The Herreshoff wonder beat the Shamrock hopelessly in thc fifteen oiles of windward work, rounding the surer mark 12 minutes and 30 seconds ihead of her, a gain in actual time of ti minutes and 29 seconds, and down he wind she stezdily increased her

ead.

The real race of the day was not igainst Shamrock III., but it was seen n thc exciting Atrugglc of Reliance in die last half hour to reach the finish ine before the regatta committee fired •he gun which should announce the expiration of . the time limit. Had the wind freshened twenty minites earlier than it did the cup series •culd have ended with three straight wins for the defender, and Fife's fanous light-weather boat would have uiled back to Albion shores ope of the xost disastrously worsted challengers n the history of the America's cup

:ontest*.

Third Race-

New York (Special).—In a glorious

ratte bomhs sown ot ACr.znople, 17- vtnczuci*. mv »*»* •» oirently the work of revolutionist* "tested thc portponement oLthe date of Severn persons were killed and 1* tr.- the first meeting of the tribunal until

—cd 1 •Aker arbitrators are

June floods held back business frcir Atchmson and that helped to swell thi -raffic in July; Secretary Shaw says (here it no tm :o worry now about possible tight money in the late autumn. Edwin Hawley and H. E. Hunting Ion hare been elected directors of Toledo. St. Louis & Western.

Toledo, Ohio (Special).—A freight ‘■reck occurred in the yards of the Nickel Plate Railway at Bellevue, O, in which Engineers James Rodenbrrg. of Bellevue, and J. G. Bartholcmtue, of Tcr.neaut. 0„ were killed. Engineer

wholesail breeze, over a triangular :ourse, ten miles to a leg. the fleettooted cup defender Reliance again showed her heels to Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger, taking the second race of the cup series of 1903 by the narrow margin of one minute and nine-

teen seconds.

It was as pretty and as hard a fought

contest as has ever been sailed off Sandy Hook, and had the wind not fallen daring the last ten minutes the record for the course—three hours twelve minutes and fifteen seconds— made by Columbia two years ago m her memorable race against Shararoclc

II_ would have been broken. As it was. Reliance sailed the thirty

miles within two minutes and thirtynine seconds of the record, which speaks wonders for her^ speed in thc

wind that was blotring.

Reliance’s victory, narrow as it was. would have been cv«9 smaller haiLnot Captain Wringe, the skipper of the British ship, bungled the start, sending lis craft over the line nineteen seconds liter the last gun and handicapping

jer to that extent.

At every point of sailing the deferdtris superiority was demonstrated. She gained one minute and fifty-one secDnds in windwark work, forty seconds Dn the run to the second mark and iorty-five seconds on the close reach

for home.

Based upon the magnificent showing she has made in the two races already sailed, it it the belief of many experts that the cup is safe and that it will take lomething better than Fife's latest creation to' even budge it. ..... Just before the finish the wind died iown, but Reliance went across in ample time to win, havirg covered the :en miles in 57 minufts 40 seconds. There followed the mual riot of whts ties, mingled with the wail of sirens. tBTclamor of bells, the exultant shouts of patriots and the booming of can-

_ on.

The official time:— Mart. Finish. Tim*. T tat Reliance ll-flUM ti'» AH-S4 S.1U4 Shamrock III noun tixio ais.10 «.hjx UVtS Lim IS FLOOD.

IIS MANY BOOK AND ART WORKS, '.barge Against Manager Miller, of . Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special) .—That foward T. Goodwin, who in December •f last year committed suicide in the Krcade Building, had, during a period of •ears misappropriated cash, stock and Kmdff to the extent of $1,000,000 or nore, was declared in a bill of equity iled by Cassatt ft Co, bankers and brok•rs. Goodwin was the manager of th* inn at the time he committed suicide. Suit was begun in Common Pleas Court \'o. 5, on behalf of the brokers, by John j. Johnson. i It was directed against Lizzie K. Goodsin. executrix of the estate of Howard f. Goodwin, and asked that she be directed to render an accounting of all jroperty left by her late husband, in•Juding real estate, art treasures, rare look; and shares of stock. It was airbed in thc bill that Goodwin, during lis career as the 1 rusted manager of the toneem, had made away with large sural said to amount to $t,000,000, and that its property had been purchased witk noncy which rightfully belonged to nhers. Only in the extent of th« •mount was the news of the alleged thortage a sarprise. _ It was shown at the time of Goodwin : feath that he had been plunging in th« itock market, and he was supp-vsed tc lave been interested in Consolidated _ake Superior. It was also ;a : d tliat ht ras involved in several promoting ■chemes that had been financial failures His death was a tragic one ar.d o<cured under circumstances that gave at firs; jromise of a suspicion of fou! play, z diadow that w as scon dissipatedExperts were put to work on the book; >f his- concern, and after some time Casatt & Co. admitted that their trustee tnployec was indebted to them. Nc itatement of the- atiount further thar hat it in mo way affected the liability of he firm was given outA’ few days ago the affairs of Good sin came before the public when his colection of rare books was advertised {01 sale at aucticn. The rale was ordered ry Hampton L. Carson, presumably ac dtorney for some interest in connectior *ith the settlement of the estate. The catalogue of the Goodwin books •evealed the fact that thousands and ens of thousands of dollars had been txpended in gathering together a rare iterary collect!cn. It included, among wher things, three volumes of a spe rial edition of Dickens, contracted for it a cost of $150,000. There were tc save been twenty-fire volume# in the rollection, and $10,000 .bad been paid fown at the time of delivery. The text K»i printed on pure veil am, on one tide of the page only. Each page was Hummed by hand in water colors. The volumes were bound in full rrushed levant morocco, gilt and toolid with an inside donbiure of contrastng feather. Each book is laid in a sa-in-lihcd box. Thousands of other rolimes of special editions or rare first .-ditions. some of them costing thoutands of dollars, were in the library of he man's home at Ridley Park. His art treasures are also said to wve been extensive, but of much Jess value than his books. He was nosscstid. his friends say, of a veritable maria for book collecting. Simple in his astes in other directions, h is said hi; speculations were in the hopes of reap ng profits to add to the treasures on

Secretary Hay has begun an inquiry into the origin of the false report that Vice-Consul Magelsson, at Beirut,' Sy- >, had beets assassinated. Experiment; •with a flying machine of the acroplape pattern invented by Emile Berliner arc said to have been scccessfuL It is authoritatively stated that for the present thc isthmian canal project ' in abeyance. No new question has been raised by the proposition of Secretary Shaw to segregate government receipts from internal revenue source*. It is stated that English stockholders in the Suez Cxnai are the most powerfnl opponents oT the Panama Canal

Treaty.

The Sta)e Department was informed of the murder of Ira C Bradley near Holguin. Cuba. The action of the Ohio Democratic Convention in renewing alii William J. Bryan has created _ in Washington political circles. Assistant Secretary Robfert B. Arm-f-trong. of the Treasure, left for a month's trip to the Pacific coast. The investigation of the irregularities _fll be made by some one ootside of the Interior Department The official conduct of United States “ L. Soper, hi* assisam •) and United States of Indian Territory,

fwo Mca Perish While AtUnjUaj t» Resca; Others. Council Bluffs, Iowa (Special).—The Missouri River Valley, from Missouri Valley 20 miles north to Pacific Junction, 15 mile* south of here, it almost a lake for the entire distance, and of Jie five trunk lines running east trom kere, one—the Illinois Central—is able :o get a train in or out of the city. Two persons—H. H. Larue, ol Corning, atfd A. R. Fash, a Clinton (Iowa) horseman—lest thqir lives arhife attempting to resene a numbet of persons from the fair grounds ahich were suddenly flooded. Laru: eat electrocuted while pushing a boat ender an electric light wire, and Fash eat drowned. Three' others are missng and are thought to have lost their' -ives on the flooded lair grounds. The. flood was caused by a sudden rise in the Nodaway River, which subr.rrged thc grounds before those hav«g charge of exhibits knew of their danger, part of them being asleep. The water reached- a depth of 21 feet cn the grounds and washed away a number of buildings. The railroads are the heaviest sufferers from the flood.

Three Yowf W# Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).—While a party of young people were driving home from -a social gathering near Evergreen

T»o Cceieaariaa* DM1 La Porte, Ind. (Special L»—Mr*. U. L rnrezynea. residing near Terre Coupee is dead at thc age of 107 year*. She was bora in Poland and for more than half a century bad lived in La Pane and St Joseph counties. Family record* substantiate her age. Bloomington. III. (Special).—Franci; Anthony, the oldest man in Illinois, die* of heart failure. He was born in May, 1800, in Ireland. Qasml Eads ratify. Marysville, Ky. (Special).—The rig of David Daily, of Marsrille, and William Malone, of Manchester, O., collided at 3 a. m., with one occupied by Clarence Thomas and William Jackson, colored Fbe colored men demanded $10 damages Daily insisted on waiting until daylight for settlement. During the quarrel Daily was shot and killed by Thomas. Both rolorcd men are in jail. Gold Oast Stoic a. Chicago, 111. (Special).—A dispatch tc he Record-Herald from Vancouver, B. Z-, says: "Four masked men held up tbs watchman of the Featberttoahaiigt nines, in Allin. Alaska, and stole nearly f20.ooo worth of gold dust, which bad oeen collected in the sluices during tb» Jay. Twenty workmen had just gone tc supper, leaving the watchman in charge He was caught from behind, pinioned ind gagged, and in twenty minutes tb> big clean-up was in canvas sacks, wUici the robbers brought. They fled in tbs darkness.” -' - Sale Dyaaaile*. . Franklin, Pa. (Special).— Robbcn dynamited the safe in the post office 41 Sandy Lake, fifteen miles west of this -■*v. and —ed re»riy $1000. Mrs Abraham Wilson, living near the postimcc. saw the three cracksmen at work lot was too frightened to give the alarm Three tfipicious looking men were arrested. but none of the stolen property ,ras found on diem.

Rat Bat Canaes Death. Cambria, Wis. (Special).—David G Williams, aged 63 years, who was bit ten by a rat two weeks ago,' died ol blood poisoning, which resulted fron he bite. Mr. Williams was a roembe: >f thc Lower House of the last Legi* lature. 22c served in the civil war.

SPARKS FRO* TBS WIRES

A small boy was shanghaied on tbs -rench bark Marechal de Gontaat, vhieh sail for Yokohama from New York.