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St. Paul < Special).—The town of St. Charlet, in Winona county, was almost wiped cot by a tornado. Seven person! •ere killed and aB were injured, many of them seriously. v : The stricken town is altogether cut off from wire communication. The- main street was almost wiped out, hardly a business place being left standing. Forty-two residences were destroyed. The total property damage is estimated *t $100,000 Among the buildings drtnolished were The Central School building, the % Chicago Great Western depot, the Catholic ^church and Parrott's wagon works. The day had been abnormally sultry for this season of the year, and during the morning there had been showers, aceompanied by fitfnl gusts of wind. Toward noon the sky became heavily overcast, but indications of a tornado were lacking. People from the surrounding farms had gathered in large. numbers in the main street to do their customary Saturday shopping. At a jo o'clock the tornado cloud was secs approaching from the southwest, and there was an immediate scramble for places of safety. The tornado struck the town from the southwest and swept dean through k, following almost entirely the line of C»e main street and devastating buildiagi on each side. Then residences further back from the business center were struck and many of them were blown completely away. It seems almost miraculous that there was no* a greater loss of fife. Four of those killed were in John Eben’s saloon when it tpllapsed and they were buried beneath thk wreckage. Two ethers were in a dryjtpods store, which was blown away, a1?d they were killed by falling walls. Edward Peters was killed * wrecked hotel. The telephone exchange was demolished and two of the girls were seriously hurt. A relief train was sent from Winona as soon as the news 4-as received there, and physicians were soon busily engaged in caring for the ^injured and

TUB LATEST SEWS IN SHORT ORDER.

Suit was begun in San ffrancisio'io foreclose tha mortgage held by the United State*-Security andTrast Company against the shipbuilding combine. The North Mahanoy Colliery ol the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, at Mahanoy City, was closed, rendering idle 900 mine work-

er*. A

William Cox. of Hiifcock. shot his wife at Pctersboro, N. H , inflicting a serious, though proh.-vbly not fatal wound, and then committed suicide. Jack Stewart O’NeUl. who had been forced into a bigamous merriage In Orange. Tex., by the bride's father eommiuctf suicide in New Orleans. Excitement was caused in the cotton exchanges of New Yoik and New Orleans by the publication of the govern-

ment cotton report.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook and two companions were unsuccessful in their attempt to reach the top of Mount Mc-

Kinley. in Alaska.

Employes of the American Sheet Steel Company threaten to go out unless their grievance at the Philadelphia

plant is settled.

Receiver Carrutt. of the Consolidated water.

DROWN IN LAKE SQUALL Steamer Captited After Being Wrecked

By the Wind.

TWELVE PERSONS ARE DROWNED.

Tb« Vcaacl Was Struck hy a Saids* SgasP. Which Bkw Away ikt Upper Works of tbs Sttaarr—Sooa Afterward tht Vssael Capsited tad Weal to the BoitoH-Soas Maa* aged to Setts f loctiaj Wreck.ge. Marionette. Wis. (Special).—During a srjnatl on Lake Michigan the steamer J .H. Hackley captited and twelve per-

sons were drowned.

The Goodri^i. Line steamer Sheboygan rescued the otter seven' persons, who were on board the Hackley after they had drifted all night in Green bay, clinging to. bits of wreckage. The Hackley was struck by the sqa*!) when ofi Green Island, seven miles from this port. The upper work of the vessel was blown away and the boat then turned turtle and went down in deep

The storm came upon the town with snch suddenness that it was filling the air with the debris of demolished buildings before the people fully realized the nature of the calamity. Manv of those injured received their hurts from flying fragments, while others were caught beneath the wreckage of their business houses or heftnes a'nd remained pinioned until rescued' by. the relief party. So far no reports have been received of any loss of fife in the country adjacent to St .Charles. The storm ,in a wide path, seems to have followed closely the boundary line between Minnesota and Iowa, and damage to farm buildings, dwellings and grain stocks is reported. MINERS SUE GOVERNOR PEABODY.

- Cripple Creek, Col. (Special). - Gov.eraor Peabody was made defendant in two damage suits for $! 00,000 each, filed by Patrick H. Mullaney and Thomas H. Foster, union miners, who were arrested by military officers on duty to camp here and confined in the guardhouse 15 days. They were set at liberty Wednesday . after habeas corpus proceedings were instituted in their behalf. AdjL-Gen. Sherman Bell. Briga-dier-General Chase and Major Thomas E. McClelland were also made defendasts to the suits. The miners allege that they were restrained of their liberty and were subjected to hardships and disgrace. It ss declared in the complaint that their arrest and imprisonment were without probable r * | i—• and without legal pr., cess or authority. Saits asking more than $1,000,000 ago will be filed by all those who : similarly imprisoned. MUTIA CAME TOO LATE.

M Oat Their Quarry Out aud Quietly Lyucht4 Blue Marshall, Texas (Special).—A mob of several hundred men battered its way into the jail, took out Walter Davis, a negro, and marched him to the west side of town, where he was hanged to a tree. The lynching was tkc result of the killing of Constable Hayes while be was taking a negro to jail. The officer was shot from ambush, hem* literally riddled with bullets. Shortly alter the killing Walter Davis and two other negroes were arrested nod lodged in jail at Marshall. A snob formed during the afternoon ate attacked the jail. The local militia was ordered out and arrived at the jail alter the mob had secured the negro. While part of tBe mob was talking to the mtirtia officer* others slipped the negro out and spirited him away. Everything is now quiet.

WurioMa Waul u SML Pittsburg. Pa. (Special).—The bulk of (he fievooo shares sold hy the .United States Steel Corporation to ha employes last year was subscribed for by Carnegie Steel Company employes. The greater percentage is carried by workmen in Allegheny county.* Sipce the preferred stock began NAnlling from $Sz.SO per shire from 15 to go a unit canons imvc bean fllcd daily at tb: of flees of the Carnegie Stuul Company hy employ** who wished to sell their

Lake Superior Company, has issued an appeal to the stockholders to pay an assessment of 50 cents a share to prevent the sale of the properties by the Speyer syndicate. Charles H. Cramp resigned as president of the William . Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, and was made chairman of the board, a new office. An attempt was made to save the Van Wormers from execution by lending the warden a bonus telegram "lrom the President of the United States forbidding it. One passenger was killed and a number injured by the collision of an express train on the Southern* Pacific with a freight train. The employes of th« Public Service Corporation, which controls a big system of trolley fines in New Jersey, voted against a strike. Fifteen Chinamen alleged to have been smuggled across' the Canadian border were arrested at Westhawken. Henry LI Maxey. manager for Alfred H. Post & Co., committed suicide at his home in Brooklyn. Judgment has been given in the Franklin.County Circuit Court, Kentucky. against former State Auditor —Sweeney and his bandsmen, the Fidelity and Deposit Company, of Bal-

timore.

Senator Thomas Kearns, of Utah, in an interview suggests that Sir Thomas Lipton would make an excellent British ambassador to the United States.

COAL COMBINATION OF

Dorado Springs labdr’organizations K Search is still being made for any perteve adopted'resolutions calling for the — ~ 1 1 * J — J

impeachment of Governor Peabody for sending the militia to Cripple Creek. Government jurisdiction of marriage the solution ol the divorce evil advocated by Dr. Howard, of the Chicago

University.

The three Van Woriner brothers were executed at Ointon Prison for the murder of their uncle. Peter A. Hallenbeck. The cavalry brigade of the Salvation Army which invaded the feud districts of Kentucky has returned to Cincizjv A warm welcome was extended to. Governor Hum upon his arrival at San

Juan.

J. W. Dooley, a ranchowner, was assaulted and rdbbed at Naco, Ariz. Swift & Co.'s efforts to corner the September lard market in Chicago has ended in a failure, and it is reported that their losses are heavy.

Ftrelga.

The petition of the men and women in the American missions at Mona stir, Philippopolis and Salonica presented to the United States Minister and the British Ambassador at Constantinople for the admission of a corps of the Red Cross Society into Turkey is an urgent appeal to the proper care of the wounded and the homeless. Wayn« MacVeagh opened in behalf of Venezuela the argument before the Venezuelan Arbitration Court. He contended that a strong power had no right to abuse its strength to exact payment of debts, and, consequently, the conduct of the blockading powers did not deserve to be rewarded by prefer-

ential treatment.

Prince Ferdinand, accompanied by his -mother and children, has returned to Sofia, and his action is regarded as tending to show that war is not ekpected. Turkish troops, however, continue to iusss upon the fiBlgariaa frontier. especially in the Adnanople disThe Czar and his party bade farewell to Emperor Francis Joseph and left Muerzsteg for Darmstadt. As a result of their conferences on the Macedonian question it was decided that Austria and Russia continue the Balkan policy arranged last winter. The Twenty-second Alpine Battalion of the French Army, while engaged-in maneuvers, gm lost in the mountains during a heavy snowstorm, and Captain ^jzieu, in command, fell over a precipice and was killed. At the annual conference of the conservative associations in Sheffield, England, a resolution was proposed thanking Premier Balfour for having instituted an inquiry into the fiscal policy of the comm?The French Government has aaked Turkey to indemnify M. Gaillac. a French citizen, of Beirut, Syria. whose shop was pillaged during the recent dis-

t place.

An investigation following threats .

upon *he fife of Queen Charlotte of “‘“J' braiding. Wunerabcrg revealed an anarchist plot, property. Mrs.

The Beflin police, wish drawn swor J - barged riotous omnibus strikers lerim and 30 *~ J

the Red Cross

Morgan no longer controls Erie. A teoooAXM department store has been organized in Boston. J. D. Farrell is talked of for presi-

PhOadelites Site

.... Midvale Company, pbia. underbid the Unite*

Corporation ate aR others l contract lor worth of

bull m*rk« ever ‘ 3

As the Hackley went to the bottom those'who could seized on floating pieces of wreckage, while the women and three or four of the men, failing to find an object to which to ding, sank in the The waves were rolling high and several of those who saved themselves from immediate death lost strength and sank

later.

It was not until 7 o'clock A. M. 4hat the steamer Sheboygan sighted the helpless survivor* and effected their rescue. The officers of the Sheboygan feel sure .that they took aboard every person afloat, but some of tfle persons whs were rescued say that it b possible that one or more of the eleven persons missing may have escaped death. This view is not given much credence by the sailors of the Sheboygan. The Sheboygan ran into Fish Creek when hope of rescuing other persoift seemed improbable. The rescued persons were so exhausted from their struggles that they were unable for some time to tdl anything about thf wreck. Those saved by the Sheboygan sa? that with the crashing away of the upper work all persons aboard the Hackley ^an on deffc. Hasty preparations for a plunge into the water were begun, but before any plans could be carried out the boat fisted, turned over arid went down like a rock.

Blftsl Coapaay la Ik: UaU«< States Is

Form* By New Yo km.

Wheeling, W. Va. (Special).—The biggest coal company in the United States has been formed by New Yorkers. whose identity is thus far unknown ' The company will hare a capital of $100,000,000, and will take in the Flemmgton Coal Company, the Ncwburg Coal Company, all the companies along the Bclington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, and will embrace a score of smaller -mines.' Its headquarters will be at Grafton, and its territory will include over 50.000 acres of coal. The capital will be twice as large as the combined capita] of the Fai.*mont. Somerset aed Consolidated Coal Companies, now under one head, with C A. Watson, of New York, president

Vaa Wara.-rs DkJ Oam.

Dannemora. N. Y. (Special).—The three Van Wormer brothers—Willis, Burton and Frederick—were put to death m the electric chair in Clinton Prison between 11.35 And 11.48 o'clock a. m., for the murder of their ancle, Peter A. H* Urn beck, in the village of Grecndalc, Columbia county, on Christmas eve two years ago. The first of the three to die was Willis, the eldest, chosen because Warden George Deyo thought him physically the weakest ol the three and the most liable to break down. Frederick, the youngest, followed Willis to the death chamber, and Bnrton went to bis doom last.

Augusta, Ga. (Special)/—After haring been reconciled to his wife, from whom be had been separated on account of jealousy, Barney Barnes, a telegraph lineman, fired a bullet through his wile’s heart and then shot himself through the brain. The two seemed in the best of spirits when last seen to-

gether. SOgbt Eartbqsak* Fc't la fit Late

St. Louis. Mo. (Special).—A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Carondelet, the southern pan of the city, at 855 o'clock p. m. Tfie seismic disturbance lasted but one minute and caused alarm among the citizens. At the same time a slight shock was felt

in the western portion of the city.

Plainfield, Wis. (Special).—A tornado which visited this section tore down

and damaged much

^ 1—n,, T,.,^ r .- t —,. .Irs. John Fisher was lolled. The Beflin police, wish drawn swords. Jnd Mark Wood, who was injured, has * ‘ - ---- - ~ — - •• since died. Much stock was killed and

injured, and the farmers are heavy

losers.

Washington, D. C (Special).-Fear-ing an epidemic of yellow fever, a number of persons firing, along the Rio Grande have appealed to the War Dt-

ffATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Nasal Stat an la Cate. The purchase of lands at Guantanamo for the United States naval station has been practically completed without the necessity ol resorting to condemnation proceedings. The total cost of the land is $136,000, of which the United States has furnished $70,000. Of the $ too .000 appropriated. the other $30,000 will b* used for the payment of the preliminary expense*. The United State* will pay Cuba the balance, comprising the cost involved in the purchase of private lands, later when an appropriation makes funds available. The payments made by the United States arc all credited as advance rent. It is rxjtected that the American Government will shortly occuby the Guantanamo area, raising the flag there. The Bahia Hondu land purchases are .not being*pushed at present. The cost of these lands will be about $x>jooo. The Cuba Eastern Railroad has prepared a petition to the Navy Department asking that the company be permitted to occupy about a mile of the station territory so as to enable the railroad to carry out its intention regarding a bay terminal. The Guantanamo Railroad will, it is expected, request a similar privilege if its rival's petition'be granted. • Navy Start at Es{taeers. The pressing need of engineers in the navy has compelled Secretary Moody to utilize the services of officers who otherwise are ineligible for sea duty? When the subject of the appointment [ a board of engineers to make a voyage in the battleship Maine to Culcbra and repart on the performance of her boilers was under consideration it was found that the service wis without, a sufficient number of engineers doing sea duty to perform the work. This condition is 1 due to the previsions of the ’ Navy Personnel Bill, which exempts from sea duty engineers transferred to the fine who were of or above the rank of commander. The new board is composed '<>f CapL J. A. B. Smith, president: Commander W.. B. Bayley and Lieut.-Com. W. M.'ParJcs. Although the first two named officers come within the scope of the Personnel law. the department finds no other alternative but to order them to temporary

sea duty.

Skaw Will AM BawaO. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw informed George R. Carter, Secretary of tbe Territory of Hawaii, that he would accept $itaS9^oo of Hawaiian bonds as ^ecaftty for deposit* for circulation up to 90 per cent, of their face value. The territory proposes to issue $1.000.000 of bonds under tbe Organic act. They are to be 5 per cent, bonds, and can be called in in five years. They are limited to 15 years. The bonds are to be exempt from taxation in Hawaii, and will be a charge on the consolidated revenues of the Territory. Secretary Carter stated that after the issuance of these bonds the total debt of the Territory will be less than -a per cent of its taxable property, and less than the income of last year. Extra Scssiaa U Be Ote good deal of pressure has been brought to bear on the President to induce him not to call Congress into extraordinary session in November; but to all callers who have spoken to him on the subject he has said this Government is committed to the proposition that the Cuban reciprocity treaty be made effective at the earliest possible date and be believes, as a matter of good faith, that this country should keep its word. Mr. Roosevelt has declined, therefore, to consider any proposition looking to the abandonment of the idea of extraordinary session.

Ssli

Hash! Mote, presumably a Japanese merchant, has purchased the old United States gunboat Monocacy, now at Taku, China, for $11,335 •" gold. This information was conveyed to the Navy Department in a cablegram from Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, dated Nagasaki

Persia at SL Las's Fair. Minister Pearson at Teheran, Persia. has informed the State Department that Persia has designated the'Persian ter to the United States, Mufak-ham-Tid-Dou!ah. as special commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition, with Tignan Khan. Persian Consul at New York, and 1 ooshan Khan, as an advis-

ory committee.

iatht Departaeau Captain Shoemaker, chief of the revenue cutter service, received a report from Dutch Harbor. Alaska, of the rescue of the Abbey C Dcering by Caplaid McClellan, of the revenue cutter

Manning.,

Gen. Diaries Heywood transferred the command of the Marine Corps to Gen. Charles E. Elliott, and went on

tbe retired fist

- -Major General Corbin has been assigned to the Department of tbe East and Major General Chaffee to station

at the War Department

President Roosevelt bai declined to consider atiy proposition looking to the

• . of his

5 call a

Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of tbe United States, has submitted to Secretary Shaw his report on condition of the Treasury. A report showing the coal production of the United State* has been issued by the Geotopca! Surrey. President Roasevclt declined to authorise ante/eM* in rank of the civil

SEVEN PEOPLE ARE KILLED Big Copper Cylinder la a Distillery Ex*

VACUUM FORMED IN COPPER COOKER. Msss of Upper A Is* Cats Dows a-Tree la lie Flight MS LasSs U3 Fael Away Fran tbe Bad Slog—Three •! Ike Far Wills •( tbe Large BelMlag Btewa Oat—Lass Over

Peoris, III. •(Special).—With s terrific crash a large part of Coming's distillery at the foot of Western avenue rose into the air. Out of the flying debris shot a huge copper'cylinder 30 feet in length and 8 feet in diameter. It was the exolotion of this huge tube of copper th» caused the death ol seven men and the serious injury of five more. Every man who was in the building at the time of the explosion was instantly killed, the injured having been on the outside. The great cylinder of copper crashed through the east wall of the cooker room and on through the mill as if bricks and mortar had been tissue paper, shot ii oblique and --downward course through tl\e air, cut down a large tree if: flight, scattered a pile of lumber as if beams and timbers had been so many straws and landed 350 feet away from the start of its flight. Great gaps were rent in the walls. Nobody seems to have any dear idea of how the accident occurred. The damage to the buildings and machinery was estimated by Manager Casey at about $100,000. It will be three months before the plant will be in operation again. The distillery is an independent concern, owned by the Comings, and has been in operation less than two years.

HOW WAR MAY BE AVERTED.

lasargeats Defeated la Long Fight Their Villages Burned. Sofis, Bulgaria (By Cable).—Dispatches received here from revolutionary headquarters assert that severe fighting continues in the Struma sal-

ley.

The insurgents, who had surrounded the Turkish post at the Predel Pass, have been forced to retire. Another long fight, which took place between the villages of Obdim and Kremen, resulted in the defeat of the insurgents. Th^ troops burned both villages. Jhe Turks were defeated at Belitza September 28. Much fighting is reported around Melnik, Wt the results are not yet known. The war ministry has ordered out the annual contingent of recruits for October 14. instead of at tbe beginning of the year, as usual This step, though quite constitutional has occasioned some surprise, considering the reported improvement in the general situation. While tbe conditions are undoubtedly more hopeful, there is a strong belief in many well informed quarters that the Macedonian question is still very threatening and can only be settled by war. The Bulgarian government, therefore, continues preparations for eventualities. * How War May Be ArtrtaS. Paris (By Cable).—Official advices from the Balkans show two distinct signs that war will be averted at least until spring. First—The Bulgarian revolutionary committee, through General Sarafoff hat made overture# to the Bulgarian government, and unless hostilities ar« actually undertaken within tbe next fortnight all preparations wifi be sus , pended until spring. The purpose & this, it is understood here, will be »c permit the decimating of the Turkish forces through the winter and the completion of the preparations for a derisive move early in the spring. Second—M. Natchevics, Bulgaria's envoy at Constantinople, Isas agreed to take up the negotiations. He at first refused to act on the ground that Tur key B*v« no assurances of a desire fot an adjustment. His present decision tr considered , to indicate that Turkey bar given adequate assurances. One of tbe chief features M. Natch ^vics will inlist on during the negotia lions is that Bulgaria shall have a majority of the members and the presidency of the mixed commission having charge of the pacific adjustment of the Macedonian questions. The French government has asked Turkey to indemnify M. Gaillac, a French citizen of Beirut. Syria, whose shop was pillaged daring the recent disturbance* at that place.

Washington, D. C (Special).—The Navy Department has received a cable K im from Admiral Cotton, dated at irut, saying that the American consul hid cecetved word from Minister Lcishman that the new Turkish governor general had started for Beirut. At Admiral Cotton's request^ the col lier Alexander has been ordered from Port Said to Beirnt to coal the squadron there. SPARKS FRO* TBi WIRE*. A troop of cavalry captured the proprietor and several employes of the Daily Record, the official organ of tbe Minera' Union in Colorado. The dying statement of N. G. Goo- ^ Harold C McGrew. of lndianSfil

HORRIBLE SCENE IS WITNESSED.

Traia Strikes Mmy Parly Relnraisc From Family Reunion. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special).—A merry party, composed of about a dozen persons, ws* nip down by a passenger train at Sharon Hill, killing five and injuring three others. The accident occurred in front of the Sharon Hill station while the party was waiting for a train. Thera had been a family reunion.at the Farran home, and several members of the Farran family had accompanied the guests to the station. The Lamokin accommodation, for which the party was waiting, usually passes the station on the fourth track. This was known to some of the party, and when the train was heard coming in the distance nearly everyone passed over to the third or freight track. Before anyone could give a warning the .accommodation train came rapidly on down the third track and plowed into the X'OUPThe engineer tried to stop his train before it struck the party, but he was unable to do so until it had ran several hundred feet past the station. A horrible scene met the eyes of the passengers on tbe train and the train crew. Under the wheels of tbe locomotive and on the tracks on both sides of the train were scattered the dead and injured. They were quickly taken from the tracks. The dead were terribly mangled and those that had not been killed were removed to a nearby physician's office. Their injuries were of such a nature that h was derided to bring them to this city, and they were placed on the accommodation train, which was still at the station, and brought to a hospital io West Philadelphia. CRAZY WOMAN IN UON HOUSE. Whea tkc Beasts R*ar Skt Becomes Excited — RzaoveS ts HospitalNew York (Speriaf).—Found raving mad in the lion house of tbe Bronx zoological gardens a young woman, welldressed and of evident refinement, waz taken to the Harlem Hospital • The woman was noticed in the lioo bouse shortly after noon, but her action at fiAt did not attract attention. Suddenly. as feeding tirfie grew nearer, the animals began roaring, and the woman became greatly excited. At first she talked softly to herseli but soon she began screaming and talking incflherently. The attendants ran tc her and attempted to escort her from the house. The instant they touched her she struggled fiercely and they were forced to call for assistance. The woman was finally carried from tbe building and into the office of the park. An ambulance was summoned and one from the Harlem Hospital finally responded. In the meantime the woman was struggling to free herself and h was w hh great difficulty that the surgeon and the Zoo attendants managed to get hei into the ambulance. On tbe way to the hospital she became calmer, but dedined to give he*

PICKING 00 NO ON IN COTTON BELT. Effect of tbe

Harvests. Washington (Special).—The Weather Bureau's-weekly summary ol crop conditions is as follows: Tbe temperature conditions of the week were generally favorable, although cool nights were detrimental in the South Atlantic, Eastern and Central Gulf States, while light to heavy frosts, for the most part causing no serious injury, occurred hi the more northerly districts eastward of the Upper Missouri Valley. A marked feature of the week was the absence of rain -or the occurrence of only very light showers over much the greater part of the country east ol the Rocky Mountains, there being only a few areas of comparatively limited extent in the Upper Mississippi Valley Lake region and the coast districts ol the Middle Atlantic States and Southern New England in which the rainfall exceeded the average. Drouth contm nes in the Ohio Valley, and with increased severity in Tennessee and the Central and West Gulf State*. No unfavorable condition* are reported irom the Pacific Const, although rain in Southern California may possibly have caused slight injury. Southern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico received unusually heavy rains for that region, more than two inches bring reported from several stations. ..The principal corn States have experienced weather conditions exceptionally favorable for maturing late corn, and. while frosts have been quit* general over the central and caster* portions of the corn belt, no materia: damage is indicated. Probably less than 30 per cent, ol the crop in Iowa i* unmatured, and. while the proport io a vet exposed to injury in South Dakota, Minnesota ar.d Wisconsin is greater. tKc immature will nuke good feed. Farther aoutb only a very small part ol the crop is still soft Cutting is general in all sections, and some new com has teen marketed in Southern Kansas While the conditions have been favorable for threshing spring wheat ig the spring wheat region.- reporta of dampness of grain in shock, as a result ol previous rains, continue. Harvest if now completed on the North Pacific Coast and threshing far advanced.

Kentucky ard planted has *uf oat as a wbol

whole the crop is practically

■t Cteate Ute (Mtov*. Jackson, Ky. (Special).-Elijah Bolin, who took morphine in jail here is dead Bolin had iu* teen held by Judge Hargis to answer to the grand jury 01 charge of munkr. It a believed t