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WEL.i P'T'o Co.. L't'd, Pubs: WEL'H, - LOUISIANA. EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE. Reuo!ar conventtion rates will pre tail for the State Democratic conven. tion at San lntonio. .Joe Rumnra, an Italian boy fifteen years of age, who has been in Galves cn four r five months was drowned Thursday night while iathlng in the Mrs Inc. Suttle, the 16-year-old wife of J. A. Su le ot Houston, died in New Orleans Thursday night. The girl su.cunmo, ,d ti, i'tth %ihile on her .1:dal our In Gray-ol ('II ' y scores of binders at work iL th wheat dields at night, lantern, I ),;ii.· ':;ed in p!rofusion. The grain is ri;,p ning rapidly under the in. tlluCnre '; , :irm weather. 'Thiin ait , r." str ii;o at ot)uston has b,' o S't tr d u ild ilouston is now as shre ( i "r iur'ad sulpply. The men got th ,ltr, ' o deornandel. an.,untiik to $t ra , p..r w(eek. It wu s I,t. ,'ied by " commit c't tio Seati ;11 blacl, anld tan" dei ega tion from LIio.u iana, in opposition to the lily whiti. delogation from that State ;'i ,It . ,t.puliican National Cona vention. The 1i)tvls (;in Company has been organ. ,d wtid , $i000 capital. The com pany %ill be incorporated and will erect a ntw ,modern gin in Davis, I. T., this tbu:'ig necessary to handle the or.op this s('ason. Albert Koe{pping, who murdered .lohn Marti: in Port Jervis, and Oscar Forgtronm, who killed his wife in Mount Kis, o. were put to death in the1 clr tri. ,'ha,; at Sing Sing l~pison Monday. Ele .i- , bui lders in Philadelphia struck for a raise from $3.60 to $4.25 a day, and h"ro draw( n about 7000 ele vatsor worers-: from many other large cities it:o- their trouble by a general strike. iallas membrs of the Uniform Rank, Knights of .Maccabees, are mak long preparations to go to St. Louis in 'August to compete for the prizes of fered for the test drilled company of 1Maccabets. A cycVore: of utnus:ual severity, ac comp!anied by Inoprecedioi!r,,d rain, has caused great. damage to Santiago. C(uba, and turrounding country. The death list is om er one hundred, and is Increasing. o i.it Hall. a negro, shot at his brother. Le\i, beolow Wat o, missing him, but shooting a Winchester ball :,~ar Itrougi a small son of Levi Hall and also shooting a horse. It is thou'ht the bioy will die. J. C'. l;:chanan was arrested near Whikcsloro on a federal warrant charging fraud in connection with a transaction alleged to have taken place at Ardnmort. I. T., where he will be taken for trial. Riepolris come from Robinsonvillr-. seven nmilcs south of Waco, where the maI dor :heoIltwed up some three weeks ago, to tlhe effect that two or three more ralld lhogs !:ave been seen thereo in the past few days. Th'e Concho-(oloiradto Confederate an asociatllon. which is composed uf all is the old (Confederates in this western section, will hold! its annual reunion on and the Colorado river four miles above a Ba!lingsr . .;et 10 and 11. cha John L. MeAtIo. aged G1, for .v Sorb en years Initc(l State District Judlge vr of the Fifth Judicial District of Ohla- bot hotma, with residence in Enid, died boa Monday morning at Chicago of paraly. left ris. /Rivl Two loads of oats, the first of this StCe season's crop. were marketed at Mc- Sloi Kinney Wednesday evening. T'iy ,ber brought 7 1-2c. onlb Oklahoma is sending a train loatl It i o.f wheat to the \World's Fair for ex- sev hilition purposes. ' who on t York. an inland town eight, miles of t southwest of Roff. I. T., has been the completely washed away. The Indian inq , Trading Company's branch house Ias there, consisting of a general store, bree was the Ilheaviest loser. chil( Indian Territory Elks will heartily wavi support l)allas for the next annual salul meeting of the grand lodge. pass An agreement has been reached and of F ert Fitzsimmons and "Philadelphia thcre articles will be signed shortly for a ' ball park. Co isb While crossing Pecan Creek, about tahli three miles west of Brandon; with a stit~u load of oats, Bcone Spalding, a son of ful, t Dan J. W. Spalding fell from the wag prsite on. The wheels passed over his chest the I killing him almost instantly. The little gasoline yacht Palmett, owned by T. I. Snider of New York, T has arrived at Chicago from New Orf Si leans, having on board the owner and and c a party of friends bent on circum. and i navigating the eastern hal of the United States. SCURRENT * TELEGRAPH . TOPICS t' ., , ., . , , Wore Than Six Hundred Lives Lost. Awful Fate of an Excursion Party. NOW Y''.h, June 16.---Onf cf the ost i :palling disa.ters in the hil tory of Now Yorit, tragic in its immensity and ,lee;ivy patihetic in the tender age of lmo.t of its victims, took place to day in thb East River at the t'ntrance to Ifng sl and Sound, within a :short dieLance of the New York shore and iw-biln sight of thouisands of person,-. the n;ajor'ity ,f whom w re powerless to rnininmize the textcnt of the cltar: trolphi. By the hurning to the wator's edgr of ;he h enellral Slocuni. a T1 r'e - l eck d , ct i t rellirioll stcllat m ', !the lar,.st ill th1cs ;var.- , 1lir( !than six hu;ndte d p l'P-!nni. the ini }jorit y (t' whom l rt WOIIen and (hiidr'n, were burlnd to daitih or drot:need by jumping on'"r boarll or by ).i;ug th:rown into th'e whi: :po,:s by the lurching of the ve. sol and ie tr 'anm , rush of the ,ar.b( stricien p::ssenr,,, s. Approximat.ly .( pafusen.gers ha.ve beecn recov,,red anl arte now bIing! tagged at the n:,rgue of the IX llhvte l }Hospital at Ilaritamn Divers w;re sti'.i busy at a late hour taking hodioc from the !old of the vessel. which. they say. is cho:l:ed Jith tllhe remains of hulman ibin gs, while the bodies of scores of others who leaped or were thrown into the river have not be(n recovered. It. is the seast;n of Surnday school excusios in New York I Hiay and Long Lbland Sound, the hla! ter one of the most pirttlI'elue bodie.s of wi:er in the country. (reat prep. aratious had been made for the seven- - teenih annual excursion ,f the Sunday i 'v' v v" * ...,... v, \. ,v.,, , w..v.....1.-v .rý.v'."ww N 1.......,,n Vvý THE BURNING BOAT DRIFTING DOWN THE RIVERP 1 _~ _ I - $" ;C .t ?T1 rriP(I ckrtch of srr-no by a ?NAw Yohrk 11tsr,Rrnrnt, f School of St. Mark's German Luther an Church, the congregation of which is drawn from the dense population of the lower East and West sides and the General Slocum had been chartered to carry the excursionists to Locust Grove, one of the many re. sorts on Long Island Sound. It is variously estimated that there were between 1,;00 and 2,500 persons on board the General Slocum when she left the pier at Third street, East River, though the Knickerbocker Steamship Company, which owns the Slocum, officially states that the num ber of passengers was 873, that being only one-third of the ve:,sel's capacity. It is thought however that there were several hundred children in arms for whom fares are not usually charged on these trips. The scene on the deck of tho steamer as she proceeded up the East River was one of merrymak ing customary on such occasions. The mass of flags fluttered in the June breezes the bands were playing, and children were singing (lancing and waving handkerchiefs ifi answer to the salutatons of those on shore or from passng steamers. At the extreme end of Randalls Island, off. 135th street, there is a stretch of water known as Corpus Christi, Texas: A movement is being quietly engineered for the es. tahlishment of a great educational in stitution in Corpus Christi. If success.. ful, the college will be located on the site.of the Alta Vista Hotel, and its president will be a leading member of the Iowa State University. • o Sin Yen's, Capture. Tokio: A dbtachment of the army under Gen. Kuroki captured the town of Siu Yen on Sunday after routing and defeating a force of 300 Russians and 300 mounted. Chinese baudits. Sunken Teadli ws. At tliis Pornt. j:r·; as crowiis wer(, 1va!c-hi ng 4!;e gaily det'coratted Stc :i to 'lz from the sho re, the (eneral Sn;um t=Ok Iir and as thie a e of th4 v sstl 1-fhe was hurilc in 1 9-nlre'.uIter in the thorough seascn;ng of 'he Weid work of which she was7 airn':.t en'irev U hil.. the was man. tfl3a, of Rams.s lThe lite is -'K2; 'tt hra'ý i.rcl:ý^ O'ut EXCURSION STEAMER GENERAL SLOCUP. VO --- -,=-- . -- 91!i (Vessel Eurned in Hell Cate~, East River, With Great Loss of Life.) -'---,"'- "- " - " - . - .. . in :;nch r<it u tr h o e frorwva l (1ckl I thlroe !i !l:' U otrri: ng (Jr a IXIr of grcas+. The wrinl was high anti al! !effort: to the fire wer A~· \.re futiile. At 1:,th stri(; then e" are s vera I lanmi er vyrds ad (11 tanks, and as Capt. \\ ilihan ';;n S,-ha"; ,n commnrand of the (o ritre r} Su:-:izu, st:arteod to turn his v's.,l !oward the shore there, he was warned that it would set fire to the lumber and oil tanks, and as Capt. f ll, le 2» R IbIý1 VAWKL p E , J! , ý Map Showing That Port ion of the'E ast River .Where the GeneralSlo1CUm, Was Burned and Hundreds of Lives SacrNced. *'*- - '14 RIKER$ paAM VVV/ý V 131 .IýN c Map howng hat orton f th E stRier W er t e eerl lou ti asBune an Hnded o LiesSaried Corbin Succeeds Wade. Wahingt<r: M:iJ. Gen. Henry' C. Corblin has been ordered to command the Division of the Philippines, Euc* ceeding Maj. Gen. F. Wade, the order to take effect in October. Stakelberg's Loss. St: Petersburg: A special dispatch to the Associated Pres from Liao Yang contains the first Russian estimate of General Stake}berg's losses, ,place ing them at 1000 men and -twenty of. ficers. his c'urse for Nr:h Rrotther blanm!. oUP siT shrh.Mu islsri'19 a half AIlm away. whcr( I cll ca!Inr parn iI' l)U ed W'ac he·aclied~ She sank n'~ar th 1is pa'fp a; :2 o'c'ock In the i:)I two hours an,] twenty five nmiitults after th, fire v.a, first diseyvircl. 1tiH SLOCUM VICTIMSl. New Ycrk: \\'Withh ul:rti'izg (iro :c;irch is g j:i l, :jni i;.Ir thc I i h lies of th'k thoe h(, p.'rished W\vtdn I(:5sday (!1 ofthe %;e,. &:ocum. n\Vhat the, ist of ll t victinL: will total on, s:,arc e dare ven tare a gue(... l I'ulic( and ii, alth T)eiparrnt ent of ficiails have plned the nml-'r at a ao figure as high as one tiousa:l(d and rn Iore, blut tonight i: oul!d seem that the ma:imum fainiity will not large y' cxteed 7;1). All day long the searchrs ept up their e'rn:tal vigi Pl.ac(e and at lush there had 'been re ')Veried( "; odis, for the grater ltr: w'::.'ij anid (chidlrn. ii to ( 5dusk1 4'Wl h;,;es ha, passd through the m'r ue, and of thl-e more than ::00 were identified. Stroe:.., leading to the morgue were bluck(d and only with difficulty t culd lhe polico keep clear the pas.a(.s leading to the long row of coffins for those who came to search for the missing. Up the :ound, where the huki of to Glnl. S'acmll li'es submerged, show inrg only a paddle box: s:'cres of small era; aided the trub in gra:pling for the iettins. Divers went diwn time and time again, and when their' work ond'd they declarrd there were no I more bodlie. in the wrcak. A sco're ot times a diver rea! ipared after his 1i !Plunge with the .h't1dy (of a woman or a n child. Two of tin ra coaming to the it sar l'arc tugetlher cil o1et f easian had i in ;heir arls two little girls. sisters. ('lasped in each other's embrace, and T their, mother, it was thought, whose f; dead and tightly clinc'hed tl hi skirts of e' one of t hem. Miners Deported. r Antonito, Colo:: Thirty-six union sI miners and sympathizers deported from the Cripple Creek district were unloaded from the special train near the New Mexico line today and were In driven over by the guard under com. mand of Lieutenant Colonel Kennedy. I They were moreover warned not to re turn to Colorado. Nevertheles. after in the departure of the troops, the de- c(i ported men walked hack to this town, a five miles north of the line, where a meal was furnishd them ,by citizens. in Fleeti May Have Met. Tokio: A report has !been received from ·the police station at Sago, near Sasebo, saying that sounds of cannon. ading have been heard off the coast It is Poss,;ble that a Japanese fleet has met the Russians. New Orleans: Nineteen Italian im migrants were held up by the board of inspectors and the steamship com pany ordered to deport them 'back to Italy on the ground of alleged viola, tion at the immigration &ws. KRYDLOFF SENDS IN HIS REPORT. Details Sinking of Japanese Ships Off Sasehjo--Thev Refused to Surrender and Were Destroyed. Sr nI: H .It n ( '"1. I p ITI ror Ni, ho!ao: hia, r it rr V l The A(lIBWfilg (Ilif jlliialc, dlaT 1 .1lil(" 1. froml \1ii,' Admir al S\ividloj "On 111n0 1.. oils' I,!~r (1iifi~inil º'Tl " o'iti!prvd in ili' ~rail of ('ore,. a .lapane.'&' lai>1o IIYJOIE il' YH 1 I~roIn ,he: soiiuit it thee r(h ion , ;lie laJpni! .se toast. AL;L hi was. ;L.ibc· on thi ho l'IZOI. The 'V(';iwl provedl to 1,( the izunui. w Iii tro;ois on hroar,!. -On i ' chpiraefolr i o of 01+, tinlt( g ' nl It ionº oin board o lo,. or il h.;r !) huas andl(lave l taC shp slti'. I.niý.iout,) (10d Whit I V. ;tak('i a tvanVtla; of bI r!n'Dat of tilt ( rui, thle I UI Pis ar "a:, sunki h~ o111 gins. Stlorll K after'rvarI !n( mo) tIO trailp1)rts were ,ig1 u-i I to the" 1011 -. anli the Sahoi.) 11form, r wihi i..xioie I and tii a ha (l ( a1* -I li~ (),olils. 1!u:-r. ( and a railwaa pluiIt. 'file( rransporh.d Si'fusii to and'lnilc 1'! hi till' (:Trlt 01f Ihie period grantei those on ino:ir~l to; hal;:' to 1he !)oat. Il( th1wu t'('-('1 aerel 2 lPOtEI;N NEWS SU'M1MARY. Tlhe, cz.ar is said to bhav appoll):ii;d a -rnL-ion 1.o devise reforms in Ruiltsia. \lukden reports thei loss of an en ir r gimentr in the sink;ing of :he trar.s Fport Hitichi. Manchester buyers a'ait a :toer price of cotton. s l The ,Japanesw transport Iztuni wai n- tink Wednesday. When the luti. dan fleet was sighted all on board took to t of the boat. and were picked up by a at a cruiser. and I)enver capitalists .,av e projected a that road in ,Mexico from Los Raves to large. Acapuhlo, on the Pacific. the Peonage in Mexico is being broken vigi. tp. n re- Russian Interior Mlini:.tt r is lvet-rse to ia;ct'r Iarsh measures in i'inand as a resull diusk of the assassination. the Stlmer Australia strlck i rtoqc cou' r :;0n the coast of Australia. Thl'cer va. no to loss of life. only Admiral Skrydloff reports his raid on keep Japanese transports. long -- --- - le to Boll Weevil Test. Taylor. Williamson Co., Texasti. .1. II, k of Whie and C'harles Colbert of Tish how- omayo and Rovia. I.. T.. are in Ta:lort mail with a newly o>st.ruted two-wheel for sulky fumigating dc"vice with a blower, time attachment, which they claim is a sure work killer of hol! weevil. wheveren applied. no In the presence of State Boll W\eevi! e of C(ommission C. C. TIooper and a num his ber of farmers, an iuitial test of the. or a nmachI;in was made y( a-wrday afternoon I the in a (1-0 are field of ,otton near town had belonging to . liht; lreiger and which ers, w"as reported as live witii weevils.. and The test. ye.sterday did not prove aatis- i rose fatlor-y to thost, present and another s of experiment will be made tomorrow. The; device straddles and fiumingates one row of cotton at a tinme, and is drawn lion slowly along by a team of mules. a rted tere Struck by an Engine. rear San Marcos. Texas: In crossing the rcre Internationa! & Great Northern tracl:s om, in a cut at. a point a mile and a ha!f r dyre north of here (at P o'clock this morn- I re fter Ing, Charles G'lover. colored, and twoi a de- children in a buggy were I;truck by S wn, a light engine. Glover received inju- ft a ies fr:om which h!l d(ied at 4 p. in. The c two cOhildren were only slightly :nurt. 1 The TItugv was complletely demnolishcl. F but the horse escapetd withrut inju y. Ir Will Delay Attack. A IChee Foo: Japanese offi:,als here; believe that the loss of the transpo.r's I Hitachi and Sado wiili delay the pro- ti posed combined attack o i Port. Arthur. le The Tao Tai of Che f)o ha, pro:st ti ed to the Rus.siann Consul against the 0(. use of wireless telegraphy I:etween Cae1 re Foo and Port Arthur. Iat the Cou~sul re has not yet made any reply to the Tao! Tal's representations. Japan's Excheque' Bonds. London: A dispatch to the Central . News fromn Tokio announces that the lo1 total subscriptions to the second issue st, of exchequer bonds ($50,000,000) has amounted to $160,246,762. The bonds are Isued at 92, bear 5 per cent inter est, and are to run for seven.yearas. dis Shipped 100 Fancy Beeves. th Bastrop, Texas: Mr. C. W. Hill of Elysium shipped fro, here today 100 head of fancy beef cattle via Missouri, il Kansas & Texas railway to the Fort it Worth market. wil --------- bcts Pushing Weevil War. d l-IouSton, Texas: Dr. D. W. Hunter. r the hboll weevil vwarrior for the Agri ab '. cultural Department o0 the general gov erlnment, was'in the city' this afternoon. t He came up from Victoria.' He, upon wa being asked, stated that he expected Sto remain in Texas to see the cotton held d crop through and its arch enemy, the The * boll weevil, get the worst of it. W.hile 'he did not say anything about the lea enemy for' publication, his conversation son showed that the fight was being pushed and right ahead. inve ''I he *, !olri:atýr l 111 11111OOi). u l ! '.f- ' d *p - ~ ( I; wfar ?II 'r, r P 11 [! . , c 'On .11 . f I li ,j L rfIPI I11y *'oiy Il ' L' J1 , u. '',j f I1 o t tt .! uf i'II I!ý ( ' ii hd dohr !a I I' . ! (1111" 'II- "ýi... . . (fta dV dr :r: t07 f,11½ 1:' :- il it . oVf a o'~' OIi:m ! :c?" ,, . >.i Th.'e. lajitall. .11tu . 1: ,ti:: frmMay 21. TREASURER A SUICIDE. Mills Was Financially Embarrascer Personally, but Accounts All Right. mnlir' Jackson M is.: .1. t. l!I!-.. t:a ,rr a of SiTmniit. and a ;pr!l n(inn i'!'i :. ut,: South lississippi. t rn:n1 it,, s'it id, early today, hal'ilm come to 14 lali w 1hotel for the purpo-,,. IIt. I' noles 'u voan veral persons Oxpl::ra n n that he hal >l to not the oul'rage to ,u:rinI: the at1 ;ut i his honme, and that i :V;, dllon, lw.a:I. by a he was embarassod lJ,: ally., It was S , learned today lithat his;, 'o:unt; a.:; i;, t r)easitrer of Sumllllmit ..: all right. ,,! tl that his finranlcial thd u f .ii : 4 , ,.; Wer ~.;. ohli sonltx . lII ýaý ablt' ;t years oldh, a Co(.onltfedorate veter:ani and wa., pro n.. lt'Int in set rlrf ord,"rs. sc to "' ";l Killed Unc'er Che,'ry Tree. S ('h -Iterl' I'a b r . n star '.:., GLo 0111(' a C.l t t:'"r on a fa m l' n re:: rno Fie!ton, ihre', miles ,'on hler', v,,r killed roday by a ;t roklt of li gl.tni', d on The dead. Roy Smith, aged 1::;. Alevander Fullcrion. aged I:". \W. . Davis. aged 14 Samuel Clark co!orel. aged 1:,. ;.lorl The boys !cok sheci;r from ite il/ storlm. Smith, Fllr;i anad aV:s rwere killed instantly. The coiored biov u was so badly injured that h," die, 1t ii ued. the way to the hospital. evil Steamer Australia Sunk. un- i foern', Austr'alia: T"he' l ~. the and Ori:nltal lintr, Au.-"rlia. i:a v rd non botlnld, St r1c0k on Ilt rockls; on Point wn Neapanly int the (o':*ern tl:mirancet 'o ichl Point Philip i ay) atl : o'c wkh this il.9. morning. The otitoni of oi ' Vtie w ,tS'i waV , tis. stove in and i f iS i art,,! rhat s:he wi her he a total los). The l;::engors anal the rew were safely :landrii. o T'rho Australia was bou!aed I rom 'To,: Iv lon lo Sydney, N. S. tiSihe was; of s:; and of 1:.720 ton-. Dead Man in Ditch. he ;an Antonio. Texas. Lying t;: , n ks it.s face in the shallow water of anl ir a!f ri'ation di;tch near the Souahwe;,;rn rn- Insane Asylum the body :f ,Mxi.an wo aboullt 25 years of agr ,'. a. find (,i by; Saurlday morning. The > I; !a in a i., ju- feet of water. pbrft'cly ti ii ', v. hhii It!h he clothing was piled on Iht >anik. I; it. I though the oan had :,r'on !aElji :: xl I From papers fLouIn in lh, ,ht, 11; Y man's name is t)'",.; l: b: e ) ' e r Albelrto Soliz or L..,) Soti re Left Fortune to State. ' oli:na. 1-Hexico' (e or,! A Igl :., ro- tinex, who diret in this . iy r.r::;. Ir. leaving no family. ber,.cathelid lit ir ,- tire fortune. amounl;ng to oVAr 2,1)00. e (000, to the Governor of this MSlate,, \; hi le receiv, s the greatest share, a ll t-.r. ul Irest to the nation. Has Yellow Fever Symptoms. V\'era Cruz. ,.1i<ti. Th,, .m .ri ate steamer Vigilancie brouguh a se'ondt 31 class )assenger with symptomsc ; of ye.l C low fever. lie was sent to the h;a).l:., e station for olservation. Is Charbon in Louisiana. r. Crowley, L.a.: Ch;.r;iion, the catlie disease, is gaining (uite a hold amonzm the cattle of this parish and fiurmer in a number of sections ihalse lot ,som valuahbe animals. The disease has al ready broken out in Calcasit-,i anti V' million parishs, anti it is thought that tit has gained such a foothold that it will be a hard mattetr to stamup It V:' before' fall. Killing at Rock Creek. i Wath'rfdrd, Texas: This morning about daylight 'in a Mexican row at Rock.Creek Coal Mirne Red E. Lokcio was stabbed to death and Joe Garcia was fatally shot. I. Telano Is in jail charged with murder and E. Campas iq held for assault with intent to murder. The parties to the trouble are all Mer Icans.. County Attorney James C. Wil son and Deputy Sheriffs Albert Leach and R. J. Boggett have gone out to j investlgate. Other arests may follow,