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ARGfU VOI. I. NO. 249 COCK ISIiAND. 1X.L... TIITJllSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1901. PI1ICE THBEE CENTS. ROCK ISLAND THETRUSTSIDE Steel Corporation Succeeds in Opening Two More Mills. GOMPERS MEETS SHAFFER How the Magnates Propose to Manage Their Campaign. Pittsburg. Aug. 8. This morning the United States Steel corporation succeeded in reopening the "Farm" mill at Lindslay and tne fllcuutcheon plant, which the company counts a victory over the strikers, while the latter insist that the companj has not sufficient men to keep the mills in operation. Tnere were no dis turbances. All the men are non union, and most of the unionists who struck have found places in inde pendent plants. Important Conference On. President Gompers and Secretary Morrison, of the Federation of Lbor. reached the city lst nirht and are holding & secret conference with President ShaiTur today. The out come of the conference is of the greatest importance to the strikers. PMts1arsr. An?, s. In thv big iito( strike honors aire easy in this set-iui. The Amalgamated Association mV? ceeded in closing down th- li? steel Iilunt Jit Newc.istle. and the ni.ir.u facturers pnrtiully broke the Mrike Jit the Clark mill in this city. Xeith-. r s:dn is exultiti.:, nor is there any expresio:i of discoiira.iieineut. Victory or defeat of cith' r at this early M:is:e of tin warfare -an have tiut little effect be yond indlc-itui; tne probahle line vi battle t 1h pnrsti l by each. The United States Steel Corpora; ion, . it was le:;-ne.I from an official source, will at once proceed in a ysf;n:itic iiranncr to Mart it- closed sheet mills, making tlif non-union plant of tin Kiskiuiiii;as valley the cradle where Mrike-liicakcrs will lie trained ntidtheu tent out to the mills that are clos-d. loth tiilei Hare lion Tulkin-- S far :i- Preident C. M. Schwab i cljceri.ed li overtures will 1" made by the tr;it to tin workers. In a with a Pittsburg man in .Now York ! said: "We have luxde our last pi upi'-it ion to the Amalgamate I A - iatioii and will now procceil lit start our work." Pn ldnt Shaffer makes the counter Maienicnt: "The next prooit ion must coim from tin- United States Steel Corporation otficiaN."' Thus the two .cciitive3 stand. It pectus as if only ontide efforts can briiur them together. The trust olti cint have decided to ?o ale ad slowly in the matter of startinz mills, and to l w with as little publicity ns po.s- bibi. I'roball Plan of the Steel Jlen- The at roiifrhobls of the sheet com pany are Hi.- mills at Vnnderprif tth" largest In the country . I.eechbuij:. Apollo and Scoitdale. It has lieen de cided to take as many skilled in u away from these places as Mrssi4Io without retarding ojK'iations there, and start the mills wure there is t he least danger of an outbreak. The ' places left vacant at the mills men tioned will be filled with in 'ii deserv ing of promotion, ami they will be siv cn letter positions. This move will be undertaken slowly and with caution. Thf plan further contemplates that after a time many of the strikers will return, when they we one after an other of the cloved mills resuming. This plan was tested tile first few days of this week, and found to 1 feasible so far as the mill at Hyde Park and YWHsville So. and it has been decided to adopt it o far a- the tliect and hoop mills are concmed. RCKMS TO PLKISETHE STKIK KM They Say It Will Plav Into Their Iint1i and Tbey Will Help. The officials of the Amalgamated As sociation say that this move will, in n measure, play into their hands. At McKeesport President Shaffer sain that be himself would lead men from Vanderurift into the Wood mill. TIih linkers leaders feel that if they can pet the Vandcrjrrlft men -nway from their environments there little trouble will be found in brinpiujr them intr the association. In discussing th move Assistant Secretary XI. I". Tight paid: "That effort will not extend very far, because there are only a few skilled men available, and beforc nongh can be trained to oj.erate mill snow will Hy pretty thick. A move of that kind might be attempted in Res seiner. or open-hearth steel mills, but lu a sheet mill where he skill re quired Is of the highest order the plan cannot do anything but ultimately fail. A sort of a showing may be made for a time, but It will not last long." The action of the structural iron workers in the present strike was terselv -titlined by J. W. Prynle. sec retary of the Bridge and structural Iron 'Workers, who said: 'There are no union mills making structural st-"' or iron, and our men have been woi ing the material furnished them, and 'will continue doing ho. If there wa one union mill making the material ncd bv us we would Msilly act dif ferently. I too. this matter up with I "resident Shaffer two years ago. but Le did noteee then of what .benefit an alliance witii our order 'would be to the mill workers." The continu.it im of the strike and the fact that it is to be extended to I greater proKrtioiis have augmented the scramble that ha been on In lifts-' burg for two weeks to secure sheets and tin plates. A canvass of the Job bers developed that the supply -of lolh sheets and tin plates Is rapuiiy niu nliisr behind the demand, especially in tin plate. The American Tlnplate eoru pany has not changed its quotation of $4.23 per lox. but consumers have paid this week as high as $5..V for boxes for Immediate delivery. The combine price for sheets it $' per ton. but and $7." have leen paid for sheet avail able at niif The independent mills are reaping a harvest. They are tak ing contracts at prices as high, in some eases, as 5,11 a ton for future de livery. JUDGE HAS GONE WRONG. Aerortlins; to the Testimony of a Male end Female Detective. i:i!tte. Mont.. Aug. s. A great mass of affidavits made by persons who al lege that they know the habits of Judge E. V. Harney has been present ed iu an effort by the Amalgamated Copper company to prove that the judge decided the big Minnie Ilealy mine case In favor of K. Augustus Heinze ! -cause Mrs. Ada II. Itrackett. u woman in the em ploy of the Heinze people, influenced him to do so. The chief evidence is furnished bv Miss K. Walters and .1. W. Waters, who had been on intimate terms of frieudhip with both Judge Harvey and Mrs. P.rackett. Both evidently made confidants of Miss Walter and Waters. The parties were guests at the Butte hotel before and subsequent to the trial of the Minnie Ilealy case, and alKutt that time .'tidge Harney gave his decision by which he gave a $ii.nn).inni property t Heinze upon the payment by him of S."4.tw0 to the Amalgamated company's representa tive in the case. Miss Walters and Waters testified that .Mrs. I'ruckctt told them rejeated iy that she was in the employ of Heinze and John MeOinnis. Heinze's chief manager, and that Mctiinnis had promised her $1kmnm and hail em ployed her to take care of Judge Har ney ami do other secret work for the Heinze company. Judge Harney, the affidavits say, vis ited Mrs. P.rackett in her rooms fre- ineiitly and the two were often un der the influence of liouor. ACCUSED OF FORGERY. Sal. I to Have Sico-l Other 3Ien' Name! a Often a Twenty 1 lutes. Indianapolis. Aug. President James M. Key. c.f the defunct Com mercial bank of Audi- ws. now siands charged with an aggregate of tweuty fcrgeric.i. In making thes-.-. it is al leged, he used the names of many of tl'e nio-t prominent business men and farmers in Huntington and .other coun tl'. ITie note, which are claimed in be forgeries, range in amount from $1iO to SU.mm. and the aggregate to date is something like 1. -.. with many oilier notes to he examined, and th sureties investigated. The transaction covers a period" of mere than two year-;. It npjuar that Key aspired to run a chain of bank' after the manner of Xiinii Iiwiggins some years ago. and was i uteres! i I in the lranking business in Andrews. Cromwell. A villi. Hunker Mill and iN-nver. I'loni each of th?e lie put out pap-r on v.lnc ,i lie borrowed right and left. INDIANA TOWN REPORTED IN FLAMES. Indianapolis, Aog. X. A dispatch received here pays (iilveston, Cass coantj, is burning, and that the tire is beyond control. Help has been sent fr jrn Kokomo and other towns. liirf Can t Mini Him at An. Frankfort. Iud.. Aug. N. Jerome Carson, a well-known farmer and oli tician. addrcsed a note to his son oo Sunday: "You will find me dead." After which he disappeared. Siuce then no trace of him can be found. Shot Her Little Urotlter. Tti'-kerton. X. J.. Aug. K. I Miring the temporary absence from home of their parents th-- children rf H. K. Hanly. of this place, secure! a revolv er r.d fc-thei. sated , snot. ant Killed iier brother F.liuer. aged j'ears. In'ltn'e Trnablee ot Vet Over. London. Aug. X. I-ord Curzon. of Kedlestn. governor general of India, tel-graphs that the total rainfall in the irland district is only half the not mil fall, lut the crop prosfcts are fair. Prices have adleady fallen in a few districts. The total number of per rons on tne reii't roiis is .n.j,'"'. Hri-. Gen. Negley Llead. XV w York. Aug. S. Brigadier ;cn- rral James S. Xegley died sudd'iily at Plaiutleld. X. J., yesterday, t.eneral Xegley was a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars and was prominent ;n military circles. Pioiuotlon of PftofHt-es. Washington. Aug. 8. The following fourth-class postoffice have been raised to the presidential grade, to take effect Oct. 1 n -xt: Forrest and Fort Sheridan. Ills.: Armanda and Bockford, Mich. Cmxm Sp'ldera. Spiders of several kinds are found In caves. They are uniformly small, weak and of sedentary habits. No webs do they spin save a few Irregular threads sometimes. What they live upon Is rather a puzzle, though It Is supposed that tbey catch stray mites and other such small fry. Ilia Ovrn Interest. Stubb Do you notice how the keeper of this hotel promotes loveuiaking among bis guests? Pcun Yes. lie has found that l-o-ple lose their appetites when in love. fjbicago News. MM AND HIS MAY i ,, , , Likely to Find a Very Cold Snub When They Get Out in Japan. MIGHT LIVE WITH THE NATIVES, lint Will e "Cut" by All I-'orcigiicrs Living in the Land oflhe Mikado. New York. Aug. 8. Several men ol pi-ouiliieuce were discussing the much-talked-of attitude of Putnam Bradlee Strong in the I.ady Frauds Hope case the other night at the Hoffman House. Seakiug of Strong's reported puriHiM t remain in the east lor a -long time, a Xew York man who has lived many years in the east and i.: thoroughly cowpcteut tj speak concerning the life CAPTAIN rCTNAM BRADLEE STKONO. of the foreign colonies there, said he would be much surprised if Strong and his companion did not hud it more pleasant to make their stay in -la pan of very iii'ich shorter duration, lie said: Not a It I'txl To lie. "In Japan in the early days when foreigners first went to live in TokiQ. Yokohama and Xagasakai. there were r.o foreign women, and the morals were somewhat lax. But when tin men went back to the old countries and u.arried. bringing their wivs out again with thi-m. a far different order oi things was instituted. A Tew men still continued in alliances previously entered into with native women, but the fact was never openly " incut ioned. and such jillianceH were frowned uion severely, lu fact, society In the. for eign settlements in the east is now per haps the most punctilious to lie found anywhere, and the mere smallness of the number of foreigners in any town makes it impossible for one to Ignore the unwritten laws. He CSrta tlie tl Shoulder. "A man who docs defy them is uni versally snubbed. lie is imt taken ill at the clubs if his detinm e is open, and unless one is willing to live as n social hermit he had better conform to what has become the rule in those matters. Indeed, if the particulars of Mr. Strong's escapade have preceded him to Japan I doubt if he and his com p.'inicii will Hud it possible to secure ad mission to the hotels iu Japan, and the rebuffs they are certain lo encounter on every hand will be so marked that unless they csn content themselves with a life among the natives their Fray there is sure to be very brief. There Aie No Exception. ' "Some years ago a titled Fnglish tnan whose literary distinction might be considered as excusing any slight moral eccentricity, paid a visit to Ja pan, but the reception that was accord ed him when his fondness for the so ciety of the tea houses became known was such as to surprise him. He was severely left alone by the foreign ele ment everywhere, and his treatment by the better class of natives was equally discouraging. Kveryltmly Gave Him the C'yJ. "Tile experiences in the cast of a wealthy Canadian who went there not many years ago with a married woman are still sufficiently in memory lo have made Strong hesitate when he was planning his itinerary. This Canadian bad many intimate acuaintauees in China ami Japan, but he was cut by all of them, and the journey of himself and his companion from port to port was one of uniform and mournful iso lation." MATTOON'S BOOM IN OIL. f-intls Are Male In the Heart of the City t Not tar Down. Matfoon. Ills.. Aug. S. The ga and oil boom in the 'Mat toon belt has taken a fresh impttus by new finds in the l very heart or the husiness portion or Ibi city. Kx-Mayor Frank Kern sank.' n twelve-Inch well at the rear of the . Virginia block on Broadway and late ' Monday at a depth of seventy feet gas in strong ipialities was encountered, which was ignited antl allowed to burn all night. The experiment has demonstrated that the same- gas-bearing strata v hich prospectors havefoundthrough out a territtory extending east thirty five miles from Findlay, Shelhy coun ty, and twenty-five miles in width, un derlies this city. Xunuroiw private wells will be drilled and tin1 gas stored in reservoirs for local consumption, lias A bout sawetl Iteir t p. Chippowa Falls. . Wis.. Aug. 8. Fifty-live years of continuous busi-. vess life of Knapp. Stout & Co. will come to an end within the next two weeks, when the last stick of its tim Imr will have been sawed at its mills. Thv company will then dissolve, and the operations in this state of one of the largest lumber corporations iu the ' worM will, bit erded MORE WHITECAP DEVILTRY. Ino Men Warned ant Two Others Taken Outtud ffhlppxl. Bloomlugtou. Intl.. Aug. S. Soma weeks ago Charles 1 1 ess, recently as sessor of Salt Creek township, at tempted to have a guardian appointed Tor a resident of that neighborhood. He was actuated by motives of erson nl friendship, but the suggestion was opposed by James tioodley. and their friendship was seriously strained. Xow comes the slory that Sunday night thirty marked men called where Hes.s lived, and Hess was called outside, where he discovered that tioodley wa also in custody. The men were then takeu some distance away and were warned to drop their differences, and hereafter keep out of court. Blooinhigtou. Ind.. Aug. H. Tuesday morning word was received of a white enpping incident near lolau. six utiles north of this city, with Matthew Me Kinney as the victim. Masked men went to his home after midnight, dragged him from bis bed and escorted h,m some distance away, where he was severely whipped. He was then wnrued to leave the neighborhood, it being alleged that he would not work. Kokomo. Iud.. Aug. 8. Sixteen "w hitecappers" called Sunday night at the home of Willard (ore. near Poplar drove, took him to the woods, tied hiir. to a tree, ami whiied him until the blood ran. (Jore. it is alleged, was abusive to his wife and ! -year-old son. SOME MORE CIVILIZATION. Ot the Sort Tlist Was In Vofne Several Huntlred Years Apo. Birmingham. Ala.. Aug. 8. With agonizing screams, and his eyes bulg ing from his head, John Wesley Pen nington, a negro, was burned at the stake near Knterpriso. Ala., before a mob of rM) enraged citizens of Coffee county yesterday morning. The mob was cnnijiosed of both whites and blacks, ami though the suffering wretch pleaded for mercy and frantically en deavored to break the chains that tight ly liound him. not a trace of sympathy was shown on the faces that peered at him through the flames. Penning ton had commuted a brutal assault upon Mrs. .1. C. Haviss. the wife of one of the most prominent farmers of Cof fee county, and confessed his guilt. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. Cireit Ituiltlinf eems to Nee a Set of New Foundations. London. Aug. S. Somers Clarke, the nrchitect in charge of St. Paul's Ca thedral, writes to The Times as follow-: "The immense weigh: resting Upon the eight piers upholding the dome lias caused the foundations nn tier the dome to settle more than els where. The settlement thus cnuseii has brokt n the e-ight arches and the windows of tin1 clcrostory over them in the nave of the choir, and the north and south transepts, where they abut on the dome piers, iathe same way. 'The great weight of the western towers has caused them to sink, and in sinking they have cracked the west front vertically through the great door the window above, and tin1 vaulted ct iling of the portico. They also have cracked the wall of the chapel to th east." nrr I hrn-Oit Kures. Kte. Cleveland, t .. Aug. S. The T'nitcd Traction company, of Cleveland, a con cern in which Mayor Tutu Johnson is raid to be a prominent factor, will, within the next few weeks, it is sa'd. ak the city council for a street car franchise in this city for a system that will embrace half a. dozen lines east Pt:d west and e-rosstown. Three-cent fare and universal transfers will be two of the concessions the new cani pany will offer as reasons for its re tpjest for franchises being granted. Came Near Itlredlne to leat1i. Peru. Iud.. Aug. S. etJeorge Howard, colored, who came here from Madison, was struck by a piece of steel at the mills of the Peru Casting company. The steel cut the flesh of his right cheek open to the bone, severing the facial artery. Howurd was helped Into a buggy and the horse started for si doctor's office, two miles away. How ard tried to stop the How of blood with a towel, but failed. He had to be carried to the. doctor's office, where the flow of blood was stopped. In a few more minutes the man would have bled to death. Out of the Pan Into the Fire. Joliet. Ills.. Aug. S. The statement iTi the CIiiej:go morning pacrs that Harlow X. Higinbotham had. through his attorney, declared to the Cook county board of review- that he is a bona fide resident of Joliet has fur nished the Will county board of re view, now in session, information that tray lead to interesting developments. It Is said the board here will revise the local assessment in II iginbotham's ease and materially Increase the amount he will have to pay the Joliet collector. Dog Finds a ImI Hehy. ! v Waukcgan. Ills.. Aug. S. An intelli gent farmer's dog found a lost Chi cago baby at f Sage's lake Saturday and ended a search of eighteen hours, the child having lieen given up ior oemi. The lost one was Leonle Mayo, aged years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. tieorge Mayo, of Chicago, who were camping on Henry Beak's farm. I Mn to Sucreed Judge Whipple. Port Huron, .Mich..- Aug. S. Hon. Kugeiie F. Law. at present prosecuting attorney, has been selected by the powers that be for judge of the circuit court, to succeed the late Judge Frank Whipple, and Burt L. Cady to succeed IT.aw us prosecuting attorney. Law Is 12 years old, and Is a product of the . "decstrict" school. Mayor and the Church Fair. Uncine. Wis.. Aug. 8. Mayor Hig- . i . : . i .....l., tl ,! t i ii g-,ns nas issncii an oiuei ! ..n.v. --r. . wheels of fortune at church fairs. lur ing the past few years wheels of for-1 tune have been extensively operated at church fairs aud. picnics, and a gre.il ileal of inouey is, spent by the rising ceueration. I CUMMNSMENOHTOP Des Moines Man Had an Easy Time in the Iowa Repub lican Convention. ONE COMMITTEE IS AGAINST Hill But on tho Floor He Is the People and Will Lead in the Coining Campaign. Cedar Kapids. Ia., Aug. S. Gover nor, A. B. Cummins, Des Moines; lieu tenant governor, John Herriott, Stu art: judge of the supreme court, S. M. Weaver, Iowa Falls; railroad commis sioner. K. C. Browu, "Sheldon: super inteiideut of public instruction, U. C. Barrett. Osage. With the above ticket the Republi cans of Iowa will go into the next state campaign. Cummins swept the board. He and his followers took everything that they went for. and from the first rap of the gavel to putting out the lights there was no time when they did not have the situation well in hand. They had a hard fight before the com mittee tin credentials in the effort to sate the delegations of Jackson and Carroll oonnties. ami came from t lie committee room beaten men. Won the Fight on the Floor. They expected to have six out of eleven members of the committee, bnt in the morning caucuses' they fell one short of that number, and the vote in the committee went against thein in both cases by a vote of " to (5. This defeat was of no particular conse quence, however, as they had the strength on the tloor of the convention to seat their men whenever the ques tion came up. They won their fight on the first ballot taken in the convention, and from that time to the finish there was never the slightest doubt of the ultimate result. Steering Committee Knocked Out. The members of the steering com mittee, who had decided to make their fight with Harrimaii as their candi date, came Into the convention In bad political tinier. The committee had counted with confidence on organizing the convention and had declared over and over again that its best chance for winning with Harrimaii lay in this di rection. When once it had the organ iMition. it said, it would proceed to i:an".e the nominees. It failed utterly, and when Permanent Chairman Bycrs. who is a strong Cummins man. took up the official gavel his lirst blow drove home the last nail In the coffin of the committee. I'oillt. frmn the I'ln t fr rill. The platform at the outset enthusi astically indorses the national admin istration in en rything it has done at home and abroad, and the acts of the last congress; denounces disfran chisement in the line of color: con tinues to advocate protection, but with a mixture of reciprocity: asserts the right of the i people to regulate cor porations: says a good word for the Iowa delegation iu congress, and in dorses the Republican administration of Iowa, especially that of Governor Shaw, who is eulogized. The chair man rf the convention, in his speech, was vociferously cheered when he de clared for an American isthmian canal, de-fended by American guns, bnt the platform is silent on that subject. Allison and Cnmmlns Appear. 1 M;ring the convention Senator Alli son came upon the stage and was greeted with great enthusiasm, the delegates climbing upon their chairs and cheering again and again. Just before the vote for lieutenant governor was announced Cummins appeared upon the platform and was given a most enthusiastic welcome. lie brief ly thanked the .convention for the honor done him. SKKTCH OF THfc CANDIDATE Has Keen Cleik, Carprnter. Surveyor, En gineer and Lawyer. lies Moines. la.. Aug. S. A. B. Cum mins, of lies Moines, who was nomin ated af the licpublican state conven tion, is tine of Iowa's representative men. Born in Greene county. Pa., fifty-one years ago. of Si-otch-Irish parentss. he worked his way through the common schools and the Waynes bury academy, and then when his edu cation was completed followed the ad vice of Greeley and came west. It was in 1M;: that iie located at F.Ikader. in Clayton county, la., and there secured a clerkship in the recorder's office. Some time afterward he engaged in carHntering. and still later ho was an express messenger. In 1S71 Cummins went to Indiana and was deputy surveyor of Allen county, a short time afterward becom ing division engineer of the Cincinnati. Richmond and Fort Wayne, railroad. At the age of 1M Cummins decided to study law. and two years later was admitted to the bar in Chicago. That city was his home until 1STS. when he removed to lies Moines and formed a law partnership with .1. C. Cummins. He was n member of the Twenty-second general assembly of Iowa, and for four years was a. iuemlwr of the lie publican national committee. .eprosy f igures Are Wanted. Blooinington. Ills.. Aug. S. County Clery Carlok is in receipt of a letter from Ir. J. White, chairman of tin1 leprosy commission of the Intted States marine hospital service, inclos ing a tabulated blank for data, etc., regarding the cases of the dread lis ase that may exist in centrt.1 Illi nois. jl Suspected or the Smelter Robbery. San Francisco. Aug. S. It is learned that the police department has in cus tody a man who was arrested on sus picion of being implicated in the Selby Smelter works robltery, in which SSO. IHH.I worth of gold bullion was stolen. The identity of the suspect is not known. WORKIIMGMAN KIDNAPED. Told to Stay Away from His Home Town or Die a Sudden Death. Billings. Mont., Aug. S. F.. 11. Gir ard. a man employed iu a local pi u toll ing simp, was kidnaped here Monday night by two unknown men. who in duced Girard to accompany them into the country under the pretext of look ing over a job of plumbing. After reaching the outskirts of the city Gir ard was informed that he would be taken west twelve miles, and that lie should, never again set foot in the town under -iia!ty of meeting violent death. When Girard was given his liberty ui.der this injunction, and the two kid napers set their faces toward the cily. Girard walked back to his In. me, which he reached at an early hour iu the morning. The kidnaping episode is the outgrowth of a very bitter war that has beeu waged here for months between union ami non-union work men. Xo arrests have been made, hut a liumlier of men said to le implicated in the affair are being shadowed by of ficers. BOERS ANGRY AT RUNAWAYS Say Tbey Won id Flog Those Canht Try p. lnf to Escape. If Permitted. Hamilton. Bermuda, Aug. S. Siuce the escape of Duplooy. a Boer prisoner, to the I'uited States, no more such at tempts have been made. The rest of the prisoners on these islands express their anger at his action, which by stimulating the authorities to a stricter surveillance, deprives them of certain privileges which they had previously been allowed. They say that if the government au thorities here would let them try the four other prisoners who. encouraged by Ouplooy's success, swam away from their island tamp a few nights after his escape, and who were re-taken and lodged in the military prison, they would give them such a Hogging as would Insure that, none of their com rades would try the same thing. QUICK TRIAL. Spawn of Satan Like These Simply Cnm- ler the llartti- Wheeling. W. Va.. Aug. S. John Cline and Clayton Kodgers were ar rested here yesterday on a charge of ha ving murdered May Yosi.'a 17-year-old girl. The warrant was sworn out by Iter father, who charges that the two forcibly abducted the girl, rav ished her. and then murdered her and threw the body into the Ohio river to conceal the crime. Tho girl was taken from the com pany of her sweetheart. Walter Ham mond, on Sunday night at the point of a revolver. He positively identifies the two .voting men. The girl's body has not Ih'cii found. TELEGRAPH BRIEFS. John Philip Sousa has completed ar rangements to take his band abroad afain this season for a concert tour iu Great Britain. Chamberlain announces that there will be no confiscation of land in South Africa.. i ne approacmng marriage or Her bert Gladstone and a daughter of Sir U!c!iard Horner Paget, baronet, is an nounced. A remarkably rich strike of gold is reported in Welles county. Ga. Xegrocs propose to establish a bank at Hampton. Va. Andrew Carnegie has been invited to become lord rector oi Aberdeen uni versity in succession to Professor Stu art. The British consular agent at Mar seilles warns his countrymen that the I nitrd States is likely to gobble all the trade of that city. Twin babies, a boy and girl appar ently lo days old. were left in a market basket on the platform of a Chicago "L" railway station. President AlcKinley has sent his condolence to King F.dward on the death of the king s sister. The strike on the street railways at Kno.wille. Tenn.. has been broken. The transport having on board the remains of 'M'-i soldiers, has sailed from Manila for home. Kxtensive improvements are contem plated at the important military posts, including Fort Sheridan. Ills. John Nolan, a prominent business man of Hebron. Ind., was drowned while nathing. lie -todays weta Judgment- " ' Paris. Aug. s. The tribunal com mence has rendered judgment in favor of MM. Perlvier. the manager, and Dp Kodays. the editor of The Figaro, de claring that the resolutions for their dismissal passed by the shareholders of that paper were null and void be cause they contravened the articles of association. He Will Manage a College. Danville. Ills., Aug. S. Kev. .V- M. Snyder, pastor of the First United Brethren church, at Danville, has re signed his charge to assume the man agement of the financial affairs of Wtrisi field college, of West field. Ills., which is the I'nited Brethreu institu tion of Illinois. Knck's Comet Is in Sight. " Cambridge. Mass.. Aug. 8. A tele gram has been received at the Harvard college observatory from Professor 11. C. Wilson, at Xorthtield. stating that lie observed Knck's comet on Aug. 5. The riirht ascension is (i:0:Ol.S. dec lination plus 31 degrees, 43 minutes, 30 seconds. tn!te Characteristic. Grange Cirv. Ky.. Aug. 8.- Janie Markwell was shot and fatally wound ed here yesterday during a dispute with Knssell Hall. Markwell had oit- Jeeted to Hail marrying a cousin of his. Killed by a Live Wire. Chicago. Aug. S. Lawrence Me- Griskin. a teacher in a school at -South Chicago, was killed last night by a live leetrie wire which fell from a post and stniek him. MeGriskin was re cently a professor at the University of Notre Dame. SHIPS COLLIDE Big Liner Oceanic Runs Down Steamer Kin kona. IN THE IRISH CHANNEL Several Reported Drowned Other Accidents of Various Kinds. Queenstown, Aug. 8 The White Star Line steamer Oceanic, which sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New York, at rived here this morning and reported having been in a colli, sion last night in the Irish channel with the steamer Kinkora, of Water ford, Ireland. The Kinkora sank and several pen ons were drowned. Excursion Train In Wreck. Pittsburg, Aug. 8 Through a mis take in signals the third section of the Atlantic City excursion train on the B. t!c O. orashed into the rear end of the second section at Confluence. Penh., 84 miles east of here, at 11 o'clock this morninsr. Ten Dersons were seriously injured and a Dumber of others sbehtlv. The serionslv . - , " injurea are: fireman Shannon, Pittsburg; P. Collins, wife and infant, Youngstown; J. H. Davis, Newcastle: Mrs. J. H. Davis and A. G. Sbaw, Pittsburg; Helen Lemont, Pittsburg; Dora Ilartzell, Newcastle; J. E. Stillwagon, Connellsville. With the exception of Fireman Shannon it is thought all the injured will recov er. The injured named were re moved to hospitals and others con tinued on the way to Atlantic City. Drowned Turtle Hontlns;. Detroit, Aug. 8 While hunting turtles in a canal today Godfrey Four nier, aged 18, and William Heinicke, aged 11, were drowned. The bodies ere recovered. Grand Stand Collapses. Paisley, Scotland, Aug. 8. By the collapee of a grand stand at a race meeting here today 40 persons were injured, many sustaining broken limbs. THE STEEL COMBINE REACHES FURTHER OUT New York, Aug. 8 It is -"""Minced that the United States Sutl coloura tion has obtained control of the Shelby Tube works, a corporation with 15 mills in various parts of the country and producing tubes of all kinds. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 8. At the headquarters of the Shelby Tube com pany. President Boynton today con firmed the statement that the concern had passed into the control of the United States Steel corporation. Tho Tube company is capitalized at $13. 000,000 and manufacturers about 90 per cent of the bicycle tubing pro duced in the country. KRUCER'S MIND SERIOUSLY AFFECTED. London, Aug. 8 A ilotterdam dis-' patch says the mental condition of Kruger is arousing serious apprehen sion. A specialist on nervous dis eases has been summoned by tele graph from Berlin. JOSEPH FARNDALE DIES IN LONDON London, Aug. 8. Joseph Farndale, who was chief constable of Birming ham at the time of the Fenian move ment, in which Egan, Daly and Gal lagher were concerned, died today. It was alleged at the time that Farn dale hatched the conspiracy. Trenton, N. J., Aug. 8 Ex-Gov. William A. Newell died at noon today at his home at Allentown, N. J. AERONAUT DUMONT HAS AN ADVENTURE. Paris, Aug. 8. M. Santos Dumont, the aeronaut, this morning succeeded in rounding KitTel tower with difficul ty. Tho baloou was then unable to make headway against the strong wind, and fell near a houso in tbo vicinity. Dumont was not injured. KILLED HIS DAUGHTER: WOUNDED WIFE. Louisville, Aug. 8. Clement Buch ter. a chairmaker, this morning shot and killed his daughter, aged 19, and seriously wounded his wife. Buchter was arrested atd refused to talk. BOERS STILL ACTIVE: CAPTURE A POST. London, Aug. 8 Kitchener in a dispatch today announced that a post of 25 men belonging to Seinackers' horse on the Sabi river, had been sur prised and captured by the Boers. COUNT YON WALDERSEE REACHES HAMBURG Aug. 8. The steamer Count Von Walderseo on Gcra, with board, arrived today. The field mar fihnl was given au enthusiastic te ep-tion. t