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Urcn County tRegister,
By ELI D. IKE.
1KOXTON i
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Missnriu-
Evansville. Ind.. was. on the Tth,
placed under cotitnd of I'.i-ig.-tit-n. W.
J. McKee and Mayor Charles (i. (ov
ert, assisted by a committee of public
safetv.
C nl v" thr heroism of an engineer,
near Puna. 111., who stuck to his post,
saved the lives of a trainload of pas
sengei on the (lover Leaf railway
oil the Ttli.
Rev. Thomas Knox. pastor of the
First Presbyterian clmrch of Charles
ton, 111., for five years, accepted a call
from the Seventh Presbyterian ehnreh
at Cincinnati, on the Tth.
Mayor McLnne of Baltimore, Md.,.
annotineed, on the 10th, that he would
not, during his term as chief magis
trate of that city, issue a permit for
a boxing or spurring contest.
Prof. George ". Ellis, of Olivet
(Mich.) college, was, on the Tth, elect
ed president of Tabor (la.) college.
Senator W. B. Allison was chosen a
member of the board of trustees.
Customs Inspector Coates and Lieut.
Osborne, constabulary supply officer,
both stationed at San Fernando, P. I.,
were, on the Tth, arrested on the
c harge of misappropriation of govern
ment funds.
A dog belonging to a family in
Cleveland O., that has been ill with
smallpox is under observation at the
detention hospital. He has symptoms
of smallpox, his hide being covered
with pustules.
The Waldniere, at Lakewood, N. Y.,
one of the principal hotels on Luke
Chautauqua, was damaged by fire' on
the 8th. The house had just been
opened for the season; the loss is
about $10,000.
Postmaster-Oeneral Henry C. Payne
returned to Washington, on the 8th,
from his brief outing in the Cats
kills, New York. Because of fdtigue
he declined to see inquirers on post
omce matters.
The St. Louis exposition manage
ment., on the Mh. offered Commander
Booth Tucker, of the Salvation army,
land for an army exhibit. One of the
features of the army's exhibition will
be a colony farm.
The body found in the river below
the falls at Niagara, X. Y., on the
9th. was idcntilied at Drummondville
ns that of .lid. Delehanty, the lani' ns
outfielder of the Washington mer
lean league team.
The regents of the American So
ciety of Religious Education decided,
on file 9th, to call sin inter-denominational
congress in the interest of re
ligious education, to be held in Wash
ington, D. C, next April.
Tetanus was responsible for fout
deaths in Philadelphia on the 10th.
Two of the victims, Frank Layfield.
aged 12 years, and John Monroe, aged
1", received their injuries during the
Fourth of July celebration.
The secretary of the interior, on
the litll, approved the recommenda
tion of the commissioner of the land
office that the proclamation for the
sale of the gilsonite lands in Utah be
postponed until the lands can be re
surveyed. The expected attempt to resume
work st the Globe Smelter at Denver
Col., on the 8th, was not made, but
an official announcement .was made
by General Manuger Franklin Cluiter
mun that work would be resumed at
the Globe on the 9th.
At the office of J. P. Morgan Co.,
In Xew York, it was stated, on the
9th, that W. K. Corey, recently ap
pointed assistant to the president of
the United Slates Steel corporation,
will continue indefinitely ns president
of the Carnegie Steel Co.
Speeches by John Mitchell, at Pitts
hurg. Kas., the notional president;
W. D. Pynn and others prominent in
the order, took up the entire time of
the firs', session, on the 9th, of 'lie
inter-stote convention of the United
Mine Workers of America.
A joint meeting of representatives
of the passenger departments of rail
roads from New Knglnnd to the Pa
cific coast was held in Chicago, on the
8th, for the purpose of considering a
proper division of through rates be
tween eastern and western limits.
According to city officials, the
Standard and Lakeside, two of the
most prominent clubs in Chicago,
closed their bturs on the 10th. They
come under the power of the decision
of the supreme court that clubs dis
pensing liquors must have licenses.
An operation for the removal of
liquid accumulation from the pleura
was performed on Pope Leo, on the
7th, 800 grains being drawn off by
Dr. Mazzoni. lis holiness seemed to
rally somewhat, surprising his attend
ants by his remarkable exhibition of
vitality.
President Loubet of France spent
a busy day in London on the 7th, in
cluding a visit to the French hospital,
reception and luncheon at the Guild
hall, and ending with n dinner at th'j
French embassy, at which King Ed
ward and the prince of Wales were
the guests of honor.
Capt. Hemphill, of the battleship
Kenrsarge, took Oeeusion, nt Ports
mouth, lingland, on the 7th, to em
phatically deny the statement cabled
from Germany, that, upwards of 100
men had deserted from the American
squadron at Kiel, The fact, he said,
was that one marine had deserted,
t m
Sheriff Dreger of Minneapolis,
Minn., on the 9th, in anticipation of
a possible adverse decision by the
state supreme court, arrested Fred
Ames, ex-chicf of noliee. The pris
oner was convicted of accepting ii
bribe of if 15 from a woman, and was
sentenced to six and a half years lv
- the stnte penitentiary.
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IOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FBOM EYEBYWKEEE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The first national Anti-Alcohol con
ference closed a two days' session in
Denver, Col., on the 8th.
Forty farmers stopped a Missouri
Pacific train at Bison, Kas., on the
night of the 8th, and went through it
searching for harvest hands.
The navy department, on the 8th,
decided to allow the European squad
ron to remain about a week longer
than was intended in English waters.
Red river, in Arkansas, is still ris
ing. The levee on the Hiram Q. San
derson place broke, on the 8th, and
hundreds of acres of that and adjoin
ing plantations were inundated.
The syndicate formed last summer
by Kuhn Loeb & Co., of New York, to
underwrite $12,000,000 four-per-cent.
bonds of the St. Louis Southwestern
Railway f?o., was dissolved on the 8th.
Mine workers from Missouri, Kan
sas, Texas, Arkansas and Indian ter
ritory, embracing Districts 14, 21 and
25 of the United Mine Workers of
America, convened at Pittsburg, Kas.,
on the 8th.
At a meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Co. held in New York, on the
9th, August Belmont resigned his po
sition as chairman of the board. Hen
ry Walters was unanimously elected
in his stead.
Secretary Hitchcock, on the 9th,
designated Assistant Secretary Ryan
as chairman of each of the two com
mittees to take charge of the exhibits
to be made by Alaska and Indian ter
ritory at the St. Louis exposition.
One of the lires started by light
ning, on the 9th, was in the plant, of
the Empire Matt-rags Co., 912 West
Madison street, Chicago', and during
its progress four firemen were more
or less seriously injured.
After talking with Gov. Durbin over
the telephone, on the 9th, llrig.-Gon.
McKee ordered nil troops removed
from Evansville, Ind.
The secretary of the interior, on
the 9th, approved a new code of regu
lations for the sale of surplus lands
owned by Indians.
There were six deaths from heat, on
the 9th, in New York, six in Brooklyn
and fully two score of prostrations.
It was the hottest day since July 3,
1901, when it was 99 degrees. On the
9th it ran to 94 degrees.
The American Smelting and Refin
ing Co. announced that the Globe
smelter at Denver, Col., would be re
opened on the 9th, but no men ap
plied for work, und the company was
unable to resume operations.
W. J. Anderson, president of the
Livingston waterworks, Helena, Mont.,
died, on the 9th, at Johannesburg,
South Africa. He was an officer in
the British army during the Boer war.
At a family reunion held, on the 9th,
at the home of James D. Arnold, in
Monroe township. Ind., 23 persons
were poisoned by eating ice cream.
Nine are not expected to recover.
The plant of the Aetna Powder Co,
at Miller's station, Ind., was demol
ished by an explosion, on the 9th,
from unknown causes. The loss was
$10,000. Nobody was hurt.
South-bound Missouri Pacific pas
senger train No. 25, from Kansas
City, collided with the rear end of a
local freight at Nevada, Mo., on the.
9th.
Eastern Iowa was visited by a de
structive cloudburst on the 9th. The
loss to crops was heavy and much
damage was done by lightning.
The treasury department purchased,
on the 9th, 250,000 ounces of silver for
account of Philippine coinage, nt an
average of 53.48 cents an ounce.
BarneyOldfield.on the 9th,at Marion.
Ind., established a new world's record
by driving an automobile a mile on a
half-mile track in 1:10.
Chicago has passed the 2,000,OOJ
mark, and its present population is
8,231,000 according to the publishers
of the Chicago city directory for 1903.
John Griffith, aged 81, a noted Mon
tana pioneer, died at Helena, Mont.,
on the 10th. He was a native of St.
Louis, and went to Helena soon after
the discovery of gold.
The president and Mrs, Roosevelt
reached Oyster Bay, L. I., on board
the government yacht Sylph at 12:05
a. m., on the 11th, from their trip up
the Hudson river to the home of John
Burroughs. They w ere taken by car
riage to Sagamore Hill.
Central Illinois, on tlie 10th, re
ceived some relief from the intense
heat when a heavy rain fell.
' In a wreck on the Milwaukee road
at South Amana, In., on the 10th, two
persons were killed.
James Martin, of the United States
monitor Arkansas, died, on the 10th,
at the Brooklyn (X. Y.) navy yard,
of stnb wounds Inflicted by his broth
er, Chnrles, already under arrest. Th
stabbing grew out of a dispute over
some trivial matter.
The forty-second annual convention
of the National Educational associa
tion practically closed, on the 10th,
after an interesting and undoubtedly
instructing week to the 30,000 teach
ers from all parts of the country, who
visited Boston.
The jury that has been hearing the
case of Mrs. Elmira Drake, of Coving
ton, Ind., who was tried on the chnrge
of poisoning her husband, disagreed,
on the loth, and was discharged.' The
Jury stood six for conviction and six
for acquittal.
Thirty-eight deaths and 83 prostra
tions in and around New York and
Brooklyn, on the 10th, tell fhe story
of the day's heat. It was the hottest
July 10 in the history of the New
York weather bureau. '.
The action brought by Edna Wal
lace Bonner, the actress, against
James Dunsmiiir, of Victoria, 1!. C,
to break the will of Alex Dunsmuir,
has been jxjstponed until October 1,
that witnesses now in Ireland may
testify.
Anna J. OcrstkmAp. aged 20, and
Frederick Winter, aged 18. both of St.
Louis, were killed in a wreck on the
Terminal railway near Granite City,
111., on the 10th. Ten others were
badly injured. ' '
Calvin Price and Jerry Graves were
executed nt Marion, 111., on the 10th,
for the murder of Mrs. Nellie Reichel
derfer, on March 16, when the ladj
was shot down and the corpse left
for the hogs to eat while the crim
inals plundered the house.
Brig.-Gen. Leonard Wood is to be
promoted to the grade of major gen
eral. This action has been decided
upon by the president, and the an
nouncement will probably be nmdj
shortly, together with that of Maj.
Gen. S. B. M Young to be commander
of the army on the retirement, Au
gust 8, of Lieut.-Gen. Miles.
The condition of Mrs. J. G. Blaine
who is ill at Augusta, Me., was such,
on the 10th, that it was believed her
death was a matter of but a few
hours only.
A dispatch from Vienna says the
late King Alexander and Queen
Dragtv of Servia left debts there
amounting to 400,000 francs. When
the new Servian government was
asked to pay these debts it offered 20
per cent, of the amount involved. The
creditors refused to accept any such
compromise and will sue.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
John Terrell, a fanner near Petro
leum, Ind., killed his son-in-law, Mel
vin Wolfe, on the 12th, by firing the
charges of both barrels of a shot
gun into Wolfe's head as Wolfe lay
on an operating table to have a leg
amputated. The operation wus com
pelled by a gunshot wound inflicted
by Terrell a short time before.
A terrible electrical and wind storm
prevailed in Beaver City, Neb., on the
12th, lasting 45 minutes, in which
time two and one-fourth inches of
rain fell. The wind blew with great
violence, doing much damage to small
buildings, windmills and to the wheat
crop just ready for harvest.
Joseph W. Cummin, at Newberg, N.
Y., was committed to jail, on the 12th,
on a charge of grand larceny. He
was secretary-treasurer and cashier
of the Cornwall bank, and is alleged
to be n, defaulter to the extent of
about $50,000, wrecking the bank.
After deliberating for over twenty
hours the jurors in the trial of Mrs.
Minnie Cummiiigs, charged with the
murder of her husband, Dennis Cum
inings, rendered n sealed verdict on
the 12th. The verdict is supposed to
be for acquittal.
Negro lenders in Indianapolis, Ind ,
on the 12th, took steps to avert a
race war. The Evansville (Ind.) riot
and conflicts between the races in
other cities have made them appre
hensive of a similar outbreak there.
The fast mail from St. Louis, due in
Kansas City at 10:30 a. m. on the 12th,
crashed into an excursion train that
had broken down at "Dead Man's
Curve," three miles from Lee's Sum
mit. Mo. Three killed, 68 injured.
A strike of the freight handlers in
the freight handlers of the railroads
entering Chicago is probable, on the
12th, unless the roads declare that
they will not handle freight to Chica
go & Alton 'roads.
The flood in the Colorado river,
Ariz., on the 12th, stood at 24.18, and
is receding nt the rate of six inches
daily. The reports of extensive dam
age along the river have been grossly
Moore, a moulder' union
picket, was shot and badly wounded
from ambush at the factory of E. C.
Stearns & Co., Syracuse, N. Y., on the
12th.
Frank Snyder, aged 27, and John
tocDaniels, aged 25, were drowned, on
the 12th. in Deer creek. 111.
Nicolas Pazzullo, nn Italian strike
breaker in the molding shop of the
E. C. Sterns & Co. factory, at Syra
cuse, X. Y., admitted in police court,
on the 13th, that he fired the shot
which seriously wounded George
Moore, a in older and former employe
of Stern & Co.
It was announced, on the 1.1th, that
the controlling interest in the Boston
Traveler, which was recently pur
chased through Charles M. Palmer, is
owned by J. II. Fahey, Associated
Press correspondent at Boston, who
will assume the management of the
paper nt once.
A desperate fight occurred near
Barbourville, Ky., on the 13th, be
tween a band of eight Clay county
negroes and deputy sheriffs of Bar
bourville. The negroes attempted to
rob country stores, and when the
posse pursued them they gave resist
ance. Tom Cooper, the well-known bicycle
rider, was operated on at Grace hos
pital, Detroit, Mich., for appendicitis
on the 13th. Cooper's trouble is said
to have been developed from a strain
he sustained on July 4 nt Lexington,
Ky.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances, on the 13th, in the general
fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold
reserve in. the division of redemption,
showed: Available cash balance,
$229,569,996; gold, $101,600,500.
The strike of the iron moulders in
several foundries in Providence, R. I.,
which was inaugurated in September
last, was officially declared off on the
13th. Xo concessions have been made
by the master moulders.
Chaunccy Dewey, Clyde Wilson and
W. F. McBride left the shiiwnee coun
ty (Kas.) jail, on the 13th, free men,
though under a bond of $15,000 each
to appear for trial later for the mur
der of the Berry family.
Attorney L. li. Conner Bhot J. It.
Crews, a furniture dealer of Fairfield,
HI., on the 13th. Five shots were
fired, three taking effect,' According
to Conner the cause was fuinily trou
ble. Crews may recover.
Francis Granger Adams died at his
home near Coxsuekie, N..Y., on the
Hudson, on the 13th. Mr. Adams was
one of the pioneers to , California in
1849. ,
Lieut.-Gen. Miles arrived at Fort
Sill, on the 13th, and left, the -mext
day for a 90-tn.iles ride on horseback
to Font Itcno, Okla.
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
R. D. Rodsen, Judge.
B. D. Rodger, recently appointed
to the bench of the Eleventh judicial
circuit, composed of Audrain, Lincoln,
Montgomery, St. Charles and Warren
counties, is 40 years old and a native
3t Audrain county, having been born
southeast of this city in March, 1863.
He was reared on the farm and at
tended the common1 schools. In 1892,
after a four years' course, Mr. Rod
pers rvns graduated from the law de
partment of the state university at
Columbia and was admitted to the
practice of law the same year. Two
years later he was elected police
judge in Mexico, and in 1896 and 1898
to the office of prosecuting attorney
of Audrain county. He also taught
school some time before tuking up
law. Judge Rodgers is unmarried and
prominent socially, la a pleasant com
panion and a deep student, both in
law and current matters.
Cole County Grand Jury.
Judge James E. Hazell of the Cole
county circuit court was in St. Louis,
a few days ago. He said that he
would convene a grand jury at the
July term of his court. The July
term opens on the 27th. The trial of
the men indicted in connection with
the boodle scandals will come up dur
ing the term. Judge Hazell says he
is anxious that these men have every
opportunity for a fair trial, for which
reason he will not call the grand jury
until the second week of the term.
I have not yet decided," said Judge
Hazell, "what will be taken up by the
grand jury. 1 will consider matters as
they now stand before sending my
letter of instructions. The boodle
scandals which have not yet come up
for consideration by the previous
grand juries will be fully probed."
Hammond Company to Rebuild.
The Hammond Packing Co. of St.
Joseph will put a thousand laborers,
if it can secure that number, at work
in South St. Joseph at once. These
men will be given employment ut the
ruins of the buildings destroyed by
fire recently, and nt the Viles and
Robbins packing house. The Ham
mond company does not want one of
the men in its employ before, the lire
to leave the city.
Wife's Grnve Remembered.
George T. Murphy, former assistant
superintendent of the St. Louis public
schools, by his will filed for probate,
directed that flowers be placed upon
the grave of his wife, Alice, in Belle
fontaine cemetery every Sunday, and
on May 3 of each year. He left $500
for this purpose, and to have his buri
al lot in the cemetery kept in order
Missouri Crops.
The frnvernment, ernn rennvt .Tnlv
1 gives the condition of Missouri
crops: Corn, 88; wheat, 00. Illinois,
Indiana, Aeuraka ana Kansas nave
better corn than Missouri. Kansas,
Indiana. Illinois and Nebraska better
wheat. Iowa has better wheat, but
corn crop about same.
Mndc Him Hysterical.
The sight of his store and furniture
burning in a fire which damaged four
buildings and their contents to the
amount of nearly $25,000 so unnerved
Benjamin Miller, of 2910 Oregon ave
nue, St. Louis, that he cried hyster
ically and had to be removed from
he scene.
Awful Fate of a Little Girl.
Bessie Reiss, ten years old, was so
seriouly burned at Louisiana that she
will die. She was lighting a fire with
kerosene to get supper, and the can
exploded, burning her so severely
that the flesh fell from her bones.
Say X-Ray Proved Fatal.
A St. Louis physician is defendant
in damage suit, brought by parents of
a child, who allege that the X-ray
used by the doctor burned the child's
skin, causing blood poisoning and
death.
Ilri, Samuel Lobbon.
Mrs. Samuel Lobban, aged 35 years,
died at her home in Roanoke, Howard
county, a few days ago, after a linger
ing illness. Burial in the Roanoke
cemetery.
Sued for Divorce.
Fred Striblen, a prominent mer
chant of St. Joseph, has been sued
for divorce and maintenance. The
grounds are extreme cruelty and de
sertion." Lafayette County at World's Fair.
The court of Lafayette county has
appropriated $500 for nse by the Laf
ayette County World's fair commis
sion for making a county exhibit.
Early and Snndny Closlnu-.
The butchers of St. Louis have re
solved to close their shops evenings
and Sundays after September 1.
Grocers also favor the movement.
Gilbert A. Peek.
Gilbert A. Peck, superintendent of
the St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provi
sion Co., died after an operation had
been performed for appendicitis.
Fred I.lnkemcyer Kills Himself..
Fred Linkemeyer, 28, engineer for
the Jefferson City Light, Heat and
Power Co., shot himself through the
heart. Temporarily deranged.
Din Packing- Plant Burned.
The immense plant of the Ham
mond Packing Co., at St. Joseph, wan
destroyed by fire. Two lives are
known to hnve been lost.
Robbed an Alms Box.
Frederick Heffcman was arrested
In St. Louis, charged with rifling an
alms box in St. Matthew's church. A
priest led in the chase.
Son of Jntlffe Krum.
J. M. Krum, son of Judge Chester
H. Krum, of St. Louis, died at Mon
roe City, a few days ago, of a conipli.
cation of diseases.
Plnkcrtons Want Rudolph,
The Pinkertons, have offered an ad
ditional $500 reward for the capture
jf William Rudolph, the escaped Un
ion bank robber. , j
In SouthweNt Missouri.
The wheat crop in southwest Mis
souri will be very light. Dry weather
has injured the corn, and rain is
needed badly.
Effects of Hot Weather.
Seventy-four burial permitB were
issued in St. Louis July 6. One day
Uvt summer 114 were issued
STATE ITEMS
The Booavllle School for Boys.
Judge Robert M. Foster, of the St
Louis juvenile court, attended the
Fourth of July celebration given for
the boys of the Missouri training
school at Boonville. Judge Foster
Jelivcred nn address to the boys. He
was very favorably impressed with
the school, and said that it reflects
great credit upon the state. All of
the hoys are placed upon their honor.
There are no walls, bars or anything
else to prevent the boys from escap
ing. Very seldom a boy tries to run
away, and when one does it is almost
always a new boy. The other boys
ore sent after the runaway, and it is
very seldom that he escapes. About
400 boys are now at the school. Col.
Drake, the superintendent, takes a
great interest in all of them. Every
Sunday morning he talks to each one.
When they leave the school they are
very different as to their maimer
and character than when they ar
rived. The school has a regular mili
tary organization! formed of six com
panies. Regular drills are held and
the boys become very proficient in
military tactics. Being judge of the
juvenile court, he feels a deep inter
est in the school.
To Be Tried In a Higher Court.
The body of Bert Bromley, ol
Webb City, one of the members of the
Buckfoot gang, whose operations
were notorious, was found in Miller
creek, near Carthage, in a badly mu
tilated condition. Bromley had been
fishing alone on the previous day, and
is supposed to have fallen in an at
tack of epilepsy, to which he was
subject. The body was found in three
feet of water by boys, who were at
tracted by the hands, which extend
ed above the water. He was out of
jail on $25,000 bond.
Died When Success Was Near.
Julien J. Crawshaw, superintendent
of exchanges with the Bell Telephone
Co., St. Louis, and prominently known
among electricians of the city, died
recently, after an illness of seven
weeks, with rheumatism. Mr. Craw
shaw was not yet 30 years old, and
had worked himself up with the com
pany. Did Not Care to Live.
Dudley Stone, 20 years old, despond
snt on account of his mother leaving
St. Charles to reside elsewhere, at
tempted suicide by taking morphine
in whisky. He was discovered and
his life was- saved by the prompt
work of a physician.
Mr. Alice L. Peterson.
Mrs. Alice L. Petei-son, wife of A.
G. Peterson, who died at her resi-
dence, No. 5419 Cabanne avenue, St i
Louis, had been for 36 years a resi
dent of the city. She was graduated
at Oberlin college, Ohio.
A Phllniitliroplat's Offer.
Nathan Strauss, the New Yorl
philanthropist, has offered to estab
lish in St. Louis, if the city will ar
range to conduct it, a milk pasteuriz
ing plant, so the children of the pool
can secure pure milk.
Reward for Johnston's Arrest.
Gov. Dockery has issued a reward
of $200 for the arrest and convictior
of Will Johnson, who killed Chair-ley
Simon in Jefferson county, June 28
The reward holds good for one year.
Fancy Swimmer Drowned.
Louis Graham was drowned in a
pond in St. Joseph, while showing
some boys tricks in fancy swimming.
He was but 13 years old, and was
known as an excellent swimmer.
Fleecing; Innocent Victims.
New York swindlers are "fleecing1,
many innocent victims by giving them
positions at the St. Louis World's
fair and demanding fees. The posi
tions ilever materialize.
An Old Resident Gone.
Judge George W. Hall, aged 76, died
in St. Louis. He was one of the old
residents of St. Louis, and was three
times a member of the Missouri legis
lature. Sonth Missouri Live Stock.
The South Missouri Live Stock as
sociation has been formed at Spring
field, to protect and foster the live
stock industry in that section of the
state.
Not Since the Flood.
August Knollmayer, a farmer at the
Chain of Rocks, St. Louis, is trying to
locate his wife and two children,
whom he has not seen since the
flood.
An Old Resident.
Mrs. Margaret Hoffmeister, an old
resident of St. Louis, died after a lin
gering illness, at her home, 7818
South Broadway. She was nearly 80,
Didn't Want to Come Back.
Emil Albrecht, wanted in St. Louis
county on charge of swindle, was ar
rested in Denver, Col., by a deputy
sheriff, after a desperate struggle.
' Lived Ninety-Five Yearn.
Nicholas Gregnn, 95 years old, wa
buried at Calvary cemetery, St. Louis.
He had been a resident of St. Louis
for more than sixty years.
Bitten by a Rattlesnake.
While working in hay harvest on
James Parsons' farm, three miles
west of St. James, William Lewis wal
bitten by a rattlesnake.
How Was This for a "Hakc-On"
It has developed that St. Louis hai
been paying 77 cents a ffallon for a,
trfcinfectant that costs two cents a
gallon to manufacture.
l,r00 Copies of the War Cry.
Capt. Lsabel Crozier, of the Salva?
tion army in St. Louis, sof.d 1,500 cop.
ies of the War Cry in one week
breaking all records.
Within Five Years.
According- to the present rate oi
construction, a trolley ride between
St. Louis and Chicago will be possible
within five ears.
World's Fair Map of Missouri.
Prof. C. F. Majrbut, of Missouri uni
versity, is touring the southern por
tion .of the state gathering data for a
World's fair mop.
Qneer Family.
A pup. a pig and a lamb constitute
ihe family of a yellow terrior Belong
ing to R. L. llixon. of St. Joscpn,
EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED.
Failure to Finn Fast Mall Cannes
Two Deaths and Forty Injured
Three of Them Fatally.
Kansas City, Mo., July 13. The fast
mail from St. Louis, due in Kansas
City at 10:30 this morning, crashed
into an excursion train that had
broken down at "Dead Man's Curve,"
three miles from Lee's Summit, Mo.
Three men were, killed and 68 in
jured, perhaps three of them fa
tally. Two of the dead are tramps
riding on the fust mail; a man name!
Wienkleman, of 3912 Russell avenue.
St. Louis, and Roy Swain, Kansas
City.
The excursion train, which left Kan
sas City early Sunday for Sedalia,
was made up of 12 coaches. The en
gine broke down, and while it was be
ing repaired the fast mail, which had
the right of way, came thundering
along at a high rate of speed The
engine of the St. Louis train was
ditched, the baggage car splintered
and one other car damaged. The crew
on the excursion train had failed to
send a flagman ahead to stop the fast
mail. While the excursion train was
but slightly damaged most of those
hurt were on this train. The dead
were taken to Lee's Summit and the
injured were removed to the Missouri
Pacific hospital at Kansas City.
FATHER KILLS SON-IN-LAW.
Driven to Desperation by Insnlts anti
Wronsrs to Daughter Farmer
Takes Venuence.
Bluffton, Ind., July 13. John Ter
rell, n farmer near Petroleum, Ind.I
killed his son-in-law, Melvin Wolfe, by
firing the charges of both barrels ol
a shotgun into Wolfe's head as Wolfa
lay on nn operating table to have a
leg amputated. The operation was
compelled by a gunshot wound inflict
ed by Terrell a short time before.
Four years ago Wolfe married Ter
rell's daughter. Wolfe, it is said, de
serted his wife and baby, and a suit
tvas brought to compel him to support
his wife. It is asserted that W:oIfe
had driven past the Terrell home,
twice, shouting insulting remarks and
shaking his first nt Terrell. The third
time he drove past Terrell jumped
from some bushes along the roadside,
and fired at his son-in-law. The first
charge shattered Wolfe's right leg.
The second barrel niissed. Wolfe
was hurried to the office of Dr. Saun
ders, at Petroleum, and placed on an
operating table to have the leg am
putated. While a crowd stood around
watching the doctor Terrell came up
from his home in a buggy, broke in
the door of the doctor's office, drove
out the crowd at the point of his gun,
and, with the remark, "I am after him
and I am going to get him yet," fired
both barrels into his son-in-law's
head. Wolfe was terribly mutilated.
At the time Terrell fired Wo-lfe was
half unconscious. After the shooting
Terrell entered a bucgy with his shot
gun reloaded and, pointing it at the
crowd that had hastily formed, held
it. at bay and drove- to the sheriff's
residence. He is in jail.
GREAT DAMAGE BY STORM.
Crops nnd Property Suffer Heavily
Accident SiiNtnlned by Salvation
Army Commander Hurt.
Beaver City, Neb., July 13. A terri
ble electrical and wind storm pre
vailed here yesterday afternoon, last
ing 45 ninutes, in which time two and
one-fourth inches of rain fell. The
wind blew with great violence, doing
much damage to small buildings,
windmills and to the wheat crop just
ready for harvest. The Union Salva
tion army of Kansas and Nebraska,
now holding a camp meeting here,
suffered much loss. Nine of their
tents were blown down, Commander
Holland was struck by a falling tent
xile and sustained a dislocation of
the shoulder. The camp was -flooded
with water. The women members of
the army have been taken into the
houses of citizens, and will be provid
ed for" during the remainder of their
stay here.
ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT.
Others Who Escaped from Jail With
Him Are Still at Lariee Citizens
and Soldiers in Pnrsuit.
Junction City, Kas., July 12. Gil
bert Mullins, leader of the Fort Leav
enworth mutiny in November, 1901,
.who escaped from the county jnil hero
fiaturday, with three others, was cap
tured to-day.
Mullins was captured Sunday after
noon by Patrick Folck, to whose
home he had gone to ask directions
to the house of a man whose ac
quaintance he had formed while in
jail here. Folck pointed ont the way,
and, then arming himself, followed
nfter Mullins, nnd ordered him to
surrender, firing as he did so. The
bullet went wild, and Mullins made
for a near-by cornfield. Folck shot
again and Mullins fell, but he had
not been wounded, and when Folck
came up a moment later he surren
dered. Marble Workers Locked Out.
New York, July 13. John Tobin, of
the marble cutters' organization, re
ported to the Central Federated lubor
union that the em"Wers in Greater
Xew York had locked out 1,600 mar
ble workers in an effort to force their
organizations to accept the employ
ers' plan of arbitration. The men de
clare they will not sign it.
Two Men Drowned.
Flora, 111,, July 13. Frank Snyder,
aged 27, and John McDnnlels, aged 25,
were drowned, Sunday afternoon, in
Deer creek.
A Short Hop Crop.
Santa Rosa, Cal., July 12. The hop
crop in this section; will be much
lighter than indicated some weeks
ago, conditions noW showing that the
crop will fall fur below the yield of
last year. Similar reports are being
received from other sections.
Ilnll Storm Dctroys Crops.
York, Neb.i July 13. A hailstorm,
on the 12th, destroyed all the crops
in the northeastern part of tha
county, eovci li.g n strip nine miles '.4
lenfft.h by tlin e 'n width. ,.
II IIS
The Last Day of the Christian
Endeavor Convention Has
Sad Ending.
PRESENCE OF MIND SAVES MANY LIVES.
Wind Swept Vnder Tent Snapping
Ropes and Drawlns; Poles from
Ground Ulitht Thousand Persons
In Panic Wild Scenes Helg-htenea
by Screams of Women.
Denver, Col., July 14. The big tent
Endeavor, where the Christian En
deavor convention has been held for
the past three or four days war. blown
over Monday afternoon at four
o'clock, while more than eight thou
sand people were attending the pro
ceedings. The injured numbered
nearly a score, but fortunately none
of them was seriously hurt. Miss Jes
sie M. Thornburgh, of Denver, was
the most seriously injured, her nose
being gashed and her scalp suffering
several wounds. The presence of mind
of Mr. A. M. Ramsey, of Chicago, who
sprang to a chair and called to the
people to hold up the canvas and
poles undoubtedly prevented many
from suffocating. As it was many
women fainted and were rescued from
the folds of the canvas with much dif
ficulty. ;
Mrs. Winifred Sleep, of Denver, who
was in charge of the St. Mark's hos
pital tent, seeing the catastrophe at
the big tent close by, telegraphed the
electric light company to shut ofi
the current. This prevented any dam
age from the live wires that had fal
len with the tent poles. A feature
that showed the religious nature oi
the participants was seen when the
majority were extricated from th
canvas folds. Led by an eastern dele
gate, all gathered around in the open
air and an impromptu praise service
was held.
The convention was in full progress
at four o'clock, and although there
were signs of rain and some wind was
blowing, no trouble was anticipated
by the management. The sides of tha
tent were up in mid air, and this en
abled the squall to lift the canvas as
if it were a balloon. The gust o)
wind that turned the big tent ovei
came so suddenly that no prcparatior.
could be made to forestall the conse
quences. The wind swept under the
tent, the roof of which immediately
belched out like un immense sail. The
smaller guy ropes were pulled from
their places, and in a moment more
the big poles were drawn from the
ground.
Immediately the 8,000 persons were
in a panic, which was heightened by
the screams of hundreds of women,
It was then that Mr. Ramsey sprang
to a chair and called loudly upon the
men to hold up the canvas and catch
the large supporting poles as they
fell. Hundreds of men sprang to then
feet and carried out the Chicagc
man's suggestion, and thus averted I
calamity. As the poles fell more than
one thousand people who had been
seated near the walls of the ten es
caped the folds and these immediate
ly formed themselves into a rescue
corps. Women who had fainted anc
those who were suffering from slight
injuries were quickly removed tc
the hospital tent.
The injured:
Miss Tornburgh, Denver, very bno
wound in forehead; very serious.
Allella Murdock, Denver, arm frac
tured. ' J. C. Peters, Alamosa, Col., scalp
wound and shock.
Miss Mary Ellis, Denver, bruised
about body.
Miss Powers, Trenton, Njb., knee
injured, body bruised.
Mrs. I. N. Johnson, Denver, badly
bruised and fainted from fright.
K. C. Patterson, Alamosa, Col., head
hit by electric lamp; bad scalp wound.
Miss Etta Ward, 1515 West Taylor
street, Chicago, large pole fell across
back and badly bruised her.
Among those who are suffering
from severe nervous shocks are:
Miss Blanche Fearer, Oregon, 111.
Miss Miiideck, New York.
Miss Nipher, Pueblo, Col.
Miss Myrtle Moore and Miss War
ren, Illinois.
Miss Small, Denver.
UNDER NE W MANAGEMENT.
One of the Oldest Dally Newspapers
In tlie Country Passes Into
New Hands.
New York, July 14. It was an
nounced, Monday, that the controlling
interest in the Boston Traveler, which
was recently purchased through
Charles M. Palmer, is owned by J. H.
Fnhey, Associated Press correspond
ent nt Boston, who will assume ths
management of the paper at once.
The Traveler is 79 years old, being
one of the oldest dailies in the coun
try. It will remain an independent
democratic paper The Litchfte'.d in
terests which have been in control oi
the paper since 1SUB, have disposed ol
all their rights in the Traveler.
WHEN ON YOUR VACATION.
Don'i kick because the roof over your
room leaks. If you kick the landlord
will charge you with an extra bath.
Don't propose to every girl you meet
They may compare notes some time.
Be satisfied with proposing to every
other girl. That's enough. '
Don't substitute the name of Claude,
Alfred or Chauncey for your regularly
given first name. Somebody who used
to know you is sure to drop in and
whoop out: "Hello, Bill; how did you
get in this swell place?" '
Don't open a tete-a-tete In the even
ing by saying: "What a glorious night.
How sweet the music sounds across the
water." The girl has probably heard
the same thing ten or 12 times, and may
tea you bo. Cut out the lines pbout the
golden moon up In the heavens so high,
too. She's heard that.
Don't be too haughty with the colored
Individual who waits on you at the
able. It taay impress the heiress sit
ting next to you, but it Is apt to make
the waiter mad and talkative, and you
know that he used to bring you your
sinkers and coffee at the lunch counter
where you eat when you are in town.