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DHILDREN DIE OF LOOK JAW PRODUCED BY ADMINISTERING DIPHTHERIA ANTI-TOXINE. ELEVEN DEATHS REPORTED As Many More Reported to the Health Department as Sufo ferring St. Louis, Nov. 1.-Agnes Keenan the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Keenan, died this morn. ing from tetanus. The child is the sixth victim, it is said, of diptheria anti-toxine, made and provided by the city health department and given at the city hospital. Chester and Mamie Keenan are also suffering with lockjaw and their physicians do not hold out any hope for their recivery. Two of the Keenan children who have died were inoculated merely for tie sake of precaution, neither of them being sick, though both had been exposed to diptheria. Seven other children are reported to be in a serious condition as the re sult, it is said, of the administration of city anti-toOn. Children who have contracted dip theria are not the only ones who are in danger of tetanus from the infect ed anti-toxin. When one child in the family has diptheria it is the custom to inoculate all the rest with anti toxin as a preventative. In this way the lives of many well children as well as sick ones have been endan gered. T'he list of dead attributed to lock Jaw as a result of lhe administration of diptheria anti-toxin now number 11, two new deaths being reported to day. Eleven other children are re ported to the health depatrtrnmts as sufferilng from lockjaw, with slight chainci: for recovery. rTh'e caile of lockjaw in (1(h (1're i a: n sa'i Io i.e poisoning froml th,' city:.' dyip lcriln As a result of the charge the heallth department began the free distribu tion of tetanus anti-toxin. It is do signedl to inject the dsrum into the blood of diptheria patients who have been inoculated with tetanus infect ed serum, and thus exposed to lock. jaw. The health department has anounec ed that no more diptheria anti-toxin will be manufactured by the city of St. Louis. The investigation ordered by the city coroner to determine the cause of deaths of the eight children who are alleged to have died following the administration of the city's anti toxin is being pushed and it is ex pected that its object will be accom plished in a few days. Doctors Bol ton, Fish and Waldron, three of the most experienced bacteriologists in St. Louis are making tests with the anti-toxin and the serum taken from the spinal columns of the dead chil dren. Dr. Ravold, city bacteriologist who made the anti-toxin complained of, from serum taken from a horse which developed tetanus bacilli on August 24, when the last serum was taken from him, it was impossible to de tect it by an inspection of the horse. At the Baptist hospital. independ ent investigation has convinced Doc tors Nichols, Harris and Morris that the presence of tetanus germs in the city anti-toxin is indisputable. A guinea pig that was inoculated with the anti-toxin Wednesday night, dec veloped symptoms of lockjaw Thurs day morning and died today. UUIfUNt WILL INVESTICATE BOARD OF HEALTH DIPHTHERIA ANTI-TOXIN. Would Like to Know How the In fection Occurred and By Whose Fault. St. Louis, Nov. 2.-Inquiry was be gun today by Coroner Dr. R. M. Funkhouser into the deaths which are said to have been caused by te tanus as the result of the administra tion. it is claimed, of a diphtheria an ti-toxin made and distributed by the board of health. Coroner Funkhousen has summon S d all of the prominent physicians of tbe 'city and will endeavor to find out Ji sl. t infectlop, there may have been Jt A atiltoxin administered to theo `` ;. mo , ::sp"" d .. now, the "ipý occurred and to whose fault, Ird44,vldual, this was due. t I . '+++' +,+.+ ki4 BELIEVE SHE STILL LIVES. Missionaries Are of Opinion That Miss Stone is Yet Alive. Constantinople, Nov. 2.-The letter received from Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, referred to in these dispatches yesterday which it was said had been written two days previously turns out to be a few hur ried lines on a scrap of paper receiv ed at Samakov a week ago, but writ ten a month before in which Miss Stone wrote of the approaching ex piration of the date of October 8, fix ed for the payment of the ransom de manded by the brigands, and asked her friends to hurry up the money. The missionaries, who are working for Miss Stone's release believe she si still alive. BUBONfC PLAGUE. Atlantic Liners Warned to Use Ex tra Precautions. Liverpool, Nov. 1.-Three cases of bubonic plague now in the hospitals are doing well and no fresh cases have been officially reported. James Boyle, United States consul, conferred today with representatives of the American lines regarding ex tra precautions, particularly in con nection with emigrants. He also ask ed the railway companies to have emigrant cars disinfected. No New Cases Reported. Glasgow, Nov. 1.-No additional cases of plague had been officially re ported up to a late hour tonight. Two hundred 'employes of the Central sta tion hotel are confined to the hotel precincts for observation. Dined at White House. Washington, Nov. 1.-Secretary Hay and President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern railway dined with President Roose$lt tonight and re mained with him until after 11 o'clock. BUFFAL0 EXP SITION FN S FINANCIALLY THE PAN-AMERI CAN NOT A SUCCESS. Primary Object of Undertaking the Advancement of Commer cial Intercourse. Uilffalo, N. Y. Nov. ".-The Pan American exposition ended at 12 o'clock tonight. At midnight Presl" dent John G. Milburn pressed an electric button and the lights in the famous electric tower grew dim for the last time. Slowly one by one the lights on the posts and pinnicles and tower faded away. A corps of buglars standing in the tower sounded "Taps" and one of the greatest glories of the exposition, the electrical illumination passed away and the exposition was ended. The exposition has not been a finan cial success, but it is believed the, benefits derived from it will be of great value to the commercial inter ests of the country. The primary object of the exposition was to ad vance the friendly relations and com mercial intercourse between the Unit ed States and the other countries of the two Americas. In this respect it has been a decided success. The financial loss will be in the neighbor hood of $3,000,000. Requisition Refused. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 2.-Gover nor Durbin tonight refused to grant requistion for the return to Kentucky of ex-Governor Taylor and Chas. W. Finley who were indicted in the Ken tucky courts for complicity in the murder of Governor William Goebel. Italian Fleet Sails. London, Nov. 2.-A dispatch to a news agency from Rome says that the second division of the Italian Med iterranean squadron has started for Turkey, with the object, it is said, to counterbalance the French naval demonst-rticn. Captured Boer Laager. London, Nov. 1.-A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, re ceived here today, says Colonel Ke kewich during a night surprise of Van Alberts' laager, northeast of Rustenbnrg, about 60 miles west of Pretoria, captured 78 Boers. Tax Notice. Billings, Mont., Oct. 1, 1901. Taxes for the year A. D. 1901, are now due. Payment of these taxes may be made at the County Treasurer's office in Billings, Montana, during office hours; Taxes will be delinquent on the 30th day of November next, at 6 o'clock ;p' +m., • and inless paid prior there.,,.10 piqr cent. will' be added to tho amount. ........ E. S. HOLMES, 50-4 County Treasurer. WORK TRAIN, STRUCK LOCAL AT BOTTOM OF HILL AND ON SHARP CURVE. NOT ONE ESCAPED INJURY The Work Crew Consisted of Fifteen Men All Riding In Caboose. Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 1.-Two men were instantly killed and a dozen injured in a collision at 7 o'clock this evening between a local freight on the Pensylvania road and the work train of the Clifford construc tion company of this city. The Dead Are. JOSEPH CLIFFORD, of the Clif ford Construction company, Valpa raiso. CONDUCTOR TOMPKINS, of the work train. Fatally injured: Charles Coyer of the Clifford company; Brakeman Johnson. The accident occurred on the grade at Plymolth, the work train was run ning at that station on the time of the regular train which was late. At the bottom of the steep hill and at a sharp bend of the track, the local running at a high rate of speed crash ed into the Clifford train, which con sisted only of a locomotive and a c~aboose, in which were the crew of 15 men. The cars and locomotives were crushed and smashed into bits. The dead and mangled men were buried in the mass of wreckage. The wrecking trains at Plymouth, Chicago and Fort Wayne were called out and started immediately for the scene. Trains on this division of the Pensylvania road were delayed for several hours. Not a man in the crew e(scap-ld on injullrl and it is feared several of them arc so badly wounded that loeath is inevitable. M'KENZIE LENT HIM MONEY DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY BORROWED FROM RECEIVER. Sold His Warrants At a Discount, But Has Never Paid Back Loan. San Francisco, Nov. 1.-C. A. S. Frost was again on the stand today in the Nome contempt proceedings be fore United States Commissioner Heacock. He made a general denial of all charges of conspiracy. Ques tioned as to what influence he used to get the appointment of deputy district attorney, Frost said he spoke to Deputy Marshal Mercer about it, but never expected himself to get the position as he had made up his mind to come to the states and prac tice law. Another admission procured from the witness was thatheborrowed $200 from McKenzie. Asked if he render ed McKenzie any service he said he had not. Asked if he had paid the money back, witness said he had not and as he never had the money since. He had to sell his warrants at 15 per cent discount. Frost was then asked as to the ap pointment of special deputies. He replied that they were engaged to collect evidence on jury frauds. He denied having any knowledge that the deputies engaged a room near Attorneys Metson and Johnson to be near what was going on. SULTAN PREPARING FOR RESISTANCE Fortifications Ordered Completed with All Possible Dispatch-Submarine Mines Laid Troops Mobilized. Paris, Nov. 1.-The sultan has cr dered the completion with all speed of the defenses of Salonika, Smyrna and the entrance to the Dardanolles, says the Constantinople corrqspond eqt of the Echo de Paris. Submarine iilnes will be placed and troops mob iiUzed at points where disembenrka tions are likely. A violent anti-French feeling pre DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE. Circumstances Might Arise to Force Such a Condition. London, Nov. 1.-The Spectator, discussing the continued agitation in central Europe against the United States, will say tomorrow: There is in fact a real danger. if the conser vative parties on the continent which include the agrarians, clericals and absolutists and the vast mass of the peasantry, should achieve a tempor ary triumph, a grand effort will be made to boycott the United States, and the Argentine republic as a pro tection for vital interests, threatened by their competition. Although the movement will pass and probably the hatred with it, the common enemies and common inter ests of England and America will tend to drive all who speak English and sell and buy food freely into a defensive alliance. Li Hung Chang iii, Pekin, Nov. 1.-Li Hung Chang's foreign physicians tonight pronounc ed his condition grave. He has had hemorrhages for the last two days. His death would probably atffect the negotiations as to Manchuria, which he has been conducting with M. Paul Lessar, Russian minister to China. SHOWN BY CENSUS REPORT FIGURES CONCERNING POPULA TION OF COUNTRY. Washington, Nov. 1.-The census report on school, militia and voting ages for all the states and territories shows the following summary for the country as a whole: Persons of school age, five to 20 years, 26,110, 788, of whom 24,197,130 are native born, 22,490,211 are white and 13, 086,160 are males; total of militia age, 16,360,363, of whom 13,132,289 are native born and 14,495,596 are white, and males of voting age 21, 329,810, of whom 16,227,285 are na tive born and 19,036,143 are white. Of the lotal number of males 21 years of age and over, 2,326,255 are illiterate. Of the 16,227,285 native born males. 21 years of age and over, 1,706,293 are illiterate and of the 5. 102,534 foreign born 620,002 are illit erate. Native white males of vot ing age who are of foreign parentage show a relative increase in the pro porition since 1890, while the colored males of voting age have increased throughout the northern and western sections with a few exceptions like California where there has been 'a large decrease in Chinese population. In many southern states, especially Virginia, North Ca olina, ou''. Caro lina and Louisiana, Lue colored ele ment of voting age shows a decrease in the proportion. Foreign white males of voting age show an increased proportion in all states except Vermont. There has been a relative decrease in all of the remaining states and territories ex cept New Jersey. Little over 28 per cent of the entire alien population of the country is illiterate. PASSENGER TRAIN TELESCOPED A',icent On the L.it'i Rock & Fort Smith Road. Little Rock, Nov. 1.-Passenger train No. 321 on the Little Rock & Fort Smith railroad was telescoped at Mayflower today by a west bound freight train. The rear coach of the passenger train was demolished and six passengers were injured. A. T. Osborn of Hot Springs, Ark,, receiv ed serious injuries; C. A. cult, Lit. tie Rock; G. J. Tumptin, Peaksville, Mo.; Miss Nellie Randell, Conway, Ark.; B. K. Pugh, a traveling man of New York, and J, H. Smith, colored, a minister of Waco, Texas, were slightly hurt. Strayed or Stolen. A dapple bay mare with sucking bay, colt. Mare has scar on breast made by wire fence. Reward for their return to A. A. Fenske, Billings. vails and fears are felt for the safety of French residents in Turkish cities, Constantinople excepted. Bound for Turkish Waters. Paris, Nov. 1.-A dispatch from Toulon anouncing the return of fleet to that. port prove ktnorrect. ,The fleet is now en route to Turkish waters. PLOT TO ROB THE LIMITED NORTHERN PACIFIC SECRET SER VICE MEN HAVE CLEW. BRIDGE TIMBER ON TRACK Engine and All Cars Leave the Rails But Remain Right Side Up. St. Paul, Nov. 1.--Northern Pa cific secret service men are working upon what they believe was a plot to wreck and rob the North Coast Limit ed two weeks ago near Deer Lodge, Mont. Reports to headquarters in dicate that a plan to rob the mails and the express safe was being or ganized. The limited was late reaching Butte, west bound, and it was run. ning fast to regain its schedule. Near Deer ILodge the engine struck a pile of bridge timbers upon the track. Every coach in the train except the observation car was deralled, But for the action of Engincer Bell, there would have been probably a disastrous wreck. As he felt the engine strike the timbers he instant ly applied the emergency airbrakes, controlling the train in a large meas ure as it left the rails. Both the en gineer and fireman stuck to their posts. The train was stopped within its own length, all the coaches re maining upright. Investigation developed that none of the division officials or. employes could account for the timbers on the track. They were not neen by the track patrol, and the first theory, that the'y might have fallen from a freight, was exploded by finding out that they were part of no load that had passed between the passing of the patrol and the arrival of the limited. Evidence has beon obtained that thbe timberil were inlllrltionally plac ed on the rl::'r nlrl the detlectives have scc'(eelded in collnrcting two men with the plot. No arrests have been made. LONC DISTANCE COURTSHIP ENGLISH LASSIE LEAVES HER HAPPY HOME BEHIND. Madison, Wis., Nov. 1.-Ellen Hartshorn, a bonnie English lassie of 20, arrived here yesterday afternoon in response to the advertisement of William H. Wilson, a widower of 54, for a wife. Wilson met her at the depot and each identified the other by the photographs that had been ex changed. They spent most of the af ternoon together and then agreed to wed. They will apply for a license today. Wilson is a widower, his wife hav ing died a year ago. He foudfd no joy in single blessedness and adver tised for a wife about four months ago. Wmin. Hartshorn, a railway en gineers living in Chicago, saw the advertisement and forwarded a mark ed copy of the paper containing it to his sister in Routh Staffordshire, En gland. In r'esponso to it she came to America and yesterday came on to Madison and met her long dis tance lover. Wilson has five chll dren living, but none of them are at home. BRIGANDS HOLDING OFF. Miss Stone May Be Sacrificed if They P~rsist In Demands. Constantinople, Nov. 1.-Late to day the case of Miss Stone again be. came more serious. The brigands, it appears, are still holding out for the 25,000 pounds ransom and it is fear ed that should they persist in their demand, Miss Stone will have to be sacrificed. Nevertheless the negotla tions are still proceeding. Anxiety prevails at the United States legation this afternoon whence there has been an active exchange of telegrams between Secretary Spen cer Eddy and various points. Mr. Eddy today had a long conference with Sir Nicholas O'Conner, the Brit ish ambassador, who is actively as sisting in the efforts to bring about Miss Stone's release. Died Together. Reading, Pa., Nov. 1.-The bodies of Walter Szyder and Minnie Rech stellar were found on Mount Penn with bullet holes in temples today noon. A joint letter stated their love affairs had been inteZrfered with and they decided to die together. Experience ia tie Best Teacher. .., Us Ake.r'a ,..anulsh ,Rzmedy. )u any case of coughas colds or .crooup Should it tall to give immediate rellef money refunded. 25 cta. and 50 cts. For sale by Chapple Drug Co. COUNT LCOMMISSIONERS. Contract for Physician for Post House Is Let. The county commissioners met yes terday for the purpose of making the bond transfer decided upon sometime ago. The bonds, however, had fail ed to arrive and other matters claim. . ed their attention. A contract was entered into with Dr. Free by which he will assume medical supervision of the pest house in case of an out break of smallpox the coming winter. Another meeting of the board will be held November 7, which will be the last of the fiscal year and also the last of the board as now consti tuted. Pat Lavelle will then retire, while Messrs. Parker and Deverill, now acting under appointment, will enter upon the terms for which they have been elected, as will also C. M. Jacobs,' who succeeds Mr. Lavelle. INDIANS ON WARPATH. Attack Mexican Ranchers Killing Thirty. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 1.-Reports from the state of Corona, Mexico, reached here this afternoon that Yaqui Indians attacked Mexican ranchers near Onalas, killed 30 per sons and escaped to the mountains. Troops are in pursuit. WAS STOLEN WHEN A CHILD WAITRESS IN RESTAURANT HAS LEARNED HER OWN HISTORY. Told By Man She Supposed Was Her Father Such Was Not the Case., Troy, :N. Y., Nov. I.-Minnie A. Gardliner-, a wa.ll,.r':,s in a restauran;t in this (i y, tubs an Intlr''sting story in which she claims to have beon Stolen Vwhil( a is ill child and tblr-i her father Is a Chicago banker named Loeb. l Mh-s Gdhiniwr says that until a shorl't time ago she iu ip)pould 1 her' father to be Charles G. Gardiner, a Iphlotograplher who left Troy :a short time ago, anal riao claims s he wa., abused by her 1i(ipposed mother. L, fore Gardiner lcfi' the city she de clares he saul: "You are not relat lated to me or my wife. Your name is Locb and your father is a banker in Chicago. .You were taken from your home when a baby and it broke your mother's heart. Your father Is still alive and in Chicago." NOT LOEBS' DAUGHTER. Neither of the Loeb Families Ever Lost a Child. Chicago, Nov. 1.--"Only two fam ilies of the name of Loeb have ever ,: had any representative in the bank ing business in this city and neither of them has ever had a daughter or child missing," sald Sidney Loeb, a mortgage banker at 125 La Salle street. "That story from Troy is cer tainly interesting but I cannot think of any person of my name and bus iness who could be the father of Miss Gardiner. My mother, Mrs. Johanna A. Loeb, who is personally acquaint ed with nearly everybody of the name of Loeb in Chicago, has never heard of such a case." Adolph Loeb of 6622 Grand Boule vard, said: "No other family named Loeb, except mine and Mrs. Johanna A. Loeb's have been at any time rep resented in the banking business in this city. No child has ever been stolen or missing from my family or relatives. Nor have I ever heard of such a romantic story in conectio. with the other families of the name in Chicago." Teachers' Examination. The regular teachers' examination will be held In the court room at Bill. ings, Mont., Nov. 29-30, 1901, beginning at 9 a. m. MARGUERITE M. STRANG, 57-4 County Supt. Schools. RYAN BROS on loftrlbs. a n left side or hip. - on left hip. LL. on leftelde. 7 left side or hip. / L lftalde. sIde. 7 left `slds. Hor.e same Sr rttl, on left hip. Ranse-Big Bend of Mu seihell and Alhkl Urek. P.O. Muaeleil. Mont.