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STUDENTS KILLED
IK IMH WRECK
Football Special Carrying Team and
Friends from Purdue to In
dianapolis in Collision.
Stilrrn Person* Are Killed and Mirny
More Injured Among (hr Ilend
Are Severn! Member* of (lie I nl
rrnKr Footbnll Team—Scene \\ a*
One of Horror.
Indianapolis, Nov. 2—Sixteen persons
were killed and two score injured, more
than half of them seriously, in the wreck
of a apodal train on the Rig Four rail
road bearing nearly 1,000 passengers, In
the vicinity of Riverside Park at 11
o’clock Saturday morning. Ten of the
dead were members of the Purdue L Di
versity football team, which was to have
played Indiana University for the slate
championship here In the afternoon, and
nearly all of the people on thl train
were residents of Lafayette, who had
come to see the contest.
The Deuel.
A list of the dead is as follows: Jo
seph Coats, substitute player, Lafayette;
G. 3. Drolllnger, beheaded; Walter
Furr, substitute, Corpus Chrlstl Tex.;
W. H. Grube substitute, Butler, Ind.;
Jay Hamilton, substitute player. Hunt
ington, Ind.; W. I). Hamilton, center
rush, Lafayette; N. U. Howard, Lafay
ette; Patrick MeClair, Chicago, assist
ant conch; R. J. Powell, Corpus Chrlstl,
Tex.; Bert Price, Spencer, Ind., substi
tute; E. C. Robertson, assistant coach; i
■Walter R. Rouch, Pittsburg, substitute; 1
G. L. Shaw, Lafayette; Ram Squibb, La
fayette; Samuel Truitt, substitute.
William Bailey of New Richmond,
Ind., the sixteenth victim of the wreck, j
died Sunday. Many others are In a so- i
rious condition. There are thirty-four j
in the hospitals here, thirty-three of
whom are students.
Order* Mlmindernlood.
A misunderstanding of orders is said
to have caused the wreck. The tracks
were not cleared for the special, which
crashed into a train of six loaded cars
while running at good speed in a deep
cut near Eighteenth street and Holton
place. The passenger engine and the
first three coaches were almost, de
stroyed, The flirt coach was crushed
to splinters, the second telescoped and
thrown down an embankment fifteen
feet high, while the third was hurled
athwart (he track. Fifty or more stu
dents were under (tie huge pile of debris.
One body was entirely beheaded and
others were so mutilated as to be hard
ly recognizable.
The usual heart rending scenes of a
wreck were magnified, as there, were so
many more mourners than ordinarily.
The work of removing the bodies re
quired the combined efforts of the
wrecking crew and many of the city
firemen and police.
PATTI'S RETURN.
I'mnoim lllvn Grrelr.l ly 11 liirut
Aii <ll <■ nrr a I < n mi-u l<* 11 nil,
,\f I in k.
New York, Nov. .'. - -After ton years
Mine. Adelina I'altl made her reappear
ance Monday evening In the city, where
just 44 years ago she won her Ural
triumph# a a youth .1 artist,and started |
upon a career that has scarcely had ar
equal In musical annals,farnegle hull wai
thronged with an audience that hailed
the diva with an enlhuslastlc welcome
Thumb rs of applause followed Mine
I‘aitl's rendering of tiie aria from Linda
which wan succeeded by (he "Last llos*
of Summer" and “Home, Sweet Homo,”
to which, in response to repeated recalls
she gave “The Last Farewell." a song
written especially for this tour.
In Hunk
Richmond, Va., Nov. 3.—A saving!
bank for negroes, with a colored woman
for its president, began business here
Monday. It is under tbe auspices of the
Colored Order of St. Luke, and member!
of that order from N< w York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and othei
slates were on hand to make deposits
The aggregate of the deposits Monday
was about $75,000.
on >• Strike.
Toledo, 0., Nov. 3. All the teachers
in Loudon township, Sen**a county, art
on a strike. School t< rm commenced
Monday, but not a school was opened
The teachers feel that they have been
illy paid and held a meeting Saturday
night, deciding to keep the schools
closed until larg< r salaries are granted
them. Seven schools are closed In con
sequence.
\N t 11-li iHtH n On rainin I)rn<l.
New York, No . 3 John Joneph
Shea, a well-known amateur oarsman
and vice president oftlu Dauntless Row
ing club, died Sunday, aged 34 years
after a brief illm s Hi rowed In 'he
Dauntless eight which won in the
world’s fair championship regatta at I)e
--troit in 1898.
limit*- Thrrr Hmirila.
Denver, Col., Oct. 30.—barney Old
field, at Overland park, broke three
world’s recordn for automobiles. I’m
five miles, old record, 4 54, made in
4:13; ten miles, in 9:38, former record
9:45, and 15 miles in 12:31', A , former
record, 14.35.
Hhiikci) on Same Oullona.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 31.—Gov
Jelk# to-day refused to interfere in tin
cases of the negroes Lm Shaw and
Jim Chambers, sentenced to bang for
the murder of a negro man, and tL*
men were hanged on the same gal ow;
a .juverce.
Without Wurn In k .
Upper Sandusky, O , Nov, 3. Patrick
O'Brien, one of the oldest expert dis
tillers in the country, dropped dead
here Monday evening at the age of <5.
SEES GENERAL PEACE.
Heccat Krnl iu France For* the
Tent of the Caar'a l.elter to
President l.vubet.
Paris, 0< t. 31. —President Ixiubet In
formed the cabinet council Friday of
the terms of the letter which he re
ceived from the czar. After renewing
the assurance of his affectionate sen
timents toward the president the czar
expressed satisfaction at the happy
events in which France has recently
taken part.
In these events the czar sees anew
assurance of the maintenance of gen
eral peace, which has been the con
stant aim of the policy of France and
Russia, thus giving another reason
why the friendly allied nations, having
confidence in each other, should con
tinue to manifest on all occasions
their conformity of view and mutual
sympathies upon their various inter-
I esls.
INDICTED.
Ornnd Jury n( llcllcvlllc, 111., Finds
111 11 m Aitninal Klrvrn Al
iened l.ynehers.
Belleville, 111., Nov. 3.—The St. Clair
county grand jury adjourned Monday,
afternoon after a long and busy ses
sion, returning eleven secret Indict-,
mi nts against persons believed by the
grand jury to have participated in the
lynching of the negro school teacher.
David Wyatt, last June. Wyatt bad (
shot and seriously wounded County (
Superintendent of Schools Hertol ,
shortly before, because tire latter re-1
fused to grant a renewal of Wyatt's,
certificate as a teacher. The names of I
the persons indicted will be withheld
until the capiases are served. During
its deliberations the grand jury exam
ined 79 witnesses in connection with
the Wyatt lynching.
RECORDS BROKEN.
lionet Onnrd h nil llrl*enli> Mp. fllll
ititfit Slion Wonderful Speed on
Meinphl. Hue* Truck.
Memphis, Term., Oct. 29. —The eight
day meeting of the Memphis Trotting
association was brought t o a fitting close
yesterday afternoon with the breaking
of two additional world’s trotting rec
ords. Lou Hlllon, Mr. Billing’s champion
trotter, driven by her owner, went a mile
to wagon in two minutes flat, cutting a
second and three-quarters from the pre
vious record made by herself; The
Monk and Equity, driven by Mr. Billings,
their owner, lowered the world's trotting
record for a mile to pole to 2.08.
FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Wyoinlnu Sheriff nud Mem her of
I*ih** Deitil n* a llenti II —\ n
olher llni il<> Kipeeled.
New Castle, Wyo., Nov. 2.—Sheriff
W. H. Miller, of Weston county, uud
one of his posse named Fosscnburg
are dead as a nnult of a fight with
12 wagon loads of Sioux Indians Sat
urday three miles below Heaver dam,
on lightning creek, Converse county.
The Indians wire from the Pine Ridge
and Rosebud agencies, in South Da
kota, and wore violating the game laws
of the stale.
rirf n( <on**> Imliiiiil.
New York, Nov. 2. In a blaze that
baffled Hie firemen seven hours Sunday
afternoon, I lie bowery at Coney Island
was again laid In ashes. Two lives, so
far, arc reported to he lost; one man
mortally injured; a score of olhers hurl,
300 buildings destroyed, 500 persons
made homeless and more than $1,000,-
000 damage done, I low many more
dead in the ruins is not known.
Chicago, Oct 31 Horace L. Green,
editor and publisher of the Free
Thought Magazine, and his wife were
found dead in their bedroom here from
asphyxiation. At first the police were
inclined to the belief that the aged hus
band and wife had committed suicide,
hut later developments tended to show
that the two were the victims of an inci
dent,
Yield. 1 lie.till..
Washington, Get. 31 Judge Advocate
General Lcmley, In his annual report,
says i he system of prohat ion of prisoners
which was adopted hy the department
somewhat more than two years ago, still
yields good results, which, In his opin
ion, will warrant It* continuance. The
National Prison Association of the Unit
ed States Is ghgu credit for tile idea of
introducing this system in the navy.
Ai*|rn|i rln 1 1 mi m IVrnleil.
Washington, Oct. 31 Acting Secre
tary Moore, of the department of agri
culture, tins completed the estimates of
appropriations needed for the next fiscal
year, aggregating sti.o(i9,Bßo, exclusive
of f72**,"o(i for agricultural experiment
stations. The aggregate Is an Increase
of $751,720 over tin appropriations for
the current year,
Doll* I* Jiacljtr.
Washington, Nov 2. The president
lias made the following appolntnm Ps:
Sanford H Dole, to in-United Staten dis
trict judge for Hawaii, lo succeed Ihe
late Judge Morris M Estes; George It.
Carter, secretary of Hawaii, to be gov
ernor of the same, fo succeed Governor
Dole.
l*nrL <'on% |**lrl.
N* w York, Oct. 01. Fur the Ki*mnd
time wit bin two months Samuel .1 Parks,
walking delegate of Housesmltiis' and
Brldgeman’s union, local No 2, lias been
convicted of the crime of extort lon in I he
court of general sessions, and remanded
lor sentence a week hence.
*•*! I’rff,
Indianapolis, Did , Nov 2—Charles
W Moores, United States commie lon
er, ruled Saturday that the crime for
which James Lynchehaun was s<ui
lenced in Ireland was a political crime,
and that Lynchehaun should be re
leased from custody.
FLUMES ID
MIIII VICTIMS
Awful Result Follows Burning of a
Crowded Tenement in New
York City.
E*rnpA Im Tut Off nad the Frenzied
IntiiHfi'M rarliclpnl* in a Desper
ate StruKKlr to Heaeli the Street
—Twenty-Five of Them Lone Their
Liven—One Injured.
New York, Nov. 2. —Twenty-fine men,
three women and a ten months old
babe were burned to death or suffocat
ed in a fire that started early Sunday
morning in the House of AH Nations,
a five-story tenement house at No. 42G
Eleventh avenue, and which the police
and coroner believe to have been of
incendiary origin. The property loss is
17,000.
Kkohiic Cn( OIT.
In several apartments in the tene
ment Halloween parties were in prog
ress and the guests at. these added
greatly to the number of persons in
the house and made the crush and jam
to escape more than it ordinarily
would have been. Although plentifully
provided with lire escapes, front and
HALLOWE’EN IN TRUSTVILLE.
The Steel Trust-There Goes That Kid with a Gate. That Makes a
Bad Hole in Our Monopoly Wall.
rear, escape here was cut off a few
minutes after (lie .fire started hy the
bodies of the dead becoming wedgi and
in the openings leading to the ladder.
SlniKul** for I.lf**,
At the windows, front and rear,
bodies of men ami women were
Jammed, showing that a desperate
struggle to gel free had resulted in the
complete choking of tiie.se exits to the
lire escapes and had been the cause of
a number of the inmates being suffo
cated. Lying on a bed alongside a
window at the rear of the fourth lloor
the firemen found the bodies of five
men. Kach had clutched the one next
to him in an endeavor to push him
away in order to get to thfi lire escape
outside. The features of the men were
distorted, some with rage, others with
agony, and in two instances the nun
liad gripped each other so hard that
blood had been drawn and had run
over their hands.
The building was known as “The
House of All Nations,” because of tho
different nationalities of its tenants
l*ny Inrr**n**il.
Bloomington, 111., Nov. 3.- Officers of
the Vandalla railroad announced an in
crease in pay to employes of Ihe western
division, including the Illinois lines. The
advance applies to engineers, firemen,
conductors, brakemen and baggagemen
on both passenger and freight trains,
The advance is 10 to 2o cents a day,
figured on Hie trip basis of the regular
runs and the hour basis for extra runs.
The Increase was made voluntarily.
( u4'r He! for Trial.
Washington, Nov. 3. —The cases of
A W Machen, Dlller 1! and Samuel A
Groff, and George K. and Martha
Lorenz, Indicted on charges of con
spiracy in connection with the sale of
letter box fasteners to the post office
department, were Monday set for trial
on November 23, in criminal court No.
1, of tlie District of Columbia.
ftrril. Ilia Sunt.
Washington, Nov. 3 Post master Gen
eral Payne, in his estimates forwarded
to the treasury for transmission to con
gress for appropriations needed during
the fiscal yi sr ending June 3u. ISOS, calls
for an aggregate of $1t;8,085,770 for the
jMjstal service.
The Vnllonii I-'lre.
Home, Nov. 3 Pope Plus sends his
thanks t i the Italian brigade for its
aid in extinguishing the blaze at the
Vatican, which Is estimated nut to
have caused more than sso,Otto damage
I’nttl 111 Aiiirrlea.
New York. Nov. 2 Mine Patti lias
arrived to begin a concert tour u the
United States, and declares (hat Ihe
present Is really her last visit to
America.
A DAY OF THANKS.
l*rMli|pn( Hookup It \nnira rhnndty,
Vov. 211, a> ThankKKtyinK Day—
AkLh That Labor* teaif.
Washington, Nov. 2. —The president
has issued his annual Thanksgiving
proclamation in Urn following terms:
“By the president of the United
States of America. A Proclamation:
The season Is at hand when, accord
ing to the custom of the people, it falls
upon the president to appoint a day of
praise and thanksgiving to God,
“During the last year the Lord has
dealt bountifully with us, giving us
peace at home and abroad and the
chance for our "citizens to work for
their welfare unhindered by war, fam
ine or plague. It behooves us not only
to rejoice greatly because of what has
been given us, but to accept it with
the solemn sense of responsibility,
realizing that under Heaven it rests
with us ourselves to show that wo are
worthy to use aright what has thus
been entrusted to our care. In no oth
er place and at no other time lias the
experiment of government of the peo
ple, by the people, for the people, been
tried on so vast a scale as here in our
own country in the opening years of
the twentieth century. Failure would
not only he a dreadful thing for us,
but a dreadful thing for all mankind,
because it would mean loss of hope for
all who believe in the power and the
righteousness of liberty Therefore, in
thanking God for the mercies extended
to us in 1 lio past, we beseech Him that
He may not withhold them in the ru
ture, and that our hearts may be
roused to war steadfastly for good and
against all forces of evil, public ami
private We pray for strength anil
light, so that in the coming years we
may with cleanliness, fearlessness and
wisdom do our allotted work on tne
earth in such manner as to show that
we are not altogether unworthy of the
blessings we have received.
“Now, therefore I. Theodore Roose
velt, president of the United States, do
hereby designate as a day of gem ral
thanksgiving Thursday, the 2Cth day
of the coming November, and do rec
ommend that throughout the land peo
ple cease from their wonted occupa
tions, and in their several homes and
places of worship render thanks unto
Almighty God for His manifold mer
cies.
“In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
•United States to be affixed.
“Done at the city of Washington tills
IHst day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and
three, and of the independence of *he
United States, the one hundred and
twenty-eighth.
“THKODOHI3 ROOSEVELT
"By the president.
"JOHN HAY, Secretary of State."
liilnl Mine* A(*c*ld*nt.
Peoria. HI.. Nov. 2. —Three men wt*ro
killed and two injured in an accident
at the Newsam coal mine at Farming
ton Saturday. The men had been low
ered in the cage to (he bottom of the
shaft and. entering a mule ear, start
ed to ride to their work. In making
a turn near a switch the car Jumped
the track, ran into the side of an en
try, knocking down the prop. This
loos' tied a mass of slate which dropped
on the men.
Dl.n.lrr to I'liiierid I’lirly.
Charlotte, N. (J.. Nov. 2.—Four per
sons. all white, were killed instantly,
and a corpse was lorn from its coflln
by a locomotive of a southbound pas
senger train on (he Southern railway
at a point four miles from Concord
Sunday morning.
Till* I’ll Idle Held.
Washington, Nov. .1. The monthly
statement of the public debts shows
that at the close of business October 31,
I tun. the lot til debt, less cash lu the I reas
ury, amounted to 1920.402,5(11, which Is
an Increase for the month of |2,049,956.
Left Millions.
Chicago, Nov. 2. —The terms of Hie
will left by the late Senator Charles U.
Farwell, who died September 211, show
that approximately |2,000,0uu remained
, to be divided among his heirs.
SALVATION ARMY
LEADERJS KILLED
Mrs. Booth - Tucker, Daughter of
Gen. Booth, Meets Death in a
Wreck in Missouri.
DrenkinK of a Hud Throw* Four Can
Irani the Track—Mat of (he Caaual-
Hcm—Mr. Tucker I’roatrated by the
Ketva—Funerala Arc Held la Chi
ratio and >ew Turk.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 30. —On the
way home from the Salvation Army col
ony in Colorado, and expecting to meet
her husband Thursday in Chicago, Mrs.
Emma Booth-Tucker lost her life In an
accident to a Santa Fe train from Cal
ifornia. Col. T. C. Holland, a leader
in the Salvation Army at Amity, Col.,
founded by Booth-Tucker, was fatally
injured. A dozen other passengers were
hurt.
It was one of the most peculiar rail
road accidents on record, and one which
could not have been prevented by the
Santa Fe. A rod on a Pullman car
broke, and was rammed against the rails,
throwing four cars from the track.
Lived Half an Hour.
The wreck occurred at Dean Lake,
Mo., 85 miles east of this city, about ten
o'clock Wednesday night. Mrs. Booth-
Tucker lived for half an hour there
after, and passed away at Marceline,
Mo., after being taken thither on a re-
MRS BOOTH-TUCKER.
lief train. Her skull was fractured,
ami she did not regain consciousness
after the accident.
Train Slrlkr* Water Tank.
The wrecked train was the east-bound
California No. 2, which left Kansas
City Wednesday evening at six o’clock
for Chicago. The train was derailed and
struck a steel water tank, and all except
the mail and express cars and the day
coaches were wrecked. Consul Booth-
Tucker and Col. Holland were the only
occupants of one of the Pullman cars.
They were found unconscious, and for
a time it was believed that the uncon
scious man was Commander Booth-
Tucker, and in the confusion this re
port was spread.
\en I’rontratP* Mr. Tucker.
Chicago, Oct. 30.—News of Mrs.
Booth-Tucker’s death completely pros
trated Commander Tucker, who arrived
in Chicago at 7:35 a. m. Thursday, ex
pecting to meet his wife here about the
same time. Arrangements were made
at once for the reception of the body in
Chicago and for memorial services here.
It will then be taken to New York and
later may be sent to London for burial.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker left seven children,
the youngest of them being less than a
year old. They were at their home in
New York city when the news of their
mother’s death reached them.
i View the Body.
Chicago, Oct. 31.—The body of Mrs.
Emma Booth-Tucker reached Chicago
Thursday evening from the scene of
the Santa Fe wreck at Dean Lake, Mo.,
and on Friday was removed to Princess
rink, where thousands viewed the re
mains. Memorial services were held in
the evening. The body goes to New York
and will be buried in Woodlawn ceme
tery in Brooklyn.
Service*.
New York, Nov. 2. —Funeral services
over the remains of Emma Booth-
Tucker, consul of the Salvation Army
in America, were held Sunday afternoon
In Carnegie hall. The auditorium was
tilled to overflowing. The services,
which were conducted by Colonel E. J.
Higgins, chief secretary of the Salvation
Army in America, were most impressive
and consisted of a musical programme
made up of favorite songs of the dead
woman and by eulogies of her life and
of the good she had done for mankind.
After the Carnegie hall services the re
mains were taken to the Salvation Army
barracks, where the regular Sunday
night memorial services were held.
Am fill Trilled).
Pottsvllle, Pa., Nov. 3. —Worked Into
n frenzy as a result of an altercation
with one of his brothers, Benjamin
Franklin Welsslnger, living on the farm
several miles from this city, yesterday
afternoon shot and killed his two broth
< rs, attempted to kill his sister and asls
ler-ln-law, and held a large posse of po
licemen at bay for nine hours before he
was captured.
Hunks <o Mrriir.
Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 31. —Three of the
oldest and most conservative national
banks in Pittsburgh have decided to
merge their Interests into one financial
Institution. The three are the Bank of
Pittsburg, the Merchants and Manufac
turers’ national bank and the Iron City
national bank. They will be consoli
dated under the name of the Venerable
Bank of Pittsburg.
K.lpvrn Indicted.
Belleville, 111., Nov. 3.—The St. Clair
county grand jury adjourned yesterday
afternoon after a long and busy session,
returning 11 secret Indictments against
persons believed by the grand jury to
have participated in the lynching of the
negro school teacher, David Wyatt, last
June.
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Locked I'p a Year.
John Wlltberg has cleared up the
mystery of his year's disappearance by
saying that his wife had kept him a pris
oner in his own house to cure him of
the liquor habit. His friends were as
tounded when he reappeared on the
streets in Hayton. His imprisonment
began with his own consent, and now he
is glad he was confined alone in a room
for a year, for he If, the picture of
health and has lost his craving for drink.
Wlltberg is a farmer.
Robbery Prevented.
Cashier John A. Pratt of the Citizen’s
state bank in Menominee, frustrated
burglars who early in the morning at
tempted to steal the funds. After fail
ing to break into the bank the burglars
went to the home of Mr. Pratt and
tried to induce him to come out of
doors. Mr. Pratt opened fire on the
men and they fled. It is believed the
thieves wore local men.
ChnrKPd with Porßcry.
A woman claiming to be Mrs. Evelyn
M. Sherwood, formerly of Boston. Mass.,
and Harrisburg, Pa., was arrested in
Racine, charged with having issued and
passed forged checks. Mrs. Sherwood
says she went to Racine for the purpose
of opening a branch jewelry store for a
New York firm. She gave several mer
chants checks on eastern banks, which
were afterward pronounced to be worth
less. ,
IliNtorlc IliiildliiK Burned.
Fire destroyed one of the oldest build
ings in Green Bay and with it papers
giving the most correct account of the
early fur trade in Wisconsin. The
building was the old Grignon residence,
built by Judge John Lawe in 1882. It
was occupied by David Grignon, a grand
son, whose grandmother was a sister
of John Quincy Adams.
Cietu Fourteen Venn*.
The jury in Superior brought in a ver
dict finding the 16-year-old slayer of
Howard C. Gilbert guilty of murder in
the second degree. He was recommended
to the mercy of court. Judge Smith im
mediately gave him the lowest sentence
possible under the verdict, 14 years in
the state prison at Waupun.
Urt I.hphp Sum.
When the Superior post office wa*
opened for business at seven o’clock the
other morning the large vault was found
to have been rifled of practically the en
tire supply of stamps, amounting to be
tween $15,000 and $15,500. About SIOO
in fractional silver was also secured.
I*ulp Milt lliirneit.
The White River pulp mill, eight miles
south of Ashland, was completely de
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $50,-
000; partly Insured. George Danielson,
of Neenah, owned the plant, which was
the only wood pulp mill in northern Wis
consin in active operation.
Tin* lV>w ('onAetiNfd.
Charles Ross, a La Crosse soldier,
has returned home after serving three
years in the Philippines.
Because her father would not allow
her to go to a dance, Stella Pearl, 15-
year-old daughter of William Pearl, a
farmer residing near Janesville, drank
half the contents of a two-ounce bot
tle of silver polish and died.
Breese J. Stevens, a regent of the
University of Wisconsin and a promi
nent lawyer, died at Madison.
Theodore Huerfurth, a pioneer insur
ance man, was found dead in his bed
at Madison, having succumbed to heart
failure.
Jack Simplot, a former constable of
the town of Brockway, was sentenced
to state’s prison for two years for per
jury as a witness in the trial of a crim
inal action.
Louis Tice, a farmer aged about 28
years, committed suicide at Omro by
hanging.
Allen Rusk and wife observed their
sixtieth wedding anniversary at Vlro
qua.
Frederick Kraus, aged 60 years, a
veteran maltster and a former member
of the Kraus-Merkle Malting company,
died in Milwaukee.
For the third time since 1900 the res
idents of Homer and vicinity are agi
tated over a Quest for hidden treasure
which is supposed to be buried in one
of the caves in the bluffs.
Ernest Petersen, the mechanic whoas
saultod Minnie Johnson at Racine,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
the state’s prison for 18 months.
Henry Heint/.klll, who was hunting
with his two brothers, aged nine and
eleven years, in Outagamie county,
fired his shotgun loaded with small
shot at a black bear, killing it In
stantly.
The Ta Phi fraternity at Lawrence
university initiated two candidates by
hobbling them togther and driving
them through the streets in grotesque
costumes.
Judge Heck, of Racine, decided to
appoint a guardian for William Eller,
80 years old, a pioneer worth $20,000.
the application having b(*en made by
his children on the ground that he was
Incompetent.
Levi Full wller was killed by a thresh
ing engine at Oranton.
A. R. Hlnkley, probably the only man
in Waukesha county still living on his
homestead, celebrated his ninety-third
birthday at Eagle.
Julius Luedtke. of Harrison, near
Appleton, who recently mailed to Pres
ident Roosevelt a picture of himself
and wife and their family of 15 living
children, has received from President
Roosevelt a brief congratulatory let
ter,
The J I. Cart Plow Works at Racine
closed three weeks ago for repairs and
Inventory, have resumed work, giving
employment to 590 men who have
idle.
MAINE'S POTATO FARMERS.
Pratique Isle Remarkable (or Ita Yield
of Tuber*—Clover (be Alter
nate Crop Railed,
The regulation farm lot in Maine la
160 acres, but the ease with whlbh
large areas of smooth land can be
cultivated by means of modern, im
proved machinery tends to a habit of
expansion, says the National Magazine.
Within reasonable limits, the bigger
the farm the more economically and
profitably it can be operated. Hence
we find la Presque Isle the average
acreage approximating 200, and a large
percentage of farms ranging from this
figure to 400 and even 500 acres. Po
tatoes, Aroostook’s staple, are found
here in fields ranging from 20 to 100
acres, often yielding over 100 barrels
to the acre, and since he has caught on
to the knack of rotating clover with
potatoes, the Presque isle farmer is
able to alternate great fields between
hay and potatoes, so as to raise and
sell an immense volume of both sta
ples, and at the same time actually to
increase the strength and fertility of
his farm. For the past three years it
is a very unpretentious Presque Isle
farm that has not yielding profits total
ing $3,000, while many have run as
high as SIO,OOO and $12,000. Making
all due allowance for operating ex
penses. there is a margin left that has
made these farms a veritable gold
mine; and it is no wonder that, after
providing himself and family with
ample comforts,"and such luxuries as
are indicated by pianos, elegant furni
ture, rubber-tired carriages, fine dilv
ing horses, etc., these farmers still
have good, fat bank accounts to their
credit.
TWO MILES A MINUTE.
Several American Ha I Iron tin Have
Mmle Thai Itrmarkable Record—
Mental Strain on UiiKiueera.
The fact that a speed of 106.8 miles
an hour has been reached on the Zos
sen experimental road in Germany is
interesting, but the engineers In
charge are In error If they think that
ibis is (he highest speed ever attained,
says the New York World. More than
20 years ago a steam engine and car
attached, both of light construction,
were driven at over 100 miles on hour
on a single rail “saddle-back” road
built by Capt. J. V. Meigs at Boston.
Ten years ago the Empire State ex
press ran a mile at the cate of 112.5
miles an hour. Two years ago a train
on the Plant system in Florida ran
live miles in two minuter and 30 sec
onds, equivalent to 120 miles an hour.
Some experts think that while there
is no mechanical difficulty in the way
of running trains at the rale of 100
miles an hour or more, no engineer
will be able to stand the strain of such
a speed without a nervous breakdown.
But with a thoroughly protected track,
free from grade crossings, with noth
ing to disturb the mind, and with vi
brations reduced to a minimum, It may
be found that a train can be run at
two miles a minute with less mental
tension than is caused by half that
speed to-day—when a speck on the
track a mile away may develop within
CO seconds into a wagouload of peo
ple.
IN TORNADO FORMATION.
llank> Mutated in Funnel Shape to
I’roleot Weak Member*—l*cr
liapit t aUK hi lu Storm.
A curious spectacle was witnessed
here one afternoon recently, according
to a St. John (N. li.) dispatch to the
New York Sun. Promeuaders in
the park heard shrieking overhead, and,
looking up, found a great funnel
shaped cloud of hawks overshad
owing them. There were several hun
dred of the birds, and all were sailing
around some Imaginary center in cir
cling layers one above the other. The
lowest stratum was only about 150 feet
from the ground, the topmost as far
away as the eye could reach.
Independently of their centrifugal mo
tion, the birds were going evidently by
force of the wind, in a northeasterly di
rection, which promised soon to take
them out over the Atlantic. 'I hey ap
peared to be moving by some concerted
agreement, sweeping about with the
greatest ease, occasionally giving ut
terance to the only cry of which they
are capable. One surmise of the curi
ous formation was that a Hock of mi
grating haw'ks had found itself in the
heart of a storm, and had been rolled up
by the wind, which rotated in the form j
of a tornado; or possibly It was for
the protection of the weaker members
of the flock that they elected to travel
to another country in this curious fash
ion.
Automobile DuM Trlnlo.
One of the features of the reliability
trials by the London Automobile club at
the Crystal palace was a dust “trial.”
At three points in the banked-up cir
cular cycle track half the roadway was
covered. with an inch layer of flournlll
sweepings. One automobile acted as
pilot to the competing car, in order that
the speed, which was approximately 20
mil s an hour, might be gauged, and as
the competing car flew through the flour
two cameras recorded the cloud of
“dust.” The lesson taught by the dust ,
trials was that the lower and more cum-j
bersome the gear and boxes under the
body of the car the greater Is the dust ;
raised,
Pnlnre Cara.
Palace and sleeping cars go back only
to the close of the civil war, the alr-Jj
brake to 1868, end vestlbuled trains to
1886.
Phonovrnph That Mhonti.
A phonograph that sirnuU so loudly
that every w'ord can be heard at a dis
tance of ten miles has been tested at
Ttrtahf nn.