PRICE 2c{™-:.
Indications Last Night Were That a
Few More Marion Miners
Would Certainly Come Out This
Morning, But No One W illinpr to
Predict a General Strike Deb>
Addressed Three Meetings, Yes
terday, and Missed a Fourth
Through a Misunderstanding.
Striking Miners Slept at the Mon
tana Mines, Last Night and Will
Try to Keep the Men from Work
This Morning —The General
a lion.
il to the Register.
iLinnont. W. Ya., July 2o.—This
been an active and eventful day
mghout the Fairmont mining re
1, and yet to-night it is very uncer
what will result to-morrow. That
[me of the miners wiH refuse to go to
is certain. How many will do
W is very uncertain. Even those who
re watching the situation most closely
at a loss to determine the situation
accurately, except that all agree that
the number of men now out will he in
creased. This afternoon, as showing
the determination of the strikers, about
sixty Monongah men walked to the
Montana mines, a distance of ten or
eleven miles, in the hot sun, and ar•
sleeping under the stars to-night near
the mouth of the mine, ready to meet
the workmen in the morning and Induce
them to auit work If possible.
Debs put ia a hard day of campaign
ing. and to-night is much the worse
for his labor in the sun. He intended
to leave for Wheeling in the morning,
but will defer his visit until afternoon*
I at least, as he has arranged for a meet
\ ing at the New England mine before
noon. He first spoke this morning to
the men at the Worthington mine,
where he had a good crowd and met
with a hearty welcome and an interested
audience. At one o’clock this after
noon he went to the New England mine,
where a meeting had been arranged,
but through a misunderstanding but few
people were present, the impression at
the mine having been that three o’clock
was the hour. At that time there was
quite a large audience, but Debs had
gone on his route. He next spoke at
the Montana mine, at 4 p. m., standing
in the road, in the full glare of the
for an hour and a half. As this
audience was gathering the mine su
perintendents intercepted the men on
the way to the meeting and openly told
them that If they attended they could
not go to work at the mine again.
A considerable number of the men went
to hear Debs, just the same, and by
*o doing have probably earned their dis
charge.
To-night Debs said the meetings had
not been as satisfactory as he had ex
pected. owing to the efforts of the mine
owners and other adverse influences,
and added that he would be surprised
if there was a general strike of the men
in the morning, while admitting that
the matter was one hard to predict.
That tLe men In the Luther mine will
come out is certain, and some other
small mines will likely follow suit, but
that is about as far as certainty goes.
The men previously out will remain
idle, and are fighting hard for the
caup of the strike.
MaMife left for the Clarksburg field
JP at two (jTftJW Jtiis afternoon to join
' Rea In the effort Mo get the men of that
I district organiztfll and out.
* The general situation is quiet to-day,
but everybody As awaiting the develop
ments of to-m/brrow with deep interest.
AT/CLARKSBURG.
SC
Pecting Wa«a Big Su-**e«*
Strike Predicted.
Clarksrfurg. W. Va., July 25.—The
rainers^meeting advertised for to-day
has^"jfroved a grea*. cess from the
_ers' standpoint. . On every train
Ires of miners are*' At 7 o'clock
nlaht about flv* v.ured miners
d double the nui r of citizens were
the place of meeting. J. W. <ea. of
icago. vice president of the Painters
„d Decorators’ Union, opened the
meeting and spoke of the benefits de
prived from organized labor. He was
well received and spoke for two hours.
After Rea spoke W. D. Mahon, presi
dent of the Nattional Street Car Un
ion. spoke for two hours. He stated
that if this strike was lost it would be
on account of the West Virginia min
ers and that a general boycott would
be declared against West Virginia coal
in the future by all organizations of
labor in the Unted States. Over one
hundred men said they would join the
union and a meeting will be held on
Monday. There is no doubt but that j
all will go out by Tuesday. Mr. Mahon
says forty national organizations will i
be represented at Wheeling on Tues
day, and that action will be taken that
will cause a settlement at once or a j
general strike will be called for.
GOV. ATKINSON
pcnle* That the Right of Free Speech Hat j
Itcen Interfered With.
Charleston. W. Va.. July 25.—Gov
ernor Atkinson's attention was called j
to-night to the charge made by the
strike organizers that free speech was j
I not allowed in West Virginia. The
Governor said:
' .-jt is not true that any municipality
L west Virginia has interfered with
labor organizations in any shape. All
organisers who have come into this
city been allowed the greatest lib
1 of labor to organize for mutual ad
vancement.
“I have received a copy of the reso
lution passed by a labor orgaaization
In Washington. D. C., in which I am
denounced as a coward and my action
blood-thirsty. The action of the Wash
ington organization is contemptible
because it has not one scintilla of truth
upon which to base it.”
BIG MEETING AT CLARKSBURG.
Special to th- rtegisicr.
Clarksburg. W. Va., July 25.—Rea
and Mahone addressed a meeting of
about eight hundred in the east end
of Clarksburg at 7:30 p. m. About 200
miners from near by mines were pres
ent. There was good order and a good
deal of enthusiasm among the miners.
There will be a strong effort made to
organize a general strike Monday. An
other meeting will be held Monday
evening.
SIXTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS
i At the Pittsburg Union Station, at Mid
night. Waiting Orders—Another March
On I'anonsbarg.
I Pittsburg. Pa., July 25.^Sixty depu
I ty sheriffs have been ordered out, and
I are now (midnight) at the Union Star
I tion awaiting orders to move. Their
! destination is kept a profound secret;
; but it is supposed they are to be sent
to the mines of the New* \ork and
i Cleveland Gas Coal Company, in anti
I ci pat ion of any raid that may be made,
i But as the strikers’ officials declare
that the contemplated march ha9 been
abandoned, no conflict is expected.
Another march on Canonsburg was
begun to-night. A big meeting of the
miners was held at Reissing at 3 o’clock
j this afternoon. They were informed
i that the Allison mine intended to re
I sume work this morning, and in a
j very short time it was decided to make
■ another tramp across the country and
j reinforce the 100 strikers that have
! been on guard.
I ney will rtnwm uum t ucouaj
morning. There was a great hurrying
to and fro in all the mining settlements
in that section before the sun went
down. Every man decided to take two
days' rations along. Women, as has
i been the case during the present strike,
were among the most active agititrrs.
They advised their husbands and sweet
hearts to take another irksome tramp
I across the country, in order that their
j condition^ might be bettered.
Before evening more than 500 deter
mined men from Cecil. Kelssing and
Bridgeville were mobilized at»Bridge
, ville. Shortly after 7 o’clock they start
ed on the march, with the American
flag at their head. Nearly all of the
men carried a dinner pall, and they
' looked like a regiment of tollers going
• to work.
The whole country side along the
! line of march turned out to witness the
sight. They reached the Allison mine
about 10 o’clock and made the best of
their quarters.
Nothing was done in the way of ar
bitration to-day. The commissioners
rested, and expect to accomplish con
siderable during to-morrow. They will
endeavor to enlist more of the river
operators, and have every reason to
hope that they will “be successful.
Later: It was learned that the dep
uties were supplied with Winchester
rifles and dispatched to the New York
and Cleveland Company mines. The
request for deputies, it is said, came
from Mr. DeArmitt. who received word
from a scout that a large body of men
were marching towards the mines,
coming from the direction of McKees
port and the Youghiogheny district.
Nothing more definite than the above
is known here.
A WARNING FROM KANSAS.
Operators Must Not Try to Ship Coal Into
Strike Territory.
Pittsburg. Kansas, July 25.—A lead
ing labor man who is national president
of one of the greatest labor organiza
tions in the United States, said to-day:
"The operators must not think they
can smuggle coal out of Kansas to go
into strike territory. It is one of the
doctrines of organized labor that when
ever one set of men commence to do
work that is to the injury of organized
labor, the work becomes scab work.
The miners of Southern Kansas are
union men. As long as they mine coal
for Kansas and territory which they
have been accustomed to supply, they
are occupying neutral ground and are
not interfering. When they mine coal
to be used in territory usually supplied
by miners who are striking, they be
come in the eyes of organized labor
what we call scabs. It makes no differ
ence if the Burlington coal, which was
transferred in Kansas City a few days,
was for the use of the Burlington or
to be furnished to other railroads. If
it is used by the Burlington in territory
that has been supplied from points in
Illinois, where there is a strike, the
coal was non-union coal as soon as it
got into strike territory.”
THE KANSAS SITUATION.
Illinois Strikers Ritre Sent Delegates Into
the state.
Pittsburg. Kansas. July 25.—The
mine operators at yesterday's confer- |
ence claimed they had unmistakable j
evidence that the Illinois strikers had '
sent about fourteen delegates here to j
agitate a strike in all of the important j
mines. The delegates come quietly
and deal with the delegates selected by
the several mines to the convention
only. «
The strong argument the agitators ■
used with the Kansas miners was that
Kansas holds the key to the situation I
outward; that if Kansas went out the
railroads would bring the operators to
time.
Operators say that it will make no
difference whether Kansas with only
10,000 miners, goes out or stays in, but
the miners see in their extra work and
storing of coal that is going on. a de
sire on the part of the operators tq
fortify themselves against a strike. Th
are also suspicious that coal from Kt
sas mines is to be smuggled into s;r#ke
territory.
THE GOSPEL WAGON.
Rev. B. C. Bartlebaugh hel4 forth
in the gospel wagon on the drounds
at the ^heeling & Lake Erie Jbt&tion
lasj night, to a laree crowd^A choir
occupied the wa*on n\.
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Two Heavily Loaded Coaches of an
Excursion Train
Went Through a Trestle, Near
Marietta, Last Night-Over One
Hundred Men, Women and Child*
ren Went Down in the Wreck.
Ihe L'st of Those Seriously Hurt.
Special to the Register.
Marietta, Ohio, July 25.—The two
! rear coaches of a special excursion train
' of the Zanesville and Ohio River rail
road crashed through Fearing trestle,
five miles north of this city, at ten
o’clock to-night. The cars fell a dis
tance of twenty feet, and turned up
side down in a corn field. The train
consisted of four coaches loaded with
| two hundred people, returning from
! Zanesville, and was running forty miles
! an hour. Over a hundred men, women
and children went down in the crash,
| but, miraculous though it appears, not
j one was killed. The seriously injured
! are:
William Ketter, four ribs torn loose
from spine.
Miss Nellie Purdy, leg broken, and
seriously cut about the head.
Mrs. Clause, arm broken, and other
j wise bruised.
John Trautman, spine seriously in
■■ jured.
i Mrs. Fremont Ranger, Mrs. Will
Cross, M. V. Dewards, Fred Wehrs,'
j David Gerkin and E. Ryan, all severely
I cut and bruised.
Both wrecked coaches took fire, and
1 one was entirely consumed, but every
' passenger escaped, being scorched by
i crawling out of the debris. ^d rail
road men stand aghast at the horrify
ing nature of the accident, and at the
i small number hurt.
I By Associated Press.
Marietta, Ohio, July 25.—As an ex
cursion train was returning from
Zanesville, Ohio,.at 9:45 to-night the
trestle-work over a bottom land, three
and a half miles from Marietta, gave
I way and two of the four coaches were
precipitated to a cornfield below. The
coaches were filled with people, but by
a miracle no one was killed. About J
I fifteen persons were badly injured and
all were more or less bruised. Miss
Nellie Purdy, of this city, was injured
in the breast and will probably die. j
One of the coaches took fire and some
of the passengers were singed and had j
their clothes burned before they could
I escape. All the injured were brought
to the city to-night.
WERE FOUND DEAD.
Patrick Sullivan and His Pretty j
Cousin Asphyxiated by Gas in a
Bed Room of a Road House.
New York, July 25.—At a small ho
tel in West Chester village, on the
northeastern boundary of the city, |
I Patrick Sullivan, twenty-five years old, j
and his pretty first cousin, Annie Sul- |
livan, were found dead this morning. |
They had been asphyxiated by ilia- j
minating gas, but whether the pair j
had committed suicide, were accident- j
ally smothered, or the young man de
j liberately killed his sweetheart and
then himself, the police, coroner and.,
i relatives of the dead are thus far un- !
able to say. The manner of their tak- j
j ing off will probably never be satis- ;
factorily explained. Vhe cousins had
grown up together and lately became j
engaged* to be mar *ied. The father
declared the marriage impossible. The ,
village priest was consulted, and he
declared that the C jurch would never
sanction such a u'lion. The young
couple seemingly blwed to this decis- ,
ion, ana alter uiui.iuey writ; uui
much together. Stiurday evening Miss
Sullivan left hot)# for a short vaca
tion. Whether b'i accident or design
she met her cousti Patrick, and after
walking about fcf a time they finally
stopped at Marti*f Ritz’s little hotel, at
West Chester Sullivan, who was well
acquainted with the proprietor of the
road house, said that he and his cousin
had just been married and that they
were going to leave the place on ac
count of trouble it would cause in the
two families. Ritz knew the couple
well, and on Sullivan’s statement con
sented to give them a room for the
night. It was a dingy apartment, and
this morning when the smell of gas
was discovered the Sullivans were
found asphyxiated in the windowless
room. The {young woman lay dead
upon the bed. » She was fully dressed.
Sullivan’s corpse was stretched on the
floor alongside [the bed. He was also
fully dressed. .The gas bracket was
broken, and wjhen the door was forced,
a chair which/ had been fastened under
the knob tor/ a time resisted pressure
from the qjgTside.
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a Building burned.
Sneciaj^T the Register.
HiJflh. W. Va.. July 25.—The home
of JKlter Cottle, on laurel creek,
wa*^Ktroved by fire at an early hour
th;^Smiorning. It was a total loss.
rCottle came very near being burn
Ito death, and escaped only in her
tht clothes.
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ALMOST A LYNCHING.
ST. LOl’IS. Mo.. July 25.-George Her
man. who has charge of a ticket broker's
office opposite the union depot, was fatal
ly shot to-night by a negro named Mat
thew Hancock. The latter went into the
ticket office and demanded money and
when it was refused shot Herman five
times with a revolver. A crowd of cabbies
and other hangers-on about the station
started after him with the Intention of
Ivnching him. but he was finally rescued
by the rclcc and locked up at the Four
Courts.
LONG DISTANCE RIDING,
The Bib© Corps of tb« Twenty-Fifth In
fantry Completes a Remarkable Trip.
St. Louis, Mo., July 25—The Twen
ty-fifth United States Infantry bicycle
corps, which reached this city last
night, completing their 2,000 mile run
from Fort Missula, Montana, in forty
days, thirty-five of which were actu
ally spent on the road, are encamped
at Forest Park. Despite the rain that
fell last night and this afternoon,
thousands of people visited the troop
ers at the park.
In an interview Lieutenant Moss
said:
“The trip has proved beyond perad
venture my contention that the bicy
cle has a place in modern warfare. In
every kind of weather, over all sorts
of roads, we averaged fifty miles a day.
At the end of the journey we were all
in good physical condition.
“Seve®teen tires and a dozen broken
frameslis the sum of our damage. The
practical result of the trip shows that
an army bicycle corps can travel twice
as fast as cavalry or infantry under
any conditions and at one-third the
cost. I am not sure whether we will
return on our wheels or not, but will
know as soon as orders are received
from Washington.”
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A BAD RECORD.
Six Murders In Three Months at I’nlty,
Pa.
Pittsburg, Pa.. July 25. — Another
murder at Unity, on the Pittsburg,
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, a few
miles above the city, occurred this af
ternoon, when Thomas Carney and
George Young (both colored) were
playing “craps.” Carney had lost all
of his money, and to get even drew his
revolver and put three bullets into
Young’s body. One ball entered his
right eye, another his neck, and the
third tore its way into the abdomen.
This completes a record of six mur
ders at this little village during the
past three months.
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PRECEDENCE
Among Army and Navy Officars the
Subject of au Opinion Just Rend
ered by the Attorney General of
United States. .
Washington, July 25.—An echo of the
coronation ceremony, which led to so
much correspondence on such subjects
as diplomatic uniforms, court prjceed
ure and matters of precedence in offi
cial ceremonies, is found in an opinion
just rendered by tie Attorney General
touching the respective rights of vol
unteer and regular army and navy of
ficers to wear >he uniforms of the
highest rank which they attained dur
ing the rebellion. Col. John J. Mc
Cook, who represented the United
States army, and Capt. G. H. A'ad
leigh, the representative of the United
States navy at the coronation, l:sd
some difficulty over the question of
precedence, growing out of the fact
that McCook claimed the lead by vir
tue of his high volunteer rank as
shown by his uniform. Minister
Breckinridge sustained the army offi
cer, and the State Department was
obliged to call upon the War and Navy
Departments for their construction of
the statute granting officers the right
to bear the rank and wear the uniform
of their highest volunteer rank. The
direcf issue was presented in a recent
application of James T. Farrell, brevet
major of United States volunteers, and
late captain of the Fifth New York
heavy artillery. The two departments
were unable to agree upon the matter,
and it was referred to the Attorney
General. The latter has decided that
only ex-officers may wear suen uni
forms and bear such rank. In other
words, no officer at present on the
army rolls can wear the uniform of
the volunteer rank, but persons who
were honorably mustered out of the
volunteer service and who have no
army connection now, may wear it on
occasions of ceremony.
This is in line with the former con
struction given to the law by the War
Department, but it appeared that the
practice was about to be reversed,
which would have been a severe blow
to many thousands of volunteer offi
cers.
THE REVOLT CONTINUES.
Spain Will Never Be Able toSopp;e»* the
rhilllpine Rebellion.
SAN* FRANCISCO. July 23.-Among the
passengers on the steamer China, from the
Orient, was H. D. Levinson, the represen
tative in New Zealand of one of the larg
est cigar factories in Manila. Mr. Lev
inson has just come from Manila, where
he says the insurrection of the natives is
still in progress.
From present indications and from what
I can learn during my sojourn in Manila.”
he said, "the Spanish authorities will nev
er be.abie to subdue the insurrectionists.
It is a common report in Manila that the
papers are ^ot allowed to print the truth.
They are all under a press censorship.
BURIED YESTERDAY.
SAVANNAH. Ga., July 25.—General La
fayette McLaws, the oldest Confederate
Major General but one. was buried to
day with military honors.
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WILL FIGHT TO THE END.
Madrid. July 25.—It is stated that
General Maximo Gomez, the leader of
the Cuban Insurgents, has reaffirmed
his determination not to accept a com
promise with the government, hut to
adhere for his* demand for the absolute
independence of Cuba.
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IRON TO BE SHIPPED.
Lebannon, Pa.,July 25.—Orders have
been received from the Lackawanna
Iron and Steel Company, of Scranton,
for the shipment to that place of all
the first-class pig iron at Colebrook
furnaces. Thousands of tons of iron
are piled at the furnaces and It Is be
ing shipped as fast as possible.
An Immense Crowd at Seattle, Yes
terday,
To See the Steamer City of Mexico
Off With Two Hundred and
Eighty Passengers on Board.
The Steamer Has One Thousand
Eight Hundred Tons of Freight
and Forty-Eight Horses — An
other Steamer Chartered.
Seattle, July 25.—No greater crowd
ever assembled on the wharves of Se
attle than that which witnessed the
departure of the steamer City of Mex
ico for Dyea this morning. On the
Mexico were two hundred and eighty
three passengers, who left to seek their
fortunes in the Klondyke. The adver
tised time of sailing was nine o’clock,
but it was considerably after twelve
o’clock before she left. Long before
that time the wharf was completely
blocked with people who were on hand
to witness the departure, and the crowd
spread out along the wharves and
decks to the north for nearly a mile.
At a conservative estimate there were
fully 8,000 people on the wharves,
twice as many as had assembled to bid
adieu to any preceding steamer, show
ing that insteas^f abating, the Klon
dyke fever i^hore virulent than ever.
In addition ^o her passengers, the
Mexico carried 1,800 tons of freight,
consisting almost entirely of outfits of
gold seekers. She has on board forty
eight horses to be used in packing the
supplies over the Chilcot Pass from
Dyea to Lake Linderman.
ANOTHER STEAMER CHARTERED
Seattle, Wash., July 25—The steam
ers Rosalie and Edith have been cha
tered by Frank E. Burns to make trips
to Dyea and Skagaway, leaving here
July 31st. The Rosalie will carry 200
passengers with their freight, while
the Edith will carry seventy-five head
of horses. It Is intended to have the
vessels return in twelve days for an
other voyage. Should the business
justify, the Rosalie may be continued
permanently on the run. Fares are
the same as established by the compa
nies now carrying passengers to these
points.
GEN. RIVERA
Has Completely Hecovered from Ills
Wound*.
Havana*. July .25.—General Rius Ri
vera. the insurgent leader who succeed
ed Antonio Maceo in Pinar del Rio,
' and who, with his chief of staff, Col.
Bacalloa, was captured in March last,
after having been seriously wounded,
has recovered from the effects of his
wounds and the illness from which he
suffered. He was removed from the
hospital to the Cabanas Fortress to
day. General Rivera, according to of
ficials, expressed himself well satis
fied with the treatment he received
while in the hospital.
It was found not necessary to per
form an operation of the removal of t he
| tumor from which General Rivera suf
! fered.
A NOTED HOTEL
Of the Summer Resort Variety Total
ly Destroyed by Fire, Yesterday.
How Some Property Was Saved.
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Utica. N. Y., July 25.—Fire soon af
ter midnight this morning almost com
pletely destroyed the Spring House, at
Ritchfield Springs, only a small part of
the western corner being left standing.
The fire broke out in the landing. At
the time there were 160 guests in the
house, seventy of them from New York
and Philadelphia, ond one hundred
employes of the hotel. Every person
In the building, as far as known, es
caped. The night before the hotel*was
the scene of one of the season s most
brilliant hops, which broke up at mid
night.
An nour iaier iue
heard. The flames progressed slowly
through the various parts of the hotel,
and except the employes who occupied
quarters in the vicinity of the laundry^
everybody had ample time to get out.
As usual in such cases, many of the
guests saved their less valuable pos
sessions, carrying out band boxes and
leaving their jewelry and money be
hind. Rev. George' Reynolds went
through the hastily vacated rooms and
literally flHed his pockets with money,
watches, diamonds and jewelry of all
kinds. Frank Vandever found eleven
pocket books that had been left behind
by their owners. They found claim
ants for most of the property.
Few persons will leave Richfield on
account of the fire. It is probable that
T R. Proctor, the proprietor of the
hotel, will replace the burned structure
with a brick building. The loss is es
timated at $200,000; insurance, $73,000.
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CUT TO PIECES.
Special to the Register.
Washington, Pa., July 25.—About
half-past two o’clock this afternoon,
while Cambell Warren, aged about 20
years, was attempting to board a freight
train, running thirty miles an hour,
to go to Claysville to see a lady friend,
he missed his footing and fel! under the
wheels, and was literally cut to pieces,
his remains being gathered up in a
bucket. Warren was a noted freight
jumper, often traveling that way.
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A RECORD BROKEN.
St Cloud. Minn., July 25.—James H.
Maybury. a local sprinter, ran 150
yards yesterday in 14 2-5 seconds, re
ducing the world's record one-fifth of
a second. The track was In bad con
dition, but he accomplishejMhe work
with seemingly slight e;e
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT
Which Caused the I>eath of .!»». B. Camp
bell. of Chester, P*.
CHESTER, Ja.. July 2S.-James B.
Campbell, ex-city clerk of Chester, was
killed this afternoon by a most peculiar ac
cident. He was one of a party standing
on the government pier awaiting the Wil
mington. Del., passenger steamboat. A
steam tug which was lying at the pier,
with a hawser attached to a post, began
to move and the hawser slipped over the
top of the post and whirling through the
air, caught Campbell under the chin. The
rope encircled itself tightly about his
neck, lifted the unfortunate man ten feet
in the air and then dropped him on the
pier. His neck was broken and he was
found to be dead when the horror strick
en spectators ran to assist him.
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SHOT TWO BOYS,
1 And Came Very Nearly Being Lynched in
Return.
Chicago, July 25.—James O'Donnell,
who lives the life of a recluse, shot into
a crowd of small boys who were play
i ing ball near his home, this afternoon.
Thomas Good, aged twelve, and Frank
Spears, aged eight, colored, were bad
ly wounded. Spears will probably die.
As soon as the shooting became known,
an angry mob of neighbors surround
ed O’Donnell's home, where he had
hidden. The timely arrival of a patrol
wagon saved his life, but by a narrow
margin, as the mob surrounded the
wagon and the officers were forced to
tight to protect their prisoner. O'Don
nell said the boys annoyed him with
their noise.
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A HUMAN FIEND
Who Has Been Mutilating (attic and
Hornes, Near Steubenville.
Special to the Register.
Steu^ato’ille. Ohio. July 25.—The
farmers^^^ Knox and Island Creek
townships t\e arranging to hire - -tec
tive to discoKir the identity of some
human fiend whc> has been mutilating
cattle and horses hanging to Spencer
and David Walker, two farmers of
| Knox township. The W.’lkers lost two
valuable horses, who died, in some un
accountable way at night, and It is
thought they were poisoned. A few
days ago a flne*milch cow had^^r* ud- I
der and teats slit after night. Arout a 1
week before two other cows wereVterv
ed in the same way. The farmers\vho
are thus hnrrassed are at a loss to
know who are the parties, as they uo ]
not know of an enemy of theirs. Some ,
are of the opinion that a man who has
a mania for the commission of such
acts is doing the work.
TOOK HIS LIFE.
! Because He Failed to Pass an Exami
nation at the College of the City of
New York-A Boy’s Pitiable End.
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New York, July 25—Benjamin Si
mon, a 14-year-old school boy; who at
an early age aspired to he a lal>or
agitator, drowned himself In the Hud
son Saturday night because he tailed
to pass an examination at the college
of the city of New York, being deficient
in drawing. His body was recovered
to-day. Before committing suicide,
the lad mailed this note to his home:
“My Dear Parents—I notify you that
I will commit suicide. The reasons are
that I had no opportunity to carry out
my resolution to study on account of
our circumstances. I have but few re
grets that I must part with the world
at such an age. The most important
is that I have not held my resolution
to agitate among the working masses
for their emancipation from wage
slavery by the overthrow of the capi
talistic system and for the establish
ment of the co-operative common
wealth advocated by the Socialist La
bor party. I am grieved at the idea
that you will grieve, although the hand
that wrote it will then be cold and
still. The resolution to commit sui
cide. though long delayed, will at last
be executed. I cannot write more;
my hand is trembling, but if you want
to do the last request of your son, who
is now dead to you and the whole
world, grieve not. I am wholly pre
pared to die the death I myself have
sentenced.
“Your son. *
“BENJAMIN SIMON.”
Overstudy doubtless affected the
boy’s brain.
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ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
New York. July 25—The steamer El
Rio. Captain Quick, from New Orleans
July 21, with merchandise, clearing
the jetty end at South Hass at 2: :40 p.
m., New Orleans time, passed Scotland
Light at 3:17 New York time, this af
ternoon, making the run from bar to
bar in three days, twenty-three hours
and thirty-seven minutes, and from
dock to quarantine four days, six hours
and fourteen minutes, breaking all rec
ords. The best previous record from
bar to bar—four days, two hours and
ten minutes, was made by the steamer
El Norte on April 27, 189<5. •
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THE “DRYS" ARE VERY ACTIVE.
Topeka. Kas.. July 25.—Renewed ac
tivity in the effort to enforce the pro
hibitory law is being manifested
throughout the State. Temperance!
people have become alarmed over the
boldness of the Jointists. and are stir
ring up the officials to suppress the vio
lators. Judge Guthrie, who has been
keeping a close tab on the temperance
situation In the State, says f 'at the
wave of prohibitory law enfor^ment
is very likely to Increase until th\run
ning of saloons, except possibly iA the
large cites, will become a hazardous
undertaking. \
ONE KILLED—TEN WOUNDED. •
Punxsutawney, ^*a., July 25. —
boiler explosion last evening in the
lumber mill of Kipp 4c £iser, at Cor
tez. killed Pete Duff and seriously In
jured ten others. The mill Is badly
wrecked. A fourteen foot piece .of a
Bixteen foot boiler was blown a dis
tance of 400 feet. Two hundred men
will be thrown out of employment
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GETTING BETTER.
London. July 25.—Madame Lillian
Nordlca, the prima donna/ who baa
been seriously 111 at the -dote! Savoy
*Q£ layer*! wcrz^ig qpoy4leac*afc sj
I
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flfRMfpMB
With a Very Rimarkable Family as
a Result.
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One Thirteen. Year Old Daushtet
Weighs T384 Pounds, a Son of
Nine 380 Pounds, While a Baby
Daughter Tips the Beam at 246
Pounds—A Strange g-ory from
Wayne County.
Special to the Register.
Huntington, W. Va., July 25.—
About fifteen miles from Wayne C. H.,
on the banks of G ragstone creek, one
of the tributaries of the Big Sandy, is
the home of Joseph Davis, one of the
most remarkable men West Virginia
has yet produced. Fifteen years ago
Joe Davis, who was then recognized
as a substantial young farmer, mar
ried Miss Lenora VV. Fuller. They im
mediately went to housekeeping at the
present pleasant cottage, and a year
and a half later a boy was born to
the happy coupie. Tho child proved
to be remarkably delicate and lived
but'two months. Tho heart of Mrs.
Davis had worshipped the son. and his
death was an almost unendurable blow
to her. She then vowed that should
Providence again make her a mother,
that her life should be one of
WORSHIP AND PRAYER
to the Creator for the health and life
of her child. Mr. Davis endeavored to
keep her from taking a view so serious
of what any mother may expect, but in
vain. A year latey, when a little girl
came to cheer and comfort the bronen
hearted mother, her time was divided
between the child and her devotions.
Hour after hour she spent upon her
knees, sleepless nights evidenced tho
keeping of her vow, and she seldom
spoke but in words of eutreaty to tho
\lraighty that
THE GREAT BOON OF HEALTH
might be vouchsafed to her daughter,
it seemed that her prayer fell not on
deaf ears, for what at first was a
puny infant speedily developed into a
bouncing child. In two months it tip
ped the scales at fifty pounds. At
the end of two years it weight was one
hundred and eight pounds. The neigh
bors came from al.1 over the county U»
view the wonder. Its stature tnyeased
until its name, Mary Eliza, was a fa
miliar as a by word. People no longer
moke of Jack's bean stalk when they
vvVihed to express japid growth, but
)f jy^Eliza At the end of
i ■ : •
as a compet
Two
and the trio w:uj
Mary Eliza Is 13
f>84 pounds; Janie Be
the beam at 380, while
years are 7, the mystic
dainty little thing of 246
Eliza is the pride of the
Her neck is a foot In d
wrists measure twelve and
ter inches in circumference,
ankles are
1 I 1 It I v VJ I I .>1 iiO 1111*1 * j t f,'
The flesh lies In great folds over
feet and hands, while the fat on het
neck resembles a pouter pigeon. Her
most remarkable feature is her nose,
which is no larger than the average
and beautifully chiseled. Her eyes are
the purest blue and her teeth perfect,
Mr. Davis has refused all offers to
parade the darlings of his household
before the public. In 18KU, P. T. Har«
num, the great showman, offered Mr.
Davis $10,000 for a term of live years,
Mr. Ilarnum to clothe and board the
family, but
WAS MET BY A REFUSAL.
Mr. Davis Is a man rather below the
ordinary size, not weighing more than
110 pounds, while Mrs. Davis Is even
more fragile than he. Several scien
tists who have examined the three
children ofTer no explanation of the
phenomenal development. All three
are in excellent health and no reason,
based upon strictly scientific hypothe
sis, can be given for the extraordinary
growdh of adipose tissue. ^ Prof.
Brown, of the Johns Hopkins l nlver
sity, will visit the family during the
summer, making a study of the case,
and will probably read a paper treating
it in full at the next meeting oMh«
United Physicians’ Association. Until
then every one must marvel at this
most wonderful answer to prayer.
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WKLL ii.NOWN FACE*.
ArtUt John Mylnt’ Life 1 ik» Portrsltsdf
Notrd Men.
At the studio of John Myles. on Main
street, a Ulster reporter w*b shown
a full life-size painting of col. John
T. McGraw, of Grafton. W. Va., men-,
tioneO as an aspirant for the seat in
the United States Senate now occupied
by Hon. Charles J. Faulkner. The
likeness, taken from a Harony photo
graph, is a striking one and depict*
Mr. McGraw in a typical and charac
teristic pose. .....
Mr. Myles had also on exhibition a
three-quarter length pastel portrait of
Bishop Donahue in full vestment*. It
is a speaking likeness of the reverend
gentleman, and the artistic prospective
brings the life-like figure out in
ling boldness.
NEW FURNACE FAILED.
The La Belle mill built a new brick
furnace last week for the purpose of
trying a patent process. The test
proved the idea a failure and the fur
nace was tor* apart, and arranged tot
the old proems on Saturday. ^
The Weather.
hnepf, tbe Opera House,
le the following obaemuj
.eatber yesterday: 7 a. m.
8; 12 m.. 88; 3 p. m..
Weather fair.
■ V.
in, July 25.—For
atenlog weather; so
Pennsylvania and
al showers on the
winds.,