The Yale Expositor,
?. A. Mkkziks, Publisher.
YALE, . - MICD
The Belgian pigeon which won the
great race from Burgos, in Spain, to
Brussels, did the 700 miles in fourteen
hours.
Timber is seasoned by the evapora
tion of the water, the extraction of the
vegetable juices and the solidification
of the woody tissue.
The King of Slam has a bodyguard
of 400 female warriors. They are
chosen from the handsomest and most
robust women in his kingdom.
Almost exactly half the coal ex
ported from Great Britain in the last
six months went to the four countries,
France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
King Edward VIII., that may be, has
completed his seventh year and re
ceived as a birthday present from his
grandfather, King Edward VII., a bi
cycle. The Congo is one of the widest
waterways on the globe, if not the
finest. In some parts it is so wide that
vessels may pass each other and yet
be out f sight.
The municipal counoil of St. Peters
burg is to send an electrical expert to
the United States in order that he may
study the telephone system of this
country with a view to reorganizing
the one in uso in St. Petersburg.
Recent discovery in Jerusalem
proves that the ancient aqueduct
which brought water from Bethlehem
through the Hinnah valley, thought to
be the work of Herod, was built by
the Emperor Severus, 195 A. D. In
scriptions to that effect have been
found.
Mrs. Lucinda Washington, who is
said to be 121 years old, fell down
stairs at the poor house at Kokomo,
Ind., and suffered a broken arm, but
she will recover. She was born a
slave in South Carolina in 1779, and
remained in one family until her
emancipation in 18C3.
In a few weeks the women of Nor
way will be ready to take part in elec
tions as full-fledged voters. A bill
conferring the municipal franchise
upon women has passed both houses
of the Norwegian parliament (Storth
ing) and will become a law at the end
of the present session.
The Japanese Emperor has an allow
ance of 12,000,000 a year to maintain
the dignity of his office and have a
good time. This is equal to $5,479 a
day. At the close of the Chinese-Japanese
war Parliament awarded him
20,000,000 yen ($10,000,000) in gratitude
for the able manner in which he di
rected military and naval operations.
A few years ago Phoenix, Ariz., the
center of the Salt River Valley, was
a sagebrush desert. It now has 25,000
inhabitants, with an assessed property
valuation of $10,000,000, says the New
York Tribune. All this is due to the
introduction of water, which, brought
in canals from distant streams, has
turned the desert into a fertile valley,
covered with ranches and dotted with
small towns.
Captain E. II. Smeed, of East Provi
dence, R. I., has Just received a gov
ernment medal which was awarded
him seventeen years ago for heroism
in helping to rescue the crew of a
shipwrecked schooner In the harbor of
New Haven. Tho medal was mislaid
in a secret drawer in a desk in the
collector's office at the Custom House
of New Haven, and was found only a
few days ago.
There is a new patient at Bellevue
Hospital, New York, the only patient
of its kind ever treated there. On
the card appears the name of "Bum,"
a kitten, suffering from dislocation of
the spine. A little girl pleaded so
hard with one of the doctors to cure
her kitty that it was finally taken
charge of. Now the doctors are Inter
ested in the case, and will do all In
their power to save "Bum's" life.
The apportionment by lot of thirteen
thousand homestead claims in the Kio-way-Conianche
reservation last month
wa3 a vast Improvement In good sense,
order and fairness over the methods
by which government land has usually
been opened to settlement. Of course
there were many disappointed home
seekers there must bo when one hun
dred and seventy thousand applica
tions are filed for thirteen thousand
claims but there was no wild rush for
choice sections, no trampling on the
rights of the weak by the strong, no
fighting and no disputes over priority.
Tho distribution was conducted rapid
ly and in good order, through several
days, until the lots were apportioned;
and through it all a crowd of twenty
thousand people cheered and congrat
ulated every winner as heartily as if
each member of the throng had been
himself the winner ho hoped to be.
In England the automobile comes
into favor les3 rapidly than on the
continent. A London writer calls It
"a fad, and an extremely diity, dusty,
uncomfortable fad," and a nuisance on
the public ways. He thinks'it will lbe
many years before "these crude, im
practicable machines" displace in the
Englishman's affections "a fine trot
ting horse and a smart trap." No
doubt the horse Is here to etay, and
no doubt the automobile is still in its
clumsy beginning; but Just wait a
little, till the problem of a light and
cheap storage-battery has been solved.
I NEWS IN HGI
A Detroit Man Goes Without Food
Forty-One Days.
FOUR CONVICTS OUT OF PRISON
Many Thing Have Happened la th State
In the I.ant Few Ilaya and They are
It rl fly Given In Condensed Form for
lluay Headers.
The Belle Wle Suicide.
Tlie man who committed suicide on
Belle Isle Park. Detroit, by shooting
himself Is undoubtedly Trunk Wood
ward, of Grand Rapids. Chief of Po
lice Harvey (). Cnrr. of that city, tele
grnpliod that Woodward had been
missing since Sunday. Carr's descrip
tion tallies exactly with the body of
the suicide. Woodward left 5rand Rap
Ids on an excursion Sunday, taking
with him his Rambler wheel. Near the
suicide's body was a Rambler bicycle.
Woodward wore a light suit, as did the
suicide, and also weighed about lliO
pounds. Rut the point which seems
to make tho matter conclusive is the
fact that Frank Woodward, or (irand
Rapids, had a 11 user nail missing from
the little finger of his right hand. So
has the unknown.
Frank It. Woodward was a farmer
and fruit grower residing with his
brother a few miles north. He was a
bachelor, aged 41 years nd had for
some time been iu poor health, which
caused despondency. He left home
Sunday morning about 4 o'clock with
his wheel and when night came, and
lie did not return, examination of ids
room was made. A paper was found
upon which was written a farewell to
his brother and family.
Ilnitnl mid Dlawrneef ul.
It is a'lleged that some of the state
troops in camp at Manistee acted in
a very reprehensible manner, in fact
committed acts of btutality that are
almost beyond belief. There lias been
an official investigation on an alleged
outrage said to have -boon committed
on a lielpless"wonifiu during the state
encampment by dissipated soldiers.
The governor's secretary is reported
to have said that: "The facts appear
to be that one nlgiit during the en
campment several soldiers raided a
bad house and took one of the inmates
out for a little fun. Her clothing
was stripped oft", and she was handled
rather roughly. Each of the boys
took some of tho remnants as a sou
venir, and beyond the few bruises the
woman sustained there was nothing
more we could find out. It was a bad
case and we have investigated it thor
oughly from the very beginning. The
soldiers did not intend to do any
harm, but in their frenzy or delight
for that kind of sport, they went too
far, and would have been severely
punished if any thing very serious
could be established against them."
Let Out nt Prison.
Governor Bliss has directed the re
lease from the state prison at Jackson
and the branch prison at Marquette
of the following convicts:
Rrainard Nelson, a convict in the
state prison at Jackson, convicted in
the Circuit Court of (irntiot county of
manslaughter, and sentenced June '2,
lpoo, to two years and six months;
pardoned.
George L. Green, convict in the
state's prison at Jackson, convicted in
the Circuit Court of St. Joseph county
of criminal assault and sentenced
Oct. 15, IS02, to Imprisonment for -0
vears; sentence commuted to 1- years.
John W. Hall, convict in the state's
prison nt Jackson, convicted in the
Kalamazoo county Circuit Court of at
leinptcd criminal assault and son-
imw.iwl fi-.f- ' IK'u: lik Itnnrisonnicllt
for 10 years; sentence commuted to i
ix years and two months.
Leonard Lutonskl, a convict in tho
branch prison at Marquette was
paroled.
I
lie ii ton Ilnrlior'n IWk Factory.
The great sugar beet factory at St.
Joseph, which cost complete $:iJO.OOO,
Is the cause of one of the biggest chan
cery cases ever tried in Berrien coun
ty. The defendants are the Wolverine
Sugar Co., the Fanners' A: Merchants'
bank of Benton Harbor, and the
Northern Trust Co.. of Chicago. The
plant was built by the Dyer Co., of
Detroit, nnd equipped for business.
The Wolverine Co. gave plaintiffs
notes and mortgages for $107,700,
upon which tho interest has never
been paid, and they now ask the court
to sell tho big plant to satisfy their
claim. For the last two years the oper
ators have failed to secure enough
boots to run tho factory, as the beets
failed to mature, nnd t ho growers re
turned to tho fruit industry. As a last
resort the owners went to Shelby, Ind.,
whore they contracted for 4.000 acres
of beets for this season's run. Hopes
were entertained that the factory
would resume operations under satis
factory conditions in a few weeks.
Chnrn.ed With Anon,
Isaac Wheeler, of Lapeer, was ar
rested Thursday morning charged with
burning a house nnd household goods
In Rich township. The property be
longed to his wife. Wheeler and his
wife quarreled recently and Mrs.
Wheeler went to live with her father,
Richard Kelch. while Wheeler boarded
with Flam Johnson. Mrs. Wheeler se
cured a house where she intended to
live with her brothers, and moved her
household goods Into it. Wheeler says
he was nt Johnson's at the time of the
fire, but Johnson says bo was not.
W. F. Edmonds. is president of the
New Haven Savings bank, which suc
ceeds the B. R. Moore Banking Com
pany, Otto L. Sprngue, n druggist of
Owosso. has been named by Gov. Bliss
ns deputy oil Inspector for the Twelfth
district.
John Wet more, of Ferrysburg, Is
dead from the effect of being kicked
by a colt several days ago. He leaves
a famllj-.
Attorney-General Oren has filed n
quo warranto bill against the Insurance
corporation known ns the League' of
Eligible.
Fasted Forty Days.
Charles L. Klein, of Detroit, suffer
ing from a stomach trouble and tired
of taking medicine on t ho advice nnd
under tho direction of a physician
fasted forty-one days. His chief
trouble was u stricture of the Intes
tines. From the very first the doctor
tried to persuade his patient to fast,
but succeeded In doing so only a little
over six weeks ago. The fast began
July 5 and ended August 15. The
physician says that he bus a number
of other patients who are. fasting, In
cluding a consumptive. Tills last case
is the first opportunity the doctor has
bad to make a fair trial of his meth
ods on diseased lungs, and he says
that the result, after two weeks, Is en
couraging. He uses very little medi
cine, confining his treatment almost
entirely to water.
Smallpox lie Hn.
Frank Vinton, a traveling salesman
for the Werner ' Grocery Co., Is sick
with smallpox at his home at Wil
liamsburg, Grand Traverse county. II"
broke out on Monday when he made
a trip to Rapid City and Kalkaska,
coining to Traverse City in the even
ing nnd being driven to Williamsburg
by a livery. Thursday night a physi
cian diagnosed the case ns smallpox.
Vinton is quarantined In his house
with liis wife and eight children. He
thinks lie was exposed at Manceloiia.
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.
Giles Grice. a wealthy Niles farmer,
died from heart d'ense.
The Standard Vehicle Company has
broken ground for Its building at Pon
tine Capt. W. S. Logan, the first white
Isiy born in Kalamazoo county, is dead
at Mitchell, S. D.
Standlsh school expenditures for tho
pasi year have been $:t.(143 4."; re
ceipts. JM.l'Tl 04.
The state military board has pur
chased a six-Inch breech-loading rifle
of modern design.
A hot spring has been discovered at
Mackinac Island near the water works,
101 degrees Fahrenheit.
John O. Beldler, an lS-year-ohl De
troit boy, is under arrest for setting
ids father's house on tire.
A new company has taken charge of
tho Adrian gas Avorks nnd tho price of
gas has bv'cu reduced to $1 (K).
Lewis Sperry, of Bervillo, has just
discovered that live head of cattle
were killed by lightning Monday.
John T. Vornorof Marshall, has a
tomato vine which stands over nine
feet high and is four feet across.
Mrs. Ora Dixon, residing on a small
farm, lias just been left n fortune of
$10,000 by an uncle in New York.
Paul Wcsitoff nnd Henry Ilahn, of
tho Flats, nre under arrest charged
with selling liquor without n license.
Leonard Green. 17 years old. of
Faton Rapids, died of injuries from a
beer lHittle being thrown at his head.
The board of state auditors has
caused it to be understood that Junk
ets will not be paid for by the state.
Rev. A. J. Richards, one of tho old
est members of the Detroit conference
of the M. E. church, died Saturday at
Petoskey.
Lloyd Van Wagoner, of Owosso.
aged ', may lose his eyesight from
a powder explosion. He will be dis
figured for life.
A thief stole a .' year-old unbroken
cojt from tho farm of John Redmond,
near Durand, and got away safely
with the animal.
It Is estimated that .10.00!) people
visited St. Joseph Sunday, but tho
number of marriages performed fell
below the average.
Mary Stewart and Dan Whitman,
fearing arrest for Illegal cohabitation,
walked from Lansing to Jackson, and
eluded the officers.
The .'5-year-old daughter of Mr. nnd
Mrs. Ralph Oshorn. of Hamilton town
ship, aie ten medicinal tablets timl
died within 110 minutes.
There is not a bouse In Tekonsha
for rent, and people are driven to the
necessity of cither buying property or
moving into the country.
The hearing of Dr. Probert. of Niles.
for whom a requisition from Indiana
lias been sent to Gov. Bliss, has been
postponed to September (!.
Herbert Musselman. of Branch coun
ty, struck Benjamin Noble because of
a dNputc over a dollar, and the jus
tice assessed him $S for the job.
Mrs. Charles Sherman, of Benton
Harbor, lias fallen heir to a share,
which she estimates at $loo.ooo. In a
million dolbir estate in Cleveland.
Wm. Osgo-jl. cf Jackson. w:n t lUor
suddenly 111 ai Miehig.m Center and
died soon a ft?; belli.? removed t lis
homo. He h-uv an aged Mother.
The secretary of state has sent to
tho county clerks lO.ooo hunters' licen
ses to bo issued this fall. Figuring on
past experiences that number will be
needed.
F. Buekmnn. one of the well-known
merchants of Gladstone, attempted to
commit suicide by banging. He recent
ly failed in business and became des
pondent. The worst hall and wind storm Es
canaba has ever bad visited it Thurs
day, breaking plate glass fronts, over
turning trees, fences and doing much
damage to t'.ie farmers.
A big raft of pine logs has reached
Saginaw from Canada, which finishes
the Importation of Indian reserve land
timber, ns tho Canadian governnienr
has forbidden any more.
I Mrs. Ada Rundell has caused tho ar
rest of Conrad Mehlenbachen. the
Owosso saloon man who escaped the
charge of Detroit detectives, for sell
ing liquor to her minor son.
Twelve loaded ore enrs on the South
Shore road got away from the pocket
tenders at the Cambria mine Thurs
day nnd ran down a steep Incline, col
liding with other cars nnd demolish
ing about 25. Four men who were on
the cars, Jumped for their lies and
two more were seriously injured. Tho
wrecking train was called and worked
nil night to clear the tracks. The ac
cident will cost the railroad company
about f.1,000.
Mrs. Manwnrrlng. mother of Frank
Mnnwnrrlng, tho treasurer of the Port
Huron CIgarmakers' Union, who Jt Is
claimed skipped out with $J10, has
paid the shortage to tho union.
Because tho new law Is not opera
tive before Sept. 5, duck-hunters may
shoot four days under tho old law,
when the open season began Sept. 1.
The new law prohibits shooting until
Oct. 1.
Henry Vanncss, an Indian from the
Sarnia reservation, says ho was en
ticed Into a Port Huron alloy and rob
bed of $10. Joe Henry Is under arrest
charged with purloining Reuben's
money.
The Detroit & Toledo Shore' line Is
being pushed north from Monroe at
the rate of a mile a day. Believers In
the steam road theory point to the ab
sence of 'any signs of overhead con
struction. John Morrison, a Grand Trunk pass
enger conductor, while examining an
air brake coupling nt New Hamburg,
was crushed between the coaches, and
died from his injuries later in the day
at Toronto.
Miss Bertha K. Bailey, a loader In
Reading society, nnd Moron D. Carrol,
of Chicago, were married and at once
started for Havana, where the groom
Is stationed as private secretary to
Gen. Wood.
Port Huron Is to have another ship
yard for construction of stool boats.
Tho yard will bo run in connection
with Dunford's dry dock and will In1
located on the property south of the
lower dry dock.
Mrs. Lillian Beatty. of Reading, ob
jected very forcibly to her husband
accompanying a certain young lady, so
when she met them together she dealt
tlse young woman a blow which rend
ered her unconscious.
It took two guards with muskets to
enforce the smallpox quarantine near
Tekonsha. ami then an inmate of the
house escaped. One of tho guards Is
said to have h it his post one night and
driven into the country to attend a
dance.
A special election will be held Sept.
10 to decide upon tho question of bond
ing for $8,000 for building a garbage
crematory and additional stone walks,
and laying surface pipe for sprinkling
tho principal park drives on Mackinac
Island.
Dr. W. B. Church, of Marshall, who
was charged with practicing medicine
without a license, was acquitted. He
will now be tried on a charge of mal
practice, preferred by Bornt Van
..audi, who asks $15,000 for the death
of his wife.
Dr. J. II. Richardson has commenced
suit against the defunct Citizens' Na
tional bank at Niles for $2,000. Dr.
Richardson says be loaned the bank
$1,400 on July S, 1S00, the day of the
failure, and that lis claim wa$ reject
ed by tho comptroller.
Anna S. Lang, wife of Postmaster
Lang, of Houghton, has commenced
suit for the purpose of recovering a
three-fourths Interest in 100 acres of
land, being a portion of the Kearsarge
mine, now claimed to be owned by the
Osceola Consolidated Mining Co.
As an evidence of tho scarcity of
labor in southern Michigan, it is
worthy of note that a train runs from
Jackson 10 Union City every day, a
distance of 45 miles, to pick up men t:i
work on tho railroad. Tho train makes
the trip night and morning, and has
done so for a month.
Arthur Ilardwich. a P.ittle Creek
youth, attempted to exterminate Iwd
bugs with gasoline, but came near ex
terminating himself. Ho held a lamp
In one hand, when ho opened the gaso
line can. and It exploded. He was
frightfuily burned, his skin peeling off.
His recovery is doubtful.
On several occasions a substance
resembling blue vitriol has been found
lu the yard of Frank Pieszak. of Bay
City, and once one of bis children was
caught In the net of placing some of
the stuff in its mouth. It hns boon
proved to bo poisonous, nnd the police
are trying to find out who placed it
there.
Selig Solomon, of Alcona county,
hns sent State Land Commissioner
Wlldey a check for $700 in payment
for lumber taken from Agricultural
college bands in that county, lie says
tho trespassing was not done by his
order, and an effort will bo made to
locate the guilty parties and prosecute
thorn.
The following five graduates and
former students of t he University
have been appointed on the. second
call for teachers for the Philippines:
Frank Pshick, Saginaw: Chas. A. Val
lanec. Fowlersvillo. N. Y.: G. B.
Schuello.-. Niles. Midi.; G. N. Trem
per. Pontine. Mich.: F. E. Welch, Or
chard Lake, Midi.
Victor Toskkilla was shot through
the heart, nnd the arm of a fellow
named Saqkari was shattered, as the
result of a row early Wednesday
nt the Halfway saloon, between
Houghton and Atlantic. Tho parties
nre Finlant'ors, one of whom been me
involved in a drunken quarrel. Tosk
killa's assailant was Matto Saakarl, a
brother of the wounded man.
Henry 11111. of Monroe, has been in
poor health for some time and recent
ly signed what purported to bo nn
agreement between himself and 11
medical company by which the latter
agreed to cure him for $70 nnd
bis wife for $40. The contract
turned up in tho form of a note
for $110 in the hands of A. L. Beard,
who has brought suit to enforce Its
payment.
Michael Kennedy, of Niles, Is suing
bis son Richard for $10,000 damages,
alleging that he was falsely Impris
oned at St. Joseph's retreat near Dear
born, for a period of five years, nt the
instigation of his son, on a trumped
up charge of insanity. Ho says ho
was not given n bearing before n pro
bate Judge, ami was not ndjudged in
sane by nnj' court.
Iu a Port Huron tomato patch there
is a yellow nnd black spider t lint
writes real writing on Its web. Mon
day the word "William" was clearly
outlined, nnd the next day 1 lie word
"Minnie" replaced it. By many this
Is considered nn omen of death, and
all the Williams nnd Minnies In town
are on tho mix Ions seat. This writing
spider Is the greatest attraction Port
Huron bis had since the completion
of the tunnel.
Wellington L. Belyen. of Port Hu
ron, claims that. In ejecting him from
a Rapid Railway car. tho conductor
nnd niotormnn used a. poker, nnd has
cued the company for $5,000 damages.
NS Ml III Mild.
Philadelphia Reports a Steamboat
Horror.
C0LUMBIA1N A TERRIBLE STATE
A Colored lllshop (Uvea Startling Adrtco
Coal Mlueon Fire. Facta, Fancies and
Happenings From Various l'arta of tha
Country Ilrleflr Told.
Advise nrnndln? Aaaaultera.
Bishop Turner, of the African Meth
odist church, so report from Atlanta,
tia., states, gives as his view of the
method to stop assaults on white wo
men tho following method:
"African emigration would bo best
for the negro and best for the white
man. There Is an Irresistible conflict
between whites nnd blacks that noth
ing but separation can put an end to.
Our children are generated nnd nur
tured under a malignant and misan
thropic spirit that will wreck the
country and make our civilization a
hissing and a byword.
"If it is a fact that the negro will
not lot the white women alone, then
white men owe it to their manhood
and honor to got rid of him: ami if
they will open up a highway to Africa
millions of the black race will go.
Rather than shod so much blood, and
possibly some Innocent blood, you had
iM'tter enact laws to brand those fools
and scounditls and crop their ears and
banish them to Africa.
"If tho country will turn over all
these criminals that they are burning,
hanging and shooting, to 1110. and
brand their cheeks and carry them to
Africa, I will give the world another
Rome, or establish a country like Aus
tralia, which was founded nnd built
up by Fnglisli cutthroats and penal
convicts."
The Colombian Revolution.
A Panama dispatch says: "Plots
nnd counter-plots fill the nir. There
Is war here of the most hideous kind
nnd strife that tears the country
asunder, In which brother is pitted
against brother, friend against friend
and nelghlior against neighbor. Fer
tile fields have been devastated. Once
thriving towns have boon decimated
in imputation and villages have boon
wiied out of existence. Bauds of
armed men occupy every highway and
traffic is practically at a standstill,
while frantic women mourn their dead
and hungry babes clamor for food.
Great battles must soon bo fought,
and upon tho results will depend not
alone the supremacy of the clashing
parties in Colombia, but also, perhaps,
the Integrity of the territory of throe
neighboring republics Venezuela, Ec
uador nnd Nicaragua.
A Colon report states that the gov
ernment is alleged to have already
spent not less than $l'J0,OO0.000 lu
silver to suppress the rebellion, and
the Liberals are said to have expended
an oven l.irger amount, although their
volunteers nre supposed to serve sole
ly for patriotism and to receive no
pay.
A Terrible Illanater.
Twenty-eight dead and i: Injured is
t'o awful record of a wreck on the
Great Northern road near Nyack, Mon
tana, Friday. Passenger No. M had
just gone down the mountain and had
reached tho level when Ls wild cars
loaded with shingles shot down from
above and crashed Into the rear of the
passenger train. The special car of
Assistant General SuiH'iintendent
Downs and a coach filled with labor
ers were crushed like egg shells. Tho
debris of the wreck caught tire and a
horrible scene followed, as those In
the two cars were either killed out
right, slowly roasted or crushed to
deatii or seriously burned nnd crushed.
Mr. Downs, bis son and cook were
caught under the debris and burned
to death.
Slavery In the I'hllipitltie.
Hong Kong mail nd vices state that
the Manila Times has caused a sensa
tion by exposing what It terms the
wholesale slave trading existing at
Manila under tho very eyes of Ameri
can military and police otliccrs. It is
said that immorality Is wholly respon
sible for tho practice which Is carried
on at Manila and other cities on tho
archipelago. Poverty-stricken Filipino
parents are alleged to ho selling their
daughters and sometimes their sons.
Tho Chinese are tho principal purchas
ers, but Filipinos of wealth nre not In
frequent1 buyers. There is said to lo
regular markets where slave soiling Is
carried on monthly. (J iris sold range
from 10 to 15 years of age. They do
net question the right of their parents
to soil them and become absolute
slaves.
Thirty AVere Killed.
The not result of the explosion of
the boilers of the steamboat City of
Trenton on tho Delawnro river Wed
nesday will be probably "0 Months.
Tho steamer made trips dally between
Philadelphia nnd Trenton, stopping nt
Burlington. N. J.; Bristol. Pa., nnd
other points on tlio'wny. The scenes
in the house, of correction hosplta!
were pitinblo. Men nnd women wife
the flesh hanging from their limbs and
bodies bore their suffering like stoics,
nnd some even smiled while the doc
tors laved the raw and bleeding flesh
with cooling lotions. None of the in
jured wns nble to give nn account of
the disaster. Chief Engineer Murphy,
who wns on watch when the accident
happened, reported to t ho officials that
tho boiler which exploded carried only
150 pounds of steam.
Services nt the Winona Bible confer
ence begin at sunrise and continue u
most hourly till 10 o'clock at night.
While committing a burglary at t lie
house of Thomas F. Schley, a travel
ing salesman of Columbus, O.. the
burglar doped Mrs. Schley and the par
rot. Patrick Malady, who, ninny years
ngo, wns convicted and sentenced to
life imprisonment In England for com
plicity iu tho Fenian plot, for which
the three Irishmen known to history
ns the "Manchester martyrs" were ex
ecuted. Is dying In St. Michael's hospi
tal, Newark,' N. J.
AVna .Shaffer lloneatf
('barges that the national officers of
t he Amalgamated Association had mis
represented the attitude of tho United
States 'Steel corporation toward organ
ized labor. In order to get the members
of the association out on strike were
made by former Vice-President J. D.
Hickey at a meeting of the Bay View
lodge, Milwaukee. In a cool, unimpas
slonod manner, Mr. Hickey gave the
members of the lodge the result of his
recent trip to Pittsburg. The situation
as summed up 'by Mr. Hickey Is that
tho strike is practically lost, as 72 per
cent of the mills are working.
Mr. Hickey w ent Into details to show
that Secretary Tighe and President
Shaffer had misrepresented the facts
when they appealed to the members
of the association to strike, on the
ground that the steel corporation was
determined to crush organization and
ruin the Amalgamated Association.
Mr. Morgan offered Shaffer four ad
ditional mills for which he was will
ing to sign tlie scale as an experi
ment, nnd then he told Mr. Shaffer
that if the organization kept faith 1n
these four mills and lived up to the
agreement be would pledge his word
that in two years every mill In the
combine would bo included in the con
tract with the Amalgamated. This
was the most reasonable proposition
that has ever been made to the asso
ciation and it was clearly the duty of
President Shaffer to have accepted it
then and there.
The Continent Atnrmeil,
Senator Chauncey M. Depew. speak
ing of the Inroads made upon European
commercial life by American competi
tion nnd energy, said: "There is a
genuine scare on the continent almit
tho competition of American manufac
turers in their markets, and cabinets
are consulting If any combination Is
practical which will prevent the impor
tation of American goods and check
our invasion of the east, which has
been opened at such vast expense and
effort by European governments. I
heard a Russian statesman say, 'Con
cert of action may be impossible, but
Russia. In rcsiMuise to discriminating
duties, has shown how each country in
its own way can stop this competition.'
Tills unfriendliness Is not likely to re
sult in war. The relations of European
governments are too Intricate and un
certain among themselves for anyone
to take that risk, and combination is
impossible."
Snntnaon I'nnonnd Mentally.
The attorneys for Admiral Schley
have been privately Informed by the
friends of Admiral Sampson that his
health Is such that he will not be able
to appear as a witness before the court
of Inquiry. A news dispatch from Ad
miral Sampson's home guardedly Inti
mated the real situation. It said:
"He is gaining in physical strength,
but bis mental health continues to
steadily fail."
In other words, it is suggested that
his mental state is such that he Is not
competent to give testimony. For
more than a year rumors have been
coming from Boston concerning Samp
son's mental Indisposition. Recent re
ports seem to give substantial corrob
oration; for instance, friends are now
saying that bo cannot remember in tho
afternoon what he said or did In the
morning.
Schley's attorneys, discussing this
development, say they will insist upon
the certificates of naval surgeons to
tho effect that he is unable to come to
Washington.
Tried to Kill Pope I.eo.
A dispatch from Rome reports that
an anarchist, whose Identity is con
cealed by the police, was captured In
the Vatican garden Monday. The man
curried a revolver and a dirk and has
admitted that ho intended to assassin
ate tho pope. The prisoner denounces
Leo as "A spiritual giant, keeping mil
lions of men iu thralldom."
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Alpine Pas. Colorado, justified its
! name Thursday by producing a fall of
snow.
Senator Geo. F. Hoar, of Massachu
setts. Thursday celebrated bis 75tli
birthday.
Dr. Cihlas' yellow fever serum, as
a preventive. Is a dead failure. A-"protected''
patient lias died in Havana.
Sampson may have to face a court
martial because of his peculiar con
nection with Mac-lay's venomous at
tack 011 Schley.
Richards, the Columbus, Mo., mur
derer nnd assaulter, has not been
caught and the posse pursuing him Is
becoming discouraged and returning
home.
Tho transport Bnford will sail from
Manila September 5 with troops to bo
stationed at military jiosrs in tho east.
She will come by way or tlie Suez to
New Vork.
Representatives of tho various Cath
olic societies of tho United States will
meet nt Cincinnati December 10 for
tlie purpose of forming a permanent
federation.
United States Collector of Customs
Ilooy has been re-arrested nt Tucson.
Aiz.. on additional counts in connec
tion with the Chinese conspiracy case.
Ills bond was raised to $5,000.
President Richardson and Secretary
Gilmour. of the United Mine Workers,
predict that at least 00 per cent of
tho 4.000 coal miners In the Pittsburg.
Ka . district will obey the strike order
on September 1.
Marguerite Lyler, of Chicago, nged .1.
Is heiress to $100,000 and a lot of trou
ble. Her mother Is dead nnd the wo
man who had her In care has lost her.
Kidnapers have got her. Her father,
who hud boon divorced from the moth
er, is living nnd may know something
abnt tho case.
Count Boson tie Tnllyrnnd Porigord.
whom Helen Morton, daughter of the
former (New York) governor, is 1
marry, is a cousin of Count de Cas-tell.iM'-.
brother-in-law of the (builds,
of New York city. He is a well known
figure In Paris society, nnd In a great
J measure has supplanted bis father,
j who for over a quarter of n century
I has been known nmong his following
I ns Prince de la Mode.
I Herman Deilim. nlias Charles Moy
j ers, tho diamond thief who made n
I unsuccessful nttempt to rob n Detro't
I Jewelry store of diamond ring valued
I nt $4.ooo. Is wanted in Hamilton, O.,
j yu a similar charge.