Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 274, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1900 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1900.

fine. There are traces of LI Hung Chang's hanJ. under American Influence, In the edict.." On the ether hand, the Standard's Fh3nsha! corre? pondent remarks: "The Kmprr now realizes the true nature of the cri.ir.. After consulting the Emperor she summoned the court dignitaries, and. on their assembling, -while she remained silent, the Emperor In a loud voice delivered a tirade lasting a couple of hours against the courtiers. Then, In an angry voice, he dismissed them. After this the decrees were issued." Meanwhile feverish war preparations are still reported from Shanghai, and new appointments have been made to the Chinese cr.ny and navy. "The Chinese Official Gazette has resumed publication," says the IVk'r.g correspondent of the Morning Pot. wiring Sept. 24, "and contains an order directing the Peking officials to loilow the court unless their duties here I revent them leaving. British looting continues, and daily auctions are held at the legation. This is likely to last ail winter. Members of the nobility are the heaviest losers. Prince Ching In particular." Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times from Peking, on Sept. 21, says: "At the same moment the. Chinese offered to permit the British to occupy without opposition both Shan-IIal-Kwan and Tong-Schan they alpo made overtures to the British to occupy Pel-Tang. Although It was known that these overtures were supported by the British authorities in Peking, they were discountenanced by Rear Admiral Bruce, on the ground that they would disturb the concert of admirals. Systematic Russian denudation of the summer palace has resulted in stripping it of every valuable article, the loot has been packed and labeled and Is now awaiting transportation to Russia. On the second attempt the "White Pagoda and two adjoining temples were razed to the ground." A dispatch to the Times from St. Petersburg confirms the reports that the town of Klrln surrendered to the Russians without a shot on peremptory orders from Prince Ching. The dispatch says that, if similar orders were issued with regard to Mukden, the Russian conquest of Manchuria will be completed. According to the same authority no further reinforcements will be required by the Russian commanders In the far East. Each of the powers was represented by 100 troops in the Guard of Honor that received Count Von Waldersee at TIen-Tsin, and all the commanders called upon him. According to the Kong-Kong correspondent of the Times, the Rhenish mission at Tung-Kun, on the East river, has been destroyed. MASSACRED IN CHINA.

Several American Missionaries Killed in Che-KInnR Province. WASHINGTON. Sept. 30. The Depart ment of State has received a dispatch from the consul general at Shanghai, dated Aug. 17, In which It Is stated that confirmation has been received of the massacre of the following foreigners at Ku-Chau, CheKlang province, on July 21: Mr. and Mrs. Ward and child, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Thompson and two children. Miss Thorgood. Miss Sherman, Miss Manchester and Miss Desmond. Miss Manchester and Miss Desmond were citizens of the United States. Miss Manchester arrived In China on Sept. 14. 1&. Her homo was in Edmuston, N. Y. Miss Desmond arrived in China Jan. 14, 1X9. Her home was at Natick, Mass. The consul general was unable to learn further par ticulars in regard to the persons named. Itockhlll Goes to TIen-Tsin. PEKING, Sept. 27. Willlara Woodvllle Rockhlll, special commissioner cf the United States, left Peking with a cavalry escort, to-day, for TIen-Tsin. He will visit Nankins and the lang-Tse valley, exam ine affairs there, and advise the viceroys to memorialize the throne, urging tho re turn of the court to Peking.' Mr. Rockhlll. before leaving Peking, said He expectea to return soon. Ito to Form a Xetv Cabinet. YOKOHAMA, Sept. SO. The Mikado has iwnmonecl Marquis Ito to form a Cabinet, on the resignation of the Yamagata Minis try. When Intrusting the task to the new premier his Majesty said, that as affairs In China were entering upon the diplomatic stage, the presence of Marquis Ito at the bead of the government was necessary. ROYALTY SUFFERED. The Emperor and Empress DonnRrr Had Little Food Daring Their Flight. SHANGHAI. Sept. 23. The Russians have Invested Mukden, capital of the province of Uao-Tung. Sir Ernest Mason Satow, recently ap pointed British minister to China in suc cession to Sir Claude M. MacDanold, has arrived here on his way to Peking. "Wang Wen Shao. president of the Board of Revenue, who accompanied the Emperor und Empress regent in their flierht from Peking, says In a letter received here that their Majesties suffered great hardships. having scarcely any food for three days. They had to ride cm camel?, and were almost deserted by their followers. As the country through which they traveled was being devastated by Tung Fu lisian's troops, t!iey were unable to obtain even necessaries, and they saved no valuables. WEATHER FORECAST. Fair To-Day and To-Morrow, ttI1 East to South Winds. WASHINGTON. Sept. SO. Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Indiana and Illinois Fair on Monday and Tuesday; light to fresh east to south .winds. For Ohio Fair on Monday and Tuesday; light to fresh north to east winds. Local Observation on Sandfly. Bar. Ther. R.IL Wind. Weather, i re. 7 a.m. .20.15 52 W North Clear .00 7 p. m..S0.11 63 63 North Clear .00 Maximum temperature, 71; minimum tem perature. 45. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for Sect. 30: Temp. Pre. Normal 60 .fti Mean CO .00 departure o .0J Departure since Sept. 1 m Departure since Jan. 1 3.45 Flus. C. F. R. W A PPE N 1 1 A NS Local Forecast OClclal. Yesterday' Temperatures. Stations. MIn. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta, ua Bismarck. N. D I'lifTctlOft Calvary. N. W. T Chicago. Ill Cairo. Ill Cheyenne. Wyo. Cincinnati. O Davenport, la Des Moines. Ia ;lveston. Tex

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FRIENDS IN THE PULPITS

RICHMOND CHURCHES TURNED OVER TO VISITIN4 PREACHERS. DIk Day of the Indiana Yearly Meet ing -Animal Report on Chris tlun Endeavor Work. SjSal to th Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Sept. 20.-ThJs was the big day of the Indiana Yearly Meet ing of Friends, and ideal weather attracted hundreds of visitors to the city. Visiting ministers were assigned to many of the pulpits to-day, as follows: First M. E. Church, evening, Thomas C. Brown; Grace M. E-. morning. Morton Pearson; evening, Franklin and Mary E. Meredith; Fifthstreet M. E., morning. Richard Ha worth; Third M. E., morning, Harvey and Allie Bergman; evening, Daisy Barr; First Pres byterian, evening, Thomas Newlln, vice president of Wilmington College; Second Presbyterian, evening. Alpheus Trueblood; First Raptist, evening, Frank Moorman; Christian, evening, Oliver and Belle Kenworthy; evening, Knos Harvey; United Presbyterian, evening, Charles E. Hiatt; First English Lutheran, morning, James R. Jones; Second English Lutheran, morn ing. Harry Hayes; evening, Oscar Moon; Mount Moriah Baptist, morning, William II. Perry; evening, A. Jay Davis; Second Baptist, morning, Seth Stafford; evening, Jesse Johnson; Wesleyan Methodist, morn ing, Jesse Johnson; evening, Henry McKinley; Bethel A. M. E., morning, Esther Cook; evening, Irving Kelsey; Union Mis sion, evening, Thomas Miller and William Cattail;. Yearly Meeting House, morning. William and Elizabeth Hobson, of Eng land; Thomas Newlln, T. C. Brown, Frances C. Jenkins, of Kansas City, and others; afternoon, Tillman Hobson, James R. Jones. Belle Louisa Harrinsrton and others; evening, William and Elizabeth Hobson, Charles Stalker, of Wcstfleld, and others. The session Saturday evening was de voted to the discussion of Christian Endeavor work, and was one of the most in teresting of the Yearly Meetinjr. The an nual report shows there are fifty-seven societies :n the limits of Indiana Yearly Meeting, four new societies having been organized since the last report. Twenty societies have been disbanded. There are 1,676 active members; S04 associate mem bers; 210 honorary members. Amount raised for home missions, including both senior and Junior societies, $10165; for foreign missions. $312.06: for other Durnoses. S3U.1.9S. The meeting was in charee of Richard Ilaworth, the president, and the reports were reaa by the secretary, E. H. StranaRan. The report of the treasurer chows the receipts for the past year to have been M20.50. The expenditures were $11)8.03, leaving a balance or $21.47. rlhe report of Miss Ella Armlecate. tht Junior superintendent, shows a great amount ot good accomplished and the children were faithful in attendance at the meetings and In their efforts to do good. me report of the missionary superintend ent was also read, and indicated consider able activity in this line of work. The following officers have been chosen for the coming year: President. Richard Ilaworth, Marion; secretary and treasurer. Miriam Harrison, Richmond: missionary superintendent, Estella M. Teas. Greensfork; junior superintendent, Ieona Wright, i airmount; executive committee. El wood O. Ellis, Richmond: Charles Whlteley, Stillwell. ind., and Clara I'ray. Soiceland: vice presidents, west branch, Mayme J. Coate, West Newton, O.; Whitewater, Anna Horn, menmond; rew Garden, Emma Kendall, mciimond; Westfield, Emma Branson, West Elkton. O.: Spiceland. Arthur Binford. Knightstown: Falrmount. O. Ii. I lock et t, Falrmount; Wabash, LIda A. Fellows, Amooy; walnut Ridge, Leora Jessup, Westland: Marlon, Milton Druckemiller. Marlon: Winchester. Edward N. Hutchlns, Lynn; Vanda'.Ia. Charles-Whitely, Stillwell; Dublin. Gurney Gilbert, Lewlsville; Van Wert. Willis Cook. Tamah. O.: Long Lake. Rose Kaiser, Manton, Mich.; East ern, Ewing schulex, Cincinnati. A collection was taken for this work. amounting to $2X22. President Haworth then Introduced Thomas Newlln, vice president of Wilmington. O., College, who had ror his subject. "Our Gospel Message." Mr. Newlln is a strong speaker and his words were full of Inspiration and power. PREPARING TO SETTLE. J. SI. Wilson's Rondimen Employ Ex perts to Exnminc Hin Areonnts. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHE LB Y VI LLE, Ind., Sept. SO.-The bondsmen of J. Marsh Wilson, ex -county treasurer, who was convicted of filing false claims In the last term of court, have employed James F". Reed, of Greenfield, and James Wiles, of this city, to go over the reports and papers found by experts Wallace and Boltz, to see If the work of the experts was properly done. Mr. Wiles has been employed about the courthouse for a number of years, and was Wilson's deputy during both of his terms of of fice. A number of the bondsmen were in favor of settling Wilson's deficit accord ing to the experts' report of llo and If Reed and Wiles find no great differences when they go through the books, It Is un derstood the bondsmen will settle without litigation. Roy Suspected of fain' Crime. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERS0NV1LLE. Ind.. Sept. 20.. John Canter, eighteen years old, was arrested to-Jay and will be held rending an investigation of the death of his brother. Stephen Canter, aged sixteen years, who it was thought accidentally shot himself on Friday. The tragedy occurred while the two were hunting, and the older brother stated at the time that Stephen was lean Ingr on his eun restincr when it war- acci dentally discharged, killing him Instantly. It nas since developed, however, that the dead boy was shot in the back of the head and that the gun used belonged to John and was carried by him when they went hunting. In jail John held to his story that nis orotner snot nimseir. I'rotest Asralnnt Rnrnl Mnll Delivery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind., Sept. CO.-The towns of New Lonldon and Shanghai, this county. are protesting against the free rural mail delivery that Involves the abandonment of postofflces In those villages. The mer chants and business men say the aban donment of local postofllces means the virtual confiscation of property, and they ere geturs up petitions to the Wash m ton department protesting against th? rural delivery and discontinuance of local offices, rvew London Is the oldest town in the county and its first law Feat, the post office being established sixty years ago. Dead Head ot Identified. Si eclal to the Indianapolis Journal. CROWN POINT, Ind.. Sept. SO. An In quest upon the man's head found in Cedar Lake tied in a grain sack was held this morning by Coroner Oslnskl. but developed nothing' as to Identity. Soon after the head came In contact with the open air It began to crumble, which the authorities say indicates that it was packed In quick lime to destroy the features. The Jaws contain several false teeth and the onlv hope3 of uettlni? a elew to the mystery is that the dentistry work may be recognized by tome dentist. Music from 3Inny Hands. Sr eclal to the Indianapolis Journal. DIIAZIL. Ind., Sept. SO. Tho band tournament here to-day at the new fair grounds was attended by fully Ave thou sand people. Among the twelve baids that participated In the musical festival was the famous Goodman Band, of lecaiur. HI Excursion trains were run into th. city from various points In Illinois und lnulana. Married Atvay from Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Ind., Sept. 30. A telegram wti received here yesterday announcing the EUrrito ot UImm Mabel 8. Blckett. of

this city, and Clement L. Lacey, of Washington, Ind., at Charleston, III., on Friday. Mi? 3 Blckett left here on Thursday presumably for a visit with friends In Terre Haute. The bride is twenty years of age and tho daughter of Mrs. Johua Pickett and th" sirter of Mrs. O. M. Patten, of th.'a city. She Is quite prom'.nent In society circles. She met Mr. l.acey here several weeks ago. Gambling Hunnen Closed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. Sept. CO. Marlon 1 no lenger a home for gamblers. Mayor Jones gave the sporting fraternity a shock last night when he issued an order that all gambling houses must close. Chief White and his assistants were busy throughout the night communicating the oder to the gambling-house keepers, and before morning all were in darkness. The new mayor's order was indorsed from every pulpit in the cits' to-day and his policy is receiving the encouragement of all the best citizens.

Indiana "Sötern, The Winchester High School and Ridgeville College football teams played at Itidgeville on Saturday. The latter won, 5 to 0. Martin Peterson, aged twenty-three, an srmles3 man. and John Jackson, a parolled prisoner of the Reformatory of Jeffersonville, have been arrested at . Llkhart, charged with being two of three persons mnlicated In assaulting and robbing Wil liam M. Boyce, a blacksmith, of a small sum of money, all he had. STRICKEN IN THE PULPIT SUDDEX DEATH OF IlEV. DR. GIL BERT II. GREGORY IN CHURCH. Attacked by Heart Disease While Readlns a Hymn, and Died in a Few Minutes. NEW YORK. Sept. 30. The Rev. Dr. Gil bert II. Gregory died to-day In the presence of his congregation at the morning service. n St. Stephen's M. E. Church, Marblehill, at the upper end of Manhattan Island. Physicians had urged Dr: Gregory to retire from active church work, as he had long been a sufferer from heart trouble. They told him that he might live for years if he would cease labor, but If he continued to work he was liable to be stricken at any moment. As late as yesterday, Dr. Darl ington, of Kings Bridge, who was attending Dr. Gregory, warned him against preaching to-day. The clergyman said to his physician: "I prefer to meet death In that way to retiring and shirking my duty In order to live longer." Dr. Gregory was sixty-three years old. He had not preached in St. Stephen's for three Sundays on account of heart attacks, but when word was passed around that he would resume his duties to-day the church was filled. The service had progressed to the singing of a hymn, which precedes the sermon. Dr. Gregory arose and read three verses of the hymn, beginning "Love, divine, all love excelling." While the music of the anthem filled the church Dr. Gregory was noticed to seat himself and then fall lightly over on one of the arms of the chair and In five minutes from the time he was stricken he was dead. Dr. Gregory was born In Medina, N. Y. Joseph Silverman. NEW TOUK, Sept. S0.-Joseph Silver man, forty-eight years of age, a wholesale liquor dealer, of Great Falls, Mont., died suddenly from heart failure this afternoon while visiting the home or Joseph l. uevy. ot this city. Mr. Silverman, being in ill health, had come to New lork early in the summer to get the beneflt of the sea air at Brighton Beach. (Sen. Colton (Jreene. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 30. General Colton Greene, prominent as a confederate soldier and leader of a brigade under General Sterling Price, of Missouri, died here to-day, aged sixty-eight. DADY MAKES AN OFFER. Will Give Havana a. SevreraRe and Pnvln System for flO,GOO,000. HAVANA, Sept. 30.-MIch.ael J. Dady. the Brooklyn contractor, has offered to the municipality of Havana a complete sewerage and paving system for the city, in ac cordance with plans officially approved, for1 the sum of $10,600,000.. The municipality has the offer under consideration. To-day a demonstration organized by the Nationalists visited the palace and after wards the residence of Senor Miguel Gencr, secretary of justice, to express satisfac tion with the recent law reforms. Hereafter Judges of the court of first instance will not be nominated, but will be chosen by examination. After a candidate has been selected, his name will appear in the Gazette for twenty days, and any one knowing anything against his moral quali fications for the position will be able to lay the matter before the proper authorities. Indianapolis Mentioned. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 30. The Young People's Temperance Union convention closed to-night with an address by Eva Marshall Shontz, the national president. The meeting place of the next convention was left to the executive committee of the union, to be decided within the next sixty days. The location will be 1-incoin, Chi cago, Indianapolis or Los Angeles. The Chamber of Commerce of Los Angreles has offered ?2,(X0 toward defraying the expenses if it be held there. President Adams to Rest. MADISON, Wis.. Sept. 30. -The board of regents of the State University to-day issued a statement announcing the temporary retirement of Dr. Charles Kendall Adams as president of the university. Dr. Adams is given a vacation for a term of one year, and during his absence he will receive half pay. The action was taken on account of the poor condition of Dr. Adams'a health. Dean E. A. Birge will be the acting president of the Institution pending Dr. Adams's return. A Walter Double Crime. NEW YORK. Sent. SO. Otto Wolff, a waiter, to-night went to the residence of Milton Knapp, a member of the New York Produce Exchange, who resldea in South Urooklyn, and called on Mrs. Itoslna Wolff. his wife, who was in Mr. ICnann's employ as a servant. He charged her with having been unfaithful, and after knocking her down cut her thioat with a razor. He then slashed his own throat. The wife died in a few minutes and Wolff is mortally wounaea tne pnysicians say. Roberts lief ore the Public Attain. NEW YORK. Sept. S.-Former Repre sentative Brlgham II. Roberts, of Utah. one of the seven presidents of the seventy In charge of the propaganda, of the faith of the Latter-day Saints, spoke at the Am phlon Academy. Brooklyn, to-day. This was his first address in this part cf the country since he was barred from Congress. The -discourse was nn argument for the doctrines of the Latter-day Saints. tiirl Dies of Ulood FolsontnRr. rornilKEEPSIK, X. Y.. Sept. SO. -Eliza-beth Johnston, aged sixteen years, dauchter of Brooks Johnston, of St. Louis, died of blood poisoning last n!?rht at Llndon Hall School in this city, where she was preparing for Vassar College. The disease first manifested ltscir m the fo-m of a swelling on the lip. Mis Johnston's rrother and sister were wth her when she died. Victims of Acetylene Cr.. BEAVER CROSSING, Neb., Sept. CO.-A gas explosion occurred in the Eager Mercantile Company's acetylene gas plant today. Earl Eager, one of the owners, was so badly hurt that he may die. Homer Houchen, a cleric and Charles BImonton, drugglit, ware ootn painruny injur so.

SAW GEN. LftWTON SHOT

STORY TOLD BY. A TROOPER JUST RETURNED FR03I TIIILIPPIXES. He Says the Brave Indlanian Was Killed by a Deserter from the United States Army SALT LAKE, Utah. Sept. 20.-Leon Mayhue, a private in Troop I, Eleventh United States Cavalry, who returned from the Philippines to-day, was present when General Henry W. Lawton was killed last December. near San Mateo. lie saw the shot fired and de clares that the man who aimed the rifle was a deserter from.the American army. He said: "General Lawton took out Troop G, Eleventh Cavalry, as scouts when he came down from the north to capture San Mateo. He planned the battle for Dec. 13, and on the night before at 11:30 we proceeded toward the town, traveling twentythree miles. We reached the outskirts of the city at daylight and . firing began about 8 o'clock. I was with the skirmish line within fifty yards of General Lawton, and we saw a man In black trousers showing conspicuously among the white uniforms of the Insurgent officers come out on the tower of the church. He surveyed the ground on which we stood very carefully, then raised his musket and fired. At that instant General Lawton, who was dismounted, moved his hand across his face as if to brush away an Insect and sank to his knees. "We found in the church about 100 yards of telegraph tape, which Interpreted showed that General Del Pilar and an American had been' in command of the Insurgents. That night word was brought In from the insurgent line that they intended capturing Lawton s body. We knew then that had there not been an American in that church who saw him fall the Filipinos would not have known that he was dead. RESULT OF LABOR RIOT. Two Jlore Participants in the Cleve land Fight Are Dead. CLEVELAND, O.. Sept. 30. As a result of the shooting affray between union and non union molders last night, two more men are dead. They are Henry Cronenberger, who died at the hospital late last night. and William Steffield. who died to-day. Cronenberger was a union molder. Steffield was a bricklayer and had no part in the fight. Charles Peck, a nonunion man, Is under arrest, charged with the murder of Detective William L. Foulks, who was shot through the heart. Paul Irving, Thomas Jennings, Edgar Mclntyre and Willis Webs ter, also nonunion men were arrested on the charge of shooting with Intent to kill. LEO IN GOOD HEALTH HE VEXEn.lTES TIIE STATUE OF A XEW SAINT IN ST. PETER'S, Declines Assistance In Illslns from His Knees and Walks Without Aid Turbulent Socialists. ROME. Sept. 20. During the beatification of Antoinez Frazsl, one of the first chiefs of the Order of Oratorlahs, at St. Peter's Cathedral this afternoon, ' the Pope ven erated the effigy of the new saint in the presence of thousands. His Holiness dis played remarkable vigor. Ordinarily he is aided In his movements, but on this occa sion he raised himself from, the place of kneeling, made a gesture refusing assist ance, walked with a firm step to the altar and ultimately returned to his seat without assistance. ROW A3IONG SOCIALISTS. Stormy Meeting of French Agitators, Followed by a Schism. PARIS, Sept. 30. The stormy and some times amusing proceedings of the Congress of French Socialists culminated at this morning's session in uproar and general confusion. The congress first met two days ago at the conclusion of the International Congress of Socialists, and the meetings had been devoted to interminable discussions on the subject of the constitution of the congress, the Guesdists, Blanquists and Communists, who were In alliance, re proaching the independents with having violated the constitution by a wrongful vote. This charge served as an excuse for introducing all sorts of side questions. provocative of heated arguments, which soon degenerated Into threats and abuse. This morning It was evident that the dele gates had slept but little over night They were nervous and aggressive, and the gath ering goon became a pandemonium, In the course of which the rival camps hurled in sults at each other. M. üagnoi was accused by M. Andrieux of having sold himself to the other party. He dashed through the ranks of his supporters and struck his accuser on the head. When they had been separated it was found that M. Andrieux had been scratched on the hand, whereupon the Guesdists shouted "Assassins!" bound ed to their feet and left in a body, M. Guesde crying. "We have no longer any thing In common with murderers. The secessionists, representing more than a thousand groups and syndicates, met this afternoon in the Salle antler, formed a congress of their own and adopted resolu tions condemning the W'agram Socialists and favorable to the Ministerialists. Tribute to American Enterprise. LONDON, Sept. SO. The purchase of the Charing Cros3 & Hempstead Under ground Railroad charter by Mr. Yerkes and the other American capitalists associated with him, forms the text for interesting comment in the financial column of the Sunday Special, which says: "This Is a striking instance of the aggressive progress of American enterprise. Formerly Eu ropean capital supplied to the government of the United States and it helped to build most of the American steam rail ways. To-day American capitalists, not content with supplying money to the gov ernments of Great Britain and Germany are beginning to compete with English en terprise In that branch of elctrlcal ac tivity which promises the largest return. namely local electric railways. This cannot but be favorable. If America helps us to develop and to bring up to date our sys tem of electric traction she will confer as great a benellt upon us as we did upon her in providing the capital for her steam railways. KniRfr nnd Steyn Quarreled. LONDON. Sept. 30. An interesting report comes from Komatipoort, to the effect that Mr. Kruger, in a letter to his wife. announcing that he Is goinff on a six months htl'.day, said, in substance, that after the capture of Machadodorp, he knew the struggle was hopeless, and counseled moderation, but that Mr. hteyn s "arbi trary behavior overruled his counsels. Shah of Persia Sleets Abdul Harned. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 20. The Shah of Persia arrived here to-day and was re ceived by the Sultan with elaborate and brilliant ceremonies. A Nebraska Mystery. PLAINVXEW. Neb.. Sept. 80.-A. D. Iltens, aa old anä , reelected resident ot

this vicinity, was found dead this morning near his own door with a bullet hole In the right breast. Mr. Aikens's body was first discovered by his wife. The affair is shrouded In mystery. The dead man carried no firearms of any description and in his pockets when searched was found about $10 In money, thus doing away with the

theory of robbery. TROLLEY CAR IN A CREEK. Plunged Down a Hill and Thirty Pas sengers Were Hurt. WICHITA. Kan., Sept. 30. A heavily loaded street car dashed at top speed down College hill to-day, and at the foot of the incline Jumped the track, plunging into Chlsholm creek. Of the fifty passengers thirty were Injured. Among those most seriously injured are: MRS. FERGUSON, seventy-six years old. eye knocked out, ribs and legs broken; may die. MARGIE FOSTER, head crushed. MRS. J. A. M'GUIRE. lungs crushed and Injured internally. J. W. WILSON, back broken and head crushed; will die. MRS. J. W. WILSON, ere put out: will die. Mrs. McGuire, who was badly hurt, said: "A car seat was thrown Into me and I was crushed down into the water. A baby and Us mother was thrown in beside me. I picked the baby out of the water and gave it to Its mother. I think it was dead at the time. I did not know the mother." Motorman McGuire and officers of the streetrailway company are unable to account for the accident. COCHRAN'S VOICE CRACKED. Silver Ton sro ed Orator Underwent a Strain Saturday Mfflit. CHICAGO, Sept. 30. W. Bourke Cockran's voice failed him as the result of the great strain of speaking in the great auditorium of the Coliseum Saturday night to an audience of 12,000 persons. In consequence it was announced to-night that his engagement for Monday night at Jacksonville had been 'canceled. This action was taken at a conference with Senator James K. -Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, and Chairman Daniel McConvllle, of the speakers' bureau. TO SUPPRESS RACE RIOT. Troop of South Carolina Cavalry Sent to Georgetown. COLUMBIA, S. C, Oct. 1. This morning at 12:50 o'clock Governor McSweeney received a telegram from Mayor W. D. Mor gan, of Georgetown, S. C, appealing to have the militia ordered out to suppress a threatened race riot. The Governor immediately wired to Colonel Sparkman, of Georgetown, to have his cavalry troop hurried there. The trouble was caused by a negro killing a white man. Georgetown is on the coast and the negroes outnumber tne whites overwnelmlngly. A Woman In War. Boston Transcript. With all the stories current of what women have done for their own side in the Boer war, told either by themselves or by some of their admiring friends, there Is not one probably that can begin to compare rrom the point or general interest with the feats performed during the rebellion by Miss Elizabeth Van Lew, who died the other day in Richmond, at the age of eighty-four. She was loved for her minis trations to the Llbby -prisoners, and more than one who escaped from that place of torture, it is likely, has her to thank for the plans and schemes that led him to liberty. Not only this, but she found shel ter among her friends for the men who did eFcape And at this point In serving her government her cleverness was admitted to be of an unusuat type. It was this very gift, too, that made her the most scientific spy. probably, that any government ever had working in its interests. She was ab solutely noncatchable when she was securing information. And it has been said since the war that if General Grant had had a telephone at Richmond It would not have furnished him with more reliable and valuable Information than this wonderful women was able to dispatch to him, no matter how closely she was watched by the enemy. If Miss Van Lew after those exciting times saw fit to write a volume of reminiscences, it is not generally known. In these days when everyone seems to want a little flavor of history In romance It would make capital reading, and stand a chance of being "popular." Injections of Strenaonsness. Chicago Journal. The politicians have put General Apathy on the run. The campaign has warmed up in nne snape. "Gumshoe Bill" Stone, of Missouri, ad vises West Virginia Democrats to use shot guns. Senator Marion Butler, of North Carolina. prescribes tho same remedy for his State. Gustav Thellkuhl is hunting for the Hon. ""Web" Davis with a knife. One of the Indiana Prohibition candidates has been egged. Governor Roosevelt was basted with a scantling in Colorado. Mr. Turner, former minister to Liberia, had a sanguinary encounter with a creditor in Chicago, and fled to the peaceful shades of St. Louis. Citizens of Baraboo, Wis., cooled the head of a campaign orator in a horse trough. Let tne gooa wont go on. Hidden Dangers of Expansion. Starke County (Ind.) Republican. A. Howard-county farmer lost a cow in a very Queer manner one night last week. The animal grot out of pasture and in rummaging- through a summer kitchen she found and swallowed an old umbrella and a cake of yeast. The yeast fermented in the poor beast's breast, raised the umbrella and she died in horrible agony from expansion. It is said that the owner of the cow, formerly a sound-money man, an ardent expansionist and a strong sup porter of resident McKinley, has re nounced the Republican party, and is now out for Bryan and anti-expansion hot and heavy. Thus does the Democratic party win over voters from the Republicans. Rivalry. Philadelphia Inquirer. A North Carolina hen having laid an egg bearing the Initials of the Honorable William Jennings Bryan, the Indiana newspapers come to the front with tho grave assertion that a Hoosier spider has actually spun a weo in wnicn photographs of Mc Kinley and Roosevelt appear, with their names legibly spun beneath. To the In quirer this cornplte outclassing of the North Carolina nciion noes not necessarily mean that there will be a tidal wave in China, but It certainly signifies that the Tar Heel liars ought to be mishty chary of tackling those noosier fellows. Starve Held I p by Lone Highwayman. BOISE. Idaho. Sept. 30.The Ontario and Burns stage was held up to-day. seventy miles out of Ontario, by a lone highwayman. The robber stopped the stage by firing a shot across the road. He demanded the mail, which was thrown out. The stage was not further molested. It is not thought much of value was secured. Ills Latest Ilorror. Chicago Tribune. "Those Mansneld people," averred Uncle Allen Sparks, "are treating the Dowle elders as if they suspected them of being Youngers." Xot in Harmony. Washington Fost. Mr. Bryan rather approaches the limit when he makea hard-luck speeches from the seat of an automobile. Sure Vny to Get Them. Baltimore American. If Mr. Bryan wants big audiences he should arrange several debates with Mr. Hanna. To Car a Cold la One Dar Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All dru'fUU refund the money If It falls to cure. C V, Grove cnature U on each tor. 3.

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ALBERT COCHRAN TOOK TOISON "WHILE TALKING TO FRIENDS. He Died In Convulsions a Few Minute After Swallowing the Strychnine. Albert Cochran, twenty-eight years of age, a fireman on the Monon, after being called late last night to go out on his tun, appeared at the Monon roundhouse at Forest and Twenty-eighth streets, talked with the men about the rlace for a few minutes, and then drew a paper from his pocket, from the contents of which he prepared a drink which caused his death a thort time thereafter. The act of making the drink was noticed, and 'when questioned he said he was taking quinine. After drinking the solution he continued talking for a few moments, dropping then to the floor In convulsions, which lasted until his death. Dr. Hodges was called, but was unable to restore consciousness. Cochran said nothing which Indicated that he was about to commit eulclde, and the employes at the roundhouse were much surprised when they found the paper from which he took the supposed quinine labeled strychnine. Before Cochran fell to the floor he complained of a pain in his neck and asked one of the men to send at once for a doc tor. He was asked if he had not taken poison and he replied that he had not. His last words were, "Go for a doctor." In his pocket was found a whisky flask, nearly empty, and it was with the whisky he had mixed the strychnine. Engineer Benjamin Frentz, with whom Cochran has been running almost since the time he came, said he knew no trouble, no love affair or other reason why the young man, whom he considered straightforward and honest, should wish to kill himself. He also said he was not In the habit of using liquor to excess. Cochran came here about nine months ago from Michigan City, where his parents live, and boarded In the vicinity of the roundhouse. He has a brother living here who is employed as a salesman for a cigar house. DANGERS EVERYWHERE SCIENTISTS SAY WE HAVE JfO FLACE OF SAFETY ON LAND OR SEA. Disaster In Many Forme Liable to Overtake Any Locality Cities (That Fall and Rise. New York Mall and Express. Much surprise has been expressed this week that the people of Galveston intend to rebuild their city. In the face of the great disaster that is liable to be repeated at any time. The popular feeling seems to be that It is foolish to locate one's home in the presence of such danger. But science and history do not call the people of Galveston foolish. These great guides say It Is dangerous to live anywhere on this earth, and give facts and figures to prove it. From pole to pole danger abounds, and frightful catastrophes are liable to overtake human-' Ity at any spot on the globe. Science proves that not a square mile of the entire earth but has in some time of the ages been swept by flood, fire or glacier, or burled by volcanic eruptions, or violently shaken by earthquakes so that all human life there must have ended. There are prosperous cities where thou sands throng to-day that have been wiped out repeatedly and as often rebuild ed. There are cities that have never known disaster in historic times that are constantly threatened by nature. There are cities that have bullded dangers of their own as public improvements. An example of this state of affairs is the city of Quito, In Equador, where there Is an earthquake shock every day. Not a day has passed since the city was discovered by the Spaniards but the shock has been felt. Some are merely pleasant salutations. but others throw the people out of their houe3 and tumble their roofs after them. Many cities are fully as much exposed to wind and wave-as Galveston. In addition to coast cities, towns in the Ohio and Mis sissippi valleys are built below water level and are l.'able to destruction by freshets, as the disaster at Shawneetown recently proved. Others court the fate of Johns town with big reservoirs on high places where a broken wall would send millions of gallons of water over hundreds of houses. Austin, Tex., recently proved the reality of this danger, and Cincinnati has a death trap for many of Its residents in its huge j-eservolr on the eastern hills, under the shelter of which many houses stand. New Orleans lies low behind the levees, that are liable to break in any flood. SOME OTHER DANGERS. Man, seeking refuge from the floods In the mountains, places himself in the path of avalanches and landslides, or builds bis home on a volcano. As to earthquakes, there Is no place that has not felt them There is an erroneous and popular belief that only tropical regions are liable to severe earthquakes. Even the chilly plain of far Tartary have been torn by these shocks. Earthquakes have visited the city of Is'ew York within this century, that, were they to come to-day, might topple over the sky-scrapers and kill thousands on the streets. Tornadoes, lgnorantly called cyclone, ate liable to strike anywhere south of the polar regions, and where they cannot live the blizzard takes up the work ot scaring mankind. There is no reason why the Atlantic ocean should not sink Into a yawning gulf some night and set the great liners high and dry a thousand miles from port. There is no reason why the Rocky Mountains should not give place some night to a vas inland sea. These thing are ever lmml nent, but as they happen so far apart men forget and actually seem surprised and confounded when the thing expected for Centuries comes to pass. It is a well-known fact that the entire Atlantic seaboard is sinking at the rate of two feet a century from Cape Cod to Cape iiatteras. if it can sink that last it cer tainly has no very solid underpinning, and same day the props may let go all at once and where will New York be? Vast tracts of Holland are already far below the sur face of the sea, and the waves are kept out with the great dikes, and science says that Holland. Belgium, Denmark and all the southern coast of the Baltic are sinking steadily. The entire continent of Atalanta has gone down under the wave why should not other continents follow? To balance these depressions, some spots are rising. About one-half of the Pacinc islands are being elevated. So are the Veot Indies, the west coast of South America and Spltxenbergen. The entire series of Japanese Islands rose from the waves In a comparatively brief time. 13 THE EARTH SOLID? Schoolboys will look you in the eye and say that the earth is a solid mass with a molten Interior and a solid crust. Seien tlsts are not so confident. Most of them think It is as the boy says, but very few rest with that statement. Of late the theory that the earth is hollow, and con lists of a crust say a thousand miles thick. is gaining ground. The hollow earth can be constructed from the La Plac ntbular hypothesis more reasonably than can the colli esxth, tten tajr, eal tin rrzzlzx ü

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The hollow earth also furnishes the best ex planations for tides, earthquakes and vol canoes. But as men have gone Into the earth but 6.000 feet they really know nothing about iL ' And as If earth Itself did not abound with dangers enough, there are aerolites that go hurtling through space, smashing a house or a man here and there. Lightning and ' cloudbursts add to the terrors, so that one could hardly pick a more dangerous planet tor a namtation. But to come to specific Instances, the earthquake at Lisbon. Nov. 1. 171. Is one of the most terriflc Part of the city sunk six hundred feet. The sea was driven back for a moment and returned In a wave fifty feet high. Sixty thousand perished In six minutes yet Lisbon flourishes in the same spot. Simultaneously with the Lisbon disaster the volcano at Kotluggia burst out In Iceland, and the springs in Bohemia were dried up, only to burst out in waters deep with ochre. Many towns in northern Af rica were also destroyed. The entire area shaken was six times as large as France. Seventeen days later a shock from the same center passed under Boston and tumbled the chimneys down, killed fish in the harbor and sent ships ashore. It passed on through jsew England into the wilds of America. Nine hours later a wave twenty feet high overwhelmed St. Martin s. In the Yv'est Indies. Had New York been standing with Its tall buildings then the story might have been longer. LANDS THAT SWING. In 1S11 three hundred miles of earth about New Madrid, Mo., t-hook constantly for months. Lakes were formed and mys teriously drained. Mud shot out from fis sures as high as the trees. These disturb ances ceased suddenly at the moment of the great earthquake on March 20, 1S12, which destroyed Caracas, in Venezuela. Thousands of farms now flourish in the Missouri district and Caracas is alive epam. The Land That Swings Like a Ham mock" is the name given by Indians to the territory about San Salvador. Central America. That city was utterly destroyed by an earthquake on March 19, 1873. but the people had grown alarmed and had deBerted It, so only 600 were killed. It flour ishes to-day. No century In history has been without severe earthquakes In southern Italy. Thousands have perished there. Vesuvloua adds to the danger of that land, and the town of Torre del Greco, which lies under the mountain, may meet the fate of Pompeii and Herculaneum any day. It has teen partially destroyed reveral times. In 1783 100,000 were killed in Calabria by an earthquake, but that Is forgotten. The Mediterraneum has been the center of many destructive shocks. On the day of the battle of Actium. 31 B. C, lu.OUU perished by shock in Judea. The day of the Crucifixion a great earthquake occurred. accompanied with darkness. The same phenomenon was repeated on Jan. 22 1835, when the volcano Coseguina, in Central America, became active. On various occasions about 200,000 have perished in earthquake shocks at Antioch 250.000 in one day. On February 20. 1R3S, the city or Concepclon, in Routn America, was destroyed for the fourth time. There were 3J0 shocks In two weks. On that occasion a wave thirty feet high broke on the island of Juan Fernandez, and fire came to the surface of the ocean through 400 feet of water. The sea turned black, had a foul. odor and millions of th were killed. Japan and South America have been shaken so often and fo violently that an earthquake there is hardly worth notice. in l.Vil a wave traversed the Pacific from Japan and broke on th American coat sailors say a wave over fifty feet high Is an impossibility, but a wave ninety feet high destroyed Callao. Peru, in Mexico. the East Indies, China, Argentine, Hawaii, the Philippines. California-these place have been the cen of tearful disasters from earthquakes and volcanoes. Iiut in ?plte of these terrors men live calmly on. Most men never study nature. and po do not know thete things. Others read of them in their sehoolttooks, and forget them along with their Latin and my thology. Only the professional scientists keep them ever in mind, and these are not alarmed, for they know there is really no safe place on earth, anyhow. Sir. Haydcn's Strenuous Urn. Corralles (N. M.) Times. The grittiest hen in America lives over in Alsea. Her right to be called a brave hen has been tested, and no one who reads these lines will deny that she Is ever likely to shrink from any duty, public or private. She is not only a brave hen, but a "strenuous" hen. She Is the proicrty of one of the Hayden brothers. They also own a thrashing machine. The latter was taken out of the shed for the rirst time last week and a small field of grain was thrashed to tsce that the machine was in good running order. When the jub was finished "the machine was returned to the shed, when, to the amazement of all, there in the corner of the separator sat the strenuous hen. Tnder her was a nest of egss that she was endeavoring to hatch. She had been on the nest when the machine was taken out. She was there when the belts and pulleys began to whiz, .when the fan began to miik and when the riddlors began to shake and rattle. The wind from the fan ruffled her . feathers and almost took her breath, but. like the boy on the burning deck, she stayed at her post. What her thoughts were when the swift syllnder began to chew up straw cannot be guessed. When found the hen was uninjured. There was dust In her teeth and a somewhat frightened look In her eye, but she was on her nest. Of the eggs all were raft save one. eiT Potato Bust. Steuben (Ind.) Republican. Joseph Barnes brought to this oClce last Saturday a specimen of tue new potato bug that recently made its appearance in the vicinity of Hogback lake. They eat the potatoes, not the vines. The bugs are a vicious looking insect, are waspshaped. light velvety brown In color and about two Inches in length. They have three leg on each side, the two hind legs are large, th middle legs Bmall. and the two front legs have regular ground mole paws for burrowing through tha ground. They ure wingless and cannot crawl up the side of any smooth surface Ilka a cigar box. Just what damage thtie bun will do is yet to be n. We hope It will not matirlallia Into pt. as this country now fcia all t Izzzzx pt:U It cirta to Czzl

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