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MILKS HUMPHREYS RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FIRE ENGINEERS.

TO El THE STRiKi FLAX THAT MAY HE PUT I"TO EF FECT EARLY THIS "WEEK. Result of a Long-Distance Conference Yesterday Iletwefii President Rarns and President Schwab. IF TEE MEN RETURN TO WORK SHAFFER'S RIGHT TO REPRESENT TIIE5I 3IAY RE RECOGMZED. At Present the Amalgamated Association IIa o Connection Trith the Steel Corporation. SHAFFER NONCOMMUNICATIVE RUT IT IS SAID THE MEX WILL RE ORDERED RACK. OX TUESDAY. Strikers Alleged to Have Crippled the Dnquesne "Works Denial from the Mill Menneers. PITTSBURG. Aug. SI. There Is a possibility that the great strike will be ended next week. President Burns, of the "Window Glass Workers' Association, and President Schwab, of the United States Steel Corporation, conferred over the long distance telephone to-day. President Shaffer was aware of the action of Mr. Burns, but both declined to discuss the matter. It was learned to-night, however, from reliable authority, in spite of the secrecy maintained by Messrs. Burns and Shaffer, that something: decisive may result. It Is paid that President Schwab declined to have any conference with President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, on the groundä that he no longer represented any of the men employed by the corporation. All union men have left the employ of the company. If these steel workers return td work at once and the mills resume operations in full, the whole matter is said to assume a different aspect and a discussion between the officials of the trust and the Amalgamated officiate can take place. Immediately after this conversation Mr. Durns went to President Shaffer and urged him to call a meeting of the executive board of the organization at once so the men could be ordered to work at the irliest moment possible. It Is understood this order will be issued not later than Tuesday and would have been issued before then had it been possible to get the executive committee of the organization together. President Shaffer, while declining to discuss the matter, remained at his office until a late hour to-night and was much occupied. Appearances indicated that he was preparing for some important move, but nothlns could be learned from him of the actual situation. THE nUUlESNE MILLS. Strikers Claim a Victory, hat Managers Deny the Assertion. PITTSBURG. Pa.. Aug. 31. The steel atrikers are claiming to-night the biggest victory since the fight began in the closing down of the open hearth department of the Dequesne steel works. The Amalgamated people claim that the open hearth men have struck and the entire plant will have to close down when the men fail to return Sunday night for work. The Carnegie steel people make light of the matter, and say the close down of the open hearth department to-day was merely the usual Saturday afternoon close, and maintain that the men will be on hand for work Sunday evening as heretofore and that no f toppage will result. They claim the trouble at the plant Friday night lias been exaggerate! very much; that instead of a large numbr of men having quit work, only a few boys were escorted from the mill by policemen and the places of the ejected were filled at onre. Until to-morrow night it will not be known certainly which side is right in its contention the Amalgamated people claiming to be able to tie up the plant and the steel company saying they will resume without any material inconvenience. W. F. Porter, of MrKeeV Rock, who was a delegate to the recent convention of the Amalgamated Association at Milwaukee, ay: "I note an articl in the Labor World, of this week. statl::g that this ftrike Is Shaffer's strike. I wish it positively sti ted that every delegate at the Milwaukee convention, including myself, knew that the strike would be called In case the steel combine failed to agree to the term of Ihe wage settlement as laid down Tn the convention. You cannot make it t,o tror.g that the present strike had the in-dors-ment of every deb gate. President Shaffer cannot take up Cie refutation of the rtic!-. but every delegate to the convention should und i willing to r-a." ü:c"l Corporation tu-duV COnMioi..! tn

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add to its number of men at work In several of the plant3 that have resumed since the strike began, but the Amalgamated people insist that thj additions are of no value, and that the strike situation remains without change. . Neither side to the controversy expects much to develop until after Labor day, outside of the Duquesne probabilities. After Monday, however, it is probable decided and effective moves will be made by each. A telegram from Smithfield to-night says: "The big steel strike has at last affected the coke region, and as a result orders have been received from headquarters for a wholesale banking of ovens in this section of Fayette county. Tho coke workers and miners here have been having prosperous times for a long period. The miners have been averaging anywhere, from J.X10 to lö a day, while the coke drawers have fared equally as well. This move will result in nearly 400 men being forced into idleness, and many are now leaving for other parts of the region. The plants will work tlve days a week instead of six, as has been the general run of things for some time." A report from Wellsville says: "To-day was pay day to both union and nonunion men. The strikers received their first strike benefits and the nonunionlsts their first full pay, taken together about $13,000 being distributed between the two factions, and yet no serious trouble has occurred, principally because the nonunion men have judiciously kept themselves under cover during the day, while more than one hundred strikers are constantly on the streets." The strikers at Monessen are jubilant tonight over the result of the trials of the three Amalgamated strikers, whose case on the charge of illegal liquor selling came up to-day at Greensburg. The grand jury brought in a true bill against the accused men, but the evidence against them was not strong enough, and the indictment was dismissed. Willard'Elkins, chief clerk in the tin plate mill here, was the prosecutor. There is still no change in the local strike situation. The strikers of Canal Dover are preparing a petition for the absolution of the injunction restraining them from picketing the vicinity of the mills, and are also making an effort to get the City Council to impeach the mayor and remove him from office. Two of the charges will be absence from town beyond the time specified by law without appointing a deputy In his absence, and that he is still employed by the trust as attorney and acting as mayor at the same time. Injunction Applied For. COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. 31. The American Tin-plate Company to-day applied to the United States District Court here for an injunction against the striking employes of their plant at lrondale, O. Instances are cited of violence and intimidation, and it is charged that a conspiracy has been entered into by the Amalgamated Association, which is composed of insolvent persons, from whom there -is no adequate remedy in an action for damages. Connseleil Aenlnst Violence. CANAL DOVER, O.. Aug. 31. Secretary Bishop, of the State Board of Arbitration, was here to-day and addressed the strikers. Reporters were barred, but it is understood tho mission of Mr. Bishop was to counsel the men against acts of violence. The strikers have ignored the court's order restraining them from picketing the mills and are having a petition prepared asking the court to dissolve the injunction against them. 1'lKht Near a 1111. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 31. Eight or ten nonunion and a similar number of union men, the former employed in the Crescent mill, became involved in a quarrel In the vicinity of the mill this morning. Blows were struck as a preliminary to a brief fight with stone and the drawing of a revolver by a nonunion man who. it Is said, tired tho bullet slightly injuring a bystander. No arrests were made. CAUGHT AFTER TWO YEARS. Robert Dnncnn, Charged with Embezzling $2.r00 at Knoxville. BALTIMORE. Md., Aug. SI. Chief of Police Atkins, of Knoxville, Tsnn., arrived here to-day bearing a requisition signed by Governor McMillin, of Tennessee, for Robert Duncan, aped fifty years, who is wanted on the charge of embezzling $2,5oQ I from tho Southern Brass and Iron Company. Duncan was arrested and committed to the custody of the chief of police, who left with his prisoner for Knoxville. The alleged embezzlement was committed in July, lwn), after which Duncan and his family left the State. The authorities have been searching for him ever since and Anally located him here. Duncan was bookkeeper for the lirm. BOWIE OFFERS $2,000,000. KinR of Zlon Seeks to Ruy a Great Tract of Land and a Luke Harbor. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Aug. Cl.-A special from Kenosha to the Sentinel says: "It is stated on what seemed to be reliable authority that John Alexander Dowie has made an offer to the Winthrop Harbor and Dock Company for the purchase of all the holdings of the company. The company owns thousands of acres of land, hnd has a lakft frontage of two miles. The price demanded, about J2.0ou.om), js said to have been offered by D wie. The tract of land adjoins Dowie's Zlon City. The principal portion of the land Is taken up by the village of Winthrop Harbor, which is the property of the company." OLD HOSTELRY VANISHES. End of the Tremont House an One of Chicago's Lead I lie Hotel. CI I IC A HO, Aug. 31. The existence of the Tremont Hovse as a hotel ended at midnight to-night. After a career as one of the leading hotels of tho city for sixtyeight years the structure passes into possession of the Northwestern University, which will tarn it into a pharmacy, dentistry and law school, a branch of the parent Institution at Evanston. The university purchased the property a few months uko fron the Couth estate, the price beirg

LDIAAPOLlS, SUNDAY

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS HOEY IS UNDER ARREST AT NOGALES.

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SULTAN

HIS TRAITS AD CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBED BY Z. T. SWEENEY. Europe's "Sick Man" Cultured anil n Dabbler in Carpentry, Painting: and Music. BIGOTRY HIS EVIL GENIUS THIXKS THERE IS '0 SIX IX KILLING A "CHRISTIAN DOG." Lives In nn AtmospT.ere of Intrigue and Is In Constant Fear of Reiner Assassinated. 5,500 PERSONS IN HIS HAREM SO MANY WOMEN THAT DOMESTIC PEACE IS OUT OF THE QUESTION. Elder Sweeney Hopeful that IVhen the Empire Falls It Will Become a Byzantine Free State. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind.. Aug. 31. The following interview with the Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, of this city, who was consul general at Constantinople during the Harrison administration, with reference to the personal character of Abdul Hamid. Sultan of Turkey, is interesting at this time because of the recrudescence of the Turkish question, owing to the rupture of diplomatic relations between France and the Porte. In reply to a question Mr. Sweeney said that, "personally, the Sultan of Turkey is a gentleman, a man of refinement and culture and very quiet manner. He is a carpenter by trade and employs considerable of his time at that diversion. He also is fond of painting and music and other fine arts. The trouble with the Sultan is that he is the victim of a narrow, bigoted and bloodthirsty religion which teaches him that it is right to kill a man if he does not embrace the Mohammedan faith. He is at his worst when most under the influence of his religion. He is not only the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, but he Is the caliph of the Mohammedan religion, and this office he regards In a much higher light than the sultanate." "Such being his character, how do you account for the fact that he Is said to have snot his doctor, who was treating him for earache?" IX CONSTANT FEAR. "It is accounted for easily by his natural timidity and his constant fear of death. Living in an atmosphere of constant intrigue and employing, it is said, three hundred paid spies who are naturally trying to earn an honest living by looking up some bugaboo story, he Is in a state of constant fear. They give the fire alarm in Constantinople and upon the Bosporus by shooting cannons, and so great is his fear of insurrection that he will not allow a fire alarm to be given until he ij waked up and told beforehand the nature of the alarm. Under this fear of assassination, it was but natural for him to feel, when a keen pain struck through his head, as a result of the manipulations of the doctor, that a chirp instrument had pierced his ear, and he doubtless sprang up and shot him in self-defense. This is the natural explanation provided the event o'ecurred at all, of which I have some doubt." "Well, bit he is said to have killed his brother's harem and to keep his brother confined in a living grave?" "His brother is confined, not In a living grave, but in the palace of the Chcraghan, one of tho most beautiful marble structures on the Bosporus. When his brother, who also was his predecessor, was adjudged insane, he was deposed, sent to this palace, which has since been carefully guarded, so much so that when I used to go up the Bosporus in a little steam yacht provided by our government for its representatives, my captain and crew were obliged to steer the vessel far out from shore in obedience to Imperial orders. Whether this brother is yet living or whether, if dead, he was assassinated, no one knows except those most intimately interested. The idea that he killed his brother's harem is undoubtedly a mistake and derived from an old custom of the Turkish Sultans, begun on the battlefield of Kassova by Bayezid. the son of Amurath. Amurath was assassinated by a Servian prince on the threshold of a great victory which he had won. his two sons, Bayezid and Yakub. fighting one on his right and one on his left. Bayezid. learning that his father was dead, immediately rose up and slew his brother, Yakub, pronouncing the sentence: 'Murder is better than sedition.' For centuries this was taken as a precedent by Turkish Sultans to slay all opposing claimants to the throne. This, however, had fallen into desuetude long before the time of the present Sultan." A CONVENIENT GATE. "How about the gate leading into the Bosporus to discharge the bodies of his victims?" "That. too. Is another wornout custom. At the Seraglio Palace, the old residence of the Sultans, there Is such a gate shown and no doubt many an intriguing wife or odallsuuo has been treated to the bowstring

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THE DEMOCRATIC MACHINE LAUNCHES MAC U I RE FOR MAYOR. and her body put into a sack and weighted and slid out through this old gate into the running Bosporus. But that palace has not been a residence for Sultans for several decades. It is now part of the Imperial Ottoman Museum. The present Sultan, shortly after his accession to the throne, erected the Yildiz (Star) Palace some three miles north of the Seraglio Palace, which has since been his residence. It is not within a half mile of the Bosporus and some three hundred feet above that stream. That assas:-' .ations and deaths by poison frequently occur at the palace cannot be doubted, but the remains are not disposed of in the above mentioned manner." "Do you think he poisoned one of his wives which he was obliged to return to her master according to late reports?" "There is but one master in Turkey and that is the Sultan. No one could compel him to return a wife against his will, provided she was an Ottoman subject. If she were not an Ottoman subject he eoufd not marry her against her will. It is said that he occasionally takes a foreign wife or odalisque (concubine.) in fact, I was approached once in regard to a beautiful American woman, but I declined to be a mediator in such a transaction and the scheme was not pursued. The young woman afterwards married an Englishman.. It is said the number of persons connected with the imperial harem is 5,(ju. Under these, ch'cumstance it would be unreasonable to expect absolute tranquillity." "What do you think of the future of his empire?" "I believe it Is nearing its end. "When or how U will fall cannot be foretold. But if France and Russia have entered into an agreement the treaty of Berlin will be broken, and 1 don't care how soon it Is. I don't wish to see Russia obtain possession, for that would not better matters, but I should like to see a Byzantine free state under control of and open alike to all the powers of the world, and this, in my Judgment, will be the result of the breaking of the Berlin treaty." Saltan Wants Constans Dark. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 31.-M. Bapst, counselor of the French embassy, has received from the Pork - a copy of the telegram sent the Ottovian umb-esador at Paris to communicatt.- to M. Delca?-e. the French foreign minist! ;-. This telegram, while giving vague asn. 'anna, formulates nothing concrete. It reu sts a resumption of diplomatic reiatiors between the two countries, with a view of reaching a satisfactory settlement of the matters in dispute. MUST ENTER PITTSBURG W A HASH RAILWAY HAS A CON TH A CT WORTH 3IILLIOS. Has Agreed to Handle Yearly Four Million Tons of the Steel Corporation's Products. PITTSBURG, Aug. Cd. There are good and cogent reasons why the Wabash Railroad desires to make Pittsburg one of its terminal points. In a safe in the 'office of President Joseph Ramsey, jr., of St. Louis, is a contract for the transportation of 4,0ii0,00 tons of iron and steel products yearly for the Carnegie company. President Ramsey himself secured this contract, probably the largest single contract ever got by a railroad company, conditioned that the Wabash own and operate a line into this city. When he closed the contract with the Carnegie Company he provided that nothing in the way of a combination should Invalidate it. When the United States Steel Corporation took over the Carnegie Company, the contract was included in the deal just as much as the plant and other assets of the latter company. In order to reach Pittsburg it was necessary for the Wabash to get control' of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, a deal involving the purchase of $7.o)o,ooo or $s,ono,ono in securities and the construction of terminals in Pittsburg at the expense of several millions more. The decision of Judge McClung, rendered on Friday, permitting the Wabash Company the right to construct a bridge over the Monongahela, means tTiat work on the new line to connect with the Wheeling & Lake Erie will be pushed to completion without delay and that Pittsburg will soon have another of the great trunk lines of the country. The volume of business represented by tons of this character can be partly comprehended by the knowledge that It would fill between l.TO.ono ari(j I40,u0 cars, necessitating from eleven to twelve long trains daily to move it. These cars put on a single track would make a train l.CMJ miles in length. MUST ABOLISH POLYGAMY. Alaskan Indians Ordered to Become Civilized lSf Vaccinated. TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 31. The revenue cutter Rush has returned to Sitka from Yakutat. two hundred miles westward, where she vent to quell serious Indian troubles which have caused great alarm among the white?. Dr. Mulroney, of the Rush, vaccinated 10 Indians, and Governor Brady made two addresses, pointing out that they must obey the laws and refrain from disorder. The nuives were also ordered to stop practicing polygamy. LAWTON'S PORTRAIT. It Will Soon b- Placed on One of the .ev Isue of IotnKe Stamps. WASHINGTON, Aur. Cl.-The War Department has been informed that the postal authorities have decided to place a portrait of Gen. II. W. Lawton, th military hero who lost his life at San Mateo, in the Philippines, on one of the new issue of postage stamps.

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A COLORED MAN IS ACTUALLY LEGALLY HANGED AT CANTON, GA.

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FIFTY-FOUR VICTIMS OF THE GREAT NORTHERN ACCIDENT. Forty-One Persons Killed and the Bodies of All but Five Cremated In the Debris of the Cars. THIRTEEN LABORERS HURT THREE OF THE INJURED DYING AND OTHERS 3IAY NOT RECOVER. Assistant General Superintendent P. It. Downs and Ills Son Among Those Who Perished. FREIGHT TRAIN BROKE AWAY DASHED DOWN A MOUNTAIN AND STRUCK A PASSENGER TRAIN. Strlnp: of Casualties Caused by Fire and Explosions Fnirville Wreck Death List Increased. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. SI. All reports show that the wreck on the Great Northern, forty miles east of Kalispell, Mont., was the worst in the road's history and one of the most terrible in the annals of American railroading. Thirty-four lives were lost and ten persons injured. Three of the injured probably will die and the others were seriously hurt. All the victims except three were Scandinavians. By strenuous and heroic efforts fifteen of the bodies were taken from the wrecked cars. All the other victims were cremated, including Superintendent P. L. Downs and his son, T. Kirk Downs. Some reports say at least fortyone persons perished. There is a heavy grade at the scene of the wreck. Two engines had taken a train of twenty-eight freight cars up this grade and had drawn off to take water. While doing this all the twenty-eight cars started down the grade. The runaway train dashed down the grade at frightful speed and crashed into the rear of a passenger train near the siding at Nyack. Superintendent Downs's private car was attached to the passenger, and next to it was a day coach filled with railroad laborers from Duluth. As the runaway train sped by the switch it struck a caboose and day coach on the siding,, wrecking them. Fire immediately started from the oil lamps in the caboose. The point where the wild train crashed into the passenger was several hundred feet away, and it was two and a half hours before the llames reached the main wreck. Meanwhile frantic efforts were made to take out the dead and injured. The wreck was piled high and wedged into almost hopeless confusion, and in spite of superhuman efforts the flames burst through the wrecked cars before the work was completed. J. II. Blair, colored cook in Mr. Downs's car, was taken out alive, but died in a few minutes. It was impossible to get at the bodies of Superintendent Downs arid his son. The runaway tore down the hill at lightning speed, rounding the most severe curves at a speed of upwards of seventy miles an hour where regular trains barely crawled along. With a roar it burst around the curve, and, what is most remarkable, jumped a split switch, which would have turned it to the side track, and crashed into the passenger train. There was neither time nor opportunity for escape. Mr. Downs's car and that of the laborers was smashed into kindling wood, the occupants of the private car meeting instant death. BURNED LIKE TINDER. The debris and shingles and lumber of the freight burned like tinder. The train crew was forced .to back from Its work of rescue by the flames. One man worked his way as far as the private car, where he saw the dead bodies of Mr. Downs and his son and dragged out the body of the cook. In the laborers' car many of the forty-six occupants were so pinned in that they could not be reached and burned before the eyes of the spectators. The fire was so tierce that the rear sleeper could not be saved, though it had not left the track. Its occupants were hurried into forward cars, which were hauled ahead out of the reach of the fire. The flames extended to the brush alongside the track and burned the telegraph poles. A wire broke, and this followed by a storm, greatly retarded elegraphic news of the wreck. The first news sent went to Kalsepell when -ne wreckers and all the doctors in that town were ordered to the scene. The injured were given every attention and as soon as possible the train with its burden of dead, dying and Injured was taken to Kalsepell. Colonel Downs was one of the mot popular railroad men ever stationed here. He leaves a widow, now vi?itir.g in Bakerslield. Vt., and one daughter. Mrs. Rupert Blue, of San Francisco. Mr. Downs and his son left Monday in the private car with his guests. Lieut. Victor Blue, an American naval officer, and wife. They accompanied their guests as far east as Minot. N. D., and were returning home when the wreck occurred. Kirk Downs was about twenty-one years old and was employed as secretary by his father. P. L. Downs, the dead superintendent, was born Aprii 8. 1S47. in Ireland. He entered the railway kcrvlce April 1,

as a brakeman on a passenger train on the Burlington branch of the Central Vermont Railroad. In 16 he became master of trains on the Louisville division of the L. &. N. Railroad, then comprising the main line of the Bardstown & Glasgow branches of the Knoxville division and the Chesapeake & Ohio branch. May 1. 15, to Dec. 31, 1V, he was superintendent of the same division and branch, all on the Louisvi'le & Nashville Railroad. For a year ending April 30. lHd, he was trainmaster of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad. He was made superintendent of the northern division of this road on May 1, 1S91. From May 17. 1S03, to July 1, ISttf, he was superintendent of transportation. He was made assistant general superintendent July 1, 1SD6. which he held for" six months, when he was made assistant superintendent of the Atlanta & West Point Railway and the Western Railway of Alabama. In September, 1S37, ho was appointed superintendent of the same roads, which position he held until November, 1W9. At this period he went to the Great Northern, being made assistant general superintendent Dec. 1, 1S1, for the Great Northern lines west of Minot, N. D. His appointment as vice president of the Spokane Falls & Northern would have become effective to-day, Sept. 1. Forty-One Deaths Reported. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 01. A Pioneer Press special from Kalispell, Mont., says: "The wreck at Nyack last night has resulted in forty-one deaths, and in all probability more will follow. Five dead weic brought to Kalispell, with thirteen wounded and seriously hurt, one of whom has since died. Of the forty-three men in the day coach on the rear of the train only thirteen were saved, and only five dead weregot out of the burning ruins, the remainder being cremated, it being impossible to find even their bones, nothing but ashes remaining when the tire burned out. The scenes at the catastrophe were heartrending in the extreme, there being many poor creatures pinned in among the tvekage, while the passengers ami trainmen, were doing all in their power to rescue them. "The wreckage took fire immediately after the collision, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the few saved were taken from the ruins. Several men were loudly calling for help, begging that if they eruld not be got out they be killed rather than suffer death by tho rapidly approaching flames, i'eople were compelled, by reason of the intense beat, to stand aside and see the victims being burned alive, powerless to lend aid or assistance. "Ten cars of shingles were upon the rear of the freight train that caused the wreck, and as soon as it struck the standing passenger train the cars burst and the shingles were thrown in all directions over the wrecked passenger cars. In almost an instant the whole was a mass of flames, and the work of rescue was rendered dangerous. "Assistant General Superintendent Downs was at supper when the cars struck, and it is the general opinion that he, together with his young son, were killed instantly and that they did not suffer." "The railroad company at once dispatched trains with medical aid. "It appears that the cause of the wreck was that the freight .train of twenty-fight cars was at Essex and that the head engine went forward, leaving a helper engine in the rear to hold the train. The helper engine set the air brakes and left the train standing on the track and went to coal up. Conductor Matthews was in the ollice getting orders and both brakemen were with the engines. It is believed that the air leaked, and that the train being on a steep grade slipped away without the train crews knowing it and clashed down the mountain at a tremendous rate of speed, variously estimated at from seventy-five to 1(h) miles an hour, going down the hill a distance of seventeen miles, when it overtook the passenger train. This train was moving in the same direction as the runaway, otherwise the disaster would have been greater. The men on the passenger train had not the slightest warning of their danger. There is nothing of the wreck left but smoldering ashes and bent and twisted iron rods and chains, the iron parts of the cars. "Mrs. Downs was notified of her husband's death at Boston, where she is visiting friends. The names of the killed and wounded are unobtainable. Those in the hospital are so seriously injured it is impossible to gather their namps. Conductor Matthews; who was in charge of the freight train, is almost crazed with grief over the accident and his trainmen are likewise affected."

The Company's Advices. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 51. Advice received at the Great Northern headquarters in this city place th total number of dead as a result of the wreck at Essex, Mont., at thirty-six. The number injured was thirteen, and at least three arc fatally hurt. The remains of the dead recovered, together with the injured, were taken to Kalispell, and the lattvr are in the hospitals at that place receiving medical attendance. The body of Superintendent P. L. Downs was recovered late to-day. It was so badly charred that identification was onlv possible through articles found ruar the'boov. The body of his son it- as yet unreco erelj, and it is feared that it was incinerated. No list of the dead other than that a I read given has been received. The others killed were Scandinavian laborers, and it is Impossible to identify them owing to the condition in which their lwdies were found. Downs's Body Identified. KALISPELL. Mont.. Aug. 31. The body of Assistant Superintendent Downs, cremated in the Great Northern wreck near here last night, was identified at thmorgue here this evening. The identification was made positive by the finding of a watch bearing Mr. Downs's name in the clothing. The body is mangled beyond description. The name? of the laborers who are at the hospital here are as follows: D. M. Cooley. Peter Lachance, Dir.iel Machan. John N. Rhodes. August Rolff. John Snllard, Louis Miller. Arthur Platts. Daniel Hope. i. t. Olson, Charles Gallagher. Jchn E. Ericson. DEATH LIST TVETY-ON E. More Victim of the Steamboat City of Trenton Epnou. PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Aug. 31. The list ef dead as the result of th explosion of a boiler on the steamboat City of Trenton in the Delaware river last Wednesday, has now reached twenty-one. Sixteen bodies' have been identified and five still await identification at the morgue. Eight bodies were recovered to-day in the vicinity ef the disaster. Nine persons are missing and the tlve unidentified are probably among ICONTINUED ON'PAGE 3, COL.

PRICK FIVE CENTS.

MINISTER CONSTANS LEAVES TURKEY IN DISGUST.

!( THEIR LIVES THREE WOMEN OF INDIANA COM MITTED SUICIDE. One Chose Drowning, Another Hanged Herself to a Tree, and a Third Drank Acid. A PBIEST AGAINST A LODGE FORESTERS OF VALPARAISO COM. PLAINED TO IHSHOI ALEIIDING. Father Mnench Explained that th Catholic Church Opposed the Secret Order. 'KNOW - NOTHING' CLUB DRINKERS OF RUSSIAVILLC I1AF FLED REVENUE OFFICERS. Jacob Stamp, a Dnnkard, Refnaed ttt Encourage Arrest of 3Ien that Robbed Him. cctal to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU. Ind., Aug. 31. The body of Nora. Dinsmore was found in the Maumet liver, at Toledo. Her father and brother went to Toledo in search of her, and this evening they telegraphed the news of her tuicidejo her mother here. She had been absent" from home only twenty-four hours. The Rirl left home secretly'. She had been employed at the dressmaking slioji of Miss Thomas, on Broadway. For two years she and Ernest Themas, brother of the proprietress of the shop, had been sweethearts, and it was not known that they had any trouble. They were expected to be married. She always hael lived with her family, on West Main street. She never had been to Toledo until she went there to end her life. Yesterday a letter was received from her bidding her family and friends good bye and expressing the hope that Thomas would win "an angel wife." The letter was written in rhyme. Miss Thomas said this evening: ' Miss Dinsmore always was fond of the water, and it is no surprise to me that she chose suicide by drowning." A neighbor said Miss Dinsmore once asked her about morphine. An investigation will be made to discover tho cause of the girl's killing herself. Her body will be brought to this city. , HANGED HERSELF TO TREE. Suicide of .Mrs. Sarah Smith, Wife of n Cns County Farmer. Sj-ccial to tho Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind.. Aug. Cl.-Mrs. Sarah Smith, wife of a prominent farmer of Cass county, committed suicide last night by hanging herself with her apron strings to the limb of a tree in the orchard near the house. She had piled stoe wood under th tree on which to stand while she adjusted the noose, after which she had kicked tho pilo of wood from tinder he r. Her husband missed Ufr this morning when he arose. She was fifty years old and had been in bad health. DRANK CARIIOMC ACID. Snlelde of the Trvenly-Flve-Vear-Old Wife of a nrotvnstnfTii Man. -"portal to Xhf Indianapolis Journal. RROWNSTOWN, Ind., Aug. 51. Mr?. John Martin committed suIHde by taking earbolic acid and th-n jumping into White river a mile north of this town this evening. The water was only about three fct ileep. so she waded out and started toward town. She was seen to fnU when she bad gone a short distance. She died where sh fell. She mailed a bttrr to her husband as she passed the postoffice. tilling him to be good te the children arid not to loolc for her. She was twenty-live years old and leaves three small children. OLD WOMAN STARVIXi HERSELF. She Is 112 Years Old and Hopes to Die 'Refore the Files Come Again." Filial to h Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind.. Aug. 31. Mrs. Lucy Washington, supposed to be the oldest colored woman in Indiana, Is dying at the county poorhouse from voluntary starvation. Sliei has been trying to end her exl?tanco ever sine' she was taken to the poorhouse five months ago. " hope to die before the fiies come again." she says. A month ago she was found at the foot of a stairway with an arm ar.d r'As broken. She hurled herself down purposely, hop!rg to die from the effect, llr broken bones knit rapidlv and she tried another method of se!f-dc;-tructl -n. starvation. For three weeks not a uiniKl of food 4as passed her lips, she n fusing even wate r. She i raid to be at least 112 years old. At nr. time ghe was a servant in the family of President Madi-on. A PRIEST AGAIST A LODGE. Trouble at Valparaiso Carried II e fore I!Im1i Alrnllns. s'rUl to tli In-iiaiapoiis Journal. VALPARAISO. Ind.. Aug. 31. The tri.:!.! that arose- here last Tu-'.-day when the priest of the Catholic church refu.-ed td allow the Order of Foresters to attend the funeral service over the body of a brother FurcoUr, D4kI Dalle y, grow a instead oX