Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 September 1902 — Page 2

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Weekly Courier. C. DOAMB. Pnfcliakee. JABPEB. l l t l INDIANA.

Marie Henriette, queen of the Belgians, died suddenly at Spn, Belgium, on the 1 '. t h SLu hud ben ill for eev oral mouths. An expert of the agricultural derart incut at Washington figure that the corn crop of Missouri will he lose to 160,000,000 bushels. Louia Von Reucau, a Gorman mining Xpert, was imprisoned fT i0 hours In a tnnuei in Grose mountain, Colo-4 rado, but was found uninjured by a rescue party. m Congressman Littlcfield, of Maine, announced, on the 17th. that he would be a candidate for the speakership of the house, to succeed Hon. D. B. llenderscn, of Iowa. , The Alabama republican executive committee, on the 15th. decided that hereafter negroes will not be admitted as delegates to republican conventiuna in that state. The transport Logan, which Bailed from Manila on the l"th. brings with her Brig. -den. Fred D. Grant, who has teen assignei to me couunauu o department of Texas. The residence of John D. Rnekefel- j ler at Pocantioo HiUs, Westchester rountv X Y.. wns destroyed bv fire. . . . a . v... 1 on the'night of the 17th. the loss being estimated at $40,000. Republican conventions were held in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Alabama, on the 17th. and in all of them President Boceevelt was Indorsed for nomination in 1904. Mrs. Thoburn. wife of Bishop Thoburn, of the Methodist Kpiscopal church, died at Portland, Ore . on the 16th, from illness contracted in India wkile a missionary there with her husband. A letter received by the governor of J New Mexico from the relief partysent to the Mimbres valley flood sufferer, says the crops are laid waste and people are living on decayed corn and beans. Secretary of State nay haa appealed to the powers of Europ- to force Roumonia to observe the obligations of humanity and ameliorate the frightful condition of the Jews In that country. A report from Cnitcd States Consul Heeman, at Odessa, says the Russian wheat harvest is exceptionally large, and that all crops, with the exception

of flaxseed, are the greatest in the tie Rock, Ark., was dedicated, on the last ten years. 18th, by the Albert Pike consistory. 7 1, , Prominent members of the masonic Lieut. Peary, the Arctic plorer , frat(.rnity from a :iH of . who has just returned from hi last j witn(.,.,,d the ceremonies, trip, brought a polar bear, a musk ox. A j retrreaeatetkm fn.m bench walrus, an Arctic hare and a fine ; Qn(J har thr profeui( B1 miU adFskimo dog for the peal garden , ed th fum,ra of f()rmcr luM it. Horof Central park. New- ork. , Grav rf lnitei St.lte9 BU. The Sovereign Grand Lodge t O. O. preme COWt, which wa hold in F ia session at D Moines. Ia.. on I ton. en the 1Mb. at the Lmmauucl the 18th. repealed the amendment to !-!"' I ! church, the eonstlttitio adopted at Indian- The forces of the Haytian pTOvish :. neu in 1M1 admitting members of ' al government. I.Oou strong nut with mixed Indian and white blood. d-'t at Litnbe. on the 17th. After

Burinl services were held, on the 16tl, over the body of Lieut. Morris, who shot himself on hoard the cruiser Olympia, at BottOM, after which the body area sent to Kansas City, Mo., his former home, for burial. W hile returning from school, on the leth. at WWiamn' station, Mich., three little lioys -t. ppe.l i" play in an excavation on the roadside. The earth became loosened and several tons of 1 It same down on them, crushing them to death. .Kentucky -court -f appeals o the l'.Mh. sustained the injunction j granted by a lower court restraining the Southern Athletic club from milt nrr ,A t,T- .tl,.ci-rl t:"l.t Iw-tW'l-ell BCeOovern and Corbett. and the light will not be held in Kentucky. . The rescue steamer Windward, havJng in toard Lieut. Peary, the Aretie explorer, reached lyJty, Cape I'.reton, on the 18th. .Peary aays that while he did not gain the object of bis quest he made valuable ileeOT' eries anil lie leeis certain mat ioc north pole can he reached. An unknown man went i n t a bank nt Skagway. Alaska, on the 10th. with a reover in one hnnd mid a dynainiie bomk in the other and demanded $2OAfj0. The teller reaehed for a gun, when the robber dropped the boarfb on the floor, creeking the bank and injuring himself so badly that he died soon after. The bank clerks escaped through a window. ii i Nicholas Fish, a banker of great wealth, and nt on time minister to the court of IWdgium, died at a hospital in New York, on the IGth, from the effects of a blow or fall rccched in a saloon where he had been drinking with two women and a privat detective named Sharkey. Sharkey was arretted, clmrged with homicide but claims that Fish'a death wa Caused by : fall. At Birmingham, Ala., on the 19th, TS persons were killed ami a many more injured by a panic in a church in which a NfJM convention wan beIniT held. A fiirht. mistaken for s fire started a stampede, which could n1 be cheeked until police and firemen Succeeded in releasing the negro---from their pinioned positions in the entrances. All the deaths were either from cruahintT or suffocation.

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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. At Dawson, Alaska, on the 17th, man named Peter Founder made a full and detailed confession 'f four murder he had aided m committing. Teu tkonaend pereona viewed, the remains of the late Wintlehl Scott Stratton as they lay in Mate in Colorado Springs, on the 17th. John Selby, the alleged forger, who escaped from the . tlieers at Vin:ennes, Ind., was captured at Bowling jreeii, Ky., on the 17th. William A. Gaston, of Boston, waa nominated for governor by the Massachusetts democratic Convention OB the 17th. The first flow of coal oil in Alaska hw struck at ( 'otella, on September I, at a depth of 2oo feet. The nude I cdy of a woman, afterwards identified a- the wife of a New lork tailor named Pulitzer, was found in a t.;iIlill tetwcen New York and jt.lSt.v , y on the 1Mh, with m gO-pound iron weight attached to her wa;st amj a staU wound in her abdornen. Kdmund .Tellinck. an employe of a bank in Vienna, Austria, disappeared on the 1-th. when it was found that by falsifying check- he had defrauded J th? hank of 315(O0Ot William W. Gamble was shot and killed by Policeman Craft, at Arc. da. Wu, the night of the 17th, while re sisting arrest. A coroner's jury onerated Craft W rw a Leslie T. Applegate, of Falmouth. was nominated for congress, on the ISth, by the republicans of the Sixth Kentucky district. Alnno Tucker, a ne-r", who assaulted a lady near l.ibby, Ore, was lynched by a mob of miners on the ISth. At I.aoon, 111. on the '.sth, tB .ittempt was made to murder II. M. Harms, an attorney, by exploding a 23-pound can of powder under his hod room. Two negro soldiers quarreled at Fort Mackenzie. Wyo., on the 18th, when one stabbed the other through the heart, instantly killing him. A republican convention will he held at Hampton, la., on the SSftk, to nominate a candidate for congress t. succeed Speaker Henderson. Twenty people were hurt, three of them seriously, by a collision of a street car with a freight train at Marion, Ind., on the 18Ua, The submarine telegraph cable, which is to join the United States and Hawaii as the first link in the system to the Philippines, lias been completed, and is now on board the cable steamer BOverton, which sailed from London on the 20th. The new Scottish Bite temple at Litthree hours ngntmg tnej mnawsi Iwilng their g ms ami ammunition, dead and wounded, including several generals, on the field. Louis A. liourdain, lottery pr- mo ter, atartled New Orleans-, on the lHth, by going before tlu attorney general and charging two bank presidents and another it online nl banker with l)cing officers and operntOQ of the Honduras lottery, the head (ur.--ters of which, he says, are in that city. Acting Pension Commissioner Davenport says the bureau exended f r ns'mns, the last fiscal year. $.Voo.P W(tH ,,,,.;,,,, n fact that shows how rapidly the pensioners are dropping off. The officers of the American hoard 'reign missions .nnouneed ontbe f1' JJrongli the atate department at Washington. t The amount, is U per cent, of the award made to the board on account : of the Hoxer outrages in ItOO, Every coal-carrying railroad in the strike district may be tied up by a great strike of trainmen and tele-g-rapu operioi u mij wwyi made to send a substantial supply of anthracite to the markets. The Colombian insurgent gunboat Padilla, a formidable craft, BMMUmd by Americans und Germans, and armed with four rapid-tiring guns, is fitting out to intercept and, if possible, destroy or capture the Colombian steamer Jessie banning, about to Bail from San Franci-i . The New York police euc ceded, on the 10th, in clearing the mystery surrounding the death of the woman whose body was found in the Morris canal, near Jersey Cky, on the ITta They allege that she was murdered by a man named Hooper Young, who diaappcared immediately after the commission of the crime. One Mexican was killed, two others fatally injured and another aeven ly hurt bv a premature explosion of blast in a railroad construction camp near 1 Paso, Tex. Hon. Wm. J. Uryan spoke to an audience of 10,000 people at Dexter, Mo., on the l'.dh. A aevere earthquake ahock waa eperienced at Adelaide, South Austra lia, on the 1Mb. Two Northern Pacific freight traino collided in a tunnel in the Caa-nde mountains, on the lMh, Killing ane man and seriously injuring twu lu-

The harhel wire depart ni-nt of the Oliver plant of the Vineruan Ste. I and Wire Co., at Pittsburg, l'a., wui destroyed by ti r i the I'Jth, the loss, belttj ll'.u.iHK). t)nl two persons are known to have been Injured by the collapsing of the Beel office '.' Hiding st atlnot, s I) . on t ho 190k, Judge Ines ni McCuliock, former!) county judge and treasurer of Woodford count ! . "I - s dead at his home in i kearfteld, la. Charles F. Murphy h:is Isrcn elected leader of Tammany Hall, New York. At Kansas City, Mo., on the Kith, Howard Page, a real estate broker, pleaded guilty to a el arge of eiiibexzlement. and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Katherine F. Hallctt, wife of United States Judgv Moses Hullett, died at her home in Denver, Col- on

the I MA. She horn at Galena, 111. Char lea Neiircnfind, the Pierce coun ty i Neb. ) murderer, was t;ikeli to the penitentiary at Lincoln, am the aoth, to save him from ly nching. LATE NEWS ITEMS. When King LtOpoM of Bfltffam rived at Spu. after the death of his wife, he refused to speak to his daughter, the 1'rinco. Steiduinie, who had married two years ago without his consent, and compelled her to laaaC t he palace. A colored man named ESttfano Miller died at Springfield, 111., on the 21st, from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by an unknown rsoti. he refusing to make any tatement in regard to the shooting. The body of Christian Klib n. a resident of St. Louis, who died of apoplexy on board a steamer while on the passage from Alexandria, Kgypt, to Trieste, AnstHn, arrived at New York on the 21st. Peter Otaea who phot and killed bla Bweethenrt, Man Peterson, at Omaha, on September l( was kiUnd bj a posse near Bancroft, Neb., on the 21st, after refusing to surrender. Thirty -eight rictima of th panic in the negro church were buried at Birmingham, Ala., on the 3 let. The death Hal i known to number iOj, but it is thought there may he five more. President Roosevelt ipent Bnnday, the list, in Detroit, and duriiig; the day paid a visit to a hospital to speak to a dying Spanish war veteran who had expressed a denim to see him. Kx-Ctty Treasurer Hide, of Col. rado Springs, pleaded guilty to en.bemlement of 110,000 of city funds, As the mount was made good by his brother, seMcnce was suspended. Speaker D. P. Henderson passed through Chicago, on the lst. on his way east. He denied having any intention of retiring from congiess before the end of his term. Rev. Albert hhett Stuart, reot-T of ( brtat Cpiseapal ( lun ch. get own, U, '., for more than a quarter of a century, died of acute nephritis, on the 2ist. aged M I aura, At San Antonio, Tex.. n the 21st. Adolph Toepperweia made .t acu world's record ut wiag shooting by breaking W of l.ooO clay targeta throw n from traps. while protectmg his mother from BJ treatment by her husband. Wm. C Itouin. aged L'O years, shot and killed hi- father at Blateraville, R. I . on tne 2Jst. Qua Hale, a Right watchman, was shot and killed by burglars at Qokf fleid. I o , early on the momUnj of the Mat William Hooper Young, aeeusd of the murder of Mrs. Pnaftaer, wheal body was found in a New .lersey canal, was arrested at Darky, Conn., on the L'lst. disguised as a tramp. Next da. ha vraa folly lilaaBiail bj parties from New York, admitted hi identity, ami i uid to have made a ein lesen 'II of t lie crime. .bulge GkMUlt, "f the MisSOUli su preme court, on the 22d, rendered a decision in the briln iv habeas corpus cases refusion to release the former membera of the St. bonis house of delegates who are in jail Ml charges of bribery and per jury. Mr.-. Maud boiinelli. afjud '', driven by Bovert, committed suicide in New York, on the ltd. Her husband is said to hiiii' been at one time a theatrical manager and lu r family wellto do raalikinta nf Buffalo, A brother Iocs in St. bonis. t tin- meetlag of Bpuniah-Amsri can War Veterans, at ndtaaupolie, on the KM, the adjutant general of the association. W. ('. Liller, was removed from office for alleged incompeteuey, He will take tb- eaaa into t h urts. While walking with hi; wife on the Ma front at F.tretat, Frnnee, on the r.d. M. David, a well-known Paris stockbroker, was shot nnd in-taiitly killed by an artist named ByndoU. No motive for the murder is known. .v regiment af raaartlan soldiers, by Rpecial permission of the United BtUtaa gOVUrnment ate! of the Canadian militin depart meiit, took part in the parade at Detroit, on the Bfi, in honor of President lOOfelt. Many acts of lawlessness on the part Of the striking miners in IVnnayrvanla, on the fdM, caused tka sheriif of Lackawanna county to cull on Qov. Stone to semi triMips to aid in preserving the Bauca. .lohn J. Hannuhun was elected grund master f the l'.rotherhod of LuaaaiMllTti Firemen, at Cbattnaoo ga, on the 22d, to succeed F. M. Sar gent. raceUtly appointed comniissioner of emigration. President Koosevelt was tendered a banquet at letroit, un the Wd, by the Spanish War veterais :n lamina at that city. It was a brilliant affair, nearly !ght hund red people ittingat tl.-- tables. I Secretary of the Kttjr M'-oily Wttl I . . .t'Ct.. V...-' I.... j deliver un inlitresM on im-... j lotv the .Manjuette club, uf Chicago, ou October t

ALL OVER THE STATE.

Events in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wire. Ope II l Min Ot IUH. IndianaiM'lis, Ind., S pt. '2. Senator Vnlrbanki upei Ihi campaign for the republican- in Im. nana Saturday in a apeech at tndersoain whtehhedeÄamd the aollej hi. partj will pursue. He reaffirmed the policy of protection iimli while admlttiag that changed ind na trial condition . . ma ad pi act leaJ aaodUhcntkui t eertnia ichedulea, insisted that this should be scoompH bed by reciprocity treat ie and not bj tin kering the Dinglcy law Baatdta the Anderaoa rally the republicans had meetings at l.ocki ille. addressed by oiijfTessnuiii Cannon, of lllinodsj Marion addressed by Qov. Durbin, ( oiigres-Mi.a n t irosvetior. of Ohio, und Frelrick Uandiaj Fb rfl. where Congiessin.iii .lame- Wat -on sxke. and South Band, addreaacd by Senator Bereridge, Senator Fairbanks el SO spoke at KeUreaStle, The democrats also opened their speakiag enmpaigti in the state Saturday. K. F. Sliively, of South Bend, S. M. Kalstoii. of Lebanon and W. It Myers, of Amleison. nddreaaud u big meeting at Rhelbyille. wm Be t Weaves. Hichmoml. In.!.. Sept. 22. Willis O. Tyler, the VI nng col. .red collegian of Ni"Droe eeanty, nhnee coning advent in the Harvard law ackool has srvueed much interest in educational circles, lias made an enviable record at school and college in this state. Last June lie graduated at the Indiana state University in the depart naeat Of history anil political science. In 1001 he won the state oratorical contest, and later took fourth place in the interstate oratorical contest 111 bma in a 114 of ten contestants. Young Tiler has made bla a ay through ach,1 "1 thus far black, imr shoes, working in a barber -bop and dating erranda. He bei resolved 10 graduate from the Harvard tare ickool, thotigb he expects to have 1 0 support himself by wailing on table or any other employment he can secure. Want the I mi ('tmnttrd. Rlekaaood, Ind.. Sept. MFwTOm informution is gtveai out here, ami maaet from a reliable source, that an cfforl will be made to get the next legislature tO change the law by wbiih tnwti and1 city oflicials are elected for but two years so that they will, a- formerly. elected for four yeort. Bverj town and city in the stute affected by the law, which waa naiaed by the la -t legislature. vill be a-ked to Ooonemt in the effort to bring about the change. It Is claimed elections even two rents are t-o frequent, and that a- otheials are nsuallj conceded a renotnination when erinc but two year-, it would be better to elect them for f'-ur ears. To Make I'oeket THeplionea. Lafayette. Ind.. Sept. 22. A cimnaav has been formed here to manufacture 11 pocket it lephoae. The npplinree is very liirht. The receiver it -o -Imped as to n't the mouth and ear, so the user both hears and coiiwrscs-. An nbiniiiium bog is fattened t 1 telenhotte pole, a key ttt- this box, und when kaserted call- tke telephone ejt nhaaffe. Bm caller gffvei tke aamkei lie wants and the insertion of his key cut- ..ff nil persona oa ike line until he Is through. It i claimed that it can be made cheaply, cannot be tampered with, k of greet utility i n i t let for 1 10Qeenaea in anaaasonlnaf help or tending fire alarm-, anil can be n-ed on -treet car lines. trikr ans, Sullivan. Ind.. Sept. 22.- Gas wn -truck on a 'arm eight miles southeast of tin- city, and since Iben a gac flame ha- spouted to a heigkl oflSOfeef from the gronnd, At nicht the blaze of tke r naher cm be seen tor milet Oronnck nnd hundred- of people are payli R a rislt to what Is a novel sight in 1hi county. The land 00 which the well is situated i- owned bt .hlliatl Powell. The gai was struck 11t n depth of :ion fett, and at the drill could make no eeavdwaj it wai withdrawn and the Saal once rushed out . Arm Bgcm enti I N being made to save the fuel. arprlnri the ( nart. Badford, Ind., gen H kfartln Col lier, cnarireii witn poisoning ms mmill and several other people who were hoarder nt his home, was arraigned in court, (fa had agreed With bin attorney to plead guilty nnd it caused event aerprlse when ha planend not gallte. As no w itne-e-w ere present the case wa- continued until next Friday. I ll -aid that Collier will makf a ipaetal plea of Inseaity when the cae comes up. Fell with Seseald. Union I Itjr, tnd . Sept. It. ExHay. or WHUan serriafe end kla aeslatnat, Henry ( a--, w 1 e w orklBff on a big! tea fold when it geva way. hurling both men to the ground. Both were bndlv hurt. he Drunk I. ye. Lebanon. Ind.. Sept. It, Mrs. Jasper N. Heath nonamltted aolelde bf taking concentrate lye. Ill heetltt and deanondenef were ' eeeaes JOSTON'S WOMEN TAXPAYERS Henry IV ISlackvvell soya that there are In MoatOB l.'.OO women taxpny erp, who last year paid tnxe on real entäte in that city valued nt ft.'.n.nno.otm, "hut who are not permit ted any voir? or .te in rity nffair." About ontaereutk af all the tnxe collected in Bueton. he ds. are pnid by these unrepresented women property owneri, while, on the other hand, ome fi.r. 00(1 mm, or more than two-third of the city' present v.ter. pay no faxe wliiitever not even the poll taxea, for which they are legally liable.

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Return of a Number of the If aval Academy Class of 1899. Who Have Seen Hot Service. ALL HAVE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY WELL Komr, HonMfr. Who Have Mail Krrpiloniil pi.rt inllle. tl Shut n ihr tuH ..null erltfa aaial OHIc.-r. arc nite Ol. and H are l'ruud I Vheah San Kranci-o... Sept. 2:5. Among the pas- liters en the transport Solace from Manila ever M of the graduates of the United state- naval Kcndemy Of th gratluating class of 18(19, This elans graduated in Jam. ary, lamjkj four ntontlM before the lorn of t he term been nac Its aaembera wore needed, Tin- ckaas eonsiated of S3 gniduntes a ml these 2mir- the lirst to return. All hat '-ein actiie service, citbi-r com Miami i 11" or OB gunbat duty. Tb'ev huc been la The naillppinefl three yeera and half. One nf thra membera of the cbtas, W. C. Woodhj was killed in action in September, 1-1'. Aninnfr those return bngj boane wa Eatign L s. Pist her, wdko dintinfttiakec kimaelf as eona niamier f the guaboai Baneo and aa t mporapgy commander on tke coast of Banuar. Bm mrvedl la tk Mora enmpalgm. Lieut. W. h. Shoemaker, eomanmdief al the Umlted states gunbout Ara.int, and Knsign A. E. ntet, exenitiv- otVn -r of tke Aray at, arc the two naial fiieers that rescued the marine det aeliineul left in the wUderaeM f lannnr, Enaigo J. W. L. Clement, formerly eoaimnnded tke United Btstes, steamatkip Pnnay, the gunboat wakda readered sttek reine bee icrvice la tke expedltloa around Satiiiir. Katigea X K. Taussig was wounded In the advance of Pelcln and baa lately been eecummended for tke Hfoeav ing adkn for saving; the life of one of his crew during a typhoon in Manila hny. Knaign .1 B. tewfaa, ivho was al-ni"-t asiphyxinted when ke went nboard tke l nited 8tavtei ateanmr l'et r. 1. in tryiag to save tke life of his nommamding ofkeer, is imoaig tkenv l.ieut. W. 15. Pleteli.-r. eoni'iiaiidinir ofticer cf tli- United! States gunbont tniroa, kSI rendered valuable -cr ice in northern Luzon. Saniar und southern Miutlanao. t . It. fctatek is the youngest of hia class, but lias seen SM month- of illeesaaat service in gunboats from northern Laaon t" the most aoatkern of the S11I11 islands. Amottff other Dtemlaen of the el:i nee Bnnigu K. -Morrison. wb- wa- detnüed for duty aa tke Innnek for it legrspky work; l'a-t Aasintanl Surgeon M. K. aTokaaon, a celebrity la football; Vf, I. Chambera, commanding offWct of the l'nit.'d States ateaner FroUe; J, L". Jordan, executive officer of the liiito! States nteaitler Celtic. )lintr hetween Australia nnd the Philippines: J. F. Shnill, assistant to the commandant of the naval station at Cavite; Lien tensnt-Oommainder If, kf. Taylor, commanding the I'uitcd States steniiier l'ain pantra ; hii-itrn- 1. I!. Duncan. II. K. fopa, B. Fi-lier. J. W. Oreenadalc and ". V. ore, who luiVf eo nana 11 iled ynaboota during the campaign. Other naval officers who returned 011 the Solace are Lieutenant 1 mmander Reynold, "f tin- Kentucky; Lieutenant- oimiiaiMler J, T. Smith, 1 Kectrtiee oÄcer of tke Neva Orleans; filr iitynnnt rrnnminfler H. P, Huse, comma fading take gunboat Villalobos, si 1 1 ei Lteutennnt-Coanmaader Hugh Kodinan, commanding the Iroquois, KICKING AGAINST THE IOWA. A Hraatllan -wpfer ( omplalna of the- llattlahl Iowa's Huhbrrlnat. Xew York. Sept. -.:.(. liie Correio Da Matiha. a newspa per, complain- "f the United Statis battleship Iowa's visit In Brasilien waters, cables tke isio Jntaelro (Brasil) eonreapondenl of the Herald. It say -tie- warakip ia niaking- snrveya of the If i . Janeiro buy, enpedallv obacrving tke ttrntegCtieal points und taking pkoto ffraph of the forts. Tin- newapnper asks the gov oriime-nt to stoji the Iowa's ' pr i 11 jtr-" LEFT HER HUSBAND BEHIND. Mra. KMlnn ihrne.ler. Wife nf the Oitv erniir of tiimni, ann lloiaie on the nolaee. Run Prancieco, lent. It, Mrs. San franelaeo, Sept. l'l'. Mrs. T'atnn throed'r, wift? of the governor of (iiiain, arrived u the transport Solute from the 111 id-Pa 1 i ti. island. neieenrpnaied hy ber children, They nre en route to Washington, D. C, the family home, Qov, Sbroeder reaalaed kekindl at hi- post. He expects to he ro Iii veil soon, -ueeeeded, it i. rumored, hy ("npt. Seward of the MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE. Tii Yonm While Men I iiuml (inlltr ( Marder In the Hr-t llearee at Brniana, Fla. Kmnnoa, via . Sept. 13, After iftw Ing been out seven liniirs a jury ha rt'tiirned 11 verdict of murder in thn first degfii; tigainst Thoanaa Paak eloth and Theodore Bmith, twojrotnuj white men who were cknrged with the nmrder of Mrf. and Mr. L. H. Lewis, three weekn ego, Tht y were sentenced to he hanged ns soon as the srovernor Miall issue the warrant

MORS TROOPS CALLED FOR. thm Sheriff of LaefcanaBMa Conatr. IIa Truultl un IIauS and Call for Trwopa.

Scraaton, l'a.. Sept. 23.- Sheriff Ftehaadt, f Laeknarsnaa county , Itokr dsy night, telegraphed OOV, Stone to aend troops to bin ussistance. The nhcrlff had just i'iveii to the newspaper men a proclamation announcing he would call tkfl troops if lawlessness did not cease, when he received a -dies of tel. phone alia to tpiell disturbances up the valley. He found on investigation that the situation was SOeh that he could not cope with it. and sent a call for troops. Adjutant (iciiei a 1 Stewart culled the sheriff by ti lepboue and had a long Conference With him. The adjutant general suggested that a poaafl Of member of Ike Citizens' alliance be called upon for assistance. Tke worst of Monday night's outbreaks occurred ut Archibald. A crowd of 2iu strikers, mostly foreigners, ransacked the quarters occupied bf the 40 men employed at the IUymond wn-diery of the Ontario We-t-ern Co., while the men were at work, and meeting with the men as they were ret 11 ruing. droe them back to the refuge el tke araattnry, The mob then returned to the colliery proper. ; drove out the engineers, Bremen, 1 piiiiinnifii and guards and took pos-s.---ion of the breaker. Uta plant of the ( res, .-nt Fleet l ie fight To., w inch ia supplied with .-team from the brenker, had to aknt down and the whole region around wna left at dnrk nesa, In the attack on the bnakcr two nun were sb.t, one a "trikr and the other a workman. Their names or condition could not be learned. Chief Depot) Sheriff kteAkdrewe w 1 attacked and shot by a mob at Oliphaat. The steam pint of Ike Pennsylvania Coal Co. 's colliery nt Old Forge were blown op with dynamite Monday night. Two colored rooks at the William A. colliery w. re rescind by deputy sheriffs from a crowd that was threatening to lynch th. in. mUKBai whiti:d. The fMWBM re fnlliiwnl by lllaaInK and .leerin; Mol. Shrnnan.loah. l'a., Sept. .1 Sheriff Beddall and half doen depnttes arrtved her Monday afternoon and at1 tempted to arrest the strikers who j have been taking coal from tke mine ! In. aches on the drard estate. 'I he men restated arrest, ami tuc snerin appealed to ben. tiobin for assistance. The general ordered tke Becond I Ity troop to the aeena te protect the keriff In the dlaeharge at hi duties. Meantime mnb of about five ikon mi d people had gathered In tke vicinity of tke in-, ecke, nn ith tke pfi t e tion wktek the presence of Ike troopa nfr.irded, the sheriff arrested time pickets, but the rest succeeded in e-s-enping. The prisoners were taken to the Peannylvanfn railroad station, surrounded by troopa, and followed by the mob. hissing ami jeering. About the thne lhay were passing ti- a Gokin'a beadquartera, tke feral beAtalbm of the TwehTtk regiment eeene deehlag up the street with Col, iement at t heir h ad. I - the battallt -i opnroacked tfce mobil formed in com pany front and the crowd Scattered in fiery direct o m It was tbe intention to take the prisoners to the jail ; rottsville. but while they were at the station the strike leaders proerred bail f"r them, and tin y v . r released. . .. UT MUM. TO YIELD. PreatHent (01 miter Miner Cmu Hold oat Indeakaltalgi vTaahlngion, Sept. 2-1. -President Qompere, ol the Amerleen Pederatinn of Labor, mid. Monday , that the striking miner- in the 1'oiinsylvama coal tieids wore prepared In hold awl fee months. He said the miners were lipoeed to Make concessions, hut the operators had refused all overtures from theta and that tka men now "are not going to yield." "The !-triker." he said, "are receiving nil the supplie they really need and can continue their fight indesflnitely. The federation will do nil it enn to nid them. One thing ia certain, that the striker will never yield on the lind of the dismemberment of their union nrganiat ion, which is all that has raised the men ever so little above their desperate condition." ST. LOUIS BRIBERY CASES. -Iuris Gaunt, mt the State Supreme Conrt. Itefnae to Relvnae Indictee Memhera of llunae of Delegate". Jefferson City. Mo., Sept. 23. Judge Gnnnt. of the state aupreme court, at five o'clock Monday evening" rendered hia decis-ion in the bribery habeas eorpua ease. In his decision he refuses to release John Helm. Wm. B. Tamhlyn. Otto Schumacher atid John It. Sehnet 1 ler. former member of the house of delegate in St. Ixmia who nre now in jail there on the charges of bribery nnd perjury. He holds that the wnrrants issued on informstion are legal to hold the prisoners, and they nre not entitled to releases. FOUR KILLFD SIX INJURED. neit. f aai eaematw of .-. m (he Stafford Wine at Fairmont. W. Va. Fairmont, V. Vn.. Sept. 23 Hy a explosion of gas in the Stafford mine of the New Central Coal Co., near here, Monday, four men were killed, nix badly wounded, and several othein were hurt. Tbe explosion Is said to have heea en 11 sei by the tiring of a charge nt dynamite. There were onlv 25 men la the mine.