Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 32, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 April 1903 — Page 2

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tASTEM. 111! INDIANA. John irtwH shot and killed his brother, Hen M- icilf, ut the home of tl e.r father, m ar I aiuu-ter, hy., on the Ith. An.v 'mi-en., t was made, cn the 9th of the dissolution of the Southern Pa-'ii-pool which hul heen engineered by Mr Keene and tbe firm ol 1 'dixit J. Taylor 4 ... The Kourtli Illinois infantry. Col. J. Murk Tann r commanding, ai detailed, on the l"th. t proceed to St. I.tnus April If to participate in W M Id's fail dcdi. at ion. The engagement of Mrs. Leila Ter ly. . ( Alton, in., to Geatst Ott Vaa Kocnigsmarck. a fir-t l.eutenant in the Nineteenth artillery regiment Ml announced la Herlin n the 'th. a Chief Clerk Paws, n of the interioi department left for St. Ixuis. on the 7th, to select sites for the buildings for exhibits to be made at the W'orld'i fair by Alaska and Indian territory. Mr. and Mrs. John V. ( hurch art reported aa missing at Moorcroft YA'vo. Church wis formerly em ployed as a stenographer at Inloti Seifte headquarters in Omaha, Neb. aaa i " It was announced from Melilla. Mo VOOCO, on the Tib, that 4.WK) insurgent Moon recently attacked the fortress of Fra aaa and that Malay Am rani, the sultaa'f uncle, fled to Melil la. Gaatom r Swiff, president of th F-v, ift Packing Co, died :-t Ma hom in Chicago, u the Ntfc, of inten.a hemorrhages resulting from a suigi cal operation. Mr Swift was 63 yean old. The Milwaukee A Southern Railroad Co. filed articlet of organization in Madia on. Wis., on the 10th. its purpose being to construct and operate railway from Milwaukee to Fust ätLouis. A cataVcTam referred at St. Ixiuis on the evening of the 7th, from President llamsey Of the Wabash Kailroal Co.. announced the death, in Cairo. Egypt, of his daughter, Miss Anaa 1; .- F. V. R. IIull, aged 7. died nt Lex Inpton. Ky.. ou the 9th. lie was one of the most-noted harness hors ; trainers in '.he I'nited States, having I Token and trained Maud S, Weigewod. Belmont and others. Got. Yates aent to the Illinois as rmbly, on the 6th, s n-ssape urging appropriating $250,000 for the erection of monuments to mark the positions occupied by Illinois troopa in the seige of Yicksburf. Polygamy was denounced in strong trrr.s i v Flder W, K. Lame, pastor ol s MornKn congregation in Philadel phia. at a session of the annuil con ference f the I.atter Iay Saints at Independence. Mo., on the 'th. Adlai F Btt enson. former vicepi esident of the I'nited States, lost hair and mustache and received painful burns on the face, head and hands rails trying to extinguish a fire at his house in BloomingtoD. 111., on the Ma. Prosecutor Rurkelshans. announced, on the 10th. at Indianapolis. Ind.. that the second trial of Dr. J. C. Alexander, charged with connection with graverobbing, has been indefinitely postponed because negro ghouls refuse to testify. Horror and consternation were nroused in Lombn. on the 7th. he the report from Sofia that the Christian population (ll.OoO souls) of Okhrida. th scene of a recent Bulgarian outbreak, have been mannered by AI banian a. The excuties board of th' I'nited Mine Wockeri of America estates' it session in Indianapolis, Ind., t n the th. and a campaign of organlaatl in rill be conducted in CsloCsJ and West Virginia under the direction .f Pic-ident Mitt hell. Russell Sage na called upon, on the lOt it, to pay MMN beeatMM he made loans at a disadvantage to himself and those he represented, as chairman of the finance committer of the (.: man-American Real K-tate Title Ciiar:i 'ee Co., of New York. The I'nited States eirc.iit court of appeals hat. led down a iscIssM st tt. Paul. Minn . on the ?tth. sustaining the contention of the government that the Northern Set irities Co.. is a soadriaatioa in riolath f tbe antitrust la.es The eaaS wttl be appealed to the I nited States laprSBSC court. Daniel .T. Kelly, editor of the American Queen, s fashion sheet published in New York, was arrested there, en the 7th, at the request of AttorneyGeneral ( row of Missouri. Kelly ia wanted in connection with the boodle lnvesti-Ttion at Jefferson City as Irring the alleged legislative vgent of the Alum trust. s Ma, ilea. I'orhin has created a senanion in Washington by withdrawing his application for membership in the swell Metropolitan club, the principal social organization of the rational capita1, numbering among its membership Pre. dent Roosevelt and seversl members of the cabinet, ambassadors, ministers sod other IisAiiiguUhed inert

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CPBBENT TOPICS, THE sxws IN BRrxr. PERSONAL AND GENERAL, Returns from Kansa towns which held elections on the 7th disclose the fact that the vutt in favor of enforcing the prohibitory lav was the most ssera helming In the history of the state. Rt. Ke Get rgt M--Titgnmery. eosdjutor arcbbishtp of San Francisco, was appointed archb shop of Mauils, on the 7tb. The coiiimU;cn appointed by the? Methodist Kpiscopal church to conaider the advisability of revising the catechism and order of worship bean its wtirk in hieago on the Mlt, Rishop Merrill presiding. t apt. Thomas 11. Pradley. I. S N.. retiretl. died. OB the 'tb. at Port Anfeics, eTaah. He snai msyor of that city four terms. Haneeville. Ala.. VTSS hit by s tornado on the Sth. Thirteen rsous were killed and U were injured. A tornado swept over CkfbarSM and White counties. Ark., on the Sth The number of killed is unknown, though one entire family of e cht persons is known to have been killed. t apt. QeOrgS W. Rever. capitalist, of Cedar Sapid. Ia.. died at Ot t an Reach. Cal.. cn the Mh. Dr. 0, A. Collamore. promiucnt phyaician of Okie, tiied, on the sth. at his home in Toledo The plant of the Tcrre Baote Ind.) Shovel and Tool Co., was burned, on the 8th. loss. AO.000. The I'nited ates monitor Arkansas left Memphis, Tenc , on the "th. for St. I.ouis. The carina of Rn-sla was reported seriously ill with peritonitis on the Sth. George Howard, alias Joe Kirby. who. with George Cole, hell up the Burlington express near HomestskeS) Mont., a month ago. was found guiity at Butte. Mont . DO the 9th. The proceeds of the roliliatj ore f3. Charles McKini slo t his wife four times, at Redf.-rd. Ia.. on Use Oth. then shot himself, as he was about to be arested. Roth will probably die. The shot ting followed a quarrel. Martha niinan attcnipteJ ake the life of David Henny. at IssOd, S. D., on the 0th. and then e-imnutted suicide by taking a de of strychtuno. Jealousy a the cause. A dispatch from Manila, on the 9th. stated that Gov. Taft, who has been King ill tliere for several weeks, has gone to Benguet. a mountain tesort. C. F. t'lvne. t f Stafford. Ka.. vas nominated, on the '-'th. by he dmoerats of the gereath eongres-i naS district to sin t eed he-ter I. I njf. Heinrich Pari-er. a m"nfv lender, of Berlin. w;j -enteneed. n the ' th to two years' imprisonment and to pay a fine "f - '' o for usury. I'nusuallv high temperatures were recorded in KsaaM n the '-'th. At Abilene '0 degrees was the mark, and at Concordia M, The Nebraska legislsi .re adjourned sine die on the Ith. The feature of the session was the adoption f a new revenue lavHilary Bell, the tiramat'e -r.d musical critic of the New York Pvcc. droppeJ dead in New York "O the 9th. The funeral f Mrs. Porter, wife of the Unite ! States ambassador, held at the American t-birrch in the Kue de Berri. I'ans. n the Ith, as an impre-ssive cereinonv, the heads if the French government, the members of the diplomatic corps end many representatives of the American )'. ony participating. Aceording to the scheduled itinerary the monitor rlann d ie to reach St. I,oui on the 2T-h he will go Of the Ohio river rs f.,r a Beaanrilla, Ind.. on her way tip. the stage of water being stifhcient for the purpose. Mis- JsmaaMae McXeil, of Carlinville. 111., was the b I r graduate of tbe clam of IMS, at the lottj -fifth annual eommencement r.f the Homeopathie medical college if MtaaoMf, held in the Pickwick theater. St Ix)uls. on the 9tb. Mis MrN.il had taken the Gillvert prle for the lest say. Thirty nine year ago the father of Miss Minnie Petersen died of smallpox st Scipio. Ind. Xfiss Peterson died of smallpox, n the 9th. having taken tbe disease just two weeks af'er she openeil sa old trunk containing her father's clothes for the first time since his death. Wm. H. Turley. who shot and killed Prank Murray on May :;0. ls, is Johnson county. 111., and e-.-aped, waa killed by a train at Marte), O. on the 10th. He bad been going uoder tha same of William Henry. Wallace Leatherman, of Indiana, bow in charge of the Porto Ricaa post office ssspm tion service, was ap pointed post office inspector in charge of tbe New England division os the 10th The Turf. Field and Farm, of New York, the oldest paper of ita class ia existence, was sold, on tbe lOtb, to the Sports of the Times, snd it will be consolidated with that napes

Otto In man, charged with killhxff hluk li. Jackson, bis second cousia, waa ctu.u. ttd ol niunb r in the fires deyraajM Ottawa, Ka . on the loth llcv. Wm. II. Milbuin the venerubla blind cbspta.n of the I 'sited States Maate, died ii Baata lUtbars, Cal., on the loth. The Denv.r (CoL) Arc and police board issued uu order ou the 1' ' h, that no imrc open gamhltäf wooh) be peraaitted, a ad im-u gambling house vtns promptly clo-tl. An attack on the Servian king's life was j, '..mit d f..r tie : -1 h Tbe pbt .I- ths,.,, ritl tn the 10th. and yi peraaas suspect eti of complicity therein we-e arrestet!. Five hundred tmploves of the Peoples ix-. UgM st t'oke Co.. Chicago. vere ordered out. on :he loth, on a s mpathetif strike with the Gaa Inspectors" union. .lohn Basne Kt Jie died at his home in Kvanston. HI., on the 10th, of infirmities t!"e to obl age. In 1-77 he was elected a member of tbs Illinois legislature. LATE NEWS ITEMS,

Rt. Ree Vr. Michael Bonhet, vuar general of the Roman Catholic diocese of I.ouisv il'e, Ky . dietl in that ' eity, on the 1-th. He was stricken w.th apoplexy while ou his knees in prayer Saturday night and passed sway after only four hours din. :. Announcement was made at Washington, on the 1-th. thai Assistant AtI . . . i , . lorney-iienerai .lames .m. i.cvk icudert J his resignation to Prcstdeat Roos-v.Mt Before the presldeata de parture for the arest. Mr. Beck wiU ti ter a New York law firm. John T. I-arsen. a sailor, became vioIt ntly insane on t b. sehooaer Hall at Newark. N. J., on the 1-th. ami tried to murder the crew. 11c -l.o-hed An drew M. Johnson so he may die. In running to escape Lars-en fell overboard ami was drowned. Cat. Mil H '. frontiersman, a companion through his life f i.urtalo Bill." and a friend of Bill Nye during the hitter's reportorial davs in I j i a . i. m i . y . : I i aiain -. tiietl ciitiueiu oi nrrai iuiiure in his apartments in Salt ltke City, t'tah, on the U'th. The people in Monterey. M o. latter being (artisui of Francesco Reyes, candidate for governor of Nu vo Leon, were offered their liberty on the 1-th, but preferred remaining in prison to accepting the Urtns offered them. A shooting affray in which a nine-year-old boy was killed and a woman mortally wounded, an attempted murder, two suicides and two attempts at suicide that may result fatally occurred in Buffalo. N on the 1-th. County Commissioner Raymond and wife were drowned while crossing lllue Lick creek, near Henry v die. lud., t the 1-th. The waters had risen so rapidly that their buggy was bwept away. Roth bodies were recovered. Four persons dead, two fatally hurt, at least one missing ami several others slightly injured, is the record of a head-on collision on the Intercolonial railway which occurred on the Utk, men miles fpun. Halifax. N. ts. A tornado crossed the counties of Logan. DeWttt and Piatt, 111., on tbe 12th, fatally injuring ( lifford Haldsadzer, and killing hi infant son. Several persons, wers injured and a number of houses wrecked. John Agea. one of the oldest and m -t distinguished engineer of .Mexico, d.ed in the city of Mexico, on tbe ;.th. The easCVmnd limited on the Bsltlmore A Ohio railrad was wrecked ne.ir MansrieJd, .. on the b'th. injurincr Mrs. H. S. Stratley and infant hild. of Part V.'ayne: Mrs. Msry Stanley, of Raltimorr. Md.. and Mrs. Frank C. Miller, en route from Kmporia. Kas.. to lrttsburg. Post mast T-ieneral Payne gave out a statement, on the 13th. in which he announced that the investigation of the affairs of the pot office deartment would b -intinued and that any parties found guilty of wr ng doing would be dealt with summarily. Five men were killed and t'.vo seriOilsly burned by a pas eSptosloa in Mine T7 of the KaBOH d RM t'oal Co. ut Carboa, L T.. on the i:;th The dead: Floyd tHlrr. tJettrce Teek. Frank McMtallem, Jerry KmcaM and O. A. Fields. Marinti EJOaOta wr.s arresttl in Pumpanga prmii -. Luzon, on the IM Ii. lie joined the revolutionary organization and accepted a commission from that tmdy after swearing allegiance to the l ulled States. Developments, on the 1 3th, led Omaha police to believe that there ha been committed it deliberate murder and they are now looking for Frank F Knight, wlios- wife is missing. Albert Huntington ( beater, professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Kutger's college, diet), on the Uth, at New Brunswick. N. J., of pneumonia. He was . year of age. . P.c khain M uel bis t.tmpaign. on the 13th, for the toaeocrstlc aoMr nati"ii for SfOreTltOr of Kentucky. His opMnents are .1 idpe Pre. k ini idge snd e- -Congressman He-ndriek". Mayor IMrrleoaia plurality o,er Graeme uwsrt flsed by the ofhcksl eanvas. on the 1 .th. at l.:ag, is 7,4T9 oles. the mayor liaiini; secured 14Ot to I3MH for Stewart. Edwsrd t mIiiII and Hmh district PresIdeai 'Ihouipson. on the l ib. -ettled tbe tr.aible enisting at lätt hfteld. HI . over the strike, of the drivers, and tin miners returned to work. Fortner i onjrreiiiin bncr Taylor of ( bleafo, tied in Washington, Ii t OS the I tb. Jit-ed T4 fr. He bad Hen ill for -eral weeks w itfc a Complication of tiiease. A tornado in the vicinity of Moetaa, Ala., on the I 'lb. wreek. tl BSNBSaa and ditl considerable damage to farming propertv. The tnwiu of CotraaOf and t,urnev aleo uffered.

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News by Telegraph from Vttriotu Towns in Indlsua. t rue tm sVraeh nibs. It ma pa lad Vpril l A t'urhi it- n :vo white men and a negro .itunlav n i nr pr dpi a f ed a rue,- rial and the negro. Clifford Reil, a latl about M 'emu old, narrowly cs.-nMti indeitce at the hailtls of a Dseh of s liuuilr. ! i.- u iter triMaC one of the while men, Jdm Muku in tie scad with a brk'ki knocking him s-n.-ler tt the sulcwi.lk. IsVl 1 ran iuth pursued i s half doen men. I'he crowd inereaseil to a hundred anil cries of "lynch him"' were heard as the mob pursued the flying negro through the Mleets. I'oliccliien with tlravn revolvers aei bias. Rstasea i Take Seaaeev. Waliasb. Ind.. April IX The Wabash Mrid'e a i il Iron compaiiy. this city, lias ,ir:ers . . i i it book lit thi time for more than tlon.OOO vorth of strut tnral iron work, the r.icrs coining .rout sll ataa the country. Thi week ordan frosa the Wabash railroad for a larie number of bridges for the we-teru part of the s-te:n were rcje.-t.'d. ami new order- from various other sources agcrcifat injr iMfluHt also have been refaaed. The concern is literally s;tmetl v h work, though it i- running tlay and night with all the men who can be profitably em pit rj cd. Tn Reelaitu .mt Inn.l. LtsfjasilMII t. Intl.. April Ft. Ry S de isi..n of the t as- county commissioners contractu are tu lie let in fas, Pulaski. Fulton and White counties f, r ;he largest ditch ever rOBSt rsseted in this art f liitliana. The ditch will cost about flrtnssl, ami will tlrain the f ur BOffatleS, Swamp land, which was formerly worthless, will l- mode the liest land in the state. The ditch runs along Hie Indian creek, and empties Sita the Tippecanoe river, near Monticello. The Coast rWtioD of ihis ditch will require the services of hundreds of men for a year. sssssase Faaeeaii Walissh. Ind.. Apru 11. A double funeral, father and son. took place at W. st Pleasant church in Pleasant town-hip. 'his enmity. Aaioti Kruft, an old resident of the township, dietl and s,,,,n after he m -et I away it was learned that his only s,,n. who lived near letastaadL had -ud-denly explr.d. It was tbe son wi-h that he le broiiL'bt to Wa'ash county t'tr burial ami the arfsk was fulfilled, the ceremony takinjr place at the asaat hour anl the hedlea ieng buried sitlc by sitle. f aslttsa Inr m site. I'erre Haute. Ind.. April IS, A repreSC Ststiee of the Louisville people who started to build a new di-tillery in Terre Haute to Im- operated inile-pen.l.-nt of the trust has Iteen in the city this rech lo'.kinir at tftaa, I he Terre Haute people who are informed on th matter s,iy there is little doubt that the house will le built and -hat it will In- operated at lartj-e capacity. The product la to lie taken by large dealers, who will le the principal stockholder. Dirk IHnmiif t tnrsM. Marion. Ind pril in. terrific storm ditl crnt tlamair in the gsi ltelt Batarday, Several valuable Mmk Imrti were burnetl by 1 e i nine and in South Marion ! People were -tunned by a bsdt thai tore away a iart .f the rot.f of a r.weiline. Washout io-tirml rm the EHf Four anil I lover leaf, a pt--ensr-r train bartaffs asi ma eaespe. IVster several inches deep bt I WlCllaH the lanl in a larire part if thfa county. nr mm SMsaataa Seead. Tajnre Hau e. ind. tpril n. Woman's label I ague, whi.-h wa. organized by Mrs. Fields, of Marion, will make is fir-t ftt?ht on brend hnkd by nt.nunbm baker-. There no union Iwkery in Terre RoatC, and It i-s the pnrptise to have naioa-madc bread shipped from ladtaupoM to snpply ihe tb-inaml the leaL'u.- exiects will le created by the Iwiyet.tt on tin home pi"' ;. r. Iii r n anil Otaefc Mnrnpst. lb tat nr. Ind.. April ;.: large liarti belonging John ndrew-. tie sites from this city, burned. Four head of fine ln.r-e ami other st'K-k. with all the grain and farming implements, were destroyed. The b.-. I estimated nt tt-SSS, vitb only $finn in Mirante. The fire it I- thouirhf. was of incendiary origin. The tire wa not iIim-ox eretl until the null: had fallen in. Bs Kitted. New Mbany. 1ml.. April H Pdwsnl l'ayton. np.-d II y ar. wa raucht on a shaft nt the 'ew Mbane Wo. de ii mills ,-M'd wa instantly killed Ninriv i rj hoaa in sts bsadji wa- brukea, Ms ricbl arm wa torn fri.in the trunk, and bi- bead aai liattcretl to a pulp again-t the ceil-in.'-PSyton ws- t ry inj la adju-t S belt, sad hi- ebithing was enuchf. Mad s4 in Isfattes, KokoasA, Intl.. pril 13, Stephen Nicholson, colored, wh fell under th ear in sfealinc a ride from Marion la Roki mo. died from his injuries. t iit r,r. thoii(.'bt that hi- hurts w-ere not serltu- l.ut be turned fr.irn black tt yeMow, indlcatling liter trouble. Death raasssj S all. Oasmesk Ind.. pril I I ilenre Bkaaseraesa. aged of w imis, fell from I be Isdfh r of hi btv mow. laslalalssj lajarte i!s brain ami other laternsl lajarhfe that caused desth.

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Grand Jury Resumrs Its Investigatios at the Missoari State Capital. ST. LOUIS WITNESSES 6IVE TESTIMONY. i.i.-t .. . juks a. l ee pasted Hrssrt a K . rlnl-Jn.iur llasell Takes Straw In fees rat I als rata -tloa Lraklss I ruas i.raat. Jars St aa at taareraia I aSI niirili. Jefferson l.tt. Mo . tpril It. Ihe Cole county giand jury r--unietl its investigation late Monday afternoon into tbe chai. s of baodliaST in the legislature. AttOffaC UcnCTSj I FOSS and Prose-uting Attorn v B. P- S-one were present as prosecutuur ofticers Just prior to the convention of the grand jury Circuit Judge Haell. who assembled that hotly for investiiratioti. said: "I am determined that there shall lie no leak in this grand jury This investigation shall be jut as rigid as the law prto ides, ami if any indictments are returned they will lie returned to me ami not one word shall leak t ut s to who i indicted until after the arrests have I ecu made. If, during this investigation there is any leaking as to the proceedings I will at once institute an investigation as to the source of information and dtsCOCI ry will be fol1. m cd by prosecut ion." Das IS rloa l".antlnetl. The grand jury assembled at two o'clock, and the first witnesses examined wtre Bras tor David NeNon, of St. Louis, who voted SfStasf the re-l-al f the "hak4ng powder law." W hit in-y Lay ton. a I ..king pawder manufacturer against whom a fine was assessed for violation of the lawami who de-. to have the law repealed by the last legislature, and; Patterson Rain, a St. Louis baking powder manufacturer. Lieut.-Gov. Lee. who ha BSBB summoned to appear before the grand jury and who was esi'ctt.l here, did not urrive. Senator Harris, who Schalt ted havIne had a fl.0 bill changed in St. Louis, is here, but ditl nt aj pear It"fore the inquisitorial body. Matt lastrartiotia l.ltea. When the grand jury convened Judge llszcll gave strict instructions against allowing any information to reach the public either from the member of the body, the at'o.n.y cmicral or the prosecuting ttOrBCJ. Mr. Layton was liefore the grand jury for two hours, and li ia belined that he told of efforts he had made to bavr the baking owder lawrepealed. Former Speaker John W Farris. of the bouse, is here to te-iify He is the father of Senator Farris. who admitted having had a $1.000 bill changed, but would not state how it cam.- in his possession. Altogether there are about twenty-five senators and representatives here to testify. Kditor L X. Page, of Ronne Terre. who is cited to apear ami tell where he got fl.OUO during the last legislature, and who has steadfastly refaSSd to divulge the information, is Still confined to his led at his home by illness. St VrKD IT K KPT Ql I KT. Lleat.-s.as. Jmmm A. Ire RrruaalseS la Kaaaaa ttr. Kansas City. Mo April 14.- Lieut -Gov. John A. Lee. who was enpected to have testified ia-fore the grantl jury at Jefferson it v . passed through Ksnsas City on Sis way. he ststed, to Jefferson itv. Mr. Lee. who was RS coruMiuied by his tnjfe. when recognized, retjuesfed that his presence ia the city be kept paiet. PtIKI P RI1IKMT rtRTHtSe. Ha Vnkporna. Ilr tin larra. Ma Beea tSS'lSi aa Iflai. .itthage. Mo. April 14 - Col. Pltelp raaefced here Montlay after being absent since March ". most of the time in triSeaa with bis iitvalitl dauihter. Helene. He saitl: "I bad lie.-r I" il sri.tl with a ulMienea. Ilsaaajh one wss sent here for me some day ago. If one wa- latMCd for nie Montlay in tt. Loins I know nothing of it, und i; w.ll le tmit eiiou!h when 1 am served to anwer vthat I will da I did lo t Icate WL luis Satsrdaj ." DIED WHILE ON A TOUR. Kiris aeeeetaei i ihr i uri Sarin af I hriatlaa Kastrat ur la.. a seai HaaS. X. W . T. Itostott. Aril It, i has lieen teceivetl here of the death of Ket. t lareiue F. Kherassa, fieiti iceretar os the I nited BoctetJ of Christlas Hudes tor. at llanff. N. . T. Mr Klermaii was on a convention tour accompanied by his wife. Typhoid fever compiiiau-d with c sagest Ion af tue biliös was the cause of death. DISAPPEARED OVER FALLS. takaona Van Bellet eS la Have .. Hin.lt t. 4 Sni.-i.ip m Hrnasrel Palat. Maaara. Iftagara Falls, N. V., April An unknown man is kcHtlcd to Save I Siitted aaletas by jumping mir the faHs st Pfospe. t Point Monday . park employe -a a man dressed in black, wearing a soft. Mat k SSI and till IjISS a valise running towaid the point. 'Ihe workmau turnctl bis track fur s moment and when be looked si o md aeamst the n.n waa irne.

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iispt rtloa h ( umtuaadar Drake. OL SSs rwmwF st lrrrO.lt- Ml Wsssjlnfftoa, April l Quick .ction and common m uae treat meat of a critical Mtuattou by an A r .erica u naval officer in China i-' .ntly ssv-d the ft reign residents in tU? pr.ielaee of h'won Tung, along the e.tsl Uink of thr anion river, from ftlong tic IbjSt to S plot which, v MS lne.tet! Primarii., against the Mat. h-t run dynasty, Inrtitably woultl hits cului -nated in uu Bttaei BSMM the foreign population. ibis. act iu.i averted by the precautionary niea-ure-i takt h by ( ouimander F. J. Drake, commanding the I nitcil St.i' teamer Munteret, with IBS a sis in. -e of the Fnglish gunboats Sand Pijier lt.il Itritomart. IBS I'rem h gaalMBl AtS IBBTB snd the Herman tug Shameen. Ihe coalition known to have foment ed the t rouble t t ends In -111 pro -Inct-s, .n. d otV. ial iidvi.-ei rc--ied both at the slate ami navy departments show Iba? l. actionarv in-a-urts on a s(-.,;,- f.ir larger that; is admitted either by foreign represents tives or tbe Chiaesa governm-nt havt tu, j leased bj the reliels. t uasplratara la MISIaa. lltaring that a force of rebeU hail made elaiior.it, plan for an SAtSCb on the viceroy sad Chinese odh labt Canton during the eelebratioaa of the binee m w year, during the i ght of January If ami CoaBlSsa der llrakr prepared to defend the foreign residents- An srmed force of 3,BM men bad entered CaBtOB OrreptJr tloasl s. veral tlsys lefore and were j hitling with sympathizers. An most of tue loreipners anti tuuciai represemutives of the various nations resided in SfcSBtecn. Commander Drake tircoin pit tt tl his plan of defense for th - stcti,n. and then, to allay the excitement which prevailed, he officially informed the consulates and ChlBCSt officials of his preparations ami adi-etl the commanders of the Fnglish, tiern. an and French gunboat- of the lii't of action to be pursued in ens,. Sha meen island was attacked The for ögn commanders offered their co-op eratioa, and plans wert perfected to meet aay trouble that developed, whether on the island or on the water. a itslp 1 n O CkAt BS Cs " 4 R OH OSsasTSBr 1 t-atl of visiting I he Holy temple in the inner city at midnipht to offer incense, the viceroy and officials, contrary to long t ustoru, remained in their reapcct.ee yamens' securely guanlett. Around the viceroy's ysmen sloae wa assembled 4,000 armed troops. By seven o'clock the gates ol the inner city were closed aid the streets cleartd. Many arrests were mad rhat night, and large amounts of stores were seize I In house and sbips in Fong Chun and Fates, eaaasita tj Shameen. Many other indications of the intended attack were feaad, and the officials agreed that the reliels atisndoned their plot only la... ,se of Commander Drske'a disccrt and his prompt action and that of IBS other foreign commanders in taking ample precautionary measures. A landing of an armed force from each of the foreign men-of-war was agreed upon by the American. Fnglish. tierman and French commander at the first evidence of an attack ou Iht foreign section. WAS MONTOJO'S FLAGSHIP. I he t ralaer Hetaa Brlstiaa. Saab kr sfatlral Heart. With Klahtr Skclelaas aa Board. KloateS. Msnils. April 14 -Tbs warshif 1 Heina Christina, flagship of Atliniral Montojo, which was sunk by Admiral Dewey, was floated and beat bed Sun day. The skeleton t,f about 0 of her crew were found in the bulk. One skeleton was evidently that ol an ofl'u-er, for it had s sword by hb side. There arc 1 shell hides in th. hull of the Bstaa CMatJaa, cine mad. by an eight-inch and the others small Ihe main injection valve is Bl Bslag -bowing the ship waa scuttled when uhandotu J. The hull is in fait condl tion. apt. Albert 11. Condon, command ing the naval station at tsvite. took charge of the remains of tbe sailur? BXpressing tbe desire to give them an American navsl funeral. Spanish residents, however Pe :intircis to ship the skeletons to s.pain ami it is suggested that the I nited "states transport Sumner t.i.w them to laaSSl by the way of the Sue canal in June. A w reeking company I emit avorIng to raise all the sunken Kpaatsl warships. LIVED OVER A CENTURY. Bfrs. Mar Rail. Pleat Sshltr StsiS Horn la Ostitis. O.. Dira la Mlaaeaaalla. maaeaanlia, Minn., pril 14. Mrs Mary IJoll died Montlay. Sged 101 years he is survietl by three tlaughieis, 4s grauilchiltlrrn i,i:tl Vtl great gramlchildren. She enjoyed the distinction of being the first white BBSMB BBra in Dayton, t). BECKHAM OPENS CAMPAIGN. Kralar-hy'a t.atrraar t-.afera the Barr with Jattar BrrrhlarMa 0et - bttro. Ky.. April 14. Cur Beckham ba opened hi- camtiign for the iletnocrai ic nomination ft i governor to be made nt primaries on Saturday. May 9. His opponents ars Judge Preckinridge and ex Congressman Hendricks. He retiewed hi ad miaistration and statetl that he stood ea that record for popular ii.tloreement at vrimarie.