Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 October 1903 — Page 6

Weeklu Courier.

S3, OOWK. I'vliliiki-r I I '! I INDIANA. movement Is on foot among te bor If s.;ler in Chicago to abolish tha lathsj day demonstration and to davote the money spent on the annual paru.ii- to a defense fund. Sir Thomas Ltpton. who haa bean 111 at Chicago, was able to leave hi Ixed, on the 22d, for the first time nines hit illness. Hta condition was so sjsjst that a carriage ride was planned lor bin: "Indiana day" at the St Louis exposition will be celebrated on Thursday. September 15. 14. Assist int S '. retary Alexander. on the 2"th. asked Qo Durbin of Indiana to fix the date and the governor did so. - . - i - 0 - - Four hundred messenger boys employed by the Illinois District Telegraph Co.. In Chicago, atopped work on the -.th. Thia action was decided on i a protest against the employment of i-olored messenger boys. Mayor Francis M. Menke of Mattoon 111 , wa. indicted by the grand . ury on the 25th, upon 29 counti harine him with malfeasance in of- . v- He was placed uuder arrest and as fixed at $5,,v" i a trial lasting eight days the Jury in the case of Curtis Jett, charged with the murder of Town Marsha CWInrtn at Jack-on. Kv.. July 21 1902. on the -'d rendered a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment death at A e Todd for the Chicago sanitarv Lstrjct, attempted to show at bearing in Chicago, on the 25th, that the wage of IVoria. III., and not ol ticago pollutes the waters of the Mis-

- si; jo river and the water supply ol I bonds, he will resume refunding oneraLo lis. tions to the extent of $20.000,000. He , al.-o offer to lake up five per cent. Als n S. Sherman, aged 92. Chlca bonds due in February, 104, paying ing. oldest living ex-mayor, died at j terest to maturity. W .oikegan, III., on the 22d, of stnillty. n,,r. Sexlv Low. mayor of New s rraan had ben ailing for sev Vork city. Comptroller Grant and eral weeks. He was Chicago's eighth I'rei lent of the Foard of Aldermen Mayor, being elected in 1844. when tht r0sn?s were renominated by the reI was one year gublican city convention and indorsed . , . I by the Citizens' union convention on According to an address delivered bj j n,.ht of lhe ;d th - I nited States treasurer. Ellis H. I statistics of the imperial health ofR er ls, to assembled bankers in flre show that t':e total amount spent ton. the nation has more gold Ja alcoholic liquors In 19 2 throughln the treasury than any country on V1. tne German empire was about

earta; nearly as much u any other two BOW ers combined. Cardinal Giblon arrived in Baltimore, yjfj., on the 24th. and n met by leading citizens, including repree,niriivu rtf all f Ha lAdilin C'-Jthjilir ... . s lies. Mayor McLane welcomed!' the eardlaal home in a few appropriate I nr.: tn whii-h th lat'er renlied. Sir Thomas Lipton has put a quietus on 'he - tories of his matrimonial intentions by accepting, with thanks, an t or ary membership in the Bay City (Miel.') Bachelors' club, with the assurance that he will not break th prl.nary qualification for membership Fe ause of trouble near Bluefields, Nicaragua, involving the interests of an American steamship company, the - -M si u ... ssasi . . ajI e X m na y department to send a warship j IL,r lue pu o uiirr... in'.r ts The gunboat Nashville will be -enr It was reported, on the 24th. that the Rock Island company had determined to r ilaeo expenses by taking over forty trair.H out of service. These trairs are errfCM on the numerous branches of the roaÄ in Nebraska. Kansas. Mis- j . tri iowa and lUinols. and have not bc-n paying. The officials of the Renfrow Cottor. Manufacturing Co . of Adams. Mass.. jOn the ...d. announced tnat their plant i would resume at ones full time after two tnmths of operation on a fourda-- a w '' sih- 'ii," A!.o i- rvvi-nty-fiv hundred hands are employed at the I . üiills of the company. Tli Harris county (Tex i has ap I . . l a fee of $1 ' 1 o for Baker. Bott, Baker Sc Lovett for legal servieps renered the estate of W. M Rice, the millionaire who was murdered in New York several years ago by Albert T. Patro l 'his ia the largest fee ever allowed m Texas In a single case. Thirty-six gold and silver easkets containing presents to the late queen of Errrland at her Jubilee, were sent from Toronto. Ont . to St Io"!s. on the tlXk, n the order of King Edward, and are to be on exhibition at the St. lxi : World's fair. The value of tht . ,r. u its was placed at $Hh,000.

All the strikers in the Rock Islano ) 20.'00 fire which started from a passhops at Goodland Kas . returned to , ine explosion. Joseph Millard, one of n the 22d, In accordance with Lne iosrR. dropped dead from excite-

an n - emeni iniuio won me omecri of the road An Increase schedOM m wsges was allowed Of UM Rock Isl ri(' management and the men er sjMek ment atiMfied w'th the new arrango Announcement Is made of the Itrmai postiKinement of the date for tlM dedication of the monuments erect S1 b the state of Illinois on the baitlcQHd mi Shilc b. The exercises were to hav taken place in October Th-y will Mhahlv be held April ti and 7, tht art) -second anniversary of thpie coafllct. bis The Ssi Sil on army cavalr; corps making a cour. under Maj Hunter, of the feud-cursed counties of Kr "ituc kv struck nn old-fashioned barliccue with ,.Mne and hard elder accompam'Wents. in Letcher county, on the 24th oy opened services under a big tree i. 0.l m on t ham i.iar, mjn wsrs uhit:ii w - - Up- the action of s number of lrunkeo

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Compiled f'-n : V.r-.ous Sources. FCKi.-'VWAL AN GENERAL. The coroner at Cleveland. O., on tha :"d. ! an inquest over the remains o. Olive Ravi. vse ! .,ly v.:is foi.nd oi the railway tracks at Gordon ParU en tie !t2d Nothing was brought out tinillH to SBOtJ thai the ilrl bad been muri! r.-d In an attempt tn regain possession of a bundle of rlothiux that ha had drop;ud frcm the rail of the steamer Lotus- Siiuir.s, Chartas Davis, aged 18 fell ;atc the Mit-lippi river at St Louis, on the 134, and was drowned Sixty unions, having a membership of nearly :, afnlla'.ed with the building material trades council, dei id ! on the - d. to support ihe marble workers' union of Chicago against Ibe i fort of the national marble dealers oi thai city to rniintain ' opeu ?l ops." After a continuous session of nine days the grand Jurj a: tatineaee, Mo., 3D the 2 lu. inditel Oet.rge Johnston, charged with the murder of Delia Johnston, his young nunc, at Winona, Mo. The Osservatore Romano, the organ of the vatican. says the pope has che Mr Giuseppe Witptrt, t ho as : i prataoBotarjr, to be secretary jf I ; ate. TIM I'nited States squadron under the comruan I of Hear Admiral Evans, arrival on ths ltd. at KiaoChou. the German colony on the east coast of China. V. :i!'er lsc!hardt. the seven-year-old 800 t,f u,nn a farmer if mn o:i ilo 1 im road, about five miles southeast of Belleville. In., met I a horrible deaih by jumping, w'aile at I play, into a cauldron of boiling apple! butter, lontaining about thirty gallone. Secretary Shaw announces that. OSriug to CBS scarcity of two per cent. io o. o, an average per head for MT1 IM over 15 years of age of $1:55. Tie city ma'shal at Jacksonville, rex . on the 24th. telegraphed Gov. Pardee of California that he aad ari ?ested Fed Shirt'" Gordon, the notori--Hit mnTMt Y'hn KpanM rmm . olsom .. . , ... ' Pr,iSon " in juiv last. ommtMmmuwt nt J. D. Hawkins anH II Kill, on the 24tli, that the Standml m . at Colorado City. OoL, owned by the I'nited States Reduction and defining Co., would resume operations October L The state convention of the League of K.pitldban Clubs, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the 24th. heartily indorsed President Roosevelt's administration. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the president of the southern confederacy was taken seriously ill. on the 24ih. in The v'()r()Wr jury in c ltmmk on he th in the (ase Qf narriet Eiiza. be'h Wsbor and Inocenti Talimini. who wer.- round lead there on the 2-'d, returned a verdict to the effect that the woman was killed by Talimini, who !hon committed suicide. The stat bank of Roberts. Wis was robbed, on the '4tb of more than three thousand dollars, s .th no clev to the thieves. When a car of lumber which had been shipped from Michigan was 3pene(j at Brownsville. Pa, on tha 2f,tn ,bP dead bodies of two men were f,,MI ;t v.as thought they crawled in to Meal a Tl,i0 miTe locked in and iiarved to deatti Maj Ros (luffin. a'Ct of the S?c and Fox Indiana in Oklahoma, died, oo lhe J'th, at Siroud. Okla.. aged rJ year Maj. Guflin was a prominent attornev and, under Preaident Harrison, : was survevor of u toms at Kansas I City. Mo. i Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of tha president of the confederacy, was, on (he Kith, stili in u critical condition. Mrs. Davis was at Castle Inn. Buffalo, N. Y . once the home of President Millard Filmore. The jury, on the :T.th. at Greenville, 111., returned a verdict of guilty and gave Charles l-;t hnd ',e 40 years in the Illinois i i t 'iii.iry lor the killing of lohn Ke.-ner at Poc ahontas, III , about year ago. The business portion of Winslow, Ind , aas destroyed, on the 2.th, by a met.! Fire believed to bavt been of Incendiary origin, destroyed an entire block af burdness houses at South Haven. i u.B OI, the 25th, causing a loss esti mated at $"r,ooo. One man was killed outright and two others badly, if not fatally, injured at Buffalo, N. Y.. on the 2.1th. by a New York Central passenger train. Fire, on the 25th, at Toronto, Oct, destroyed the power house and machinery and the wharves on the island; the Iosb, $",-00. Mrs Hetty Green, the richest woman In America, is going to break into Newport society. She is negotiating for a villa on Bellevue avenue, where, next season, she may entertain society's elect Curtis Jett was taken Into court at Cynthlana. Ky . on the 25th. when Judge Osborne decreed that he be hanged "between sunrise and sunset December 18, for killing James Cockrill at Jackson, Ky., July 11, Uta."

Ex . Ve .. Fro! 1'. h.t, w!ic wan in chari.c ihe . which ibbers attempted to loot uear Oorbett, Gre.. made a com pre h i..-ie -hot wiih hla big-mouthed shotgun loaded with t iie'.-dot Ho kdh-d one robber, probai ly fa1 iil v.oun'ed another and sent 1 k in; fie shoulder of Kn- . ; P irreii. whom the robbers were i rj iiiL to I i as a shield It is believed at Washington th it treaty with Nicaragua and Ooa a RlsM tor an Int-roceanic canal could be completed within a weak if the iresi..ent VOttM 'ntruct tha I ate depart; 'ent tc pnxved. Senator Morgan says further delay with Colombia would be liable to result in the total defeat of the great enterprise. With a single blow from a hUUMV :A Siiii'h. three yean old. kille his sister. Agnes, a little tot of 11 a -ith- .a ktdland, st Louis county Ma . on ilu Seth. Both are the children of Ham Bmita The afeewmstaaoai under which the blow was struck art no' known as there was no witness to it. . LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Gen J C Jamison received word, at Guthrie. Okla.. on the Mtfc, that the rar-load of Oklnhoma Kllierta psaCBSSI c-onslgned to 1 ondon Knlatui parties during august sold lor $21 ie.- buaheL In the lot WOTS two case for Kin;r BSV ward and United States Ambassador Choate. and the commission firm took advantage of that fact to advert ite his Oklahoma consignment J. J. Speyer, or Kansas City, Mo., closed a contrnit. on the Uta with the officials of the St. UottlS World's fair for the publbation of IJMt.OM souvenir looklets. They will be pictorily descriptive of the World's fair, and the fir-t order of 1.000.000 copies will be published at a SOSi Of HOSf. They will te used for souvenir purposes The IMS i roji of broOSM coru was reported, on the 2t'ith. to be moving lapkl!y at RM a ton. one of the highest prices ever paid for brush at harvest time. One farmer sold Lis crop of 50 tons at Areola, 111., at $TO0 B ton. The Wt ither for harvesting vn leal, and the crop gathered was hi good shape Walter t 'randall. on the 2tith. at Bloomington. 111., pleads buil'y to four indic tments for euinez'.lement ot $12 NO, fross the order of Modern WocKlmen while serving a clerk in the head offb B Of the order at Kock Islam! Ill lie was given an itnieierminn'e sentence in the uitentiary. Dr. Lowrv ary .f h- Kansas state board Of health, who com pleted an investigation on tae 2Gth. into the causes of the typhoid fever epidemic in Topeka. Kas., declared that the drinking of unboiled water from the Kansas river was the cause of nine-ti nt hs of the cases. Adjt.-Gen. Scott is. ued an order, on the 2Cth. granting permission to the Seventh infantry. Illinois national 10014, to parade, fully armed and luipsea, for the purpo.-e of participating in the exercises of the Chicago centennial celebrattoa September 19 The top works and storage bins at the Black Diamond coal mine were boned at Bpringfield, 111., on the .'7th. The damage was estimated at $4o,0 0 or $&S,66i. Pres ideal Roosevell arrived inv'a--h-ington. IX C, on the 28th. by special train from Jersey Cny He was tecum pan ied by Mrs Roosevelt and the child ren. Bupsrtnteodool DUotl woods was, on ÜM $Jf0, instructed to have the capitcd building ready for a session of congross November 9 James H. Tillman, former beuten antgovornor of South Carolina, and son of former Congressman George D. Tillman and nephew of Uatboi BtStl Senator Tillman, was put on trial in Lexington. :; C . on the 28th. for the murder of N O. Gonzales, editor of the Stat, the chief newspaper ol South Carolina. John O'Grady. a prominent corpora tion lawyor, died In Kansas City. Mo., on the 28th, after a bri.-f illness Mr. O'Grady was born In Ire land in lv.C and was admitted to tho bar at W-x-ford. He came to this country in 1870. Ho had practice ! law in Kansas City for the past l." years The employes in the Cincinnati branch of the American Type Foundry Co. went out on a strike at 0t0OlB natl. on the 28th, on orders from tlc;r organization beadcpiar-rs in Chi'a-o. The men said it was to be a general Btrlke of all the lypS foutulri.-s in the country Charles llec-k-r. QOOSffhWSd IM . b-v-erest forger In America, is once more at Hhorty Pochor loft San Quentin (Cal i pri.-on. OS IkS Ulfa, after having served seven years for raising a $12 draft to $22.0M on the Crocker-Wool-worth bank of San Francisco, Cal. At a consultation of physicians, on the 28th. It was decided that an operation was not BOOSSOary in the case of Archbishop John loSJSBS Kain. ol St T!ul-s. who was suffcTing from an attack of appendicitis at St. Agnes' sanitarium in Baltimore. Md. East St. Iouis & Suburban railroad will begin on October 1. to run its cars through from Kdwarclsville, 111., to the East St boutl lOOf. The cars will run on a 0B)OfK)UT schedule ancl will run bi Edwardsv ille in one hour and a half Burglars, at four o'clock on the morning of the 28th, blew open the safe in the Missouri, Kansas At Texas iipat at Pilot Grove. Cooper county, Mn., and secured about thirty dollars. The preliminary examination o! Senator Geo. K. Green on charges ol conspiracy and bribery In connection with post office investigations was, on the 2Mb, postponed until October 12. After an absence of 13 weeks spent at Oyster Bay, N. Y . President Roosevelt returned, on the 28th, to Washington. D. C. Five buildings were destroyed by an explosion, on the 28th, st the Connoli powder mills nesr Shatnokia, Pa,

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Told in Brief by Dispatches from Various Localities. win KitUf K.ik null Ucata. Re us... laer. Ind . Sept. "Ü. A new enterprise in the stc c k raising line in Ja-p-i n iiiny has Jusi been started by Alfred m. Coy. a wealthy bSBksj sad large land owner of Rensselaer. Me has Jint received 417 Angora goal kMs from Missouri, and experts to embark In goal i aising very exten.Mvelj He sspects ihev win prove rorj profltabls, both for their fleeces und vein on." and also as clearers of brush land, of whic h he has several thousand a res In the northern part of this county A still more unusual venture in Stork raising has just been mailt' by Charles Pnlltas, a farmer near Rensselaer. He has bought of Nelson IforrlS, the Chicago packer, a herd of six elks, and expects to raise elks extensively for sale to parks and menageries irranwrd Iii Own Kunc-ml. Royal Center. Ind . Sepi SJ QsorSJS Rendel, w ho Is almost Sr vears or ase. ale bough bale and hearty, has all ar rangements made for his funeral and cremation. He has a huge coffin lined on tlK inside with sheet iron, which ! has been stored In a vacant room in SIS residence for some months. The f stalll of the funeral have not been made public by Mr. Hen lei ev spi that when he dies his body is to ne put in the iron casket and olaeed on a high platform which coal oil is to be poured over and a match applied. best Wntefoi. Elwood. Ind.. Sept. 2 Charles Payne, one of the bes,; known publicans of the city, against whom the temperance people made an unsucc sspful remonstrance fight last month, has had his right leg amputated at the Unee A few weeks ago Payne was attacked by rheumatism, which stopped the c ir- j cuinion in ins riKUi ieji, anti o oeeaine , rwfriflcri Pn cnvornl il:ll-ti Ii V. . .4 n almost as hard as a stone, and the physicians said there was no hope of savint: his life unless the member va removed. tnrilNnn Wnmi fuel un-r llenil. South Bend. Ind., Sept 28 MartinV. Riiur. presic'.ent of the Iftshawaka Woolen ManufaeturinK c ompany . do d Batttrdsy in Kpworth hospital, Kl lowing an operation for appendicitis. He was about 58 years old. Re letTed in the rlTll war as a member of the one Hundred and Thirty-eiphth Indiana At its death he was president of the board of trustees of Oepauw university) u.d a trust. , of Chautauqua ;.- nibly, Chautauqua. X. Y He leaves S widow. Viet I in t.f llfnrt StNSM. Jeffersonville, Ino., Sept 28 -While working on the roof of a two-siory building William Weaver, aged "" years, fell dead from heart afBSSSS 1 la body started to roll from the roof, but was caught just as it was troinc over the edge by William White, another workman. A rope was then placed around the body and it was lowred to the ground Weaver was apparently well five minute before his leath. To W-el In Terre llnnlr. South Bend. Ind . Sept. 28. The Evansville & Prin. eton Tra. tion company Is making a survey with a view to running an sloe trie line from Kon Braach, Qihsoo county, to New Harmony inj POSOy county. This would open to traffic one of the richest sections in Indiana, including the famous Pose county melon belt, and a portion of the j country which has been greatly handi- j capped by lack of proper shipping facllltles testete' to Mot, Rensselaer. Ind . Sept. 28. An nnusual in-'ance of resusc itation ,-ifter appares! drowning occ urred here. A two-yesr-otd daughter of Mrs. John Winter, of Chi. ago. who is visiting: near here, fell into a boiler of water and was taken out for dead, after beinj' under wi.ier as was supposed, for almut five minutes. A physician restored her to life nfier the child was unconsc ious two hours (Irocrrii to ('oinhlnr. Indianapolis. Ind.. Sept. 28. Several Indiana wholesale Krocers met with F C. bett8. of Chicago. After the meetinc Mr. Ictts announced that a preliminary organization had been effected for a combination of wholesale grocers of the state, and a second meeting would OS held here October 8. when the organization would be completed, with a capital of fio.ooo.nuo. Aernnfil of llnbriilrmi-iit. Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 28 BsCTStafJ Kennedy, of ihe Indiana I'nited Mine Workers, wei.t to Evansville to testify in the t rial of a miner named Doan, who was treasurer of a miners' lodge at BOOBVtltS, ancl who is accused of cmIn nllOf the lodge's funds He claimed he forwarded the money to headquarers. neeupltntecl hy m Tmln. lanton, Ind , Sept. 28 John F. Jarrell. Edwardsport. was decspHstSd by a train here Jarrell was an engineer on the street paving work, and boarded a train to go home. He got on the wrong section, and when he tried to step off he was thrown between the f-ars. Fire In Inillnnniinll. Indianapolis. Sept. 28. Fire broke out shortly after midnight Saturday In the five-story plant of the Daggett Tandy company, on Georgia street, one of ihe most valuable buildings In the w.oMale district. The loss Is estimated at $100,000. Injunction luuaeS. Hammond. Ind.. Sept 28. Charges of Irregularities and discrepancies in the hooka of the school board of thl city led to issuance of Injunction holding up $60,00u in outstanding school warrants.

TILLMAN'S TRIAL

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Wonderful Array of Legal Talent for the Defense. BOTH SIDES READY FOR TRIAL At ISM rime of Ihe KU Ha I Ulm in tn Meats saal 'Be ve taee ' Statl Hno litre I II III' lStu i.T III l.e illltlcoi. Columbia. S. C, Sept 21. After two ontlnuances and a chSSgS of venue. James H. Tillman, son of former Congrcsiiiiin Ceorgc 1. Tillman and nephew of United states Senator Tillman, was put on trial in Lexington, Monday, for the nitirdc r of N l. Gouzales. sdltor Of the State, the c hief newspaper of middle and upper Carolina. The trial had been sei for Monday, April 13, At the time the editor was slain Tillman was Heute nam 'governor of the state, having been cLe ed for two years in 1900. His term of office expired five days after the i raged)', when Tillman was in jail. At 11 o'clock the prosecution announced ready for trial and counsel for the defense answered that while all "JIM" 'I 1 I.I.MAN the witnesses were not in attendance ihe defense was ready. The prisoner in the meantime had enlerecl the dock for srrslgnav 1 1 The Indictment was read and Tillman pleaded not guilty. He vv .is dressed In a black suit, and with his six feet two laches presented a striking pi iure. Much la SXpected of Senator Ben Tillman, an uncle of the prisoner, by the lawyers lor the defense, lie was Sere la- Monday, and w ill be prese nt during the trial Senator Tillman is the idol of the people of Lexinuton county, which has no towns of more than a few hundred inhabitants. It VFSI in Lsxlttgton. Fdg. lield and Saluda counties that the Tillman movement in South Carolina first secure! a foothold, and any hing that Senator Tillman wants the oiers of these count k ; try to give aim. On the clay of the shooting. January 15, Mr. Gom.aloN left his office about two o'cloc k and was walking home to lunch. It vv.-i- cold. He had on S& overcoat and c arri'cl his hands in his pockets, with the ihojnbs on th outside, an habitual po.-diion with hitsst At the same time the lieutenent-gov f-.ior, who had just taken off the lowfai pur pie robes vvoMi by the lieutenent-go. ernor in South Carolina in Lis c i ,o ity as pre -blent ot lhe senate, left the statshouat slth twci friend- Editor Gonalea and the Tillman pariv ine' just at the intersection of the street down which Mr. fJOSSSJes vvas about, tcj turn When directly opposite bim Tillman extended his arm and fired, the bulle entering one side nid passing Out the other At the application for ball, which was refused. Tillman Stated that he had been notified Gonzales had mad threats against him ami that he Raw the sdltor thfUffl his hand down in hie pocker Thereupon he shot. In SI ante-mortem declaration Mr. frftntalli said he had sent no BSSSSSSJSS, made no threat, was unarmed and expected nc trouble Tillman used a German magazine pistol, having great penetration He also had another revolver of largt caliber on ail pstSDS at the time. Two men one a doorkeeper, appointed S) Tillman, who had a bad reputation in Edgefield, and a friend of the doorke OBIT of the same class .confirmed Tillman's story He Is contradicted by s prominent lady of this city, and neither of the friends with whom he was walking saw any hostile movement. A building contractor and several other persons known In the community, evewitnesses, contradict Tillman. All the evidence on the subject Is that Editor Gon.alcs was not armed, had not earned a pistol for many years. It Is the opinion of a good many people that the Intention of Tillman was definitely known to several of his most intimate friends several days in advance and developments along hlS line may cause sensations. A Jury was secured Hi Ihe afternoon, and the slate proceeded with pre.ien'St ion of witnesses. Mn limit In Trnirnff, Knoxville, Tenn.. Sept. t. frpgas, are scouring Ixmdrn county for MacHose, who. In resisting arrest at Cloyds Creek, shot and instantly killed Deputy Sheriff Griffiths, of UMSfSBS county, and fatally wounded John i?oole, s citizen deputized by the officer. ChcrateO Ihr llanamau. Msnkato Minn, Sept. 29. Emll Grams, who ahot and killed his wlfs at tha home of her aon, Herman Pslenburg, Thursday, hanged himself with a niece of blanket In his cell Monday.

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AN ENORMOUS BUILDING Figures Relating to the Transportation Building at World's Fair.

it Deesen tfsseelr-Taeee , ssstf in its fiwsBtrssttsn Itvstjsvssji l l til laSMSMSSt I lleluit I me4. St. Lci'il: . Sept. l"J. Herry W.Schlueter, the Chicago contra tor who hut BltoargS of the con ii ui tion of lh lYsnsportStlon building Si lbs World fair, says: 'I will have ihe roof over the Transportation building by October 1. as m contrac t calls for. ancl tbe building, -x terior and Interior, will he completed November 1." Mr. Sc bleutet- has prepareel some iuLerestitiK siaiistics relative to tht Transportation building. It will covet more a reage ilian any building in tht world il.s area being acres. It wib be UUQ feet in losgfl and 116 feet iu SfldtS, and the contract price ttffjBM It will contain 21 railroad tracks exlanding th entire length of the build ing. In Its coils-ruction U.ooo.ooo feet ol lumber will be used. This is 4,000,001 feet in excess of the lumber that wil be used In any other tif the World't fair buildings. In Ihe construction the nails use will weigh over thirty tons. The pil ing, if stretched in a straight line would measure 30 niilu. The bolts and rocks used in the cou struction will weigh 11,'KH) tons. The holes bored for bolts, rods and griff pius, if placed side by side, would reach from St. Louis to New York. Mr. ScWeuter has the contract for building the Temple of Fraternity at the World's fair. He has many other interests in St. Louis. "The St. Louis fair," said Mr Schlueler, "will far surpass the Chicago uxpoaition. The St. Louis fair, In my opin ion, will be greater than all the international expositions combined The buildings will be larger and more substantial, and the exhibitions will be more complete. "The fair officials are doinK bUSlnSSl on an extraordinary large sc ale. Why, when tbe BpedSCSthms for the larc huiidiaega were first submitted to the coiuraetois of the country the men who were endeavoring to et the work jf construction were absolutely una, ''d "The specifications exceeded their expectations to such an extent thai i everv contractor who entered into com petition for the World's fair work had .o throw away his estimate- and begin ail over. "The size and substantial nature of :he buildings contemplated by the lair officials wer,- beyond the cossprsfton' I bion of the contractors. ' QUAILS AS TRIAL NEARS. ' WOSSilaS curancl .Inry Tute t p 4 M of Share of Wlllium Hi-molt. Trial Will he 1'io.hed. Waterloo, 111., uSpt If.- The trial of I William A. Hoffmann will be the 0SBI sational feature of the September ses sion f the circuit court, vvhie h opened here Monday Hoffmann Is the man w ho recently shot and htflSfl his father-in-law. William Bread t, and made a sensational esc ape, being captuied afterward ncar Belleville while asleep from OKhsnstton The grand Jury h (onsideriug his case j Hoffmann kioed Brandt on the even i lnK of September 8 last. He v ent to . the Brandt home and met his father-in-law as he tame to the dOOf to answer his knock, with a threat to shoot (Hi vou've cot a cun!" exclaimed ' Brandt . but I guess you're not going to shoot me ! Hoffmann did not answer, but raised , the gun and fired The entire charge took effect in Brandt's chest, and hs died instantly in his wifes arms Hoff I mann s desperate attempt to SSCSSe at- ' traded the attention Of tbe- country, j but hr was captured within a week by Sneriff Thomas Ruch, who now hae charge of the prisoner. H.ifTiiunm Is ke ni in solitude in S net at the couniy Jail. He is very bitter and morone. and gives the jailers considerable worry. He declines to see anyone, and has apparently made no preparations for his defense, but gete more fidgety as his trial approaches PANIC CAUSED BY FIRE. A BSSSM 14 es Were. For a Time, Is f soeos if. um ii shwsavee InjuryNew York. Sept 29. Fire early Monday ruorniiii; in a five-story building at L"IT Fifth avenue caused a panic nmtuv. a ftOSSO persons who were asleep there. The bfSSSS started on the second floor and spread upwards so quickly that the inmates fled to the poof, from where they were able to reach the roof of the Reform club, next dcor. All escaped Injury in this way. although much valuable properly was left behind. Severnl artists had quarters in the hSJlHIni 'd a nml,r of valua ble paintings undoubtedly were lost. Several canvasses were carried QH bv their owners who left their clothing behind Kollnvvril Wlfe'a Ksamiile. St. Iouis, Sept. 29 Following the examnle of his wife, who killed hsrPself about a year ago, Richard Nagel. aged 30 year. Sunday night commit ted Ml lilt at his home. 1112 OFsllon street, by shooting himself nesr the right temple. Knldeml Anionar l attlr. Joplin. Mo.. Sept. 29. An pldctnh among the cattle of northern Indisn territory Is killing thetn off f the hundreds. The disease Is what Is known as spleen fever snd the blackleg, sad la fatal In nearly everv esse.