Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 June 1904 — Page 2
Weekly Courier.
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Henry C Frirk has denied that he fui candidate for l'nüfj States senMM to 111 the vacancy caused by the Cath of U S Qia. The Vri..--.r (Mass) Spy. one o; the oldest newspaper in the country has suspended publican n on account erf financial trouble. The Spy was founded in 1770. the first Issue t:aring in U.-ston. Patrick J. Kins. allered head of tht policy ring In Chicago, ha been indicted for violation of the lottery lams. Indictment were voted also against a dozen other alleged pro.::, nt-nt gamblers. Miss Helen Gould 1 to receive a? a gift all the, exhibit of the social economy section of th Belgium pavilion at
the World'f fair Taoy will find 0 place in Mis Gould's soe.al Kosotaj ' museum In New York.
Rev. Josph N. Guillard. once the fcremost oblate in the country, died at the Tewksbury Novitiate at Lowell. Mas? . on the 31st, from paralysis. For 11 year he was provincial for thf United State Province of Oblate. Douglas M. Smith, paying teller ic the National Tradesmen's bank, oi New Haven. Conn., was arrested, on the 2d charged with being a defaulter. He 1 said to have roftfesesed a shortage of bt-tween MM and H Postmaster-General Payne, as acting chairman of the republican nationa! committee, has appointed I'mted Statet Senator Boies Penrose as the Ptnn.-yi-Tama member of the national committee to succeed the late Senator Quay.
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CUREENT TOPICS.
THE SEWS IN BEITF.
Frank A. Rantze was. on the 3d. ap- ! poirted agent at the Osage- Indian . agency in Oklahoma. He is a res. of Enid. Okla. and wis captain of a company of rough riders during the Spa: -h :.r His selection was wzdt by the president In r . a". it . r- -:.-,oh rr by the Baltimore News u to a report that he would become a candidate lot j congress from a New J l.str.e George J. Gould telegraphed from New i
York to that paper: No tn ever in the report."
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The supreme court of Missouri, on the 31.-1. affirmed the sentence of two years in th penitentiary fixed upon Gran' W,bdward for ill Jill tc br.be a jury in the district eowt at Kansas City In a damage suit against the street railway company.
Hear-Admiral Chadwick, commandteg the South Atlantic jaaafOa row t Tangier. M rocco, ha reported tc Walvrjcton that conditions remain am hanged In the cas? of the kidnaping of the American ci'izen. Ion Perdicar.s and his stepson. Cromwell VrIcy. a British subject
The war department has refu-ed tc j grant a leave of absence or a tran-' to Li'ut. Sidney S. Burbank to vis.- : the Philippines. It is said that Lieut j Bi rtink will be required to remain ai his port until his suit for annulment of a rem ir.y of marriaire wrh C0O Oprion Vasqucz. a Filipino woman. l
A Tokio dtspatch To the G örna! DTtalla say that the Japan-e fcavf occupied the first line of the ou'er for
tifications of Port Arthur af-er a fee 1 ble m-lstane. The sim oorrvcpoa j dent add that the Ryis.-ian sqoatfroa I
attempted a sortie, but was for return, being threatened by the
While trying to escape. John W Mann ice. a prisoner at the L'n.te. Pta'e barrack a' dl'imbus. O. was bot and instantly kil'ed. on the 2d by Private Sneck. one of the sea rlea St -he c.'-r -evr .Marr. r.e wa. 1
N re peraoM are rep- red to hv been kild and mir.v injured in am;, lls'nn -f pass.-agr 'rains on the . I ocri Pacific railroad near Man'': IS mile soc.th of Kansas Ciy. Mo Tr. train, which met head-on. were th w M-botnd Colorado limited No. I and the east-bound Hoising. n I Kas . a ;,;.. iatk D No. 36.
If the voluntary declaration of a d: teg man is to te believed, fir.i ha beer written to the h storle Snell trace IS yea's ago. and Willie Tasrott. th lone-sought murderer, self-identified ba paid the penalty of his crime wltr fjenitenc. and now fills an unmarkce grove in the heart of the Alaskan Vti whither he had fled for th ffaceaaint of his individuality.
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hundred people wre drivn fro home at Newton. Kas.. on l-
2 1. 1; a willen rise in San Frar. . creek, which flows throtifth the nor.r.
am! west par's of the city flow tü cause by h'-avi prejifhine in exent a cioo paoM fihstriet ernliracd al Of the iiy. and the wa blgh aa the s. road-story nacy plares
The overain ap trst. Th it a fo UN d a indow It
The Nebraska demoxra'ie s-ate roowentioa. on the lit unanimously e-lec-ed W j Itryan to head Ibt Ne fcraska neleKation to the Htlntl Catherine at St. txrais. and adop ed a platfcrm wblta reaffirms the Kan-a nty pintiorm of llee. ani places before he publl- Mr Bryan view of what hould he emrodted in the platforrr a the coming national conveitin.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Mrs. S H. I'nger. aged about thirty years, of New Martinsville. W. Va. was Instautly killed, and her companion. Albert H Wti'.s. aped 23, an optician of Washington. D. C. o badly injured that he will lose both legs, by being run down by a Wabash train while - .i'.'sing on the track.-, at St. Louts, on the 3d. The long deadlock In the Illinoi repablkM state convetnion was broken, on the M, by Yates. Hamlin and Sherman withdrawing from the gubernatorial contest and throwing their strength to Deneen. as the result of a muual un !. rtanJing. Sherman was named for lieutenant-governor. Rain interfered, to some ex;e'.. with the dedication ceremonies at the Missouri and Indiana state builidngs at the Worlds fair in St. Louis, on the 3d: nevertheless! both functions were carried out as nearly as possible as planned The attendance a; both as quite large. The Ru--s.au. who were deftuted by th- Japanese at Kin-Chou. admit a loss f ' men ar.d i:m to hav intli te ! a loss of HVflN on the enemy. Thaf do
not. however, vouch for the correctness of the latter estimate. The New ork cottcn market ademcralized. on the 2d. Immedia' l after the opening, by a slump of 4 point in the July future, to 11 "I er.ts This wo J.1 a bate lower than on May 51. Cui. Charles F. Mills has been appointed chief of the department f live stock at the Worl l"s fair, the ap-r...r.-r. r.t to take ee t im.T.-.: ' Col. Mills MMMsPfll F. D. OoibWa. w ho rfsssJMi the position April 13 beca'i.of continued ill health. Mr and Mrs Sim Pric-. of St. Lor;-, and Miss Moselle Price entertained 'h Weet Point cadets with a reception, on the n.ght of the 2d. at the Kentucky tat building. World' fair. About 8ixty young St. Lo ::s nu n wer" Invited to meet the officers and cadets, bu' no St. Louis men Lightning struck Jae home of John Oen'r-. near Tennyso.i. Ind.. on th2d, and killed John Gentry. Jr.. agd 14. and Opal Gentry, aged 1. John Gentry. Sr . Maud Gentry, aged 7; OfHe Gentry. agel 6. and the Inf an daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gentry were injured The Arre-ican Pres H jm rists cailed on President Fraaci of the World's : .r, or, the lt ar.d tried their vari
ous brands of h.-mor on Iave." who beat, them at tcii own Käme. They gratefully "acknowledged the corn.' and pre.-, nteo. Mr Fran i with a life membership certificate. Prattdtat D. R. Francis has been notified that the ArgmitlM training ship Sacramen'o had left Buenos Ay res for New York, carrying a full complement of sailers and a special crew of naval tau s loicd for the World's fair The crew will proe-i immediate! to St Louis. On the 1st a torna io struck the little town of Seiden, west of Norton. Kas.. on the Rock Island railway, demolishing a church, five dwellings, and destroy Ine much farm property. A funeral service was being conducted In the church at the time, and ?9Q peraoaa were In attendance . a dozen persons were hurt, none seriously. C r ' s-. Vi rk . a' ' -l a the United State embassy, in Paris, on the 1st. and had half an hour's talk with Ambassador Porter. No mention was made of the nomination for the governorship of New York. President Rousevelt ha written to Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, declaring that appointments in the forestry service are ra lor.ser to be regarded as senatorial patronage Secretary HUcbeefb ha returned to Washington, after an absence of ten day spent at h- St Iuis extwsiMon. A dlsavrous tr.rr.ado struck T kamah. Neb., on the 1st. wrecking 2C house and injurlne 13 pron. 8i persons were killed and a dor.en or more others badly hurt, on the 2d. as the result of a collision on the Iake Shore electric railway between an eastbound fast electric passenger car and a west-bound "package freight" car at Wells Corner, a few milea east of Norwalk. O. Robert Shaffer, of Milwaukee, was fatally hurt and seven other passenger Inj-ired by the ditihing of a Milwaukee east-bound passenger train r.esr Prry. Ia . on the 2d The train ran Into a washout while going 40 milea and hour. Not a street car was moved In Houston. Tea . on the 2d. all the union employes having struck. The company has aked the mayor for protection In an explosion at the plant of the B F Goodrich tompany. at Akron. O.. on the 2d. half a doxen persons were injured, some seriously Ed Oaffney and A. Hurat. policeaien of Carthage. Mo. fought a duel with pistol on the street in that city on the 2d. G&lfney was shot tn the stomach anl will die Hurst was shot, ia tht head, buj. may recover.
Ttie llii: n Me) Street Car Co. tarted the operates of its cars, on the 3d. with non-union men While stoning car, several strike nympathlir were attacked by strike breakers and two men seriously injur ! It is reported that important evidence has lei n l. overcd In the ln?estigatlon of the Sthaefet murder mystery at Bedford. Ind. Several pronrinent women were summoned before he gTand Jury. A dispatch to the London Times from Tansier says that MohamnieM El Torres has appealed to the tribes to capture Raisult. saying that this alont can save Morocco from invasion Gov. Miekey of Nebraska has honored the requisition issued by Gor. Cummins of Iowa for the arrest of "Tom" Ienrdon. of Omaha, accused of complicity in a diamond robbery in that state. The doors of the Yellowstone national park were thrown open on the 1st. This season' tourist travel to the park is expected to be far greater than ever befire. LATE NEWS ITEMS.
ANGRY MO! BURNS
It 1 s'.tvd at UsbOV TVrt:igl, that the United States nosers Baltimore, Olympia and Cleveland will not come to LMoa, but will atay at Tangier, pending a se'tlement of the difficulty arising out of the detention of Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley. respectively citizens of the United States and Great Britain by the bandit Raisuli. Libe.-cy bell reached Milwaukee on a special tiain over tlv Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul railway on schedule time on the 5th. and was viewed during i:. stay of about two and one-half hours by several thousand persons, inclding a larpe number of school children. There was no formal programme. Curs McClin. a cripple, who Is wasted at Carruthersvi.ie. Mo . on a i r-e of n.-j-.I- r v. as rrr. -ted at Crand lower. 111., and while being taken to ""hebe to be tuned over to the Missouri officials, made his escape through th car window by Jumping fiom a rapidly-moving train. It has been ascertained that Mrs. Nan Patterson, who was arrested by the police of New York city in connection w:ih the shooting of "Cmmx" Young, the turfman, is a Washington fD. C i girl. Her father. John B. Patterson, is well well known In real estate circle of that city. Irtead ct nine dead, as first reported. It is now known that 14 men lost their live in the fire and explosion at the O ining d'stillery at Peoria. 111.. on the tth. Eipht more bodies have been rr moved fr.m the ruins, four of whom were identified. T.e barge Loreberry. of the Philadelphia L Reading Coal Co . was sunk off Vineyard Sound lightship during a dense fog. on the 5th. through a collision with the steamer Tallahasse, Savannar. for B ston. Dr. J W S.mpson. married, was hct and killed, on the 4th. at Weston, Mo . by Julius Rumpel, a saloonkeeper. Rumpel gave himself up. Rumpel claims Simpson was too friendly toward Mrs Rumpel. Familie who propose to case their lot on the Rosebud reservation, which will so m be opened to settlement by the government, are going to Bonesteel at the ra'e of r.o a day. Georr-' M Philips, who won renown a M I neer on the collier Merrimac sunk by Hobson at the mouth of Sactiago harbor died on the 5ih at his home in Cambridge. Mass The department erf ar-loilture a Washington has been advised that Dr. Cook, who has discovered in Guatamala an ant that is a fierce enemy of the boll weevil, has started by th overland route for the cotton fields, carry.nr colonies of ants, with which experin:-r.ts will be made In the weevil-ravaged section J. E Marceil. whose forgeries of 1300.000 wrecked the Highland bank, at Highland. Kas.. ha been sentenced to ."" years in pr:.- n. five years on each of the aa count' and began serving time in the penitentiary on the '.th. He was p'aced as an apprentice under Emmet Dr.lt. n. the former outlaw and bar. mbbar. Potatoes are selling at the higuest price on r- cord in N w York, and housekeeper are told there is no Immediate prospect that they will be cheaper. New potatoes are selling on the dock for t4i a barrel, ö'i cents above any pr- rfcMH record. Ninety-three Enehshmen. who are to make a fie w-eks" 'our of the 1'nitcl State - and tanala. including visit to St. Louis. Buffalo. Niagara Falls. Washington and i tie r plao, s al interest, arrived in New York, on the .rth. on the Celtic. Thirteen men w re killed by the ex plosion of an Infernal machine at the railroad tat ion in Independence. Col., on the c,rh and seven ithers w.-re seriously injured. Eleven men were killed outright, and two died later from thetr wounds. i',ii.ar Vuiari a I'orto Rican student at Dickson seminary. Williamsport. Pa . wax drowned in the Susquehanna rfffff while swimming. Iiis parents had Hal landed at N"w York, en route to witness their son's eradiation On the Ith a tornado near Comanche. I. T.. destroyed several bouses. Four p-rson- w r- riously hurt, but no deattsl ar- reported. The school house at William-purt was demolished and heavy damage to crops done. Äi-s Samuel M flemena. the wife of "Mar Twain." the American author and lecturer, flfed of syneepe at Florence. Italv. on the 5th. Half an hour tefor-' her death she had conversed cheerfully with her husband. Mis Alice Rooxe. elt, who. for th last fortnight has teen the guest of friends in St Unür. returned to Washington on the cth.
AN AMPHITHEATER Advertised Bull-Fight FuileJ to Take Place. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED
rirrnl lliuutnud leu nitil ni -lnt-U MM lu Wtaastl lUelmrd Virrlt, Hull PtaTBSl I'r.miolrr, la liarrleaileil. 8t Louis, June 6 The butl fight which was advert.sed to take place aear hv- World's fair grounds Sunday afternoon wa pren.t.d by officers of St. Louis county, who placed the manager, H. A. Tullidge, under arreaL When the disappo.ired patrons found that the fiele, wculd not be permitted they stormed the office of the comf any. bieakiiut iil! '.he atttSjoara, and then set the V0 the large amphitheater, burning it to tr ground. A majority of the several thousand people a t.o bad paid the admi.-.-ion price of fl formed the angry mob which did the work of destruction. Ricbard Ner.-is. the promoter of the bull fight, and his employes, are said to hae It ft the office in disgui takLg the j;at retCtf tl with them, after the infuriated mob began to demolish the window? &ad loudly demand the return of the admission fee. An attempt to arrest one of the men who was seen throwing a rock throng a window preeipit.vc 1 a tiot. in which there were dozens of reovlvers drawn. Seeral officers stood together, however, and after etlhbiOf some of the men with their revolver and threatening to shoot the d. st urbers down the irow d Ibpersed llulltlinus OH a Fire. A riot call was turned In to loa SL Louis police department, and a message was sent to Sheriff Mencken at Clayton. In the n.tantime, the building had been fl'ed. ard the fir.? was beyond control, and the t. ry of the people seemed to have Leen appeased. Thi was about seven o'clock, and the ptopIe stood about watching the flames shoot up from the pine structure. The few firemen sent out from the World's fair grounds busied themselves saving furniture and several small stands and hou-es adjacent to the arena. The cost of the arena, including the amphitheater, it is said, was nearly $lo. At two o'clock, the time announced for the opening of the show, the seats were nearly all ta'.:n. Deputy Sheriff John P. Ossenfort, of Clayton. wih Deputies J Will Andrae and Henry Hyde, from the sheriff's office, and Kozier G. Meigs, of the Humane society, with six St. Louis detectives, occupied seats near the entrance to the ring. Mrs. Mary W Calkins. Mrs Emma Bartley. Mrs. Belle Nation and Mr. S. J Marks, all Humane society worker, occupied a box next to the officer. For a ciytain-raiser the management Introduced an aggregation of wild west performers. The show began about three o'clock, and for two hours the people were entertained with a creditable display of riding, shooting ard roping. But the crowd was impatient, and from every corner came calls for the lull. So loud and pr-:stent wer these that the management explair. d the bull fleht would take place immediately after the preliminary performance This announcement was greeted with wild yells and vigorous handclapping Wnnlrd lo ee the l Uhl Just before the managers were ready to introduce the bull and the toreadors the people loudly renewed their calif for the bull fight, and when the announcer attempted to state that the fight was the next number on the programme he was compelled by the Jerri nrd yells to retire to the background From different parts of the aid; a came requests for the treasurer of th company. Af er abandoing efforts to addrr s the people, the management save th word which caused the gates to open, ar.d two horses. with riders costumed in flaming red jackets, followed by x Spini-h toreadors, entered. They went to the center of the arena, wher the manager Mood. Then the order to bring in the bull was given, but Deputy Sheriff Ossenfort stepped out with three other offbrs and read the warrant to Mr Tullidu-e. The member? of the humane society cheered, the audience hissed, and the manager become frantic Mr. Norris stepped up. however, and. after saying a few words to his manager, the latter accompanied the officers out of the ring In the meantime some of the men had stolen a dozen bales of hay from a r.ear-by camp and set the pile on fire under the northwest corner of the structure. The officers made every attempt to extinguish the flames, but were prevented. A woman stenographer in the office of Mr N rris roassOsI In and made an attempt to put out the flame3. lut fdie was pushed away by th crowd with rough hands.
WITHIN 01 B LIMITS.1
Kranit fif nn Old tlfnOg Lexington. Va., June 6.- Edward McCormic k, a young farm- r cf Pronsburg. IC miles from here. Saturday night sbot and instantly killed John Wade and Arthur Black well. The shooting was the result of bad feeling that existed between the men for three ears. Klorking t Rnsrlintl llrtrrxllna. Omaha. Neb., Jun? 6. Families who propose to cat their lot on the Rorebud reservation, which will soon be opened to settlement by the government, are going to Bonesteel at tba rate at 50 a day
Sews; by Telegraph from Various Town in Indiana. New Evidence. Bedford. Ind.. June S. Tbe grand jury investigating the murder of Sarah Schafer. H naid to be iu posses lion of valuable information not here.ofore brought out. Suspicion has bOOl iirecied to a Bedford cltzen who is taid to have been out the night of the sjrOOI with a stranger who was found .he same night by the night watchman in the boiler room if the Brooks 0 .'artcr Stone mill drylug hi clothing. The ame man. it is said, was tbe pur 'haser of the empty whisky flask found in the alley near the shed where the body was found. Bi;: Law Class. Valparaiso, lud.. June 3 - Wednesiay oeOOUal at the college auditorium icciirred the graduating exercises of he law department of the Valparaiso college. Tbe class numbered o". one jf the largest in the history of the fcDbOOt Chane P. I rumniond. of Bettta Bend, delivered the address to the class. The loVOM were oaoJotTOsl by President II B Brown Charles (',. Krickson. of Joliet. III., gave the ( lass Mam The memlxTs of the class were
: tdmitted to the supreme court bar and the United States court bar. Raises Boom Fund. Marion. Ind., June The Marlon Improvement association will raise $100,h by selling nsl estate to be purchased with money subsc ribed by citizens, and .he fund thus secured will be us. l to se- ' .uire factories and to boom the city. In an enthusiastic meeting of citiz aa, the -iim of JH.PX was subscribed in imounts ranging from $l"o to $2..rio0. flM Commercial club is bock of the new movement, anu it is the porpOCS to renew in Marion the boom of 1S7-S9. Want Metropolitan Service. Importe, Ind . Jun ' Mayor Darrow ias ordered that e census of thecitv b taken, looking to th" establishment of metropolitan police system should 10.100 population be found Alcierman aejierman has charge of the work. S hundred of the largest taxpayers have petitioned for the change, although tha lOggOOtJOfl 's a'!i Hating ith lively opposition. Should the city have the r cpiiite population the governor will appoint the police commissioner. For Sunday Baseball. Indianapolis. Ind.. June 3 A movement is on foot for the Mrodoetloa in the next legislature of another bill to legalize Sunday baseball. The bill will tllow Sunday baseball in all Indiana rlties having a population of 2r.ii . r Dver. The announcement of the variou candidates for the legislature from this ounty is being clos !y watched by the oackers of the bill, and efforts are being made to get aooM I xpr ston from candidates. Belongs to Certificate Uolders. Indianapolis Ind, Jone j Iwigß V E Baker, of the United States circuit court, denied that the proiK-rty of the Consumers' f!as Trust company belonged to the certificate holders and the company had no right to manufacture art.fb ial gas. The property will be ?old It i- value. i a I : . and was organiej early in t!ie natural ga period with mon - s. r:iw 1 by ritlrnns to piie and sll gas at co-t. Shot by Stepnon. Blonmlnglon. Ind . J ine 3. - John ??rther. a well-known citizen of Ellettsvillf. was accidentally shot by his itcpaoa, bottli aayder, 12 yars old. Strothrr had been hunting at.d when he brought the gun home ifcfflogai he had taken the abl 111 I :t of It Toe boy wa? playing with the gun. when he pulled the trigger, tbe entire load entering his step'athc r's side. Strother, who Is 33 years old. will probably die. Takes Arsenic. Shoal?. Ind . June 3 OMie YarN r, the pretty I'.-year-old daughter of James Yarber. a farmer who lives near this city, secured one-half ounce of arweni'' at a drug store, stating hat her father wanted to k il rats She took a fatal dose after reaching home an 1 refused to tell the reaon for her act
Dynamite for a Saloon. Peru. Ind . June S Frank Mon fifth's saloon was V recked and I C. Stitt's residence, adjoir lnc. vat I I damaged at North ''rove by dynamite plaf-ed under the saloon. The whole town was shaken by the eiiliiion. The town has until recently had no saloons for ten year. Suicide of a Veteran. Richmond. Ind.. June 3 Jacob Kelley. a veteran of the civil war. In-came despondent and committed suicide by shooting in the head. He died within a few minut'S The deed was committed at his home. Kelley was about o year dd. He leaves a widowand seven chil or- n. Sue for $2.000. Terre Haute. Ind . June 3 Wllllavi Fidler has suei. Samuel (IrafT for ) for personal injuries inflicte by (JrafTs goat, whb-h butted him. making him permanently tame Deed of a Jealous Man. Anderson. Ind . June 3 Mrs. Adda Barger. a widow, aged If, was slashed with a razor across the forehead, right ebOOfc and shoulder by her cousin. James MePormlek Mrs Barger at tributes the attack to jealousv. She will recove r "njurlcfs Proved Fatal. Salem Ind.. June 3 Ofc Babh. tfaj Mi while trying to Jump on a lot freight. fll under the wheel and both
leg vere crushe i e.rr He died whi; preparations were being made ffir amputs' Ion.
DID WOMEN SCAPE MELVILLE E. STONE
Club Women Discu&s His Recent Speech on "Yellow Journalism." DIDN'T EXPRESS HIS MEANING
latesMSeaO to uk lbs aM w -it lu Bfsnrsttavo lb i-rui I nur f UM lfWIiil freu. Washlngtcm June 7. At a rOBSptloa In this oltj Monday night in bemor of the delegates from the local woman's clubs to the national mee ting of toe National Fe-derat i n of Woman's clubs, recently held at St Iuis. Me- i'iara A. Colby, editor of the Woman's Tribune , di.-cusf.ed the- Que'stion of modern "follow kraraaltOtOj' in a reversion of the- t .e of publication exhibited in t'.ie- maca. .1. - .nd 1 r.. I.e-als of the time's whe n worn. 0T0TI not supposed to form a part Of thi NOdtaTs) public. As an incident of the re lati-n of her experiences at the- World' la r. tie' made a brief reply te Mr Melville E Stone's assertie.n that is Is the- wniuen who are largely responsible- !r the publication of scandal in t!; ittwspa pears. "Mr Stone,'' she state-el. said it was the- wome n who are- re-.-pousiblo for the immoral tone of 1 1. mode rn ne wspape is As a matter "f fad, it is the nie n ' ' The- newspapers read by VOOien, she OS arid, are delivered at tl. 00800, not bought on the strei t Modern yellow journalism, in he r opinion, was only "a t-mporary reversion to the old BOOOäakwa typo of publica. i n ! the ilays when women did not read they do now. She predicted it would mt la.-t. Miss Francis French. WBO aCtSej as president at the- reception, in cutiiuK ntmg on Mr- Cedbv's re-p!-. Mr. Sti-ne. said she understock! Mr. St ne had intended to ask the aiel et the club woman in ele vating the moral tone- ot the newspaper press, but iota said when lo- stiK! up to speak and saw "that vast sea of faces upturned toward I. im." he- ;is s. .ire-d. and in his conf'.islol did not agprOW his me'aning prope-rly. What." ejaculated Mrs ClaOTie M Pepper, "a man who has bees in the newspaper SOslOOaM in Chicago as long as Melville- Stone ha ge-t m ar d' I gue-s not " After cunclu'ling the lise i- :c.r. ot the exposition. Mrs PaajpOV spoke briefly of the proceedings of the peace conference at Lake Mohonk. DEADWOOD STILL ISOLATED totere. Have t-allra Some, lint the lllM(r Mill He Very . Omaha. Neb.. June 7 A -! el tc the Itee from Peadweeod. S. I 01 W'iiiie- the waters of WbUeWOOa crek have fallen to a consldOrOb! eute-nt. they are :.till high e nough tc completely isolate the city from the small surrounding towns, and .tmpi are- being brought in over the rv -,in-talns on pack herse ;. The- nrst i atf mate- of the damage to the- city is about correct, while that to the mr rounding camps and country may ag gre gate- a trifle' ' morn. At Te rry on Saturday night, the dam of tbe Horse- Sheee Mining Co. brok . kettln the uBpOOOOOa wsters come- with a rush through the main stre-et of the camp. The flood struck a saloon in wulch were eight men. two d Com Slavonians, rushed for the dew and plunged into the- stre am in the-.; .
! cite-me nt and were drwned. Ti r ' IkiiIP s we re- re covere il Meinoay morn I leg Th building collapse-d ar..l UJM others were badly Injured, eene mar having Ml leg broken, while Um rr-t j were e.the rwise hurt KILLS HIS THREE CHILDREIN rt-rrible I rime- e.f an Invane r Jesawf i ease I taker. Roselle, N. J . June 7 - Aft k .:ng 1 tun of his children and WOJUIeliOfl a ' feinrth. .leise-ph M Pouch, at n- time
an undertaker, shot hlmseh through the he-ad and died a few n.tm-nts later. Pouch lived In a ltt! cottagewith hi four children. Sunday he shot two of them and ero:altn'd the ir Uul.es He t.H h the tfT two Ifl M upper re k m with him. Meanwhile he had mailed a warning to County Physician Wescott. who. upon receiving the letter notified tb- po.iee. When the OfBofob iHsOOtU I tf the diKir eif the Pouch dttag-. Pouc h shot ami killed hi little daughter and wciutideel his sole remaining son He then shot himself and died a t.ie- policeforced an entrance The boy will re cover Pouch Is believed to have b. i i ,u -aue.
A Itfpttel hue Uet attac hment ha hee added to the rain gauge of the weather bureau on top of the custom houre at St. Lau1s. It accurately teil of tbe amount of precipitation. The rain is drained Into a double bucket, so ptdeed 'hat It tips on receiving a eerta n ami nnt of water Kve-ry rne.ven.r.' of this kind is registered by an sjoctfttssl connee tion The great Ccerhss engine that furnished the power for the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia had 3(o horsepower At 8t Louis one engice has H.ubO horsebower.
