Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 47, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 December 1904 — Page 2
Weekly Courier. Af rt. DOANm. Publlmhmr J ASTER, : ; : INDIANA.
The heaviest nowMorm e xperlenc. .1 In Spain in many years, lasting nearly So hours. COM polled a partial i'-at;oa Of business in Madrid. on ÜM UL 1'vlame Janai-. u ihe :uch1 act
ress died at Ainityville. N. V , on th 20th. after a Ion illn pat.ilv ale She wa- born in Prague, B ohemia, In If Peter Nessen. ho started aros Lake Michigan in his boat. 'Foclkillei No. 2." mas fouud dead on the b. two and a half Billet west of Stevensville, Mich , on the 1st.
1904 1 DECEMBER DM) "v S MON U t TTo I INt mi' j KM j i J 4 6 7 8 9 IO II 12 13 14 15 16 1 - l8 K) 20 2 I 2 2 2 3 24 2C 2627 2cS 29 30 3 I
It was reported, on the 30th. that Russian tor; at destroyer, re 'Urning to Vladivostok from a scouting expedition, was sunk by the guns of th Russian forts In error.
Japan has made official complaint regarding the attitude of the Spanish government in permitting vessels ol the Russian second Pacific squad roo to coal and victual at Vigo .
CDKRENI TOPICS, THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL, I Fire in the fifth floor of St. Mary's hospital at Peebto, Oat, on the outh. i :id $:;, OOS damage and laused much a iteni'-n:. Most of the patients weft maoved from .t ho building, and MMM j of them are suffering from shock.
William II. Woodward, president of the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.. of St Louis, one of the largest con1 rns of its kind in the west, dropped I dead of heart disease on the 30th.
I Or.e man was killed and several were j injured, on the .:.tr by an iron beam 1 which fell from the roof of the Park
building U New York into a throng of people passing through Nassau street.
Andrew Carncgi" ggf de ided 10 giva $40000 for the establlshtuent of two bran, h libraries !n Omaha, Neb.
Thomas W 'unian. a hunter, was 1 killed in a duel wiih fanner boys in St. . Louis county (Mo.) on the isL While running 50 miles an hour, a north-hound passenger train on the
J cnu v Iv arnii road, ran into a construction train near Columbus. Ind on the It, iustantly killing lour trainmen, fatally Injuring another trainI man. and imli. tins slight injuries upon 1 score of passengers. Kd Htiev. colored, was hanged at El dorado. rk on t lo fed, for ihe niurier Of Marshal l.awreuct Johnson Btawaii A Kei'on the gambler w ho hot (iu Rothe, another gambler, in .1 en wded section of H road way, N. Y on Now tuber lm. was nroaoratojl, no tli- M, by a coroners jury, which do1 ded that li. acted in self-defense. Mrs Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Port
land. Me. .vas. on the :M. re-eltcttd Presides) Ol the National Woman Christian Ttmperaaet union. LATE NEWS ITEMS.
DIFFERENCES WIIH PANAMA SETTLED Secretary Taft and President Amador Sign au Agreement.
ORDER EFFECTIVE DEC. 12,1904
Fred Wittrock. who. under the name of " Jim Cumming.'- committed one of I the most daring train robberies in the history of Missouri, died of grip in '
Leavenwor'h Ka- on the 2d. The beam, VeigklBJ 00 pounds, was fioi. t .v w ..t, . J being hoisted, when it slipped from its Utn. John M. Wilson, chairman of . fas,lMlin(W am, fp tlM vrwtnd JhTf . st," r"f Ana R. l hafTee, iim(,, tlM db barer, "without honcoief of staff. I. S. A., to be grand' r. ...
. . , , i 01 iina e.ionn i Minim, no? utai marsha. of the inaugural parade. w. . ... Untl v .
is said to have married a Degrees, and
V
Hen. Grant
Nan Patterson, the actress, awaiting trial charged with the killing of her lover. Caesar Young, was, on the ::oth. reported ill in the Tombs prison with tonsilitis. At a met:ng of the Cuban cabinet.
on the ":ot h. it was deckled to set aside
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ut nnin uureau s nionimv sum- . nary. Issued on the 1st. shows that I ! " har-" wa r.'oor.,;nended b . . lien C.rnnr
ciops in an pans or tne country are suffering from lack of moisure Winter h-at ha.- been unfavorably affected. The secretary of the interior. E. A. Hitchcock, has ordered the withdrawal of 5S."0O acres of land in the Minot (N. D.) land district, on account of the Buford-Trenton reclamation project.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on th- M, offered a reward of t00 for the murderer of Nancy Goodwin Gay. The murder occurred at Agency. In Buchanan county, on November 23, 1904. Howell D. Ferguson, of St. Louis, was arrested at Manhattan, Kas.. on the 1st. on a charge of embezzling money from the Portland hotel, in SL Lo us, of which be had been head clerk.
Pr I.eroy S Cliadwlck. the htfbaad of ( aaais L Chadhsick, w hose Baiwflal troubic.-i have bOta undergoing a thrcslim-Kiut process for some time past, come out with a brief stato-
menr from Kuropo, on the 4th. in winch In dct. nds the character of Mrs. Chadwick, and says recent published statements reflecting ou her nanie are
entirely false
The differences between the United States and Panama, which made necessary the visit of Secretary of ar Taft to the lstnmus. were settled, on the 4th. by the issuance of an executive order signed by Secretary Tatt for President RoootVOlt, and assented to in a letter by President Amador of Panama The infant crown prince of Italy was baptized at the quirinal in Home on
the 4th. The weather was showery, but this did not prevent a great crowd
from gathering at the palace to wit
1 1'IH- .lurlkilii'tlam Is (.milled
tin- i ultra tale in navkets mt Colon und I'ti mi inn u KiinllatMS ami t ii it rii hum Panama. Dee, Ö.-The difToi i nces betw en the United States and PUUUML
which Mbdi MO) s-ary the visit of ecretary id War Tart to the isthmus, were settled Sunday by the issuance tf an executive order signed by Secretary Tuft for President KoosevolL and assented to In a letter by P.e.-i-dent Amador of Panat.ia
The order provides that no trade for the canal zo..e or the republic of Panama can nt. r tfce port established by the United States at either end of the
mal. supplies lor the construction of
H006IEH HAPPENINGS Told in Brief by Dispatches from Various Localities.
Got No Mo. ley. Otaport, lud . Dae, I -As Pr wiiliam Priichanl n;i going to see a paHOB! t.etvvt , ii MM and twoo. lock in tM morning he was su.idenlv set upon by five men and Oftleklj overpow. red and
MMIBd and -.aggi d lie was then carrh I to tka Karmern' bank, the door of which was forced open, and as he lay upon tM Mint guardid by one of the nu n with n drawn revolver, the other tom drille, 1 the Mife. The doctor was than n moved to n rear room and the door was lorn from the safe by tin explosion. The explosion awakened p. rIOM living ii. ar by and they began to
ass inble around the bank and the robbOTI lied befoi,. th.y could force the Inner . otnpartnients ef the sale, all of w in. h were locked
MESSENGER SHOT; EXPRESS LOOTED Bold Hold-p of Fxpie Atchison, Topeka & Santa 1.
THE WAY-SAFE WAS HlfLr
rii
iiaii.iii. it.r Mertalli M
lata Msgtwas Imum, aiM. ' ti- mihi Thi . I in .. . I 1 rinn ihr ffgi.
Doraiitorlas Needed. T. rre Haute, Ind . !) .'. President N W Parsons, of tkf Indiana normal IChOOl, has forwarded his biennial report to the governor Tin report relates ehtofj to tM int. rnal work of the M hool. and also ilii llldes some recominen. lat ions of Irnportarxe President Parsons refers to the need of two large
the canal and arucle in traustt boiag onBltorles lor th. rouns omei s.u
IIVAAItlnl II. . . . 1
dents and states that the legislature w ill be ask. ,i to appropriate 1100.000 to erect
and eijuip inch building
Admiral George Dewey, on the 2Hh. declined to be a member of the international commission of inquiry into the North sea incident, in which a British fishing fleet was fired on by the Russian llaltie squadron.
the credit of $1m..hh. for the erection of 'ness the passage of the carriages with m tW . 1 M t m . . j a. ... .
c Maspiiai ior inreitious diseases at uieir distinguished oecupan's.
Santiago.
Michael Kelley has sold his coal in terests n- ar Danville. UL, to an east
rn sndi ate for S:' 2"ö iVmi
President Urckwith and Cashier
Spear, of the Citizens' national bank of Oberlin, O.. were arretted by a United States marshal, on the 4th. on
. w.., -. ,vv,. . . . v . ' u k v . ii.ni 1 1 l . Uli lilt- 1.11, OU Mrs. O. orgp Henrv ( ( Iranilma . nil. U chartr.- of vi.ilafinv fr..i.,r,i i.nbin
brt. the oldest actress on the Amer- laws in the matter of loans to Mrs.
( as-sie L. Chadw ick. Cracksmen effected entrance to the building of the Hank of Plymouth, at Plymouth. Neb., on the 4th. and exploded two charges of dvnamito on th
vault, partly wn cking the dcxr and
eamaging the building. No money was secured.
l and of a
of an m
ian stasre. died in her rooms at the Shrman house. Chicano. on the 2d. shortly after having suffered stroke of apoplexy. Mrs. Gilbert was 83 years of ace. Fire, which broke out about midnight, on the 2d. destroyed or damMCOd Ancient Rome." "Old St. Iuis." Pair Jipan." -Quo Vadis" and "(in hu rtowery." Pike concessions on the St. Louis World's fair grounds, and
tnreaten'!. for a time, to do still
excepted. Toil turns the customs receipts of tluai ports over to the gov- ! rninent Of Paninia.
Panama agrees to reduce her tariff from 13 per ceut. ad valorem to ten per cent. This reduction applies to all goods except wines, liquors, alcohol and opium. Panama also agrees to reduce her consular fees and port charges to 60 per cent, of the rates at present charged. Absolute free trade Is to apply between the canal zone and the republic of Panama. Voss, If entering the canai ports are granted free pntry to the jorts of Colon and Pan
ama, and veiaell entering the latter Porta are extended the same privilege! n the canal v.;ts. Complete J'l.-isdiction is granted the United States in the harbors of Colon ind Panama as to the sanitation and luarantine regulations. Panama redetet her rate of io.sfage to two cents, and is to furnish all stamps in the republic and In the canal zone.
j The zone authorities are to purchase
stamps from Panama at 40 per cent. Jf their face value. The order of Secretary Taft Is to be Ineffective unless Panama shall put into effect the gold standard, according to the currency agreement Of dune 2,
ioni I, i . . ..
me international Cottonse Co.'. j 1 , l JJB" "f
ant at Snlmn ila ...... 1,. A I " '"' 1 i.uiaillit- I . .... . . .
ins in the canal zone, and provision Is I , 1,1 Lm"orw to PM"
in- bii r(u iiinns. ineomciaisw
plant at Selma, Ala., was partly de stroyed by fire on the 4th. The seed
hu'l and meal warehouse are a total
- i (An II "T'i- , - ' ' ' - ' ' I I 1 1 rr in New York, on the 2d, to ! firp inr fh" "Hereafter. " Three Japan1 mm 1 m ' L 2 11 - a, n t tri fnr I
the chap tishment
take part in the funeral service over
tne body of Madame Franeesea Romar.a Jar.auchek.onco a noted actr- ss. - Hltt Nancy Carver loiter, the Feccmd daughter of the late Levi Z. Leiter, of Chi. ago. and Maf Colin Pew ;, s Campbell, of the British army, were married In Washington. D. C, on the 2h. at the residence of the bride',, mother.
greater damage. Arthur C. Dunn was loss, and U tW 0 three and tow thouarrested while trying to extend the sand bushels of seed were lost.
Rear - Ad 8. N. hai
Charles H Davis, T".
been offered and has ac-
eat were injured
Wi'h confltmation of the news ef the loss of 2"1-Meter hill and the failure of their forces to recapture It the
Russian war office is prepared to hear oth r fort
"i tne iau of port Arthur at any timo. Chief Justico Robinson of ÜM Missouri supreme court Issued a temporary rule in prohibition against Judge l o :. , , of tk Sr. Ixjuis criminal court, to prevcnl him from nroieedinc with
the tria". of Edward Uutler in his eoun
charge of bribing Charles F
St. Peterebarc. oa the ttfe. received
an liaconrirmc 1 report from Chefoo tMat
'he Japanese ;iave been unable to i plant siege guns OB Ml Metre hill, be
cause of the cement rated fire from the
also made m 'ho order for inn p'.-n
ance by the Ualted States of Important highway?, partly in and partly out of the canal zone, and also for the building of a hospital. The order is made effective December 13, 1901.
THE INJURED WILL RECOVER
on ih
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cepted a membership on the interna- ' Z 1, "J " 71.. . X i;nn.i M. nf ; v:v ,t!finR apaint him in the boodle
i a e-. Gen. Porforio Diaz was inaugurat. il I resident of the Republic of Mexico for the sereatb time, on the 1st. un ler the most auspi. ious ircumstances. The Jaoanese having anompli-hed
me capture of SOS-lfettr hill, overlook
tional court of inquiry, which will investigate the firing by the Russian fleet aia British fishing smacks in the North sa.
PfltaaSM Injur, il In HJaMMWt PmcM n-i k nl II. .1.1. it. o.. on lloml in -. er).
The lndy of the late president of the Transvaal republic Paul Kmger. is lying in state ir) the Muir.-riot Memorial building, at Capetown. South Africa, were it is daily risited by great crowds. In a fire, on the 4th. which wa re
markable for Its rapidity and awful i HofckSB, Mo.. Sa urday are still in hos
Emperor Francis Joseph has chosen ! Admiral Baron von Shaun, formerly ! tnm n, arirlar rxt K . ,
iM..ua t ui uir nnu iait ua , IO OP 1 1 " - ntaue um, ijiri hiurthe fifth member of the Ang:o-Ru.,iau inp ,h" narl)r of Port Arthur, are in X . m-. i , , . . a nnol t i,,n n ii i v, mm I . . i
... u wa. eominission. in case tne other four members failed to agree upon the fif'h member.
a DOSlIiol as soon as thrv tr.t .1,
-- r - . ' m . . necessary guns mounted, to destroy or drive our of the harl-or the remnant
j of the Russian fleet. According to a Tokio dispatch to the The invt nii.ro
t O a a . ' 1 v ...... un Hl" I Ul I lit? London standard, on tlm -,,h. there is J World's fair in St. Louis was a scene
"'"" rumor nai tne Japanese of revelry. Cayety reigned supreme
havoc. Mrs Rork Parrv. of Plttsbnre
Pa. and two Of her ch.Idren. were burned to death. SEN TE The nafe was called to order, on the .".th. by President pro tern Frye. op rung prayer was made
by Chaplain Rev. Edward Everett
pitals in this city Others have either gone to their bOBMt In thil ciy and Itbtf ißteottrl towns or continued their journ. y westward. Of Uw rmaining here, the condition of Mrs.
Mary OUlttt, of Canton, N. Y., is the
most serious. She is 74 years old. und
Hale, D. D. A ooausttte was ap- j ncr temperature is very high, but her
i-o.u.cu hi wau on tne president and i """""l pnysician Deiieves that she ; tifurm ... Vi . . . t m ! uii.. . ..
have hauled large calibre guns to the
let Of 2-:-metre hill, fron whentheir flre has a sweep of the whole harbor of Port Arthur.
R' ports have reached the state department of a very unsettled state of affairs In Venezuela. Many citizens have been put in prison for alleged political efiBMta, public opinion is inflamed, and trtoaa apprehension for thdr stfety pn vails among the foreign element. One man is dead, three are In a hosTi'al suffering from burns and lacerations, and several others are sericusly hurt as the result of an explosion, on the 27th. in the generating house of the Consolidated C.as Co. 's plant in Vest Forty fourth street. New York city. William Loeb. Jr.. as secretary of the rn tätet, on the 2tuh. issu 1 t i of!' ia' igned statement denying that Pleatdent Roosevelt's .hildren had cruelly treated the thanksgiving turkey sent to th.- president by Mr V-we. of Rhode Island, in nor dance with the latter s annual custom.
The attorney-aeneral of the Cnitod Sf..-.s ha- derided that news,ap..r and rcagazine gueaaing contests are lotteries in the meaning of the postal regulations. His decision was given at the request of Postmaster-General Wynne, who will in the future tadatft !l advertising matter for tatfe schemes from the malls
Thir.y-flve non union miners were Ukrn into Zeigler. Ill . from St. ox, on the .loth, on a guarded train wlfhoet Incident. The indictment of Joseph loiter and his representat Ivo. Henry R Piatt, by the Perry county (HI ) grand birr, November 12. has been de public No caplase have been tssued for them.
from the time the lights were turned
on until midnight. The presence of a large fore- of police, mourned and on foot. Jefferson guards and armed patrols of the Sixteenth Cnlfed States infantry kept any disposition towards rowdyism in check. I're ieni David R Francis and Treasurer William H. Thompson of the Louisiana Pun hase Exposition Co. were the recipients of costly souvenirs at the hands of the directors on the closing day. consisting of Qt) altot solid silver table services costing $17.Mf and $ir..trt respectively. The presentations were made at the public ceremonies on the paz of St. Uarta, The attendance on the Hodng day of the World s fair. Fran, is day." was about 225.0OO, making the total attendance during the seven months, in
rouni figures, 18,500,000. The day wa an ideal one for December. A head-on collision betwseB two trains on the Danville tk Western division of the Southern railway at RtoV's-iand. Va on the iat r...-.'....i n
... ..... . - . , ,T,, , the death of Fireman 0. O.. M!nfr, of Stockton, and Sam Staples, a colored brakeman. An explosion, on the lt( at the Tnion Ele. trie Liht & Power Co s ntant
! at Tenth and St. Charles streets. St
Iuis. wrecked all the dynamos ar.d generators In the building, and left a part of the city in total darkness. The top works of the central shaft Of the Woodslde Coal Co. located south of Springfield. 111., caught fir.-, on the 1st. and were destroyed President Roosevelt announced, on the ist. that he would appoint a grand
son or Gen. Stonewall Jackson to Wei Point. Three men were killed by a head-on collision of Rock Island freight trains near Peabody. Kas. on the 1st The Rieat Ixmlfliana Pur hane e.rw..
i sitlon at St. Louis closed un the 1st
iutorm lam that congress was ready to receive r.ny communication he had to send. Resolutions of rteo et fco tho
memory of fee late Senators Hoar, of Massachusetts, and Quay, of Ptoatylvania, were adopteo, and adjournni'-nt was then taken as a further tribute to their memory HOl'SK The house was called to onl.-r tf toter Cannon exactly at 12 eclock. R. v. h. N. Couden, the house chaplain. 0tUe ered tne optnlng prayer. The only business outside of the usual first iay routine was the adoption of a resolution extending until January Lies, the time within which the merchant marine commission may make its report. The house als adjourn.-. I out of respect to the late Senators Hoar and Quay. James Noble Tyner, of Indiana.
once postmaster general of tOe Halted
.stat. s, and at various times secn-tarv
of the Indiana senate, representative
In congress, first and second assistant postmaster general, and assistant at
torney general for the post office de
partment, ated of paralysis at hi a home in WatBlnftOB, d. c, on t lie 5th. The Wrlls Faigo express car on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe overland passenger train No. 1. westbound, WM entered, on the r.th, somewhere b 'tween Needles j.nd Daggett, Cat and Evan O ftobortt, the express mesjenger, shot and fatal
ly wounded and the way safe rifled. The second trial of Nan Pallet son. accused Of the murder of TatttC Young, a wealthy Itookmaker. in t
cab on Weot Broadway. New York, ;dx months ago. conan. nied. on tue ..th, In the criminal branch or the New York supreme court. The OeraMa bank of Uuffiilo, N. Y., was closed, on the r.th. by state superiDfendent or biitiKing. Kilburn. because of a run which began with the opening of the doors, and contlue.l to grow In volume as the day advanc. .. a dispatch fron Chefeav on tat r.th. to the ondon Daily Teiegrnph, sayn: Heavy firing continues at Port Artnnr. The Japtaeat are making most determlne.i and pcr-istent efforts to capture the northern forts."
Kansas City, Mo.. Dec .V Onlv i
of the fiftv or more rrna ..,.,.. ! hile going dov
in the Missouri Pacific wreck MP ,he vph,cl' ""' Beel pWMed over and
v.wn- vi....;. lie. K . I lie I Wo Otlier children w.-re slightly injured by th' kicking of the horses. Frozen to Death. Marion. Ind. Der. i - The first case this season of death b freezing o. mrred here when Orville Vangunder inrished
in an oil field. Vantunder was an inmate of the national military home He went to loatebore to ,.-it a niece. Mils lappOted to have eel bis way while
reteraiag in the tight and was frozen to death. Gun Wound Proves Fatal. Shelbyville. Ind.. Dec. IlOOCOt ClMTk, aged IP, of A. ton. who accidentIlly shot hims.lf in the hip on Thanktgiving. is dead as a result of bis injurie. The immediate cause of death was du to lockjaw. He received the fell cbargi of a double-barreled shotgun, which al
most tore the right leg from his body.
Killed His Brother Accidently. Laporte. Ind . Je ', (Jeorge Smilev
aged ten years, of Marshall county. wa
aci mentally killed by his brother Li car
Smiley. The two boys were hunt In; when the discbarge of the gun caused 8 ioad of shot to strike the ten-vear-ol
rlctlm in the back of the head, death re
sulting almost instantly.
Little Girl Killed. P-tersburg. Ind. De. f,. The six-
year-old daughter of Will Miller, nvina at Little, was run over km a heavilv-
loaded wagon and ite-'antly killed whll
playing in front of the s. boolhouse.
Veteran Die Alone. Richmond. Ind , Dec 5 David Dean
a veteran of the civil war. was found
dead at his home In Creen Fork, t h ft
county He lived alone and if Is though!
ne nacl heci ,ead several dava
Fatal Quarrel.
Princeton. Ind.. De. ä.-In a nuar.-el
here with Carl and John Wilson. coaJ
miners. Clayton Weist was struck with
a brick and instantly killed The WU
son were arrested
Tb malt, r
was laid before the board at Its recent meeting and approved The report show. that during the year ending October 81, 1104, 1 7V different students wer earoUed and that during the period terj eouaty in the state was represented. Seeks His Release. Dehdii. Ind . Ie,- :,. Samuel Wil
liams has been in jail in this citv tor
more than seven years with no charge against him. and efforts are being made to have him released the sheriff reftteIng to release him without orders from the circuit court. Seven years ago last April Williams was taken to the jail. Ht was subjert to epilepsy at that time, and it supposed that his Incarceration rat to prevent him from harming himself. He was confined to his cell ror thret years, but the present sheriff has tJvea him many privileges and be has recovered, but is still held toder a tejp pottd commitment issued at the time.
nut wtileb is not in existence now His friends are seeking his release. To Build New Line. Laporte. Ind., Ie- ft, -The Lake Shore Railroad ...mpany detailed a 'arg. party
of surveyors to run a survey for a line
int near
il! not
give advan.e information con ce mine
" j w i - f U Hl I 111 II.,', I the purpose of this line, but it is under- cover...! im,.
I -.., - vaac7 uiiii't nii,stood that the road will be used rxclu- gage shortly after the train left Net lively for freight trains and that th- dies, and "had started to open Utt
in.-,,,, ooui.ie ,ra. i, system between door when the man. whom he t. k V
ciKiian ami i nicago will be teed exIveiy for passenger train? with a v iew of a faster train schedule. Wagon B-eaks Boy's Neck. BooavlUe, lad., Dec 5. -George DlMti". at.d It, was killed instantly by being run o. r by a wagon His parents were moving and the three children
while going down hill were thrown from
Los Angeles. Ca!., )(.c. ,; , Wells Fargo express ear ,,
Atchison, Topeka a Santa Fe ... land passenger train No. 1, . bound, was entered early i,M; morning, sonn vvli. iv between .,., and Daggett, ami ffvaa (). Ro the expraM messenger, shot an tally wouuded und the wav ami lied. The Wells Fargo company w . peetlag a large shipment or Unit. States pension money, totalling Jio, 1- js m, ,, ,B is ,,sslilit. Jhaf tins shipment may have I.. . n , train. It was shown thai th.. 1.,,
officials vve.-e greatly ex rclaed 1
tiu robbery, and al llarst,,w plat tatHaeaaeager aa board the car. u orders to guard everythin- g jt Wj the greatest secrecy. Officials r fused to discuss the reported ; : nieni of pension nionet la anv .
Tka talpaaeat, ir sent. ;oala hart beea la the main sare. :t it uoi ce tain, however, that this sare was , n tared, as the roMber nned the pockets or the messenger as he lay on floor or Utt car ani' took aw... keys to the two saTes. If is also reported that BMTt tan aae man was concerned in the hold op. Assistant Superintendent prtiir..
1 Of the Wells Fargo, stated late M .r. ,
tfteraooa that the amount taken fron the express car will not noted It Ht would not say that the ry State, pension money was not m Ike car. but slated positively that tkt main safe was not entere a- .1 llwistii Foall w i.i.-.i.
The robbery was not dlacoven 1 ui til tkt trnin reached Hgggetl feefw Hawes opened the odor ' express car at Daggett and 1 s'tig.-r Roberts lying 011 tl , the car in a semiconscious .. and the contents of th. ri M. . . aoatteeed atout the car. Rootruwat so seriously wounded that he wai uuPit t0 tell how the roi.berv or-
cnrred. except to say that he had d
wld recover. Mrs, (Jillett was in tho
rear Pullman which was precipitated Into a creek more than twenty feet below the bridge where the wreck oc
curred, and she was rescind from tne
wreckage artor holes had been chopped
in tne top of the car with axes. None
-r the other injured Is in a serious condition, and most of them will, it is expected, be able to leave for therr
aoatt in a few days. MAY HAVE BPEN MURDER 1 .1
....... iii.iiKniiiiH tka
sii.i.i. n DesMb or Mr, rnul i I. nln. BatW arrollt on, Hi,.
ianas ( ity. Mo. Dec. ;, special
to the TimeH from Carroilton. Mo
- a s
The eaddea dtttb of Mrs Frank Mc-
Lain. a month ago, at her home in IJ. Ingston county, Mo., aroused the sns.
picions of her relatives in Kentuckv
who sent a physician here to Investl.
gate tne circu m.-danoes or her death. 'Ihe physician, with the assistance of the prosecuting attorney of this county, where the body wa buried, ind the coroner or Livingston county! exhumed the body, removed the stomach and sent Jt pj St. Louis for chemical anaysis Tkt physician now says that Mrs. McLain died in convulsions and showed Rymptoms of strychnine poisoning, as she was ill only 24 hours. She was 2H years old. ami apparently
in good health previous to her ratal Illness
ftteagrfal in aye hop. Ottaera, Kas.. Dec 4. FJxperienced oil men think they opened a phenom enon in a well brought in east of Ottawa. The strike was made at M feet Other ratio IM feel near by are yielding In barrels. Thin well is spouting IM barrels a ggf. To llUpln) Ulna "tone. Al'on III , Dec. 4. H. J. Ik.wman, of Alton, who displayed at the World's fair white stone quarried from n,
hills above Alton, has had a fn-uost
from the government to exhibit th
ianie at Was'ilnnton. He haa ai-centad
be 1 negro, sprang latHlfr Before t
messenger could draw his revolvet, tkt I bandit o, ... I fire, wound:iu- (toaai -mortally. The bullet struck RolVrtii the left breast, paulag tkroagti hi body. Roberts fell to the tloor. tnd the robkor lowed fitly weal to the 'ip.v way safe and took erfcat he wan-. 1 . or the contents. Hh tkeo opeaed the . disir and leaped out. Roberts was s I badly hurt that he was unable to ' niak.- an outcrv.
Mmlr OSM II t 1 1 ne-. The ImR on the door at tkt BO of the express car was broken, ikowtthg that the robber had paed fore lu gaining an entran.e. The InterlOl of
the car indicated that the mess. -g. r huil made a game resistance OH I grappled with tkt robber before being overpowered and finally Ikot him. After rifling the sare the robb leaped frum the rar while the train was running at full sp. e.i. The bandit Is believed to be one r a number or colored tramps who bavi around Daggett bJbOO the construct loa work or the Salt Lake road reached that place. The wa; sale contained envtloves bidding money and checks, which Were being sent to the general oflb by station agents along the line. Messenger Roberts was brought to this citv on board the iraln. v. hlch
arrived Monday afternoon. Roberte was a resident of !s Angeles, and was one of the oldest and trusted employes of the Wells Fargo Company. Word was received here that a Oolortd tramp was under grretl at BarttOW, Who is believed to be the man who committed the robbery. Assistant Superintendent Pridham. ol the Well, Fargo company, stated that the amount taken Dom the wav sar' was only a rew hundred dollars. The principal treasure safe, he said, was locked, and the robber was unable to force an entrance.
A Minneapolis genius has Invents!
a 2 Inch umbrella with h will fold up, frame and all. info a little case to be
carried In the no.ket The hnnrii
nnd all the ribs .onslst of fine and
very strong steel tubes in sections.
which telescope one Inside the other. The coYering is of very fine silk, which takes up but very little room. The wooden handle or the umbrella It hollow, and receives all the rest or the leleseeprag eaibrelle rod when shut up. A small and light case, not too big ror the pocket, is provided to contain the whole.
Mrnngfr Kille. I It. Train. Pa.lticah, K... Dec. B, A man. tap1 Boeef to be John Pellerln. ol Hertreed, Mo., was killed n the Illinois Central yards at noon. Monday, whll trying to board a rreight train, (ft appeared to be a laborer, but was not known here. Letters found In his pocket indicate that he was Pellerln Iodureted almond oil nightly ms laged Into the skin will aid In remov log scars. The pits Dom smallpox may be greatly lessened ir the treatment is conscientiously followed.
For a discolored rifck apply in -umb ft cut in strips, binding on during t'ie olght; in the morning wash off and rub with cold cream.
Artificial cotton Is now being made in Frame from the cellulose of the fir tree, freed from bark and knota.