Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 August 1900 — Page 2

THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.

C W. METSKER, Tub. and Prop. PLYMOUTH, - - - INDIANA, 8 ISIS Of 1 11 Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of I la pinning of Much or Little Importance from All Part of the Civilized World Trice nt larui Product Lu Western Market. Sidney Whittico, seeking to wipe out his wife's family in Springfield, 111., shoots sister-in-law; makes good hi3 escape. Pastor Sheldon, returned from England, writes in Topeka Capital, "Great Britain is cursed by liquor." Secretary Hay explained Alaska boundary agreement is temporary and grants no land to Canada. Zionists entered Mansfield, O.: despite police vigilance; hustled out of town. Chicago won chief offices at Burlington Sangerfen; next feast at Peoria. Seattle. Wash., will have a world's fair in 100. According to the Secretary of Agriculture, there will be dollar wheat this year; farmers advised to feed corn to stock, as meat will be high. American shipments of gold propitiated London for loss of war loan subscriptions. Rain imperils Kansas corn crop. Dora defeated Argo for the Waukesha Beach cup. A. G. Hales, London Daily News war correspondent, attacks red tape of British war office, causing great suffering in south African army. Gen. Ludlow will complete his study of German War college in Berlin next week; his mission explained by him. Two Filipino officers surrendered to Col. Freeman. Victor Emmanuel received Italy's legislators. The great Futurity stake will approximate $40,000. Residents of Brant Rock, a Cape Cod resort, will hold a mass meeting this week to protest against the practice of young girls wearing bathing suits on the streets, and particularly on their going to the postoffice in this costume. Leslie Goodpaster was shot and killed by his friend Edgar Connor during an argument at Owingsville, Ky. When Connor realized his crime he committed suicide. Negro murderers kill the leader of a Georgia posse and still resist capture; a race war I- imminent. Fire at Glens Falls, N. Y.f causes a loss of $100.000. Oscar Hammerstein will paint his new theater, the Republic in NewYork, all over again; green and gold spoiled women's complexions. American merchants upheld in refusal to pay duties in Nicaragua. Alleged note from Andree found; dated June 2, 1DG0. Omaha excurisonists shipwrecked in Great Salt Lake. United States and Canadian theaters may combine. Jews assembling In London; for Zionist congress. Loie Fuller's theater at Paris exposition seized. Kurds said to have massacred 200 Armenians. Distillery trust licensed in Illinois. Total abstainer said women drunkards are increasing rapidly. Sultan reported sick. Crowd at Burlington sangerfest. Gold shipments to Europe amounted to 53,300.000. Problem defeated Harriet II in Oconomowoc regatta. The national meeting of plumbers and gas and steam fitters have adopted a resolution looking to better city sanitation. Dullness in speculation, large receipts of new grain and lower Liverpool cables result in a sharp decline) in cereal prices, provisions sympathizing. American Steel and Wire works reduced pay; .Toliet case in court. Expert testimony introduced in Powers' trial was to show that bullet fired from defendant's office window would liave missed Goebel by nearly nine feet. Fred Merrick and Mart V. Sides, cowboys arrested on suspicion of being the Union Pacific train robbers, released at Hugo, Cal., for lack of evidence. Alibi evidence for "Tallow Dick" Combs and Hockersmith the feature of Goebel murder trial. Census of Philippines ordered; Cincinnati declared itself slighted in the count. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and wife had narrow escape from death at Newport, their automobile running under feet of rearing horses. Mutual Life Insurance company of New York settled with Mrs. Sallie E. Hillmon-Smith for $22,000 cash on buffalo hunter's life; contests cost $30,000; conspiracy charged. Navy department at Washington put ban on "shirt-waist" man; Chicago hostelries did likewise. Emma Quazzi, arrested in connection with Bresri's crime, admits in letter knowing King Humbert's assassin. Paris police arrested three suspected accomplices of Saison; anarchist .groups kept moving; French socialists censured ministry. Motor boats promised on Dead Sea. More than $25,000 disallowed in accounts of ex-Director of Cuban Posts Itathbone. Filipinos negotiating for surrender under insurgents' amnesty proclamation. Health of shah of Persia said to bo In critical state. Dowie elders prevented from leaving train at Mansfield, O., where mob awaited them; Zionists may be Indicted for libel. Gov. Tanner of Illinois suspends the operation of his proclamation regarding tuberculosis among cattle un1 the law can be passed upon.

'EXPRESS TRAIN IS ROBBED.

Mcuscnger Lane Killed No Clew to th Perpetrators. The Pennsylvania express, leaving Cincinnati at S p. m., Friday evening. was robbed before the train reached I Columbus, and Express Messenger i Lane was found dead in his car when the train reached the capital city. Thi3 was the first intimation .the trainmen had of the robbery, and they are not able to indicate at what roint between Cincinnati and Columbus the tragedy occurred. Lane's revolver was found by his side with three chambers emptied. The safe was ritled of its contents, and the door indicated that it had been blown open. No details are available here. Lane lived in Columbus. It is supposed the robbers jumped off the train as it slowed up coming into the union station at Columbus. The utmost mystery veils the affair. Lana was about 23 years old. The officials of the Adams Express company give no statement as to the probable amount of money secured by the robbers, but it is reported to he about $43,000. Hrjan's Official Notification. W. J. Bryan and A. E. Stevenson were oflTcially notified at Indianapolis Wednesday of their nomination by the democir.tic party for president and vice-president of the United States. In his speech of acceptance, Mr. Bryan said in part: "Lincoln said that the safety of this nation was not in its fleets, its armies, its forts, but in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men. in all lands, everywhere, and he warned his countrymen that they could not destroy this spirit without planting the seeds of despotism at their own doors. Even now we are beginning to see the paralyzing influence of imperialism. Heretofore thi nation has been prompt to express its sympathy with those who were fighting for civil liberty. While our sphere of activity has been limited to the western hemisphere, our sympathies have not been bounded by the seas. We have felt it due to ourselves and to the world as well as to those who were struggling for the right to govern themselves to proclaim the interest which our people have, from the date of their own independence, felt in every contest between human rights and arbitrary power." Twenty thousand people attended the meeting and several speeches were delivered. Triton for Conspirator. Verdicts of guilty were returned in Judge Brentano's court at Chicago against all the defendants in the Knights and Ladies of Security conspiracy case. The penalties as fixed by the jury are as follows: James O'Brien, a fine of $2.0o0; Nora O'Brien, a fine of $000; Dr. Michael N. Regent, a fine of 51,000 and imprisonment in the penitentiary; Delia Mahoney, a fine of J500 and imprisonment in the penitentiary. The regent case, as the cause just tried is called, has been one of the unique trials in Cook county, and has lasted sixteen days. The burial of one man under the name of another for the alleged purpose of obtaining insurance was the basis of the prosecution. The defendants were members of Illinois Council 420, Knights and Ladies of Security, and charged with a wholesale conspiracy to obtain money fraudulently from the society. The unusual number of death benefits demanded by the Illinois council aroused the suspicions of the supreme officers at Topeka, Kas., and investigation was made. Killed hy Lightning John Houck. aged 53 years, a farmer residing near Stone Church, a few miles from Easton. Pa., was struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon and killed. Houck was hauling grain in from the fields at the time, when a sucden showed came, up find a thunder bolt struck him and also killed the horses. Houck's 5-year daughter was sitting beside him at the time and was only stunned by the shock. Girl of Ki Itunft Away to Wed. Miss Trinchen Guitz of Belleville, 111., the IC-year-old daughter of the millionaire brewer, Adam Guitz, former owner of the Belleville Western brewery, and Alfred W. Krausnick, aged 27, eloped to St. Louis and were married. Miss Guitz was leader of the younger Belleville society, and had only recently returned from a tour in Europe. Krausnick is superintendent of the Belleville Electric railway. Yellow Fever at New Orleans. Health Officer Doty gave out a report at New York concerning a patient at the Swinburne Island hospital, Micqtiel Patermo. who was removed from the Spanish steamer Monserrat, which arrived from Havana Aug. 1. Since then it has been discovered that he has yellow fever of a very mild type. Fancy Trice for Cattle. Chicago set a world-beating price on shorthorn cattle at the stockyards Tuesday afternoon, when Maytlower VI., a calf, sold for $2.G00, and fifty other head fold at prices ranging from $375 to $2,000. The total receipts of the sale were $G7,Wlillo Cap Arrested. Jens Sands, a farmer, who was attacked by twenty White Caps several nights ago, hanged, and left for dead in his bam near De Smet, S. D.. has had seventeen of his assailants arrested, while the other three have fled the state. During the attack on him he succeeded in lifting the mask of one of the party and recognized him. From this clew he discovered the Identity of all his assailants. The only known cause for the deed was the fact that he had just sold a herd of cattle and had a large sum of money in the house. Klghty Die In Kart hqaake. While there has been a rotable absence of earthquakes in Japan for the last fortnight, a fierce volcanic eruption has taken place in the vicinity of that which ten years ago hurled the greater part of Mount Bandalsan into the air. Azuma Yam was the sccno of an awful explosion last week. A sulphur factory, employing about 10t hands, was ruddcnly annihilated by a subterranean explosion. Only twenty of the hands escaped. The fall of debris covered them Vwo feet.

hill KILLED.

Bullets And Fire Are Used on Highwaymen, ONE DIES IN FLAMES. Iesperadoe Who Held Vp tlie Union Pacific Train Meet Their Death After Fierce richting; Near oolluml, lvun. Three Deputy Sheriffs Shot. The two men who Sunday last robbed a Union Pacific train in Colorado and killed a passenger, were surrounded by officers of Goodland, Kansas, three miles east of that place Firday morning. As the result of a fierce battle which followed both of them are dead, one by bullets and the other by fire. J. Briggs, owner of the Commercial hotel of Goodland. and George Cullins. a member of the posse, were severely wounded, and another of the pursuing party, name unknown, was wounded slightly. The Union Pacific Kansas City-Denver train was robbed between Limon Junction and Hugo, Col., ninety miles east of Denver, last Sunday morning, many being relieved of their money and valuables, and W. J. Fay, an aged man who resisted, was killed by one of the robbers. The robbers dropped off the train at Hugo and escaped. They were traced to the Bartholomew ranch three miles east of Goodland and a posse "consisting of Sheriff Walker, .7. B. Riggs, George Cullins, E. C. Biddison and several others, all heavily armed with ritles and revolvers, went over to the Bartholomew place from Goodland. Walker and Riggs were the first to dismount. They proceeded to the house where the robbers were. One of the THE MOAT AND

TWO .MILITARY OBSTACLES WHICH THE ALLIED FORCES WILL HAVE TO OVERCOME.

robbers caught sight of them and gave the alarm. Xo sooner had Walker, a moment later, begun kicking the door than he was met by a volley of shots from inside. The remaining members of the party quickly lined up around the house, and for ten minutes bullets whirred at a lively rate, the rifles of the pursuers pouring a deadly fire in the direction of the robbers. The robbers returned the fire strongly, and Rizgs soon fell, hit in the breast and back. Finally one of the robbers jumped through a window and made off in the smoke. Before he had gone half a dozen steps he fell in his tracks, shot to death. Sheriff Walker In the meantime had forced his way toward the house and was intent on getting inside. In the smoke and confusion Cullins got In the way of Walker's gun and was shot in the back and seriously wounded. One other man was huit during the battle. While the men were removing Cullins the lone robber made his way to a sod kitchen near by and barricaded the door. After the fight in the morning the citizens armed themselves and went to the ranch. The man inside the house was armed with a rifle, and a too near approach to the house drew his fire. About 4 o'clock some men, by crawling through a cornfield, got to a shed near the house, and from this place threw two railroad fuses into the roof of the house, setting it on fire. It was not many minutes until the entire building was in flames, but the robber made no sign, and if he was not shot by a bullet from the many that were fired at the house from the outside he found his death in the flames. The man in the house had a large roll of bills, but these, with the robber's two valises, were burned. Each of the men was about CO years of age and of the desperado style, having threatened to shoot several farmers who refused to keep them. The house on the ranch, with its contents, was valued at $1.200 and will be paid for by the county. The two citizens, Riggs and Cullins, shot in the fight in the morning are doing well and will recover. .lumped front m Moving Train. Near Anniston, Ala.. W. T. Turner, wife and three-months-old baby, jumped off a Southern railway passenger train while it was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. Turner was killed, ami the wife and baby are thought to be fatally injureil. They had never been on a train before, and when the engine blew for the station where they were going they deliberately walked to the platform and jumped off. French Hotel In Uentrojetl. The hotel des Terrasse at Dinard, France, was destroyed by fire. Many Americans are among the sufferers, although no one was injured. The Casino, adjoiuiii!; the hotel, was saved. Among the Americans who were staying at the hotel were Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Payne, Mr. Musgrave and Mr. and Miss Green all of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Herra of Washington. One American woman was saved by putting a ladder across from tho Casino roof to a window of the hotel.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. Spring wheat No. 1 northern, 1Z-1 to-U4 No. U spring, TiiTöc; No. 4. MVs' Tic. Winter wheat No. 2 red. 7!ti7Vac, f. o. b. and o. t.; No. 3, T-PTic: No. 4. '.-"if 75c; No. 2 hard. 73V'74c: No. 3. 71'0 7ö11.c; No. 4, te; No. 3 white, 70c; no Krade. 57io. Corn No. 2. SiJ'sc: No. i yellow. '4o: No. 3. Cy:j3Ssc: No. 3 yellow, 5;''4c. Oats No. 3. 21V: No. 3 white. L-V: No. 2. 22''224c: no yrade nw. 22V't' ::o; No. 4 white, new, 222c; old. MV: No. 3 now, 22c. Cattle Native beef teer.-. Ji.3CKf.6S:

. wtHcrn steers. $4.3.V.H V: 'lexas steers. J3.7.V(i4.40; cows and" heifers, $3.2:. . 4.2Ö; eanners. $1." ;;; Stockeis and feeders, i'Z.'L'n 4. '.": calves, $:'''.".".': hulls, strips, etc.. $2. 7."-' 4.2".. I Iocs-Heavy, $.'..12' .2.: mixed. J5.l0:..i:: liht. $!.:.' ..i:; pips. $1.3"''!.". Sheep Choice to prime wethers, $4. o." . To: medium to choice mixed natives. J3.s"n '4.3.V. trrass Texas and western sheep. $4.'u 4.Gt: plain ewes, coarse lots and feeders. f?,.7i'i 3.V: culls, hueks and poor stock, t'2.-l'-i 3.4"; poor to lair yearlinirs. $;). ,.y(; t.-H': ood to choice e.'irliiiKs. f !..". Ci '.; sprina: lambs, poor to :'air. $3.7.V.i."..iii; spring lamhs. good to f;.ncy. $'.V',,-..ao. Horses 1 raft. $7''225: chunks. l.iVi'al.4to p.s. 'f,ilo(: Irlvers. $ 'il'; farm chunks and general use, 545 i 7"i. Blackberries. Michipan. M0c per 16 qts. Blueberries. $l.üu'i2 per 1". qts. Joos'berries, Ji per l' qts. lied raspberries. VKj'H'e per 24 qts. Whortleberries, il'tl.Tid per 1 qts. Uutter Creamery, exfa. 13o: dairies, fancy, l'i'c: packing:, 13H.C. Melons Gems. löWe per 2 bu; watermelons. $7.Vjll' per car for ISTO-lb melons. I'otatoes New. 31 33c. Poultry Iced stock: Turkeys, 77,2c: thickens. S rS'ic; springs, '.''jiö'ic: roosters, LzC, ese, ÖüTe; ducks. T'iT'L-e: springs. o. Kggs At mark, cases returned. "-i 10 ic. l.nd the Iiid'an Famine. The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedleson, cables that a very decided improvement in the crop prospects has taken ple during the last ten days through the sudden and opportune renewed advance of the monsoon. Ample rain has fallen for the present agricultural requirements in Gujerat and the greater part of Rajput.ma and central India, and sowings are being actively prosecuted. If the present favorable conditions continue autumn crops will be secured and the tension will relax. There are now about 0,350,000 persons receiving reib f. CITY WALL, FEKIiM. Denied I.h-cnte and Taints. Joseph Deloss Campbell of Missouri applied at the county clerk's olfice in Lewiston, 111., for a marriage license to wed Miss Jennie Pearl Weaver of Manly, a town near Lewistown. Mr. Campbell was accompanied by the mother of the young woman. When the county clerk learned that the girl was but 10 years of age he refused to issue the license without the consent of the girl's father. When informed of this the young man fainted and it took the combined efforts of Dr. Hanson, the county clerk and all his assistants to restore him to consciousness. After pleading in vain with the clerk for several hours, the young man and the girl's mother sorrowfully departed without the license. Cyclone Kill Veniionters. The cyclone which swept over the vicinity of Burlington. Vt., caused two deaths and several hundred thousand dollars' damage to property. It raged with great fury for upward of an hour, disabling telephone, telegraph, fire alarm and electric power systems, filled the streets with trees and tangled wires and poles, unroofed several buildings and scattered broadcast huge piles of boards and lumber. Several yachts on LakeCaamplain were capsized or driven ashore and wrecked and the buildings of the Catholic summer school at Cliff Haven were moved from their foundations. lllkpoi Heirs Cet I .."." O.OOO. There will be no contest over the will of the late millionaire congressman William A. Piper of San Francisco. A compromise has been effected whereby the Illinois heirs allow the natural son $100,000 and another $103,000 for attorney fees and other expenses. This gives the other beneficiaries about $l,.r.O0,000 to divide among themselves. In addition to this, the contract drawn by Attorney Sanderson stipulates that the son shall pay his mother 20 per cent of such sum as he may receive, which ii the light of the settlement, will give her $20,000. Aeronaut Ma ken J'atal Leap. A Grand Rapids, (Mich.) balloonist named John Drew, was instantly killed at Macatawa Paik, Holland, Mich., late Tuesday afternoon. He made a beautiful ascent to about three or four hundred feet over Black lake, directly between the Hotels Macatawa and Ottawa, but when the parachute was cut loose it became entangled in some way and, failing to open properly. Drew was snapped off the bar by the jerk, and. falling on his 'side in shallow water, was instantly killed. His body was recovered by the life-saving crew. I'ralae the United States. The banquet given by the National club in Lima, Peru, in honor of Fernando E. Guthatte, the newly accredited minister from Bolivia to the United States, who Is on his way to Washington, was a magnificent affair. Tho United States minister, Irving B. Dudley, was seated on tho right of the president of the club. The latter made a speech in the course of which ho especially thanked Mr. Dudley for his presence and spoke in the highest terms of the United States,

HE MR Wilt BOXERS Severe Battles in the Empire of China.

MANY NATIONS TAKE A HAND. Great Battle at Pel Tsn:j Heavy I.oses Sustained Chiefly by the Kiiftia:i Hiid Japanese Troops Minister Conner Appeals to the I'nlted States for Aid. Tuesday, Antust 7. Minister Conger sent word from Tekin, probably Aug. 2, legationers still besieged and situation more precarious; Chinese government insisting on envoys leaving Pekin, which was regarded as certain death; rifle firing daily by imperial troops on legations; abundant courage, but little ammunition or provisions; all United States legationers well. Peitsang battle showed Chinese force well prepared; every mile to be contested; American troops played gallant part in Sunday's fight; Chaffee has been active. Refugees by transport Logan told of first fighting around Teintsin; bravery of Capt. McCalla; mutilated Christians; looting by Russians; fanatical courage of Boxers; son of Consul Ragsdale proved hero. Italian nival officer reported legationers safe on July 30, with plenty of provisions; Japanese message Aug. 1 said envoys safe and expecting attack. Li Hung Chang declared in case allies advance the Chinese must fight; allies not to be allowed to enter Pekin. England will hold imperial government personally responsible for foreigners at Pekin. England said to have objected to Russian warships passing Bosporus. "Wednesday, August S. War with China deemed likely unless imperial government changes front. Minister Wu notified imperial troops expected to co-operate with allies in protecting ministers and failure will be regarded as declaration of war. Chinese warned to be responsible for indignities to Minister Conger. United States government will not submit to much delay. General belief ministers have left Pekin; Chinese minister may be given passports; army officers think it may take months to reach Pekin; Chinese said to be retreating; ministers may refuse to leave Pekin under escort. Rome has dispatch from Pekin saying British legation provisioned for two weeks: more news about first engagement of allies' advance guard. Chaffe thinks next battle will be at Yang Thsun. eighteen miles from Tientsin. Admiral Seymour will land S.000 British troops at Shanghai; Austria and France also will send soldiers there. Thursday, August 0. Message from Chaffee said allies occupied Yangtsun on Monday; list of casualties; indications Chinese resistance is feeble, but fear of massing of Chinese troops at Tung Chow; General Terauchi. Japanese, said allies would have 50,000 men Aug. 13 for advance; Black Flags preparing. French press furious at appointment of Count von Waldersoe to command allies; he will reach Chicago about Sept. 1 en route to orient; understood to be kaiser's choice; Austrian and French ministers heard from. Rain may prove more potent enemy than Boxers; floods around Pekin likely to impede troops; advance of allies not to halt; reports of missionary murders. Cipher dispatch from French ministers, Aug. 0 at Shanghai, saying envoys averse to leaving Pekin and foreign fortes should be ample. United States ready to protest against land grabbing; will withdraw troops when Americans are safe. Losses of allies in recent engagements 1,130 men: Russians COO, Japanese 410, and British 120. Admiral Dewey said war is on between United States and China. Sir Robert Hart still conducting business of imperial customs. Austro-IIungarian le

TYPES OF CHINESE SOLDIERS.

INFANTRY. ARMED WITH MODERN GUNS AND TRAINED BY EUROPEAN OFFICERS, WHICH GAVE BATTLE TO THE ARMY OF THE ALLIES AT PEI-TSANG.

Fyneher Gets a Life Term. W. B. Brooks was convicted at Palestine, Tex., of being one of the principals in the lynching of James Humphreys and his two sons in Henderson county in May, 1S98. He was given a life term in the penitentiary. He is the third man to be convicted of the crime, each of the others having also been given life terms. Six others are to be tried, and the next one will be put on trial tomorrow. Over 400 witnesses are in attendance, most of them farmers. Itoy Killed In a Gun Store. James Fort, a boy of 16, was accidentally shot in Frank Bellaire's store at Winona, Minn., by Bellaire's discharging a pistol which he did not know was loaded, while showing it to a customer. The bullet entered tho boy's head and he died in a few minutes. Photographer Kills Himself. F. T. Kinsman of Sparta, Mich., became despondent over family troubles and killed himself in his photographic gallery by shooting.

gation and archives burned on June 21. Placards in Canton say "Kill alL Friday, August lO. Minister Conger informed what relief is being sent; his message from Pekin revealed tricks of Chinese in trying to make legations leave capital; powers in accord as to necessity of escort; envoys' refusal to leave Pekin indorsed; more powers accept Count Waldersee as commander-in-chief; he will sail from Italian port to Shanghai; Baroness von Ketteler safe. Russian advices said 12,000 Chinese troops are marching from provinces towards Pekin and Tientsin; Russians captured New Chwang; expect long war. Li Hung Chang, according to Shanghai dispatch, ordered to negotiate for peace; powers suspect Chinese diplomacy; will not modify relief plans. German naval society will aid press to get news from China expeditiously. Admiral Seymour may land troops at Shanghai for defense of city. Third battalion of Fifth Infantry started from Fort Sheridan for orient. Sunday, August 12. China expressed disposition toward peace; Emperor issued edict appointing Li Hung Chang envoy plenipotentiary to negotiate for peace; cessation of hostilities ordered pending settlement. The United States has informed China that it will not negotiate with Li Hung Chang until previous demands are complied with. Vice Admiral Courrejels reports Hankow missionaries in great peril; three more Baptist chapels destroed at Swatow, Kwang Tung province. President Loubet addressed at Marseilles French troops bound for China; "Spare not" to be their motto. Shots exchanged between defenders Italian legation in Pekin and Boxers; killed. 1; wounded, 2. Washington received belated dispatch from Conger saying, "Able to 'hold on' till Chaffee relieves." Disturbance reported at Tatung, on the Yangtse.

I'itrsinunoi) Defeats Kuhlin. With a left hook on the jaw Bob Fitzsimmons put out Gus Ruhlin, "the Akron giant," after two minutes and ten seconds fighting in the sixth round at Madison Square Garden, New York, Friday night. Ruhlin fell forward on his face like a chunk of heavy timber and was carried to his corner a limp mass of ilesh and bones, trailing blood as he went. It was seven or eight minutes before he was revived sufficiently to come forward and shake hands with his vanquisher. After the figlu Ruhlin became unconscious in his dressing room, but was revived and taken to r. Turkish bathhouse, where he again collapsed. A physician was summoned, who made an examination and said that the fighter was not seriously injured internally. He revived and asked for a drink of water and again lapsed into a sort of stupor. Blood at this time was trickling from his ears and nose. The fight itself was so fast and furious as to surprise every one. It was a genuine, oldfashioned prize fight, with the difference that it took place right in the heart of the city of New York. Itold Itollorr in New York. One of the boldest robberies reported to the police of New York ir. several months, is engaging the attention of central office detectives. Mrs. Bessie Krulewitch, wife of a well-to-do real estate dealer. Madison ave nue, while riding westward in a Canal street surface car had a diamond earring valued at $700 torn from her ear by a ruffian, who then sprung from the car to the street, and mixed in with the crowd. The thief succeeded in escaping. Shirt Waist Finds a Friend. Mayor Henry Ziegenhein of St. Louis, who appeared at the Veiled Prophets' ball in a Prince Albert coat and astonished the city, has announcel himself in favor of the man's shirt waist. He says he will try one in a few days. The mayor's son and other officials at the city hall have adopted the shirt waist. Fount! Dead in the MtMinlaln. A Mexican just arrived at Albuquerque, N. M from the Manzano mountains, says that the bodies of two .white men and an Indian have been found in the hole-in-the-mountain recess. The bodies were covered with two sets of harness. All three had been shot to death. This is the sixth or seventh body to be found in the last few months and tends to strengthen the belief that a gang of organized rob bers is operating in Valencia. Kuleldo Dies Amid Flame. The body of Mrs. Watkins, an old woman living in Hamilton township, four miles from Decatur, Mich., was found in the woods, where she had b2n cremated. She left the house in the morning to gather berries. A search was made and late in the afternooi her body was found some distanci from the house. She had poured kerosene over her clothing and then set it afire. The jug in which was the kerosene and matches were found a short distance from the body. Suicld was evidently her intent.

fifittN Kiiuojy j ram. An Omnibus Lead of People Crushed to Death.

RETURNING FRON A FUNERAL Acel lent Happens at a Sharp Carve on the I.elgli and Ni'w i:li;l.t ml ICnilroitd Near Slatlngton, Fa. Train Waj a Fast Spet ial, Fifteen dead and several serin-:.-;, hurt, some fatally, is the r suit of a grade-crossing accident Sun. lay afternoon on the Lehigh and New England railroad, near Slatington, Pa. Several families were wiped out of existence and many bomes were rendered desolate. Sevtn persons are lying in hospitals, most, of whom cannot recover. Out of a party of twe:;ty-four only three escaped. The dead are: Eli Remaley, ajre! 7'. of Slatington; Mrs. Eli Demaley, his wife, ag 1 03; Mrs. James Kern, their daughter, ad 22; Samuel Mummy, agd 00, of Walnutport; Mrs. Samuel Mummy, his wife, aged SS; Mrs. Elias Sourwine. a widow, aged ÖZ, of Slatington; Mrs. William Kane, ag-d 51, Walnutport; Miss Carrie Smith, ag.'d 22. of Walnutport; Mrs. James Minnich. aged C:i, of Walnutport; Mrs-. Ti'ghman Kuntz, aged !", of Walnutport; Mrs. Stephen Rt-in-hard, aged t-'), of Shitinsion; Mrs. Susan Choen. ag-d 07; Mrs. Alfred Rhurig. Walnutport; Mrs. Roh' rt S ibert, Walnutport; David Kern, "-year-old sou of Mr.--. me: s Kern. Tho injured aiv: Miss Dizie-r of Walnutport; will die. Mrs. William R"- h. hurt internally; may die. Louis Kuntz, seriously; may di. Mi.-- Carrie Naglo of Walnutport. internal injuries; may die. Georg Minnich; prohably die; Bryan Walp. Walnutport; may die; Miss Alice-Nasrle, will recover. Th omnibus, driven by a man named Peters, was returning to Slatington from a funeral the occupants had been attending at Cherrysville. The coach belonged to Henry Bittner of Slatington, and the dead and injured were nearly all relatives of Sophia Schoeffer, at whose obsequies they had been present. The train was a special, and consisted of an engine and one car. At the point at which the collision occurred there is a sharp curve in the rcad, and the omnibus came along at a good rate of speed, the occupants unconscious of any impending danger. As the vehicle swung around the curve the engire and car cam 3 in sight. It was too late to stop either the omnibus or the train, and, as the driver of the former whipped up the four horses to cross the track s.head of the train, the latter crashed into its middle The occupants were throvvn in all directions, bruised and bleeding. The fifteen dead were killed outright. Physicians and a special train were tent for, and the injured were taken to South Bethlehem. No watchman is employed to warn teams or pedestrians of approaching trains, and those living in the vicinity say it is impossible to bear a train coming. A peculiar feature of the accident was that the horses drawing the omnibus escaped unhurt. Ship A merieans Uacli Iloire. The department of state at Washington is in receipt of a dispatch from the consul general of the United States at Cape Town, dated July 0, further relating to the shipment of American citizens as muleteers at New Orleans on British transports. In this instanc? Mr. Stowe remarks that he sends homo free all who app'y to him, but adds: "I no sooner clear one vessel than another comes into port with more Americans, who have been so foolish as to ship with mules for this country. Over 5e0 have arrived and further shipments of these muleteers ounht to b prevented. The means used to obtain men at New Orleans, as told by the men, are simply disgraceful." SoeialNt Editor Arrested. Max S. Hayes, editor of the Cleveland Citizen, a socialist weekly, and nominee of the Socialist Labor party for the Vice Presidency of the United States until he withdrew in favor of Judge Harriman. was arrested while addressing a street meeting at Cleveland. The meeting was erne of protest against the twenty-five-year extension of Senator M. A. Hanna's street railway company's franchise. Hayes spoke bitterly against Mayor Farley. The police say they arrested Hayes for using bad language, but Hayes and his friends say he said nothing but what was proper, and insisted the arrest was because he abused the mayor. Hayes was released on bail. Mis .trssie lorrion Held. Miss Jessie Morrison of Wichita. Kan., was again held for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle at El Dorado on June 22. Her second preliminary hearing came up before Judge Randall upon a writ of habeas corpus applied for by her lawyers when she wa held without bail by Justice Allba h two weeks ago. Judge Randall held her for murder, and remanded the prisoner to the sheriff of Greenwood county. ( oni l-H with !: io Pool. The American Siel and Wire company has entered the structural -teel market as a competitor with the ionterns which comprise the structural steel, or beam" pool. The wire company is accused of having shaded the prices of the pool compauics and is taking contracts which the associated mills would have secured at an even price. The result is that there is a rumor that the pool will be dissolved. If it is there w ill be a war against the wire trvst. Son Awful Ieed. Angry over his inability to live as he wished on the sum allowed him by his father, Joseph Rabiner, a consumptive, at Rockaway Beach, near New York, shot and instantly killed Isaac Stein, his brother-in-law, badly wcunded his father, Jaceib Rabiner, and then turned the weapon upon himself, with what is said to be fatal effect. The shooting occurred on the hotel riazza. In full view of a score of persons, who had been attracted by the quarrel which preceded the tragedy. All the parties to the saootinc were from New York.