Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 July 1901 — Page 2

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nil mm ii week Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Keeord of Happening- of Mneh or Little Importeure from All TarM of the Civilized World lurideat. Enterprises, AccidrnU. Verdict. Crimes and War. Report cn exports of farm products In 10 showed twelve nations expended over JfltVJUO.wu each for American products. Second avenue elevated train left track and one car crashed into Shea's Hotel. New York. Panic caused in hotel and on the train, but no one was hurt. Lightning caused fire which destroyed the stock barns and the val-x-.ai.K-ho. so Faust of Henry Darlington at Mamaroneck. I" d Luty. a New York bookmaker, killed his wife because she was late in getting his dinner, then committed suit id?. W. E. 1 Kzgcrald, head of Milwaukee branch of American Shipbuilding company, dies cf injuries caused by explosion of acetylene gas at his summer home. IVe of streets for Dowie meetings at Waterloo, la., forbidden because of recent riots. Gypsies who kidnapped Thomas Welch of Mattoon, 111., said to have two other captives. Railways unable to furnish sufficient cats to move the Kansas wheat crop. Another kissing bus? epidemic started by the ReJuvius perscnatus or some other member of the order of cannibal bugs. Victim treated at the Casualty Hospital, Washington, D. C. Commerce with Porto Rico showed big increase during last vear. the ex ports exceeding those of IS'jS by 300 J per cent. Court order will be asked enjoining the opening to settlement of the Kiowa-Commanche-Apache Indian reservation. Policeman Michael O'Malley of Chicago proh-ibly fatally stabbed by thugs, (lang sought revenge for killing of companion by Patrolman Ryan, Roy Powell, aged Is, convicted at Freeport, ill., of killing Woodbury Working and given thirty years' imprisonment. Emanuel Koehler, aged 12, killed In quariel by Raymond Albers, aged 13, at Albany, N. Y. Slayer committed suicid". S. R. Dawson, who killed a man, paroled frr.m Iowa prison so he can tell how to make Damascus steel. Continued dry weather affecting condition o" corn in the Southwest. Traders fear drought will injure crop. St i ikes in steel mills and intense heat raue i falling oil in trade activity. Houston Oil company, with $30,000,000 capital, incorporated in Texaa. R-iei.osi Ayres under martial law, which was declared because of riots by those who objected to government's plan of refunding public debt. British government planning to build this year throe battleships of an improved clas. sis cruisers, and ten destroyers. Mrs. Edward Decker, a bride from London, robbed and deserted by her husband at Montreal. Salmon trust to be Incorporated in New Jersey. Jacob s. Rogers, the locomotive builder, left nearly all his fortune to the Metropolitan Museum. It may reach $7,750.000. Other bequests amounted to $250,000. John S. Hannah of the Chicago Board of Trado died after a surgical operation. California girl at San Bernardino vaded her home. Ani'-rican administration In Cuba praised at Santiago by Spaniard in speech on anniversary of Cervera's dofeat. Pierre Lorillard, Sr., arrived on the Deutschland, probably fatally ill from a compilation of troubles, of which Bright's disea.se is the principal one. Postmaster General Smith planning reform in system of carrying periodica in mails at pound rates to shut out spurious publications. Porto Kiran legislature passed resolution asking president to proclaim free trade for the island a3 provided by Foraker law. Farrel foundry and machine shop at Arsoni.i, Conn., attacked by strikers, who fired s!y rockets at non-union workmen in th. buildings. President Palmer of Rio Grande and Western sold his interest in road to Gould inteiests for $G,j00,000. Four persons drowned at Toledo by taa capsizing of a rowboat. Carnegie gave Covington, Ky., $20,000 for public building. Gov. Tart's Philippine cabinet approved by the president. Americans In the majority. Earl Russell appeared before English house of lords and asked for time to prepare his defense. Dowieite meeting at Waterloo, la., sroken up by firecrackers and eggs.

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Spring Wheat No. 1 northern, 63356c: No. 3. 5fH3c; No. 4. 'utiOc Winter W'l-An V 1 i -K. k je r. . : A. Cattle N'flf Ivo heet stpprn. $4 505.73: western steers, lift 4.50; Texas steers. $3.50 fni.ö'i; cows and heifers. 4.40; can- . - t .-O . , l i . 'rT ..j'i.i..o; UKru. . , i t..j; piys, .'i. bulk of sales. J.'i SV ;.wr..S7 '.. Sheen Weth eis, $a.4u'3.7ö; ewes. Vj.): common and stok sheep. T-Vn ::a; lambs. $lfi5.50. Horses-Drafters. J7.Vit240; chunks, 1.LW lbs. V.WiiYZ light drivers, $4073; farm and general use, $"0''Cll0 Potatoes Arkansas triumphs. Mo-WSl.11 per bu: early Ohlr.s, St. Louis. M)fö5c per n. poultry Ietd stock: Turkeys, gobblers, fie; hens. c; chickeno. hens and spriiics. scaliled. !'c; hems and springs. Iiv pii ked. Use: rooster s. pW'i ducks. I'.tSc; gee.o. i?r7c. Iterri-' -tilttcklwiros, L'4 qts.. Illinois. WIS. Putter- Crci.i:-f-ry. choliv, iS'-c; flairio. ehoioe. Itjlo'ic Clie.se New goods: Full cream dalsi.,?, ch.u;-e, i'V.c; Ytmng America. J4it''1'c: lull cream. lu"'.c. Kggg-Frfsh. lOVatf i' Arrest KetalM In Rnlclde. Thomns Davis of Frankfort. Kan., shot himself three times fifteen minutes after he had been arrested for embezzling from the xustin and Western Manufacturing Company of Chicago, for which he traveled, selling road graders. It was alleged that he sold machines and failed to make returns. When arrested he asked permission to see his wife before being taken to jail. The officer in charge consented. When Davis reached home he went directly to a bureau drawer, secured a revolver and shot himself in the breast. He cannot live. He is 33 years old, has a wife and three children, and has always been regarded as strictly upright. "SnnrXj Caued ft Hiee Riot. At Fleetwood Park, Ohio, John and Albert Slaughter, white, were probably fatally stabbed, and Charles Martin and Riley Slaughter were beaten with clubs by Luther Page and Abner Owens, colored. The mother of the Slaughters was knocked down with a club by Owens. The trouble occurred over the slapping of a small white boy by a colored man, and almost caused a race riot. The colored men were placed in jail for safety. Later they were secretly arraigned before Mayor Mountain at Ironton and it was arranged to take them to Portsmouth jail for safety Immediately, as the authorities feared trouble. I.lghtnlnqr litt Picnicker. As a result of lightning striking in a party of Detroit excursionists at Rois lilanchard, near Detroit, on the Fourth of July, William Sullivan was killed and Miss Edna McDonald rendered unconscious. She is still In a serious condition. Another man and woman were shocked, but soon recovered. In the city the Fourth of July disasters were confined to the drowning of Louis Kiley while bathing and the more or less serious injuring of about fifty persons by fireworks. Non of them is In a dangerous condition. As far as could be learned no deaths resulted from the use of fireworks. Valuable ITores Hurned, W. S. Steel, secretary of the Pittsburg and Allegheny Matinee Club at Pittsburg, received a telegram from Harry Darlington, the Pittsburg millionaire, who is at his summer home at Mamaroneck, N. Y., stating that fire had burned to death seven of his twelve valuable horses and almost entirely destroyed a magnificent stable. The burned horses were Faust, a trotter, valued at over $2.000; Shanklin and Black Raven, f.imous black trotting team; one pair of roans with a record of 2 :2s1, 2; Rags, show horse, valued at $1,000, and one carriage horse. Mortimer Nje Is Stricken. Mortimer Nye, ex-lieutenant governor of Indiana and one of the best known public men in LaPorte. was stricken with paralysis at Union Mills just as he closed a Fourth of July address. He lapsed into unconsciousness, in which condition he remained, with but little hope of recovery. Mr. Nye wus born in Ohio, is C3 years of age, and within the last few weeks his name has been freely connected with the democratic nomination for governor in 1S04. He served one term as lieutenant-governor, from 1S92 to 1896, and Is a leading Mason. M4.rre lit Congo Village. "Mail advices from Roma,' says the Antwerp correspondent of the London Dally Express, "bring news of the trial there of two Belgian officers accused of demanding, while In a state of intoxication, that the chief of a Congo village should compel all the women of the place to danoo for their amusement, and. when ho refused, killing him with their revolvers and then massacreing the women." Train Wre-eked; Seree II art. A passenger train pouth-bound from Oil City, Pa., on the W. N. Y. and P. branch of the Pennsylvania, ran into two cars loaded with limestone which had been left standing on the tracks two miles north of New Castle, Pa., and was wrecked. Two passengers and five trainmen sustained more or less serious injuries, and many others were bruised. CrahopperH Devattatlngr M In nennt a. Portions of the Township of Russia, Minn., near Crookston, are being devastated by grasshoppers, and In some localities they are destroying large areas. A farmer from the township says his place of 1C0 acres seems doomed to be swept clean. Sixty acres of it, he says, are now bare and clean of all vegetation. The Insects aro so numerous that it is impossible to walk through the fields with one's eyes open. Millions of hoppers have settled on the sidewalks here, and walking Is exceedingly perilous. P.low Orr Woman's Hand. Professor John Heinrich, professor of music at. the University of Rochester, created a panic In the neighborhood of Shepard and Field streets by firing an inch and a half cartridge from a breech-load kig brass cannon, which Is one of his treasured possessions. The cartridge ball played havoc in the neighborhood, and nearly tore off the hand of Mrs. Mary Dupre, who keeps a store on Field street. Mrs.. Dupre was taken to the hosptal in an ambulance, and will bav her hand amputated.

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Mild Exhibition Witnessed by an Omaha Crowd. NOT A DROP OF BLOOD SHED. Doll Starts on a Haut for Gras and Is Jabbed with Sticks to Excite Illm Tame as Milking a Cow Crowd Is Disappointed. There was a fair-sized crowd at the bull fight at the South Omaha street j fair on the Glorious Fourth. Those who went there expecting to see blood spattered all over the arena were disI annnlnterl f r r tint n drnn woe cVirl The bull was as mild-mannered a beast as can be conceived. When he was first ushered into the ring he bowed gracefully to the crowd, looked around to see what it was all about and then started on the hunt for grass. He did not find any, but soon spied several men dressed in gaudy raiment who were wildly waving a section of red cloth. This did not appear to disturb his bullship to any great extent and the gayly dressed gentlemen proceeded to jab him in the side with wooden sticks. EVEN POLAR BEARS ARE Even this did not seem to worry him, for the jabs were as nothing to those inflicted by the range bull-puncher when his bovine majesty was hustled into the car for transportation to the scene of the conflict. It was a holiday and neither bull nor the men in bright clothing were particularly anxious to exert themselves, and for his part the bull did not propose to do it. There was no sign of interference from the authorities; in fact, it would be difficult to see what ground they could base it on. The bull was not Injured could not have been injured by any weapons the alleged bull-fighters possessed. It had been expected by some at least that a good exhibition of agility and artful dodging would be given by the men and that there would be a tinge of excitement to the affair, but It was as tame as milking the family :ow in the barnyard. There was scarcely enough of a disturbance to kick over the milk-stool. Form Large Leather Itodf. Delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada, representing more than 8,000 workingmen in all branches of the leather trade, met in the Labor lyceum. Sixth and Brown streets, Philadelphia, and fof-med the Amalgamated Leather-Workers' Association of America. This new international union will affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Under the laws of the Federation twentysix separate unions will be compelled to join the new association. Two unions in Chicago and several In Wisconsin and other western cities joined the organiiation. Officers wer elected and organizers appointed. Another Bnk lit Cleel. The Niagara bank at Buffalo has been closed by the superintendent of banking. Its failure was directly caused by the collapse of the City National bank, whese directors were heavy borrowers at the Niagara bank. The various business interests of which Patrick Henry Griffin is the head owed $100,000 to the City National. Grillin is president of the Niagara National bank, which was carrying his business paper for $160,000. Work of Mr. Nation Undone. A jury of the most prominent business men of Fort Scott, Kan., was just four minutes in finding to be unconstitutional one of the state's new liquor laws passed as a result of Mrs. Nation's crusade. It wa3 the inquisition law, which authorizes county attorneyn to summon and examine witnesses touching their knowledge of the violation of the law. Dan F. Campbell, an attorney, who was summoned, refused to testify and was arrested. Tbe jury acquitted him. though he admitted the charge. Gat SH3.000 In Train Hold-Up. A Great Northern passenger train was held up at Wagner, Mont., by outlaws, who robbed all the passengers and then escaped. It is reported that $83.000 was taken from the express eafe. Several volleys were exchanged between the robbers and the passenger. Accounts which have been recelved eo far show that three person at least were wounded. Officers already are in pursuit of the robbers, and a reward of $5,000 ha been offered for the capture of the men.

MAY BE MINISTER TO ITALY. It is now generally regarded u cer tain that Ambassador Meyer, now rep

resenting the United States in Italy, GEORGE VON LEHR MEYER. is ready to resign. There is still a great deal of uncertainty concerning his successor, but It is now believed that Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland will accept the post. To friends Mr. Herrick has expr?ssed a desire to go to Italy in a diplomatic relation. SOMETIMES ENVIED. From Chicago Record-Herald. Chapman's Condition Favorable. For the first time since the illness of Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman commenced, Dr. William R. Schoonover, who has beeil constantly at his side, Sunday night expressed the belief that his patient may pull through, although the danger point is not yet passed. His attack has been brought about from overwork and mental strain. Besides having charge of the congregation of the Fourth Presbyterian church,' New York, his evangelistic work has increased each year. Until a few days age he also personally superintendended the erection of his summer home, now completed, near Winona, during the hottest weather of this season. Anxious inquiries by telegraph are pouring into the Chapman home from all over the country. Wealthy Widower of C7 Wed. John M. Westcott, reputed to be the wealthiebt man at Richmond, Ind., was married to Mrs. Grace Carter of Indianapolis, Rev. Charles E. Bacon, officiating. Mr. Westeott is 07 years old, and has been a widower about a year. Mrs. Carter is many years his junior. He owns a magnificent home. The couple went to Mackinac Island, and after a short stay there will make a trip through the East. They will return to Richmond early in September, and after a short stay will vLsit Mr. Westcott's ranch in Kansas and proceed to California for the winter. Some Natnl Day DHattrr.. The most serious accident in connection with the Fourth of July celebration of Cleveland, Ohio, was during the dedication of the new Williet street viaduct. A crowd of 8,000 people had gathered when a terrible storm broke. The crowd made a mad dash for safety. In the midst of the confusion one of the stakes which held an immense balloon, which was about to be released, gave way and hit several people. Michael Maizu and William Hannith were seriously injured. Several thousand dollars' worth of fireworks were destroyed. Hoys Ilurned to Death. Donald Nichols and Samuel Taylor, each about 5 years old, were burned to death, locked in an outbuilding at Louisiana, Mo. They had been playing, and probably set fire to a can of coal oil. The door was fastened and they were unable to escape. German Kmlrratlon Increase. Emigration from Germany by way of Bremen during the six months which ended June 30 reached G5.742. as compared with C.".821 during the corresponding period of last year. Murder Ills Wife and C hild. Sylvester Green of McDowell Co., W. Va., fat-ally stabbed his wife and beat out the brains of his child with a rock because the wife refused him money with which to gamble. Green escaped to Kentucky. Tot Drowned While lathing. Alfred Smith, aged fifteen, was tfrowncd as the result of an attack of cramps at Battlefield Park, Bennington, Vt. Patrick Henry Casey was drowned soon after. Both victims wei bathing.

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II 1 President Clark Appeals to the Christian Endeavorers. NEED STRENUOUS RELIGION. Believe the Days of the Rampant Infidel and Atheist Are Pat Election of Officers at the Endeavor Convention in Cincinnati. President Francis E. Clark at the opening of the Christian Endeavor convention in Cincinnati urged the formation of a church trust. He pointed out the general trend of combination in business lines and declared the church could accomplish more good if more perfectly organized and denominationalism could be subordinated to more substantial unity. President Clark's address pointed out in an attractive way the work to be f.cne by the Christian Endeavorers. He said: "In the first place, the twentieth-century church needs to cultivate a strenuous, earnest type of religion. The batteries which the twentieth century are already turning on the church of God are the marked batteries of indifference and worldlins3 not persecution and open hostility and an army that can spike these gun3 of indifference is the most imperative need of the church today. God saw this need and called an army of young people into existence, 3,500,(K)0 strong. Who can better overcome theao peculiar, insidious evils which threaten the church in this new century than a great company of eager, earnest youth each one of whom has said: 'Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength, I promise him that I will strive to do whatever he would like to have me do?' The days of martyrdom in Christian communities are past. The days of undue asceticism and reiigiou6 austerity have forever vanished, and with them have gone In many cases the strong, stern, stalwart characters that made the age of the puritan resplendent for heroism throughout the woild. The days of the rampant infidel and atheist are also in the past, as I devoutly believe. No Robert Hume could today greatly influence the thought of the world. No Voltaire or Rousseau could number his followers by millions. Robert Ingersol today is little but a memory of eloquent bathos and pathos. But something more inscidious, moro subtle, moro harmful a thousand times than persecution or blatant infidelity is the foe of the church of the twentieth century. This infidelity is a skepticism of life rather than of talk. It Is the indifferenco that is born of luxury and fashion." The report of Treasurer William Shaw was submitted, showing the total receipts for the year ended June 1 to he $11,020, expenses :U0,8G4, leaving a balance on hand of $156. The following were elected as general trustees: Bishop B. W. Arnett, Wilberforce, O.; Rev. W. J. Darby, Evansville, Ind.; Bishop Samuel Fallows, Chicago; Rev.

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CHARLES GATES DAWES, WHO RESIGNED.

Charles Gate3 Dawes of Illinois, con troller of the currency, sent in his resignation, to take effect on October 1. and just before leaving for Canton President McKinley accepted it. Mr. Dawes' letter to the president Is as follows: Washington. D. C. July 3, 1901. Lincoln' Hotly Not Moved. During the past few days there have been a number of rumors to the effect that the body of Abraham Lincoln had been removed from the mausoleum whore it had been placed. The statement does not appear credible, as none of the commissioners have been In Springfield for over a week, and Auditor McCullough states that no such movement has been made. Mr. McCullough was present when Robert Lincoln visited the tomb and declaies that tho casket was not opened. 150.000 lire at Kallimore. Tho six-story building occupied by . Hoera & Co., at Baltimore, Md., lithographers, was damaged by fire. The four upper stories were gutted. causing a loss of $150,000. The insur ances Is ample. Veil Three Stories to Death. Barney Fisher, forty-five years old, at In the third story window of 33 West Court street, Cincinnati, to cool off. His body was found on the pavement with his skull crushed and the l?g3 broker-

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W. H. McMillan, Allegheny. Pa.; Rev. P. S. Henson, Chicago; Bishop A. Walters, Jersey City; Rev. J. H. Garrison, St. Louis; Prof. James L. Howe, Lexington, Va.; Rev. II. F. Shupe, Dayton, O.; Rev. J. M. Lowden, Providence; Rev. Canon J. B, Richardson, London, Ont.; Rev. Cleland B. McAfee, Chicago, and S. B. Capen, Boston. Treasurer Shaw tendered his resignation as trustee and S. B. Capen of Boston was selected to succeed him. Rev. Cleland B. McAfee was elected to succeed the late Dr. Babcock. The following officers were then re-elected by the convention: President, Francis E. Clark, Boston; treasurer, William Shaw, Boston; general secretary, John W. Baer, Boston; auditor, F. H. Kidder, Boston. A new position of field secretary was created and Rev. Clarence E. Eberrnan of Lancaster, Pa., was elected. DEVOTION OF COUNTESS TOLSTOI. Countess Sophia Andrerona Tolstoi, wife of the great Russian reformer and author, is a meek, mild woman, whose entire life has been spent, since her marriage, in ministering to the wants of her husband and in rearing her numerous offspring. The Tolstois have had three children, and for these until they were ten years old the countess COUNTESS TOLSTOI. has made all the wearing apparel. She acts as secretary and critic to the count and chiefly concerns herself with the table desires of her lord and master. Countess Tolstoi is one of the most cultured women in all Europe. When she was 17 she received a diploma from the University of Moscow. One year later she married the count after a romantic courtship, which has been reproduced word for word in that of Levin and Kitty in "Anna Karenina." In describing the countess' devotion to him the famous sociologist says: "If I were a clarinet my wife would spend all her time polishing and burnishing the keys." r nd the Hope Had Heen CatWhile "Professor" Smith was attempting a "slide for life" at Watertown, N. Y., July 4, hi3 apparatus broke and Henry Phillips of that city fell sixty feet to the ground. Phillips died Sunday. It has ben discovered that the rope holding Phillips was cut. The officials are investigating. William McKinley, Executive Mansion, Washington D. C. Sir: In view of the fact that I will be a candidate for the United States senate from Illinois, I hereby tender my resignation as controller of the currency, to take effect Oct. 1, next. Respectfully, "CHARLES G. DAWES." Flow Trmt In Doubt. Because an option for the purchase of the Moline Plow company, to be merged into the plow trust, was allowed to go by default when it expired July 1, it is rumored at Moline, 111., that the proposed combine incorporated last week as the American Plow company may not go through. The Moline Plow company is the second largest factory In the trade, and has refused to enter the combine, but gave an option to sell for $5.000.000 cash. Falls l.OOO Feet In Cannon. During tho Fourth of July celebration at Muskegon, Mich., Frank Tezelow of Grand Rapids made an ascension In a balloon, and when 1,000 feet in tho air fell and was instantly killed. Tezelow had before made only one ascension, lie was enclosed In a tin canaon out of which he was to have been fired and then make a parachute drop. Fire caught In the ropes which held the cannon, severing them and causing Tezclow's fall. He was found dead still in the cannon on a dock In Muskegon Lake.

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BERNARD MORRIS, the human race." He used to be a gardener in Prospect Park, and for several years past he has been living peacefully in retirement. Barney attributed his remarkable longevity to his lifelong abstinence from spirits of ail kinds and from tobacco He was born in the County Cavan, Ireland. June 10. 1792. He leaves a widow, who was his third wife, and whom he married when he was GS and she 21. "She fell in love with him at first sight and was never from his side a single day. Knt I re r.'tiiMly Kilted. At Wheeling Junction. Ohio, three Italians on the Fourth of July left a trail of blood behind their knives, almost wiping out an entire family. The dead are: Jacob Eidenaur. aged 80 years, stabbed in the heart; William Eidenaur, son. left jugular vein cut, and stabbed In the heart. The injured are: Robert Eidenaur, a son, cut on both arms; Philip Eidenaur. a son, stabbed over the eyes, in the breast, and on the leg, may die; Mrs. Jacob Eidenaur, aged SC. stabbed in left side, may die. According to Mrs. Philip Eidenaur of Steubenville, herself and husband, with their baby, were visiting Mr. Eidenaur's parents and cs they were leaving the home cf Mr. Eidenaur's parent the father's family went up on the main road to see them off. Three Italians, part of gang working on the railroad, came alonp and one of them paid something offensive to Robert Eidenaur, who called them a vulgar name. The three Italians then flashed stiletoes, killed the father and William almost instantly, cut Philip frightfully, and. after stabbing Mrs. Jacob Eidenaur, Mrs. Philip Eidenaur, and Robert, fled. Mrs. Nation Leads Smashing. While Mrs. Carrie Nation was starring at the Fourth of July celebration by the Elks the platform she was speaking from broke and precipitated her ten feet to the ground. In the evening Mrs. Nation took a score of children and showed the crowd how she would smash every saloon. Each child was given a hatchet and instructed by Mrs. Nation how to use it. Drawing the children up in line, she told them of the evil wrought by the saloons and the distress brought upon children. Observing one of the young smashers smoking a pipe, Mrs. Nation grabbed it from his mouth and smashed it with her hatchet. Then she and her children rushed clown upon a near-by saloon and smashed every bott'e and poured out the liquor. There was no resistance, and she said she had a notion to keep on until each saloon wa.s smashed. Opening of saloons on the Fourth of July was illegal. Train Held Fp v Striker. A special train carrying twelve nonunion men into Charleston, ß. C, hired by the Southern Railway to take the place of striking machinists at the Southern Railway shops, was held up by friends of the strikers at the Enston Home switch and the frightened passengers were compelled to disembark. The switch was turned after it had been set for the special, tnus bringing the train to a stop While the switch was being set right tlu strikers rushed to the platform of tho coach, forced open the door and took the non-union men out. While the demonstration was exciting, no actual clash of arms arose, as the men on the special train seemed frightened and got off without serious protest. Afte-r this the new men scattered and im effort was made by tht railroad officials to get them together for work in the shops. Wind IlloM4 Down fchoir Tent. At Grand Island. Neb., while a (lei1: and pony show was giving an exhibition a sixty mile an hour win I struck the tent, blowing it down and imprisoning the crowd. Oup boy was Knally hurt and a irnnber of others injured. The tent was crowded and a panic fo'lowrd the collapso. The loss to the show people is heavy. Armenians Killed by Kurd. Reports from Mush, in Kurdistan, say the Kurds are plundering villages and have killed fourteen Armenians la consequence of the belief that the latter murdered a Kurdish notable who was Sherif of Aghan. New OU Strike la Teva. The Guffey Company struck oil at a depth of f00 feet at Piedra Pinto.s. on the Texas-Mexican railway, midway between Corpus Christi and Laredo. Oil flows from the top of the six-inch casing in quantity indicating a gusher. IMUtoarl Town I Destroyed. The business part of Polo, a town of 1,000 inhabitants on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road, in Caldwell County, Mo., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of oer S50.000. Tho bank of Polo and twenty buildings were consumed. Two KllUd bf Caanon. WThile firing the regular Independence Day salute at Fort Trumbull, Conn., the premature explosion of a cannon caused tae death of two soldiers.