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ON. M.-J F. Q.P.M. TL. Q. 7th. I 14thA?21st. 29tlL PANORAMA OF THE WORLD ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. JLfl JSIdea and Conditions of Thins re Shown. Nothing Overlooked to snake it Com pie t. Death Comes to Great Actor. Richard Mansfield, the actor, died at 6 o'clock Friday morning at his summer residence, "Summeroaks," New London, Conn. Mr. Mansfield's illness dates several years back, but his condition did not become acute until a few weeks 2go, when he went to a quiet retreat In the Adirondacks in the hope that absolute quiet and a long rest would avert, the threatened collapse of his nervous system. Eminent specialists attended him and a few days ago, being little or no better, he wa3 taken to his summer home on Long Island Sound with the Intention oi making a long stay there The change proved unavailing and mithin the past day or two It was quite apparent the end was not far off. Eighteen Die in Trolley Crash. A dispatch from Mattoon, III., says: Eighteen dead and sixty injured have been taken from the wreck of an electric train on the Mattoon & Charleston electric railway, which occurred on a sharp curve shortly before noon Friday. Of the dead, nine have been identified. The bodies are at an undertaking establishment in llattoon and the injured are at a hospital. The train consisted of a passenger motor car and a trailer loaded with people going to Charleston, to attend the county fair. One mile west of Charleston, on account of a confusion of orders the train crashed into an express car on the road coming toward Mattoon. Both cars were wrecked. Newspaper Suffers from Flames. The loss on the Courier-Journal plant at Louisville, Ky., which was gute by fire shortly after midnight Thursday Is estimated to be about $200,000. The machinery, while damaged to some extent by water, can soon be put In shape, and it is stated hy Bruce Haldeman, president of the Courier-Journal company, that there would be no interruption to the business, the other papers of the city having offered the Courier-Journal the use of their plants until arrangements can be made for the paper to resume operations in Its own place of business. Convicts Make Dash for Liberty. Edward Quinn and Harry Harmon, two convicts at the State Penitentiary In Joliet, 111., made a sensational escape from prison and are still at large. Quinn is said to be one of the most er.pert safe blowers in the country and was serving a twenty year sentence for burglary. He had eight years to serve. Harmon was In for burglary under an Indeterminate sentence. The men were nurses in the hospital and sawed through the bars of a hospital window, dropped into the prison yard and with an lror. hook and rope male from sheets scaled the walls. A Circus Trust. A circus trust, controlling all the Tarious "greatest shows on earth," will be formed within a month with Rlngling Brothers in control, according to a report current In New York City. It is understood that the RingMngs hold an option on the great Barnam & Bailey circus, which carried with It a contract controlling Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows. The Ringlings already own the Sells Brothers and the Adam Forepaugh shows. Big Fire in Cincinnati, lire which originated frm some tmtoicwn cause destroyed the planing mill and lumber sheds used for the housing of completed material and hundreds of thousands of feot of lumber, the property of the Anrn & Korn Lumber Company, of Winton Place, in the northwestern part of Cincinnati, Ohio. The loss is $100,000. Hotel Man's Frightful Deed. Thomas Lavelle, a Granville, Pa., hotel proprietor, shot and killed his sister and then committed suicide. The motive for the tragedy Is unknown. Five Thousand Divorce,. The judicial statistics for the year ending June 30, completed Friday by the Secretary of State, shows that 4.974 divorces were granted In Ohio last year, Cuyahoga County leading With 763. Steamer Sinks In Wabash River. The steamer Lafayette sank in the Wabash river near ML. Carmel, 111., after striking a snag. The crew and passengers were rescued. Kitchen Weapon Beat3 Thief. It took two Philadelphia girls to justify the jokesmith's familiar quip about kitchen utensils as women's weapons. Bessie Park. 10 years old", and her sister Jeannette, aged 23, captured a negro burglar after Jeannette had broken a potato masher over his head, knocking him senseless until the police arrived. Brazil's Anger Aroused. The anger of Brazil has been aroused by the American plan for a permanent court of arbitration at The Hague, in which Brazil is rated as b third-class Kwer. Kills Girl and Burns Body. Jealous because he thought she was goInj to marry another man, Lucas Koplinky, farm hand on the estate of Aaron JJallett, at Tashua Hill, just beyond Long Hill, Conn., shot and killed Miss Lillian JJallett, and to hide the crime he set fire to the shed in which he had slain the woman. Koplinsky has been arrested. Thinks Mrs. Eddy Sane. Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, noted alienist of New York, has asserted the firm belief in the sanity and mental vijror of Mrs. Mary Baker O. Eddy as result cf examination. .

MAILS "BOMB" TO CORTELYOU. Package Addressed to Secretary of Treasury Explodes in Postofflce. The explosicn of what appears to have been a large percussion cap in a package addressed to Secretary of the Treasury George 1. Cortelyou created excitement in the Xicetown substation of the Philadelphia postotiicc the other day. The paclia.-, which was collected from a box in the northern section of the city, was received by Clerk Roberts, who says it was about four inches Ion; by two inches wide and three-fourths of an inch thick. When Roberts brought his steel cancellation die down upon the stamp tho package exploded and was torn to pieces. Roberts was unhurt. The piecrs of paper were put together and the package was found to have been addressed to Secretary Cortelyou, Washington, 1). C., the address having been cut from a newspaper and pasted on the package. Chief Postal Inspector James B. Cortelyou. a brother of the Secretary, is trying to solve the mystery surrounding the explosion, though most of the authorities think the package was mailed as ?a joke. There was cot sufficient explosive matter in it to have done injury to anyone. What was in the package' aside from the explosive cap the officials will not say.

HEROIC CUKE FOB DIVORCE. Drastic Law Enacted by New York Legislature in Force. Sept. I goes into effect one of the most drastic laws ever enacted in New York' State. It provides that a married person guilty of the statutory offense commits a misdemeanor and on conviction subjects himself, or herself, to imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than six months or to a fine of not more than $2."V), or to both. Mr. Phillips, author of the bill, said recently: "My bill is not revolutionary, as it may seem at first reading. The olfense we aim at is the only statutory cause for divorce recognized in this State. Evidence of his or her guilt is accepted as convincing proof "of his or her unfitness for matrimony, but involves no further penalty. It is not an uncommon practice for persons dissatisfied with each other to arrange the scenery and fabricate proof that will si?ure a divorce. That is a disgrace to our civilization. The man or woman who resorts to such degrading immorality should be punished equally with a man or woman who, intending surreptitious violation of his or her marriage vows, are detected." WOLVES TERRORIZE DULUTH. Pack Kills Cattle and Party Starts Out to Exterminate IL Driven from the far North by starvation, a huge pack of wolves is creating a reign of terror in the locality of Duluth, Minn. John Robinson and Reuben Wilson, carpenters of Duluth Heights, one of the city's suburbs, were attacked by the animal? on their way home from work the other night and were for;ed to take refuge among the branches of i pine tree, where they remained until the next morning, when they were rescued, almost exhausted. The wolves, wlich are far more daring and savage than usual, travel in big packs, and during the last two weeks have killed dozens of cattle and other domestic animals in St. Louis county. At night their hunting cry strikes terror to the hearts of the people living in the outskirts, and the city auhorities have been asked to take steps to exterminate the brutes. A large party of hunters, with dogs, has gone in pursuit of the pack. LOOTS BANK; TURNS JANITOR. Alleged Embezzling Iowa Cashier Is Apprehended in Kansas City. W, A. Farren, alias M. D. W. Adams, former cashier of the Farmers' bank of Clearfield, Iowa, was arrested in Kansas City on the charge of embezzling the school funds of Taylor, Iowa, on deposit in the bank, causing the institution to fail. The bank closed its doors June 20, 1000, six months after Farren had given up the position as cashier. The benk failed for more than $,i3,000 and Farren disappeared. For a time the Iowa officers traced the fugitive, but after a few months he managed to bade all efforts to locate him. Under the name of Adams, Farren has been working in Kansas City as the janitor of a large office building. ARMY MEN TO GET MORE PAY. New Law Is Agreed Upon to Benefit Rank and File. Increase in the pay of the army, but no increase in its size, is the compromise which has been reached between the President r.nd the leaders in Congress who control legislation. The President has given hearty approval to the plans of the general staff of the army, which included both increases, but after consultations and conferences it has been decided that it will be impossible to do more at the next session of Congress than secure an increase in the pay of the army. Immediately upon convening bills will be introduced in the Senate by Senator Dick of Ohio and in the House by Representative Capron of Rhode Island, carrying out the agreement which has been reached. Hanged Twice for Murder The first hanging in that county for more than twenty years took place in Indiana, Ta., Tuesday, and owing to the breaking of the rope the operation had to be repeated. The victim of the law was Carmine Renzo, aged 43 years and weighing 17." pounds. The crime which Renzo expiated was the murder of his sweetheart, Marian Bearno, aged 10, at her home in Ernest, two years ago. Policeman Killed by Negro. George Schinnan, a policeman, was shot and killed by a negro on the tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at South Bethlehem, Pa. Three shots were fired at Sehuman at close range. Jespite the wounds Kchuman walked to police headquarters and reported that he had been shot. He became unconscious and died ten minutes later. Quick Act Saves Aeronaut. Earl IIe--s, boy aeronaut, escaped death seemingly by a miracle when his big Knabenshue balloon burst 400 feet in the air and he was precipitated to fhe ground at Greenville, Ohio. The aeronaut contrived to twist the balloon in such shape that it formed a parachute. Big Bridge Structure Falls. Eighty-four bridge workers were hurled to thcr death when three-quarters of a mli of the new bridge across the St. ltwrence river five miles below Quebec, suddenly collapsed and bore them into the water. Unwritten Law Not Endorsed. The American Bar Association, in session at Portland, Me., refused to put itself on recoru as indorsing the unwritten law, and indefinitely postponed a sensational resolution on the subject. Woman Mangled by Lion Dead. Mrs. Anna A. Hucke, CI years old, was attacked at Luna Park, an amusement resort in l"ittsburg, by a large numidian lion which escaped from one of th sidj shows. She succumbed to her injuries. Nelson Morris Is Bead. Nelson Morris, the third member of the famous "big four" Chicago big packers, died Tuesday morning at his home in that city, in his GSta year. Philip I). Armour and Gustavus F. Swift preceded him to the grave, and Michael Cudahy is the only survivor of the city's pioneers in the packi'og industry.

BOLD FELLOW FAILS.

GOES UNDER AFTER MAKING MILLIONS IN SHORT TIME. Financial Ca. i er of Firm of Speculative nullder I Cat Short by Money Squeeze II ndfton'a Bu Conufclril vith Mexican Gulf. In the United States District Court in New York Jicob S. Haiprin, who receutly lived i.'i a costly house but now has no residence, 611 a petition in bankruptcy, placing his liabilities at $3,141,213. His secured liabilities were estimated at $3'3,2."i. while his assets are $l."iO. Ilalprin. who is a young man with a wife and children, associated himself with two other young men in the simulative building business. They had practically not a dollar, but managed to scrape together enough to secure a building plot with a big mortgage on it, in which they had an equity of a couple of thousand dollars. Then they pot building loans, put up an apartment house and sold it at a handsome profit. They repeated the operation until at the end of two years they had a paper profit of $1,(XHMKJO each. Then the money squeeze began and in three months they were several millions in debt. TRAIN RUNS INTO STREET CAR. Only One Seriously Injured Out of Sixty-five Passengers. One man was dangerously injured and sixty-five persons narrowly escaied death in an accident on a railway crossing at North La Crosse, Wis. A street car was hit by a railroad train at the crossing. A groat panic ensued among the passengers and for a time it was feared that many had ben killt d and ambulances and a corps o? physicians were dispatched to the scene. Most of the passengers, however, had miraculously escaped injury. James Gaskell, aged (W, had both legs broken and crushed and he was taken to a hospital in a serious condition. The other passengers received only scratches. KILLED DEFENDING HIS MOTHER. John Oster, Jr., of Mascoutah, HI., Fatally Stabbed by Father. John Oster. Jr., 23 years old, died in Mascoutah, 111., from stab wounds alleged to have been inflicted by Lis own father, John Oster, aged GO years, who is now under arrest. During a quarrel the previous night between the elder Oster and his wife the son went to his mother's defense. This so enraged the father that they got into a. struggle and young Oster was stabbed. He fled from the house, closely pursued by his father, who is a cripple. In the chase the young man collapsed. 'Neighbors carried him into a house, where he died seven. I hours later. - HUDSON'S BAY TO GULF. Plans Call for Canal Six Feet Deep that May Be Navigated by Canoes. A huge drainage ditch is to be constructed across the great watershed of North America, according to the announcement made by State Drainage Engineer George A. Ralph in St. Paul, Minn. It will connect Bowstring and Round lakes, in Ithaca county. Plans for the work have been prepared. Water from Bowstring flows into Hudson's bay, and Round lake drains into the Mississippi river. The ditch will be six feet deep and will permit navigation of canoes from Hudson's bay to the Gulf of Mexico. STORM HITS IOWA FAIR. Heavy Damage Caused at Des Moines Airship and Balloon Burned. A windstorm struck the Iowa State fair grounds in Des Moines the other day, causing damage estimated nt $100mi0. A live wire was blown against the Knabonshue airship and captive balloon, setting fire to them and destroying both. The big tent of the International Harvester Company was blown down and the exhibit was ruined by heavy rajn and fire. Nurses Save in Hospital Fire. Fire, originating Irom a sterilizing apparatUK, broke out in the Thrall hospital in Middletown, N. Y. Arthur Thornley, an orderly in the hospital, was so badly burned that he will die. He fell to the floor unconscious r.ad was rescued by Dr. Lillian Morgan. A dozen women nurses did heroic work in fighting the fire and rescuing the twenty-six patients who were in the building. Rail Motorcycle Hurts Five. In a collision between a railroad motorcycle and a carriage containing five persons, at the Michigan avenue crossing of the Iron Mountain track in St. Louis, all the occupants of the carriage were injured. Walter Crate, aged 7 years, may die. . Secretary Root's Brother Dies. Oren Root, brother of Secretary o2 State Elihu Root, and professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton college for twenty-seven years, succeeding his father, died at his home in Clinton, N. Y. He had been ill for about a year. Famous Blondin Still Living. Charles Blondin, the once famous tightwire walker, who made the perilous trip aciocS Niagara Fall.t, h said to be living" the life of a hermit in West Cheshire, Conn., although rumor had it that he died ten years ago in London. Yale Chapter House Burns. Sachem, a Yale-Sheffield senior society chapter house, which was just completed and would have been occupied for the fir?t time tiiis fall, was destroyed by fire ir. New Haven, Conn. The building cost $40,000. Disappears with 920,000. Herman (J. Stadon, confidential clerk for Edwin Harrington, Sons & Co., makers of machine tools in Philadelphia, h a fugitive from justice. He is charged with forgery and the embezzlement of $20,000 from the firm. Explosion Kills Three. Three men are dead and a fourth is dying as the result of a boiler explosion at a lumber camp in a tract of timber on the Hayette farm, about eight miles north of Ilagerstown, Md. Long Parliamentary Fight Ended. The British House of Lords has passed the bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister, ending a fight which has been before Parliament for seventyfive years. Kills Woman in Hotel. Chirles E. Andrews of Elkhart, Ind., killed Inda Ethel Biaine of Logansport iu their room at the Saratoga Hotel in Chicago, then committed suicide. Watterson's Paper Bvmed Out. The Courier-Journal building, at Fourth and Green streets, Louisville, in which are located the plants of the Courier-Journal and Evening Times, was destroyed by fire. The fire started at the top of Ln elevator sliaft, supposedly from defective insulation of electric wires. 300 Dead in Japan's Fire. It is learned that the conflagration at Hakodate, Japan, destroyed 13,000 houses, including all the foreign consulates except the American consulate, and most of the public buildings. Thret hundred lives were lost.

rOR GOVERNMENT OWWEFISHIP.

Unionists Vrj;e Consolidation of Telegraph with Postal System. President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union has called on the United States and Canada to take over the control of the telegraph lines now owned by the Western. Union ami Postal Telegraph companies. At the same time he bean a campaign to secure a congressional investigation of the conduct of those companies in tbl? country. To this end the union has established two funds one for the direct support of the strike and the other to pay the expenses of the government ownership campaign. He asks tnat trade unionists in general and telegraphers in particular begin at once to raise $2.000,000 for these purposes. The strike was further strengthened by the calling out of leased wire operators in many brokers' offices, and it was expected that the cable operators would also join. On the other hand, the telegraph companies claimed to be taking care of all business offered, and say that the strike is a closed incident so far as they arc concerned. Washington heard that Commissioner Ncill was about to submit a report regarding the telegraph strike to the President. The strikers charge that the companies are taking most of their business subject to delay, and that the dispatches, instead of being put on the wires, are sent by messengers In suit cases from one city to another, to be copied and delivered by local messengers. It is said that a bill is to be Introduced at the coming session by Congressman Samuel Smith, of Michigan, which will authorize postal telegraph systems operated by tho Post Office Department. Congressman Smith says: "We provide for carrying the malls by the swiftest known method, steam, electric railways and pneumatic tubes. Why deny the right to t!:e use of the telegraph? We carry the mails ata loss. Why not use the telegraph not only as a convergence and blessing to all our people, but to help wipe ou the annual postal deficit? Who doubts that the telegraph is nn essential part of an efficient postal service?" . The constitutional right to establish a iosta' telegraph' system is unquestioned. The government started out by owning the telegraph system. In 1843 Lie government had built a telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore, costing $30,000. Two years later, under a notion of economy, it was turned over to private ownership. Among the public statesmen who protested against this course were Henry Clay and Cave Johnson. Prof. S. F. B. Morse also prophesied the erlla of prlrate ownership. Justice Brown, of the United States Supreme Court, has said: 'If the government may be safely intrusted with the transmission of our letters and papers, I see no reason why it should not also be intrusted with the transmission of our telegrams, as Is almost universally the ease In Europe." LangnKe of Seairnlla Foand. John B. Watson, professor of psychology in the University of Chicago, has just returned from the Dry Tortugas Islands, off the lower coast of Florida, where be carried on investigations at the Andrew Carnegie station. He says that he has found that the sea gulls have a language of their own which can be imitated by a human being, ne finds that they live in family groups in houses consciously built for their purpose, and he believes that they have politics in their governmental affairs. For several months Prof. Watson has lived in a hut of bonra on these tropical islands, taming the great ocean birds and getting close to them. II thinks that these birds convert with each other by means of the volume, tone and duration of their vocal sounds. lloard Kaveri Oclapai. The Naval Submarine Board, which conducted competitive tests at Newport, has reported unanimously that the Cctupus is the superior of the boats tested and the equal of the best now owned by the United States or under contract. The opinion is also expressed that a boat similar to the Octupus, but larger, would be a superior naval weapon. The Oregon Trust and Savings bank, Tortland, with deposits of $.3,200,000 and liabilities of $3,200,000, closed its doors. More indictments of Arkansas legislators are expected next fiouth by Prosecuting Attorney Rhoton of Little Rock when the grand jury meets. President Roosevelt approved the sentence of dismissal from the navy of Chaplain Joms, who was tried recently by ccurt-martial for financial irregularities. The auditor's report of the condition of the Exchange Bank of Macon, Ga., which recently went into the hands of a receiver, shows that the entire capital and surplus had disappeared and there was on actual deficit of $8,.iU0. At the business meeting at Colorado Springs of the Imperial Palace Dr. una tic order, Knights of Khorassan ol the World, Seattle was selected as the meeting place for 1000. Ianiel F. Summer, Charlotte, N. C, waa elected imperial prince. After a long search through f.U the hospitals of Philadelphia, W. A. Wright, a young trtist of Dallas, Texas, who bad been missiug for several weeks, was found by his father in the hospital at th naval home. He went to Philadelphia and at last, driven desperate by bunger, enlisted in the marine corps.

IT'S COMING TO TIIIS?

NELSON MORRIS DIES.

Pioneer Chicago Packer and Millionaire Passes A Tray Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire, died Tuesday. Nelson Morris was the third member of the famous "big four" packers. Philip D. Armour and Gustavus F. Swift preceded him to the grave, and Michael Cudahy is the only survivor of the city's pioneers in the racking industry. Mr. Morris' death was due to chronic affection of the heart, with a kidney complication, which had its origin some time ago. Nelson Morris was born in the Black Forest, Germany, Jan. 7, 1840. I lis father originally was a wealthy cattle dealer, but he became reduced to poverty after joining the revolutionary movement to unite the Black Forest to Switzerland. The father was an exile until the son paid his ranson twenty years ago. Carl Schurz was a fellow exile of young Morris, who, when he landed in Philadelphia penniless was 11 years old. The young man walked to New York, where he hired out to haul charcoal in Lakeville, Conn., for $5 a month and board. Later he worked his waj on a canalboat to Buffalo, thence talking to Chicago. Here he went to work in the old stockyards. Five dollars a month was his salary the first year, increased to $40 the second year. All he saved from his earnings he sent to his relatives across the ocean. He began to buy hogs when he was 13, making enough to start Limself in the cattle business a year later. The packer used to tell how at first ho killed and dressed his own cattle. He slept on the slaughter house floor at night in order to hi on hand early in the morning with his beef and pork. His first financial reverse came when he was 18 years old. When he was 25 years old Morris suffered another reverse. He indorsed papers for creditors who went back on him. Within a year, however, he had recovered from his loss. lie started his packing house in 1SG2 and during the latter part of the war supplied the army of te West with beef. Mr. Morris was the first to export live cattle from this country to Europe. He received the first contract ever given to supply a government with beef. He obtained important and profitable contracts with France, England and Germany. Jlcatrlrted Dlrth Rate Desirable. Prof. Edward A. Ross, head of the Sociology Department of the University of Wisconsin, in a lecture to the students, said trat "restriction in the birth rate is a movement which at the bottom is salutary, and the evils in its train appear to be minor or transient or self-limiting or curable," thus taking direct issue with President Rooevelt's well-known idea as to race suicide. Prof. Ross saya he is "with those who hate famine, war, sabertoothed coruietition, class antagonism, degradation of the masses, wasting of children, dwarfing of women and cheapening of men," and asks if the time will come when the mother of more than three is "regarded as a public benefactor and placed on the pay roll of tha State." Prof. Ross himself is the father of three children. , Free Employment Agencies. The Massachusetts Labor Bulletin, at digested in American Industries, shows that fifteen States now have free public employment agencies in operation, as follows: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas. Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Eleven of these have State systems, with twenty-eight offices in twenty-six cities, and five States have eight municipal offices. The motives advanced to justify these agencies are the belief that State competition would drive unscrupulous private agencies out of business, the need of assisting the unemployed, and the bringing together of laborer and employer with fhe result of ."educing the army of unemployed. Short News Note. A girl baby was born to Gov. and Mrs. Charles E. Hughes at Albany the other day, it being their fourth child. William W. Prosser, St. Loula, city passenger agent of the Clover Leaf rute, died at Laporte, Ind., walle visiting relatives. Three Japanese belonging to a traveling acrobatic troupe have been arrested in Russia with plans of fortifications and other secret military documents in their possession. A foreign government, supposed to be Russia, says the London Chronicle has awarded to a British firm of shipbuilders a contract for several battleships, cruisers and gunboats. Nelsor Morris, the Chicago packer, has leased 7ri0,000 acres of grazing land in the Standing Rock reservation. South Dakota, comprising one of the finest cattle tracts in the Northwest. "Gen. Lewis Cass Fry, who in 1S04 led 3,Sc men, comprising the Pacific coast d-vision of Coxey's army, from San Francisco to Washington, is dead at Brice, Mo. George Iloey, a veteran actor, died in New York after a short illness. He was well known to the old timers, having played with Booth. Barrett, Jefferson and other famous pteycrs. Asmord S. Meserve, warden of the New Castle county workhouse, near Wilmington, Del., and one of the leading criminologists of the country, has resigned because, it is stated, he disapproves of the Delaware whipping post. Cass Gilbert, a New York architect, has just purchased the olid Keelcr tavern at Ridgefield, Conn., and will occupy it as a summer home. The tavern was built in 1700. At the battle of Ridgefield April 20, 177G, it was struck by a cannon ball, which still is imbedded in one of the walls. Sensational disclosures, involving padding of accounts to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Interborough company, headed by . August Belmont, were made by the New York public service commission. It is alleged the company's plan -was to charge the City an excessive price In case It should take over tho property.

GIANT BRIDGE FALLS

ST. LAWRENCE RIVER ENGULFS EIGHTY-FOUR WORKERS. ; American Mechanics Hurled to Death by Collanne of Record- 5 Breaking; Span Near Quebec Only Ulffht 31 en Karaite vith Lives. A section of the new bridge across tbe St. Lawrence River, five miles below Quebec, collapsed late Thursday, carrying scores of bridge workers and mechanics to death in tbe water. Of the ninety-two men nt work on tbe structure only eight are known to have escaped. Tbe bridge was about a mile and a half in length, and half of it, from the south shore to midstream, crumpled up and dropped into the water. The whistle bad just blown at 3:30 for tbe men to quit work for tbe day, when there came a grinding sound from midstream. Tbe men turned to see what had happened, and an instant later the cry went up: "The bridge is falling:" "Workers Flee In Vain. The men made a rush shoreward, but the distance was too great for thean to escape. The fallen section of the bridge dragged others after It, the snapping girders and cables booming like artillery. Terror lent fleetness to the feet of the frightened workmen as they sped shoreward, but only a few of them reached safety tefore the last piece of iron work on the south shore was dragged Into the river. Near the shore the wreckage of the bridge did not go below the surface of the water, and eight workmen who remained above water were rescued and taken to the hospital at Levis. The steamer Glenaiont had just cleared the bridge when the first section fell. The water thrown up by the debris came clear over tho bridge of fhe steamer. The captain at once lowered boats. The small (boats plied backward and forward over tho sunken wreckage for half an hour, but there was no sign of life. The twisted iron and steel had its victims in a death grip. A few floating timbers and the broken strands of the bridge toward the north shore were the only signs that anything unusual had happened. Sixteen Bod! en Are Found. All the men drowned were employes of the Phoenix Bridge Company of Pennsylvania, and subcontractors of Quebec Pnd Montreal. At 10 oüeloek at night sixteen bodies had lecn picked up. Of the eight men in the Levis hospital two were not expected to live through the night. The southern A extension of the bridge which collapsed was rapidly Hearing the zenith of the immense steel arch which was to spun the river. For S00 feet from the shore the massive steel structure reared on arch with no supports save the piers from the shore and one pier in the river about 100 feet from the shore, while the outward extremity was IS feet above the water. The end of the half arch bent clown a trifle and a moment later the whole enormous fabric began to give way, slowly at first, then with a terrific crash which was plainly heard In Quebec and which shook the whole countryside so that the residents rushed out of their houses, thinking that an earthquake had occurred. Wounded Tinned in Debrln. The horror of the situation is increased by the fact that there were a number of wounded men pinned in the wreckage near the shore. Their groans and chrieks for n time could be plainly heard by the crowds 'gathered at the water's edge, but nothing could be done to rescue them or relieve their sufferings. There Is scarcely a family in the village of St. Romuald and New Liverpool, which has not been bereaved, while in some cases five aud six men of a single family have been killed. The bridge was remarkable in that It. was to have been the longest singlespan cantilever bridge In the world, the length of the span in the center being 1,800 feet, or 200 feet longer than that of tbe Firth bridge at Edinburgh, at present the world's longest single bridge span. Dalit at Great Cost. The contract was let for tbe erection of the stone work to M. P. Davis & Co., and for the iron work to the Phoenix Iron Company of Phocnlxville. Work was begun in 1900. The original estimate of the cost was in the neighborhood of $0,500.000, but this wag found to be too small. The company finding itself in difficulties and the government needing the bridge for the National Transcontinental Railway, an agreement was reached by which the government agreed to guaratee the bonds of the company up to $7,000,000. Under this agreement construction has been proceeding. When completed the bridge was to have accommodation for a double track railway, two lines of electric tramways and two roadways for foot aud vehicle traffic. There has been no bridge across the St. Lawrence below Montreal. At Quebec traflic was ferried across the river. This expense being held rosjxmslble for the failure of Quebec to grow, a number of eitizeu secured a charter from the IHmdnion government to bridge the St. Lawrence. A subsidy of $1,000,000 was secured from the dominion and another $.".10,000 from the government of the Province of Quebec, while the City of Quebec gave a grant uf $CO0,0CO. The promoters put up $Gri0.000. To Federate the Kiaplojers. Delegates from various employers' associations have leen in conference at New York for the purpose of forming a national federation in the hope of preserving peace in the industrial world. The meeting was called and presided over by President Van Cleave of the Manufacturers' Association. Xo final action was taken, but one month was allowed to permit the delegates to consult with their respective organizations. "Fncle Joe" Cannon is trying to quit smoking, after being addicted to the weed for forty years. Jacob IL Schiff, the banker, in an interview at Bar Harbor, Me., is quoted as saying that the monetary troubles, of the country are due to the fact that tbe progress of the country has made its capital requirements greater than can be at present supplied. The statement is made that no immediate results will follow the' negotiations that Secretary Root has been conducting with Ambassador Jusserand of France in the direct' of placing the latter country on the saine basis as Germany in tbe matter of tariff. Mr. Root wants to first find out tbe attitude of Congress as to the German arrangement.

FOURTH'S CRIM LIST.

104 Dead and 4,219 Hart In Tbla Year's Celebrntlon. Official tabulation of the death toll and the Irst of injured as a result of the last Fourth of July celebration in the United States has been conpleted by the mediral authorities. The grand total of dead and injured for 11)07, directly traceable to the deadly toy pistol, the giant firecracker and uhe practical joke, is placed at 4,41 J, which is less by 1,000 than the returns for last year. The dead are 104 and the injured are 4,211). The figures have been compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the reports being received from trustworthy sources in all of the States. Noteworthy, from the standpoint of the medical profession, is the number of deaths due to Fourth of July tetanus. Statistics were first collected by the Journal five years ago and in l'.KXJ there were recorded 400 deaths from all causes chargeable to the Fourth. 400 of these being tetanus cases. The lowest number of tetanus deaths yet recorded is the present year's showing. "There can be no doubt that this decrease," comments the Journal, "is due ea-tirelj-to two canses, one beins: a popular understanding of the grave danger that lies in blank cartridge and in other Fourth of July wounds, and the other is the more thorough surgical treatment of these wounds by the prac ticing physicians and the frequent prophylactic use of antitoxin." Illinois led all the States this year with twelve cases of death by tetanus, furnishing just one-sixth of he total number of cases contributed by twenty-three States. New Jersey was second and Pennsylvania third. Blank cartridges were responsible for 71 per cent of the tetanus. Giant crackers caused only eight cases this year, as against seventeen in P.HXI, while toy cannon caused six cases this year and one case last year. Besides the deaths due to tetauus, there were 102 other persons who lost theK lives th's year because of the "celebration." The total number of deaths this year, therefore, including ' tetanus, was 104, or six more than last year. The annual slaughter still continues, although tetanus is becoming a less potent factor. Of the 102 deaths aside from tetanus, gunshot wounds caused twenty, giant crackers thirteen and various explosions thirteen. Ten deaths were due to falls or runaways caused by firecrackers. One person was drowned because a" "practical joker'' threw a giant firecracker into a boat crowded with young people. "The extremity of tolerance is reached, however," declares the Journal, "when we know that thirty-one persons were burned to death, tbe majority of them .being young girl and children, whose dresses easL'y catch .fire. Comparisons show that deaths from causes aside from tetanus are 102 in 1007, as against ninety-five in 10O3. lu the table of all casualties New York takes the first place with 7."2, Pennsylvania second with 491, Illinois 403 and Xew Jersey 402. ""here were 4.219 non-fatal injuries, a decrease of l,OT0 below last year, when the total was ."..'JOS. Only twelve persons were completely blinded this year, or ten lets than last year; seventy-five persons lost one eye this year, or three more than last year, but thirty-one less than in r.KX; fifty-seven lost an arm or a band this 3-ear, or one more than last year, and 237 persons lost one or more fingers this year, this being ten more than last year. The principal cause of the most mutilating wounds, says the report, is the giant cracker. This year 1,489 injuries, including thirteen deaths and eight cases of lockjaw, were due to this agency. Firearms rank second in causing mutilating wounds, being responsible for r02 injuries and twenty-four deaths, including four cases of tetanus. -rveyors are in the field laying out a route for the Sulphur, Coalgate and Southeastern road in Oklahoma. The commission of South Dakota met at Sioux Falls to consider a readjustment of the freight and passenger rates for the entire State. It is announced that the Tehnslyvania road has resumed its aggressive construction and improvement operations on all parts of its System. As a test of long-distance speed endurance. Union Tacifie motor car Xo. 12 has made a continuous run from Omaha to Denver in 1G hours 34 minutes. The annual report of the Lehigh Valley indicates that the year was a very prosperous one for the company. The net earnings of $13,91,178 are an increase of $1,316,532. ; Railroad rates from points west of Chicago to the national Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Saratoga. X. Y'., are unreasonably high and unjust, cording to complaints received by the interstate commerce commission in Washington. The Receivers and Shippers Association of Minnesota is supporting the State movement in its effort to enforce the State laws, irrespective of the interstate laws. The association has intervened in the litigation and thus hopes to relieve the State commission of any embarrassment which that body may feel in the case. Under the tresidency of J. T. llarahan the Illinois Central system has shown a most remarkable ii.crense in earnings. The gross traffic receipts for the fiscL'. year ended June 30 show an increase of $4.974.228. The operating expenses and taxes increased $3,J2S,0.V. This makes the net earnings an increase of $1,340.173. Xot in the history of the Illinois Central lias any showing approachrd this. It is asserted that the great increase in net earnings is due almost entirely to Mr. Ilarahan's management, as other big southern roads for the same period showheavy decreases in earnings. "Application has been made by the (Ireat Northern road t the railroad commission of British Columbia for the cancellation of certain deeds conveying land to it which it purchased a. Vancouver. Wholesale prosecution of the railroads for their disregard of the laws regulating the watering and feeding of live sto:-k while in transit has been undertaken by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Orders have been issued, it is learned, to bepjin construction work ou the Northwestern Pacific a joint Southern PacificSanta Fe enterprise which is to give S.in Francisco a new rail connection with Eureka. Contracts have been let by the Northern Pacific road for the construction of a new line oven the Rockies, west of Helena, by the way of McDonalds Pass. New England roads are still aggressive fn their fight against the enforcement of the per diem charge i:uposd for the use of freight cars of connec ting lines as fixed by the last meeting of tbe American Railway Association. An agreement has been reached on the price to be paid by the United States government to the owners for three islands in Panama bay and for the improvements now there. The land is wanted for

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I Indians I ale News

WOMAX HL'IILED FROM Bl'GGY. 'o ClevF an to Identity of Aasallant of 3Irs. Josephine Griffin. In the death of Mrs. Josephine Grifila at the county jail in South Bend, the jolice have a murder mystery to solve to which they have as yet no clew. The woman, in an unconscious condition, and with her body covered with bruises, was thrown from a buggy in frit of tbe county infirmary Sunday. Immediately the driver whipped up his horse and escaped. Xo trace of him or of the rig has been found, despite the fact that the police -have been working on the case for nearly a week. When the woman rallied she was insane and unable to give the authorities any information regarding her relatives or her home. The only tta'.ement she made was as to her name. T1IREG DURX TO DEATH. , Father, Mother nnd Dnby Lone Lire When Kerosene Explode. - Charles Webster, bis wife and 2-year-old son were burneJ to death in a fire that destroyed their home near Mentone. Two daughters Dolly, 10, and Mable, 5 escaped. Some kerosene put in a tove by Mrs. Webster to s'tart the fire 'exploded, igniting her dress. The husband also caught fire vrben be' went to her rescue. The house was soon a mass of flames, and the baby, which was in bed, could not be rescued. The daughters made two unsuccessful attempts to save the baby. IU.G OXIOX ncCElVES HOMAGE. Farmers In Virinttr of Wolf Lake Hold Festival In Honor of Crop. King Onion held way at Wolf lake the other day when 5.000 people gathered to pay respects to that vegetable, which is the principal crop raised by the farmers of Wolfe and the vicinity. Three Indiana Congressmen, C. C. Gilhams, James Watson and J. A. Adair, delivered addresses. All of this was because the onion crcp is fully up to the expectations of the growers. CHICKEN SWALLOWS DIAMOND. Servant Finds Gem In Gizzard aad Dnlks Employer's Greed. Susie Bell, a colored servant in Evncsville, while cleaning a chicken found a diamond that is said to be worth $175 in Uhe gizzard. Her employer took the diamond from her, it is srid, and refused to give it up until the woman consulted an attorney, who was ready to file out replevin papers when the man turned the precious stone over to the servant, who will be permitted to keep it until the real owner can be found. OXE KILLED IX WRECK. Wreck: Train Crashed Into a Freight . at HageratoTTn. A wreck t rain on the Pennsylvania line crashed into a freight at the Ilagerstown yards, killing Roscoe E. Febern, G5, of Richmond, a member of the wreck train crew. Joseph Myers, William Owens, Engineer Frank Calkins, Joseph A. Gorman and Michael Bosworth, all of Richmond, and Laurel Showalter of Middletown were injured. All were on the wreck train. The responsibility for the wreck has not been fixed. 31 1 STAKE PREVENTS A SUICIDE. Clerk Places Rim Fire Cartridges la r. Center Fire Revolver. The mistake of a clerk in a hardware store at Sullivan prevented P. F. Anderson from committing suicide-. Anderson asked for cartridges, handing over his revolver to be loaded. Thon he placed it at his temple and pulled the trigger fonr times, but there was no discharge. The clerk had placed rim fire cartriJgcs in the revolver, which is a center fire weapon. Uses Oil on Kitchen Flrei Dies. Maud, wife of Albert Swarm of Elkhart, is dead from burns received when a can containing what she thought was kerosene exploded as fhe was pouring so. of tie fluid on the kitchen fire. Train Kills Ajrrd Woman. Mrs. Sunday Stillwell. 70 and deaf, was killed by a Lake Erie and Western excursion train at Fairfield. : Fire Destroy Town. Fire of unknown origin practically wiped out the business section of the little town of Larwill. Within Our Borders. John Phillips, 15 years old. was drowned in Evansville while bathing in the Ohio river. - Simon Ward, air brake inspector fcr the Chicago. Cincinnati and Louisville railroad at Peru, was found dead uüder a train. Whether it is suiciJe or accident is unknown. Gov. Ilanly of Indiana reiterated the warning given in" his Elkhart speech urging caution in the policies of the administration in its efforts to correct corporation abuses. One man was killed and fourteen injured on the Pennsylvania railroad near Ilagerstown when a local freight crashed into a wreck train. Responsibiltiy for the disaster has not been fixed. Edward Fahrho'z of Evansville, superintendent of a factory at Princeton, was killed by falling from the platform of a train on the Evansville and Terro Haute railrc id. Both legs were cut off. Fire by lightning destroyed eleven business buildings in Reynolds. Los $50.(100. United States Senator James A, Ilemenway has authorized the apio;ntme&t of Henry Baldwin Lewi of Xew Albany es cadet to West Point. He is a son of Capt. Lewis, an oflicer of thirty years standing. Mrs. Ruth Clayton, the centenarian, who died in Hancock county, besides being 100 years old, was a remarkable woman in many ways. She leaves forty grandchildren, seventy-one great-grandchildren atid eleven great-great-grandchildren. Relatives in Petersburg received word that Charles Lewis, editor of the Republican at Kersey, Colo., had been shoi and instantly killed on account of an article reflecting on the wife of a citizen of that placi:. Lewis married Miss Lucy IZ. I loggat t of Petersburg three years ago. Following a quarrel between Mrs. Tzabela Lagockski and Mrs. Alice Vaworski in South Bend, the women enpaged in a fight which ended with both of them rolling down a flight of stairs locked in each other's arms. As tbe result of her injuries Mrs. Lasockski is dad aufc Mrs. Vaworski Las b.'en ordered arrested on a charge of niurdor. An unidentified man was struck by a C, II. & I), train in Connersvi'le and killed. From an inscription on his grip the nama is supposed to be M. Inningor of Celina, Ohio. He was on the railway bri J;;e at the time and he was knocked to the street, 1." feet below. Apparently he was 45 years old. The State beard of railroad commissioners issued a formal order requiring all railroad operating in ths State of Indiana to tiuip their lines with the automatic block signal system. This order has been in contemplation ever since th? disaster at Woodville, on the Baltimore and Ohio, in which so many immigrants lost their lives;

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