Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

DIES OF STARVATION.

EXCITED WOMAN REFUSES TO TOUCH AN ANNUITY. Wife of Younger Son of an English Lord Driven Away from HomeLive* in a Hovel with Three Dogs Her Only Companions. Married Below His Rank. Word comes from Fort Atkinson, Wis., that rather than! touch an annuity from England, which she had come to look upon as blood money, Mrs. Laura Armitage starved herself to death, notwithstanding there was nearly $3,000 in a basket beside her dingy bed. With the demise of this eccentric woman ends a romance which had its beginning in England more than twenty years ago. William Armitage' was the younger son of an English lord, and when he married a pretty ballet dancer he was packed off to America, wife, luggage and all.. Being passionately fond of duck hunting, he bought a farm on Lake Koshkonong, noted for this kind of sport. Armitage died about ten years ago, and the elder brother and heir to the title offered the widow an annuity of S4OO on condition that she remain in America. Mrs. Armitage has since lived in a dingy house in Fort Atkinson, with only three faithful dogs for companions. Her mind has been affected for some time, and it is believed that brooding oyer her exile from her native land caused her to reach the conclusion that it was not right to accept aid from her husband’s family. The county authorities were talking about sending the woman to an asylum, but it was a delicate matter, and before they got around to it death had ended her sufferings.

Fever Scare Subsides. New Orleans has caught its -second wind and the yellow fever excitement has somewhat subsided. At first there was. a disposition to town, but when people summed up matters and found that there were only seven imported cases and that they had been warned as to-six of them they decided to wait until the condition should become more aggravated before maknig a break for other parts. The natives have, contrary to expectations, not become frightened over the existence of yellow fever, and whatever depression exists is due to the fact that business, which was 30 per cent, above the corresponding month of last year, has received a set-back as a result of the general institution of quarantine measures against the city. Up to the present writing there has been no change in the -situation and the bulletins from infected quarters are of a favorable nature. • Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Balt'more ...82 33 Brooklyn.. ..53 65 Boston 83 "55 Chicago 53 66 New York.. .75 41 Pittsburg ... .50 65 Cincinnati ..67 49 Philadelphia .51 G 7 Cleveland ...60 60 Louisville ...50 70 Washington .54 62 St. Louis... 227 91 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 90 '34 Detroit .....67 62 Columbus .. .83 43 Minneapolis .42 90 St. Paul.... .ST 49 Kansas City .40 94 Milwaukee .. 78 51 Gr’nd Rapids 36 90

NEWS NUGGETS.

Emperor William is now in Hungary with the Emperor Francis Joseph. Five men were seriously burned by molten metal in a stove factory at Leeds, lowa. * Rebel tribesmen in India have surrounded Fort S'habkadr and are gathering at Hangu, Mrs. Antonio Terry, former wife of the man who is infatuated with Sibyl Sanderson, is dead in Faris. The Tulane Athletic Club at New Orleans offers a $20,000 purse for a fight between Fitzsimmons and Corbett. The report that Colombia has granted to England a concession to complete the Panama Canal is positively denied. A fierce hurricane swept over Yokohama city-and harbor, causing great damage to property and considerable loss of life. Claims are being staked out in the heart of Victoria. B. C., by men who say there is a ledge of goldbearing rock under the city. Mrs. George Smith of Churchville, N. Y., was shot and fatally wounded by burglars and her husband was bound and compelled to give up $1,360. Seven men were killed and six injured in a freight wreck on the Iron Mountain Railroad at Hanzom, I. T. All the victims were stealing a ride in a car. Tramps undertook to rob an express car on the Chicago and Erie road near Foraker, Ohio, but were driven off by messengers after a battle with pistols; - Five men were badly scalded by the breaking of machinery on the torpedo boat Rodgers during her trial trip. Chief Engineer J. fi. Edwards, U. S. N., was among the injured. Lieutenant General Baron von Shack of Russia committed suicide because he has been compelled to abandon the German Lutheran faith and join the Russian orthodox church. The sultan has ordered a commission, composed of two Mussulmans, three Armenians and one Greek, to visit the Armenian vilayets which have been the chief sufferers from the massacres and raise funds to rebuild the Armenian schools, churches and monasteries and to build orphanages. Clark Graves, an old soldier of Martinsville, Ind., has refused longer to accept a pension because the rheumatism for which he received it has disappeared. The United Labor League of Philadelphia has started a fund for the prosecution of Sheriff Martin and the deputies who shot the unarmed miners on the Latimer road. ** Miss Harriet Sheldon, 82 years old, and Miss Mithilda Sheldon, 86, were burned to death in Lynn, Mass. Mrs. Ida Bolley, wife of a fanner near Lagrange, Ind., bunt a blood vessel while |D a fit of laughter ~

EASTERN.

Grover Cleveland has made a return to the assessors of Mercer County, New Jersey, placing a value of $20,000 on his residence'ahd~of $300,000 on his personal property. The frigate Constellation, lying at the naval station at Newport R. 1., celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her launching. Salutes were tired and the old vessel was beautifully decorated. The Prohibitionists of Greater New York have nominated William T. Woodwell of Manhattan for Mayor, A. H. Walker of Brooklyn for Comptroller and Francis Crawford for President of the Council. Harry Calbough, who was a clerk in the Second National Bank of Altoona, Pa., when it was looted by Cashier Gardner three years ago and who was arrested at the time for having changed figures in his books at the cashier’s dictation, committed suicide by shooting himself. Jameg R. Willard, Elmer Dwiggins and Jay Dwiggins, who compose the firm of J. R. Willard & Co., bankers and brokers, with offices in New York, Buffalo, Washington, D. C.; Philadelphia and Montreal, assigned to James L, Starbuck, with preferences for $20,000 to William 11. Osterhout. It is estimated that their liabilities will reach $1,4)00,000. The efforts to evict the striking miners of the Pittsburg and Chicago Coal Company at Orangeville, Pa., resulted in a riot of no mean proportions and the utter failure on the part of the company to accomplish its object. Headed by the women, the strikers rushed upon the depuites with Atones, clubs and picklrindles, and blows fell thick and fast. One of the big women wrested the rille from a deputy's hands and struck him on the head with it, inflicting serious injury. By this time 1,000 men, women and children had joined tire crowd. The deputies slowly retreated, taking all of the above insults and injuries, but never firing a shot. The New York World’s special inquiries throughout Ireland fully corroborate the alarming predictions cabled of the failure of The harvest and a consequent impending famine. In Mullingar, one of the most prosperous parts of the Midlands, the crops are now irretrievably destroyed. It will be impossible for the farmers to make anything of their cereals this year, as they are quickly rotting. Prayers for fine weather are recited. In County Wexford, noted as one of the richest in the country, the green crop may be described as a gigantic failure. The greater part of the potato crop is only fit for feeding cattle. These evidences of the widespread character of the ruin wrought by the inclement season are merely samples from numerous reports received. The Irish Government has adopted no measure yet to cope with the threatened famine.

WESTERN.

William Solomon shot and killed Ed Stutsman during a quarrel at Petersburg, Ind. J. R. Hamlin, a commission broker, formerly of Chicago, was found dead in a bathroom of a St. Louis hotel. The buggy and team with which C. A. Norton of Durand, HL, escaped have been found in the southern outskirts of Madison, Wis. On account of the Nashville exposition the Commercial Association of Chicago has abandoned the project of holding a carnival-Chicago Day, Oct. 9. A. Vanatta is dead and F. Morrison and E. Kohn are in a dangerous condition at Willshire, Ind., as a result of swallowing a great quantity of pills on a wager. Bishop Messmer of the diocese of Green Bay has written a letter condemning the grand ball which was the closing feature of the Wisconsin -State convention of Catholic Foresters. The Democrats of Colorado have decided against fusion with any other party and nominated John A. Gordon for Supreme Court Judge. They indorsed Bryan and free coinage at 16 to 1. The heat has been intense throughout different sections of Missouri during the past week or more, and this, combined with the scarcity of moisture, is drying up the corn and causing suffering among cattle. The Spokesman-Review has weather crop reports from all sections of Eastern Washington and Idaho. From nearly all points come reports of weeping skies and -sodden fields. Continued'Tains are bleaching the grain and injuring wheat in the shock.

The head-on collision on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe proves the worst disaster that has occurred on that system in many years. Ten people ■were killed outright or soon died of their injuries, and fifteen others were more or less seriously injured. After the close of the session of the. letter carriers’ convention, in San Francisco, a caucus of second-class city delegates was held and resolutions asking for reforms in the service were adopted. The ladies who accompanied the delegates from the East visited the mint and the Academy of Sciences; ~ Hot, dry winds in lowa have checked the growth of belated corn, and in some places have actually ruined it, while the early corn has been hastened to maturity. Those who cut their late corn now will secure the larger measure of feeding value of the crop. The drought has seriously affected the potato crop and pastures. The annual convention of the National Railway Master Blacksmiths’ Association opened at the Leland Hotel in Chicago, Tuesday morning with an attendance of over 100 members. The association is organized for the purpose of discussing and disseminating information respecting the best methods of applying iron and steel to railway and car construction. Late corn near St. Joseph, Mo., has been seriously damaged by the prolonged drought and the crop will be much shorter than expected. Early corn is said to be out of danger, but many fields of latte corn will be good only-tor fodder. The hot, dry weather has also injured the fruit crop and pastures are bm-ning up, with stock water scarce. The drought is the most severe for many years. Charles Sayers of Chicago went to his home Thursday night and found that supper was not ready, He upbraided his wife. William, the elder son, took the part of his mother, and the father struck the boy on the head with a lighted lamp. Vedella, the 20-year-old daughter, made a heroic attempt to save her brother from the father’s violence. Her clothes caught fire and she died of burns. Sayers was arrested. A member of the Nebraska Board of Agriculture, who has returned from an

extended trip through the State, makes this report as to the result of his trip, and figures have ben prepared which show that there are 100,000,000 bushels of «ld corn yet in the hands of the farmers of the State; 50,000,000 bushels of old corn in cribs in the State; 250,000,000 bushels of new corn safe from bad weather or frost and assured to the producer, whatever may happen to the late corn; from 50,000,000 to 75,000,000 bushels of late corn, which has been injured to some extent by the late hot weather, much of which, however, will be saved if rain comes to the State within a few days; and 75,000,000 bushels of wheat, rye, oats, barley and flax. This makes a total of 500,000,000 bushels of grain raised by the farmers of Nebraska this year, allowing for 25,000,000 bushels of late corn to be saved out of the total acreage. It is estimated further that of this crop there will be consumed in Nebraska 150,000,000 bushels, leaving 350,000,000 bushels to be shipped out of the State during the next twelve months. The profit to the railroads for moving this grain will be $10,000,000. > Friday noon wheat was in good demand on the Chicago Board of Trade at the start at about %c improvement over Thursday’s closing price for December and lc for September. For a supposedly defunct deal September Went through some surprising and it gave a good example of its galvanized style of agility by jumping to $1 within a minute or two of the opening. December first went through a little of its parallel bar exercise, swinging itself around so swiftly that jt was difficult at times to see whether it was head up or head down. That was merely the preliminary to its grand star performance of climbing up the backs and over tire heads of the bears, who flung up their hands in attempts to stop its reaching the dollar mark. From 98%c to 98Hc to begin with it rose to 98%c, turned around and went back again to 98%e. Then it dropped to 97%c and rose from that in a gradual way to 97%c. From the latter point to 99%c was the work of about twenty minutes, and those fluctuations were all within the first two hours of the session. Chicago received 269 cars, only twelve of them contract. Minneapolis and Duluth receipts were 496 cars, against 1,143 the corresponding day of year before. Thos. W. Keene, the eminent tragedian, is now in the second week of his engagement at McVicker’s Chicago Theater. Mr. Keene’s engagement so far has proved very successful. The audiences have increased nightly, and Mr. Keene is to be Congratulated upon the strength of his company and the manner in which he has staged and costumed all of his plays. It has been said by some that the legitimate drama is on the wane. This is not so. It is on the eve of a great revival, and to-day there are more heatergoers in the United Spates than there ever have been. This fact, strange to say, comes from the vaudeville and cheap theater craze. When the continuous performances were inaugurated they were of the straight variety order, given by members of that branch of the-profession. Gradually little sketches were introduced; then again, some actors and actresses were enlisted from the legitimate ranks and introduced a little longer plays. Now you go into one of these theaters and you will see the same audiences that were accustomed to patronize the variety show listening attentively to plays and selections given by good artists. The people’s tastes are becoming elevated aud their intellect wants something better than the ■skirt dance or an acrobatic turn. Thea-'ter-goers will thank Tom Keene for his tenacity in upholding and sticking to the legitimate drama, which will never die as long as it has such a talented exponent as the above named artist.

SOUTHERN.

Lutie A. Lyttle, a colored girl, has been :admitted to the bar at Memphis, Tenn. .Scott and Reuben Gray, brothers, and noted Kentucky desperadoes, have been captured at Bardwell, and are held for the murder of J. H. Borden in March, 1894. Customs inspectors at Laredo, Texas, found an unclaimed valise on a train with $200,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and other valuables in it. It is believed it was stolen by an American from a Spanish officer. Mrs. Richard Milliken, widow of the wealthy New Orleans sugar planter, has presented the Charity Hospital with $75,000 to found a children’s building, which will include a kindergarten and other improvements. The $200,000 valise seized by customs officers at Laredo, Texas, belongs to Senor Pedro Trueba of Vanegas, Mexico. Oh returning from a journey Aug. 9 he handed it to a Mexican whom he mistook in the dark for one of his servants.

FOREIGN.

Barril, the anarchist who shot the Barcelona police officials, has been sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment. The meeting of the Constitutional convention of Cuba, which was to have met at Camaguey, has been postponed. It is announced on good authority that the Spanish Ministry will go out within two weeks and will be succeeded by a Liberal Cabinet headed by Senor Sagasta. It is reported at Janirud that the haddah mullah has gone to his home and that his followers have dispersed, because the Halimzai Mohmands refused to join in the uprising. ‘r —■ The Colombian Government, it is reported, has transferred to the Government of Great Britain the franchise for the completion of the Panama Canal, abandoned by the French. The crisis in the grain trade in Southern Russia has been enhanced by the influx of a half score of Hungarian commissioners, who are purchasing wheat at any price at which they can obtain it. Premier Ascarraga denies having written to tbe leaders of the political parties saying that the Government at Havana would prefer war with the United States to the intervention of that country in the affairs of Cuba. Consul Monoghan, at Chemnitz, has informed the State Department that Germany is steadily increasing her trade with Mexico, and that for 1896 it amounted to more than in 1895, -when it was 16,300,000 marks. Sempan, the anarchist who shot Barcelona police officials, was retried by the court martial and sentenced to death. It is expected the supreme council of war will annul this and indorse the former sentence of forty years’ imprisonment. The admirals in command of the fleets of the powers in Cretan waters have decided to raise the blockade of the island, the cause necessitating the blockade hav-

ing disappeared and the insurgents having accepted the autonomous form of government. A dispatch from London says: “A panic is spreading throughout Ireland over the terrible prospect of the apparently complete failuraof the harvest. Reports from 110 parish priests from counties Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Antrim, Armagh, Cavan/ Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone, all tell the same piteous story of ruined crops, impending destitution and famine,” The Hawaiian annexationists are very much worried over "the difficulty of an alleged attempt on the part of the anti-an-nexationists to influence Senators Morgan jand Quay who are there on a tour of investigation. They say that Senators White of California and Thurston of Nebraska, who will lead the fight against annexation in Congress this winter, will also visit Hawaii and attend the mass meeting of natives, which, it is alleged by the annexationists, has been called for the purpose of convincing Morgan and Quay that the natives bitterly oppose annexation. It is stated that Senators White and Thurston will superintend the drafting of a monster petition to Congress, in which the Hawaiians will assert that the government was torn from them through the action of American Minister Stevens. It is also alleged that the mass meeting will be conducted entirely by Hawaiians, and will be made as dramatic as possible. The idea is to work, upon the sympathies of Senator Morgan and to persuade him, if possible, that the natives have been deprived of lands and power by a handful of rich and powerful whites, backed by a treacherous American minister. It is believed that ex-Queen Liliuokalani may arrive on the same steamer as the Senators, and that she will address the people at the mass meeting.

IN GENERAL.

At Toronto, Ont., Ware defeated Lefoy 6—2 and 6—4 in the tennis tournament. The American Society of Professors of Dancing has declared that waltzing is romping and not to be permitted longer in well-conducted ballrooms. Carrier pigeons have again been used successfully in transmitting messages from the North Atlantic squadron, fifty miles from Norfolk, to the navy yard at that place. A company is being organized in San Francisco and will be incorporated under the laws of Arizona which has for its object the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from tidewater on Prince William Sound up the valley of the much-talked-of Copper river, and thence across the divide to a point on the Yukon River near the boundary line. The name of the company will be the Alaska Central Railway Company, and its capital stock $5,000,000. The promoter of the enterprise is Col. John Underwood, a former extensive railroad contractor. Associated with him, he says, are Elijah Smith of New York, the controlling spirit of the Oregon Improvement Company, and John W. Cudahy and P. D. Armour, the Chicago packers, and one or two local capitalists. The proposed road will be about 322 miles long. Senator Perkins and Capt. Goodall are mentioned as possible members of the Board of Directors. The news by the steamer National City from St. Michael’s corroborates all thathas been said of the prospects of short rations in the Alaska gold diggings of the upper river during the winter. The steamer, which connected with the river steamer J. J. Healy-at the mouth of the river, brought three passengers into Eureka, Cal. One of these is J. A. Ralston, of 214 McCallister street, San Francisco. He says there is gold and lots of it in the Klondike, but it is mostly still in the ground. It is believed that the claims now located could turn out fifty tons this winter if the scarcity of food did not prevent full operations. He gives a rough guess that the Klondike is good for $250,000,000 before petering out. Six thousand men in the mines about Dawson City is the estimate of Ralston. The supply of the necessaries of life to feed these men, he says, is totally insufficient. In fact, he estimates that the stores will be exhausted before the winter is half over, when the famine will be on in earnest, -and especially as the number of men in the country will be greatly augmented by the later arrivals over the passes, There is whisky, beer and all kinds of liquor in profusion, he says. It is not that the men in the country have not money to buy supplies, but that the stocks of the stores are inadequate. Ralston says that one of the best claims on El Dorado is the property of James Hallack, of Missouri. It will turn out at least $1,000,000. Claim No. 12 on El Dorado is also very rich. It is no uncommon thing to take out two ounces to the pan from any part of the claim.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle common to prime, 7 $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grides, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 98c to 99c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 16c to 18c; eggs, ffesh, 12c to 13c; new potatoes, 50c to 60c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,96 cto 98c; corn, , No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. , St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, SI.OO to $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 „to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,97 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed; 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.00; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 50c to 52c. Toledo— : Wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; Oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; clover seed, $3.75 to $3.80. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 97c to 99c; corn, No. 3,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 1,51 cto 53c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 47c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 re(l, $1.03 t 051.04; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.06; corn, No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 12c to 19c; eggs, Western, 15c to 17c.

STRIKERS ARE SHOT

Marching Miners Brutally Slain by Deputies. OVER A SCORE KILLED t 1 I —; -4 >— Dead and Dying Coal Delvers Fall Like Ten Pins. Outskirts of the Little Town of Lati* mer, in the Great Pennsylvania Coal District, the Scene of a Bloody Slaughter—Shooting Held to Have Been Without Provocation and Revengeful Cries Arise—Troops Are Called Out to Preserve Order. Twenty-two strikers were killed, thirteen fatally injured and between sixty and seventy more or less injured near Hazleton, Pa., Friday, by deputy sheriffs under command of Sheriff Martin, and, the dispatches say, without sufficient provocation to -warrant even a clubbing. The entire region is wildly excited over the affair, and citizens of all classes are talking of what they consider a terrible outrage. An indignation meeting was held, at night, and Governor Hastings has bten asked to order an investigation, and in the meantime to place the command of the deputies in other hands than those of Sheriff Martin. The citizens also ask that the deputy sheriffs concerned in the affair be discharged! from all authority and disarmed. They say the local police force is quite competent to take care of the strikers if any disturbance occurs. Governor Hastings calk'd out the Third Brigade of the State militia in order to prevent further bloodshed. Following their general custom, rhe strikers assembled Friday morning and marched to the Hazle mines. The men were at wqrk there, but were forced to quit. From there the march -was taken up to Latimer. The men walked without any special organization, much as any body of men would traverse a road. They were elated by their success in driving out the men at the Hazle mines and th<eir feeling of jubilation, combined with their antipathy for the operators, had somewhat aroused them. The road the men traversed was the public highway. As they reached the outskirts of the mining village of Latimer the marchers were met by a crowd of deputies, under Sheriff Martin. They were the usual kind of deputies, men and boys out of work. The strikers were ordered to halt. Being on a public highway the strikers refused. With little ceremony they kept walking, muttering imprecations on the men with rifles. Firing Is Begun. Sudenly one of the special officers raised his rifle and fired point blank at the miners. It was the signal for a fusillade. The men and boys who were wearing the steel badges of deputies fired volley after volley into the marchers. Several fell dead at the first volley. The horrified cries of the miners could not drown the steady “crack,” “crack” of the rifles. The miners, stood terrified for a moment, the leaden balls mowing down their comrades. A few shots | were fired back. Then, yelling and crying, they broke and ran for the woods. The scatter of the marchers did not stop the firing. As they fled in terror the deputies spread out, each one seemingly picking his nian, and shot the fleeing men. The strikers staggered and fell in every direction. Bodies of the killed lay here and there on the road and in the ditches. Piteous cries in foreign tongues came from the injured, some of whom were vainly trying to crawl to shelter. Pleadings to the deputies to cease firing mingled with the cursings of the less injured, The injured in the woods crawled away to safety. When the deputies has exhausted the magazines of their rifles they ceased firing and some turned their attention to the wounded and carried many of them to places w’here they could be more comfortably treated. The deputies seemed to be terror-stricken at the deadly execution of their.guns. The people of Latimer rushed pell-mell to the scene, but the shrieks of the wounded drowned the cries of the sympathizing and half-crazed inhabitants. As soon as the news of the shooting reached Hazleton there was consternation. Within ten minutes the streets were blocked with excited people. Trolley cars on the line were sent to the scene of the killing, and doctors and clergymen responded promptly. Along the bank of the trolley road men lay in every position; some dead, others dying. Three bodies, face dowmward, lay along the incline, and three others were but a short distance away. On the other side of the road as many more bodies lay. The schoolhouse was transformed into a temporary hospital, and some of the wounded w T ere taken th’ere. The colli ?ry ambulance was summoned to the place as soon as possible, and upon its arrival wounded men were loaded into the wagon. All along the hillside wounded were found on the roadside and in the fields. Many others who had been carried to a distance could not,be found. One of the strikers, In his dying statement said that there were no weapons of any kind among the marchers, for before leaving Harwood on the tramp across the mountain a meeting was held and resolutions passed forbidding any person to carry weapons. This fact was verified by not finding any weapons on those who were killed or wounded. The dead were searched and no weapons were found on them. Sheriff Martin in a detailed statement of the affair admits that he gave the command to fire.

Told in a Few Lines.

Prince Bismarck is suffering from neuralgia of the face. Robert A. Magee, a bachelor farmer who lives near St. Matthias, Minn., was robbed of $1,500. At the meeting of the BoardsoX Directors of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company A. L. Mohler was elected president. Three tramps who were stealing a ride were fatally injured in the wreck of a St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train near St. Louis. •

PERISH IN A WRECK.

Twenty-five mangled andBURNED IN COLORADO. Awful Head-End Collision Occurs. Between Passenger and Freight Trains Some Victims Caught in Debris and Roasted to Death. Collided on a Curve. The most disastrous railway wreck that has ever happened in Colorado occurred Friday morning a mile and a half west of Newcastle. A Denver and RioGrande passenger train, west bound, collided with a Colorado Midland stock train going east, wrecking both enginesand several cars in both trains. Shortly after the collision fire broke oat in the ruins. The mail, baggage and express cars, smoker, day coach and sleeper were burned. A number of passengers whowere not killed outright but who were pinned in the wreckage and could not be extricated perished in the flames. There were about 200 passengers. It is estimated that twenty-five persons were killed and as many more bruised, scalded and burned, of whom at least six are likely to die of their injuries. The accident occurred at the worst possible point; Two minutes later the engineers could have avoided the wreck, as each could have seen the approach of the other’s train. The trains collided on a curve or bend round a mountain, and there was no opportunity to avoid thewreck or even to slacken speed. The surviving trainmen say the trains were not running fast, but the fact seems to be that both the passenger and freight were going at full speed—about twenty miles an hour for the passenger and the freight ten or twelve. The Rio Grande Junction Road, on which the wreck occurred, is a joint track operated by the Denver'and Rio Grande and Colorado Midland companies. It is a single standard gauge track seventyseven miles long, running from Newcastleto Grand Junction, connecting the two roads with the Rio Grande Western. Theroad is on the west bank of the Grand River and nearly all the way are nigh bluffs on one side of the track and thestream on the other, it being from fifteen to twenty feet below the track. Reported Cause of the Accident. One report as to the cause of the accident is to the effect that Conductor Burbank of the Colorado Midland stock train made a mistake of ten minutes in figuring on the time when the Rio Grande passenger train passed Newcastle, and that therefore he was chiefly responsible for the disaster. Engineer Ostrander of the stock train could either confirm or deny this report if he were alive, The passengers in the day coach fared the worst. Out of twenty-nine people ia that coach only six are now known to have escaped. As in all similar accidents, the engine men were first to lose their lives. Engineer Ostrander went down with his hands on the lever. Robert Holland, fireman on the passenger, was so badly hurt that he died. Engineer Gordon of the passenger may live, although he is badly injured and at first was thought to be fatally hurt. He was thrown over a barb-wire fence by the force of the collision. Hines, _the_Midland fireman, was so badly hurt that the doctors who examined him said he could not recover. He was shockingly burned. James Keenan, the postal clerk, will not live. He was terribly scalded. Two express messengers on the Rio Grande train saved their lives, but their escape was a thrilling one. The express car of the wrecked passenger train was enturely consumed, with its contents.

FAILED IN THE ATTEMPT.

Peter McNally, the Boston Swimmer, Couldn’t Cross the English Channel. Peter S. McNally, the Boston swimmer who made an attempt to swim the English channel, was in the water fifteen hours, in which time he covered thirtyfive miles. McNally suffered severely, the swelling of his hands giving him great trouble, while from time to time he was seized with cramps in his legs, neck and arms, causing a drawn, haggard look about his face. At last he became unconscious and was forcibly dragged into a boat three miles from shore. He quickly recovered from his exhaustion. In an in-

PETER S. M’NALLY.

terview he said: “I discovered that the channel was really much longer than I thought, and found the currents to be all that Boyton, Webb and others told me. I am of the opinion that it is impossible for any cne to swim from Dover to Calais, as the currents would all be against him. I shall make no more attempts this year.” Besides being the best swimmer in New England, if not in the country, McNally has a wonderful record as a life saver. His feats in this direction have won for him the highest recognition of the Massachusetts Humane Society and of the United States Government. Since 1872 McNally has probably saved more than' 100 lives; he cannot himself tell how, many.

Notes of Current Events.

President Barrios of Guatemala was educated in this country and is a gradu* ate of Yale. Premier Azcarraga has failed in his efforts to reunite the warring sections of the Conservative party. Bert Walker, a school teacher of Decatur, Ind., maddened by insane jealousy, shot and instantly killed his wife. Aristocratic residents of Lenox are anticipating pleasurably the contemplated visit of Prince Alexander George, youngMt son of the Duke and Duchess of