Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 November 1903 — Page 2

aoent, W. R I"ubilitshor, e—— -— WALKERTON, . - - INDIANA. S T Y7 YN ¥ N XL EVENTS OF THE WEEK District Attorney Lichtenwalner, at Allentown. Pa., caused the issuance of warrants charging Mes. Catherine Rech tel, Myrtha, Charles and John Bechtel and Aleis Eckstein with heing necessories before the fact of dhe murder of Mubel Bechtel. A car on the Missouri Pacific fast mail train from St. Louis caught fire en route and was conswred with its contents. twenty tons of wecond and third class mail. The ecar was detached from the rest of the train aud noene of the other cars was damaged, A telegram has been received from the Viceroy of India. Lord Curzon, saying that, according to reports received at Madras, a flooll in ithe .Palar river de- " SORRE TS S S SRV e 5 ,')é"f;;. T > AR AT . on actouit of keek of hay R RIS, b e ~ them, says Charles McAlister, a sheep raiser f eastern Washington. The latest mail steamer from the coast of Labrador brings no report of the party headed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.. of New York, which started from Rigolet. Labrador, Aug. 1, to explore the interior of Labrador. The coast is blocked with ice floes and snowstorms have covered the country with snow to a depth of fit teen feet. Effie Frankenficld, 24 vears old, died in Tiffin, Ohio, from poison, the symptoms of which were that produced by morphine. Whether her death was the result of accident, suicide’ or murder is a matter of conjecture, She and her suitor, Rollo Kirchner, were found in a room at her boarding house, overcome by the effects of the drug. Mrs. Caroline Quantrell died at the Ohio I. O. O. . home in Springfield, at the age of SO years, She had been at the home three years, coming from eastern Ohio. She was the mo#®ier of the notorious guerrilla leader, Col. Quantrell. who with a band of border ruflians burned and pillaged Lawrence, Kan.. Auvg. 23, 1863, when 183 persons were killed. BREVITIES, The smallpox epidemic at Philadelphia is alarming. The private bank at Ravia, 1.1., was robbed of $5,000. Forty-three head of horses perished in a fire at Windsor, Mo., which caused a total damage of £20,000. Fire caused $£50,000 damage in the pattern department of tle Kokon iron works in West St. Louis. Two hundred and fifty men in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Harrisburg, Pa.. suffered a reduction of 10 per cent. John W. Duke was found guilty of embezzlement at Portsmouth. Ohio. He WasNecretary of the Royal Building and Loan Association. The lmber mills of Frank Hitch & Sons and the Rowland Lumber Company, at Norfolk, Va., were destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $30,000. The Leonard Baulle Shoe Case Company’s factory at Minneapolis, Minn., together with a warehouse and four dwellings., were burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Fire which started in the Clark block in Batavig, N. Y., did $£20.000 damage. A shirt factory, chemical company, drug store and jeweler's shop were destroyed. The remains of M. M. Johnson, a prominent mining man, have been found in a deserted cabin near Saltete, Mont. A bullet hole in the breast indicates that he had been murdered. Abraham Custer was fatally injured during a fire at R. Herksher & Sons’ fur- | naces at Norristown, Pa. .Joseph \':m‘ Dusky was badly burned. 'The loss isj estimated at $50,C00. | The steamer Secotia arrived in Point | Arenas, Cal., with five of the crew of the French bark Francois Koppe. which was wrecked near PPoint Reyes. Thirteen of the crew are unaccounted for. Under direction of United States Smr' ator W. A, Clark, the directors of the ! Paul Clark home, established by a son | of the Senator, have opened a free-soup house to the destitute of Butte. | Young Corbett and Eddie Hanlon have | been matehell to fight in San Francisco Dec. 20. 'The men will meet at 129 pounds for the featherweight championship of the world, the battle to be twenty rounds. The hotel conducted by Mrs. Georgia Lloyd at Glens Ferry, ldaho, was destroyed by fire and it is feared one or more of the guests lost their lives. The building centained thirty rooms, which were pearly all occupied. is nnder arrest in Portland, Ore., charged st icbe v rahbory. He has a bank “; };n?;:‘;;"r \“?‘"W*“? e S 1 elieved he had three aliases, and is im- } | Jicated in many holdups. | The Rome correspondent of the Lonlon Daily Mail says that during the conorence at Windsor between King Victor Jmmannel and King Edward a permaent Anglo-Italian arbitration treaty was ipproved by both monarchs. (Charges of cruelty to insane pmiunrs‘ n the Manhattan State hospital on Ward's Island, in New York, are made by Miss Elizabeth Knauss of Waterloo, who has just returned after spending two weeks as an attendant in that institution. The Sultan of Turkey has a eancer on hia intestines, but is in no immediate danger and can drag on a painful exist- \ ence for two or three years. His aggra- l vated ¢ondition recently brought on by extra exertions, eaused him to call in a ‘ Mnnich doctor, who advised lim to have an operation performed, but he l“‘fnswi.‘ Princess Alice, wife of Prince [reder : ick of Schoenberg-Waldenburg, has eloped with her coachman. News of the elopement has just become publie, f‘l' though it occurred two weeks ago. The police are in pursuit, but have not learn- | ed the whereabouts of the couple. Fire broke ount in the Park TIH'MN" building in Butler, Pa., and property vilued at $300,000 was destroyed. The falling walls buried a number of fi)'miwn t under a mass of bricks and burning tim ber. and Chief Jacob Burckholder, Frank | Ziegler. Charles Douglass and .\”'N'T] Walters were serionsly injured. | Lillie Belle Pierce lost her suit against | the estate of the late Col, Luther E. Imboden of St. Louis, the jury declaring that she was not the wife of Col. Imboden. Miss Pierce sought to establish her claim as the common law widow of Imboden, intending if successful to bring suit to secure the widow’s share of the estate

BEASTERN. | Because of o cut of 7 evnts on each ten yards of wilk woven 230 girls struek Im the Duplin silk mill, Hazleton, Py . After & hitter dehate the i\'m'-rivnn Federation of Labop, in convention at Boston, defeated a resolution pledging it to socinlism. - Anunie Eagan, 24 ¥ears old, formerly of - Chicago, committed suicide and killed her 17-wionth-old ¢hilkd at Brooklyn by leaving open a gas fixture. : "‘h" i'l:\lll of 4he ,\t‘\\' l"l'(‘miulll \Vi!‘(‘ Cioth Company, a short distance from Yok, Pa., was destroyed by fire, The loss is 875,000, partly insured. A priest placed the ban on Miss Helen Gould’s sewing school at Tarrytown, N. Y., because Roman Catholie children ate meat sandwiches at a session on Friday. Fire destroyed the double building occupied by the Lancaster, Pa., Silver Plate Company. The company’s loss is $35.000. Other losses will reach about $35,000. Three persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the power house of the sanitarium at Markleton, near Somerset, Pa. 1t is not knowu how the ndlinaieibgton, was fined S2O ot | : A the PReRALCE ‘ ‘. Ry performed in I’hiladelphia, in order to avoid interference from the New York authorities, and is expected to prove successful, Train wreckers caused the wreck: of the Doylestowa local on the Philadelphin and Reading Railrond near Gwynedd, a ‘snlmrh of Philadelphia, in which two - persons were killed and nearly twenty Cinjured. ; Rather than go to the hospital, Paul Millington, aged 12, of Chestertown. N. Y., went into the barn, and placing a dynamite cartridge on a stone struck it with a hammer. His head was nearly blown off, William ' \ anderbilt Kissam, nephew of the late Mrs. William . Vanderbilt, was found dead in a chair in a sitting room in the Planters’ Hotel, a cheap lodging in Newark, N. J. Death was due to heart trouble. Two disasters are reported from Pennsylvania. At Dunbar eleven are known to have died in a mine explosion, and at Johnstown twenty-eight railroad men suffered cremation rather than sacrifice their hoarded savings. A silent organ in the lodgings occupied by Hart P. Danks, the musical composer, in Philadelphia, led to the discovery that he was dead. He was 79 years of age and had a national reputation as a singer and song writer. Two persons were killed and fully a dozen injured by a collision of Brooklyn Rapid Transit elevated trains. ire destroyed the wrecked cars, and the paniestricken passengers jumped amnd clambered from the elevated structure to the ground, | WESTERN. | Wilberforce University, a school fnrj colored pupils at Springfield, Ohio, \\'usl damaged SIO,OOO by fire. Superintendent MeCormack and M. H. 1 Beck were killed in the Vindicator miue‘ at. Cripple Creek “'~a L~ “*~ explosion | of an infernal 1 ET— gzl General Franecis Marion Drake, for mer governor of lowa, died of diabetes after a brief illness at Centerville, lowa. He leaves a large estate. Theodore Hayes, aged 13, of St. Joseph, Mo., is alleged to have fired a bullet into the brain of his 3-year-old brother because the infant annoyed him by erying. The Wisconsin Supreme Conrt has decided that the Milwaukee city eclerk may make his own appointments, ilwrnh_\'i striking a severe blow to the civii service law. ‘ Thirty-one men are Kkilled, fourteen injured and three missing as the rvsn!ti of a collision between freight and work trains on the Big Four Railroad near Tremont, lil. The Indiana National Bank of Elk- | hart has been closed by the i'umpn'n’:!ori of the Currency. National Bank Examiner C. H. Bosworth has been directed | to take charge of the bank. }

I R«‘)bln‘rs blew open the outer safe and partially wrpecked the building of the l Bank of Raymond, Neb., but were unable to gain access to the safe. They ' departed without getting any money, District Attorney W. H. Bennett has | started a graft investigation at Milwauikee aimed at members of the City i Council, city officials and members of the i Legislature and a grand jury is at work probing. Mine No. 8, of the Sunday Creek Coal Company, near Corning, Ohlio, has been set on fire, and it has been sealed up to stay the flames. The tipple and adjoining buildings have been destroyed. The loss will exceed 850,000, Judges and lawyers of Chicago took part in commemorating the fortieth anni_versary of Judge Joseph E. Gary's accession to the bench. Judge Gary presided at the trial of the anarchists and at the famous Leutgert case. : ~_The MecCormick Harvesting Machine Company has announced that it will preBONT 10 TR e agked for it for five vears stock in the Inter-| national Harvester Company equal to 5 per cent of the total wages earned. About 3.000 miles of Missouri Pacific track in southeastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri are without a section laborer except the foremen. The men quit work voluntarily upon receipt of the announcement of a cut in their wages. Edward Dubsky, 24 years old, walked to the rear of his saloon, 4802 ILoomis street, Chicago, and shot himself in the head, dying instantly. Neither Mrs. Dubsky nor any of her friends could furnish a possible motive for the suicide. In Youngstown, Ohio, the casing in the Wilson avenue sewer gave way and buried six workmen under ten feet of sand and gravel. Martin Timlin and Raphael Chillo were killed. John Massero's legg were broken and his condition is ; critical. | Largely through the efforts of Senator Dolliver of lowa, Nathan . Haworth, sentenced to death in Salt Lake, Utal, for murder, was shown to be innocent and will be pardoned. He was to he shot Dec. 12. Haworth was born near Des Moines, Towa. Tom Horn, long renowned as a scout and Indian fighter, friend of Gen. Miles and Buffalo Bill, and one of the most noted figures of the mountains and the plaing, was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyo., for the murder of Willie Nickell, a 15-vear-old sheep herder. In a panic in the Roman Catholic Church at La Puente, Rio Arriba Countv. N. M., caused by a wax taper setting fire to the altar trimmings, two ckildren were trampled to death and fifty adulfs were hurt, having ribs and ankles broken or otherwis~ injured. Frank Siegel. former president of the defunct Siegel-Sanders Live Stock Comt mission Company, charged with embaz-

L‘d'.ng §4,000 of the funds of that company, was acquitted by the jury in the criminal court in Kansas City. This is ! the second acquittal of Siegel. I The Supreme Court of Nebraska has [issued a writ of mandamus against the l teacher of district school No. 21, in Gage County, ordering her net to read the ‘ Bible to her pupils. The court decided s that sectarian knowledge should not be l imparted in the public schools. ; Miss Nellie Mecllenry, leading lady, was seriously burned during the third act of *“M’liss” at Krug’s Theater in Omaha. Her turn was to rescue a schoolmaster from a burning school house. In ((lropping through the roof her skirts caught fire, and a real rescue by the leading man followed. An alleged attempt to wreck a passenger train with miners returning from work by removing the spikes and fish plates from a rail on the Klorence and Cripple Creek Railroad in Eclipse Guleh, Colo., was frustrated. The engineer received warning and stopped his train be[r'm'v reaching the spot, With the Chicago flyer due at that ‘;poiut in ten minutes the big Pere Mar ‘guette Railroad bridge spanning the river at Lee, Mich., was discovered on Jize. Sectigmen with < the aid of a aangear Statloned a danger signal just ‘as the Chicago-l ound train n;aahred a in a feather bed and lay down with his nostrils close to the opening whence deadly fumes escaped into his. mother’s home in Columbus, Ohio. He accomBlished suicide by the double method of ‘inlm)ntinn of gas and of cremation. InIvi«ivnmll_\' he caused the house to be i blown up and his mother, aged SO years, Iln be fatally burned. Bearing twenty-one stiletto wounds, the frozen body of Salvador Battalia was i(‘mnnl lying in a pool of blood on the IPranklin avenue bridge in Minneapolis. ['l'i..-w is no clew to the murderer. That robbery was not the motive is clear from the faet that about $65 was found untouched in his pockets, while a loaded revolver in the hip pocket showed that he had been struck down from behind without a chance to defend himself. The postofice and general store at Loweyville, Ohio, was entered and the store completely ransacked. Stamps, lumnc-_\‘ and merchandise to the extent of nearly 81,000 was taken. The office of the MeComb Elevator Company was entered and the safe blown open with dynamite and a small amount of money and some valuable papers were taken. The bandits then went to Belmore, where they broke into the saloon of Thomas Thirts and ransacked the place. FOREIGN. ‘ Henry Seton Merrisaan (ITugh Sto-‘\\'(-H Neott), the English novelist, is dead. | He had been suffering from appendicitis for a week. | Phe story comes from Skiernewice that the Czar's nicce died from poison and that an attempt was made to poison the whole Russian royval family. Mussulmans in the district of KirkKilisch have burned five Bulgzarian villages in revenge for an attack made by the Bulgzarians on the Mussulman village of Zarasa. The visit of King Vietor and Queen Helena of Italy to Englagd euded with a banquet at Windsor (astle 1o vhrhii™ six guests; friendship with Edgland is believed strengthened, Troops under Gen. Leonard Wood have slain 300 Moros and wonnded many others in a battle lasting five davs, the Americans having been lod into an ambush by trescherous natives, Large numbers of Russians are preparing to emigrate to America. The emigration from all parts of Russia has been greatly increased of late by rosy letters received from former emigrants. The anecient castle of the Kings of Spain is to be brought up to date with sanitary plumbing and gravitold walks lemding to the chicken honxe and stables. gecording to a dispatel from the United States wiinister L Madrid an unknown man fired throe times with a revolver at Senor Briesta, one of King Alfonse’s tutors. The tutor wias slightly wounded. The attempt on the tutor's life is believed te have been the onteome of a private guarrel Guieseppe Fratelif, head of the Mafia tn Mexico, who was exiled from Italy and has participated in plots against many crowned heads in Fuarope, has left for England The London authorities were warned of a plot agaiust the life of King Victor Emmannel of Italy King Edward for the second time in his brief reign has been robbed by a clerk in the office of the pavmaster of the household On this oceasion checks amounting to $2.500 were illogally drawn and eashed by Frank Lanham, who confessed and was committed for trial

The Lebaudy air ship, on descending at Meudon, France, struck a tree and blew up. The whole air ship was destroyed, but the occupvints, a pilot and an engineer, were uninjured. M. Lebaundy was not on board. The air ship was the one that made the recent remiirkable flight from Moisson to Faris, ; l!: has come to light that two of four ‘murderers who were garroted at Amalag, province of Cagayan, Philippines, Oct. 31 and who were declared to be dead arc f,t in he garrote eight minutes and afterwaf heir supposed lifeless bodies were placed n a church. Three of them later showed | signs of life. Two were resuscitated, but | the third died. Colombia has sent a virtual ultimatum o America, declaring she will consider t time to terminate diplomatic relations anless the United States withdraws her recognition of Panama and sigunifies her willingness to allow an attempt at reconquest. The canal treaty has Dbeen siened by Secretary Hay and M. BunauVarilla and can be ratified by the isthmian commission recently arrived without reference to 'anama. IN GENERAL. The W. C. T. U. convention asks Conoress to propose a constitutional amendment forever prohibiting polyzamy, and requests the Senate to exclude Reed Smoot. Orders are more numerous in many branches of business, according to Dun’s review: railroad earnings 6.1 over 1902; trade stimulated by cold, according to Bradstreet's. By reason of a trade agreement that has just been reached, there now exists what is to all purposes a world-wide electrical trust. The largest three electrical corporations in the world, the General Electric of America, and the leading two (German concerns, have reduced competition to an impossibility. There was a terrific explosion in the United Factories Building at Newmarket, Ont.,, which was attended with a laree loss of life. Three steam boilers, all connected and used for motive power, exploded, completely wrecking the large puilding where 250 men were working. Jire broke out and there is a panic in the towil.

CHICAGt} AR AG(E BOR WAR! e \1 ; i ng; ;ND DEE:DER FEATURES HE SEST.CAR TIE-UP. l; g | G:f"_t I?enunc .ty Mass Meeting of ‘ | | Jnionists I _Attempt to Open I‘ :t-nte Str‘eet / ble Liine Mrcrets with i‘ iolent Reski,ss by Mob. : m:“l:iil'\-ug.(.)“:ilis teh: “}‘izlilg tIn(:“.»\l(in-r-\ the slagans M the (n_\; llull,. were | street - ¢ap\ i} the 15,000 l'luvzrgu l ing tvede \ lk_m‘s and e;_ymp:nlnw great atdiid msts” who lillw‘l lhel afternocllc \.a‘_t\-l ‘;lt‘(orsn.ll: bund:k\i it i X ats, denunclia 10NSs a1 :‘:’:;l,l:_fuefi 4 tll't,? uir.‘ '.‘\lilt"l:ln(‘ll Mayo.'s. na & and “‘thieves, t_hu | department S issed and the I»<fhce and deatli s P.“l.jt‘e(]; obloquy, prison o fha m“’” u-rge(l i‘m_’ all concerned Thia ek % franchises. Rainsdiste o ml(iptml «ic‘\m:'nulml ihe the teactl ing ui’ .m-gul1:111(»115”“1!11 the polics mpanies, the l‘cl"\)?dl Qf rancadice. » the cars, the .('l"‘l.\‘“}‘r? of e linesa' ":‘"”"”"‘l"_‘l10“.“MN“["-M Railwav¥ pe l'p}"'\" e .lhe th‘y . oy s-rom the streets if be[“‘""‘“ ~lot given at once. A rio’ ) Qundred men, \\'().ll » -15”{‘ R ()(;curred of wagons e took ]nn't. W ; to the barns, v Saturday. aw stables, shot' 010 intercept a number‘ counstuble v er oscort, conveying food badly cut.’ harged the police and coners and ms: ng and throwing stones. A but refrair struck on the head and were Pugl te police drew their revolvthemselves a stand about the wagons, ously wreck 'Om shooting. The rioters barns. Fen back and consoled Sensation - burning a wagon previhad been m in the vicinity of the ' Wentworth in:lmitc caps amors that an attempt i railroad sign to \x‘in\\' up cars on the | rail were as e line by means nt‘. dy- ' namite, j Hved groundless. Three : P .’\i tnl:lw‘i-‘uws‘t':\s:vnml to tl‘nw

- On Mor %irst believed to contain dy police, fiyi: < windows, 1. ice Use Revolvers. j a number 1¥ shots were fired by the tween #5 sticks and stones shattered and a Dy persons were clubbed and | ¢ the (1 ere arrested in clashes bestarted wd of strike sympathizers on its '-g‘{nrce of patrolmen when The . City Railway Company came a, . under heavy police guard State stre - Street cable line. ing revoly serious outhreak of disorder |the air g orty-first street ns the first - pounding 't ear passed, the police draw- [ left. “ers nnd firing a dozen shots in K few) ‘8 fiey charged the throng. Etacked : with their clubs to right and endeavo L the stril ig\\%tes later and the police at- - street. , pwber of strikers who were hallway wing» get off the street and into falling I e 'adquarters at 3856 State . VWhile | Thinen were clubbed into the tional P, %gy up the stairs, a number executive o syul and bleeding. ployes ”‘d‘i tldisorder prevailed Internatiss waitip -e‘t]t Mahon of the unien, the reply tow” pittee of the striking emby the yl A tlorneys Parrow and Pren- | i ‘\,s% ‘to receive the company’s that the & weace propositions advanced ed. They » agreement o and Mr. Darrow nsserted L Mion was not »\:;imiiy cloudTee s garded an opinien that bay by Afm come soono. America aont Two of a Mob, Front a ep-union workmen, brought to the crov a handred strikers near the gnion n. @ Hide and Leather tannery, the. sivii nd Sangamon streets, fired into tacked t 4. wounding twe men. The nonThe two '8 bad applied for work, when turned, ters and their sympathizers as desnarst,. e, throwing stones and sticks

MrEpTaaLY s foll at t men fed at first, but afterward | Embolde faced their pursuers and fired | anion 1o ssly into the crowd. Two men firing e he first shots, serionsly injured. | rau. aed by their success, the non l op advanesd toward the crowd. ipidly. The rioters broke and tl Americ: st i i 5 KiLl 300 MOROCS. 4\n . l = 228 > in Jolo } sin Jola Crush Army nf\ det Clin Rebela in Battle, gents & wsult of five days’ severe fighting been kil etween the American troops unoff dead . Leonard Wood and the insur | of the ¥ % Moros are known to have | ican pfi, ed and many others were earried i Gen, or wounded. Maj. H. L. Scott Jolo on ourteenth cavalry and five Amer- | located. sates were wounded. g and con! Wood landed near Siet Lake in | Masj. {k(\\‘. 12. 'The Moros were snnn! sen, the and fighting began immediately | A prison inwed until Nov, 17. 1 sen ask: Seott was taking Panglima Hasily. Hi sloro leader, who had been taken thereupo {. to Jolo. While en ronte Hascade, wi Ito be allowed to see his famwas firec ,tiappe:\i.wns grauted, and he both har a led Maj. Scott into an ambus& ing duri % the American detachment supposed ‘&?On Maj. Scott was shot in ing day. 5. Hassen succeeded in escapThe * 'z this unexpected attack, but is covered to have been killed the followMoros N from Sig ating took place in a country had wmad %‘ith swamps and rocks. The 08 rep vere driven across the country L e Lis headauarters. and where it

Ahe Tt A1 T allyy e sank by ggrted the" e 0000 cupied t_ ° ' fifty k\l’,fi position was attacked in the | a small 1o American troops, which oethe_ Mor,e town and inflicted a loss of f"h‘“h fltd on the Moros. Hassen, with ng Se";Part_\-, surrendered. The rest of Nov. Yig went into the swamps, onut of the attiey were driven on Nov. 16, leav- ‘ whom flitv six dead behind them. On| The | the American forces n\nm\'cd‘ d("StPOS k on the remaining Moros, of Wood, sty more were killed. there Weehel forces have been literally “'Md‘kd by these operations by Gen. GIVESS"hO says the iiiiii(r:ltinns are t'hn! ill be no extension of the uprising, ] . 5 Y O il ¥ Prellfi’ handled ‘jl_}l_\_),m__‘.h_tzl_ 11: - i

Pre . IGURES ON EXPOSITION. natior f(:’ Carter Furnishes Details of I‘\u‘(‘.h y ‘'rogress at St. Louis. Presic yupt Thomas H. Carter of the pendif " .ommission of the Louisiana 000, rie Exposition has submitted to fronf 4t Roosevelt a statement of ext!‘e tes and progress with the $15,tion ‘ gppropriation to the exposition ‘)851': (e United States, St. Louis and’ 096" position <_i)1111)‘111), in equal propor T eipts to Sept. 30 were $10,386,cernf and the disbursements $10,154,- | §tru , leaving a balance of $232 888.81. ing & statement gives full details conbuilgs the purchases made and con of ion work done, separate figures be and iven upon the cost of cach of the and |;;gs erected. Besides the exhibits reprée government and various socicties P‘pdnstries. fifty States and territories far {orty-three foreign countries will be erihsented. esident Carter says the results will £urpass the expectations of the govent and people.

DEATH ON THz RAIL Nunber of Persons Ki!led During Year | | ; . Put at 3,54, l:hf_rznlrnm]s of the (Ihited States killed 3,554 persons and piured 45,977 dur- | Ing the year ending Jype 30, 1903. The | ; total l.mlnlwr :)f casgalties, 49,531, cost | the |':nh-n:ul.\'. »t».;»m;. )77 property loss, as l compared \\"Illl $T.645.406 for the previ- ‘ 1 ous year. The inc.uge in the number |- l.““ml B «39 any iy the number in- : Jured 6.179. ‘ i”“"f“ facts are sown by aceident bul- ‘ | letin No. 8 issued v the interstate comlllt‘l‘('(‘: Conimisslon for the fiscal year :lnil for the su..,}“] quarter of the present calendar Yedr. Although the report '.‘lm“'s a large/jherease in casualties it 5 "“““1_”“” the number killed in train wrecks is thrae jegs, although the num‘N“"r"h"s ”Ul.lfi't'(] increased by 838. [he comniiggion finds an excuse for the | | showing yyade by the i':xilrn:uls:\ C“Railroad eqypanies are muech more caretul to irf.de all accidents in Iho'ir‘ reports 1o e commission than Hu-_vl were, and By s undoubtedly true that | much of thd, jherease is due to the fact l ghn} the acqjjent reports are fuller than uring the Lroaceding year.” em];l(::estg:d thnt.th(- m.lmhor of mfxn Seit \\:fls b the t‘rum service on June 30 | bl’ s inb hut 12 per cent greater than it trafiié 11902, ‘()n.t'he roads (_yf denis- ¢ pwhere liability to accident is ;gre e increase has been more than s e I’."’-.»’ i :-‘»s;7»\;Ji“i«""\,,:'ia ifa,,i-,;n,ié‘_j,'{i‘is SR AN apa " Boonder g the employment of men SO Fapiusy e the percentage of inexperienced men in | service this year is larger than ever in the history of railroads. ’ The report further shows that out of thie total number killed 321 were passen- | gers and 3,233 employes, and out of the total number injured 6,975 were passengers and 39,004 employes. During the | months of April. May and June last S persons were Killed and 11,461 injured, which is a deerease of 83 fatalities over , | the previous quarter. Attention is callled to the fact, however, that 23 fatali- . | ties were due to butting collisions, which .| are always the result of carelessness,

TEN THOUSAND STARVE. l: Inhabitants of the Lape Verde Islands ! Are Famine-Stricken. The people of the Cape Verde Islands | are famine stricken. Letters received | in this country tell a frightful tale of Joss of life. for in the island of Santiago alone the dead number 10,000. In spite of the measures of relief that have have been adopted the death rate continues to be from 30 to 35 a day. ! The Cape Verde Islands belong to Portugal and are situated about 320& miles to the west of that African promontory from which they take their name. There are many islands in the group, ten of which are of considerable size. The largest and most important is Santingo. The Cape Verde Islands owe their origin to the action of submarine volcanoes and all are very mountainous. The highest elevation is reached in g voleanie peak 9,157 feet above the sea, on the isl- ' and of Fogo, and which is still active. | The total population of the group is | about 100,000, nearly ail of whom are negroes, indolent, but harmless. The climate is unhealthy during the rainy season. Although water is deficient, vegetation is luxuriant, yvielding African and southern European products. Sugar, cotton, tobaceo and indigo are grown and the trade in archil, a coloring substance, monopoiized by the government, has in some sensons yvielded £24.000. Several of the Enropean domestic animals thrive well. Turtles are abundant in the sur- | rounding seas and whales are also fished | by British and American vessels, Amber is fonnd on the coasts and great quanti- ; ties of salt, formed by solar evaporation, ‘ii’* obtained on the lagoons along the g shares, sspecially on the island of Lal. i tiach island is affected by the famine, | hut the loss of life in Santiago is the : i erentest. In spite of the thousands of

P 9 NBR N WY S - T o deaths the Portuguese government lmsi not taken any steps for the relief of the | stricken people and all ontside aid ]‘.:L\": come from the Board of Trade of Lisbon. | THE ENEMY OF COTTON. i Thonsand Men Trying to Devise Means i for Insect's Extermination. : | Recentiv 1,000 delegates from various ‘ parts of the cotton districts, together | with scientists of repute, met in Dallas, | Texas, to take into consideration the boll | woovil. The npiatter is of such conse- | | quence that Secretary of Agriculture | Wilson has offered to lend federal aid {ir it is likely to be of service Texas has long had a standing offer of KOOO { to any man who would provide a destruc- | tive agent for this pest, which has be- | come of serious import to the prosperity |ot the commoenwealth. Outside Texas { the cotton crop for the vear is larger than usual, but the losses in that State are so great that the total crop is estimated to be only equal to that of Jast vear, though the price is much higher and the planters will be gainers. It is claimed that the weevil has destroyed this .| year more than 1.000,000 bales, worth more than $50,000,000. This is enough to make the planters turn pale, the more so because the ravages are on the in- | crease. ; The weevil apparently came from Mexico, and is increasing enormously. It | has been found that where there is a .| rotation of crops the weevil fares hadly, .| as he thrives only on cotton. The sug- , | gestion has been actually made that in

e s e Mot IR~ L the weevil. This, however, is entirely too radical a plan, considering how slight are the chances of its being successful. Although the present interest in the matter is local, it is one that concerns almost every individual in the world. | There is scarcely a person even in Dark- | ost Africa who does not use cotton goods, | and this country is the great source of supply. I Notes of Current livents. Oil has been discovered on the Lawton, \(,). T. townsite. It is announced that St. L.ouis hotels can care for 50,000 guests. ! A good flow of oil has been struck at l’l'ui-nn?n, Kan., at a depth of 1,090 feet.

Joseph A. Gill has been reappointed | associate justice of the Supreme ('ourt‘ of Indian Territory. , The home rule party in Hawaii gained ' an almost complete victory in the L‘lm'-‘ tion of local officers. % Reports show that both British im- | ports and exports made good increases | during the month of October. g Bessie Knecht, the “sleeping girl,” | who partially revived at Salt like Oty | Utah. after forty-seven days, is dead. ! The Coffeyville Bottle and Glass factory at Coffeyville, Kan., will have its (‘:ip.'u"i'l_\‘ increased to a carload of bottles per day. The South Dakota law forbidding the { combination of insurance companies to | fix premium rates in that State has been | upheld as valid by the United States District Court. 3 The steel trust has begin a camyaign of retrenchment by doing witheuz tha | | services of numerous high-salaried offi | clals. Prices on steel billets have becn reduced $4 per ton.

OWL MAKING FARMERS RICH. l< Bensational Rise in Price Canses Ex- & ploitation of Old Fields. 1 € [ > The rapid and almost sensational in- C crease in the price of oil during the last ‘ g few months has caused the oil fields in ‘ ; Indiana and Ohio to be exploited in :x‘z manner unprecedented except in the | ! boom days when oil first was discovered in this territory. Operators have been stirred into activity, and rigs have been | ‘ erected to drill for oil over a vast area *‘ ] contiguous to the known oil fields which | hitherto had been left untested. i‘ The price of the erude oil in Lu(fi;u;n% and Ohio has been advanced over 40 | cents a barrel during the past yvear, and k it is now selling from $1.27 a barrel in | Indiana to as high as $1.32 a barrel in \ some Ohio districts. That the advance | in price is destined to continue for some | time is conceded by all oil men, and some ' of them even venture the prediction that | it will not stop umtil $1.50 a barrel has '1 been reached. i Agents of the Standard Oil Company, ] who buy most of the oil produced in the l Ohio and Indiana fields, are stimulating | the people to drill more wells. Everywhere they are urging operators to put down “wildeat’”’ wells, the term commonly applied in the oil country to test wells drilled in territory outside of the known oil belt. The sensational rise in the price of oil began little more than 2 month ago. ~.,E;qx¥_:§§m§;gnts, which was the ruling | price in October, 1902, it gradually had e 82239 ... Ky y the Stamfli oil Compary, whicu ... et these fields, boosted it to $1.14, and within three wecks was offering $1.25 and higher. Wells that have long been abandoned because their flowage was not sufficient to pay the expense of pumping when the price of oil was less than $1 have been | started again owing to the increased | price. ' Farmers, who 6wn most of the oil - | lands, which: they lease to operators for -| a royaity ranging frrom one-tenth to one- | gixth of the output, are benefiting from | the renewed activity and consequent in- | iiiaca in their tevenues. The wmarked

LAY S4B WA WwES N P o o b s Bha T SUREEESS Y Leaiy, Gl and alarming decrease in the production | ¢! of oil in the Pennsylvania and West | p Virginia fields is declared by oil men to | ti be the cause of the advancing price in |1 the Indiana and Ohio fields. The produc- 1 tion of crude oil in Pennsylvania has | | fallen, it is said, below the consumption, | b and the surplus stock has been decreased | v 6,000,000 barrels in two years. 1 e e X ~ LABOR MEN IN UPROAR. : !Etorm in Convention Over Socialist ! ‘ Reselution. ! k An outbreak of hisses from the gal- | lierios of Faneuil Hall, in Boston, when | - socialistic resolutions were reported un- 3 | favorably in the American Federation of : \Labor convention Tuesday afternoon, | | caused President Gompers to order the | galleries cleared. Amid many hostile ex- | pressions the erowd was expelled from i the buiiding. : For the first time during the conven- | tion the question ¢f whether the organi'izmiou should commit itself to the doc)trines of socialism came squarely before | the delegates. The question was not an\swered, as shortly before 6 o'clock an | adjournment was taken until the next | day. Some nine resolutions favoring pub‘lic ownership and the organization of a lpolitical party to bring about conditions | the socialists seek were all reported on | unfavorably by the committee on resolu- | tions. \ { At once the long arranged plan of the | gocinlist delezates to fight for the adop- | tion of their principles was put into op- ' ier:itinu by Delegate Hayes of (Cleveland. | | He offered a substitute for the commit- * | tee's report, but was ruled out of order. | At this point the demonstration from * | the spectators led President Gompers to * | order the galleries cleared. The ejected [ | people, numbering several hundred, as-

SO L Re e T ePO e semgled outside Fanpeuil Hall and adopt- | ed resolutions condemning President | Gompers for his action. l * S g 1 SUSTAINS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. | R | Ohio Supreme Court Declares It May ; Be Practiced in the State. | The Ohio Supreme Court holds that : Christian Seientists violate no Ohio stat- l utes in practicing the teachings of their | creed. The matter came Up on error in | the case of the State versus Sylva and 1 Leotta Bishop from Butler County. The | defendants were parents of an S-year-old daughter who was badly burned, but, | being Christian Scientists, they refused to call a physician, it was alleged, and depended entirely upon their religious treatment for relief. i The child died, and later the grand | jury returned an indictment charging the | parents with manslaughter. In the trial | the judge charged the jury to bring in a verdict of acquittal on the ground that | no existing statute had been violated. | The prosecutor of the county, Holmes | Gard, carried the question up on excep- % tions, which the Supreme Court overruled - | without comment. L e e { Grateful Dog Saves Boy. , | Walter De Witt, 17 years old, ot [‘Brookdnle, N. J., owes his life to the , | gratefulness of a mongrel dog to which !| he tossed a bomne the other day. The ' | dog was a homeless outcast that had , | been kicked and beaten and shot at by - | the entire neighborhood. De Witt’s kinds won the cur's everlastin irigw

and he roilow! the boy everywhere. Young De Witt had a self-made raft on which he was paddling about on Tewn House pond when it struck a snag and capsized. The boy could swim but little and had all he conld do to keep himself iaflont. The only being within reach of { his voice was the mongrel, branded as | a chicken thief and with hide scarred | | from bullets, but the grateful brute swam ]. | to his assistanee and by this aid alome i was the lad enabled to reach the shore { in safety. | , Telegraphic Brevities. Mrs. David R. Francis has been elected president of the St. Louis Woman’s Club to sucebed Mrs. James L. Blair, re

signed. The will of Mrs. Janie Stewart Boyegen of Chicago, who made small bequests to various charities, was admitted to probate at Laporte, Ind. II Dominico Bashetto, who has a wife and several children in Italy, was so in- ‘ sistent that Mrs. Giuseppe Denicola of West Hoboken, N. J., elope with him that she shot and killed bim at her home % The reports of the Dawes commission | and the attorness of the Cherokee Nation | show that there are about 4,420,070 1 acres of land subject to allotment in the ;Cherokee Nation. valued at $13,133,000. | Theodore B. Campbell, aged about 50 | years, was run over and instantly killed | by a Rock Island train at the depot in ,Lebunon, Kan. His home was in New Haven, Ky., where he had a wife and eight children. After being onut forty-eizht hours, the jury at Hartville, Mo., found Sam Goss guilty of murder in the second degree ‘and assessed his sentence at ten years in the penitentiary for the murder of l Willls Harberson last August.

o e AT vy wyLY @ AN L DI i, > o :\‘. ) 5 L W v 2 0 2 e AN b g NS ODI P o ey R R RN LSS The Senate was in session only twent minntes, Tuesday, and the greater part of that time was consumed in the intro duection of bills and presentation ot peti tions, Most of the bills were for posi tions and the bulk of the petitions related to the case of Senator Smoot, of Utal. 'l‘h(‘ .\‘l',\‘\"inn of the Iluu_\u Was .'.--\utm‘; 10 consideration of the Cuban bill. Mr. Stevens (Rep., Minn.) spoke in opposition to the measure. The other gpenkers were Xfr Enapp (Rep., N. ¥), Mr Clark (Dem.. M.). Mr. McClellan (Dem., N. Y.). Mr. Crumpacker (Rep.. Ind., Mr. Douglas (Rep. N. Y.), Mr. Morrell (Rep., ' Pa), Mr. Mason (Dem.. Ark., Mr. dhomns (Dem. -N. C). Mr. Hughes (Dem., N d) and Mr MeDermott (Dem. X. J.). In the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Gallinger presented a petition from “The Dames of 18467 for the increase to £3O a month of all pensions granted on account of the Mexican war. He said the pension committee would give due cousideration to the petition, but ealled attention to the fact that all survivors of the Mexjean war now receive pensions of sl2. ~¥~ of Mr. Spooner the Senate or ddered printed additional copies of the treaty betwecn e SN oo - New Grenada, which was made in 1546, = and proclaimed in 1848. The debate upon ; the Cuban bill again oceupied the entire session of the House, the speakers being . Messrs, Grosvenor (Ohio}, Clark (NMo.), Richardson (Ala.), Fordney (Mich.), Loud (Mich.). MeMorran (Mich.). Bell (Cal), Gardoner (Mich.i, Durgess (Texas), Gillet (Mass.), Shaforth (Colo.). and Jones | (Wash.). | The Senate transacted no business in . | open session Thursday beyond the re- | | ceipt of bills and petitions. The only in- - - - Gugle LN AR st i S DU e ¢

ident of unusual character was the apyearance of Carrie Nation. An execu- i ive session was ordered at 1225, and at 1 o'clock the Senate adjourned. The Hoase, by a rising vote of 335 to 21, \ passed the bill to make effective the Cu- \ ban reciprocity treaty. The dissenting votes were about equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, but there ) was no record vote. Those oposing the bill in speeches were Mr. Williams of Mississippi and Mr. Broussard of Louisiana. while those making speeches in its behalf were Mr. Hepburn of Towa, Mr. Watson of Indiana, Mr. DeArmond of Missouri, Mr. Sulzer of New York. Mr. Lacey of lowa and Mr. McCall of Massachusetts. The motion of Mr. Willjams to recommit the bill was defeated by 193 to 165, a striet party vote. On the passage of the bill a futile attempt was made to secure a yea and nay vote. The bill passed by the House Friday to carry into effect the Cuban reciprocity treaty was laid before the Senate, and, on motion of Mr. Cullom, was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, \ after considerable debate, in which those upposing the motion were Mr. Bailey and Mr. Teller and those favoring it were Mr. Lodge, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Allison. The measure was referred without division and the Senate adjourned till Monday. The House was in sessjon but five minutes. After the oath-- < | was administered to Ciande Kitchin (North Carolina) the House adjourned —— until Tuesday. _, Panama and Cuba engaged the attention of the Senate Monday. Mr. Hile - moved to reconsider the vote by which \ the Newland joint resolution for the anl nexation of Cuba was referred to a conimittee, and several speeches were made o lnn the motion witheut disposing of it \

Messrs. Hale, Lodge and Platt (Conn.) " disavowed any desire on the part of the : United States to acquire Cuba and expressed regiet that the resolution had been introduced. Mr. Newlands defended the measure as presenting neutral ; colution of the problem of the relationship between the .two countries. The PPanama guestion came up in connection 1 with the announcement of reorzanization of the Senate committees, Mr. Morgan (Dem . Ald). being relieved from the ; chairmanship of the committee on inter- : ocedanic canals. Before the order went : into effect Mr. Morgan discussed the en- ‘ tire canal question, with iiberal criticism ; of the President for his course. He had not concluded when the Senate adjourn- { od. In executive session severai apl pointments of postmasters, consuls at minor points ad promotions in the army were confirmed. On motion of M. Allison. Rev. J. E. Prettyman was appointed chaplain of the Senate for the present cession. Mr. Cullom presented the report of the committee cn foreigh relations on the bill to put into effect the Cuban re : ciprocity treaty and it went to the calen- : dar. Mr. Cullom also presented an af&reemerit that the Cuban reciproeity bill shall e taken up on ihe convening of the regular session of Congress, Dec. 7. and , | remain the order of business each day ; after the routine morning business until 4 the 16th, on which date a vote <hall be . taken. the time on the 15th and 16th to 1 be equally divided between the friends ! ; and opponents of the bill. The agree: . | ment was accepted without dissent. % -7::.:- R e i "‘.'

Manchuria is primarily a grain-produe- ! ing country. { The Dayton, Ohio, chief of police has 5 been removed by the Mayor. * The Automobile Club of America has | elected Winthrop E. Scarett, New York, president. Friction between Japanese emigrants i and Coreans is growing in soutliern i Corea. owing to the number of the Mi- ; kado's subjects who are settling in the ! country. : ‘i Dr. Georee E. Ladd, director of the school of mines at Rolla, has been elected by the "Missonri world’s fair com- | mission to bLe superintendent of the de- | nartment of mines and metallurgy, to

set siR s e e S SN R 800 s g succeed Col. H. H. Greze of Joplin The federal court at San Juan, Poito t Rico. quashed the indictments for sumg«ling in the cases of Alonzo Cruzen, the 1 collector of customs; Captain Andrew Duntap, . 85 N, commandant of the ' naval station. and Robert Giles, a former contractor in Porto Rico, on the ‘ ground that the fines had been paid and | the offenses expiated. { An omuibus filled with passengers was ! struck by a train on the Mirianao rail- 1 road near Havaua, Cuba, Five persous | i were killed and seven injured. : Two men were arrested in St ‘Lounis for usivg the mails to defrand. They ! advertised for men to fill world’s fair i positions and required applicants to make i a deposit. Neither the deposit nor the job was ever heard of again. : i Fay, the 4-year-old daughter of Mrs. | “ AMary Jones, was fatally lmrm.i_ in Ga- ! ] lena, Kan. Little Fay was playing with I‘m:nvhos and when discovered by the " .| mother lier dress was a WSS of flames. 3 | The mother was also severely burned in ) trying to save her child.