Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 January 1904 — Page 2

.1. i 1 <* t”. . - . — EVENTS OK THE WEEK I’welve persons have been killed at the village of Resina. near Genoa. Italy, by an explosion of dynamite while they were preparing bombs to tire off in a eelebra tion. The poliee forbade the use of dy mimite. but the villagers had eluded their vigilance. William Goebel, Frederick I Inberstraw and W illiam Beckhusser were found dead in their room in Baltimore, Md. The men were all butchers and retired late. It is supposed they neglected to turn off the flow of gas and were asphyxiated. Gratton Hall, the residence of Richard Hunter Delaney, near t ppervilky A a.. was destroyed by tire caused by the explosion of an oil tank. Meissonier's picture ot Charlotte Corday was among the effects burned. The total loss is SBO,OOO, with little insurance. Between S,(NK) and 10.000 hungry peoannual Christmas gi vohuH-eers of America at the Coliseum annex in Chicago. Baskets of food were sent to 2.500 people unable because of sickness or lack of Clothing to atteifl the feast. New high-record prices were made amid the greatest excitement at the opening of the New York Cotton Exchange Monday. First prices were at an advance of 23 to 51 points. Before the call was fairly completed March had sold at 14.01 c, May at 14.20 c and July at 14.14 c. A stiff northwester, which at one time reached a velocity of forty-five miles an hour, struck Omaha, doing considerable property damage. Martin Geisler, a laborer, was blown from a scaffold and received fatal injuries. A number of plate glass windows were blown in and large signs torn from their fastenings. After considering the business outlook and perils involved in trades unions owning real estate. Typographical Union No. 16, of Chicago, voted to abandon a building project that has been contemplated for some time. The union has been negotiating for property for several months, the aim being to purchase and erect a building to be used as a labor temple. Arguments which resulted in the abandonment of this scheme referred to the recent experience of Franklin Union in the courts and to the present unsettled business outlook. NEWS NUGGETS. The Brown block, the finest building at Westerly, R. 1., was burned, entailing a loss of $150,000. Edward Stanhope of Indianapolis was shot and killed while sitting in his home by an unknown assassin. Figures on exports and imports for the year 1903 show an increase in all branches of United States commerce. The Grinnell building at Minneapolis was destroyed by fire. The loss was $64,000, principally to the Hauser Duck and Shade Company. Gen, Reyes, in behalf of Colombia, de mands that former conditions on the isthmus be restored and his country allowed

'Tn New 9 ork Frederica si a' naval veteran and sail Cm uaVe been at the battle of Manila Bay, was sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting his ■wife during a quarrel. The plate mill of the Glasgow Iron Company was destroyed by tire in Pottstown, Pa. The mill was in full operation. and employed about 100 men. Loss $30,000, partly insured. The will of Francis B. Peckham, who was a leading lawyer iu Newport, R. 1., leaves $30,000 for the education of Edward J. Corcoran, a boy who had done odd jobs in Mr. Peckham’s household. John M. Glover, a former Congressman from Missouri, defied the military strike order in Cripple Creek. Colo., to surrender his arms and was shot by soldiers. who forced open his barricaded office. Rather than submit to the mandate of their union, which calls for a strike, seventy out of eighty milk wagon drivers employed by the L nion Dairy Company in St. Louis have thrown up their positions. Ihe T nited States geological survey will soon announce the discovery of tin ore, in probably vast quantities, in Alaska. Enthusiasts state that the tin deposits eclipse in value the Alaskan gold fields. Lah-Ta Micco, the executive head ot the Snake Indians, the most turbulent faction of the Creek Nation, has been killed by a limb falling from a tree. He will be succeeded by Chitto Harjo, second chief. Mrs. Margaret F. Sullivan of Chicago is dead. She was one of the best known newspaper women in the country. Her genius forced President Carnot of France to set aside precedent and to grant her a place at the exposition of 1889. In Lebanon. Pa., John L. Fisher, charged with the murder of J. Marshall Funck, swore on the stand that Funck committed suicide because he believed he had, as prosecuting attorney, caused an innocent man to go to the gallows. Mrs'L M iliianT" U UTface. ",T 'wealthy widow of St. Paul, was found dead iu her room under circumstances that indicate suicide. Her body, clad in a night robe, lay on the floor hidden under a bed. The room was filled with escaping gas. Sir Horace Plunkett, commissioner of agriculture in Ireland, at a public dinner in Richmond, Ya., said that Ireland’s sons were leaving by the million, and unless the tide could be stemmed the agricultural districts would be depopulated. The Seri Indians, who occupy Tiburon island in the Gulf of California, have gone on the warpath, and, according to information received by the military authorities at Hermosillo, Mexico, the savages are raiding ranches and committing depredations on the mainland. Gov. Van Sant fixed Feb. 10 as the date of the execution of Charles and Henry Nelson, the two brothers whose conviction of murder in the first degree was recently confirmed by the Supreme Court. They were convicted of having killed a saloonkeeper at Owatonna, Minn., last August. Ollie Holbrook, 17 years old, employed in a bakery in Nebraska City, Neb., stepped too close to the shafting operating a large dough-kneading apparatus. H^ hair was caught in one of the belts, she was jerked off her feet, and before help could come the scalp was literally torn from her head. A head-on collision occurred on the Duluth division of the Northern Pacific Railway at Deroun, a small station between Pine City and Hinckley, Minn. The collision occurred on the main track between switches, and both engines were badly damaged. The mail car on the south-bound train was burned and Mail <Dlerk Rouse was burned to death.

eastern. A heavy northeast gale with snow ran- o lour wnrks on the New England coast. Five num were drowned. 1 phoid fever is spreading rapidly in I ittsburg and threatens to cause an epi- * lemie. In twenty two days of December ! there wore 410 cases. The disease is j virulent. 1 ire at St. Caul destroyed the building occupied by the Wallblom Furnish ing ( ompany and the two upper floors ot the Baltimore block. Boss $75,000, ■ partially insured. Distinct earthquake shocks were felt in Ogdensburg, N. Y.. and also all along the St. Lawrence valley. A similar disturbance rocki'd business buildings in Los Angeles, Cal. Granville W. Garth, president of the Mechanics’ National Bank of New York, • committed suicide by jumping from the steamer Denver of the Mallory line on ' the trip to Galveston. Mrs. George Frisbie Hoar, aged 60, wife of the senior Senator from Massachusetts, was stricken suddenly with heart disease at her home in Washington and died within an hour. All records for Christmas business in the New York postoflice were broken this year. One million packages passed through the office in one day. The foreign mails wore very heavy. , Speculators in cotton, who invested two months ago, have made profits of 2,000 per cent by the recent rise.' Daniel J. Sully bought a $250,000 house for his wife's Christmas present. Thirteen passengers who faced death for five days when the steamship Menominee was overwhelmed and disabled by a giant wave in the Atlantic arrived in New York City on the Cedric. The story sent out from New York recently of a western millionaire paying $5,000 for a human ear and having it transplanted to his own head to replace a missing organ is declared to be a hoax. Sixty-three persons were killed and fully seventy were seriously injured ma wreck of the Duquesne limited on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, from Chicago to New York, near Connellsville, Pa. One of the walls of the old Thirteenth regiment armory building, Brooklyn, N. Y., tell. I’wo Italian workmen who were engaged in tearing down the structure were killed and seven others were badly hurt. First presentation of Wagner's great music drama, "Parsifal,” in the Metropolitan Opera House in New Y ork City, stunned an audience of 4.000 persons to a spirit of reverence, which was felt even in the streets. Rear Admiral Edwin White, retired, was stricken with apoplexy at the Brooklyn navy yard and died before medical aid could be summoned. Ho had come from his home in Princeton to visit Rear Admiral Rodgers, commandant of the navy yard. Col. W. W. Castle, examiner in the appraisers’ stores at the Boston custom house, has been suspended by orders from Washington pending an investigation. It is alleged Col. Castle has erred in not placing sufficiently high values on imports. His integrity is not questioned. Brooding over his inability to purchase suitable Christmas gifts for his three motherless children. Joseph Phillips, a Hollowville, N. Y'., farmer, murdered the children and then hanged himself in a barn. Phillips had complained lately of his poverty, and it is believed his mind became unsettled.

in a report to the Mayor of New York Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal recommends the rebuilding of Brooklyn bridge, which was opened to traffic in 1883. The commissioner says the suspended structure, from anchorage to anchorage, is in a wornout and weakened condition, requiring constant and expensive repairs to keep it safe. M hilo playing polo on the Georgian Court field in Lakewood, N. J., hist April, young Jay Gould, the 15-year old son of George Gould, was struck in t! ■ knee with a polo ball. Ever since he has walked with a slight limp. The fam ily physician found that there was a fracture of the tibia, just below the knee cap. An operation was performed. In a thick fog the steamer Erastus Corning of tin* Starin line, bound from New Haven for New York with thirty passengers and a heavy cargo of freight, struck on the rocks of Copp's Island, jus* outside Norwalk harbor. Conn. A hole two feet square was stove iu the side of the steamer ami within five minutes she sunk in fifteen feet of water. 'The shock of the collision ami the cries of the < rew aroused the passengers, who rushed on deck in a panic. Most ot' them were thinly clad. During the confusion six of the passengers cleared away in a small boat and left the steamer, and up to the present time have not been heard from. Aside from the missing party, all the passengers and crew reached South Norwalk safely on board a tug ami the passengers soon left by train for New York. Some of them had no outer wraps and all were without baggage. WESTERN. Andrew Carnegie has given I’ark Rapids. Minn., a library under his usual conditions. Perry S. Heath has decided to erect a six-story hotel at his former home, Muncie. Ind. The plant of the Jonesboro (Ark.) binding works burned. Loss about $15,000, no insurance. The Illinois Steel Company mills in South Chicago closed without notice aud 6,500 men were made idle. The Northern Pacific flyer ran into the caboose of a freight at Elk River, Minn., and Brakeman Knowles was burned to death. Twenty-two persons were killed and thirty injured in a head-on collision on the Pere Marquette Road six miles east of Grand Rapids, Mich. Desperate bank robbers blew up the Kiowa Bank in Indian Territory and stole or destroyed $28,000 in currency after a battle with citizens. A deputy clerk of the Missouri Supreme Court wrote a political novel. Politicians, incensed at the author, compelled his dismissal from office. Philip E. Burroughe, a grain commission merchant and formerly British vice consul at Kansas City, died there from blood poisoning, the result of a spider bite. James Gillespie was indicted at Rising Sun, Ind., for alleged murder of his sister, Elizabeth; Belle Seward and Myron Barbour and wife were held as accessories. Miss Annie Connell of Council Bluffs, formerly a sister in a convent at Omaha, has sued the convent for $30,000 because of loss of health resulting from alleged hard work. Inquiry into the death of Mrs. Charles W. Graves of Des Moines, whose charred remains were found by her husband, resulted in a verdict of murder. No arrests have been made. David V. Rieger, who was convicted in Kansas City of misapplying certain credits of the Missouri National Bank of Kansas City, of which he was president,

has been pardoned by President Roosevelt. 1 homas Jones, said to lie a prominent 1 mining man of Salt Lake, committed suicide at the St. James Hotel in Denver n by taking cyanide of potassium. He is H said to have been despondent over finanr cial avairs. S In Brainerd. Minn., a jury found Mrs. Myra .lane Williams guilty of murder in the first degree. She was charged .with murdering her 2 i ear-old daughter Aug. s 21 and afterward throwing the body into the Mississippi River. I wo Italians, connected with a circus 1 wintering in Topeka, Kan., have been ’ catching the street dogs and feeding them to the lions. It is said that three 1 dozen dogs have been devoured by the lions. The humane society will prose- ' cute. In Joplin. Mo.. Bert Barron, aged 17, shot and killed his father. Mat E. Bar--1 roti, a miner, while protecting his mother from an assault. The elder Barron was . intoxicated. Young Barron, who is under arrest, says the shooting was accii dental. 1 I he finest business block in Marietta, Ohio, that of the First National Bank, 1 was destroyed by tire which started from 1 a gas explosion. The five story structure I was occupied by the bank and a number of otliees. The loss to the building is $75.(111(1. Hiram W. Beckwith, from ISSG to 1861 a partner of Abraham Lincoln, died at St. Luke’s hospital in Chicago. He was <2 years old and lived in Danville, 111. Mr. Beckwith's father was one of the pioneers of Illinois, settling in Danville in 1819. John B. Clingermau. ehairman of the Republican State Central Committee, I announced that at a conference with | General Charles Dick and other party leaders it had been decided that the Ohio State convention would be held about the middle of next Al ay. ( ommissioner Richards of ihe general land office has announced his awards under the scaled bids received for timber on the ceded Chippewa Indian lands in Minnesota in the vicinity of Cass Lake. The total amount covered by the accepted bids is $1,432,772. Ehe Minnesota Supreme Court has filed a decision affirming the findings of the lower court in the big land ease of i E. S. Kosmerl et al. against Katrina Mueller et al. This action originated in Duluth and concerned the ownership of rich mineral lands in the Jli-aba range. A telephone message from Denton. Neb., says at a Christmas entertainment in a school house .John Shields and Kate Sullivan were fatally burned and others slightly injured. Miss Sullivan, acting .as Santa Claus, was enveloped in cotton, which took tire. Shields and others went j to her assistance. A San Francisco paper says: "The I organization known as the Pacific Coast ; Lumbermen s Association, which has con- [ trolled the export lumber trade of the . entire Pacific const, has gone to pieces. I 1 he disruption is attributed to a refusal I of the California representatives to sign : the yearly agreement." ( razed by the long continued use of ; strong drink and angered because the i affection which he felt toward his land J lady, Mrs. Ida Johnson, was not reciprocated. Gust Kuhn, in Minneapolis, attempted to take her life and killed him- [ self. Kuhn shot the woman in the breast, but the wound did not prove fatal. Burglars broke into the First National Bank in Salem, S. D., ami blew open the vault with dvmimito Vlthoneli <xoin I

■ nun ami uynamitc. Aithougii ’ < was 'll the tin; |^r jn —• ' - - any money, apparently being fright>'md away. Later they stole a team from a e barn, got a sled, some robes and a fur - coat from a livery stable and escapiM. 1 Ellsworth I’. Defiance the other day left Sioux Falls, S, p,. peniieiitinry a ’ free man after having scrvisi a term nf fifteen years, less good time allimnnee. i for the theft of a 2 cent -tamp. : The cast is one of the most remarkable ! 1 in the bistort of western courts. De- ■ franco was convicts! in the United > I States ( ourt for Nebraska of holding up a mail carrier. Although it was shown i ! at his trial that he secured only a post- ! > । age stamp, lie was sentem ed to impri-on i j meat in the Sioux Falls penitentiary for i life. Preside':! M. Kn.by commuted this !I to fifteen cat s. FOREIGN. Howard Smith of Boliiar was killed . and his daughter fatally injured by a ; Canton and New I'hil.idelp’ ; c.c .- ;r h in ear near Strasburg. Thei w.n driving ’ I across the track. Rus-in is Milt, him.: kcnly t. .. mm-u:ii I war [ire[»aratios being made by ('lima. 1 Belief is spreading that hostilities in the । Orient may embroil not only Great Bri’- , ain. but France also. । Gen. Morales. ui>h a strong force and I | many cannon, disembarked at Monte | Christi, Santo Domingo, after a born- I । bardment of the port. Ihe troop- under j Gen. Jimines were defeated. Repetition of the massacre of Jew- in Kisehineff, it is feared, will take place on the Russian Christmas t la> .Lin. 7. i Incendiary leaflets and post cards are > being circulated and the governor offers little hope. Ladrones recently looted the municiiial i treasury at Bos >bo-o. in Luzon. I’. I. > 1 hey captured the presidente and cut I the tendons of his heels. The constabulary pursued the band and recovered i

part of the stolen funds. The two and a half ton yacht Kiaroa, which the owner, named Buckridge. at- I tempted to vdl from New Zealand • > ' London byway of f’ape Horn, returned ' to New Zealand with the bods of t] lc ! owner aboard, he having been killed bj > a fall from the mast while 1,000 mile? I from land. IN GENERAL. Reports on volume of country's hcliday trade are conflicting, according to Dun s W eekly Review; December railroad earnings 6 per cent over 1902. Pearl Pointer, aged 20. received a rifle as a Christmas present. He did not know it was loaded and Started to clean it. The weapon was discharged, killing the voting man. In Fort Worth, Texas, A. Patterson, son of a prominent farmer living three miles south of Mansfield, was shot after having emerged from a house. He walked 200 feet around the corner and dropped dead. Fourteen hundred steerage passengers on the steamship Blucher raged in a panic in the hold during a furious gale in midocean. They were held in check only by the efforts of two priests and four of the Blucher’s armed officers. P. P. Wright, assistant general manager of the Lake Shore Railroad, retires on Jan. 1 on full pay. Mr. Wright entered the employ of the Lake Shore in 1861. was with the Erie from 1873 1881, and again with the Lake Shore since. W. I. Buchanan. United States minister to the republic of Panama, presented his credentials to the provisional government Friday. His reception was most enthusiastic. He was met at the palace by a guard of honor and all the dignitaries of the republic now in Panama.

CAN'T BURY THE DEAD. ' Striking Livery Drivers Prevent Fwnerals in ChicUßO. • I Undertakers’ wagons and street cars । have been used for several days in Chicago to convey the dead to the cemeteries. In nearly every instance the funerals were watched by union pickets, who were there to see that no livery carriages formed part of the funeral procession. One of the most prominent funerals was that of Judge Joseph Hutchinson, for fifteen years on the bench of the Superior Court. The remains of Judge Hutchinson were taken to Oakwood cemeteryfin an undertaker’s wagon, while the private carriages of his personal friends were used for the pall bearers and immediate friends of the family. Some disturbanceJwas caused at the funeral of a Boherni 8 woman, who was murdered by her hu land. The funeral was held in St. Pro< ^ius Church and a large crowd gathere on the outside of the building—some t Erected by the fact that it was a murde d woman, and others by the rumors .' possible interference with the condu of the funeral. M hen Undertakdi- Anton Linhart drove up to the chijch with his wagon, he was hooted and jeered, but no direct violence was offeree The police were forced to use their Blubs to press back tlie crowds. 1’ Police protection against strikers for funeral corteges on tleir way to the cemeteries was demambA Chief of Police O’Neill by a from the Joint Livery Association viml was promptly promised by the chilf. He ordered the police inspectors to afford every protection in their power, jut refused to allow the officers to be seined on or drive the vehicles bearing the [bodies. "This interference’!with the burial of the dead is the meanest bit of business the police have had to cope with, to my knowledge,” the chief said. "I do not know how the thing could be carried any further.” What the liverymen and undertakers desired most was protection for their barns. Men are willing and anxious to work, they said, if given protection, i Threats to injure the men are declared to have been frequently made. No attack has yet been made on ambulances bearing the sick, but the under i takers expressed fears that such would i soon be the case. Chairman Perngo said teamsters have thrertened to drive the poles of their trucks through ambulances. Particularly in case of death of diphtheria and scarlet fever, in which burial must occur within twenty-four hours «r before dark of the same day following death, the strike is expected to have grave results. Interference with burials of such bodies might result in the spreadIng of epidemics. BATTLE IN BEEF. Consumer* Hope to Reap the Benefit of the Cattlemen's Scheme. The announcement is made that the farmers and the cattlemen, recognizing the demand of the consumer for cheaper meat, have decided to establish packing houses in the Southwest, on a co-opera-tive plan. The idea is to have packing houses nt Fort Worth, Texas, Kansas ity ami East St. Louis. It is not likely that any co-operativa packing house will be established nt hicago, headquarters of . the present trust packers, who control the markets. An independent packing house will be in o> ^uimi in St. Louis prior to the op- f the world's fair. I All signs - ntional tight ou ' th 0 ' . . ‘ «n the prices combined it i .. „ f the nch( , s cattle ami aog% ittlemen ot thi To end tl.<s com a . ine ,j in an organ and most infill, nth packing plants o tinted States have ' farmers ve ah. Ization to establish circular was sen their own. Wealth} ct (hat ,ms in the plan. Are- i. t;!< ] tliese c^op..^ out announcing the f Three times th; had been raised to bl but there will b< tire packing houses. „ j f sum will be required. rt that br the op no difficulty in getfin -mst they Lave loq The cattlemen nsse oo j n profits. Ai crations of the l»oef t onsumer has I. .■• more than SIOO,(W.C i t n „ t out the same time the c f or the c< nsunv : charged higher prices inK thc bcef tr ,,^ chanty nor sympathy but it is believed that the [dan of fight the public toward has been umlertaken, i p f u | to ti e cattkthat the attitude of „ th c i r steers d the packers will be 1.. e n q ai: ,. r am j t . uu mon. They will dres ship them direct to th .' or t Worth which Bu,n *' r - snintrv, are to Be The stock yards nt .perative packing are the finest in the rnCtl into nco . purchased by the co-. , vards cover 595 house company and tt c k exchange, built erative industry. Tin e Alamo mission acres, and the live sto . stock building m after the style of tl house, is the finest liv the United States. y denied ABSURD STOF Behind the ctl’n per. No Money ne Po ;be statement Vatican Wa! Gnni pre . At the Yatican in R h a.l handed Pope of the Tnbuna that C n k notes, said to feet of the propaganda Cardinal Gott: bv I ius $9,000,000 in ba i^ instructions to have been confided to his successor afthe late 1 ope Leo wi ntbs had elapsed, turn the money over t * / ter a period of four m y^e statement was denied. electrician found

On the same auth I.SSOAW in gold, of the Tribuna that * also denied in a hole in the wall f * nTainTmriz.ed to or any other trensuj| is that the presihe Associate j, ' after his ascenannounce tl at $8,400,000, ent Pope, immediately { the ];ue eion to the thr^n de pub]ic The as indicated in the pa, was effected by will which was not i ^ la nud Cretold> delivery of the mone ho bro ht the Cardinals Gotti, Ram tl s of the . lope Leos executors, 11 kept larger part of the be gand... where they we tbat nny “® ue - v In absolutely denyn ^ ity of the storv was found behind the t idered that $9 Leo s bedroom the abs re - epresellt over is evident when it is < 000,000 in gold wou ■ forty tons in weight. e [ rf tes Town. ~ _ 'e hamlet with Bm.ll.poi Dey of a Woodlands a Dels ivi thirty-five a population of IW, v the town be<?n smallpox epidemic, ten deaths whieh cases. So strictly h said t o have been quarantined that of th, and starvatien . have occurred eight are , , . , , . , -own has regular due to absolute negle ~ ... „ , . .. . . ;Vher victims beOnly one family m the tPe The medical attendance, th ^. sponded to au ing too poor to gm £e ting nft fundß ctate Board of Heal h „ re bej „ rP ea for aid by i that . of available, and relief 111 held in churches thro the State. i d colored man i ' hy a car in the en S t S l ° loraon ' 1 ”?eld. Kan., and 80 years old, was str , ki coal Santa Ie yards at \ instantly killed. He x 'ing passenger rTV- 7' "’ f tlie Union W ilham R. A ice, d atedinHon agent in San Franc Pacific road, has be duras.

J DIE IN B. & 0. WKECK. FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE ENDS SIXTY-THREE LIVES. Duquesne Limited Thrown from Rails Near Connellsville, Pn., by Timbers Dropped from Freicht — Passengers Cooked Alive in Smoking Car. Sixty-three persons were killed, most of them being roasted to death by escaping steam, and seventy-five injured, many fatally, when passenger train No. 12, the “Duquesne Limited,” on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was wrecked at 7:30 Wednesday night a mile and a half from Connellsville, l’a. The train was torn to pieces, the mail and baggage cars were hurled down a 15-foot embankment into the Youghiogheny river, the sleeping and dining cars were thrown part way down the bank and most of them were burned by the fire set by the engine. The locomotive itself was torn to fragments and the pieces thrown into the river. Hours were consumed in rescuing the bodies of the dead and the injured victims from the debris. During the greater part of this time nearly everybody able to reach the scene of the disaster had displayed the greatest heroism. Scarcely had the bodies been laid out in rows on the bank, however, when thieves began to rob the dead of jewelry and other valuables. Borne His Coat to Save Other Train. Baggageinaster Thomas J. Baum of Hazlewood proved the archhero of the occasion. His head and body were fearfully cut in the wreck, but in the moment of his injury he remembered that west-bound passenger train No. 49 was about due. If it ran into the wreckage there would be another catastrophe. He had nothing with which to signal except j matches. Crawling out from under the debris | that imprisoned him for a time, Baum ; : ran down the track, pulled off his coat | I and stood ready for the approach of No. | 49. When he saw the headlight break i ■ through the darkness he struck a match, : j lighted a sleeve of his coat and then I J waved the flaming garment as a warning । ! to the oncoming engineer. The signal was seen and heeded. No. | 49 stopped within a foot of Baum and [ | within a short distance of the pile of I i debris. The wrecked train was running east from Pittsburg at a rate of sixty miles j >an hour. It struck an obstruction of I lumber on a curve near Dawson. Most of those killed were foreigners I i who were in the smoker, just back of the ; baggage car. They were literally roast- . ed to death, the baggage ami smoker I telescoping the engine and immediately I catching tire. Many of their bodies were burned to a crisp. The entire population ■ turned out en masse to assist in caring for the living and in disposing of the dead. A peculiar feature of the accident : is the fact that not a woman was injur- ; ed except slightly. Lumber from Freicht Causes Wreck. The w reck was caused by the break- ■ ing of the eastings on a car load of [ bridge timbers on a west-bound freight I train which had passed Laurel Run not more than fifteen minutes before the illfated passenger train. The wreck occurred on a curve nnd it was impossible for Engineer Thornley to see far enough ahead to detect the timbers that had fallen.

ranen. The big Atlantic type engine p'"" s no >. Ine nnci...^ . tpress car ’ were thrown into the Youghiogheny rivy er T' e <:v. 'k< r followed the engine and i landed sqimrely on top of it. 'Phis allowed the < waping sti un from the engine o to fill the car. ~ lie smoker was packed to its utmost capacity nnd nil the passengers were t co..\ed alive. N.-t a single passenger in , this e.ir escaped with his life, and it is u estimated that at least forty of the dead were in the smoker. y _ An operator at “VR” tower on the . P'' burg nt I I ake Er v R t’road, across the 'i ougl. ; ghi.ny river. was tile first to n S-Id Word of the accident and to send r Lr relief. He was wan king the Du* quesne limited ns it was s| ling along t the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. He saw I the cars pile high in the air and then sink । 1 ■.onti.■ '- , Th,. r> .ms of t ■* in" :rd .nd .3 .ng n, r- • : m . ],. >rd. •- । nnu’l.> r second he was -■ : ling w rd the railroad officials at Dawson and C nellsvHle. 1 ON I 5 CENTS A DAY. e ; Army Commissary Officer Says Man Can Live on Thia Amount, 5 Will 15 cents' worth ot food supply t plentifully a laborer who works hard i for eight hours, or a soldier who fights 1 . < r marches ail day? That is a question which is at present bothering United States army officers. Major William 11. Bean of Omaha. chief of commissary of the Department of .Missouri, thinks that > he ha* solved the problem of feeding soldiers in his department plentifully upt on 15 cents a day. To substantiate his . I opinion the major is feeding ten of the । most able-bodied laborers he can find, । stipulating that not more than 5 cents will be spent on any one meal and giving > assurances that when five days are up ■ : not one will find fault with the fare. The first day the ten dined at the major s table. Hundreds of workingmen crowded about the commissary department to see what the faro would be and tire experiment was conducted. Roast . . beef, brown gravy, baked potatoes, ba- | con. beans, tomatoes, pickles, prunes, two kinds of bread and customary seasonings were on the bill. The major's guests were enthusiastic over the feast. "The idea, was suggested to me by the thousands of families who find support | on laborers’ wages difficult and by criti- ! cisms of those who see in bills for the I army's support that American soldiers cannot live well.” said Major Bean. Grafted Wife’s Skin, After shooting her husband, whom she mistook for a burglar. Mrs. A. F. Butler of Austin suburb. Chicago, induced the physicians to graft from her own body the flesh necessary to save his leg from amputation. For days she has lain on a cot by her husband's side at the Garfield Park sanitarium and without complaint undergone the tortures of a surgical operation each day as the doctors transferred, bit by bit. the particles of flesh and pieces of the 24 inches of cuticle which she heroically gave up that her husband might not lose his leg All Around the Globe. Four children of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Olds were burned to death in a tire which destroyed their home at North Coventry, Conn. During the storm at Pineville, Ky.. Edgar Ball, awaiting trial for murder, escaped by prying a ten-inch hole in the brick wall of the jail. The London Times in speaking of the disaster that has befallen potato growers, says that in November. 1901. the imports were about 200.000 hundredweight. The same month last year the importation doubled.

RUSHES ON TO DEATH., Train Fails to Stop with Signal Light Clone. One of the worst wrecks in the long list of railway horrors occurred Saturday night on the I’ere Marquette Railroad six miles east of Grand Rapids, Mich. Twenty-two persons were killed outright and twenty-nine persons were injured. Many of the injured were crushed and maimed in a fright fid maimer. The wreck was the result of a head-on collision of an east-bound and a westbound passenger train and was due to the high wind blowing out the red signal light set at McCord's for the purpose of stopping the west bound train. As the west bound train rushed past the operator at McCord’s immediately reported the fact to the dispatcher, and running to the signal board found the light was out. The two trains were running at full speed and the engines were reduced to tangled bits of wreckage. The first cars were also demolished and the entire trains left the track, except the last coach on each, so great was the force of the collision. The east-bound train was crowded with passengers when it left Grand Rapids. It carried scores of Christmas visitors returning to their homes along the Pere Marquette line after spending the holidays in the city. The train was much heavier than usual on account of this extra rush. The incoming train also was heavily loaded. It. too, bore a holiday crowd, as well as the regular Saturday rush of passengers. As usual, the smokers were damaged more than any of the other coaches and in the smokers every seat was occupied. The wreck took place about half a mile west of East Paris. There is a curve at that point and a long grade extends from half a mile east of East Paris to near the scene of the wreck. । The west-bound train had just descended I this grade when the collision occurred. i The spee4 of the train must have been very high because of the velocity by the descent of the grade and of the fact that | the train was trying to make up time. \\ bile the two fast passenger trains, I beyond human recall, rushed through the | । blinding blizzard to meet in a crash that j snuffed out twenty-two lives and injured । twenty-nine persons, many of them fa- • tally officials of the Pere Marquette Railroad kept a ghastly vigil with death, i M hen the terrified operator at McCord had ticked off his halting message that | I the west-bound train had whirled past i . his station and was beyond reach the dis- ' patchers could do naught but call formed- i ical aid and order the fastest engine at- . tached to the wreck train. Then they i bent over their silent instruments, await- | ing in agonized suspense the dread message they knew would come. SAM PARKS NEAR DEATH. Former Labor I.cader'w Lungs Have Become Solidified. Sam Parks, the former labor leader, who is serving a two and one-half years’ sentence in Sing Sing penitentiary, will leave the prison hospital next week if all / JOHh \ / i

■' I I 1 I SAM PARKS. go. s well. According to Warden John- ; stop. Parks will be put at light work in | the brush shop, more to occupy his mind ; and hands than to accomplish any ma- ' terial results. The prison doctor is authority for the statement that both of Parks’ lungs are solidified and that he has daily hemorrhages. There is no hope for his recovery, it is declared, and he will not live i out the spring. War ten's Wife is Free. Mrs. Katherine Soffel is once more a free woman, after serving a sentence of twenty months in the western peuiteni tiary of Pennsylvania. All newspaper leaders will recall the sensational affair in which the woman figured. She w: s the wife of the warden of the Allegheny County jail, in which were confined the notorious Biddle brothers, bandits. She fell in love with the bandits, aided them to escape and eloped with them. Previous to becoming a victim of the brothers she had been a faithful wife and had never given evidence that she was capable of going so contrary to ordinary sentiment and action. In the pursuit one of the Biddles was killed and the other seriously wounded. Hie woman was tried for her part in the escape and sentenced to twenty months’ imprisonment. During her incarceration her husband secured a divorce. The woman will live with her parents. Sparks from the Wires. The Prussian supreme court has decid«*d that strike picketing is lawful if conets’ presence is not objectionable to the tenant. A radium factory started in Germany has many hundred grain orders on its books. The company receives $2,000 a grain for the product and it is unable to meet the demand. The Beaumont Confederated Oil and Pipe Line Company has been placed in the hands of a receiver on the application of S. J. Von Koennertz, who alleges that the company is insolvent. Four robbers entered the grocery store of Blackmer Brothers in Horneilsville, N. Y., and blew open the safe with dynamite. geting only $lO. The explosion nearly wrecked the building. Gov. George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts was elected president Erring Winslow secretary and David Green Haskins, Jr., treasurer of the New England Anti-Imperialist League at Boston. In a street duel at Columbus. Ohio, between John Garrett, a saloonkeeper, and two robbers, Mike McGinnis, one of the highwaymen, was shot in the breast and the saloonkeeper in the arm. Nettie S. Abbott of New Hampshire, a distant relative, has tiled notice of contest of the will of Gordon McKay of Newport, R. 1., who bequeathed several thousand dollars to Harvard University. Two Bulgarian missionaries named Furnajieff and Popoff have left Vienna for New York to tour the United States to raise money for destitute Macedonians. Both are graduates of American colleges, the former of Princeton and the latter of Hamilton.

1® ; snvs: Business is decidedly better than at any recent date, and the impro-. i-inent is not confined to activity in holiday goods, although the best reports concern those lines. Continued lower temperature not only stimulates sales, but jobbers are receiving supplementary orders for seasonable goods, and collections ar- more prompt. Building permits issued during November exceeded the same month last year, railway tonnage is heavy and several manufacturing branches are starting idle machinery. On the other hand, there is no improvement of the situation in the cotton industry, and fuel products are restricting output. Confidence is increasing in the iron and steel industry, and the feeling is becoming more general that prices will not be materially lower, except possibly in some departments that have not yet participated in the readjustment, it is encouraging to find some improvement in the demand for pig iron, although no extensive tonnage is expected to be taken until 1904. The steel markets have been uncertain during the week, owing to the numerous meetings for the settlement of price lists and wage scales. At last it is possib’ > to chronicle a substantial advance in quotations for cotton goods. New England shoe shops have many orders for delivery next month. Favorable features of vulCSyO. ^ le week’s activities are the growing ease in money, fewer commercial defaults, and heavy consumption of merchandise. Weather conditions have been unusually conducive to large dealings in the necessities and holiday wares. Gains are recorded in the luxuries and high-priced goods, and the buying was liberal in wearing apI parel, household requirements and the j best grades of furniture. Prices average high, but buyers take hold freely. Taken i as a whole, retail trade has advanced with excellent results. Demings at wholesale are larger than have been expected in several branches, and reassortment orders have shown well in heavy dry goods, clothing and shoes. Selections for spring delivery are now appearing satisfactorily, and the outlook shows improvement, although interior merchants in some respects are conservative in their views. Grain shipments aggregated 1.551.13 G bushels, and are 22 per cent less than corresponding week of 1902. Demand has shown sharp contraction in most of the cereals, but prices; compared with a week ago show only slight changes. Corn declined one-quarter of a cent, and advances are in oats three-eighths of a cent and wheat one-quarter of a cent. Live stock receipts, 380,164 head, are 4 per cent under a year ago. \ \ Internatiocat’s Repprt. Special telegrams from correspondents of the International Mercantile Agency concerning the stiW* I I > the United • dividend disbursements at i

jQWS’ M i cull o v guv 11 to <1 U . ( * ......ueiphia Jan. 1 will aggregate $9,000,000, at Pittsburg $6,000,000, an 1 at | St. Louis $4,000,000. At the “Quaker City ’ the wool industry fell behind 25 per cent this year owing to previous i forced production and strikes, but the ‘ outlook for 19ii-l is good. General trade prospects at Pittsburg ■ for next year are for gains. Chicago rej ports a fair outlook for next year. St. Louis an encouraging one. and St. Paul one as good as this year. Nearly all leading western railways are suffering from lack of motive power to move freight offered—the first instance of the kind this year. Inquiries for 50.000 tons of rails and structural steel at Chicago constitute one of the features of the industrial week. I -■ 1 ms Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, fair to ch.dee. $2.25 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 84c to SGc; corn. No. 2. 40c to 41c; oats, standard, 33c to 35c; rye, No. 2. 51c to 52c: hay, timothy. $8.50 to $12.00; prairie, $6.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 25c to 29c; potatoes, 61c to 64c. Indianapolis—Cattle, hipping. $3.00 to $5.25; bogs, choice light. $4.00 to $4.45; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.35; wheat. No. 2. 85c to S7c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 3Sc. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, $4.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 90c to 91c: corn. No. 2, 42c to 43c: oats. No. 2. 35c to 36c; rye. No. 2. 47c to 48c. Cincinnati —Cattle. $4.00 to $4.50; hogs, $4.00 to $4.60; sheep, $2.00 to $3.35: wheat No. 2 mixed. 45c to 46c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; rye. No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50: hogs. $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25: wheat. No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn. N>. 3 yellow, new. 43c to 45c; oats. No. 3 white. 37c to 38c; rye, No. 2. 59c to 60c. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern. S2c to SBc; corn. No. 3,44 cto 45c; oats. No. 2 white. 36c to 37c; rye. No. 1.55 c to 57c: barley. No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork, mess, $11.25. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed. S7c to 89c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 43c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; rye. No, 2,56 c to 58c; clover seed, prime. $7.02. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.00: hogs, fair to prime. $4.09 to $4.45; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; lambs, common to choice. $4.00 to $5.90. New York —Cattle. $3.50 to $5.20; hogs, $4.00 to $4.50: sheep. $3.00 ;o $3.80; wheat. No. 2 red. 91c to 93c; corn. No. 2. 51c to 52c; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 42c; butter, creamery, 20c to 23c; eggs, western, 28c to 36c. Thia and That. Mrs. Carrie Nation's show has come to grief in the Pennsylvania mining regions. Its effects were attached at York. President Roosevelt and Commissioner of Pensions Ware will deliver addresses on the Gettysburg battlefield next Memorial day. May 30. 19(M. A. Baumgartner, a prominent farmer, eight miles west of Newton. Kan., was struck by Santa Fe train No. 2. two miles west i«f Burton, nnd killed instantly. Jolin Nelson was blown to pieces and John Morris fatally injured by an explosion of dynamite at a railroad construction camp near Oklahoma C.ty, O. T.