E X C U R S IO N
T R A IN
A O C I D ff N T .
MtaM talU e« O « lr l« H . O ne M issien eaO
Thirty-five People Lost in a
Georfia Train Wreck.
WAS A DISASTROUS WASH-OUT
Bombay, ladta.
Oregon’s vote, offioUlly canvassed,
oa tha equal suffrage amendment waa
as follows: fo r equal suffrage, 24,966;
10 m in u t e s
la t e r
G o v ern o r
Ko.
of New Teak, waa unanimously
ad to stand beside him in the
__ Gestera) Wheal« says tbs war in tha
Philippines is practically ended. A
tees can easily ba spared from tha ia-
A young man named Robert Jackson,
Of Riddle. Or., accidentally ahot him
self while deer bunting. Ha was in
stantly killed.
By tha death of David D. Walla, son
of the lata David A. Walla, of Norwieb.
Conn., Harvard University ia ric h «
by about 987,000.
After July 1 tha offloe of Indian
agent at Warm Springs, Or., w ill he
dispensed w ith, a t which time Agent
J a m « L. Cowan w ill ha dropped.
Hawaiiana have mat in convention
a t Honolulu and have formed aa inde
pendent political party. They have
already begun the fight tar statehood.
Tha statue of Washington presented
to the city of Paris by the Daughters
of the American Revolution has arrived
in Paris. Tha pedretal has already
bean prepared, aad tha unveiling w ill
west Telegraph Company, the Canada
Atlaatio, the Bell Telephone Company
O v « 800 men have q u it week owiai
to therefusal of the companies to n »
Tha secretary of the navy has author
ised the following naama for tha naw
battle-ships and cruisers: battle-ships,
Virginia aad Rhode Island; armored
m s lu r - . Maryland, Colorado aad South
Dakota; protected crulsera, St. Louis,
Milwaukee and Charleston.
A strike has occurred among tbe la
borers employed bv tha Havana Eleo-
trio Company, Cubans and Spanish, on
I t is officially announced that Arch
duke F n a c ie Ferdinand, the Austrian
th e 'rig h T y a a o ce ae i o n to the imperial
throne. H e w ill wed the Countess
Sophie Chotock, his morganatic mar-
vHmsMk t a i n »
m utton
for
w h ic h
ho
w ill withdraw bom tha suooaaaion.
A t the and of a half hoars* speech,
the senator plaoed McKinley ia nom
ination, amid enthruelaam unbounded.
S e c o n d in g speeches were made by
Theodora Roosevelt, Senator Thurston,
John W . Yerkes, an orator from the
Blue Gram state, aad Govern« Mount,
of Indiana, but before the la te « cob-
eluded the convention w u impatient
for a voter and several tim w tried to
bowl him down.
Americans aad Russians fought side
by side at Tien Tssn.
Five children perished by the. burn
ing nf a house atSolomonvilla, Ariaona.
e n d is h
and
T hom as H enry
B r ic e , In
Phoenix Park. Dublin, ia 1888, they
cannot ba p e r m itte d t o land ia thia
oountry a n d « our immigration laws.
-• Two thousand stand o! arms have
been given up by the Bows at Pretoria.
The battle-ship Oregon and 6,000
a s « forte at Taka,
A special seasioi
« lie d . The sitae
Cologne. Germany, w « visited by a
cyclone, which demolished many build
ings and threw down a number o(
factory buildings.
Three of tha forte at Taku were com
Eight p e o p le w e r e k ille d o u tr ig h t
pletely destroyed hy the bombardment and 64 severely injured by a collision
from foreign ships, and the British vee- between a freight end excursion train
sels«ptared four C hine« torpedo bonta. n o « G r e « Bay, Wie.
Mrs. Beveridge, wife ef United Statoa
Frank Gilomre, a white man, of
Senatoi Beveridge, of Indiana, died in New Orlaaae, w m lynched hy a mob
a sanitarium at Dansville, N . Y ., of for tbe criminal anmult end brutal
heart failure. She had been 111 «veral m u rd « of a 60-year-old women.
months.
A detachment of 40 Amerfoana were
H a lf of the buiin«s portion of the « tig h t in embuah by Filipinos on the
city of Blooimngtun, 111., lnoluding »-U im I
Mlnuanao, w ith the result
five squares of the finest basins« bloaka that nine ware killed end I I wounded.
of the city and the eoort hen«, wara
Five m w w e « killed by n cyclone
destroyed by fire, with foes« etaimeted
whioh visited No Man’s Land, Okla
at 91.000,000.
homa. Tha storm swept the country
Negotiations for a Mmmerolal treaty for 80 miles.
Tboueends of « t t le
with F ra n « bare been sattafeetorily W«re,stempeded and many killed and
concluded by the Brasilian minister ot Injored.
foreign affairs ta Rio Janeiro. F ra n «
Joseph M allet end J a m « Fitaharris,
w ill grant a reduction of 20 p « cent
on the duty on Brasilian Mffea.
Tha Paoiflo O il Works Company w m
incorporated at Taroma, Wash., with
a « p ita l of 9260,000, to bow for oil in
a gulch, almost in the heart of the
city. Sample oil from outcropping in
dicate rich deposit.
Work w ill be
proeecuted at onoe.
A dispatch from Lord Roberts sent
from Pretoria, June 18, gives an offi .aU
version of an attack on a British p u t
at Zand river, Jane 18. hy 800 Bouc.
with three guns. I t rays that Gaaeral
Knox, with a mixed fo r« , drove off die
Boers, who left four dwd and four pris
oners on the field. The British lorn
was Major Seymour and two m w killed
and nine wounded.
The French government w ill have
4,200 troops at Taku w b w tha reia-
forcements just ordered have «rived
there. They w ill reach Taka before
June 80. Tbe dispatch of a oruisn
division, whioh w m decided epoa,
w ill give F ra n « a strong naval force,
consisting of « ra n modern cruiaen—
three of the Brat-clam aad tow of tbe
second class four gunboats aad a dis
p a tc h b oat.
The fobeoco trust H m established h
virtual boycott on independent, d w lo n
doing buaiaem in New England.
S tatist!« of the criminal popalatioa
ot the United States shows that oaly
aix per em t of the total number af
criminal« are worn«.
Tbe Montreal Star claims it has evi-
d e n « that tha Clan-na-GMl planned
the Welland oanal ex plot ion as a re-
priaal on Canada for sending troops to
Sooth A f r i« .
Benjamin D. Stillman, of New York,
aged 93, is the oldest living graduate
of Yale, of whioh his father end grand
father were also alnmal. He ia still n
practicing lawyer.
The 8 « Frenoisoo Call stotoe that
'ex-ljueen L ilia o k a lu i hM decided to
bring salt agalast the United Rtatoe
government for the restoration of the
an English prison for complicity in tbs
Phosnix park murders, and who ar
rived a t New York, May 27 last, have
b a « deported.
Aa o rd « from Adjutant-General
Corbin has b a « received a t tha Pre
sidio, San Pnnclsoo, directing that the
troops Of the Sixth « r a l l y shall be re
cruited to their full war strength, la
view of the fata that thia organisation
w m ordered recently to proceed to
Manila and tba o rd « to recruit to the
lim it waa sent ton.« time later, tbe
opinion ia expressed that the regiment
Is to he arat to China Instead of the
P hllip p in «.
The recruits w ill bs
«looted fro « th o « now at the Presidio.
Ninety persona Wore killed and 872
woueded in the rej«nt condlct between
dlstriot, Bulgaria. A state of siege hs»
been proclaimed in the aitaricts ol
Varna, Shmala. Timova, Raagrand,
Rastchuk and Riitovats. The govern-
m « t is anxioea to lim it tba number,
of newspapers, and. has iseesd string-
ent regulations m to the quallfi«tiona
whioh must be p o s s e s « J by tbe edito<|.
By the d « th of Thomas E. Mtsco
in New York six theaters and a large
fortune are left to his 16-year-old
daughter Edna, hi* sole heir.
A monument to M aj. Gen. John
Sedgwick hM h e « set up at bis birth
place, Cornwall. Conn., and i t was
dadfoated on Memorial day.
Berlin postal a u th o riti« estimate
that no lower t h « 180. (XX) postal card»
without aay address« at a ll are malted
ia the German empire evaiy y e « .
Atlanta, Ga., June » . — A passe—
trala oa tha Macon branch «•(
Southern railw ay ran into a v - -» out
one and a half miles north of Me-
Douoagh teat night, aad was oumplate
ly wrecked. The wreck oangbt fire
and the entire train, w ith tha excep
tion of tha sleeper, waa destroyed.
Every person oa the train, except tha
occupants of the Pullman car.Jjeriahed.
Not a atember of tha train crew eaoap
ed. Thirty-five people in a ll wara
killed.
Tha train left Maoon a t 7:10. and
waa due in Atlanta a t 0:40 Uat night.
McDonough station waa reached on
tim e. A t thia point connection is
made for Columbus, Ga., and every
night tha Columbus train fa ooupled
oa and hauled through to Atlanta.
Last night, however, for the first time
la many months, tha Columbus .train
waa reported two hours Ute, on ac
count of a wash out on that branch,
and the Macon train started on to
Atlanta without Ha Columbus oonnec-
Pbiladalphla, Juan SS.— Pi
MeKiatey waa unanimously rem
ad for president of tha United
by tha Republioan National con
a t 1:48 o'clock today, aad aa hi
Lafe Young, who.tras w ith Roo«velt
in C u b a , nominated him on bebalf o f
the state which had originally came ta
Philadelphia for DoUtvw.
H ie nom
ination w m seconded by Delegato Mur
ray, of Secretary Long's state, and Del
egate Ashton, of Washington, who
eame here for Bartlett Tripp. [Chaun
cey Depew wound up tba oratory on
behalf of tha state whioh declared for
Woodruff.
Dupew'e speech aroused
the moot derail ng dreams of the coun
try ’s future. During every punas, th»
band played bat one air, the tune
which Colonel Roo«velt bed heard in
the trenches before Santiago.
A t 1:14 o’clock the convention, which
had done the unparalleled thing of
nominating both the candidates far
president and vice-president unani
mously, adjourned.
Governor Roosevelt drove from the
«invention ball with M r. Odell, seated
ia the r e « of an o p « landau.
Ha
lifted hie hroad-brimad bat to tha 'con
tinuum valves that groeted him « ha
passed through the densely peeked
street, like a c o rn e rin g hero fresh
from new viotortaa. Tonight the feees
of MoKinley and Roo«velt are on a ll
the badgw, end their namw are oa
every lip . _______________ _
aiyaed aad tha national « e d it disas
trously impaired. Tha country’s capi
tal was hidden away and ita labor dis
tressed and unemployed? The Demó
crata had no other plan w ith which to
Improve tha ruinous conditions whloh
they had themselves produced, than to
coin silver at tha ratio of 1 6 \o 1. The
Republican party, denouoing thia plan
as sure to produce conditions even
worm than thorn from which relief waa
sought, promised to i setose prosperity
by means of two legislative measures—
a protective tariff aad a tew making
gold tha standard of vaina.
Tha peo
ple, by great majorities, issued to tha
Republican party a commission to on
set them laws.' Thia commission has
been executed, and the Kepnbllçan
Tremendous rains, of daily occur
pledge is redeemed; and prosperity rence for the past two weeks, have
more general and more abundant than swollen a ll streams in thia part of tha
we hqva aver known has followed them South aad several wash outs have been
en a ctm en ts.
reported on the different roads. Camps
There is no longer any controversy as creak, which runs into tha Ocmulgea.
to tha value of any govarnemant obli- was o v « its bank and its waters had
gationa. Every American dollar ia a spread to a ll tha lowlands through
gold dollar or its equivalent, and whloh it runs. About a m ile aad a
American « e d it stands h ig h « than half north of McDonough tha creek
that of any nation.
Capital ia fu lly cum « somewhere near the Southern's
employed, and everywhere labor ia tracks, and, running alongside of I t for
profitably occupied.
soma distance, finally pasaea - away
■ s K l e U j ’s A S m lalatratlaa.
an d« tha road by a heavy stone cul
feWe indorse tha administration of vert. A cloudburst brake o v « that
W illiam McKinley.
Its acta have section of tha country about 8 o'clock
been established in wisdom and in last night, and preaumsbly shortly
patriotism, and at-home and abroad it aftor dark waabed out a section of tha
has distinctly elevated and extended track nearly 100 feet in length.
the influence of the American nation.
Into this tba sw iftly moving train
W alking untried paths and feeing un- plunged. Tha storm waa s till raging
forseen responsibilities, President M c and a ll the oar windows ware closed.
Kinley baa been, in every situation, Tha passengers, secure as they thought,
the true American patriot and upright and sheltered comfortably from tha in
statesman, claar in vision, strong ia element weather, wont to death w ith
judgment, firm in action, always in out an inatant’s warning.
The train,
spiring and deserving the confidence of consisting of baggage cst, a aaoand-
olam coach, first-clam coach and a
Pullman sleep«, was knocked into
We « n e w our allegiance to the prin kindling wood by the fall. The wrack
ciple of the gold standard, and declare caught fire ia a few minutes aftor tha
our confidence in tbe wisdom of the fall, and a ll tha ooach« wara burned
legislation of the Fifty-sixth oongress, except the Pullman car. Every person
by which the parity of a ll of our oa that train except the occupants of
money and the stability of aax cur- the Pullman car, perished in tha dis
aster. Thera w u no escape, « the
heavy Pullman oar weighted down the
others, and tha few alive in the sleep«
were unable to re n d « amtetaaan to
their fallow passengers.
,
and production
W e oomwend the policy of the Re
publican pertp ta maintaining tha afll-.
clency of the civil serrios.
Tha ad
ministration hM acted wisely In its
effort to aeouie for public service in
Cube, Puerto Rico, H a w a ii and the
Philippine islands only th o s e whose
fitne». has 1-een determined by train in g
and experience. . W e believe that em
ployment in the public servioe in th e «
territories should ho confined, as for «
practicable, to their inhabitants.
Public movements looking to a p « -
manent improvement of the roads and
highways of the country, meta with
our cordial approval, and we recom
mend this subject to the earnest mnsid-
« a tfo n of the people end of the legis
latures of the several states.
Wa favor the extension of the rural
fraa delivery service w h e n v « ita ex
tension may he justified.
We favor home rule for and the e « ly
admission to statehood of the te rrito ri«
of New Mexico, Ariaona and Okla
homa.
We favor the construction, owner-
■hip, oontrol and protection of an isth
mian canal hy the government of the
United States.
In the interest of oar expanding com
merce, wa recommend that congress
create a department of comm eroe and
industries in the charge o f a secretary
w ith a seat in the cabinet.
Wa approve the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands to the United States.
ltoUerte VraaS O alltr.
Salt Lake, June 81.— The jury ia the
case ot B. H . Roberto, an tria l for un
lawful oohabitation. returned a verdita
of guilty. Roberts, in aa agreed state
ment of tecta pat before the Jury, ad
mitted that be « te re d into a polyga
T k e r h llly y iM « .
mous marriage with Maggie B. Shipp
In acoepting, by tbe treaty of Paris,
and lived w ith her and hia legal wife,
the responsibility of our victories in
Sarah Loniea. I t is claimed that Rob the Spanish war, the president and the
erts relies on the raprame court to re
senate won tbe undoubted approval of
verse the verdict on technical grounds.
tbe American people. No o th « course
w m possible than to destroy Spain’s
sovereignty throughout the West Indies
and in tbe Philippine islands.
The largest measure of self-govern
ment consistent with their welfare and
our duties shall bo secured to them by
law .
To Cuba, Independence and
self-government were anrared in tbe
« m e Yoice by which w m w m declared.
The Republican party, upon its his
tory a»d upon this declaration ot Its
principles and p o lic i« confidently in
vokes the considerate and approving
Judgment of tha Anrtricaa people.
T orrikle TraneO r la Baa Pva a s ls s s .
8an Franciooo, Jana 28.— Henry E.
Pike, a bookkeep«, shot and killed hia
fo rm « wife, and t h « committed m i*
eide tonight at the home of Mrs. Pike.
Pika left a tetter fall of abum of hia
P o rta b le f c r a l l l B lo w Vp.
H a m b u r g , N . Y -, June 88.— A bolter
of a portable steam engine used to pro
pel a raw m ill exploded n e « tbe village
of Eden, Erie oounty, this evening, ih-
stantly killing three men— John Flem
fo rm er wHe, » cen sin g her of m any im ing, Alexander Fleming and Bert Mam-
proprieties. Pike formmly lived nt
D m ror, w h an ha w m ia tha employ
Taeoma w ill o ff« a 9160 M irer cap
ef tha Dearer A Rio Granda railroad.
Ha oama ta this city about eight yean for a compstire d rill between the 18
oompanies of tbe National Guard,
which w ill «tebrata t h « s July 4.
Havaaat June 81.— Oraaral Wood
ha« loaned the following statement:
"The examination by export account
ants of tbs treasurer’s o fll« from the
tion net. Increasing tho pay of « v a i data of ita inception lata ye w hM h e «
A balloon bon« is being b u ilt' si
odBcere on abase la Puerto Rise, Cuba, oompletod. Tbe o ffi« w m foaml ia
Fort M y « , n s « Washington, and n->
tbs P h ilip p i« islands, H aw aii and excellent mndition. I t Iws also h a «
tensive sxpsrimmts era to bs made by
Alaska by 10 pemeMt, and tor tha « - conclusively proved that tbe charge of
tha govetnmwt looking toward tha a «
extravagan« ia tha m a tt« af « l a r i «
to Am eri«ns paid from ialaad faade is
abaolately without loondatiou.
The
fata of the « « is that the highsta
« l a r i « paid ia tha island are paid to
Cubans. Tha seporti of extravagance
• * 8 n e 1 paade I s o o n s d e r p e r s e tr o o lr ju lg ’ ’
is the Flemish word foe automoblls.
W ouldn't that make you rtlgk M the
old reliable boss?
■ e G reat« t h e Y tU ntaee Wvarly AU
T h ey Aah Tar.
M anila, Jane 88.— General Mae-
Arthur baa given a formal an ew « to
tha Filipino loaders who lata Thursday
submitted to him peace propomls that
had b a « approved eextier in the day
by a meeting of representative insurg
ents. In his reply he aaeuied them
that a ll panonal rights a n d « tha
United States «institution excepting
tria l by Jury and the right to b e «
arms would bo guaranteed them.
“ The promoters of the p ea« movement
are now engaged in reconstructing the
draft of the seven clans« submitted to
General MacArthur in such a way w
to render it aooeptable to both a id « .
The seventh clause, providing for
the expolaion of the friars, General
MacArthor rejected oa the ground that
th eaettlem w t of tbte question rests
w ith tbe wmmiesion handed by Judge
Taft.
That portion of tha Forty-third in
fantry whioh formerly garrisoned the
island of Samar w ill proceed to the
Island of Leyte, giving the garrison
there the needed reinforcements. Tbe
battalion of the Twenty-ninth infantry
whioh w w s w t ywtarday ta S am «
w ill act aa the garrison there.
Prahro, June 26.— Sufficient sup
plies have at lata been collected and
tbe final advance to open oom m unl«-
tion w ith Knmami is ready. On the
road from Askant« to Kwahou are
throe v illa g « where are garrisoned
some 7,000 fighting men, who have
practiced the ritae of Fetish worship
and pledged themselv« to help the
Aahante«.
British Join Allied Forces
Near Tien Tsin. .
la t h is taty. collided ta 10:1« thia
morning w ith a freight train at Depere.
five miles south of hero. Eight persona kNOTHER ASSAULT’ IMMINENT
v a n kilted and 64 waaa injured.
The accident happened jest M the
r a n r i trala waa palling lata tha
station. A doable haadar freight waa
faaoking info a alda track, bat had not
cleared tha mala track. Those Injured
w en nearly a ll la tha aaooad coach.
Whan tha two tralaa came together tha
■rat car, whioh waa a combination car,
waa driven through tha aaooad ooach,
where tha lorn of Ufa occurred.
Noaeof tha trainmen wara injured,
the engine oraw Jumping la tim e to
rave them ml vee.
Both eagtaoe wara
badiy damaged and two ooachea ware
brokea Into kindling wood.
Of tha Injured SO are In a aerloea
condition, and «veral may not raoover.
Tha excursion train waa made np at
Fond da Lao aad waa packed w ith peo
ple from that city,
Oahkoah and
Neenah.
Tha first two ooachea of tha passenger
train were telescoped and demolished,
few of tha pasaengers « « p in g injury.
Some wara killed outright, others ware
terribly mangled. Others wara badly
crashed and maimed— a ll hemmed la
amid tha debris of the wracked oar.
Passengers poured cut of the ¡rear
ooachea, and i t waa bat a moment be
fore hundreds of w illing workers war*
busy
extracting the unfortunates.
Soma of the injurad ware barely alive
whan they were taken oat aad died ba-
fare they could ba removed.
The bodies of Charles Mieraa, of Osh
kosh, and Edward Koake, of Fond d u
Lac. ware terribly crushed, and oould
scarcely ba recognised.
The cause of the accident, so far ar
has been determined a t thia time, was —. — — --------------- ~
dac to the freight crew failing to give
“ d General
tha paaseqger tha right of way.
troops, numbering 8,6
Lata tonight 1» other injured, a a h - .
otaoc June 1».
lag a total of 68 hurt, wara found at
“ A careful eatlniafc
different houses la the nighborhood. »nd armament of the
where they had bean taken by friends, around Pekin pun th«
Of these tha injuries generally consist- and i t is calculated t
ad of braises and dislocations.
possess 817 oantimeh
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18 Krupna and 160
MADM AN
SLEW
A
F A M IL Y .
Cedar Rapida, la ., June 87.— C h a ri«
Mefford. a maniac, today killed J a m «
Fitatam m o«, fatally injurad Joseph
Drake, kerioualy afid possibly fatally
injured Mrs.
J a m « Fitasimmona,
slightly injurad Mies K a t e jjt e s iw -
mone. and than ended his own life.
Mefford, who ia 87 years o ld 7 came
hare from an asylum two years ago,
■ nd h u d n e v e r b e e n r e tu r n e d .
L u te
S a tu r d a y h e b e c a m e w i l d , u nd d a r te d
o u t o f h is h o m e , a r a v in g m a n ia c .
The
police triad unsuocesafully to find him .
Shortly before 6 o’eloeh this morning,
R e g n iu ld A n d r e w « , t h e ja n ito r
ut
th e
Old L a d l e s ’ Home, waa awakened by
c r a s h in g g la m .
The n ex t m om en t
M effo rd sto o d b e fo r e h im , s ta r k n a k e d ,
swinging a aachyoha.
•'rh u v e m u r d e r e d a whole family
tonight, and I am going to h ill yen
next aad then e v e r y b o d y in t h e b o rn e, ”
declared n eserd . w u n t a n ne ai-
tempted to brain Andrews. Tha latter
choked him into submission. Rushing
through tba bourn, Andrews looked the
old ladtes in their rooms, notified the
polios, and ran across tha street to the
home of J a m « Drake ) « assistance.
Aa A n d r e w s a n d D ra k e em e r g e ,) a few
m in u t e s la te r , Mefford, c a r r y in g a n a x ,
was seen to plunge through a window
in the homo of J a m « Fltsaimmons
near hy. Aa ha entered tba room,
Mrs. Fitastmmonk uttered a scream,
Mefford swung the ox and brought it
down toward her head. H er uplifted
arm saved her life; the arm was broken
in two plaoss, and she «S ored a reri-
o f a m m u n it io n
|> “ L i Ping Heng, ex-governor of Shun
I Tung, who is intensely snti-fomign,
has gone to the Kiang Y in iortu, on the
Yangtae. H a has declared h it inten
tion of resisting the landing of British
forces In that region."
Extensive preparations by the allies
are going forward. The first regiment
of British India's 10.000 m m am barked
at Calcutta yesterday, and 888 m o r e
marines received orders to go out from
English ports. The British w ar offioe,
in anticipation of a prolonged cam
paign, ia contracting for w inter cloth
ing arjd fu r cape.
» The A m ur army oorpa, ordered out
by Russia, numbers 68,100 men, w ith
84 guns. J a p a n p u r p o se s to land 16,-'
000 men an C h in e « territory w ithin a
m ilitary
fortnight. Among
He continued
a b o v e b i» h e a d .
to
wave the revo lv«
B ut ju st
a« t h e
first
offimr grabbed the revolvw from . be
hind, Mefford fell o v « in to the getter
dead.
ruuudi
St. L eal« Striker« M ata Mat Ia te rfe r e
W ith M ail Oars.
St. Louis, June 87.—Judge E lm «
B. Adams, of tbe United Statoa district
c o u r t , to d a y g r a n te d a te m p o r a r y in
junction in tbe « a s of W . D. Mahon
and a ll members of Division No. 1811
Of t h e A m a lg a m a t e d A s s o c ia t io n o f
Street Railw ay E m p lo y« of Amorim ,
rw training them from interfering in
any way w ith the running of m ail car«
o v « the lines of the St. Louis Transit
Company.
Nona of tbe defendant«
were prewnt. They were represented
by W. 8. Anthony, w hile District A t
torney Hitchcock and Rosière acted
lot the government.
In summing np the contents of the
affidavits p rw w ted, M r. Anthony de
clared that It w m not shown that any
of the defendants name«I had beeu
guilty of lawlessness.
"O n the con
tra ry ," he added, "th e strike leader«
and e ll tba member« M tbe Street R ail
way M w ’s Uaion have èouneelled law
and o rd « .
The Transit Company i:
not responsible, perhaps, (or the un
settled conditions which exitaed.
It
Is tbe union men who have been made
to suffer and Lear tbe brant of a ll the
disturbance«.
The preeidw t ol the
union, M r. Patterson, is dying in the
hospital ee tlie re w lt of being stabbed
by an assassin^_________
Mrs. A . P. Lowrie, a Presbyterian
missionary, who has b e « stationed at
Pao Ting Fa for tbe lata six y e a n , and
who has arrived a t San Frenoisoo, re
ports that on tbe night of May 18 many
native Christiana, principally woman
■ M M m ll ta M eK lalay.
Washington, Jons 26.— The follow and children, ware murdered by the
ing is the text of Governor Roosevelt’s Boxers while fleeing from Pao Ting Fu
toward Tian Tain.
in nmrgit to President McKinley:
“ New York, June 26.— Hon. W il
P a k ta L e^ allaaa Mta la ja r o S .
liam McKinley, Washington, D . C.: I
BrasMla, J was 88.— The P etit B I «
appreciate greatly your congratula statoa that a telegram w m received
tio n « , and am proud to ba associated yesterday by aa important Brassls firm
The London, England, T im « mys:
w ith you on the ticket.
from China, saying that Adm iral Sey- “ England, w ith 600 years of license,
ssow’s relieving fo r« and tha Russian is the worst liquor tu n ed nation in the
"T H E O D O R E R O O S E V E L T ."
column « te re d Pekin simultaneously. w o rld ."
-.wfo
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Birmingham, Ala., Jana 3fl.— Hrnyy Tbs legations ware reported intact, and
C a llf o r a la W k a a t fo r P ta ii.
rains the past few days have done a ll the Belgian residents a n said to ba
Lima, Peru, via Galveston, June 27.
heavy damage. I t Iws rained ovary
— An excellent impression has been
T h e T a g a la A g a ia A ggröaalva.
day this month in this section, tbe to
Ortia, Mexico, June 26.— General made by tbs announcement that in ad
ta l rainfall s in « t h e iirat o ' A p r il be
ing 34.92 in c h « . Reports from the Torres hM divided hia forces Into two dition u> the 60,000 tons of California
wheat which h M just arrived at Cal
terming districts are that the fields
have bom so soaked w ith water that new stronghold of the Yaquia, kmatod lao, an equal quantity is on the way tu
the farmers have b a « unable to do any about 60 miles north of Torta. One Peru.
work for « v e ra l w « k s , and g ra « is army of 8,600 men is on the snot side
M a a ltek a Crape F a lla S .
running away w ith tha crope. Cotton of the Yaqul river, and the o th « army,
Winnipeg, Manitoba. June 27.— Of
hM suffered more than any othto crop, numbering about 6,000 men, ia on the
while fruit and vegetablw a n rotting. west side. Tbe In d ia « have beeome 1,800,000 acres of w b « t. 1,000,000
sores w ill m v w ba eat.
Rains can
B ig P a b U a h la g C aataM t.
Redford, la d ., June 86.— Albert not now change a stunted crop, six to
Chicago, June 26.— W hat la raid to
ba tha most important contract of tba Roberts aad O so« jean» have been sight in c h « high, and a small bead
kind o v « made west of tba Mississippi rival suitor» for i l i a Jennie Russell. into a crop. Tha more optimistic bops
r i v * w m executed bars lata night. W hite Roberts and Mtes R u s m II ware fer mad and feed, hat thia is doubtful.
By ita teems a local publishing oom- oat driving they mta Jeans, and • pia- This is the hottest day of the y e « .
pany eeourea for five years tha sxela-
sive publication of tbe Joint produc
tion« of L . Frank Baum and W. W .
Denslew, roopetaively author and i l l « -
tentar of **F a tb « Goo«. His Book."
end the "W onderful W in u d of O n ."
Meaara. R a n « and Deaafow a n to pro*
f in « a t IsM t eno book a y e « , end i t ia
said that they sot -gnaraatosd royalttes
w alkiui
awootei
a s llu u s
o f a il»
h a v e at
ft >14. b i
of Maeao,"j6iand’ of Macao, at the
s o u t h w e s t e n t r a n c e of Cnnton r iv « , is
eending arms fo the Portuguem eon-
OMsion. The Germans ia Hoag Kong
have cabled Emperor W illia m ta oak it
they may serve in the local forces in
defense of Hong Kong.
A m illion
rounds left Hong Kong yesterday for
Takn by the British steamer Huilong.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Tim w sends the following u n d « yes
terday’s date:
- ’
" A m ilitary correspondent a t Taku
•ays the operations of the a l i i « are
suffering from want of a r e c o g n is e d
head, defective organisation and the
lack of transport."
o u s s c a lp w o u n d .
M r. FitssimmoM ruahed Into the
room and grappled w ith the maniao.
Mefford shook him off and split hie
kkull w ith a blow of the ax.
Then
dashing np stain, Mefford attacked
M i « Kate Fitasimraona, Inflicting a
num b« of « v a n emlp wounds.
W b w Meffonl came down s ta in ha
W Muatarad Drake, struck him on the
head with tha ax, aad, taking Drake’s
revolver, ran out of the hones.
After
ra w in g « v e ra l Mocks be pat a ballet
into hie left hawst, just below tbe
heart.
Running oa two a t three
blocks farthw be «at down on the ourb-
■tone. Placing tbe revolvw to the
sm altii
C k la a W ar AVeata K e a t a e k f .
Lousivilla, June 87.— The trouble«
in C h im are beginning to aYect the re
mote districta of the Kentucky moun
tains in the ginseng trade, by which
hundreds of people moke a living.
Ever «inoe the Boxers began their out-