Heppner gazette., January 03, 1907, Image 2

THE IRON PIRATE
A Tlain Talc of Strange
Happenings on the Sea
By MAX
OQQ
CIIAFTER V. (Continued.)
"I went to hrj, my brain aflame with
speculation; put out the candle ; lit it
Rgain. I could not have slopt if a king's
ransom wont with the sleeping; and so 1
lay fretful, blameful, vowing the whole
problem a plague and a cheat. This idle
wandering might have lasted until dawn,
had it not been for my neighbor in the
room to my left, who began to talk with
a low buzz as of a night-insect humming
in a bed curtain. The surging of the
voice amused me: I lay quite still and
listened to it. Now it rose loud I glean
ed a word, and was pleased; now it fell
end I fretted; but anon another voice was
added to the first, and, if the one had
l!eased me. the second thrilled me. It
vs the voice of my friend at the dock.
"Two words spoken by this man
lirought me to my feet ; two more to the
thin wooden door which divided our
rooms. With feverish impatience I knelt
to pry through the keyhole. It was stuffed
with paper. I listened with an ear long
trained to listening, although the men
fpoke so that few words reached me. The
Fiiip had not sailed, then, for here was
the ruffian, who watched her, wasting rest
In the first hours to hold a parley; and
If a parley, with whom? Why, with those
vxho paid him for the work, I did not
doubt.
"At the end of an hour the voices ceas
ed. I judged that my neighbor hud gone
to bed. I took from my satchel a brace
nnd bit, and an oded saw. In ten mil
utes I cut a hole in the partition and put
my eye to it. A burly, black-bearded
man sat in a reverie before a dressing
table, and I saw that there was spread
upon the table a great heap of jewels.
And beside the jewels was a big bulldog
revolver.
"Who was this man? I asked, and why
did he sit in an Italian' hotel fingering
jewels, and giving a meeting place at mid
night to a common murderer from a dock
yard? Were the jewels his own? Had he
come by them honestly? He stirred in his
rhair and then sat bolt uprighc. I thought
be looked to have some tremor of nervous
ness upon him; clutching hastily at the
jewels to put them in a great leather case,
which again he shut in a larger iron box,
3ocking both, and placing the key under
Lis pillow. After that he threw off his
clothes with some impatience, and, leav
ing the lamp which burned upon his dress
tug table, he dropped upon his bed.
"I'.eing assured that my man slept, I
put back with some cold glue, which was
nlways in my tool chest, the piece I hail
rut from the door, and then picked the
lock with one grip of my small pincers.
iMy revolver I carried in the belt at my
waist, for my hands were occupied with
a. soft cloth and a bottle of chloroform.
!l had big felt slippers on my feet ; and
Went straight to his bed, where I let him
tireafhe the drug for a few moments. I
trot at his keys and his jewels, and saw
what I wished. There, true enough, were
jirecious stones of all values, Brazilian
diamonds, Cape stones tinged with yellow,
he finer class of Indian turquoise, pink
jiearls, black pearls all these loosely
wrapped in tissue paper; but a magnifi
cent parcel. I brought up at last a neck
lace of opals and diamonds, and as I held
them to the lamp and examined the curi
ous grouping of the stones, and the
Btrange eastern form of the clasp, I knew
that I had seen the bundle before. The
conviction was instantaneous, powerful,
convincing; yet even with my aptitude for
recalling names, places and things, I could
mot in my mind place these jewels. None
(the less was I assured that the one solid
clue I had yet taken hold of was in my
fcepping; and, as a quick glance round the
chamber told me no more, I put up the
baubles in their case again, replaced the
key and quitted the chamber.
"I lay upon my bed and brought the
whole of my recollection back upon the
jewels. Where had I seen them ; in what
circumstances; in whose hands? Again
nnd again I traveled old ground, exhumed
Luried cases, dwelt upon names of for
potten criminals, and of big world people.
An hour's intense mental concentration
told me nothing, but in my dreaming I
pot what wakefulness had denied to me.
There in my sleep was the whole history
of the stones written for me. I remem
bered the Liverpool landing stage; the de
parture of the Star liner City of St. Pe
tersburg, for ew York ; the arrest of the
notorious jewel thief, Carl Reiehsmann ;
he discovery of the opal and diamond
necklace upon him : the restoration of it
to to the brain failed for a moment
then with a loud cry of delight, which
roused me, I pronounced the words; to
J.ady Ilardon of 202a ISerkeley Square,
Jymdon.
"I repeated the name again and again,
Tniittering it as I got into my clothes. I
bethought me of the man in the next
room. I listened. There was no sound,
lie had gone then, and had Iyady Hardon's
jewels. My memory traveled quickly on
lo Lady Ilardon's end; for I remembered
ithen that she went down in the great
cteainer Alexandria, which was lost in
he Pay of Biscay twelve months before
1 discovered the golden ship in the dk
yard at Spczia ; and I recalled the fact,
known world-wide, that her famous jewels
Jiad gone with her to her end. How came
(t, then, that this man who knew the
ruffians in the dock yard below, yet pos
sessed a hundred thousand pounds' worth
of jewelry, how came it that he had got
that which the world thought to be lying
on the sands of the bay? I left my hotel
end mounted to the hill top for tidings of
the great vessel. Hut she had sailed, and
the clock which had held her was empty.
"This discovery did not daunt me, for
I had expected it. I waited only to as
certain officially what ships had left Spe
ria during the past twenty-four hours.
They told me at the Customs that the
Brazil!" a war vessel built by Signor Vz
zia weighed at three a. m.. I hurried
tack to assure myself that my neighbor
with the necklace had sailed also. To my
urpris, he was at breakfast when I ar
PEMBERTON
rived at the hotel ; and so one great link
in my theoretic chain snapped at the first
test. As he had not sailed with the oth
ers, he could have no direct connection
with the nameless ship, no nautical part
or lot with her. Rut what was he, then?
That I meant to know as soon as oppor
tunity should serve.
"I have led you up, Strong, step by
step, through the details of this work to
this point. I am now about to move over
the ground more quickly. I will quit
Spezia, and ask you to come with me,
after the interval of nigh a year, to Lon
don, where, in an hotel in Cecil street,
Strand. I was again the neighbor of the
man with t lie jewels. The day on which
the nameless ship left the dock this man
whom, I may say at once, I have al
ways met under the name of Captain
Black quitted the town and reached
Paris. Thither I followed him, sta.ving
one day in the French capital, but going
onward with him on the following morn
ing to Cherbourg. There he went aboard
a small yacht, and I lost him in the Chan
nel. I returned at once to Italy, and
wired to friends in the police force at
Xew York, at London and San Francisco,
and at three ports in South America for
news (a) of a new warship lately com
pleted at Spezia for the Brazilian repub
lic; (b) of a man known as Captain
Black, who left the port of Cherbourg
in the cutter-yacht La France on the
morning of Oct. 30. For nearly twelve
months I waited for an answer to these
questions, but none came to me. To the
best of my knowledge, the nameless war
ship was never seen upon the high seas.
I began to ask myself, if she existed, how
came it that a vessel, burnished to the
beauty of gold, had been spoken of none,
seen of none, reported in no harbor, men
tioned in no dispatch? Yet in the month
when the cruiser quitted Spezia three
ocean-going steamers, each carrying specie
to the value of more than one hundred
thousand pounds, went down in fair
weather, and were paid for at Lloyd s.
"I was much occupied making a list
as far as that were possible, of all the
gems and baubles which the dead men
and women on the sunken steamers had
owned. This was a paltry record of
bracelets, and rings, and tiaras, and
clasps, such stuff as any fellow of a jew
eler may sell ; unconvincing stuff, worth
no more than a near relation for purposes
of evidence. There was but one piece of
the whole mass that did not come in my
category a great box with a fine paint
ing by Jean Petitot upon its lid. and a
curious circle of jasper all nbout the min
iatures. This was a historic piece men
tioned as having once been the property
of Necker, the French financier; then
lost by a New York dealer, who was tak
ing it from Paris to Boston in the steam
ship Catalania; the ship supposed to have
foundered, with the loss of all hands, off
the hanks of Newfoundland, sixteen days
after the nameless ship left Spezia. I
made a record of this trifle, and forgot it
until, many months later, a private com
munication from the head of the New
York secret service told me that the man
I wanted was in London ; that he was an
American millionaire, who owned a house
on the banks of the Hudson river, who
had great influence in many cities, who
came to Europe to buy precious stones
and miniature paintings, a man who was
considered eccentric by his friends. I
took rooms in the hotel where Captain
Black was staying. Three days after I
was disguised as you have seen me, sell
ing him miniatures. Within a week, by
what steps I need not pause to say, I
Knew that the jasper box, lost, by report,
in the steamer Catalania. was under lock
and key in his bedroom.
"I cannot tell you how that discovery
agitated me. Here, indeed, was my sec
ond direct link. The man had in his pos
session an historic and unmistakable cas
ket, which all the world believed to be
lost in a steamer from which no soul had
escaped. How I "treasured that knowl
edge ! Three months the man remained in
London ; during three months he was not
thirty hours out of my sight or knowl
edge. I resigned my work for the gov
ernment, and henceforth gave myself
heart and soul to the pursuit of the man.
I followed him to Paris, to St. Peters
burg; I tracked him through France to
Marseilles; I watched him embark, with
three of the ruffians I had seen at Spezia,
in his yacht again; and within a month
the yacht was in harbor at Cowes with
out him; while a steamer, bound from the
Cape to Cadiz, and known to have specie
alward her, went out of knowledge as the
others had done. Then was I sure that I
alone shared with that man and his crew
one of the most ghastly secrets that the
deep has kept within her.
"I had positively to connect the man
Black with the nameless ship, for this I
had only done so far by pure circum
stance. For many months I have made
no gain in this attempt. Last year in
Liverpool I sketched in yet another point
in my picture. I received tidings of the
man in that city, and there I did trade
with him in my old disguise; but he was
not alone? the crew of ruffians you have
known by this time kept company with
him. I kept vigil there a week, but lost
him at the end of that time. When he
reapiearod in the circles of civilization it
was in Paris, but two days ago, when I
asked you to accompany me. You know
that I attempted to sail with him on his
cruise, and your instinct tells you why.
If I could, by being two days afloat in his
company, prove beyond doubt that he used
his yacht as a pretense; if I could prove
that when he left port in her he sailed
some miles out to sea, and was picked up
by the nameless ship, my chain was forg
ed, my book complete, and I had but to
call the government to the work!
"But I have failed, and the labor I
have set myself shall be done by others,
but chiefly, Mark Strong, by you. From
the valley of the dead soon I must look
back. You have youth, and money suffi
cient for the enterprise; you will gat
money In its pursuit. So my manMe fulls
upon you. What information 1 have, you
have. The names of my friends in the
cities mentioned I have written down for
you ; they will serve you for the memory
of my name; but be assured at the outset
that you will never take this man upon
the sea. And as for the money which is
rightly due to the one who rids humanity
of this pest, I say, go to the Admiralty in
London, and lay so much of your knowl
edge before them as shall prevent a rob
bery of your due; claim a fit reward from
them and the steamship companies; and,
as your beginning, go now to the Hudson
river I meant to go within a month
and learn there more of the man you seek ;
or, if the time be ripe, lay hands there
upon him. And may the spirit of a dead
man breathe success upon you !"
On the yacht Cclsin, tiling at Coices,
u-rittcn in the month of August, for
Mark Strong.
When I had put down the papers, my
eyes were tear-stained with the effort of
reading, and the cabin lamp was nigh
out. My interest in the writing had been
so sustained that I had not seen the march
of daylight, now streaming through the
glass above, upon my bare cabin table.
I went above, and saw that we were at
anchor in the Solent, and that the whole
glory of a summer's dawn lit the sleeping
waters.
I stretched myself on a dock chair. I
slept and dreamt again, of Hall, of Cap
tain Black, of the man "Four-Eyes," of
a great holocaust on the sea. When I
awoke, a doctor from Southsea was writ
ing down the names of drugs uion paper;
and Mary was busy with ice. They told
me I had slept for thirty hours, and that
they had feared brain fever. But the
sleep had saved me; and when Mary and
Roderick talked of the doctor's order that
I was to lie resting a week, I laughed
aloud.
"I start for London to-night," I said.
"What !" they cried in one voice.
"Exactly, and if Mary would not mind
running on deck for a minute, I'll tell you
why, Roderick."
She went at the word, casting one
pleading look with her eyes as she stood
at the door, but I gave no sign, and she
closed it. I had fixed upon a course, and
as Roderick, dreamingly indifferent, pre
pared to talk about that which he called
my "madness," I took Hall's manuscript
and read it to him. When I had finished,,
there was a strange light in his eyes.
"Let's go at once," he said ; and that
was all.
(To be continued.)
OLD SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
Some of the Men Who Survived Wars
for Man Years.
Soldiers of the Revolution can be re
membered by men who are not to-day
in their old age. Several of the rear
guard of the Continental army saw
striking episodes of the Revolution and
were able to narrate them when more
than seventy years had passed, says the
Boston Transcript. Benjamin Abbott,
a drum major, who beat the death
march at Major Andre's execution, died
at Nashua, N. II., in 1S51. Peter Bes
ancon, who was one of Lafayette's fol
lowers and who died at Warsaw, X. Y.,
in 1S55, is believed to have been the
longest surviving witness of Andre's
death, which occurred Oct. 2, 17S0.
The amirds of many countries hear
witness to occasional instances of long
evity in those "whose business 'tis to
die." Samuel Gibson, who was a sol
dier at Waterloo, died Dec. 15, 18!)1,
aged 101. Who was the last Waterloo
ollicer is the subject of considerable
doubt, but the distinction was claimed
for Lieutenant Maurice Shea, who died
Feb. 5, 1802, and who fell short one
year of being a centenarian. Veteran
sailors are almost as common as vet
eran soldiers. Admiral Sir Provo Wal
lis, who died Feb. 13, 1802, in his 101st
year, was one of the lieutenants of the
Shannon when she captured the Ches
apeake In 1S13. Rear-Admiral Thomas
O. Selfridge, the elder of our own
navy, who was lorn in 1804, was a
rival of Wallis In length of days.
Lives that span the historic past and
the present are commoner than are
generally supposed. One June 18 the
son of a revolutionary soldier took part
In decorating at Saugus the graves of
his father's comrades.
Horse Meets I'ulnfiil Dentil.
"Why will so many people cling to
the Idea that chloroforming is the most
merciful means of death possible for
dumb animals?" asked a Bronx veteri
narian recently. "Only the other day I
was called upon to perform the trying
and almost impossible task of killing
an old horse in this way.
"The horse, it seems, had been the pet
of a wealthy woman who left provision
for him in her will, and decreed that
If ever the family to whose care she
Intrusted him should deem it necessary
to end his life, this should be done with
chloroform, so that he might be assured
a painless death. This year the horse
became blind and otherwise disabled,
and the family decided that death
would he a mercy.
"Of course, the provision of the will
had to be carried out, but no greater
case of mistaken kindness could have
been possible. It is Impossible to ad
minister sullieiont chloroform at one
time to kill an animal the size? of a
horse, so dose after dose had to be
given, the poor brute slowly and pain
fully smothering to death.
"Chloroform is all right for cats or
dogs, but for larger animals it is a posi
tive cruelty; whereas a pistol, well
aimed at the head of any beast, will
send it out of life so quickly that it
has not time to feel the shot or realize
what has happened." New York Press.
The Last Ile.nort.
"I tell you," remarked the newly
married man, "there's no place like
home, after all."
"Yes," agreed the old rounder, "after
all." Philadelphia Ledger.
Fifty million gallons of petroleum
were produced Li Burinah and Assam
last yeat
A YEAR OF DISASTER.
RECORD OF 1906 IS A DARK AND
BLOODY ONE,
Nature Cause Terrible and Wide
spread Destruction of Life nnd
Property firliii Ileaper Works
More Peacefully.
A notable characteristic of the year
1900 Is the destruction of life and
property which litis been cnused by the
forces of nature. These forces have
not ben so active or so disastrous In
their -esults for many years past. The
record Is a formidable one. In Janu
ary an earthquake killed fourteen per
sons ut Gonzano, Italy, and a tidal
wave on the Colombian coast swept
away 2,500. In February a hurricane
visited the Society Islands, a favorite
resort for hurricanes, and 1,000 ixr
ished. In March a cyclone swept
through Mississippi and 21 were killed,
and an earthquake in Formosa destroy
ed 2,000. In April the Vesuvius erup
1 tlon killed 2,000, a second earthquake
at Formosa 101), the San Francisco
earthquake 44S, and a cyclone In Tex is
20. In July there were two smaller
disasters, a cloudburst at Ocampo, Mex
ico, which killed 10 persons, nnd a
waterspout at Lyons, France, whi-jh
killed 31.
i The furies broke loose in August and
2.COO were victims of an earthquake
at Valparaiso and 12,000 of floods at
Hunan, China. In September there was
n long series of disasters. A landslide
and storm in the Caucasus cost 255
lives, the typhoon at Hongkong 10,000,
a flood at Teple, Mexico, 10, a herrl
cane at New Orleans and Mobile 140,
and a cyclone in southern Spain '10. In
October a hurricane off the coast of
Florida, which started from Venezuela,
skirting Honduras, Nicaragua, Salva
dor, and Cuba, left HSU dead In Its
path. During November nature took a
little rest, a great lake storm in which
32 sailors perished, being the principal
disaster. In December came the flood
which destroyed the village of Clifton,
Ariz., and caused the loss of 00 lives.
Including the losses of life by lesser
disasters of this kind the record shows
already that more than 50,000 persons
have perished this year by earthquake,
hurricane, and other manifestations of
nature's fury.
Accident has also taken its toll of
human lives in the horrible railway
wrecks at Salisbury, England. Atlantic
City, N. J., and Woodvillo, Ind., and
in the sinking of the Italian emigrant
ship Sirio off the Spanish coast, and
of the Valencia off Vancouver Island,
as well as in the mine disaster at Cour
rieres, France.
Death in more peaceful guise has
been busy among the well-known ones
of earth, laying in the grave President
W. R. Harper of Chicago University,
the aged King Christian of Denmark,
' Miss Susan B. Anthony, Johann Most,
Carl Sehurz, Ilenrik Ibsen, Russell
Sage, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Gen. W. R.
Shafter, Rev. Sam Jones, Judge Gary,
and many others.
I Denmark, Norway and France have
installed new rulers during the year;
political affairs In Russia have been In
a turmoil and outbreaks of violence and
assassination have been frequent; the
United States has been compelled to in-
' tervene to save Cuba from revolution
and possible anarchy; the young King
of Spain has taken a wife, and Okla
homa has been admitted to the Union
of States.
Other prominent happenings of 1000
have been the prevalence of dishonest
hank failures, President Roosevelt's
! visit to Panama, the restoration of
Captain Dreyfus, the finishing of the
great Croton dam above New York
City, the Longworth-Roosevelt wedding,
the resumption of navigation on the
Missouri River, etc.
i The principal events of 1000 are
briefly summarized below:
I January.
4 Explosion in mine at Coaldale, W.
Va., kills 21 miners.
8 Landslide in Ilaverstraw, N. Y.,
kills 15 persons.
i if) Ten lives lost in fire in West hotel,
Minneapolis Death of President W.
R. Harper of University of Chicago.
i 11 New Croton dam In New York
finished.
12 Famine In northern Japan.
10 Death of Marshall Field.
17 Clement Armand Fallieres elected
President of France.
21 Eighteen lives lost in fire panic in
Philadelphia church. ... Brazilian turret
ship Aquidnban sunk by explosion and
212 men perish.
23 Steamer Valencia goes ashore on
Vancouver Island coast ; 148 lives lost.
25 Death of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, U.
S. A House passes joint statehood
bill.
2f) Death of King Christian of Den
mark. 30 Frederick VIII. proclaimed King
of Denmark Death of Paul Dresser,
Indiana song writer.
February.
1 Colombian coast towns destroyed
by tidal wave following earthquake.
8 Hurricane sweeps Society and Tua
motu Islands, destroying thousands of
lives. . . ..Mine explosion near Oakhill, W.
Va., kills 2,8 men.
1) Death of Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
negro poet.
10 Pat Crowe acquitted of Cudahy
kidnaping by Omaha jury.
17 Longworth-Roosevelt wedding in
Washington.
18 Peavey elevator burns in Duluth,
with loss of $1.000,000 M. Faillieres
takes oath as President of France.
19 Explosion in mine at Maitland,
Colo., causes 1(5 deaths.
23 Johaun I loch, bigamist and wife
murderer, hanged in Chicago.
2.") Death of ex-Speaker David B.
Henderson.
27 Marriage of Prince Eitel Frederick
of Prussia nnd Duchess Sophie Charlotte
of Oldenburg, in Berlin.
51 it rob.
2 Tornado and fire destroy large part
of Meridian, Miss.
4 Death of (Jen. J. M. Sehofield.
7 Rouvier ministry falls in France.
S Fifteen Americans and 000 Moros
killed in fierce battle on Island of Jolo.
10 1.000 die in mine disaster in Cour
rieres, France.
13 Death of Miss Susan B. Anthony.
It 35 killed in railway collision near
Florence, Colo.
17 Death of Johann Most, anarchist.
21 Death of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
April.
1 John Alexander Dowie deposed at
Zion City, 111., as head of Christian
Catholic church and succeeded by Wilbur
G. Voliva .... Henry C. Ide inaugurated
Governor General of Philippines.
2 Great coal strike begins.
8 Vesuvius in eruption destroys towns
at its base.
11 Death of James A. Bailey, great
showman.
TILE NEW BOOKKEEPER.
14 Two negroes burned to death by
mob in Springfield, Mo.... Two officers
and five men killed by explosion on bat
tleship Kearsarge. . . . Earthquake in For
mosa. 15 Four trampled to death and many
injured in panic in St. Ludmilla's church,
Chicago.
18 Earthquake and fires devastate
business district of San Francisco.
10 Prof. Pierre Currie, discoverer of
radium, killed in Paris.
22 Dust explosion !n mine 40 miles
west of Trinidad, Colo., kills 22 men.
2(5 Tornado sweeps across Texas.
. 30 Tornado strikes parts of Furnas
county, Nebraska.
May.
1 Mob violence and wild disorder in
Paris. ... Iron workers strike in Chicago
. . . .Many minor strikes start in the East.
5 Pennsylvania anthracite miners vote
to not strike.
14 Death of Carl Schurz.
18 Railroad rate regulation bill passes
Senate. ... Forest fires destroy towns in
northern Michigan and Wisconsin.
23 Death of Ilenrik Ibsen.
25 Seven political assassinations in
R ussia.
31 Michael Davitt, famous Irish lead
er, dies.... King Alfonso of Spain weds
Princess Ena of Battenburg Bomb
thrown at Spanish king aud bride kills
20 persons and injures 100.
J ii tie.
4 Death of Senator Arthur P. Gor
man of Maryland. ... Senator Burton of
Kansas resigns Death of John C.
New.
4-7 Tornadoes In Texas, Kansas, Min
nesota and Wisconsin.
14 Explosion on British boat at Liv
erpool kills 9 persons and injures 40. . . .
Massacre of Jews at Bialystok, Russia
....Bill admitting Oklahoma as State
passed by Congress.
15 Death of Gov. John M. Pattison
of Ohio. Lieut. Gov. Andrew L. Harris
sworn In as successor. ... Republicans
celebrate oOth anniversary of foundation
of party.
20 Death of Chas. E. Tripler of liquid
air fame.
22 Prince Charles of Denmark crown
ed King of Norway as King Haakon....
Richard O. Ivens hanged in Chicago.
25 Harry Thaw of Pittsburg shoots
Stanford White in Madison Square Gar
den. New York.
27 Earthquake in South Wales.
20 Mrs. James Tanner killed ia auto
accident ia Helena. Mont.
30 Adjournment of Congress.
July.
1 23 American tourists lost thulr
lives in train wreck near Salisbury, Eng
land. 4 Son horn to Crown Prince Freder
isk Wilhelm of Germany.
5 Capt. Dreyfus restored to full for
mer standing in French army.
18 Death of Lady Curzon of Kedles
ton, formerly Mary Leiter of Chicago.
20 Reign of anarchy In central prov
inces of Russia.
21 Czar dissolves the douma and trou
ble breaks out.
22 Death of Russell Sage, financier.
30 Death of John L. Toole, English
comedian. ... Russian troops mutiny a J
captvre fortress at Sveaoorg.
AuKimt.
1-3 Mutinies of Czar's troops at prom
inent fortresses put down.
4 Great strike ordered by Russian rev
olutionists begins Death of Rear Ad
miral Train. .. .300 drowned by loss of
steamer Sirio off Spanish coast.
13 Death of Mrs. Pearl Craigie, Eng
lish authoress.
10 Violent earthquake at Valparaiso,
Chile.
17 Death of Rebecca S. Clark (Sophia
May).
18 Death of Lewis Morrison.
20 Cuban revolution breaks out.
28 Real Estate .Trust Company's
bank fails in Philadelphia.
30 Enthusiastic greeting to Wm. J.
Bryan in New York.
31 Edward Rosewnter of Omaha Bee
dies suddenly of heart failure.
Sepein ber.
3 Paul O. Stensland, absconding Chi
cago banker, captured in Tangier, Mo
rocco. ... Naval review on Long Island
Sound.
8 Great massacre of Jews in Siedice,
Poland.
!) Mountain slide buries 255 people
near Tiflis, in Caucasia.
13 United States sailors landed in
Havana, but recalled almost immediate
ly. 14 President sends ultimatum to
Cuba.
15 Terrific typhoon sweeps Hongkong.
21 Jellieo, Tenn., wrecked by dyna
mite explosion.
22 Fierce race war in Atlanta, Ga.
24 Steamboat traffic on Missouri river
resumed after ten years.
20 Bank Wrecker Stensland sentenc
ed to Joliet.
27 Hurricane sweeps States along
Gulf of Mexico.
28 Cuban government goes to pieces
and United States intervenes.
20 United States establishes provis
ional government in Cuba.
October.
14 Chicago White Sox win baseball
championship of the world.
15 Evangelist Sam Jones dies oa
train in Arkansas.
10 Death of Mrs. Jefferson Davis....
French submarine Lutin lost in harbor
of Bisertn, Tunis.
17 Western Cuba and southern Flor
ida swept by hurricane.
21 Blizzard and severe rainstorm hit
Western States.
24 Colorado river turned from Salton
sea into its former channel.
28 Train plunges from trestle into Rea
at Atlantic City, N. J., destroying 70
lives. .. .Two persons killed ami 5 build
ings wrecked by natural gas explosion
in Coffeyville, Kan.
31 Judge Joseph E. Gary of Chicago,
who presided over anarchists' trial, dies.
November.
1 Death of Congressman Rockwood
Hoar of Massachusetts.
5 Cashier Ilering of failed Milwaukee
Avenue bank in Chicago sentenced to
State's prison. .. .Bank robbery at Ladd,
Illinois.
8 President Roosevelt starts for Pan
ama. 12 10 persons killed in B. & O. col
lision at Woodville, Ind Death of
Gen. W. R. Shafter.
18 Bomb exploded in St. Peter's
church in Rome.
10 Ecclesiastical court sustains her
esy derision against Rev. A. Crapsey of
Rochester, N. Y.
21 23 lives lost in storm on great
lakes.
22 Collision of liners Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse and Orinoco in English chan
nel causes 13 deaths.
28 Explosion in Annen. Germany,
kills 300 persons and lays town in ruins.
20 President Samuel Spencer of
Southern railway and throe guests killed
in wreck on his own road.
Deeenibcr.
3 Congress meets.
4 Sixty lives lost in flood In Clifton,
Ariz.
7 Burning of Chi Psl chapter house
at Cornell university. Ithaca, N. Y.
14 Edward Muller elected president
of Swiss confederation. .. .Fuel famine
in North Dakota.
1" Several changes m President
Roosevelt's cabinpt effected.
1 Death of Bishop C. C. McCabe. .