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lATEST M Government Who Seeks Protection. Ho. Oata.-- No. 4, Wfelt*. Lawton THERE. mr MOM rui WIS TSRT PM max o O 1 9 3 8 e T s • io 13L 12 13 14 IS IB vr IB 10 SO 21 22 23 N 2S. 27 as. SSL JQ : MMOREVENISOFTBE WEEI v Items of General Interest Told in * Paragraphs. 'lOftPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Issssd ef 8»ppMta(i of Masfeor Uttl* frow All Fsrti of the CIt- World--Ineldutt. Baterprlass, iMldMtl, Verdlefes. Crimes lad Wai» $7 Steel workers Issued order extend­ ing strike immediately to all branches *f the Industry. Corporation decided to reopen plants with non-union men •t once. Clash feared. Executive ; ; " board of association went to New York *n invitation of combine officials, r fthaffer's recent action \riticlaed tar •' doUeagues. \ George H. Phillips, late] corn king, y, Offered aid, but declined it'because he t _ Jtoa money enough to settle his affairs. 7? * Then he will resume business. sT*" Clothes sorter in the laundry of the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, found •10.000 worth of diamonds and was re- t » Worded with $10 for returning them to «he owner. g; - Deposits in New York savings banks I: Increased $43,865,053 during the last year. 'J- Fire at Hammond, Ind., destroyed t . several big plants and threatened to % Wipe out the business section of the jjj| place. Bobert Hilton, a life convict, escaped Inn penitentiary at Frankfort, Ky. fe... Farther reports from Guam indicate || toat eighty marines deserted, but after !" Wandering about the island several ^7 toys retdtaed to duty. > Charles Davis, who was on trial at |l% Hashville, Tenn., for attacking a girl, g. taken from the courtroom and lynched U y if relatives of his victim, j* Michigan peach crop will be one- is thM lass than usual because of the fe :: iwwrt3i following a cold, late spring. ' . Two grain elevators at Chicago bo* f 7 longing to Grand Trunk Railroad eoa- ftaqr burned. |7 * Charles Anderson of Talbot, Miclu. hunting was killed by the accl- p>* dental discharge of his shotgun. I* • 4 Charles Baxter, aged 25 years, was ran over by -an Illinois Central train $7 • OOVth of Ludlow, IiL, and killed. He M ^ke track apparently ilf * Winter I red, «»c; Wo. «c: No. i'ViSr con--He, t; _ yellow, 5t#53%c; No. No. s, S2«ef Me. t. SI new, 341t#S8a; old M^WIu Csttle.--Native «UMHa« «Bd . steers, f4.sc«s.7l; ArMBod best end »te»f steers, I4.1B9S.I6; steers enter 1.000 Me., |3.U<N.M; Hum *n* Indian stesi 4.40; cows and heifers. I2.309S.45. Pits and tight, ss.60es.65; psckei*, ftMNi 5.66; butchers', $5.75®6.00. lambs, S4.S0WS.1S; with culls. native Rheen, fl.80W4.2S; Brass sheep, f3.0DWS.80; grass Western rMrliaga, *3.65@4.00; feeders, 70-1 b sheep, $2.05. Eggs, I2%c; cheese, Aroer., lOWHWjet cheese, twins, 9H8>9%e; Iced chickens, scalded, 7@7Hc; teed chickens, dry picked, 7c; iced chickens, roosters. SHWCc: teed turkeys, 6®8c; live turkeys, lb, >W7He; chickens. 8c; mess pork. *14H>©14.*; lard, S8.SS@S.67V4; short ribs, S7.8SW8.00, accord- ins to weight; beans, nary, hand-picked, 12.60. UNO OF 0PH1R IS FOUND. Oh Mm iRfMHWk II aw* R. mm L«a»ttd It. The golden land of Ophlr, the lost El Dorado of King Solomon, has been discovered by the noted German ex­ plorer and Egyptologist, Dr. Carl Pe- m ters. He adduces proofs that his re­ searches have resulted In a triumph for which other explorers have vainly striven for centuries. The vast tract lying between Zam­ besi and the Sahi is declared by Dr. Peters to be the lost Ophir. It is one of the finest and most fertile regions In Africa, but it has never been sus­ pected by African explorers that here are buried the inexhaustible mines from which the riches of gold and Jewels were drawn to make up the re­ gal magnificence of the court of Sol­ omon. From a commercial stand­ point, therefore, the discovery of Dr. Peters is of incalculable value. Cold Found ID Ounrcis, Gold discoveries in Wilkes county, Ga., have made farmers forget about their crops and to think of Newport aud steam yachts. Ore taken from the property of the Columbia Mining com­ pany assays over $20,000 a ton, ac­ cording to the sworn testimony of an official of the company. The vein is half a foot wide and was discovered near the surface. A stampede of spac- ulators and prospectors to the new gold country is in progress. Actor Has Queer Mania. Thomas Maliay, an old-time actor, who had for years played in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was committed to the Rochester insane asylum from St. Paul. Maliay had so much of Uncle Tom that it aftected his brain, and now he imagines that Simon Legree is constantly pursuing him with blood­ hounds. It is not on record that he ever played Eliza In the piece, but he seems to have got the parts somewhat mixed. TAKEN SHIP'S CABIN. CMeMl AM Werllle «•* Porotebly Anthracite coal advanced 10 cents a *»• United States transport Lennox, "7_ Willi seventeen cabin passengers and >V^ lorty-five second-class passengers, dis- aWed off the California coast. Provis- Ions nearly gone and machinery out of order. 0 Celebration of the quarter centen- of Colorado's admission to the Union begun at Colorado Springs. pfij Thirty-eight insurance companies to Ight claims arising from Luce Block Are In Grand Rapids. jjl , Boer sympathizers at Albion, N. Y., y- .* - burned a British flag strung across j|";" the street |y Minneapolis and St Louis road to §1^ absorb the Iowa Central preliminary gJV' to consolidation with Illinois Central. - Chinese paid July interest on North- p;i . ®ra railway, thereby preventing the |4 line reverting to the British. If President Kruger to make a tour of American cities, beginning the latter part of August IpJ.ijt Christian Science denounced as a fo;7 fraud and a sham by a Boston lawyer. j§- 1 Maryland Democratic State conven- 5/. t tion adopted platform declaring it the m0:r: purpose of the party to eliminate the p1 negro from politics. Proceedings dl- rected by Gorman. P King Menelik of Abyssinia seriously B1; ^ In a fight with boot-leggers at Wa- |||gi thena, Kan., Constable Livermore shot and instantly killed Lou Henderson m and captured John Williams, an ao- |,r . complice. |!, While crossing a field, George Hum* f-/' erickhouse, a farmer of Wells county, M Indiana, was attacked by a mad bull p - and killed. m- Martin Fry was hanged at Carlisle, p Pa., for the murder of James Edward Collins, his brother-in-law, of whom III-. ke had been jealous. Pj Walter Sheppard was shot and ln- atantly killed by cienry Vitatoe, near Ki/l », P^eaaure Ridge, Ky. The young men |s .. had quarreled, shaken hands, and then resumed their quarrel. 1; Mark L. Wilson, a theatrical man- Iw ager, committed suicide at Phlladel- '/ phia by inhaling illuminating g»« ; Venezuelan troops defeated revolu- ; tlonary force under Galvirias, who in- ; waded the country from Colombia. Bo- 1 gotan government may be called upon ior an explanation. « Body of Banker Penlck of Chariton, 1^:.'"" la., found in lake near Racine. giyv A young man aged about 20, sup- Y;">' posed to be Frank Webber of Howard li7 City, Mich., was killed by the cars at pM*. tiSlogan, Mich. , Trainload of home-seekers returning from El Reno wrecked near Kremlin, it Qui»t*Mi Colombia, M<l ris«M OMtot Artost Osoplto fistMU. Although he wrapped himself In the German flag and claimed the protec­ tion of the Kaiser's ensign. Cot Abel Murillo was forcibly removed from a Hamburg-American liner at Carta­ gena, Colombia, and placed under ar*, rest, despite the formal protests of the captain of the vessel, as well aa those of the German vice-consul at Carta­ gena, who was supposed to have jur­ isdiction in the matter, as the Alle­ gheny files the German flag. Col. Abel Murillo was aid to Gen. Uribe, the Colombian Insurgent leader. His removal throughout was attended by most dramatic circumstances. The Al­ legheny is one of seven vessels of the Atlas line secured recently by the Hamburg-American Steamship com­ pany, and files the German flag. The report of the action of the Colombian authorities was made to Emll Boas, agent of the Hamburg-American com­ pany, by Capt. Low as soon as the ves­ sel reached port at New York, Mon­ day, and this report was cabled at once to the home office In Hamburg. It is probable that the matter will be laid before the German government, and may cause international compli­ cations. The twenty-two passengers on the steamship were loud in their denunciations of what they termed the unwarranted and arbitrary actions of the Colombian authorities, and three of them, an American, an Englishman, and a Belgian, gave out a signed state­ ment on their arrival at New Tork, setting forth all the circumstances of the affair. Sends Smallpox by KaiD. Mayor Charles Stands of Wayties^ burg, a village twelve miles from Can­ ton, O., received by mail a letter said to contain smallpox virus. He prompt­ ly destroyed the package, disinfected himself and called on the United States postal authorities to assist in running down the sender of the letter. Mayor Stands last week fined several resi­ dents of Magnolia, a neighboring vil­ lage, who had disregarded the quaran­ tine regulations of Waynesburg. This had led to bitter feeling between the villages. Several ctyses of smallpox among Italian miners a mile and a half from Magnolia led to the trouble. Ooppor Trast Lout Point. The Supreme court of Montana has vacated the order of survey granted by Judge Clancy to Burdett O'Connor, against the Anaconda company, O'Con­ nor and F. Augustus Heinz are plain­ tiffs In a suit for $2,000,000 damages on account of the alleged extraction of ore by the Anaconda company from the copper trust cialm. Judge Clan­ cy's order gave them the right lo sur­ vey the Anaconda workings for forty days. Indians Dying of Smallpox. Private advices and messages t»; l)r. F. C. Suiter of La Crosse, member of the state board of health, state that unless something is done to stamp out the smallpox which has again attacked the tribe of Winnebago Indians on $he reservation near Black River Falls, and scattered on private farms be­ tween there and La Crosse, half of the once great tribe will be wiped out In a short time. Mar Fight In Ooorgia. It Is possible that a prise fight be­ tween Jim Jeffries and Gus Ruhlin for the championship and a purse of $25,- 000 may be arranged to take place during the state fair at Savannah, Ga., next October. The leading sporting men of the town and the fair promot­ ers are backing the plan and they have the Indorsement of the Merchants' As­ sociation of the city. Doubt* Tragedy In Texas. '--; ;:";7 Shortly after 1 o'clock Tti$§mqr morning John T. Vaughan, a money­ lender, shot and instantly killed Pa­ trolman William Weiss at Houston, Tex. Vaughan ran in an endeavor to reach his rcom, and was mortally wounded by a detective as he started up the stairs. He died within an hour. JCtts. Kennedy dots HaO. . 7*' V' Lulu Prince Kennedy, under Sent­ ence of ten years for murdering her husband, was released from jail at Kansas City, having perfected the $10,000 appeal bona. She has been in jail since last January, when she shot her husband because he sued for an­ nulment of their marriage, which was forced on him by her relatives. She seemed dased when released. ton of a Capo Nomi Mmsma The steamship Senator, which has arrived at Port Townsend, reports that the steamship Charles D. Lane, on her way from Nome to Seattle with 175 passengers, went ashore during a dense fog on the night of July 12 on the west bank of Nunivak Island. She Is a total wrecit. Her passengers and crew were saved by the schooner Vega, wolch th«t Lane was towing. *w2l ra«flt J* t& tapMd of tfc# axaeuUon law. TexMtumsa&A saw 'Jim Anderson, a'negro, hanged at •tittle Rock last Friday. There were ttftjr fakirs doing business with exhi­ bitions which bordered on the side­ show variety. Among the spectators waa young Lemoyne Jayne, a son of Porter Jayne, a carpenter. After t)w execution the lad Inspected the scaf­ fold, and Tuesday completed a minia­ ture scaffold. He invited his play­ mates to take the rope of the con­ demned man. Falling In this he •ought to take the place of the execu­ tioner aa well as the person con­ demned. He adjusted the noose and stepped on the trap. He had figured that be had enough rope to reach the gronnd. The sight of his body dang­ ling In midair caused his playmates to spread the alarm, and neighbors reached the scene in time to cut the body down before the lad was stran­ gled to death. His neck was not brok­ en, but he is unconscious, and doctors give no hope for recovery. For this and the scenes enacted Governor Da­ vis has made known his Intention to recommend the immediate repeal of the act which permits the pubUo witness hangings. Nogro Snoots Aftnallants* News has reached Camden, Ark., from Leake township, Nevada county, that a party of white men sent word to Lige Seigler. a negro, that they would attempt to whip him and re­ ceived word back that some of them would get killed if they came. The party went out and the report is that Seigler and his son shot into them, killing Lewis Haynie, brother of State Senator Haynie, and Hop Halton, a brother of John Halton, a prominent merchant at Stephens. There are some 400 negroes and thirty white people In this township and It is said that racial troubles have been brewing for some time. At last reports parties of white people had left for the scene of trouble from Waldo and Stephens and the ne­ gro's house was still surrounded. Qaeen K'cape* Assassins. Maria Pla, Queen Dowager of Portu­ gal, sister of the late King Humbert of Italy, and mother of the present King Carlos, has had a narrow escape from assassination at Aix-Les-Bains. Her Majesty was taking a course of the baths, but was so perturbed by the attack upon her that she left Aix hast­ ily for Rome. Details of the attempt­ ed assassination are not obtainable at present The police are said to have a clew. News of the affair is causing a deep sensation, for the Queen Dow­ ager was known personally to fc eon* siderable number of people. Wheat Yield on the Coast. State Grain Inspector Wright of Washington says that from informa­ tion gathered on a recent tour of the northwest he Is of the opinion that the yield of the northwest wheat belt will be unprecedented. Washington prom­ ises a yield of 35,000,000 bushels. The acreage of the northwest has been in­ creased and there will be plenty of la­ bor to handle the unusual yield. PrHoaer (Hits His Throat, John Gullck, who Is confined In the county jail at Shamokln, Pa., charged with the" murder of his mother and brother, cut his throat with a table knife which he had secreted in his cell, and was dying from loss of blood when he was discovered. Dr. Stoner Pelttfsr sewed up the wound and he may re­ cover. PLAN TO LINK CONTINENTS 8Y RAIL AND FERRY. k'S;': • * - Celebrates lOOtb Birthday. Mm. Catherine Gaynor of Bristol, R. L, celebrated the ope hundredth anni­ versary of her birth Friday. She was born in Ireland In 1801, and is in a remarkable state of preservation, be­ ing about town every pleasant day. • gigantic trans-Alaskan and Sibe­ rian railroad project is to be under­ taken by French, Russian and Amer­ ican capitalists within the next few years, according to plans outlined by L. De Lobel, a French mining en­ gineer, who left Paris July 13 and started from .Tacoma, Wash., for the Klondike Sunday night on the Dol­ phin. He says a company with a capi­ tal of $200,000,000 is planned to build nearly 4,000 miles of railroad, besides spanning Behring Sea with immense steam ferries. The United States government will be asked for a land grant in the Tukon country and M. De Lobel on his return will visit President McKin- ley to ask him to recommend to Con- greas the granting of the concessions. In order to build the road it will be necessary for the United States to an­ nex that part of Canada known as British Columbia. The proposed road Is to start at Circle City, Alaska, and run 2.000 miles to Behring Sea. After crossing the straits by car ferry, from thp Siberian coast to Vladivo- stock 1,800 miles of road will be re­ quired. Ferries are to be constructed large enough to transport loaded trains, making It possible to go from Circle City to Moscow and Paris by railroad. < Ew*4t*h Fln«Miei«r Luding Forsheli, formerly Swedish minister of finance, died at 8an Bernardino, Switzerland. He con­ tributed largely to the introduction of goid into the currency in Sweden. Colombia Alarmed aaerrlllfa Rumors at Colon, Colombia, owing to the attacks by guerrillas are caus­ ing some anxiety. The Colombian gunboat Namouna is still at Colon. Advices from Carthagena say the in­ terior of the country is In an unsettled condition. Mail communication with Bogata has been suspended. Exchange Is very high. Ki»h Wagon Works on Fir*. | Fire partially destroyed the Fish Brothers' wagon plant j.t Racine, Wiav Balama<<rr« Halted by strike. W. F. Wright's bombardment of the clouds with a battery of twenty-four mortars in the hope of causing a rain­ fall, was interrupted at 5 o'clock Thursday morning by a strike of his corps of assistants. The rainmaker went to Lincoln, Neb., during the day, and with entreaties, re-enforced by a temperature of 101 degrees and a parching south wind, was able to se­ cure a new force and renew his ef­ forts. He will continue the bombard­ ment i -- Debt l>eftrts to Muider. W. S. Bowers was stabbed and killed near his home in Memphis, Tenn., by Albert Bowers, his cousin. The men had quarreled over a debt which W. 8. Bowers claimed bis cousin owed blm. The murderer has not yet been arrested. Bitten by Battles ••akel Dies. Three-year-old Nellie Noyes dlod as a result of a rattlesnake bite at ber parents' home in Pleasantvllle, Pa. The child was pla^in^ in the yard When bitten. 7 ̂ ̂ • rAV*|' '<>«* Pats an Bad to Three Uvea. Wed Yost, a farmer who lived east of Sherburne, Minn., shot and probably fatally wounded Eliza Kunkle, killed her lO-months-old babe and then com­ mitted suicide. Tost was recently held by the grand jury on a charge of Il­ legal parentage preferred by the wom­ an, who had been his housekeeper for about two years. Fearing Yost's ven­ geance, the woman had taken refuge at another farmhouse, where Yost found her. GAMBLERS tswwta Aft*, Alt LaM Oat askl • Many Baslnew Basses Coastreeked--Tblrtuen TEnasnad Heaise of 1W Aeras Waek Hatre Beea Drasra. > lowing the lottery drawing at B1 was Friday night a city of 10,000 peo­ ple. Three thousand arrived Friday and aa many more arrived Saturday. It la located just outside the limits of Fort Sill. The town site proper, half a section reserved by the government, bears only building erected there by special favor and the land office. All the other buildings and 1,500 tents oc­ cupy adjoining lands, many of them being on the two quarter sections that, Mr. Woods and Miss Beals, who drew the capital prizes fit El Reno, will un- Lawton, O. K., named after the la­ mented General Lawton and seemingly destined to bo the metropolis of the VbYlata, Western PouMqrlva- Oiio. The syndicate will ln- Ilititlnent banking Interests of dfat. Jftiladelpfcis, and Baltimore, and other WfSt- M wktan, Judge E. H. Gary, cftalr- of ttui United States Steel cor- ft tadSrstood to be one of In the deal, and law IS interpreted by some as meaning otttpsft. The design la to run the soft- eoil business In himton? with the an- ***** trade, to A T.. COMWh. ^ Shot Dews by Tl*at»a%' ~7 •The Russian government has been Ivtsed*" <aa*a a dlapatch to the Lon­ don Mail from Bt Fetersburg, "that 2,000 Tibetans July Iff attacked Major Kosloff's expedition of twenty men; half of whom were shot down and the others severely wounded. The ment will demand satisfaction. REGION OF SOUTH AMERICAN TROUBLE. nfrtr v 3* >' ' mm I OMBIA Venezuela Is again on the eye of a revolution. Not only Is that unfor­ tunate republic approaching a state of civil war, but serious complications will In all probability arise between the governments of Venezuela and Colombia. President Castro, while facing the uprising against his own authority, is also accused of further­ ing secretly the revolution against the Colombian government, of which Gen­ eral Uribe-Urlbe is the prime pro­ moter, and of conferring with the Colombian leader at a secret meeting recently held in Caracas. In conse­ quence of the resignation of Senor Pulido it ls feared that President Cas­ tro of Venezuela, as proposed to the cabinet, will declare war against Col­ ombia, notwithstanding public opinion against such a move. It is feared the most serious complications will follow the present situation. * * Moli Hangs Time Kegroai, Three negroes, two women and one man, mother, daughter and son, im­ plicated in the murder ot Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Tallferro, were taken from the Jail at Carrollton, Miss., and hanged. Ten more negroes, Implicated by the confession of one of the women hanged, are in jail and may meet death at the hands of the mob. Gov­ ernor Longtno, hearing of the threats 6f violence, rushed here by special train. He was too late to prevent the triple lynching, but with the aid of leading citizens may save the ten others. The negroes hanged were Betsy McCray; her son, Belfield Mc- Cray, and daughter, Ida McCray. The crime for which they were hanged was the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Tallferro, on the night of July 30. Blectoral Bill Is Approved. The provisional electoral bill substantially approved by the consti­ tutional convention at Havana. The approval was favorable as a whole. The convention will take up the pro* posed law article by article. Seeks American Capital. Cabezas Bonilla, who holds the eon* cession to build the Salvador Central Railway, is now in New York forming a company to carry out the enterprise and obtain tk# necessary capital. doubtedly select. These claims have been considered worth $20,000 to $30,- 000 each, but if Lawton is halt the town that it promises they will easily be worth two or three times the larg­ est estimate. All the grafters and gamblers have moved over from El Reno In a body and one can find any kind of game and may choose his own method of being separated from his money. Nearly 1,000 Comanche Indians got their "grass money" Friday, $40 each, and they spent it like princes. The 13,000 homes of 160 acres each in the Indian lands have been drawn, and from now on the drawing of ad­ ditional names of those registered as claimants will attract no attention. Among the 13,000 lucky ones probably 25 per cent1 do not intend to occupy the land they have won. While they are not all land speculators, many of them were attracted by the gambling feature of this scheme and put their names on the list just to see what luck they would have. The fact that registra­ tion cost nothing and harried with it a chance of getting 160 acres of land worth from $1,600 to $4,000 drew many persons to El Reno and Lawton who never intended bo stay in the\country. Perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 claims Wi^l be left for the wagon emigrants and others who have been in the country for months and failed to draw a num­ ber. At the end of the sixty days these persons can ro immediately to the land office and file, or if they set­ tle upon a homestead in advance of any other person they can remain thereon three months before filing their entry. Many persons wul squat upon homesteads in the hope that they will not be taken by persons who draw numbers. If the homesteads are not taken when the land office closes the squatters are safe. Oa a t»n( Itleyele Ride. A. Darting has reached Fort Worth, Tex. He is riding a bicycle from the city hall in San Francisco, which place he left June 23, and Is to reach the city hall in Chicago at mid­ night Aug. 11 on a $50,000 wager. Darting believes he will reach Chicago two days earlier than the specified time. He is one of six who raced against a locomotive during the Chi­ cago World's Fair. Will Keep Midway Clmed 8nnd»y. Ti*e board of directors of the Pan- American Eposition has decided that title Midway at the exposition should be closed tight next Sunday. More­ over, the board voted that, if neces­ sary, the Midway shall be fenced off and no visitors allowed to traverse It on Sunday. Shortly before the direct­ ors acted the concessionaires sent an ultimatum to the director general's of­ fice which in effect was an announce­ ment of their Intention to open next Sunday when the exposition gates opened. - •' - BrKlih and Boers la Fttftt. v Details received at Durban, Natal, of what at first Beemed an ordinary skirmish between a British column and a Boer commando near N'Quta, in Zululand, July 28, shows that a hard, all-day fight occurred" In which the British narrowly escaped the loss of a gun of the Sixty-seventh field battery. Four hundred Boers repeatedly rushed • the British position, killing Major Ed­ wards and Gunner Carpenter. The gun was limbered up and taken at a gallop for three miles under fc$ay? Ire. Five Brltirti were killedL „ Cora King in Tronble. George H. Phillips, corn king at Chicago, has suspended active trad­ ing, except through a manager, and is now attempting to determine wheth- he Is solvent or not It is estimated that the George H. Phillips Company has lost $400,000 on account of irregu­ larities in the books and of too gen­ erous extension of credit Phillips said; £In figuring average on May corn deal clerks failed to take Into ac­ count charges of almost two cents a bushel against 5,900,000 bushels cash grain, so that in settling at 48 cents on account with customers about $100,000 too much was paid out The man in charge of customers' margin ledger allowed customers to get Into us for over $200,000 in addition to above. Besides this, some losses were due to trading of clerks." Wow Tork Lrsdi la Avaea. " New York has more asses ti&n 'lny other city in the United States, ac­ cording to the census just taken of live stock kept in inclosures. It has 188 asses, as against Philadelphia's 155. The whole United States has only 12,- 870 asses. When it comes to swine, Chicago puts all other cities to open shame, having a total of 52,423, whllo Cleveland, Buffalo and other cities are feeble "also rans," with 5,000 each. New York admits 2,131 swine. New York as a goat center leads all other cities, having 1,487 goats. Chicago has 1,627, but most of them am la the suburbs. Want to Hans Director* A* the first meeting in London of the Creditors, and at a subsequent meeting of the shareholders of the Standard Exploration company, one of the mining concerns known as the "Whlttaker Wricht group," the official receiver made such astounding revela­ tions that he drew from the excited shareholders demands for the lynch­ ing of the persons Implicated. The receiver said that the estimated assets were farcical. The fourteen mines, valued ** £7*7,000, had earned noth­ ing. 7".. Blot In a Kan«a« Town. Eight thrashing-machine crew* reached the town of Colwich, Kan., and because they could not get liquor on account of the Sunday law they smashed five joints, and In addition wrecked a number of pumps. The citi­ zens organized a party to cause their arrest, but the thrashers made them retreat The rioting was resumed Mon­ day, when the citizens again tried to arrest the thrashers, but again they bad to give up. The sheriff waa then asked to go atjonoe to the ace** lottarvaa ^0 U. Th« to* . .̂ threats ot MMft mm Beam mad* 9** Will remit to the capture of tfc* Wit- Bfelacopal church bft daughter Mails would be kidnaped and held for raa- •001. It waa followed by * sterner lat­ ter. In wbleh the writer declared not only would the daughter be and aafely hidden, but the would be slain. As this failed to the money, a third communication sent "This is your last chance," tlM writer declared. "Unless the money 1* fOrtheoaUng you and the girl wiH Mil be captured. In your presence her eyes will be burned out and her beast Out from her body. Then you wltt meet a like fate." Hearn says he I* not alarmed for his own life, bol - would do anything for bis daughter** safety. He believes It Is best to re» fuse the demands of the kidnapers, al­ though possessed of 1,000 acres of land near this city. His daughter I* not allowed to leave his side, and the r^doace Is under guard. V*-!, 1 *fe«*s Off Water A scarcity of water led the city •au­ thorities of Kewanee to notify the wane* Mining and Manufaeturlnir company that it would shut off tlMi water from Its Ice plant In forty-eight hours. The company appealed Judge Hiram Blgelow of Galva for an Injunction and secured a restraining order. Wben the bill and answer bad been presented to the judge he refuse! an Injunction and the elty, acting upon the advice of its attorneys, turned off the water. The opposing lawyers de­ clared this was In contempt of court, as the real hearing had not been had. but only the hearing on the sufficiency of the answer. The judge, however, has not yet started contempt proceed­ ings, although the attorneys have mate application. The city claims the shutr- ting off of the water is necessary to order to protect the fire service. Tl|*|| company charges discrimination. > r Bodies of Two Men Pound. ' Ll. Two badly decomposed bodies wefM^ discovered on the farm of Abe Bucfc. two and a half miles south of Elkhart > The first body was discovered by a. daughter of Buck. It was lying faoe upward In the cornfield. The other- body was discovered shortly afterward by some of the crowd which was gath­ ering to view the first body, and waa- found half a mile further south. Both men were of middle age and were dressed as laborers. Neither waa Identified, it is supposed that they were laborers who wimdered into tike corn field to seek protection from tip- heat and were overcome, dying wttfc> out being able to make their presenea- known. .. --. •• % •' > lasaae Maa Baas A)«s«efc®liSf George Reynolds, a crazy colored man, broke into a hardware store at Abingdon, seised two revolvers and * Winchester rifle and after loading them started out to depopulate tho town. He fired into several homes and at several persons without doing any serious damage before a posse of men started out to arrest him. While tho crazed man was attempting to reload his revolvers Mayor Richey made A rush and overpowered him. The maa was taken to Galesburg and placed to jail. There he attempted to beat sons* of the other prisoners. Reynolds ha* hflgn In the insane asylum twice. 7* ' -• SKn*t Answer for WaHlen. ^ ̂ George F. Ditch, who was on the charge of murdering Mrs. Q. W. Lane July 16, was given a prelim­ inary hearing at Canton and held to the Circuit Court without bail. The woman was found dead at home. Ditch was arrested on suspicion, having be** seen In the vicinity shortly after the murder was committed. Ditch served ten years in the Joliet penitentiary far: - assaulting a young woman near Pekitt. ' > " , *sy*er *eat to MasRa ^ .r; Nfifcaiel Simon Snyder of thl WwP?' *7 ieenth United States Infantry regi­ ment has been relieved from duty a* . Acting Inspector General of the Depart-" ment of the Lakes and ordered to join his regiment in the Philippines. Major C. H. Murray will assume the dutie* of Acting Inspector General of the de­ partment until the placa i» |W^ Jy'; the secretary of war. V. v ^ •n- • '$< -v ̂ '-•'•I ' 7wl v7. ' '-1 :̂ ' ' " s -S Reunion of Third Illinois Colonel Fred Bennett, former com-. mander of the Third Illfnois regiment*, has arranged for a reunion of the old companies In Joliet Sept. 21. Ther* will be a big barbecue, a parade and regimental formation. Governor will be the principal speaker. , .?* vA) Waylaid aad, Woenrted. Charles C. Hackett an aged and a member of Gen. Grant's regi­ ment, was waylaid on his way honiO at Oakland and beaten with a car pto until Insensible. Hackett's woundf* m dangerous and may prove < A Bmiars Vhtt lwH» ̂• wirltars made a visit to Austin and before they left the vililage five house* had been entered. The home of Au|hv tin J. 'Doyle, the ex-chief of police *tv fj'~." Chicago, was ransacked. v si"". J Horse's Klek Is Petal. " Andrew Cohoon,< a hostler, died atfi| .j1' the County Hospital, Chicago, from in*" 1*7 I juries received from a horse's kiclf. Cqboon is said to have wealthy rela* tives in the East, but he seldom spole* s?'?7"^ of them to his companions. :X' „ • - i .. Oorn Fro«p*eta at Daa'orttt 7-L,? ' * ' 81* weeks' drouth was brolceii 1^7 heavy rains at Danforth. About four r Inches of rain fell. Grain men estt* ' mate an average corn crop of forty m I J & sixty bushels an, acl-a. mailto:3.65@4.00