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:;;:t;'-;v: r the Mchenry puinoealer K:~ -.'^*1^'$ ------ ' ^ KafiENBY FLAIKDRAEEB OOk if U?.r • ' ~ '"T I'"" J •- aaam. - • txxxaon. .. •• ' . =g-- m-- • * P' * P' i fev / fAr fe, 'i-M, ; J" f'f§^ Ife- if ~ &s*s lv"V. ?'-h fTiP gai BRSi Brooding over domestic troubles, Dr. Joseph Hanis of Syracuse, Ind., cut his throat and will die. Mayor D. L. D. Granger of Provi­ dence, R. I., has decided to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress from the first district. John G. Faulds, the printer who dis­ appeared from Grantsburg, Wis., Sept. 23, was found dead on the banks of the St. Croix river. Clarence Shaw, for several years a prominent member of the First Regi­ ment ©f Chicago, attaining the rank of captain at the age of 18, died at Phoenix, Ariz., of tuberculosis. His last service with the Illinois National Guard was as inspector of rifle prac­ tice. 0 Rev. James A. Ballantyne, 44 years old, presiding elder of the McKeesport district, Pittsburg conference, Metho­ dist Episcopal church, died at his borne in Wilkinsburg, Pa., of the grip. He was in the ministry twenty-two years. Major M. B. C. Wright, aged 60, Is dead at Washington, D. C. He was a native of Ohio. At the time of his death he held a position on the board of review of the United States pension office. Major Wright was the young­ est major in the volunteer service dur­ ing the civil war. Mrs. Alice E. Hughes, wife of Rev. Dr. Henry Hughes of Coldwater, Mich., died at the residence of her father, H. K. Edgerton at Oconomowoc, Wis. George W. Porth, deputy city comp­ troller and at one time postmaster of Milwaukee, died after a lingering ill­ ness. He was well known in political circles throughout Wisconsin. Otto Jaehkel, in prison at Milwaukee for four months on a charge of de­ frauding New York and Buenos Ayres firms out of $48,000 through forged paper, was set at liberty by Commis­ sioner Bloodgood. Lieutenant Colonel Houston of the Fifteenth Infantry is on trial before a court martial at San Francisco on the charge of not calling out his troops to suppress a riot of soldiers outside the Presidio reservation. Ambassador Tower gave a dinner at the Carleton hotel, London, in honor, of Generals Corbin and Young. Dr. Richter, German commissioner to Chicago exposition and commission­ er of Germany at the Paris exposition, has been appointed director of the im­ perial interior office at Berlin. Nnmerous instances were reported ia Paris of striking miners attempt­ ing to prevent nonstrikers from de­ scending the pits and breaking the windows of nonunion men's homes, but no grave disturbanct has occurred. The American Society for Municipal Improvements opened at Rochester. N. Y., with a discussion of electric lighting of streets. The National Mule Spinners' Asso- ciatien at its closing session at Bos­ ton elected Michael Dugan of Lowell, Mass., president. Father W. K. Prendergast, pastor ef the Roman Catholic church at Man- nington, W. Va., is dead as a result of poison placed in mineral water. Mamie Quinlan, aged 22, of Nauga- tuek, Conn., was killed and over a score hurt in a wreck on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail­ road, near Danbury, Conn. The bodies ef Pleasant Pruitt, aged <1, and his wife, aged 47, were found In the basement of their home in In­ dianapolis. The police say Pruitt killed his wife and himself. The Pentecost band has prepared plans for a national orphans' indus­ trial school that will accommodate 500 children to be located near Indian­ apolis, Ind. The shoe manufacturing trade is being transferred from the east to the middle and western states; Boston trade for the year decreased 387,000 cases; Chicago and St. Louis gained 16 per cent. Senator W. A Clark and EL H. Har- rlman have ended the war for control of the Los Angeles-Salt Lake busi­ ness. The former's road will buy the Oregon Short Line south of Salt Lake for $10,000,000. The publishers' and insurance can­ vassers of Chicago will organize a onion; members will carry cards and place persons who ill treat them on "the unfair lost." Joseph Grazek shot and killed Ell Seaezeck at Ely, Minn. Both were enamored of the same young woman and met inopportunely at the gate of her home. Rome Miller, a capitalist of Omaha, applied for a receiver for the Kitchen Brothers' hotel, which operates the Paxton hotel, one cf the largest in the city. He alleges mismanagement Emma Thomas, alias Cassody, was bound over at Washburn, Wis., cbarg- 'ed with the murder of Michael Miller at Nash, Wis., cm Sept. 21. WilKam Casper aDd John Rump of Chicago were fatally injured at St. .Joseph, Mo., by the collapse of the rtop floor of a new bank building. « The Danish minister of marine. Rear .Admiral Joehnkc, fell on the steps of 'the rigsdag and fractured hi* thigh. J King Cnristian of Denmark Has gazetted Anton Hegner. the American [violoncellist, a knight of the Danebrog .order. J One hundred Chicago union metal (Workers rmp oyed by ihe Standard Or- jnamental Iron company, have struck tfor a nine-hour day. | A Siberian newspaper says the gov­ ernment is considering the project of a new rail-oad to connect the Black Sea with the Siberian line. Chief of Police Bjirr Greenfield of Kalamazoo, Mich., is charged with bribery and perjury. Two masked robbers held up and robbed four saloons in Denver, Col., and shot and Instantly killed Charles t Boy kin. The men escaped. Ifi A large, four-masted schooner burned near Alligator Lighthouse, oft the Florida coast. The crew was saved. While resisting arrest, Walter Brown, a liveryman of Cadiz, Ky., was shot and killed in a duel with Deputy Marshal Sumner. Charles AnuAtd and Joseph Ferdi­ nand were killed and a brother of Fer­ dinand fatally wounded in a drunken fight near Sutton's Bay, Mich. As a safeguard against grave rob­ bing the common council of New Al­ bany, Ind., has ordered electric arc lights placed in the city cemeteries. Michael Cudahy has leased two sec­ tions of oil lands in the Osage and Cherokee Nations, and is quoted as saying his company will spend $2,000,- 000 in developing the property. Vice President Wilson of the Inter­ national Association of Machinists says the strike of Union Pacific shop­ men will be extended to all Harriman lines if the strike is indorsed by the Union Pacific annual meeting at Salt Lake Oct 14. Rev. Charles Henry Robinson, hon­ orary canon of Ripon, has been ap­ pointed dean of Westminster, London, in succession to Very Rev. Granville Bradley, who has resigned. The retirement of Count Esterhazy from the order of Jesuits was occa­ sioned by a love affair with the March^ ioness De Reynac, a French woman, whom the count has since married. Fred T. Evans is dead at Hot Springs, S. D. He was reported ,£t one time to be worth $1,000,000, but at the time of his death was poor. Evans founded the town of Sloan, Iowa, built the first street railway in Sioux City, and opened up the Black Hills. He later built up the Evans Hotel at Hot Springs and made that resort famous. It was in*this venture that he lost his wealth. Experiments conducted by Professor John Trowbridge of Harvard Univer­ sity have led to the definite statement that lightning will not strike water. Earl Stiver, employed at the Syra­ cuse manufacturing works at North Manchester, Ind., was killed by his work apron catching on a shaft run­ ning 300 revolutions a minute. Ike Brannon, who has been on trial at Metropolis, 111., for killing Will Terrell while the two were working in a box factory, was acquitted by a ver­ dict pronouncing the killing justifi­ able. Thomas J. Sharkey, charged with being responsible for the death of Nicholas Fish, banker, in New York city, and who is under indictment for manslaughter in the first degree, has been released on $7,500 bail by Recor­ der Goff after three weeks' imprison­ ment. Fire at Lexington, Mo., destroyed the city ice plant, Hoffman's brewery and bottling works, Haerle's ware­ house and several dwellings.' Loss, $100,000. E. E. Boudinot, a business man of Danville, 111., and former member of the legislature, has been missing since Oct 3. Dr. F. C. Suitor of the Wisconsin state board of health has discovered twenty cases of smallpox on St. Jo­ seph ridge, a community a few miles from La Crosse. A strict quarantine has been established. Alfred Buffe at M3iico, Mo., was found guilty and given two years In the penitentiary for the murder of his wife, Sophia Buffe. His daughter, Mrs. Salina Belk of Troy, 111., testified against her father. Julius Eekhart, a civil war veteran, hanged himself at Milwaukee, Wis. He was a widower, 58 years old, and his wife died a year ago, having cut her wrists with suicidal intent. Emperor William, having granted Prince Henry forty-five days' vacation, the prince went to Hamburg and bought an automobile, with which he started to Duesseldorf, where he will visit the exposition. Paul Kruger's memoirs, now being printed, accuse Chamberlain of pro­ voking th^Boer republics and bring­ ing on the war; Mllner is declared to be Chamberlain's accomplice and the Johannesburg reform party a joke. The Colombian gunboat, Bogata, with Capt. H. H. Marmaduke, Ameri­ can ex-confederate commander, and an American crew, ha3 sailed to attack the rebel boat Padilla. The earl of Euston, Henry James Fitzroy, eldest son of the seventh duke of Grafton, was declared a bankrupt at London. A petition v/as lodged by financial agents who were creditors to the amount of $25,000. The convention of the National Wholesale Druggists' association at Monterey, Cal., visited the camp of the Fifteenth infantry. The banquet of the association was followed by a concert and ball. The engineer of a Rock Island pass­ enger train, westbound, averted a hold­ up near Chickasaka, I. T., by increas­ ing the speed of the train when or­ dered to stop. Several shots were fired into the coaches. The subscriptions for the Japanese loan of $25,000,000 'jrhich were in Lon­ don are said to have been subscribed for thrice over. The body of Chris Mason, aged 84 years, was found floating in Rock riv­ er near Beloit, Wis. It is believed that he diowued himself. The Rome Messagglero 6ays that several ctses of suspected plague have occurred at Ponticelli, near Naples. The authorities discredit the report. Lucie Wolf, Norway's foremost act­ ress, is dead, ahe wai 69 years of age. A proposition to establish manual training In connection with the public schools of Beloit, Wis., was defeated by a large majority of the electors. Mrs. Kate Houston and her four lit­ tle daughters of Keokuk, la., are miss­ ing. The mother is supposed to have killed the girls and committed suicide Jack Suton, an ex-slave living near Brownfield, 111., has celebrated his 100th birthday. The steamer Sierra, which arrived at San Francisco from Australia, brought $3,700,000 in English sover­ eigns. Prof. J, J. Iglehart, a prominent edu­ cator of Columbia, Afo., committed sul- cide at Centralia, Mj,, by shooting. Heavy rains in southern Iowa, which made railroad beds soft, caused two freight wrecks, one on the R<2ck Island near Unionvillc, the othei on the Milwaukee near Seymour. TEACHER SHOOTS THBEEJRUSTEES Two Are Mortally Wounded and the Third Has His Fingers Broken. TAKES REVENGE ON CHILDREN After Disabling Their Parents the Frenzied Man Deliberately Fires on Little Girls, Then Turns the V/eapon on Himself When Pursued. / Grand Forks, N. D., special: Fren­ zied by the prospect of being dis­ charged as teacher in the Mennonite school near Altoona, Manitoba, Henry I. Toews attacked three trustees, fa­ tally wounding two of them and shoot­ ing the other. He then re-entered the schoolhouse, fatally wounded two lit­ tle daughters of one of the trustees and shot the child of another. Toews then fled, but neighbors pur­ sued him, and when driven to bay he shot himself with the last bullet left in his revolver. Altoona is in the center of a Men­ nonite settlement, most of the mem­ bers of which are prosperous farmers. Toews was a Mennonite, but for some time there had been friction be­ tween him and other members of the community, complaint having been made concerning the management of the school. The three members of the board of trustees--John Hiebert, Abraham Remset and Peter Kebler--expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the teacher, and there had been hard feeling between them and Toews. Trustees Visit Teacher. -^,The three members of the board visited the school according to a pre­ arranged plan to talk matters over with the teacher. School was still in session and, instead of inviting his visitors inside, Toews came out him­ self, leaving his pupils at work in the building. The trustees referred to the com­ plaints that had been made to them, and the teacher attempted to defend himself from the accusations made. As the talk progressed Toews became angry, and there was loud talk and hard words. During the quarrel he suddenly drdw his revolver and aimed at Remset The bullet took effect In the trustee's side, and he fell to the ground, fatally wounded. Hiebert was then shot in the side. He also was mortally wounded. The two shots were fired almost at one time, and none of the men had time to move. Breaks His Fingers. Kebler, who had stood a little farth­ er off than the others, sprang for­ ward when the shots were fired and attempted to wrest the weapon from the frenzied man. He was successful in disturbing the aim of the weapon, and as it was discharged he was shot m the bafid, the bullet breaking his fingers and forcing him to release his hold of Toews. Toews then sprang into the school­ room determined to complete his re­ venge. Among the pupils were two lit­ tle daughters of Kebler, aged respect­ ively 8 and 10 years. These he shot through the body and the 11-year-old daughter of Remset was shot in the arm, receiving injuries which will not be fatal. OTHERS SUFFER FOR HI8 CRIME Man Confesses After Twenty Years to Having Committed Murder. Butte, Mont., special: Twenty years after the commission of a murder, for which Thomas Haniey and Luke Kelly, the latter president of the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly, and a prominent labor leader in Montana, have served seven years in the peni­ tentiary, the real murderer is said to have confessed. Word has been re­ ceived from Wilkesbarre, Pa., that E. W. Tourney of Scranton, Pa., has given himself up. The tragedy was en­ acted near Lucerne, Pa., a man named Roscencrantz being held up aad killed. Kelly and Haniey were convicted on the testimony of a woman, who de­ clared she recognized them as the murderers. FRENCH COAL MIN&RS 8TRIKE 8ixty Thousand Quit Work and Gov­ ernment Issues Rigorous Orders. Paris cable: Dispatches received from the coal mining regions indicate the strikers number about 60,000 men. The government has issued rig­ orous Instructions to prevent disor­ ders, processions and the carrying of flags and other emblems and prohib­ iting also the sale or possession of old muskets transformed Into rifled weapons, of which quantities exist In France. A number of cases of strik- e s interfering with nonstrikers and compelling them to cease work have occurred, but there has been no seri­ ous collision, LEAVES RUIN INJT5 WAKE Levels houses, Cornfields, and Orchards in Vicinity of Quincy. PANIC (IN ST. LOUIS THEATER Patter of Hailstones on Tin Roof Strikes Terror to Andience During Dark Scene, but Ushers Succeed in Restoring Order. A tornado from the southwest swept the southern section of Quincy, 111. It lasted several minutes, moving in a northeasterly direction. The storm mowed down all in its path, including orchards, cornfields and houses. Heavy rain followed and communication is cut off. It is reported that heavy damage was done at Palmyra, Mo., and at Long Point, 111. Six or eight houses were blown down and one man was killed. Henry Koetlers, in Melrose township, was fatally Injured by be­ ing hurled into the cellar when his house was blown down. John Up- schulte was among the more seriously injured. The wind blew down the smoke stack of the electric light power-house in Quincy. Trains were delayed on the St Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern by a wash-out near Hannibal, Mo. Hail in St Louis. A hailstorm lasting five minutes caused $5,000 damage in St Louis, Mo. Hailstones measuring two inches in diameter fell and the precipitation on the streets resembled a fall of snow. Greenhouses all over the city were practically ruined. There was no premonition of the storm. The hail came with a crash. The precipitation on the tin roof of the Olympic theater caused a panic in the audience. The lights were low during the performance and in the semi-darkness^the crash created terror throughout the theater. The audience was on its feet with one bound. Men scrambled over seats and a number of women fainted. Just as the lights were turned up ushers shouted, "No danger; sit down," and this had the effect of calming the terror-stricken spectators. When quiet was restored the performance was resumed. Sev­ eral persons were bruised, but none seriously hurt. Razes Houses at Macon, Mo. A disastrous windstorm visited Ma­ con, Mo. Several houses and buildings were destroyed in the southeast por­ tion of town. The devastated region was thinly populated. The hillsides are dotted ' with the lanterns of the homeless householders. As far as can be ascertained no lives were lost. The telephone wires from suburban resi­ dences are down. Windstorm Does Damage. A severe windstorm and a deluge of rain struck Lafayette, Ind. South of the city the damage is heavy, many barns and outbuildings being blown down and several orchards ruined. In the city a torrent of rain fell, flooding the streets. The signs and decorations for the fall festivals were destroyed. NO INDICTMENT IN RACE WAR Saline County Jurors Fail to pind Evi­ dence of Guilt. Carbondale, 111., special: After hav­ ing examined nearly 200 witnesses and consumed over two weeks, the grand jury of Saline county has failed to in­ dict a single one of the men who have terrorized tho negroes in the county and driven many away from Eldorado. As a result the words of the governor In this city have been made good and the troops stationed at Eldorado have gone into winter quarters. It is un­ derstood that a movement has been started among the leading citizens of the state to locate the guilty parties through detectives and engage counsel to prosecute them. Much indignation Is expressed among the colored citi­ zens over the failure of the grand jury to Indict some of the mob. 8C0RE FREDERICK THE GREAT Poles 8ay His Statue Would Be Out of Place In America. Posen cable: The Poles of this province are preparing a protest to be sent to America against the ac­ ceptance by the United States, of the statue of Frederick the Great which the Kaiser has offered to the United States. They declare that Frederick the Great was the embodiment of ab­ solutism, and that his statue would be out of place in a free republic. Mayor Fights Madman. Des Moines, la., dispatch: Mayor Brenton came out victorious in a des­ perate conflict \p,ith Richard Wagner, a madman, only after be was wholly exhausted and at the point of suc­ cumbing to the fierce attacks and vicious snapping of bis assailant Murder and 8uicide. Washington dispatch: Alice Fisher, employed In the government printing office, was shot and instantly killed | by William Dougherty, a fellow em- I ploye. Dougherty then shot and killed ' himself. Jealousy was the motive. Transport a Freighter. San Francisco, Cal., special: The transport Egbert has been sold by the government to the Dollar Steampshlp company for $50,000. The new own­ ers will put hei in service as a freight­ er from this port to China. Earthquake in Texas. Austin. Tex., special: A slight shock cf earthquake was felt at Garfleld, fif­ teen miles north of here. Creedmoor j and Bluff Springs also report a slight shock. No serious damage was done. 8ickness Stops Campaign. Bedford, ind., special: John C. Chaney, Republican candidate for con­ gress, gave up bis canvass in this county on account of the fatal illness of his father at F6rt Wayne. Found Guilty of Killing Wife. Traverse City, Mich., special: A jury found John A. Hargrave guilty of manslaughter. Hargrave last April choked hisa Invalid wife and beat her to death with a club in a bedroom of their home. Friendly With the Powers. Madrid cable: At a cabinet coun­ cil Premier Sag*>sta, dilating upon Spain's friendly relations with the powers, Indicated the urgency"6 of studying international Interests. 8teamer Is Disabled. Deal, England, cable: The Span­ ish steamer Olazarr! from Bilbao. 8paln, for Antwerp, arrived here in a disabled condition, having been in collision with an^ unknown ship in the channeL 1 May Be Bishop 8paldlng. Rome cable: Several newspapers here state that the nomination of liishop Spaldli g of Peoria to the vs-cant archbishopric of Chicago has been decided upon. * I ACCUSED OF SLAYING I v>?3HIS MOTHER AND KIN iiivtntor Is Charged With Murdering Pour Members of His Family With an A*. Pittsburg, Pa., special: Accused fey his brother of having murdered his mother, two sisters and a brother with an u and fatally wounded three oth­ er members of the family, Charles Cawley, a young inventor of this city, lies in the county jail without a trace of the insanity under the influence of which he is supposed to have commit­ ted the crime. The slaying of the four persons was particularly brutal in its nature in that the murderer hacked and battered the bodies after life was extinct. James Cawley, the eldest brother, asserts that he woke suddenly and saw Charles standing beside his bed with a bloody ax in his hand, and that im­ mediately upon awakening he heard groans from the other beds in the room. He says he sprang out of bed and grappled with his brother, finally overpowering him, and then going through the house found every mem­ ber of the family either dead or dying from fearful cuts and blows. Cawley in the county jail showed no signs of insanity and denied stoutly that, he committed the crime. He de­ clared that burgalrs were guilty of the murders. WEAVER DEVELOP8 COAL LANDS Chicago Company Will Sink Shafts in Vicinity of Duquoin, III. Duquoln, 111., special: The Weaver Coal and Coke Company of Chicago has purchased the mining plant, to­ gether with 326 acres of land, of the Brown Mining Company of Pinckney- ville. The mineral right to fifty acres of land joining this tract was also purchased from Mrs. Mary Sullivan. All preliminaries have been made for the sinking of a shaft by the Wea­ ver company one mile north of Du­ quoin on the tract purchased a month ago, when the Jupiter mines were bought from the Jupiter Coal and Coke Company of this city. Three or four other shafts will also be sunk west of Duquoin on land acquired by the Weaver company, which is more than 1,000 acres. FORMULATES NEW GRAIN RULE Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce Makes Lower Grades Contract Milwaukee, Wis., special: The chamber of commerce has passed1 a rule making No. 1 spring wheat and No. 1 yellow corn contract grades. This is expected to be greatly to the advantage of the dealers in options and is expected to revive a business which was showing signs of weaken­ ing. There is no grain of the grades specified in this market and moBt of the business will be done in Chicago receipts. TROOP8 8UBDUE THE SOCIALISTS 8panish 8oldiers Kill Five and Wound Others in a Riot. Gibraltar cablegram: Serious riots took place on the Spanish frontier. A large mob of socialists and others attacked the troops in the neighbor­ hood, but was repulsed, losing five killed and many wounded. Gen. Ob- regon, with three infantry battalions, arrived on the scene and proclaimed martial law. The socialist center has been closed by the military authori­ ties. THE LATEST MARKET REPORTS. Wheat New York--No. 2 red, 74 ftc. Chicago--No. 2 red, 68Vi®69%c. St. Louis--No. 2 red, 67%c. Kansas City--No. 2 hard, 6<%c. Duluth--No. 1 hard, 70%c. Toledo--73 %c. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 72ft# 73c. Minneapolis--No. 1 northern, 690 «»%c. Corn. New York--No. 2, 70c. Chicago--No. 2, GOVfcc. St Louis--No. 2, 67c. Kansas City--No. 2 mzed, 6136c. Peoria--No. 3, 59%c. Oats. New York--No. 2, 33®33Hc. Chicago--Standard, 35@35%c. St. Louis--No. 2, 33c. Kansas City--No. 2 white, 33HC. Milwaukee--Standard, 32%@>33}&e. Peoria--No. 3 white, 32c. Cattle. Chicago--$2.40@8.16. Kansas City--$1.00@7.90. St. Louis--$2.25 @7.25. Buffalo--$1.50@7.75. Omaha--$2.50® 8.20. Hogs. Chicago--$5.60 @ 7.92 %. Kansas City--$6.75@7.40. St. Louis--$7.10@7.90. Buffalo--$5.25 @7.75. . Omaha--$6.00@7.65. 8heep and Lambs. Chicago-- $2.25 @5.50. Kansas City--$2.00@4.76- St Louis--$2.00@5.55. Omaha--$2.75@5.10. Buffalo--$2.00® 5.75. Rob Bank at Almond. Stevens Point, Wis., dispatch: The Bank of Almond was entered by rob­ bers and the safe blown open. The safe was wrecked and the building badly shattered by explosion. Only $100 was secured by the robbers. Fugitive Kills Himself. Davenport, la., dispatch: Benjamla Porter, a fugitive from justice, wanted for the attempted murder of his wife, cut his throat at Wheatland, la., and died in a Rock Island. 111., hospitaL Order Pastor to Warmer Place. London cable: The physicians at­ tending Dr. Joseph Parker, pastor of the City Temple, who has been seri­ ously ill, have ordered his abstemtion from work for six months and his de­ parture to a warm climate. Attacks Education Bill. \ Birmingham cable: The British Baptist Union has passed resolutions declaring that the government's edu­ cation bill violates the fundamental principles of the constitution. STEWART HEADS Veterans Select an Eastern, Man for Commander î n Chief.J •i f': CENSURE FOR MEOIcAtlulflAIJ General Torrance Declares the Doctors Execute the Claims of Men Who Seek Pensions--Denounces Asser­ tion That Frauds Are Rife. Gen. Thomas J. Stewart of Pennsyl­ vania was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic for the ensuing year, receiving 468 votes to 273 for Gen. Black of Illinois and eighty-three for Col. John McEl- roy. The election was made unani­ mous and Gen. Stewart was intro­ duced to the convention by Gen. Black. The name of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles of New York had been presented to the convention, but he withdrew in fa­ vor of Gen- Black. William Olin of Massachusetts was elected vice com­ mander-in-chief and James M. Averill of Georgia junior vice commander- in- chief. The Grand Army encampment got down to real business. The delegates, past commanders and others entitled to admission to the convention, as­ sembled and listened to the annual ad­ dress of Commander-in-Chief Torrance. Its most important feature was a brief review of the report of the com­ mittee of which Gen. Torrance was a member ex-offlcio, which investigated the management of the pension bu­ reau by H. Clay Evans and which prob­ ably influenced his transfer to the consular service. I Lord High Executioners. This committee severely scored the medical division of the pension bu­ reau, declaring that it was a deadline where were executed the claims of veterans seeking pensions. It accused the personnel of this division of ap­ proaching the reports of the examin­ ing surgeons throughout the country with suspicion and distruct and as made in bad faith. It denounced the reports that extensive frauds were practiced in pension claims as abso­ lutely baseless. In a separate state­ ment Gen. Black, who is an ex-com- mlssioner of pensions, said: "I was not able to meet with the pension committee when they assem­ bled in Washington. I have, however, examined the complaint and bureau reports in a number of cases, and I (ully agree with the conclusion of the committee that the real obstacle in their way is in the Washington end of the medical division. In my opinion, that division is not in harmony with the veteran and other applicants be­ fore the bureau." Torrance is Peppery. Gen. Torrance in his address made a touching allusion to the assassination of President McKinley, eulogizing in strong terms the dead President's character and condemning in bitter language the crime that struck him down. He advocated the enactment of laws by congress which should make certain the punishment of any person who should make an assault on the chief executive. No quibble con­ cerning constitutional rights, he con­ tended, should be allowed to stand la the way of such legislation. He said that lawlessness of speech usually pre­ cedes lawlessness of act, and added: "We have never had a President who deserved to be caricatured, and we never wilf have one that a self-re­ specting press or people can afford to hold up to public ridicule. More re­ spect for rightful speech with less ap­ petite for sensationalism will do much to wither the evil passions cf men and to promote safety and security of both life and property in this republic." Officers' Reports. Official reports were made by the senior vice commander, the junior vice commander, the surgeon general, the chaplain-in-chief, the adjutant gener­ al, the quartermaster general, the in­ spector general and the judge advo­ cate general. Quartermaster General Charles Bur­ rows of Rutherford, N. J., furnishes details concerning the financial affairs of the order, in the course of which he says: "I am glad to be able to re­ port a good, sound financial condition, the cash in the general f ind and sup- lies on hand showing an increase over that of last year." The report of Adjt. Gen. Silas H. Towler of Mineapolis shows that on the 30th of June last the muster roll of the Grand Army contained 263,745 names of members in good standing, and that there were 6,511 po3ts. The figures as to membership show a net loss since the preceding year of 6,804. The death loss for th6 year, as shown by the roport, Is 8,299. Macedonian Upheaval. Sofia cablegram: A message to the Macedonian committee signed by Nicoloff, one of the leaders of the revo­ lutionists, says that a general in­ surrection has broken out in a dozen districts in Macedonia. Iowa Grand Chapter R. A. M. Cedar Rapids, la., dispatch: The forty-ninth session of the Grand Chap­ ter Royal Arch Masons convened with an attendance of 200. The reports sub­ mitted show a membership of 8,700. Blame the Boers. Berlin cable: The majority of the morning papers, commenting on the failure of the Boer generals to obtain an audience with the Kaiser, place the blame for the failure on the Boers themselves. • Brigands Demand Ransom. Balonica cablegram: Brigands have captured a Turkish land owner named Sheik Bey at Orisar, near Vodena, for­ ty mi>es from Monastir. He is being held for a ransom of $15,000. SEIZE IHE COIL Conference at Detroit Urges That State Take Posses­ sion of Mines ;m SUPPLY THE PUBLIC WITH FUEL Pennsylvania Asked to Call Spcfffal^ Session of the Legislature to Pre>'^ vide Ways and Means to Relieve the Existing Stringency. Detroit, Mich., spectal: After seih' slons of wrangling and bitter debate, radicals battling with conservatives te the l§st aiteh, the "coal famine" coa-^ volition, with its 300 delegates from? /fifty-six municipalities of the United? States, early this morning determined^ on the demands by which relief will be" sought from the anthracite coal fam­ ine. Demand is made, aad will be car­ ried to President Roosevelt at Wash­ ington, that: "The state of Pennsylvania proceed at once, by a special session of its leg­ islature, to condemn, at a fair com­ pensation, the coal carrying roads of that state and sufficient of the coal lands to enable the public to be sup- plied, the state to operate the miners. "The president of the United States to assemble the lower house of con­ gress and have that body appoint a commission to investigate all charters, stock books, and all properties of the coal carrying roads with a view to se­ cure such information as shall in­ demnify the state of Pennsylvania im any litigation over the handling of the mines. Demand Punishment "The attorney general of the United States at once to bring criminal pro­ ceedings against the coal carrying roads for violation of the Interstate commerce law in their high handed and arbitrary fixing of rates and for violation of the Sherman anti-trust act, in that these roads have an iron­ clad combination which" practically vests absolute control of the coal fields in their hands. It is demanded that these criminal proceedings lie againBt managers, directors, and all officerfc of these corporations. "That President Roosevelt taket steps at once to have a receiver for the mines appointed, this official te operate the properties for the publie , good. It is further asked that, should the chief executive of the nation find this plan impracticable, that he call am immediate session of congress and urge the passage of legislation to this end." Appeal for Funds. Appeal is made that tho mayors of all cities of the United States take immediate and organized steps toward raising funds for the maintenance of the miners and their families. Vigorous condemnation is laid om the heads of the owners of bituminous mines, who, profiting by the exhaus­ tion of the anthracite markets, have arbitrarily sent up the prices of their product 4 In the face of all these demands, reached only after a battle of words which waged from early morning until midnight, every step which has been taken thus far by President Roosevelt to end the strike was given unquali­ fied and enthusiastic approval. The formal resolution closed with a ring­ ing applause for the efforts of the President to end the trouble which threatens suffering and misery to the country. Of Wonderful Make-Up. This result of the "get coal" confer­ ence, whose delegates were represent­ atives from all sections of the coun­ try, was reached only after a flood ef proposed remedies had been thrashed over. The convention will stand as one of the most remarkable gather­ ings the country has known. All representatives came iwre vol­ untarily, footing their own bills and seeking to solve some way to a>eet the present difficulty. Their numbers in­ cluded men of the most radical social­ istic type; conservative business men who sought remedies wholly within the law; men who urged that force and the breaking ef the law offered the only means of relief. It was these extreme opinions and convictions which made the fight to a final result so bitter. Want Mines Seized. There were those who Insisted that the President should take armed troops, invade the coal fields and seize the mines by force. They would have the chief executive leading a force of armed men. There were, resolutions in number declaring for public ownership for coal mines and all other natural resourced and their backers demanded immed­ iate transference to this method of control, but one and all they neglected to point out the way. = Degree for Vanderbilt. New Haven, Conn., special: It is un­ derstood (that Reginald Vanderbilt passed his recent examination in ele­ mentary law at Yale and that he is now entitled to a diploma and the de­ gree of bachelor of arts. Rob Ticket Office Safe. Pittsburg, Pa„ special: The safe ift the ticket office of the Pittsburg & Western railroad on the river front, Allegheny City, was blown open and between |600 and $800 stolen. Globe-Trotting Prince. v.. Boston special: One of the callers at the city hall was Count Delia Reg- glo Salvator, son of Prince Joseph Aci of Palermo, Sicily, who has been walk­ ing around the world on a wacor oft $20,000. Gold Goes to Crienfc San Francisco special: Six hundred thousand dollars in treasure, hilf of which Is gold bullion consigned to Ja­ pan, was carried to the Orient by th» steamer Nippon-Maru. sys mailto:2.40@8.16 mailto:1.00@7.90 mailto:1.50@7.75 mailto:6.75@7.40 mailto:7.10@7.90 mailto:6.00@7.65 mailto:2.00@5.55 mailto:2.75@5.10