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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 24 Sep 1903, p. 2

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pgppgs? MiVK * ' i • - * • ' . •••• '-• »si THE McHEMV PUWDEAIER KCHSNBT PIADnWWIAe McHBNRT, 8- - - '• ILLINOIS. v- NEWS OF THE WORLD Psillieai, Domestic «ni Happenings of Minor Imports*** Psrsflrs*IN. ; Maj: ft: TH. Ellis of the British war $|%v office has been commissioned to exam- ine the military surveys in Canada , for th* purpose of bringing them up to g|, •- ; date. $ | _ V R a l p h A r n o l d , a s s i s t a n t i n geology at Stanford university, has been ap- v pointed assistant to Dr. Dall of the £'.S United States geological survey. ff,:-:1 Dr. William J. Holland, director of '< %.' t•' the Carnegie museum at Pittsburg, has returned from Europe with the valua- " ble paleontological collections of Bar­ on De Briet , ; George W. Crawford,, who has been ' appointed a clerk in the Probate court v of New Haven, Conn., is the negro who if"-, was graduated from Yale last June and won the Townsend oration prize. Rev. G. R. Penny, for many years a ^jv', /i resident of Providence, R. I., who re- • cently Yeturned to this country after •; spending thirteen years in missionary tf: i work in the West Indies, has decided .to take vip work in the Hawaiian islands. f" A building formerly used as a p&r- affin factory, containing machinery, : and belonging to the Stanwdard Oil I .^ company at Cavan Point, Jersey Cty, caught fire from some unknown cause ||^r -and was totally destroyed. The loss is $60,000. j^vV Burglars stole $3,000 worth of Jew- elry from the home of Ralph Ault, Muncie, Ind. v fe?/ Three fishermen, victims of the At- m V f \ lantic gale, were washed upon the f -beacb at I .ewes, Del. Frank Johnson, aged 20 years, son of B. P. Johnson, a prominent politi- j clan, fatally shot himself through the spPO, heart at Lexington, Ky., just after ^ taking a buggy ride. The family fc/: claims it was an accident and that ' there was no cause for suicide. ifly - The postoffice at Loza, 111., was en- •. tered by robbers and the safe blown ' open. The robbers secured a large |Quantity of stamps and $50 in cur­ rency. Etta Morgan. 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. William Morgan of Brazil, Ind., was run over by an interurb&n car on the Terre Haute electric line and al- " most instantly killed. Homer Manspile has been indicted Sf-3 . ; at Urbana, 111., for kidnaping his wife. "**-* He had dragged her naked from her /.V., < father's home through a cornfield and m> •» was captured by a mob. Mrs. Ruth Bryan of Port Wayne, H|.<* Ind., has discovered that her mother, . whom she had believed dead thirty js£/.* years, resides at Cooksvllle, UL She p.'s. is now Mrs. Rachel Pars. pf!"; The people of Porter, Ind., were % thrown into intense excitement by an |f j attempt to blow up the saloon of Fred p/' Eievers. A dynamite cartridge was fe>' thrown into the building. The cart- Pff- ' ridge was seen in time to prevent an |r':S ̂ explosion. .V After watching her body all night, C V her husband finally admitted that .' Lady Ries, spiritualist, at Milwaukee, Wis., was dead. He had previously insisted that t&e doctors who declared |K her dead were wrong and that she was Kj ... in a trance. te, . Clarence Miles Boutelle, superln- tendent of the public schools of Mar­ shall, Minn., for eight years, and one of the leading educators of Minnesota, H : died suddenly of apoplexy. He was a native of New Hampshire and went to i^y. Minnesota in 1859. He was an author Ip1/ of some reputation. j|& Whitaker Wright, the company pro- p|,i. . moter, was committed for trial atLon- don until which time, it was an- jfe-V'" nounced, the defense deferred the fJV' presentation of its case. He was re- leased in $250,000 bail. pff.v It is reported from Belgrade that ®ng Peter has summoned up courage to remove Col. Mischitch, the leader l-V. - of the regicides, from the war office, PJ'V and has reappointed him to the pro- jlLfd'" fessorship in the military academy PV'--? which he formerly held. The storage waiehouse of the Ber-' rien Springs Canning company at Ber­ rien Springs, Mich., burned to the ground, together/ with 3.000 boxes of canned goods. Thd estimated loss on canned goods is $15,000, on building $5,000, partially covered by insur­ ance. The origin of the fire is un­ known. V The British transport Soudan, with » regiment of troops on board, bound for India, which was reported to have foundered during a gale, has arrived at Valletta, Malta? Grieving over the death of his mother George F. Staunton, postmas­ ter at Hennepin, 111., committed sui­ cide by taking carbolic acid. He was ! 60 years old. President Van Hi Be, wife and daugh- <ter returned to Madison, Wis., after .a summer in Europe. Dr. Van Hise declined to discuss his policy as presi­ dent of the university. ' The Corset Manufacturers' associa­ tion at Berlin has raised prices 5 per cent on account of the increased cost of cotton. The senate at Hamburg decided to expend $2,000,000 on the improvement of the Elbe channel and the railroad terminals. . • Seventeen persons bitten by a rabid dog at Millowitz, upper Silesia, were taken to Berlin to be inoculated foi rabies. Destitute Nazina miners are report ed to be eating horse flesh to escape starvation. Postmaster General Payne has lefl Washington for Virginia Hot Spring* for a week's vacation. Laura West, aged 9 years, was fa tally wounded by Philip Ryan. c watchman in Sunset park, Brooklyn who was chasing some mlchievdui boys from the park. The Jury on the case of the officials of the Mercantile Co-operative bank 9t Red Bank, N. J., {or causing th« failure ot the bank, rendered a ver­ dict of guilty against John W. New bury, president, and Rudolph New Wta. <»sbJer. The steamship Texan has started on a world'P record voyage of 14.000 miles without a stop, sailing from Ta- poroa to Philadelphia. "Fully 5,000 people attended the fourth annual musical festival at Bra- til, Ind. Bands took part from Green- castle, Dmville, 111., Decatur,' 111., and Indianapolis. Edward Butler, political boss under sentence for bribery at St. Louis, Mo., declares that Joseph Folk, the district attorney who convicted him, should be elected governor. • Myrtle Bell of Hancock, Mich., over- tome with shame because of her ar­ rest for drunkenness, ripped the braid from h£r dress in her jail cell and, using that as a rope, committed sui­ cide by hanging. Michael Conroy was bound over in $5,000 for the grand jury at Clinton, Iowa, for conspiracy in the robbery of the Grossman fur store. W. E. Moll and wife of Chicago were the chief witnesses against him. , A romance of the mail car has cul­ minated in the wedding of J. M. Jones, a railway mail clerk of Olney, 111., and Einina Bacot of Summit, Miss.,! who, as sister of the postmaster, used tb carry mail bags to Jones' train. Rev. Dr. E. W. Lounsbury of Chi­ cago dedicated the First Baptist church at Shelbyville, Ind. Fire which Broke out in tLe build­ ing of the D. J. Green company at Mc- Donough, Ga., destroyed that entire building and an additional block, caus­ ing a loss of $100,000, with a partial insurance of $10,000. Fire completely destroyed the large general store of the Emery County Mercantile company at Price, Utah. Loss $60,000. In the destruction of the house of C. W. Hill at Grayling, Mich., a 6- months-ol£ granddaughter was burned to death. Eld ward Elliott, a clammer at Clin­ ton, Iowa, found a pearl ̂ weighing 120 grains and valued at $20,000 In the Mississippi. Thomas R. Hancock, aged 60 years, died at his home in Neoga, 111., from a stroke of apoplexy. He had been editor of the Neoga News for twenty- five years, and was prominent In po­ litical circles. He was a stanch Re­ publican, a member of the Masonic and G. A. R. orders. He served in the Ninety-seventh Illinois volunteers during the civil war. Fifteen hundred survivors of Wild- er's famous brigade assembled on the Chickamauga battlefield nea- the spot where the Wilder memorial monu­ ment has been erected and commemor­ ated the fortieth anniversary of the battle of Chickamauga. Dr. Robert Koch has secured further leave of absence to continue his work in Buluwayo until January. J. H. Hofmeyr, for many years lead­ er of the Dutch party in Cape Colony, has retired from political life. The condition of Senator N. B. Scott of West Virginia, who has been alarm­ ingly ill In Denver, Colo., continues to Improve and his physician says he will sooi\ be restored to health. For the first time in the history cf Columbia university a woman has been directly appointed to a profes­ sorship by the board of trustees. The new professor is Miss Margaret EL Maltby, Ph. D., a graduate of Bar­ nard, who will be installed at the be­ ginning of the academic year as ad­ junct professor of physics. Dr. E. B. Wilson, professor of zoo­ logy at Columbus university, has been elected a member of the Academia Del I.incei, Rome. Louis M. Caulk and Dean Ephart of Easton, Kan., fought out an old grudge and Caulk was dangerously stabbed. < Ed Christy, who was convicted ofc murder, committed suicide in the coun­ ty jail at Wellington, Kan., by hang­ ing himself to the bars of his cell. After being mourned as dead by pa­ rents and friends for thirteen years, Walter Frazee, a former resident of Scotch Plains, N. J., has returned to that village. Graders on the 8unset boulevard, just outside the city limits of Los An­ geles, Cal., have turned up a peck of spurious coin burled by counterfeiters many years ago. An electric current of 20,000 volts passed through Joseph Mariconi, an employe of a power company at Spier Falls, N. Y., and he survived the shod;. Ordinarily 2,000 volts is fa­ tal. William A. Gerken, 68 years old, one of the pioneer business men of Milwaukee and later a resident of cen­ tral Illinois, died at Bloomington. Fire at San Francisco destroyed the eteel works of Francis Smith & Co., entailing a loss exceeding $60,000. Six masked men robbed the bank at Douglas, Ok., of $5,000. They went to a livery stable, got the cashier's buggy and rode off. John Graver, a farmer near La Crosse, Wis., his wife and three chil­ dren are ill from poisoning caused by eating canned meat Welgel ft Co., boat builders, of Ros- coe, Pa., have filed a petition in bank­ ruptcy, placing liabilities at $10'<,460 and assets at $89,700. Gov. Dockery of Missouri has de­ cided to olTefta reward of $500 for the apprehension of D. J. Kelley, legisla­ tive agent of the baking powder trust. James J. Van Alen will go in Octo­ ber to llot Springs. Va., whore be has leased a cottage. He will sail for England later to spend the Christmas holidays. The Racine, Wis., hospitals are crowded with typhoid fever patents. Dr. Franklyn Miles of Elkhart, Ind„ has announced a profit-sharing plan for department beads of his dispen­ sary. Senator 8tephcn B. Elkins of West Virginia arrived in New York on the steamer Kaiser Wilbelm II. from Bre> * men. Postal Inspector James W. Erwln, indicted by the federal grand jury of Washington, D. C., for alleged conspir­ acy to defraud the government, was arrested in San Francisco by the United States marshal. Ball, fixed at $5,000, was promptly furnished. V. F. N. Short, who killed a coal miner on a Choctaw passenger tra]n at Wis- ter on Labor day, has escaped from Poteau, 1. T., jail and is at large. The compulsory vaccination ight has closed all schools in Marion, Ind., and throughout the county. The mat- ter will be taken before the courts. OP TO (tVERKEE Business Men Are Satisfied With Conditions in Their Respective Lines. FROST IS DISTURBING FACTOR Aside From Dangerous Position of 11M . Corn Crop, the Outlook Is of the k Best--Labor Troubles Have Prac- tically Disappeared From View. New York special: Business in all lines continues to be satisfactory throughout the country, according to Dun's Weekly Review of Trado. Raw materials are more easily obtained, the finished product is being promptly delivered * orders are coming in well and collections are good. The review says: "Aside from the temporary dis­ quiet engendered by pessimistic views of the dangerous position of the corn crop from frost, trade activity main­ tains favorable aspect. The Industrial situation is less affected by labor trou­ bles and manufacturers are able to overtake delayed work, though jnany yet require more time to reduce the number of old contracts on hand. Necessary fuel and raw material are more readily obtained than at this qualities. Preparations are under wiyf for usual winter stocking up. Grain Shipments* "Statistics of eastbound shipments of cereals are less instructive than formerly owing to diversion of move­ ment to gulf outlets. Last week's ag­ gregate by all lines of transportation of .flour and grain were nearly 5,000,- 000 bushels, an increase over the cor­ responding week last year of fully 50 per cent The current demand for foodstuffs Bhows more volume. Bread stuffs have not advanced permanently as might have been expected in vie\i of the widespread alarm as to safetj of the crops. Values were forced up, but felled to hold at the top owing to enormous sales of leading operators, except oats, which appear to be under manipulation. Flour met with better demand and shipments on foreign AO- count were increased. MAINE LEAVE8 CRAMf-S YARDS Big Battleship Will Participate In the Fall Maneuvers. Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch: The new battleship Maine, which Eas been undergoing repairs at Cramp's ship' yards for structural weakness, whicb developed under tests of its heavy guijHk, left the works of the builders and proceeded to the League island navy yard. The Maine/ which is in com­ mand of Captain H. G. Leutze, will stop only long long enough to take on a supply of provisions and coal and have the magazines stored with ammuni­ tion. It will then sail for Culebra, West Indies, where it will participate in the fell maneuvers of the Atlantic AN OLD RUG THAT fiCEDS A GOOD BEATING. V ' ' »'*?v "' • ;> % Chicago Tribune. time last year, and the capacity of plants is fully tested In various im­ portant lines of production. Prompt Deliveries. Dellreries are reasonably prompt, but the railroads are not clear of the probability of congestion. The traffic in merchandise and heavy materials maintains enormous proportions, rail earnings show more gain and there is unusual pasBenger-carrying to the Pa­ cific and new settlements throughout the West. Distribution of wares by jobbing houses is at its heaviest and retail trade shows a gratifying ad­ vance, due to the sudden spe'l oi cold weather. Mercantile collections for the country as a whole are satisfac­ tory and local adjustments show more promptness. Iron and 8teel. "The Iron and steel interests receive a fair share of new business, particu­ larly in furnace products. The mills are months behind on rail specifica­ tions and orders now being booked cannot be completed earlier than next spring. Structural requirements for bridge-building and finished materials ard In good demand, with prices firm. Easier conditions are noted in the BUP- ply of pig iron and the recent drop in quotations favors tbe melters, who have placed fresh demands aggregat­ ing quite a large tonnage. Manufac­ turers of farm implements, heavy ma­ chinery and furniture report their lines to be satisfactory, domestic or­ ders being large and the export trade improving. Good Demand for Hardware, "Hardware branches are urgently pushed in the effort to satisfy dis­ tributers, country needs being the most pressing. Local trade in shelf hardware maintains large volume. Lumber dealings are best for track and building requirements, shipments reaching a large aggregate, and more hardwoods could be readily sold were supply and prices easier. Receipts from the mills are under a year ago and actual stocks are low in the best CONGR£88MAN BOREING 18 DEAD Kentucky Republican Expires at Lon­ don, His Birthplace. London, K7., special: Congress­ man Vincent Boreing is dead. Mr. Boreing represented tbe Eleventh con­ gressional district. He was born in London in 1839 and was graduated from Tusculum college. Tennessee. He served in tbe Union army in the civil war. He bad been school teacher, ed­ itor and lawyer. He was a stanch Re-, publican and twice represented his district In congress. coast squadron. The Maine will also undergo an official speed test. INDIANA RIOTER 18 CONVICTED William Trimble Is Found Guilty by a Jury at Evansvllle. Bvansville, Ind., special: The Jury in the case of William Trimble, charged with having taken part in the riot here of July 5, returned a verdict of guilty. The foreman of the jury was Levi Erskine, a flouring mill man. Trimble was unmoved by the verdict and his Attorneys at ohfcii iwade a mo­ tion for a new trial. The penalty for riotous conspiracy in this state is from two to ten years. Trimble is the first of the rioters to be tried. He Is 46 years of age and has a wife. He formerly was a street car motorman. ALDERMAN 18 KtLLED BY GAS 8prlngfleld Official Found Dead In HI* Bed at His Home. Springfield, 111., special: Alderman James Shaw, representing the second ward, was found dead in bed at his home. This is the second case of asphyxiation by illuminating gas in this city within a week, the first being that of Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, a well known widow. In Mrs. Parker's case the coroner's jury blamed the gas com­ pany for not furnishing a regular flow of gas, repairs being in progress at the gas works. BURN THE PRINCIPAL IN EFFIGY RIVER 8WEEP8 AWAY BRIDGES Wisconsin Stream Rises Rapidly and Does Much Damage. Grand Rapids, Wis., special: The Wisconsin river continues to rise and Is approaching the danger limit. The water already is nine feet higher than tbe normal point and is sweeping away bridges. The cofferdams of the Consolidated Paper and Power com­ pany Lave nearly all been carried away and tht leg breakwater has been broken. La Crosse Pupils Disapprove Placing 8tudy Before Football. La Crosse, Wis., dispatch: A crowd of pupils of tbe high school gathered on the campus and burned an effigy of Principal Hemminway because some of their numbera had been re­ fused permission to play on the school football team this season, their scholarship not coming up to the re­ quired standard. BOY BREAKS JAIL AT 8T. JOSEPH Thlrteen-Year-Old Lad Make* a Dar­ ing Flight. St. Joseph. Mich., dispatch: John Smith of Chicago, aged 13 years, es­ caped during the night from the coun­ ty jail by removing a portion of the steel ceiling and entering the sheriff's residence, where he lowered himself to the grobnd by a blanket rope. Smith threatened his cellmates with death it they made an outcry. Sheriff Cum­ mins captured Smith at Bridgeman, Mich. SALOON PIGHT HAS FATAL BND HIDDEN PICTURE PUZZLE. 1 m Need Expect No Aid Outside Nations in Event of War. MAY WITNESS BLOODY DRAMA Ministerial Organ Declarea Fer4l» Hand's Government Will Undertake : to Do What Is Expected of It in 0 Macedonia Despite Opposition J f Wfr .-.V •. H;V When* I* the earner* drlVert HAS ROUGH RIDE Presidential Party Is Tossed About During Hurricane Off New York. MANY YACHTS ARE WRECKED Pleasure Craft and Larger Vessels Are Driven Aground Along the Jersey 8hore--Cup Defender ReUanoe Has Plates Stove In. New1 York special: Caught in the very vortex of a fierce storm which swept down upon this section, the lit­ tle naval auxiliary, Sylph, which had on board President and Mrs. Roose­ velt and party, had a most exciting trip from Oyster Bay, and one th^t was by on means free from danger. The wind was at the yacht's heels and the flying rain which came with the gale soon drove everyone below. The small cabin of the vessel was uncom­ fortably crowded and soon became un­ comfortably close. The Sound was a stretch of hissing whitecaps. Running with them, the yacht dipped in a live­ ly way, but there was no excessive motion until a change of coune and a sudden shift of the wind brought the seas more abeam. Tug Founders. In Hell Gate someone slid back the door leading down to the cabin and said that a tug had capsized just ahead of the yacht. The president did not hear the words, but Mrs. Roosevelt did, and drying the moisture from the glass of one of the tightly closed air ports, peered out and caught a fleet' ing glimpse of a foundering tug, the James Kay, which suddenly lurched under while staggering through the gale with a laden schooner In tow. The Sylph was too far away to ren­ der aid, and, besides, had all she could do to take care of. herself. Moreover, it was seen that the schooner had lowered her boats, which rescued the shipwrecked crew. Land on Ellis Isla.id. It had been Intended to make a stop at the New York Yacht club's anchor­ age at East Twenty-sixth street for the purpose of transferring Mrs. Roosevelt, Kermlt Roosevelt and a Mrs. Richardson, who was to accom­ pany Mrs. Roosevelt on a shopping tour, but when the Sylph arrived there the wind was so furious and the sea so high that it was considered in­ advisable to make the attempt, so tbe Sylph stood down to the navy yard. Some urged that the trip to Ellis Isl­ and be postponed on account of the weather, but the president, objected. He Inquired If immigrants were being landed, and when told they were he said his party could get there if Im­ migrants could. So by his orders the Sylph was got under way again and proceeded to an anchorage off fcllis Island, where, with much difficulty, the party was transferred to tbe rev­ enue cutter Chamberlain, which land* ed them on the island. Damage to Shipping. ---The, storm was the worst known-in this section for years. The wind blew at a hurricane rate, causing great damage in the city and to shipping along the coast, many small vessels being sent to the bottom. The gale wife accompanied by heavy rain, the wind attaining a velocity of sixty miles an hour. In this city plate glass windows were shattered by the wind, OFFICIAL FLEE8 FROM DEBTS Illinois Miner Is Slain for Resenting Remark* About Woman. Danville. 111., special: William Bal- trvkonls, a young Lithuanian miner of Westvllle. died from concussion of tbe brain caused by being struck with a chair In a saloon fight. He had resented remarks made about his woman companion. Joe and Frank Mashekis, William Sarocbkos $nd "Mike" Kermazumoa h*vi been agv re*t*4. Mayor and Postmaster of Keyport, N. J., Leaves Creditors to Mourn. Keyport., N. J„ special: Benjamin J. Ogden, mayor and postmaster, is missing, leaving debts of $100,000, with few assets. It Is said that Og­ den lost heavily in Wall street. He was Interested In a cutlery factory in Keyport and sank thousands of tioll&iH In It. He was a director in the People's National bank. When he resigned there was a run on the bank, which was finally weathered. REPORTER IS HEIrD FOR DEATH Harry Irwin Accused of Giving Man Fatal Doses of Morphine. Marinette. Wis., dispatch: Harry Carter Irwin, a reporter on a local newspaper. Is under arrest to await the result of an inquest over the body of Charles Boynton, a Jeweler. Irwin is charged with having administered several doses of morphine to Boyn­ ton while the latter was 111. Irwin has worked on papers in Mow York, Washington and Boston. cabs and trucks overturned, signs blown down and the safety of church spires endangered. Ferry service was interfered wjth by the heavy seas apd coast navigation made extremely per­ ilous. The worst of the damage was re­ ported from Staten Island. The entire fleet of the Staten Yacht Club, at anchor, was either sunk or wrecked. A pilot boat was driven ashore and there was a collision between a 'schooner and a barkentine. At Bayonne, N. J., forty-seven yachts, ranging In size from the schooner Ansonia of Ansonia, Conn., down to small catboats, were wrecked on the New York Bay shore. All on board reached shore. Fifty sloops and launches and as many small boats were driven ashore by the gale at Perth Amboy, N. J. The crew of the sloop Gordon were thrown into the water and swam ashore. At Red Bank, N. J., a score of yachts of tbe Red Bank Yacht Club were wrecked. A small church was blown from Its foundation and badly wrecked. Reliance Is Damaged. The greatest damage along the sound was done at City Island, where the America's cup defender Reliance and two other great American yachts, Columbia and Constitution, are hauled out. The damage to yachts at City Island alone is estimated at $100,000. The Reliance was saved only by heroic work on the part of the islanders, but was damaged. She was struck by the piledriver building the ways where she will spend the winter. Several plates in her stern were badly dented and loosened and she was shifted seven feet by the collision. The Columbia was placed in danger by the thrashing of the big schooner yacht Hildegard, and the latter was dragged out in tbe basin and scuttled. This was done as a last resort to save the Columbia. The schooner now lies in twenty feet of water within a few feet of the Columbia's stern. Loss Is Heavy. All along the New Jersey ooast the storm was' especially severe. The beas washed over bulkheads and piers and .carried away part of the bluff at Long Branch. Hotels and cottages at that place were In great danger. The storm wfcs said to have beeh the worst experienced on the New Jersey coast in years. At Long Branch, N. J., part of the roof of the West End Hotel was blown off. Many other buildings were dam­ aged and the trolley line to Asbury Park and Red Bank was disabled by broken wires and flooded tracks. The storm did immense damage at Coney Island. Hotels, piers, walks and other structures were demolished and boats were sunk and smashed to pieces. An unknown schooner sank off Plum Besch, but whether any lives were lost could not be learned. At Asbury Park beach front hotels were damaged, windows blown out and por­ tions carried away. Many tents at Ocean Grove were demolished. WOMAN IS BEATEN TO DEATH Aged Mother and Young Daughter Are Also Nearly Killed. Lebanon, Kan., special: Mrs. Will­ iamson was murdered and ber l?-year^ old daughter and her aged mother, Mrs. H. H. Payne, brutatly beaten. The three had been accustomed to sleep in one bed. Mrs. Williamson's body was found outside the house and her mother and daughter in bed un­ conscious. All had been horribly wounded with a cultivator bar. Mrs. Williamson was sning for divorce from ber husband. A young man of Jackson who wi shed to mprry her and whom she had refused repeatedly has disappeared. ROBBERS LOOT EXPRESS OFFICE Burglars Get $1,049 From the Wella- Fargo Company. Santa Barbara, Cal.. special: Bur­ glars entered the Wells-Fargo Express office here and robbed the safe of $1,- 049 in coin and currency. The rear door was entered with a key and tbe safe opened in the regular way by the combination, which was found In a book In a drawer o? one of the desks in the of5ce. About $300 locked In a separate compartment of the safe *as overlooked by the burglars. VANDERBILT MAKES BIG COUP Millionaire in Wall Street Raid Clean* Up Over $10,000,000. New York dispatch: One of the biggest coups in Wall street during the recent bear raid was made by young Cornelius Vanderbilt. He cleaned up $10,000,000, it was said, using a margin of $2,000,000. His for­ tune Is said now to exceed $20,000,- 000 in all. Most of his Wall street profits were made In Brooklyn Bapid Transit and Southern Pad ft. • Sofia, Bulgaria, cablegram: TSree of " the great powers have warned Bul­ garia that in the event of war no Ixfelp; need be expected from outside natioMf. This information did not come as an official reply to Bulgaria's note. Representatives of several of the great powers visited General Petroff,' the premier, in an endeavor to per­ suade him to cease the mobilization of troops, but he declined to do so. Tur- key has been informed of .Bt2igam4% . stand in this matter. Z | One of the ministerial orgene, in M Editorial on the government's note, , fcays It hopes it will he the last time that the Bulgarian government will issue a note. If tho powers do not Intervene to restore order in Mace­ donia, Bulgaria will undertake, with the feeble forces she possesses, to dc what is expected of her, and give Ep<: ,v rope the pleasure of -witnessing 'lirvr bloody drama in Macedonia. General Massacre. • telegram from Burgas reports that a general massacre is beginning throughout the district of Losengraid. Turkish troops and bashl-bazouks at­ tacked a Greek village near Losen* 1 rrad, killing twenty-five peasants and destroying the church, schools, and many houseB. The Turks attacked tip* village of Paoulevo and killed every­ body they found on the streets. A fight is reported from PetchonltZft* between a band of 100 insurgents and 300 Turks. Tbe insurgents, wno Q0* 1 cupied a strong position, fired on, t%ffr, attacking Turks, killing twenty-five..'. Mobilizing-Troops. A telegram from Uskub says th* 7 mobilization of the Turkish army A* - proceeding rapidly, while dspatche* from Constantinople assert that th* military party is urging the Sultan to order his troops to cross the Bulgarian frontier without a declaration of war, which the party regards as unnecee* sary, inasmuch as Bulgaria is a vassal state of Turkey. The sultan is said to be still hesitating. "} Further letters from Monastir i%'-v port that fighting has occurred at K^* * maclila between Turkish troops and 150 insurgents under the leaders Tan and Aleko. Tbe result is not y*t.. known. * - Turkish soldiers have raided th* estate of one of the sultan's body* guard, Sefulo Bey, at Sturbola Pre*- ta, pillaged twenty-six Bulgarian bouses, outraged four women pnd tak­ en 1,300 sheep. Refugees Disappear. About 200 refugees from the bvrnift ' village of Dyavata, who had gone to Malovisstha, have mysteriously di*» v appeared. They are believed to hat* been c-aptured by Turks, as a Turkish regiment proceeded to Malovissthn Sept. 10 with tbe intention of sup­ pressing 100 insurgents from Asso'ji band. Eighty-eight of these men escaped and the remaining twelve defended themselves for several hours, and were killed when a second Turkish regiment arrived on the scene. Asao sent a letter to Malovisstha the next day, with a suggestive bullet, demand­ ing the names of the villagers "who had betrayed the twelve insurgents!.** ;S •I 4 LATE8T CASH MARKET REPORT WHEAT. Chicago--No. S red. 81>4c. New York--No. 2 red, S6c. St. Louis-- No 2 reil. SIWc. Kansaa City--No. 2, T3<S7#c. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 89990c. Minneapolis--No. 1 northern. M984%& Dulutl«--No 1 northern, fffee CORN'. Chicago--No. 2. 5i%4j[52c. " New York--No. 2, 59%c. St. Louis--No. 2, 47t4c. • . j Kansas City--No. 2 mixed.<4tfeff)gki A Peorlo -No. 8. 50*;e. ' • ^ ; OATS. Chicago--Standard, 3sc. New York--No 2. 3i»o. St. Louis--No. 2 white. Kaiur»« City--No. 2 white.. " CATTLE. Chicago-- St. Louis--12.20^16.50. Kansas City--$2.25@*,i0. O m a * u t -- 5 5 . HOGS. Chicago--|5.I3<& 6.20. St. Louis-- Kansas City--$3.25®tf- Omaha--J5.25fi/5.b0. \ «HKKP AND LAMBS.% Chicago--t2.75©6.J»6. * St. Louis--W&5.50. y' Kansas City--42.5O06.JD. ; Insults Jewish Religion. Berlin cablegram: Paul Koch, tb* author, has been sentenced to thr*# months' Imprisonment for insnltlng the Jewish religion in a pamphlet am "Ritual Murder," in which he eadeaf- ored to prove that ritual murders w*£§"; practiced in Germany. y ' Indicted in Postal Case*. ^ Washington dispatch: Tbe feder*!' grand jury has returned three indiafr ments in the postal cases, involving two persons, one of them being a Jolag. Indictment. The names of the indlcp ed persons were not made public, til -- ' Prominent Jurist Die*. Washington dispatch: James K*^; Kelly, former United States Senates from Oregon and at one tim? Ch!*| Justice of the Supreme Court of th*l state, is dead in this city, wher* fc* has lived for many years. •3. .!/•, ' **2 Victim of Storm. \j.i _ Pebria. III., dispatch: Mrs. .'itt Laird, aged 23 years, of Kingston Mines, perished In the storm whidfc swept this section Monday. The bodf >:* was found in the woods. . tt: is pr^jr'-. sumed she lost her 'way, * X' '•* A* Lightning Kills Vouth^>5"^^^; '•"I^Higham, III., dispatch: CTailjtfai Davia, aged 17 years, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. H* had been cutting corn and was stan* ' a tree tturlng a shower. K r

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