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niwBEALn ifWMBI? MSpfS NUOit EVERTS OF IK KEK ®p- *4*?" • &"*u . , •• Items of General Interest ToW in :J? ' !•£ * Paragraph* ' ;•; COMPLETE NEWS SUMWADY. < RwxrJ of 8»ppi»l»|l of Kith «r tlttl* laparUaM (na All Fkrt* of the Clw- Mined WMM--iMUMtoi btWfriM% Gen. Mascardo, with 321 Filipino in- surgents, surrendered in Zambelep Province to Capt. O'NelL British trying to persuade Viceroy ' Liu Kun Yi to permit landing of Eng- i lish troops at Nankin. ^ X Phillips sold 1,500,000 bushels of ^ May corn on the Chicago board of trade, closing his deal in that option with a total profit of $625,000. May make $160,000 more. S. R. Callaway resigned presidency ' s of New York Central to become head of the locomotive trust ^ *.? American troops left in Pekin will fr be supplied with munitions and sup- ^ 1 > plies for six months. %•• t, Company with $35,000,000 capital to jj§^: boom South African industries. P" . Mrs. McKinley showed marked im- i*v provement Friday after passing a fav- 'C* • arable-night. She is not yet out of £ ' danger, but the doctors are more hope- . ful of recovery. Paaeed restless night E, Four boys killed, five others prob- ^ ably fatally burned, by exploding fire- lb.. . works at Bemidji, Minn. Body of Father Phillips of St Ga- . briel's church, Haxelton, Pa., friend of P the miners, found in rooms of quack » doctor at New York. Murder suspect- - (d. Woman made $100,000 profit on sale If of 200 shares Northern Pacific, but Iff.., . would not take it because it meant H* wreck of someone's fortune, ip.;: - Blanche Reynolds, aged 7, of Harbor § \̂:r Beach, Mich., beaten to death by three I ̂ playmates. Hypnotic subject killed during an if,exhibition at Woonsocket, R. L jfejy- Michigan university to erect $100,- II'i • 000 building for medical department. |3V Steamships Moana and Louise Lam- ||' ' out lost in storm off Australian coast I?1' 1 and forty-eight lives lost jr£ Two thousand merchants in Pekin petitioned for retention of American f .-1 troops in that city. American methods of preserving order highly praised. I# ; General Cailles negotiating for sur- ^- raider of Filipino force. Aguinaldo flooded with letters from anti-imperi- ? . , alists and museums, fe? Presbyterian general assembly at Philadelphia elected as moderator the pi Rev. Dr. Hairy C. Minton of San An- p. aelmo, Cal. f"." • Illness of Mrs. McKinley at San %['s~ . Francisco assumes grave nature, mak­ ing necessary the abandonment of the trip of the presidential party. Patient is unconscious part of the time and takes little nourishment Paris banks withdrew $40,000,000 from London to be used for the Rus­ sian loan. Five thousand dozen bottles of Queen Victoria's sherry to be sold at auction. French forces compelled submission of native African tribes in the Tehad province. Mrs. Nation declared guilty of joint- smashing at Topeka. Will probably be fined. Gov. Yates vetoed the fraternal in­ surance and ejectment bills. Legal means sought to ckM» the Buffalo exposition on Sunday. President McKinley made his formal entry into San Francisco. Street pa­ rade and a reception were features. Thirty-fifth annual encampment Il­ linois G. A. R. opened at Peoria, with 4,000 veterans in attendance. Mrs. Martha Ewart of Denver at­ tempted to kill Joseph E. Choate, COS- sin of Ambassador Choate. Federation of musicians in conven­ tion at Denver adopted resolution de­ claring rag time music rot Gov. Odell of New York Tuesday or­ dered out state troops to prevent riot­ ing by street car strikers and their sympathizers at Albany and Troy. Mob attacked non-union men. St Louis' amended bill in drainage canal case, filed in federal supreme court, declares the diminished flow of water through the channel is addition­ al menace to health of that city, and is violation of law creating sanitary district. Counsel agree on appoint­ ment of special commission to collect data regarding sewage in river. Mrs. McKinley was so much better Monday that the President made trip to San Jose and took part in exercises there. Future movements of party de­ pend upon patient's continued improve­ ment John B. Forsythe, a well-known far­ mer of Kay county. Okla., was found murdered in his house. There is no clew to the criminals. "The man with the musical heart" dies at Elgin. Examination shows or- gan to have been four times normal sise and that sounds given forth were due to peculiar gland disease. Yates of Illinois has reappoint­ ed Adjt.-Gen. Reese and the entire mil­ itary staff. Twelve men indicted at New York for keeping gambling houses on evl deuce supplied by Committee of Fif­ teen. Merritt Chism, a rich farmer of White Oak, 111., murdered his wife as she was about to attend church at Normal. 111. B. F. Uhl, former United States am­ bassador to Germany, dying at Grand Rapids. Mich. Hamburg-American line absorbed the Atlas steamship line, making the former company the largest in the world. Training ship Dorothea v'l«ft Phila­ delphia for Chicago. Men on the inside say J. J. Hill could have prevented crash in Wall street by keeping promise to protect Union Pap ciflc interests in Burlington deal. His foes bought Northern Pacific to re LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. Winter wh«*t--No. 1 red, NHMS%e: No. 3 red, 72c; No. 3 hard, 7134c: No. 4 red, t>4e. Spring wheat--No. 1 Northern, 70% ji71"4c; No. 2 Northern, 73073c: No. I, 69 No. 4, 65@68^c. Corn--No. 2, 52® frfivc; No. 2 yellow, Um*%c: Ne. 2 white, 5% 54c; No. S. 43c. Oat»--N«. 4 whit*, No. 2, 28c. Mess pork, regular, H4.6O014.66; old, «73.75G>13.S7>i: lard, regular, !7.87M,®7.90. Butter, creamery, extras, 18@18}4c: first, l."iH>ftil6%c; dairies, choice, 14c. Cheese, new twins, 9>6c: daisies, 10»4c; Young America. lWi&lic. Live turkeys, 6©7%c; liens, 9'^c: youngr roosters, 9@9%c; young chickens, Beans, hand-picked, *1.7S<&1.80. Apples, good to choice, fS.259 3.77. Potatoes, Rurals, 40@48c; Bur bank®, Peerless, 38@43c; Hebron, 3£4z>43c. H ebron, 38#43c. Cattle--Native shipping export steers. 54.95fiy5.85; dressed beef and butchers1 steers, I4.80&5.40; steers under 1,000 lbs., |3.S0<5f4.60: stockers and feeders, 6S.S0Q 4.75; cows and heifers. S2.1S#4.6S; canners, tl.25@2.S5; bulls, <8.35#3.75; Texas and In­ dian steers, J3.50®5.25; cows and heifers, 52.50@4.30. Hoes--Pigs and lights, *5.66# 5.75; packers, $5.6005.75; butchers', 96.600 6.90. Sheep--Native muttons, 94#4.7S; lambs, $5#6.10; spring lambs, $I«7.K; culls and bucks, (3^3.76. Kills Woman aod Hlni««lf. T. C. Ellzey of McComb City, Miss., shot a woman companion and either killed himself immediately afterward or was killed by officers. Ellzey and the woman arrived at Wells Point, Tex., and after leaving an officer learned that the man was wanted by the authorities in Louisiana. Armed with a warrant, two officers started after Ellzey and his companion. They were overtaken near Elmo and Ellzey shot the woman dead and began a pis­ tol duel with the officers. When the smoke of battle cleared away Ellzey was found dead, but it is not known whether he was killed by the officers or by his own hand. Offer Reward for Stndent Nothing has been learned of C. IB. Starbuck, the Harvard student who disappeared last Thursday. His par­ ents and the police of Andover, Mass., have offered a reward. Starbuck lived with his parents at Andover and went to Cambridge every day by elec­ tric cars. Thursday he left his home at the usual hour and was seen in the Harvard yard about 11 a. m. He did not attend any of his recitations or lectures that day. It is believsd be was so worried over this slight de­ ficiency that It produced melancholia and that he wandered away while de- ssondent. iiiBim' in Offers to Pay Mepiity, Demanding Terms, SILENT ON INTEREST. K _ • n % If' leirlit Gets It Is reported at Copenhagen that negotiations have been concluded with the United States by which the latter acquire the Danish West Indies. The purchase price agreed upon is $4,000,- 000. The Danes will trade under the same tariff as the Americans. "The United States government is trying to persuade Portugal," says the Lisbon correspondent of the Morning Leader, "to cede an island in the Azores for a coaling station." Oae Killed, A»»tt«r Dylagw , At Peoria, 111., a runaway team at­ tached to a milk wagon dashed into a single buggy in which Joseph Flem- ming and Joseph Blumb were riding, completely telescoping it. Both ri«s were demolished, and the two men were thrown beneath the fallen horses, where they were terribly injured. Fleming, 71 years of age, died as the result of concussion of the brain, while Blumb is not expected to lire. SMfir mt Srsia, The statement of the visible supply of grain in store and afloat on Satur­ day, May 11, as compiled by the New York Produce Exchange, is as follows: Wheat, 45,761,000 bu; decrease, 907,000 bu. Corn, 17,338,000 bu; decrease, 1,- 327,000 bu. Oats, 11,449,000 bu; de­ crease 1,077,000; Rye, 963,000 bu; in­ crease, 17,000 bu. Barley, 719,000 bu; decrease, 24,000 bu. Ultimatum for the Snltaa. It is reported at Paris on trust­ worthy authority that unless the sul­ tan of Turkey yields on the question of interference with the foreign post- offices the powers probably will pre­ sent an ultimatum in a few days, backed by a naval demonstration. The powers, including Germany, are act­ ing in perfect unison in this matter., Ke More Itero h Hoatua. Every gambling house in Montana Is closed. Attorney General Donovan instructed every county attorney to 6ee that they were closed or else he would proceed against them for neglect of duty. This is the most radical effort at reformation ever made in Montana, and for the first time since the discov­ ery of gold faro has not been dealt in the state. Ondahy Will Doable toward. Eward A. Cudahy of Omaha is quot­ ed as saying he will if necessary dou­ ble his reward of $25,000 to secure the capture qf Pat Crowe, the alleged kid­ naper of his son. "I want the satisfac­ tion of having the matter cleared up as well as of seeing Crowe punished," said he. "If necessary I will double my reward." Farwella Sell Many Cattlt, (J. V. and C. B. Far well, of Chicago, who last week sold 280,000 acres of land in the panhandle of Texas to George W. Littlefield of Austin, Tex., have since sold him 5,000 cows, with calves, at |40 each, and also 300 bulls at 975 each, which is part of the stock on the land sold. Rockefeller Offers m oitt. President John Henry. Barrows of Oberlin college stated at Boston that John D. Rockefeller has offered the college $200,000 on condition that the college raises $300,000 during the pres­ ent year. Of this amount $150,000 is already pledged. CalM ltd Mil Rkvoni a Redaetlea Contlatte HI* Mil 1* iMtructed to KfTorts to Secure mm AtataMBi The state department at Washington has been informed in a cable dispatch from Special Commissioner Rockhill that the Chinese peace plenipotenti­ aries had informed the foreign minis­ ters at Pekin that the" Chinese gov­ ernment would assume the obligation to pay the indemnity of $337,000,000 demanded by the powers, but desired thirty years in which to do it, as the resources of the empire would not permit a better arrangement Acting Secretary Hill sent Instructions to Mr. Rockhill to continue to use his lnflu- SMler Shot! Mooey SpiDe* Philip Schumacker, paying teller of the Teutonia bank, a state institution at New Orleans, was shot in the calf of the leg while at work in the bank counting the cash previous to a meet­ ing of the finance committee. When assistance came he was lying on the floor, badly bruised, a pistol near him, and money scattered on the floor. He said he was attacked and flred on by two men, and that he had returned the fire. Although the bank is in the heart of the city, the men could have entered and escaped by the rear. The police have been unable to find any trace of the thieves. An examination of the books tonight seems to point to a shortage of $18,000. The bank of Danforth, 111., was broken into Wednesday. The steel vault and office fixtures are a wreck. The outer door of the burglar proof safe was completely destroyed. The burglars failed to get the money chest open, though they knocked one layer of steel off the door with explosives. The damage to the safe, furniture and fixtures was about $2,000. The work was evidently that of experts. V). y: Ug' l -V, \ MRS. WILLIAM M'KINLE^ i m '"//////// WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, CRITICALLY ft T fvv M a am a %v/<irnMA , IUU in OAll f AAll^loCU. ence with his diplomatic colleagues to secure a still further reduction in the aggregate amount of the indemnity. This government adheres to its asser­ tions that China is not able to pay more than $200,000,000. Nothing was said in Mr. Rockhill's dispatch in re­ gard to the interest. The answer of the Chinese plenipotentiaries is ac­ cepted at Washington as evidence of China's willingness to comply with any demands for indemnity made by the powers, and to that extent the interna­ tional situation is simplified. Navy department has sent orders to Rear Admiral Kempff, acting commander of the Asiatic station, to send home the ships Concord, Marietta and Castine during the latter part of the coming summer. This is in pursuance of the policy announced some time ago of re­ ducing the naval strength in the east. The Bennington, Petrel, Oregon, New­ ark and Brutus have already been or­ dered home, so that with these three ships there is a total reduction of the fleet in Asiatic waters to about forty- two vessels. V Big Tire la hundred and fifty-two houses, in­ cluding 190 shops, have been destroyed by fire at Brest In the province of Warsaw. The loss is given at 11,000,- 000 rubles. To Veree the Dardaaellee. "It is rumored here," says the Con­ stantinople correspondent of the Lon­ don Daily News, "that an arrangement has been agreed upon whereby the French fleet is to force the Dardanelles Trtth- a European mandate unless Tur key yields on the postal question." Debt# with No '-trti Charles T. Snavilln, a real estate dealer In Syracuse, N. Y., filed a pe­ tition in bankruptcy; debts, $577,257; assets, nothing. Of his debts Oakba Girls Hire aa "Sapea.'* A party of forty society girls com­ bining economy with a lark have hired out as "supes" for Mansfield's performance of "Henry IV." at Omaha, Neb. Under the leadership of an Omaha newspaper woman they ap­ plied in a body for employment and were taken on for the great London bridge scene in the fourth act. The girls after two hours' drill were able to give voice to their greeting in a fairly creditable way. The girls en­ gaging in the venture belong to a well known set which has given a number of charitable entertainments and is possessed-of more or less dramatic ability. Gabaaa Are Not Satisfied. The Cuban constitutional convention met at Havana, Monday,, in secret ses­ sion and formally considered the re­ port of the commission that went to Washington to obtain more definite information regarding the Intentions of the United States government. Gen. Sanguily objected to the report on the ground of incompleteness, pointing out that the commission made no reo- ommendations. For Shooting m Preacber. Attorney S. D. Stokes is on trial in the circuit court at Williamson, W. Va., for the murder of Rev. J. J. Wool, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, last December. Rev. Mr. Wood had severely censured members of his church, and, meeting Mr. Stokes, there was a heated discussion. A few evenings later several shots were heard in Rev. Mr. Wool's study and Stokes was found standing over the dead preacher. Stokes was wounded in the leg. The attorney claims Wool flred at him first after slapping him in the face, and this statement is corroborat­ ed by Mrs. La Neive, who was living at the house at the time and saw the fight Karthqnake Shakes Ohio. An earthquake shock was felt at Portsmouth, O., and in many towns in that vicinity Friday morning. It was the severest seismic disturbance in the history of the city, houses shak­ ing like leaves. Hundreds of persons rushed into the streets in their night clothes, thinking there had been an explosion. No serious damage was done, but many chimneys were broken. There was a succession of violent un­ dulations, almost merged, lasting thir­ ty seconds, and passing from west to east Ironton, Wellston and Zan.es- ville, O., and Huntington, W. Va., felt the shock. Texae Kdltor's Crime* Friday evening Major J. F. Penn, proprietor of the Laredo, Tex., Daily Times, mortally wounded W. R. Pace of that city, vice-president of the Tex­ as Real Estate association. He then killed himself. He was undoubtedly la­ boring under a fit of recurring insan­ ity. The deceased was a brother-in- law of the late Governor Ireland, and well and favorably known throughout the state. - Seaator Fonad Mot Oallty. Senator S. D. Stokes was found not guilty of the murder of Rev. J. J. Woll, the Presbyterian minister, killed at Williamson, W. Va., last Novem­ ber. The trial, which bade fair to last all week, was brought to a sudden close by the failure of the prosecution to make a case.v mzmi? TAIVI TOO Kaeh Morphia* C. S. Sutton, auditor of the Santa 7e and Pacific railway, lies at his home in Los Angeles suffering from the ef­ fects of an overdose of morphine. It is reported that he will recover. There are two surgeons in constant attend­ ance. It is rumored that Sutton was a heavy loser by the crash in Wall street. His friends will neither con­ firm nor deny these rumors. Even the official# of the road have theif iips sealed. •• ••••, ; Crops la India Vail. The failure of the spring crops In India is already severely felt Lord George Hamilton, the Indian secre­ tary, in the house of commons today, said that the number of persons now receiving relief was 881,000, and it was expected to increase rapidly. O. K. Kddjr la Dead. ll^fL Eddy, president of the G. K. Bddy & Sons Lumber Company of Saginaw, Mich., died Monday at his .temporary home in Los..An||lM^ Cal., aged 80 yeaM. * -- - * • Yroet Visit* Fruit Belt. • IS* entire Berrien county (Mieh.) fruit belt was visited Wednesday night by a frost No damage was done in this vicinity to any extent but the lowlands suffered acutely. All of the strawberries and early potatoes in the lowlands back from the lake in the interior of the county are reported killed. Manager Pullen of the Twin City Floral company, who took obser­ vations, said that there were several degrees of the frost and that peaches and larger fruit escaped uninjured. Jockey Mayfeerry's Shall Fractured. Jockey Hal Mayberry had his skull fractured at Cincinnati while working the 2-year-old Martha D. at Newport Four years ago at St Louis, Mayberry met with a similar accident, and was unconscious for two weeks. His condi­ tion is serious. Wulrt MUltia Attacked. A detachment of the South Wasirt militia has been fired on by unknown persons, says a dispatch from Simla. Three of the Waziris were killed and two others were wound«|r CHy of Paducall Goes Down in Mississippi. ~ TWO PASSENGERS^JlRgWNEO. •* QMV BUMIBV--AeeMeat Map- Late m* Night While Boat la Heavily Headed with Cera Stoii-- of the Reacoed. The steamer City of Paducah, bound from St Louis to Paducah, went to the bottom near Brewkhorsts Landing, six miles north of Grand Tower, I1L, Sunday night, after striking a snag. Two persons are known to be dead and several of the crew of the boat are reported missing. The known dead dire J. W. Bell of Bells Landing, Tenn.; Miss M. Gardner of St. Louis. The captain reports as missing: Watchman Charles Johnson of St. Louis; fireman, pastry cook, deck sweep, Texas tender, sixteen roustabouts. The vessel is valued at $15,000 and the cargo at $75,- 000. Both are considered total losses. The boat belonged to the St. Louis and Tennessee Packet company and was in charge of Capt. W. D. Kilpatriek of Clifton, Tenn., a master of forty years. The captain testifies that the boat was in No. 1 condition and that the ob­ struction was unseen. The boat was loaded with corn, meats, cornmeal, flour and groceries. The bodies of the two passengers who were drowned have been recovered All of the offi­ cers were saved. First Mate Tobias Royal of St. Louis says only about twelve passengers were on board, and that all were saved except two. The body of Dr. J. W. Bell was taken out of his stateroom, and the remains of a young woman from St Louis were recovered from her stateroom. Sev­ eral hundred dollars' worth of Jewelry was found on the body. Only the texas and the hurricane deck are above water, which reaches to the skylights of the cabins. All the staterooms are completely filled with water. The steamboat drifted a third of a mile be­ low the landing before it sank. The first mate says the boat went down within three minutes after striking the snag. He was on the cabin deck and escaped by climbing through the sky­ light It is supposed that most of the missing deckhands, who were on the lower deck, were washed down the river and may have escaped. Thomas Johnston, watchman of the boat, who is said to be among the lost, was 85 years old and had been a steamboat man for sixty years. He lived in St Louis. Miss Fannie Block, who in company with her parents, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Block, was going from St Louis to Evanston, Ind., was roused about 10:30 o'clock from sleep by a sudden Jar. She asked her mother if her berth had broken, and no sooner bad the words passed her lips than water rushed into the apartments and they were compelled to act quickly to save their lives. With four others they escaped to the Illinois shore by holding on to driftwood and swim­ ming. They lost all their clothes and valuables and had nothing but their underwear and blankets about them. General Fitz John Porter dying at Morri8town N. J. MRS. LYMAN J. GAGE IS DEAD. WLF. •€ AHMVR «F THA TIMIMI Saeeambs to Illness. Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the secretary of the treasury, passed away 9:30 Friday evening at Washington. In spite of her illness of nine weeks death came suddenly, and it has great­ ly shocked the official and social com­ munity here, for it Is no disparage­ ment to the other women in wfliMai life to say that Mrs. Oage was the most popular and best known woman of the McKinley adxnlnistratlon. Be­ yond all question she had given up her life to her official station, and her name must be added to those who have been sacrificed in the relentless tread­ mill of political and social lire m Washington. Mrs. Gage was peculiar­ ly a martyr, because she went to Washington with no previous official experience. The result was that she entered upon her social duties with such a scrupulous regard for other people, that she, who had scarcely known a sick day In her life, broke down under the strain last fall and never fully recovered. After the fu­ neral services at Washington Secre­ tary Gage will accompany the body back to Chicago, and the burial will take place in the family lot at Rose- hill. The services there probably will be private. Nine Killed and Many Will Dim, Nine men were killed and probably a score fatally injured by an explosion in the shaft of the George's Creek Coal and Iron company at Farmington, W. Va. At least ten men are still in the mine, and as the shaft was still ablaze tonight it was impossible to make an effort to rescue them. It maisr be a day or two before the flames can be sub­ dued. One dead body has been recov­ ered, and fourteen miners have been taken out, a number of whom are not expected to live. Known to be dead: Carl Hunter, Daniel Alferle, Tony Ro- menic, I. H. Everson, Joseph Nichols, Manor Beatty, three Italians, names unknown. Match Factory Destroyed, Fire totally destroyed the entire plant of the Walkerville, Ont, match factory, consisting of a three-story brick factory and a one-story brick warehouse; also a large quantity of match stock in the yards adjoining the buildings. The total loss Is given by Peter Steinus of Detroit, one of the partners In the concern, at $115,000, with $73,000 insurance. About lOO jtp.^ were employed. • • , Railway Fraud tn Boaala. \ a, Investigation of the frauds recently discovered in the management of the Russo-Polish and Vistula railroads, discovered some time ago. shows that the peculations amounted to 31,000,- 000 roubles (about $15,500,000). Forty arrests have been made in Warsaw and others are expected. The frauds were carried out by wholesale deolara* tlons of deficient freight rates. Oratory of Kleetlve List. President Eaton at Belolt, Wis., has announced that the faculty of Belolt college has decided to place rhetoricals on (lie elective list of studies. This, he said, was because of the little interest some students manifest in oratory. He Btated that an annual prize of $50 had been offered to the winner of the annual home oratorical contest to en­ courage interest in that event SCOTLAND'S WORLD'S FAIR. % mm 11 m m W!) VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDI NGS AT THE GLASGOW EXPOSI­ TION, WHICH WAS OPENED MAY 7. Jfast Obey Klcht-Hear I««> v That the eight-hour law must be enforced by contractors for the city of New York was made known In a de­ cision rendered by the appellate di­ vision of the Supreme court It was in the case of Eugene Lentilhen, whot made a contract with the city in June, 1899, for removing the Forty-second street reservoir. Comptroller Coler re­ fused to pay the contractor because he had made his men work more than eight hours and had not paid them the prevailing rate of wages. ' i 0 ' ; Two f>te la Southern Wreck. The south-bound Illinois Central passenger train from Chicago jumped the track on the curve near Hazel- hurst, thirty miles south of Jackson, Miss., at daylight Monday. C. B. Rose of Fulton, Ky., mall clerk, and Tom Lee, fireman, were killed. Gus Nelson, the engineer, sustained a fracture of one leg. M. R. Stappen, assistant mail clerk, was badly bruised. Physicians have been sent to the scene from Jackson. The train was running fast on a section of track oA4ic$oi£j| xs* Mln ' • "* * Saaallpox Kpldeaslc la Alaska. Following are private advices re­ ceived by mail at Seattle from Sitka, Alaska, dated May 11: "Drs. Moore of Skaguay and Linhart of Juneau have been investigating the smallpox epidemic here and at the Indian ranch. Russian town, and the Indian mission. Dr. Moore said there could be no ques­ tion of the seriousness of the situa­ tion. At the mission there were found over thirty children suffering from smallpox." - Granta Increase In Wages. After a long conference Tuesday the Illinois Central railroad and the International Association of Machin­ ists reached an agreement at Chicago which averts the trouble that has been threatening for the last three weeks. The settlement was made on a basis of mutual concessions. In which it is said the railroad has the better of it The men have received, how­ ever, a material increase in wages, amounting to about 2 cents an hour, M t h e m i n t a m m I TROOPS USE BULLETS. Merchant Killed and Two Otheej Men Rfteelve Fatal Injuries. Riot and bloodshed, coming Thnrs-1 day night at the close of a day- < comparative peace, added a long list the victims of the strike on the Unlt_ Traction company's lines at AlbaajrJ One citizen was killed and another was fatally wounded, while one non­ union workman had his skull fractured and cannot recover. A large number of others were wounded mol-e or lew seriously. Obedient to orders to shoot if assaulted, guardsmen of the Twenty* third Regiment opened fire at upon a mob of strikers, sympathisers and innocent bystanders. The hurling of a stone against the soldiers was tha signal for the attack. William Walsh, a merchant, was fa­ tally shot by national guardsmen while sitting in front of a store on Broad* way; removed to hospital, whefei he died during the evening. The fatally Injured are: Leroy Smith, merchant and proml* nent citizen, shot while sitting In front of his store in company with Walsh. William Marshall, a non-union mo* torman, skull fractured. i Others injured are: George Booze, citizen, cheek rtaah^ open by bayonet Gilbert Hall, non-union motorman* shot by mob. , William Rooney, citizen, shot by na­ tional guards. An Incident of Friday was the ar- rival of the Ninth regiment from Now York city. More non-union men ar­ rived also, and cars were started from the North Albany barns, as well as from the Quail street barn, the com­ pany operating fourteen ears, seven from each barn, and opening up the Central avenue branch. The Ninth regiment came to Albany with 524 of­ ficers and men, in command of Colonel William C. Morris. E. Leroy Smith, who was wounded by a bullet dis­ charged by Lieutenant Wilson of Company E, Twenty-third regiment, died in the Albany hospital. Albany's Committee of Thirteen, which is much like the Citizens' union in New York, issued an address severely condemning the police for their inability to sup­ press the disorder and charged them with being in league with the strik­ ers. ' Maider Mystery la Washtnctoa* The entire Washington (D. C.) de­ tective force is engaged on a murder case which has all the contradictory and mysterious elements of the Sher­ lock Holmes stories. An uproar was heard In a, family hotel--the Kenmore --Wednesday morning about 2 o'clock; three shots were flred; a voice cried twice for help; a wild commotion en­ sued; and in the morning the police' found in one of the hotel rooms the dead body of James Seymour Ayres, Jr., 21 years old, of unoffending dis­ position and apparently unblemished record. He had been shot three times. The victim was a clerk in the census bureau and was appointed from Michi­ gan. His father, J. S. Ayres, Sr., is- an insurance agent and lives at Grand. Rapids. . Oil Strnck la Illinait For several years it has been gener­ ally known that the southern portion of Coles county, Illinois, lay within the oil and gas belt which extends from Findlay, Shelby county, east to the Indiana fields, but no particular at­ tention was paid to the fact until a few days ago, when three prominent Indiana experts and capitalists, who have inspected the territory, an­ nounced their findings. At Findlay both gas and oil have been struck. At Windsor one well on the Smyser farm was opened that expelled a current of gas, which, when lighted, could be iseen here, a distance of twelve miles. Last Tuesday, while drilling on the Sargent farm, crude oil was struck, which readily burned! ^ > Stranger Commits SnlcMa> A mystery developed at Burlington, la., in the suicide by shooting of a weil-dressed middle-aged man, a stranger, in Crapo park. His hand­ kerchief bears the name of F. Shep- hard. An envelope of a Chicago drug­ gist containing morphine was found in his pocket, but not a cent in money or valuables. The first joint of the man's forefinger is missing and may b? the only clew to identincatlon. Marriage Stlra f he KUtOb v Society circles at Cincinnati were stirred by the announcement that Miss Marjorie Harmon, daughter of Judson Harmon, ex-attorney general of the United States, was secretly married to George Heckle of Boston. Miss Har­ mon was a brilliant debutante of last year and bad met Mr. Heckle during a visit of the family in the east If Shot by Vigilance Committee. - 'i5' Dr. Herman, colored, was fatally shot at Topeka, Kan., by a vigilance f committee. Herman lived at the home of Mrs. George Hamler, whose husband died under Herman's care several weeks ago. The mob found Herman armed with a shotgun and revolver. The weapons were taken away from him and someone fired the gun at'lSr. Herman. • Kdwla W. Uhl Dies. Edwin F. Uhl, former assistant s*e» retary of state and ambassador to Germany under the Cleveland admin­ istration, died Friday at Grand Rap­ ids, Mich. He had been ill nearly a year, suffering from a complication of : diseases, among them Bright's disease. ' Mr. Uhl was president of the Grand : Rapids National bank, director in the Fifth National, and had large interests in various manufacturing institutions. His 'Wife, two sons and two daughtem survive him. 8cared Out of His Senses. Mark Gilson, a young clerk in the postoffice at Waverly, la., has been ly­ ing in a stupor since Wednesday night, : when he was initiated into the mys­ teries of the Modern Woodmen. His collapse occurred during a part of the horse play where the candidate is spurn about strapped to a revolving wheel. ? Physicians were summoned and after : laboring with him nearly all morning without avail took him to his home. His body bears no marks of violence ; and 'his cQijLditto^i insffsly to fright * ^ v : : H i s # ; & i . t c & i s i L * * J ' , . mailto:tl.25@2.S5 mailto:52.50@4.30