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*,V" * «tif?spv y ' t * s ^ t h ^ ̂ t r * * « w j * y / < jg*7?*™^+-$^*r **• ^*>t^ * THE MCHENRY PLAIHOEALER $ JfcHHNRY PLAINDBALBK CO. ]a cH CNSV, • • ILLINOIS. TOLDEV- nin LATEST CASH MARKET REPORTS. 'Mexican officials at Guadalajara an­ nounced that the government had or­ dered the suppression of all lotteries. George P. Hargis of Decatur was elected president and W. A. Huycj of Chicago secretary of the state organ­ ization of Gideons at the oonventlon in Peoria. Because he was jilted by Nellie Eichelberger, 16 years old, Lee Wed- dle, 17 years old, of Thurmont, Md., shot and painfully wounded the girl and then killed himself. SO1, • Independent coal dealers at- Spring- field, 111., are engaged in a war with I5', the Springfield Coal Association, and pi the price of fuel has declined from f!'" 12.25 to $1.T5 a ton. ( , F. Solion and A. Kisling of the Peary supply ship Eric arrived at St. t John, X. B., on their way to Wasb- •; angton, where they Will report on the $/;" progress of the polar expedition up to ' the time when they left Commander ' Peary on Aug. 16 at Etah, Greenland. Captain Thomas Wexford of the ?;}!' steamer W. C. Richardson reported at iDuluth that his vessel ran down the Canadian tug Shamrock near the Soo '. Sept. 5, drowning the captain and en- . jgineer. g.', TTiree robbery blowed open the safe ftu of Oscar Taylor's private bank at !jr - Hamilton, Ind., and left without tak- K; ] ing any booty, indications showing if . that one or more of them was injured t>y the explosion. K: P. L. and Seth Senft, Henry Sprit* f Me. Elmer E. Shindler and Ralph Mil* . ligan were killed and seventy-five i:lf others injured in a trolley car colli* V/ feion near York, Pa. . An unidentified man -was found on .. the railway tracks at Peoria, I1L, ' crushed by car wheels and with a bul wt".' let hole in his head. jlj^X B. F. French, the Kentucky feud si leader, has been fined $200 for con- tempt of court at Winchester. A . Fire in the tobacco district in Dan- , -Mile, Va., destroyed three buildings, m ' entailing a loss which will exceed |>; 9100,000. feJohn Chatterson, 21 years old, of fr • ; Grand Rapids, Mich., was perhaps fa­ tally burned at Portage, Wis., by the explosion of a balloon. John Hancock, the murderer of JDr. Engelbrit, and a man named Ed- amondsen on the Nevada desert, was ' Jhanged at the state penitentiary ia Carson, Nev. ' The American Mathematical socl- «ties' twelfth annual summer meeting kegan at Williams College Friday, ""with many of the leading college pro­ fessors of the country in attendance. The seven-story power building at 29-31 Michigan street, in Cleveland, "O., owned by William and E. J. Ker- •haw, and occupied by a number of manufacturing concerns, was de­ stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. H. H. Ogden, bank expert, of Evans- •ville, Ind., who examined the books-of the Haubstadt, Ind., bank, has report­ ed that the accounts of Thebes Far­ thing, the missing cashier, are correct and that there is no shortage. '. v The American Zinc and Chemical Company's plant at Utah Junction, Col., was destroyed by fire. Loss $75,- 600. On warrants sworn out by State Dairy and Food Commissioner War- yen, Frederick M. Hall, agent for (Swift & Co., and William G. Carson, A retail meat dealer, were arrested in (Philadelphia on charges of selling isausages containing boracic acid pre­ servative, contrary to the pure food laws of Pennsylvania. Marshal H. G. Porter, of McConnels> %ille, Ohio, was shot and killed by "WoodJe" Stewart, a brother of the county clerk of Morgan county. Stew- Art has long been regarded as of un­ sound mind. Great interest attaches to Solicitor Penfield's forthcoming European tour on a secret mission for the President The Sante Fe Refrigerator Dispatch filed a statement with the interstate commerce commission denying in­ equalities in charges for icing cars. Minister Grif has returned to Wash­ ington as the representative of both Norway and Sweden, and expects countries to adjust differences. Spread of cholera in Germany has caused Austria to call off the proposed fall maneuvers of the army. Chinese have dropped the old sys- ; tem making a knowledge of Confu­ cianism necessary before granting de- grees. The fight on the meat exclusion act in Germany is helped along by the action of master butchers in demandr ing free meat Swedish and Norwegian dissolution commissioners have adjourned to re­ ceive further instructions from their respective governments. Emelifce Bowers, a white woman aged 33, was shot and killed at Phila­ delphia by Isaac Bishop, a negro, aged 63. Jealousy was the motive. Minister Leishman has protested to Turkish authorities about quick work done In condemning a naturalized American citizen to death;' A letter from Commander Peary, dated at Etah, North Greenland, Aug. 16, says he intended sailing for Cape Sabin on that date. The American Society of Professors of Dancing try to put check on two- •tep and revive the waltz. Four persons were seriously in­ jured in a collision between an auto­ mobile and an auto ambulance in ^ew .York. Francis Bowes Stevens, Jr., grand son of Commodore Stevens, commit­ ted suicide by shooting at Westbury I* L Oeorge Johnson, aged 45 years, and his son Charles, aged 24 years, were asphyxiated by illuminating gas in Philadelphia. The younger Johnson served in the United States army and was at one time stationed in the Pb^ jhttPfcie islands. Chicago ProduM, ^ Better--Creamery, extra, tie; prints, firsts, IStfi 19o; seconds. 16Vb#17c; innovated. lSClS^e; dairies, Cooleys, IS^c; firsts. 17^0; ladles, Wft®17e: pack Ins stock. 15%c. Eggs--Fresh stock at mark, new eases Included, 1314@l6Aic; cases returned, IS ®16ViiN firsts, 18c; prime firsts, packed In whitewood cases, 20c; extra high grade, packed for city trade, 22c. Cheese--Full cream, daisies. 11*4 c; twins, Jlc; Young Americas, ll^c; long horns, 1 l%c; Swiss, block, lie: drum. lS'ic; Limburger, choice, 9@9%c: Off grades, 6@Sc: brick; 9<£c; off grades, 7 ©Sc. Fish--Black bass, 15c; carp and buffalo, 2c: pike, 7c; pickerel. 5c; perch. 4c. , Live poultry--Turkeys, per lb, 12018c; chickens, fowls. 12 He; roosters. 7c; springs. 12Vfcc per lb; ducks, ll@ll%c; geese, |4@8 per doz. Fruits--Apples, bu boxes, $101.25; brl, $i.5(K®4.50; crabapples. J2 per brl; peaches fer 6-basket crate, 50c@$l; Michigan. 0@75c per bu; 7@20c per 1-5 bu basket; pears. Michigan, |2@4.50 per brl; bu, 85c ©$1.25: plums, case. 50c: 1-5 bu basket, 10«?12%c grapes, 14c per 8-lb basket. Melons--Watermelons, <60@}10 per car; gems, crates. $1@J*.50; baslf*ta, 25040c; Osage, 25Sf50c per crate. Green vegetable"?--Carrots, home-grown, $1 per 100 bunches: cabbage, $1.15@1.25 per crate; cuq^pibers, per doz, 30@35c; celery, 40(§'75c^Fer box; radishes. 50c<g> 51 per 100 bunches; spinach. 25@50c per tub; tomatoes, 25c per case: lettuce, head, 7f>c@$l per tub; leaf. 25@40o per tub; beets. 75c@Jl per 100 bunches; tur­ nips, 60c per box; string beans, $1®1.23 per sack; cauliflower, 75c©Jl per case; green peas, $lgT>1.50 per sack; green onions, Sc per bunch: onions, 40@75c per bu: sweet corn, 20@25c pei- sack: kohlrabi, $1.25@1.50 per 100 bunches; potatoes, car lots on track. 35@41c per bu; mushrooms, BO^Sc per lb; squasji. 25p per doz; watercress. 6c per doz; sweet potatoes, Virginia. J2.25 per brl; Jei4&ys, $3.50 per brl; lima beans. $1.50 per 24 pints; egg plant, 40@50c per doz, " New York Produce. Butter--Steady; creamery, 20c; reno­ vated, common to extra. 15@19%& Cheese--Steady; unchanggjfcr ; Eggs--Finn; unchanged. - ' Grain Quotations, '• WHEAT. Chicago--No. 2 red, 83c. - New York--No. 2 red, 87^4e; Minneapolis--No. 1 northern, 83^4e. St. Louis--No. 2 red. 84®84*4c. "Duluth--No. 1 northern. S3%2. Kansas City--No. 2 hard, 74%978Hc. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 83%c. Toledo--No. 2 red, 83%c. CORN. Chicago--No. 2, 53si@54*4c. Liverpool--American mixed, 5s %d. New York--No. 2. 59>4c. Peoria--No. 3, 63%c. St. Louis--No. 2, 51%c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, SO^C. Milwaukee--No. 3. 54@54Uc. OATS. Chicago--Standard, 27^(r?28%C. New York--Mixed. 3lij<!5>32c. S t . L o u i s -- N o . 2 . 2 6 % 2 7 c . . Kansas City--No. 2, 26@»6%c. Milwaukee--Standard, 28Q28tt& Live Stock. CATTLE. Chicago--$1.50<& 6.r,o. Omaha--$1.50<£r6.20. Kansas City--SI.7,"><06.10. -St. Louis--$2(&'5.S<0.~ St. Joseph--lt.SOWr.,80. New York--Jl.75ffJ6.30. HOGS. Chicago--$2.10®5.90. Omaha--$4.75<g\rl..:>0. Kansas City--$5®5.57%. St. Louis--$5.2.ri@5.75. St. Joseph--S5.45@5.50. 'New Nork--6.45@6.fi0. SHEEP AND T.mna, Chicago--$3(^7. S3. Omaha--$4.25@7. Kansas City--S3.75^t?.S0l St. Louis--$3.50<&>7. St. Joseph--$3.7,">©'7. New York--$5.50@8.50. THEIR LEGATIONS FoVeign Representatives Are Forced to Take Refuge % City of Tangiers. FORMER BANDIT IS DEFENDEfl Soldiers Refuse to Assist Ralsull In His Efforts to Defeat Rebels, Claim* ing Sultan Has Recalled His Ap­ pointment as Governor. Hif; ^ Canton, O., has b6en chosen to he the next year's tneeting; place of the National Letter-Carriers' association. J. E. Markel, to whom has been let the contract for feeding the laborers on the Panama Canal, has arrived in Omaha. He denied charges of in*** fairness and declared that everything in connection with the letting of the contract was open and above board. The Iowa Methodist conference at Albia voted to hold the next meeting at Grinnell. John H. Rankin, Henry Baker and Frank Bond were killed in a collision between freight trains at Tabor Jane* tlon, Pa. S. J. Jensen, an assayer, was arrest­ ed at Cripple Creek, Colo., charged with stealing a carload of ore valued at $10,000. Most of the Pittsburg glass factories have resumed operations, the mana­ gers having conceded the demand of the men for a continuation of last year's scale. A Conn ells ville (Pa.) workman has made a gigantic tin lily fts a present for President Roosevelt. The Southern Cotton Association, which closed its first annual conven­ tion at Asheville, N. C., voted that all members should market their crop as Blowly as possible, in order to dis­ tribute the sale of the staple over the entire year, Rainmaker Hatfield closed a con­ tract for a large sum at Los Angeles, Cal., with the British government, the Kimberley mine owners and sheep ranchers to break the drought in South Africa. The official returns of the Septem­ ber canvass of the voters in eighteen of th^ forty-two wards of Philadelphia show a net loss of 12,043 voters, as compared with the May canvass. Arguments In the Gaynor and Greene habeas corpus proceedings were concluded at Montreal. Justice Ouimet said it would be some time before he announces his decision. Announcement was made at Tope- ka that there Is no doubt that a syn­ dicate headed by W. H. Horine, of Chicago, will operate the Devlin properties. Mr. Horine, who is cred­ itor for $105,000, is the originator of the syndicate plan. Frederick Essen, receiver of the People's United States Bank at St. Louis, reported to Judge McElhinney that $233,536 in the bank credited td the special account of President E. G. Lewis represented oversubscriptions to the capital stock, and was ordered to return it to the subscribers. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Ellis celebrated their golden wedding near Pana, 111. Fifteen thousand veterans partici­ pated in the G. A. R. parade at Den ver, though many of the old soldiers were exhausted and compelled to drop out of line before the end of the route Transformed by twenty-eight years of prison life, a Michigan convict is paroled, well fitted to make a career. Three hundred drivers of United Stales mail wagons at New York struck for higher wages and because they claim the bosses have tailed to keep agreement. The 6-year-old daughter of Nathan Smith of Elkhart, Ind., was fatally burned by brandishing burning news- papers in her hand. Edward Castleman of Sterling, 111, was instantly killed by a Burlington train at Fulton. A hand car, carrying fourteen Ital­ ians, was in collision with a work train in the north yards of the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburg railroad, at Du bois, Pa., yesterday, seriously injuring six of the foreigners, three of whom will die. The collision was the r^- •ult of a dense fo§»; - Tangier, Sept 11.--Samtfel "it' mere, the American minister to Mo­ rocco, was compelled to abandon his legation in the suburbs of Tangier Sunday and take refuge in the heart of the city, owing to the battle be­ tween the insurgent tribesmen and the force under Raisuli, the former bandit chief. " The battle, which began Saturday worning, continued through the day, the firing being so close to the out­ skirts of the city that rhe entire pop­ ulation is panic istricken. All foreign legations have been closed, the ministers coming into the city with their families. Many of. the foreigners are taking refuge in ship­ ping in the harbor. Fear Clash Inside City. There is a general fear that the rebels will force their way into the city ahd that the fighting will be transferred to the streets. Raisuli has sumoned all his fol­ lowers to his aid. He has 500 Moor­ ish cavalry under his orders and four companies of Moorish infantry. The city is crowded with thousands of refugees from the surrounding dis­ tricts. The Moroccan authorities admit their inability to protect lives and property of foreigners except within the walls of the city. The rebel tribemen are the Angeras and they number several thousand well armed, mounted men. Villages Are Raided; Early in the present month the An­ geras raided three villages under Rai- suli's authority near Tangier, driving off large herds of cattle and Sheep, a portion of which was the property of Europeans. Raisuli collected a band hos followers and started in pursuit, and In several skirmishes that ensued several men on both sides were killed or wounded. At the same time the rebels burned Seinat, where Raisuli has established his headquarters, a day's march from Tangier. Raisuli's mother Was taken pris­ oners, and her fate is not known. Sultan Sends Troop Couriers were at once dispatched to Jfez with intelligence of the uprising and the sultan was urged to send troops to put down the rebellion. The troops arrived, having been sev­ en days on the road. They are quar­ tered within the walls of the oity and so far have not taken any part in the fighting! The danger in the situation lies in the fact that the sultan's troops refuse! to assist Raisuli in his efforts to de­ feat the rebels. It ig claimed that the sultan has dismissed Raisuli, whom he recently appointed governor of the roads between Tangier and Fez. It is believed that the English and French governments will send war­ ships to Tangier at once. Aged Broker Goes to End His Days in the Poorhouse. New Rochelle, N. Y., dispatch: With only seven cents in his pocket, the remains of a fortune of a half mil­ lion dollars, an old man with flowing white side whiskers appeared before the commissioner of charities, Henry Sharp, and asked to be committed to the Westchester county almshouse. "Once I was worth $500,000," said he, "but business reverses bave left me penniless and I have no relatives and no friends. I gave my last $5 to my landlady and then she told me she wanted the room." He said he was J. T. Rapelee, 82 ears old, and was at one time a New York broker and the head of an exchange in Wall street. LITTLE IS LEFT OF HALF MILLION DEMOLISH A SUNKEN GUNBOAT British Find Gun Cotton Can Nullify Bottling-Up Process. Portsmouth, Eng., cablegram: With the view of ascertaining the best means for nullifying the bettling-up process employed by the Americans at Santiago and the Japanese at Port Arthur, the British admiralty sacri­ ficed an old gunboat, the Rattlesnake. The vessel was filled with cement and 6unk in the upper reaches of Ports­ mouth harbor. A party from the naval torpedo school attached a 800-pound charge of gun-cotton to the hull, elec­ trically exploded the mine and In less than a minute the sunken warship was reduced to fragments. WOULD ADMIT LIVE 8TOCK FREE FIND PRETTY TEACHER SITTING BY THE ROAD Young Woman in Bedraggled Condt^ tlon that Indicates She is VI& \• tlm of Brutal Treatment, si:, Peoria, 111., dispatch: The sudden disappearance from her home near Smithfield, 111., of a pretty 20-year-old school teacher and her appearance two weeks later near Alta, north of Peoria, has given the local sheriff's force ample' thought and the mystery remains unsolved. Miss Elsie Quillen Is the daughter of a prominent farmer and cattle rais­ er, William Quillen, and left her home with the ostensible intention of going to Canton, Hl„ to attend the Chautau­ qua. She represented to her parents, who are staid and quiet people, that her companion was to be a young lady from Ashland, 111. Nothing was heard of the young woman after she left home until the sheriff's force communicated with her parents. The girl was sitting by the roadside when found by the residents of the community of Alta. Her clothes were torn., She was hatless. All ap­ pearances indicated that she had been foully dealt with. Her power of speech was gone and In a state of coma she was taken to the St. Francis hos­ pital and remained there for twenty- foar hours before she was aroused by medical aid and she then revealed her identity. Her father came to Peoria and his daughter, who had re­ gained consciousness, accompanied him home. It was learned that after leaving Smithfield she did not go to Canton, that she had not been at the friend's with whom she was to have gone to the Chautauqua and her movements since that time remain a mystery. She maintains silence in regard to what happened since she left her home, her only reply to the questions put to her by the attendants at the hospital and by her indulgent father being long-continued sobs. SINGS TO AUDIENCE OVER WIRELESS PHONE Young Electrician Discovers Trans­ mitter that Carries Voice a Mile During Public Test. San Francisco, Cal., dispatch: Fran­ cis J. McCarthy, a 17-year-old boy of this city, has proved that he can transmit the human voice without wires. In a public test at the ocean beach he demonstrated the success of his invention.1 Literally he sung himself into fame because he humiAed five songs that were heard, note for note, a mile from where he sung them. He sat in a carpenter shop in the base­ ment of the Cliff house in front of his precious apparatus and a mile down the beach in the storeroom of Cyclers' rest the men with the receivers at their ears plainly heard his vocal ef­ forts. The words were faint, but they could be easily understood. McCarthy uses the same system of electric vibration employed in wire­ less telegraphy, but his delicate transmitter is made to do the work of the telegraph key. McCarthy's only schooling was had at St. Igna­ tius' college in this city, which he left when he was 12. He has had a pas­ sion for electricity and had done much experimenting. TWO ROADS AB80RB THE THIRD lllinoip Central, It Is Said, Gains an Entrance to Nashville. Nashville, Tenn., dispatch: Accord­ ing to what is considered good authori­ ty, the Illinois Central and the South­ ern railways are to take over the Ten­ nessee Central railroad, dividing the line at Nashville and giving these two roads an entry to the city. It is un­ derstood the Tennessee Central is .ac­ quired under a ninety-nine-year lease. Under the provisions of the deal it is said the Illinois Central gets that por­ tion of the road between Nashville and Hopkinsville, Ky., eighty-five miles. The Southern is to operate the eastern division of the main line from Harriman Junction, 165 mils, as well as forty-seven miles of branch lines. CONGER GOES TO CALIFORNIA Brother Says Former Ambassador Will Engage in Business. Chihuahua, Mex., dispatch: J. W. Conger of this city is authority for the statement that his brother, E. H. Conger, who recently resigned his po­ sition as ambassador to Mexico, will soon move to Los Angeles, Ca-1., where he will make his home. He says that Mr. Conger will engage in business in Los Angeles. German Butchers Ask Government to Take Down the Bars. Berlin cablegram: A convention of 2,000 butchers from all parts of Ger­ many met here Wednesday and adopt­ ed resolutions declaring that a great and Increasing scarcity of live ani­ mals exists in the German empire and petitioning the imperial govern­ ment to speedily abolish the meat famine by opening the frontiers for the admission of animals from other countries. American Armenian Must Die. Constantinople cable: The crimi­ nal court at Stamboul has condemned to death Kriskir Vartanlan, an Arme­ nian, but a naturalized American citi­ zen, for the murder of an Armenian merchant, who was shot by Vartanian while In the Galata quarter, of this city, Aug. 26. Killed by Cigarettes. Newark, N. J„ dispatch: William Werner died at his desk in the office" of Reinhardt's Express company from heart failure brought on by excessive cigarette smoking. Werner Is said to have smoked 150 cigarettes a day. < Tries Suicide In Cemetery. Norfolk, Va., dispatch: Wallace W. Hunter, for many years city treasurer, attempted suicide in El in wood ceme­ tery by shooting. His thought to be impossible. ^ -- Baby 8calds Self to Death. : Chicago dispatch: Peter Cuzack, 1 year old, in the absence of his mother from the kitchen, knocked over a ket­ tle filled with boiling water. A phy­ sician was^siummoned, but before he arrived the baby had died. ftJhg Alfonso May Wed. »' f&Mfc cablegram: A dispatch from Madrid to the Eclair maintains that, despite denials, It is prqbable King Alfonso will marry Princess Eugenie of Battenberg, niece of King Edward. morumm.r^z^7 Ik3-1 ^ Bishop 8paiding Recovers. Lebanon, Ky., special: Bishop John . Spalding of the Roman Catholic dio­ cese of Peoria, 111., has recovered from his recent attack of indigestion. The report that he suffered another stroke of paralysis is denied. Gen. Crittenden it Dead. Madison, Ind., dispatch: News li been received here that Brigadier Gen­ eral Thomas T. Crittenden, colonel of the Sixth Indiana during the yar, died mt EMt Gloucester, Iteint. j;. . Find Her Father. . Jackson County Farmers to Hunt for Slayer of Two ^ Little. Boys. MOTHER SAYS SHE HEARD SHOT Though Both Lads Had Knife Wounds Over Heart, Parent of One Declares She Heard Report Just Before Son Was Wounded. • ,• --' - Trs . ,vV*; Pamona, 111., Sept. 11.--Acting on the advice of the coroner and the sheriff, Jackson county farmers of sand Ridge and Hickory Ridge have organized a posse to search the coun­ try for the murderer or murderers of Heber Wortham, 7 years old, and Vir­ gil Eldron Clutts, 9 years old, both of whom have been killed under circum­ stances so uncanny and horrifying as to suggest some grewsome tale by Co- nan Doyle or Edgar Allan Pee. That an escaped maniac is roaming the woods and committing these mur­ ders is one theory, and many farmers assert they have seen such a man-in the neighborhood. In neither case was there any evi­ dence of human agency or clew to the secret of the child's death. Heber Wortham was killed In broad daylight, within sight of his mother and sis­ ters an died at his mother's feet. Mystery in, Deaths. Mrs. Wortham declares that just before her son fell she heard the sound of a shot, but the boy's wound unmistakably is that caused by a knife, not a bullet. Virgil Clutts, playing in a pasture near home, ran suddenly to his moth­ er, his hand over his heart, and blood staining his waist. In two minutes be was dead. No one was near him the moment before, when his mother noticed him at play. The only agency which might be supposed to cause death was a barlow knife, held in the hand. The parents are inclined to the belief that the child may have fallen on this blade, stabbing himself to the heart, and the father of the boy says, whereas he saw no blood on the blade at first, a closer and later scrutiny disclosed slight traces of blood. Re-enact the Tragedy. - In the pasture adjoining the home, the summit of Hickory Ridge, Mrs. Wortham re-enacted as far as she could the tragedy. The motherly, grief-stricken woman knelt on the ground to show the position in which she saw the boy alive. Heber's two little sisters took "the positions which they occupied when their brother was so mysteriously stricken. Mrs. Wortham's voice trembled as she told what happened that fateful night, and indicating a point a few feet to the left, said: "Heber was standing there. I was at the pasture gate and the two little girls wire near me. Hunters had been in the woods and fields all af­ ternoon, and there had been a good deal of shooting, but some time be­ fore the children entered the pasture this had ceased. Insists She Heard Shot. "While I was watching Heber I heard a shot. I cannot tell whether It came from the woods on the north or the cornfield on the west. Almost at the same Instant I saw Heber turn halfway round and stumble toward the north. I heard him cry, 'O mam­ ma.' Then he sank to his knees, in the same position I am in now. I saw blood coming from a wound in his chest. I was about to pick him up when his father came and carried him to the house. My husband was attracted by my screams. Heber was never able to speak after we took him home." i In each case the stab wound was clean cut and exactly over the heart. In neither case does the family know any eneihy that might seek this method of revenge for a real or fan­ cied wrong. » Lays Crime to PerverL The bodies of the boys will be dis­ interred and an autopsy performed to 'Ascertain what kind Of an instrument inade the wounds. "If the boy was not shot by an enemy," says the coroner, "not re­ venge but perversion led to it. Here is where the perversion comes in. Perhaps the man has an irresistible impulse to kill children. Perhaps in his cunning he has invented some­ thing new in the shape of a combin­ ation bullet and 'blade, and his zeal as an inventor prompted him to try this missile on living targets." ILLINOIS COAL MINERS WILL RETURN TO WORK Operatore and Miners Reach Agree­ ment on Question of Employing Men as 8hotfirers. Springfield, 111., dispatch: Operators of the Chicago & Alton mining sub- district scored a victory Thursday night when settlement was had of the controversy over employment of shot- flrers, which has lasted since the new shotflring law became effective July 1. The operators had contended that shots could be fired with two pounds or less of powder and a special inves­ tigating committee of the miners' ex­ ecutive board sustained this conten­ tion. Under the provision of the new law It is not necessary for the operators to employ shotfirers in mines where not more than two pounds of powder is used. Miners in the Chicago & Alton subdlstrict contended that more than two pounds were needed. Ex­ periments were conducted in all mines of the subdlstrict by the miners' com­ mittee, which reported that operators were right in their contention. The agreement entered into is ef­ fective until April If 1906. Eighteen hundred men resume work next Mon­ day as a result of the agreement. WOMAN WIELDS A HORSEWHIP Cab Line Owner Suffers Severely for Alleged Insult. Kokomo, Ind., special: Otto Glover, a cab line owner, was given a horse­ whipping on the public street which was witnessed by hundreds of specta­ tors. Mrs. Lulu Clover, a married woman, wielded the whip. When she was passing an insulting remark was addressed to her. Supposing Glover was the speaker, she pulled a whip from the cab and lashed him unmer­ cifully. Glover did not resist, but tried in vain to escape the blows. He denies making the remark. Jap Money for Charities. Concord, N. H., dispatch: At a meet­ ing of the governor and council Gov. McLane formally announced to the council the gift to the state by the Japanese plenipotentiaries of $10,000 to he divided among the charities of New Hampshire. NEGRO 8HOOTS WHITE WOMBN DROPS DEAD A8 8I8TER WEDS Wounds Widow Who Rejected Him 'and Kills Her Guest. Bloomlngton, Hi., dispatch: Thomas Waters, a negro barber at Clinton, crept up to the home of John Girard, a white man, and fired through a win­ dow, fatally wounding Girard's daugh­ ter, Mrs. Alex. Jackson, and ̂ -killing Miss Lydia Grant, her guest from Kenney, 111. Mrs. Jackson was the widow of a negro barber, and since her husband's death had refused to wed Waters. WILL SHOW CONDITION OF CROP Government Report for This Season to Be Issued Sept. 11. Washington special : The crop re­ port will be issued Sept. 11, at 12 noon, and will show the condition of this season's crops of corn, spring wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, tobacco, potatoes, number of stock and hogs on hand and acreage under cultivation compared with that of last year of clover seed, flax, rice, hops, sugar cane, apples, grapes and ptaclMM&r-r-r -- •• Woman 8trlck?n While Dressing te Attend Marriage. Des Moines, Iowa, dispatch: While dressing to attend the wedding of her sister. Miss Kate McVey, to Judge John G. Park uf Kansas City, Mrs. Ed McVey was stricken with heart dis­ ease and died five minutes later. The wedding party, in waiting at the First Methodist church, was kept in ignor­ ance of the tragedy by the husband in order that the wedding festivities might not be interrupted. CAN BUILD THROUGH CANYON Court Stops Government Interference with Road in Colorado. Denver,-Col., dispatch: Judge Moses Hallett in the United States district court denied the application for the United States government for an in­ junction to restrain the Denver, North­ western and Pacific railroad (the Mof- fatt road) from building through Gore canyon. "The government engineers had proposed to build a reservoir in the canyon for the storage of watei irrigation. " ' -.f': m (-Five Villages Are E|| j Destroyed b] Earthquake. ^AIIIC* SEIZES THE PEOPtE Thousands Flee From Scenes of Tiiiiij , ror, Endeavoring to Find Haven of Refuge, but Make Little Progress I Toward Desired End. , • r i Rome cable: Twenty-lite vftages ' in south Italy were entirely destroyed Friday by an earthquake. As far as known 500 people were killed. A great numbers of others were injured. The entire southern half of the penlnsuiai is in a pafiic*for fear of a repetition ox the seismic horrors. Thousands are fleeing, aimlessly trying to find a place of imagined security. These simple folk or rural Italy, overwhelmed toy the disaster, have forsaken thefir homes while those in the stricken vll* Jages have no home to go to. • No possible estimate of the property loss can be made. This Is not event thought of. Rescue Is the One oil* ject. Troops are being rushed to the scene to control the people, who are '; beside themselves with fright, *d sist them to places of temporary shot* ter. The earthquake was felt all over Calabria and in portions of Sicily, but the damage there was small compared to the disaster on the peninsula. Tljjjih , magnitude of the disaster proves greater than at first reported, as that terrifying details came in froin tlj# J stricken region. Scene of Mad Terror. The shock was felt at 2:55 o'clock Friday morning. It lasted for eighteen seconds at Catanzaro and soon there­ after was felt at Messina, Reggio, Monteleone, Martirano, Stefacomfr Piscopio, Triparni, Zammaro, Cessa- niti, Naida, Olivadi and other points. Scenes of indescribable terror en­ sued. Women, aroused from their sleep, rushed half-clothed Into th» streets, screaming with fear, carrying their babies and dragging along their other children and calling for help <m the Madonna and the saints. The men escaped into the open with their families, all calling on their favorite saints for protection. The cafes were taken by assault by the strangely garbed crowd, but as daylight broke without a repetition of the earthquake the crowd gradually melted away until by 8 o'clock the streets had almost assumed their normal appearance ex­ cept in the ruined villages, where the inhabitants had not homes to go to. The general confusion was added to­ by dreadful cries from the jails where terrified prisoners had in some cases mutinied, but fortunately ail the priSr oners were kept within bounds. Troops, engineers and doctors hat*-; been hurried to the scenes of disaster to assist in the work of rescue and salvage. The minister of the interior sent $4,000 for the relief of the des­ titute and Minister of Public Worl@|'f Ferraris left for Calabria. Details of Disaster. Heartrending details of the terrible calamity caused by the earthquake are being received. At Monteleone houses were razed. The railway depots at Pizzo, Saular and Enfermicia had to be evacuated, as they were considered unsafe. At Messina severe shock was e*» perienced, but it was slighter thaA that in Calabria. The earthquake centered in Calabria, destroying over twenty-five villages, leaving thousands absolutely destitute, killing upward of 400 and wounding nearly 600. The province of Calabria is very mountainous and is given over entire* ly to agriculture. The people thete , are very poor, but very industrious. The extent of the disaster they have -- suffered can not as yet be clearly stated, as many of the telegraph line»-- are down. The troopB sent to the scene of th» disaster are, the latest dispatches sajr, displaying splendid energy. Subscript tions for the sufferers have been op­ ened by the newspapers. The ancient crater on the Island of Stromboll is again In active erup­ tion, throwing out lava and stones, and the population of the island to fleeing. The magnitude of the earth­ quake is even greater than was at .first supposed. II 'Hi-',"' WANT8 80UTH AMERICAN TRADE President Appoints W. L. Penfield to Probe Commerce Conditions. Oyster Bay, L. I., dispatch: It was announced by the President that w|t* liam L. Penfield, solicitor of the stall department, has been designated tiy him to make an investigation of the trade relations between the countries of South America and those of En- rope with a view to Improving Amef> lea's commerce with the countries lj| ing to the south of the United Statej| LIFE STORY ON A *1,000 BILL "Last of an Ill-Spent Fortune" Writ* ten on the Note. , ---- Washington dispatch: One of thST tellers at the United States treasury, in counting a pile of currency that ha^ come in from a subtreasury. disco*» ered on a $1,000 not some writing that indicated either a tragedy or an a^ : tempt at a joke. The inscription was.; - "The last of an Ill-spent fortune," an^i it was signed with the initials, "C. t*. B." and the date "El Paso, 5-8-*9l." Gives $500 Job to Rossa. Cork cable: The county councfi has unanimously ele<|t,ed O'DonovaiP^ Rossa to a clerical position at a sal ­ ary of $500 per annum ahd decided t|»° cable Immediately asking him to rec­ tum to Ireland and take up his dutiec, is p* Lawson Sends Peace Gift. Kansas City, Mo., dispatch: ThomaSi" W. Lawson has sent the Industrial® Council of Trades Unions his check (or $1,000 as a peace offering for no|. t keeping his Labor day engagement. * li* - .-'V mailto:5.2.ri@5.75 mailto:S5.45@5.50 mailto:6.45@6.fi0 mailto:5.50@8.50