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v-r. . '„V " ' •," t . '< ;;• ^ , : : p '"^i" •fefffcv i*s»* THE MCHENRY PLAWDEALEB .j > ' fez ' V ' UcHENRY PLAINDEALER CO. JfcHENRY, ILLINOIS. I: NEWS OF THE WORLD 81* • Mmtrisl, Political. Domestic and fpwi|i %.• ̂ Magpanings of "Nner Impertaaee W* h Nwfrapti. :-- Major B. H. Roth well of Detroit, a fell well-known real estate dealer, filed a i' ,.... I petition in bankruptcy, setting forth ?V- liabilities of $105,144 and merely nom- V;. inal assets. Engineer Feassler was killed and Fireman Hurley, Conductor McCann •*/*, , *nd Brakeman Short were severely in- Jnre2 in a collision between two II11- nois Central freight trains at Vera, I1L The council at Lansing, Mich., de- y dared forfeited the franchise of the W'° Hawks-Angus Street Car Company and . --1 ordered the tracks torn op for alleged l£- violation of the terms of the ordi- ®*nce. A bill has been introduced In the Missouri legislature prohibiting foot- - ball iu the state. The Republican legislative caucus at fbv . Topeka selected George A. Clark for ^ . state printer oyer EL W. Hoch by a majority of two. ; > • ; The Coal Exchange at Springfield, 11L, disbanded in the hope, it is said, V' of escaping indictment under the Yal- entine law. C Owing to the exhaustion of the coal ' . . supply the Susquehanna Iron and Steel %f>:^ mills at Columbia, Pa., employing 1.- B' 500 men, had to shut down. is Q' The Democrats of the South Dakota legislature nominated John Bowler of Aberdeen for the United States senate. A committee was appointed by the I. , 1 I*# '0£~ 1^4"I' " New Mexico house to draft a memorial s|_^" to Congress urging statehood for the territory. ' Henry Weelti was seriously stabbed by George Sodders in a quarrel at Pa- ' sey. IH' ' Miss Myrtle East, aged 25 years, and p'uV 'Charles Harris, aged 30, were killed ; by a Panhandle train at a crossing at 5*-.Frankton, Ind. Fireman James Graham and Lewis . Hahn of Baltimore were so badly hurt mh-l'-i that they died and Conductor Charles ra (• v . x * Cutsail and Brakeman Newman were ; probably fatally injured by the explo­ it V sion of a locomotive on the Baltimore m'\y->'. St Ohio road near Monrovia, Md. jfj^vv * AH the anarchists who have been under arrest at Barcelona except one ^ have been released. Italy has proposed to establish the Marconi Bystem of wireless telegraphy between Pekin and Taku. The silverware factory of C. Rogers fk Brothers at Meriden, Conn., has been closed by orders issued from the offices of the International Silver com­ pany. The order throws 350 hands out of work. C. Rogers & Brothers' fac­ tory was brought into the control of X.4 the International Silver company by . the recently consummated deal with |: the United States Silver corporation. fr . The jury in the case of Calvin Lln- •t jf-; ,' erd, charged with the murder of Sol ^ Stevens at Shatsburg, Mich., Nov. 16, jjfe: returned a verdict of manslaughter, k",- > Linerd was sent to get Stevens out of 'f the cellar of Mrs. Snyder and was set |Uv.*! V ®P°n by Stevens. Vv- • Wallace Lake, aged 65 years, a farm- ,|v; er near Hillsdale, Ind., committed sui- ^ .• cide by shooting. pfr - Ireton Bros.' grain warehouse and • V elevator at Van Wert. Ohio, burned, ^ . causing a loss of $68,000, on which i|v > there is $20,000 insurance. i|:' A judicial conference qI the Method* pV 1st church found Wolf of Beardstown, IU., guffty and imprudent conduct and' recom- ,> mended his expulsfou.troci the miois- try and the church.'5-*?*" Shortage of coal is causing some i; concern in the navy. The various ° navy yards are appealing to the jrfY , bureau of equipment for coal. Ar- - mngeraents were made for the ship­ ment of coal from the depot at New J. A. Oswald, a jeweler of Crawfords- ville, Ind., filed complaint with the interstate commerce commission against the Vandalia railroad tor its refusal to haul a car of coal that had been standing at Terre Haute since Jan. 9. Representative Butts Introduced in the North Dakota legislature a resolu tion for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the feasibil­ ity of the state mining coal on its owa lands or leasing such coal lands to in dependent operators. , Grand Trunk officials reported to the Detroit police that a car containing twenty-five tons of anthracite coal was raided near the Theodore street cross ing and all the coal stolen. The com­ pany asked to have the police guard other cars of coal. Senator McMillan introduced in the Kansas senate a resolution providing for a joint committee of five members of the legislature to investigate the coal famine in Kansas. Representa­ tive Reughton introduced a bill author­ izing the working of the penitentiary coal mines to their full capacity and the sale of the coal jp^the open mar­ ket. . By an agreement reached at Louts- ille, Ky., all Engineers on the Louis­ ville and Nashvilie Road will be given an Increase of 5 per cent in pay. The advance also affects firemen and hos­ tlers. Col. William R. Morrison, who is ill at his home at Waterloo, ill., is im­ proving rapidly and there are hopes of his ultimate recovery. W. A. Scott, a jeweler of New Cum­ berland, W. Va., was robbed of money and jewelry valued at $2,000 by three masked men who blew open-the safe. Because of the severe illness of Hel­ en Grantley, the star, "The Girl and the Judge" company disbanded at An­ derson, Ind. Miss Grantley will go to Florida as soon as she is able to trav­ el. ask-' : I' &>- London, Conn., to the New York navy yard, where the fuel supply is prac­ tically exhausU i. The congestion in the railroad yard In the Pittsburg district which was re­ lieved by President A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania railroad some weeks ago, again delays traffic. The coke production of the Connellsville fields cannot be moved and an embargo has been put on coke shipments over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad through Conway. The Fourteenth Street theater in St. Louis has been sold to Lester M. Crawford of Topeka, Kan., and will be added to his circuit of fourteen playhouses. A. J. Gompers. son of Samuel Gom- pers, president of the American Feder ation of Labor, is critically ill of ma­ lignant pneumonia at Denver. His father and mother have been sum mooed from Washington. Frank Timmens, employe**, on tele­ phone his work at Freeport, 111., caught hold of a live electric wire. The fietih was burned off his left hand and death resulted in a few hours af­ terward. His home was at Rockford. A dispatch from Cairo reports the discovery in Syria of one of the old- eat Hebrew manuscript bibles. It con­ sists of the five books of Pentateuch written in Samaritan characters on ga zelle parchment in the year 116 of the Moslem era. It shows important dif­ ferences from the existing text. The bricklayers, in convention at Memphis, discussed the question of the establishment of a school for ap- jpentices. Adam Treadwell, colored, was ha&ged at Norfolk, Va., for the mur­ der of his wife. , The executive committee of the Pil­ grim's- club, London, has completed arrangements for a dinner, to Mr Choate, to which all the resident am bassadors, all the United States am' baesadors and ministers on the con tinent and all members of the British i 1 government will be invited. , ; k The President has nominated •" Colonel Edward M. Hayes, Thirteenth uOKvalry, to be brigadier general. The general stor® of C. J. Kerns at Valparaiso, Ind., was nearly de­ stroyed. Loss on stock and building ' insured »t $12,500. As a result of the negotiations be­ tween the grievance committee of the Louisville & Nashville locomotive en­ gineers and General Manager Evans an agreement has been reached where­ by the engineers will receive an in­ crease in wages in proportion to the added duties which have fallen upon each - division on the various sections of the system. Prominent members of the Sons of the American Revolution will go to Canton Jan. 29 to present to Mrs. Mc- Kinley an elaborate memorial of her husband, who was a compatriot of the society. The party will include mem­ bers from every state in the union. They will gather in Cleveland on the evening before to attend the annual banquet of the society. Brooks Story, an escaped convict, has voluntarily delivered himself to the sheriff at Kosciusko, Miss., and asked to be taken back to the peniten­ tiary at Jackson to serve three unex­ pired years of his term. Story was convicted in 1892 of robbing the ex­ press office at Durant and was given sentence of ten years. He escaped five times and was recaptured four times. The pope received in private audi­ ence Francis McNutt and Mrs. McNutt of Washington, who gave the pontiff jubilee gift of four magnificent col­ umns of alabaster from Tivoli. These have been erected in the throneroom to hold candelabra on each side of the throne. In the course of a spirited attack on the government's general policy Lord Rosebery, speaking at Plymouth, re­ ferred to Venezuela. He reminded his audience that when the liberal govern­ ment had the same kind of debt col­ lecting to do in Nicaragua it first con­ sulted Washington and then settled ^4he-b|isfheas>in a couple of days. ffce secrefiry of war has submitted to congress in estimate for $1,000 for uiorainy^j owe .years lease of a tract of land on the Winnebago reservation for use as rifle range for the soldiers at Fort Crook. During a performance in the Ex­ change concert hall at Missoula, Mont., electric light wire circuits became crossed and flames shot over every wire in the place. There was but a single exit and a panic ensued. Six persons were partly suffocated and Harry Walker, a bartender, is likely to die of internal injuries. The house committee on merchant marine ancF fisheries directed that a subcommittee of five be appointed to begin the congressional investigation into the subject of coal transportation which the house has authorized the committee to make. It is probable that this subcommittee will first go to Boston to take testimony. The diocesan consultors and irre­ movable rectors of the diocese at Cin­ cinnati nominated three prelates for the office of coadjutor bishop of the archdiocese of Cincinnati, recently created upon the request of Arch­ bishop W. H. Elder. It is stated that the choice fell upon Bishops Byrne of Nashville, Maes of Covington and Moeller of Columbus. O. Two little children of Ole Gunder- skord, a girl aged 7 and a boy aged 11 years, were instantly killed near their home in Sandborn, ^is., while returning from school in a cutter. They were thrown under the runners of the sleigh, which cut their bodies in two. Outline of Business Transacted ty the Members pf5 Both Houses. WITH NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Brief Summary of the Doings of the People's Servants in 8esston at Washington Cleverly Condensed by Special Correspondents. TTrt Contracts have been let by the Long- mont Beet Sugar company for the con­ struction of a beet sugar factory at Longmont, Col., that will cost $1,000,- 000. The plant will have a capacity of 1,200" tons daily and is to be ready to begin grinding beets Oct. 1. John G. Bulling, 70 years of age and an old resident of St. Joseph, Mo., was killed by an engine at a crossing The President commuted the*fifteen years' sentence of Henry Starr of In dian territory. He was convicted in 1898 of manslaughter and also on two charges of robbery. M. Faillieres has been reelected president of the French senate. Two hundred miners employed by the Spauldin^; Coal company at Spald ing, 111., went on strike, alleging that tbe company does not furnish enough pit cars. This the company denies. Investigation of the alleged case of hazing of Midshipman Pearson at the naval academy probably will not be pressed further, the authorities at An napolis and at the navy department being convinced that the accident to the midshipman was not the result of unfair play. Wednesday, Jan. 14. The senate unanimously passed the house bill providing for a rebate on coal. It was passed without debate a few minutes after it was brought over from tbe house. The militia bill was also passed, with an amendment striking out the section providing for a reserve force of trained men, thus removing the objection made against it. Mr. Tillman occupied the atten­ tion of the senate for an hour and a half in a characteristic speech in which he denounced trusts and mo­ nopolies and severely criticised the Attorney General. The statehood bill was up for shore time, during which Mr. McCumber spoke in favor of ad­ mitting Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. The bill reported from the ways and means committee providing for a re­ bate on the duties on foreign coal for period of one year was passed in short order in the house by the prac­ tically unanimous vote of 258 to 5. Rapid progress was made with the army appropriation bill after the coal bill had been passed. The most im­ portant amendments adopted were to increase the number of officers in the signal corps by twenty-three, and an­ other to prevent the discontinuance of the army transport service without action by Congress. Thursday, Jan. 15. The resolution introduced by Mr. Hoar (Mass.) calling on the President to inform the Senate what govern­ ment is now existing in Guam and asking why Mabini Is detained on the island, was passed. The Vest resolu­ tion was called up and Mr. Tillman continued his arraignment of trusts and monopolies and again charged that the Attorney General was respon­ sible primarily for lack of action against the trusts. Mr. Spooner announced that several other Senators wisbe'd to speak on the resolution, and it went over. Mr, Foraker (Ohio) then spoke in favor of the omnibus statehood bill. Mc- Laurin (Miss.) cabled attention to the charge that the people of Indianola, Miss., has been guilty of threats, and intimidation against the postmas­ ter and declared the charges to be untrue, remarking that his object in bringing the maUer to the attention of the Senate was in order that his denial might go into the Congressional Record as an answer to those who made the charge. Without further amendment the army appropriation bill was passed by the House. The consideration of the department of commerce bill was then begun under a special rule mak­ ing it a continuing order until dis­ posed of. The Democrats opposed the measure on the ground, that the transfer of the bureau of labor to the new department would subordinate that department to a department which would represent capitalistic in­ terests. The Republicans denied this assumption. Friday, Jan. 16. The House devoted the day to pri­ vate war claims, passing about twenty. The two features of the day were the defeat of a claim of B. F. Moody & Co. of Keokuk, Iowa, for the payment of the amount deducted from their con­ tract for furnishing equipment to the Third Iowa cavalry by the famous commission which unearthed the army contract frauds in St. Louis in 1863, and the fight of Mr. Payne, the floor leader of the majority, against an omnibus resolution to refer ninety Southern claims, aggregating $400,000, for stores and supplies taken by the Union army during the civil war, to tbe Court of Claims for finding of fact under the Tucker act. The former bill led to a lively controversy between two Iowa members, Messrs. Smith and Hedge. Mr. Hitt of Illinois, the chair-, man of the foreign affairs committee, was the stenographer of the commis­ sion, and was able personally to cor­ roborate Mr., Hedge in his opposition to the bill. The combination In favor of the oninibus claims resolution was too strong for Mr. Payne, but on the final vote the quorum failed. As the previous question has been ordered, the vote on the adoption of the resolu­ tion will be the first thing In order on the next claims day. Among tbe bills passed was one to pay $5,683 to Mrs. Hora A. Darling for damages growing out of her arrest by the military auth­ orities of New Orleans in 1864, while Famous Bas-Relief Is 8toten. Rome cable: It is reported here that the famous bas-relier, "The De­ scent From the Cross," by Luca Delia Robbia, has been stolen from the church of San Severo, Florence, bas-relief is valued at $100,000. she was cc a flag of truce boat ui«r safe conduct. The senato was not In session. 8aturday, Jan. 17. file day in the house was devoted to debate upon the Senate bill to es­ tablish a Department of Commerce and Labor, a substitute being finally passed by a vote of 137 to 40.^.;^ | The senate was not in sessiiftt. Menday, Jan. 19. ^ • Mr. Cullom reported the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill to the senate and gave notice he would call it up to-morrow. Mr. Bailey of Texas objected tp considera« tion by unanimous consent of all bills fropi the Republican side on tbe ground that the Senators from New York had interfered with a matter purely local to the state of Texas. A discussion arose which was terminated by Mr. Cullom moving an executive session to consider the Cuban reci­ procity treaty. After half an hour in executive session, the doors were re­ opened and Mr. Foraker continued bis remarks favoring statehood for Okla­ homa, Arizona and New Mexico. Several miscellaneous measures were passed by the house among them the Senate Hawaiian fire claims bill. The consular and diplomatic appropria­ tion bill, the third of the regular bud­ gets, was passed, and fair progress was made with the District of Colum­ bia appropriation bill. During consid­ eration of the diplomatic bill, Mr. Mc- Clellan (N. Y.) precipitated a discus­ sion concerning our diplomatic and consular service, which took a wide range and led to some rather scan­ dalous charges against our consular representatives in Mexico by Mr. Slay- den (Texas). Mr. McClellan sub­ mitted figures to show that our con­ sulates, compared with those of other first-class countries, were underpaid, but overnamed. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) declared the charges against our con­ sular officials were unjustified, main­ taining that it was the opinion of Eu­ ropean publicists that we had the most efficient consular service in the world. GERMANS FIRE Gunboat Panther Bombards Venezuela Fort Without * Giving Notice CASTRO'S MEN ARE VICTORIOUS Two Explosions Occur on the Vessel and the Commander Is Forced to Withdraw From the Hal$0r Iq j Die; abled Condition. ' " FORMER MAYOR HEWITT 13 DEAD Passes Noted New Ydrk Politician Away at Age of 81. Abram S. Hewitt, former Mayor of New York and for many years reprev sentative in Congress, died at 6 o'clock Sunday morning in his eighty-first year, having been critically ill for ten days. With him at tbe moment of death were his wife, his three sons and three daughters. Mr. Hewitt, who has been in feeble health for some months, was attacked' with obstructive jaundice Jan. 8, and from the first it was realized by his at­ tending physicians that there was. practically no hope Of the aged pa­ tient's recovery. On the following, £unday it was thought that Mr. Hewitt could not aurvive the uight and the members of his family ' were sum-, moned to his bedside, but his won-.* derful vitality kept him alive for a^<?;, week longer. MAN AND WOMAN BREAK JAIL Prisoners in Peoria Prison Escape by ^ Using a Case Knife. Peoria, 111., special: A daring jail delivery occurred here, two ptisoners escaping from the third floor of the Peoria county jail by means of' a rope made from the blankets on their beds. Fred Smith, accused of being a horse thief, and Veda White are the fugi­ tives. Sheriff Potter had confined Smith, the White woman. Smith's wife, who was allowed to visit him, and one other woman in a large cell. Smith got a case knife and removed the screws which held the bars in place. The prisoners were met outside the jail by Earl Updike, who.drove them to a railroad station outside tbe city. Caracas c&bie : Once tttee« hM the German navy begun opep hostili­ ties against the Venezuelans, add this time to their sorrow. Apparently without provocation the German gunboat Panther opened fire on Fort San Carlos, which commands the entrance to the inner bay on which Maracaibo lies, twenty-two miles away. Much to the surprise of Capt. Eck- erman and everybody aboard the German gunboat, the fort replied vig­ orously. Soon afterward two explo­ sions were heard on the Panther, and these seemed to disable her, for slowly and* seemingly with difficulty, she withdrew. It is reported that two of the men on the Panther were killed. That this action will have a disas­ trous effect on the negotiations for peace is admitted generally here, the more so as it is said the attack on the fort was premeditated a week ago.. Castro Is Warned. In proof of this a leading official of the government' states that a letter was sent to President Castro from Curacao under date of Jan. 11, inform- firmed here by private dispatches which were received by merchants and which said that Fort San Carlos suffered little damage, while tw6 men on the Panther were reported killed and feveral wounded. When the news of the engagement, with the defeat of the Germans, was made known here there was the wild­ est rejoicing, and the streets were thronged all day by crowds of cheer­ ing, singing Venezuelans. While no one can understand why the Germans could adopt thiB course, that it was premeditated seems al­ most certain, in view of the letter from Curacao received by . Prestttoat C a s t m . • • i f . Happy Venezuelans. : It was this very warning, perhaps, which resulted in General Bello hav­ ing the fort in readiness to reply to any -fire directed against it. It is said he used only four Uuns, but two mod­ ern pieces did the most damage. There have been popular demonstrations on the streets of Maracaibo as a result of the shelling of the fort. Fort San Carlos is twenty-two miles from Maracaibo and commands the en­ trance to the lake, or inner bay. The fort has suffered no damage and only three men were wounded. TILLMAN'S VICTIM 18 NO MORE Editor 8hot by Lieutenant Governor Dies of His Wound. N. G. Gonzales, editor of the State, who was shot by Lieut. Gov. James H. Tillman, died at the hospital at Colum­ bia, S. C. Mrs. Gonzales was with her husband when he expired. Tbe last heroic treatment resorted to was the use of formalin. One-fiftieth of a grain was injected in the veins in the hope of stopping blood-poisoning. It is announced that death was due to sep tic poisoning from the wound. When the bulletin was posted an­ nouncing the death of Mr. Gonzales >KT#RMiTft OPEIMTOft n Uncle Sam: "Do you see now where the public came in?" i f Chicago Inter-Ocean. FINDS CITY OFFICIALS GUILTY Jury Sustains Charge of Malfeasance in Office at Belleville, III. Belleville, 111., special: Fred F. Van- derburg, mayor; William D. West, city clerk, and John Strycklin, commis­ sioner of streets, charged with mal­ feasance in office, were found guilty in the St. Clair County Court. Van- derburg was given two years in prison and a fine of $500, Strycklin was sen­ tenced to one year and West's punish­ ment was left to the court; WRECKS JOLIET BARBER SHOP Gas Explosion Injures Two ef the Ton- sorial Artists. Joliet, 111., special: An explosion of gas in Joliet's business center caused much excitement. A leak in the mains was under investigation when the ex­ plosion occurred, wrecking Zelgert's barber shop and Injuring two barbers. Scores of people had narrow escapes. A three-story business block at the cor­ ner of Jefferson and Ottawa streets Is in a partial state of collapse. The Death of Iflventor Goubet. Paris cable: M. Goubet, the in­ ventor of the submarine torpedo-boat bearing his name, who, as announced Jan. 12, was recently confined in an asylum for tbe insane, is dead. Two Men Freeze to Death. Belleville, 111., dispatch: Charles Harrison and Arthur Louissaint have been found frozen to death. Louis- saint lived at Centerville. Harrison's body was found in a snowdrift near Edwardsville. .. Attempts 8uicide. Newcastte, Ind., special: Frank Al­ len attempted suicide by taking strychnine in an oyster stew. De­ spondency over the death of hla moth- tr is the supposed cause. Sword for Admiral Taylor. Indianapolis, led., dispatch: Gov­ ernor Durbin has signed senate bill No. 1 appropriating $1,600 for a sword for Admiral Taylor, former command­ er of the battleship Indiana. Tbe sword is to be completed by Feb. 18, and will cost $1,200. . Finland Is Russianized. Copenhagen cable: "Finland is at last Russianized. There will be no need of more crushing measures." This is the message received here from Heisingfors, Finland. It is esti­ mated that 400,000 people are starving. Declines an Honor. Indianapolis, Ind., dispatch: Morti­ mer Levering of this city, who was elected president of tbe American Horse Show association at Kansas City, said that he would not accept. % Home of Mlnstrelsv. • York special: A Wall street syndicate has bought enough property in Thirty-flifth street, east of Broad­ way, to build a theater for George Wil­ son, the old-time minstrel. It will be a permanent home of minstrelsy. .---- " .Noted Q. A. R. Man Dlq|V 'f'feioux City, Iowa, dispatch: ICol.' Thompson of Rock Rapids, former commander of the Grand Army of Iowa, is dead. He was a well-know? banker and pioneer. ing him that about a week later the German vessels would open fire on Fort San Carlos. Orders to do this, the letter said, had been - received from Berlin, with instructions to make the attack before the arrival .of United States Minister Bowen. From Fort San Carlos at 'noon on Saturday a gunboat flying the; German was seen steaming along the coast. It turned into the channel which the fort guards, then without a signal of warning, when within range of the fort, opened fire with aH 4wr batteries. ~ : Meets Ready Response. But Gen. George Bello, in command of the fort, was in readiness for the enemy. He had at least two modern guns and he at once returned the fire. For some time the guns of the Panth­ er dill not respond, and it was noticed with joy by those in the fort that al­ though she was doing her best to force the entrance to the channel, It was so narrow and so shallow that she could not be handled to the best advantage. But she was soon in position where her guns could be used again, and again they spoke to the fort, whose four guns gave answer in kind. Then an explosion was heard on the Panther and from the fort? it could be seen that her men were in confusion for a few minutes, but all was discipline aft­ er that and the bombaroment was re­ newed. For an flour the marksmanship of the Germans was so bad that the fort suffered little damage. This cheered the men in the fort, and again and again they shouted defiance at the crew of the German gunboat. Then another explosion on the Pan­ ther was heard, and she seemed to be crippled badly. She withdrew slow­ ly, the guns of the fort firing on her until she was out of range. No response came from her, and, once out of the entrance to tbe mined bay, she steamed off along tbe co$stv Little Damage to Fort. All these official advices were con- Society Usurer Under Arrest. Berlin cablegram: The notorious usurer. Pariser, whose victims were prominent society people and whose unfinished trial in 1896 caused a great sensation, has been rearrested on the obtaining of new evidence against him. the crowds which had been about the bulletin boards almost constantly since the tragedy increased rapidly and all phases and details of the affair were discussed. In his cell, where he has been confined since the shouting, Lieut. Gov. Tillman heard the news with visible emotion. ASKS COURT TO OUST SHERIFF Coroner Maxwell, Appointed to Suc­ ceed Dudley, Will Test Law. Sullivan, ind., special: Coroner W. P. Maxwell, who was appointed sheriff of Sullivan county to succeed Sheriff Dudley on account of the action of the Indiana lynching law, will idstitute quo warranto proceedings to oust Dud­ ley from the office. This action is the result of the interview held by Coroner Maxwell and Attorney Bayes with Governor Durbin and Attorney General Miller. The state will pay the expenses of the suit. SIGHT MISSING NOME STEAMER 8hips in Northern Sells Report the Dawson City as Being Under Sail. Seattle, Wash., special: A telegram to the Pacific Packing and Navigation Company from Valdez, Alaska, an nounces that the long-missing Nome steamer, Dawson City, passed Unga island during the latter days of De cember. The vessel was under sail, having exhausted its supply of fuel. The news was conveyed to Valdez by the steamers Shelikof and Santa Ana. The Dawson City left Nome Oct. 29 o| last year. Ask Empress to Resign. London cable: A special dispatch from Pekin says the censor's office has memorialized the dowager empress to resign In favor of the emperor as the first step in the policy of reform. Suicide on a i rain. ..Washington, Ind., special: Chi * Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern train, Jacob Rapp of Louisville, from St. Louis to Louisville, rushed into a closet as the train was nearing Vincennes and cut his throat with a razor. Mexican Trade. •'Wexioo City dispatch: Consul-Gen­ eral I^rlow reports a steady increase in the exports to the United States and a gratifying state ot iftuty be­ tween the two countries. ,. - Honor for Illinois Students. Hanover1; N. H., special: At the Dartmouth senior class election Har­ old M. Hess of Evanston. 111., was chosen to deliver the address to the old pine: Lewis H. Hanley of Nor­ mal. 111., tb address the old chapel, and David IS. Bradley' of Evanston odist. „ Hahn's Case Is Continued. Mansfield, Ohio, special: The Cir­ cuit court has granted a continuance of the extradition case of former In­ surance Commissioner Hahn, wanted by the New York authorities, until the next September term of court. Breakfast Food Factory Bums. Battle Creek, Mich., special: . The plant of the Commercial Travelers' and Farmers' National Food company burned. sThe loss is $75,000. An over­ heated furnace caused the fire. Starving in Sweden. # ' .Stockholm, Sweden, cable: Sev­ enty thous'and persons, who are star­ ving. in northern Sweden, are com­ pelled to eat pine bark, which they make into a sort & bread Willi ice» land moss. Indicts County Officials. Wooster, O., dispatch: The grand jury has returned indictments against several county officials for alleged brib ery and accepting bribes in couneoUoa with awarding contract#. Broken Rail Throws Chicago , Great Western Traia • , v Down Embankment !'£ * ;V ENGINEER FATAUY SCALOED^P Only Five Passengers Eeeape Serious Injury and They Heroically Set to Work to Aid the Others--Goes Five Mites for Relief. v Sycamore, 111., special: Thirty sengers on the Des Moines and Min­ neapolis special on the Chicago Great - Western railroad were seriously in-- jured and the engineer of the train, was crushed to death in a freck which occurred a few miles from this city. Only five passengers escaped iujury. The train was running at a high rate - of speed when a bgoken rail was struck just before the train, passed upon a bridge. The momentum of the - long train carried it across the bridge- on the ties, but in another second it left the roadbed and plunged down a~ twenty-foot embankment. The passen­ ger and mail coaches were piled in * heap and the entire train was reduced tp a itoass of rubbish. The engine was overturned, the- escaping steam severely scalding the- fireman and the engineer, who liVQd for half an hdur while imprisoned Mfr- der the wreck of his engine. > List of the Victims. The dead: Engineer James Leahey.. The seriously injured: I. L. Stuart^ and Mrs. I. L. Stuart, Hampton, la,; C. W. Smith, Colfax, la.; I. B. Patter* son, Bristow, la.; State Senator" Thomas D. Healy, Ft. Dodge, la.; C. C. Smith, Des Moines, la.; W. F. Graff*. Colfax, la.; Mrs. E. H. I. Riggs, Chi­ cago; G. L. Haebal, Waukegan, III.; Mrs. Narina Sanford, Sycamore, 111.; James Finnegan, Syfeamore, ill.;•John* Bashmore. Assist the Injured. Tbe five uninjured passengers ex­ tricated themselves from the ruins .Of" the train and heroically set to work to - assist the unfortunate. By almost superhuman efforts the rescuers lifted broken beams and heaved away at splintered timbers till they were able- to drag out those who were pinned down. Then they carried the worst sufferers to neighboring farmhouses,, where they were cared for until a re­ lief train from Sycamore arrived eiti tbe scene. Travels for Relief. - ' ;-r In order to get this relief train $ne^ ot the uninjured passengers ran five--, miles across the rough country road to* telegraph for the needed assistance.. All the injured were brought to tfce- Sycamore hospital. Considering the nature of the wreck- and the fall of twenty feet it is con­ sidered remarkable that a single per­ son escaped. Many escaped with, broken fingers and bruises, while oth- ars are suffering merely from th# vous 8 hock. - 'ir'iB r:>:V THE LATEST MARKET REPORTS Wheat. New York--No. % red, 82*^0. Chicago--No. 2 red, 75@76c. St Louis--No. 2 red, 71%c; Kansas City--No. 2 hard, 69% & 69%c. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 77%c.« Minneapolis--No. 1 northern, 77%« Duluth--No. 1 northern, 75%c. Toledo--78%c. y Corn. New York--No. 2, 69%c. Chicago--No. 2, 46%®47c St. Louis--No. 2, 42c. 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