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ISCHENHT. MCHENRY PUIRDEALER |> JtdEtENRT PtAINDEALER 00. ILLINOIS. NEWS OF THE WORLD 4MosMil, Political, Domestic • Happenings of Minor Imporfnw . n* * ± >' A legacy of $400,000 was left 'tfr James Rushell, of California, to hlsj son on condition that the latter should marry a New Jersey woman. The son Is about to come East to comply with the will. The schooner Martha T. Thomas was rammed and nearly sunk in Massachusetts bay by the battleship! Massachusetts on a clear night. A car­ go of pine prevented sinking. Foi^r Logansport (Ind.) editors were Refused appointment by Mayor Vaughn as special police at an illegal Sunday baseball game outside of the city lim­ its in retaliation of their criticism of the mayor's act. The' attetapted lynching of George White, a negro alleged to have mur­ dered Helen Bishop near Wilmington, Del., was prevented by the workhouse prison warden. Winnetka washerwomen, twenty- three strong, are on strike for $2 daily wages instead of $1.50 and meals . heretofore paid. Laundry prices also have been raised, and a threat made to prevent work being done elsewhere. About a dozen indictments, including ^ Prominent men, are expected at * * ̂ (p mork. and Washington as a result postal scandal expose. Fifty ar­ ts are likely, and the investigation ill last several months longer. Three men who pleaded guilty when arraigned in a Jersey City court for harboring slot machines used for gambling purposes in their places of business have been fined $2,000, 9L* 150 and $500 respectively. A posse is hunting for two negroes who attempted to hold up two bridge workers and killed one of them near Sherman, Kan., and a lynching Is ex­ pected. At San Francisco lire did $126,000 damage in the warehouse of Cunning- bam, Curtis & Welsh. Other princi- »al sufferers were the Louis Roesch company and the Union Lithographic company. The executive council of the Ameri­ can Federation of Labor is in session fa Washington. Until William Flgo- lab* secretary of the Amalgamated Glass Workers at Chicago., is heard from the matter of jurisdiction over all putty workers will not be disposed at. President Mitchell of the mine workers has ordered hack to the mines the men in the Linton coal fields who struck and rejected axbltra* tion. The strike of freight handlers prac­ tically tied up Kansas City freight de­ partments of the Rock Island and Frisco roads, while the Burlington suf fared greatly. Delbert Sheeks, a sawmill operator near Shoals,. Ind., put his foot on a board being sawed from a log and three toes and£gMMMg£d of the Inside oLJyiyppK^^HHpe ampu- In a an €I" cursion train returning to Hundale, N. CM from Johnson City, Tenn., Deputy Sheriff Garland of Mitchell county. North Carolina, was shot and fatally wounded by John Williams and Con­ stable Bailey severely cut and bruised. Williams jumped from the train while it was running and escaped. Maj. Gen. Frank Wheaton, U. 8. A., retired, died at Washington, aged 70 years. A widow and two daughters survive him. Death resulted from a general breaking down in health. Gen. t.tTheaton had an active military ca­ reer, and in the civil war participated In many battles, notably those in the various Virginia, Maryland, Pennsyl­ vania and Washington campaigns. Henry K. Stevens, a pioneer of Will county, died at Joliet, 111., at the age of 92 years. He was a man of great wealth and owned large and valuable pieces of real estate. He had lived a^ rJoliet since 1836. ^ David H. Mason, formerly tariff ed­ itor on several Chicago newspapers, and more recently in the Chicago post- •office, died from pneumonia after an illness lasting ten days. Mr. Mason was born in Philadelphia In 1829 and <came to Chicago in 18G8. He was as- ,Sociated with the Tribune, Herald and Inter Ocean at different periods, and 'besides his newspaper work, he wrote ^several histories of the tariff question 1n the United States and foreign coun­ tries. Thirty-seven injunction suits against St. Louis ticket brokers were filed in the Circuit court in that city by five trunk lines entering St. Louis. The object of the railroads is to prevent the sale of nontransferable tickets and •the companies have in mind especially 'the excursion tickets that were sold £O visitors to the sangerfest. John W. Bradford, a pioneer of Co- jlnmbus, Ind., died of heart disease in s fit of coughing. The English Lutheran synod of the ilo^thwest at La Crosse, Wis., adopted .* measure which provides that stu­ dents who Intend to become Lutheran . ministers will receive while at prepan atory college $125 annually and whils ' attending theological seminary $160 a ; year. : ^President Mitchell of the United Wine Workers has engaged attorneys !to defend the suit brought by Attorney 'Wayles of New York, who asks for 9200,000 for alleged suggestions that ,led to the settlement of the anthrax ,dte strike. - J The Mexican government proposes ito compel all signs and advertisements {on walls to be In Spanish with, if d» fSlred. translations into other lan- Jguages. It is considered contrary to' •the dignity of the nation that English .flgns, now very numerous, should not Wave their Spanish counterpart. ) Senator Bate of Tennessee has an* iSounced himself a candidate for re if lection. J Acting Governor McKenzi© com- ISlUted the sentence of John Oram, seat prison for life from Cook county, ' 4flp mirv lQj i>os» . «• Dr. Wiley's tests with boraclo acid| and borax treated foods will be sus-. P€gided< between June 30 and Oct. 1/ and his boarders will take a vacation: Several are said to have been made 111 by the test In a drunken carousal at Springfield^; 111., Thomas Snider stabbed and fatally wounded George Coleman in the groin. Both are employes oi the Republican Iron and Steel Company's works. J. C. Wells, a drummer of New-York city, and J. D. Proctor, a police officer of Houston, ventured out beyond the ropes while bathing in the surf at Gal­ veston, Tex., and were drowned. Both bodies were recovered. M. V.-Leagia, who last May went to the home of his divorced wife, at Fort- land, Ore., and shot, and killed her father, compelling her to flee with him, has been found guilty of murder in the second degree. Sentence has. been de­ ferred. In a fight at a picnic at Knuckle Tree, eighteen miles from Portsmouth, Ore., John Brown was shot and killed and his father, Frank Brown, was fa­ tally wounded. The elder Brown and John Short got into an altercation and Brown'8 son attacked Short with a natchet Fire In the five-story building of the Avery Manufacturing company at Omaha did damage estimated at up­ ward of $70,000. . . * George Durham and Fred Under­ wood were hanged at Clarksville, Ark., for the murder of Sheriff Jobs H. Pow­ ers Feb. 5, 1902. John A. McAuley, a real estate deal­ er and builder of Columbus, Ohio, filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabil ities are scheduled at $99,639.74 afid assets at $7,705.50. The Washington Power building »t Buffalo, adjoining the Lyceum theater,, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000. Smoke in the theater made it necessary to bring the play to an abrupt end. Nick Beirich, a German saloonkeep­ er of Atchison, Kan., was shot and killed by Theodore McKim, a notori­ ous Kansas City character, as the out­ come of a dice game. McKim was mortally wounded later by officers. Charles Long of Quincy, 111., a com­ rade of McKim, was fatally wounded by the officers. Standing in the river with water npi to their shoulders, firemen at Roches­ ter, N. Y., fought a fire in the whole­ sale liquor house of Fee Bros., that caused a loss of $175,000. John Shea of Escanaba, Mich., was held up in Milwaukee by two footpads, robbed of $6<B and shot through the little finger in grappling with one of the highwaymen. An epidemic of typhoid fever Is raging in Two Rivers, Wis., twenty- five cases having been reported, though no deaths have yet resulted. Health authorities are trying to locate the cause. Ell Julian has been arrested at Ben­ nington, I. T., charged with the mur­ der of his father, Solomon Julian, a well-known citizen living in Choctaw nation. He was given a hearing and remanded without bail. Ground for the Manhattan Mater­ nity hospital in New York city will be broken within a few days. The build­ ing will probably be ready for use by Nov. 2 •law ime at ̂ PHMHR^^^serve four years in the Wisconsin state prison for forgery. Sherman Bell, adjutant general of Colorado and former "Rough Rider," was married at Colorado Springs to Mrs. Essie Carter. They will spend their honeymoon at the White House at the invitation of the president. M. J. McMasters, proprietor of a restaurant at Plain City, O., lost his life in an attempt to rescue his 11- year-old son from a burning building. The boy died later of burns. Bishop J. C. Hartzell of the Metho­ dist Episcopal church has sailed from New York on the Germanic on his seventh tour of inspection of the Af­ rican mission field. The tour will cover 30,000 miles. Six-year-old Harold Walters of Elk­ hart, Ind., got hold of a flask half filled with gunpowder, poured some of the contents on the walk and touched a match to It He may lose the sight of both eyes. Gov. Frazier has granted a requisi­ tion permitting the removal of Lee Turner of Quarter House fame from Jacksboro, Tenn., to Pineville, Ky. Eldon and Earl Herring of Lisbon, Iowa, and Fred Risler of Davenport were killed and four men were in­ jured in a collision of a Rock Island passenger train and a gravel train at Elmlra, Iowa. Mrs. Eva A. Ingersoll, widow of Robert J. ingersoll, has brought suit against the heirs of Andrew J. Davis for $100,000 alleged to be due the In­ gersoll estate for service performed by Ingersoll in wihnlng for the heirs the famous will contest that gave them D%vis' estate. The Junger Maennerchor of Phila delphia won the Kaiser prize in the saengerfest at Baltimore. Miss Annie Neftall of Chicago was awarded a verdict for $1,000 in her suit at Newport News for breach of promise against Harry Morewitz, a Newport News merchant The wage scale of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers for the ensuing year has been signed by the Carnegie Steel company for the American steel hoop plants. All branches of the steel corporation now are under the scale. A man suffering from gout in his nose has been a patient at Bellevue hospital, New York. He is Charles Scharff, a janitor. His nose has be­ come greatly enlarged. The doctors were completely at sea for a diagnosis until they discovered gout In several joints of his limbs. The civil war in Wadai is ended. Dudmorra has been proclaimed sultan. The state department has been in­ formed by the American embassy at Berlin that the American fleet will be entertained at Kiel from the 23rd t| the 30th of June. The Russian war minister. General Kuropatkln is being extensively feted at Tokio. A noticeable fact, however, is that simultaneously with the festi­ vities Baron Yamamoto, the Japanese minister of marine, is inspecting all the naval ports and testing their eft- in case of wan i' • 'fcf. SV. • f*4f; • •. i-4 i's HIDDEN PICTURE PUZZLE. k t-'.iX Wj a'^r >•1 Si <. -' • "There she comes." Do you see herf • v\;l One Man Saves Feudist From 'Being Convicted of Murder. CHANGE OF VENUE IS GRANTED Judge Redwine Removes thl Case to Harrison County, Where Gen. John Morgan Recruited His Celebrated Raiders During the Civil War. Jackson, Ky., special: But for one Juror Curtis Jett would have been convicted here for the murder of Mar- cum and a majority of the jury fa­ vored the conviction of Thomas White also. Both of the accused men are al­ most 100 miles from home in jail at Lexington, and their next trial will bj at Cynthiana, over 100 miles, Jackson, away from the and in the Blue Gri different conditio] ing in Breai_____^^_^^_ rge as that news isitors will have e next hearing, •county, in which the pris­ oners sfre to have their next trial, is the old home of Gen. John Morgan, who recruited there his celebrated raiders during the civil war. Change-of Venue. The interest in the change of venue was second only to the verdict When Judge Redwine refused to hear argu­ ments on the change or the location it was stated by many in the court­ house that-the presiding judge had heard from Gov. Beckham, who is gen­ erally believed to have had something to do with the change of venue to Harrison county, which is the Eighteenth judicial district of Ken­ tucky. There J. J. Osborne is the Cir­ cuit judge, L. P. Fryer is the common­ wealth's attorney, and the sheriff and other court officers are also favorably knows. To Retain Troops. » It la thought now that after the tri­ als of Jett and White in Harrison county the cases of others who have never been arrested will be taken up on a change of venue. Among the cases cited is that of the late Dr. Cox, whose friends refused to secure wit­ nesses for any jury in Breathitt coun­ ty that was selected under the pres­ ent regime. The next case on the docket here was that of Curtis Jett for killing the town marshal, James Cockrill, but it will be postponed until after the tri­ als at Cynthiana. CoL Williams is at Frankfort con­ ferring with the governor regarding the withdrawal of the troops. It is understood that he advised the gov­ ernor that at least one company should be retained in Jackson as long as Pro­ vost Marshal Longmire was kept In charge of the town. TRIE? TO SACRIFICE f - I CHILDREN ON ALTAR . . . . Georgia Mother, Crazed by Religion, 3a Prevented From Killing Her Fdur Little Onea. "Atailfista', Ga., special: CraM&*!tfe emotional religion. Mrs. Gussie Lott, a widow who lives in West Enis, bound her four small children before an al> tar which she had improvised In one • of the rooms of her home and with a knife in her hand was about to sacri­ fice the eldest, a boy barely 7 years Old, when relatives rushed in and In­ terposed. The boy said his mother had prayed and sung all night and ranged them on the east side of the house to greet the rising sun. It was her intentioa to sacrifice the children just as tka sun rose, Mrs. Lott has been fin enthusiastie member of one' of the local churchea and has °'ten^Mh)lged In extreme demonstra^flBMHikig revivals and visits ..jillB^^^^^HlingelistS; but no ity was ente** 1 when on account ctions she was taken 'ntry by relatives. It was rt she had entirely recovered id she returned home. A charge of lunacy was entered against Mrs. Lott; and she will be taken to the. state asy­ lum at Milledgeville. CLARK* IS TO BUILD A PALACE Baer Is Going Abroad; Reading, Pa., dispatch: Fre^fflefit George F. Baer of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad company, accom­ panied by his family, will sail for Eu­ rope on July 26. Mr. Baer, who is very fond of ocean travel, will be in Europe only two weeks, as he Is un­ able to take a longer vacation this year. Montana Senator Will Eclipse Rivala With Washington Residence. Washington dispatch: Senator W. A. Clark of Montana is planning the construction of a palace in Washing ton. The house will far exceed la splendor the senator's New York res­ idence, recently completed, which sui* passos the palaces of the Vanderbilts and other millionaires. The Washing ton residence will be located upon the site of the famous Stewart castlet which property is now owned by the copper king. Several world-famous firme of architects in Europe and America are competing in drawing the plans, the finest of which will be chosen by Senator Clark. The struo-" ture will cost several million dollara and two or three years will be occu­ pied in erecting it WOODMEN RAISE THEIR RATM Iowa Plan Is Adopted by Indlanapolla Convention by Fair Majority. Indianapolis, Ind., dispatch: The Modern Woodmen's convention adopt­ ed the Iowa plan for readjustment of rates by a vote of 215 % to 166, after defeating the Young amendment by 171 to 280%. The committee appoint' ed to submit a readjustment plaa failed to agree and the session was thrown open to individual plans. The session was exciting and the various plans were earnestly contested. The convention will be held next year at Milwaukee. DEWEY8 TO 8TAY AT GOODLAND Troops Will Be Withdrawn and 8herlff - Left In Control. Topeka, Kan., dispatch: Chauncey Dewey and his cowboys will remain in the county jail at Goodland and the governor will withdraw the troops now stationed there. The governor believes the sheriff is making a mistake by keeping the prisoners In northwest Kansas, but ao the sheriff's authority in that matter is supreme, he alone will be responsible should anjrtfouble occur. SEEKS TO UNIONIZE CHINAMEN SUES MITCHELL FOR BIG 8UM Illinois Celestials Will Organize Laun* dry Workers In St. Louie. St Louis, Mo., special: Mar Young, a Chinese laundryman from Lebanon, 111., has arrived in this city for the purpose of organizing a labor union among the Chinese lauhdrymen of St Louis. Mar Young possesses the dis­ tinction of being one of the few Chi­ namen in this country to carry a bona fide union card. He is a member in good standing of Federal union No. 8165 of O'Fallon, 111. . • 1 Offer to Prof. Coolejfe"' Ann Arbor, Mich., dispatch: l^rbf. M. E. Cooley of the engineering de­ partment of the University of Mich­ igan has been offered the deanshlp of the engineering school of the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin. * Postofflce Robbed..^;. ^ Rhodes, la., special: The postofflce was entered by burglars and the safe wrecked with dynamite. The booty secured by the robbers was $800 in eaah and stamps. Attorney Claims Big Fee as Author of ^oal,.Strike Settlement Plan. Scranton, Pa., dispatch: J. R. Weihle, a Binghamton attorney, has sued John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, for $20,000 on the ground that he fur­ nished the mine workers with the plan of settling the big anthracite strike of 1902. Weihle asserts that his Ideas are precisely similar to those acted on by President Roosevelt in the a^ pointment of a strike committee. Fire Costs Ona Life, ,nsas City, Kas., speciaR- "• The miiiB and elevator of the Arkansas City Milling company were destroyed by fire entailing a .loss of $100,000. Tom Yount, an employe, was so badly that he died. ... More Trouble at Acrj£;':"V?, ^ Rio Janeiro cable: News lust re­ ceived here that Placido Castro has started in haste to the territory of Acre has caused much surprise. Mew complications are feared. . Postmast#\ /General Payne Dismisses Superintend­ ent Metcalf. SOUGHT TO DIVERT CONTRACT Endeavored to Induce Loweat Bidder for Money Order Forms to Permit the Work to Go to Firm That Em­ ploys His Son. Washington dispatch f Pe^fittfter General Payne is In despair at the wholesale rottenness developed. The latent sensation is the summary dis­ missal from office of James T. Metcalf, for many years superintendent of the money order system, on the charge of vrying to induce Paul Herman, a bid­ der for the contract for printing money order blanks, to withdraw his bid in order that the contract might go, ?or $45,000 more, to the Wynkoop- HaRenbeck-Crawford Company, by whom Metcalfs son is employed. The downfall of Metcalf came as a great surprise to official circles, where ^e has long been held In high esteem. Corroborates Charges. Of almost equal sensation-producing power was the remarkable report of Fourth "Assistant Postmaster General Bristow touching the charges of ex- Cashler S; W. Tulloch. This report amply corroborates the charges of Ir­ regularities In the Washington post- office made by Tulloch and shows that the questionable disbursements cited were made on direct authority from high officials. The inspector whose re- Iowa and has been In the postal ser­ vice since 1882. During his admlnls-j tratlon of the office the money order service has been widely extended by mutual arrangements with a large! number of foreign governments and] Mr. Metcalf has had cordial personal! relations with many foreign postal of-j flclals. His salary was $3,000 a year.j Underbids Old Employers. The Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawfordj company has been the, contractor fo#» the money order bj£mks for sixteen! years. Paul Herman, the lowest bld-j dej*' for the next contract, formerly! was in the employ of that company, as- also is Norman Metcalf, the 27-year-i old son of the deposed superintendent,! who now is drawing a salary of $2,250j from the company. Herman assisted! in the drawing of the specifications' for the contract and when the bidai were opened it was found that Her­ man had become a competitor of the old company, undercutting their bid by about $45,000. Metcalf Talks. Mr. Metcalf said that he had done nothing wrong and had nothing to con­ ceal; that his son's employ in the bid-' ding firm could have no effect on the award; that he suggested Herman's return to his old company to handle the government work there because he knew that Herman's means were limited and that a stoppage of sup­ plies in the midst of a contract term! would have proved serious. He saya; that with Herman's consent he wrote to Hallenbeck, advising that Herman be restored to his old place and that he told Herman he had little doubt the government would allow him to withdraw his forfeit check of $5,000. LYDDITE SHELLS KILLS FIFTEEN Thre* Persons Are Seriousljl Hurt ant Slightly. rt and Fourteen Suffer ^ MAN'S/HEAD BLOWN FROM B0DV 8toker lis Found Dead, His Remain^ ' Being Scattered in All Directions-^-!.'. Victims Are Frightfully' Mangled lib* Explosion at Woolwich Arsenal.,; ,r iff. London cablegram: HEPPNER DEATH LI8T GROWING Belief That the Total Number of Dead Will Approximate 200. Heppner, Oregon, special: Lata de­ velopments show that the Heppner death list will exceed the estimates. k m r. % V1' * ";tr; ""Little Russian comment"---(news item), but a lot of thinking. port is quoted says the responsibility for the payment of double salaries to many persons and the squandering of thousands of dollars should be placed wh.ere it belongs, not on subordinates but on men high in rank. •; 7.' Rumors of Indictments/^ . • Further sensational charges are Soon to be made against A. W. Machen and his indictment for forgery is expected in a few days. There are rumors of other indictments to be returned at the same time. Postmaster General Payne, In an­ nouncing his action, stated that there was no charge that Mr. Metcalf had done anything that is amenable to the law, but said his conduct was a ser­ ious indiscretion that could not be overlooked. Mr. Metcalf, he said, al­ ways had been considered a faithful, efficient, painstaking and honest em­ ploye. * Roosevelt Approves; The postmaster general on his ar­ rival at the department sent for Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bris­ tow and Assistant Attorney General Robb and instructed them to send for Mr. Metcalf and Immediately investi­ gate the case. The two officials named, with Inspector Fosnes, there­ upon examined Mr. Metcalf closely for two hours and he, It Is stated, cor­ roborated the charge stated In the letter of dismissal. The postmaster general later conferred with President Roosevelt regarding the case and the order of dismissal followed. Payne Announces Dismissal. Mr. Payne's voice trembled with emotion as he announced the dismiss­ al to the newspaper men. He said it had become his duty to make the re­ moval and was a step which he could not avoid in the proper discharge of his duties. In reply to questions he said that no consideration had been given as yet to the appointment of a successor, but that the duties of su­ perintendent for the present would devolve on Mr. Metcalfs assistant, Ed­ ward F. Kimball of Massachusetts, who has been in the service seven­ teen years. Mr. Metcalf was appointed from Police Chief Kills Miner. Dillon, Mont., dispatch: Dan Me- Closkey, a miner, of Butte, met his death at the hands of Chief of Police Stone while resisting arrest. Mc- Cioskey was shot through the h lie had first fired upon the officer Many corpses, which were carried miles away from here, are being found, and at the rate they are being sent here, it is believed that the number o£ bodies actually found and identified will easily reach 200. The bodies of Mrs. Douglas Gurdane, Mrs. Boyd and child, Emma Ashbaugh and a China­ man were found, bringing the official list of dead to 157. The name of Otis Bullis of Tower City, N. D., has been added to the list of missing. : INVITE WASHINGTON TO AFRICA Britons Want Negro Educator toi Pro* pose Plan to Aid Colonies. 1 Washington dispatch: BookjQj T. Washington, president of TusS?gee institute, called on President aliose- velt to consult him concerning ad­ visability of accepting an off^irom Lord Gray of the British Souni: Af­ rican Company. The company desires Professor Washington to visit South Africa, make a study of radical condi­ tions in British territory and report to the British government Plaijjp for the betterment of the industrial edui cational and moral conditions of the people. HEADS TH£ MUSIC TEACHERS Illinois Association Qhooses Gatesburg Man for President. Galesburg, 111., dispatch: The Illi­ nois Teachers' association elected these officers: President, William F. Bentley, Galesburg; vice president, Howard Wells, Chicago; secretary- treasurer, Frank S. Hannah, Chicago. The next meeting will be held at Dan­ ville June 16, 1904. Allen Perkins of Chicago was chosen delegate to the national convention 1A Nashville, Tenn. Mail Train Kills Man. Shoals, Ind., special: William ner of Ohio Falls, Ind., was st by a west-bound mall train on Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern road at Georgia and Instantly kl! Warrant for Loan Manager. BL Thomas, Ont., dispatch: A rant has been issued for the ar; George Rowley, the manager of suspended Elgin Loan company, charges of theft. He is said to a sanitarium in Michigan. Lassoes Drowning Man. IE1 Paso, Tex., dispatch: Mounted Officer Greet, formerly a cowboy, las­ soed a drowning man, Juan Granada, in the Rio Grande, which is turbulent and swollen as a result of the floods. Granada had made a wager that he could swim the river. Vetoee Eight-Hour Bill. Boston, Mass., special: Gov. Bates vetoed the eight-hour day bill on the ground that it meant an added burden of expense to the taxpayers. The bill - "• ' • ' -f--- • « -"•W-'yub- and Flatulency. It assimilt. Stomach and Bowels* glvilii Tbe Children's Panacea--1% GENUINE Turns on the Gsa. ;/*./ ^ !' "ISwSsbtrrg, 111., special: G. F.HiWM- lng committed suicide here by locking himself in a room and turning on the gas. Despondency is the causa' as­ signed for the deed. Bears the |et ch *ice in Ireland next month. The Treasury Department and the local authorises have refused to undertake to pay the cost of policing the course. Rich Potato Harvest "f/; rf Sliitohee, Okla., dispatch: Tfi#%at* vest of the famous Pottawatomie tato crop will begin crop is ana of the here. _ - county spring tliU wee£, 1 i. Vi* k- y '"%>= - ..--.v fm-v i • JV if. *v "" / " r " 1*" " ' : I 'S.Wi •s An expiosiou| v . which it is supposed was caused by 'thjjl' bursting of a lyddite shell, occurred? in the magazine building of Woolwich : arsenal. Fifteen persons were killed^ outright, and four were so seriousl# • wounded that three of them are not" • expected to live. Twenty others wer#- Injured slightly. Five buildings wer*',<- destroyed. Thousands of relatives o&T the killed and injured surrounded tha- gates of the arsenal after->-,t,he e»,;, plosion, and the most distressing^j,, Bcen«3 were witnessed. • Collect Remains In Pall. The lyddite shop, where the expk>- sion occurred, looked like a slaughter*?-^ house after the explosion. Human ret* \ mains were collected in pails by tha^ - people who rushed to the rescue. After the first rush for life a num­ ber of men approached the lyddite shops, and as the smoke cleared off a.- ghastly sight met (heir eyes. Over an area of several yards there was nothing to be seen but a mass of mangled remains. Bodies Are Dismembered. The body of a man of the name' of" Edwards, which was found close to the spot where the shell had stood, was found with the head blown off. A stoker of the name of Cage, who was killed, had a leg blown away. One*- of his arms was picked up in another place. „ There were other shocking sights which are too horrible to describe. As- none of the four men In the filling chamber, whero the shell burst, sur­ vived, it can only be a matter of con­ jecture as to how the disaster hap­ pened. The roar of the explosion was heard for miles down the river and the- entire population of Woolwich was sicken with fear. " 'i'i Frightfully Mangled. vj&n eye witness of the explosion says- faat he heard a fearful noise, and upon looking in the direction whence it came, he saw a hat rising in the air and a number of men being hurled yards away. The bodies of these men were frightfully mangled, and fell to> the ground in "a shower of frag­ ments." . The war office Issued a statement In regard to the explosion. It says fifteen persons were killed, three seriously • and fourteen sightly injured.- One- man is missing. The cause of the explosion has not. vt. yet been ascertained. Of the thirty ten-Inch lyddite shells, which wereW'^, filled and were in the building where: * the explosion occurred, seven are miss­ ing. i GEN. YOUNG 18 CHIEF OF STAFF Corbln and Carter Also Get Placea ,oi» New Army Board. Washington dispatch: Secretary' Root has issued an order assigning Major General S. B. M. Young as chief of staff, with Major General Henry C. Corbln and Brigadier General William H. Carter as the other general staff officers. Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss is to become president of the War College. The order will take ef­ fect August 16. LATEST CA8H MARKET REPORT^ A Wheat. Chicago--No. 2 red, 75c. New York--No. 2 red, 80%e. Kansas City--No. 2 hard, 86%O. St. Louis--No. 2 red, 75%c. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 80c. Minneapolis--No. 1 northern. 79UC. Duluth--No. 1 hard. 795fcc. Corn. Chicago--No, 2, 47%) New York--No 2. 65»4c. St. Louis--No. 2, 46^4c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed. 4iV6o. Peoria--No. 3, 45c. Oats. Chicago--Standard, New York--No. 2, 37„-- Bt. Louis--No. 2, S41&C. . a&ifv. Kansas City--No. 2 white, SSK09l)k. Cattle, •, Chicago--J1.60@5.50. St. Louis--$2.70@S.20. B&j, ' • Kansas City--|2.50@5.*r Omaha--$2.25@5.40. Hog# ' Chicago--J2.25@».25. £0 St. Louis--*5.60@6.15. '^rr,v Kansas City--5.65@6.1C. Omaha-- $5.70<f?G.05. Sheep and Lamba. Chicago-- $2.50(07.75. St. Louis--J3.75@7.25. Kan sas Omaha- fK: uls--53.75^7.25. •a City--Jl75®6.fl|fe;^ 1--$3.S5@6.95. ^ . Boy Attempts Suicide. Chicago dispatch: Near the QBtb* stone in Jackson boulevard at Morgan street pedestrians found John Gleason, seventeen years old, who had taken, carbolic acid. He was unconscious.' Despondency over losing a small sum of money drove him to the act. Three Mayors In Five Weeks. Osborne, O., special: Through tne resignation of C. J. Butt, mayor of Osborne, this place has its third mayor within a period of five weeks. It has also had three presidents of the city council and five elections in that time. Warship Sinks at Sea. Boston, Mass., special: The British monitor Scorpion, formerly a confed­ erate craft, foundered while In tow eighty miies off George's shoal. Her crow of fifteen men was rescued. u Teacher le Killed In Porto RlflKr San Juan, P. R., special: Miss JT^an Ankrom, formerly of Waynesburg, Pa., \7' the only woman school supervisor in ',&'V Porto Rico, was thrown from a car- s riage in a runaway accident at Ponce. Her neck was broken. •j-; V Altar Italian Immigrants. "•< \ ^Guayaquil, Ecuador, cable: Enri- que Broggia has signed a contract with ] the Ecuadorean government to bring (% parties of Italian emigrants to settle the eastern part of the country. J mailto:J1.60@5.50 mailto:2.25@5.40 mailto:5.60@6.15 mailto:J3.75@7.25 mailto:3.S5@6.95