Show FATAL DAM the school book trust Planned by english en 0 capitalists DF mm ATH op OF LITILE LI 1 floods in ohio pelt rote hatlen rotten notten egged cherokee walling waiting on the border wrecks at sea THE DISASTER an En Fagi riner tnt late r details from of the CHICAGO feb 20 26 in conversation W with ith a nun nets reporter tonight to night regarding i anz t the h e A arizona r iz 0 n a d dam a m d disaster s a s t e r E B P priest ri e tat a an n e engineer n g ine e r of Phuc 1 li e nix n 1 x said sa id the ilia disaster wag was duto faulty con e truc tion engineer bates first in charge of the work proposed to hive the tile spaces between the walla walls filled with A ith concrete instead of loose rock as was done because of 0 the coat cost sufficient cement was not need used to make the wall and foundation secure priest examined the dam I 1 last ast june ad aid bays says it was leaking badly bad 1 y in the nit idle then he ile asserts that the slut state int inina n a made medeas as to the cost of the dam are ara erroneous and that aa as built it did not cist more than ariz feb 20 26 two tho opec tors arrived this evening from hn ne of the vie dam disaster and give additional interesting particulars they arrived at the dim friday morning the tile water was then rising at the rate of eight eighteen cen inches an hour with all the pen the superintendent in and a for force fornof cof inen men were engaged in blasting out a wit witto to w waterway a ter a despite the immense ini mense volume vo 1 ume that aba went through this opening the water continued to rise until 9 that night when it began pouring over the top of the tile dam 1 ahe I lie dent heeln that the dam must most go sent a messenger meB Benger to the 1 biwer er dam to notify them thern of the danger the messenger stopped at a saloon on I 1 the lie roa road sender became intoxicated and tailed to t 0 deliver he meae next morning mornin g another me fenger was sent b it was overtaken bv tha the flood and drowned ins just t before he lie reached the tile lowel c camp a in p the tito actors der describe crite the scene afir the bursting 0 of f the dam deal a as 18 indescribably grand within two hours the hyater ater nao vista entirely gone from where it had bad been beant ninety feet deep there were ere several narrow escapes and rescues and many heartrending r e scenes SCHOOL bool wl aa an eaglia vindicate sindicate Sindi cate snares an opt option ion on six large bubli thins hooes 7 F chronicle Chro ulde Service 1 NEW fob feb 20 26 an english syndicate representing is making an all effort to turm furm a school book trust in this country and baa has thus fr far been given ivan the option of the t lie purchase of six of the largest school book publishing bubli bing houses in america the tile firms which offer to dispose of their establishments are ivison blakeman co 1 I appleton t co A 8 barnes this city van antwerp bragg do co of 0 cincinnati with two other firms which are bei eved to le ile A it co of Phil adellia and Tainter bros co of this city firms are said to have P put ut I 1 the lie selling pr arico ico of their blants plants at from froin 20 to 30 per cent a above bove h air eat the present r rates ates 0 profit and itis it is expected that the price can be increased and ex engles really greatly decreased should one film control the entire market english capitalists have the tile option of purchasing the six american publishing I 1 ishin houses until may islay 1 ii it they do not gb buy u y there will ariev nevertheless erth eless b be a a school book trust as the american publishers havo have come to the cinalu eion sion that it english capital could rould pay so much more fir ir I r their business plants than their present value the american publishers could yelp the extra harvest themselves by uniting an agreement wai recently signed by representatives 0 al ivison blakeman it co vow I 1 aca appleton co A S ilaine 4 co 0 and arid van antwerp bragg co which binds made each of these firma to unite with the others in one immense I 1 ammense publishing house in this city this agreement is 18 to KO go into effect it the english syndicate does no buy up the six houses that hit fan ang a lulling scholar STANDARD Specia service servie 1 el NEW feb 26 chu fong tho the ghines 3 t forger yester yesterday lay testify testified e 1 I that ha lie had committed all the for ceries at the request of his former sunday school teacher a lawyer lawer named johnson Job who would woal write the names and lie ile would copy them witness testified stifled te that he bad gone N ith johnson to agency and had here there stated that the capital of 0 won sing son co was 20 OCO and anti that of iborg quong hong luong co was bet between een and in thia this way the firms got a good rating and chu fong and johnton were able to negotiate lillei bearing forged signatures katules or endorsed by these farmr chu identified two little memorandum books in a record of the tile names be signed for johnson was kept id in this way he could tell when the notes matured and take them up with others ot tiers tito new york herald says half a carload of China women are coming liere here from sn sin francisco high accused or Steal fors rum special is R chronicle Ser OTTAWA ont feb 26 sir frederick ji red leton has been served with a writ in a civil suit for the recovery of yorlli wort it of furs which w aich he and two ot of bis tits officers major samuel bedson and captain clayter reed looted from one bri miner ft it halt balf breed fur merchant during the northwest rebellion the elcus of the commander in chief of the expeditionary force for liis his action is that bremmer brommer was a rebel this biemler Biet timer denies I 1 iio to holds alno also that this would not be a good defence anyhow death of or toung 11 abraham lincoln LONDON fen feb 20 26 young abraham lincoln is dying lying the tile death agony began 1 egan at a t 1020 all tha the members of of tl the to is family tl lily are at the bedside LATER young Alit allain lincoln died tied at a hit lato liolia tonight to night floada tin in the ohio cincinnati feb 20 26 at 10 tonight to night tho the ohio river attana at title point is a juit juitt fifty two feet above low wa er and still ai ill rising at tho tile rate of two inched an hour the iky sky is overcast and threatening but the temperature la Is falling materially and anti the at signal gnat service here says colder weather is expected afore morning should it come it would chock check tha the rise quite materially II 11 a heavy rain should set et in in along long the valley before morning and and continue during the day davit it would canse a danger dangerous flood the indications ar are a that under tinder present conditions condition athe the rise will not be over fifty five or fifty six feet navigation is to suspended because tho the boats cannot pass under tinder the bridges and alao also because the landings are about covered with water the back wa er up ill creek baa inundated a few gardens but it comes too early in the season to damage them much boomers OB on the h cherokee berjer Bt rifer ARKANSAS CITY kas feb 26 the cherokee boomers continue to arrive i and the banks of walnut river river from this city to I 1 llie lie indian territory line are dated d bitted with tents tent shere w here the claici H make their temporary abode pending the opening of tie cherokee strip to settlement A number nuni bar of beads of families here A ere interviewed bervie ter ed tody today to dy day on the mo ives that induced their early arrival on the tile ground all disclaimed any ronreca t tion i 0 n with t h the b e s e c r t t 0 r g s n i z t w whose h 0 a e woi object b j e c it is I 1 to 0 0 occupy c c u p y t the h e 0 strip t r ip on bv y force of arms AB As soon as the presidents proclamation ejecting the cat tie goes into effect their early arrival and the numerous accessions to their nuner indicate that the rush into the strip will equal that into the oklahoma 0 ala country last spring slugger h lm gai ID in tilt imore YORK feh feb 26 the ll 11 baltimore stecial says since peter jacksons advent in that cit city the negro population hue gone wild will over him their demonstrations at his ilia exhibitions have hren so effusive that the white toughs became exasperated and a row occurred tins this afternoon A crowd of whites win tee and marks blackl wailing waiting outside the theatre for jackson to come out came into collision and a serious fight ensued when ben jackson appeared ilia toughs who were smeared prepared for the occasion started to bombard in ard linn him with sith rotten eggs his ilia colored admirers firmed formed a adall wall however and protected him the tile police finally dueled the disturbance and jackson got away 41 A 1 based at S sra pa NEW YORK fob feb 26 20 the steamship ema ems winch which arrived today to daylen day encountered fierce enlea and heavy peas on friday and saturday last saturday a wrecked sailing vessel vesi p based il aed a ed all of the masts were broken 0 off fr anil ond she was floundering around ai aj though S ehe he could not obey the rudder mew nine men were s seen upon the wreck reek despite the terrible seas captain junes jungs hd had a boat lowered and an officer ai at A five men entered enter ed it to at tempt a rescue tile boat immediately capsized und and one man waa was lout lost captain jungs thought it ma madness arim to make another attempt and anti proceeded edel 0 on it his voyage I 1 conyeau to t be sod so d PiTT feh feb 20 the entire property of the Ursuline convent va will ill be N offered at public pale rate in spite of the interference of the lope the sale is tile outcome of a quarrel between mother superior alphonse ami anti 11 ishop 1 1 thelan Phelan who deposed tot heral alion fe and plated placed another sister in charge the property is is valued at lOJ dom intuitions LONDON fob feb 26 the news pans parts correspondent says dom pedro was willing to d dismiss liis his imperial 0 lite i te i lie has therefore resolved to e endeavor ni to come coule to terms with the brazil brazilian tan go government renounce the tile crown and return to brazil and live as a private person re filid ri liD in ill ohio 0 0 feb IG 26 tile lower house of the tile legislature legie lature this evening cassed passed the bill districting redistricting re the state tor or congressional purposes which was agreed on by the democratic caucus 11 and nd introduced in that body I 1 groundless rumor of sam randalls death feb 26 A rumor was circulated late to that 8 sam ra It andall waa dead ion proved that there was no foundation for it |