Show GOLD FOUND IN TRUCKEE RIVER BED reno nevada august 1 gold was found in paying quantities in he bed of truckee river today and all afternoon hundreds of gold seekers have been at work in the river the scene of the find Is on the site of the proposed new bridge across the stream located practically in the heart of the city W W chesterfield a local capitalist and lee J davis of the farmers and merchants bank made the find panning out quite a quantify of gold before the news spread and the rush started there is talk of placer claims in the streams heretofore it has not been thought the river bed contained gold and discovery may lead to further prospecting TORTURE IS METED OUT BY CHICAGO SLUGGERS claim agent of chicago express company Is held captive three weeks starved and driven insane chicago august 1 apparent evidence that labor sluggers maintain in chicago a place where systematic torture is meted out to those who in cur the displeasure of the sluggers has just coma to light in the strange case of william N wilder wilder was formerly an army officer and at the time of the recent teamsters strike was claim agent for a chicago package express company he disappeared july ath was held captive for three weeks andaas then set at kb arty half starved and so dazed that he has not been able to give a coherent account ot his captivity he was found by a friend wandering aimlessly about near the union depot at canal and adams sp and was taken to his home at downers grove physicians pronounced his physical and mental condition such that he may not recover much of the time he raves wildly and as though still under torture begs for mercy marks all over his body show that be had been bound with heavy cords over a hundred dollars he is known to have bad on his person it gone wilder Is an englishman who saw service in to american army in cuba and the philippine and held a commission ae a second lieutenant in the regular army cje is a bold outspoken fellow of 37 who gloried in his physical ability to take care of himself and defied pickets or sluggers to intimidate him SCARCITY OF TEACHERS new york aug 1 the board of examiners of aha department of education has granted applicants licenses to tech in tha public ele baitary of abla city of this number thirty arc men last year 45 out of candidates were men so many vacancies exist in the teaching staff that probably 60 per cent of the licensed persons will be appointed to regular positions this fall |