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Show fine and express car from the balance of the train. The party then climbed into the cab and the engine OF and car were run up the track. The JETT WILL BE HUNG FOUND GUILTY MARSHAL OF MURDER COCKRILL. NEWS SUMMARY. CIO The street cars of Waco, Texas, nru a standstill, on account of a strike. at as soon the explosion followed. As is thought the postofnee cases men was It rushed safe dynamited the Verdict Came as a Surprise to Every- to the wrecked car. It is asserted will be tried during the month of one In Court Room, But Did Not they did not get a cent as a result. October. 8eem to Affect Jett. The train was loaded with passenThe report concerning another diswest and the explosion astrous landslide at Franks, Canada, gers for the After a trial lasting eight days the created a panic. proves to be erroneous. Jury in the case of Curtis Jett, HORRIBLE MURDER OR SUICIDE. Rebels and secret society men of oharged with the murder of Town Kwangtung province, China, are said Marshal Cockrill at Jackson, Ky., to be preparing for another uprising. Body of Young Woman July 21st, 1902, rendered a verdict of Mutilated The Sovereign grand lodge of Odd Found n Railroad Track. guilty and fixed the punishment at deThe badly mutilated body of Miss Fellows, in session at Baltimore, death. FranSan in next meet cided to year The Jury retired at 2:44 p. m. When Olive Rayl, 22 years old, was found cisco. the Jury entered the court room at Monday lying across the Lake Shore The Panama canal treaty is re6:10 p. m., after agreeing on a ver- railroad track at the entrance of Gornow President dict, quiet reigned for a few moments. don pary, Cleveland, O. It was at garded as dead, and next step In must the Roosevelt take Jett's mother had gone away earlier first supposed that Miss Rayl had matter. the under the impression that no verdict been killed by a train, but later the would be reached and the verdict of police stated that an investigation deGreat damage has been done to leath coming about two hours after veloped that the girl had been mur- the cotton crop of Texas by boll wev-el- , the boll worm, the sharpshooter the Jury was out was a surprise to dered and the body placed on the very one "n the court room. The track where a train had cut It In two. and dry weather. reading of the verdict did not affect Miss Rayl lived with her brother. Both the plague and cholera are Jett, but his brother was very much Dr. W. L. Rayl in Glenvllle, a suberb. raging at Pel Tang. China, 2,000 distressed. She was handsome and highly re- deaths having occurred during the This has been the second trial of spected. Thus far the case is en- past two months. Curtis Jett on the charge of murder. shrouded in mystery. Captain N. J. Teel, a prominent citIn his first trial for the murder of J. of Los Angeles, Cal., suicided by izen CONGRESS OF FARMERS. B. Marcum at Jackson, Ky., Jett and Ill shooting himself in the head. Thomas White were sentenced to life was the cause. health Annual Session Being Twenty-thirImprisonment. Catherine C. Hosklns, one of the Held at Niagara Falls. The Jurors agreed among themsurvivors of the Massachusetts last selves not to divulge the proceedings The Farmers' National congress asIn the Jury room. One Juror, however, sembled at Niagara Falls, N. Y., Mon- Indians, is dead at Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 104 years. stated that for four ballots eleven day, in twenty-thirannual session, All the strikers in the Rock Island Jurors voted for the death penalty being called to order by President ad one for a life sentence. All Flanders of Albany. Governor Odell shops at Goodland, Kans., have reto turned the agreed on the fifth ballot company work, having delivered an address of welcome. an in increase wages. granted 300 delegates, representing About BOLD TRAIN ROBBERY Dean Tompkins, the defaulting NEAR ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI. thirty-eigh- t 6tates, were present. Recitreasurer at San Fernando, I. I., conprocity treaties, good roads, labor Four Masked Men Hold Up Express questions and the ownership of pub- victed recently for forgery, has been Train, Wrecking Safe With Dynalic utilities will be among the subjects sentenced to seventeen years' Imprisd d mite. Four masked men at 10 o'clock Monday night held up Burlington & Missouri River train No. 41, five miles north of St. Joseph, Mo. The Bafe In the express car was dynamited and the car wrecked. Officials of the road say that the safe contained but little money. Other reports say that it contained form $5,000 to $10,000 in money. Everything In the safe was taken and the men escaped in the darkness with liorsos. A posso was organized and Is in pursuit of the bandits. Not 'a shot was fired. single " " Tne train was stopped by means of a red light. The engine and express car were uncoupled from the balance of the train and backed half a mile further on, where the safe was dynamited. The train was In charge of Conductor Harvey, who hurried to the city and gave the alarm. The officers lost no time In organizing and It was necessary making a start. for the entire train to be brought back to the city and a new train made up, which left at 1 o'clock. According to meager reports received from the scene of the hold-uat midnight, the instant the train was stopped two of the robbers climbed Into the engine and. with drawn weapons, compelled the engineer and fireman to obey orders. One of the men uncoupled the en- - onment. George Pensacola has admitted the New Denver Charter Goes Down to murder of Fred Potter at Sulsun, Cal. Defeat. He says he stabbed Potter and threw The charter for the city and county the body in Sulsun bay, but claims he of Denver, Colo., which was framed acted in by the recent convention under the Joseph Wolf, a fireman, and throe constitutional amendment creating laborers were killed and two others the new municipality, was submitted at Marion, Ind., ia a to a vote of the electors Monday. A fatally injured collision between an Interurban car very heavy vote was polled and re- and a construction train. turns received Monday indicate that The New VorK Testimonial comthe charter has been defeated by haB about $10,000 raised mittee by more than 2,000 votes. There are will which subscription, popular they many charges of fraud in the regis- use for the purchase of a suitable tration, a grand Jury having recently for Sir Thomas Upton. present been called for the purpose of invessoldiers recently took fifty Turkish tigating them. The result of the elec- women from the burned village of tion will be contested. Klissurti and all attempts to recover them have been unavailing, the solLose Their Lives by Foul Air. A special from Buena Vista, Colo., diers refusing to obey their officers. In a freight wreck at Norwich. O., says: Colonel 13. N. Morley, manager of the Bucna Vista smelter and of two oil tanks collided and exploded. the Mary Murphy mine at Romley, Four houses at the side of the track caugbt fire and were destroyed, the and Adolph Abrahamson, superintendent of the mine, were killed by foul occupants barely escaping with their air when making an Inspection of the lives. The sultan of Morocco has issued a mine workings Monday night It is in had mine the decree, recently foreshadowed, ordersupposed that the air The vitiated been ing all foreigners, except consuls, to by powder gas. leave Fez and proceed to Tangier, and is not at night operated property "because be is engaged In a camno men in mine were the other there and when Manager Morley Superin- paign." tendent Abrahamson were making About 400 messenger boys, emtheir tour of inspection which result- ployed by the Illinois District Tele. . ed fatally. graph company In Chicago, struck last week as a protest against the emWE WONDER WHAT WILL COME TO U8 NEXT. ployment of colored boys and to secure an increase in wages. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept, 25th number 180, against 170 last week, 172 in the like week of 1W2 and 170 in In Canada, failures for the 1901. week number 18, as compared with 19 last week and Id in this week a year ago. A second son was bom last week to General and Mrs. Funrton. The- second son Is to be called Frederick, Jr. The older son was named for General MacArthur of Philippine fame. General Fun8ton Is at present In the west-boun- discussed. d self-defens- p -- V . ESS "What in the world!" gasped Mrs. Thompklns. The Thompklns were about to start on the annual Sunday school picnic given by their church. Mrs. Thompklns had finished putting dainty little sandwiches Into a large hamper basket and was tucking the cloth that covered them nicely down when Mr. Thompklns entered. He had on a winter suit of clothes and was carrying a half dozen life preservers on one arm. Behind him came a boy carrying rain coats, blankets, a medicine chest, a half dozen umbrellas and numerous mysterious looking packages. "Mrs. Thompklns," said the head of the house, Impressively, "this is one picnic at which there will be some one who had brains enough to prepare properly for emergencies. "I propose to demonstrate how one can go to a picnic and enjoy oneself and make others have a good time. It invariably rains at a picnic. Yet, how many think to provide themselves with umbrellas and rain coats? It always turns cold at a picnic; yet people go out wearing the thinnest clothes they happen to have. Children go boat riding and fall Into the water and are drowned because no one had sense enough to put life prek servers on them. Some one is because they had no parasol over their heads, and there Is no blanket for them to lie down on in the shade as there should be. Some one takes poison, but there Is no one handy with an emetic. Some one Is accidentally shot, and there Is no one standing by ready to remove the bullet. I have taken the precaution to guard against unpleasant incidents occurring at this picnic. As superintendent of the Sunday school I shall see the children are safeguarded against accident. We will proceed." Arrived at the picnic grounds Mr. Thompklns called all the children around him and informed them that no one was to go boat riding without putting on a life preserver and carrying an umbrella, so there would be no danger of their either being or drowned. There was a wailing protest, but Mr. Thompklns stood firm, and so the children put on the life preservers and took their umbrellas. The boys who had to row the boats pointed out that they could not row and hold umbrellas over their heads at the same time, and so another boy was appointed to sit behind the one who rowed and hold the umbrella. The boats had no sooner got out into the stream than there was a collision between two of them. The oarsmen could not see the other boats because of the umbrellas held over their heads and the colliding boats promptly keeled over, and with many whoops and howls the occupants went into the water. Mr. "Hurrah, hurrah!" shouted Thompklns, Jumping up and down. "Ah, my wonderful foresight! They've all got life preservers on. Get out the medicine chest at once." Mr. Thompklns was throwing off his coat and shoo, and as he did so shouted: "I will rescue them. The preservers will hold them tip until I reach them and bring them safe to shore." to-da- Then he dived madly Into the river. Ills head and shoulders went out of sight, but his feet remained above water, kicking violently. One of the hack drivers and Mrs. Thompklns grabbed the heels and after a violent tug suc- ceeded in pulling Mr. Thompklns back on Bhore. With a piece of wood they dug mud out of his eyes and ears and then excavated a place for his mouth so that he could talk. "Save the children," gasped Mr. Thompklns. "I dived into the mud." "Why, the children are splashing water on each other and having a pleasant time," said Mrs. Thompklns. "The water is only about two feet deep. I don't think you need mind rescuing them." Mr. Thompklns looked utterly crushed and crawled down to the river and washed the mud off his face and then retired to his medicine chest, where he sat waiting for the terrible accident that he knew was sure to ' come. Suddenly there was a sharp report, and a small girl appeared, crying violently. Mr. Thompklns with a bound threw open the medicine chest and grabbed out an array of shining knives, court plaster, and bandages. He threw a book at Mrs. Thompklns and ordered her to find the chapter on "What To Do In Case of Gunshot Wounds." "Don't cry, little girl," commanded Mr. Thompklns. "Keep perfect-lcool. We will take the bullet right ouL Now, where are you wounded?" "I hain't wounded." said the small girl. "Tommy Hawkins Is shooting off firecrackers an he won't let me shoot any." Mr. Thompklns looked as though he thought the small child had done him a personal Injury. He sat down and Bulked while he waited for the day to turn cold or for a heavy rain to commence falling or somebody to get killed or drowned. He was terribly downcast, but on the way home, when he was expecting Mrs. Thompklns to make some sly dig at him for carrying a lot of useless traps to a picnic, he felt immensely relieved and delighted when she said: "And I am so glad you took all the things you did to the picnic." "Ah," said Mr. Thompklns, sitting up and smiling. "I was afraid you wouldn't think much of my prudence and forethought." Mm. "O, indeed. I do," replied Thompklns. "You see, yben you are and sit prepared for emergencies around looking for accidents to happen, why, nothing ever happens. Mrs. Bright says she wants you to be sure to come to their picnic next week and to imagine all sorts of dreadful things, and Mrs. Jones wants you to come to their picnic, and. in fact, I think you'll be in great demand. The children all think you are a splendid mascot and, they want to tie pink ribbons in your beard like they did with the goat they had for a mascot last year. They say you are a much better mascot than the goat." Mr. Thompklns climbed up oa the seat and rode the rest of the way home with the driver. He has quit going to picnics. Chicago Tribune. y sun-struc- sun-stru- y ck SUMMERING. - 3 north. When a car of lumber which had been shipped from MirhUan was opened at Brownsville. Pa , the dead bodies of two men were found. It Is thought they crawled Into the car to steal a tide, were locked In and were sfarveu to .eath, Dr. Charles Gardner, one of the most prominent surgeons In the state of Kansas, died of t failure at Emporia while performing an operation. The patient suffered a severe hemorrhage before another physician coiiM be summoned. A. H. Brownlee, aged CO years, shot and killed his wife, Henrietta, ag?d 52 years, at Youngstown. O., Saturday night, and then committed sulfide, jr. 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