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Show f5he INDEPENDENT. D. C. JOHNSON, Fabltehw. SPRlNdVILLE. . . . UTAH NEWS SUMMARY. A heavy storm has caused considerable consider-able damage to crops in lower New Jersey. An automobile mail service between San Juan aDd Ponce, P. E., was begun last week. In Clinton, N, C, fire destroyed forty-two stores and residences, causing caus-ing a loss of f 100,000. At Union, Ark., Harvey Seaton threw a stick of dynamite under Pink Gibson blowing him to pieces. A conspiracy against the life of the president of Uruguay, Dr. Cuestas, has been discovered in Buenos Ayres. Miss Jennie Harrison 1 was gored to death by a bull in a pasture at Ode-mah, Ode-mah, in Oreer county, Oklahoma. The town of Shipshewana, In the northwest corner of La Grande county t Ind., was nearly wiped out by fire. Three persons were killed and more than 100 injured in the celebration of this year's Fourth of July in Chicago. The treaty of trade, commerce and amity between the United States and Spain was signed in Madrid on the 3rd. Americans in Havana and elsewhere in the islands of Cuba celebrated the Fourth with a great show of patriotism. patriot-ism. At Eskridge, Kan., E. J. Bowden was drowned In a pond. He was in the water bathing and was overcome by cramps. News from Cauca, Colombia, is to the effect that the revolutionists there have been reduced to a few guerrilla bands of no importance. At Benton Harbor, Mich., Robert Wilson of Detriot, and Ward Eiser, aged 17, of South Bend, Ind., were drowned while bathing. Two hundred and eighty-two accidents acci-dents due to the cause of explosives in celebrating Independence day were reported re-ported at New York City. It is quite probable that the signal corps of the army will use a system of wireless telegraphy in the coming joint army and naval maneuvers. H. L. Hurlbut, a Boston hotel man, committed suicide in Seattle by taking a heavy dose of morphine. The motive for the suicide is not known. The imperial government has notified the acting premier of Cape Colony that the colonial parliament should be assembled as-sembled as speedily as possible. A train on the East India railroad, near Kampureha, was blown down an embankment by a cyclone. Thirteen persons were killed and fifteen were injured. The war department stopped the boxing contests at Lawton, Oklahoma, scheduled for last week, by forbidding any soldier to engage in a fight with a prize offered. High windstorms In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Momence, 111., blew down several sev-eral barns and railroad buildings and injured twelve persons. None are reported re-ported fatally hurt. At Abiquiu, Bio Arriba county, N. M., the Chalma river has dried up for the second time in 100 years. Water in other streams in that section is also lower than ever before. Secret political agents are fomenting peasant uprisings in the Caucausuh, similar to the recent outbreaks against landowners in the provinces of Kharkov Khar-kov and Poltava, Russia. Members of the Royal Arcanum in Brooklyn, to the number of 2,200, are to be enlisted as detectives to discover the burglar who shot Albert C. Latimer, Lati-mer, an officer of the order. Near Metropolis, 111., A. B. Duscb shot and killed Will Woods during a quarrel. Woods accused Dusch of having insulted his sweetheart. Both belong to prominent families. Emit and Edgar Lin berg, aged 13 and 11 years, respectively, were drowned at Bock Island, 111. The boys were on a raft which capsized in a ravine which had been filled by recent rains. . Organized iron molders of New York City and vicinity announce that they gained a peaceful victory, 2,200 of their number having been granted the nine-hour nine-hour day through arbitration proceedings proceed-ings between representatives of the union. While protecting his sweetheart, Anne Wilson, from the insult of two men who, she declared, are unknown to her, Thomas Kane of Chicago was fatally stabbed. The affair occurred near Ohio street and was witnessed by a number of persons. The month just ended was the coldest cold-est June in Kansas City since the establishment of the weather office, June of 1889 lcsing the record. There has been much cool, cloudy weather, but the rainfall has been .61 of an Mnch below normal. Gen. Cronje, the Boer commander, who with his army was capture by Lord Roberts at Paardeburg, Orange Free State, in February, 1900, has taken the oath of allegiance to King Edward. Many of the remaining prisoners are following his example. In San Jose, Costa Rica, the Fourth of July reception held in the American legation by Minister William L. Merry was attended by President Esquival and his cabinet, the members of the consular and diplomatic corps and many prominent citizens of San Jose. With the satisfactory progress of the king, a large number of the unofficial un-official coronation functions are being carried dut with the greatest brilliancy bril-liancy in London. The Indian and colonial guests of the country are being be-ing feted and entertained on all sides. A great electrio storm which lasted three hours began at 2 a. m. Thursday in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Part of the time there were about forty flashes of lightning to the second, which made the very dark night appear as moonlight moon-light and kept everybody awake from ' fear. The State Board of Medical Examiners Exam-iners of Washington has decided that in the future doctors coming to that state must wait until they have taken the examination before beginning practice. One day's violation of this rule will be sufficient to justify prosecution. TRACY STILL AT LARGE. Murderous Outlaw Eludes Officer and Ha Vanished Completely. Since Tracy, the escaped convict, left the Johnson home Saturday at Port Madison absolutely no real clue has been discovered as to his whereabouts. Forty Indians are watching for the murderer in Kitsap couDty. The coast of the lower sound is being patrolled. Gnards are lying in ambush on the approaches to Bothel. The authorities are waiting for the next appearance of the convict. They can make no movement move-ment until he again shows himself. For the time being Tracy has vanished as completely as if swallowed by the earth. At the extreme head of Miller's bay the Whitehall boat which carried Tracy and Anderson away from Port Madison Saturday night has been found. In it was a pair of oars. Everything Every-thing else had been carried away. The boat had been pulled in from the beach and stowed away in a clump of bushes and Tracy evidently felt secure in the belief that it would not be found for several days at least. This very fact may lead to developments somewhat earlier than aoyone had hoped for. FIGHTING IN VENEZUELA. President Sends Ills Forces Against Revolutionists Revo-lutionists and Loses Battle. Three thousand Venezuelan government govern-ment troops under General Castro, the president's brother, were completely routed July 3rd between Barcelona and Agua, by troops of the revolutionary revolution-ary army under the command of General Gen-eral Rolando. The government forces lost all their ammunition and equipment, and many of the soldiers deserted to the revolutionists revolu-tionists during the engagement. After the battle the revolutionary army moved on Barcelona and surrounded that city. The inhabitants were panic stricken, the shops were closed and the streets were barricaded. President Castro of Venesuela left Caracas Sunday, not for Valencia, as had previously been announced, but for Laguyara, taking with him his private guard of 500 veteran soldiers and General Ferrer as chief of staff. The president reached Laguyara at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and left there at midnight on the steamer Ossum, his destination being Barcelona, about 150 miles east of Laguyara. WILL BE CROWNED IN AUGUST. If King- Edward's Health Will Permit Coronation Will Occur Aug is t 11. King Edward will be crowned be" tween August 11 and 15. His recovery has been so rapid and satisfactory that the aboye decision was arrived at Monday Mon-day last. No official announcement of the fact has yet been made. The pageant through the streets and the ceremony at Westminister abbey will be much curtailed from the original plan. Their majesties will drive from Buckingham palace to the abbey through the Mall, the Whitehall and thence to the abbey, the same route as taken at the opening of parliament. Kitchener Praises Boers. Lord Kitchener's valedictory to the troops, dated June 25, after extolling the conduct of the British soldiers ia the face of great hardships and difficulties, diffi-culties, and against dangerous and elusive antagonists, commends the kindly and humane spirit displayed in all ranks, and concludes as follows: "This message would be incomplete were no reference made to the soldierly qualities displayed throughout the campaign by our quondam enemies and the admirable spirit displayed in carrying carry-ing out the surrender. Many of those who contended until the end have expressed ex-pressed the hope that they may have in the future an opportunity to serve side by side with his majesty's forces." Senator Beverldge Hectares He Would Not Accept Vice-Presidency. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who is in Indianapolis, was on Monday last asked about a Washington dispatch printed in a Chicago paper stating that the senator was being urged as a candidate can-didate for vice president in 1904. He Baid: 'I will under no circumstances become be-come a candidate for vice president, and at no time have I been considering the matter. I am content with my work in the senate." Murderer Hangs Himself by Rope Made From His Undergarments. Theodore Oelfuer, who on Sunday murdered his wife and wounded his baby and a 17-year-old stepdaughter, committed suicide in his cell at the police po-lice station, Chicago, Monday night, with a rope made from his undergarments. undergar-ments. Earlier in the evening the prisoner expressed sorrow over his crime, and about midnight he was apparently ap-parently dozing. Oelfuer's wounded baby was still alive at last reports, but probably will not recover. Helena Smelter Strike Is Off. The trouble at East Helena between employees of the American Smelting and Refining company and the corporation corpo-ration has been adjusted and the men will go back to work at once. The union is not recognized, but the company com-pany agrees to give preference to old men and to discriminate against none of them. The men on their part agree to work one year from May 1, 1902, at the old scale. The strike has been formally declared off. About 600 men are affected. Washington's Agricultural Industries. There was, on June 1, 1900, 33,202 farms in Washington state, valued at $115,409,710. The farm implements and livestock held on the farms bring the total value of farm property up to $144,040,047. For the previous year the farm products of the state were valued at 834,827,495, of which $23,532,- 150 represent the value of crops grown, and the remainder the value of livestock live-stock disposed of. The ; farm lands cover 8,499,297 acres, or 20 per cent of the total area of the state. Idaho Prospector's Big Find. A special from Weiser says that J. E. Haggerty has just returned from the Thunder Mountain district bringing a story of a sensational gold discovery made by him. Harly" backs up his tale with about 200 pounds of the rich est rock ever seen in this part of the country. One sample weighed over 100 pounds and was studded with bits of the precious metal. All the smaller pieces of rock fairly glistened with gold. Haggerty has a good reputation and his story has created much excitement. AGUINALDO IS VERY TIMID. FEARFUL THAT LUNA'S FRIENDS MAY AVENGE HIS MURDER. Asks the Representatives of the Government Govern-ment to Give 111m Protection Against the Friends of the Man He Caased to be Mnrdered. As a result of the proclamation of amnesty July 4, the guard of American soldiers has -. been withdrawn from duty at the house where Aguinaldo lives, and Lieutenant Johnson, his custodian, brought the Filipino to see General Chaffee. It was the first meeting between the American general and the leader of the Filipino revolution. revolu-tion. Lieutenant William E. McKin-lay McKin-lay of the Ninth cavalry acted as interpreter. in-terpreter. Aguinaldo was told that he was free to go anywhere he pleased, and General Gen-eral Chaffee asked him if he had any complaint to make of American discourtesy dis-courtesy or harshness. Aguinaldo replied re-plied that he bad no such complaint to make. He told General Chaffee that he was going to visit friends at his home in Cavite Viejo, in Cavite province, pro-vince, and inquired what protection the American authorities would afford him. lie seemed to be afraid to venture ven-ture out. General Chaffee replied that Aguinaldo Aguin-aldo would get the same protection as any other citizen. " - The former Filipino leader then asked General Chaffee to prevent the courts from requiring him to testify in civil suits. General Chaffee replied that he had no authority to grant this request, and advised Aguinaldo to make a social call on Acting Civil Governor Gov-ernor Wright. This Aguinaldo said he would do, but that he would go at night, as he was timid about appearing appear-ing on the streets in daylight. The release of the former Filipino leader has renewed speculation as to possible vengeance upon him by friends of Luna and his other enemies. Luna was a Filipino leader whom Aguinaldo caused to be killed in 1899. FATE OF AN DREE PARTY. Explorer and His Companions Reported to Have Been Killed by Esquimaux. Rev. Dr. Ferlies has arrived at Winnipeg, Win-nipeg, Man., from York Factory, Northwest British Territory, and brings authentic information of the fate of Explorer Andree aud his companions. com-panions. Two years ago, 1,800 miles north of York, a party of Esquimaux, under the leadership of Old Huskie, saw the Andree An-dree balloon alight on a plain of snow in that vicinity, which is about two miles north of lort Churchill. Three men emerged from the balloon, and some of Old Iluskie's people approached them out of curiosity. As they did so one of Andree's companions fired off a gun. This is a signal to uncivilized natives for battle. It was regarded as a challenge, and almost instantly the natives fell upon the three explorers and massacred them. Old Huskie himself gave this information infor-mation to Ralph Alstine, agent of the Hudson Bay company, and the story, after being investigated by Dr. Ferlies, was told by him. He says that there is little room for doubt, as frequent reports re-ports have since come of the strange implements which the north natives have in their possession, the telescope being particularly described. The Hudson Bay company has recently re-cently offered a reward for the recovery recov-ery of any portion of the outfit belonging belong-ing to Andree, and though natives have gone on the search for them, they have never returned, believing, as Rev. Dr. Ferlies says, that they will , in some wly be punished, for they now understand under-stand that it was not an attack upon them but an accident by which the gun was discharged that precipitated the massacre. DEAD IN A BATH TUB. Great Northern Conductor and His Wife Commit Suicide. Charles J. McCormick, a well known Great Northern conductor, and his wife were found dead in a bath tub by their son at their home in Grand Forks, N. D. The couple were in excellent spirits up to a few hours before their death, and various theories are advanced ad-vanced as to the cause of the tragedy. Physicians - have found evidence of poisoning, and a general belief is that the couple committed suicide. . , . Chicago Man Kills His Sleeping Wife and Baby Son. Taking his revenge for a quarrel of long standing, Theodore Oeufenr, a laborer of Chicago, shot and killed his wife as she lay asleep in bed. He then shot his baby son and his step-dangh-ter, Lizzie Stramm, who were sleeping with his wife, wounding the former probably fatally, and putting a bullet in the latter's shoulder. Oeufeur also fired at his two step-sons, but missed them. He then hid in an attic until the police arrested him. l Tornado Strikes Wisconsin. Milwaukee was visited Sunday night by a fierce wind and rainstorm' that wrought muefr minor damage. The storm is reported as severe in the northern part of the state, but wires are down. A tornado passed just north of Phillips Phil-lips Saturday night, wrecking a portion por-tion of the Mammoth tannery of the United States Leather company. At Janesville Sunday night during a storm St. Patrick's Catholic church was struck by lightning and destroyed. Drove Dirk into His J Heart With a Hammer. Ham-mer. J. W. Fassett, of Mount Sterling Ky., attempted suicide, and is not expected ex-pected to live. He took three grains of morphine, and, procuring a dirk and a hammer, went to an orchard on his place, and, placing the knife againstthis breast, drove it into his body with a hammer. When he was found he gave as a reason for his attempted at-tempted suicide that he was growing old, and his children needed his money, so he thought it best to put himself out of the way. ROCK ISLAND HOLD-UP. Part of Plunder Taken From Express Safe Is Secured. Watches, knives, spoons and jewelers' jewel-ers' supplies, part of the plunder secured se-cured by the bandits who robbed the express safe in the Rock Island train at Dupont, Thursday night, have been found and the indications are that the robbers are near Chicago. A sack containing con-taining the plunder was discovered on the farm of Henry Scbultz. four miW porta of Tinley park. SHORT IN THEIR ACCOUNTS. Aaslstant Cashier and Faying Teller of Salt Lake Bank tinder Arrest. Harry T. Duke, the assistant cashie of the Wells-Fargo & Co. bank, Salt Lake Citv. and Alexander A. Robert son, the paying1 teller, were arrestee? Wednesday afternoon, on the charge' of embezzling 60,000 from the bank."" The story of the alleged peculations' of Duke and Robertson, as revealed by the investigations of Special Detective J. N. Thacker, shows a remarkable system of defalcation, extending over a period of ten years. During this time, Mr. Thacker says, no less than $90,000 was taken from the funds of. the bank and the evidences so carefully concealed that no one was suspected until a few weeks ago. Both of the men are well known and very popular in the capital city. Mr. Robertson is a member of the city council and is serving his third time in that body. On Saturday night, June 28, Robertson disappeared from bis usual haunts, and his friends fearedJ he had suicided. A search was made for him, blood hounds being placed on his track, but he was not discovered until Sunday, when he confessed he was short in his accounts and that he had contemplated suicide, but finally decided to face trial. , , The disclosure of the shortage and! the arrest of the two men has createtnj a profound sensation. RIOTS IN RUSSIA. Troops Called Unt and Many Rioters Killed and Wounded. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says there have been labor riots for the past" few days at Rostov-on-Don, in the province of Ejatrinsoly, southern Russia. Rus-sia. There have been numerous collisions col-lisions between the troops and the rioters. rio-ters. The troops fired and many of the rioters were killed or wounded The outbreak at Rostov-on-Don, somewhat resembles the peasant riots in the central ' provinces of Russia in. the early spring. The leaders of the last riots were strangers in the district. They were dressed in fantastic uniforms uni-forms and adorned with decorations." They proclaimed themselves against the Czar, and preached the destruction of all machinery which reduced the-number the-number of laborers and. brought the masses to starvation. A fanatical mob," inflamed with th?s idea, declared war on the factories in the name of the Czar and had ajready wrecked many manufacturing establishments by the time the troops were called out. FIFTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. Twenty-Nine Others Wuonded In a Wreck on Railroad Near Gloversville, New , York. On the electric road near Gloversville, Glovers-ville, N. Y., there was a collision between be-tween two cars crowded with passengers, passen-gers, by which fifteen persons wer& killed and twenty-nine injured. For a distance of four miles north of Gloversville Glovers-ville the Mountain Lake railwayman electric road, connects Gloversville with a popular place of resort or picnic ground. As it was the Fourth of July, the place was crowded with pleasure seekers. , ,s At 10:30 p m., about two and a half miles north of Gloversville, there was a collision between two cars, one bound north and one bound south. They came together head-on with terrific velocity. As a result the fifteen per' sons were killed outright and twenty-nine twenty-nine Jnjured, the latter more or less seriously. Killed Filipino to Satisfy a Desire. With a desire to ease his conscience of the crime of a cold-blooded murder, William F. McAllister, a Philippine veteran, has surrendered himself to the chief of police of San Jose, Cal. McAllister, Mc-Allister, who is 30 years old, comes from Wheatland, Ills. He enlisted in the army during the Spanish-American Spanish-American war and was sent to the Philippines in company- K. Thirtieth United States infantry. The man claims to have seen much hard service, and finally became hardened hard-ened and possessed of an insane desire to kill a : Filipino single-handed. In 1900, McAllister says, he stole away from camp aud met three - inoffensive Filipinos. He raised his gun to his shoulder and shot one of them dead. ANARCHISTS WOUND SENTINEL' -i - . "i" " ' - - Attempt to Blow Up Powder Magazine at Brest." 'J " Two men attempted to enter the magazine lying just outside the fort at Brest and wounded the sentinel with a revolver. The latter fired upon them with his rifle, raising an alarm and his assailants escaped. A similar attempt was made Saturday evening and it is believed an anarchist intended to blow up the magazine, which contained powder sufficient for five million cartridges. cart-ridges. . y . ' Run Down by an Electrio Car. Three brothers,, Mike,, Simon and Luke Shaeokvie, were caught on the trestle of the Mahoning Valley electric line, near St. Ruths, Ohio, and in an endeavor to escape injury lay down on the edge of the rails. Mike had his leg and arm torn off, hip fractured and oose broken, and is in a critical condition. condi-tion. Luke was struck by the car and Jied , from a fractured skull. Simon was knocked off into a gulley, thirty feet below, and escaped with slight injuries. in-juries. History Must do Justice to Schley. The bill of Representative Smith penalizing the use of any history which does not do full and fair justice to Admiral Ad-miral Schley has passed the senate of Louisiana and was immediately signed by the governor. The bill provides that before any history of the Spanish war shall be used in any of the public schools, it shall have been examined and the fact ascertained that the part played by Admiral Schley off Santiago is treated justly, and that he is given credit for the victory over Cervera. Three Ceiebrotors Killed. - ' Three persons were killed and several sev-eral others wounded in Chicago while making preparations for celebrating the Fourth, and another had his hand shattered by a giant cracker." They were: Robert Kuhn, 13 years old, killed by accidental discharge of revolver; revol-ver; Frank Maher, teamster, aged 23 years, killed by accidental discharge of revolver, Alexander McColler, 70 years old, killed by falling from roof of building while arranging decorations. BATTLE WITH ..OUTLAW. CONVICT TRACY KILLS FOUR OFFICERS WHO ATTEMPT HIS CAPTURE. I- Desperado Escapes Unharmed, Although HI Capture la Only a QtiesUc -of Time Hundreds Join In the Chase. ' Thursday was a red letter day in the erratic carreer of Convict Tracy. lie killed , Policeman E. E. Breez and wounded fatally Neil Rawley in the cityt limits of Seattle, after having murdered Deputy Sheriff Charles Raymond Ray-mond of Snohomish county, and probably prob-ably fatally wounded Deputy Sheriff John Williams of King county, early in the day. In his hopeless flight for safe'ty Tracy covered probably sixty miles during the day. lie was first encountered by a Seattle posse near Bothell at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Evidently the convict caught sight of his pursuers before they did him. He had taken a commanding position in a clump of high firs, and opened fire before be-fore he was discovered. lie fired five shots in all. Raymond was instantly killed by one of the Winchester rifle balls. Another struck the raised rifle held by Williams, splitting St in four parts, and entering the deputy sheriff's breast. He will live, it is believed. -Governor McBride of Washington, who is in Seattle with Adjutant Gener- lal Drain of the state national guard is taking- tue keenest interest in tne chase. He has announced a reward of 62,500, This, with others offered by relatives of victims of Tracy's rifle, brings the total rewards offered to 85,600. The governor, further than offering the reward, has ordered General Gen-eral Drain to jsend two cbmpanies of the state militia to aid the posses, the members of which are scouring all the northern suburban territory of Seattle. On roads ambushed and patrolled by guards armed with new Winchester rifles, convict Tracy has escaped. His whereabouts in a district of twenty miles radius is absolutely unknown. Sheriff Cudihee's 'office has been deluged with reports of his appearances. ap-pearances. Each was traced down to its source by posses. All were groundless. ground-less. Neil Rawley, shot by Tracy when the convict killed Polieceman Breez at Fremont, is dead. Deputy Sheriff Williams Wil-liams is not yet dead and has a good chance to live. To this time, Tracy has killed three men since his first appearance near Seattle Tuesday morning. All three were well known and popular. This has incited hundreds to join the hun ters. One hardware store, named to supply arms for the posses, has given out its complete stock in - this line. Specials are leaving on the railway leading into the adjacent country ev ery lew nours witu reiniorcemenis. Parties are dropped oil all along the route between Seattle and Bothell. The theory entertained by the sheriff's sher-iff's office at Seattle is that Tracy is back-tracking, hoping to make his way to the north. Tracy, morever, it is believed, is convinced con-vinced that with his record of killing, he will have the country pretty well all to himself on his way to the north. A special from Botliwell, Wash., says: Sheriff Cudihee is. here with thirty men lying in wait for Tracy, the escaped murderer. He declares that no one really knows where the convict is, but states that it is highly probable he doubled on his tracks and came to Bothell. Cudihee is guarding the roads and tracks leading to Kirk-land. Kirk-land. He has cut all chance of escape from the country between Woodinville 'and Ravenna. Four men, in charge of Detective Philbrick of Seattle, are lying in ambush am-bush east of Woodinville. They command com-mand the approaches to Kirkland. Ai Rogers, constable of Bothell, and three men are at Swamp creek bridge. John Fish of French & Fish is at the firm's logging camp, one mile west of Ken-more, Ken-more, with a force of three men. L. A. Gear, a farmer, is guarding a point on the railroad track a mile and a half west of Bothell. ' Tornado In Wisconsin. ''- A stretch of country half a mile wide and extending from the town of Raymond to Husher, Wis., a distance of ten miles, was swept by a tornado late Wednesday afternoon. One man was killed and several injured; forty houses and hundreds of trees were blown down, . hundreds of acres of grain ruined and other damage done, the property loss amounting to many thousands of dollars. The only fatality fatal-ity reported is at the home of G, H. Thyson of Caledonia. ... Work of the Secret Service. The annual report of Chief Wilkie of the secret service division, shows that during the year there were arrested 573 persons charged with various offenses of-fenses against ' the Federal statutes, New York leading with eighty-five prosecutions. Of the offenders,' 413 were of American birth, the next largest larg-est number of offenders being Italians. Sixty-three per cent, of those arrested were convicted. During the fiscal year but one dangerous spurious note was put in circulation, a five-dollar silver certificate. t S Bravery of Portland Boy. Bravery and presence of mind on the part of thirteen-year-old Michael Cohn of Portland, saved his mother and four little brothers from being cremated cre-mated in a fire which destroyed the dwelling of the family at Hall and Fifth streets. Young Cohn went into the room, which was filled with smoke and flames, and dragged out his unconscious uncon-scious mother and then returned and carried out each , of his four little brothers in turn. Mrs. Cohn, who ia subject to fainting spells, fell while carrying a lighted lamp. The house immediately took fire and was destroyed."" de-stroyed."" i Boot Congratulates Governor Wright. Secretary Root has cabled to Acting Governor Wright of the Philippine commission the substance of , the changes made in the Philippine civil government bill by the conferees, and incidentally sent the following commendations com-mendations of the - commissioners1 work: "I congratulate the. commission commis-sion upon the confidence and approval of congress evidenced by its adoption of your recommendations of your authority.", au-thority.", ' r . Baencamino Gets Pen President Used In Slgulng Philippine Bill. Senor Buencamino, who has been sojourning so-journing in this country, called upon President Roosevelt and requested the pen with which he signed the Philippine Philip-pine government bill, as he desired to preserve it and eventually place it in some public library in the Philippines. The president had already given the pen to! Senator Lodge, but as he happened! hap-pened! to be present at the time. be presented it to Senor Buencamino. NORTHWEST NOTES. Edward A. Slack has been appointed receiver of public moneys at Cheyenne, Wyoming. In Portland, Oregon, by order of the chief of police, all gambling houses in that city have been closed. August Schievie was hanged at St. Helena, Or., last week for the murder of Joseph Schulkowski on December 30 th last. A lone highwayman held up a gambling gamb-ling house at Spokane, Wash., las.t week and secured about SI, 600 from the gamblers' banks. The robber left no clue as to his identity. Articles of incorporation of the Montana Mon-tana Smelting and Refining company, under the laws of the state of South Dakota, have been filed in Butte. The capital stock is 3,000,000. Disappointment in a love affair and in her ambition to become an actress caused Miss Pauline Davison, aged 30 years, to commit suicide at Denver, Colo., last week with chloroform. Judge Loud of the district court has rendered a most important decision affecting the wool growers of Montana. The judge ruled that the warehouse companies can incorporate under the law of the state. James Birch, a miner from Erie, Colo., attempted to board a moving train at Redding, Cal., one day last week and met a horrible death. His headless body was found, between the rails near the depot. John Valentine, of Butte, Mont., was convicted of gambling in Judge McClernan's court and fined $250 by the court. This is the first conviction of a defendant accused of gambling out of nearly twenty trials. In southern Wyoming threatening clouds have obscured the 6un for the past twenty-four hours and snow has fallen the greater part of that time, accumulating in the mountains to a depth of several inches. Fire at Carson, Nev., last week destroyed de-stroyed the State Orphans' home. The fire is supposed to have started from fireworks used by the children. No lives were lost. The loss to the state will be $20,000, covered by insurance. In a street car accident at Boulder, Colo,, one woman was killed and twenty persons injured. The cars were' heavily loaded and the brakes failed to hold the train. It rushed down the hill with tremendous velocity, veloc-ity, the train overturning at a bend in the track. In a wreck on the Montana Central railway, seventeen miles east of Great Falls, Mont., Engineer Charles Peck and Fireman William McCameron were instantly killed. The wreck was caused by a washout due to the heavy rains, and both the engineer and fireman were horribly mangled and crushed in the crash. The annual report of the Collector of Internal Revenue, Dunne, for the district of Oregon, Washington and Alaska for the fiscal year ending July 1st, shows that the sale of revenue stamps amounted to 01,001,885. After July 1st the district will be divided, W. D. Croker of Walla Walla having been appointed collector for. Washington Washing-ton and Alaska. John Henderson, a famous soldier and scout, died at Havre, Mont,, Sunday, Sun-day, aged 78 years. Henderson was a scout in the Indian campaigns and went to the northwest for the Canadian Cana-dian government as representative in that capacity. Henderson assisted in the capture of Louis Reil and later hanged that half-breed at Regina. A most diabolical attempt was made at Butte, Mont., last week to chloroform chloro-form a family of seven persons with the object, it is presumed, of abducting abduct-ing Eva McGaffrey, a quarter-breed Indian girl. The perpetrator of the deed is said to have been Peter Demp-sey Demp-sey the condemned murderer who escaped es-caped from the county jail about a year ago. Dempscy is known to have been enamoured of the Indian girl prior to his arrest. As a. result of a cutting scrape at Denver, Colo., last week, one man will likely die and one man may lose a leg. William and Eli Farris were horribly cut about the arms and hands, the former also being stabbed just below the heart and will not recover. Frank Foster, who did the cutting, was terribly ter-ribly beaten and had his leg broken in two places, so that amputation is necessary. nec-essary. The trouble started by Foster insulting one of the Farris brothers. In Phoenix, Ariz., last week Alexander Alex-ander O. Brodie took the oath of office before Chief Justice Kent in the executive exe-cutive chamber of the capitol building and immediately entered upon the discharge dis-charge of his duties as governor of Arizona. In the state circuitcourtatPortland, Or.", Judge Frazer signed an order restraining re-straining the union teamsters, formerly form-erly employed by the Banfield-Veysey Fuel company, from intimidating or interfering with the employees of the company. - Fred F. Grosshans, a former resident of Detroit, Mich., committed suicide in a Portland, Or., lodging house one day last week by shooting himself with a revolver. Grosshans is said to be joint heir to a considerable estate in Detroit. . About 300 miners employed in the Durango, Colo., coal district are on strike because the operators failed to accept the scale submitted by the union, which calls for $3 per day for underground work and $2.50 a day for outside work. v Franklin Ferrell and his eastern associates as-sociates state that they will erect a smelter in East Butte, Mont., in the near future for the treatment of their ores at that point. Mr. Ferrell says that the smelter is to be-a modern one in every way and will be capable of handling 4,000 tons of ore a day. A coroner's jury which has been investigating the death of Duncan Graham at Anaconda, Mont., has decided de-cided that the demise was due to the administrationof poison by some one unknown. The death of Graham oc curred on Friday afternoon and was surrounded with mystery. He visited the home of ariend and drank a few glasses of beer. He was taken ill soon afterward, and lapsing into unconsciousness uncon-sciousness he died. The officers will investigate the circumstances surrounding sur-rounding Graham's death. He was a pioneer of the state and a well-known character politically. RICHEST AMERICAN YOUTH - Marcellus Hartley Dodge, by many millions the richest youth in the United States, probably attracts less attention among those who do not know him than any other student interested in-terested in the commencement exercises exer-cises at Columbia university, New York, this year. He is still under 20. tall and slender slen-der in appearance, with dark eyes and a pallid complexion, that shows his devotion to his books. Alfred Gywnne Vanderbilt received under his father's will, after all other bequests be-quests had been paid, about $54,000,-000. $54,000,-000. Marcellus Dodge received up Home For Spinsters. In Sweden and Norway there are several homes for spinsters. One of these at least is as attractive as it is unique. It Is the monument to the memory of an exceedingly wealthy old man,, who, dying more than 200 years ago, left the major part of his fortune to the old maids among his descendants. A superb home was built, furnished, and managed by salaried sal-aried trustees. It flourished and has continued. Any unmarried woman who can prove blood relationship to the founder of the institution is entitled en-titled to admission in the home. She is given a suite of rooms.'a servant, private meals, and is subject to no rules save as ordinary good behavior demands. Harvard Man a Tramp. Two tramps applied for work recently re-cently at the home of Frank C. Shaw, in Fishkill village, Duchess county. New York. The two men were put to work hoeing weeds. When Mr. Shaw saw them in the morning he turned to one of them and said: "I think I know you, but I cannot remember where I have seen you." "Yes," said the tramp, " I know you. For a year I sat in a seat behind you at Harvard." The men shook hands, and the wanderer wan-derer asked Farmer S'aaw not to disclose dis-close his identity. Statesman's Peculiar Position. Mr. Combes, tlie new French prime minister, was formerly a priest and as the real executive will now be charged with the enforcement of recently re-cently passed statutes which will drive half of the priests from France out of the country. CLAIMS BIG Miss Laura Biggar, who figures J3 a claimant of $1,000,000 in the estate of Henry Bennett of New York, has been living in retirement for some time and announces that she will not return to the stage. Miss Biggar is the divorced wife of Burt Haverly, the well-known comedian. She began Bathed in Capitol Fountain. The two immense vases which were erected some time ago on the east front of the capitol at Washington, have been converted into fountains. They are surrounded by huge basins, which are now filled with water. Yesterday a little curly-haired boy, who had wandered over to the capitol grounds, ; looked longingly at the splashing water. Then an idea seemed to strike him. He removed his shoes, rolled up his trousers, and, scrambling over the side, of the basin, plunged boldly In. He waded around in the water, getting thoroughly soaked, soak-ed, but enjoying himself to the limit Happily, no lynx-eyed policeman saw him, and when he finally emerged from his impromptu bath he had had the time of his' life. ' And the bronze Goddess of Liberty, perched far above him, looked down on him and smiled. J . , No Doubt cf His Honesty. "Is he honest?" "Honest! Why say! I don't believe that man would cheat an Indian out of his reservation if he had the chance." Chicago Post, . ! - , it r;fo mm - ' M Wi i it -mrT JiCks I A Atc, ,q I tisM hi ' yJ 1 a I'll1 'k'f'h'-'A ' i' I jgy' P w! m - fl 1 I y IppMll J ward of $60,000,000 under his grandfather's grand-father's will a few months ago. His riches have not changed his manner of life. He still lives in one room just as he has done since ho first began to prepare for college. It is too far for him to walk to Columbia, Colum-bia, but wherever he has to go within with-in two or three miles of his home he walks simply to save car fare. He is economical almost to the point of penury. He dressed well, as befits an under-graduate, but never showy. About the only extravagances extravagan-ces that he has at present are clothes and books. - Honor to Boer Leaders. Gen. Kitchener has testified a good many times to the courage and fighting fight-ing abilities of the Boers. In his latest communication to Gens. Botha, Delarey, and De Wet, he puis on record rec-ord his appreciation "of ' the unflagging unflag-ging energy and unfailing tact" of the Boer generals in carrying out the terms of surrender. Within a few days the Boer leaders secured the surrender of nearly 17,000 fighting men and turned in their arms. They redeemed their promises in the same spirit that Gen. Lee and his subordinates subordi-nates carried out their promises after Appomattox in 1865. Case of Open Bribery. On "suspension day" in the national House of Representatives all little bills to which there are no objection go through at the rate of about one a minute. The speaker calls the yeas and nays, but nobody answers and he declares the measures passed. One xlay Major Dick of Ohio, had one of these bills in charge. When the title was read he said: "This bill ought to go through with a noise. I will give a street car ticket to every man. who will vote for it." Half a dozen members voted yea and each gravely, collected his bribe from the Ohio man. Button Output of America. In 1900 there were made in this country .21,254,000 gross buttons. Of these, 297,180 gross were of bone, 1,-372,870 1,-372,870 of cloth, 2,407,319 of composition, composi-tion, 717,047 of horn, 3,713,144 of brass, 1,046,527 of other metals, 4,-308,584 4,-308,584 of fresh-water pearl, 4,049,452 of ocean pearl, 2,261,832 of vegetable ivory, 78,200 of wood, 105,086 of celluloid cellu-loid and 496,786 of paper. FORTUNE her stage career about fifteen years ago and made her most pronounced success in the part of the widow in Hoyt's "Trip to Chinatown." Miss Biggar is one of the most beautiful women of the American staga. She was a clever actress and very popular with the play-loving public. Unfortunate Mrs. Kruger. Mrs. Fawcett in a recent lecture before the Women's Liberal Unionist club at Cambridge declared it to be a well-known fact in Pretoria that Mr. Kruger, so far from deserting his wife, tried to Induce her to accompany him, but she refused.- At the last moment he sent again to her, putting at her disposal a safe escort to the Portuguese frontier. Her reply was: "No, I will remain where I am. It is you who have kindled this fire and you ought to stay to put it out." She died heartbroken at the last because of the death of five out of six beloved grandchildren from dysentery while they were staying at her hoyse. " Prominent in Nev England. Clarence Hale, brother of Senator Eugene Hale, who has been appointed the United States district judge of Maine, has served as city solicitor of Portland and as a member of the leg-, islature and is widely known in tho pine tree state. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society and has one of the best private libraries in New England. . . J X |