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Show Jlirv lcna goer CEJjc POPE PIUS X STRUCK DEAD BY HAIL CROWNED. Thousands Were Present to Witness TAXDIKU WTX$M, rwritton. FEARFUL STORM SWEEPS OVER the' Magnificent Rite. NORTHERN COLORADO. "of of The ceremony the coronation f fcmliiMi On Yaar, la JtS X took place Sunday in the basiPius lum............. Maatn . .Hi M lica of St. Peters ir. the presence of Great Chunks of Ice Fall, Killing the princes, and with all the solemnity Sheep In Corrals and Injuring CatSatan alth rm OS M Brtfhaa City a and associated with the this, splendor tle and Horses. most magnificent rite in the Roman Ti "" nn mnnm, uixr. Catholic church. As Cardinal Macchl, the dean of the t OtnMsMSaaa. t TtauIumaOaa f MW an aaiialtad firm lU part f cardinal deacons, placed the triple niaism Cfc Writ mm I wearjMMt ti m Wrl poaittaa aaau aflkt BnniaaUaaa U1 ba - j Tkdi M THUHSDAY. crown on the head of the venerable pontiff, the throng of seventy thousand persons gathered within the cathedral burst Into unrestrained acclamations, the choir Intoned a hymn of triumph, and the bells of Rome rang out a joyous peal. It is years since the Romans and Europe assisted at such a function as was held in St. Peters toThe great basilica, popularly day. supposed never to have been quite full, was overflowing with humanity. The Papal throne, owing to a bewildering mixture of gold, red and silver, was erected in front of the high altar. As, contrary to custom on these ceremonious occasions there were no galleries, the basilica bore more of its normal aspect. On the altar, which was dressed in white, stood the famous r-gold candlesticks and a magnificent crucifix. All the available standing space within the cathedral was divided into sections by wooden barriers, which to a certain extent kept the vast crowd in order. fifty-seve- n UTAH STATE NEWS. he lighted Springrille will soon with electricity. Ephraim is to have electric lights, the city - - make council being empowered to all arrangements. The commissioners of San Pete county last week raised the tax levy from 7.6 mills to 8 1 mills. The Salt Lake board of education has decided to abolish corporal punishment in the public schools. There are 15,987 school children in Salt Lake City, according to the census just completed, 7,868 boys and 8,119 girls. Thirteen carloads of residents of (Butte and other Montana towns came .into Salt Lake on Sunday on their annual excursion. The town of Huntsville became an Incorporated city last week, and at the election all the officials elected were Republicans. The date of the State Teachers' has been changed from September 30 to October 6 to 8, the place of meeting being Salt Lake City. A. E. Wakeman, a Salt Lake clerk, was arrested last week on the charge of embezzlement He was caught in the act through the agency of marked silve- SWEPT BY TIDAL WAVES. A Number of South Sea Islands Appear Doomed to Destruction. It would seem that the ninety islands known variously as the Low archipelago or Tuamotu group, are destined to be reclaimed by the Pacific ocean. Last January they were swept by a flood composed of high waves from the ocean and the lesser ones from the enclosed lagoons, and in consequence nearly COO of the Inhabitants were drowned and property to the value of $500,000 was destroyed. And now, six months later, fierce gales from the coins. southwest and southeast have again While following the circus parade caused great surging crests to sweep some of the islands. So far only in Salt Lake City, Robert Howells over four persons are believed to have got one foot under the wheels of one perished, but the fear is great that of the mounted cages, the member when all the islands are heard from there may be a distressing list of fabeing badly crushed. talities. Salt Lake officers still hunting suffered The steamer Excelsior for an accomplice for Mrs. Hodge, much damage during the series of not believing that she murdered Ped- gales, while she was on her trip from group. dler Ryan without assistance, although Tahiti to the Marquesas Three of the Tuamotu islands were she declares she did. under water to such an extent that Edward Anthony, employed by the the inhabitants had to climb cocoanut Salt Lake street car company, met trees for safety. Houses and stores, and finally the cocoanut trees death on Sunday, being crushed be- copra were destroyed, while the Inhabitants tween two cars while engaged In his had a close call to death. It is duties as a car cleaner. thought most of the islands of the storm. Word was received from Los An- group were visited by the Details of tho storm which along the eastern slope of the d Rocky mountains in Colorado and southern Wyoming Wednesday night show it to have been much more severe than at first reported. In some sections the hall fall was unprecedented. In the neighborhood of Greeley and Eaton, In the northern part of Colorado, chunks of ice, measuring In some Instances ten inches in length, fell, and the damage wrought was Immense. Sheep were Btruck dead In the corrals and cattle and horses were severely Injured. Farm houses and barns were wrecked and crops utterly wiped out of existence. Near Greeley a man named Johnson was severely bruised and rendered unconscious by the hall. The damage cannot be estimated in that section, but will reach thousands of dollars. Near Lafayette, Colo., there were two storms, the second following the first within fifteen minutes and with greater severity. The streets of the town were flooded, cellars partially HIDDEN filled with water and trees and snruD-berstripped of foliage. Many windows were broken, Ine crops In the country surrounding were destroyed Hail lay on the ground in many places to a depth of two feet. The damage in and around Lafayette is estimated at $2u(i out). In southern Colorado the railfall was heavy, approaching the proportions of a cloudburst in several places Railroad traffic was stopped on the Rio Grande for some time by wash outs. The Santa Fe was also seriously affected. y Trestle Gave Way Under Train. cloudburst and, terrific electrical A storm occurred west of Pueblo, Colo. A great volume of water is coming down Arkansas river and the Denver & Rio Grande railroad was washed out in one or two places east of Florence, delaying trains. Shortly after 4 oclock, as Rio Grande passenger train No. 15 was going over the Fountain river bridge at Little Buttes, the trestle gave way. The engine was plunged into the water and burled Engineer completely out of sight Hughes and Fireman Lillis were in the water for fifteen minutes. They managed to keep afloat by hanging on to small pieces of timber and debris. Finally they succeeded In reaching the cab of the engine, which had been knocked off the bridge but was not under the water. All the passenger cars remained on the track. PICTURE PUZZLE. e geles last week that the contracts been awarded for the construction of the Salt Lake route between and Dag , att. Cal. The board ol directors of the Rio ..Qrftpde Western has authorized the extension of tin Marysvale branch to (the iron deposits of Iron county. work was begun last week. son of Mr. and V1 "Tie three yeir-olIgirs. Jbhn K. R idsen of Mt Pleasant, ' (while playing with matches set Its ;v clothing on Crs and was so severely (burned that d nth resulted In a few itours. Bertha Sorenson of Mt Pleasant was tthrown t om a buggy last week jlTpe driving along a rough road, her Milan and breast bones being broken, while she sustained other severe in-- R008EVELT ON FINANCE. y d Small , s t Fred L. Thomas, a pharmacist employed in a Springvllle drugstore, was found dead in bed one morning last week. It appears lie had taken some medicine to relieve pain, which had affected his heart and caused his Meath. TT , 'Mriji Gilbert ner of the McClurg is the win- e were Injured slightly. Many Injured at Ball Game. Four persons are dead, at least twelve are thought to be fatally injured and fully 156 others are hurt, some seriously, as the result of an accident which occurred Saturday at the Philadelphia National League baseball park. A board walk which the best ode overhung the left field bleachers fell 40 irflgatlpiv offered by the board of to the street, carrying 200 spectators. - control of the Irrigation congress. J. Nearly 100 persons received fractures the limbs, lacerations of the head, flV Goodwin - of Salt Lake and Miss of broken noses, contusions of the head Jean Macmillan of Ogden were close and body, but their condition is not ' $50 prize for ' '" aeconds. City. "" v arrested in Salt Lake who had his pockets last-wee- but owing to tfull of bogus fha denomination theres not many people in this section that are likely ftQhav4 been taken in by the coun- t A. d. Ellis, an artist of Salt Lake, eanw near-, losing a leg last week when a bottle of nitric acid exploded In hia pocket. But for the fact that he was in a drug Btore and able to quickly apply remedies he would have ,been severely injured $100-biU- -- , i b r--t serious For MemoiiaM to ramous Men. A movement is on foot among British Roman Catholics and others to secure The Monastery at Littlemore, In permanence, as a memorial to Cardinal Newman and those associated with him under that historical roof. "The Monastery was composed of a row of workmens cottages, and the room In which Newman and Stanton were received by Father Dominic, the Passlonist. into the Roman Catholic communion is capable of Identification from plans and papers in the possession of frlerds of the cardinal. el jin, T i xv TALE OF BUTTERBYS DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL. He and a Companion Overpower Jailer and Make Their Escape, Only to Be Recaptured. Tom Horn, the condemned murderer of Willie Nickel!, the ranch lad who was assassinated two years ago last the Big month, and Jim McCloud, Horn county desperado, who Is alleged to have murdered Ben Minnlck, the Big Horn county sheepman, and committed other crimes for the cattlemen of that section for pay, escaped from the Laramie county, Wyoming, jail at 8:30 oclock Sunday morning, but were recaptured near the jail within a few minutes after they reached the outside. McCloud was slightly wounded in the left thigh, and Horn was badly beaten on the head and neck by the men that captured him. Under Sheriff R. A. Proctor was beaten up by the desperados, but is attending to duty. A general fire alarm was sounded, which brought thousands of people Into the streets, and the news that Horn had escaped spread like w ildflre. Men and boys hurried to the jail with rifles and pistols and joined Horn In the pursuit of the outlaws. was captured by Theodore Aldrich, who fired several shots at the murderer. Horn was exhausted, hut received a terrible beating at the hands of Aldrich. McCloud was trailed to a barn and compelled to surrender. Attempts were made to get the prisoners away from the officers, but a determined stand by the latter and the influence of the conservative men prevented mob violence. Horn has been planning for several months to overpower Jailer Proctor at feeding time in the morning, and Sunday morning arrived. the opportunity Horn asked Proctor to bring a cup of water, and as the officer opened the door of the corridor of the cage in which Horn and McCloud were confined, they threw their weight against the door, pushed it open and sprang out upon the jailor and bore him to Old man Butterhy hated Boh, , And Bob, he equally hated him. And as each was onto his shooting job. It seemed that some ones show was slim. For from Butterbys ranch to Bobs home place Was a mile or so, and that was all; So the boys all said, as they viewed the case: I reckon the Coronerll git a call. j KID For his shoulder burned and his thoughts were hot A laugh rang out where the bushts were, And into the open there strayed a A wee tot. little tot with curly hair, eyes with dreama in their blue depths hid The fairest thing on the mountain And there. And her laughter was sweet Butterbys kid. it wu Well, Bob and Butterby met one day Her eyes met Bobs, and she laughed Twas a thing, of course, they were again bound to do As she toddled straight to the tree And each of them put a tree in his where he stood. way. Ive lost my dolly," she said, but, And then, you bet, the bullets flew. zen, I dess at ooll find It; I 'pose at Bobs arm stuck out, and he got a ball oo could. Right where its passage was hound Bob kissed the babe, and he left the to hurt. tree, Shoot if you please, he cried, And old man Butterby had a call dern you! From a bullet that injured the side Theres a job right here that Is callin' of his shirt. me. Said Butterby then: Im damned But they stuck to their trees as if if I do! they were glued. And they hurled some names that y on Butterhyi There is peace that are not in the books. hill. Come out! said Bob, and his tone There is peace in the home and the was rude, dern heart of Bob, You dassent, said Butterby; And the sounds of strife are hushed your looks! and still, And the air was full of bullets and And the Coroner yet Is minus a Job, flings. I dont go much on cussing and such. And adjectives dire of a But I hope the angel the record hid brand, And they knew that Death on his Of Butterbys oath, or, with gentle touch. misty wings Wrote only: Was waiting about to take a hand. Forgiven because of the kid. Alfred J. Waterhouse In New York Come out," cried Boh, you cowTimes. ardly cur! red-ho- t DEVICE FOR WOOING SLEEP Most of the mental devices for insomnia, would be the feet Lying wooing sleep have failed because they on the right side, with the knees tohave nearly always tried to resort to gether, and considerably flexed, the "local treatment; in other words, victim of insomnia should begin to both his feet slowly up and they have made a homeopathic at- pedal with the movement entirely in down, to stop thinking by thinking the ankles. tempt Thq pedaling should keep about else a process time with the something natural rhythm of reswhich might also be called eliminapiration and be continued until it is the floor. tion by substituion. But all think- followed by deep and spontaneous After a terrible struggle with Proc- ing, spontaneous or forced, draws Several people who have breathing. tor, in which McCloud was shot in more or less blood to the brain, pre- tried this remedy report that invothe thigh, the two men escaped from vents deep inhalations and bars the luntary deep breathing invariably begate to the kingdom of dreams. Any gins before they have pedaled up and the jail only to be recaptured. device, on the other hand, which will down a dozen times. In obstinate make one take deep, long breaths cases of Insomnia the patient may HUMBERTS ON TRIAL. spontaneously (the invariable fore- need to keep up the pedaling two or Parisians Very Much Wrought Up runner of sleep) may be counted upon throe minutes, or even more, with inas a genuine remedy for insomnia. termissions, if necessary. The treatOver Noted Swindlers. Even deep breathing which is forced ment may also be varied by moving The notorious Humbert family on is better than any purely mental at- the feet alternately, instead of simuSaturday faced a judge and jury to tempt to win sleep, says Good House- ltaneously. though the latter method But if the deep breathing has proved the more speedily efficmeet the charge of having perpetratkeeping. can be produced involuntarily one is acious in the cases known to the ed what described as the greatest swin- sure of a passport to Nodland. After writer. The explanation of the result several nights of experiments to this obtained Is probably simple. The dle of the century. Investigating end the present writer decided to ap- blood is pumped from the head, and Magistrate Leydet in May decided to ply the principal adopted by the with the removal of brain tension, a commit Theresa Humbert, her husWho begin their manipulation general relaxation" follows, with a so band, Frederick, and her brothers, "at the point farthest from the seat quent deep respiration and its resultRoman and Emil DAurignac, for trial of difficulty," which, in the case of ing sleep. on the charges of forgery, the use of forged documents and swindling. He dismissed the cases against Eva HumLIGHT HEARTS AND HEAVY bert (Theresas daughter) and Marie Duignac (her sister). Public curiosity which has followed There have always been men like er would he tolerate any appearance the fortunes of the family since the Thoreau and St. Francis who be- of heaviness in his followers. He days of Its social brilliancy is again lieved, says the London Spectator, rebuked a brother to whom a dejectIntensely wrought up, the chief intered manner had become habitual, sayest centering in La Grande Theresa," that property brought with It a heavy ing: My brother, repeat thy sins to and who have refused, as did heart, who has promised to produce at this the the American philosopher, to be har- private and do not appear before downcast." trial the mysterious American milthus community nessed to his possessions. SL FranWe are inclined to think that those lionaires, the brothers Crawford, on cis cast aside every weight that he who make their living provided It I whom she based her story of an insorfree himself from idle a fairly good one In the sweat of their heritance of $20,000,000, which she put might row. He and his first disciples brow have lighter hearts than those forward as the security for the loans loved nothing earthly; they were se- who make it in the sweat of their she obtained, amounting to about cure in all places, troubled by no brain. The high spirits which seem tears, distracted by no cares; they to be enjoyed by domestic servants lived without trouble of mind, wait- to judge by the sounds which come King Peter is Terrorized. ing without solicitude for the com- upstairs are a case in point DustKing Peter of Servia is being openly ing day. ing, scrubbing and plate cleaning terrorized by his entourage. It la said. SL Francis in the fastnesses of the seem to weigh on the heart far lee Most of the present court officials who Italian hills singing French hymns than doctoring, journalism or the actually proceeded In or were party to among the highway robbers in his study of law or theology. Too often the murder of King Alexander and whimsical lightness of heart makes a spirits are broken by overwork or by He knew French disappointment in the wild struggl Queen Drags appear to have strongly strange picture. badly, but it seemed to him the lan- to succeed which goes on among proobjected to the appointment of Colonel guage of gayety. The founder of the fessional people. Certainly In the litLeschjanin, the Servian attache at Franciscans, though we are told that erary world light hearts are generah Constantinople, to the post of court he possessed what was quaintly ly lost early, yet the marshal. The official Gazette concaUed the gift of tears when performman of though he is rare, to tained the appointment, but shortly ing his devotions in his call, was nev- the mostletters, of all attractive after the publication all copies of the er seen abroad without a smile, neith- men. Gazette were called in by the police. Woman Makes a Long Jump Without . Serious Consequences. TO SEARCH FOR TREASURE Kate Walsh, 25 years old, has tried to end her life by jumping from the sixth floor of an apartment in West If the sea were drained, says the stroyed by ages of rust and rot, W Sixteenth street. New York City. Family Herald, what treasures we there must he a great deal not yet There is a cistern at the bottom of could find upon the old ocean floor found by occasional seekers. the air shaft, and the woman plunged galleons loaden with gold beyond the The quest for gold and Jewels $ Lesser waters the bottom of the Lake of Guatavlta through the boards which covered It, dreams of avarice! and Into the water. The police car- than the sea, however, hold treasure in Colombia Is at once more romantie ried her to the hospital and there It which can be found. Almost simul- and surer to be profitable. The latt waa found that the Injuries were not taneously come reports of two scien- lies ten thousand feet above the sea, serious despite the great distance she tific quests for wealth hidden under and was held sacred by the tribes of the face of the waters. The Tiber of natives that lived near It when tt had dropped. old Rome is to he searched, and a Spaniards came. Every year the saw1 Russia Leads. lake In the Republic of Colombia la to ages, headed by their king, visited The London Times prints a dlS be drained for the gold and jewels, the lake. The king, covered with $old b! patch from Shanghai which says that votive offerings, that were thrown Into dust, plunged Into the waters, aad and subjects threw after him gold the anniversary of the capture of It by the natives long ago. For a there have been silver and emeralds. When Quesada New Chwang was celebrated last plans to century turn the Tiber aside tem- and his Spaniards made their way 09 Tuesday and that M. Grosse, the Rusporarily to search its dirty bottom. the Andes to the lake, the native sian administrator, issued formal Invi- Now the authorities have given Prof. threw their treasures to the god of tations for the inauguration of the Nlspilandl permission to make a sys- the lake for Enough Russian civil administration building, tematic hunt The ancients used to riches have been found In the lake and this was interpreted as equivalent throw treasures to Father Tiber as warrant several attempts to cut to the declaration to the representa- offerings to the gods, and 'the current depression in the side of It AU such tives of the other powers that they of the river has swept away the arms attempts have lowered the water only could not claim a footing of equality and armor of thousands of warriors a few feet Now an English company or rights in this Chinese treaty port. who fought on the banks. Much of is to drain the lake by means of this wealth has no doubt been de- - tunnel, and rake the bottom. Crushed by Piano. Bruce Hawkins, a young rancher made Dickens, who was In the chair, Highly Facetious Cold. living near Baker City, Ore., was probDean Farrar has related this story: very angry, and he manfully upheld ably fatally Injured Saturday night in At one Bmall My friend, Mr. Sim public dinner at which his friend. a peculiar manner. He was going to I met Charles Dickens I was struck Reeves, he said, regrets his inability ha bis ranch from town with a piano in with his chivalry to an absent friend. to fulfill his engagements, owing, his wagon. His wife was driving the Mr. Sims Reeves had been announced added with great severity, to an unteam while Hawkins was holding the to sing at the dinner, and, as hap- fortunately amusing and highly fac Mr. Sims tious cold!' piano. In crossing a culvert the wag- pened not infrequently, on was so severely jolted that the Reeves had something the matter was unable to be Down to Earth. piano was toppled over onto the with his throat and June graduates are now beglnnlnl ground, pinning Hawkins beneath it present Dickens announced this and and crushing his skull. Hawkins was the statement was received with a to mix with the plain people. Pl This burg Gazette. married only two weeks ago. general laugh of incredulity. Waldeck-Rous-sea- Find the Worshiper at the Wayalde Shrine. mas-seur- s, Tells Senators Millard and Heyburn Money Measure Is Needed. To Senators Millard and Heyburn President Roosevelt has stated his desire respecting financial legislation at the approaching session of congress. Senator Millard agreed with the president as to the desirablity of a more elastic system of currency than the present one, but he was positive that the government itself ought to be behind every dollar of currency issued, so that no question of its value ever would be raised. He expressed the belief that government bonds In sufficient quantity how are outstanding to afford a basis for currency Issues. He said he would favor the right kind of a measure looking to the greater elasticity of the ' tutfes:-- ' currency, but was sure some of the There were a number of people in measures recently proposed would not ..Wt Pleasant last week who came from be acceptable to the country. thef southern counties in Utah, and' Carolina Race War. ven from Arizona, a distance of 200 Serious troubles between negroef , JWHisD for the sole purpose of seeing Is threatened at Henrietta, whites and . circus. the , location of one of the largest cotthe Charles B. Markland, manager of millB North Carolina. Two nethe Conklin sampling works, was ton wereIn cut on Friday night and groes ilourid' in 'hiq rooms in Salt Lake City one day last week hovering between one of them will die. The cause of life and death as the result of a dose the trouble was the alleged disturbing of morphine taken with suicidal in- of a colored meeting by whites and tent, because of ill health and bus- the cursing of a white boy by a negro. An armed crowd of negroes was disiness troubles. He will recover. persed by the extra force of policemen woThe police are in search of a more trouble Is expected man who has been, plying a peculiar on duty, but t Windstorm in Kansas. 'avocation, in (. Salt Lake City. She' Would call upon a woman and tell her A heavy wind and rainstorm passed ahe could repair her switch at redlc- - over Pittsburg, Kans., and viclnty, piously low prices. She would se- Saturday, wrecking many small mincure the victims back hair and fail ers' houses, killing one person and to return lt A number of women injuring several others. At mine 31 were thus victimized. ' Philip Chssidy, a stranger In Salt of the Central Coal & Coke company jtwenty three small houses were delake City, was picked up by a molished and about thirty others were and sentenced to ten days blown from their foundations or rolled tor drunkenness.. It now appears the over on their sides. At mine 37 of the same a number of other (man' was delirious from Illness and house company, were damaged. In both camps Bits chances of recovery are very perhaps twenty-fivor thirty persons s MAKES long-waite- d aj-- , T05I HORNS LATEST 8AVAGERY OF RUSSIANS. Two Thousand Workmen are Ridden Down by Cossacks. Accounts of strikes In southern Russia continue to come In, and some of the details are almost too horrible for publication. A correspondent, writing from Nlkaeloeff, says: The strikers, on the whole, have preserved exemplary order, but this has not saved them from savage attacks, directed by General Arzenieff, governor of Odessa. Groups of men who assembled last Saturday with the Intention of holding a meeting were driven into a solid mass by 600 Cossacks, backed by two lines of Infantry with fixed .bayonets. About 2,000 strikers being thus en s closed by a double cordon, the rode through them, striking right and left with heavy whips, the fallen men being trampled under the Cos-sask- horses feet Bella Ring for New Pope. During one full hour in Rome Thursday morning there seemed to be nothing but vibrating sounds, so penetrating were the strokes of the bells of about 500 churches which, all ringing together, absorbed all other noises. The ringing was in honor of the election of Pius X a welcome unique of Its kind and ordered by Cardinal Resphigi, vicar of Rome, who Issued special Instructions therefor. All the churches contemporaneously celebrated masses for the event, the intoning of the Oremua combining with the harmony. WESTERN RAILROAD 800N TO HAVE IN USE THE GINES EVER CONSTRUCTED. A Western railroad has Juat received two new express passenger engines. They are the largest and most powerful ever built There Is to equal toothing In the world them. The cylinders are 22 inches in diameter by 28 inches stroke; the driving Wheels are 80 Inches In diameter, and y LARGE9T EN the total weight of engine being 219, 600 pounds, and the total weight of 0 the engine and tender is about pounds. The tender, which has a 874,-00- capacity of 8,400 gallons of water and 9 tons of coal, la the largest yet built. The boiler Is of the straight type and 70 inches In diameter, with 328 2 tubes 20 feet In length. The 0. light-hearte- d light-hearte- d the working steam pressure la 220 pounds to the square Inch. The engine la carried on twelve wheels, a forward truck, six connected driving wheels and a trailer beneath the firebox. The total weight on the driving wheels Is 141,700 pounds. On the front truck the weight Is 36,300 pounds, and on the trailing wheels 41,500 pounds, firebox is 9 feet long by 6 feet wide, 6 feet deep at the front and 5 feet 4 inches deep at the back. There are 202 square feet of heating surface In the firebox, 3,848 square feet In the tubes and 28 square feet In the firebrick tubes, making a total of 4,078 square feet of heating surface. The grate area is 54 square feeL Revolution Has Begun. The Macedonian committee at Sofia states that a revolution has been proclaimed at the vilayet of Monastir, in pursuance to the decision of the central revolutionary committee. Forces In the district of Monastir, Rezen, Ochrida, Debro, Ketchero, Poretchka, Kronchero, Perient, Serin, Kayli and comDemlrhassar simultaneously menced hostilities. All telegraphic communication has been cut in the districts mentioned. Five young men from Seattle who had attempted the ascent of Mount Ranler last week without a guide, were caught by nightfall and fogi above Gibraltar Rock and were rescued by a party organized at Camp Muir by Professor John B. Flett of the Tacoma high school. The yonng men had lost their way and were wandering off toward the treacherous Cowlitz glacier when they heard the shouts of the rescuers. Many tourists are making the ascent this year. Chinese Reformed Strangled. Edward T. Williams, the Chinese secretary of the United States legation has made an extensive investigation into the execution of Sben Chien, the reformist Journalist, who was put to death by order of the empress dowager July 31, and has handed Minister Conger a report proving that the executioners, after beating Chien for three or four hours, despaired of being able to fulfill the dowager empress orders and yielding to Shens pleadings to end his misery, strangled aim with their hands. Lost on Mount Ranter. Rich Man in Poor House. Possessed of property said to be worth thousands and dented admission to hotels and hospitals becaue he Is suffering from cancer. Andrew Mur- ray of Brooklyn has been admitted to the county poor house at Blnghamp ton, N. Y. His pockets were lined with bills when he entered the institution. Murray had to give up work last January on account of & cancer under his tongue. He attracted considerable attention at the time by cutting gome of the cancerous growth with bs own hand. safe-keepin- r |