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Show &J)C STANDING CSlbev ycivsf WXXM, Proprietors. lH(rtct?tei l Corripoadt. Items of aewa are solicited from sU parts at (ho oouatry. Write upon ono side of ths paper only. Write proper mum slsluiy. In dr to pretest tae publisher from Impositions from tirespoftsifele parson, th11 full com pome of the author thou id bo sif ned to BniolcsUes. Tbo ideality of correspondent will bo withheld whenever desired. IFUBL1SHED EVERY THURSDAY. NEWS SUMMARY. There is no truth in the recent report that King Oscar of Sweden is ill. A number of deaths occurred in Memphis, Tenn., last week as a result of the heat. The most violent earthquake shock In twenty years was felt at Capetown, Cape Colony, on the 9th. J. Marshall Funk, one of the lawyers in Pennsylvania, suicided at Lebanon last week by hanging. Mrs. Blaine, widow of the' late James G. Blaine, is reported to be seriously ill at her home In Augusta, best-know- n Me. S, E. Lflplameo, a cousin of Aguin-aide- . Is in New Haven, Conn., pre- paring for a course in forestry at Tale, An express train struck a wagon containing nine people near Cincinnati, killing five and injuring the: - others, Three people were Injured in a Missouri wreck near Kansas morning, Rutadrs are current NEGRO FLAYED ALIVE. TJIE POPE IMPROVING LOOKS West Virginians Wreak Horrible Vengeance on Negro Brute. The little town of Devon, Mingo county. West Virginia, was the scene Saturday of the assaulting of a little 14 year-olgirl by a negro, followed by his subsequent lynching by an enraged mob numbering over 200 men. The negro, who was caught in the act of committing the crime, was tied to a post, his clothing torn from his body and pins, tacks, pen knives and every conceivable weapon of torture was stuck into the skin of the nogro as he struggled, vainly pleading for his lifo. He was allowed to suffer a hundred deaths with his body bleeding in a thousand places. The almost lifeless form of his little victim was then placed before the glaring eyes of the brute, while willing hands cut the tongue from his swollen mouth. and His cries became incoherent before tho enraged citizens could be checked the skin was literally cut from his body end distributed among the villagers. He died with his eyes on the little girl whose life he had ruined His heart was then cut out with his toes and fingers jackknlves, chopped off and carried away as mementos. His bloody and mangled form was then soaked with kerosene and fired. . n " hank. Disorders broke out Saturday at a meeting of electors at Nagyvarad, capital of Bihar province, which was being addressed by Dr. Barabas, tho leader of the extreme left In the Hungarian Diet. Seventeen persona were injured. The price of fish has advanced In New York City because of a strike of sailors who man the fishing smacks. They have been paid $35 a month and their board, and now demand a bonus of a cent a fish, big or little. One tnousand men are Involved. Judge Wilcox, the Intimate friend and adviser of the late King Kalakaua and other monarchs of the Hawaiian Islands, is dead, as the result of an operation, blood poisoning having set In. Judge Wilcox was a noted authority on the Hawaiian language. After losing $45,009 in cornering the lima bean market and securing pounds to find nobody who wanted the beans. Lyden & Co of San Francisco have assigned. The liabilities will amount to $300,000. The assets are estimated at $25,000. According to a New Yok dlvtt '' the deal between the Sin S''0"t I, r. and tiie 0r-7company was closed Tiu d y bv b former paying tha Inter be ("nn a r 000,000 and $11,000 0n0 in ' is taking conveyances for south of Salt Lake City ani tm t. ,i ment for operating the lire. The San Pedro company took poses sion at midnight Tuesday This leaves the San Pedro company ony 301 mile to build in order to complete a line from Salt Lake City to Los An geles. Funds have beea arrange I t complete and equip the syrtem with branch lines as required, without sell Ing any bonds, it being tho puipos- - of the San Pedro company not to o.Ti r its securities until after its system is completed and has been in operation for some time. Tho material for build ing the system Is all contracted for, subject to delivery as required. Tho San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad company has executed a mortgage to the Equitable Trust company of New York as trustees under a first mortgage or deed of tnut dated July 1, 1903, authorizing an r of $50,000,000 4 per cent gold bonds, payable January 1 and Ier-compa- ,- e fifty-yea- 1. July n Chicago has pssed the mark, and its present population is. '2,231,000, according to the publishers of the Chicago city directory for 1903, Frightened because he had set fire to his father's barn, Abner Carpenter, Jr., 5 years old, of Perry, Iowa, hid himself in the haymow and was com turned In the flames. Contrary to all forecasts made bj physicians, Lee Brown, the negro have Transportation companies to rates on the occasion of the seventh annual convention of the National Livestock association, to be held in Portland, January 12 to 1G. The people of Heppner, Ore., have notified the committee in Portland that no more money Is needed In Heppner, and ask that a portion of the fund now on hand In Portland be sent to the families of the Hanna, Wyo miners who were killed in the coal mine disaster. Joseph W. Cummin is in jail at Newburg, N. Y., on a charge of grand larceny. He was secretary, treasurer and cashier of the Cornwall bank and is alleged to be a defaulter to the extent of about $50,000, wrecking the Lap-pon- le-vr- Death Meet People Through Carelessness of Engineer. were killed Twenty four persons coland thirteen injured in a head-olision on the Virginia Midland division of the Southern railway at Rock-fish- , Va., Tuesday afternoon. The passenger train which left Washington at 11:15 a. m. for Atlanta, Ga., dashed into a local freight which was standing on the main line of the rogd at that point, wrecking both engines and the baggage and express cars of the passenger train. The freight train was in charge of Conductor Brubeck and Engineer Hale. Engineer Hale had orders to get out of tbe way of the fast passenger train, but for some reason which has not yet been explained bo' had overstayed his time and had failed to take a siding so that the passenger train could of Yemen, Arabia, in consequence of the appearance of a new prophet. agreed Pope Strong Enough to Dress Himself, and an Absolute Cure is Anticipated by His Physicians. Road South of Salt Lake Tjrned Over to the Clark Pecple. Ors'y 300 Miles of Lord to be Constructed. Twenty-fou- r !. who killed Policeman Massey and pre- Ind., race clpltated the Evansville, riot, will probably live to pay the penalty of his crime. A lone bandit held up a stage coach pear Colusa, Cal., last week, forcing 'one of the eleven passengers to secure the valuables of the rest and place them in a sack. The robber secured about $160. j As a result of urgent representations from Austria and Hungary, Prince Ferdinand has given the strongest assurances that Bulgaria will make no further military preparations against Turkey. While attempting to arrest Martin Puet at Arlington, Ore., Milt De Haven was shot and fatally wounded, Puet being also killed. Puet had been drinking and resisted arrest DEAL BETWEEN SHORT LINE AND SAN PEDRO COMPLETED. FAILED TO OBEY ORDERS. that fresL troubles have broken out In the province 4. UTAH IT LOOKS LIKE WAR VIEW DOCTORS TAKE HOPEFUL OF HIS CASE. Pope Leo has lived to see another Sunday, and there are distinct signs of improvement in his cowl Linn. Pontiff the During the morning participated in the celebration tl mass The ceremony was held in tho chapel adjoining tbe sick chamber, Mcmsignor Marsoni being tbe celebrant Tbe door connecting the sick room with the chapel was opened so that his Holiness might follow the i He insisted that Dr. services and his valet. Contra, should leave his side and enter the chapel in order to better hear the mass. During the afternoon the jtopa felt strong enough to get up. lie lose, dressed himself In white and went to sit in his usual armchair, where he remained for some time. Then the windows were opened for a change of air, the sun streaming in 'ogether with a light, refreshing breeze from the Moditoranean. Late in the afternoon he received Cardinals Mathleu, Steinhuber, Agliardt and Casili. The Jr pope showed his usual brightness and BLEW HIS HEAD OFF. lucidity of mind, and spoke to each Indiana Farmer Murders without showing any perceptible fain Cold Blood. tigue. John Terrill, a farmer living near Sunday night Dr. Lapponi made tbe following important statement to the Petroleum, Indiana, killed his son-in- - killed and fifty Pacific railway City, Sunday j GOOD TO pass. It is now said tc be almost certain that of those killed nineteen were colored persons, as the second-clas- s coach, which was telescoped, was occupied almost exclusively by them. NINE DEAD, TWENTY INJURED. law, Melvlne Wolfe, firing the charges Into of both barrels of a shotgun Wolfe's head as he lay on an operating table. The operation was compelled by a gunshot wound inflicted by Terrill a short time before. Wolfe had deserted his wife and baby and a suit was brought to compel him to support them. Early Sunday Wolfe drove past the Terrill home, shouting Insulting remarks and shaking his fist at Terrill. When Wolfe came by again Terri!) shot him in the leg. Wolfe was hurried to Petroleum, placed on an operating table and preparations were made to amputate his leg. While a crowd stood around watching the surgeon Terrill broke In the door. Ho drove the crowd from the room at the point of his gun, and with the remark, I am going to get him now, fired both barrels into his head. Wolfe was terribly mutilated. At the time Terrill fired Wolfe was half unconscious. son-in-la- Camp Meeting in Nebraska Struck by Electrical Windstorm. A terrific electrical and windstorm prevailed at Beaver City, Neb., Sunday afternoon, doing much damage to small buildings and windmills. The wheat crop, just ready for harvest, was also damaged. The Salvation Army of Kansas and Nebraska, now holding a camp meeting at Beaver City, suffered much loss. Nine of their tents were blown down. Commander Holland was struck by the fallng tent pole and sustained a serious injuiy The camp was flooded Will Avert Race War. Negro leaders in Indianapolis. Ind., are taking steps to avert a race war. The Evausvit'e riots and conflicts between the races in other cities have made them apprehensive of a similar outbreak here. An organization known has as the Negro Business League just been formed to rid the city of what the better element of the negro race calls the nigger.'' Those who will not work will be reported to the polios with a request that tbey be driven out of town. Jim-Cro- Minister Rico of Bogota has stated Skeletons Found in Monastery. in congress that Senor Herran signed Dr. E. B. Mobun. who was a meminthe Panama canal treaty under of the Wellnaa Arctic expedition ber Colombian governfrom the structions ment. The public discussion of the to tho rortb in IS94, has arrived in on Ins way to Wasfc'ng-ton- , treaty was secured by the opposition, Kansas City D. C.. from Old Dr. Mexico. headed by former President Caro. Mohun tells of the discovery recently in storm a terrific thunder During o the skeletons of between 300 and Washington, D C. Sunday, lightning struck a boathouse near the Potomac 400 women in a daaerted monastery river In which a dozen men had takeu fifty miles west of Nscozari, in Inthea mountains of Northern Mexico. refuge. One man was killed outright, wild and desolate part of the country. another so badly injured that he may The skeletons were found by miners Id search of treasure. die, and still another severely hurt. Outcome of Race Riots in Evansville, Indiana. After the recent riot at Evansville, Ind., the inhabitants are obeying the orders of the mayor and the people are keeping off the streets. There are nine dead, one dying, three others faquestion If he believed the popes immore or less hurt and twenty-ontally proved condition could continue: as a result of the encounter injured T believe if the pope lasts until with the militiamen. Martial law will July 21 we may not perhaps achieve not be declared until there arises adan absolute cure, but we will secure ditional trouble. such a good state of health In the The negro fire company has left the patient as will allay our anxiety." city under advice of the may6r, and WAR TALK IN THE AIR. their places in the department have been filled with white men. The neChinese Situation Causes Many Progroes had become so frightened that tests by the Powers. they were regarded as unfitted to perTbe political atmosphere of Japan form their duties and were relieved from duty at their own request. during the last week has been thick with rumors of impending war. The LOST HIS TEMPER. signal for their birth was the arrival of General Kouropatkin, Russian And as a Result Commited Murder and Waa Hung. minister of war. The immediate cause of the angry sentiment is a sucDavid Shaud, who shot and killed cession of reports of Chinese diplo- Mrs. Ida Becker and Policeman Cyrus matic Intrigue with Russia at Peking Ehaeffer, was hanged at Lebanon, Pa., and of the Russian encroachment on Tuesday. Shaud, who became angry at Mrs. upon Korea. On the 19th It was wired that Mr. Ida Becker for testifying against him Uchlda, Japanese minister at Peking, In court, met the woman on the street the day before filed a formal demand and shot and killed her. When the on the Chinese authorities to open policeman went to arrest him at his ivloukden and Tal Tung Kout to for- home, Shaud also shot and killed him. eign trade and requested them not to Late Tammany Sachem Will Become accept even one article of the RusSubject of King Edward. sian demands. As to the opening of some time past rumors have For authe ports in question, the Chinese been afloat that Bourke Cockran of thorities replied that the circumstances were not favorable for compli- New York might be induced to accept ance. The British charge d'affaires, a seat in the British parliament and Mr. Townley, was reported to have taken the same stand as Japan. The Join the forces of the Irish party. United States demand for the opening Commenting on these reports, a Lonof the harbors is in addition to the don correspondent asserts that Mr. In this connection, Cockran is not only giving serious conother demands. negotiations are under way between sideration to the question whether it Secretary Hay and the Chinese am- will not be to his best interests to This reply make London his home henceforth, bassador In Washington. a but is also considering the renunciato the Japanese demand created movement in government circles. tion of his American citizenship. Lived 104 Years. To Electrify Mexico. John Burling, a resident of South Mr. McAdoo of New York, a promiWaira, New Zealand, has lived to th? nent street railway manager and forremarkable age of 104 years, having merly general manager of the street been born in 1800. He had resided at railway interests of Garrett A. His South Waira sixty-fou- r is to take charge of the Mexican years. eldest son is 78 years of age, and Traction company of Mexico City, Mexico. It is the intention of the comhis youngest son 61, his eldest grandpany to electrify immediately the exdaughter 50, eldest grandson 48, great isting horse-calines of the Mexican granddaughter 32. and the great.great Ti action company, to apply for congrandchild 17. Mr. Burling retains all cessions covering about 100 miles of additional track and to build up in the his faculties, walks about as vigorousCity of Mexico a modern street railly as ever. He has 350 living descendants. way system. e Ho-bai- t, r Celebrated King Peter's Birthday. Long Ride of Cyclist. The birthday of King Peter of George A. Wayman, a motor cyclist. Servia, was celebrated at Belgrade Las reached New York City on his maon Sunday and thanksgiving services chine from San Francisco, and has the were held throughout the country. distinction of being the first man to The king held a reception at the pal- cross the American continent oh a road vehicle.. He had ace and granted an amnesty in honor ridden, pedaled and pushed his maof the occasion. In which were into New cluded many military prisoners. The chine from San Francisco In stops. iork including fifty days, city was decorated and illuminated. It Is stated that the king will probWaymans route was through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iqwa, Illiably visit the czar in September. A crisis is expected to occur, involvnois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York. ing a reconstruction of the cabinet power-propelle- d MANChURIAN QUESTION MAY SULT IN HOSTILITIES. RE- and in a lia-- h had swung him FEMALE ENOCH ARDEN seif by the aid of an Iron girder to tho skylight and the next moment Jad WOMAN RETURNS HOME AFTER forced the skylight open and was out ABSENCE OF MANY YEARS the ujion the roof, sixty feet from te!!- g'oand Her Husband, BelievRudolnh grasped an electric light And Finds That Taken Another Has Her Dead, and ing to the ground wire thar extended Helpmeet. slid down fifty feet, when the wire him to the snapped, precipitating A woman in the role of Enoch ArAll the prom'iient Russian officials ground. Regaining his feet instantly, and Korea are he ran through Sergeant Dawson's den returned to Rockford, Ills., a few In China, e attending the conference at Port Ar- residence to tho street and was gone days ago, after an absence of twenty-onMrs. Twenty-onago years thur. Among them aie Minister of years. CAPITAL Louise Olson was Injured in a railroad War KuropatMn, Admiral Alexieff, the SHOOTING AT IDAHOS N. Y. She renear wreck Buffalo, Russia ministers at Peking and Seoul, Man Attempts to Kill His Wife and mind was not quite but her covered, the political agents in China and Life. Own His Takes Then clear and she wandered to France. Korea, including M. Poxotiloff, recentJohn Mitchell, of Boise. Idaho, a Another victim of the wreck died In at ly Russian financial representative of member Grand Army veteran and a the hospital and by mistake was Peking, General Dessino, the military tne legislature during the famous buried as Mrs. Olson. and In civil the military China, agent Wedon senatorial fight, t When Mrs. Olson returned to Rockofficials at Muekden, Harbin and Kirshot and severely wounded his nesday New of ford she found the two babies she administrator and the in, Shilling at a shot Henry wife, fired had left Hilda and Frank Chang. attracted by Mrs. Mitchells and The proceedings at the conference who, surprised beyond measure at her to an in attempt interfered return. Alex. Olson, her husband, she are enveloped in profound secrecy. It screams, himsave her life, and then, locking Is popularly supposed that the Rusfound living with his third the self in hn room, sent a bullet into second Mrs. Olson, whom hewife, married sian officials are considering war queshad Mitchells The his own brain while believing fully in his first wifes tions. numerous quarrels over thetr death, having died some years ago. The commercial foreign officers at had Mr. Olson identified the returned and separated once, but had New Chang and Port Arthur believe property as his first wife. The latter will reunited The shooting seems one become that the possibility of war is Increasrecognize the rights of the third wife by planned been carefully to have and will live with her recovered chiling steadily. The Russian policy Is Mitchell. Mitchell came to Boise dren. , believed to be to hold the Manchurian from Aspen, Colo, and has been reto avert no NO to and take MORE INTERFERENCE. steps position in mining. He leaves hostilities with Japan if it Is assured cently engaged Ml marone and son, two daughters Halt Has Been Called on the Vene- that Japan will fight unaided. The ried. zuela Rebels. war feeling among the Japanese in The China is intensifying. navy department, at the WANTED MEN BADLY. of the state department, has CONDUCTOR IS INSANE. Kansas Farmers nold Up Train in taken steps to prevent further InterSearch of Harvest Hands. ference with American shipping In AcciMan Responsible for Terrible Forty farmers stopped a Missouri the Orinoco river by either the govdent Loses His Mental Faculties. ernment or tho rebel forces. Pacific train at Bison, Kans., WednesInvestigation shows that twenty-on- e This action was taken upon the adand went through it searchnight day persons were killed In the wreck for harvest hands. The train or- vice of Mr. Russell, United States ing vf the Southern railway passenger does not stop there, and the charge at Caracas, dated on the 6th train at Rockfish, Va. All the bodies dinarily it by means of a lan- Inst., to the effect that the governfanners flagged have been recovered except that of tern wrapped in a red handkerchief. ment forces had detained two ships Passenger Engineer Davis. Several offered passengers $2.50 and $3 belonging to the Orinoco Steam Navof the injured are in a critical condi- They company at San Ferdino, and a day and three weeks work to get igation that the insurgents had detained and tion and their recovery Is doubtful. off the train. were likely to destroy three other The cause of the disaster has been ships belonging to the same company GREAT FIGHTER INSANE. officially reported as inattention to orat Ciudad Bolivar. Orders were caB ders, the freight conductor, W. bled to the United States ship BanM. Clay Will Be Sent to croft at Port of Gen. Cassius Spain to proceed at Brubeck, reading his orders to mean an Asylum. once up the Orinoco and release the that the passenger was one hour and detained vessels. General Cassius M. Clay was at twenty minutes late, when It should Wednesday have been twenty minutes. He al- Lexington, Kentucky, POISONED CHILDREN. the jury lowed the switch to remain open, last, by pronounced .orubeck is insane from mental to be of unsound mind. He will Russians Charged With Waging War About ten small children es- be sent to an asylum, this action beAgainst Infants. The London Daily Chronicles corcaped Injury, who, being foreigners, ing taken to protect property merely. cannot tell anything about their par- The aged man was not in court. Physi- respondent at Berlin says the Jewish ents, who were killed In the wreck. cians testified to his mental condition. population at Cracow, Galicia, is exThe little ones are being cared for by cited by reports of an Lunatic Leaps to Death. tue people of the city. similar to those at Made insane by a long Illness, persecution In the suburb of Kaslmersch James W. Brady, a wealthy real estate SLID DOWN WIRE. disturbances have broken out between operator living in New York City, Missouri Convict Makes Escape In broke away from his nurse and threw the Jews and Christians. It was re ported at Kasimersch that Russians Daring Manner. himself out of a second story win- were distributing poisoned candles to him saw Jewish children in Galician towns William Rudolph, the Union, Mo., dow. A passing policeman A dispatch from Cracow, capital ot bank robber and murderer, made his jump and seized him as he struck chiGalicia, Austria, says thirty-siInteron darthe pavement Brady, although escape from jail Monday in a ldren there have died after poisThe guards were en- nally injured, fought with him. He oned candies. Three men eating ing manner. have beea gaged in locking up the prisoners for was overpowered and taken to a hos- arrested as the perpetrators of the the night, when, as'Rudolph passed pital, but continued to fight off the crime. NEGROES FORCED TO FLEE. through the east entrance of the ex- doctors. Brady sustained fatal Inercise corridor, a fight broke but juries. Race War Started in Texas With among the prisoners In the west end. First Civilian President Probably Fatal Results. The majority of the guards ran to Senor Romano, the present presiWord reached Sour Lake, Texas, separate the fighting prisoners and dent of Peru, is the first civilian who Rudolph quickly ran up three flights has held that office during the last Friday morning that a brakeman on of stairs, jumped to the top of the quarter of a century or more. the Southern Pacific, Bud Thompson, had been shot and fatally wounded by a negro at Nome Junction. HIDDEN PICTURE PUZZLE. Indignation was expressed at Sour Lake when this news was made public, and in a few minutes notices were or thirty conposted in twenty-fivspicuous places about town. They read: Niggers, dont let the sun go down on you in Sour Lake tonight. At night two camps of negroes were . raided by a mob of 500 men. The neAbout 109 groes fled precipitately. shots were fired. It is not known whether any of the negroes were killed or wounded, as the shooting was in the darkness. War Feeling Amcng Japanese is Intensifying Wi. le Russia Will Take No Steps to Avert Hostilities. um e Shoup-Swee- n antl-Jewis- h Kish-inef- f. x e UNSPEAKABLE TURK. Terrible Outrages Committted Upon Bulgarians of Both Sexes. The Sofia correspondent of the London Times says the Austrian, Russian and British consular representatives at Uskub, European Turkey, who recently toured through the Vilayet, ascertained that terrible outrages had been committed by Turkish officials upon Bulgarians of both sexes. The publication of the stories at Sofia is producing horror and indignation. War is Inevitable. In spite of the reassuring official advices from Constantinople, the belief prevails In Salonica, European Turkey, that war between Turkey and is imminent. Bulgaria Bulgarian bands in Macedonia are being reorganized, under officers sent from Sofia, for use as scouts and guerillas, and a large concentration of troops is taking place in the hills near though orders have been issued to avoid an immediate conflict with the Turks, who are concentrating large forces at Koumanovi. Yen-idj- Mays Brother Is Teaching Klobes Strange Death. George A. Kolbe, for some time the business agent and general manager of tbe Marine Engineers Benevolent association, was found dead in bed at his home in New York, Tuesday. Early in May Kolbe came into prominence by reason of the strike of the marine engineers and by the fact that on May 4th he disappeared. About two weeks afterward he was found In San Francisco. Since his return to New York he has been under the care of brain specialists. Harvest Hands Wanted in Kansas. Over 5,000 men are yet needed in the Kansas harvest fields to save the great wheat crop. State Employment Agent Gerow has exhausted every effort to obtain men from outside the state, but announces that enough could not be secured. Reduced railroad fare has been obtained and high wages are being paid by the fanners. Ine points where men are needed most are Larned, Kingsley, Stafford, Kingman, Sterling, Great Bend,' Russell, Hayes City, Ellsworth, La Crosse, Lincoln and Osborne. Her to Shoot. Where Is Hef Disobeyed Orders. collision occurred Aromas, Cal., Wednesday,, bets trains 23 and 24, the north and sc bound passenger trains, respect! in which twelve people were mor less injured and one child serio hurt. The train for San Francisco orders to sidetrack at Aromas, instead of taking the switch at place continued pest the target crashed into the t which was almost at a standsti the main line just north of the sw A head-o- n south-boun- A Rich Gold Strike. Gold in what is declared to b almost as heavy paying quantitie in the famous beach sands of N is said to have been discovered the Alaskan shore where the Ai can White river empties Into the between Cape Yuktag and Icy C Mike Marvicb, a prospector, asi that in June he took out with a c rocker $1,200 worth of placer gol eleven days. The new find is but miles south of the Copper river, the region is said to also coi many evidences of oil. Explosion in Powder Works. An explosion in the California powder works at Pinole, Cal., killed Miss Mary Woods, a packer, and Injured four other employes. They were all badly bruised and burned. The explo-slooccurred in the cartridge bouse, which la totally destroyed, at a loss of $5,000. The explosion Is supposed to have been due to the fact that nail in an empty shell Ignited the primer and caused two kegs of black sporting powder to explode. Troubles in Turkey. There is room for doubt that the gravity of the situation In the Balkan principalities is dally and hourly i creasing. Sofia is practically in a state of siege. The streets are patrolled b J infantry and wherever over three P1 sons gather they are threatened with arrest The position of Prince Ferdinand becomes dally more precarious-Hiabrogation of statutory laws sod his treatment of the Danoff MinisUj have incensed his already disaffected subjects. |