Show confessed to assault on a four year old girl new braunfels tex july 20 1 a m A mob last night battered down the doors of the county jail and lynched samuel green a 16 year old negro boy who attempted a criminal assault e this place tuesday night on the four year old daughter ot win karbach a german farmer who olvce on the outskirts of the town the mob could not break into the cell where the prisoner was kept so the leaders thrust their guns through the opening of the steel walls and fired three the negro sank to the floor dead and the mob quietly dispersed the negro protested his innocence but the day had confessed his guilt to the sheriff he had been employed by karbach to work on the farm and went out to drive home some cattle the little child following it was while on this errand that the negro attempted the crime new Braun tela is a little german town thirty miles from san antonio in which the negroes even speak german and which has a stats reputation as a law abiding community it is also noted for the tact that during his trip through texas president roosevelt made a brief speech in german to the inhabitants commending them on their reputation as law abiding citizens RELIEF IS BROUGHT FROM DEATH DEALING HEAT record 0 deaths la bigger but temperatures pera tures in east are beginning to fall and worst Is over new york july 19 while the record of deaths and prostrations prost rations greatly exceeded that of yesterday there was a distinct diminution today in the temperature prevailing throughout the eastern section of the country although the midday mid day heat was everywhere terrific Is was broken by scattered thunder storms many of a awry violent character and toward evening the temperature fell rapidly with this welcome relief canie the announcement from the weather bu bui i reau tonight that the abatement in the heated term had been general and that moderate temperature would probably prevail for days in the middle atlantic and new england states in new york the highest temperature recorded was 95 one degree lower than that of yesterday when the highest record of tho season was reached philadelphia reported a slightly higher maximum range and in other cities the highest point of yesterday was not touched while everywhere a sharp fall was noticed beginning early in the afternoon i following are the maximum temperatures pera tures the maximum humidity and the deaths and prostrations prost rations from the effects of the heat new york maximum temperature 95 humidity 75 deaths 75 eions philadelphia maximum temperature humidity 48 deaths 10 eions 40 maximum temperature 92 humidity 77 deaths 4 eions 5 washington maximum temperature 92 humidity 95 death 1 eions 14 boston maximum temperature 91 humidity ca death 1 prostrations prost rations 2 pittsburg maximum temperature 87 humidity 70 deaths 5 alons 6 buffalo maximum temperature 76 humidity 81 As usual tha maximum official temperatures pera tures were everywhere exceeded by those prevailing in the crowded districts where the actual temperature frequently exceeded degrees the effect of the continued torridity of these days was painfully evident in the enormous increase of the number of deaths in new york while the death roll of yesterday was only twenty five that of today reached the appalling total of seventy five being nearly halt of those prostrated this was almost entirely due to the collapse of young children and aged persons choso whoso exhausted vitality was unequal to the strain of further suffering after a night of sweltering heat spent by thousands in the streets in public parks on piers along the river front and in ever vacant place that promised a breath of air the conditions that confronted the people of new york this morning were terrifying tho sun rose in a cloudless aay and hour after hour the heat grew more and more intense every ambulance was kept busy and by noon the hospitals were crowded with sufferers at 3 in the afternoon came the long prayed for relief when a terrific thunder storm and a deluge of rain burst over brooklyn on the lower part of manhattan and sections of new jersey in brooklyn two men were struck by lightning and seriously hurl and in jersey city ons man waa killed while the storm lasted only a few minutes and left the upper part of the city untouched the relief was almost instantaneous and from then on tho mercury fell steadily and a coo breeze sprang up after sun down edve assurance of a comfortable night even tho seashore resorts in the vicinity of new york did not escape tho heat and many prostrations prost rations occurred among the thousands that flocked to coney island and the other branches of the long island shore among tho distressing incidents of the day wat the killing of her infant in brooklyn by a young woman who was suddenly driven insane by ahe heat she stabbed the child lo 10 death and then made a vain attempt on her own life sanders a colored man irom mew haven went nad in the public park in east street and leaped into the river from harlem aft ho was rescued by boatmen alter a struggle in which he up set the boat and nearly drowned his rescuers several of the deaths reported were those of young people who had fallen asleep on fire escapes where they wera endeavoring to escape the stifling atmosphere of crowded tenements with bodies in the cold storage room of the city morgue the refrigerating system was touted to be out of order today and it was necessary to resort to the use of tons of ice in which the bodies were packed and fifty bodies were hurried to the potters field throughout new york state severe thunder storms with r ain and high winds served to moderate the heat in albany a terrific storm in the afternoon caused a fall in the temperature from 92 to 70 degrees within five minutes there were no prostrations prost rations one man was killed and two injured in this city by the collapse of a roo at the burden iron works during the storm six deaths due to heat and thirty prostrations prost rations reported in cincinnati in boston one death was reported due to the heat ASSASSINS ATTEMPT LIVES OF PROMINENT RUSSIANS procurator of holy synod comes near death and vice governor deu Is wounded by bomb J st petersburg july laa circumstantial report of an attempt on the life of constantine Constant lne chief procurator of the holy synod is current in st petersburg tonight but the associated press is un able to obtain confirmation of it the authorities and even the police at the where the attempt is reported to have been made disclaim all knowledge of any happening according to the report as M stepped from one of the coaches of the train from asars tsars koe seio where he Is resting during the summer to the plaford pla form a man about 2 years of age rushed up with a revolver in his hand but he was seized by a quick wilted passenger before he could shoot and vas turned over to the police attempt on vice governor july 19 late this afternoon ter noon two hours before karl leonard hohenthal had been sentenced to imprisonment for life at hard labor for the assassination of procurer general on february G last I 1 an attempt was made tc assassinate vice governor Deu as he was leaving the senate the vice governor had walked across the square when suddenly as he neared the police masters office a man on the curb threw a bomb from a distance of fifty paces the bomb fell short but the vies governor was blown off his feet by the terrific force of the explosion which shattered the windows in the neighborhood for a distance of hundreds of yards vice governor deutrich Deu was hastily i assisted to the police station he was burned and otherwise injured about the legs and bled profusely but his wounds are declared not to bo fatal i the bomb thrower was pursued by nai na i val cabets cadets but escaped plot against Nf chols london july 19 the moscow cor respond rot of the times says tha one of the topics of conversation during he proceedings of the congress was the alleged discovery of a military plot against emperor nicholas |