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Show X5he INDEPENDENT. D. C JOHNSON. PnbUaaea-. SPRINGVILLE, UTAH NEWS SUMMARY. Kin Edward's progress continues to be in every way satisfactory. During- July tbe total coinage executed exe-cuted at tbe mints of tbe United 8tates was $4,756,800. President Plaza will ask congress for an appropriation to enable Ecuador Ecua-dor to take part in tbe 81 Louis exposition. expo-sition. Thousands of acres of the Brazos valley. Texas, are said to be still submerged, sub-merged, but the waters are receding rapidly. Managua, Nicaragua, Democraeia states that tbe Tolcano Poas in Costa Eica is putting forth groaning sounds and emitting ashes. A mixed railway train was derailed sear Merut, India. Sixteen natives vera killed and thirty natives and Europeans were injured. So far sixty-seven bodies have been recovered from tbe Mount Kimbla solliery at Wollongong, N. S. W., where an explosion occurred. The object of the visit of the King of Italy to the German Emperor at the end of this month is to propose a reduction re-duction in continental armaments. John Pouter and Joseph VarTalz, Frenchmen, were killed by a cave-in on the seventh level of the Homestake mine, Lead. S. D., just before quitting time. Tacoma reports wheat receipts for July, 16,000 bushels, bringing the total receipts for the first eleven months of the crop year up to nearly 14,000,000 bushels. In a collision off Malacca, Straits Semblant, between tbe British steamer Prince Alexander and Ban-Hin-Guan, tbe former vessel was sunk and forty lives were lost. Charles Kearney, a deaf mute who had a national reputation as a teacher of the deaf and dumb, shot and killed himself at Decatur, 111. Ill health was piven as tbe cause. According to a report made to the New York board of health the recent death of Alfred Groneberger, 14 months old. was due to the bite of a mosquito, which caused erysipelas. Provost Marshal Farquhar, so far as possible, is preventing the troops from mingling with the strikers at Shenandoah. Shenan-doah. Altogether there are a little over 1,400 men in the camp. A ruling has just been made by the attorney-general of Hawaii to the effect ef-fect that ex-Queen Liliuokalani must pay tbe income tax on her annual allowance al-lowance of $7,500 from the Territory. Two more of tbe robbers who held up a Mexican Central train and secured 130,000 from the Wells-Fargo exprese car have been captured at Gomez, Palacio, and nearly 130,000 has been recovered. Many people spent the night In the tree tops around Quinlan, Tex., Tuesday Tues-day night and were rescued with difficulty diffi-culty the following morning with boats brought from Greenville and Paris for that purpose. No men have been sent to the anthra cite coal regions from Philadelphia to act as mine guards for more than two weeks past. The reason assigned is that the bit? operators found the ex pense too heavy. Lee Newton, a negro, has been lynched by a mob in the Cornie bot toms, twenty-five miles from Magnolia, Ark. A month aaro the neero was found in the room of twoyoung daugh lers of a prominent family. The Denver Horse Show association has sent Peesident Roosevelt an invi tation to attend its annual exhibition and to act as judge of the rough riding contest which will take place on the opening day, September 1st. Progressive terrorizing of the Rus- ' sian press, which characterized tbe regime of M. Sipiagun, the minister of the interior, who was assassinated last April, appears to have been adopted as settled policy by his successor, M. Von Plehve. Lisbon, N. I)., was tbe center of a hurricane and destructive hail storm Crops in that section are totally destroyed. de-stroyed. Barns and outhouses were wrecked and dwelling bouses and stores unroofed. Several persons were injured. Calmer estimates of the significance of the unprecedented Liberal victory In last week's parliamentary election in Leeds indicates little real basis for tbe alleged renewed hopes that the Liberals are gaining control of tbe gov eminent. The confessed inefficiency of the British postal telegraph service is revealed re-vealed in a circular of instruction to the effect that a considerable percent age of the 3,000 operators employed in the central office are inexperienced and inefficient. A prairie schooner loaded with six smuggled Chinamen, pilotediinto this country from Mexico by an American, has been captured near Douglas, Ariz., by custom guards. The driver of the wagon escaped, but the Chinamen are In custody. The delay in appointing a postolic delegate to Manila is due to the desire of the Vatican to please the Washington Washing-ton authorities by sending to the Philippines Phil-ippines an American prelate, and the Vatican is now awaiting letters from the United States. New preparations for the coronation of King Edward cext Saturday are proceeding rather mechanically. The erection of the familiar street barriers, tbe cleansing and decorating of the stands and the rehandling of the deco rations attracts little attention. Convicted by a jury of murdering h wife, William Tread well, of Norfolk Va., will not sanction the application of his counsel for a new trial. He de elares that he secured the pistol with which he killed his wife with the in tention of killing himself as well. A news ageaey dispatch from Sbaag- bal says a serious hitch has occurred between Sir James L. Mack ay aad the Chinese treaty commissions, threatening threaten-ing to interrupt the negotiations look-.ng look-.ng to the adoption of the former's ' scheme for Chinese tariff revision. STARVED BABES TO DEATH. CHICAGO WOMAN ARRESTED ON A VERY GRAVE CHARGE. Doctor Called to Attend Baby Refused to Issue Death Certificate, Claiming Child Bad Been Starred to Death. The police of Chicago have arrested Mrs. Neel Campbell on a charge of allowing al-lowing an infant to die from insufficient insuf-ficient nourishment. It is alleged that within the last three years eight other infanta have been buried from the woman's house. Dr. Wellfeld was called to the Campbell Camp-bell house to attend tbe infant, which has since died. He found it in such a condition that he refused to issue a death certificate declaring that the child died of starvation. The assertion that eight children have died in the bouse , is made by Viola Campbell, fourteen years of age. Mrs. Campbell says that she is the mother of the girl, who claims that Mrs. Campbell said on other occasions that she was not a relative of hers. Concerning the children who, according accord-ing to tbe girl, have died in the house, Viola Campbell says that they were received re-ceived from a woman living on Wells street in Chicago. She says that they were obtained by Mrs. Campbell because be-cause her husband threatened to leave her because they were without children. chil-dren. None of the children lived long. Mrs. Campbell alleges that the child that died Friday was the daughter of her dead sister and while denying that there have been eight deaths in the bouse, admitted to the police that three children had died in her bouse witmn the last few months. CHARGE AGAINST BULLER Used Army Medical Wseons With Red Cross to Carry Ammunition. Surgeon-General Hamilton, before a meeting of the British Medical association associa-tion at Manchester, definitely charged that General Sir Redvers Buller, during dur-ing the Boer war of 1881, used army medical wagons with the Red Cross thereon for taking ammunition to the front, and armed the bearer companies, using them as escorts. The Surgeon-General declared his authority for the statement was the principal medical officer, to whom the orders were issued, and he added that the British could not complain at the Boers doing what General Buller bad done twenty years previously. GYPSY CHILD-STEALERS. Kidnapers of Little Tots Arrested Near Marlon, Iud. Several members of a band of gypsies are imprisoned in the county jail at Marion, Ind., charged with child-stealing. The three-year-old daughter of Henry Herman, a glass manufacturer, was stolen from the home of her grand parents, where her parents had left her while they were enjoying an outing. out-ing. Gypsies driving past the house kidnaped the child and drove south ith her. In South Marion they stopped at a saloon, where the little girl was recognized by Mr. Wilson, a friend of her parents. Mr. Wilson rescued the child from her captors and took her to his own home. Later the gypsies were pursued and arrested. Lyncher Arrested. Harry Nipple is under arrest charged with being implicated in the lynching of Craven at Losburg,Va.,on Thursday night. Nipple was taken before Justice Wood, but remanded to jail without a further hearing, which al the request of the Virginia authorities was postponed nntil next week. He has employed sounsel to resist removal to Virginia. Nipple, it is charged, welded one of the sledge hammers with which the door of Craven's cell was smashed in Miners In Fonr States Propose to Go on Strike on September 1st. president George S. Richardson of the Miners' organization in the Kansas district, states that the miners of Kan sas, Missouri, Arkansas and Indian .territory win go on a strike on Sep tember 1st. The recent inter-state conference decided to postpone a strike until next year. Since that time, how er, ueveiopmenis make it necessary to strike in order to enforce a recogni tion of the union from certain companies. com-panies. Inquiry Into Mysterious Death of Iowa Legislator. Physicians hold that A. M Pntto. the state legislator of Waverly, Iowa wuu was iouna unconscious at a Des Moines hotel on Friday night, died from morphine or chloral poisoning. as me inquest it developed -that Potter bad purchased laudanum. Frank E. Scott of Muscatine, who was with Potter on Friday night, could not wui iney am. Tbe inquest was adjourned to await the result of sbemical examination of the stomach. Dael With Knives. Two negroes, John Arnold and Wes ley Davis, fought a duel to the death a w-v near Independence, Texas. Sundav nignu .me men had a difficulty sev eral weeks previously, and meeting in tne roast agreed to fight it out. Each was armed with a kn'fe with a blade ix inches long and both were horribly wu. uu siasnea. uavis managed to stab Arnold to the heart and then came to Brenham, where he gave him self np. He will probably die from bis wounds. ke Leaders' Spring a Surprise. The leaders of the striking Pennsyl vania miners promise to spring a sur prise in a few days. They claim that alter an investigation they find that miners' certificates are being issued contrary to law and that the recipients of the certificates, many of whom, it is alleged never say the inside of a coal mine, are being pressed into tbe service ser-vice of the coal companies. In this way, it is declared, the companies are Increasing the number of their employees. em-ployees. Strange Freak of Lightning. During a severe electrical storm at Troy, 111., a cross-shaped fissure was formed in the ground, one arm of which is forty feet long and about six inches wide and the other twenty feet long and six inches wide. Where the arms of the cross converge there is a hole two feet iu diameter and a line 150 feet long, weighted down with lead, failed to touch bottom. The theory advanced is that a bolt of lightning entered the ground. Those in the vicinity assert that no unrraal bolt was noticed. BATTLE STILL RAGING. Kb(SbmoI Between Rebels aad Govern. tnent Troops at Afis Dnlee Coatlaaes. "Battle still being fought desperately." desper-ately." These were the words contained con-tained in a dispatch received at the Colombian legation Sunday from Gen. Salazar, the governor of the department depart-ment of Panama, and were in answer to a message asking that official for information in-formation regarding the contest which has been in progress since Tuesday at Agua Dulce, when the Colombian revolutionists revo-lutionists began to attack that place. The officials bere are anxiously awaiting additional news of this battle-The battle-The understanding here is that the government's force of about 7,000 men is engaged with a large portion of the Revolutionists who have in the department depart-ment of Panama about 4,000 men in all. Agua Dulce, about seventy miles from Panama, is in an inaccessible part of the country for ready communication. commu-nication. It requires eight days to make the overland journey, while water communication is very irregular and is carried on mainly by small boats. FORTY WAIFS IN JAIL. Chicago Probation Officers Gather In Many "Baby Beggars." Under direction of the probation officers of-ficers the police of Chicago made a tour of the principal down-town retail streets Wednesday night and gathered in as many as they could of the scores of little children who are sent into the streets nightly to beg and peddle. Forty children, boys and girls, all between 4 and 7 years of age, were gathered in. Each "waif-finding wagon" wag-on" was preceded a half block by two policemen, who picked up the little ones and put them into the wagons. Many others escaped the officers. The children are held at the Harrison street police annex pending an investigation investi-gation in the case of each child by the Visitation and Aid society. 1 be raids will be kept up until the streets are cleared of baby beggars. Got What Me Was Looking- For. Charles Anderson of Hagerstown, Md., the son of wealthy parents, who is making a leisurely tour of the west for the purpose of studying human nature and acquainting himself with the actual condition of enforcedly idle and tramp tourist class, was set upon in the railroad yards at Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colo., by three hoboes whom he was studying and badly beaten. Anderson Ander-son and the trio had retired to a box car for the night, and the assault was committed there. He was robbed of a large sum of money, a gold watch and a fountain pen besides other small articles of jewelry. Anderson has wired home for money and will continue con-tinue his travels to Los Angeles, his western objective point. Cholera In Manila. While cholera is increasing in Manila, the reports from the provinces show a large number of cases and deaths. August 2, there were 605 cases and 535 deaths from cholera in the provinces. Since the outbreak of the epidemic there has been throughout tbe archi pelago a total of 21,408 cases of chol era and 16,105 deaths. It is believed that many cases were not reported and the total number of cases is estimated at 28,000. Forty-eight Americans and eighteen Europeans have died in Manila since the outbreak. WAR ON MOSQUITOES. New York Health Board to Exterminate the Pest. President Lederle of the New York health board has decided to wage systematic sys-tematic and scientific warfare against mosquitoes. He will assign seventeen inspectors to go over all the territory in the malaria district of Greater New York. They will make maps of ponds and indicate wherever there is a pool of stagnant water. Twenty-five barrels of oil will be placed on tbe Central Park. water in KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Rural Mail Carrier 8trnck by Bolt From Sky. A Guthrie, Oklahoma, dispatch says: Charles Campbell, a rural mail carrier between Billings and Bliss, Oklahoma, was instantly killed by being struck by lightning when returning from a daily trip. The accident occurred near Harper ville. In the same neighbor hood A. L. Freeman, a harvester sales man, was struck by lightning and ren dered unconscious for several hours. Body of a Woman Found Burled In the Sand. The body of Mrs. George Wolf, who has been missing since June 27, has been found buried in the sand four miles south of Chippewa Falls, Wis, Mrs. Wolf was last seen alive on the night of June 27, driving with her husband, hus-band, who has since disappeared. Geo Bollinger, while prodding the earth with a wire, discovered the body, Marks on the body indicate that death was inflicted with a very blunt instru ment or stone. Fire In a Famous Mine. Fire has appeared at the fourth level of the United Verde mine at Jerome, Arizona, the fumes of burning sulphur pervading the entire mine. An at tempt has been made to bulkhead the level, but with the air being pumped from the surface the men could only work for a few minutes at a time. The company has been compelled to close down the mina and smelter, and has reduced its train service on the railroad from three trains each way to one per day. Drowned While Bathing. . A special from Grand Junction. Colo., says Ogden Greenough, the joint agent at Debeque, went in swimming just before dark in the Grand river. He was alone and after being in the water only a short time was seized with cramps and sank from view. Two small boys standing on the bank saw the unfortunate man go down and hastened to the station and gave the alarm. A party was soon organized and it was not long before tbe body was recovered, but it was beyond re suscitation. W. C West, a plumber and for near ly twenty years a resident of Grand Junction, Colo., suicided by entering tbe botany room of tbe High school building and taking a scalpel from the table slashed his throat in several places. After consultation with the treasury department the revenue collector at New York has seized a. pearl necklace- Tallied at $12,800, which was found i in the baggage of a prominent Phil a delphia woman who returned recently from Europe and who failed to declar lae jewels. BLEW UP THE PRISON WALLS FIFTEEN CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM THE TENNESSEE PENITENTIARY. Led by a Train Kobber. a Snccessruil Rush Is made. One Man Being Killed In the Fight Bloodhounds Placed on Track of Fugitives. Armed with dynamite to blow his way out of prison, Gus Hyatt, tbe train robber and desperado, led a desperate band of sixteen convicts to liberty from the Tennessee penitentiary. Fifteen of the escaping party got en tirely clear of the premises, but one. Ed. Carney, a safe blower, sent up from Nashville, paid the penalty of death in tbe bold undertaking. Joe Loss and James Work were tracked down by bloodhounds and captured, cap-tured, but the rest of the prisoners had gone so far out of bounds by midnight that no trace of them could be had. The prisoners were evidently fur nished the dynamite from tbe outside and used it in blowing out an opening in the main wing of the prison. Hyatt stood off the inside guard with a brace of revolvers, which had also been furnished him from the outside, while the men preceded him to liberty. The dynamite was laid by Doe, the Winchester train robber, and he made good his escape. Six of the prisoners that got away were government convicts and the others were state convicts. Posses with bloodhounds are in pursuit. Huge Dock to be Built In America and Floated to the Philippines. The navy department will soon call for bids for a huge floating dock to ac-commodate ac-commodate a 16,000-ton battleship, to be built in the United States and floated over to the Philippines. This will be one of the largest floating dry docks ever constructed. The amount available is 81,550,000 and Admiral Endieott of the bureau of yards and docks has already completed the specifications under which the huge structure will be built. Whether it will be towed across the Pacific or across the Atlantic through the Suez canal will depend upon the place of its construction, but in any event the towing of this gigantic steel structure such a distance will be a formidable undertaking. SAYS WAR IS ENDED. McCrea Says Outbreak In Haytl Is Prac tically Over. Captain McCrea of the gunboat Machias has cabled the navy department depart-ment that the outbreak in Hayti is practically over. The cablegram, which it dated Cape Haytien, Aug. 4, is as follows: "After interviewing authori- o ties, aspect of affairs appear more sat isfactory. Nationales are well armed. Rebels have been driven from critical positions. Little enthusiasm. - No further dancer of serious disturb. ances," GROWTH OF PE :nsion Pension ROLL. xen xnonsand Hew Pensioners Dne ta y Legislation. Commissioner of Pensions Ware says that the legislation enacted by the last session of congress will result in at least 10,000 new pensioners. The num ber of pensioners on July 1 of this year was 999,440. This shows a steady growth of the roll for a number of years. Commissioner Ware savs that this growth was accounted for by the constant new pension legislation by congress. Chinese Not Wanted In Sonth Africa. The Johannesburg correspondent of the London Times strongly protests. in a dispatch, against the attempts of some influential houses to remedy tbe scarcity of labor by the introduction into the colony of Chinese, and de clares if those attempts are seriously pushed the government must intervene. inter-vene. The correspondent adds that the government has already undertaken to promote immigration of women to South Africa by assisting them with passage money and advancing the remainder re-mainder of the funds for the journey. Miners are Refused Food. The headquarters of the Ninth dis trict, United Mine Workers, at Shamo- kin, Pa., were visited Monday bv hundreds of men asking for aid. They were accompanied by wives aud chil dren. Orders on Stores for rtrnvisinnn were issued only to strikers in pood standing in the order. A number of applicants who have worked in the mines for years tried to obtain aid, but were refused, wherennnn thtr r "V threatened to go to work as non-union men. Brutally Whipped by Mob. William Dodwell, a farmer living near Yelvington, Ivy., .was taken from his home at midnight, bound to a tree and beaten with a blacksnake whip, until he was almost unconscious from loss of blood. Over seventy-five lashes were administered. The bark was worn from the tree where the ropes which bound the unfortunate man touched it, and the whip left marks on the tree. Dod well's wife and daughter daugh-ter attempted to go to his rescue, but were prevented by the mob. Senator Qaav Has an Exciting Experience at Sea. United States Senator M. S. Quay has had an exciting experience at Atlantic At-lantic City, N. J. He was out in a little fishing smack, enjoying a day's deep sea sport, when be was caught in the fierce storm and swept to sea. The senator was fishing with his old friend, Captain Sooy. They were about ten miles out when the storm . came. At one time it looked as if the boat would be swamped, but it rode tbe storm out in safety. Strike Settled by Arbitration. The street railway strike at Ironton, Pa., has been amicably settled after a conference between Secretary Joseph Bishop of the state board of arbitra tion. General Attorney Vinson and Local Attorney Johnson of the Camden company, and a committee of five strikers. An agreement was effected by the recognition of tbe union and tbe reinstatement of discharged union men, who are considered bonest and efficient servants. All tbe old employ es on the Ironton division are on duty again. ! 7" de4 TROYED BY EARTHQUAKE. California Town Almost Completely Destroyed De-stroyed by Seismic Disturbance. A strip of country fifteen miles long by four wide, rent with gaping fissures and dotted with hills and knolls that sprung up during the night as if by magic, a village in ruins and hundreds of people fleeing for their lives are the results of a seismic disturbance in the prosperous and fruitful valley of Los Alamos in the northern part of Santa Barbara county, California. , The disturbances began on Sunday evening with a shock which caused several hundred thousand dollars of damage to property in the village and the surrounding country, being more severe and more disastrous in the vicinity vi-cinity of the Western Union Oil company's com-pany's oil wells on the .Carrlga ranch. This shock was followed by a number of disturbances less severe and less disastrous continuing through tbe remainder re-mainder of Sunday night and Monday forenoon. On Tuesday night beginning at 12:10 o'clock there was another series of seveJi shocks, all of which were light. The general direction of these disturbances disturb-ances was east and west and in action resembled the waves on a pool of water. The most severe shock of the entire serjs occurred at 1:20 o'clock Thurs-d3A Thurs-d3A morning, when the hills were shaken and twisted to their foundations founda-tions and the valleys trembled and rolled like the unstable surface of the ocean. Great fissures were run in the earth, hills and knolls appeared in level valleys, val-leys, springs of water opened up in places that had been dry, and the general gen-eral topography of the valley was greatly changed in many respects. The disturbance had do general direction, di-rection, but was what" is known as a "twister." It was preceded by n, rumbling rum-bling like that of distant thunder which increased until the earth began to rock and twist and the hills began to tremble. A conservative estimate of the loss to property in the village is 830,000, and this amount will probably be greatly increased by the damage done property in surrounding country. TRACY IS AMBITIOUS. Wants to Hold l'p a Bank or Rob an Express Ex-press Car. According to the latest reports, Harry Tracy, the fugitive desperado, is now in eastern Washington, unwoubded, in good health, armed with four guns and 200 rounds of ammunition, provisioned for five days and equipped with two horses. Tracy declares that he wants to hold up a bank or rob an express car. He 'says that he has promised to give the sum of $5,000, within one year, to the parties who helped him escape from the Oregon penitentiary. ne is making his way to the "Hole-in-the-Wall" in Wyoming. When there he declares he will be a "thief among thieves" and thinks he will be safe. Well Known Salt Laker Enacts Role iu Tragedy. In Salt Lake Citv. Friday nio-ht. " ' W. McCaslin, a well known oil man, shot and killed Miss Lottie Russell, a young waitress, fired a bullet into tbe reast of Max Feters. causincr a wound that may prove fatal, and then turned tbe revolver on himself, sendinrr a bul let into his right temple. It seems McCaslin had been drinking heavily and had had trouble with his wife, which probably preyed upon his mind. He was returning to the city from the Salt Palace with a party among whom were Miss Russell and Mr. Peters. Suddenly McCaslin drew his revolver and began firing with the result above tated. ENTOMBED IN MINE. Explosion In New Sonth Wales Colliery, with Heavy Loss of Life. An explosion which resulted in heavy loss of life has occurred in the Mount Kimbla colliery at Wollongong, a port forty miles from Sydney, N. S. W. Twenty-seven bodies have been recovered. The buildiners at the moutb of the pit were wrecked. One hundred and forty-nine miners were rescued, but 100 are still entombed. It is feared that their release is bone less. A portion of the colliery is on fire. The Marcos Island Dispute. A dispatch from Tokio says the Japanese press treats the matter of the ownership of Marcos island (which is claimed by an American citizen and also by the Japanese government) calmy. The' correspondent says that public opinion is evidently convinced that the United States may be trusted to act with strict justice and that the so-called guano deposits are illusory, as tbe island is subject to heavy rains, which wash the guano out. Forty-Four Shiploads, of Landed. sugar to be Forty-four steamships, one of the largest fleets in the history of the sugar trade, are now either on their way to the Delaware breakwater or taking on cargoes in Java, and within the next few weeks will land on the piers of the Atlantic coast refineries not less than 250,000 tons of the raw product. All the ships are large, modern carriers, whose cargoes, which are loaded in Java, are at least 5,500 tons each. No Starvation Order. Federal Judge Keller of Charleston, W. Va., has given out the following statement: "I would like to have a correction of a statement circulated that I had issued an injunction such as has been denominated the "Starvation "Starva-tion order," not from personal reasons, but on account of the effect such false statement might have upon the strug gle now .going on between labor and capital. I have issued no order re stricting the furnishing of supplies to striking miners." Fatal Ending of Debauch. Warren Johnson and Joseph Bord- sons of prominent families, of n - Salinas, Cal., were fatally shot by an abandoned woman, who then attempted at-tempted suicide, but was prevented from killing herself. Johnson received two bullets in the abdomen and it is said cannot survive. Borages was shot in the back, the ball piercing the right lung. The shooting is believed to have taken place after a debauch and violent quarrel. The woman is under arrest and both of her victims are expected to die, HOSE TURNED ON MOURNERS. OUTRAGEOUS ATTACK MADE UPON FUNERAL FUNER-AL PROCESSION. Hebrews In Sew York City, While Escorting Their .Dead to Cemetery, are Attacked by Factory Employes and a Fierce Fight Ensues. Tbe funeral of the late Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph, head of the orthodox Hebrews of the United States, which was held in New York Wednesday, was the occasion of one of the most remarkable remark-able demonstrations ever witnessed in this city, and led to a conflict between tbe masses of Jewish mourners and the police. When the procession was passing the printing press factory of R. Hoe & Co., on Grand street, on its way to the cemetery cem-etery in Brooklyn, the employes of the factory emptied pails of water from the windows of an upper floor upon the spectators massed upon the sidewalk. Pail after pail, it is said, was emptied on the throng, which shouted and struggled and stampeded in vain to escape. Then overalls and clothing soaked in watercame down from above, and even toools, scraps of steel, bolts and a dead cat. Tbe angry populace, most of whom were Hebrews, retaliated by throwing back into the factory windows the missiles mis-siles that fell on them. They also gathered stones and sticks and in a few minutes there was scarcely a whole pane of glass on the Grand street side of the factory. Then some one in the factory turned on a hose and played it indiscriminately indiscriminate-ly all over the funeral procession. At one time as many as five streams were playing on the crowds. Drivers of mourning carriages whipped up their horses, trampling over citizens, and the stronger men trampled women and children in their efforts to escape. The police in the meantime had taken a hand in the trouble and were clubbing the people right and left. They were unable, however, to cope with the crowd, and the reserves of half a dozen precincts were dispatched to the scene. It was more than half an hour before order was restored, and the streets in the vicinity of tbe fact-Dry fact-Dry cleared. A number of arrests were made, among them several employees em-ployees of the Hoe company. Many persons were found about the itreet bleeding from wounds on their heads and other parts of their bodies. Ambulances had been summoned in the meantime and three responded. The lurgeons were kept busy for some time dressing the wounds of the injured Several policemen also were injured, receiving cuts and bruises. Two men were taken to the hospital, one of them having sustained internal injuries and contusions and the other a sprained leg. Herbert Hoe of the company made a statement after the trouble was over, in which he says fighting was going on in the ranks of tbe procession as it passed the factory; that some of those attacked were forced to the door of the omce, and there the fighting continued, while missiles thrown by the crowd broke many windows of the factory. Then it was, says Mr. Hoe, that his employees tried to drive the assailants back by hurling missiles at them and finally turning water on the crowd. Saw Tracy in Nebraska. ' Dr. Hale of Ravenna, Neb., says that Monday night a stranger applied to him to have some wounds dressed. Several bullet wounds appeared on the man's breast, one of the bullets having penetrated the entire body. The man carried two revolvers and was very reticent re-ticent as to his identity and the origin of the wounds. From newspaper photographs photo-graphs and descriptions Dr. Hale thinks the man may have been Harry Tracy, the Washington murderer. Engineer Dies at His Post. In a collision at Elm Grove, Wis,, between a passenger train and a freight train, Dennis Connell, the engineer of the passenger train, was killed and Fireman Chamberlain was badly injured. in-jured. Several passengers on tbe passenger pas-senger train were bruised, but none sustained serious injury. The freight had orders to take the siding at Elm Grove, but before it could be backed up the passenger hove in sight. Engineer Connell was powerless to avoid the crash. lie died at his post, sacrificing his life to save his train. Truffle In Chinamen. A prairie schooner, loaded with six smuggled Chinamen, piloted into this country from Mexico by an American, has been captured near Douglas, Ariz, by custom guards. The driver of the, wagon escaped, but the Chinamen are in custody on the charge of violating the exclusion act. Detective Riley of the Bisbee railway. Bays Chinamen have been smuggled into the United States regularly for some time by means of movers' wagons, which have failed to arouse the suspicion of the border guards. Base Ball Players Hart. The wagon containing the Ilion State league baseball team, on its way to the ball grounds at Binghampton, N. Y., was struck by an Erie passenjrer train at a erossing. Tbe driver, a colored man, was killed. L. W. Hess, of Nanticoke, father of Pitcher Hess, was internally injured and is not expected ex-pected to live. Manager Howard Earl of the Ilion team was internally injured, in-jured, as also Pitcher Hess. Signor, who was riding on the driver's seat, had one leg broken. Floods In Texas. Flood conditions in the Brazos valley, val-ley, Texas, continue to grow steadily worse. Tbe river is again rising about Waco and the crest of the flood was only a short distance below that point this morning. Tbe whole of the low land is inundated and water yet to come down which will put tbe river over the record mark. Railroad and wagon bridges are washed out and railroads are again in very bad shape. Every stream in tbe state has more water in them than for years. Tacoma Han on Wny to His Wedding Is, Slugged and Robbed. Michael McNilly, a young man who lately came from Tacoma, Wash., to marry Miss Naoma Turner of Milo, a village six miles south of Nevada, Mo., was slugged and robbed near the latter place at a late hour Wednesday night. He was knocked insensible," but it is thought be will recover. A new suit of clothes, a diamond ring, $150 in cash and a draft for between $300 and $400 was taken from him. TRIALS OF A POET. Seme Humorous Experiences of Per sion Commissioner Ware. Eugene F. Ware got to be commissioner commis-sioner of pensions in spite of being a poet, and not because of It. So declares de-clares a Kansas man, who said that poem of Ware's "The Washerwoman's Song." defeated him for congress and threatened to kill him politically. "There are a lot of rigidly orthodox preachers out in Kansas, and when Gen. Funston's father was contesting the nomination for congress with Ware the preachers cited the poem to prove that the author was not sound on miracles, and they nominated Funston. "After the convention a Baptist preacher who headed one of the delegations dele-gations met Ware and said: " "We'd like to have voted for you, 'Gene, but you wrote one poem too many.' " 'The Washerwoman's Song also caused a philanthropist to pour the vials of his wrath upon Ware's head. The man was touched by the poem and sent Ware $10 for the washerwoman. washer-woman. Of course the check was returned re-turned with the explanation that the woman was a creation of his imagination, imagina-tion, and the return mail brought the hottest blast that Ware ever got. "The philanthropist was mad clear through. He declared that the poet was trifling with the higher qualities of human nature in wringing people's hearts over imaginary ills, and that he ought to be locked up for it. "Ware was in doubt whether ha ought to feel tickled or penitent, but he kept out of the philanthropist's way." STEAMER WITH A HISTORY. Three Nations at One Time Searching for Outlaw of the Sea. An extraordinary "bad character" of a vessel, the Pennebanke, was built for a grain ship, but soon found the trade too slow. She vanished, and turned up suddenly sud-denly in the east as the Kelpie, where she very soon got into trouble with the British government for smuggling arms into the Persian gulf. She slipped away, not an hour too soon to escape capture; and being "wanted" badly, she appeared next as a German vessel on the South American Amer-ican coast, painted rusted, and renamed renam-ed the Graf Schwarzfels. The usual revolutions were in full swing, and she did a trade for six months in restoring re-storing political exiles who had money mon-ey to move with. By this time there were three separate sep-arate nations clamoring for the Pennebanke, Pen-nebanke, and she vanished utterly, turning up on the other side of the world In a suit of galley-green paint, rechristened the Shah-in-Shah. There she turned her attention to a little pearl-poaching, and did very well till a fast Spanish gunboat caught her and plumped a shell through her engine en-gine room. She was taken to port a captive. But her crew actually managed to tinker up the wrecked engines "on the quiet," and got her away, but she was soon afterward sunk by a cyclone cy-clone off the Malay coast. Congressman Cannon Poetic. Every once in a while Representa tive Cannon becomes poetical. At a night session, when the House was discussing a bill for protecting forests, for-ests, Mr. Cannon described in flowing flow-ing language how the moss under the trees held the water, and how the water in the dry season percolated through the roots of the trees. "And as the water feeds down from the headwaters through the counties and the states," he continued, "and again through other states, singing as it goes, it makes the frogs and the grasshoppers rejoice, and keeps our descendants from crying for bread." "Well," remarked Mr. Sherman, when Cannon had concluded, "the gentleman from Illinois has demonstrated demon-strated that wherever else the moss grows, it does not grow on his back. I think he has further demonstrated that .musical and rippling as are the streams he has described, they are less musical than his voice, and less rhythmical than his felicity in rolling out words." Had Changed His Mind. One of the most interesting men on the Yale faculty is Prof. Brewer of the scientific department. Men who have studied under him declare that there is no subject on which he is not a competent authority. They tell at Yale of a student who once posted himself on some esoteric Chinese subject by reading a recondite recon-dite encyclopaedic article, and, fully primed, sought to "stick" the professor. profes-sor. Prof. Brewer talked familiarly on the subject, but, to the student's delight, expressed views radically different dif-ferent from the encyclopaedia's. "You must admit you are wrong for once, professor," said the student, triumphantly. tri-umphantly. "I have looked the matter mat-ter up, and So-and-So's encyclopaedia utterly disagrees with you." "Very true,' replied the professor, composedly, "but a great deal of new Information has come to light that has changed my mind completely since I wrote the article for the encyclopaedia." ency-clopaedia." The Amenities Preserved. From Shenandoah, Pa., comes the tale of a local bad man who, within the weeks of his release from Jail after serving a sentence for general disorderand dissipation.made an evening even-ing call on a tavern keeper who was doing his level best to conduct what is known as a "respectable place." The visitor was coolly received; but he hung on, making a glorious effort to obtain recognition Irom this and that customer of the evening, and finally by sheer persistence compelling the proprietor to enter in conversation. Nobody offered to treat him, however, nd as midnight came and the tav-erner tav-erner was making ready to close, the oad 'un said: "Mike, I'm broke as you know; but I guess I can have a little drink can't I until I call again." "No you can't," was Mike's prompt reply. "But you can have the best and biggest drink in the house if yo promise not to call again." Origin of the "Pilgrim's Bottle." In the pottery trade of England there is a shape known as "The Pilgrim's Pil-grim's Bottle" whici was originally made of coarse grale of yellow or grayish red , clay. The bottles were flat sided flasks and were made in the neighborhood of New Forest, Hampshire. They were made with a flat bottom on which they stood firmly and with a short nozzle with two ear? which were pierced to admit of a core" or strap being run through them that the Dottles might be slung over the shoulders. The date when these pieces' of earthenware were first made is thought to have been mrly in the eighteenth century. NORTHWEST NOTES. Mack Shely, a logger in Frame's . camp, near Orting, Wash., was struck by a freight train and killed. The back of his skull was crushed. Ernest Sprague was drowned in a pond while bathing near Ashland, Mont. Sprague dived from the bank and failed to come up. His remains were found later stuck in tbe mud. It is now thought that W. J. H. White, the absconding treasurer of tbe San Francisco board of public works, is In Seattle. White's wife has returned to her parents from Chicago via Seattle. Se-attle. Oliver C. Davis, a member of the Salvation Sal-vation Army of Portland, Oregon, is under arrest in that city on a charge of embezzling 8800 from a Bchool district dis-trict at Oberlin, Decatur county, Kan., eight years ago. George W. Baldwin, the ninteen-year-old lad who in Portland, Ore., fought a duel with bare fists recently with Frank Carlson, in which the latter was killed, has been booked on a charge of manslaughter. -orious forest fires have broken out in Leyden gulch, four miles north of Golden, Colo., and also on Crozier mountain, twelve miles north of Estes park. The extreme dry weather is re sponsible for the spread of the flames. A Lander, Wyo., dispatch says a big torest fire is raging on the headwaters of the Popogiac and the Lander valley ;s covered by a dense smoke obscuring the sun, giving the appearance of an elipse. A large amount of timber is being destroyed. Major Charles E. Ewing, a surgeon in the United States army, stationed at Fort Preble, Me., has located his brother, Ephraim B. Ewing, who recently disappeared, in Wyoming. He is at a ranch near Alexander, Wyoming. Wy-oming. J. W. Perry, known throughout the eastern Montana ranges as "Black Perry," a notorious cattle rustler, was shot and killed last week by James Haynie, foreman of the Hysham Cattle company. Haynie has given himself up to the authorities. At Helena, Mont., a lone highwayman highway-man held up Samuel Travis and James Randall, and after he had robbed them, compelled Travis to stop a street car, tie a handkerchief over his face and go through the car. Tbe robber secured S50 and made his escape. E. E. Starrett, of Battle Mountain, Nev., accidently shot and killed his wife while the couple were on a fishing expedition at Rock creek, twenty-five miles north of Battle Mountain. While unloading a gun it was discharged, the contents entering his wife's body killing kill-ing her instantly. Don Martinus, a Mexican sheep herder, was shot and killed near Cop-perton, Cop-perton, Wyo., by M. A. Steep, a miner, better known as "California Red.'' Another herder was also shot at, but escaped injury. Steep went to Battle and cave himself up. He claims the shooting was done in self-defense. Nine-year-old Anna Christensen, of Cheyenne, attempted to start a fire with kerosene and the can exploded in her hands. Enveloped in flames she rushed into the street screaming and neighbors extinguished her clothing, but not until she had been frightfully burned. She died in terrible agony. Jesse Johnson, a well-known stockman stock-man of the Sweetwater, killed Kirk Bowman at Pacific Springs, Wyo., in the New Fork country, iu self-defense, and came to Lander and gave himself up. County Attorney Hardin and Coroner Schoo immediately left for the Bcene of the shooting and held an inquest in-quest and the jury exonerate Johnson. The trouble arose over a woman. J. E. Wilson, night tender at the Missoula electriclight plant at Bonner, was found dead by tbe day watch on their arrival at 6 o'clock. He lay beside be-side the brush, which he had been cleaning, in a pool of blood. A huge wound in his side showed where some portion of the machinery had dealt the man a terrific blow and knocked the life out of him, probably before he realized what happened. Harry Grum, a laborer, met a fright ful death while engaged iu moving a. barn at Butte. Grum was on the ridge of the barn and grasped two wires thai were in tbe way with the intention ol removing them, when he received a shock of 2,000 volts, which continued to flow through his body for four min utes. The upper portion of Grum s body was almost roasted to a crisp was almost and when the remains were lowered it was necessary to quench his burning clothes with water. Grace Rooney, a 9-year-old girl residing re-siding in South Cheyenne, may lose her left hand as a result of handling a revolver. She did not suppose that the weapon was loaded and pressing one band over the muzzle pulled the trigger. William Nixon, of the disorderly district of Seattle, tried to win a woman's wo-man's affections in the guise of Outlaw Out-law Tracy and is nearly dead as the result of his .foolhardy act. Policemen Police-men attacked him and almost beat him to death. George Greenfall, George Parker and George Mason were killed and E. H. Keller and W. A. Galbreath injured in-jured by a gas explosion last week at the Broadhead mine of the Las Animas Coal company at Aguilar, Colorado. Theodore Rocha, a Mexicaa, shot and killed Petra Romereas at Clifton, Ariz., then turned bis Winchester on himself and fired, with probably fatal effect, tbe bullet passing through his left breast. Jealousy was the cause of the shooting. Dewitt Browne, a real estate man ol Cripple Creek, accidently shot and killed Marion Hurt of the same town at their camp on Mad creek, about six miles from Steamboat Springs. The two have been prospecting there tot several weeks. , , William Gilchrist, the passenger most seriously hurt in a wreck at Cheyecne, is recovering and will not be permanently perma-nently disabled. His body from tbe waist down was paralyzed, but as tbe shock wears away be is recovering the use of his limbs. Tbe headquarters of the Department of the Columbia are to be moved from Vancouver, Wash., to Seattle, within a few weeks. Gen. G R. Randall, who is in command of the department, wiil leave for the Puget sound city, taking his staff with him. i |