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Show In Johannesburg. "Johannesburg as a town, sniprlses and disappoints. writes a Ronth Af rican traveler. It has "ieen put up In a hurry and is mostly built of cor in the legs. Early in the morning a rugated iron. There are finished posse headed by Sheriff Kelly went buildings, mostly of stucco, and Innuand Waltman to from Lewisport merable shanties. There are wide found Shaw sitting on his front porch. streets, hut they are all dusty. street is the mala artery Shaw quickly barricaded himself in for business. It is there that, in im, his house. have The posse tried to storm the house, itation of America, been built, which domineer over the but the negro opened fire, wounding town more than the old fort does. SunJames Ford and John Robinson. He day in Johannesburg is honored In which small shot, apparently had only the breach and not in the observance. saved the lives of those he aimed at. Johannesburg Is a young thing yet, Shaw was shot at twice. He had two not out of its teens, but it apes the revolvers, but announced that he manners of centuries. would save them for work at close RAILROAD3 AND PROGRESS. range. A great crowd gathered around the In his testimony before the senate house, keeping a safe distance aw:$v. committee on Interstate commerce at In the afternoon Will Brown, a deputy Washington on May 4, Prof. Hugo R. sheriff of Hancock county, volunteered Meyer of the Chicago university, an to go to the house and take Shaw. expert on railroad management, made When within fifteen feeet of Shaw, the this statement: Let us look at what might bavt crazy man fired, blowing Browns head if we had heeded the pro happened completely off. tests of the farmers of New York and men a mob of At 6 oclock at night Ohio and Pennsylvania (in the 70s, and boys surrounded Shaws house when grain from the west began pourand set it on fire. Shaw remained In ing to the Atlantic seaboard), and the burning house as long as he could acted upon the doctrine which the instand the heat, and finally leaped out terstate commerce commission has and tried to escape. Nearly 100 shots enunciated time and again, that no were fired and Shaws body was rid- man may be deprived of the addled with bullets. vantages accruing to him by virtue of his geographical position. We could not have west of the Mississippi a population of millions of people who are prosperous and are great conpassenger station was blown In and sumers. We never should have seen John Young, a train despatcher, killed. the years when we built 10,000 and The storm was most severe west of 12.000 miles of railway, for there the city and all telephone and tele- would have been no farmers west of the river who could have graph wires in all directions are down. used Mississippi the land that would have been A passenger on a Texas & Pacific opened up by the building of those passenger train from the west reports railways. And if we had not seen the that the town of Mineral Wells was years when we could build 10,000 and partly blown away. One church build- 12.000 miles of railway a year, we should not have to day east of the ing belonging to the African Methodist Episcopal congregation, was de- Mississippi a steel and iron producmolished. Many business buildings ing center, which is at once the marvel and the of because lost their roofs. Including the First we could notdespair builtEurope, have up a steel and seven a National bank buding, story iron industry if there had been no structure. market for its product. The We could not have in New England Episcopalian Baptist and churches in North Fort Worth werq a great boot and shoe industry; we badly wrecked, while the roofs of the could not have in New England a Grand hotel in East Weatherford great cotton milling industry; wa not have spread throughout New street and the Johnson house In West could York and Pennsylvania and Ohio manBluff street, were torn away. Fifty ufacturing industries of the most didwellings In various parts of the city versified kinds, because those induswere damaged. The Second ward tries would have no market among school building was partially wrecked the farmers west of the Mississippi The storm extended as far east as river. And while the progress of this Terrell, hut did no particular damage country, while the development of at that point. the agricultural west of this country, did mean the Impairment of the agricultural value east of the Mississippi river, that ran up into hundreds of millions of dollars, it meant Incidenton clouds comes fissures the surface manuof sulphur smoke from that part of the ally the building up of great industries that added to the facturing sevmine which has been on fire for value of this land by thousands of eral years. millions of dollars. And, gentlemen, The extent of the damage cannot as those things were not foreseen In the yet be ascertained, but if it is as bad '70s. The statesmen and the public as feared the great property will be men of this country did not see what closed and the existence of Jerome part the agricultural development of the west was going to play In the inwill be doomed. dustrial development of the east. And The hoisting works, w'hich are over you may read the decisions of the mahave settled and the the mine, Interstate commerce commission from chinery cannot be worked. The smelt- the first to the last, and what is one ing plant has also been shut and all of the greatest characteristics of those decisions? The continued inability to activity ceased. see the question in this large way. The interstate commerce commission never can see anything more than that the farm land of some farmThe dispatches received from the er is decreasing in value, or that some front are meager, but there are some man who has a flour mill with a proindications that General Linevitch duction of fifty barrels a day is behas taken a leaf out of Field Marshal ing crowded out. It never can see that the destruction or impairment of Oyamas book at the Shakhe river and farm values in this means the at Mukden, and that he is about to building up of farm place values in that advance himself and undertake a place, and that that shifting of values counter offensive, meeting the Japan- is a necessary incident to the indusese pressure against his left by ad- trial and manufacturing development of vancing his right. It is too early, this country. And if we shall give commishowever, to determine whether the to the Interstate commerce we shall moves thus far are more than feifils. sion power to regulate rates, no longer have our rates regulated The question of a general exchange of on the statesmanlike basis on which prisoners, on which there have been they have been regulated In the past some negotiations, Is still unsettled, by the railway men, who really have e and the foreign office here is not been great statesmen, who really have that a general agreement is been great builders of empires, wfto possible. A partial exchange, cover- have had an imagination that rivals of the greatest poet the ing the crew of the Russian volunteer and imagination of the greatest inventor, and who crluser Ekaternoslava, captured at the have operated with a courage and daropening of the war, and the crew of ing that rivals the courage and darthe Japanese steamer Sabu, captured ing of the greatest military general. by the Russians, has practically been But we shall have our rates regulated effected. by a body of civil servants, bureaucrats, whose besetting sin the world over Is that never can grasp a the bridge over the Harlem river situation in a they large way and with the when a third train crashed into the grasp of the statesman; that they rear of the second of the waiting never can see the fact that they are trains. The forward car of the reaf confronted with a small evil; that train and the rear car of the other that evil Is relatively small, and that train were badly smashed and left It cannot he corrected except by the creation of evils and abuses which hanging partly over the street. are infinitely greater than the one The collision was followed by a terthat Is to be corrected. rific explosion which set the elevated structure on fire, and It was feared Country for the Rich. It costs money to live In South that the blaze would extend to the Africa. A woman resident In Johanwrecked cars. A fire alarm was sounda month for her cook ed and several of the firemen who re- nesburg pays $60 and $35 a month to a Hindoo servant. sponded were shocked by contact'wlth In India she would have to pay only loose wires before the powerful third $5 a month for the Hindoos services. rail current was shut off. THE TRANSCRIPT. NEGRO MADMAN TERRORIZES TOWN AHI TOOELE, - DCICW, - Publisher. - Kills Deputy Sheriff and Wounds Seven Persons in Their Endeavor to Capture Him. UTAH. I r v NEWS SVMMARY BUT HIS TURN v AT CAME LAST. s Forced to Flee From Burning Building and His Body Riddled With Hun. The Dagblatt expresses the belief dreds of Bullets. that King Oscar will resume the reins of government on June 1. Owensboro, Ky. Bob Shaw, a neIn a collision between two freight trains two miles south of Echols, Ky., gro, supposedly insane, ran amuck eight men were killed and four in- near Waltman and killed one man and wounded seven others before he was jured. finally forced to flee from a burning who assassinated Ivan Kaleieff, and was riddled by hundreds building, Grand Duke Sergius, February 17, at of bullets. Peterswas executed at St. Moscow, On Monday afternoon Shaw was terburg on the 17th. the community around WaltThe total number of deaths as the rorizing man an appeal was sent to this and result of the tornado at Snyder, Oklafor help. A posse was at once city to estimate the best homa, according formed, but as soon as they apobtainable, is ninety-seven- . proached the madmans house he The United Brethren general conopened fire. Marshal Watson was shot ference at Topeka. Kans., voted in In the face and Deputy Marshal Jack-soIfavor of union with the Congrega-itiona- l in the hack. Others wounded were and Methodist Protestant Dr. G. H. Plitt, on the hand; & boy churches. named Howard and a boy named Pelly At Cale, I. T., a man named White-hea- d shot and killed his stepdaughter, .also a man named Terrill and Terrills wife and mother, and then shot and Texas Visited by Disastrous Storm. killed himself. Dallas, Tex. Several lives were The $10, 000,000 Carnegie fund to establish a retiring pension fund for col- lost and serious damage was done to lege teachers has been formally incor- crops In many sections of Texas Sunporated at Albany, N. Y., with the sec- day night by the terrific wind and rain storm that prevailed In many secretary of state. tions. Streams are out of their banks Most of the rivers in northern and and bridges have been washed away. central Italy are overflowing, owing to In the northwest part of Haskell six continuous rains for almost days. deThousands of acres of farming lands county, fourteen houses were two the Will children of stroyed, are under water. Townds, near Mary, were killed, ana Morris W. Algoe has been held un- Mrs. Townds was found unconscious der bonds to the district court, under and will die. Mr. Townds with escaped the charge of having attempted to light bruises. blackmail Edward Rosewater, proAt Malone the Christian and Baptist prietor of the Omaha Bee. churches and several other buildings A policeman was found dead at were wrecked. At Temple, Bertha Henley, a Alexandropol, Transcaucasia. He had ben knocked down during the night, colored girl, was killed by terribly beaten, his nose and ears cut lightning. At Waco several houses were unrooted. oft and his eyes gouged out. Fort Worth, Tex. A heavy windThe Dutch steamship Wilhelmina, storm blowing at the rate of 70 miles t a torpedo-boaJapan ..e captured by an hour struck this city from the destroyer while on t $ way to Vladivostok with Cardiff coal, has ben de- southwest at 6:30 Sunday night. Part clared confiscated by the prize court of the west wall of the Texas & Pacific at Sasebo. Seventeen men imprisoned at Spain, for connection witn anarchistic affairs, were released on Prescott, Ariz. Millions of tons of the 18th, on the occasion of the cele- rock and earth caved in at noon Monbration of the nineteenth birthday of day in Senator Clarks United Verde King Alfonso. copper mine at Jerome, Aciz., the The flood waters of the Rio Grande ground dropping over the surface to level. Cracking timbers having completely washed away all the their crops, hundreds of people are gave the alarm, and three hlindred suffering near Berino, N. M., and ap- miners fled for their lives and escaped peals have been made for aid to El uninjured. For several days the ground has Paso and elsewhere. been settling and timbers cracking. On News has been received in Manila with a mighty crash, the that Pala, the outlaw Moro chief, who Monday, earth caved, carrying with it the new ;has been pursued the past two weeks drifts and slopes. From levels, shaft, ,on the island of Jolo by troops under the commmand of General Leonard .Wood, has been killed. The Calkins block at Kenosha, St. Petersburg. There is an air of Wis., in which the postoffice was loat the admiralty which inexpectancy been burned to the has cated, ground. John Smith, a painters apprentice, dicates that news of importance rewas killed and one of the postoffice garding Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet is awaited at any moment. Officially employees was overcome by smoke. The jury in the trial of Dr. G. R. no information regarding the admirals whereabouts is volunteered, the officers Koch, charged with the murder of Dr. I. A. Bebhardt at New Ulm, Minn., last making no concealment of the fact are not in the secret of November, was unable to agree on a that they plans, but the majority verdict and has been discharged. This was the second disagreement in the entertain no doubt that the Russian fleet is now steaming towards its ulcase. The committee of the house of com- timate destination. While there is no official confirmamons has commenced the consideraof the Hongkong report that the tion tion of the bill providing for the installation in London of electric light fleet has passed through the Basee and pneumatic tube systems similar channel, It is credited by those who to those in use in America. J. P. Mor- have insisted from the beginning that gan is among the promoters of the Rojestvensky will give the island of Formosa a wide berth to the westcompany. Representatives of Chicago street ward. The admiral. It is said here, railway companies last week declared has had ample time to reach the Patheir willingness to sell their traction cific since he left the waters of properties to the municipality. The value to be placed upon the lines and the terms of sale were made questions Twenty Injured in Railway Wreck. for future consideration. New York. Twenty persons were A. D. McDougall of Prescott, Ariz., injured, one woman critically, seven is dead, and three other men, A. Pack- of the others being badly hurt, In a ard, a machinist; Charles Card and rear-encollision on the Third avenue William Kimball, were rendered un- elevated railroad on a high curve at conscious as the result of poisonous One Hundred and Thirty-thirand the gases encountered in the city water Southern Boulevard, in the" Bronx, on tunnel at Santa Barbara, Cal. Monday. Carl M. Spencer, a former trusted The accident took place at a point employe of the Des Moines (Iowa) where the elevated tracks are raised bank, has confessed to embez-zlln- very high to cross the tracks of the $5,000. Spencer claims he spent New York, New Haven & Hartford the money in paying for medical treat- railroad. Two trains were waiting on ment for his invalid son in an en- the elevated for a draw to be closed In deavor to save the boys life. Dr. Frederick W. Spiers, editor ol Six Workmen Are Killed as Result of the Booklovers Magazine, is dead at Boiler Explosion. his home in Lansdowne, a suburb ot O. The boiler of an enColumbus, Philadelphia, after a short illness. Dr. near the Hocking Valstanding gine Speirs was educational director of the railroad roundhouse on West Booklovers library, and organized the ley Mound street exploded on Monday Booklovers library in England. killed six afternoon and Instantly Charles Page Bryan, the American was badly The roundhouse workmen. minister to Lisbon, reports to the state testwas The damaged. being engine at that official department Washington confirmation has been received there ed for its first run after rebuilding. of considerable victories by the Portu- Four other engines standing nearby guese troops of tpe rebellious natives Were wrecked. The bodies of the six in Angola. The natives were con men were terribly mangled. pletely routed. n TEXAS VISITED BY SEVERE STORM Bar-celonl- a, HUNDREDS OF MINERS RUN FOR LIFE 700-fo- NEWS OF BATTLE DAILY EXPECTED Ind'o-Chin- d d l g Wanted Ail He Could Get Chicago. A claim for $100,000 for medical services by Dr. L. C. H. E. Zeigler of Chicago against the estate of Harriet McVlcke, widow of the well known theatrical manager, was disallowed on Monday by Judge C.JG. Cutting of the probate court, Judge Cutting held that the claim was excessive. He Instructed Dr. Zeigler to present another one of more moderate proportions. A claim for $10,000 under a contract exhibited in court was allowed. Living on Simple Food. The statement that a man can exist kilos (31-oa pounds) of ryej bread consumed daily is, of course., purely theoretical. Inasmuch as no one-iable to Hve on rye bread alone for The Oregon Agricultural college de- a length of time. But if the bread Is feated the University of Washington made more palatable by the addition in a field meet at Corvalis, Ore., by the of butter, sausages, or the like, and if some other food is substituted everyscore of 71 to 51. day for part of the bread, such a bevIt is announced that John L. Sulli- erage as warm coffee being also convan and Charles Mitchell have signed sumed, then the statement expresses articles for a fifteen-rounfight in Ta- what actually happens with many coma. September 19. Town Marshal Lucy is on trial at SIMPLE WALL DECORATIONS. Canyon City, Ore , for sheading and killing Hickman, a bartender, at that New Material and New Ideas for the Decoration of Homes. , place a few days ago. The styles of home decorations have The attorneys for Colonel W. F. completely changed in the last few Cody (Buffalo Bill) have filed in the years, and it Is pleasant to say that district court at Sheridan, Wyo., a they have changed lor the better. motion for a new trial of his divorce Time was when we hung monstrous patterns printed on paper against our suit. walls, and considered them more or fair Jerry Slaiteiy. charged with the less pleasantly, it would hardly bebeauto say that we considered them, murder, at Butte, of Patrick Maloney, tiful or artistic. But they were the has secured a change of venue to vogue and were put on. The time Lewis and Clark county. The juries has come when, with our better methods for interior decoration, better efdisagreed in two trials of his case. fects can be secured. f Charles Haskell, a farmer, shot In wall coverings, whether they be through the head, while on a of paint, or of kalsomine, or of whatever the material used spree at Baker City, Ore., death result- to cover the wall the thing desired is ing an hour later. It is thought his that which has the greatest covering became unbalanced through power, as well as permanency and mind beauty of color. Alabastine, a wall drink. covering ground from Alabaster rock was Stanton Smales, a miner, which means a hard white rock Is .crushed to death by a fall of rock in the Ideal covering for a wall. The most beautiful wall decorations mine at Kendall, the Barnes-KInIn the world are those which are laid Mont. Smales was 35 years of age on with the brush. The mural designs land had been married but a short In our large public buildings, and the frescoed designs In the large cathetime. drals and churches, have a permaAn Immense sugar beet factory, nency and an art of which wall paper larger in every detail than the plants Is but a cheap imitation. These mural in California, is to be established in schemes and frescoed designs can be within the reach of the every Carson valley, near Reno, Nevada. The brought home. They can be done with day enterprise means the doubling of the Alabastine, which is permanent In lta coloring. It does not rub off, and it population of Carson valley. has the soft effect of pastelle. Charles Glenn of Butte, representaA great many people defer the retive in the last legislature rrom Sli- decorating of their rooms not only but because ver Bow county and president of the because of of the discomfort of it. With Alabasof has Butte, Mining company Gyeman tine there need be no discomfort and been adjudged guilty of contempt of there can be no muss, for all that Is court and sentenced to forty days In needed is to lay a sheet or canvas on the floor, have your man come In with Jail. a pail, make the solution and aimply Edwin W. Toolo, brother of Govbrush it on the wall. That is all there ernor Toole of Montana, died at Hel- is to it, and the room is perfectly ena on the 17th, after an illness of clean and thoroughly renovated. several months. For over forty years Air In Vein Causes Death. he had been one of the foremost memAir getting into a vein while he was bers of the Montana bar, coming from undergoing an operation in St. Thomas Hospital, London, was the cause Missouri to Montana In 1863. of the death of Frederick Thomas Woodson Gray, who resides near Elthe other day. A verdict of Kennedy gin, Ore., and who was charged and accidental death was returned. convicted of the murder cf Archie Halgarth over a year ago, has been taken to the penitentiary at Salem to serve a term of seven years. It Is a Three quarters of the tea case that grew out of a quarrel that in this country is not very had been brewing for years between 3 him-Bel- Ala-basti- ne TEA these two men. The trial of J. H. McBane, who Is charged with the murder of the Trast brothers, takes place at Enterprise, Ore., this week. McBane was from Colorado and had taken up a homestead in Wallowa county and which the Trast brothers had jumped, he claimed, and says that he killed them in Andrew J. Bess of Baker City, Ore., recently wrote to the postmaster at his old home in Kentucky, for five pounds of the best twist tobacco, and also to put him in correspondence with some young lady who might marry him. Last week Bess was married to a young lady who took up the correspondence with him. Miles Fuller, aged 65, has been found guilty of murder in the first den gree at Butte, for killing William in that city last fall. Gallihan and Fuller were both prospectors. They had quarreled more than twenty years ago, and Fuller cherished the grudge. He shot Gallihan and then plunged a knife Into his body. Darwin J. Chadwick, special land agent at Great Falls, Mont., was found dead in bed Saturday morning. He is supposed to have died from paralysis, having had a shock some ten years ago. He was in good health when he retired at night. James R. Soutbwiek, aged 16 years, is a prisoner in the county jail at Great Falls, Mont., having confessed that he stole $202 90 in cash, $440 in negotiable paper and $607 worth of diamonds and other jewelry from his employer, Max L. Goldstein. The supreme court of Oregon has handed down a decision upholding the anti-poo- l room law, which prohibits keeping of pool rooms and such places as being against the peace, dignity and public morals. The law is extremely broad In scope. It is charged by the coroner's Jury that James Foss, whose charred body was found in the ashes of his cabin, eighteen miles south of Hood River, Ore., came to his death from rifle shots at the hands of Frank Ries. Ries is in jail, but refuses to talk. h The mangled body of Charles has been found on the Union The best cheap" tea is Pacific tracks near Rock Springs, and the authorities believe hot water; dont spoil good Wyo., Fishbaugh was murdered by his tramp companions and his body placed on water with trash tea. rails to cover up the crime. the you don't Your grocer returns jour mone Unknown tramps recently converted tike Bchimug Pert. the auditorium of the First Baptist All Things to Him Who Hustles. church at Cheyenne into a lodging Being dissatisfied with your job Is a poor way to show that your pay house and spent several nights there. They made a bed of cushions back of ought to be raised. Chicago the pulpit, and burned furniture and other movable objects to keep warm. TEA self-defens- Gal-liha- Fish-baug- good. The fraction is not too high. Your grocer returns jour money If yon don't Uke Schilling's Beet. Produces Most Mica. India is the leading producer of f mica and supplies about the world's requirements. London Engineer. , one-hal- TEA Are you acquainted with tea? Is it tea that you know? Are you sure you know tea? English Idea of Humor. When two English men or women laugh, it Is obvious that a misfortune has happened to a third. well-to-d- A o DONT FORGET package hed (!ros Ball Blue, only large cents. The Hues Company, South Bend, Ini Germanys Exports of Toys. The value of German toys exported to foreign countries last year was close to $13,700,000, of which the United States, as the principal customer, took about $4,000,000 worth. Sonneberg la the chief center of the industry. TEA How can Schillings Best be better than other good tea? Same as with everything Men differ; things differ. else. mens Your grocer returns yonr mosey tl you don't like It Regarding Honesty. "Honesty is the best policy," remarked a plaintiff in the court ot Judge Addison, of London. "May be, replied the judge, but I know some people who seem to have got along very well without it. TEA Dont touch it at less than 60c lb; it isnt worth while. We know the market. Your grocer returns jour money If yon don't like Schilling's Best. Incorrigible Girl. A girl of twelve was committed to a reform school from a London court recently. She had stolen money from her mother, taken off her little brothers clothes and sold them, and boiled the family cat alive. |