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Show TOKNADO KILLS MANY STANDING PEOPLE KILLED BY FIFTEEN TWISTER AT ST. PAUL, MINN. VFIXO.H, he 36 Entered at the Post Office at Brigham City as aeoond class matter. H1KCH STANDING. Editor. INSTRUCTIONS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Items of news are solicited from all parts of the country. Writ upon one tide of the paper only. Write proper names plainly. In order to protect the publisher from Impositions from Irresponsible persons, the full name of the author should be signed to all communications. The identity of correspondents will be withheld whenever desired. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS, A volunteer fire brigade has been organized at Garland. A severe frost visited Ogden valley Saturday niglit, doing considerable damage all over the valley, particularly to the potato crop. J. R. Bassett, a mining promoter, puiclded in Salt Lake City, taking laudanum. Financial difficulties had caused him to become despondent. L. H. Farnsworth of Salt Lake City was chosen supreme prelate at the meeting of the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias in Louisville. Ky. The directors of the Weber County Fair association have decided on the dates for the county fair this season as September 28, 29, 30 and October 1. The damage done hy the electrical storm of a week ago at the Ogden power house is estimated at $15,000, two large transformers having been burned out.' Roscoe Countryman. has been arrested at Harrisville, Weber county, charged with assaulting Carl Yager with a pitchfork. The trouble arose over a woman. Pupils of the State School for the Deaf now at the St. Louis fair are attracting a great deal of attention and receive many compliments from educators and other visitors. . The Socialists of Utah have placed a state ticket in the field. Joseph A. Kauffman of Bingham Is named for governor and W. H, Schock of Sevier for representative In congress. ' The injuries sustained by Mrs. J. M. Doran, who. was struck in the eye by a batted .ball at a ball game at the Hot Springs, ' north of Ogden, on July 4, have made it necessary to remove the eye. William J. Hooper, one of the early settlers of Salt Lake City, who has been connected with the Salt Lake theatre for forty-thre- e years, died on the 18th of general debility at the age of 89 years. x It is said that the fare to Los Angeles, one way, when the new Salt Lake route will be running trains, will be reduced to about $31.50. The single fare from Salt Lake to Los Angeles at present is $44.60 first class. According to the geological survey Utah is the sixth salt producing state In the Union. Out of a total production of 18,968,089 barrels produced in the United States in 1903, 181,710 barrels were produced in Utah. Margaret Field, aged 34, met her death in Salt Lake City by drinking wood alcohol She complained of feeling ill and went to the cupboard to se-cure some medicine, and it is supposed took the alcohol hy mistake. Despondent over lack of work and by jealousy, Thomas R. Edwards of Ogden, attempted to cut bis wifes throat with a razor and succeeded in making an ugly but not ' . dangerous g&sh in her neck. Word comes from Fillmore of a very damaging flood which visited that section.' Alfalfa and grain fields were hadly injured, dams were torn out and the town left without water. Many cattle were drowned In the canyons. Nothing can be learned concerning the friends or relatives of Otto La Page, the man who broke his neck at Utahna park. Salt Lake City, while attempting to lop the loop. La Page came to the capital city with a circus. The home of David Williams at Slat- -' erville was destroyed by fire on the 80th, entailing a loss of $3,000. Mr. Layman1, a neighbor, in fighting the lire, cut one of the arteries of his band and came near bleeding to death. The total expense of sustaining the state board of sheep commissioners for two years will be about $6,000, but it is Claimed this amount is a good investment, as the flocks are now free from scab and. the wool yield Is far better than ever before! lad, had George Rollo, a his left leg cut off at the ankle by a (mowing machine at Huntsville. The dad was playing in the grass near Where his father was cutting hay. He wandered in front of the machine,, but Was unobserved by the driver until too )ate. census of Davis county, , The school returns of which have been received. Show a somewhat surprising condition in the south part of the county, where there was a decrease in the Dumber of children of school age. The districts south of Layton have decreased nearly 100. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Goodfellow of Ogden had a narrow escape from death fn Ogden canyon. While coming down the canyon during a heavy electrical Storm the horses went down the grade, and the whole outfit went into the liver. They escaped serious Injury, but the buggy was demolished. Lightning came near killing Thomas Wilde, Jr., at his ranch near Oakley. He was in a wagon and the lightning filled both his horses. The man was rendered unconscious for several hours. His boy, who was in the Wagon, Was struck and his arm b&dfr paralyzed from the shock. y half-craze- d d JAPAN CALLS CHINA TO TIME. That the Chinks immediately Enforce Neutrality. It is learned that Japan has made a demand upon China, practically in the nature of an ultimatum, that she immediately enforce her neutrality in tho case of the protected cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Groztv vol, now at Shanghai. Japan pointed out that the time limit, twenty-fou- r hours, permitted by international law, had expired, and that Japan therefore was at liberty to take such action as may seem to her expedient. At the Japanese legation in London it was expressed that the Tokio government had no intention of remaining quiescent if Russia attempted to compel China to give asylum tp her and authorize repairs at her ports which would enable them to resume belligerent operations. ' Should China fall to comply immediately with Japans demand, the division of Japanese warships now in the vicinity of Shanghai will, the legation declares, be instructed to enter the port and capture the Askold and Grozovoi, as was done in the case of the Ryeshi-te.ni- . SACRIFICE MANY MEN Demands Proprietor. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: One Tear, la SI Months Tore Mouths..... . But, as he was bleeding from a wound in the throat, his second interfered and proposed a reconciliation. Neil angrily refused to listen. He declared "he had not come to enact a farce; and then, happenA ROMANCE OF NEW YORK ing to glance at the ribbon on Hydes breasL he swore furiously He would make his way through the body of By AMELIA E. BARR. Thou end tho Other One. Eto. any man who stood between him and Author of Friend Olivia," his just anger. Copyright, 1884, by Dodd, Mead and Company. Up to this point there had been in Hydes mind a latent disinclination to All day Neil was busy in making his slay Neil. After it, he flung away CHAPTER V. Continued. Neil was intensely angry, and his will and in disposing of his affairs. every kind of memory, and the fight their Hyde felt equally the necessity for was renewed with an almost brutal lark eyes glowed beneath busiimpetuosity, until there ensued one of dropped lids with a passionate hate. some definite arrangement of his But he left his father with an as- ness. He owed many debts of honor, those close locks which it was evident nothing but the key of the body and Cohens bill was yet unsettled. sumed coldness and calmness. The sarcastic advice annoyed him, He drank a cup of coffee, wrote sev- courd open." In the frightful wrench and he wanted time to fully consider eral Important letters, and then went which followed, the swords of both Us ways. He was no physical cow- to Fraunces, and had a steak and a men sprang from their hands, flying ard; he ytas a fine swordsman, and he bottle of wine. During his meal his some four or five yards upward with felt that it would be a real joy to stand thoughts wandered between Kath- the force. Both recovered their weapwith a drawn rapier between himself erine and the Jew Cohen. After It he ons at the same time, and both, bleeding and exhausted, would have again and his rival. But what if revenge went straight to Cohen's store. It happened to be Saturday, and the renewed the fight; but at that mocost him too much? 'What if he slew Hyde, and had to leave his love and shutters were closed, though the door ment Van Heemskirk and Semple, with was slightly open, and Cohen was sit- their attendants, reached the spoL his home, and his fine business prosto and with his granddaughter in the cool Without hesitation, they threw win To ting Katherine, pects? marry her, in the face of the man shadows of the crowded place. Miriam themselves between the young men. whom he felt that he detested; would retreated within the deeper shadows But there was no need for words. Neil not that be the best of all "satisfac- of some curtains of stamped Moorish fell senseless upon his sword, making . tions? leather, for she anticipated the imm- in his fall a last desperate effort to of the intruder. reach the ribbon on Hydes breast; for He walked about the streets, dis- ediate-departure She was therefore astonished when Hyde had also dropped fainting to the cussing these points with himself, till the shops all closed, and on the stoops her grandfather, after listening to a ground, bleeding from at least half a of the houses In Maidea Lane and Lib- few sentences, sat down, and entered dozen wounds. Then one of Semples erty street there were merry parties into a lengthy conversation. When at young men, who had probably divined Then Icit they rose, Hyde extended his the cause of quarrel, and who felt a of gossiping belles and beaux. hand. he returned to' Broadway. Cohen, he said, "few men sympathy for nis young master, made StUl debating with himself,- he came would have been as generous and, at as if he would pick up the fatal bit of to a, narrow road which, ran to the this hour, as considerate as you. I orange satin, now dyed crimson in river, along the southern side of Van have judged from' tradition, and mis- Hydes blood: But Joris pushed the rifling hand Coming swiftly judged you. Whether we meet again Heemskirks house. fiercely away. "To touch it would be up it, as If to detain him, was CapL or not, we part as friends. You have settled all things as a the vilest theft, he said. The two men looked at each His own Hyde. other defiantly; and Neil said with a gentleman, captain. May my white it is. With his life he has bought it. hairs say a word to your heart this told, meaning emphasis: CHAPTER VII. hour? At your service, sir. Hyde bowed; and he conand tinued, in a voice of serious benignity: Mr. Semple, at your service, At The Kings Arms. to the very hilt, The words of the Holy One are to be touching hitf sword, lir. The news of the duel spread with , regarded, and not the words of men. Sir, yours to the same extremity." Men call that honor which He will the proverbial rapidity of evil news. "As for the cause, Mr. Semple, here call murder. What excuse is there In Batavius heard the story from many a it is; and he pushed aside his em- your lips if you go this night into his lip as he went home. He was bitterly broidered coat in order to exhibit to presence? indignant at Katherine, and hot with Neil the bow of orange ribbon beThere was no excuse in Hydes lipB, haste and anger when he reached Van even for his mortal interrogator. He Heemskirks house. neath bowed "I will dye It crimson in your blood, Madam stood with Joanna on the merely again, and slipped said Neil passionately. through the partially opened door into front stoop, looking anxiously down In the meantime, I have the felicity the busy street. Minam returned to the road. of wearing it; and with an offensively her place and asked plainly, What Just as Dinorah said, The tea is deep salute, he terminated the inter- murder Is there to be, grandfather? madam, the large figure of served, 'view. It is a duel between CapL Hyde Batavius loomed through the gatherand another. It shall be called mur- ing gray ness; and the women waited CHAPTER VI. der at the lasL for him. He came up the steps withThe other, who is he?" out his usual greeting; and his face At the Swords Point. "The young man, Semple. Oh, Mir- was so injured and portentous that Nells first emotion was not so much iam, what sin and sorrow thy sex Joanna, with a little cry, put her arms one of anger as of exultation. "I shall ever bring to those who love it! There round his neck. He gently removed have him at my swords point, he are two young lives to,be put in death them. kept saying to himself as he turned peril for the smile of a woman a very "No time Is this, Joanna, for emfrom Hyde to Van Heemskirks house. girl she is. , A great disgrace has come to bracing. of the the steps Katherine sat upon Do I know her, grandfather?" the family; and I, who have always arouse her She passes here often. The daughstoop. Touching her, to stood up for morality, must bear it, attention, Neil said, "Come with me ter of Van Heemsklrk the little fair too. down the garden, my love. one, the child." (To be continued.) She looked at him wonderingly, but "Oh, but now I am twice sorry! A CURIO HUNTER. PLEASED rose at his request and gave him her She has smiled at me often. We have hand. even spoken.' Then the tender thoughts which had Cohen, with his hands on his staff, Tale Shows How Most Collections Are Made Up. lain so deep in his heart flew to his and his head in them, sat meditating, Frank Barnlck, the expert cabinet lips, and he wood her with a fervor perhaps praying; and the hoL silent and nobility as astonising to himself moments went slowly away. In them, maker who was recently called from as to Katherine. He reminded her of Miriam was coming to a decision New York to Washington to complete all the aweet Intercourse of their hap- which at first alarmed her, but which, the repair work at the White House, py lives, and of the fidelity with which ag it grew familiar, grew also lawful tells this story of the credulity of one he had loved her. "Oh, my Katherine, and kind. A word to Van Heemskirk White House visitor. "While covering one of the doors of my sweet Katherine! Who is there or to the Elder Semple would be the state dining room with a piece of that can take you from me? Should she not say it? "No one will I marry. With my Perhaps Cohen divined her purpose, ordinary leather, a visitor came to father and my mother I will stay. and was not unfavorable to It, for he me and said: Oh, please tell me the "Yes, till you learn to love me as I suddenly rose, and, putting on hts history of that leather you are using. "The newness of the hide made me love you, with the whole soul. You cap, said, "I am going to see my kinsare to be my wife, Katherine? man John Cohen. At sunseL set wide hesitate about declaring It to have "That I have not said. the door; an hour after sunset will been a part of the cargo long years ago of the Mayflower or even that it Katherine, is it true that CapL return. As soon as he had gone, Miriam came from cattle raised by the ImHyde is wearing a bow of your orange wrote to Van Heemskirk these words: mortal Washington. ribbon? Knowing, how"Yes. A bow of my SL Nicholas rib- "Good Sir This is a matter of life ever, that it must have an uncommon bon I gave him. and death; so then, come at once, and history to account for the lack of the I will tell you. Miriam Cohen. signs age brings, I replied that as fast "Why? "Me he loves, and him I love. It was not many minutes before Van as President Roosevelt shot a bear he You have more St. Nicholas rib- Heemskirks driver passed, leading his was having the pelts tanned, and that bons? Go and get me one. Get a bow, loaded wagon; and to him she gave what I was tacking to the door was the skin from a brute of the MissisKatherine, and give it to me. I will the note. wait here for it. That day Joris had gone home sippi jungles recently killed. "I was as much amused as amazed No, that I will not do. How false, earlier than usual, and Bram only how wicked I would be, if two lovers was in the store. He supposed the to have her turn relic hunter on the my colors wore! strip of paper to refer to a barrel of spot and beg earnestly for a scrap of VTill, then, I will cut my bow from flour or some other household neces- the stuff. She took a piece, her eyes beaming with pleasure, and it no Hydes breast. I will, though I cut sity. his heart out wjth it. Its actual message was so unusual doubt now forms a part of her collecHe turned from her as he said the and unlooked for, that it took him a tion of rare relics. New York Times. words, and, without speaking to Joris, moment or two to realize the words; An Excusable Bull. passed through the garden gate to his then he answered the summons for own home. his father promptly. Miriam proceedQuite a good hull was made by In the calm of his own chamber, ed at once to give him such informa- Sir Thomas Myles, an eminent Irish recent meeting of the through the silent, solemn hours, tion as she possessed. Bram stood surgeon, when the world was shut out of his gazing at the beautiful, earnest girl, Solicitors Apprentices Debating Solife, Neil reviewed his position,- - but and felt all the fear and force of her ciety, in Dublin. Sir Thomas was he could find no honorable way out of words; but for some moments he speaking of Cecil Rhodes, whom he the predicament He was quite sen- could not speak, nor decide on his first greatly admired. He pictured the consible that his first words to Capt step. dition of things in South Africa Just Hyde that night had been intended to Why do you wait? pleaded Miriam. previous to the Boer war, and asked provoke a quarrel, and he knew that "At sunset, I tell you. It Is now near with emphasis: At such a time was he would be expected to redeem them 1L Oh, no thanks! Do not stop for England to stand with her arms folded and her hands in her pockets?" However, as them, but hasten away at once. by a formal defiance. He obeyed like one in a dream. He was somewhat disconcerted by the the Idea became familiar, it became imperative; and at length it was with Semple was just leaving business! He yell of laughter which arose, but after a fierce satisfaction he opened his put his hand on him, and said, Elder, a moment or two joined in the merridesk and without hesitation wrote the no time have you to lose. At sunset, ment, saying that his Neil and that d decisive words: English soldier a apology could be found In the fact To Capt. Richard Hyde of His Maje- duel are to fight. that he was an Irishman. Eh? Where? Who told you? stys Service: On the Kalchhook Hill. Stay not Sir A person of the character I Needed Regulation. bear cannot allow the treachery and for talk. Gen. Andre, the French minister of Run for your father, Bram. Run, dishonorable conduct of which you ar, has Issued a regulation forbidhave been guilty to pass without pun- my lad. God help me! God spare the ding all corporal punishment in the ishment. Convince me that you are lad! French army. The new regulations more of a gentleman than I have reaAt that moment Nell and Hyde were are aimed particularly at the companson to believe, by meeting me on the fatal spoL ies that garrison African posts. These as the sun drops in the wood on the Nell flung off his coat and waistcoat are composed chiefly of soldiers who Kalchhook Hill. Our seconds can lo- and stood with bared breast on the have been sentenced in ordinary cate the spot; and that you 'may have spot his second indicated. Hyde re- criminal courts before their- - enllst-menno pretense to delay, I send by bearer moved his fine scarlet coat and handThe cruelties practiced by two swords, of which I give you the ed it to Capt. Earle, and would then suboffleers In these regiments la all have taken his sword; but Befekman but beyond comprehension, and it is privilege to make choice. In the interim, at your service, advanced to remove also his walst-coano uncommon case to have death reNeil Semple." The suspicion implied by this sult from them. One of thq favorite He had already selected Adrian act roused the soldiers indignation, modes of punishment Is to smear the Beekman as his second, a young man and with his own hands he tore off offender with fat and then expose him of wealth and good family. Beekman the richly embroidered satin garmeift, to the mosquitoes. accepted the duty with alacrity, and, and by so doing exposed what perhaps Indeed, so promptly carried out his some delicate feeling had made him Wants a Soldier for Archbishop. principals instructions, that he found wish to conceal a bow of orange ribEmperor William of Germany has a CapL Hyde still sleeping when he bon which he wore above his hearL problem of more than usual moment waited upon him. Hyde laughed lightThe sight of it to Neil was like oil on his hands Just now. His imperial ly at "Mr. Semples impatience of of- flung upon flame. He could scarcely majesty must soon decide whether or directed Mr. Beekman to restrain himself until the word go fense," and not he Is empowered to put upon the CapL Earle as his second ; leaving the gave him license to charge Hyde. throne of the ancient archbishopric choice of swords and 'of the ground Hyde was an excellent Swordsman of Cologne his lifetime friend CoL and had fought several duels; hut he Gen. Baron von Loe. The grave feaentirely to his direction. Lightly as Hyde had taken the chal- was quite disconcerted by the deadly ture of the question is that If th lenge, he was really more disinclined reality of Neil's attack. In the sec- kaiser follows his strong inclination to fight than Neil was. In his heart ond thrust his foot got entangled in and proclaims the appointment he he knew that Semple had a just cause a tuft of grass, and, in evading a musLitp a degree at least, do so In of anger; "but then, he argued, "I lunge aimed at his heart, he fell on defianed of the Holy See at Rome, for would not resign the girl for my life, hie right side. Supporting himself, It Is a matter of common knowledge for I am enslble that life, if she is however, on his sword hand, he that the pope is generally opposed to anothers, will be a very tedious thing sprang backwards with great dexter- the elevation of soldiers to the mitre to me. ity, add thus escaped the '.probable and crozler, , death-blow- hs go (Elfccr Two Hundred Buildings Are Wrecked the Damage to Property Being Es- timated at Three Million Dollars. ' Fifteen are reported to be dead, two score injured and property loss estimated to reach three million dollar are the results of a fierce tornado that swooped down on St. Paul, Minn.; shortly after 9 oclock Saturday night: The Tivoli theater was demolished; the Empire theater razed; the High bridge, an immense structure crossing the Mississippi at a height of 200 feet, was almost totally destroyed and 20Q buildings are more or less damaged. The storm was of short duration, lasting not more than fifteen minutes: The devastation it wrought was terrific. The wind, according to the govblew ernment weather observer, eighty miles an hour, coming from the southwest. Buildings were unroofed and fronts blown in, the cellars being flooded with the rain which came in great waves along with the wind. Elec, trie wires were prostrated and many persons were injured by contact with electric light and trolley wires. Fort Snelling, situated on a level plateau and unprotected from the fury of the storm, the government miescaped litary buildings miraculously severe Injury. to fallow The storm center seemed the river course, only the edge passing over the northwest end of the reswere uprooted, Trees ervation. branches torn hurled away and against wires, crashing them to the men-of-w- . i STORMS SWEEP NEVADA. District Shut Out From Tonopah World as Result of Rainstorm. Goldfield, Columbia, Tonopah, and. In fact, the entire bhnanza district ol southern Nevada, is entirely shut in from the outside world as the result of terrific rainstorms that have prevailed In that section for fiv days. The rain came !n continuous torrents until Wednesday evening, when foi the first time the skies have begun to ground. clear and now the Tonopah railroad company has every available man at Loss Severe at Minneapolis.' work trying to replace the thousands The center of the storm hit the busi- of feet of track that have been washed Nico-lette ness section of Minneapolis at away. Passengers are stalled at avenue and Sixth avenue. Here Mound House, Hawthorne and Soda, the front of the Glass block was blow-- ; ville, waiting to get through and all available accommodations are being out and a huge skylight was blown! held at a premium. off. All of the stores in this district Four Persons Die In Collision. bad windows blown in and all suffered more or less damage to stock. Four persons were killed, another The mammoth skylight of the Guar- fatally hurt and twenty-thre- e slightly anty Loan building fell twelve stories Injured in a collision between an, exthrough the interior court, and great press train on the Chicago Great Westdamage was done by water to offices. ern railroad and a train of three trolThe street car service was tied up ley cars bound for the Hawthorne race Until noon Sunday, trolley wires being track In Chicago. The trolley train down in all parts of the city as the was made up of a motor car and two result of falling trees. The ioss is estimated at fully trailers. It approached the crossing at a rapid speed just as the train came $1,000,000. around a sharp curve. The car struck Four lives Lost at Bergen. the train just between the engine and A tornado struck the township of the tender. The motor car was torn Rich Valley and Bergen Saturday to splinters, the car immediately benight about 8 oclock, killing four per- hind turned over, smashed nearly to pieces and dragged along the track sons, Mary O'Donnell, aged 13, daugh- for 100 feet The third car was not ter of Patrick ODonnell, and the dragged from the tracks, and but for son of Anthony ODonnell, the fact that the couplings between it and Frederick Cross and his mother, and the second trailer broke the list jand destroying thousands of acres of of Injured probably would be larger, grain and many barns, bouses and as all of the cars were filled with pasfeheds. sengers. All of the persons killed occupied seats in the front of the first W&conla, Minn., was visited by the car. tornado Saturday evening,- - which deRace War In Georgia. vastated the country for miles about, A negro found shot to pieces on the and from the meager reports obtainbridge eight miles from Stateline, Ga.. sevable four persons were killed and is not Handy Bell, one of the accomeral Injured. plices of the two negroes burned at Russians Naked When Captured. the stake. The body has not yet been Six hundred and one of the crew of identified. It is rumored that the house the Russian armored cruiser Rurik, of Bell, one of the negro suspects who punk in the engagement Sunday with was released from jail about seven the Japanese squadron, commanded by miles from Statesboro, was seized by Admiral Kamlmura, have been landed unknown persons, a hundred shots at Sasebo. One man died there and were fired and that he was killed. It Is also declared that an 177 of the survivors are wounded, organization many of them seriously, and a num- has been formed among tho neighbors ber mortally. The number of officers Of Henry Hodges which will extermirescued has not been determined, as nate all those implicated by Reid in all the survivors were naked when his dying statement. About twenty-fiv- e negroes left Statesboro, Wednescaptured, having stripped off their clothing before the cruiser sank. Thus day, and more, it Is said, will follow. oft is impossible to distinguish the Davis Is Notified of Nomination. ficers from the other men, as the former are concealing their rank. Henry Gassaway Davis was formally notified at White Sulphur Springs, W. FOUGHT WITH ARTILLERY. 1 Va., on Wednesday that he Ja the nomParaguayan Revolutionists Dislodge inee of the Democratic party for the Government's Guns. of the United States. ' Mf. An artillery engagement has beep Davis accepted the nomination with a brief speech, reviewing the political fought between the San Jocomino bat- Situation, echoing the sentiments of tery of the Paraguayan army and a Judge Parker cn the money question body of revolutionists, in which the and expressing the determination to latter succeeded in dislodging the be successful in the campaign. Repreguns of the government force. The sentative John Sharp Williams of Mislosses on either side are not given. sissippi, chairman of the notification committee, delivered the notification There has been no bombardment of address. . Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, since last reports. Train Went Into Ditch. A special train from Cincinnati MOSQUITO KILLS MAN. hound for Colorado Beach, Cal., was Hoosler Farmer Dies From Effect of ditched cne mile east of Scranton, Bite of insect Kans., Wednesday aftefnoott. One August Anderson, a farmer of person was fataLy injured, five were Starke county, Indiana, is dead in a hurt seriously, and six others sustained slight Injuries. While the train Chicago hospital from the bite of a was running at a high rate of speed suffered a Anderson mosquito. slight the front tiucks of the tender jumped Injury which caused pn abrasion of the tracks and becoming uncoupled the skin on his right hand. A mos- from the engine the Whole train was quito bit him in the abrasion and a ditched. The baggage car was overfew days later Anderson began to turned and landed thirty-fiv- e feet off suffer intensely. He came to Chi- the roadbed, the day coach was turned cago for treatment, but blood poison- over and badly smashed and the . ing resulted. Pullman was half upset. f Russian Gunboat Destroyed. AWAIT DECISIVE BATTLE. Advices from Tokio state that a . Russian gunboat of the Otvajnl type Kuropatkln Will Meet Attack of Com-bined Armies. Japanese struck a mine and sank off Laoti A dispatch from General Kuropatkln, promontory, the extreme southern point of the Kwan Tung peninsula on dated from Anshanshan, and conveywhich Port Arthur is situated, at 8 ing the congratulations of the army to oclock on Thursday night. The is an armored gunboat of 1.500 the emperor on the birth of an heir to tons displacement, launched In 1894, the throne, says: and carries one nine-inc"We await a decisive battle with the gun, one gun and ten quick-firinJapanese army advancing- upon us, two has gups. She torpedo tubes, has anticipating meeting the foe a speed of fifteen knots and carries a gladly and proving our fidelity to our emcrew of 142 men. peror and country. Thief Snored Too Loud. Port Arthur Garrison Refuses to As the result cf snoring too loudly Lower the Russian Flag. while hiding between the rafters on It is reported that Port Arthur gartop of the refrigerator of the Krause rison has refused to surrender and is Brothers company store, at Mansfield, disinclined to send out O., George Cazifeerskl, ten years old, Refugees arriving at Chefoo was arraigned in police court on the bring news of a serious condition ol of The youngster affairs at Fort Arthur. charge pilfering. They say that concealed himself in the store and, shells have Ignited lighters while waiting for the men who were Japanese in the docks which contained supplies taking stock to go home, he fell of coal, resulting in a terrific conflaasleep. The not so of his snoring at- gration. havs Many of the tracted the attention of the men in been demolished and thebuildings hospitals are the store and the arrest followed. crowded. for-wa- r in Ot-vaj- v h six-inc- h g I TWENTY THOUSAND JAPANESE KILLED AT FORT ARTHUR. Men Big Battle Fought and Brown Gain Position, but rt a Fearful Ccst oi Human Life. ' - A hat'le of tiuge proportions ragel 11 Po.-Arthur August around resume It was and and 15, 17. The Japanese, it Is August more 20.000 sacrificed reported, men, but gained impoitqnt advantages in the matter of position. The above news was brought to Chefoo on junks, one of which, having on board three Russians, concealed In the baggage of Chinese to escape the Japanese, left Port Arthur at night, and was blown rapidly to Chefoo by a gale. The main force of the attack was t 1 directed against the left, wing and resulted in the capture of Pigeon bay positions and some of the forts at Liao Tlesban. At Palungchang the Japanese hastily mounted guns which did excellent service in aiding the storming of the right wing, where the Japanese are said to have captured two forts of minor value, mounting eight four-incguns, two siege guns and six guns. On the night of the 15th the battle lulled somewhat, when the Japanese sent the terms of surreflder to Lieutenant General Stoessel. The terms provided that the garrison should march out with the honors of war and Join General Kuropatkln; that all civilians be brought to a place deslg-pate- d by the Japanese admiral; that the Russian warships in the harbor, numbering seven, namely, the battleships Retvizan, Sevastopol, Pobieda, Peresviet, Poltava and . the Armored cruiser Bayan, the protected cruiser Pallada and ten or more torpedo-boa- t destroyers and four gunboats be sur- .quick-firin- . rendered to the Japanese, Lieutenant General Stoessel Is alleged to have received the terms with a burst of wonderful profanity, his habitual taciturnity deserting him. He strode the floor until he became calmer and then remarked that if the Japanese proposition was a joke it was in bad taste. JAPS SAIL FOR SHANGHAI. Determined to Seize Russian Cruisers Lying In Harbor. M. Odaglri, the Japanese consul general, has notified the taotal of Shanghai that a Japanese fleet is coming in to seize the Russian cruiser Askold and the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi. The chief engineer of the customs Are department reports that the Russian vessels are not seaworthy. The repairs being made by the Russians on the Grozovoi will he completed in about ten days. It is uncertain when the repairs to the Askold will be finished. There is no uneasiness at Shanghai, although the situation is thought to be acute. The foreign consuls are determined to preserve the neutrality of the port Upon the recommendation of the chief of customs the taotal of Shanghai will allow the Russian cruiser Askold and the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi to remain in port until 'August 23, when one days notice to leave or disdrm win be given them. The arrival at Shanghai of Chinese is expected. men-of-w- 8HELLS RAIN UPON ASUNCION. Three Insurgent Vessels Bombard Capital of Paraguay. Three Insurgent vessels bombarded Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, on August 17, for forty minutes. The extent of the damage is unknown. The government artillery replied to the insurgents and one gun hurst, wounding Several government soldiers. The ministers of Argentine, Brazil, Italy and France hoarded one of the Insurgent vessels and held a long and Secret conference, at the end of which a truce of twenty-fou- r hours was declared in order to give the women and children an opportunity to leave the Capital before further bombardment. , The Bow of Orange Ribbon j - Hungry Strikers Try to Kill Cattle. The fiercest riot of the stock yards strike occurred in Chicago Thursday night, when hungry dwellers of the packing house district sought to capture and kill eight steers that had escaped from the yards. The mob numbered 4,000 persons, and the streets were cleared only after 120 policemen in five squads had charged the rioters on four sides. Shots were fired and scores of rioters were clubbed. Few arrests were made as the police contented themselves with dispersing the mob. . . K Reign of Terror in Georgia. , The developments in the situation at Statesboro, Ga., following the burning of the negroes Cato and Reed on Tuesday, show no killings have been reported from the country districts. Two negroes, a man and a woman, were whipped near Register on Thursday. It is reported also that several others received lashings at other localities. Many negroes have left, and it is said that a scarcity of labor in the fields Is sure to follow as the cotton picking season is at hand. Wife Murderer Executed. Alfred 'A. Knapp, convicted of, the murder of his wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, and who confessed to five murders, was eloctrocuted in the annex at the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. a few minutes after midnight Thursday. Knapp, who weakened when he found his last hope for life had gone and expressed a fear that. he would have to be carried to the death chair, regained bis nerve and met bis fate with little show of fear or - it L , ata y L L , |