Show colored soldiers kept bacica white mob chicago july 11 members of the eighth regiment 1 N G rescued a colored policeman from a crowd that was threatening a lunching lynching lyn ching last night in thirty seventh street near the rock island tracks the policeman pol icsman was fred locke who was appointed recently for strike duty in trying to escape from a mob reopened he opened fire with his revolver shooting julia mchugo 18 years old A crowd of several hundred persons surrounded the man bent on killing him but the eighth regiment soldiers came to his assistance about twenty 0 the negro militiamen were on their way to eighth regiment armory preparatory to leaving for their aniual encampment at springfield they heard the shots that locke had fired at ahls pursuers and rushed in the direction whence the sound came the were in full uniform andermed and Armed with rifles under the rock island tracks in thirty seventh street the policeman was standing oft a mob 0 men and women by flourishing his revolver there were cries him 1 and he feared for hi life he first fired two shots at his and one ot the bullets the mchugh girl ohp was standing at the curb feet away two ti were I redby locke one of passing through a mans hat finally some of the more desperate jsn rushed in oti bocke from all sides and lie was knocked down and trampled upon and it was at this point that the militiamen appeared with their fifles locke was alho hospital where his injuries awe dressed and later he was locked up the girls injuries igro not serious the trouble was du to an attempt by locke to disperse a crowd that was jeering a nonunion non union teamster HAS PLENARY POWERS st petersburg july J ft M witte had another long interview with emperor nicholas received from official quarters enables the ress to positively an bounce that report s current here late last night thata that 1 wit te might not go to washington were incorrect M ettes instructions etian be stated authoritatively name him as first plenipotentiary and clothe him with plenary powers the instructions are couched in general cerms lerms WANT kogee I 1 T july 15 at a con conference here of greek indian town chiefs and members 0 uie indian council held here resolutions been adopted unanimously declaring for separate statehood for indian territory and endorsing the movement to hold a constitutional convention AVOIDED A COLLISION new york july 16 to avoid collision with a terry boat the crowded steamer asbury park was run at halt speed into her dock in the hudson river today A hole was torn in the steamers side a life raft and ten windows were smashed and panic spread among the passengers only a hurried land ins averted more serious results ARMY WORMS IN INDIANA South bend ind july 15 thousands of army worms have swept clean acres of timothy as well as much oats and barley near the southwest corner of this county and are still ad avancing farmers are attempting to stay their ravages by plowing deep furrows TYPHOID FEVER pittsburg july 15 typhoid fever ia epidemic at small town twenty alvo rolles southwest 0 erg there are about thirty houses in village and in every bouso there Is from one 10 five basea of the disease five children of a family narrieo litt have died DIGGING UP THE DEAD springfield ills july a compliance with a request from citizens in the vicinity of edwards valle ills tho state board of health today sent an inspector to make an investigation ot a report that wholesale exhumation of dad bodina is being made by a railway excavating along a right of way near a county poor farm it is charged that a steam shovel 18 used and that shovel Is at work was formerly a cemetery h |