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Show COALVILLE JTIMES. FIFTEEX LIVKS LOST C. R. JOKES, CalM Mat t EJItor the MM. M 14 BstiMM Kinigir. la CuztrtUa. Utah. haeaudOaaa Muw. SOUTHERN NEBRASKA SWEPT BY ' SERIES OF TORNADOES. an Inmate escaped death ar.seriouA injury. Tao miles south of Upland Get man Lutheran services being held la a school bout wfcej, fie atom struck aud demolished it. k$ng four of the occupants! Including to minister, and injuring a lumber I others. The storm was equally detractive at Fairfield, but- - tbe. people w rcarned of its coming end pofikt celwere lars for safety. Six dwell: but tiown to piece at that their occupants escaped lojFF with a few exceptions. Every Dwelling and Outbuilding In the Blown Path of the 8tom W rajahla la llnaa. Pisces. to . to .. Oat ....II .H.H Its Moatha.. ...... fM. 91 .... hi.h .... . .. .ft Aim Haalha A series of heavy storms, two of Clifll COplfl ' ItHMtlMI IMM4IM tf which developed Into the worst tornadoes that have visited southern NeDTAII STATE NtjVS. braska for years, passed over portions CHIEF WAS KlLLfp of Clsy, Franklin tnd Kearney counties Fifteen last perSunday evening. The twenty-fiftannual encampment Head of Revolutionary nsmen In of (hi Utah G. A. R. was held to Silt sons are known to have lost tbelr Macedonia Most DStb. " lives, twenty odd were more or less take City tost week Tbe London Times correpondeat at The tozmsters to the employ of the seriously Injured and a number of oth- Sofia has received trustworthy InforEvery city of Salt Lake ban been granted er received minor Injuries mation that Deltchlff, the fimona chief aa Increase in wage from 3 50 to dwelling and outbuilding In tbe path of the Macedonian rdolutionary Of the tornado was blown to pieces, i for a day work. movement, was killed la fc destrucAt the school election in American and the financial loss thus far ac- tion of tbe village of Btxl, near Fork last week, the people voted to counted will reach about (60,000. the Turks HI death, erNear Norman at the home of Daniel Seres, by bond the district for (18,000 to bay a roneously reported prerkualy, says McCurdy, a number of relatives and tbe correspondent, may temporarily site and build a school bouse. were spending the day and not paralyse the movement. friends At the 0. A. R, encampment held In .... iV;,-- Salt Lake City last week, Park City BRITAIN LEFT BEHIND. was decided upon as the place for 3 bolding the encampment next year. Aa ordinance Is before the Salt Lake city council which compels the keep lag of a register of guests In all hotels, boarding houses and rooming bouses. The State Beekeepers' association propose to make an exhibit of honey at the St, Louis exposition which will consist of between three and five or StBSCKirTlOM. TKKMS !.' h tons. At Mantl last week Brigham Lyon, a man who has a wife and two small children, was sentenced o ten years n the state penitentiary fur assaulting a fifteen-year-olgirt. It is said the Utah building at the Louisiana Purchase exposition will represent an expenditure of (7,(00, of which amount (1,(00 will' be used in ' furnishings and decorations. The young men of the Salt Lake Y. , II. C. A. have undertaken to raise' IS,-0- 0 of the fund to build a new home for the club, and will begin a personal canvas of the city for the funds The recent snowstorms In the mono -tains la the vicinity of Rich Bold' ha occasioned S henry loss of sheep, it being estimated that some sheepmen will suffer a loss of 40 per cent The farmers of Ephraim are very exultant over the good outlook for water the coming season, while it Is believed the recent storm will help to solve the grasshopper problem. Samuel If, GilsonT the discoverer of , 1 tT. , fclgivutefleMs. Visa carved a eane ehMr a socket half of na ftxr, and will present the ani to President Roosevelt during his visit to Salt Lake . City. A , two-stor- y building collapsed In Salt Lake City one day last .week, mashing in another building and causing a loss of over (4,000. A number -- had narrow escapes from In Sf people , . , In alt Lake City there were three cates of smallpox reported during the past week, and nine were discharged as cured, leaving eighteen cases quar- antined la the city and the quarantine hospital. A miner by tbe name of Murphy, while working In the Annie Laurie mine, near Richfield, struck a missed shot, hla face being badly cut up, while It Is probable that he wilt lose the eight of one eye. ' , The library of the 8tate Industrial school la to to enriched to the extent of (00 volume suitable for boy and girls. Thin la the result, of the appropriation of 1(00 made for this purpose by tbe last legislature. Senator W, A. Clark was Interviewed la San Francisco last week, anJ stated that work on his road la being rushed as fast a possible, and the present calculation are to have It completed Inside. of two years. A woman who la believed to be Insane Inst week Informed a number of residents of Salt Lake that when President Roosevelt cornea to Salt Lake ha will be killed, and also that the tabernacle will be destroyed by fire. A Salt lake boy last week ran' against an electric wire carrying a current of 18,000 voltage and got away without eertoua injury, Hla escape from' death ta unaccountable, aa the current was sufficient to kill a regiment of men. thirteen-year-ol- Mr. and Mrs. Draco Jensen of Rich- field, lies la a precarious condition St the kome of his parents, as th result 4 being kicked by a hors The bey toy oat in a field several hours bofors being discovered. Fred J. Jensen, a prominent wool man of ML Pleasant, reports having purchased over 300,000 pounds of wool ia that valley this season. He has paid for the same over (10,000. The highest price paid- by him was 1444 cents per pound. ALABAMA NEGROES HELD IN VITUDE FOR DEBT. SER-- - Startling Disclosures Mado by Socret Servlet Agents Regarding a In Southern State. sw Condi-tlon- At the request of the department of Justice the United States secret service has undertaken an Investigation of the charge of peonae, or holding another In servitude to work out a debt, which as been made against persons living in the vicinity of Montgomery, Ala. One man, named Robert N. Franklin, has already been indicted for keeping a negro In servitude, and Information In the hands of Chler Wilkie tends to show that a regular system baa been practiced between cer tain magistrates and persons who snt negro laborers. The plan is to bring a poor negro before a magistrate on n flimsy charge. He is convicted and tbe white man offers to advance him the money provided the negro will make a labor contract with him for a length of Jims sufficient to reimburse him for the money and trouble he has taken to keep the negro out of jail. The negro Is thereupon taken away and begins what la frequently a long term of cruel servitude, SERIES OF FIERCE STORMS. Many People Injured and Great Damage Done In Nebraska. Eastern Nebraska was visited by another aeries of storms Monday night and Tuesday, several of which devel oped Into small tornadoes. One visited Hastings, near which place was tbe scene of Bun days heavy storms and blew several buildings to splinter. Another struck Herman, twenty five miles north of .Omaha, and the scene of the tornado five years ago which killed a dozen people. The home of D, R. Parish was demolished and Mr. Parish, his wife and a child were seriously hurt. Omaha also received a storm which blew several houses from foundations and unroofed others in the southwest part of the city. Accompanying the severe wind In each instance was- - a rainstorm of unusual severity, and as a result several towns in esstein are flooded. Springfield, Nebraska Papilllon and Plattsmouth report the worst condltons. The railroads have suffered washouts In a score of places and a number of bridges have been carried away or badly damaged. The financial loss been heavy, and estimates place it V awfSfth (uf a rijlar PwkzzJzrm Is not h,as MISTAKEN JfOR ROBBER. at several hundred thousand dollars. One of the most severe stoi ins w as expected to recover, flioth men are Colorado Farmer Fatally Wounded by at Davoy, a small town northwest of i fanners. Lincoln, which resulted In the Injury Neighbor. none fatally. of thirteen persons, fi! 01 ES OF NDERS. Shot through the groin, bleeding and Several of them, however, sustained ilylng by the railroad track for twelve The report received broken llmba. hours without medical attention, with Colored Man of Newark, N. J Victim from there states- that every dwelling and outbuilding In the town was of Dkeass. son unhla blind wife and wrecked. Glanders has ctusel the death of able to assist him, was tht nights ex-FLOODS IN KANSAS. perlence of James Richardson at a Simon Wilson, a !ord stableman In water station on the Missouri Pacific Newark, N. J. This, is the second Fields Transformed Into Great Sixteen miles east of Pueblo, Colo. case recorded hert ia which this dis- Wheat Inland Lake. to torses, has attacked jThs bullet was fired by F.'L. Steven- ease, peculiar Salina, Kan., is the scene of the son, who Is now In jail In Pueblo on a human being. Tie other case la that flood in its history, fully 100 worst the charge of assault with intent to of Alfred Meyers, whs Is In the tost families having been driven from their kilL Stevenson says he mistook Rich stages of the dlsetse. . homes and the extent of the damage is estimated to be hundreds of thouST. GAUDENS STATUE OF GEN. SHERMAN. sands of dollars. . Another heavy rain tell Tuesday night making four Inches of rain that has fallen during the last twenty-fou- r hours. The northwestern portion of the city is entirely submerged, and women and children were rescued from their homes In boats. The Missouri Pacific grade on the west Is holding back a large and threatening body of water. If the water succeeds In crossing the tracks the entire western portion of the town will be under water. . J s-- Red-Heade- d Politician Makes a Great Race- - - The bid of the vtate land board for the Richfield city bonds. Issued to raise money to Inaugurate It system of waterworks, has been accepted. For the (14,0(HLworth-- of --city bond tbe land board will pay (1S.090.C0 and accrued Interest. son of . Walter, the DEBTORS IN BONDAGE All p&ital records were broken in .Kansas by Victor MurTuesday for nominee dock. Republican to fill s vacancy In congress tbe - Seventh district, - carrying eoun-tie- a every one of the thirty-siand probably every one of the Mr. 3,200 precincts in the district " Murdock was known as the s candidate, and all the the district supported him. in some ptacee be hest bis Democratic opponent thirty to one. "red-beadedred-top- street Mr. St Gardens' work represent the hero of the "March to the Sea" seated on kit charger. In full uniform of a generti In the field, his head hired as if h response to the acclaiming voices tt his soldi era, his campaign hat lnhl right hand held TnTtbe fine'IreeTabtkm of A salute. Immediately tn frojt of the charger ia a womans figiry symbolizing Victory, her robes fluttering backward In the' breeze created by the forward movement ch and In let upraised hand, the'pafin-branf s peace. Artistically the work is anquestionably the finest in America. Ntw York Press. Death Follows la th Wake of ths Automobile. A Pari dispatch saya II la now pos. plblt to assemble from the many re- porta along th routs of the first stage! rid automobile race a ai tbe Paris-Macomplete Hat of casual!-- . This shows Six persons killed, three q dangerously Injured that they tray die, and ten seriously Injuted. it has also been asserted la Peris that zercntcen persons bad been killed and that seventeen wera injured, but ih was not Woman Run Over by Automobile, Both Legs Being Cut Off. d -- - A dispatch from Bordeaux Franc adds another terrible accident to ths king list of casualties. Mme. Ch Mas sas, accompanied by her husband, both the riding bicycle, watching passage of automobiles at St Andre d Cubzae, tacit mile from Bop deaux, a hen a hors frightened by the noise bolted and overturned tbe woman.-who fell under a racing automo bile Her leg were rut off. The hops of aavtng her life (a sttsbt. tf -- Enid, Oklahoma, Struck by a Terrtflo Storm and Hundred A- - Homeless. Hundreds of persona Sere rendered homeless and property damage estimated at, (390,000 was done In tbs Enid bottoms alotio by a cloudburst that struck west of Enid, Oklahoma, at midnight Saturday night The aggregate damake will doubtless be raised much higher by losses sustained between Enid and the seat of the storm. ' At 12 oclock 4 bank of water three feet high- - and 200 feet wide swept through the bottoms, carrying houses and everything before it. R came while upon Enid without warning most of Its citizens were asleep. Within a tew minutes 100 bouses were or completely J subpartly merged. Rescuers went to work immediately, and all that night labored Industriously saving persons from perilous positions and aiding those driven from their homes. Many pitiable scenes were witnessed as the people stood around waiting for th water to subside. Many had lost everything they possessed. Tbe citizens are busily engaged lelleving the distress, but the means at band are Inadequate. The rainfall the past ten days has been tbe heaviest in tbe history of Oklahoma, aud indications are that more will follow. Reports of losses In the country west of EnH are meager, but It Is believed that heavy damage was done. WILL RECLAIM IDAHO LAND. Canal to Bs Built Which Will Supply Water for 75,000 Acres. Seventy-fiv- e thousand acres of arid land will be reclaimed anJ opened tor settlement In Idaho as the result of a deal which was consummated in Salt Lake City, Saturday last when the American Falla Canal A Power company finally concluded arrangements for the completion of Its canal in Idaho. Tbe contract was awarded to Lyman Skeen of Ogden for the construction of tha entire canal system. The companys canal is taken "out of th Snake river, about twelve miles above the town of Blaekfoot, In Bingham county, and runs southwest fifty-eigmiles. It terminates just below the American Falls, Blaine county, Where it discharges its surplus water back into tbe Snake river. The country that will be traveraed by the canal Is considered one of the most fertile valleys along ths river, and for years has been an object of envy to agriculturiata. .'The canal will be eighty-fiv- e feet wide at the top, sixty feet wide at the bottom, and capable of carrying six feet of water, a river of Itself. It will have tbe capacity of Irrigating 73,000 acres of JanL(7,000 acres of which have been set apart by lhe "'k66rtTnUt of tbp United States and the state of Idaho for the benefit of parties who will first purchase water rights of the company. SHOOTING IN IDAHO. Fatally Wounded In Row at Baseball Game. A ball game at Nampa, Idaho, Sunday afternoon, wound up in a shoot, ing affray, Policeman Grogan of Nampa being shot through tbe shoulder! The shooting was done by a colored bootblack from Boise. The trouble arose over the striking of a lad from Boise by a Namap player. Tbe colored man interfered and the . marshal sought to quell the trouble. The man who did the shooting la James T. Quarles. A colored bartender named Henry Williams was arrested with him. A mob formed late In th evening and attempted to lynch the prisoners, even, going so far as to secure tha keys of the jail from the jailer, but by the orompl action of tbe chief of police, who swore In a number of special officers, the mob was driven away from the jail anJ their plans Officer frustrated. Arsenal Blown Up. Santo Domingo dispatch says the arsenal at Santiago was blown up Saturday by enemies of the preaent government, and General Fries was killed and twenty-on- e persona mortally wounded. The troops are pursuing General Jose Alvsrez, who Is said to be the author of the explosion. Tbe gunboat Colon, which was conveying General Desohampea to has been lost off Cape Espada. Deschampea and four others eved themselves in n boat, but the remainder of the crew was lost A x On Memorial day the Chamber of Commerce win present to the city of New York Augustus St. Gsudens he rolo statue of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, a work that has been called the finest piece of sculpture created In 400 year. When Jthe statue was exhibited In the Salon ofthe Champs d Mara, in 1(99, the place of honor was. given to 1C that being the first time such a mark of artistic appreciation was. ever shown to. an American sculpture. The statue,' which Is of bronxe. t to stand at th entrance to Central Park, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-nint- h CLOUDBURST AT MIDNIGHT. 8walns. Battle of Love-Sic- k bullcelebrated a Marciano Bengal, the heart was shot through fighter, and Instantly killed by Salvador del Castillo, .an official of the Mexican cusTonThenaent-- Et Paso, Texas. Reu-gbattered down tbe door of a house where Castillo was calttng on his sweetheart, - she having locked the door la order to keep out Rengal, wbc was enamored of the girl, and bad sent word that he was coming ta kill Castillo. Castillo fired, instantly killing Rengal. Latest Report of Jewish Massacre. Relief society The German-Jewis- h who has sent an agunt wera 700 houses that destroyed report and 800 shops sseked. and that about 10,000 persons are homeless as a re suit of th recent massacre. Forty five persons were killed outright dur seriously Ing the massacre, clghty-fmi- r wounded and 600 were slightly wound ed. Th number pf-- persons affected through losing positions or otherwise la estimated at JW.ooo. mostly belong Ing to tbe poorer classes. al -- San-che- Storm and Flood In Oklahoma. A tornado is reported In the vicinity of Watonga, Okla. The dwellings of 3. P. Atterbury and Robert Payne wera demolished.- - Mrs. Aterbury was not seriously carridflftyfeetbut injured, while her son andT'daugbter were dangerously butt. Orchards and The crops were damaged severely. Arkansas river is on a rampage aa a result of the heavy rains. The town of Kaw City is practically under water many fanners lining in the bottoms and Newkirk having near Ponca-Citbeen compelled to leave their homes. y Their Children. United States Consul McWade at Canton, has sent to the state depart-men- f a detailed report's? me famine conditions In Kwang SI, tn support of his cabled appeal for help. He says that thousands In their desperation were selling their children for from (2 to (5 each, yet so many were the offering and so few the SeR -- not all could be told Me Wade says that so heartrending were the appeals tor assistance that be had contributed far beyond bis mean and would have given more had be had the money. pnrehasers-th- at at even this price. Mr. CVCIiOiff INK ASS AS - TWO PEOPLE KILLED AND A DO EN INJURED. Houses Completely Demolished .ed Body of One of the Victims Carried a Distance of Thirty Rods. Tbe third cyclone In Salina county. hours Kansas, within twenty-fou- r struck Assyria Thursday night Two-werkilled and a dozen or more inn, jured. The dead are William A. Olson. 13 years old, and Peter Of the injured, none Is fatally hurt. Tbe bouse in which the Olsons lived was demolished completely and the body of the hoy was found thirty roda from where the house had stood. Peter Olson was so badly hurt that- he The never regained consciousness. other members of the family escaped with slight Injuries. The wind carried the farm house occupied by Kels Orenburg a distance of five rods. Miss Christine Orenburg saw the storm coming and escaped from the house half a minute before It was carried away. A terrific rainstorm followed the cyclone. At Bridgeport, in this county, ' hall fell continuously for twenty minutes, doing immense damage to the wheat. . At Ashland the storm came at about ( oclock, and a large portion of that district was laid waste. Tbe damage will be immense, and it is considered miraculous that no lives were lost. So far as is known nobody was killed and none in Ashland injured severely. It is reported from the country districts that some were fatally Injured. The Indications are that the atom was worse tn the country than In town. This country Is very sparsely settled, however, and no particulars are obtainable of the extent of the damage done. The cyclone passed through Blaine. Kan., at 8 p. m., the Commercial hotel being demolished, but no one injured.. At Wright a number of houses were demolished, stock killed and growing crops badly damaged. e 01-ae- - -- .1 . Tornado in Texas Kills Two People. A special from Amarillo, Tex., states that the Panhandle country was visited by a severe storm Thursday night The home of M. R. Wilson, near Here- ford, was blown to pieces, killing .Mrs. Wilson and child and fatally Injuring Wilson. Considerable damage was done to property In the vicinity of Amarillo. a TROUBLES OF THEIR OWN. Trerrbling for Fear of Revo-- lutionary Outbreak. The report vetoes from St Peters-bu- rg that the greatest anxiety prevails In administrative circle owing to the possibility of serious outbreaks on the occasion of the approaching btronten-ar bt that city. The police have requested the owners of workshops and factories to refuse a holiday to their employes during the festivities, but the men probably will refuse to work. Revolutionist emissaries have been flooding the workshops with seditious literature. In which It Is declared that while the czaf. In his plan of March 11, pretended to be animated by a desire to ameliorlate tbe lot of the peas- ants. In reality cares nothing for them, and the men must themselves obtain their rights. These pamphlets are couched in language most insulting to tbe czar, the czarina and, the government, The employers are asking for police1 protection during the celebrations. The recent destruction by Are of factory at SL Petersburg, Involving the loss of about (300,000, is attributed, to the workmen. Russian Cant Forget Licking from Uncle Bam. The first anniversary of Cuban in--, dependence was celebrated at San Juan, P. R., by a banquet Th guests Included Governor Hunt the United States officials, a number of other Americans, the consular officers and leading Porto Ricans. The members of the Spanish colony, with few excep- Uona, ignored Invitations sent them. A Cuban line steamer owned by Spaniards dressed ship and displayed all flags but the American flag. Union Pacific Strike to be Called Off at Once. A special from New York says that the Union Pacific strike has been net- tied and will be declared off on May 27th. The terms of settlement between the officer of the railroad and Hie " resent ativea of the strikers has been signed. The men are to return to work at an increased rate of PM, -there Is to be no discrimination on account of the men belonging to the unionB, and piecework is to be abolished In the shops of the system. w Jews Migrating to London. In view of th Jewish troubles 4n eastern ' Europe, considerable Interest is shown In the royal commission o alien immigration, which was appoint- ed in Londaa a year ago. The evidence taken has shown that there la an enormous growth of the Jewish population In the east end of London, mainly through the influence - of . Russian Poles, amTlbla Influx has resulted In serious overcrowding of the population and In unsanitary conditions. |