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21 PERISH IN FLOOD SEVEN DEATHS IN OKLAHOMA AND FOURTEEN IN TEXAS. Great Havoo Wrought by Raln-Bwollon Streams All Railway Lines In Southwest Tied Up by Deluge. Heavy Damage to Crops, Sovcn persona aro dond, altout five fcundrod are homeless, thousands of acres or lowlnnds aro lnundntod, hun dreds of houses aro washed away or damaged, railroad and wagon bridges are Bono over a largo area of the soutliorn part ot Oklahoma, several of tho railroad bridges are damaged ana tho tracks of nearly every railroad company operating lu Oklahoma are cither washed away entirely or dlsar ranged In those sectlona visited by tho heaviest rains and most disastrous floods. Tho lead: William T. Llndloy of Anndarko, Tompkins Chock of Shaw nee, W. D. Hallers, wife and child of Frederick, negro, drowned at duthrlo; unknown man, body found floating In Cimarron river, near Guthrie. Near Davenport, both tho 'Frisco nnd Katy tracks aro washed out. Near El Kono, 800 feet of tho Choctaw track nro boiio. On tho Santa Fo, near Guthrie, tho tracks woro damaged, but liavo been replaced. Tho Rock Island, near Apacbo nnd near Fort Cobb, has been damaged In the dislocating ot bridge vonts. The tracks of tho Wich ita Falls nnd Northwestern, in tho Big Pasture, aro unsafe and trains aro de layed. Tho Oklahoma Central has practically abandoned Us service. More than Ave hundred houses in West Guthrlo are submerged Tho flood has fallen, but the bottoms aro still BUbmorged nnd water four feet deep Is running through the BtVects. Ilundrods uro homeless and transpor tation from jtie part of the town to another Is by means of boats. Flood Havoc at Dallas, Tex. Four lives lost, more than a million dollars' worth of property destroyed, 4,000 people rendered homeless and telegraph nnd telephone wires, west and Bouthwcst, put out ot commission is tho result of a record breaking ovorflow of tho Trinity river at Dallas. Tho flood passed the record made by the rise In 186G, flfty-two feet. Only ono street car line Is operating to a part of North Dallas, Tho waterworks plant Is out of commission and the light plant is swamped, Tho trestllng west of the steol brldgo over Trinity river gavo way nnd ten men wero thrown Into tho water in full view of 20,000 spectators. Seven of these men wero rescued at great hazard. The names ot tho three men drowned aro unknown. At Fort Worth ten lives wero lost and the property damage Is estimated at $11,000,000. Flvo thousand persons woro driven from their homos, their personal effects and household goods being washed away by the waters. DEN8E FOG IN NEW YORK BAY Collision Between Two Steamers Throws 300 Passengers Into Panic. Fogs, which have been sweeping in from tho sea for several days, envoi' optng tho eastern seaboard with im penetrable curtains and delaying all chipping, lured' two coastwise bieam ehlps the Clyde lino steamer Semln olo and an uuknown steamer off their course onto the shifting shoals that fringe the Jersey coast, caused a mid river collision of two steamers In tho harbor, which throw ovor three hun dred passengers Into a state ot panic; generally checked ferryboat servico In tho hnrbor and kept two trans-Atluntla liners hugging tliulr anchorage off Sandy Hook. Over tin co hundred passengers on tho department of charities bteamer Thomas S. Brennan, returning from tho launching of the steamer lxwcll at New Brighton, S. I., were precipitated into a pauic when the steamship Maraval loomed up out or a fog bank In tho channel off Liberty Island and before the steel freighter could swing off her course, crashed Into tho Bren nan nnd tore a rent In tho steamer's Bide nearly to tho water line. Fright ened' by tho shock of tho collision and tho sound of the splintering timbers, scores of launching parties, many of whom wero women, put on life pro servers, and scrambled to tho steamer's mil and leaped to the bow ot the Maraval. which remained tightly wedged in the side of "the listing Bren nan. An examination showed that tho Brennan was not shipping any water and tho officials assured the passcn gors that there was no danger. When it was discovered that the Maraval's cutwater had not penetrated below'tfie water line a signal was given and the Maraval backed off, leaving the Bren nan to proceed to the Battery, whurq many of tho passengers who had re mulncd aboard were landed. Omaha Road Must Pay Fine. Tho circuit court of appeals has at firmed the conviction and tho lines Im posed on the Omaha railroad and its general freight agent, H. H Pearco, In tho grain rebate cases tried last yeat in Minneapolis. Tho government's contentions In the lower court are aus talned in every particular. TIih rail road was fined $20,000 and Mr. Pearce $2,000. Wealthy St. Louis Man Killed by Bolt. W. P. Howard, wealthy merchant, was struck and Instantly killed by light ning during a heavy electrical itnd rain etorm which swept over St. Louis Mr. Howard, who was a member of the Glen Echo Golf club, had been playing golf and sought tho shelter ot a tree when It began to rain. The lightning ran down the tree, killing him Instantly TRUE D'LL8 AGAINST LAMPHERE Charged With Arson, Five Murders and Accessory In Hetgeleln Murder. After Indicting Ray Lamphero the Laporte grand Jury also indicted: Mrs. Gunness for tho murder of An drew Holgeleln ot Mansfield, S. D. No warrant was Issued for Mrs. Gunness, as sho was declared officially dead by RAV LAMPHERE. tho verdict of Coroner Mack, but In order to voto a truo bill against Lam phero aa nn accessory In the killing of Hclgelcln It was necessary to In dict Mrs. Gunness as the principal. Lamphero now stands beforo tho bar of Justice officially charged with ar son, flvo murders nnd being an acces sory in tho Holgeleln murder. In tho Indictment for arson, It Is charged' that Lamphero set flro to tho dwelling house of Belle Gunness. The digging resulted In tho unearth ing of n human skull, which Ib bo- MRS. BELLE GUNNESS. Moved to belong to ono of tho bodies dug up In tho chlckon yard two weeks ago. At that time threo skeletons wero found In ono nolo, but thore wero only two skulls. Long hair at tached to tho skull Is considered evi dence that it Is that of a woman. SIX DEATHS AT HIS DOOR Indiana Man Principal In Second Mur der Sensation. James Brlmmlngstall was arrested at Downglac, Mich., charged with six murders. The pollco say ho has al ready confessed to two. His arrest followed an alleged attempt to mako his wife his seventh victim. She es caped and' appealed to tho police. It Is probablo that Brlmmlngstall will bo held on a charge of murdering David Huff at South Bend, lnd., last June. Tho pollco say ho confessed to kill ing a man in Kansas whom ho had a grudge against and was sentenced to ton years in tho penitentiary. After his release he killed a companion and lecolved a scntonco of threo years. Brlmmlngstall Is said' to havo ad mitted to Prosecuting Attorney Bren naliiui that ho had killed six men In tho west. The reported confession In volves tho shooting of two brothers named O'Brien In Arizona twenty-three years ago; tho shooting of a man from his horsu in Arizona twenty-ono years ago; tho killing of a Missouri South ern railroad conductor with a coupling pin twenty years ago; the killing of it man named Jones In Arizona In a froe-for-ull light In 1890, and tho shooting Into a crowd In Missouri In 1900, with out reason, nnd killing ono man. PLOT TO SELL PUBLIC LAND Four Men Charged With Making Bogus Deeds to Niobrara Reservation. An alleged plot to sell land In tho United States military roservatlon at Fort Niobrara, Nob., by means of false deeds and abstracts, and mythical names and characters, was oxposed when four real estato dealers woro ar rested at Indianapolis, lnd. Tho men arrested aro Edward F. Koslor, Georgo T. Voorhees, James N. Newby and Perry F. Carr. Tho specific chargo against tho men Is that they used' the malls to dofraud, and entered into a conspiracy to dofraud by the uso of tho malls. Somo of the tracts of land bold by tho men, It Is allegod, have been sold twice. Ono man bought 160 acres on which the buildings ot the military post are situated. In most cases, It Is alleged, it was represented that tho Nebraska land was owned by a man named C. Hast ings Reld of Polk county, Iowa. In other instances tho owner was repre sented to bo Thomas L. Thomas of Polk county, Iowa, It Is said there are no such men. Tornado Sinks Ship Off Africa. Dispatches from the west coast of Africa announce that the steamer Vllle de Bruges has been sunk by a tornado on the upper Congo. Six Europeans and forty-eight blacks were drowned. RECORD OF CONGRESS FEW MEA8URE8 A8KED FOR BY PRESIDENT ARE PASSED. House Passes Campaign Publicity Bill With Amendment Added Providing for Reduction of Representation of Southern States, A resume of congress' work elicits the interesting fact that thero wore more Important questions presented to and discussed by congress on which the public gonorally or sections or classos domanded action than ever be fore In Its history. A majority of these wero of President Roosevelt's making. Comparatively, the enact ments were few. On the othor hand, the aggregato of appropriations was great and whon tho final figures aro obtainable It Is not doubttfd that they will exceed thoso of any previous ses sion In times of peace. Standing abovo nil quostlons with which congress dealt was tho effort to pass an emorgoncy currency bill. Thrust upon tbo attention of legis lators at tho oponlng of tho session by a financial depression that had not fully subsided, it wob the first big ques tion to bo constdorcd. Likewise, it was tho hardest to meet, and it did moro to delay adjournment than any other. Tho senate and house failed to agreo, with tho result that a commis sion of senators and representatives lu congress, whose duty It lu to study tho subject and' roport at the next session, was the alternatlvo adopted. Labor Legislation. Numerous bills affecting labor wero considered by both tho senate and tho house. It Is conceded that more legis lation would have resulted had It not boon for tho pending national election The elections placed tho majority lu a dellcato Bituntlon, a fact not over looked by tho Democrats in the house, who further complicated the Republic ans' position by a filibuster to compel tho passage of measures demanded by President Roosevelt and opposed' by a majority of the Republicans In both branches of congress. Out of this con dition of affairs was steered a now em ployers' liability law to tako the placo of that declared unconstitutional by the supreme court and thore is pend ing a bill providing for the compensa tion of government employes In haz ardous occupations who arc Injurod In line of duty. Other matters of equal or greater Importance to organized la bor failed. These include an anti-Injunction law, with a provision for the exemption of organized labor from tho treble penalty clause of the Sherman nntl-trust law, and other amendments to relieve labor unlonB from tho oper ations of this law. Authority to name a tariff commis sion and to appoint experts to gather data, with a view to the revision of tho tariff at tho next session, was strongly advocated. As a result reso lutions woro adopted In the senate au thorizing tho committee on finance and lu tho house authorizing tho com mlttco on ways and means to conduct Individual investigations. A substantial victory for the Inter stato commerce commission was won nl tho appropriation of $350,000 for tho establishment of a statistical and' ac counting division of tho commission, which was opposed by Cboirinau Taw noy of tho house- committee on appro priations. No Dated Meat This Session. Tho open session of tho senate was concluded with nn extended debate on the power of congress to regulate In terstate and foreign commorco and a negative poll, 23 to 32, wns taken on a motion to adopt tho Foraker substi tute for tho Interstate; commerce com mission resolution extending the tlmo whon the penalty provision of tho com modity clause of tho Hepburn railroad rate law Is to take effect. The For aker substitute provided that the pro hibition against railroads transport ing across stato lines coal or other ar ticles produced by them shall apply only to property acquired since tho passage of tho Hepburn rate bill. May 29, 1900. Tho committee resolution applied' to all products without limita tion concerning the tlmo of ownership. Aftor the substitute wns lost and be fore a vote on tho committee resolu tion was called for Aldrich moved that the senate go Into executive session. The bill to place tho date of canning meat products upon packages was dis cussed briefly, us was tho omnibus claims bill, but both were displaced. House Objects to Ship Subsidy. Practically all hope of a ship sub sidy was abandoned when the house, by a voto of 145 to 15G, rejected tho conferenco roport on tho postoffice ap propriation bill containing a provision therofor, nnd on which tho principal fight was made. Tho bill was sent back to conference, and there Is now llttlo prospect that tho house conferees will yield to the senate. By a strict party vote of 160 to 125 a campaign contribution publicity hill, with amendment providing for a re duction of representation In the house of tho southern states, was passed. The Democrats voted against the bill because ot the amendment. Wilson Confers With Meat Inspectors. Secretary Wilson arrived In Chi cago for tho purpose of opening a con ference on education and instruction in connection with the enforcement of the new meat inspection laws. The conference will continue for threo days. Secretary Wilson said that Its purpose was to educate the inspectors throughout the middle west on tho re quirement; of tho law in view of se curing a more rigid enforcement of its provisions Mora thun 100 Inspectors are expected to alltnd the ooufetenc INSANE MAN STABS PRIEST Father Lubeley of Salisbury, Mo., Is Perhaps Fatally Wounded, Father Joseph F. Lubeley, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church ot Salis bury, was stabbed twice with a pocket knife aud, perhaps, fatally injured In church by Joseph Schuette, a prosper ous farmer living near there, who is believed to have become auddonly de mented. Tho stabbing occured lu view of 400 worshipers, many of them wom en. The Injured man was taken to a nearby residence, where his wounds wero attended to by physicians. His condition Is critical. Immediately after Father Lubeley had finished high mass, ho started to leave the church. At tho door he was rushed upon suddenly from behind by Schuette, who stabbed him twice, fell ing him. The first blow from the knife struck the priest in tho temple and the second cut a deep gash In the neck, Just missing tho Jugular vein. The crazed man was about to stab the priest a third time when Mrs. Barbara Glnter and John Gates, both members of tho church, caught his uplifted hand In tho struggle which followed, Schuette stabbed Mrs. Glntor In the hand and Inflicted a painful cut on Gates' arm. A dozen men came to the aid ot Mrs. Glnter and Mr. Gates and overpowered Schuotte. Struggling and fighting, ho was taken to Jail. It Is believed Schuette, who has been a devout member of St. Joseph's church, became suddenly deranged, and the attempt on Father Lubeley'B life resulted. Another version of the attempted as sassination Is that Father Lubeley had publicly reprimanded Schuette tor attacking a member ot the congrega gntlon last Saturday. During the services Schuette sat In the rear of the church. It Is said he glared constantly at the priest as If in great rage. COURT FINDS THAW, INSANE Decision Given Under Which He Must Stay in Asylum. Hnrry Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, will not be released from the lunatic asylum. This Is the decision reached by Justice Morschauser of tho supremo court In an opinion filed In the matter of Thaw's application for release on a writ of habeas corpus at Poughkeepsle. Both points brought up by Thaw's attorneys are decided against him. The Justice declares that Thaw is now insane and should not bo allowed at largo, and he further declares that the commitment to the lunatic asylum by Justice Dowllng after the last trial ot the case was entirely legal. Harry K. Thaw gave out a state ment, in which ho sought to make clear his point that the district attor ney's "hot air" fooled the newspapers Into giving more attention to points adverse to him than those favorable to his case. The introductory paragraph In Thaw's statement says: "This Is my first statement since tho day before Christmas." Thaw then goes on to say that the last evening of court ho was called to tho stand Just when the stenographer's hour was up and' sometime before the new stenographer entered the room. Mean while two of the flashlights wero ex ploded within twelve feet of him. which was probably what appeared to make him nervous. TRY TO ROB BANK MESSENGERS Trio of New York Thugs Fall to Make $43,000 Haul. In one of the densely T)oulated por tions of Now York city, three thugs made u daring attempt to hold up and lob a trio o bank messengers ae they were carrying $13,000 in cash from one of the hank's branches to Its main building Black pepper was showered on tho messengers, ono of them was hit with a blackjack and another slashed with u knife In the desperate effort ot their nsb.iilnnts to seize the money and escape with It before the arrival of assistance. That they failed to get clear with the valises filled with coin and bills whtch the hank employes were carrying was due to tho stubbornness with which the messengers resisted the attack and to the bravery of a young Polish waitress In a nearby restaurant, who so imped ed and delnyed tho leader of the at tacking trio that ho fell an easy victim to two policemen who came running to the rescue He gavo his name as Casimo RJccobona. NEW WORKING SCALE SIGNED Operators and Miners In Southwestern Field Definitely Come to Terms. The southwestern coal miners and operators met at Kansas City and signed tho working scale and agree ment governing conditions in the mines for two years to come. Tho terms are practically the same as ex isted last year. Tho signing has the effect of sending 35,000 coal miners of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Ar kansas fields back to work, and in an ticipation of the final closing of tho controversy many miners were pro- pared to begin work today. Bankers to Meet In Denver Sept. 27. The moetlng of the American Bankers' association will he held In Denver dur ing the week begluning Sept. 27. The date was decided upon by Frederick C. Farnsworth of New York, secretary of tho association, after a conference with officers ot the Denver Con vention league. Editor Indicted for Robbery. Fred Tracy, editor of the Beaver Her ald, and one ot the best known poli ticians in Oklahoma, was Indicted by the federal grand Jury for robbing the postoffice at Beaver City. 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