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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1905)
comm, \W>, qjteflT ^KIT/JIN.KI^T> RffiRYE-P , “Tell me, Elsa, ivhat is it to be?" F "Oh, I do not know what to say; I •teel differently every minute, Jack.” Tlie speakers were Jack Selwyn and Elsa Cunningham. This made the fifth occasion during the past three months on which Jack had proposed to Elsa; but site could never make tip her mind. Site always knew that she was very fond of him. but exactly how fond she was never certain. • If you were to go away, Jack.” "Go away?” he cried in pained tones. "Yes, just for a few months, then i should know. Besides it would be a good test for you, perhaps you might meet some other girl you would like better than me.” "Elsa!” There was real pain in his tones now. And then with a little com passionate < ry she put her arms round Itis neck and kissed him. A short inter val ensued. ' If 1 was certain, Jack, dear, I would not hesitate a moment." The upshot of it all was that Jack Selwyn agreed to Elsa's proposal for a separation, it was to be for three mouths; then, if Tllsa felt she really could nol do with out him. she was to write. It was tak en for granted that he would not for get Iter in that time. Elsa Cunningham and her aunt. Mrs. Crabtree, were staying at Westport for several weeks. The holiday did not seem to be doing Elsa much good, for site invariably wore a pensive, almost worried look. Mrs. Crabtree grew quite upset at times. "My dear Elsa,” she would say. “you must look better or else your father and mother will be sorry that they ever let me take y u away.” "That's all right. Aunt I,ou. Don't yo i worry; I shall turn up trumps.” Elsa’s style of speech was often rath er slangy, but that is the mode of the present day. "That Mr. Ward is a nice young man. Do you not think so, Elsa?" "Cannot say that I’m particularly struck with him,” replied Elsa, to whom young men, witli one exception, bore no attraction now. "I wish you would not use those slang expressions of yours, my dear. They do not sit well on you. Now, T think Mr. Ward is a very nice, gentlemanly young man, and I think he likes you, Elsa." "Does lie?" was the indifferent reply. “Yes, 1 am sure he does, dear. In fact. I have asked him to take tea with us this afternoon.” "What!” Elsa started as if she had been shot. Frederick Ward was a young gentle unfortunate waiter, and during the past few days had concocted a plan by which he was to revenge himself. The general hour for dining at the High (Miff hotel was 7 o'clock, and on the Wednesday evening ihe large sa loon was fairly full of diners. Enter Frederick Ward. Mr. Wilberforce. the manager of the hotel, in evening dress, passed through the saloon soon afterwards, hut his progress was arrested by Ward. "By the way, Wilberforce," he ex claimed loudly. "During (he last two nights a diamond pin and a pair of diamond cuff links have disappeared from my room, and I have reason to believe that they have been stolen." Ward pointed in a tnelodramlc way at the unfortunate waiter. Beyond a slight trembling of his hands, however, that individual took no notice of tlie accusation. "Barton," cried the manager to the waiter, "come to my office. 1 should be glad, if you, too, Mr. Ward, would come when you have finished dining." When he had finished dinner Fred erick departed to the manager's office. "In an inquiry of th^s sort," began the manager, “it is always as well to form a kind of committee of the guests of the hotel." “Quite so." agreed Frederick. “With your permission, then." went on the manager, “I will leave Barton in charge of you and my clerk, whilst T ask a few gentlemen to favor us with their assistance." "By all means,” beamed Frederick. Events were falling in with his plan even better than he had bargained for. His plan. I said; but it is hardly fair to call the petty, mean artifice which he had conceived a plan. At any rate, this was his idea. He had made friends with a rather smart girl em ployed at the hotel who had been un successful in her overtures to our friend the prisoner, and was, there fore, quite eager to fall in with Ward’s scheme. Just before dinner this estimable lady had piloted Ward to the servants’ quarters, which were quite deserted at that time, and placed the articles of jewelry at the bottom of Barton's box. Presently the manager returned, and with him several of the guests. . Prior to their arrival at the office an ani mated conversation had taken place, which resulted in broad smiles on all their faces. "Mr. Ward, you have made an ac cusation against this man, and we shall be pleased to hear your case.” "My raise gentlemen, is very simple,” begun Ward. "Hast night, going along 41 V -rn.i.n favored with plenty of money and nothing to do but to spend it. In many ' ways he had made himself useful to Kisa's aunt, and had thus succeeded iri ■the first stages of his campaign. There was too much self-opinionated conceit about him to please Elsa. He smirked as he spoke, and smelt like a perfume shop. He duly presented himself at the private sitting room which his hostess ■occupied. and professed himself "charmed” to see Mrs. Crabtree and her niece. The same waiter who had already offended Elsa's artistic susceptibilities brought in the tea. As lie passed Frederick Ward his foot appeared to catch in a rug, with the result that a certain amount of hot tea disported itself on the im maculate clothing of Frederick. That gentleman swore, not loudly, I ad mit, but Elsa caught the words, and her lip curled scornfully. Frederick Ward resolved that the man should suffer for being the means of his discomfiture. Frederick Ward seemed in no wise knocked under by the severe snubbing be had received at Elsa’s hands, but became more and more attentive to Mrs. Oabtree and her niece. But Elsa put up with It quite hap pily. the ihoughts of Jack keeping her spirits high. i’rr-1-'-irk Ward still nursed a -bluer feeling of resentment against the corridor, saw man leave my room hast ily; that man was that waiter. Found my tie, pin and my links were mis sin". '*1 did not go into your room at all last night, neither have I been in it lit all,” said the waiter. “I demand to have his box searched,” tried Ward. “He is sure to have hid den the things.” ‘‘Is that justifiable,” do you think, gentlemen?” asked the manager. “Cerainly,” was the reply. “Then let us go to his room,” cried Ward triumphantly. Ward led them straight to the room and threw open the door. “Nice cigars you smoke. Barton,” said the manager. “I thought I had forbidden smoking in the servants’ bed rooms.” "1 have not smoked any cigars in ! my bedroom.” replied the waiter. “Him! curious,” remarked Mr. Wil berforce, and then he suddenly stopped and picked up the colored paper band from a cigar. “IjOS Huelvos, better cigar than T can smoke, fly the way, that’s your favor ite brand, isn’t it. Mr. Ward?” “Yes, 1 do smoke them," muttered Frederick, more ill at ease than ever. “But let us carry out our program." "Ah, yes, the box,” cried the man ager. The box was opened and presently every article was out on the door, but not a vestige of the jewelry. ‘They've been moved!" shrieked Ward, and then regretted it imme diately. "Exactly as you anticipated. Barton." said the manager, and then lie pro duced from his pocket the links and pin. Ward turned a hasty hue and glanced from one to the other in dismay. I “These articles were handed to me by Barton just before dinner," said Mr. Wilberforce. Barton stated that having found himself to be without a handkerchief, he had hurriedly rushed to his room | to obtain one. There he found a dis tinct smell of smoke, and observed that ; the lid of his box was down, when he distinctly remembered having left it ajar. He immediately opened the box and saw that the contents had been disturbed; continuing his search he found the jewelry, which he gave to me. "Now. Fir," he said, turning to Ward, “have you anything to say to disprove this?” Ward made no reply, but his abject look condemned him. “Gentlemen." went on the manager, "I think you will agree with me that Barton is quite innocent, and that, having no direct proof, the person who has done this thing is unknown ap parently. But I must ask Mr. Ward to be good enough to vacate his rooms by tomorrow." Q Thus Mr. Frederick Ward passes out of this history to be seen no more. It transpired that the servant girl on observing the commotion, had be come frightened and confessed her share in the matter to the manager, but lie had preferred to hear Ward convicted out of his own*mouth. “That’s your nice young man.” re marked Elsa. "What do you think of him now. Aunt Eou?” "My dear, i am going to bed,” replied that lady; which was hardly an answer to the question. As soon as Mrs. Crabtree had gone out of the room Elsa sat down and hastily commenced to write. She had deoiled to summon Jack Selwyn. and with that intent was inditing a letter l to him. waiter appeared with letter on a tray. Elsa pounced on It, and saw to her joy that the handwriting was that ; of Jack Selwyn. In her excitement she laughed aloud, i and cried "dear old Jack!” and then impetuously kissed the letter. The ; waiter coughed. With flaming cheeks Elsa turned on him. \ "Why. Barton,” she said, "are you i still here?” The waiter thought for a moment, | and then admitted that he was. "Why, I thought- ” she began, tlv*n she stared at Barton, who uctu:40' smiled at her. Suddenly she came forward, and placed both hands on the waiter's shoulders. "Jack!” she almost screamed. "Jack, you ?” “Yes, Elsa, me,” remarked that in dividual as he removed a heavy dark wig from his light brown hair, and a large black mustache from his upper lip. He gravely proceeded to dust the charcoal from his eyebrows, and to rub out a feu painted wrinkles, whilst all the time Elsa watched in happy won derment. "Oh, you dear, silly old boy!" she cried. "And do you mean to say that you have been here all the time?” “Yes, dear, 1 could not bear to be parted from you altogether." "Oh, Jack," she cried, "I am so hap py, and I never want to let you go away from me again." A Warmer Sun. Boston Transcript: Just as in No j vember an icy wind now and then sur ! prises, in sudden reminder of a com | ing winter’s rigor, so now, as we have ! become accustomed to the winter, there ! come days when the sun kisses with an unexpected warmth—to remind the city that spring is ori the way. If the winds strike one like an angry flash from gentle eyes, a cruel sterness where love had been, these days correspond to love’s awakening, or are as mirth play ing suddenly on a solemn countenance. One hardly knows how to accept the unlooked-for salutation. But joy tills ! the heart. It wells up in response to the sunshine, trickling through us like the tiny rivulets that permeate tht? ice when the same sun strikes its cold, dull heart. All the "springs of our ; being” shout response to a vague sen | nation of happiness, In indefinite im | aginings. in hope and in fears, which j amount in fact to certainty, that the touch is brief, that even the minutes are numbered. Yet they signify a com ing. They are as footfalls still far away. If the wind changes or the dooi closes, and we cease to hear them for a time, we shall known now that the footfalls still draw nearer, that soon we really shall see her again—the spring, “tripping o’er the lea” with ! baskets of crocuses, mayflower and vio i lets. The time is not yet. but these j first days, when, perhaps for only an I hour at noon, there comes the unex* | pected expectancy of the spring, are as a matter of fact, the loveliest, most i wonderful of all the season’s miracles Uncle Sam Sells Butter. An interesting story has come to | light by the announcement that the | government has sold on sealed bids, j with certified check, for full amount at I Lime of sale, about 26,000 pounds of but I ter that were put up for the navy last j spring and summer. He’ll Succeed. Newark News; ‘■Myrtllia,” said the old gentleman sharply, “that young man you had iti the parlor last night is dull of comprehension. Ail I had to do was cough when the other chaps re i mained too late and they would take the hint and depart. Did this one say anything when 1 coughed last night?” ••Yes,” replied the beautiful daugh ter. “he said the next time lie called he was going to bring you a bottle of cough syrup." The Passing of the Horse. Every little while they tell us that the horse has got to go; First the trolley was invented’eause the horses went too slow'. And they fold us that we’d better not keep raisin’ colts no more. When tin* street cars got to motlng that the horses pulled before 1 thought it was all over for old Fan and Doll and Kit s'posed the horse was tip and done for— But-he-ain't-went-yit 1 When the bike craze first got started peo ple told us right away, As you probably remember, that the horse had saw his day; People put away their buggies and wont kitin’ round on wheels; There were lots and lots of horses didn't even earn their meals. 1 used to stand and watch ’em with their bloomers as they’d flit, And 1 thought the horse was goln’— But-he-ain’t-went-yit: Then they got the horseless carriage, and they said the horse was done. And the story’s been repeated twenty times by Edison; Every time he gets another of his batteries to go Ho comes whoopin’ out to tell us that the horse don’t stand a show. And you’d think to see these chauffeurs, as they go a’ehaufttn', It Was good by to Mr. Dobbin. But-he—-ain’t went—yit! —London Road. | HORROR [N SPAIN. isveral Hundred Lives Are lost by thte Bursting of a Reservoir Under Construction, Madrid, April II.—Four hundred per sons were killed or Injured by the col lapse of u new water reservoir in course of construction. Fifty bodies have already been recovered. Prince Asturias, the war minister, ttie governor of Madrid and a repre sentative of the king have gone to the spot to superintend the work of rescue. Troops sent to the scene are engaged in helping the sufferers and recovering the bodies of tile dead. As the day passed the indignation and excitement increased and serious disorders arc feared, especially on the occasion of the funeral of the victims. Hu si ness is entirely at a standstill. The work of recovering the dead and injured Is hampered by enormous crowds of angry men and walling women. Estimates of the number of persons injured are increasing. The structure which collapsed was a. huge quadrilateral built on arches. The disaster was due to tin* weakness of the supporting pillars. As the greater part of Hie deoris Is under water the work of extricating the victims is most difficult. Up to this time 100 bodies have been recovered. These were tak en immediately to the cemetery in or der lo prevent disturbances. Seventy injured persbns have been rescued, but it is feared the remainder of those working in the vicinity at the time of the accident perished in the crushed masonry or by asphyxiation. Military guards are posted all about the scene of tlie disaster. The government has authorized the opening of a relief fund and at a meeting of the cabinet it was decided to appoint a mixed civilian and military commission to establish responsibility for the disaster. Workmen claim that poor material was used in Us construction. * HURT iN RIOT. Three Men and a Woman Injured When Poles and Hungarians Re sist Officers. Pittsburg. Pa.. April 11.—Three men wer*. hurt, one probably fatally, and one wom an was injured at a riot at Schoenvllle. near Me Kee's Rocks. The rioting was the result of a clash between tlfteen detectives and about 1,200 foreign residents of Schoen vllle. The injured are: Harry Lukasehev. ski. aged 24. sho. through the side and stomach: may die. Edward Rider, assistant chief of police of McKee's Rooks, hit on the head with a brick and seriously injured. Name of the third man not known. Mrs. Agnes Sadano, a Polish^ woman over the arrest of whom the riot started, bruised in the scuffle, but escaped arrest. The riot was the climax of a series of •mailer riots a.nd fights which took place in Schoenvllle during the last two weeks. During the arrest of some coal pickers last Friday by the Fake Erie railroad d«*~ trotivoa Mrs. Sadna interfered and caused a small riot. The detectives, four in num ber, were driven out of the town by a mob of Hungarians and Poles. Today tin* officials, knowing they would have a battle, went in force to arrest Mrs. Sadna. She was found in the street and with her 4-year-old child in her arms attempted to light the posse and called to her country men for assistance. The officers, after taking her into cus tody, were quickly surrounded by a large crowd of men. who used as weapons bricks, beer bottles, clubs and stones, and tic* woman prisoner was rescued. The of ficers fired their revolvers into the air. This served to madden the foreigners, and in a rush of more than 1,000 men, women and children, armed with every available weapon, the police were driven into a vacant lot, where a stand was made. A second rush was made by the mob, but it was soon stopped by the wounding of 1 Aickashewskl, and the posse was allowed to get out of town without further moles ation. PANIC IN THEATER. Voting Man Fatally Injured and a Score Badly Hurt in Exciting Rush from place. Kokomo, Ind., April II.—George Arm strong, 17 years of age, was fatally in jured, and a score of persons severely burned during a tire which was caused by the igniting of a roll of celluloid that was used in operating a moving picture machine. In the panic that fol lowed Armstrong jumped through a window on the third iloor and was fa tally injured. A moving picture show was in pro gress, and during the intermission a hag of celluloid film, suspended over the balcony railing, was ignited by an electric light. The machine operator threw tlie audience into a panic and started a rush for the lire and exits by a cry of “Lookout, everybody! The theater is afire!” In an instant about ! (>00 persons became a crushing, rushing mass of humanity. That more were: not hurt is due largely lo the excellent system of fire escapes and exiis in the theater, and the deportment of the house employes. Young Armstrong occupied a seal in the gallery, and at the warning cry [ of the machine operator broke a plate | glass window and jumped to the side walk, a distance of forty feet. He is still unconscious, both legs are broken and he is internally injured. Mrs. Bert Jacebs was so affected by the shock as to require liie attention of physicians for more than two hours. Her condition is serious. Vance Hunt was badly burned by the flaming films. Several others were severely burned. The theater ws damaged only by smoke. DEAD NUMBER 4,500. One Town, Out of Many Wrecked in India, Lost That Many. Calcutta, April 11—Telegraph commu nication with Dharmsaltt lyas been re stored. The latest accounts show the •arthquake was even more disastrous than at first believed. Of a total popu lation of nearly 5.000 In the town of Kangra. it is believed only MO were left alive. Many people afe still imprisoned In the ruins. Dharmsala, Kangra. Palanpur, Dhawan and all ihe neigh boring villages were completely • recked. OIL ANO WATER MIX. Baptists Don't Raise Any Questior.s, But Take $100,000 from Mr. Rockefeller. Boson, April 11.—The American Bap** list Missionary union nas accepted and icknowltjdgeJ from John D. Rockefeller *i contribution of $100,000. VLADIVOSTOK FLEET ! PREPARES TO LEAVE Admiral Togo May Eventually Find Himself Between Two Fires. BELIEVE IN ROJESTVENSKY | _ i Russia Has Hopes That the Admiral ; Once Having Passed the Straits Can Safely Proceed to the Scene of Dispute. London, April 11.—The sudden shifting of interest in the war from land to sea and the apparently im minent prospects of a fateful bat tle between the Russian and Jap anese squadrons in the China sea have revived all the interest shown here in the earlier developments of the struggle in the far east. It is taken for granted that Ad miral Togo’s ships, reported to be in Singapore in the middle of March, are still in that vicinity; and the report from Penang, on the west coast of the Malay peninsula, that twelve Japanese ships were seen steaming ahead of the Rus sian warships, is interpreted to mean that the former are scouts, sent out by Togo to get in touch with the Russians, and when their j object is accomplished to retire to the main body of the Japanese squadron. The reports about the numbers of Russian ships vary, but at any rate over thirty-five battleships, cruisers, colliers and torpedo boats have passed the port of Singapore. Under writers here presume. | from the northeasterly course they j were steering, that after passing Singapore the Russian ships are attempting to reach the French port of Saigon, Cochin China. However, it is pointed out that a Japanese squadron of twenty-two ships is still off Horstburg light, where it was reported March 14. The two naval forces were this afternoon only about thirty miles apart, and may be in touch at any moment. St. Petersburg. April 11.—There , i.s reason to believe that Vice Admiral Kojest vensky’s entrance to the China sea has been followed by orders for [the cruisers Oiomoboi, Grassfa and , Bogatyr. which have been ready for I some time at Vladivostok, to put to I sea. Whether it is the Intention to send . them south immediately or to hold I them in the vicinity of Vladivostok Is i not certain. Their appearance outside the roadstead of Vladivostok will con stitute a potential threat against Ad ' mini I Togo's rear which would coni I pel the retention in or dispatch of a ! j number of heavy fighting ships to Jap- i I i nese waters. Thus Admiral Togo [seems to be virtually placed between two fires. The peace* influence in the j ; government urges that this favorable 1 ' strategic position presents the psycho i logical time for officially offering the olive branch to Japan, reasoning that ! no matter how confident the Japanese ! government may be of Togo’s victory, | it cannot overlook the possibility of de « feat, nor to appreciate the complete , disaster which would transfer the mastery of the sea to Russia. With so ' much depending upon the issue, they argue both countries have mutual in terest in avoiding an actual test, and it i.s not Impossible therefore that a new move in the direction of peace may come just as the world expects to hear the call to quarters for the great est naval battle of modern times. Cer tainly the spirits of the war party have ! been greatly raised by Kojest vensky’s j success in penetrating to the China sea ! and the prospects of a naval battle, * even with the odds against Russian | victory, which would change the entire ' complexion of the situation, has aroused j I something like a Hash of enthusiasm j in many Russian breasts. Some naval officials express the opinion that Rojestvensky, having now . I safely navigated the straits, instead of | sailing north to meet the Japanese can ! afford to calmly wait Vice Admiral j Negobatoff with his squadron, which ; could arrive there in about three ! weeks. The Russian admiralty on Sunday ; received a long dispatch from Singa | pore, but no intimation as to its con ! tents has been given to the newspa pers. The papers Sunday morning printed I Singapore dispatches without com ment, the Sviet being the only excep I lion. This paper views the news from | Rojestvenslry as an auspicious prelude ! to a decisive battle, “which may show I that over Rojestvenskv still shines the happy star whlon helped him when a lieutenant to save the fragile Vesta in an unequal conflict with a Turkish battleship." The Sviet expresses,, the hope that j Rojestvensky is destined to turn the j tubles, and that even in case of de- [ feat some of his vessels will be able j to break through and reach the.Japa- : j lest* sea. FLEET OF ROJESTVENSKY. Fifty-One Ship? Were Counted Whec It Passed Singapore. Singapore, April 11.—Fifty-one ships j of Vice Admiral Itojestvensay’s second Pacific squadron passed here. The most I Important fighting vessels of the squad ron, including the battleships Kniax ! Souvaroff, Alexander IT., Borodiro and j Orel, with their complement of cruls- j 1 ers and torpedoboat destroyers, did not ! arrive, and their whereabouts is total- ! | ly unknown. The vessels which passed Singapore were the following: Battleships, Slssol. Veliky and Oleg; i cruisers, Admiral Nakhimoff, Dmitri,, I Doskoi, Aurora, Izumrud Jemtchug, Almaz. Buss, Anadyr Furst Bismarck,' 1 Kaiserin Maria, Theresa, Kaiserln Augusta Victoria, Kaiser Frederich, Bion and seven torpedoboat destroyers, all sailing under the naval flag. Un der ihe commercial flag were the vol unteer steamers Veronese, Kief, Yaroslav, Tamhoff, Vladimir and Orel, the Russian navigation company's steamers Meteor, Jupiter and Mercury, the fast Asiatic company’s steamers Korea and Kal Tal: the north Baltic company steamer Knias Korkshoff. one 1 hospital ship and sixteen colliers. A French steamer arrived here today with a sailor belonging to the Admiral Nakimhoff, who fell overboard and was picked up in tlie straits of Malacca j after having been twelve hours in the , i water. Madison Girls Drowns Herself. Madison, Wis., April 8,—The dead j body of Miss Anna Stewart, daughter ' of one of the wealthiest citizens of ! Madison, was found in a cistern today 1 a mile from the Stewart mansion. ; Miss Stewart suddenly disappeared j during the night from her home, it is ] believed she was deranged from the rs- j soli of a long Illness. 1 SERIOUS WRECK. Two Passenger Trains at Different Points Meet Accidents, and Many Aro Hurt. Queenemo, Kan.. April 12.—Santa F«. I rain No. 7 was derailed here. Five cars Including two Pullmans were ditched and badly smashed up. Three passengers, names unknown, were in jured, but not seriously. They were taken from here to Emporia. Kingsley, Kan., April 12.—Twenty of more passengers were Injured, but none was killed, by a collision, of the Chi i ago express and California limited trains on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway. Both trains were easthound. No. 8. the Chicago express, was standing at the station. The rear of the train was about 200 feet west of the building, when No. 4. the limited, i rushed Into it at high speed. The engine of the second train plowed Into the last Pulmau of the other train, demolishing it. The cars in front also were badly damaged and the limited’s locomotive and part of the train was wrecked. The names of the Injured cannot he learned. The railroad officials put them all in a car and took them to the west end of the yards. The rear ear on No. 8 vvus a deadhead chair car. This was out through trom end to end by the heavy engine and the Pullman ahead of this was thrown off the track. Both immediately took lire and with the chair and mail cars were entirely consumed. The engineer Is uninjured, hut the fireman is seriously hurt, as js also a porter on No. tl and a cook on the limited. The collision was caused by the rear, brukemau of No. 8 not going back to 'lag No. 4. TOOK OATH OF OFFICE. Edward Dunne Inaugurated Mayor of Chicago. Chicago, April 12.—Kdwurd Durum was Inaugurated manor of Chicago In the simplest manner. When he and; Carter H. Harrison, the retiring mayor, entered the council chamber they were greeted with applause from the aider men and a crowd that filled the gal leries. There is not much space for. visitors in the council chambers and' the police had stringent orders to ad mit none who lacked a ticket calling' for a seat. There were no flowers lit evidence, for a rule passed some Ihne ago by the council prohibiting the presence of floral tributes in the cham ber was strictly enforced. Mayor Harrison in a few words presented Judge Dunne to the mem bers of the council. The mayor-elect ihen took the oath of office, thanking the aldermen for the cordial manner in which they had received him, and expressed the hope that he would be able to fill the executive chair as ca pably as had Mayor Harrison. He made no inaugural address, and the regular business of the council was then taken up, OUGHT TO BE SENSIBLE. Religious Beneficiaries Not to Inquire, About "Tainted Money.” New York, April 12.—At the New. York Methodist conference yesterday Congressman-elect John K. Andrus, of Yonkers, treasurer of the conference endowment fund, made reference to ' tainted money” in the presentation of his report as treasurer. He said: "It is had policy to apply a micro-, scope to benevolent gifts, as there is no. telling where such a policy would lead to. I might just as well sulphurize the; honey gathered by my bees through; fear that they had gathered honey In; fields purchased by tainted money as to attempt to question where money for, benevolences has been. Bet tills confer ence be not anything but sensible in these matters." BURIED IN WRECK. One Man Killed and Two Probably Will. Dio es Resells of an Acci dent. ; filing j, April 12.—A Burlington freight train was wrecked early today at La Motile, fils., in which Brakeman, ('. A. Johnson, of Clinton. Iu., wasj burned to death; Engineer Wm. Gain-, bert, of Fulton III. and Fireman Hugh1 Wynnings, of Carbon Cliff, la., were probably fatally burned. The train struck some obstacles on the track be lieved to have been dropped by another, train. The engine and seven curs were thrown into the ditch. An oil car im mediately took fire and seven cars were destroyed. The men burned be fore they could be freed from the de bris. IS MUCH RIOTING. Teamsters' Struggle in Chicago Devel ops Into a Bitter Warfare of Labor and Police. i Chicago. April 12.—The force of police; guarding the freight caravans of Mont gomery Ward & Co. was doubled to day in anticipation of rioting by the: sympathizers with the lirm's striking teamsters and the garment makers. Scenes of violence marked the first attempt to move freight from the Ward, building. The police were compelled to use their clubs freely. Three wagons, headed by two patrol wagons and accompanied by seventy live policemen, started lor the Rock, Island freight sheds. The caravan was-, followed by nearly 1.000 persons. Num erous missiles were thrown by the strike sympathizers along the line. While the wagons were passing the approach to the Polk street viaduct the crowd began to shower stones, boards: and everything else available that could be thrown. The police charged the, mob and tinally cleared a way to the freight house. The police had a serious time at the Lake Shore freight house, where wag ons loaded with merchandise consigned’ to Montgomery. Ward & Co. were blockaded by 100 teams driven by , unionists. The police endeavored to clear a way. but after clubbing team sters for nearly an hour the attempt was abandoned, and it was deided to take the freight-tilled trucks by a dif ferent rouie. MARKED WITH THUMBS. Sioux Indians Sign in the Puddinhead. Wilson Style. Minneapolis, Minn., April 12.—Major McLaughlin, inspector of Indian agen cies, is on his way to Washington with the signatures of 33,314 Sioux Indiana done in thumb marks. The signatures stand as a memorial to the government from the Standing Rock agency, asking for the division of 300,000 acres of land. The land wa* granted to them In ISHS. hut has never been di.vlCed.