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SWEPT BY STOKMS.
Several Southern Towns in the
Power of a Cyclone.
Tbt Atlantic Coast Ravaged by a Terrific
illorrlcane-Wind Krarhi'f Mxty-Flve,
Stiles an Hoar Tybee Inland Over
whelmed by Waves.
A WEST INDIA TEMPKST.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 2S. The
expected hurricane from the West
Indies struck Jacksonville at 11 a. ra.
"Wednesday with the wind blowing1 a
Tale of 40 miles an hour and rain pour
ing1 down in torrents. The streets of
Jacksonville are flooded. The river is
8 feet above the normal. The wind at
the mouth of the river recorded CO miles
en hour. Ma3-port is flooded and sev
eral houses inundated.
Savannah, CJa., Sept. 28. At Tybee
the wind ranged as high as 5 miles
an hour. At low tide Wednesday the
water at Tj-bee was higiier than at the
highest tide. The ocean was steadily
encroaching on the island.
In South Carolina.
Orangebcro, S. C, Sept. 2S A ter
rible windstorm struck here Wednes
day evening1 at 5 o'clock and is blow
ing1 at a velocity of 45 miles nn hour.
Trees and telegraph poles are down.
Great damage to corn and cotton has
resulted. The wind is blowing from
the northe ast.
Situation at Charleston.
Charleston, S. G, Sept. CS. The
West Indies cyclone struck this city
Wednesday morning and has raged all
day. The velocity of the wind at times
has been as high as 55 or 00 miles an
hour. So far as is known but little
damage has been done to the shipping
in Porto or the city proper.
Krarhe Florida.
Washington, Sept. 2S. The tropical
hurricane announced in the special
weather bureau bulletins of the 24th
and 25th reached northeastern Florida
Wednesday morning. At 11 o'clock a,
in. the wind had shifted to northwest
at Jacksonville, showing that the
storm center was a few miles south
east of that station. The observer
there reports many trees blown down
and houses unroofed. i
PULLMAN
SCORED.
Gov. Altjreld Declares His
Taxes to Be
Ridiculously Ixiif.
fi"i:iNG field. I1L, Sept. 27. Gov.
Altgeld was present at Tuesday's
meeting of the state board of
equalization. The governor disclaimed
any intention of interfering with the
work of the board, but saiil he felt it
his duty to lay before them some facts
which he had recently collected.
Pullman's Palace Car company, ac
cording to the records in the secretary
of state's office, has a capital stock of
SIO.OOO.OOO. Mr. Pullman had testi
fied before a commission, among other
things, that this capital stock
was paid in cash and had
been enlarged from time to time
during the twenty-seven years of
its existence.
Mr. Pullman had further declared
under oath that the company had no
bonded debt and had accumulated S25,
000,000 in undivided profits, the gov
. ernor continued. Adaing this 525,000,
000 to the capital stock makes 501,000,-
i000 w hich the stock of the Pullman
company represents. The market re
ports show this stock to be worth more
than SOI. 000.000.
The governor continued to give facts
and figures from the company's own
reports and showed that the com
pany's surplus had been upward of
$3,CCO,000 a year for many years. If
the stock of the Pullman company
were assessed like other property it
would make an assessment of from
tl2,3C0,000 to 515,000,000. Instead of
this it was assessed at only Sl,50.000
in the state, the company having rep
resented that its propertj was assessed
in other states, but failed to show
where.
It appears that in sixteen states the
company pays no taxes at all. In sev
eral other states and in Canada no as
sessments are shown, and in seventeen
the total amount of tax paid by the
Pullman company is only $21,4-5. In
the remaining seven states the taxes
paid are not given, but tbe total as
sessment is only 1,104,359. The calcu
lation based upon the ruling per cent,
of taxation would place the total
amount of taxes paid by the company
at 40,751 outside of Illinois. This in
Chicago would pay the taxes on less
than 54,000,000 of propertj-.
The governor estimates th;rt the
Pullman company pays taxes on only
about 52,000,000 in America, and that
Dearly 500,000,000 entirely escapes tax
ation, and the company has now in its
possession millions of dollars that
should have been paid into the public
treasury. The board could not, the
frovernor said, reach back and compel
the company to pay what it should
Lave paid in the past; but it could
assess the company as high in propor
tion to the market value of its property
as others are assessed.
DISASTROUS STORM.
Over
SOO Person Drowned and 15.000
Houses Destroyed in Japan.
San Fkanoibco, Sept. 20. The steam
er City of Rio de Janeiro which ar
rived Monday morning brings news of
a destructive storm which raged in the
Akita and Iwate prefectures, in Japan,
August 25 and 26, and was followed by
ipreat floods. Over SOO persons were
drowned and more than 15,000 houses
were destroyed.
Owens Officially Nominated.
Frankfokt, K3r., Sept 25. The
democratic committee for the Seventh
ongressional district was called to
order by Chairman f. McLeod Satur
day, with all members present. After
canvassing the vote by counties a reso
Intion was unanimously adopted de
claring Owens the nominee by a plu
rality of 255 votes and the committee
adjourned.
Coal Mlno Caves In.
Owknsboko, Ky., Sept. 27. Thtj Nails
coal mine is reported to have caved in
a. nd several miners were caught in the
bait
otf All Burrmmucu -.
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A YOUTHFUL BANDIT.
Promising; Product of the Yellow
Paper
Covered Literature.
MorxT Sterling, 111.. Sept. 28.
This city was the scene of a real and
thrilling western style bank hold-up
at 10:"0 o'clock Monday morning.
Ralph Conklin, aged IS, was the bold
desperado. He is a native of Rrown
county, his parents residing a mile
and a half northeast of Mount
Sterling. Conklin, who is given to
poring over such literature as "The
Life of Jesse James," "Deadwood
Dick's Last Shot," etc., left home with
an old-fashioned muzzle-loading double-barreled
shotgun Monday morning
and started lor Mount Sterling. On
his way he met Mac Dunbar riding a
horse. The boy bandit leveled his gun
at Dunbar and commanded him to dis
mount. Dunbar slid off bis horse and
Conkling mounted and rode into Mount
Sterling.
Going to the rear of the Rloomfield
Skiles bank Conklin dismounted, and
leaving a boy to hold the horse he en
tered the bank by the rear door, wear
ing a mask. Approaching the cashier.
J. D. Milstead, he ordered him to put
up his hands.
Cashier Milstead took to his heels
and left the bank by the rear door.
Conklin lost no time and in a moment
gathered up all the money in sight.
5411. Edward Allison, who was
is the bank at the time Conk
lin entered, ran out upon the
street and gave the alarm.
After pocketing the money Conk
lin went out of the bank through the
rear door and was just mounting his
horse when Al Snodgrass, a constable,
arrived upon the scene. The constable
ran up to Conklin and pulled him off
his horse. Conklin Jerked away from
him. however, and ran down the street
in the direction of the courthouse.
Reaching the courthouse Conklin
tried to steal a horse and cart, but was
knocked off the cart by a well-directed
brickbat A few blocks north of the
courthouse the masked man was held
up at the muzzle of a gun by Jule Cox
and compelled to surrender. The
mask was torn from his face and it
was then found that the Jesse James
was none other than Ralph Conklin,
whose days and nights have been
spent in reading dime novels and yel
low covered tales of outlaws and ban
dits. The money taken was all recov
ered when Conklin was caotured.
CLAIMS OF EACH SIDE.
How Republicans and Democrats Figure
on Congress.
Washington, Sept. 29. The two
great political parties of the country
have been doing some figuring lately
through their campaign committees
on the complexion of the next con
gress. Relow is given the full table
showing their claims and estimates:
REP EST. . , DEM. EST.
Sfae. Rtp.Dem. rop. Vein. Uep. J'op.
Alabama .. a
, Arkansas . .. .. 6
i California J I .. 4 8
Colorado 2 .. .. 2
Connecticut 3 1 .. 2 2
Delaware 1 .. .. 1
Florida. 3 .. 2
, Georgia 11 .. II
Idaho 1 1
j Illinois 11 11 .. 9 13
Indiana 9 4 7 ?
; Iowa 10 1 1 10
j Kansas 8 .. .. .. 4 4
Kentucky 2 9 10 11
Louis. ana (5 5 1
Maine 4 .. .. 4
Maryland 3 3 .. 5 1
Massachusetts.. 12 1 2 II
MichUran 11 1 .. 4 8
Minnesota 7 2 5
Mississippi 7 . 7
Missouri 6 5 4 12 3
Montana 1 1
Nebraska 6 3 3 ..
Nevada 1 .. .. I
New Hampshire. 2 2
New Jersey 5 3 4 4 ..
New York U !5 .. 17 17
North Carolina.. 1 8 8 1
North Dakota... 1 1
Ohio. 16 3 6 15
Or von 2 .. .. .. 2
Pennsylvania. .. "i (3 6 4
Khode Island 2 .. I 1
South Carolina.. 1 5 4 8
South Dakota. .. 2 2
Tennessee 4 6 .. 8 2
'Jexas 9 4 13
Vermont 2 .... 2
Virginia 3 7 .. 9 1
Wa.-liintrton. 2 2
W. Virginia 3 1 4
Wisconsin........ 7 3 .. 5 5 ..
Wyoming 1 1
Totals 200 147 9 190 150 10 j
DOWNFALL OF LI HUNG CHANG.
Keport That the Viceroy Is to Jte Soon
Superceded.
New Yoi;k, Sept. 29. A special dis
patch from Shanghai says Li Hunif
Chang will shortly be superseded as
viceroy of China by Wu Ta Cheng, late
governor of Hn Peh.
Lord Li, late Chinese minister to
Japan, lias been degraded. Yu Lu,
the military governor of Moukden,
will succeed Li Hung Chang as super
intendent of northern trade.
Four imperial princes are watching
events in the emperor's behalf at Tien
Tsin.
A massacre of foreigners atPekin is
regarded as not unlikely to occur, and
the legations have asked that blue
jackets be landed to protect them.
One hundred and eighty thousand
men, partially armed cavalry, have as
sembled to defend Moukden. A battle
is expected to take place before a fort
night has elapsed.
The Japanese warships are scouting
in the gulf of I'echili. Naval experts
say that the Chinese vessels will never
again appear on the scene.
Shanghai, Sept. 29. In an imperial
decree issued yesterday the dowager
empress commands a curtailment of
the festivities in celebration of
her birthday. She will dispense with
the grand ceremonial of congratula
tion, and everything will be on a re
duced scale. The money thus saved is
to be devoted to meeting war ex
penses. Accident In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Sept. 26. Five labor
ers were buried under a mass of earth
almost as compact as stone while at
work Monday afternoon making an
excavation for the foundation of a
retaining wall just below the Ger
mautown avenue crossing of the Rich
mond branch of the Heading railroad.
Andrew Kovats was fatally injured
and died a few minutes after his body
was recovered. Fonr others were seri
ously injured.
The Anna Weise murder ca&, on
trial at Mar&kalltown, la., ended in
the acquittal Of Mrs. Jiennett.
and Injections. U,jJ
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Tn MUes Nervine 19 sold, on a po81"!0 I
It will be sent, prepaid. o irece ft" PInd.
COUNTRY
NEEDS.
A Thorough.
Kevlval of Party-
Spirit
In
Demand.
This j-ear's campaign brings the
voters back tq a choice between the
two conflicting and enduring ideas of
free government and class govern
ment. Third, fourth and fifth parties have
declined into insignificance. The mug
wump can scarcely be heard. The pop
ulist is important only in the Rocky
mountain states, where he promises to
vote a market for bullion at the old
price. The prohibitionist, who a few
years ago foresaw the growth of a
great national anti-saloon party, now
expects nothing more than to hold his
weakened organization together.
Mugwump, populist and prohibition
ist have had time to prove that they
are not capable of conducting to tan
gible results such beneficial reforms
as they may support, even when they
are intrusted with power for that pur
pose. Like amateur musicians, they
can set up ideal standards for others
and can rail at faults, but fall further
below their standards and prove them
selves less capable of sustained and
conoerted action when brought to the
test of public performance than the
poorest of those they have attacked.
The populist has been a conspicuous
failure. He started out to revolution
ize not only the whole scheme of gov
ernment but the whole constitution of
society. lie obtained some power and
could not even learn to administer de
cently the laws he found. With no
exception populism has been shallow,
ignorant and trifling in office. It has
been a damaging experiment wherever
tried. It has all the vices and weak
nesses of former political parties and
little of the capacity for public busi
ness which to some extent the worst of
the strong parties in the history of the
United States have exhibited.
The line is drawn distinctly between
the party which believes in the people
and the party which distrusts the peo
ple. In 1SS9 an administration handed to
its successor a government embar
rassed with one difficulty too much
surplus money in the treasury. In 1SU3
an administration bjanded to its suc-
WHAT THE
HIS FACE TOWARD THE MORNING.
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cessor a government embarrassed with
a deficiency so great and demand li
abilities so heavy that distrust of its
currency had produced a panic which
affected all business. In two years
after Harrison went to Washington
the country knew that the national
treasury was empty, though the neces
sary expenses of the government had
not increased. In eighteen months
after Cleveland took the oath of office
trade had begun to revive fast, the
tariff was reformed in the right direc
tion, if not quite far enough, bullion
purchases were stopped, federal ex
penses were cut down, department
barnacles were scraped off and fears
of forcible interference with home
rule in elections were set at rest.
Tbcre is nothing in populism, prohi
bition or mugwumpism for sensible
men to waste time over. All of them
have proved that if they had power
without opposition their members
could not conduct government. The
choice is between the party that saves
money and the party that corrupts the
suffrage with the bribe of appropria
tions and grants of monopoly; between
the party which multiplies offices
t swell power and the party which
abolishes unnecessary offees to dimin
ish taxation; between the part3' which
encourages disorder by inviting classes
to grab from the general fund and the
party which suppresses disorder when
laws made for the protection of equal
rights are violated.
And as the lino is between the two
old forces which have contended since
our government was founded, it will
be a benelit if the fight can be made
fierce and aggressive on both sides.
The fiercer the fight, the stronger the
men who will be developed into lead
ers. Wc need bold criticism, aroused
feeling and uusmirched loyalty to
party as the exponent of principle.
Every flaw in the proceedings of the
recent session was due to a slackness
of party spirit There was too much
visiting between the lines. There was
too much mixing. It got so bad that
on the tariff, the great central issue
of the preceding campaign, you could
hardly tell some democratic senators
from their republican cronies.
Dricc and Murphy could not live in a
genuine, old-fashioned political fight.
Mclvinlcy and Harrison could not lead
corporals squads. Such men should
be trodden down and lost.
Nothing stops abuses, accentuates
principles, drives out the thieves and
breeds statesmen like a political fight
that is for political blood in every en
counter. .
Parties are not made to agree and
fondle each other. When they do look
cut for plundering on the sly. Unless ;
tSV
CAN
they are kept fighting, men in public
life find it very tempting and very con
venient to quietly agree on robbing1
the distant public.
. Democratic principles are worth
fighting for. Republican principles
deserve to be fought out of existence.
The people must eternally fight for
their liberties or combines of power
will steal away every liberty in the
constitution. The democratic party
has grown, and with it have grown
democratic principles, when party
spirit ran high. Nothing can beat the
democratic party when its spirit is
aroused. And the republican party
behaves itself better when it has to
confront the battle spirit of the democ
racy. Dallying with the federalist
clement is a sure surrender of some
thing from the people's rights.
What the country needs is a revival
of party spirit. St. Louis Republic.
A GOOD WAYS OFF.
Changes VFU1 Come liefore the Next Pres
idential Campaign Is On.
It becomes necessary again to re
mind exultant republicans and de
pressed democrats that 1894 is not
1890. t
There has not been for the past four
mouths any doubt that the republic
ans would gain in this fall's elections.
No party has ever won on a general
revision of the tariff taking effect
shortly before the election. The coun
try feels the evil effects of uncertainty,
without time to get the good results
of the change. In the present instance,
while the benefits of free raw mate
rials and reduced taxes could not bo
experienced before the early elec
tions, the shame of , the exactions en
forced by the trust combinations was
plain to alL The democrats have suf
fered both from the delay and the
disgrace.
It is possible that a continued and
increased revival of prosperity may
help the party in some of the Novem
ber elections, particularly at the
west. Rut the causes which kept
democrats in large numbers from
voting in Vermont and Maine are
likely to produce similar results else
where especially if the prevalent
dissatisfaction shall anywhere be
AGAIN ? Chicago Herald.
aggravated
bossisra or
by a display of arrogant
the nomination of unfit
candidates.
Rut the conditions will be wholly
different when the great battle of
1890 shall come on. The undoubted
good effects of the measure of tariff
reform secured will meanwhile give
object-lessons in every family. There
is a good chance that the odious tax
for the benelit of the sugar trust may
be repealed. The faithless repre
sentatives who betrayed their party
will be repudiated: the work has al
ready begun.
A proposed restoration of McKin
leyism will, in all likelihood, be as
crazy politics in 1S98 as would be the
revival of the force law. What else
will the republicans have to stand
upon? N. Y. World.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
It is authoritatively announced
that Rcnjamin Harrison is not a candi
date for a renomination in 1S90, unless
the grapes are located within his
reach. Roston Herald.
The concerns which refused to
advance wages under the increased
tariffs of the McKinley law" are the
first to reduce them under the lower
tariffs of the new law. St. Louis Re
public. Like all other republican plat
forms of this year, that adopted by
the state republican convention of
New York is built purely and simply
as a vote catcher. The professions of
the opposition are adapted especially
to the respective communities to be
reached. Detroit Free PreSs.
On June I of this year the pig-iron
furnaces in blast had a capacity of
C2,51" tons per week. On September 1
the furnaces in blast had a capacity of
151,113 tons per week. And every one
of these additional tons falls with a
dull thud on the toes of the profession
al republican calamity howler. Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Stick a pin in Mr. Wilson's pre
diction, in his interview in London,
that neither Reed nor McKinley and
he might have added Harrison will
be the republican candidate for presi
dent in 1S9(J, but that the party will
"probably choose a tariff conservative
like Allison." McKinleyism is gone
to stay. N. Y. World.
That the American people consume
food which is uniformly adulterated to
the extent of 15 per cent, is not because
they prefer it that way. The fact is
the infant adulterating industries of
the country have to be protected, and
tbe only means of protection known
to this country is that by which the
many pay tribute and are subject to
the few. Kansas City Times.
vins VHS. si.n..w refold
OICK: Second I
FLORIDA SUFFFKS.
Damage of Over $1,000,000 from
Wind and Bain.
St. Aniruistlne the Heaviest Loser Sea Wall
No I'rotection Aicalnnt Itaglns Waters
Wharves and I'iers Are
Washed Away.
A TIDAL WAVE.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 29. Com
munications with southern Florida is
being restored and dispatches are
pouring in relating to the damage
done by the West Indian cyclone
which raged in the state Tuesday and
Wednesday. They all tell the same
story of houses wrecked and crops de
stroyed, but no loss of life is reported.
At Tampa several large cigar fac
tories were wrecked. The three-story
brick factory of Ileidenberg & Co.
and the factory of C. A. Joyce were
demolished, as were alo the fac
tories of Yabor &. Manarara, The
odore Perez & Co., and O'llalloran.
The First Presbyterian church and the
palatial hotel, Tampa Ray, were bad
ly damaged. Several smaller struc
tures were also demolished. The loss
on buildings at Tampa is estimated at
SiO.000.
During the storm at Fernandina the
Rritish steamships I5oston City and
Elmvillo collided and were badly
damaged. The steamer Princess
was sunk between i'alatka and
Picolata. She was valued at
512,000. The steamer Edith was driven
ashore. The steamer Debarey was
driven against the drawbridge and
wrecked. The steam yacht Maude was
Bunk near Crescent City.
Advices were received from St. Au
gustine which had been cut off since
Tuesda3'. No lives were lost, but sev
eral houses were wrecked and the losses
will run far into the thousands.
Nearly all the windows in the city
were blown in aiid the houses
flooded with water. The Ponce de
Leon hotel was damaged in this way.
The loss on the hotel's furniture is
heavy. The waves dashed over the
sea wall and made rivers of the streets.
Many wharves were blown away.
Uetween Oreeu Cove spring and
Palatka, on the St. Johns, twelve
wharves have disappeared. Retween
Jacksonville and St. Augustine not a
telegraph pole was left standing. The
damage to the orange growers is in
calculable. In the large groves the
' ground is completely covered with
I green oranges. The loss is fully 20
per cent.
The east coast is still cut off from
! communication below St. Augustine
I and I'alatka. Eveiy effort is being
; made to hear from Jupiter and Key
i West, which are supposed to have befn
i in the storm center. The storm was
; as severe in the interior of the state as
I on the coast.
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 29.
Heavy gales are raging along the
coast and the storm is increasing in
violence. The surf is dangerously
rougn along the beach, and the
meadows between this city and the
mainland are like a great bay. The
railway tracks are covered and late
trains had much difficulty in crossing.
A
lour Lives
MINE HORROR.
Crushed Oat In a Colliery at
Simpson, la.
Scran-ton, Pa., Sept. 29. The lives
of four men, two miners and two la
borers, were without warning crushed
out in the'Northwest colliery of Simp
son fc Watkins at Simpson, near
Carbondale, late Thursday afternoon.
Their mangled remains, as near as can
be ascertained, lie beneath a fall of
rock which is 10 feet wide, G feet
high, and extends for at least CO feet
in the gang-way off from the third
slope of the mine.
The killed are: William R. Mitchell,
Englishman, miner, aged 42, leaves a
wife and six children; John J. Fan
ning, Irish, miner, aged 43, single;
Andre wClapkosky, Hungarian, laborer,
aged 35, single: tieorge Rarney,
Hungarian, laborer, aged 25, single.
Tug Wilts, a driver, was the only
witness of the horror, and his escape
seems almost miraculous. He was sit
ting alongside the track waiting for a
car to be loaded by the ill-fated
men, when, without warning, the
roof of the gang-way fell with a deaf
ening crash within 3 feet of him.
Without halting he ran to the head of
the slope, followed by a track layer
and two miners who were working in
the vicinity, and gave the alarm.
RETURN TO WORK. j
Miners at Matitdllion. O., Decide to End
Their ."Strike.
Massillon. O., Sept. 29. At 3 o'clock !
Friday morning conventions of both j
the miners anil operators of the Mas- i
sillon district adopted resolutions de- j
claring their willingness to place the j
questions at issue in the hands of a )
local arbitration committee, to be se
lected in the ordinary manner, and to
resume work in the mines at once,
pending the results of arbitration.
Everybody is jubilant over the settle
ment of the strike, which has
lasted five mouths. The main question
at issue is a differential scale of
fifteen cents per ton, which, up to last
May, was allowed to Massillon miners
on account of thinness of veins and
difficulty of mining. This differential
was abolished by the operators last
spring, and the strike resulted. Most
of the Massillon strikers are Ameri
cans. They are industrious and thrifty
and own their homes.
Western 1-orjfer In Limho.
New York, Sept. 29. Richard Davis,
a forger who is wanted in Cincinnati,
is under arrest in this city. lie is
charged with having secured S1.200
from the Lafayette national bank of
Cincinnati on a check to which the
signature of A. Senior & Son had
been forged. Davis is also wanted by
the police in Detroit and other western
cities.
Lowest Record for Wheat.
Chicago, Sept. 29. Cash wheat sold
! Friday at fifty cents, the lowest price
on record. Corn dropped another cent
J and oats lost IS to lc
...cunlTTlt NKB
floor of To- V
SLAIN AND ROBBED.
Well-Known Rallroud Man Murdered
Mysteriously In Cleveland.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 27. A horri
ble murder shrouded in mj'stery was
committed in the very heart of the city
some lime during Monday night, and
the police are completely baffled
for lack of a clew. James R. Ca
ven, general freight agent of the Val
ley railroad (Baltimore & Ohio), was
sLt and killed by some unknown as
sassin. Five bullets pierced his body,
and when picked up shortly after he
was stone dead. Parties living near
the scene of the murder heard the
shots and a woman's scream. No one
was found near the body and the po
lice so far have been unable to se
cure the slightest clew.
The body was removed to the
morgue, where it was stripped of its
clothing. Then it was discovered that
the body bad been robbed. A fine gold
repeater which the dead man carried
in life was missing. His money, of
which he always carried a large
amount, was also gone. The pockets had
been turned inside out- The fact that a
rbbery had been committed was
plainly evklent, and a search was
made for the wounds. The3' were
found, five in number Several hours
must have elapsed since the shots were
fired, as the blood had congealed and
closed the wounds. Every inch of the
yard where the bod3' was found was
gone carefull over by the tletectives
in the hope of finding a clew. Not a
thing did they find to reward thc;r
search.
PENNANT WINNERS.
Ilaltimore Sure of National Championship
Sioux City Wins in Western League.
Chicago, Sept. 27. Ry defeating the
Cleveland club on Tuesday the Ralti
more baseball team made sure of the
National league championship, its per
eentage of .C9iJ being such that the
New York club, its closest rival, with
a percentage of .C54, cannot pass even
should it win all of the remaining
games of the schedule. New York,
however, stands second in the race,
Rostons two defeats on Tuesf'y set
tling this position in her favor
The season in the Western league
closed yesterday with the Sioux City
an easy winner of the pennant. The
contest at no time has been as close
between the clubs as it was in the
Western association. Early in the
season Sioux City placed herself at the
head and Milwaukee at the foot of the
list, and neither luck nor good playing
could dislodge them.
The clubs ended the season in the
following position:
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Lott.
51
55
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65
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71
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Minneapolis
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ARE ACTUALLY STARVING.
The Wretched Condition of Many of Full
man's Kcftidcnts.
Chicago, Sept. 29. When CfiO desti
tute men. women and children went
to the headquarters of the Pullman
relief committee Wednesday morning
they found nothing there for them.
The provisions were all gone,
ami when and from where more
will come is a
lation. That is
of affairs that
matter of specn
the sad condition
confronts Countv
Commissioners Kail is and Lundberg.
They were appointed a committee by
the county board to go to Pullman
and investigate the condition of the
people and devise means for their im
mediate relief and for their support
during the coming winter. They found
things far worse than they had ever
dreamed.
'"There is no doubt." said Commis
sioner David Kallis, after the investi
gation was over, "that the people of
Chicago will have to support the des
titute in Pullman during the coming
winter. It must be done. If they do
not the people will starve to death,
and that condition of affairs cannot be
permitted."
THREE EOATS GO DOWN.
The Drowning of lileien i't-rtniis Out of
Two of the Crews Kesults.
Sacxt Stk. Marie. Mich.. Sept. 23.
The schooner Ironton collided with
the steamer Ohio on Lake Huron, near
Presque Isle, at 1:50 Wednesday morn
ing. Roth boats sank to the bottom
in a half-hour. The crew of
the Ohio were all picked up by
the schooner Moonlight. which
with the Ironton formed the tow
of the steamer C. J. Kershaw, but five
of the crew of seven of the Ironton
were drowned when their boat sunk.
The two men who were rescued were
picked up by the sWamer Charles lle
bard. bound up the lakes, and lauded
here.
Manistiqce, Mich.. Sept. 2S. The
schooner William Home, consort of the
steamer F. R. Ruell, sank off Seul
C-hoix Point at 11 o'clock Tuesday
night during th& heavy south
east gale. All the crew of
seven except one- man were
drowned. There was one woman
in the crew. The only survivor, Anton
Minga, floated ashore unconscious on a
piece of the 3-awlboat in the aiternoon.
Thy body of the woman was picked up
on the beach about the same time.
A l'oumtry Itiirued.
Iisonton, O., Sept. 2(5. The stove
foundry at Russell. Ky., has been de
stroyed by lire. The loss is over S40,
000. The foundry had been running
but a few da3-s and was the only man
ufacturing industry in RusselL
I'.ulli-t in Ills Head.
MtfCOPA, Wis., Sept. 24. Richard V.
Meyer, a prominent young attorne3 of
this cit3, was found dead in bed in his
room at the Smalle3' house. He had
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a 32-caliber re
volver. Mr. Meyer was the nominee
on the democratic count3' ticket for
district attorney
Kobert J. Attain.
Daventokt, la., Sent. 28. Robert J.
gave the. Davenport mile track a rec
ord of 2:02?4 Thursday afternoon, and
did it b3 pacing the fastest third
heat by two seconds ever pacod.
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