c SAVABLE SUCCEEDS Western Runner Wins Rich Fu turity State at Sheepshead GREfl r CROWD IS PRESENT Most Pennatlniial Kate on the Courne, nil fiercely Cnnteite.1 All the Way Through Only Kjelimli Alirml of l.or.l of (lit- Valo Uf A New York iliapntuh says: Sa ' lo. filred by Snlvntor, the moat Hnnsat' ml race horse the American turf has ver seen, won the rich futiirltv at Sheen.' head Hay. John A. Drake, a wes'?r:i millionaire, owns htm; his triiiucr, Enoch Wishnrd. Is from the west, nnil Lyne, n wcatern Jockey, rode him to victory, August Belmont's Huntings rolt. Ixjrd of the Vale, wan second, onlv an eyelash behind, while nzzltng. one of the four Keene representatives. Mu lshed third. The time was 1:11, better than the futurity record over the full course, but a second and four-fifths lower than the best full six furlong two-year-old record down the chute. Never was more Inspiring race wit nessed at beautiful Sheopshcnd. the garden spot of the east; never was n crowd greater or euthuslasm more un bounded. Fifty thousand would be a close estimate to put on the multitude. The prize was rich, the Held large, and before the fall of the Hag It looked as if any one of a dozen of the thoroughbreds had an even chance for the stake. Indeed, with the great field thnt fuced the started, the greatest In numbers that ever struggled for the chnmplonshlp. it seemed as though nothing short of a miracle could bring them all safely through that six fur longs Journey, short though It was. with the crowding and bunching around the dangerous curve of the chute. They passed that point like a troop of cavalry, and straightened out, came Into the stretch in n whirl of dust. Savable and Lord of the Vale fighting it out to the last Inch. It was I.yne's good ride that carried his mount past the young Helmont colt at the wire. MURDER AT WYMORE It. K. Wnril,mi limn Man. Kou ml Demi In a l ox Cur In thr YurilH It. E. Ward, whose home Is supposed to be at Iown City, was found dead in n stock car In the railway yards In Wymore, Neb. He had been shot through the left brent-t just above the heart. An open pocket knife was grasped in his right hand, but it Is be lieved he was murdered and thrown Into the car. He was about town (lur ing the day selling shoestrings, find had a companion, who has disappeared. Ward was seen In the railroad yards with a couple of tramps. The author ities are certain that the mnn has been murdered. They are of the opin ion thnt Ward and the tramps engaged in a quarrel which resulted in Ward being killed. He wns a man about forty years of age. Ho had a broken nose and one eye was destroyed, which wns done while working In a stone quarry blast ing rock. BASS FOR KANSAS STREAMS Two Clint ot tlm Jlluck Variety Have Hoc n lllNtrlliutcil ThU Year John Haughey, Kansas state fish commissioner, has distributed in the state two cars of black bass from the United States hatchery this year, and is looking for one or two more before the season closes. Meanwhile vandals continue to use dynamite and to seine the streams nuil ponds, contrary to law, and the law requiring persons who own dams to provide llsh wnys Is ignored. The value of flshwnys has been proved this year. For the llrst time In many years fish of the large clue, have been caught In tho head waters of the Kansas streams, nnd It is due wholly to the extraordinary floods which let the fish pass over the dams. CHOLERATAKES LINCOLNITE Thin Dreail Kimtcrii IMm'iiM) Currlm Awuy liilin II. fnrwcll John H. Fnrwell of Lincoln died Fri day in Manila, P. I., of cholera. This sad information wns conveyed to Judge " E. P. Holmes Saturday afternoon by n telegram from the insular department nl Washington, I). C. The news wns very unexpected. It was known that he had been ailing a month ago. but none thought him so seriously afflict ed, advices being thnt he was getting bitter. Mr. Fnrwell was In the- Phll't plnes nctlng as a government Inter preter. Will Kiir tlic Tin Title Men In many counties of Kansas the county commissioners this yenr will , take advnntngo of the law and bar dialers In tax deeds trom the Septem ber sales. One provision of the act gives the county the right to tnke in all renl estate upon which tnxes aro iiellnquent. and thereafter, until re demption by the owners, the Invest ment drnws 15 per cent Interest. The scheme, besides being profitable for the county, gets rid of an unpopular class of Investors without affecting the rights of the property owners. VVIII Kink New Artenlan Well . H. Qunrnberg, proprietor of the Kfhnmberlaln, S. I)., flour mills, has let the contract for the sinking of nn other artesian well at the mill In order to furnish sufficient Increase in motive power to ennble him to nearly double the cnpaehly orf tho hnilidluupjiipj the capacity of tho mills. rint I'lrn itiik'lmr Tho great forest fire In Fremont county, Wyoming, is still raging. The fire has already burned over a terri tory of forty miles. ..) 'Sterol SULTAN IS SHOT I'otrntate llclit it Montage Attempt to f.ncupr nuil Klllcil A Mnnlln, Aug. 31. dispatch snys: Tho sultan of Blnidnynn. who was held as a hostage by the American forces at Camp Vlckers. Island of Min danao, attempted to escape from his guards last Thursday and was shot and killed by n sentry. The sultan had been arrested after tho recent murders of American soldiers In Min danao, and was being held pending the surrender of the murderers. As n result of the wur rinderpest nmong the cattle and the epidemic of cholera, agriculture Is at present seri ously depressed throughout tho Philip pines, Governor Tuft estimates thu area under cultivation this yenr at half of an ordlnnry year. Many districts nre badly Impoverished. The cholera Is Increasing. 1 nst Sat urday .110 cases were repotted In tho provinces. The total reported up to dnte are 27.91H! cases and lt',540 denths from the disease. SANTEFE TO BE IMMUNE Trainmen llrnlherhnoil May Spare Itonil lli'ciiiiKH of Minor Collection According to the plans of the broth erhood of railway trainmen, the pro posed demand for a 20 per cent Increnso in wages will not affect the Snntn Fo for some time, says a Topeka dis patch. Other Kansas roads are also likely to escape for the present. It Is the plan of the labor men to compel joint conferences between committees representing the roads nnd tho work men. The Santa Fe has granted only minor concessions to tho trainmen, and the other roads can not he beaten Into lino for higher wages with this as a precedent. Wlrolcii Plant Kill-Out One of the latest wireless telegraph schemes Is the promised Installation by Orent Ilrltaln or a combined lightship and ocean telegraph station 100 miles west of the Lizard. It Is suggested that a vessel provided with a powerful searchlight, projected against the clouds, mark the position of the sta tion ut night. The wireless plant Is to be powerful enough to command the fairway of the channel and ex change news and orders with passing vessels. Should the experiment suc ceed. It Is proposed to establish n num ber of such ships nlong tho coast. It Is thought thnt they will bo particular ly valuable In the transmission of me teorological reports nnd storm warn ings. Caught After five Year J. R. Weakley, charged with em bezzling nbout $2,000 of the funds of Cherry township, Montgomery county, Kansas, was put In Jnll nt Independ ence Friday night. Weakley wns treas urer of that township and csenped when the shortage was discovered. For five years he has been n fugitive. Ho returned recently to Kansas and lo catcd In Sheridan county, where he se cured n contract for carying tho mall between Hoxle nnd Phelps. Weakley entered no plea nt his preliminary hearing nnd was bound over to tho district court. To Siilmtltiite Diiiiii for llrltlce At tho coming election in South Da kota this fall there will be a refer ence to the building of dams instead of useless bridges that are now scattered all over the Black Hills country. The Inw Is such that upon proper peti tion to the county commissioners n vote shall be taken na to whether dams shall be built on section lines, across draws and creeks, Instead of bridges. ltlior IIiiIkch The river nt Plattsmouth. Nob., raised two feet In n short time Satur day. Several chairs and other pieces of household furniture were seen floating down the stream, nnd It Is thought a cloud-burst occurred some where nlong tho river. The sudden raise made It necessary to put another barge on tho east end of the pontoon bridge. Will Quit J. W. Coulter, of Hucyrus. O., has been appointed receiver for the mutual aid society of the reformed churches of the United States. Mr. Coulter gave bond In the sum of $10,000. The nffalrs of the society will be wound up. Tug CiiihIciI Tho tug Carrlngton, while towing a barge out of tho harbor at Duluth, Minn., wns capsized, being caught, by n heavy tow line, nnd sunk. Engineer George Jones was drowned. Klllml liy Trolley-Car A trolley car In the southern part of Kansas City, Mo., ran down a buggy containing Gus Thlele nnd George Shulver, killing them both. THE NEWS IN BRIEF Strike leaders openly denounce Gen oral Gobln's order to the soldiers to shoot to kill. They say it is brutal nnd totnlly unwarranted. At tho closo of the sixteenth week of the nnthracltc coal strike, the talk of arbitration Is ngnln renewed. It Is reported on good authority thnt President Mitchell will have n con ference with Senators Quny and Pen rose. George Devorc. u stone mason, wns killed at Wichita. Kan., by a "Wild West" show train. He bad gone to sleep on tho Atchison, Topekn and Santa Fe tracks. Nino thousand Imported harvesters aer needed to save tho grain crop in Manitoba. At Cleveland, O., nn unknown man entered tho Jewelry store of Charles E, Wllsdorf on Pnyno nvenuo, threw a handful of red pepper In tho Jeweler's eyes, grabbed a tray of diamonds worth over $1,000 and cd. At Cynthiann, Ky Postmaster George M. Dlckoy was seriously o Gcorgo M. Dickey was seriously wounded and his son Richard, H. L. Jameson, Thomas MoKenncy and Charles Rohrer, were slightly wounded ns the result of a fight with pistols on n crowded street between two negroes. INDIANS THREATEN Napor, Boyd County, Fears an Attack by Red Men WERE REFUSED WHISKEY Ami Threaten to Kill M.tjor nt Tom ii Telegraph tioternor Sutiiite for (Inn nnil Aiiiiiiunlllon - Oilier New of (ieneriil Intercut tfin An Omaha, Ntb., Sept t. dispatch Bays: Governor Savant li.ts received word of nn uprising of Yankton In dluns at Nnper, Neb., In Bojd iiiuuty. and the mayor of Nap r rcqursts that the governor send assistance Following Is the nuv ;t"e received by the governor; Nnper, Neb.. Sept. I. Mid bloodn threaten to burn Nnper. Eniasod be cause of failure to sei tit" v hlnl.y Inst Snturdny. Fle ol theni lii.d eighteen shots Into town, but no one injured. Mixed blond" threaten to take the town. We lui( no rliler oi side armt. Send twenty-ihe or nine. (Signed.) CHARLES SEim. .Mayor. Nnper Is located fottj iv.L-s flora .i railroad anil the nrarc.t r.ilut of torv munlcatlon by tilcgra,)'! Is Sltmrt. Governor Sin ago said Knight that he would send Captain Itlngi r of com pany F, Second regiment, lowit'-il at Lincoln, to Naper with guns and am munition, and that If the situation be comes more thr-atr-nlng be will rend a company of mllitln. His first knowledge of the trouble came this morning in a telegram tll Ing of the threatened at lion of the Indians, nnd his request for more de tails brought the above telegram from tho mayor of Naper. The governor expods to have more detailed Information when lie reaches ILncoln und rcqursted Mayor Sen to keep him fully informed. PLANNING FOR WAR Culnnihla nnil Nicaragua not An me to a Utile llrnili A Panama, Colombia. Sept. 1. dis patch snys: Referring to the announce ment from Washington that Colombia had protested against the action of Nienrnguu in assisting the Colombian revolutionists, It Is asserted In govern ment circles here thnt on August 2," the revolutionist gunboat Padllla. while at Corlnto, Nicaragua, whs visited by Nlcaragunn cabinet ministers und thnt there was a big celebration on board tho warship. It is further asserted that tho Colombian minister nt Wash ington, Senor Concha, asked the Nlca raguan minister there, Senor Corea, to cause tho detention of the Padllla, which ho refused to tlo. There seems to bo no doubt that the situation is grave, for. while Colombia Is concen trating a large army na the Atlantic coast. It Is said that Nicaragua has sent a note to the other central Amer ican governments asking them for as sistance in tho event of Colombia de claring war on Nicaragua. PELEE AT IT AGAIN Volcano Wipe Out Two .More of the JnIiiiiiI Village A Casteries. St. Lucia. Sept. 1, dis patch says: A steamer which arrived here from Fort de France. Martinique today, reported that Mount Polec. which overwhelmed St. Pierre recent ly nnd killed 30,000 people, lias claimed 200 additional victims. The steamer is the Hrltlsh ship Ko ronn, Captain Cnroy. When the Ko rona left Fort Do Franco refugees were arrivlug. They said that the erup tion of Mount Peiec, whli h had been noted from Fort De France Saturday night, had destroyed tho village of Morne Rougo and that the village of Ix'cnrbrt hud been swept by a tidal wavo. Tho refugees believed Hint at least 200 lives wore lost. It Is said the peoplo in northern Mnrtlnique were again panic stricken. Ashes nre again falling on the islands adjacent to Mar tinique. f.nguge in Hitter Wurfnre Tho war between the cattlemen and farmers in western Oklahoma on tlnues unceasingly. Information comes direct from Roger Mills, Day and Dewey counties of tho destruulon of crops, burning of cribs, und the killing of stock nnd ambushing and shooting by both farmers nnd cattle men. Tho situation has been made moro serious by the driving in of largo herds of cattle from the Texas panhandle by cattlemen who have run short of grass at homo. Homesteaders fear a further menace to their claims and nllege they have no protection. Serious trouble is anticipated. Itulil Niiiiilny SiiIoiiiih The police department of Springfield. 0.. made strenuous efforts to keep all saloons closed last Sunday. The whole force was dressed in citizens' cloth ing and watched all saloons closely. Forty saloons wore raided, but only three successfully. One place was raided twice, tho first time fifteen loiterers being caught nnd the Inst time forty. Homo of the officers carried axes nnd on tho refusals of the snloon-keep-ers to open at tholr demand, the doors were knocked In. Largo crowds col lected and the policemen were hooted and Jeered. Change In Diplomatic Corp The official announcement of the changes In tho French diplomatic corps wns made Monday nt Purls nnd con firms the press forecasts. M. Jusse rnnd, nt Copenhagen, goes to Wash ington; Jules Cambon, of Washing ton, goes to Madrid: M. Ralnde, di rector of political affairs, is mntlo am bassador to Demo; M. Uotnpard, di rector of commercial affairs at ParlB, goes to St. Petersburg, and Is succeed ed by M, Georges Louis. M. Blhourd is uppolnted nmbnssador to Ucrlln and M. Crozler at Copenhagen. PEmsm Ei.cn Ur mil NAVY AND ARMY Tliry are f.ngngcil In Fighting lllooilteiM llattle A Woods Holl, Mass., Sept. 1, dls. patch says: The first hostile move In tho war game between the army nnil the navy was made tills morning when the cruiser Olynipla, Dewey's llngithlp, camo Into port, landed u force of blue Jackets and seletl a telegraph and tel ephone station. This cuts off commu nication with Maltha's Vineyard anO Elizabeth Inlands. Tile Invading fleet of the hostile (outitry of Nnvyouiu is upon us. Some where this morning, concealed below the horizon, within n few hours ol steaming distance of the coast, Is Ad miral Hlgglusou's licet. It was picked tilt last night by signal men In Vine yard sound in n druse fog, but lost n;nln. All night signal stations nlong the const were active in trying to lo cate the ships, but without success. The wily admiral evidently hud slipped to sea to wait until no could make several feints along the lino of de fense and draw the enemy's fire, Gencul Greeley stntcd nt 8 o'clock this morning that nothing further had been seen ol the eiieniy. All the gen erals at Fort Trumbull did "dog watch" Inst night. General MncArthnr wns up and down all night, while General Greeley wait beside his Instruments at hcndqnaitcrs before 1 o'clock. Last night nil mines in Long Island sound J were connected elect rlcally. There la. not fifty feet of sailing water not pro tcitcd in this manner. A Foil Trumbull. Conn., Sept. 1. dls patilt Kays: The enemy took Block Island after a boniliardinent this morn ing. The cruiser Brooklyn nnd the. battleship Indiana appeared off the island nt 0 o'clock und after shelling thep lace, a collier wns sent Into the harbor. Later the Brooklyn lauded troops on the Island presumably to scout for and capture the signal sta tions theie. The cruiser Olynipla "de stroyed ' Woods Holl slgnnt station nt !i:30. General Bnrry reports that tho llrst mint of the enemy was sighted east of Point Judith nt 12:25 nnd that ut 1:30 the Gloucester, the llrst of tho enemy's fleet, stopped a sound steamer. It Is not known for what purpose. I titer the enemy's fleet of six vessels was discovered standing In column formntlon. Five vessels composed the licet. Kenisnrge. Massachusetts. Scor pion, Panther and Nlnn. Block Island will undoubtedly be used as a navnl base. General Barry reported nt noon that the Beacon hill signal station on Block Island was captured at 8 a. m. by a landing party. All Blgnal men escaped except two. MEETS INSTANT DEATH Voting Man Healing 111 Way on Tinmen' Cer Train limtnntly Kllleed A Lexington, Neb., special snys: Clarence Formtui fell from No. 4 Union Pacific train four miles west of Lex ington nnd wtw instantly killed. Ho and two companions wero beating their wuv on the passenger train, and rornian desired to conceal himself so he could pass on through Lexington. As he was climbing from tho blind bnggtige he was hurled from the train. His companions camo on to Lexing ton and reported the ense. Tho sec tion men. with tho two strangers, went to wnero he was thrown oft and brought the body to Lexington. Tho voting man has a brother In Kansas City nnd his parents live In Oklahoma. Illuck ami Whiten Clauli Ashland, eighteen miles from Rich mond. Vn.. Is under military Inw. In attempting to rescue u negro prisoner from tho Jail. Jim Morris, colored, was killed nuil a battle between blacks and whites ensued. Three hundred shots wero fired. Mayor Scott telephoned for soldiers nnd company H or the Sev enteenth Infantry, was sent from Rich mond. In tho town and Immcdlnte vicinity the blacks outnumber tho whiten. Confi'MHen to M tinier A Colchester. Englnnd, .Sept. 1. dis patch snyb that William Toll, a Kan sas City tailor, who has been serving In the British nrmy under the name of Lloyd, has been arrested charged on hls'own confession with the mur der of nn unknown man at Kansas City. January 14th hist, for tho pur pose of robbery. Toll said ho had written to the Kunsas City authorities. Child' Narrow Kaeiipe Mrs. Fnnnlo Sanders, with ten chil dren, en mute from St. Louis to Dalcs vllle. Ky on a B. & O. train, missed her ten-year-old boy at Washington, lnd, Tho train wus searched und ho wns not found. Monday morning tho child wns found nt Breeze, III., having fallen from tho train unhurt. HERE AND THERE Wlllinm Troutman, of Snydervllle, Utah, who recently waH discharged from the Insane asylum at Salt aLko City, brained his two duughtora, fa tnlly wounded his wife, attempted to murder the remainder or hla family and then killed himself. The races nt the Revere cycle track, Revere, Mass., wore n chapter of acci dents to motors and bicycles, causing very unsatisfactory results. Joe Nel son rode nn exhibition ten miles ngalnst time, making five miles in 7:0.12-5. nnd tho ten miles In 14:18. The Chleknsuw Indian legislature, in Joint session nt Ardmore, declared Palmoro Mor.oly the regularly elected candldato for governor of tho trlbo by a mnjorlty of forty-four votes over Wlllinm J. Byrd, nnd Mosely.took tho oath of office. An nppenl to the In terior department Is tulked of. Tho Cudnhy Packing compnny is to spend n half million dollnrs In en lnrglng Its plant nt Sioux City, la. Tho hoof nnd hog killing capacity will bo greatly increased, so thnt 1.000 cattle and 10,000 hogs can bo killed dally. A corresponding Inerense In tho cold storage capacity will also bo made. Wu Ting Fang, Chlncso minister nt Washington, delivered an address at Blnghnmpton, N. Y on Labor day at Stow park to 4,000 worklngmon, who gave him a most cordial reception. Mr. Wu snld ho believed that Inbor had an equal right with cupltal to organ ize. vAfct UH-Tijr MATURING SLOWLY Nebraska Corn Ripening With Provoking Slownoss WEATHER BUREAU REPORT It I' a Trllle Ocnpiimlrn! In Tone drain U Sprouting In the Shock, mill ,!nrk Trout May Calrli the Com If It lloneii't (let Warm Weather The weekly crop summary. Issued September 2 by the weather bureau, Is rather despondent in tone. Grain, It snys, Is sprouting in the shock and com Is maturing so slowly that tho frost may catch It. Three weeks more, however, will place most of It beyond nny dunger. The bulletin snys: "The pnst week has been cool and moist. The dnlly mean temperature has averaged 2 degrees below normal, "The rainfall bus been above normal In the southeastern part of the state, where heavy thunderstorms occurred, with rain from 1 to 2 Inches. In the remainder of the stnte the rainfall was below uortnul, ranging from none to nbout half nn Inch; but while the nmoiint of water measured was small, the weather wus cloudy and dump, with some fog. "The moist wenther of the week was unfavorable for haying nnd threshing, nnd some liny wns discolored and dam aged by rain. Grain In shocks, nnd in some places In stacks, Is sprouting. Warm, dry weather Is needed for both haying nnd threshing. The wet weath er of July and August has caused both to be much behind normal advance ment nt this time of yenr. "Corn has continued to grow well, but bus matured very slowly. Some early planted corn In matured suffi ciently to be beyond damage from frost. Tho late corn Is lining well and promises a large crop, but much of It will require three weeks to mature. "The soil Is In excellent condlllon for working generally, nnd much plow ing hns been done the Inst week. Very little seeding has been done. Past urea continue good." PLENTY OF CORN Burlington' Corn Hell HayM Crop In Maile In Xelirnkit Corn Belt. Issued by tho Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy railroad, says In Its issue: "The reports received about the con dition of growing crops in Nebraska, Iown, northern Kansas, northern Mis souri nnd northeastern Colorado Cov ers a field up to nearly the end of Au gust. "All small grains are cut and In stack, and threshing has rcu-jonnbly progressed. "An Immense crop of corn Is ma turing In the fields nnd so far nd vunccd thnt It Is n rule, practically matle,' nnd past danger from any usual source." Work Cmler Irrigation Chief ' Hydrogrupher Newell,, In charge' of the building of government reservoirs under the Irrigation net. an nounced nt Cheyenne, Wyo.. thad the reclamation service organized uiidcr the geological survey Is now working ns follows: 1 In Arizona on the Gila river mid trib utaries; In Collfornln, on tho Colorado river, and In Snn Joaquin valley: In Colorado, nenr Sterling on the South Platto and near Montrose on the Gun nison river; In Idaho, on the head waters of the Snake and oBlso dyers; In Montnnu, on Yellowstone nnd Milk rivers; In Nevada, on Carson and Trucked rivers; In Utah, on (Bear river, and in Wyoming, on thoi Big Horn and North Platte rivers. WehNter May lift It There Is every Indication thnt the ambassador to Germany, Mr. Antlrqw D. White, will be succeeded by John U Webster of Omaha. Tho president. It Is said, hna most favorably consid ered tho suggestion, oven If ho link not definitely decided on It. Tho appoint ment of Mr. Webster bus been stringly urged by Senntor Millard. The presi dent hi understood to have not yet renched a final determination lit .thu matter. MitrkHiniiii Winn Meilul Cnpt. J. R. Sherwln of troop F. First cavalry, Illinois' national guniil, of Chi cago, qualified on the new fort rifle range at Peoria, III., ns a distinguished sharpshooter, winning n silver cross by fourteen points to spare. This Is the highest honor to be bad In the national guard service. ShontH Sheriff fatally W. R. Strain, sheriff of Monona county. Iowa, while trying to place Fred Cams under nrrest at a farm near Whiting, wns shot In tho stomach by Cams and Is fatally wounded. KtiulentK Caime OUonler There wero serious disorders nt Agram, Austria. Tuesday, In connec tion with n demonstration of tho Cro ntlnn students against the Servian in habitants. Tho police charged with drawn swords and ninny persons wero wounded. TiirkMiunl liiilKiirlmiN riirht A telegram from Lnrlsso, Greece, re ports an encounter between a detach ment or Turkish troops nnd n band of thlrty-tivo Bulgarians near Drekkl. Nineteen Turks and twenty Bulgarians wero killed. "" Wv.-Tft-W ffi''llWlfH''t MJriwif-m.r JtS.ti TRAIN LEAVES TRACK Many i:ietimlohMii Killed In n Wreck nn an Alahanin Itnllroiul ' While rounding n curve nn a high embankment near Berry. Ala., tho en gine and tour enrs of an excursion train, on a branch of tho Southern railway, leaped from the track nnd rolled over and over, smnshlng tho coaches Into kindling wood nnd cnus Ing the Instant death of thirty pcrsonr. nnd the Injury of elghty-ono others, says a Birmingham, Ala., dlspntcb. Physicians say at least twenty-nine of Hie Injured cannot live. With the exception of II. M. Dudley, trainmaster of the Southern railway, living nt Birmingham, and Boston Shelby, of Columbus. Miss., nil of tho dead and Injured nre negroes, who had taken advantage of excursion rates from points in Mississippi to Birming ham. When the wreck occurred the train was running nt it rate of thirty miles mi hour and had just started around n curve on top of n sixty-foot embank ment. The Immediate cause of the wreck wns the tender Jumping tho track. riglitliiR the Mimqiiltn The olllclnl report on the British African protectorate, which has Just been published by tho foreign office, provides some suggestive evidence ns to the degree In which the so-called mnlarliii fevers may be expected to disappear ns the result of the most careful preventive nienstires based on recent knowledge. Systemutlc experi menting conducted In different sec tions of British Cent nil Africa lend to the conclusion thnt. the f event have been rendered much less prevnlcnt where the mosquitoes have been ex terminated by pouring small quanti ties of petroleum on tho stagnant wnt ers of the locality. A Peculiar Accident A peculiar accident characterized the Labor day celebration at Becchwood park. I ronton, O. Atnyor Mountain wan In the net of Introducing Joseph Bishop, one of the orators, when an immense limb of a sugar gum tree, under which the stnnd wns erected, fell In tho center of tho Inrgo crowd ol listeners. Mrs. Mary Hoard, of Ash land, wns Instantly killed; Mrs. Joseph Smith wns probably fatally Injured; Mrs. John Jenkins, wife of Vice-President Jenkins, of the amalgamated asso elation, was badly hurt: Mrs. Charles St rout hero and Miss Vanhorne werq slightly injured. fatal Street Duel lii n revolver and rlfjo duel on Main street, Wlnlleld, Colo.. Gus SJoBtron, nged thirty-five, a Swede miner, wat killed; Ham Amsdon, nged thirty-five, nlso n minor, was shot through the left breast and mortally wounded, and Cbaunccy Bennett, n. bartender, wr.a shot In the groin nnd perhaps fatally wounded. The shooting was the direct result of A million's jenlousy of the at? tendons paid by Andy Mnloy, a young miner, to Amy Bltts, a flftccn-yenr-old girl, with whom Amsdon was in love. Cue Dynamite on the Hafe Expert cracknmen made their way Into the store of Howard Miles at Pax ton, Neb., and used dynamite on the safe. They secured $125 In ensh and drafts and checks besides. They made their escape in spite of the fnct that tho explosion nttracted tho attention of many of the citizens, who hastened to tho store. A posso has been sent In pursuit of the fleeing hurglnrs, whn aro thought to have escaped on horses. Nn Oim to Tell the Tale The Japanese cruiser Tnknchlho has returned to Yokohama from her In npectlon of the Island of Torishlml, which was destroyed by n volcanic eruption between August 13 nnd 15. Thi! captain of the warship reports that the eruption utterly devastated the Inl and nnd that nobody on It wns left nllve. Over 150 persons wero killed. Torishlml lies between the Bonin Islunds and the muln Island of Japan. Champion Im Ilea ten At Newark, N. J., about 5,000 people saw Champion Kramer defeated on his homo track In tho half-mile event. The lime wns 1:02 1-5, Kramer showed hla mettle In the five-mile handicap, which he won by three lengths from Beau chump of Australia, aftor a truly re marknblo sprint irom the rear. His lime was 10:115. llnclneN DeiiiolUlieil A passenger train and two engine: collided with n fast freight on the Wabash tlneo miles enst of Peru, Intl., nt 4:30 Tuesday morning, littering the track with debris and almost destroy ing the freight train and domollshliif; the locomotives. Tho accident was ex ceptional In that no person wns In jured. Tno trains were running fifty miles an hour. ll.iivkeyo firemen Meet Da v nport. la., has capitulated to the host of blue coatid 11 ro laddies who are there fiom many cities of the stnte In attendance on the annual meeting nnd toiirnaiiet,t of the Iowa state flremcn'BV association. A program continuing mroiign j-ruiny tins necn arranged, ine vnrlmiR features including a parado.V, and numerous racing contests. " WISDOM OF THE 3AGED. ; Quarrels would not last long If the . fault was only tin ono side. La Roche foucauld. Humility Humility is tho true euro for ninny a needlers heartache. A.. Montague -' ,. Ho whoso own worth doth spcakAV; need not speak his own worth. S riiomua Fuller. i' Wo know nothing of to-morrow; our$l liuslncss is to uo good and happy to-J flnv. Sydney Smith. . 1 urn a ): w - 1 V)j 1 "'m " .. r? A