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GREAT WESTERN 8T0CK TRAIN
8TRIKES SOO PASSENGER.
"Are Thrown Over Retaining Wall,
Dropping a Distance of Twenty Feet.
One Woman Is Killed and About
Thirty Persons Injured.
St. Paul, Oct. 2. A Chicago Great
Western Btock train, running about
twenty miles an hour as It was going
to the St. Paul yards, struck the mid
dle of a Soo lino passenger train
which had Just left tho Union station
mid hurled two Pullman BleoperB over
a retaining wall to the bottom of a
gully twenty feet below. One sleeper
landed bottom side up and the other
fell on Its side. Mrs. Clara M. Cross
of Minneapolis wiib so badly injured
that she died in the hospital shortly
after being taken there, and nine oth
ers wero seriously Injured, while a
score or more wero less seriously
hurt. The engine and first sleeper of
the Soo train got safely across tho
switch, but the second and third
sleepers wero hit. Tho end of tho
fourth sleeper was portly wrecked.
Seriously Injured: J. P. Wilkinson,
may die; II. Wilkinson. 13. S. Martin,
head badly bruised; Mrs. Henry
Deiilsch, Minneapolis, back and head
hurt; L. S. Morris, Montreol, hcud,
back and neck hurt; Franklin Lyon,
Minneapolis, back injured and bruised,
will recover; William A. Hall, travel
ing auditor Soo road, collar bono frac
tured and ycalp wound; Mrs. Thomp
hon II 'ill, Minneapolis, scalp wound.
THREE KILLED IN A WRECK.
Switch Engine Jumps Track In Birm
ingham Yards With Fatal Results.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 2. A switch
engine In tho ynrds of tho Louisville
and Nashville railroad Jumped tho
track and two men wore Instantly
hilled and n third died in the hos
pital a fow hours later. Tho dead are:
T. P. Bibb, Joseph Armon and L. M.
Glass, all well known young men.
.They wero standing on the front run
ning board of tho switch englno,
Which wne going nt a high rate of
speed, whtu suddenly the front wheels
jumped the track. Tho front of tho
engine struck two cabooses on adja
cent tracks nnd rolled over on Its
Bide. Tho bodies of the men wero
terribly mangled.
.WOMAN KILLS SEVEN CHILDREN.
Mrs. Markham Slays Her Offspring
and Husband Commits Suicide.
Rock Island, III., Oct. 2. Mrs. Clnr
once Markham of Cambridge, near
hero, In a lit of temporary Insanity,
hilled her seven children with an axe,
after which sho placed their bodies on
n bed, saturated It with kerosene and
set Are to it. She then hacked her
throat with a knife and threw herself
on the burning bed. Neighbors res
cued her, but sho was so badly burned
that sho died soon after sho had
made a confession. Tho eldest child
was nlno years old; tho youngest a
baby in arms.
Later Clarence E. Markham, hus
band and father of the victims of the
tragedy, committed sulcldo by shoot
ing himself after tying a rope around
his neck so that It would choko him
to death In caso tho bullet failed of
its purpose.
Card Is Indicted for Murder.
St. Louis, Oct. 2. The grand Jury
indicted Frnnk Willis Card, a native
of North Bend, Neb., on tho charge
of murder in tho first degree. It Is
alleged that on July 25 Card, who is
one-legged and married, shot and In
stantly killed Mrs. Beulah Crnft, aged
twenty, w'ifo of Charles T. Craft. Aft
er killing Mrs. Craft, Card fired sev
eral shots Into himself. At the hos
pital, upon hearing a doctor say that
he might recover, ho tore the band
ages from himself and tried to thwart
tho attempt or tho authorities to save
his life. Card is understood to havo
recovered sufficiently to stand trial.
jj Gas Workman Asphyxiated.
Des Moines Oct. 2. Chatles Smith
was asphyxiated at 1218 Park nvauuo.
Smith formerly lived at that number,
but recently moved to 1318 the same
street. Ho was found In tho empty
house with his faco bitten by rats
that had attacked him during tho
night. The discovery was made by
his wife. Smith was an employe of
the gas company and had gone to tho
empty house to get his gas meter to
move It to his new number. It is
, supposed thnt whilo ho was at work
on tho meter tho gas leaked In suffi
cient quantity to ovorcomo him.
'1 Prairie Fires Begin.
Huron, S. D., Oct. 2. Tho first
losses from prairie flro reported this
fall come from the northeast part of
the county. A party of hunters acci
dentally set llro to tho prairie grass'
a few miles north of Cavour, result-1
ing In the destruction of a large quan
tity of hay. Flro east of tho samo
city was started from a passing1
freight engine on tho Northwestern
railway, and n strip of country two
miles long and half a mile wide was
burned over.
Dragged From Engine by Crowd and
Forced to Rescind Order.
Denver, Oct. 3. Tho spectacle of a
member of tho Judiciary being dragged
about by a mob and forced to rescind
an olllclal order ended a day of
turmoil at Brighton, Colo., tho county
scat of Adams county. A. II. Guthlel,
county Judge, hauled tho mayor, mar
shal and members of the town board
before him and lectured them for their
alleged failure to enforco ordinances
against gambling nnd Sunday liquor
selling. Following this, he ordered tho
sheriff nnd marshal to gather tho slot
machines in the town of Brighton,
nnd when they reported later that
they could only find one, Judge Guthlel
deputized two men to arrest them for
contempt. In the meantime both tho
sheriff nnd the marshal disappeared.
The report of tho Judge's action con
cerning the two peace officers spread
through tho town and caused much
excitement. Citizens bognn to gather
on tho streets, and, fearing for his
personal Bafety, Judge Guthlel boarded
a freight englno as it was pulling a
train slowly through tho town. Ho
ordered tho engineer to uncouple tho
engine from tho train and run to this
city with him, threatening legal nctlon
unless tho engineer complied with the
order. The latter refused to obey the
demand, and while they wero discuss
ing tho matter a mob gathered around
tho engine and Judgo Guthlel was
dragged from tho engine. He was
arrest against tho sheriff and marshal
told that he must rescind his order of
nnd upon being assured that ho had
already dono so, the judge was re
leased by the mob and allowed to
proceed to this city on a passenger
train Inter. Judge Guthlel has been
nt war almost constantly with other
county officers slnco his administra
tion began about a year ago, and has
had these officials and members of
the bar before him time and again on
charges of contempt.
SECRETARY TAFT RETURNS.
Discusses Result of His Trip With
President Roosevelt.
Washington, Oct. 3. After an ab
sence of more than three months,
Secretary of War Taft returned to
Washington, establishing a record
from Yokohama to Washington by
making the trip in fourteen days and
arriving two days ahead of schedulo
time. Of tho original members of the
congressional party, only one, Senator
Foster of Louisiana, returned to Wash
ington with the secretary. The other
members went homo by different
routes or stopped on the way across
tho continent. Secretary Taft ap
peared to be hearty and vigorous and
cordially greeted those who mot him.
He made a quick trip to his homo and
then proceeded to the war department.
Thero ho expressed gratification that
tho long Journey was over and that it
had been accomplished without mis
hap to any of tho party. In discussing
briefly his trip, the secretary said that
tho natives of tho Philippines havo
reached tho point whore they can par
ticipate In legislation with profit to
themselves and that it will bo a good
education for them. Thero are, ho
added, a sufficient number well qual
ified to compose one oranch of tho
legislative body.
Secretary Taft dined with President
nnd Mrs. Roosevelt at tho white house.
Tho secretary detailed to tho presi
dent tho details of tho congressional
party's tour of the Philippines and tho
Orient.
YAjnm m cabinet
CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW AND
BOYCOTT DISCUSSED.
Riksdag Approves Treaty.
Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3. After
tho king's speech from tho throne hnd
been delivered at tho opening of tho
rlksdng tho government introduced a
motion requesting the house to ap
prove a proposal that the arrange
ments entered Into between Sweden
and Norway should go into force from
a date, which was left blank, when
Norway took similar action. As soon
as tho Karlstad agreement Is sanc
tioned by tho riksdag nnd tho storth
ing the king will submit a proposal
authorizing tho dissolution of tho
union and conferring on his majesty
full power to recognlzo Norway as an
Independent stato. When this Is douo
tho troaty of Karlstad will become
binding.
Senator Mitchell in Hospital.
Portland, Ore, Oct. 3. United
States Senator John H. Mitchell, re
cently convicted of conspiracy to de
fraud the United States government
with .the transactions' In public lauds,
Is In a local hospital, suffering from a
broken rib. He slipped on some looso
earth while wntchlng the dry docklntr
of tho steamship Ocean. Serious com
plications nro not apprehended, but on '
account of the senator's ndvanced ago
he will have unusual care.
Orders Packers to Plead.
Chicago, Sept. 30. Federal Judgo
Otis J. Humphrey sustained the do-,
murrer filed by United States District
Attorney Morrison to tho plea In
abatement made by the packers seek
ing to have Indictments for alleged ro
strnlnt of tnulo declared void. Judgo
Humphrey said ho made his decision
on broad grounds, without taking into
consideration technicalities which tho
government advanced against the plea
In abatement.
President's Instructions to Consular
Officers In China Cannot Be Com
piled With Changes Must Be Made
In Method of Executing Law.
Washington, Oct. 4. The most in
teresting subjects discussed at tho
cabinet meeting wero. first, tho Chi
nese boycott against American goods,
and, second, the consideration of com
plaints made by tho Chinese against
tho method of executing the existing
Chinese exclusion laws. The import
ant fact developed was that the presi
dent's effort last summer to nllay tho
Indignation of the Chinese by a cir
cular of instructions to the American
minister to China and consular oillcors
therein had In a measure failed of Its
purpose, and required considerable
amendment to secure tho object
sought. Minister Rockhlll himself re
ported that It had not been found pos
sible to carry out the instructions in
the letter without doing great injus
tice to worthy Chinese nnd Imposing
burdens too heavy to bo homo upon
tho American consuls.
Coming freshly from the Orient,
Secretary Tart took a prominent part
in tho discussion of this matter and
presented some of the results of his
observations on his recent trip. It
developed that the requirement that
American consuls Identiry the Chinese
seeking certificates admitting them to
Amcrlcnn ports imposed a task upon
these officials beyond their ability.
The Chinese applicant frequently
came from some placo far distant from
the American consulate and the con
Mil was consequently obliged to re
fuse to Identify as proper persons to
be admitted to the United States verv
many worthy Chinese, which of course
led to bitter complaint and fostered
tho boycott feeling.
The trend of opinion In the cabinet
meeting was that the complaints wero
directed rather against the construc
tion placed upon the law than against
tho act Itself and especially against
the definition given in California to
tho term coolie, so It was practically
decided that changes must be made.
RAMSEY'S FIGHT ON GOULD.
Wabash Embrogllo Reaches Injunction
Stage of Its Proceedings.
St. Louis, Oct. 4. Suit for Injunction
was filed In the St. Louis circuit court
by Joseph Ramsey, Jr., president of
the Wabash, against the Iron Moun
tain and Wabash Railway companies,
the Mercantile Trust company of Now
York, Walter S. Wilson, H. W. Walker
and George J. Gould.
In his petition Mr. Ramsey asks tho
court to grant him an Injunction pre
venting tho proposed annual meeting
of George J. Gould and his associates
at Toledo, where it is proposed to elect
a board of directors and a president
to control tho Wabash road for tho
next year.
As a reason, ho alleges that tho one
result of this meeting would bo to
stifle competition In traffic between
tho Wabash and Missouri Pacific roads
between St. Louis and Kansas City.
Ramsey sets out in his petition that
ho Is a resident of Missouri, while tho
defendants are nonresidents. Ho owns
$50,000 par value of tho debenture
bonds of tho Wabash and 100 shares
of tho capital stock. Ho brings tho
suit, he says, for hlmseir and others
similarly situated. Tho Missouri Pa
cific railroad, he says, holds 20,000
shares of Wabash stock, tho Iron
Mountain holds 05,000 shares of pre
ferred stock and $5,435,000 par value
of debentures, these shares being held
In trust by tho Mercantile Trust com
pany of New York, Wilson, Walker
and Gould. Gould, ho says, owns and
controls a majority of tho stock of the
Missouri Pacific and controls the ma
jority of tho stock of tho Iron Moun
tain railway.
F. W. Lehmann, attorney for Mr.
Ramsey, says: "Tho importance of
this suit to tho public is in that It !s
a suit to enjoin rival companies of tho
Wabash from voting Its stock and de
bentures." SUIT TO COMPEL RESTITUTION.
Permission Asked to Bring Action
Against McCall and Perkins.
New York, Oct. . Permission to
begin suit against John A. McCall,
president, and George W. Perkins, vico
president of tho New York Life Insur
ance company, for tho restitution of
$150,000 contributed to Republican
campaign funds was asked of Attorney
General Mayer by William Hepburn
Russell, acting as attorney Tor several
policy holders. Under the law of this
stuto tho sanction or the nttorney gen
eral Is required In order to bring a
suit of this character. Mr. Russell
said tho suit would bo based on the
contention that tho money paid to
tho national Republican committee
was expended by McCall and Perkins
without corporate authority. He de
clared that ho Intended also to sue
for the restitution or $233,000. which
Mr. McCall testified had been placed
In the hands of Andrew Hamilton of
Albany.
General Gomez Arrives,
New York, Oct. 4. General Juan
Jose Gomez, tho governor of Santa
Clara province, Cuba, who recently
resigned as the Liberal candidate for
the presidency of Cuba in opposition
to President Palmn, arrived hero on
the steamer Monterey. Ho will re
main In this country about two weeks.
Genernl Gomez sald:( "My errand Is
to got a rest. I do not know what
cities I shall visit, I have no plans."
PAT CROWE UNDER ARREST.
dam was at anchor off St. Pierre with
eighteen or twenty other vessels when
the outbreak of Mont Pelee occurred
In 1902 and escaped badly damaged.
Sho was almost overwhelmed by burn
ing lava and seventeen of her crew
were killed.
Police at Butte Say They Have Much
Wanted Omaha Man.
Butte, Mont., Oct. 3. Pat Crowo,
wanted by tho Omaha police for tho
kidnaping of tho son of Edward Cud
ohy, tho millionaire packer, in 1900,
was arrested In this city last night.
Crowe's Identification has been made
complete through photographs sent to
tho authorities by Omaha officers.
Crowe acknowledged he wns the fugi
tive, becoming alnrmed when he feared
the authorities wero going to shoot
him. Cnptain of Police W. F. Mc
Grath and Detective Mclnerney made
the arrest, placing the muzzles of their
revolvers against his stomach as ho
emerged from a saloon In tho tender
loin section of the city. Crowo de
clared he would return to Omaha with
out requisition papers. Ho cursed bit
terly at his arrest, expressing chagrin
at his apprehension In a town the size
of Butte, when he, as he said, had
traveled the world over and evaded
capture In large cities. Crowe has two
brothers In Montana, one living In
Butte and the other at Great Falls.
A friend of Crowe's tipped the local
police of Crowe's presenco In tho city,
and his arrest followed after photo
graphs of tho fugitive had been se
cured from the Omaha police.
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An Exceptionally Large and Fine Yield
of Corn is Now Assured.
Washington, Oct. 4. Tho weekly
crop bulletin of the weather bureau
summarizes crop conditions as fol
lows: Favorable weather prevailed throughout
the prlnelpnl corn Htntes. An exceptionally
large nnd tine yield of corn Is now annured
over much of tho greater part of the corn
licit and only u very mnnll part of the crop
In the north central portion, estimated at
from '2, to .r per cent, remnlns exposed to In
jury from frost, nnd this Is maturing rap
idly. The crop In Missouri wns extensively
blown down or lodged, but notwithstanding
this and the damuge by .September Hoods,
the yield In that state will be very heavy.
A light apple crop Is reported nearly
everywhere, only a few unimportant apple
producing states Indicating satisfactory
yields.
Owing to the extensive prevalence of
blight and rot In the principal potato pro
ducing states a light crop of potatoes of
Inferior quality is generally promised.
The fall se son so far has been exeep
tlonnlly favorable for plowing and seeding
In the central valley, lake region and mid
dle Atlantic suites. In portions of the
southern states and on the north Pacific
coast dry soli conditions have not been fa
yorable for this work.
Fresh Disturbances In Austria.
Bruenn, Austria, Oct. 4. Fresh dis
turbances between tho Germans nnd
the Czechs broke out here. Tho
Czechs marched through tho streets,
wrecking stores and insulting Ger
mans. Almost the whole garrison had
to be called out to restore order, tho
rioters having continued the disturb
ances In the suburbs after being driv
en from the city. Many persons wero
Injured and windows In tho JewisU
synagogue were smashed. Strong
patrols have been placed at all tho
prominent German buildings for their
protection.
Steamer Roddam Ashore.
London, Oct. 4. Lloyds received a
telegram from tho captain of tho Brit
ish steamer Roddam announcing that
the vessel Is ashoro and abandoned In
the Yenesel river, SlberIa.Tho Rod-
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CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
Features of the Day's Trading and
Closing Quotations.
Chicago. Oct. a.-Llberal receipts In the
northwest had a depressing effect today on
wheat values here. At the close wheat for
December delivery was off iHYiv. Corn
and oats both allowed u gain of WaVtf.
Provisions were down UVidfue. cioblug
prices:
Wheat-Dec., S458IVic: May. 8.-1540.
Corn-Dec, 44V, new, 4:c; May, 43V6.
Outs-Dec, 27T(,e: May, 0c.
Pork-Oct., $U.82"jt Jan.. $12,32112.35.
Lard-Oct., Jf7.17'yi(7.20: Jan.. $0 SO.
Itlbs-Oct., $8.00: Jan.. $0.45(30.47y4.
South Omaha Live Stock.
South Omaha. Oct. .T-Cattlc-UecelptH,
2.MM). steady, native steers, $3.7.-iU."i.7ti:
cows and heifers, $L.OffM.2.-: western
steers, !f2."oft.7.,: Texas steers. $2.75ig4.O0,
lange cows and heifers, $2.00(&;i.iO; ear
ners, S1.MKI2.C0; stackers nnd feeders,
$2.23fM.2.-,: calves, W.iWfii.-.no: bulls, stags,
etc, $2.XWI.r.O. Ilogs-Ilccelpts. 3,200:
steady; heavy, $l.t).Vr.r,.25; mixed, $..inff
r..20; light. $r.2.vjr,.:t7Uj; pigs. $i.7r.(Tir..2ri;
bulk of sales. $r.00(('.2.-i. Sheep Receipts,
3,200: steady; westerns, f 1.7.'Tir.2(); weth
ers. SI,:MVQ.-l.rM; ewes, $M.r!8.-l.30: lambs,
$0.GOil0.75.
Kansas City Live Stock.
Kansas City, Oct. .'t.-Cnttle-Keeelpts.
20,000; steady; native steers. ?MMK(0.x:
cows nnd heifers. $1.7.-0.2.-,; stockers and
feeders, $2.00i! 11.00; calves, $2..'(Krn;.Hi;
western steers, $2.7Ml.riO. Hogs I' '-its,
11,000: 5i5(10c lower; bulk of sale "k '.;
ti.30; heavy, $.VJ.Witi.3.'i; pack;rs, .. ..jm,
r.:ir.; pigs nnd light, $.".0Oi .".'.!.". Sheep -Kerelpts.
0,000; steady; muttons, ?l.00ft
0.00; lambs, ?5.20n&.73.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Oct. .'i.-Cnttlt Itecelptn, 13,
000; steady to 10c lower: steers, f.'l.NKo!
0 111; htockers nnd feeders, 52.2.V(i:.85;
cows and ennners, $1.40Cl4.:i5: bulls, $2.00iJ
4.70; heifers, $2.005i4.7r; calves, $5.10fc7..iO.
Hogs-Uecelptsi, 18,000; steady: shipping
and selected $.".MKjr.7i; mixed nnd heavy
packing, $4.70Qr.40; light, $3.00fiC.5D: pigs
and rough, $ l.OOtfifi.riO. Sheep Hecelpts.
40,000; mostly unchanged; sheep, $3.O0(j
6.40; I am bH, $4.0037.73.
Final Effort to Save Patrick.
Albany, Oct. 2. Tho final effort to
save Albert T. Patrick, condemned to
die for the murder of William Marsh
Rice, will bo made before the stato
court of appeals today. Ex-Senator
David B. Hill will address tho court
in Patrick's behalf In an effort to ob
tain a reargument of tho appeal re
cently decided against him by the
court by a vote of 4 to 3.
Millionaire Kills Himself.
New York, Sept. 30. William R.
Travers, a millionaire man of leisure,
sou of the celebrated wit and Wall
street operator William R. Travers,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through tho head in his apartments
in Madison avenue. Tho suicide is in
explicable, Mr. Travers being In the
prime of life, In fair health and tho
possessor of a large fortune. Mr.
Travers married Miss Lilly Harriman,
a sister of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbllt, Jr.
A Queer Ilrnnch.
Undo George How do you like arith
metic? Little Dick Pretty well so far,
but the teacher says that next week wo
tire to begin learning how to extract
roots. Guess bo must think we're all
going to bo dentists.
"Ridicule." says a German critic. "Is
like a blow with the fist, wit like tho
prick of a needle, Irony like tho sting
of a thorn and humor tho piaster which
heals all these wounds."
Old Party You worry your mother
terribly. Why are you so wicked?
Bnd Boy 'Cause If I'm good she'll
worry thlnkln' Pin sick.
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