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PLE LOSE THEIR LIVES
FICHT MISTAKEN FOR FIRE
8tampede Follows Quarrel Between
Delegates and Choir Master
Causes Most Deaths Heaps
Ten Feet High at Doors
BIRMINGHAM Ala Sept 20 Seventy-eight
people known to be dead
and eighty injured some perhaps fa
tally Is the result of a panic which oc
curred in Shlloh negro Baptist church
here last night during the evening ses
Blon of the national Baptist conven
tion Fifteen hundred delegates were
crowded into the church which had
only a seating capacity of 400 when
the audience was thrown into a stam
pede by a conflict between two of the
delegates in the rear of the church
The cries of fight the audience mis
took for an alarm of fire and in the
iwild rush seventy eight persons were
crushed to death and eighty more re
ceived injuries some of which may
prove fatal The list of dead and in
jured included only negroes in attend
ance In the case of the visiting dele
sates the identification has been diffi
cult
The catastrophe occurred at 9
oclock Just as Booker T Washington
had concluded his address to the na
tional convention of Baptists and for
three hours the scenes around the
church were indescribable Dead
bodies were strewn in every direction
and the ambulance service of the city
was utterly incapacitated to move
them until after 10 oclock Dozens of
dead bodies were arranged in rows on
the grounds outside of the house of
iworship awaiting removal to the va
rious undertaking establishments
while more than a score were laid out
on the benches inside
The church is the largest house of
worship for negroes in Birmingham
and the pastor says there were at
least 2000 persons in the house when
the stampede began Instructions had
been issued to allow no more to en
ter but the negroes forced their way
inside and were standing in every
aisle Even the entrance to the church
was literally packed
Just as Booker T Washington con
cluded his address Judge Billou a
negro lawyer from Baltimore engaged
in an altercation -with the choir lead-
fir concerning an unoccupied seat and
it is said a blow was struck Someone
in the audience cried Theyre fight
ing Mistaking the word fighting
for fire the congregation arose en
masse and started for the door One
of the ministers quickly mounted ths
rostrum and admonished the people
to keep quiet He repeated the word
quiet several times and motioned
bis hearers to be seated Again the
excited people mistook the word
quiet for fire and renewed then
efforts to get out Men and women
crawled over one another to get to
the door The ministers tried again
to stop the stampede but no power on
earth could stay the struggling mass
of humanity
The level of the floor is about fif
teen feet from the ground and long
steps lead to the sidewalk from the
lobby just outside of the main audi
torium Brick walls extend on either
side of these steps for six or seven
feet and these proved a veritable
death trap Negroes wbo had reachpd
the top of the steps were pushed vio
lently forward and many fell Before
they could move others fell on them
and in fifteen minutes persons wer
piled upon each other to a height of
ten feet where twenty died from suf
focation
SUPREME COURT TO SIT SOON
Will Resume Next Month with Case
Against Dewey
WASHINGTON Sept 20 The Unit
ed States supreme court will reassem
ble October 13 No -business will be
transacted on the opening day The
court will make its customary call on
President Roosevelt On the follow
ing day the court will resume the
tearing of cases
Among the first cases to be heard
are those of Bird against the United
States brought to determine the le
gality of a murder trial in Alaska
the Line Wolf case Involving the
validity of an act of congress relat
ing to Kiowa Indian lands and the
prize money cases of the United States
against Admirals Dewey and Samp
son
Stamped Envelope Contract
WASHINGTON Sept 20 Acting
Postmaster General Madden today
awarded the contract for furnishing
stamped envelopes and newspaper
wrappers for the postoffice depart
ment for the four years beginning
January 1 1903 to the Hartford Manu
facturing company of Hartford Conn
it being the lowest bidder Upward of
3000000 will be paid this company
under the contract Their bid is S5
000 less than the next lowest
DMMMWMi
FIRM GRIP SAVES HIS LIFE
Man Suspended In Air One Hundred
Feet High Twenty Minutes
CHICAGO Sept 19 Suspended
only by his hands McNaughton
Wright a prominent member of the
Board of Trade hung between life
and death for twenty minutes at the
top of a grain chute in the Rock Is
land elevator
When rescued Mr Wright was ex
hausted and on the point of releasing
his hold which would have meant a
fall of 100 feet to the Jiard floor of an
empty bin and almost certain death
He had entered the elevator to in
spect some wheat Making a mis
step he fell into the chute but suc
ceeded in clutching the edge and
hanging by his hands Mr Wrights
calls for help were finally heard by
an employe who pulled him out He
fainted then and was unconscious for
nearly an hour so great had been the
strain
INDIAN PRINCE A BANKRUPT
In Debt Because the Government Has
Made Allowance Too Small
LONDON Sept 19 At a meeting
today of the creditors of Prince Vic
tor Dulep Singh who was declared a
bankrupt September 4 the chairman
said the princes debts amounted to
471600 of which 360000 was secur
ed
The debts were attributed to stock
exchange speculation and gambling
Among the assets is a claim for 3
000000 against the Indian government
with respect to the estate of the bank
rupts father
The prince ascribes his bankruptcy
to the ridiculous insufficiency of
his allowance from the Indian govern
ment To maintain his position the
price received 35000 yearly and his
wife received 10000
BOERS WISH NO FIREWORKS
Botha Telegraphs Brussels Not to Pre
pare Demonstrations
BRUSSELS Sept 19 The Boer
reception committee here has receive
ed the following telegram from Gen
eral Botha We shall be glad if you
inform the population of Brussels that
we desire no anti English demonstra
tion to occur upon the occasion of
our visit to Brussels our missing be
ing non political and purely charita
ble
Dr Leyds the Boer representative
in Europe has issued a denial of the
report that the Boer generals Botha
Delarey and Dewet would abandon
their tour He declares the generals
to be in complete agreement with
himself and the other European Boer
delegates
HAYS NOTE ABOUT JEWS
Protest Against Their Treatment in
Roumania Approved
LONDON Sept 19 The United
States initiative in protesting to the
countries which are parties to the
treaty of Berlin of 1878 against the
treatment of Jews in Roumania meets
with approval here
The Globe however the only after
poon paper which comments on Sec
retary Hays note on the subject sees
nothing in Mr Hays action but self-
Interest The Globe nevertheless
hopes that it will lead to a check beJ
ing placed op the wholesale exporta J
tion of undesirable persons from east
ern Europe to Great Britain and Amer
ica
The Boxer Attack
PEKIN Sept 19 The Boxer at
tack on Cheng Tu Fu capital of Sze
Chuan province in which 50000 Box
ers made an ineffectual attempt to
take the city began September 14
When the rebels endeavored to enter
the city a conflict ensued The at
tackers were driven back and the
gates of the city were closed and
guarded by troops Soldiers quelled
the disorder within the city Four
teen Boxer leaders and several other
rebels were executed
Senator Bard Improving
LOS ANGELES Cal Sept 19
The condition of Senator Bard this
morning was more hopeful than at
any time since his illness and it is
felt that his chances for recovery are
now excellent
Will Remain for Short Session
DUBUQUE la Sept 19 It is an
nounced tonight that Speaker Hen
derson does not intend to resign the
speakership at the coming session of
congress
Union Pacific Goes Higher
WASHINGTON Sept 19 The
question of the right of a telegraph
company to occupy through condem
nation proceedings right of way own
ed by a railroad company in Colorado
Is involved m the case of the Union
Pacific Railway company plaintiff in
error against the Colorado Postal Tel
fcgraph company the appellants plead
ings in which were docketed in the
supreme court The railroad com
pany lost in the court of Colorado
URROUND A CITY
THE BOXERS MAKE AN ATTEMPT
TO TAKE CHENG TU FU
WHAT ITS FALL WILL MEAN
A Chinese Merchant Predicts That the
Whole Province Will Be on Its Bad
Behavior if the Fifty Thousand Reb
els Succeed
LONDON Sept 18 Cabling from
Shanghai under date of September 17
the correspondent of the Daily Mail
says that capital of the
province of Sze Chuen is surrounded
by 50000 Boxers but that their afc
tempts to take the city have failed
so far Without immediate help how
ever must fall
A prominent Chinese merchant tells
me continues the Daily Mail corre
spondent that if is
taken a rising in the province is b
evitable To further complicate mat
ters the feuds between Catholic and
Protestant converts are worse now
than at any previous stage and magis
terian injunction in various matters
has been unwarrantably interferrod
with by priests and missionaries
VICTORIA B a Sept 18 A lefc
ter received from a thoroughly
worthy Chinese correspondent at Nan-
ning states that the rebellion is oo
tlrely at an end General Ma aae
of the ablest Chinese officers in the
south was killed
Though the rebellion so colled is at
end a disquieting feature of the
tion is that a large Quantity of up-to-date
rifles are still Imported con
stantly The Chinese complain that
they are smuggled over the Tonkin
frontier The town of Tunghua Hisai
northwest of New Chwang is report
ed to have been occupied by the brfc
gand leader Tiu Tang Tsae and fol
lowers Making this their headqdo
ters they are said to be busily lock
ing all the districts around
The Boxers are still active b
Chengte and increasingly so The lo
cal foreign officer reports the district
to be in great disorder several places
having been attacked others burned
down and a number of Christians and
others who have resisted having been1
killed The British and Foreign Bttd
society has had one killed in that
district and there are rumors not yet
confirmed but believed to be reliable
that two others have suffered the eaxaa
fate
A gentleman who recently visited
New Chwang says the Russians ape
making all preparations for retirement
from Manchuria at an early date and
expresses the belief that they will do
so At the same time he admits that
they are not likely to give up some of
the places on which they have spent
considerable sums such as Nesr
Chwang and Talien bay nor to retire
without some sort of equivalent for
what they supposed they had acquired
nor even then to make an absolute re
linquishment of their claims upon
that country
PREMIER BOND IS SATISFIED
Nefoundland Statesman Pleased wtth
Progress of Fisheries Treaty
NEW YORK Sept 18 Sir Robert
Bond premier of Newfoundland who
recently visited Washington with the
object of furthering a fisheries reci
procity treaty with the United States
is in this city Regarding reports that
his mission had been a failure he
said
I was unable to accomplish any
thing in Washington the other day
simple because Acting Secretary at
State Adee needed to consult the pres
ident in order to get authority to be
gin negotiations During the interval
of the slight delay occasioned by the
necessity of consulting the president
at Oyster Bay I took advantage erf
my freedom to come to this city fat
reasons of private business
I am waiting now until negotia
tions can be properly carried on I
expect to return to Washington for
that purpose the latter part of this
week or the first of next
I do no see any indications t2ast
the project will fail of success ft ts
not of course proper to make public
at the present time any of the prop
ositions which I may submit but 1
have no reason to believe that they
will not be well received
Life without faith is like a roofless
house It lets all the elements in and
offers no protection against the ills
of living
Confesses to Four Murders
SEATTLE Wash Sept 18 A spe
cial to the Times from Dawson sayB
Peter Fournier has made a full and
detailed confession of four murders
He admits that he abetted Ed Labello
in killing Constantine Beaudoine and
Boulhillette but says Labelle did all
the shooting In July about thirty
miles above Circle City they shot Gil
bert Duffer robbed him of 700
weighted his body with stones and
threw it in the river
fefeKmemsaBCes
FURIOUS FIRES IN WYOMING
Bwnrtng In Eighteen Different Parts of
the State
CHEYENNE Wyo Sept 17 Gov
ernor Richards has been Informed by
telephone from Grand Encampment
that for many miles along the
line north of Pearl Colo
a furious forest fire is raging devas
tating everything in its path Efforts
to subdue the flames have been ex
hausted without effect Governor
Richards immediately communicated
with Governor Orman of Colorado and
arranged for both to send a telegram
tto the secretary of the interior ask
ing for aid
According to the latest reports
there are at least eighteen serious for
est fires burning in Wyoming to say
Soothing of numerous smaller fires
burning in southern Albany county
Jthat are destroying great swamps of
fine pine timber in the Medicine Bow
range and threatening mining build
ing a
Although a hundred miles away
Trom Cheyenne the smoke from these
iflres obscures the sky here and the
kdor of burning wood is plainly notice
able
HENDERESON IS OUT
Speaker of the House of
tives Declines to Make the Race
DUBUQUE la Sept 17 Speaker
Henderson finding that his views in
respect to the treatment of trusts by
reducing the tariff in whole or in
part are not in accord with the views
of mans of his party in Iowa has this
day declined to accept the nomination
for congress and has withdrawn from
the race
Speaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after a conference of sev
eral hours duration with Chairman
Classer of the congressional commit
tee and friends He has been contem
plating this action for two weeks but
had intimated nothing of it to his
friends At the conference his friends
implored him not to take the action
but to no avail He said he had made
up his mind and no argument could
cause him to change his decision
GOLD IS COMING THIS WAY
YeJtow Metal Being Imported from
Australia and South Afrloa
NEW YORK Sept 17 J W
Seftgman Co announce that they
will receive 1250000 gold from Aus
tralia The gold will reach San Fran
eJBco on October 2
Fully 1000000 of the gold obtained
by tjie National City bank from South
African sources leaves London Mon
day for this port per steamship Ma
Jestkj The balance will follow shorfe
ly Officials of the bank decline to
make any explanation of the mechan
ism by which this gold was diverted
from its original destination except
to say that the transaction is without
special feature Intimations from an
authoritative Quarter indicate that tho
South African consignment will
amount to more than 2500000
Shortens Time Across Atlantic
NEW YORK Sept 17 The North
German Lloyd steamer Kron Prinz
Wilbelm arrived in port from Bremen
Southampton and Cherbourg beating
all westward records making the run
of JM47 miles in five days eleven
hours and fifty seven minutes an aver
age speed of 2309 knots per hour
The time is three Hours and forty
eight minutes better than the best
previous record of the Kron Prina
WUheim
It Breaks the Deadlock
BCRANTON Pa Sept 17 The re-
publican deadlock in the Fourteenth
congressional district has been brosen
by the nomination of C C Pratt An
umpire appointed by State Chairman
Quay cast the vote which broke the
deadlock
Catholic Converts Boxerated
LONDON Sept 17 A dispatch to
a news agency from Pekln saysi
Catholics here understand that from
800 to LOGO converts have been killed
by Boxers in the province of Sze
CSmko
Injunction Is Asked For
LOUISVILLE Ky Sept 17 Atto
ney General Pratt today filed suit for
an injunction to prevent the contest
between Terry McGovern and Young
Corbett scheduled to take place be
fore the Southern Athletic club m
this city September 22 from being
held The case will be argued before
Judge Fields of the common pleas
division of the Jefferson county cir
cuit court Thursday morning
Mount Pelee Takes Rest
NEW YORK Sept 17 Growls
from Mount Pelee are finally diminish
ing says a Times dispatch from Mar
Unique by way of London The vol
cano Ib still in eruption but its ac
tivity is now insignificant All nec
essary measures to assist the sufferers
have been taken by the government
The native population is calming
down It is the opinion of cool ob
servers that Fort de France is in no
way menaced if the tidal wave comes
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
Latest Quotations from South Omaha
and Kansas City
CATTLiB There were not quite na
many cattlo n yesterday but roceiuts
were liberal The way things look now
this win be n record breaking week The
record so far is hokl by the week end
ing October 31 1301 when 3D309 head ot
cattle arrived A fair test of the Mar
ket for cornfod steers was not mndo n
there was nothing- pood in the yards
The cow market started In quite lively
and Just about steady with yesterday
When buyers realized though that there
were a good many cows in sight they
cooled on a little and were bidding
little lower Stackers and feeders were
in big supply and although there were
close to 175 cars shipped to the country
yard traders had a good many on hand
The good cattle though sold at about
steady prices while the commoner grades
were extremely dulj and a little lower
The general situation was expressed by
one speculator when he said that he was
hot buying any common cattle as ho
already had 500 on band and hsd not had
a bid on them Western boe steers ere
no more than steady and if anything
the common grades were a little lower
Range cows wore about steady at the
opening but a little lower on the close
The best feeders held about steady but
the commoner grades were dull and o
quarter lower than a week atro
HOGS There were a few more cars of
hogs on sale than arrived yesterday
but still the run was light The market
opened steady to strong on the choioo
Hght and butcher weights and also on
the better grades of heavy hogs but
little or nothing was done on the pack
big grades The good hogs sold largely
from 1740 to 750 and as high as 760
was paid After the first round or so
the general market was no more than
steady and the feeling kept getting worse
is the morning advanced and the close
was very slow and weak
SHEEP Quotations Good to cbotoe
yearlings 303S75 fair to good 340
300 good to choice wethers 3253E0
fair to good wethers 30033 choice
ewes 3003315 fair to eood ewes 2Va
200 good to choice lambs 47S00 fair
to good lambs feeder wethers
3XVg340 feeder yearlings 3403G5
feeder lambs 350M25 cull lambs 200
300 feeder ewes 17523 stock ewes
2505325 Representative sales
KANSAS CITY
CATTLE Western cows steady to 10c
lower bulls dull and lower choice ex
port and dressed beef steers 710S00
fair to good 535735 stockors and feed
ers 3KKg550 western fed steers 295
463 Texas and Indian steers 300375
Texas cows 2253273 native cows 150
400 native heifers 275400 canners
1005225 bulls 2405 350 calves 300
5 Co
HOGS lTarket 510c lower top 753
bulk of sales S74S750 heavy 740
755 mtxod packers 735743 light 723
S753 yorkere 7503753 pigs G60700
SHEEP AND LAMBS Market steady
to strong native lambs 325110 wes
tern lambs 300400 native wethers
293 5400 western wethers 2G05393 fed
ewes 280385 Texas clipped yearlings
3273Q370 Texas clipped vearllngs 275
2 70 Texas clipped sheep 275300
stockers and feeders 2005203
GENERAL BOOTH COMES SOON
London Salvationists Send Him on His
Journey with Greetings
LONDON Sept 22 General Booth
conducted three farewell services at
the Clapton Congerss hall tonight
Three thousand Salvationists bade the
general Godspeed at the evening serv
ice when he expressed a decision to
convey messages of affeconate regard
from them to Canada and the United
States The general asked those pres
ent to send a message that their Amer
ican brethren with the people of
Great Britain might stand up before
the world as friends of the human
family and that these great nations
should work shoulder to shoulder for
the peace and happiness of the world
A mighty shout of Amen and a for
est of waving hands greeted General
Booths words
MAY CONTEST STRATTON WILL
Don Not Satisfied with the Amount
Left to Him by Father
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo Sept
22 Nothing could be ascertained to
day relative to the probability or
of a contest between the heirs
over the Stratton will which gives
510000000 or more for a home for
the sick It is understood from a
close friend of Mr- Strattons that the
son I H Stratton declared some time
before his fathers death that if the
will did not give him a specified sum
he would contest it and that the sum
left him is much less than the sum
ie named He has not announced
any intention of contesting however
nor has he authorized the statement
that he is likely to
Over Mount Blanc
GENEVA Sept 22 Two French
tourists two guides and three porters
who were making an ascent of Mount
Blanc have fallen over a precipice
and it is feared that they were all
killed
General Knox Returns
WASHINGTON Sept 22 Attorney
General Knox returned to Washington
today after his trip to Paris where
he conferred with officials regarding
the sale of the Panama canal property
to the United States Mr Knox de
voted his time to questions affecting
the title of the company and its right
to dispose of the same and has con
siderable data on the subject From
this he will prepare an opinion
Wife Number Three
Frederic Sist a resident of Newy
Jersey lately advertised for a pretty
and well brought up wife Among the
numerous replies was one in a very
familiar hand It came ho had ot
course not advertised under his own
name from his former wife During
the period that they had been separ
ated Mr Sixt had married a rich wo
man who had left him a fortune and
time had perhaps aided prosperity in
softening his disposition At any rate
he found himself yearning for number
one and she is now Mrs Sixt number
three
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