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HBJPjBBBBnBBnmuuuuuuuwjusnwjsnnnw4 t-iirfmf:! A' - - jh,t I. . 1 in 1 1 a i' 5r- -o.-r.jv THIS IN NEBRASKA EVENTS OF INTEREST OF MORE j OR LESS IMPORTANCE. AdJutaM tftniral Culver WnM Stun -yE" .. ..... ?.. - . tutu .- MIMK UHVV PMB IIM mil WW Offer Prizes. f . LINCOLN Adjutant General. Cul- ver will oarer itrtsee to tne nest anuea nfuads. sections; httoous and compa ales at the aext annual encampment He hopes to stimulate interest in drill so that the entire year will see drill fas in- tke armories' in the state. As 'it is now, the companies drill for several months rior to encampment aad then take a long vacation after it js over. The adjutant general is in Colnmbas inspecting the range used by the sharpshooters in preparing for 'the national contest It is rumored that General, Culver 'is looking for suitable location of ma neuver grounds,, which he hopes to purchase for the permanent use of the guard. He has been tendered the abandoned Fort Niobrara reservation, :but it is too much out of the way to be usable by the militia. The trans .portatkra to and from Fort Niobrara 'would annually cost a small fortune. General Culver will select land in the '.central part of the state on the Platte river. Insurance of Rosewater. ' The life insurance carried by Ed : ward' Rosewater of the Omaha Bee amounted to 1291.449. It is said that no newspaper editor in the west has .so much insurance. The following are the policies and the companies in which he was insured: Connecticut Mutual. Hartford, three policies, $10,000. $15,000. $20,000. Equitable Life, Iowa, one policy, $5,- tooo. Equitable Life, New York, four poli cies, $10,000. $20,000. $10,000, $10,000. I Fidelity Mutual. Philadelphia. Pa., one policy, $10,000. Illinois Life. Chicago, one policy, $5,- J000. ' Manhattan Life, New York, three : policies, $5,449. $10,000. $10,000. Massachusetts Mutual, Springfield, itwo policies, $20,000, $10,000. , Mutual Life, New York, three poll- cies, $1,000, $5,000. $10,000, National Life, Montpelier, Vt, one policy. $20,000. Northwestern Mutual Life, Milwau kee, three policies. $2,000. $3,000, $10, 000. Pacific Mutual, San Francisco, two policies. $5,000. $5,000. : Penn Mutual. Philadelphia. Pa., three policies. $10,000. $10,000, $5.0001 I State Mutual -Worcester. Mass.. three policies. $10,000. $10,000. $5,000. Washington Life. New York, one poMcy. $10,000. Total, $291,449. Campaign Against Mange, i LINCOLN Dr. C. A. McKim, state veterinarian, expects to begin a cam paign against mange, which has made ;great hedaway among thejcattle on the ranges. He will quarantine several 'counties at a, time ' and ' compel the iranchmen to rid their herds of the disease before he will rai3e the quar ;antine and permit cattle to be shipped :out or in the counties. It is probable .that he will select Hayes. Hitchcock, 'Cook. Dundy and Chase counties as 'the first field of the campaign. Drills for National Guard. LINCOLN Competitive squad drills .will be a feature of the winter work of the National Guard companies. At ithe meeting of the military board it was decided to encourage these drills and to offer numerous prizes for the best drilled squads. These will be followed by section and platoon drills, each for a prize. Peter Jansen Sells His Farm. BEATRICE Peter Jansen, who re cently located in this city, has sold his 2,000-acre ranch in Jefferson coun ty for $75 per acre, or $150,000. Mr. Jansen has been one of the leading 'farmers and stock raisers'for the past thirty years, and will now take life easy. Prize for Nebraska Corn. Deputy State Superintendent E. C. Bishop has received notise that a Chi cago firm, has offered a $100 prize in the Nebraska corn growing contest It has not been decided in what class the prize will be offered. Ditch Laborer Shot and Killed. SCOTTS BLUFF Arthur Crocker, a laborer at Burke's camp on the gov ernment irrigation ditch about ten miles north of here, was shot and in stantly killed by a negro. The negro escaped. Found Dead in Room. MOOREPIELD Mr. Kelley. father-in-law of the railroad agent of Moore field, was found dead in his room. The cause of his death is unknown. Big Price for Ranch. v FALLS CITY Mr. Fred Wittwer, a well known farmer of this county re siding at Salem, a few days ago pur chased the Orendorff ranch near Coatesvilie, this state, paying' there for $75,000. Mr. Wittwer. who made the purchase, came to this, state in 1850 and is a member of a family of several brothers who emigrated to this country from Switzerland. He is possessed of 1,200 acres of choice land is this county, but moved 'to 'his ranch, where he will make his future Died in Her Sleep. LINCOLN Mrs. C. F. Barras. wife i a, Lincoln building contractor, died in her alee? at her home, 3103 Vine hunt She was 54 years of age. When she retired there was no sign of III health or depression. Usina the Apple Surplus. FALLS. CITY The new vinegar factory which has recently been built .here is bow in fall operation, employ t. MMber of men and making aarket for a luge part of the surplus apple crop of this vicinity. l' . - l -. -.-". --k -Jbf., - v-Awte-.s . -NEBRASKA BRIEFS. - ? t Goodfarm'laad in Bichardsoa cosk ty brinae about $lv per acre. - September 27, 28 and 29 are the dates for holding the Hayes county fair. The new Y. M. C. A. building at .Beatrice will be dedicated About Oct 15. The canning factory at Blair closed down after preparing l.u,0 cans of : corn 'for market " E. W. Masters was in Plattsmouth searching for his wife, who hadmys ;teriously disappeared. -" The new Congregational church at Stanton was dedicated last Sunday. ;The structure' cost Staft. Jack Welch of Tiiden has thirty-five acres of potatoes, from which he ex pects to harvest 4,000 bushels. x , Six thousand square feet "of brick and cement walks have just been com pleted in the business part of Edgar. It is now unlawful to expectorate up on the sidewalks, on the stairs, or with in any public building in Edgar. The principal of the public school at Hayes Center is paid $60. per month, which is better than $80 in the cities. . Threshing in Franklin county reveals a much larger yield of small grain than was expected. Stand up for Nebraska. Richard Blaco of Washington county was thrown from a horse, receiving in Juries that it is feared will prove fatal Two stock trains were In collision near Dhitman, ln; which a brakemaa and two stockmen were seriously in jured. The republican senatorial convention for Hall and Howard counties has bees called to take place on Tuesday, Oc tober 2. A Mr. Cobledick of Republican City was paid $10 for riding a bucking bron cho at Ragan. Other men on several occasions had tried and failed. Three families who emigrated from Boone county to California last spring have returned to their first love. They have had all they want of California. Frank Kinzer of Loretto. Boone coun ty, was taken sick in the morning with acute gastritis and died before night A wife, four daughters and two sons survive. Two old soldiers living in the north ern part of the state died after return ing home from the Minneapolis en campment. The strain was too much for them. Lynch, one of the new villages of Boyd county, reports an attendance of '229 the opening day of school. It is ex pected that the number will be in creased to 250. Beet raisers near Wood River in Hall county are preparing to dig their crop. The beets this year are fine and the crop will bring some raisers as high as $100 per acre. The attendance in the Holdrege pub lic schools is larger this year than ever before. The total enrollment 13 665, an. increase over last year of 100. The enrollment in the high school is 122. . The recent fire at the Geneva Indus trial School for Girls which did dam age to the amount of about $5,000, was started by a little girl who had been sent to the institution from out in the state. She made confession of the deed. A. telegram from R. A. Templeton, sr., of Tekamah, who was on his way from Wyoming to Omaha with eighteen cars of sheep, states that he was in a wreck on the Burlington near Alliance and had thirteen cars of the sheep killed. s Mayor F. W. Brown of Lincoln an nounces that he will ask the legislature to appropriate funds to aid the town of Lincoln to build boulevards from the city to the State Hospital for the In sane, the penitentiary and the state fair grounds. This is a part of the mayor's plans for a system of boule vards. When horses, cows, hogs or other do mestic animals are condemned by the state veterinarian because of disease, they must be killed and disposition made of their bodies by the owners. There is no provision in the statute which requires the veterinarian himself to slaughter the beasts or destroy their carcasses. During an electrical storm lightning struck a tree in the yard of J. R. Bate man in West Stella, ran down the tree until even with the house and then. tearing off a shingle, entered the house, going through a kitchen cabinet and crossed the room tearing off a siding board, then following the water spout ing into the ground. Mrs. Joy Bullia-McKie, or Manzanillo. Mex., arrived in Humboldt for a visit with her mother, Mrs. J. A. Murphy. Mrs. McKie has just returned from spending the summer at Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile, and had such a narrow escape from the earthquake disaster, having started for home only a day or two before, the shake occurred. Mark T. Hunter, the only convict at the penitentiary who was a civil war. veteran, is there no longer. Governor Mickey ordered his release after visit ing the penitentiary and talking with Hunter. The real name of the latter is W. F. Dunn. He is 67 years of age. He was sentenced to one year for ob taining $300 by false pretenses from a bank at Decatur, and has served six or seven years of his time. General L. W. Colby of Beatrice has brought suit for $1,000 in the Pawnee county district court as a balance al leged to be .due him for legal services and expenses as attorney in setting aside the will of Nels Isaac, deceased. J. H. Matzutani, a Japanese of Lex- .ington, is making arrangements to rent several hundred -acres of land in Daw son county on which he intends to grow sugar beets on a large scale and use his fellow countrymen to tend the crop. He has an interest in several hundred acres of beets grown near Lex ington this year. Mrs. Elmer J. Miller, the wife of a blacksmith's helper at the Union Pa cific shops at Grand Island was fatal ly burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene from which she had poured a quantity in the stove to start the breakfast fire. " The Boyd county land cases, which have been in the courts for a number of years, are about to be settled by the purchase of the land from the state by the settlers at the appraised value. Land Commissioner Eaton, who has just returned from that county, brought back the information. ..Lj.ii"f '. -a i iii'jtfahfi afjir Wi v YOU CANT KEEP A MOD MAN DOWN. I lwW lwl VnnnVMHHHHnwP -MMHuna' V 4 V nv 1 m nwMnwMMn atfflanS'VunL I Xt&&&MA ) rtfnWP4f' I wbmB Jjiwwfim dM) V Enrol 4wislv ywmmfMw4: TOLL OF LIFE HCRHSIIIB TEN THOUSAND NOW REPORTED DEAD AT HONGKONG. Entire Fishing Fleet of 600 Vessels Lost in Typhoon Troops Aid in Clearing Up Wreckage. Hong-Kong. The entire fleet of 600 fishing junks was lost in the typhoon. This increases the mortal ity to 10.000 persons. The losses are estimated at several million dollars. More than 1,000 sam pans and junks are missing from Hong-Kong alone. Wharves were swept away and'houses collapsed. The military barracks are in ruins. Twelve ships were sunk. 24 ,were stranded, seven . were damaged, and one-half of the native craft in port were sunk. The steamers Monteagle. Fatshan. Keungshan. Wing Chal. Hermania, Castellano. Tak Hing. Emma Luyken. San Rosario, Slava. Pakhong, Pet rarch, Chum Lee, Sexto, Sunon. Chang Sha. Signal and Chinkai Maru are ashore. The American ship S. P. Hitchcock was- also driven ashore, as were many of the launches that run about the harbor. The steamers Kwong Chow, San Chewng, Sorsogon and Kongmoen were sunk. The steamer Apenrade and Johanna .'are -partly awash. Practically all the Baluchistan troops and 300 of the West Kent regiment are co-operating in clearing the wreck age of the recent typhoon. Prodigious efforts are being made in. the recovery of dead .bodies, which are being car ried off in cartloads. Constable Mon day., who Is superintending the work, collapsed and has been' removed to a hospital.1 ' As aresult of the typhoon the Royal Dutch Petroleum company's lighter, loaded with oil, while being, pumped out into tanks, was stranded, but was subsequently refloated. The company's pier was damaged to the extent of $30,000. Manager Murray and staff were instrumental in saving the lives of 100 men and women and children, who have been housed, clothed and fed on the company's premises. Shipping has been resumed, but. is hampered by the inadequate supply of steam launches and lighters. The former command $180 and the latter $100 for hire each working day. The Chinese are evincing the most remarkable spontaneity in subscrib ing to relief funds for the typhoon sufferers, A remittance of $10,000 has been received from the Chinese of San Francisco. " Man Lives in a Treeton. Wrentham, Mass. Charles Bat- tersby has built- a "house" in the tops of two adjoining pine trees on his farm and will spend the winter there. He is 35 years old and is a consump- it Tka "hmion" in nnlntori whlto There is a door and two windows, but the latter will be closed only to pre vent .snow from entering.1 'Access, Jo the treetop is had by means of a rope ladder, which, Robinson urusoe-iiKe, Battersby will pull up at night Government Buying Silver. Washington. The director of the mint Wednesday purchased 200,000 ounces of fine silver, one-half for the Denver and one-half for the New Orleans mints, at 68.35 cents per ounce. Missouri National Bank Closed. Washington. The Bates National bank, of Butler, Mo., was closed Thurs day by action of the board of ,direc: tors, for the purpose of going Into liquidation. Mr. W. J. Butler has been appointed receiver. Normal: School Burned. i , Stanberry. Mo. The normal j school was destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. Two hundred students attended the college, but only the president s ram ily lived in it and they escaped unin jured. , p i Bad Fire in Buenos Ayres. Buenos Ayres. Customs dock No. 4 has been destroyed oy fire. The damage is estimated at several mil lion paper dollars. The shipping is safe. The Argentina paper dollar is worth about 42 cents. Named for Congress. Toledo, O. Elmer G. McClelland, of Wood county, was nominated for sBngressman on the thirty-ninth bal lot at the Ninth district Republican convention here over James H. South ard, the present incumbent --sjMiVMTni"if---''i'"i7r r-gpy--jin 'S ir DEATH L.IST STILL UNKNOWN Cimarron River Keeps the Secret of Its Victims. Kingfisher, Okla. The number of lives lost Tuesday when a Rock Island passenger train went through a bridge over the Cimarron river, is not yet revealed and proba bly never will be. Workmen have been busy replac ing the destroyed bridge. The smok er, engine, baggage and mail cars are still hidden under the waters of the river, although the stream has fallen several feet All work at the scene of the Rock Island wreck at Dover bridge has been suspended. The rescue party has lost all trace of the location of the two coaches in the river. Both are thought to be entirely embedded in sand. Most of the injured have gone to their homes. Three persons are still missing Mail Clerk Gamble, Circus man Littlefield and negro porter Doug las and are undoubtedly drowned. These, with the death of a little boy named Zells, of Payne, O., from in juries, make the death list four. DOUBLE MISSOURI TRAGEDIES They Cause Loss of Three Lives at Excelsior Springs. Excelsior springs, Mo. Three lives were sacrificed in two tragedies which occurred here. Domestic trouble caused Jerome Curry, manager of the Central Sash and Door company, of Topeka, Kan., to shoot and kill his wife end then kill himself. At almost the same hour James Farley, a con tractor, aged 40 years, of this city, walked into a drug store and poured out a cup of carbolic acid from a five gallon bottle and drank it The Curry tragedy occurred on a bridge leading to one of the springs. Mrs. Curry, who was 53 years old, has been here since August 25. Her husband came last night They ap peared to be on good terms until they started for a walk to-day when a quarrel ensued. Mrs. Curry suddenly started to run when her husband fired at her three times. As she fell, he fired a bullet through his own brain. He was 55 years old. Farley was despondent over the re cent death of his wife. TO NEGOTIATE NEW TREATY. Convention Between United States and Santo Domingo. Washington. A new treaty with Santo Domingo probably will be negotiated. By the terms of the pro posed convention, the United States will not act as the fiscal agent of San to Domingo in full capacity; that is, ii will not act as paymaster of Santo Domingo in, the liquidation of that country's indebtedness. The bond issue plan, suggested by Frederico Velasquez, the minister of foreign affairs and commerce of San to Domingo, meets with the approval of the officials of the state .depart ment Out of this will grow the ne gotiations for the new treaty. Two Die in Wreck Pulaski, Wis. A work train on the new line of the Northwestern road ran into a workmen's sleeper car here, killing Ed Ware and George Madden, of Pittsburg, and injuring 14 others. Prelate's Body Is Washed Up. Oran, Algeria. The body of a man believed to be the bishop of San Pab lo of Brazil, who was lost in the wreck of the Italian steamer Slrio on Kormigos island, Spain, August 4, has been washed up on the coast here. Death of Millionaire Banker. Akron, O. Henry Robinson, a wide ly known banker and manufacturer, died of heart disease. He leaves a fortune estimated' at over a million dollars represented by interests in many business institutions. Bank Cashier Missing. Sedan, Kan. O. B. Stollard, cash ier of the People's State bank of Sedan, with deposits of $75,000, dis appeared, leaving a note saying he was a defaulter and had fled. The safe it time-locked and the amount of money missing is not known. Will Meet in Minneapolis. Atlanta, Ga The National Dental associatiott elected its officers for the coming year and selected .Minneapolis and July 30, 1907, as the place and time for the next meeting. : .gag.'" vi''-f i3j&latoe..- - - 3iv .Mi ? TONS OF DYNAMITE BLOWN; UP 1 T AT JELLICO, TENN. TWELVE PER8ON8 KILLED Property Estimated, at $jSSSjSM ef Two Men Re sults in the Awful Die- Jellico, Tenn. Twelve deaths, the Injuring of scores of other persons and $5fM0S damage to property were caused here Friday when a carload of dynamite standing on a track near the Southern depot exploded with a report that was heard for 29 miles. There is a bare possibility that oth er bodies may be recovered from the ruins of buildings, but this is hardly probable. Buildings were shattered in the business section of the town and nearly every piece of glass within a radius of one mile of .the scene was broken. The explosion occurred at eight o'clock Friday morning. The freight car, belonging to the Pennsylvania railroad lines, contained 450 boxes, about 20,000 pounds, of high explo sixes consigned to the Rand Powder company, at Clearfield, Tenn. Near the scene of the explosion there was ruin and wild panic. Men shrieked and groaned as they died. Buildings tumbled to the ground, and a large part of the business district of the city was reduced to a pile of rubbish. From beneath the wreckage men and women, maimed and bleed ing, struggled into the streets and fled at a mad pace, without stopping to ascertain the nature of the disas ter. Two causes are assigned for the ex plosion. One is that three parties were shooting at a mark on the car and that a bullet entered the car and caused the explosion. The other is that while the car was standing on a side track a carload of pig iron was switched against it and that, the im pact .caused the explosion.- t Without exception every business house in the town is .either totally wrecked or badly damaged. The union depot of the Southern railway and the Louisville 9c Nashville rail road, located; about one hundred yards from the. scene of the explosion, was shattered to splinters. This cut off all telegraphic communication and news of the explosion was handled by telephone. The explosion occurred upon the Kentucky side of Jellico, and in consequence every house on that side of the town is wrecked. Not one was spared. A large number of resi dences located near the railroad on the Kentucky side were without ex ception demolished. As a result it is estimated that one-seventh of the pop ulation of the two Jeilicos is home less. The line between Tennessee and Kentucky runs through the town of Jellico. The explosion occurred on the, Kentucky side, but owing to the interruption of wire communication, the dispatch telling of the accident was sent from Jellico, Tenn. SAGE WILL CASE COMPROMISED. Heirs to Get Double Amount of Their Legacies. New York. The will of Russell Sage was presented to the sur rogate Friday, and proved without contest. Counsel for the executor an nounced that Mrs. Sage intends to give to each of Mr. Sage's relatives who are beneficiaries under t!:o will an additional sum equal to the amount of bis or her legacy, provided there is no contest. This was accepted as satisfactory by Senator Edgar T. Brackett, of Saratoga, who was in this city preparing to contest the will in behalf of Edson M. Coonrad. of Watervliet, N. Y.. a grandson of one of Mr. Sage's sisters. Under this set tlement Coonrad will receive $12,500, instead of $6,250, and each of the 26 nephews and nieces of Mr. Gage who were to receive $25,000, will be given $50,000. DECLARED GUILTY OF PEONAGE Judge Imposes Prison Terms and Heavy Fines on Defendants. Cape Girardeau, Mo. The jury la the Smith case Friday returned a ver dict of guilty against Charles M. Smith and Charles M. Smith, Jr., and the five tenants of their farms on the eleventh count in the peonage case. Judge Pollock pronounced sentences as follows: Charles M. Smith, three years and six months in the peniten tiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and a fine of $5,000 and costs; Charles M. Smith, Jr., two years in the peniten tiary and a fine of $5,000 and costs; Ben Stone and Ben Fields, each one year and six months and $100 fine; W. Lee Rogers and William Woods, each two years and six months, and $100 fine; Floyd woods, two years and six months and $100 fine. Twelve Known to Be Dead. London. Twelve persons are known to be dead and 17 'were injured in the wreck of the Scotch express on the Great Northern railway at Grantham. It was stated that there are other bodies under the wreck. Thieves Invade Bavarian Mint Munich. The Bavarian mint was robbed of $32,500 in newly coined ten mark pieces. The thieves got into the mint by creeping through a dry underground canal which had been opened for cleaning. Bennington Boiler to Aid Students. Vallejo, Cal. The boiler which ex ploded on board the gunboat Benning ton in San Diego harbor in June. 1905, is to be shipped to' Annapolis for illus trative purposes in the instruction of midshipmen for engineering work. Te War for Sage Millions. New York. A contest for the mil lions of Russell Sage, who died last July, will begin in the local courts Friday. Senator Edgar T. Brackett will file the papers. He will act for several of the Sage relatives. rzXfPiSr - - : r -:-.- -Ofc-.s w .--- .(..- -- V -- ' h r 3 CONGRESSMAN HITT PASSES AWAY INvTHE EAST. " ' hMBJBMJ ePPapBBBJ MH III .Health Hie Long . , Varied Narraganeett Pier. K. Robert Roberts Hltt of died at his sexemer home here, after a long illness. Congressman Hitt came here last June, aad since that time he has been ill, requiring, most of the time, the constant attentiop of nurses and physicians. The congressman's conditioa was due to advancing years. He was 72 years old. , HI health, continuing through two years at least which, for the most part, unfitted him for his congression al duties, had afflicted Representative Hltt so that his demise was not alto gether unexpected. la fact, the great- Robert R. Hitt, er part of the work of the important committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives, of which Mr. Hitt was chairman during the entire last session of the last congress, was discharged first by Representative Robert Adams, of Pennsylvania, up to the time of his tragic death last spring, and afterwards by Representa tive Cousins, of Iowa; Charles Landis, of Indiana, and Perkins, of New York. Mr. Hitt's career was a varied one. embracing newspaper work, diplomacy and legislation. As a young man he was intimately associated with, Abra ham Lincoln, and as an expert stenog rapher reported many of that states man's utterances in the great joint campaign with Stephen A. Douglas, as a representative of a Chicago news paper. His diplomatic career began in. 1874 as secretary of legation to Paris, and in 1881 he went to Wash inton as assistant secretary of state. The year following he was elected tc the Forty-seventh congress from the Thirteenth Illinois district, and he was serving his thirteenth continuous term at the time of his death. SAVES OWN LIFE; IS FINED. Connecticut Man Punished for Killing Adder on Sabbath Day. New York. A Danbury (Conn.) dispatch gives an example of the workings of the Connecticut blue laws. Peter Zarcone, 18 years of age, while walking through a swamp on his father's farm Sunday was attacked by an adder. He had a shotgun with him and shot and killed the reptile. A policeman heard the report of the gun and arrested the young farmer. When Zarcone was arraigned before Judge Scott he was fined $10 and costs. The judge said that he bad no doubt from the nature of the evidence beforehim that the prisoner had used h'is gun only to protect himself against the i;nao. but the laws of the state made it a crime even to carry a gun iu tho open air on Sunday and conse quently he had no discretion under the law and was obliged to punish him for carrying his weapon across the farm. The judge arraigned the law severe ly and suggested that it be brought to the attention of the general assem bly for amendment or repeal. LINCOLN CONSPIRATOR IS DEAD Man Who Aided in Plot to Abduct President Passes Away. Baltimore. Md. Samuel Bland Arnold, who confessed that he was a party to the conspiracy to ab duct President Lincoln, which culmin ated in the assassination of the presi dent by John Wilkes Booth, died Fri day at the home of a relative in Waverly, a suburb of this city. He was 72 years of age. Arnold, with three others, was sen tenced in July, 1865. to life imprison ment at the Dry Tortugas. All four were pardoned by President Johnson In 1869. Eight-Hour Law Extended. Oyster Bay. President Roosevelt Wednesday extended the eight hour law to apply to all public work under the supervision of any de partment of the government This or der affects more particularly work on river and harbor improvements. Four Killed in Collision. St Paul, Minn. In a Great North ern railroad rear-end freight collision at Cut Bank, Mont., two stockmen, whose names have not been reported, Roadmaster Dinton and Brakeraan Critchell were killed. Irrigation Project Under Way. Phoenix, Ariz. Supervising Archi tect Hill has laid the corner stone ol the Roosevelt storage dam, an im mense rock weighing six tons. This is the beginning of real construction of the enterprise. Death of Empress Denied. Brussels. The rumored death of Carlotta, widow of Emperor Maximil ian, is without foundation. Although she has made no improvement mental ly, her health otherwise is excel lent Member of Dental Board Dead. Streator, 111. Dr. Charles R. Taylor, member of the state board of dental examiners and one of the most prom inent members of the profession in Illinois, died at his home Thursday morning from typhoid fever. r v N IPJ WvtJPIlB2 newt VdBMnVw UjfavM anWmWBWBWBWBWJKUUUBnUWJ iMBBBBBBBBBBBBKBBMBBJBJ A WAR OF RACES ATLANTA, OEOR4MA, M IN THE HANDS OF TROOPS. ouiawiitnESEmKME TheTrmwIe nwenlm Owt SsJurdey vrJwwwi eanW JpNB"Ji wBJtfBBwBfP PV Heura Prsmd UleUrs Are New Suardim the CJty. ATLANTA, Oa. A Jpce war of alarming pronortieaar heawa here Sat urday night Through the aisht- it night Through the raged with varyina; vigor, morning dawned it found a negroes and eae white score of both races downtown streets la eight companies of the Fifth Georgia infantry with a battery of Mght artil lery in reserve. Through the day little of importance occurred. The police claimed, with the aid of the military, to have the situation under control. This condition came as the resuk of numerous aad repeated assaults or attempted assaults upon white women by negroes. The last of aa evea doc ea of such assaults within the limits of Fulton county within the last alne weeks came Friday, whea four at tempts at assault were reported. The usual Saturday night crowds were largely increased by men and hoys who thronged the downtown streets. There was no leader aad no overt act until late in the evening. About 10 o'clock a negro man shoved a white woman from the sidewalk on Whitehall street, in the center of town. Almost simultaneously a negro woman made an insulting remark to a white man on an ad joining street aad head ministered what he considered due punishment From this start the excited crowd, which had become a mob, begaa its work of destruction. Five thousand men and boys thronged the downtown streets looking for negroes. News that a riot had started brought thousands more from their homes in the suburbs aad residence districts, until fully 10, 000 men thronged the downtown sec tion. They made attacks oa the in coming street cars. Each car was scanned for negroes. The trolleys were pulled from the wires, aad in the semi-darkness of the ualighted cars negroes were beaten, cat aad. stamped upon in an unreasoning mad frenzy. If a negro ventured resistance or remonstrated it meaat practically sure death. One car half lied with ne groes approached from aa outside run. The mob dashed for the car. Resist ance was made by the negroes, who had not been apprised of the trouble. Three negroes lay dead oa the floor of the car whea it was permitted to move oa, and two more .were beaten into unconsciousness. When the crowd seemed to be get ting beyond control, at about 10 o'clock. Mayor Woodward mounted ? car platform on Peachtree and Mari etta streets and urged the crowd tc disperse, declaring that the assaults of the white women would be adequately and promptly punished by due process of law. ATLANTA With sixteen companies of infantry, one battery of light artil lery and one squadron of cavalry un der Colonel Anderson, the Georgia state militia and the entire city police force still guarding the city, At lanta Sunday morning is comparative ly quiet. The negro trouble, while breaking out in several sections dur ing Saturday night, is now almost en tirely abated. THREE BILLIONS OF TRADE. Record for Past Year a New Mark in History of United States. WASHINGTON The foreign com merce of the United States has cross ed the $3,000,000,000 line. In the twelve months ending with August the imports were $1,254,399,735 and the ex ports $1,759,417,88. a total for the twelve months of $3,013,817,633. These figures are supplied by the bureau of statistics of the department of com merce and labor in a bulletin. Recount of Denver Ballots. DENVER The recount of ballots cast in the recent election on the fran chises sought by the Denver Gas and Electric company and the Denver Tramway company was completed Saturday. The investigation showed that there was no fraud in the ballots themselves, but that in computing the total some errors were made by elec tion officials resulting in a loss of 115 to the gas company and 71 to the tram way company. Fight With Rebels Impende. WASHINGTON According to infor mation which has reached Washington from San Domingo, a battle between the government troops and the rebel forces is imminent and the forthcom ing engagement is expected to be a decisive one. The contending forces are assembling in the vicinity of Mon te Christo, where the battle is expect ed to be fought. Sunday Cleeinf Trouble. PARIS The employes of several stores Sunday made a demonstration against the opening of the houses in which they worked In disobedience of the weekly rest day law, and during the course of a scuffle outside a large establishment in the Rue Meniimon tant Its proprietor. M. Le Pretre, dropped dead from excitement After this the Store Employes' anioa met at the labor exchange and resolved to cease all manifestations and to sign a letter of regret at the death of M. Le ' Pretre. Sultan Has Faltal Malady. PARIS The Temps sava it kr from aa absolutely uaauestioMhi aonrce that the ltt Mwih.u. - medical advisers of the sultan of Tur- acj auiuiuueu ihw iacc luat Abdul Hamid was suffering from cancer of the kidney. Postal Operators te Strike. CHICAGO Operators in the ChiM. go ofllce of the Postal Telegraph com pany at a meeting voted to strike to enforce demands for Increased wages aaa improved woman; coadRieaa; 5C. y- r?V i&v -t-a . . ,. ?& . aad when number of ma eeae, a jnssieainn of fc . t