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'excursionists -returning from
Canada met death and many others
were injured about 'daylight Sunday
inu fearful head-on collision on the
Concord division of the Boston &
Maine xaUrcad about, four miles west
of Canaan station The injured num
bered nearly thirty, acme of whom, it
is feared, may not survive. At noon
twenty bodies had been taken from
the wreck.
A train of four cars, well filled with
tired and sleepy excursionists, nearly
all of whom 'had been spending the
day at the fair at. Sherbrooke, Que
bec, ICO miles over' the Canadian bor
der to the north, had 'rounded a curve
::l lively speed when the headlight or
r- freight locomotive flashed before the
crr.i cf the engineer. In another In
rtr.at there was a crash and both en
tities were lying together, a mass of
wreckage, in the ditch beside the
track. The baggage car nest to the
passenger locomotive had been driv
en .back into the passenger coach,
telescoping it and crushing 'the lives
out of half a carload of people. At
the same' time nearly every one else
in that car was injured. A few es
caped, but those who were in the
sleeping car in the rear were saved
from death by the more sturdy quali
ties of their car.
The accident occurred at 4:24 a.
jn.. just as .tilt, dawn was showing in
the east. A moment after ifhappen
ed train hands "who had escaped in
jury and passengers in the sleeping
ar were looking upon one of the
worst wrecks ever seen in New
Hampshire. The locomotive lay in a
tangled pile. The baggage car, part
ly derailed, was held nearly upright
by the wreckage of the demolished
coach, one side of which had been
completely ripped off, while the re
mainder was ground to splinters by
the force of the shock. A smoker
behind the day coach stood on the
rails with ends demolished and win
dows broken.' The sleeper was prac
tically undamaged. In the debris of
the passenger .coach lay more dead
and injured than could be estimated
at the moment. At once those who
had -escaped harm saw their task.
The cries and moans of the injured
prompted speedy action. Wounds
were hastily bound up with sheets
torn from the berths and such other
help as could be hastily provided was
given. An hour elapsed before phy
sicians could be brought from Han
over, White River. Junction and Ca
tiaan. The dead were placed beside
the track to await more satisfactory
disposition.
CLEVELAND GOES DRIVING.
Former President Denies the Report
that He is Seriously III.
Princeton, N. J. Former President
Crover Cleveland took his usual car
riage 'ilde Sunday afternoon. ,He was.
out nearly two hours and was accom
panied by a trained nurse. He wan
not driving on Saturday, but was out
on Friday, accompanied only .by, his
coachman. Upon his ' return Mr.
Cleveland was seen by a reporter uf
the Associated Press, and when
asked as to bis. health said he felt
good remaiking: "You cr.u seci how I
feet"
'Newspaper Office Wrecked.
Joplin, Mo. A dynamite explosion
Friday night wrecked the press room
aad composing .room pf the Joplin
News-Herald, an afternoon republican
newspaper which has been conducting
a.crasade against the methods of the
city council and police ..department.
Victims of Russian Revolutions. -St
Petersburg The Slovo pub
lished statistics regarding the revolu
tionary ntovement prepared :by the
noted Russian statistician. Dr. Z. H.
HaakcJL by whom the total., number
of victims of the "dramatic epidemic"
'is placed at 47.020, of whom 19,144
were killed.
Death Penalty for Grafters.
Waterbury, Conn. Representative
George l. Lilley. member of .the
house naval affairs committee, who
has been criticized because of his
outspoken 'attitude on Charleston
htarbor, has written an open letter
in which he says: "If I had the. su
preme law-making power in this coun
try the only crime punishabfe with
death would be that of grafting. Mur
der would receive secondary consid
eration. t . No Resentment in Japan.
Ottawa, Ont A cablegram from
Tokio to Japanese Consul General
Nosse. referring to the oriental riots
at Vancouver, says: "The feeling. In
spite of the character of the disturb
ances being much graver than that
of' San Francisco, is favorable to Can
ada, while greatly regretting that this
-deplorable incident should occur with
in a dominion of the' British empire,
whose ally 'Japan is. the tone of the
" press is calm .and, the public shows
no lexritement All .are depending
upon justice being done.
StMotand-fdr4a Full Term.
Joliet, DL The.pardon board denied
the appHcatiaa J6r pardon nude by,
Paul 0.w8teiudaad(rwho will have to
serve oatahvvfoll term of imprison
ment forloSting the Milwaukee
Aveaae. Savings? bank of Chicago, of
which he was president
ChtaaaevOyif f Plague.
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NEW OCEAN RECORD.
Lvdtanla
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Queanctown.
New York Tfca slaat turbine Lasl
tania of the Caaard Use, cjne into
port Friday oa its auidea voyage with
a aew record of 6 days aad 54 aum
utes between Qaeeaatowa aad New
York. The Lasitanla failed to lower
the hourly apeed average of ,23.68
knots made by the Kaiser Wilhelm II
of the North German Lloyd line,
thoueh it -covered the distance be
tween ports in an average of 23.01
knots, which is a record for maiden
voyages. Captain Watt' said that
when the time' comes for record auk
ing, after its machinery is la thorough
4rder, the Lusitanki will be the em
press, of the seas.
The I.iisitania, the largest ship
afloat, was given a royal welcome on
its arrival here, and it was a contin
ual ovation from the tlae it sped past
the Sandy Hook light vessel and made
its way through the Ambrose chan
nel, the first ocean vessel to., eater
the new fair way, until it was safely
warped into its dock.
The Lncania, also of the Canard
line, and the previous record holder,
which started to pace the Lusitanla
with fifteen minutes advantage at
Queenstown. reached Sandy Hook bar
at 9 o'clock at night, thirteen .hours
behind the new ship. '
The Lusitanla was never pushed to
its top speed during the entire voy
age, according to its officers. It en
countered pleasant weather from port
to port and arrived here almost at the
hour designated by the- directors of
the Cunard line. E. H .Cunard, di
rector of the line, who mpde the trip
over, said: "The engines of the Lusi
tanla worked perfectly and not once
during the entire trip was the ship
slowed down. The Cunard people are
more than satisfied. What this ship
will do in' the future may be judged
from what it has already done. No
ship makes its best time on its maiden
voyage. As to the reports that the
ship was delayed by green stokers I
know nothing. I shall make no sug
gestions for any cbmgein the Mau
tania, the sister ship ol the Lusitanla,
which probably' will make its maiden
voyage in October. We had two days
of intermittent fog and one day partiy
foggy."
Vernon, H. Brown, American repre
sentative of the Cunard line, 'said:
"The Lusitanla burned . considerably
less than 1,000 tons of coal a day in
making 23 knots. The engines worked
perfectly and there was not a hot
bearing during the entire trip. When
going at high speed the screws made
1S5 revolutions a minute."
Census of Oklahoma.
Washington he census bureau an
nounced that- the total population of
the territories of Oklahoma and In
dian territory as made public last
night (C.408.732, with four districts un
reported), is an increase of 78 per
cent over 1900 and that the aggre
gate population is larger than any
state at the time of admission to the
union. West Virginia was the next
largest.
Johnson not Candidate. .f
St. Paul, Minn. "I am not a presi
dential candidate, and I do not intend
to 'become one." This was the em
phatic' declaration made by Governor
Johnson to a party of prominent Ne
braskans who came to present three
invitations to Governor Johtnson to
speak in Nebraska. The governor
declined all three.
WELLMAN GIVES UP FLIGHT.
Airship Suffered Accident in Test Re
cently Made.
Trondhjem, Norway Walter Well
man, the head of the Wellman Chi
cago Record-Herald expedition, ar
rived at Tromsoe on board the Frith
jof from Spitsbergen on-his way home.
He announced that he had definitely
abandoned for this year, after a dis
astrous trial of his airship, the pro
posed attempt to reach the north pole.
The airship made an ascent Septem
ber 2 in a strong northwesterly wind,
which drove it southeastwards over
the land. It. was found necessary to
cut the balloon adrift from the other
parts of the' airship, but it was recov
ered after two dars search.
LOST EARTHQUAKE IS FOUND.
Disturbance Early in September
Be-
lieved to Be the One.
New York The earthquake report
ed to have occurred In the Aleutian
islands on September 1 and 2, news
of which has reached Seattle through
an officer of the revenue cutter Rush,
is believed to be the "lost earthquake"
recorded early in the month on the
seismograph at Washington, in Eng
land and at Ottawa. The Washing
ton experts at the time figured that
it had occurred about 6,300 miles
from Washington, and from the data
which the instrument furnished them
believed that 1 twas in the region of
Alaska. '
Grand Army Ends Session. '
Saratoga, N. Y. Veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic, who
have been' attending the forty-first an
nual encampment of the. organization
concluded 'their business Friday and
adjourned until 1908. Installation of
the officers, elected, .adoption of "sev
eral recommendations from the com
mittee on resolutions and Commander-in-Chief
Burton's announce
ment of appointive officers, took up
the time of the veterans. .The offi
cers were installed by, Robert B.
Brown of Philadelphia.
Booth l on His Way Over.
London Men and women wearing
uniforms of the Salvation Army filled1
Euston railroad station, a large party
having assembled to bid farewell to
General Booth, who left London "for
Liverpool, where he will embark on
the Allan line steamer Virginian for
Quebec, la which city the veteran com
mander will begin a campaign which
is to extend over Canada and the.
United States. The "seventy-eight
years yoaagaeaeraL'as he describes
huaself. appeared .'to he as-hearty as
possible coaatderlag ate age.,. ,
JAPS IN VANCOUVER
ANTI-AtfATIC DEMONSTRATIONS
BECOME MENACING.
THETARE JUIIHilB THEM SELVES
Special Policeman Sworn In, and
May Be Necessary to Call Out
. thev Militia.
It
Vancouver, B. C There is re
newed application of further aati
Aslatlc rioting here and all awraiag
Japanese and Chinese crowded the lo
cal gun shops to buy firearms aad
ammunition. They declare they will
defend their lives aad property la
case the oriental quarter Is again at
tacked. It is feared that there wfll be
bloodshed, for the Japanese aad Chi
nese -are thoroughly aroused aad -are
convinced that the police, are power
less to protect them. Shortly before
noon the police notified the gun
stores to cease selling firearms to
anyone until such time as all possi
bility of further outbreaks had passed.
Before the order had been issued
several hundreds of Chinese and' Jap
anese had armed 'themselves.
Special policemen were sworn in
and there Is talk of calling out the
militia. There Is little doubt that this
will be done In case the rioting is re
newed. Feelim all over the city runs
high and" another attack is likely to
occur at any time. So far there have
been no fatalities, although several
injured in Saturday night's riot are
in a serious condition. Twenty-six
rioters were arraigned Monday and
were held for further examination.
The oriental quarter shows the ef
fect of the riots of Saturday night
Not a window in the fifty or more
stores and other pJaces of business
conducted by Japanese and Chinese
remains and costly stocks of goods
are badly damaged. It is said that ar
rangements are being made to de
mand heavy indemnity from the city,
but it is reported that Mayor Bohuno
has said that not one cent of indem
nity will be paid. The matter will
finally be taken to the Dominion gov
ernment. The Japanese counsel here
and Baron Ishii, director of commerce
and trade of the Japanese foreign of
fice, who is in the city, have commun
icated the facts to the Japanese gov
ernment Baron Ishii also is reported to havo
cabled a report of the riot to Ambas
sador Komura in London with a re
quest that he take the matter up with
the British government. In his dis
patches Baron Ishii states that the
police force has done its best to pre
serve order, but that it is unable to
cope with the mobs. Telegrams also
have been sent to . Japanese Consul
General Noss at Montreal, who will
lay the matter before Sir "Wilfrid
Laurier, the premier.
NEGRO BESTS WHITE MAN.
Britt Breaks His Arm and Lrses the
Fight
San Francisco, Cal. A left swing
to the body, cleverly blocked by Joe
Gans, cost Jimmy Britt any chance
he might have bad to win the light
weight championship, of the world
Monday and brought to a close five
rounds of fast fighting, witnessed by
a crowd of about 14,000 people at Rec
reation park. The blow caught by
Gans on his elbow was struck m the
middle of the fourth round. It broke
Britt's wrist, and though he went on
again in the fifth round he was help
less in both offense and defense. It
was not until this round that he in
formed his seconds of the mishap.
WELLMAN MAY POSTPONE TRIP.
Wind, Fog and Snow Delay Start of
Arctiic Airship Flight.
Tromsoe. Norway According to
Captain Isachen, .in command of the
Norwegian Artie expedition which ar
rived here Monday, from the north.
Walter Wellman and his party of the
.Chicago' Reord-Herald expedition will
probably return at the end yof the
present month, abandoning their
plans tp attempt j to reach the pole In
an airship for toe present year. No
start had been attempted up to Au
gust 26." i
Duel Results From Speech.
Buenos , Ayres Deputy Antonio
Pinero has been challenged by Sen
ator Benito Villanueva, president of
the senate,' to fight a duel. Pinero,
in the chamber, made the charge that
the revolutions in the provinces were
fostered by certain senators, anions
them the president of the senate.
Chinese Will Investigate.
Peking The throne appointed
Tashou, Wang Ta Hsi and Ting.She
Hmei 'to be imperial commissioners
with instructions separately to "visit
Japan, Great jJritain and Germany for
the purpose of examining and report
ing on the constitutional systems cf
those 'countries.
ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE GIVEN.
"Nw York A special from 'Hono
lulu to the American quotes Con
gressman Longworth, who has just
sailed from that port for San Fran
cisco, as saying:
"President Roosevelt will not be
come a candidate for renomlnatipn
unless r the entire country demands it
He has firmly made up his mind to
stick to this' course and only a more
widespread demand for him to accept
the nomination will alter his determi-'
nation.
New Ship Making Good Time.
Queenstown Departure of the Cu
nard line steamship Lusitanla from
Daunt Rock .lightship Sunday was at
12:10 p. m. - "The Lucania had pre
ceded it at 11:35 a. m. The passage
vof both' vessels from Liverpool to
Queenstown was uneventful Two hun
dred, passengers were left over hero
In spite of the fact the steamship
ageats had been Instructed to dls
cpatiaae bookings a week ago. Wire
less, reports received, say that- the
LutUanto caught up .with mmA passed
tito'Lucaala during the afternoon.
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BURTON OF MISSOURI CHOSEN
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
Address of Retiring Official, in Which
Praise Is Given to Captain
Palmer cf Nebraska.
Saratoga, N. Y. Charles G. Burton
of Nevada, Mo., was on Thursday
elected 'commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The Women's Relief corps elected
Mrs. Kate E. Jones of New York city
national president.
As a result of the parade two vet
erans died.
The first business session of the
forty-first annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic took
place Thursday. The early hours of
the session were devoted to the aa
nual address and reports of Robert
B. Brown, commander-in-chief; Joseph
M. O'Neall. adjutant general; William
H. Armstrong, senior vice commander-
in-chief; Dr. W. H. Johnson, surgeon
general; "Warren Lee Goss, patriotic
instructor, and other officers.
Commander-in-chief Robert B.
Brown gave a touching tribute to the
wearers of the "little bronze button"
and alluded to the warm place that the
veterans still have in the hearts of the
citizenship of the republic. He said
in part:
"The old Grand Army was great in
war but greater in peace. On this
sacred sou.wnere we are meeting were
fought 'some of the great battles of
the revolution. Not far away our own
loved chieftain fought his last battle
in this life and from the mists ,of
Mount McGregor the great soul of
Ulysses S. Grant went hack to God
who gave to mankind the mightcst
soldier of the ages."
The address then dwells at some
length upon the necessity of enlist
ing every veteran of the union army
of the war of the rebellion into the
ranks of the Grand Army. He deplored
the extent of the suspended lists, and
holds that no member of the Grand
Army should be suspended merely be
cause he Is unable to pay his -dues,
but that the more fortunate members
should cheerfully assist in bearing the
small burden of the dues of less
thrifty comrades.
Memorial day was also dwelt upon
at considerable length and the com
rades are urged to observe it more
lovingly with the passing years. "We
should guard their graves with sa
cred vigilance and let no wanton
foot tread rudely upon the hallowed
ground where they He."
The matter of the .Southern Me
morial fund was dwelt upon with par
ticular reference to the decoration of
the graves of union soldiers in the
national cemeteries of the south. The
Wirz memorial monument matter was
bandied with considerable delicacy
and the essential features of the cor
respondence between 'National Com
mander Brown of the Grand Army and
General Lee of the Confederate, Veter
ans' association was given.
Runyan Gets Seven Years.
New York Chester B. Runyan, pay
ing teller of the Windsor Trust com
pany, who confessed to stealing $100,
000 of the company's funds, was sen
tenced by Judge Whitman in the court
of general sessions to serve seven
years in Sing Sing prison.
BANDIT MAKES HIS ESCAPE.
Eluded Posse Who Had Him Cornered
and Has Made His oetaway.
Lincoln The solitary bandit who
robbed the Manley bank at Manley,
Neb., has eluded his pursuers. The
robber escaped from Manley on horse
back. He deserted the animal three
miles from town and sought conceal
ment in a corn field. Next he stole a
rig near Murdock and abandoned it a
few miles from Ashland.
Withhold Effect cf Strike.
New York The board of directors
of the Western Union Telegraph'com
peny declared the regular quarterly
dividend of IK per cent and adopted '
the resolutions passed by the execu-
tlve committee approving the conduct
. .i, v D-,ur.f r.i,
of the strike by Presldient Clowry.
First Foot Ball Accident
Salina, Kas. Ray Kear, a senior in
the Salina High school, suffered a
broken collar bone here in a practice
game of foot boll.
Taft Starts for Orient
Seattle, Wash. William H. Taft
sailed Thursday on the steamship
Minnesota. The last public appear
ance pf the secretary of war was In a
speech that he made at the meeting
of the State Medical society.
Battleship Kansas Satisfactory.
Washington The battleship Kansas
sister ship .to the Vermont, has just
completed her speed trials, and while
her record is slightly below that of
her sister ship, her record Is entirely
I satisfactory.
LAUGHS LAnV
THE MIIS OF '61 MARCH
TEN THOUSAND PASS IN REVIEW
AT SARATOGA.
Increasing Years Necessitates that the
Line of March Be Confined -to
One Mile.
Saratoga, N. Y. The Grand Army
of the Republic held its parade Wed
nesday its forty-first in memory of
the days of war. Ten thousand vet
erans, the remnant of the once vic
torious army, whose scores of thou
sands passed in review at the national
capital when the war was over, braved
a driving storm to march again be
neath their battle flags. Unmindful
of the stress of the storm, as In the
days of "G1," those that were left
passed in review over a measured
mile through village streets, a distance
suited to their gathering years. For
an hour and more the veterans walked
between lines of cheering people,
keeping step to the bands, which again
and again right cheerily played "How
Dry I Am" and "Walt Till the Sun
Shines. Nellie."
Governor Charles E. Hughes, his
military staff, the national officers of
the Grand Army of the Republic and
distinguished visitors, stood on the re
viewing stand all the while, sheltered
from the driving storm only by a
flimsy covering of cloth, through
checked. It was not a cheerful day
checked. It wa snot a cheerful day
nor a good one for men burdened with I
the weight of years. Many were
forced to drop out of line before the
end of the short journej
"I have never seen anything so in
spiring or so patriotic." said Govenor
Hughes when the last flagging, drip
ping veteran had passed the stand.
"When the serious consequences of
the march through the rain to many
of the veterans are considered, it is
a revelation of the courage and deter
mination of the American people sel
dom seen. It should serve as an in
spiration and an encouragement to
us all. It was splendid, magnificent."
The' business sessions of the en
campment .will begin Thursday. For
mer, 'Judge Charles G. Burton of Ne
vada, Ma, undoubtedly will be elect
ed commander-in-chief.. Toledo, .O..
seems likely to be the next meeting
place. The annual address of Commander-in-Chief
Brown will precede
the election of officers.
Resolutions, it is expected, will be
introduced favoring increasing the
pensions of' veterans' widows to $12
per month; urging congress to repeal
the anti-canteen law and authorizing
the formation of branches of the "pa
triotic, ancient and honorables" a so
ciety created for nonveterans who de
sire to perpetuate the principles and
work of the Grand Army when ita
members shall have died.
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CLARKE GETS NOMINATION.
Omaha Man Has Safe Plurality far
Railroad Commissioner.
Omaha Douglas county gave Henry
T. Clarke, jr., a plurality of nearly
3,000 for railroad commissioner which
secures his nomination beyond a
chance. Returns from the ninety coun
ties of the state have now been se
cured, and unless some glaring mis
take has been made in the figures
Clarke leads Caldwell by 303 on the
final count. The canvass by the state
board Is not likely to change .these
ifignres
Straus Visits Oyster Bay.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. President Roose
velt arranged a luncheon on Tues
day afternoon at which Sec
retary Straus of the Department of
Commerce and Labor; Charles P.
Neil!, commissioner of labor; Law
rence F. Abbott and Ernest Hamlin
Abbott of New York were the guests.
ABDEL AZIZ MAY WIN YET.
Appears to Have More Followers
Than Pretender to Throne.
Paris There are indications that
France and Spain feel that Sultan
.. fc,, i,t tTlfl ,.w
hls brother, Mulal Hafig. Premier
Clemenceau announced that he had
been reliably Informed that Mulai
Hafig's popularity is already on the
wane. The French government as
sumes that the armistice between
General Drude and the Moors has
proved fruitless.
Canada Needs No Assistance.
London Neither the colonial offices
nor the foreign offices have received
official Information respeting the anti
Asiatic riots at Vancouver. Two long
dispatches have been received at the
Japanese embassy from Canada, but
these have not been communicated to
the British government The colonial
office directors say they do not ex
pect any communication from Ottawa
oa the subject and that while the
event la greatly regretted, the impe
rial authorities are sure the nutter
can be amicably settled.
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the Interstate Commerce
four complaints, one cash against the
Chicago 4b Northwestern, the mtooia
Central aad Chicago Great Western
and the Chicago. Milwaukee St
Paul railroads for. dlscriaUaatioa hm
favor of competitors af the cosapUla
ants. The complaints, which are practic
ally Identical, allege that the railroads
named pay to all elevator companies
except the complainant three-quarters
of a cent per hundred.aoaada for the
elevation of grain transported oyer
their lines aad ia addiUoa pay to the
Union Stok Yards company of
Omaha an In-and-out switching
charge of 5 a car, 3 of which Is paid
by the defendant railroads to the Up
dike Elevator company of Omaha, a
competitor of the complainant, la Ilea
of the -three quarters of 'a coat -per
hundred pound elevator charge.
The complainant asks the commis
sion to compel the railroads not to
discriminate against It and to giv
reparation for the losses already sus
tained through discrimination.
SOME ARTICLES 8URPRESSED.
The Hague Takes Action Concerning
v Treatment of Subjects.
The Hague All the articles con
cerning the treatment of subjects of
neutral powers hi the territory of
bellgerents to 'which Germany object
ed at the plenary conference last Sat
urday were suppressed today by the
committee on land warfare, after a
long' and interesting discussion. The
delegate of the grand duchy of Lux
emburg, which according to 'the treaty
of London of 1867. is neutral territory
Introduced a motion, which was unan
imously adopted. The powers urge
their subjects .when they are in terri
tory of belligerents to respect the
laws regarding the observance of neu
trality. TWO-CENT FARE ACT INVALID. x
Philadelphia Common Pleas Court
Rules it Unconstitutional.
Philadelphia Judges Willson and
Andenried in common pleas court de
clared unconstitutional the 2-cent rail
road fare law passed by the last legis
lature. The case upon which the de
cision was made will be at once taken
to the state supreme court.
The 2-cent fare law was enacted by
the legislature as a result of agitation
during the Inst political campaign, all
parties pledging themselves in favor
of such legislation. The railroads, led
by the Pennsylvania and Reading,
made a strong fight against the enact-
( ment. but both branches of the legisla
ture passed the bill with practically an
unanimous vote. The act was to go
into effect October 1.
IN STATE OF SIEGE.
Japanese and Chinese Quarter of Van
couver Resambles an Arsenal.
Vancouver. B. C The Chinese and
Japanese quarters of Vancouver are
practically ia a state of siege. Hun
dreds of revolvers and guns were sold
to the orientals until the police pro
hibited the sale of the firearms. Every
Chinese merchant goes about with an
armed bodyguard and beside the en
trance to every Chinese store stands 1
a Mongolian with a rifle. All the Chi
nese cooks, mill men. laborers and all
the Japanese working In the city and
country within a radius of fifteen miles
from Vancouver have been summoned
to the Oriental quarter and are filling
all the houses in that quarter. Besides
the firearms, knives, stones, bottles
and bricks are In stock ready to repel
any attack of a mob.
BLACK HILLS STOCKMAN FINED.
Found Guilty cf Illegal Grazing on Na
tional Forest Reserve.
Deadwood, S. D. Thomas H. Bale of
Hermosa,'a stockman, convicted of il
legal grazing of cattle in the national
forest reserve of the Black Hills, was
fined $100 by Judge Garland in the
federal court here, and upon its pay
ment Bale was released. Interest at
tached to the case because it was the
first of the kind in this district.
A Fee to Diphtheria.
Columbus, ' O. Announcement of
the discovery of an anti-toxin that
will kill diphtheria germs la living
human organisms within three min-1
utes has been made at the Ohio State
university by Professor Blyde, phy
siological chemist, as the result of an
exhaustive technical and intricate
series of tests.
President to Keep Out.
Oyster Bay President Roosevelt
will take no part in the mayoralty
contest at Cleveland. This was made
plain by Secretary Loeb. He said
that the president, if he spoke at
Cleveland, would have nothing to say
regarding Congressman Burton's can
didacy. Train Robbed of $50,000.
"Tomsk. Siberia The Siberian postal
train- was held up by highwaymen at
r. point thirteen miles from here. They
separated the engine from the freight
car and then seized S50.0CO with which
they escaped.
Assassinated on Street.
St Petersburg M. Borodulln, super
intendent of the Akatui political
prison in Tracs-Baikalia, was assassi
nated by dn unknown person on the
streets of Pakoff, his home village,
where he was spending a vacation.
Deaths from Bubonic Plague.
San Francisco Two more deaths
from bubonic plague occurred Mon
day and three additional cases were
verified. The following are the totals
of the disease to date: Number of
cases, 21; number of deaths, 10.
Countess Louise to Marry.
New York Advices from London
state that the countess of Montlgnoso,
the. divorced wife of the king of
Saxoay. Ia to be married there to
Signer Toselli, the Italian singer.
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cinity at Battle Creek last week.
Mrs. Mary I Adams af LteceJn has
fallen heir to a large estate in Ohio.
Jeaa Hartley Coaas, Irving near
Humboldt, has Just celebrated hhi
ninetieth birthday.
Nearly seventy aoaresldeat aaalla
have applied for admission la the Be
atrice high schools.
At Wahoe-Wend Girgl. a Dob Isa,
about nineteen years of age, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself.
The three banks at David CHy
make a splendid saawlag la their last
quarterly statemeat
The Burlington surveyors who have
been stationed at Pleasant Dale for
the last year, have moved to Mttfard.
vMrs. Jeaa Carmichael. an old real
dent of Beatrice, waa awarded Irst
prise at the state fair oa a silk quilt,
made by her. ,
The Burlington has reduced the pas
senger rate from Plattsmouth to
Omaha to 38 cents, the same as the
Missouri Pacific
Wilber Lewis, the man who had a.
leg torn off at the Friend mill, died
from his injuries. He had a wife and.
three children, at Arlington. -
Some unprincipled person entered
the Presbyterian church in Beatrice
through a back door and stole about
$4 from a jar containing the birthday
offerings.
The new plant of the West Point
Creamery company was. opened for
business last week aid Is kept busy
handling and buying cream from the
local farmers.
The Edgar 'canning factory has
closed down after a run of over two
weeks. The quality of corn was good
considering the dry weather had cut
the crop short.
,T. O. Hern, manager of the Paine
estate, across the river from Ne
braska City, sold 35,000 bushels of
corn to some elevator men for 50
cents per bushel.
J. B. Smith, who operates the Jer
sey dairy farm in Gage county, landed
twelve first, three second and two
third prizes at the state fair with his
fine herd of Jerseys.
Pickpockets worked in Nebraska
City recently and a number of per
sons were relieved of their purses.
One man was robbed at the depot of
$70 as he was boarding the train for
the east and another man was robbed
of a smaller sum, as he came in on
the Missouri Pacific earlier in the
day.
An accident with a fatal ending oc
curred at Bee, Seward county. Pat
rick Gorman, a. bmkeman on the
Northwestern freight, while hanging
onto the train while it was switching
in the yards at that town, was hit
byt a projecting spout of the Updike
Elevator company there and was
knocked down and so injured that
he died.
As a result of Archdeacon Cope's
recent eastern visit, upon invitation
to hold services at Springfield Center,
Utica, Coopertown and other places.
ha received from a wealthy church
woman, Mrs. Pel Clarke, a check for
$5,000, to be used la the erection of
the new church which Is now being
built in Kearney, but Is to be applied
especially to building the chancel.
Sheriff Mears of Wayne county took.
Elmer Mack, who waa under arrest In
Fremont for stealing his father's
team, back to Wayne. The sheriff
says that the boy, who is only 15, la
stead of 19, as he claimed to be, took
a load of grain to market for his
father, sold it and got the money. He
then started south and traded the
heavy farm wagon for a cheap spring
buggy, which he had when he reached
Fremont.
The board of supervisors of Gage
county offer a reward of $50 for the
capture of R. Mead Shumway, the sup
nosed murderer of Mrs. Sarah Martin.
Jacob Martin, husband of the murder
ed woman, informed the county at
torney that he would give- $1,000 re
ward for the arrest and delivery of
Shumway to the proper authorities,
dead or alive. With the state's re
ward of $200, this makes a total re
ward of $1,700.
A queer damage suit has been
started between parties at Blue
Springs. Several months ago John
Henderson ran a rusty nail hi his
foot, and as an act of kindness John
Swiler let him have some turpen
tine to rub on the wound. Later
blood poisoning set In, and several
of Henderson's toes were amputated)
in order to save his life. Henderson
has instituted suit against Swiler for
$5,000 damages.
An effort will be made at HasUnga
to raise the balance of the indebted
ness on the Y. M. C. A. building,
which cost $30,000.
George Joiner, a young man of. Ne
braska City, had a narrow escape
from being electrocuted. He was
playing with another, when' he
grabbed hold of a telephone pole, by
the side of which hung a broken wire
and which was crossed with the elec
tric light wire. He was thrown for
cibly to the ground, aad for some time
it was thought he was fatally injured.
He will, however, recover.
A petition has been filed in the dis
trict court of Otoe county by H. P.
Standley and twenty-six other heirs
of the late Lucy Lloyd, asking for
the sale and division of her estate.
This is the second suit in this es
tate. Wheat crops Bear Harvard have
been exceedingly good. One piece
near the city threshed oat forty-four
bushels per acre far another ton acres
eight miles north of the dry gave-fty-sevea
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