Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 8, 1901, Page 2

The Herald--Review. By BE. C. KILEY, GRAND RAPIDS, - e — The department ot agriculture in its ennual report gives the amount of money the people of the United States spent in buying flowers at retail in 199 as follows: Roses, $6,000,000; car- $4,000,000; violets, $750,000; 2nthemums, $500,000; miscellan- eous, including lilies, $1,250,000. ESOTA, MID A remarkable burglary has just been committed at the suburban station of Herkulesbad, Buda-Pesth. Three men delivered a coffin, apparently empty, for conveyance to Buda-Pesth, “carriage to pay.” The last train hay- ing gone, it was locked for the night in the station master’s office. Next morning the coffin was found with the lid off, and the office safe had been rifled. The geodetic commission of Switzer- land has undertaken an exact leveling of the whole country by the most scientifie methods. The work has been going on for many years. Each point determined is fully described so that, in its turn, it may serve as a datum point for more detailed work and all the points are referred to one origin—namely, to a monument in Geneva whose altitude above the sea has been fixed. A German expert in the east points out that as time goes on more and more men are required to coerce China into doing the will of another power. The opium war required only 4,000 Europeans, the Anglo-French war against the Chinese 16,000 and 4,800 Indians. The Japanese needed 95,000 men and 115,000 coolies, and to- day we find 90 men-of-war and al- most 150,000 men attempting to com- pel obedience from the giant empire. Most curious are the sewing or tailor birds of India—little yellow thumb. To escape falling a prey to snakes and monkeys the tailor bird picks up a dead leaf and flies up into a high tree, and with a fibre for a thread and its bill for a needle sews the leaf onto a green one hanging from the tree; the sides are sewed up, an opening being left at the top. That a nest is swinging in the tree no snake or monkey or even a man would suspect. In the Hawaiian legislature the na- tive or reactionary element, which calls itself the “Home Rule party,” is in control. Its leaders were opposed to annexation, and some of them have not abandoned the hope of the recall of the ex-queen. Not all the members speak English, and~few of them are familiar with American institutians, They make unreasonable demands upon Governor Dole, and consume much time in personal bickerings. Many radical] measures have been in- troduced, but the only bill enacted during the first half of the session was one appropriating money for the ex- pense of the legislature. Altogether, it is a disappointing beginning; but legis- lative vagaries will be held in check by | the executive, and gradually ‘experi- ence and growth of intelligence will bring improvement. A London scientist is exploring the “color cure” or “chromopathy,” based on the influence on disease or morbid states of the system which different kinds of light waves are presumed to exert. The modus operandi is to allow light to pass to the patient through glasses of different tints. Disease, says the discoverer, “shows a want of har- mony in the system—in other words, a want of color.” The main docirine propounded under the system is that red is a stimulant tint, and should be used where there is lack of vitality, while blue exerts a soothing and seda- tive action. Yellow is “a capital cere- bral stimulant.” But the color curists are not content with the action of light alone. They think that colored rays allowed to play on water endow that fiuid with curative properties, the wa- ter being used externally or for inter- ual administration. Uncle Sam is not only building a big, mew mint in Philadelphia, but he is making it the finest in the world. He is also bringing it wholly up to date; for electricity, and electricity only, will be the power which makes the thousands of wheels go round. Elec- tricity is the password for every appli- ance that knocks for entrance here, and nothing that will not lend itself to the energy of the dynamo can find a resting place. The building is a gi- gantic bunch of electric nerves, and the floors of the many rooms are tatooed with little brass plates, which mark the spots where these vibrating nerves may be tapped to secure the power used in driving the machinery. Every machine in the place will have its own motor attached, thereby rendering its use independent of any other part of the system, making it possible to op- erate the smauest device, both night and day, without moving any other part of the system. An interesting fact brought out by the recent elections in Colorado is the marked tendency of Colorado men to elect women as city treasurers. Mrs. Margaret Robins was unanimously chosen city treasurer of Idaho Springs. At Aspen, Mrs. E. A. Kenney was re- elected to the same office by a large majority. Mrs. Jennie Gale was elect- ed city treasurer at New Castle, Mrs. Emma C, Palmer in Greely, Mrs. Clara A. Clark at Alma, Mrs. Mary Shanks at Ouray, Miss Nellie E. Donahue at Victor and Mrs. A. N, Frownie at Man- to~ Washington Notes. Rural free delivery has come to stay, Says a postoffice official. The Philippine commission has ap- proved the recommendations of Capt. Martin for the establishment of a mod- ern fire department in Manila at an in- | itial expense of $70,000. Fifteen claims are filed Spanish claims commission with the on behalf of the survivors of the Maine disaster | The ag- | and the families of victims. gregate of damages asked is $270,000. Chief Examiner A. R. Servon, of the civil service commission, has left Wash- ington for Honolulu, where he and Civ- il Service Commissioner Rodenberg, who will join him en route to Kansas City, will look into the civil service in Hawaii. Secretary Root has decided that all of the second lieutenants of cavalry who were such on Feb. 2 last, and all second lieutenants of infantry who were such at the date of the organization of the volunteer army in 1899, shall at once be promoted to the rank of first lieutenants. Lieut. H. H. Ward, who has for sev- eral years acted as assistant to Admiral | Crowninshield in the navigation bu- reau has been ordered to inspection duty boats Lawrence and McDonough, with the ultimate purpose of taking com- mand of the former vessel when she is commissioned. Col. Charles R. Greenleaf, surgeon at Manila, has made a report to Surgeon General Sternberg concerning the health conditions in the Philippines. The report is for the month ending with March, 1901, at which time the strength of the army there was men, and the sickness was then 7 per! cent. Any doubt that may have existed as to the right of the United States gov- ernment to send small auxiliary gun- into the Great Lakes for the ing of the naval militia, has been ipated so far as the cases of the Perethea and the Hawk are concerned, by the graceful acquiescence of the Canadian government in the move- ment. Accidental Happenings. An explosion of mine dust near Day- ton, Tenn., caused the death of twenty- one men. ‘The Diamond Jo line steamer Du- puque sank near Burlington. Her pas- sengers were rescued. Two electric cars near Albany, N. Y., collided while racing for a switch. Five people were killed and forty others in- jured. A passenger train on the Big Four ran into a gypsy outfit ‘south of Niles, Mich., killing Ethel Whipple, aged six. } Her brother, Pabst, is dying and the father, Charles Whipple, is badly in- jured. Frank Charles, a bridge builder work- ing on the Great Northern's steel bridge across the Spokane river at Spo- kane, Wash., slipped from a trestle and plunged headlong sixty-five feet to the ground. He was dead when his com- panions reached him. Personal Mention. Miss Ella Proctor Otis, who is now playing in “The Brixton Burglary” at the Herald Square theater, New York, is to become the wife of William Camp, formerly of Chicago. Hewett Green of Louisville who, last | March was appointed secretary of the United States legation at Guatemala, is dead. He had never been able to leave for his post. Herr John Most, the anarchist. has taken to elevating the stage. He made his lurid debut as an actor in a Bowery theater, New York. His engagement will continue as long as the gods ap- prove and the box office statement in- dicates the right tone. Capt. James H. Payne, aged sixty- eight years, died at his home in Kansas City of paralysis. Copt. Payne went to Kansas City when it was a frontier town, made many trips over the Santa eF trail, and established one of the first live stock commission firms there. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has an- nounced to her friends that the wedding of her daughter, Miss Vivian Sartoris, to Archibald Balfour, will take place in A London July 11, at the home of Mrs. Gorden, a sister of the late Mr. Sarto, ris. It will be one of the smartest nuptial events of the London season. Foreign. The crop reports generally give a somewhat gloomy color to the situation. Comments on King Edward’s narrow escape frem death show that Britons entertain a genuine affection for their king. The resignation is gazetted of the Marquis of Headfort as a lieutenant in the British First Life Guards, presum- ably because he married Rosie Boote, the actress. Two hundred Boersshave surrendered at Palachwe, Bechuanaland, and forty- two wagons of men, women and chil- dren have surrendered at Fort Tull, Rhodesia. Queen Ranavaloa of Madagascar has | started for Paris. This is the first visit the French government has permitted her te make since she was exiled to Alsters in 1899. Delegates to the convention of the American section of the Theosophical society in Chicago concluded their work and joined the other members in a meeting addressed by C. W. Leadbeat- er of London. At Willesden, an outlying suburb of Lendon, a man supposed to be suffering from the lightest form of bubonic plague has been discovered. Persons with whom he had come in contact were detained, but have now been re- leased. The patient himself is still un- der observation. Fears are expressed in Vienna that Admiral Birtleff, commander of the Russian Mediterranean squadron, who is now visiting Sofia, is negotiating with the Bulgarian government for the acquisition of Varna as a Russian naval station. This would enable Rus- sia to command Constantinople, Ra ae in connection with the torpedo | Sins and Sinners. Frank Hercy, son of a Methodist cler- gyman, shot and killed Charles Ven- derlyn at Greenfield, N. Y. Herey was drunk and abusing his uncle, James Hercy, an aged cripple, when Vander- lyn interfered. Robert Hislop, a_ thirteen-year-old | boy, was brutally murdered by bur- | glars at his father’s home on Haight street, San Francisco. He was alone in the house and in bed, and the burglars, | fearing, presumably, that he would raise an outcry, killed him. | President Altschensky of the Khar- | koff (Russia) chamber of commerce, committed suicide by allowing a rail- road train to run over him near St. Petersburg. He was a financier of great : influence. His death was due to finan- cial difficulties and will embarrass many institutions. Mrs. Addie Richardson wil} not be tried at St. Joseph, Mo., this week for | the murder of her millionaire husband, Frank Richardson, who was found with a bullet through his brain in the parlor of his home Christmas evening. The prosecution asked a continuance until the September term. | Ramon and Carlos Julia, formerly postmaster and assistant at Jaunadiaz, Porto Rico, who were recently arrested lon the charge of embezzling funds, have been tried and found guilty. Car- | Jos Julia has been sentenced to one year | and one month and Ramon Julia to four months’ hard labor. William Woodhull, a farmer at Laurel, L. I., shot and killed Martha Williamson, a neighbor, and then com- mitted suicide. Just what led to the tragedy has not yet been made clear, but it is said that the woman had been gossiping a good deal about Woodhull and a young lady living at Sayville to whom he was engaged. Frank Siegel, late president of the Siegel-Sanders Commission Company of | Kansas City, in which Frank Rocke- | feller is largely interested, surrendered himself to the county marshal in re- sponse to the warrant charging him with embezzlement, which was sworn out by Receiver Utley Wedge. Siegel is now in the county jail. The prosecution again: D. M. Car- man, Senor Carranza and others ac- cused of trading with Filipino insur- gents, has been abandoned. The mili- tary authorities consider that although | the conviction of a number of Manila merchants would be practically certain were the investigations continued, their prosecution would be inexpedient, as the consequent damages to business would outweigh the good accomplished. Little Madeline Edison, the pretty twelve-year-old daughter of Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of Menlo Park, is | the latest proposed victim of kidnap- | pers. Two weeks ago Mr. Edison re- | | | i ceived a letter in which a demand was made for a very large sum of money, to be placed in a lonely spot in the Orange mountains, but he paid no at- tention to it. Otherwise. Dowie's “Zion” bank has been shut eut of the Chicago clearing house. McGovern knocked out Herrera in the fifth round of a one-sided ring battle. Iowa’s supreme court has decided against the Cherry sisters in a libel suit. Woman suffragists have prepared pe- titions asking for a sixteenth amend- ment. Dun's weekly trade”review gives a cheering outlook, notwithstanding the unsettled condition of labor. Dr. George D. Heron and Miss Carria | Rand were married in accordance with the creed of the new social apostolate. The United Presbyterian general as- sembly in session at Des Moines adopt- ed the judiciary report placing a ban upon all secret societies. Dr. Goodman, son-in-law of J. K. Beckman, a Kansas City millionaire, was enticed into a house and terribly horsewhipped by his father-in-law. The New York Times says a Jewish university with an income of $60,000 a year is to be established in that city. Its projector is Rev. Isador Singer. The eighty-first session of the genera] convention of the New Church Of the { Jerusalem (Swedenborgen) and its aux- iliary bodies was held in New York re- \ cently. . : A party of forty-six Sioux Indians, including six.squaws and three chil- dren, passed through Chicago en route to the East, where they are to take part in an Indian village exhibit during the summer. Buffalo, N. Y., has been selected as the permanent headquarters of the United Switchmen of North America, and the Switchmen’s Journal, now pub- lished at Omaha,. will shortly be re- moved from that city to Buffalo. | Buffalo, N. ¥., has been selected as | the permanent headquarters of the United Switchmen of North America, and the Switchmen’s Journal, now published at Omaha, will shortly be removed from that city to Buffalo. ach of the five dismissed cadets will receive $100 gold per month from the Guayaquil Quito railway. They have given up all hope of reinstatement at ‘West Point. One of them, Shannon of Duluth, has gone home on a visit, Hull House, the noted social reform eenter of Chicago, is to be duplicated in Paris. The institution will be copied in all its parts from the Chicago foun- dation, and one of the apartments wil] be named “Jane Addams’ Hall,” in honor of the moving spirit of Hull House. One of the most interesting exhibits which will be seen at the Buffalo expo- sition within a short time will be that from the Philippines. It left Manila on the steamer Guthrie for San Francisco by way of Hongkong. The exhibit con-, sists of about 100 ®ilipinos from differ- ent parts of the islands. E. H. Lamberson was arrested at St. Joseph after he had stolen a horse and buggy. He committed suicide while on the way to the police station. He was a prominent resident of Wallace, Mo., and the superintendent of the Metho- dist Sunday school at that place. STOP PINE CUTTING UNTIL CONGRESS LEGISLATES ON THE SUBJECT. Tangle of Timber Operations on the Chippewa Reservation Makes the Department at Washington 1: red —Many Complications Arise to De- lay a Final Report on the Sitan- tion—More Than $80,000 Exacted From Operators as Penalties for Violation of Rales, ‘Washington, June 5. — According to the advices which reach the interior department it will be some time be- fore the tangle which has resulted from the timber operations on the Chippewa reservations in Minnesota during the past winter shall be straightened out*‘and a final report made to the department by Capt. Mercer, the agent at Leech Lake. Al- though the operations were concluded nearly two months ago, there have been so many complications in regard to the scaling of logs cut and so many differences arising in regard to action for trespass by the operators on ac- count of the cutting of green timber in violation of the rules governing the work, that it has been impossible for Agent Mercer to complete the examina- tion into the situation and make a final report. Commissioner Jones, said yesterday that his office is not advised as to the Amount of Timber that has been cut, and all that is known on the subject is in the way of very general information. The troubles with the White Earth Indians in re- gard to the measuremen’ ~ the timber cut on their reservation has occupied the attention of Agent Mercer and sev- eral other officials of the Indian service for several weeks, but the prospects now are that the difficulties will be settled. According to the advices of the officials here more than $80,000 has been exacted from the operators on the various reservations as penalties, charged for cutting of green timber un- der the rules for the dead and down timber operations. The results of the experience of the department during the past season makes it highly proba- ble that no more timber operations will be permitted until congress legislates on the subject. AN EXTRA SESSION. Cabinet Will Decide If It Is Neces- : sary. Washington, June 5. — The cabinet meeting to-day will decide whether the president shall call congress in ex- tra session to amend the Spooner act or pass supplementary for the Philip- pines. 2 ‘ This question is absorbing the atten- tion of the lawyers in the cabinet. The president last Friday requested an opinion from the attorney general as to his power in the Philippines under the Spooner act. Secretary Root has since that time been studying the question with the attorney general. These two men have been giving their whole at- tention to the question, and they hope to be abie to. have ready an opinion to- day. The president would prefer not to disarrange the plans of senators and representatives by calling an extra ses- sion ir. midsummer, but the necessities of the case may Compel Him to Do So. ® The Spooner act was modeled after the Jefferson act for the government of Louisiana in 1803. The author of the bill and the members of the senate and house did not contemplate conferring unprecedented powers on the president. The lawyers of the cabinet have been unable to find precedents for an opinion that the grant of power by congress is ample to enable the president or the civil government he establishes in the Philippines to regulate the tariffs be- tween that territory and this country. At the war department it is contend- ed that there is no question as to the president’s military power in the Phil- ippines, and that it is advisable to con- tinue it until congress meets in De- cember. On the other hand, the su- preme court, in the De Lima case, stripped the president of all power to hold territory as for@ign after the ces- sion by the treaty of ypeace. The con- sideration of the questions involved carry the officials in a circle without finding any way out of it except by supplemental legislation from congress fixing the tariffs for the Philippines. as it did for Porto Rico in the Foraker act. “INDEPENDENCE” IS A BEAUTY. Lawson's Yacht Is Given Her First Airing. Boston, June 5. — Another intended cup defender, the pride and hope of Yankeeland, the Independence, was given an airing, nothing more than a jogging to stretch sails and rigging in Massachusetts. bay yesterday, and from what little actual sailing was done the Crowinshield’s yacht certain- ly showed herself to be very speedy, particularly with started sheets. The Independence was just in the wind for two hours and with ler three lower sails she skipped about very lively. She answered her balanced rudder quickly and, in fact, acted most satis- factorily to her master. Capt. Haff, her designer,, Mr. B. B. Crowinshield, and, finally, her owner, Mr. Thomas ‘W. Lawson. who watched her every move from his steam yacht. Her sails were marvels of beauty. especialiy the two headsails which fitted almost to perfection, while the big main sail, one of the largest ever spread by any yacht, gave every indication of being in similar shape. DITIONS IN RUSSIA. Cc Senator Beveridge Begins Wis Inves- tigations in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, June 5—United States Senator Albert J. Beverage of Indiana arrived here yesterday. He was met by Charlemagne Tower, the United States ambassador, Secretary Pierce and Consul General Holloway. ‘he senator at once began an inquiry into Russian industrial conditions and had an interview with M. A. Rothstein, the banker. MOMMOTH COMBI: To Result From the N. P. ment. New York, June 5.—The Press says: One tremendous consoldidation of all the railways operating between the Mississippi river and the Pacific coast promises to result from a settlement of the differences which caused the Northern Pacific corner. The Press Says that it is “able to announce on the highest authority that not only have the differences been settled be- tween the Morgan-Hill faction and the Harriman party regarding the Bur- lington deal and the relations of that road and the Northern Pacific with the Union Pacific, but also that of the St. Paul. the Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago Great Western will be tak- en care of in the great harmonizing scheme of thé! trunk lines of the West. Exact details of the harmony agree- ment are withheld until J. P. Morgan arrives from Europe. He will sail for this country to-morrow. J. J. Hill, who has been his representative in the Northern Pacific conflict and in the practical management of the Morgan- Hill railroads, has remained ‘incom- municado,’ giving to his friends the as- surance that they must ‘wait and see. Facts will tell the tale in good time.’ In Mr. Hill’s simple expression is the whole truth in a nutshell. The agree- ment over the controversy over the control of the Northern Pacific means first, that the road will be under the direction of the Morgan-Hill faction, although the Guehn-Loeb-Harriman- Gould faction, backed by the Rocke- feller and Stillman interests, owns the majority of the common and preferred stock combined, and, further, that the harmony agreement will result in a closer alliance between the great trans- Mississippi ‘railroads which extend from Chicago to the coast and have affiliations to carry American produce to the Far East.” Settle- ATTORNEYS ARKE ED. Prominent Milwaukeeans Charged With Megal Fishing. Oshkosh, Wis., June 5—Deputy Game Warden Stone and State Warden Overbeck had a conference in Oshkosh relative to the arrest of prominent Milwaukee attorneys, viz.: Francis Bloodgood, Jr., W: H. Miller and Geo. P. Miller, charged with catching thirty-three black bass out of season in Lake Nohewabin, Waukesha coun- ty. To add to the sensation caused by the arrest. Bloodgood assaulted Dep- uty Stone following the hearing in Oconcmowoe. Stone has beef on a colored eye, but says Blocdgood got as good as he sent. Owing to the prom- inence of the parties arrested strenu- ous efforts have been made to pre- vent publicity in Milwaukee and have thus far succeeded. The trial of the three attorneys occurs June 11, and Deputy Stone says the evidence against the men is all that is desired. Blood- good is said to be president of the Mil- waukee Rod and Gun club. BIG DEAL IN LUMBER. Tower Lumber Company Verges to the Front. Duluth, June’ 5.—One of the biggest deals of the present year in lumber circles in Northern Minnesota was consummated Saturday when the Tow- er Lumber company bought the entire property of the Tewer Logging Rail- way company, including the railroad equipment, sawmill at Bear Head lake, and 10,000,000 feet of standing The consideration was $225,000. The Tower Lumber company took posses- sion of its newly acquired property yesterday. The deal places the Tower Lumber company in the front rank of the bigger interior lumber manufac- turers of the state. BANK BOOTY FOUND. Mineral Point Suspect Seems Impli- cated in the Find. Mineral Point, Wis., June 5.—Seven thousand dollars were found under a sidewalk near the former boarding place of Stewart Jeileff, held here on a charge of roWbing the First National bank. Two bottles of nitro-glycerine, a bunch of skeleton keys and a letter were also found. All was discovered by citizens who were searching pri- vately. HELENA GOVERNWVENT BUILDING, Chicago Firm's Bid of $205,500 Is the Lowest. Washington, June 5. — Bids were opened at the treasury department for the construction (except heating appa- ratus, electric wiring and conduits) of the United States public building at Helena, Mont. Of the seven bids that of R. A. Griefen of Chicago at $268,500 was the lowest, —— ,» AUBERNDALE MILL FIRE, Loss in a Wisconsin Town Foots Up $7,000, Marshfield, Wis., June 5.—Fire broke out in the R. Connor company’s mill yards at Auburndale and before ex- tinguished a loss was entailed to the company of about $7,000. Aid was asked of this city and Stevens Point, both places responding promptly. BURIED IN A MINE. Two Deaths in the Atlantic at Iron Belt, Wis. Tron Belt, Wis., June 5. — John La- mont and Andrew Somzak were bur- fed beneath a large fall of ground at the Auantic mine. Lamont, after be- ing buried eleven hours, was taken out alive, but died an hour later. Somzak was dead when found. PR REEW SOr ERE Oeat ‘THREE WOMEN KILLED. Ursuline Convent the-Rhine Demo : re. London, June 5.—The Ursuline con- vent, at Boppard-on-the-Rhine, was ‘demolished by fire and three women were killed. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. Fatal Wreck of an Electric Train in ‘6 France, Lyons, France, June 5. — Four per- sons were killed and fifty-three seri- ously injured by the wrecking of an electric train which got beyond control, and dashed down the incline. Dubuque, Iowa, June 5.—James Max- well, aged. eighty-one, while driving across the Illinois Central track was struck by a freight train and killed in- stantly. The body was_ horribly mangled. The horse was killed, pine. ‘band, Ottie, aged 42, at FIVE MEN LYNCHED! SUSPECTED OF PETTY STEALING- FOR SOME TIME. Taken From the Guards and Hangeé@- to a Bridge—Mob of About Fifty: People Participate in the Lyneh- ing—Ropes Placed Around Theiz- Necks and the Prisoners Dragged’ to the Bridge — One Prisoner: Makes Stout Resistance and Is- Hanged Before the Bridge Is- Reached, Biebier, Cal., June 2. — Details have been received here of the lynching of five men at Lookout, Modoc county, early yesterday morning. The lynched were Calvin Hall, 72 years of’ age, his three half-breed sons, Frank, James and Martin, aged respectively 26, 19 and 16, and B. D. Yantis, aged 27. As reported here the men lynched had been suspected of petty stealing for some time. Last Saturday they were arrested for stealing barb wire, pieces of harness and some hay forks, A search warrant was issued and the hay forks found in the house of Hall and Yantis, who were taken into cus~ tody and brought to Lookout, where they were being held awaiting exam- ination and trial. Sunday and several days following other searches were in- stituted and halters, dishes and table linen which had been taken from clothes lines were found hidden on the premises of the suspects. The charge against the elder Hall was petty lar- ceny for stealing the forks, hence he was released on his own recognizance, His trial was to have taken place yes- terday morning. The charges against the cthers was burglary and their ex- aminations had been set for June 3. They ‘ Were Held in Custody as they were unable to furnish bail. Pending their examination they were being guarded in the Lookout hotel by Constable Carpenter, assisted by B. Nichols, J. W. Brown and S. Goyette. The two former stood guard till mid- night and the two latter took their places after midnight. Calvin Hall was stopping at the hotel so as to be near his sons. Yesterday morning about 2° o'clock a mob, estimated at from thirty to fifty people, suddenly appeared at the hotel and pointing their guns at the two officers on guard, commanded them to remain silent while they secured the five prisoners, placed ropes around their necks and dragged them toward’ the bridge which crossed Pitt rivers They compeled the two guards to ac- company them. Frank Hall, it is re- ported, made such strong resistence that the mob hanged him before it got’ to the main bridge, under a small’ bridge crossing a deep slough. The others were taken to.the main bridge and Calvin Hall, the father, was hanged on the north side and Yantis- and the other Hall boys were hanged on the south side of the bridge. AS soon as the lynching was discovered’ word was telegraphed to the district, attorney and sheriff at Alturas, and: they, together with the coroner, are now on.the way to the scene of the tragedy to hold an inquest. FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY. Woman~ Kills Her Husband and Daughter and Then Commits Sui- cide. Cincinnati, June 2.—A frightful trag- edy took place at the home of Ottie Hester on Western avenue and Third’ strect, Covington, Ky., last night, and! the bodies of an entire family lie at the morgue in that city. Mrs. Kate Hester, eged 32, after a quarrel with her hus- the supper table, shot and killed him, as well as their three-year-old daughter, after which she put the revolver to her own head and blew out her brains. It is not known what was the cause of the quarrel. A heated argument was heard in the dining room at 7 o'clock and @ few minutes later several shots were heard. After shooting both her hus- band and daughter Mrs. Hester locked the door and shot herself, her body being found beside that of her daugh- ter. KAISER’S GUESTS. Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hen- ry Witness Review at Berlin. Berlin, June 2. — Queen Wilhelmina and her husband. the prince of the Netherlands, witnessed the emperor's review of the Berlin garrison. The queen afterward drove to the royal’ castle with the empress, the emperor riding at the head of the First guards regiment, with the prince of the Neth- erlands on his right hand. On return- ing the procession was met on Unter den Linden by the chief burgomaster, the city officials and a band of twenty- four white-robed maidens. The burgo- master presented an address to Queen Wilhelmina and handed her a bouquet of flowers of the Netherlands colors, red, white and blue. The queen replied with a few words of thanks. COTTON CROP REPORT Shows Large Acreage, but an Un- usually Low Condition. Washington, June.2.—The statistician of the department of agriculture, esti- mates the total area planted in cotton at 27,522,000 acres, an increase of 2,111,- 000 acres, or 8.3 per cent over the acre- age planted last year and of 2,498,000 acres, ors10 per cent over the acreage actually picked. The average condition of the growing crop is $1.5 as compared with §2.5 on June 1 of last year, 85.7 at the corresponding date in 1899 and 86.4, the mean of the June averages of the last ten years. A condition of 81.5 is, with one exception, the lowest June condition in twenty years. Strikers Become Riotous. Corunna, June 2. — Serious disturb- ances have occurred in»Corunna. A number of officials went on strike an@ became mutinous. The gendarmes were called in to disperse the rioters an@ one was killed and ten wounded. Short in His Accounts. ElPaso, Tex., June 2.—It is said that a shortage of nearly $10,000 has been found in the accounts of Cashier Mar- tinéz of the Mexican Central railroad at Torreon, Martinez left Torreon two weeks ago. — ~