Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 22, 1901, Page 2

The Herald--Review. By E. C. KILEY, MINNESOTA, GHAND RAPIDS, - Tom Murray, a prominent hat mer- chant of Chicago, says: “It is a dis- grace to get rich,” and to avoid the disgrace Mr. Murray will henceforth give half the proceeds of his business to the poor and needy. A French scientist has discovered that plants are very sensitive to poi- son. The higher plants, as well as fungi, enable us to detect the presence of copper, mercury and other toxic substances, which chemical analysis does not detect. What sort of a halo ought an Alas- kan saint to wear? A mission worker thinks that the frost and ice encom- passing the face and head of a mission- ary bishop, when he appeared to make his expected visit at Circle City, con- stituted the kind of a halo appropriate to sainthood in that region. Telephone poles and wires are held, in Krueger vs. Wisconsin Telephone Co. (Wis.), 50 L, R. A. 298, to make an additional burden upon a street, for which compensation must be made to the owners of the land as a condition of such use, and this decision is in ac- cord with the majority of the prece- dents, as shown by the note in 24 L. R. A. 721. The Navy Department at Washing- ton has received a fine oil portrait of R. W. Crowninshield, who was secre- tary of the navy from 1814 to 1818. The portraits of American naval secretaries now are about complete. Secretary Whitney’s portrait has not been ob- tained as yet, however. Acting Sec- retary Hackett recently urged him to add his portrait to the collection. The Philadelphia Academy of Nat- ural Science has been enriched by one of the most curious collections ever known—a collection of locks of hair from the heads of all the presidents of the United States from Washington down to McKinley. These are accu- rately authenticated and neatly ar- ranged in an appropriate case, and in some instances are accompanied by family coats-of-arms. In Hawaii enormous quantities of ducks are raised by the Chinese upon the edges of the ocean. Twice a day, within restricted areas, they are per- mitted to eat the young fish which swim in the inclosed coves. Fish are reported to be growing scarcer every year and by some this diminution is at tributed to the wholesale destruction of the young fry by the Chinese. Although 74 years old, Gideon Haw- ley of Erie, Pa., is still running an en- gine on the Lake Shore railroad. He began railroading in 1846 and has been with the Lake Shore since 1852. A few days ago Hawley was put through a ‘Severe examination, the railroad offi- cials believing that it was about time he should retire. To the surprise of the company not a trace of (G6lor blindness or dim yision or defective yis.g ‘hearing Could be found. F According to a report by United States Consul Grout, a recent experi- ment in wireless telegraphy off the coast of Malta has resulted in the suc- cessful transmission of a message 134 miles. The message was received in an unexpected way. While experi- menting on a ship in the open sea the operators were surprised to receive a message in Italian asking the position of their ship. It was afterward found that the message came from an Italian war vessel at Syracuse. ~ Noiseless baseball, as distinguished from the game played largely with the lungs, may not be so far distant ag it szeems to many despondent lovers of a sportsmanlike game. A graduate publication, representing a well-known college, declares that the adoption of a noiseless game would do more good to that institution than winning the championship. The campaign motto of a baseball nine ought to be, “Give an opponent every opportunity to do his best—and then beat him!” A row- dy may resort to barbaric yells as a means of defeating an antagonist, but a gentleman is bound to refrain from debasing methods of gaining a tri- umph. All shining buttons, buckles and or- maments are to be dispensed with in the new military uniform for German forces. A grayish brown cloth will be used for coat, trousers and cap. War without glitter will be less fascinat- ing as the years go by, and that is well. Nothing ought to disguise its real significance. Only the patriotic sense of duty will make men engage in war when it shall have been stripped of its romance, and when its deadly purpose shall be written in every fea- ture. If there were no men to bury, no bills to pay, war would be a popu- lar resource of excitement seeke: but graves and debts are accompani ments which mock at romantic theo- ries about campaigns and battles. The woman who designed Mrs. Grover Cleveland’s gown for two in- augural balls was sentenced to five days in the New York goal for drunk- enness en Wednesday. She is Mary Culllamore, forty-one years old, known as the “needle woman of the gaol.” In the past year she has spent 273 days in prison for intoxication. During her terms of imprisonment she spends her time in planning party dresses for the wives of the judges who sentence her. Often she comes out of her cell with $100 or more earned in this way. Her friends have given her up as hopeless. Washington Notes. Eighteen provinces have been organ- ized and officered in the Philippines. The United States continues supreme among the coal-producing countries. Frauds in connection with hgmp shipments have been discovered in the Philippines. Officials at Washington deny the re- port that the federal bankruptcy law is being abused. The government crop report shows a decrease in spring wheat acreage of 1,,- 235,000 acres, Treasurer Hollander of Porto Rico re- ports the island revenues sufficient for the island’s maintenance, President McKinley has given out a statement declaring that he would not accept a nomination for a third term. The Illinois proves to be the fastest battleship in the American navy and the fastest of her class in the world. Statistics show that it costs $150 per year to educate, clothe and feed each Indian child in the Indian schools. Representative Eddy’s efforts to have lands on the Red Lake reservation opened for settlement are meeting with favor in Washington. Casualties. Five men were killed and seven were injured in a dynamite explosion on a New York railroad. Seventeen» men dead and seven in- jured was the result of the mine ex- plosion in Pennsylvania. | A railroad wreck occurred near Pre- toria, June 7, in which nine soldiers | were killed and many injured. | A cyclone swept over Oklahoma re- cently, killing several people and doing | much damage to property and crops. A car of dynamie exploded in a col- lision on the Lackawanna, killed six | men and fatally injured three more. Jack Morris of New York, the treas- urer of the Barnum & Bailey show, fell from a railway carriage between Bud- weis and Welleschin, Austria, and was seriously injured. Oliver Crosier and Emil Bergdorf were drowned in Summit lake, near Akron, Ohio. They, with Michael Shay, were crossing the lake in a boat, when Bergerof began to rock it, and the frail craft upset. Fire at Eeverett, Wash., destroyed a lodging house. Edward Kelly, a mo- torman, went into the burning building and found the landlady. Mrs. Flittering, enveloped in flames. He succ2eded in getting her into the street, but she died of her injuries. People Talked About. Edmund Archibald Stuart, earl of Moray, is dead. He was born in 1851. It is said that Yale will confer the degree of LL. D. upon Archbishop Ire- | land of St. Paul. Miss Louise Taylor, sister of Con- gressman Taylor of Ohio, was married to Edward Jones at Youngstown, Ohio. Richard Griffith, one of the best! snown press telegraph operators in the zountry, died at New Orleans. N. B, Carskadon, a prominent Kansas City atorney, dropped dead of heart dis- ease. He was born in Kaser, W. Va., in 1860. Lieut. George R. Bennett of the Ninth United States cavalry has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics at the Iowa State university. J. P. Morgan has determined not to { exhibit publicly his recent art acquisi- tion, the lost and found Gainsborough portrait of the duchess of Devonshire. Pietro Mascagni, the Italian com- poser, has signed a contract for an eight weeks’ tour in the United States with in Italian orchestra, leaving two months hence. According to the Vienna correspondent { of the London Daily Mail the announce- ment of the engagement of Prince Fer- dinand of Bulgaria to Princess Xenia of Montenegro is imminent. Eliza H. Palmer, wife of Eugene B. Palmer, a former Chicago newspaper man, died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Palmer was a daughter of Jude Lysan- jer Houk, and wrote over the pen name of “Snow Houk.” Judge W. P. Beck, an old-time at- torney of Pueblo, Colo., while address- ing the county court in a lawsuit, fell to the floor and shortly became uncon- scious. He was taken home and short~- ly afterward died. W. H. Barris. D. D., first professor of theology in Griswold college, a promi- nent Episcopal clergyman and for forty years curator of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, died at Daven- port, Iowa, aged eighty-three. W. H. Harris, D. D., first professor of theology in Griswold college, a prom- {nent Episcopal clergyman and forty | years curator of the Davenport Acad- smy of Sciences, died in Davenport, lowa, aged eighty-three. | Foreign. A number of deaths from starvation save occurred in Johannesburg, Trans- | vaal. A French railway official says that American-made engines burn too much coal. Ireland's census shows a decrease of 248,204 in the population during the past ten years. | The Cuban constitutional convention | by a vote of 16 to 11 accepts the Platt amendment. Rotterdam, Holland, ship brokers: ad- vertise to accept freight through to Chicago with bulk unbroken. Henry Labouchere was fined £250 for rontempt of court in commencing on a tase which was at the stime still in court. Gen. Pultney’s division has captured a party of Boers, including a brother of Acting President Schalk-Burger, on the Swaziland border. The Stilwell group of American capi- talists have purchased the Pachuca, Zacualtipan & Tampico railroad. The road will be extended from Sandoval, its‘ junction with the Vera Cruz rail- road, to Tampico, making a short line pf only twelve hours between Mexico jy and Northern gulf ports. Sins and Sinners. - A beautiful young girl was assaulted by a deaf mute and probably fatally injured. Two men were killed and‘ two others injured in a street due! in Houtson, Texas. ‘Three men were convicted in Chicago of selling merit board questions to po- lice sergeants, . Richard L. Smith of Madison, Wis., committed suicide because his wife sued for a divorce. A supposedly wealthy New Yorker killed an actress and then committed suicide in a Chicago hotel. The nine-year-old son of William Dawes, near Pana, Ill., shot and killed his infant brother because it cried. A girl student in the Nebraska State university pilfered from the other stu- dents and was sent home in disgrace. A Georgia mob tried to take a negro murderer from the sheriff, and one man was killed and another severely wound- ed. Mrs. Kimberlin, associated with ex- Goy. St. John of Kansas in mining en- terprises in Colorado, committed sui- cide at Colorado Springs. R. W. Burk, wanted at Sioux Cty, was captured at Indianapolis. His Towa, for forgery and embezzlement, downfall was due to gambling. Alijah Heathcote, a Des Moines con- tractor, shot his wife because of jeai- ousy. Heathcéte is now in jail. His victim is at the point of death. R. W. Burke, wanted in Sioux City, Towa, on a charge of forgery and em- bezzlement, is reported to have been arrested in Indianapolis. Lieut. Henry T. Mitchell ef the Forty- first regiment, has been arrested and will be tried by court martial on the charge of embezzlement, at Bacalor, of $277 of public funds, John Gray Foster, brother of the wife of Gov. McMillan of Tennessee, was shot and killed on his plantation, near Shreveport, La., by a negro laborer. A posse is now inpursuit. John Neely, a young farmer near North Vernon, Ind., shot himself at his sweetheart’s home because she would not marry him until fall? He wanted the wedding on July 4. An attempt to blow up a bridge and wreck an express train on the Union Pacific, six miles west of Green River, Wyo., was frustrated by the accidental discovery of 800 pounds of dynamite hidden in a ravine. James Crabtree is under arrest at Cape Fair, Mo., charged with the mur- der of sixteen-year-oid Alice Stallion, his granddaughter. The girl's mother and two uncles are also under arrest for the same crime. Sheriff W. T. Morris, in attempting to arrest two Mexicans about ten miles west of Kennedy, Texas, was shot and mortally wounded by one of them. Mr. Morris then killed the man who shot him and wounded his other assaiiant. The wounded man escaped, but officers are in pursuit. . anasto + ie LP Otherwise, ' 7": A general striks of the Brotherhoo of Railway Trainmen on the Maine Cen tral system has begun. Eight hundre¢ men are affected. The 500 machinists, pipe fitters and helpers who struck at the Depew shop of the ew York Central at Buffalo a few days ago have returned to their work. The proposed races on the north shore between the Shamrock II. and the Con- stitution, the Independence and the Col- umbia for Mr. Lawson’s $1,000 will prob- ably be abandoned. Col. William F. Cody 1s making an effort to locate the proposed national home for indigent Elks at Cody, a new town in the Big Horn basin, Wyo., that has been recently laid out and named after him. Principal Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee normal and industrial in- stitute has been notified by John D. Rockefeller that he will be glad to pro- vide money for the erection of one of the much-needed dormitories for boys at the institution. President Harper of the University of Chicago announces that the university has begun to establish affiliated prepar- atory schools in different parts of Europe. These schools will be branches of academies which are affiliated with the university in this country. News has been received by relatives in Hopkinsville Ky., that Miss Ollie Tyson, a poor Todd county, girl, has fallen heir to great wealth. She has learned through attorneys that she will receive $2,000,000 from the estate of an uncle who died recently in Australia. United States Senator Beveridge, ac- cording to the St. Petersburg corre- spondent of the London Daily Mail, will not find much difficulty in securing from the Russian governmen a concession for a steamship line from the United | States to Vladivostok or Port Arthur. Joseph H. Manley is said to have an- nounced that he is a candidate for the nomination for governor of Maine at the conclusion of Gov. Hill’s term. Mr. Manley declares that he favors a one- year term for the governor and the sup- pression of the whisky traffic. As a result of losses sustained in the Jacksonville fire, the Pacific Fire Insur- ance Company of New York has retired from active business. The company's claims as a result of the Florida fire aggregated $80,000. Its risks have been reinsured with the Westchester Fire In- surance Company of New ork. Mother Amadeus, the mother general of the Sisters of Charity of the diocese of Cleveland, died at the convent in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, aged sixty years. She had been in the con- vent for forty «years. In secular life she was Katherine ONeill, and has sis- ters living in Chicago. , Lhe New York committee of fifteen has decided to diminish its activity in the suppression of gambling houses in New York, and after Juty 1 its prin- cipal energies will be devoted to the ferreting out of evil in tenement houses and the banishment, if possible, of women of bad cnaracter from them. GOPHERS IN FORCE PARTICIPATE IN THE DEDICATION EXERCISES AT BUFFALO EXPOSITION, MANY MINNESOTANS ARE PRESEN State Building Dedicated With Ap- propriate Cere ies —Gov. Van Sant Escorted by the Second Bat- talion of the First Minnesota Regi- ment — Many Editors in Attend- anec—H. P. Hall Algo Prese Buffalo, June 19. — Yesterday was Minnesota day and the Minnesota State building at the Pan-American grounds was dedicated. Gov. Van Sant, with his staff, the Second battalion of the First Minnesota regiment, many mem- bers of the Minnesota Editorial asso- ciation, with their families, and many citizens of that state were present. A light rain was falling, but this did not prevent the crowding of the Temple of Music, where the dedicatory exercises were held. Previous te the Dedication the gov- ernor and his staff, the Minnesota com- missioners and the Minnesota Editorial association met at the Minnesota building and marched under escort of the Minnesota guardsmen and the Six- ty-fifth New York band te the Temple of Music. Gophers flocked from all over the grounds and in a few minutes the building was almost filled, at least 4,000 people witnessing the exercises. The audience rese while the band played “The Star-Spangled Banner.” w. Munro, president of the Minneso- ta Wditorial association, called to order and Rev. A. Meldrum of St. Paul offered praye' W. I. Buchanan, director general of the exposition, welcomed the Minneso- ta people to Buffalo and to the exposi- tion, declaring it a proud moment in the history of the state. Alex McDou- gall, president of the Minnesota board of managers, made the formal presen- tation of the building. Gov. Van Sant made an appropriate response. Mayor} Diehl of Buffalo was a little late, but he extended the freedom of the city and congratulated the state on the showing made by its building, its vis- itors and its troops. H. P. Hall set the audience going with his dry humor. He declared the present occasion the tide which, taken at its fleod, leads on to fortune. He declared the Pan-American exposition the greatest ever given by any city or state. He congratulated Buffalo on the expcsition and on its opportunity of meeting the Minnesota people. Senator Clapp and Congressman Stevens also delivered addresses. After the exercises Gov. Van Sant and the other Minnesotans kept open house and received hundreds of visitors at their state building. RANDOLPH INDICTED. He Is Charged With the Murder of Sullivan at Rainy Lake. Duluth, Minn., June 19.—Sheriff W. C. Tyndall of Itasca county arrived here to claim William Randolph, indicted by the grand jury of Itasca county for murder in the first degree for the shooting of Frank Suliivan at Rainy Lake City last February. The sheriff found Randolph at the train awaiting him. He has been here fof two weeks waiting for the grand jury to report, His health is failing under the strain and anxiety of the uncertainties of a trial. Car Fell 200 Feet. Lead, S. D., June 19.—While the train crew of the Black Hills & Fort Pierre Raliway, company were letting a car load of machinery down to the end of the track the car broke away and started down grade. Before it could be stopped it went over the end of the track and fell 200 feet into the De Smet open-cut. The car and machinery were smashed and completely demol- ished. Supt. Grier immediately tele- graphed for a duplicate order of, the machinery. Wisconsin G. A. R. Sheboygan, Wis., June 19.—The thir- ty-fifth annual encampment of the Wisconsin department, G. A. R., opened here before a good attendance. The encampment will continue two days more. Among those mentioned for next des;artment commander are ex- Gov. Edward Scofield of Oconto, John De Groff of Alma and Col. Copeland of La Crosse.’ Mr. Scofield says he is not a candidate. Steck Killed by Lightning. Hastings, Minn., June 19.—G. B. Man- ners of Nininger had his barn and sta- ble burned by lightning, with three horses and three head of cattle. Mrs, Mary B. Foley of Cottage Grove had five head of young cattle killed in Rich valley. Dominick Conlon lost a valua- ble horse. Suicide or Murder. Houghton, Mich., June 19.—The body of an unknown man about thirty years of age was found floating in Portage lake here. The corpse was bloated, the flesh about the face decomposed and the features unrecognizable. A rope was tied around one leg and a weight attached. Accident at_a Show. Thief River Falls, June 19.—At Ben- nett’s big show Sunday night at about 10 o’clock the seats on one side of the big tent fell down and fully 150 people fell with the wreck. One little girl had her leg broken and several people were slightly bruised in the accident. Camp Meeting Closes. Blue Earth, Minn., June 19. — The eighth annual meeting of the German Evangelical church of this place closed its camp meeting here. Ten ministers were present and the attendance ex- ceeded all previous years. Missing Man Found Dead. Minot, N. D., June 19.—Nels Larson, formerly of Cooperstown, wes found dead near his claim, fifteer. es from Velva. He had been missing «ix weeks. It is supposed to be a cust ci sul- POSTS ARE FILLED. Some Diplomatic men Are An- nounced by President McKiniey.. Washington, June 19.—The following changes in diplomatic posts were an- nounced yesterday: Francis B. Loomis, minister to Ven- ezuela, has been transferred to be min- ister to Portugal, vice John N. Irwin of Iowa, resigned. Herbert W. Bowen of New York, present minister to Persia, has been transferred to Caracas, succeeding Mr. Loomis as minister to Venezuela. Lioyd C. Griscom of Pennsylvania, present first secretary of legation at Constantinople, has been made minis- ter to Persia. Spencer F. Eddy of Illinois, present second secretary at Paris, has been made first secretary at Constantinople, to succeed Mr. Griscom. Arthur Bailley Blanchard of Louis- iana has been promoted from third to second secretary at Paris. By his transfer from Venezuela to Portugal Minister Loomis loses $2,500 a year. He is now on leave in England. His actual rank will be the same, namely, minister extraordinary and envoy plenipotentiary. Herbert W. Bowen, who becomes the new minister to Venezuela, has a most creditable record in the consular and diplomatic service. é Lloyd Griscom has had a short but brilliant careeh as first secretary of legation at Constantinople. Spencer Eddy has had a good deal of experience in diplomatic life. He was appointed third secretary of em- bassy at London in February, 1899. Four months later he was promoted to be second secretary of embassy at Paris, where he has achieved great popularity and discharged a multitude of delicate and difficult tasks during th exposition. Mr. Blanchard, who becomes the sec- ond secretary to the embassy in Paris, has heen in Paris less than a year. He is related to ex-Senator Newton C Blanchard of Louisiana. IDES DETERMINED. BOTH Striking Machinists and Employers | Will Fight It Ont. Chicago, June 19.—‘‘We stay with them to the finish,” is the expression used by officials of the International Association of Machinists and the National Metal Trades association to-day. Both sides are determined to win, and rely upon their powers of endurance to make their declarations good. Officials of the In- ternational Association of Machinists left headquarters to-day on an agreement ex- pedition, and say before the day closes they will have secured enough agree- ments to make the manufacturers trem- ole, while representatives of the Nationa) Trades Association in Chicago say no matter how many of the small firms sign the union agreement they will stand to their guns and beat the union in the end. Not a single member of the union in Chicago, it is said, has returned to work, while some of the members of the Na- tional Metal Trades association have signed the union agreement with its pro- visions for a nine-hour day with an in- 2reased wage scale. The Garden City Fan company and the Charles Elmes En- gineering company, both members of the National Metal Trades association, have recognized the International Association of Machinists, and their men are working ro-day. FIGHT WITH MAD MULLAH. British Inflict Heavy Losses on His Forces. London, June 19.—A dispatch to the foreign office from the consul general of Somilialond says that the Mad Mul- lah expedition had heavy fighting May 28. The flying column of mounted in- fantry under «Capt. Mereweather, struck t 2 Mullah’s supply camp dur- ing a night march and captured 5,000 head of cattle, killed one important chief and captured another, covered 100 miles, fought a sharp action and returned to its base in twenty-four hours. The main force of British _un- der Col. Swayne departed for Elbe June 14, leaving McNeil with 300 men to guard Zarabia. Swayne’s column advanced against’ the Mullah’s base. Mcantime the Mullah, with 3,000 fol- lowers attack Zarabia three times. He was finally driven off by Capt. Mc- Neil with a loss of 500 men. The British in Zarabia had ten men Killed and nine wounded. The Mullah is con- centrating at his base and a decisive engagement is imminent. Fishing Schooner Believed to Have Gone to the Bottom. ‘Tacoma, Wash., June 19—It is almost certain that the fishing schooner White Wings, Capt. Johnson, owned by the Icy Strait Packing company, has gone to the bottom with a crew of thirty somewhere between the north end of Vancouver Island and Moseby island. The schooner sailed from Se- attle just a month ago and has not been reported since. It ordinarily re- quires five days to make the trip up the coast from the sound to the can- nerics. Of the men on the White Wings about half were from Tacoma and the others from Seattle. E AGAINST WHITE: VENGE. Negroes Swenr to Kill All Who Ven- tare Into Their District. Jacksonville, Fla., June 19. — At a negro political meeting in the Sixth ward last night 100 or more negroes swore vengeance against the whites, swearing, it is said, that they would kill any white man who came into the district. They stopped two street cars that were passing and drove the mo- tormen and conductors from their cars. The mob was dispersed by the arrival of the police in force. In the melee preceding the arrival of the police Willie Cook, a young negro, was Se- verely wounded by a pistol ball. —— URES. THROUGH SPACE. PICc'! Ingenious Combination of Teledin- graph and Wireless Telegraphy. New York, June 19. — An ingenius combination of Marconi’s system and the Hummel telediagraph has en- abled scientists here to send pictures through space without the intervention even of a wire as a medium. Pictures were also sent through a brick wall. ‘w. J. Clark, general manager of the United States Electrical company, is conducting the experiments. \ SCRAP AT FUNERAL BESIDE THE GRAVE A PREACHER’ IS CALLED UPON FOR AN APOLOGY. PERSONAL ENCOUNTER AVERTED: Minister Scores Father and Mother~ and Arraignes the Divorce Sys-- tem in Preaching Funeral Sermon’ ‘ of the Son—Brother of the Woman Sees an Insult in the Preacher's Remarks, Kokomo, Ind., June 19.—Standing be- side the grave of his nephew, Otho Jackson placed his hand on the shoul- der of the Rev. E. C. Walk and de- manded that he apologize for a funeral sermon in which Jackson claims the minister insulted his sister. A personal encounter between Jackson and the minister was averted by the interfer- ence of friends of both. The sermon was preached at the grave of the four-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. William Hancock, who have been divorced for some time. When husband and wife separated the boy was taken to his grandfather, where the little fellow died. The Rev. E. C. Walk, whio is pastor of the Harrison Street Christian church, was asked to conduct servi He was familiar with the divorce pro- ceedings leading up to the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, and he said he Could Conduct the Services. Both parents of the boy were present at the funeral, as were many friends of the family. The first utterance from the preacher that drew the attention of eth mourners was the announcement that he would make his remarks from the text, “When my father and mother forsawe me, my Lord will take me up.” With these -vords for a basis, the Rev. Mr. Walk arraigned divorces in unequiv- ocal language. He used no names in his discourse. Otho Jackson, Mrs. Hancock's brother, hastened to the side of the grave and laid his hand on the minister’s shoulder, angrily demanding that he apologize tor insulting his sister, and declaring unless he did not retract and ap he would suffer personal violence. CASUALTIES AT A FIRE. One Man Suffocated to Death and! Another Fatclly Burned. Baltimore, June 19.—Henry L. Line- weaver, aged seventy-seven, was suf- focated to death yesterday while at- tempting to escape from a burning building at 739 West Mulberry street, and Robert Birchett, another old man, lies in the hospital so badly burned that his death is momentarily ex- pected. The fire was caused by the explosion of gasoline which an occu- pant of the first floor of the house was pouring from one receptacie into an- other. A cat knocked a lighted lamp- from a bureau in the second story of a double wooden house near the Balti- more & Ohio railway station at St. Denis, Md., and four-year-old Herman. Kirchener, who was asleep in one of* the rooms, was burned to death. TRACKMEN STRIKE. Over Three Thousand Canadian Pa- cifie Railway Employes Quit Work. ‘ Montreal, June 19.—Officials of the- trackmen’s union announce that be- tween 3,000 and $3,500 of the Canadian: Pacific trackmen struck for an in- crease of wages. The trackmen receive: an average of $1.15 a day and want an increase of from 10 to 20 cents a day, according to locality. They claim that while the Canadian Pacific pretended to increase their wages 5 cents a day, they r had decreased previously the week's wage by 371-2 cents through cutting down track walking, so that the company, with the apparent in- crease, still had the better of the track- men by 271-2 cents a week. The com- pany claims the men are as well paid as on any other road. cost oF A LopbY. Northwestern Railway Files State- ment of Expenses Before the Legis- lature. Madison, Wis., June 19.—The Chicago & Northwestern Railway company has filed with the secretary of State a statement of its expenses before the last legis!ature. The total foots up $3,- 034.50. The items are M. C. Ring, sal- ary for the session, $1,500; expenses, $1,204.50; W. F. Fish, salary, $150: ex- penses, $144; L. W. Bowers, $18; F. P, Creedon, expenses, $16. MURDER AND SU DE. Principal of Public Schools Shot by an Assistant Who Had Been Dis- missed, Dothan, Ala., June 19.—Prof. Rankin, formerly of Pensacola, Fla., who was assistant principal of the public schools here, shot Principal George R. McNeill and then committed suicide. Rankin had been dismissed from the school and the lcss of his position is said to have led to the shooting. TENCE. CAPT. KING'S SEN Fine and Imprisonment for Accept~ ing a Bribe. Mobile, Ala., June 19.—In the United States court Capt. Cyril W. Kine, former construction quartermaster, U. S. A., at Fort Morgan, Ala., was sen- tenced to imprisonment in the peni- tentiary for one year and a half and to pay a fine of $3,000. He gave notice of appeal and made the required bond of $10,000. King was convicted several weeks ago of receiving a bribe with in- tent to influence his official conduct. ANGELL’S LONG TERM. Thirty Years at the Hend of the Unt- versity of Washington. Ann Arbor, Mich., June 19. — The fifty-seventh annual commencement week was ushered in by the annual baccalaureate discourse by President Angell before the 700 students who will receive the degrees on next Thurs- day as graduates from the University of Michigan. The present week marks the completion of thirty years of ser- vice by Dr. Angell as head of the in+ stitution, a j & }