Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 29, 1901, Page 2

& | j j i i { a fo ane The Merald--Review. By E. C. KILEY, GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, Freight rates from Manila to Hong Kong, a distance of only 700 miles, are as much from San Francisco to Hong Kong, a distance of 8,000. The “abandoned” farms of Massa- chusetts are fast bcing taken up. Three years ago there were 330 thus classed in the state. A recent enumeration shows there are now but 136. In Brittany and the lower Pyrenees fairs are held annually at which the peasant girls assemble to sell their hair. Parisian’ dealers are the chief custmers, purchasing many thousand pounds. The Philippines touch closely upon the gutta percha belt, yet the tree does not grow there indigenuously, and it is at least very problematical whether it can be cultivated there. It will not grow in Cochin, China, likewise near the gutta percha belt, because the av- erage temperature is too low and the changes too sudden, The emperor of Morocco has a very peculiar band. His private musicians are 80 in number and they all play clarionets, which were made by a Lon- don firm. Curiously enough they are all in one key. The emperor takes great delight in listening to the 80 clarionets being blown simultaneously, but he can not convince his court that “mu- sic hath charms.” Some curious botanical experiments made at a zoological laboratory at Na- ples are reported by Hans Winkler. A| flowerless aquatic plant, that grows normally with its roots in the sand and leaves in water, was inverted, speci- mens being placed with the leaves bur- ied in the sand and the roots in water in strong light. The roots changed to stems and leaves, the buried parts be- coming roots. “Not if I were as rich as Croesus,” recently objected an American who is supposed to be worth $400,000,000. Un- happily for Croesus, “the bubble repu- tation” may petrify as well as burst. Archaeologists digging among the li- braries of Asia discovered the inven- tory of Croesus, and found that that fraud of a millionaire was worth only $9,000,000. America swarms with Croe- suses who could buy up the typical rich man of the olden time. A great sensation has been caused in Vienna by an order for thg arrest of a member of thé Austrian PariJament, named Franz Krempa, who is acctised | ot bighway. robbery in the district of | Tarnow. The prosecution claims that Krempa, at the head of a band of ten peasants, waylaid a man named Rusin- owsky, a horse dealer, robbed him of a considerable amount of cash, and beat him until he was insensible. Krempa belonged to the Polish People’s Party, and is now missing. Every time that Russia “bluffs” Eng- land and gains a diplomatic victory, says a wise observer, a certain market- able quantity of prestige is fransferred from one nation p the other. He adds that trade cannot flourish nor subject races bo coverned withoyt an ample store of prestige to draw updn at will. It #8 an interesting fact that the first but now obsolete meaning of prestige is illusion, imposture. Unfortunately, the element of trickery in diplomacy, whereby national prominence has been gained throughout the history of for- eign governments, is by no means ob- solete, age Doctor Dussaud of Paris has in- vented a cinematograph, by means of which blind persons can experience the illusion of moving objects as people with sight do an illuminated screen. The appartus consists of a machine that causes a series of reliefs, repre- senting trees, birds or other objects, to pass rapidly under the fingers. The reliefs are so graduated that the deli- cate sense of touch possessed by the blind translates their variations into apparent movements of the objects represented. Doctor Dussaud employs the appartus mainly for educational purposes. He has also devised a sys- tem of electric vibrations for convey- ing to the deaf an impression of musi- cal rhythm. In the Interstate Park near Taylor’s Falls, Minnesota, uas been discovered a singular group of “giants’ kettles,” or pot-holes, covering an area of two or three acres and ranging in diame- ter from less than a foot to 25 feet, and in depth from one foot to 84 feet. They have been bored in exceedingly hard rock, and in many cases they are like wells in shape, the ratio of width to depth varying from one to five up to one to seven. Mr. Warren Upham as- cribes their origin to torrents falling through glacial “moulins” at the time when the northern territory of the United States was buried under ice. As with similar pot holes elsewhere, rounded boulders are occasionally found at the bottom of the cavities. In northwestern Montana, near the British line, there is a lake the waters of which flow through the St. Mary river to Hudson bay. The divide be- tween the lake and the head waters of s From Washington. Postal officials are surprised at the rapid growth of the rural free delivery service. Consul Goodnow says our trade with China is larger than that of any other country. Secretary Hay has returned to Wash- ington from Buffalo and resumed his duties at the state department. The Porto Rico revenue law has proven itself able to raise sufficient money to meet the expenses of the island. Commissioner Jones is finding some trouble in obtaining funds to carry on the timber investigations om White Earth reservation. Brig. Gen. John C. Bates, who recent- ly returned from the Philippines, has been ordered to command the depart- ment of Missouri, with headquarters at Omaha. The postoffice department has allow- ed Postmaster Coyne of Chicago 100 additional clerks,and also granted him 500 promotions among lower grade clerks. Special Agent Farr of the Indian de- partment says the illegal cutting of green timber on the reservationss will be pushed to a finish, no matter who is involved. Capt. Reuben B. Turner, quarter- master's department, has been ordered to Des Moines, Iowa, to assume charge of construction of public buildings for the military post to be established at that city under recent act of congress. Rear ‘Admiral R. D. Evans, president | of the naval board, has informed the | navy department that the tidal correc- | tions made for the trial of the battle- ship Illinois gave her an increase of | .14 knots speed, making the official rec- | ord 17:45 an hour. | The state department has been in- | formed by Deputy Consul General | Hanauer of Frankfort, Germany, that steps are being taken for the creation of a federal bureau of technics in the empire. He also reports that the es- tablishment of American banks in Berlin and London is contempiated. Casualties. The National packing house of Mexi- co City burned. Loss, $300,000. Fire at La Salle, Ill., destroyed the | warehouse of M. Romenofsky & Son, with a loss of $5,000. The Leyland line steamer Assyrian, ashore off Cape Race, went to pieces and is a total wreck. C. W. McCurren, head animal keeper at Lincoln Park, Chicago, was severe- ly injured in a fight with an eagle, John F. Dupont, a young man of St, Joseph, Mo., was drowned while bath- ing at Lake Contrary, near that city. John F. Dupont, a SéGiety young man of St. Joseph, was drowned whiié Yath- ing at Lake Contrary, near that city. Fire at Conroe, Tex., destroyed twen- ty-two business houses, comprising | nearly all of the stores of the town. Logs, $100,000. Noah Trissel of St. Louis was found dead in his room in a Milwaukee hotel. An autopsy will be held to determine the cause of death. A torpedo engine in the torpedo works at Friedrichsort, near Kiel, Ger- many, has exploded, killing an engi- neer and wounding a number of per- sons, sf an The Aimerican ship Henry B. Hyde, ii@en with coal which had almost been given up as lost, has arrived at San Francisco, 153 days from Baltimore. Bad weather caused the delay. The passengers and crew of the steamer Hero had a narrow! escape from being burned to death in the de- struction of that vessel by fire at Bell- ville, Ont. The passengers were esleep as were most of the crew. Some jump- ed into the water, but all were finally rescued, Pe ee Zz mae em BI Foreign. Andies Dewet, the Boer leader, says he is coming to the United States in July to lecture. The young King Alfonso XIII. at- tended his first bull fight Sunday. He received an enthusiastic ovation. The steamer Ophir, with the duke and duchess of Cornwall and York on board, has arrived at Wellington, N. Z,. Reports from the chief cities of the continent chonicle the return of semi- winter weather, which has a serious effect upon crops. The Rome Tribuna says two Italian anarchists have left New York for Italy for the purpose of dealing a blow to constitutional authority. The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says & big review will take place at Mayence, Aug. 14, in the presence of Emperor William, King Edward and the czar. The Berlin correspondent of the Lon- don Daily News says the government is discussing the question of increas- ing the peace estimate of the army by 25,000 men. Crown Prince Frederick William, who has been visiting the Dowager Empress Frederick at Cronburg, has returned to Bonne. Dr. Renvers has been with the dowager empress at Cronburg. An explosion in a cartridge factory in a suburb of Le Molineaux, France, re- sulted in a loss of fifteen lives and the injuring of about twenty persons. A majority of those injured were women. Gen. Prudencio Cab, who has been in command of the Maya Indians in their present revolt against the Mexican gov- ernment, is dead. He wes wounded in an engagement near Chan Santa Cruz several weeks ago. Labor disorders have been renewed in St. Petersburg. Strikers from the Baltic navy yatds joined forces with the men from the Gvozdilnana works the Milk river, an affluent of the Mis- souri, is so low that engineers say it would be feasible to divert the outlet from Canadian to American territory. As water for irrigation is highly val- ued on both sides of the line, the ques- tion whether the United States has a right to divert it is one of’ interna- tional interest, and may yet become and attacked the latter with such fe- rocity that the military were obliged to use their arms to suppress the rioters. Earl Russell was arrested recently in Londen on a charge of having con- tracted a bigamous marriage in the United States. The earl was met at the railway station upon his arrival from the country by detectives with a warrant, and was taken to the Bow street police court where he was form- ally charged. People Talked About. Ex-Gov. Hazen 8S, Pingree died in London, after a brief illness. Jane Harriet Hamlin, sister of Win- field Scott Stratton, the Colorado mil- lionaire, is dead at her home in Jef- fersonville, Ind. Elbert A. Young of St. Paul was elected president of the National As- sociation of Credit Men, which will meet at Louisville next year. E. C. Osborn, treasurer of Princeton university since 1885, died in Princeton, N. J., from apoplexy. Mr. Osborne was to have been married in a few days. A cablegram received at Haddam, Conn., announces the death, in London, England. of Charles T, Russell, United States consul general at Liverpool from 1885 to 1889. Col. M. Bryant, U. 8. A., retired, died at his home in Wichita, Kan. Col. Bry- ant entered the army in 1857. He was in command of the Thirteenth infantry at Fort Sill when he retired. Gen. Frederick Knafier, who was colonel of the famous Seventy-ninth Indiana regiment in the Civil war, died at Indianapolis. He was one of the most prominent men in Indiana. Prof. Richard Cecil Hughes, president of Taber (Iowa) college, has resigned. He will, it is stated, accept a more lu- crative position. Prof. Hughes has been connected with the college for ten years. Conrad Edebvard, a member of an ancient Russian family and a direct descendant of one of the governors of Finland, was sent to the Jefferson asylum after an examination in court at Chicago. He has a delusion that he is the Messiah. Former Gov. P. C. Cheney cf Man- chester, N. H., is dead. He was seven- ty-three years of age. Besides having been governor of New Hampshire, Mr. Cheney has served as United States senator and as United States minister to Switzerland under President Har- rison. Crimes and Criminals. George R. Downs of Chicago, the al- leged gentleman horse thief recently arrested at Monmouth, Ill, was held for trial in the court at Kenosha, Wis. Two czechs named Orsovie and Zaros have been arrested at Prague, Bo- hemia, on the charge of being impli- cated in a plot against Francis Joseph. In Omaha, James Callahan was held for trial in the district court on a charge of perjury alleged to have been committed in one of the Cudahy cases. Mrs. Cora Campbell, an eighteen- year-old bride, is now in Columbus, Obio, awaiting a hearing. The young woman is charged with raising money The police of Mexico City are said to have discovered the house where so many American dollars have been counterfeited. The criminals have hid- den their dies and tools. J. W. Burton, alias “Red” Hoyle, a hotel thief and all round crook known throughout the cquntry, was given a three-year sentence in the criminal court at Memphis, Tenn., for burglary. Archibald McLaren, formerly nation- al treasurer of the Order of Scotch Clans, who has been awaiting trial at Cleveland, Ohio, under indictment on the charge of having embezzled about $16,000 of the funds of the order, has been declared insane. 4. 4 Jon Hassell, a policeman of Mahan- oy City, Pa., was shot and fatally wounded by burglars. Hassell saw a light in Swift’s warehouse, and, peering through a window, saw burglars at work at the safe. He attempted to en- ter and was shot down. The burglars escaped. Otherwise. The National Packing house at Mexico City burned. Loss, $300,000. Dun’s weekly trade review Says business of all kinds has a tone of greater confidence. ‘The supreme lodge, Knights of Hon- or, in session at Milwaukee, selected Cleveland as next year’s meeting place. “J am not a candidate, nor do I pro- pose to be a candidate for the presi- dency of the United States,” says May- or Harrison of Chicago. Cc. Bonnier, a Salix, Iowa, banker, in removing some wood from his back yard discovered a half-decayed human head. There is no clew to the mystery. The annual report of the London oxygen hospital claims that a remark~ able success has attended the oxygen treatment for lupus ulces and wounds. Officials of the trackmen’s union in Montreal announce that between 3,000 and 3,500 of the Canadian Pacific track~ men have struck for an increase of pay. The best well drilled in the Hancock field for many years was “shot” on the Isham Davis farm recently. The well is estimated to produce over 500 barrels per day. The Yukon is open from end to end, according to news brought down by the steamer Dolphin, which arrived at Se- attle. She brought down $40,000 in gold dust. The steamship Hawaiian, recently ar- rived at San Francisco from Honolule, brought the largest cargo of sugar ever sent out of the Hawaiian islands. It consisted of 8,600 tons, valued at $750,- 000. The Mississippi Good Roads associa- tion has been organized at Jackson, Miss., as a result of the good roads convention. The legislature will be memorialized to compel counties to adopt the contract system. Mexico’s building on the Pan-Ameri- can grounds was formerly opened and dedicated last week. The especially in- vited guests were Don Emanuel Aspi- rez, ambassador to the United States from Mexico, and John Hay, secretary of state, both of whom made speeches. Capt. Farrand Sayres, commanding officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, acting under orders from the war department, has started with forty cavalrymen to clear Wichita Mountain land of unlaw- ful intruders, preparatory to the open- | ing of the Kiowa and Comanche reser- SIXTY LIVES LOST} REPORTS OF THE FLOOD IN THE WEST VIRGINIA COAL FIELD WERE EXAGGERATED, EXACT SITUATION NOT KNOWN It Will Be Several Days Before Defi- nite Information Regarding the Loss of Life and Damage Can Be Obtained—Railroad Is Rushing Work to Reopen Communication. Roanoke, Va., June 26.—The follow- ing short statement by one of the gen- eral officers of the Norfolk & Western railroad summarizing the flood situa- tion in the light of the latest Cispatches Was given to the Associated Press last night: “Restoration of telegraph line de- velops that damage by flood was ex- aggerated. Loss of life will not exceed sixty or seventy-five, and damage to property. including repairs to railroad and coal corporations, will not exceed $500,000. It is expected the railway will get a line opened through by to- morrow or next day.” There was very little news received here yesterday from the West Virginia flood. Qne train came in in the after- noon but not much new information could be gained from the passengers. The wires all being Gown west of Blue- field, save one wire which goes through to Ennis, but is being used as a train wire, prevented the public from gaining any additional particulars. How many are dead is not definitely known and it necessarily will be several Cays yet before the exact num- ber can be given as official, but the various reports in circulation here are that all the way from 50 to 200 per- sons Have Been Drowned. It is probably safe to agsume the former figures as being more correct than the latter. The damage to prop- erty wil! amount to hundreds of thou- sands of dollars. Miles of railroad track are washed out and great gulches have been created. The devastated section covers an area cf about twenty miles west of Bluefield. It is a narrow valley, not much wider than a broad Street in some places. Coal mines are scattered all along the road. Keystone, the town reported to have been so greatly damaged and which was at first believed to be wiped out of exis- tence, is a village of between 2,000 and 8,000 people and is built along the nar- row valley and on the sides of the bluffs. All reports agree that between 200 and 300 houses were swept away in the Elkhorn valley, but, of course, not all the occupants drowned. The rail- road people are rushing material and miles 0 the Elkhorn, The Western | nion Telegraph officials In this city say that the situation, so far as general rews from the territory west of Blue- field is concerned, is unchanged and they have nothing new to give out. Governor on the Ground. Charleston, W. Va., June 26.—AGjt. Gen. Baker, who resides in Parkers- burg, reached the city yesterday and Gov. White arrived last night from the same place. While there has been no demand upon’ them .yet for troops either on account of the miners’ strike or to prevent looting in the storm- stricken district, they are both consid- ering that cmergency may arise. It is the general opinion around the state house that tne effect of the calamity will be to quiet the miners. KILLED IN A WRECK, 3 _ Train Pianges Over an Embankment Twenty-five High. Pittsburg, June 26.—By the wrecking of train No. 23, north-bound on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad at Monaca, twenty-six miles from this city last evening two persons are dead, three fatally injured and forty others more or less hurt. From passengers it is learned that the train while going at very fast speed ran into an open switch at Monaca, and the entire train went over an embankment some twenty-five feet high. Every car was turned over, two of them going over twice. The train had its coaches well filled with passen- gers and the wonder is that there were not more fatalities. Fireman Cunningham, when taken from the wreck, was found to be hor- ribly crushed. His death must have been instantaneous. ‘As scon as the news of the wreck reached the city Supt. Yohe summoned a corps of physicians and took them to the scene on a special relief train. This train returned here with the dead and a number of the injured, when another train was at once dispatched to Mon~ aca, which gav2 currency to the re- port that many more are hurt than as yet made known, pommel ad set Ee THE HAY FUNERAL. Body Is Taken to Cleveland for Interment. New Haven, Conn., June 26.—At 7:10 Jast evening the body of Adelbert S. Hay, who was killed by a fall from a third-story window of the New Haven House eerily Sunday morning, Was ‘started on the journey to Cleveland, ‘Ohio, where the funeral and interment iare to take place. In the party ac- companying the body were Hon. John ‘Hay and Mrs. Hay, father and mother ‘of the @ead man; the Misses Hay, his ‘sisters, and Clarence Hay, & younger prother. Secretary Hay had apparent- ly recovered in a Jarge measure from the prestration of the preceding day. Numerous telegrams and cablegrams of sympathy have been addressed to Secretary Hay, among the number be- ing messages from King Edward, Pres- ident Loubet, Earl Roberts and others. ea ‘WEALTH FOR MRS. M’KINLEY. Has Gold Mine That Commands an Option Price of $250.000. Canton, Ohio, June 25, — There is wealth in'sight for Mrs. McKinley and her sister, Mrs, M. C. Barber of this city. Eastern capitalists have a short- time option on gold-mining claims held by, these two women ‘n Nevada, The price at which the claims will pass into the hands of. the syndicate is near to $250,000. Recent work on the claims has disclosed gold in paying quantities. ‘ |) MARSIIALS DITIZD. ') Fired on by Strikers and Forced tc - Flee From Coal Fields, Huntington, W. Va., June 26,—Yes- terday a posse of deputy United States marshals, led by A. C. Hufford of Blue- field, were fired on by the strikers anc forced to flee from the coal fields at Matewan. Sunday afternoon the mar- the scene of the miners’ riots. When they arrived within twenty miles 0} Thacker they found that they could proceed no further by rail on account of the flood. They struck out across the mourtains, encountering almost insurmountable difficulties, and late Sunday afternoon reached their desti- nation. They began immediately serv- ing notices of the injunction which had been issued by Judge Jackson. A mob of strikers followed armed to the teeth On all sides could be heard the cry “down with government by injunc- tion.” Men threatened them with their weapons, women called down the ven- geance of Leaven upon them and chil- dren hurled stones. When nightfal) came notice had been served on the strikers of all the coal companies but one, and that was to be served at Lick Fork Coal and Coke company at Thacker. Fearing an Ambush, they waited until morning, and early yesterday set out for Thacker. Some time before noon they attempted to serve the injunction papers in the above named colliery. A mob followed enraged to desperation at the sweeping character of the injunction. One reck- less fellow fired the first shot and quick as lightning the mountain sides echoed and re-echoed with the cracks of twen- ty or thirty rifies. The deputies were forced to take refuge in flight and then barely escaped with their lives. The strike situation is assuming a frightful stage. Sheriff Hatfield has withdrawn all his deputies because it is said he does not believe in the policy being used to put down the strike. The United States marshals have been left elone, and after being chased from the fields yesterday, it is believed that they will be strongly re-enforced and ready to fight when they again appear to en- force the injunction. A lot of strikers, almost a thousand strong, have crossed over into Kentucky and are occupying the mountain passes. Here they are out of reach of the depaty marshals and command the entrances to the collieriés. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotetiens From Grain ant Live Steck Centers. St. Paul, June 26. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 673-4 @ 68c; No. 2 North- ern, 65@51-2c. Corn — No. 3 yellow, 41@41 1-4c; No. 3, 40 1-2@403-4c, Oats— No. 3 white, 27@28c; No. 8, 26@27c. Minneapolis, June 26—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 661-8c; No. 1 Northern, 641-8c; No. 2 Northern, 623-8c. Corn — No. 3 yellow, 38c; No. 3, 381-2c. Oats — No. 3 white, 27 1-2@27 3-4c; No, 3, 261-2 @ 2c. Duluth, June 26.—Wheat—No. 1 hard cash, 69c; to arrive, 691-8c; July, 691-8c; September, 67c; No. 1 North- ern, 66c; to arrive, 65 1-8c; July, 66 1-8¢; Sentember, 66c; No. 2 Northern, 6lc; No. 3 spring, 57c; oats, 27 3-4@28e; rye, 471-2c; flax, cash, $1.85; September, $1.33 1-2; September, Northwest, $1.34 1-2; October, $1.30. Milwaukee, Wis., June 26. — Flour is steady. Wheat steady; No. 1 Northern, 681-2c; No. 2 Northern, 67@68 1-2c; September, 66 3-4@681-8c. Rye easy; No. 1, 49c; No. 2, 48c. Barley steady; No. 2, 55¢e; sample, 42@58c. Oats lower; No. 2 white. 291-4c; No. 3 white, 29c. Chicago, June 26—Cash Wheat—No. 2 red, 69@71c; No. 3 red, 67@68c; No. 2 hard winter, 673-4c; No. 1 Northern spring, 69c bid; No. 3 spring, 64@68c. Corn—No, 2, 48c; No, 3, 421-2c. Oats— No. 2, 28@28 1-4c; No. 3, 28¢. Sioux City, Iowa, June 26. — Cattle— Beeves, $5 @ 5.55: cows, bulls and mixed, $2.50 @ 4; stockers and feeders, $3.50@4.40; calves and yearlings, $3.25@ 4.40. Hogs, $5.85@6; bulk, $5.92 1-2. - Chicago, June 26, — Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.50 @ 6.25; poor to medi- um, $3.40 @ 4.50; stockers and feeders, $2.90@4.90; cows and heifers, $2.70@5.15; Texas bulls, $2.90@3.75. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $5.80@6.171-2; good to choice, $5.90 @ 6.171-2; light, $5.75 @ 6.07 1 bulk of sales, $5.95@6.10. Sheep, $3.60@4.50; lambs, $4@5.25. South St. Paul, June 26. — Cattle — Prime butcher steers, $5.15@3.40; good to choice, $4.50@5; fair to good, $3.75@ 4.25; common to fair, $3.25@3.60; prime butcher cows and heifers, $3.35@3.90; fair to good $2.85@3.25; canners and cut- ters, $1.75@2.75; good to choice butcher bulls, $3@4; bologna bulls, $2@2.75; good to choice veals, 4.50@5; fair to good, $3.50@4.50; good to choice feeders, $3.50 @4; fair to good, $3.25 @ 3.40; good to choice stock steers, $3.50 @ 4; fair to good, $3.15@3.40; common, $2@3; steer calves, $3.50@4; good to choice heifers, $3@3. fair to good, $2.75@3; common, $2@2.60; heifer calves, $2.75@3.25; good to choice milch cows, $35@40; fair to good, $30@35; common, $25@29. Hogs—Lights, $5.70@5.85; mixed and butchers, $5.75@5.90; heavy, $5.70@6? rough packers, $5 @5.40; stags and boars, $3@5.15: pigs, $4@5. Sheep—Good to choice butcher lambs, $3.75@4; fair to good, $3.50 @ 3.75; fat ewes, $3.40@3.50; good to choice stock and feeding iambs, $3.25@3.50; fair te good, $3@3.25; feeding wethers, 3@ 3.40; stock and feeding ewes, $2.50@3.2 thin sheep, $2.25 @ 2.75; killing bucks, $2.50@3. WEST INDIAN MEDALS, ‘Secretary of the Navy Approves De- wign for Badges. Washington, June 26.—The secretary ‘of the navy has approved a design for ‘a West Indian campaign medal. It provides for a portrait of Admiral Sampson on one side and-on the other a representation of the “men behind the guns,” ‘with appropriate inscrip- tions. rca aean ane STEAL LAST BARREL OF BOOZE, Seventy Men Have a Picnic in the Bush at Guam. Manila, June 26.—News has been re- ceived here from the island of Guam to the effect that the naval garrison at that station is practically demoralized Some time ago seventy men of the marine garrison stole the last barrel of whisky in the hospital stores and re- tired into thé bush for several days The men implicated are now being tried for insubordination, = — MANY LIVES LOST FRIGHTFUL WORK OF A TORNADO: ‘WHICH VISITS PORTIONS OF NEBRASKA, shals set out from Bluefield to reach! DEATH AND RUIN IN ITS: PATE: One Family of Seven Killed, and Out’ of Another Family of Six, Two- Were Killed and the Rest Fatally Injured—Everything in Its Path. Destroyed—Only Meager Reports Obtainable. Omaha, June 23.—Special dispatches to the World-Herald from Naper, Neb., tell of the frightful work of a tornado which visited that vicinity Thursday night, the details being obtainable only late last evening. The storm swept down the Keyapaha river Thursday evening at 6 o'clock. Only meager reports are at hand. One family of seven were killed and out of another family of six, two were killed and the balance, except the father, fa~ tally injured. No other casualties have been reported. The family of Jacob Berg and Metz were injured some- what when their houses were demol- ished, but not seriously. All communi- cation with the outside world is cut off and it is impossible to learn what dam- age the storm did along the Keyapaha river west of where the two families were found. The big wagon bridge across the Keyapaha river was com- pletely destroyed. A correspondent visited the houses of the stricken fami- lies yesterday. Where once stcod fine dwellings and other buildings there ‘was nothing to be seen Except Kindling Wood. The father of the Greening family was found a quarter of a mile from the houses badly mangled. There is no chance for his recovery. Little Maggie and Jacob Greening were found 600: yards from where the house stood. They were stripped of al] their cloth- ing but were not disfigured. The other two children were close to the house and were in full view of their mother and oidest sister, who were both fatal- ly injured and who could see them, but render no assistance. The tornado was preceded by a S¢e vere hailstorm. Stones fell that meas~ ured ten inches in circumference. The Keyapaha river is a raging torrent and impassable. Everything in the track of the storm was destroyed. Trees were blown down and the smaller ones were stripped of leaves and barb wire fences were carried 600 yards. The fur- niture that was in the homes of the Anderscns and Greenings cannot be found. A trunk and pieces of a table were picked up half a mile away, PHOTOGRAPHER’S LUCKY FALL, Drops a Hundred Feet From a Bal- loon and Escapes Uninured. Chicago, June 23. — George R. Law- rence, who was taking a bird’s eye: photograph of the stock yards from a balloon yesterday, fell 100 feet with his: basket and alighted on his feet unin- jured. The ropes that held the basket to the balloon gave way on the descent. Lawrence shot downward like a stone, and the basket struck some telegraph wires over the main cattle alley, near the exchange building, breaking the fall. Even at that the spectators ex- pected to see the man dashed to pieces, but to their surprise he alighted grace- fully, without a mark to show for his: thrilling adventure. TAFT AT THE HEAD. Order Issued Establishing Civil Gov- ernment in Philippines. Washington, June 23. — Secretary Root yesterday issued the order of the president establishing civil govern- ment in the Philippines. The order re- lieves the military governor of the Philippines from the performance of civil duties on and after July 4, but de- clares that his authority will be exer- cised as heretofore in those districts in which the insurrection still exists. William H. Taft, president of the Phil- ippine commission, is appointed civil governor and will exercise authority in all civil affairs in the government of the Philippines heretofore exercised in such affairs by the military governor. BATTLE AT COAL MINE. : Striking Miners Open Fire Upon the Guards. Williamson, W. Va., June 23. — The strigers came out last evening and went close to the mine. They were stationed on points overlooking the barricaded mine entrance, and returned a furious fire. The guards who came here say the bullets fell thick and fast as hail. The guard were routed and the strikers are behind the barricade anc are in control of the mine. TREMENDOUS TOTAL. Export Trade for the United States Expected to Show Great Increase. Washington, June 23, — The export trade of the United States for the fiscal year that will end the last day of this month is expected to reach the tremendous total of a Dillion and a half, the largest increase being in ag- ricultural products, or 65.553 per cent of the whole amount. The manufac- tures aggregated 27.40 per cent. FOURTH OFFICER MURDERED: Atlanta Policemen Raise Fund to- Hunt Down Assacsin. Atlanta, Ga., June 23.—The killing of Policeman Degray is the fourth assas- sination of policemen in this city re= cently. In each case there were sev-- eral arrests, but no convictions. The policemen have raised a fund to run. down the present murderer. Old Settler Dies. Yorthfield, Minn., June 23. — Mr.. Sec.cles, an old resident of Northfield, died suddenly of dropsy. Deceased was- forty-eight years of age and had lived in this city and vicinity and city forty years. He was unmarried. Explosion Kills Two. Kalama, Wash., June 23.—A perma- ture explosion occurred yesterday at a rock cut half a mile south of Kalama on the new Washimgton & Oregon rail- road, killing two men. and. injuring seven others, ; ees -—<— =*