Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 14, 1901, Page 2

The Hervald-Beview. By E. C. KILEY, ANARCHISTS FOUL DERD GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. The Belgian pigeon which won the great race from Burgos, in Spain, te Brussels, did the 700 miles in fourteen hours, Timber is seasoned by the evapora- tion of the water, the extraction of the vegetable juices and the solidification of the woody tissue. The King of Siam has a bodyguard of 400 female warriors. They are chosen from the handsomest and most robust women in his kingdom. Almost exactly half the coal ex- ported from Great Britain in the last six months went to the four couttries, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. King Edward VIIL, that may be, has completed his seventh year and re- ceived as a birthday present from his grandfather, King Edward VIL, a bi- cycle. The Congo is one of the widest waterways on the globe, if not the finest. In some parts it is so wide that vessels may pass each other and yet be out of sight. The municipal council of St. Peters- burg is to send an electrical expert to the United States in order that he may study the telephone system of this country with a view to reorganizing the one in use in St. Petersburg. Recent discovery in Jerusalem proves that the ancient aqueduct which brought water from Bethlehem through the Hinnah valley, thought to be the work of Herod, was built by the Emperor Severus, 195 A. D. In- scriptions to that effect have been found. Mrs. Lucinda Washington, who is said to be 124 years old, fell down stairs at the poor house at Kokomo, Ind., and suffered a broken arm, but she will recover. She was born a slave in South Carolina in 1779, and remained in one family until her emancipation in 1863. In a few weeks the women of Nor- way will be ready to take part in elec- tions as full-fledged voters. A bill conferring the municipal franchise upon women has passed both houses of the Norwegian parliament (Storth- ing) and will become a law at the end of the present session. The Japanese Emperor has an allow- ance of $2,000,000 a year to maintain the dignity of his office and have a good time. This is equal to $5,479 a day. At the close of the Chinese-Jap- anese war Parliament awarded him 20,600,000 yen ($10,000,000) in gratitude for the able manner in which he di- rected military and naval operations. A few years ago Phoenix, Ariz., the center of the Salt River Valley, was a sagebrush desert. It now has 25,000 inhabitants, with an assessed property valuation of $10,000,000, says the New York Tribune. All this is due to the introduction of water, which, brought in canals from distant streams, has turned the desert into a fertile valley, covered with ranches and dotted with small towns. Captain E. H. Smeed, of East Provi- dence, R. L, has just received a gov- ernmeat medal which was awarded him seventeen years ago for heroism in helping to rescue the crew of a shipwrecked schooner in the harbor of New Haven. The medal was mislaid in a secret drawer in a desk in the collector’s office at the Custom House of New Haven, and was found only a few days ago. There is a new patient at Bellevue Hospital, New York, the only patient of its kind ever treated there. On the card appears the name of “Bum,” a kitten, suffering from dislocation of the spine. A little girl pleaded so hard with one of ,the doctors to cure her kitty that it was finally taken charge of. Now the doctors are inter- ested in the case, and will do all in their power to save “Bum’s” life. The apportionment by lot of thirteen thousand homestead claims in the Kio- way-Comanche reservation last month was a vast improvement in good sense, order and fairness over the methods by which government land has usually been opened to settlement. Of course there were many disappointed home- seekers—there must be when one hun- dred and seventy thousand applica- tions are filed for thirteen thousand claims—but there was no wild rush for choice sections, no trampling on the rights of the weak by the strong, no fighting and no disputes over priority. The distribution was conducted rapid- ty and in good order, through several days, until] the lots were apportioned; and through it all a crowd of twenty thousand people cheered and congrat- ulated every winner as heartily as if each member of the throng had been himself the winner he hoped to be. In England the automobile comes into favor less rapidly than on the continent. A London writer calls it “a fad, and an extremely dirty, dusty, uncomfortable fad,” and a nuisaace on the public ways. He thinks it will Ibe many years before “these crude, im- practicable machines” displace in the Englishman’s affections ‘a fine trot- ting horse and a smart trap.” No joubt the horse is here to stay, and 20 doubt the automobile is still in its tlumsy beginning; but just wait a little, till the problem of a light and sbheap sto*age-battery has been solved. President McKinley Stricken Down by the Bullet of an Assassin at Buffalo. Foul Deed Is Planned With All the Dia- bolical Ingenuity of Which An- archy Is Capable. Wounds Not Necessarily Fatal, But the President’s Condition Is Consid- ered Serious. Buffalo, Sept. 8. — President McKinley was shot and seriously wounded by @ would-be assassin while holding a recep- tion in the Temple of Music at the Pan- American exposition a few minutes after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. One shot took effect in the right breast, the other in the abdomen. The first is not of a se- rious nature and the bullet has been ex- tracted. The latter pierced the abdominal wall and has not yet been extracted. It was a few minutes after 4 p. m., while President McKinley was holding a public reception in the great Temple of Music on the Pan-American grounds, that the dastardly attempt was made, with what success time alone can tell. Planned with all the diabolical ingenuity and finesse of which anarchy or nihilism is capable, the would-be assassin carried out “the work without a hitch, and should his designs fail and the.president survive, only to divine providence can be attrib- uted that beneficent result. The president, thought well guarded by United States secret service detectives, was fully exposed to such an attack as occurred. He stood at the edge of the raised dais upon which stands the great pipe organ, at the east side of the mag- nificent structure. Throngs of people crowded in at the various entrances to gaze upon their executive, perchance To Clasp His Hand, and then fight their way out in the good- natured mob that every minute swelled and multiplied at the points of ingress and egress to the building. The president was in a cheerful mood and was enjoying to the full the hearty evidences of good will which everywhere | met his gaze. Upon his right stood John | G. Milburn of Buffalo, president of the Pan-American exposition, the president and introducing to him es- pecially persons of note who approached. Upon the president’s left stood Mr. Cor- telyou. It was shortly after 4 p. m., when one of the throng which surrounded the presi- dential party, a medium-sized man of ordinary appearance and plainly dressed in black, approached as if to greet the president. Both Secretary Cortelyou and President Milburn noticed that the man’s hand was swathed in a bandage or hand- kerchief. Reports of bystanders differ as to which hand. He worked his way amid the stream of people up to the edge of the dais, until he was within two feet of the president. President McKinley smiled, bowed and extended his hand in that spirit of geniality the American people so well know, when suddenly the sharp crack of a revolver rang out loud and clear above the hum of voices, the shuf- fling of a myriad feet and vibrating waves of applause that ever and anon swept here and there over the assemblage. There was an instant of almost com- plete silence. The president stood stock still, a look of hesitancy, almost of be- wilderment, on his face. Then he Retreated a Step white a pallor Began to steal over his features. The multitude, only partially aware that something serious had hap-, pened, paused in surprise, while necks were craned, and all eyes turned to the rostrum where a great tragedy was being enacted. ° ‘Then came a commotion. With the leap of a tiger three men threw themselves forward as with one impulse and sprang toward the would-be assassin. Two of them were United States secret service men, who were on the lookout and whose duty it was to guar@ against just such a calamfty as had befallen the president and the nation. The third jwas a by- stander, a negro, who had only an in- stant previously grasped in his dusky hand the -hand of the president. As one man the trio hurled themselves upon the president's assailant. In a twinkling he was borne to the ground, his weapon was wrested from his grasp and strong arms pinioned him down. ‘then the multitude which thronged the edifice began to come to a realizing sense of the awfulness of the scene of which they had been unwilling witnesses. A murmur’ arose, spread and swelled to a hum of confusion, then grew to a babel of sounds. and later to a pandemonium ¢& noises. The crowds that a moment be- fore had stood mute and motionless, as in bewildered ignorance of the enormity of the thing, now with a single impulse surged forward toward the stage of the horrid drama, while a hoarse cry welled up from a thousand throats and a thou- sand men charged forward to lay hands upon the perpetrator of The Dastardly Crime. For a moment the confusioh was ter- rible. The crowd surged forward regard- less of consequences. Men shouted and fought, women screamed and children cried. Some of those néarest the doors fied from the edifice in fear of a stam- | pede, while hundreds of others from the | outsiae struggled blindiy forward in the effort to penetrate tha crowded building } and solve the mystery of excitement and ‘panic which every momént grew and swelled within the congested interior of the edifice. But of the multitude which witnessed or bore a part in the scene , of turbulence, there wis but one mind chatting with | which seemed to retain its equilibrium, one hand which remained steady, on€ eye which gazed with unflinching calmness and one voice which retained its even tenor and faltered not at the most criti- cal juncture. They were the mind and hand and the eye and the voice of Presi- dent McKinley. After the first shock of the assassin’s shot, he retreated a step; then, as the detectives leaped upon his assailant, he turned, walked steadily to a chair and seated himself, at the same time remov- ing his hat and bowing his head in his hands. In an instant Secretary Cortelyou was at his side. His waistcoat was hur- riedly opened, the president meanwhile admonishing those about him to remain calm and telling them not to be alarmed. “But you are wounded,” cried his secre- tary, “let me examine.” “No, I think not,’ answered the presi- “I am not badly hurt, I assure Trickling Stream of Blood. Nevertheless his outer garments were hastily loosened and when a trickling stream of crimson was seen to wind its way down his breast, spreading its tell- tale stain over the white surface of the linen, their worst fears were confirmed. ‘The president’s assailant in the mean- time had been hustled to the rear of the building by exposition guards where he was held while the building was cleared and later he was turned over to Supt. Bull of the Buffalo police denartment, President Willinm McKinley. who took the prisoner to No. 13 police station and afterwards to police head- quarters, As soon as the crowd in the Temple of Music had been dispersed suffi- ciently, the president was removed in the automobile ambulance ‘and taken to the exposition hospital, where an examina- tion was made. The best medical skill, was summoned and within a brief period several of Buffalo’s best-known prac- titioners were at the patient’s side. The president retained the full exercise of his faculties until placed on the opera- ting table and subjected to an anaes- thetic. Upon the first examination it was ascertained that one bullet had taken ef- fect in the right breast just below the nipple, causing comparatively harmless wound. The other took effect in the adbomen, about four inches below the left nipple, four inches to the left of the navel and about on a level with it. Upon arrival at the exposition hospital the second bullet was probed for. The walls of the abdomen were opened but the Ball Was Not Located. The incision Was hastily closed and after a hasty consultation it was decided to remove the patient to the home of Presi- dent Milburn. This was done, the au- tomobile ambulafice being used for the purpose. Arrived at the Milburn residence all persons outside the medical attend- ants, nurses and the officials immediately concerned, were excluded and the task of probing tor the bullet which had lodged in the abdomen was begun by Dr. Ros- well Parke. When the news of the crime was telephoned to the home of President Milburn where Mrs. McKinley was rest- ing, immediate steps were taken to spare her the shock of a premature statement before the true condition of the president could be ascertained. Guards were sta- tioned and no one was permitted to ap- proach the house. When it was decided to remove the president from the exposition hospital to the Milburn residence, the news was broken to Mrs, McKinley as gently as might be by the members of the Milburn family. She bore the shock remarkably well and displayed the utmost fortitude. While the wounded president was being borne from the exposition to the Milburn residence between rows of onlookers with bared heads, a far different spectacle was ‘being witnessed along the route of his as- sailant’s journey from the scene of his crime to police headquarters. The trip was made so quickly that the prisoner ‘Was Safely Landed within the portals of the police station and the doors closed before anyone was aware of his presence, Then bulletins began to appear on the boards along Newspaper Row, and when the announcement was made that the prisoner had been taken te police head- quarters, only two blocks distant from the newspaper section, the crowds surged down toward the terrace, eager for & t acas of the prisoner. In a few min- hundreds and thousands until the street was cempletely blocked with a mass of humanity. It was at this juncture that some one raised the cry of “Lynch him!” Like a flash the cry was taken up, and the wholé crowd, as if ignited by the single match thus applied, re-echoed the ery “Lynch him! Hang him!” Cleser the crowd surged forward. Denser the throng became as new arrivals swelled each moment the swaying multitude. The situation was becoming critical, when suddenly the big doors were flung open and a squad of reserves advanced with solid front, drove back from the curb, then across the street and gradual- ly succeeded in dispersing them from about the entrance to the station. Inside the station house were District Attorney Penny, Superintendent of Police Bull, Capt. Reagan of the First precinct and other officials. The prisoner first gave his name as Fred Nieman, said his home was in Detroit, and that he had been in. Buffalo about a week. Prisoner Confesses. He at first admitted that he was an anarchist in sympthy at least, but de- nied strenuously that the attempt on the life of the president was a result of a preconcerted plot on the part of any an- archist society. At times he was deflant and again indifferént. But at no time did he betray the remotest sign of re- morse, After long and persistent ques- tioning it was announced at police head- quarters that the prisoner had made a partial confession which he had signed. As near as can be learned the facts contained in the confession are as fol- lows: ‘the man’s name is Leon Czolgosz. He is an avowed anarchist and an ardent dis- ciple of Emma Goldman, whose teach- ings, he alleges, are responsible for the attack on the president. He denies stead- fastly that he is the instrument of any body of anarchists or the tool of any coterie of plotters. He declares he did not have a confederate. His only reason for the deed, he declares, is that he be- lieved the present form of government in the United States was unjust, and he concluded the most effective way to rem edy it was to kill the president. utes the crowd had grown from tens | PRAYER ANSWERED. G A. R. Veterans Thank God For the News From Buffalo. Cleveland, Sept. 11.—The first day of the thirty-fifth annual encampment of the G. A. R. opened under the most auspicious circumstances, and it is now quite evident that the event will be one of the greatest in the history of the or- ganization. There is now no longer any doubt as to the effect of the attempted assas- sination of the president upon the pres- ent gathering. It has stirred the patri- otism of the people to the inmost re- cesses of the heart’s emotion, and the veterans and their friends are coming to rejoice or to sorrow as the will of Providence may dictate. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles yesterday gave expression to a sentiment which is ratified m the hearts of every patriot present. Gen. Sickles strode into na- tional G. A. R. headquarters, and, lift- ing his cap to Gen. Leo Rassieur and the other dignitaries, bowed and ex- claimed: “Comrades, let us thark God for the news from Buffalo. The Lord has heard the uplifted prayers of the civ- {lized and uncivilized world. Christian, Mohammedan, Chinése and all people have united with us in prayer that McKinley might be spared to us. That Prayer ls Answered. Blessed be the name of the Lord, who preserved that great personality to us.” Then, dropping his impressive man- rer, the general added: “I'll back NcKinley’s luck every time. The god of battles stood by him during the war. The god of good fortune has remained with him ever since. He cannot die at this time and under such circum- stances.” Senator Manderson of Nebraska also sounded the keynote of the encamp- ment at the reunion yesterday of the First Ohio volunteer light artillery: “Tempering every breath of happi- ness at this reunion is the fearful trag- edy of last Friday,” said Gen. Mander- son. “I do not exaggerate when I say that the example set by you for forty years has been one of patriotism. You have trained your sons to be sons of America, to' know what it is to uphold the flag of our free institutions. There remains to be trampled under foot an élement of our population counte- nanced and sustained by an unbridled press, and unprincipled rostrum, pteaching the gospel of discontent. I do not say too much when I assert this element delights in condemnation—a contempt for the powers that be. Must Stamp Out Anarchy. *I can find no words in which to fit- tingly refer to the wretch who has done this thing, but I hold him harm- less compared with those who prompt- ed such sentiments. It is for us and for our sons to stamp out anarchy and socialism as we stamped out seces- sipn.” t the conclusion of a meeting of the citizens’ Grand Army committee on president's day, held yesterday, the followir.g typewritten statement was issued: +while our beloved president is en- during, with sublime fortitude the suf- fering caused by the unspeakabie crime of Friday last, it is appropriate that all functions connected with the reunion of the Grand Army in which he was to have participated, shall eith- er be omitted or modified. “As a substitute for the public re- ception which was to have been ex- tenied to the president Thursday even- ing, a mass meeting of citizens and visitors will be held in the Central ar- moty Thursday, Sept. 12, at 3 o'clock “in view of the improvement in the president's condition, for which we are all so devoutly grateful, the meeting will be one of praise and thanksgiv- FORMAL TRANSFER. Winena & Western to Be Turned ‘Over to Stickney This Week. Winona, Minn., Sept. 11—The formal transfer of the Winona & Western road to the Chicago Great Western will be made on Thursday. The final trip of inspection over the line was madé on Saturday by Tracy Lyon, gen- eral tuperintendent of the Great West- en service. The Winona line is not to be changed for a time, and the present force of employes, will be retained. Through train service between Winona and Chicago is hinted at as a possibil- ity later, DANGER POINT HAS PASSED PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIANS PLACE THEMSELVES SQUARELY ON RECORD. M’KINLEY WILL SURELY RECOVER Announcement Made Without Reser- vation by the Distinguished Corps of Physicians That the President Is Now Out of Danger — Possible Complications Not Looked For= Distinguished Visitors ‘Show Their Faith in the Outcome by Leaving for Their Homes — Mrs. McKinley Improves.” Buffalo, Sept. 12.—The following bul- letin was issued by the president’s physicians at 10:30 p. m.: The condition of the president is un- changed in all particulars. His tem- perature is 100.6; pulse, 114; respiration, 28. When the operation was done on Friday last it was noted that the bul- let had carried with it a short distance beneath the skin a fragment of the president’s coat. This foreign matter was, of course, removed, but a slight irritation of the tissues was produced, the evidence of which has appeared only to-night. It has been necessary on account of this slight disturbance to remove a few stitches and partially open the skin wound. This incident cannot give rise to other complications, but it is communicated to the public as the surgeons in attendance wish to make their bulletins entirely frank. In consequence of this separation of the edges of the surface wound the heal- ing of the same will be somewhat de- layed. The president is now well enough to begin to take rourishment by the mouth in the form of pure beef juice. —P. M. Rixey, —M. D. Mann, —Roswell Parke, —Herman Mynter, —Charles McBurney. George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President. Physicians Go On Record. Buffalo, Sept. 12.—The crops of emi- nent surgeons and physicians in at- tendance upon the wounded president yesterday committed themselves with- out reservation to the opinion that their patient was out of danger and that only the possibility of complica- tions threatened his life. They did not give assurance of his recovery collect- ively over their signatures in an official bulletin, but they went a long way toward it individually and separately during the day. Each of them, with the exception of Dr. Rixey, who did not leave the Milburn residence, placed himself squarely on record, not pri- vately to the friends of the president, but publicly, through the agency of the press, that the danger point had passed and that the president would survive the attempt upon his life. “Of course we will all feel easier when a week has passed,” said Dr. Mc- Burney, the dean of the corps. “Wes would like to see every door locked and double-locked, but the danger from possible complications is now very re- mote.” As an evidence of the supreme faith he holds, Dr. McBurney, after the morning consultation, made a trip to Niagara Falls and last evening re- turned to New York. He could reach here again in ten hours if the unex- pected should happen and there should be a change for the worse. Bullet Gives No Trouble. The little piece of lead in the muscles of the back is giving the phys- icians no concern whatever. Uniless it should prove troublesome to the presi- dent later on he will probably carry this grim souvenir of the anarchist with him to the end of his days. The doctors say that once encrusted it can do no harm. The X-ray machine is ready for instant use, however, and if there is the slightest inflammation 01 pain in the vicinity of the bullet an operation will be performed. The vice president, members of the cabinet, Senator Hanna and other distinguished friends of the president who have re- mained here to await the issue accept- ed the verdict of the physicians yester- day as practically conclusive, and thero was an ¢xodus of those who considered their presence no longer necessary. Vice President Roosevelt left last even- ing for his home at Oyster Bay, Sena- tor Hanna returned to Cleveland on business to be gone two days, and Controller Dawes went back to Wash- ington. ‘The president’s physicians have been impressed with his remarkable recu- perative powers and the rapidity of his imprevement. Ordinarily an incision for such an operation as was per- formed upon the chief executive should heal within three weeks, but in the president’s case Ae May Be Strong Enough to be moved a little sooner. The pres- ident will be taken cirect to Washing- ton as soon as it is safe to move him. Within the sick room many evidences of the president's improvement were epparent. The president himseif be- gan to show confidence in his ability to care for himself, and from time to time he would carefully tury himself to get a more restful position. Monday he took the precaution to ask if he might be permitted to move, but yesterday he changed his position on his own voli- tion without difficulty. A most impor- tant development of the day was the private determination reached among those in charge of the case that food should be administered to the patient to-day by the mouth. Not since the shooting has a morsel of food been given to the president by natural means, but the drain on his system has been inet by dissolved foods adminis- tered by injection. The importance of this feeding by the mouth is that it will restore the normal action of the stomach for the first time since that crgan had both its walls pierced by a bullet. The only persons admitted to the sick room yesterday other than the doctors and attendants were Mrs. Mc- Kinley and Secretary Cortelyou. Al- though the president has been pro- nounced out of danger, no member of the cabinet has been Within the Sick Room so far, nor has’ the vice president nor those closest to the confidence of the president such as Senator Hanna and Judge Day, seen the president. But these restrictions established by the doctors are merely for the sake of en- couraging every particle of energy in the patient and relatives and friends alike accept the rigorous policy as de- cidedly for the best. The departure of Dr. McBurney led to expressions of pleasure from those within the household that the delib~ erations cf so many eminent doctors had been marked by complete unanim- ity. There has been no division in the councils at any time; each has loyally seconded the efforts of the others; and all have joined in carrying out the masterly work done by Dr. Mann im~ mediately following the shooting. In referring tu this yesterday one of the president's assistants who was present at the uperation said Dr. Mann dis- rlayed consummate skill and calmness by going about the operation as if the patient were a child with a slight com- plaint. And yet Dr. Mann has told a friend that when he realized the duty before him, although he had per- formed hundreds of operations of laparotomy, he would have sacrificed all he possessed to have escaped the re- sponsibility of operating upon the pres- ident of the United States. Mrs. McKinley Improves. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. McKinley took her customary drive. As on the other days when she has gone out her companion was Mrs. Williams, her cousin Her drive yesterday lasted an hour, and when the carriage came back Mrs. McKinley was observed to be talking and acting in a manner which seemed to indicate quite an im- provement in her condition. MORE SERIOUS ‘THAN ASSAULT. Trial Will Be Taken Into the Fed- * eral Courts if Possible. Washington, Sept. 12.—The arrest of Emma Goldman in Chicago and An- tonio Maggio in New Mexico are in ling with the efforts of the department of justice to determine what basis there is for the belief that there was a con- spiracy to kill the president. The as- sassin directly laid to the inspiration of Miss Goldman his desire to kill Pres- ident McKinley, and Maggio is said to have recently made the statement that the president would be shot before Oct. 1, and that he was sorry he was not to do the shooting. The suspicion against both of having guilty knowledge of Czolgosz’s intention to murder the president is strong, and the secret ser- vice is acting in harmony with the Chicago police and the suggestions of the department of justice. Attorney General Knox returned to Washington yesterday morning and had a long con- ference with Solicitor General Richard- son soon after he reached the depart- ment of justice. He agreed with the solicitor general in the opinion that evidence establishing a conspiracy would enable them to take the case of Czolgosz into the federal coulth and make the trial one of more than mere assault with intent to kill, as it would be in the state courts of New York. BETTER TO HAVE OWNED UP. Joe Little Is Arrested for Shooting John Kennedy. Washburn, Wis., Sept. 12. — At the coroner's inquest it developed that the shooting of John Kennedy, who was brought to the hospital here and died from his wounds later under such sus- picious circumstances, was not acci- dental, and every indication was that the bullet came from a gun in the hands of a fellow workman named Joe Little. The theory is that Little was shooting small game and acci- dentally shot Kennedy, and that Little then left the camp where the tragedy occurred and came to this city. He was arrested and is now awaiting ex- amination. When the officers found him he was in such a state of intoxi- cation that nothing could be learned from him. JUSTICE FINES HIMSELF. He Whipped a Doctor Who Approved of Czolwosz’s Act. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 12—Justice of the Peace William Kelly of Bay City tried and convicted himself of assault and battery and imposed on himself a fine of $5 and costs or ten days im- prisonment. Rather than go to jail he paid his own fine to himself and then allowed himself to go free. The case arose out of a beating which Kelly ad- ministered to Dr. C. A. Stewart, be- cause the latter is said to have stated publicly that President McKinley de- served to be shot. Justice Kelly says he would do the same thing over again and considers it worth $5 to whip any defamer of the president. COSTLY FIRE AT SALT LAKE. Oregon Short Line Building and Ad- joining Structures Burn. Salt Lake City, Sept. 12.—Fire broke out in the Oregon Short Line building on Southwest Temple street and threatened to consume that structure, as well as several adjoining buildings, including the postoffice. The loss, out- side of the possible damage to the Dooley block, will probably approxi- mate $200,000. RS KILLED, Two Killed and Several Still in the Pit. London, Sept. 12. — An explosion of fire damp occurred yesterday in the ~ Llanbrandach mine at Caerphilly,. Glamorganshire, Wales. Thirteen min- ers were rescued unhurt. Eight were taken out severely injured and two were killed. It is believed that twelve cre still in the pit. TWELVE-YEAR-OLD HERO. Loses ‘His Life Trying to Companion. St, Louis, Mo., Sept. 12. — Twelve- year-old Mike Zielinski lost his life. yesterday in saving that of Joe Czer- winski, a five-year-old playmate. A live wire had fallen in the pathwov of Joe, who was about to pick it up, whem Mike rushed forward and knoéked it from reach, receiving a fatal charge: through his hand. Save a Pardon Board to Meet. Pierre, S. D., Sept. 12.—A meeting of the state board of pardons has been called for the 18th of this month to pass upon applications pending. | «