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SIGNS OF FRAUD.
Mysterious Death Develops Indica'
tions of Conspiracy Against Life j..
Insurance Associations.

Chicago, Oct. s.-With insurance
upon her life amounting to SIP, 900,
Marie Defenbach died August rs in, a
oom at $40 La Sale avenue alone and
under conditions which the police be-
iieve indicate a gigantic swindle upon
insurance companies, if they do not
point to a murder. Charges Of con-
spiracy, back of which are allied in
situations of murder are lodged
against. three men, two of whom are
already in custody.~-These men will
have to. answer allegations of a careful
ly-laid plot to swindle an insurance.
company and two insurance societies
"a pot which, it is, said, progressed
with the growth of fear into the actual
death, by poison, tits thought, of the
insured person. According to the the
DRY on which the prosecution will pro-
coed the dead person. a young woman
of Chicago, was originally one of the
quartette OF conspirators. She had eX-
pected thather death was to be feigned,
and that another dead body was to play
the passive role of her corpse; instead
of that, real death came to her.
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LATER NEWS.

Secretary Hay, in reply to France and
Russia rejects proposals as to impor-
tation of arms into China, permanent
garrisons andthe Taku forts. He
urges immediate negotiations to pre-
serve China. A Russian report says
Boxers are forming great armies in
south China and a terrible outbreak
soon is expected.
Capt. NJ. +. Jones, who fred the first
shot at Gettysburg, died at Wheaton,
ILL.,, aged 70 years. sF,
The treasury department gave no.
tice of a new counterfeit $40 silver
certificate, series of 1891, with, por-
trait of Hendricks.
Mrs. John Lawless died at Madison,
Wis, aged 104 years.
EN-President Harrison in an inter-
view explained why he supports McKin-
ley for reelection. He will make no
campaign speeches.
Forty persons were killed by the col
lapsing of the barracks at Pskov, Rus
STA. t Il,
At the Paris exposition the United
States received 2,745 awards; G,c-
many, 1926; Great. Britain, 1,727, and
Russia, 1893.
Mrs. Julia Duplici celebrated her one
hundred and first birthday in Chippe-
wa Falls, Wis.
Edward iousealin and his two boys
were burned to death in a shanty at
Roxbury, Mass.
Mrs. Herman Kielback and her baby
and Miss Lizzie Herman and Mrs.
Charles B~artenbeck were killed by the
cars at Holbrook, Neb.
Edward Holden was arrested at Tiff
fin, O., for bigamy. it being claimed
that he has nine wives.
Gen. David S. Stanley was elected
president of the Society of the Army
of the Cumberland at it's annual ses-
sion in Chattanooga.
The special session of the Michigan
legislature began at Lansing and Gov.
Pingree delivered his address.
While insane the wife of Rev.
Charles Meeder, of Pennington, Kan,
jumped into a ~cistern with her two
year-old child and both were drowned.
The government crop report shows
a decline in the condition of corn for
September.
A. P. Deer, an aeronaut, fell from
his balloon at Gays Mills. Wis, and
was killed.
Striking miners making an effort to
close a coI4iery at Oneida, Pa, came
in collision with coal and iron police
and one mar was killed. and several
seriously injured.
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The missionary Cause.

st. Louis, Oct. 11.-Several hundred
officers, charter members, missionaries
and workers of the American board of
commissioners for foreign missions, to-
gether with many prominent minis
tiers and lay workers in Congregation
al churches of the country, met in Pill
grim Congregational church Wednes-
day for a three-days' session. The
event that occasioned the gathering
was the ninety-frst annual meeting
of the board, which is holding its most
important session since 1910, the date
of organization. The crisis in China
and the famine in India, two of it's
largest fields, bring before the board
conditions never before met by that
body. The presence of so many mis-
%sionaries from foreign fields and the
reports given by them at the after
noon session gave added interest to
the proceedings. Reports of officers
and missionaries We're the order of
the day. H
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Struck by an Eneine.

Holbrook, Neb., Oct. 11.-Wednes-
day evening at seven o'clock, as Mrs.
Herman Kielbeck and family were
crossing the railroad at the depot in a
farm wagon, a lone engine going west
ran into them, instantly killing Miss
Lizzie Norman, Mrs. Kielbeck and her
baby girl and Mrs. Carl Barten-
beck; also seriously injuring the lat
ter's four-year-old boy and 1s-months-
old baby girl. The latter is not ex-
pected to survive. Not a single occu-
pant escaped unhurt. The wagon was
smashed into kindling wood and one
of the horses killed. Mrs. Bartenbeck
was the wife of Carl Bartenbeck, who
was shot and killed near here Monday
night by his brother-in-law,
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Buried in One crave,

Cleveland, O., Oct. 10.-Ihe bodies
of the wife, three daughters, grand
daughter and niece of Capt. James
Corrigan were lowered together into
one large grave in Lakeview cemetery,
Tuesday afternoon. Rev. DR.. SPEECH
er, of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian
church, conducted the services. On
July z, the schooner yacht Idler,
owned by Capt. Corrigan, capsized in
a squall on this port and Mrs. James
Corrigan and Ida Corrigan, Jane Cor
rigan and Mrs. Rieley, her daughter,
and baby Rieley, were drowned. The
last of the bodies was recovered only
a few days ago. Miss Mabelle Hall,
a niece of Capt. Corrigan, and a be-
loved inmate Of his home, died within
the last week and she was buried with
the victims of the wreck,
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THE EAST.

In the United States there were 208
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 5th, against 2o4 the week
previous and 1874 the corresponding pc
riod of 1899.
Upon entering the fourth week of
the miners strike, a conference which
is believed to mark the beginning of
the end Of the struggle was held at
the headquarters of the United Mine
Workers in Hazleton, and q joint cons
vention of operators and employees will
probably soon be called.
Flames. destroyed the Atlantic
Transport line pier in New York, the
loss being 5 1.ooo.ooo. 10
The population of New Castle, Pa,
is $3.50, which is more than double
that of 1890.
Carl Schurz has resigned the pres
ideney of the National Civil Service
Reform league.
A call has been issued by President
Mitchell, of the United Mine Work.
sers, for a convention of strikers at
Scranton, Pa. to pass on terms of
fered by operators.
At the age of II years Andrew c.
Armstrong, one of the founders OF
Scribner's Monthly and one of the
oldest publishers in New York, died
at his country home at Stamford,
Conn.
In the United States the visible sup
ply Of grain on the 9Th was: Wheat,
55,4o1,0 90 bushels; corn, 1887 600
bushels; oats, 100000 bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels; barley, 1920, 900 bush
els.
William Schneider. charged with
stealing $1os.o 600, is a fugitive. He
was a clerk in a bank at Elizabeth
port, N. j., and the bank was robbed.
A list issued by the American Bible
society of dead and missing mission
aries in China numbers 17s persons.
In the Hazleton region there was
no change in the strike situation, nor
is there likely to be any until the
conclusion of the Scranton conven-
ton.
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BETRAYED His Trust.

New York, Oct. 10.-Charged with
having stolen from the Elizabethport
Banking company of Elizabethport,
N. j., nearly $10sy0OO, William Schrei-
Der, utility clerk, 26 years old, has dis
appeared. Frederick Heidritter, pres
ident of the banking company, and its
counsel, ex-Judge H. P. Gilhooly, came
to this city to make efforts to recorer
$4,000 worth of diamonds and other
valuables which the clerk is said to
have lavished upon a young woman
living here. Although the young man
had been ~abstracting money from the
bank for several years, his employers
say that he accomplished his thefts
so cleverly as even to deceive a state
bank examiner.
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THEY FIGHT AGAIN.
Nonunion Men Attacked by strikers
Mt Mine Near Hnzleton-Many
Are Injured in Shooting.

eEa--Eg#AFA A. EhagJ hA4IaEss- rHGa aE-sE.
HazletonSPa, Oct..l1.-A special po-
liceman was instantly killed, another
was wounded in the head, u striker
was probably fatally shot and tenn nom
union men were more or less seriously
wounded at&the. Oneida coIliery,o
Coke Bros. i'm clash between4theoof-
ficers and 500 strikers Wednesday
morning. sEfS- I'll "a - sBFE,Ss&
@The Oneida colliery having been in
operation since the Inauguration of
the strike, the union men at Oneida
and Sheppton, where many Of the en-
ployes of the Oneida and Derringer
collieries of Coke Bros. & Co. live, de-
cided early Wednesday morning to
close down the mine. They gathered
in groups OF the streets as early as
three o'clock. AS the nonunionl men
vent to work they were asked by the
strikers to remain att home. a4 Some
turned back, others did not. Those
who went to the colliery were stoned.
The strikers remained at the col
liery all morning. AS the small mine
locomotive used in hauling coal from
the No. 2 and No. 8 collieries to the
Oneida breaker pulled up on the road
near the latter colliery a crowd Of
women blocked the track. The wom-
en- were told by General Superintend-
emit Kudleck to go home. He assured
them that their husbands would get
an increase in wages and that their
other grievances would be properly adj
justed. The women refused to listen
and stoned the superintendent, who
was wounded in the head. Then the
striking men and the women rushed
toward the No. 2 colliery. A force of
about SO special policemen who had
been brought down from Beaver
Meadow to prevent trouble attempted
to intercept the mob, but they were
powerless ito do anything andIretired
to the engine house.
Just as the officers got close to
shelter a shot was fred. This was
followed by another, and in a few
seconds many shots rang through the
air. Policeman Mills was the first to
fall. Then Joseph Lesko, a striker,
staggered to the ground. No one
knows. who shot first, but it is believed
that both the strikers and the officers
used their weapons. ,H{6l2 FL sg
Scranton, Pa, Oct. 11.-Thousands
of striking mine workers marched in
review through the crowded. streets
of this city Wednesday and showed
their loyalty to the cause for which
they have been battling for the past
three weeks. Not only did the strik-
ers manifest loyalty to their prin-
ciples, but showed the confidence they
had, in their leader, John Mitchell,
who came here to participate in the
parade and to address the men in
mass meeting. t3
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WEST n SOUTH.

Flames destroyed a large portion OF
the town Of Byesville, o.
l. Judge John Olney, the last Lincoln
elector in Illinois and the Oldest mem
Der of the Chicago bar, died at the
age of IS years.
At Cleveland, o., Cresceus made a
new worlds record for trotting stall
lions by going a mile in 1904.
"Saml of Posen." M. B. Curtis, the
actor, fled a petition in bankruptcy
in St. Paul, with liabilities of SLY, 900,
assets. S25.
Substantial agricultural prosperity
is reported throughout the region ~
ing between Havana and Cienfuegos,
in Cuba.
Near Eveleth, Mimi, q powder mag
azine blew up, killing one person and
injuring 200.
In Cuba the total customs receipts
during the first eight months of 1900
were $40, e72, d2s.65, against $9,493,-
oss.46 for the ~ period of 1899.
Youtsey, charged with duplication
in the Goebel murder, was placed on
trial at Georgetown, Ky.
In a political riot iii Guayamac,
Porto Rico, four persons, one a wom-
an, were killed.
In Alabama the coal output this
year will approximate 9,Ooo,0 900 tons,
an increase over last years produc-
ton of 1,25O.oOO tons.
In Iowa the total Of all cereal crops
this year will be $751; $40 900 bushels
which is 10000, 900 in excess of any
previous year.
Bottom lands surrounding La Crosse
Wis, were all overlooked by waters
from the Mississippi and Black rivers
j. P. Tice. a barber at Pennington
Mo-, killed Fred Trappe and then
committed suicide. Politics caused
the crime.
/. w. Keller, whc' was executed il
Oklahoma, confessed that he had
murdered seven persons.
The Illinois state banks in Chicago
show big increases in loans and dis
counts and in savings deposits.
At Seneca, Mo-, Maj. Edward Gold
berg, United States Indian agent, dice
of mushroom poisoning.
At the Newport News yards the
launching of the monitor Arkansa.
has been set for November 10.
In Cleveland the interment of thu
wife, three daughters, granddaughter,
and niece Of Capt. James Corrigar
took place in one grave in Lakeyiew
cemetery. They were drowned by
the capsizing Of the yacht Idler.
At FL Pas',, Tex. 20 Cinnamon ant
Italians have been arrested charged
with being unlawfully in the United
States.
The Idaho soldiers home at Bots,
City was destroyed by fire. Their,
were 80 inmates, but no one was in
jured.
Trial by jury has been inauguratet
in Cuba and the writ of habeas corpul
established.
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N NEWS ITEMS,

There are about 10000 lepers in the
Philippines.
Modern machinery is fast finding its
way to small farms in Cuba.
A German firm has built a locomo-
tive on the American pattern.
The Chicago G. Alton will exclude
news agents from moving trains.
The United States lead all other ma
lions in the matter of fruit growing.
The gold yield of Cripple Creek for
the present year is expected to amount
to $27,O o0. 900.
During the last year 2,4OO duels have
been fought in Italy and 4sO deaths
have resulted.
Col. Lynch, who fought with the
Beers, says Kruger may come to the
United States.
The international peace congress in
Paris condemned Great Britain's course
in the Transvaal.
An English inventor proposes to
build a boat that will cross the At
lantic in two days.
Big imports of gold from Europe are
anticipated in New York as a result
of the resumption of mining in South
Africa.
The Railway Clerks Mutual Benefit
association, in session in Detroit, Mich,
elected Henry E. First, of Cincinnati,
president.
Lessees Of the Georgia penal camps
are charged with entrapping innocent
negroes and forcing them into the
chain gangs.
Cabbage crops in Europe are gen.
orally poor this year and this coun-
try is being called upon to make up
the deficiency.
A well-preseryed life-size marble
statue of Apollo has been dug up near
Athens. The workmanship is of the
fifth century before Christ.
Scores of sheep and hogs have been
killed recently on the borders of Vir-
ginia and South Carolina by animals
which seem to be half dog and half
wolf.
Naval officers complain that naval re-
serves took but little interest in sum-
mer cruises. and conclude that they
would lot be valuable in ease of
trouble.
At Japanese auctions bidders write
their offer on a slip Of paper, and drop
II into a box. When all the bids are in
the box is opened and the highest bid.
Ider named.
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Ext Congressman A. T. Goodwin, from
Alabama, writes the following letter:
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.:
G~entlemen-"I have now used two bot
ties Of Peruna, and am a well man to-day.
l could feel the good effects of your medicine
before ! had used it a week, after suffering
with catarrh for over a year" Respect
fully, AT. Goodwin.
Cataarh in its various forms is rapidly be-
coming a national curse. An undoubted
remedy has been discovered by DR.. Hart
tested during the past forty years. 0iPPr remfE.
nent men have come to know of its virtues
and are making public utterances on the
subject. To save the country we must save
the people. To save the people we must pro-
tect them from disease. The disease that
is at once the most prevalent and stubborn
Of cure is catarrh. Public men Of all par
ties recognize in Peruna a national catalrh
remedy of %unequaled merit. Send to DR..
Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, for a free book
on catarrh.
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A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings of a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News Of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM ~wAsnINGToH.

The report of the post Office de-
partmentr shows receipts of. $102, 1884,
$40 during the last fiscal year, leaving
a deficit of $4,S94,71s, which is $1,50o,-
600 less than the deficit for the pre-.
ceding fiscal year.
The treasury OF. the United States
reaffirmed a ruling that legacies over
$4,000 must pay inheritance tax on
the full amount.
The census Office says the popula-
ton of Delaware is 1s4,735; of the
District of Columbia, 27s, It's.
In Washington Col. Joseph Payson
Wright, assistant surgeon general of
the United States army, died sudden
" at his home. G
President Mckinley and wife ar
rived in, Washington from Canton.
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Challenge IL Sent.

London, Oct 11.-There has been
much talk lately about Sir Thomas
Lipton's having again challenged for
the Americas cup. Much of it has
been denied, but there is now no
doubt about the matter. Sir Thomas,
finding that no challenge was likely to
be sent, has once more, with a sports
manship that will be appreciated all
over America, forwarded a challenge
for the Americas cup to the New
York Yacht club.
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Schurx Resirna.

New York, Oct. S.-Carl Schurz, who
resigned his presidency of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform league, as
well as of the Civil Service Reform as
ISOLATION, explains his action in a let
ter to Secretary George McAneny.
Mr.. Schurz says he resigns rather
than be criticised as carrying on q
systematic course of antagonism to
the administration, his opposition to
it in regard to other policies having in
the meantime become conspicu-
nus
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Iowa Crona.

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 9.-The official
preliminary estimate of the crop
yields of Iowa for the current year
show: Corn, area, 8,61s,66 acres, av-
erage Al bushels to the acre, total prod
uct 353,365,o6 bushels, which is great
er by 1s,ooo,o 900 than ever before har-
vested in the state. The total of all
cereals will be 531,349, 900 bushels,
which is 100000 in excess of any
previous year. and 3 $1,000, 900 above
the average yearly output the past
ten years.
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WIN Go Back TO work

Danville, Pa, Oct. S.-The employees
of the DaMville rolling mill he'd a
meeting Saturday night and decided
to accept the 25 per cent. cut in their
wages against which they struck last
week. The pudd1ers VIA now be paid
So a ton for their work, instead of 81.
the price formerly paid, and a proper
tionate cut in wages will be made in
the other departments. The reduction
affects several hundred men. The fires
were started Sunday and work will be
resumed to-day.
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St. Johns. N. F.. Oct. 1G.-According
to reports from st. Pierre, II fishing
vessels that were operating on the
Grand Banks during the gale of Sep
TENDER ~ are still missing, with
crews aggregating yer eco men. A
number of other vessels that have ar
rived here within the last few days
have reported a loss of one to seven
men each. The fatality list probably
exceeds 3CO. Serious disaster has Wis
tied a number of New Foundland fish
ing harbors, BURN, on the west side
of Placentia bay, alone losing IS men.
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Montreal is gorging herself with
oysters. The boats have come in from
Prince Edward island and the gulf,
their loads piled far above the decks.
They lie at the wharves below the
Bonsecours market, and a constant
stream of men and boys, with an oc-
casional woman, climbs up ard down
the dyke to feast at first hand. For
rs cents one is allowed to eat as many
oysters as he can, and men have been
known to stay from s o'clock till 8
o'clock on an investment of that
amount. The feaster is compelled to
open the oysters himself.
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The estate of the late C. P. Hunt
ington must pay death taxes to the
amount of 100000 to the state Of
New York and an equal amount to
the general government under the
war reyenue act, the supreme court
having decided the inheritance tax to
be constitutional. But that is q small
amount compared with the death
taxes imposed by Great Britain. The
returns show that nearly $4,000, 900
was paid into the British treasury
last year. Total amount ~bequeathed
by 1894 persons in England during
the year was sl,46o,oOo.0o
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An English exchange makes the
claim that one of the varieties of
wheat cultivated at an immensely
remote period by the lake inhabitants
of Switzerland still exists. These
lake inhabitants are presumed to have
belonged to a race which originally
came from a southeastern district of
Europe or Asia, travelling west. Per-
was by the the early Chinese writer's.
What is known as the Fenton wheat
was discovered growing on a pile of
basaltic remains in a quarry.
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REGIONS

Fifty years ago the Franklin, q side
wheel steamsip plying between South
ampton, Havre and New York, went
aground on the outer bar at East
Moriches, L. I. The ship washed
broadside to the beach, where the
sand soon banked up about her SO
high the wagons were driven to her
to remove her cargo. The other day
the old landmark, that has become
so familiar to pilots and coasters, is
doomed. A Boston firm with n diver
has begun to wreck the old ship with
dynamite to secure the cargo of val
liable copper still aboard.
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number of capitalists

A number of capitalists from
Brooklyn, N. Y, have purchased the
famous PENIS cave, in the heart of
beautiful PENIS valley, about ten
miles from Bellefonte, Pa. The con-
s%ideration has not been made known
yet, but some time ago 100000 was
refused for it. Although not SO large,
PENIS a V in beauty and splendor
rivals the famous Mammoth cave in
Kentucky. The entrance to it is by
the way of what appears to be an or
binary sink hole in the open field,
such as are common in limestone
regions.
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The emperor ,ahd EMPRESS OF China
removed to Singan Flu, ia fortified
town in Shensi province, alleging 6
scarcity Of food in Shansi as the rea-
son. German papers regard the move
as evidence that the Chinese court is
anti-foreign as ever, and as putting
peace negotiations on a farcical level.
The relief column failed - find so
men OF the TWenty-ninth infantry
reported captured on Martinique is
land. Philippines.
BY the sinking OF the Egyptian
mail steamer Charkieh 200 passengers
were drowned.
During a panic caused by a false
alarm of fire four men and sthirtY-six
women were crushed to death in
Porkhoff, Russia. - Ef Al Y
: From China Minister Conger has
submitted a list of Chinese whom he
regards as the responsible authors
of the outrages which have occurred
and has made recommendations as to
the extent and manner of their, pun
ishment, and his report vas consid-
cred at a cabinet meeting. J.aifa
In the recent storm on the Grand
Banks of Newfoundland 800 fishermen
were lost.
Orders were issued by the British
war Office that the bulk Of the militia
regiments called out for service dur
Ing the South African war be dis
banded. gIa,
In India the general condition Of
the crops is excellent, and. except in
q part of Bombay, famine conditions
are disappearing. The total number
on the relief list has fallen to 2,74e,-
600. a
About 900 Boer prisoners were
landed by the British transport Idaho
on the island OF st. Helena.