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The counter proposition, that human
beings were not liable to Infection
from bovine tuberculosis, was harder
to prove, owing to the difficulty OF
experimenting upon human subjects,
but personally he was satisfied that
it was the case. The professor re-
eited at length post-mortem evidence
supporting this belief.
DR.. Koch said that If this point
were conceded, it remained to de-
termine the chief source Of contaSion.
Human immunity to bovine infection
disposed Of the belief in infection
through dairy products, and he con-
sidered this source Of danger 50
slight as to be unworthy of precaution-
ary, measures. Heredity was also an
unimportant factor in the transmits
sion Of tuberculosis, though the con-
trary had long been believed.
DR.. Koch said the chief source OF
danger lay In the sputum of consump-
tive patients, and remedy was to
be found in law preventing the con-
sumptive from throwing contagion
about him. Several methods to this
end were available. The surest of all
would be isolation in sanitariums.
This, unfortunately, was impractic-
able, but he strongly urged the es-
tablishment Of special consumptive
hospitals, the obligatory notification
to the authorities of the existence OF
the disease, the disinfection Of their
quarters whenever consumptives
changed their residence. and the
dissemination of information 10 the
people concerning the true nature Of
consumption as an aid in avoiding and
combating it.
DIR. Koch highly complimented DR..
Herman NJ. Biggs, pathologist and d.
rector of the archaeological labora-
tories of the New York City Health
Department, upon the repressive
measures in regard to tuberculosis
taken in New York City, where, he
said, the mortality from tuberculosis
had been reduced thirty-tive per cent.
since 1885. He recommended the sys-
tenn organized by DR.. Biggs in New
York City to the study and imitation
of all municipalities.
DR.. Koch closed his remarks by ex-
pressing his belief that tn" ultimate
stamping out of tuberculosis was pos
Sible.
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INSANE MANS VENGEANCE
Kills a Man Who Sent Him to an
Asylum-Shoots Five Others.
Merchant Was Slain, Doctor. Police
Sergeant, Detective, Policeman
and Labsrer Wounded.

Leavenw0rth. Kan.-Michael Kelly,
An insane man. at the Office of the
Robert Garrett Lumber Company, shot
six people, killing one. probably fatally
Wounding another. and more or less
seriously wounding the four others.
He was himself finally killed by off,
GERS who tried to overpower him.
The victims are: John R. Garrett,
aged forty, junior member of the firm
Of Robert Garrett Lumber Company,
died at the hospital; DR.. Charles Nc
Gee, aged thirty, shot In the back
and probably fatally wounded; VIII
liam Dodge. Police Sergeant, shot in
the neck, wounds serious; Michael
Mcdonald, detective, shot in the leg,
slight; Joseph Falthager, policeman,
shot in the hand, wound slight; Ike
Healer, laborer at the lumber yard,
shot in the hand, wound slight.
Kelly had lived in Leavenworth for
years, and at different times had en-
gagged in minor business enterprises.
He was eccentric, and during the
Presidential campaign in 1896 lost his
mind entirely. At that time he threat
ened to kill Garrett. He was arrested
and adjudged insane. Garrett and four
others testifying against him. After
a year in the Topeka Asylum Kelly
was released. He had been acting
queerly again, and had declared that
he would kill the five men who sent
him to the asylum. For two weeks
past lie has been practising shooting
with q revolver daily at the Fort
Leayenworth range.
A few days ago he drank heavily.
Soon after - o'clock he appeared at
Garrett's Office, and without warning
shot Garrett as he sat at his desk.
Garrett fell to the floor. and Kelly
deliberately fred four more shots into
the prostrate form. Kelly then ran
to the rear of the company's lumber
yard and began reloading his revolver.
Presently he returned to the office to
find DR.. MCGEE, who had been at
tracted by the shooting, bending over
Garrett. Leveling his revolver, Kelly
took aim at the physician and fired.
The bullet struck MCGEE in the spine,
and he toppled over near where Gar
rett lay.
Then followed an exciting street
fight between the madman and officers
who came upon the scene. Kelly,
fiourishing his revolver, dashed
through the lumber yard. He met Ike
Healer, q laborer, and shot him in the
hand. A few yards further on he
encountered Sergeant Dodge. The two
exchanged shots as they ran. One
bullet from Kelly's revolver struck
Dodge in the neck, but not before the
officer had shot Kelly in the shoulder.
Kelly kept running and was soon con,
fronted by Detective Mcdonald and
Officer Falthager. Mcdonald dropped
Kelly with bullet in the neck. Dodge
raised bis revolver, but it failed to
work, and, catching up with the muir
derer, he crushed his skull with the
weapon.
Kelly was carried to the station ID
an unconscious condition, dying soon
after his arrival there.
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MINOR EVENTS0F THE WEEK
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

a new ten dollar note, bearing a
picture Of Buffalo. Is being engraved
in Washington.
The State Department was notified
that Marquis Malispina, the new Ital'
ian Ambassador. will reach Washing
ton in September.
A man claiming to be Senator Han.
mas son, but who is an imposter, was
arrested In washington for swindling
jewellers.
The constitutionality Of the Massa-
chusetts Electrocution law is involved
in an appeal to the United States Su.
preme Court taken by Luigi Storti, o
condemned murderer.
The italian Government made rep.
reservations to the State Department
and Instituted investigations through
coEsuls into the alleged lynching of
Italians in Mississippi.
The new battleships recommended
by the Board Of Construction are to
be the largest, fastest and most heav.
lily armored in the American Navy.
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THECURE0F TUBERCULOSIS
Or. Koch's Hopeful View Regarding
Prevention Of the Disease.
CONSUMPTION THEORIES UPSET

The Famous Expert Says That the White
Plague Is Neither Hereditary Nor
Transmitted From Animals - Greatest
Cause OF Contagion 10 the Sputum OF
Afflicted Persons--A Bugbear Destroyed
London. - Professor Robert Koch's
announcement before the British Con-
gress on tuberculosis that the disease
In human beings and that in cattle
were radically different and not trans
ferable from animal to man and vice
versa proved to be the most sensa-
tional feature Of this remarkable
meeting.
In the course of his address, DR..
Koch said his experiments had satis-
lied him that human tuberculosis and
bovine tuberculosis were radically
different diseases. He had amply
demonstrated that cattle could not be
infected with human tuberculosis.
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DOMESTIC.

Counterfeit half-dollars were passed
extensively Of late in Massachusetts
Carrie Nation was fined $100 and
given thirty days in Jail for disorders
in Topeka, Kan, during her March
raids.
Four burglaries In one week is the
record against ten-year-old John En-
| gelmeyer, of Austin, ILL.,, two horses
being part of his plunder.
Burglars seized a bundle Of notes in
the City National Bank, Of Dayton,
Ohio, by using hooks.
After a wild life for several weeks.
Mordecai T. Washburn. a wealthy
brick manufacturer of Haverstraw,
N. Y, fatally shot himself.
Pardons were granted four prisoners
at Newburyport, Mass, for helping
Deputy Sheriff Ayers when attacked
In jail by other prisoners.
By the ruling of the fourth Appellate
Division In Rochester, N. Y, a woman
Is entitled to all the profits which may
accrue from her beauty.
The missionaries Of the American
board will return to North China to
resume work in the early fall.
On the Midway of the Pan-Ameri-
can Exposition, at Buffalo, N. Y, En-
nesto q. Zeorzeya killed himself after
attempting to murder concesslonaire.
All saloons in Fort Scott, Kan, were
ordered closed and the mandate was
.obeyed.
Greek and Austrian railroad graders
met at Sydney. Neb., in deadly COM
| bat. Six Greeks were wounded and
one Austrian was killed. A drunken
row was the beginning of the diff
Guilty.
The vacant postmastership at New
| Orleans, La, was filed by the ap-
pointment of David G. Baldwin.
Revelations Of conspiracy result
Ing in murder and the arrest Of we'll
| known citizens of Echols County, Ga,
may lead to a feud in tnat part Of the
| State.
Golden Rule" Jones. Mayor Of To-
ledo, Ohio, was fined S. and costs by
Police Judge Wachenheimer for con-
tempt of court. The Mayor promptly
paid the fine.
Governor Jennings, Of Florida, ar
ranged for the transfer Of Mullat Key
Quarantine Station, the most impor-
tant in the South, to the Federal Gov
ernment.
| The historic Fairfax Inn, at Berke-
ley Springs, w. Va, over 100 years
old, was burned. The guests had
| narrow escape.
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FOREIGN.

The London County Council is about
to send O tramway manager and an
electrical engineer to study traction
systems in the United States.
John Henderson, the well-known
shipbuilder, died ut Glasgow, Scot
land.
Russia demanded from the Porte
concessions in the way Of coaling
stations.
Owing to losses in the Leipsic Bank
failure, Banker SalQ Rawez killed him
self.
Beers captured and burned q, train
near Beaufort West, South Africa.
Three British were killed and eighteen
wounded.
Fifty houses were destroyed by fire
at Port au Prince, Hayti. Many fire.
men received injuries. The damage
is estimated at 100000.
The Chilean Government is prepar-
ing q bill which will effect q reor-
saniZation to q large extent o. the
national finances.
The freedom Of the City Of London
was presented to Lord Miner at the
Guildhall.
Indians who claim possession Of Cal
uuhoun Island in the st. Lawrence
River were dispossessed by the Ca
madam Government.
The Belgian Minister at Washington,
Count de Lichtervelde, will be sue.
ceeded by, Baron Moncheur.
A dispatch from Tien-Tsin said that
Europeans there distrusted China's
pledges.
Elections in many departments in
France showed small gains for the
Government party.
Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-
Chief of the British Army, issued an
order that in future dislnounted infan.
try officers are to carry carbines in.
stead Of swords on active service and
in manoeuvres.
Major Pine-Coffin surprised q Boer
commando at HoninGspruit, South
Africa, capturing Commandant Hat.
ting and twenty-six men and killing
and wOunding seventeen.
Ecuador's Consul General in Chile,
Senor Alberto Arias Sanchez, was as.
sassinated in Valparaiso.
The Baldwin-Ziegler arctic explor.
ing expedition sailed from Tronsoe,
| Norway, for the north.
Horatio J. Sprague, United States
! Consul in Gibraltar and the oldest
Consul In the American service, Is
dead.
Drought, accompanied by severe
] heat, prevailed through England
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UNPRECEDENTED HOT WAVE
All Previous High Records in the
Central West Broken.
PRAYERS FOR RAIN IN MISSOURI

The Torrid Wave Most Intense in Kansas.
Missouri, Indian Territory and Okla
homa - Other States Suffer From Un-
usual Heat-Corn Crop Damaged Near
ly Fifty Per Cent.-Pastures Parched
Chicago.-Sunday was the hottest In
the great corn belt since the torrid
wave set in. From Colorado to Ten
nessee, from Arkansas to Manitoba,
city after city reported maximums Of
100 degrees and upward. Lines Of
latitude cut no figure; it was hotter in
South Dakota than in Texas, and st.
Paul beat st. Louis lower down the
river.
Professor Walz, looking over his
maps, saw nothing except heat and
dryness throughout the whole conti-
mental basin. Nowhere was there
moisture enough to produce atbunder-
storm. Moreover, there are no dis
coverable signs Of any speedy break
ing up.
Reports. Of ruined corn, burned up
pastures and blasted oatfelds come
from all parts Of the Central West,
adding terror to the situation for the
farmers. The drought in the Central
West has been almost unprecedented
and the reports say the corn crop al
ready has been damaged to the extent
Of fifty per cent. Unless soaking rains
come soon this damage will be great
er.
Kansas City announced the most re-
markable heated term in its history.
For thirty-two days the temperature
. has risen above ninety degrees every
afternoon, and for the last thirteen
days the mercury has gone above 100
regularly. Since April B there has
been only one heavy shower.
Much suffering Is reported among
the farm laborers, and in many dis
trlcts it Is almost impossible to get
the wheat crop harvested because men
will not 60 into the harvest field dur
ing the hot weather. The railroads
of the Northwest also are experience
ing much difficulty with laborers, the
section gangs being unable to carry
on their work. The roads are having
| severe struggle with small fires
along the lines, fields of grain, fences,
ties, bridges and every iniammable
thing Is catching from the heat, COM
bined with sparks from passing en-;
gines.
The heat wave prevailed over all
the drought-stricken region Of the
Southwest-Kansas, Western Missouri,
Indian Territory and Oklahoma.
Drought has destroyed the grass In
the great pasture regions Of Missouri
and Kansas, where grass is considered
king Of all farm products. In conse-
quence the natural supply Of beef,
mutton, pork and all the dairy pro-
ducts has been seriously affected. The
one hope for escape from the most
serious results Of the devastation Is
that q second crop Of grass can be
matured before frost comes, and even
this cannot be done unless rain falls
soon.
Farmers Of Missouri are feeding
wheat to their stock in some Of the
most parched sections Of the State.
They say that they have found this
cheaper than resortinS to the supply
Of oats in the present extremity. Large
stock owners in Missouri have been
shipping their horses and cattle across
the river into parts Of Illinois which
have escaped the worst Of the wave
Of heat. In many sections farmers
have been cutting their corn for fod-
der
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

= Five yellow fever cases were found
in a suburb of Havana Cuba, and
four were removed to the city hos
pitals.
The fiscal of the Havana Audiencia
said that he possessed already suf-
ficient evidence to convict G. F. w.
Neely of postal frauds.
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, Civil Cover
nor Of Benguet Province. luzon, P. l..
was exonerated by the Civil Commis-
sion of the charges against him.
Little opposition was shown in Cuba
to the decision Of the United States
to occupy MORO Castle.
Gold and silver jewelry valued at
1928 413 was imported into the Philip
pines during 1900.
Aguinaldo is considerably irritated
at his continued surveillance by the
American authorities at Manila.
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SCUTTLE A BURGLAR TRAP.
After Hiding Thirty Hours, Withou
Food, Thief Surrenders Himself.

Boston, Mass. - Thirty hours in a
scuttle without food and with little
air and the inevitability Of arrest, led
q burglar who had intended to rob the
clothing store of SpitZ Brothers &
NIork to make his presence known and
to crawl out of his hiding place. A
watchman who discovered suspicious
signs had called the police, and they
took charge Of the robber.
The man said he was Christopher
Connor, but the police have recog-
nized him as Charles A. McAvoy,
housebreaker with an international
reputation. and he admitted that he
was McAvoy. He has served terms
in Massachusetts and in English pris-
0pe
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The National Game.

No team this season so far has
scored more than four runs off Phillip
pi.
Never in his long League career has
Dahlen batted so poorly as this sea-
son.
Lajoie has done the ablest slugging
by far of any batsman in either majo!
league.
President Hart, of the Chicago Ma
tional League team, has released Gu
pid" Childs and Third Baseman Hof
man. Dexter will be played at sec
IOnd-
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News Of the Tollers.

A strike of 1000 men has held up
building operations at Fort Worth,
Texas.
The Window Glass Trust Is worried
by the organization Of many co-opera-
tive plants.
Over 1OO,workmen have been laid off
at the Charlestown Navy Yard owing
. to lack of funds
The strike situation in the mining
district at Rossland, B. O., affecting
1900 men, is unchanged.
The Longshoremen's National Union,
in session at Toledo, Ohio, has re-
elected President D. ]. Keefe.
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Newsy Gleanlngs

There is q good market for American
shoes in South Africa.
The elm beetle is devastating many
sections of Connecticut.
A twelve-theatre vaudeville combiae
has been formed in the West.
A Marconi wireless telegraphy plant
NAV be established at Cape Race, n. f.
1t is stated that an American milk
company will establish a branch IN
London.
A combination of soft coal interests
was said to be just on the point OF
completion.
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Sporting Brevities.

Five first prizes have been won by
New York exhibitors at the Atlantic
City Horse Show.
The New Haven Country Club COM
bination has won the team golf cham
pionship Of Connecticut.
Warren Zurbrick, Of Buffalo, N. Y,
has lowered the worlds amateur com.
petition cycle record for five miles at
Vailsburg, N. J.
The University Of Pennsylvania
crew of Philadelphia easily won their
race against the Trinity, College, OF
Dublin, crew on Killarney Lake, Ire
Mnd.
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HANGED NEGRO IN CITY PARK.
West Virginia Mob Quickly Avenges tin
Shooting Of an Ohicer.

Elkins, w. Va. - William Brooks,
colored, was hanged to the limb of q
tree in the City Park here, while Chief
of Police Robert Lilly lay dying in a
Cumberland (Md.) hospital from the
effects of a bullet wound inflicted by
the cOlored man.
The negro shot Lilly when the Off
Ger was trying to place him under
arrest. The colored man then fed,
but later was captured. A mob gath
cred, and as the negro was being
taken to Jail the angry citizens took
him from the officers and hanged him
to a tree
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British Wheat Prospects.

In estimating the wheat prospects in
Great Britain, the Mark Lane Express
says the wheat will be fine both in
quantity and quality OH Eve per cent.
Of the area sown, and average on
twenty-five per cent. The remaining
seventy per cent. Of area sown will
inevitably produce q short crop. The
straw crop will be the smallest since
1893.
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PEKIN DEADLOCK ENDED.
ministers Reach Agreement as to tt
Payment Of the Indemnity.

ministers neacn AEKeoinohs 90 ~ s->S
Payment Of the Indemnity.
Washington, D. C.-The State De-
partment received a dispatch from
Commissioner Rockhill, in Pekin, an
nouncing that d plan for the payment
Of the indemnity to the Powers by the
Chinese Government finally had been
adopted. Amortization of the bonds
to be issued will begin in 1902, and the
plan contemplates the entire liquida-
ton of both principal and interest by
1910.
1t is expected that China will raise
$15,1sOO0O annually. This sum is
to be used to pay the interest on the
bonds and to form sinking fund
for the ultimate liquidation of the
principal.
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ALL MISSOURI PRAYs FOR RAIN.
The People Of the Drouth-strlcken State

The People Of the Drouth-Stricken State
Observed the Governors Proclamation;
st. Louis, Mo.-On Sunday, which
day Governor Dockery designated for
fasting and prayer that the present
drought might be broken in Missouri,
all records for hot weather in st. Louis
were broken, the Weather Bureau
thermometer registering 10S degrees.
The Governors proclamation was
generally needed, nearly every church
in the city holding we'll attended serv.
ices, given up to prayer that the
drought which has prevailed several
months and threatens the destruction
of all vegetation might be broken.
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CHICAGO SELLING VEGETABLES.

Supplying Hometown Products to
Drought-Stricken sections.
Chicago.-From four to six carloads
Of vegetables are now being shipped
from Chicago daily to drought-strick;
en- section Of Illinois and Missouri,
which ordinarily supply this market
with produce Of this character. The
shipments consist Of homegrown
vegetables. Buyers have come here
from Kansas City, Centralia and va.
rIous other places.
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MOTHERS FIGHT WITH EAGLES.
Stole Her Baby, But Parent Pursued and
Rescued It Uniniured.

Rescued 1t Un1nJured.
San Bernardino, Cal.-Advices were
received of an encounter between Mrs.
Golding, wife Of stage keeper, and
two eagles on a mountain fifty miles
north of this place.
She was sitting outside Of the stage
house by cradle, in which lay her
six months old baby, when suddenly
an eagle swooped down and seized
the infant. The mother rushed to
where a mule was tethered and. pull
ing the stake pin, was soon following
after the huge bird, which found fight
difficult with it's heavy burden.
The chase continued for long dis
tance, when the eagle alighted on its
nest in the mountains. Mrs. Golding
climbed to where she had seen the
eagle alight, fought the bird and killed
it.
Before she could escape the eagles
mate appeared and the mother had
another encounter. but drove the bird
away. Mrs. Golding arrived at the
stage house in pitiable condition,
The infant escaped injury.
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SWAN FLOOD TO MARRY.
Neither Obdurate Parent Nor Angrs
River Could Keep Girl From Sweetheart.

Neither Obdurate FarenC Nor AnSrS
River Could Keep Girl From Sweetheart.
Hagerstown, Md.-Miss Leila G. Pat
terson, of Augusta County, Va, was
married to John L. Cook, Of Elkton,
Va, after overcoming obstacles Of
which a fathers objection was one Of
the least.
The bride, pretty girl Of seventeen
years, procured one Of her fathers
horses and left home early in the
morning. She rode alone without a
saddle for ten miles and crossed the
Shenandoah River. The river was
badly swollen, and she was compelled
to cling to the horses neck to avoid
being swept away.
She Joined Cook at place agreed
upon and they came direct to this
place to be married.
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Five Killed In n Fire.

The RATA family. occupying a floor
of a tenement house in Pittsburg.
Penn, perished in a fire. The dead
are: Francis RATA, the father; Mrs.
Sophia RATA, thirty years old; Viola.
eight; Kashner, five, and Wabock, two
years of age. The fire was caused by
the explosion of an oil can.
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Mrs. Kruger was loom Paul's" Sec
pnd wife and was Miss Du Plessis,
a name of prominence in South Africa.
Mr.. Kruger's first wife was an aunt
Of Miss Du Plessis. By her he had
one son, who died.
Mrs. Kruger's long separation from
her husband. combined with the death
of her favorite daughter, Mrs. Smith,
recently, had completely broken her
sDirit
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Hanged For Numbering Brother-in-Law
Elmer E. Barner was hanged in the
jailyard at Harrisburg. Penn, for the
murder of his brother-in-law. Isaac
Miller, last August, near Halifax
Penn.
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Found Fifty New Fishes.

President David Starr Jordan. OF
the Stamford University, Cal, has re-
turned from Hawaii, where he has
been studying the fisheries and hshes
of the islands. About 24O species nave
been collected and classified, fifty or
which arr new to science.