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The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
packing PLANT BURNED.
A Monster Barbecue at Armour &
Co.'s Packing Plant in Sioux
City, Iowa.
ALOsS OF NEARLY MILLION DOLLARS.
A Grand Spectacle. Accumulated by Terrific
Explosions Of Drums of Ammonia and
the Squeals of Frightened Hogs-The
Fire Department Inadequate and Help
less.

Sioux City, Ia, Nov. 17.-Armour G.
Co.'s packing plant, which occupied
four acres of the stock yards and was
valued at 100000, was totally de-
stroyed, early Sunday morning, by a
fire which started on the second floor
of the fertilizer building, and is
thought by Manager Lennon to have
been due either to spontaneous COM
bustion or to an imperfect dryer. The
less is partly covered by 1921 500 in
surance. Six hundred men are thrown
out of employment by the fire.
Within an hour after the fire was
discovered by a Waterman six streams
of water were being thrown upon the
fire, which was cutting the fertilizer
building, which was 1870 by GO feet
and four stories high, but the pres
sure was inadequate. The floors and
contents of the building burned like
chaff. The roof soon fell and the
fire burst through into the beef-kill-
ing house.
A Terrific E~xpIOsion.
At the same time the cattle chute
ignited and in five minutes fell with
a crash. Once in the beef-killing
house the flames began to dance mad
ly. From this house to the oleo build
ing was but a step, and when the oils
started to burn the fire presented a
most spectacular appearance. The
big beef hor e containing 500 car
casses, next caught fire, and the
whole plan., except the hog house,
was a lake of fire. The roar was ter
rible. The country for miles around
was lighted up. Suddenly there was a
terrific defamation, followed quickly
by another, and then another. Tween
ty-four drums, containing 100 pounds
of ammonia each, exploded before the
reserve supply in the ammonia els
tern was reached. That explosion al
most RACED the entire plant. The
flames were blown through the fire
wall which separated the hog house
from the other buildings. The hog
house contained $500 dressed hogs
and 100000 pounds of pork products.
Steadily the fire crept against the
wind and through the Office building.
MOI q scrap of paper was saved.
Live Hogs Il Their S%queaIs.
When the last of the ammonia
drums was going off a burning chute
fell upon a bunch of live hogs, and
their squeals were added to the ap.
palling chorus. After the fire got a
good Roadway in the hog house, the
shops, chicken packing plant, ice
houses and ice runways and smaller
department houses were consumed in
quick succession. The terrible roar
ing continued undated, the high
brick walls crumbled and crashed
one by one, and the confagration
gradually ate it's way through build
ing after building.
The fire department was helpless,
as its apparatus was inadequate. The
pressure was hardly strong enough
to throw water to the roof of the
pork house. When the walls of This
department burst the firemen played
their streams on the out-buildings IN
til daylight.
The fire burned all day, and Sunday
afternoon there was another terrific
explosion, which threw bricks and
pieces of iron for hundreds of yar.ls.
one was hurt.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
THREE SHOTS At KING.
King Leopold Of the Belgians Made
Q Target of While On His
Way to Church.
NOT ONE OF THE SHOTS TOOK EFFECT.
and the Police Had Some Difficult
ty In Rescuing Him From the
Hands Of u Crowd Who Wanted
T. XIII Him.

Brussels, Nov. 16.-Three shots were
fired at the king of the Belgians Sat-
urday morning as he was proceeding
to the cathedral to attend a tie deum
Henriette. No one was hurt.
The man who fred the shots is an
Italian. He stood in front of the
Bank of Brussels on the Rue Royale.
The other chambers in his revolver
proved to be blank, sc it is presumed
that those fired were equally harm
less. The man was Immediately ar
rested, and the police had some diff
Guilty in rescuing him from the hands
Hpf the crowd. He gave the name of
|Rubino.
The royal cortege consisted of sew.
eral carriages, besides that of the
king, containing the count and count
ess of Flanders. prince and princess
Albert of Flanders, the Princess Glenn
entine, and aides-de-camp and ladies
of honor.
When examined by the police, Ru-
bino confessed that he intended to
shoot King Leopold and said he held
anarchist beliefs.
A fuller investigation satisfied the
police that Rubino really fred a ball
cartridge the bullet of which smashed
the window of Comte D'Oultremont's
carriage and grazed the grand mar
shal's face. When rescued from the
mob, Rubino was placed in a cab and
Infatuated crowds of people immedi-
ately surrounded it and attacked the
vehicle with knives and sticks. The
police had great difficulty in forcing a
way to the police station through the
crowd, which shouted alternately:
"Kill him." and Long live the king
The cab was badly hacked with
knives. A search of the prisoner re-
vealed a package of ball cartridges.
1t is reported that Rubino had been
heard to express anarchist opinions,
and it was also said that he came to
Brussels from London expressly to
kill King Leopold, and went to the
SaChNdidi All ILLS pun pcSc, puO lC-
Trained from shooting at the king for
fear of killing soldiers who stood be-
hind his majesty.
Rubino is also reported to have said
he was employed in the italian secret
service in London and that he came
to Brussels a fortnight ago with the
intention of assassinating King Leo
pold.
The news of the outrage spread rap
idly throughout the city and the
greatest excitement prevailed. The
people thronged the streets, eagerly
discussing the attempt on the life of
the king, and large crowds gathered
in front of the various bulletin
boards. The newspapers issued fire.
quent editions and these were eagerly
bought. General adherence was ex-
pressed by the people at the appar-
emily deliberate attempt to assassi-
nate the sovereign.
King Leopold appeared to be quite
unmoved by the attempt of Rubino TO
kill him. After luncheon at the pal
ace his majesty entered a motor car
and proceeded to the railroad station,
where he boarded a train bound for
Groenendaei.
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A sNoRER,s TRAGIC END.
A Kentucky Gentleman Refuses I
Request to Turn Over in Bad
and Is Instantly Killed.

Somerset, KY, Nov. 17.-John Sloan,
an old citizen of this county, was shot
and killed by James Pratt, of Whitley
county, at the Colyer hotel, early Sun
day. Sloan retired in az intoxicated
condition in a room occupied by sever
al other men. Pratt aroused Sloan.
telling him to turn i've This angered
the old man, and he advanced on
Pratt, according to the statements of
other men in the room, with a knife
in his hand. Pratt drew a revolver
from under his pillow and, after warn
ing Sloan, fired, killing him instantly.
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Wanted to kin King Edward.

Brussels, Nov. 17.-According to
some reports, Rubino, in the course of
his examination before the magistrate,
declared that he selected King Leo
pold for his attack on account of his
majesty's inhuman conduct towards
his daughter, Princess Stephanie, at
the time of her mothers death, and
he also wished to show to the an
archists in London who doubted his
loyalty that while they only talked he
acted. He would have killed King
Edward, he added, but for the strong
feeling of the English people in favor
of the monarch.
Leopold became king in 1885, and it
is said that he has tired of the trou.
bles that annoy and threaten his
throne, and wants to abdicate if he
can do SO without causing a revolu-
ton.
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A Bad Boy and a Brick.

Peoria, ILL.,, Nov. 16.-Harry Robbins,
aged eight years, is dead as a result
of an injury to the stomach caused by
a brick thrown by Willie Curtis, aged
nine. The boys are attendants at the
Columbia school, and inmates Of the
Home of the Friendless. In a quarrel,
Wednesday, at recess, Curtis hit his
companion with the missile. Nothing
was thought of the injury until Fri
day night, when the doctors were
called, and after a consultations or
dered the removal of the lad to a hos
pital, where he died Saturday morn
ing.
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KING LEOPoLD'S ASSAILANT.
His Name Is Gennero RubinO, and
h Police of Rome Say He Is
an Advanced Socialist.

Rome, Nov. 1.-THE ministry of
the interior has established the identi-
ty of the assailant of King Leopold.
His name is Genera Rubiao, and he is
described in their records as an adj
vanced socialist. He was condemned
to a long term Of Imprisonment for
stealing at Milan in 1898, but he eff
fected his escape to England, where
he is supposed to have imbibed his an
archist principles.
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A Report Revived,

London, Nov. 16.-The Westminster
Gazette revives the report that Amer
leans are trying ia buy British rail-
roads. The paper says it hears that
an American syndicate has offered to
purchase the Great Central, that the
negotiations are still in progress, and
that if they r successful the road
will be electrified throughout.
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BLEW A BOYS HEAD OFF.
a Gun and william Smith
Pulled ON tho Trigger.

Chfllicothe, o., Nov. 17.-Pearl JUS
tice and brother met William Smith,
who was returning from a hunting ex-
petition, near Greenland, Sunday. The
boys had a friendly conversation, and
Smith told Pearl Justice to smell the
muzzle of the gun. Justice did so and
Smith pulled the trigger, blowing off
the young mans head, killing him in
anti
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AaGlB9lg
COLLECT FOR


TN So
~ For unseen lands
that build and break
The cioud-paviliors for my sake
This fleeing beauty, high and Wild,
Toward which / wonder, as a child.
I thank Thee for the strengthening hills.
Thai give bright spirit to the rills;
For blue peaks soaring UP apart,
To send down music on the heart;
For tree-tops wavering soft and high,
Writing their peace against the SKY;
For forest farings that have been; ,
For this Fall rain that shuts me in,
Giving to my low little roof
The sense of home, secure, aloof.
And thanks for mornings stir and light.
And for the folding hush of night;
For those high Geities that spread
The STARTLED chasm overhead;
Fol elfin chemistries that yield
The green fires of the April field;
For all the foam and surge of bloom;
For leaves gone glorious to their DOOM
All the wild loveliness that can
Touch the immortal in a man.
Father of Life, thank Thee, too,
For old acquaintance, near and true
For friends who came into my day
And took the loneliness away;
For faith that held on TO the last:
For all sweet memories of the past
Dear memories of my dead that send
Long thoughts of life, ard of life's end
h make me know the light conceals
A deeper world than it reveals.
Edwin Markham, in Success.
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A New College President.

Oberlin, o., Nov. 17.-At the semi
annual meeting of the board of col.
lege trustees, to be held on Wednes-
day, DR.. Henry Churchill King will be
announced as the president of Ober-
lin college, to succeed the late DR..
Barrows.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-21
Fatal Collision In Colorado.

Rife, Col, Nov. ia collision be-
tween an extra stock train of the Col
orado Midland road and a freight train
of the Rio Grande road a half mile
west of here, caused the death of Z.
r. Thorp, fireman of one of the Mid
land engines. Two train men and
q passenger were injured.
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Got 1t Good and Hard.

st. Louis, Nov. 16.-John w. Hilleck,
a farmer, of Bloomfield, Mo-, who
posed as a pension agent, was SEN
fenced by Judge Adams, in the United
States district court, to ten years in
the penitentiary, on a plea of guilty
to four counts in an indictment
charging fraud in securing pensions.
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Moody HAD : Duck Hunt.

Beaufort, S. G., Nov. 16.-Wm. H.
Moody, secretary Of the navy, who has
been inspecting the grounds of the
United States naval station here, left
Saturday. Secretary Moody accom-
panied by two naval officers, enjoyed
a duck hunt on adjacent islands.
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Died at a Ripe Old Are.

New York, Nov. 16.-Mrs. Harriet
Bartlett, widow of Prof. w. II. G.
Bartlett, who was an instructor at
West Point for nearly 40 years, is dead
in Yonkers, at the age of 30.
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Thirteen Were Drowned.

st. Michael, Azores, Nov. 16.-The
Norwegian ship Telefon, Capt. Thor
sen, which left Norfolk, Va, October
81, for Cardiff, Wales, has been aban-
doned. Thirteen of her crew were
drowned, including all the officers.
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WILL BE REBUILT.
The New Plant VIII BE Larger than
the Old One.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 17.-C. W.
Armour, of the Armour Packing Co.,
stated Sunday that the plant at Sioux
City destroyed by fire would be re-
built at once. The new plant would
be much larger and finer than the
one burned. The company will in the
meantime remain in the market, the
cattle purchased to be distributed be-
tween Omaha, Kansas City and Chica-
90
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Secretary WILSON III.

Washington, Nov. 17.-Secretary
Wilson is confined to his home by a
severe neuralgia cold which has de-
veloped since the recent political cam
paign in which the secretary took an
active party.
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4 High school burned.

Marion, Ind, Nov. 1.-THE high
school building caught fire, Sunday
night, from the heating apparatus. and
was destroyed. The. loss is s60, 1000;
partially insured.
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The New Spanish Cabinet.

Madrid, Nov. 16.-The members OF
the new cabinet took the oath Of Of
fee to-day.
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>0NNSSE0zhc
thanksgiving Story<
BY Ao0\e NNmly0N OouneW.
Noo>e NOmNNoN DooneM.

and Johns
folks, Phineas?"
Amelia Quimbys
breath failed at
the last syllable.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-25
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
RED LAKE FALLS, Mimi, Aug. "a.
Yesterday was Democratic day, not
only in Red Lake Falls, but in all Red
Lake county, the occasion being a
visit of Gov Van SAINTS successor, L.
A. Rosing. The next governors party
arrived from Crookston early in the
morning and breakfasted with several
prominent citizens. The party were
chaperoned by Nat Campbell and ]. E.
Carpenter, of Crookston, and John
Morgan and Judge Tarrant, of Thief
River Falls
During his stay here Mr.. Rosing
called on all his old friends and made
many new ones among Republicans as
we'll as Democrats and Populists and
all agreed that he is "a royal good fell
low and will make a good governor.
AT 11:40 a. m. the party took the Great
Northern for towns up the line They
were joined here by w. T. Spillane,
Fred Borehers, ]. M. Bray, J. H. Par
ads and others and the Thief River
Falls Democrats did themselves proud
as entertainers and assured Mr.. Ros-
ing of a rousing vote in that city. Re-
turning, Mr.. Rosing spent an hour at
st. Hilaire, where he also received a
royal welcome.
Mr.. Rosing expressed himself as be-
Ing more than pleased with the sup
port he is meeting with, not only in
the Red Lake valley, but in the state
at large, and if Red Lake county is
any criterion to go by he certainly has
good reason to feel pleased.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-25
.HOLD-UP ON INTERURBAN
TWO HIGHWAYMEN ROB AN OWL
CONDUCTOR
Board Car in Minneapolis and Wait
Until a Dark Spot Is Reached, When
Both Make a Grab for His Pocket
Passengers Give Chase, But Men
Escape.

TWO highWaymen riding upon the
rear platform of the "owl' fnterurbarl
car bound for Midway, at 1850 yester-
day morning, held up Conductor G.. s.
WICK at First avenue south and WASH
ington, tearing open his coat pocket
and securing $2.25, after scattering sill
yer pieces over the car platform and
street pavement.
The pair Of highwaymen waited until
the car was about ready to stop for
passengers at First avenue south and
Washington, when one thrust his hand
into the conductors money pocket,
while the other prevented the con-
ductor from making a successful re-
siStance. In the effort at robbery, the
conductors pocket was torn open and
his change scattered in all directions.
The gates were pushed open and the
pair escaped.
Conductor Wick and a number Of the
passengers chased one of the men up
a stairway at As Washington avenue
south. One of the excited passengers
rushed into the central station and ex-
claimed: "a hold-up on the interur-
ban car, and we've got the fellow
freed over here in stairway
Sergeant Rankin hurried off with the
excited individual only to find that the
crowd at the foot of the stairway,
standing guard to prevent the prison.
er's escape, had allowed the quarry to
escape by the rear stairway of the
building. The robbery was a parttcu-
larly bold piece of work, but the re-
turns were small.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-25
'3IlM OIL I7nsNI d3lN3S3a
w. S. Shaft Is Arrested Charged With
Resisting An Officer.

Because w. S. Shaft, secretary Of the
Shaft-Pierce Shoe company, resented
the insults offered to his wife While
waiting for car to take them to their
home, 2016 Holmes avenue south, Sat
urday night, both were beaten by an
unknown man who escaped, and TO cap
the climax, Mr.. Shaft was dragged to
the Central station by police officer
and locked up on the charge of inter-
fering with an officer. This morning
Mr.. Shaft will wait upon Acting Mayor
Jones and prefer charges against PO-
liceman Mcleod, who accomplished
the shoe manufacturers arrest.
Mr.. Shaft says he and Mrs. Shaft
and a party of friends had been down
town Saturday evening bowling. In
the party was Mrs. Shafts sister and
a gentleman friend. The woman was a
stranger in Minneapolis. Mrs. Shaft
-omoO pepIBoq pugqsnq leu u4IM
Harriet car for their home at Third
street and Hennepin avenue and, ex-
pecting their friends to take the same
car, were surprised when they rode a
block to find that they had become
separated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shaft hurriedly left the
car at Fourth street and Hennepin
avenue, Mrs. Shaft seeing her sister in
the distance, waved her hand and
called to her. A messenger boy made
an insulting remark to Mrs. Shaft, and
when she repeated the call to her
sister, the boy kept up his haunting
remarks.
Mr.. Shaft rebuked the boy, when a
ruff1an stepped up to the shoe man and
dealt him a blow from behind. Mrs.
Shaft, seeing her husband being mall
treated, rushed toward him with open
arms, only to receive one of the vicious
blows in the mouth from her husband s
assailant.
Blood flowed from the cut in her
mouth and covered her shirtwaist By
this time a large crowd gathered and
the aSSailant made run for an alley
in the rear of the Western Union tele-
graph building and escaped in the
darkness.
When Patrolman Mcleod reached
the scene, Mrs. Shaft was crying and
her husband was very much excited.
The officer inquiring as to the trouble,
it is said, Mr.. Shaft pushed him aside
in his frantic efforts to console his
wife and stay the blood that flowed
from her bruises.
This, it is said, angered the police
officer, and he placed Mr.. Shaft under
arrest for interfering with an officer.
Friends later called at the Central
station and bailed him out.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-25
FIRE VISITS SPRING PARK.
Pavilion, Bowling Alley and Row
Boats Are DESTROYED.

Spring Lake Park, Lake Minneton-
ka, was visited by a fire early yester-
day morning, which caused a damage
of $4,000 damage and gave the hundred
or more guests of Hotel del Otero a
thorough scare. No one was injured
The pavilion facing the lake, fleet
Of forty rowboats, the bowling alley
and soda fountain were destroyed.
Two men who were asleep in the pavil-
Ion escaped.
The fire was discovered about 2
o'clock, and in spite of the work of the
hotel guests and people of the vicinity
it burned until the pretty pavilion and
alley were a mass of ruins.
Hotel del Otero had narrow escape
from destruction, but aided by the
wind, the 1re-fghters were able to
save the structure from damage.
The bowling alley was one of the
favorite resorts of the lake, and was es-
tAbhshed this summer BY G. +. Hon
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-25

with the east line of said lot four a. ex-
tended in a straight line to the south
me or SAID section, and thence west on
the south line of said section to the east
line of said Hitchcock's Addition: and
thence northwesterly along the east line
OF said Hitchcock's Addition to the place
OF beginning. Said strip proposed to be
taken containing one and efght-four one
hundredths q $4,000 acres Of land
l16o, strip of land generally one hundred
I0ol feet wide, being fifty (50) feet in
width on each side of the center line of
the st. Paul Terminal and Transfer Com
pany, as the said center line Is now sur
across the westerly ninety-six and two
ne-hundredths (96 2-100) feet of govern
h ment lot four "a, and the easterly one
hundredths (152 $4,000 feet of govern
ment lot five 60. all in Section five 90 in
township twenty-eight (28), Nortl. Range
clpal meridian, being the same premises
awarded f. b. Clarke by a decree in par
tItion in the District Court of Ramsey
county in which William Dawson and
oIhefs We're plaintiffs, and Frank B.
Clarke and others were defendants.
Also, all those parts of lots seven %,
IN Block twenty mine (29) of Dunwell &
Spencer's Addition to Brooklynd, not
neretofore conveyed to or taken and
leVee purposes.
:, Also, all those portions of lots two (2),
L slree ~, four ~, and twelve (12) in said
winch lie northeastern from line drawn
parallel with and fifty (50) feet south
westerly from the center line Of said ST.
raul Terminal and Transfer Company as
the said center line is now surveyed, stalk
ed out and located over and across said
dock twenty-nine (29).
Also, all of those portions of lots seven
-, eight 90, nine 49, and ten (1O) of
clock fifteen (15) of said DunwelI &,
SS;pencers Addition to Brooklynd which
ne northeasterly from line drawn paralI
lei with and fifty 600 feet southwesterly
from the center line of said ST. Paul
terminal and Transfer Company as the
out and located over, across and in prox-
unity to said premises.
Lots ten Q0). eleven CID and twelve (12)
OF said Block fifteen (15) of said addition
are also 1nJuriously affected in that said
me OF railway is proposed to be con-
structed over, upon and across the street
upon which said lots abut
Also, all those portions of lots one ~,
TWO 90 and four (4) Of block sixteen (16)
OF said DGnwell & spencer's Addition
SOUTHWESTERN from the so-called Ievee
Inc, being all of said block sixteen (16)
not heretofore taken by the city of ST.
FauI Tor Ievee purposes.
The undivided one-half of lots two or
three 90, four "a. five 90 and six (6)
IN IN BLOCK eighteen l1S) of Brooklynd, an
All OF the westerly and southwestern
said Brooklynd
All of the northerly one-third of lot
lynd. - O'-
The various plats and additions herein
refefred to are on file and of record in
for said Ramsey County
Dated st. Paul, Mimi. Aug. 49, 1902
ST; 1,I PAUL Id,, TERMINAL AND TRANS
BY Stringer and Seymour its attorneys.
STRINGER AND SEYMOUR,
Attorneys for Petitioner,
National German American Bank
Building, st. Paul, Mimi
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-25
LAYS BLAME ON PEOPLE.
Rev. DR.. Crane, Of Boston, Makes Wig.
orous Protest Against Vice.

Rev. Charles A. Crane, pastor of the
Peoples Temple, of Boston, Mass, and
one Of Methodisms most vigorous lead
ers in the anti-saloon crusade, address,
ed a standing-room audience in Wes-
ley church last evening on The Great
American Fraud
The great American fraud, accord
ing to Dr.. Crane, is the government
license system, which he declared is a
menace to all the political, moral and
social institutions of the republic, and
which he mildly describes as "pestifer-
ously and abominably Internal
The responsibility for the existence
OF the saloon, as well as of all forms
and denominations of vice, DR.. Crane
placed at the doors of every American
citizen. The government, he claimed,
was the legal representative and agent
of the people, and he took pains to
establish the fact that whatever is
done by an agent is attributable and
blamable upon the person whose agent
he is.