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Connecticut western news., 1903-06-25
t4.GRO BURNED AT STAKE.
Delaware Mob Avenges Miss Bishops
 Murder


 On Monday night several thousand men and boys burned a negro at the stake at Prices Corners, near Will mington, Del. The victim was George F. White, just out of the workhouse who was accused of having feloniously assaulted and stabbed to death Miss Helen S. Bishop, the seventeen-year-o old daughter of the Rev. Dr. k. A. Bishop The crime was committed on Monday of the previous week
 It was after 10 o'clock when the march to the workhouse. a mile away. was taken up. The chief warden of the workhouse and his guards, who have been on almost constant duty since the negro was landed in the prison, had been warned of the coming of the mob and prepared to defend the man at all costs.
 Armed with pistols. shotguns and other weapons the mob soon reached the jail. A battery of railroad ties carr ried away the great outer door of the workhouse. What was going on inside the lookup was not known to the mob. nor did it seem to care. The second, third and fourth doors were battered down by the forward leaders in the attacking party amid the yells and cheers of those who were pressing for ward from the rear. Then the would be lynchers were momentarily halted by hail of bullets from the inside.
 In the fusillade that followed fom persons fell. all members of the mob .s.ul and attended by those who were not brave enough to be at the front. Three of the wounded were men, and the other was a boy.
 There were many negroes confined in the prison, hut with the aid of man who knew White he was quickly found His cell door was battered down. and the covering accused man. begging foi mercy, was dragged from the cell and the prison.
 It then became evident that a plan oi execution had been previously ar ranged. but who the planners were is not definitely known. With torches to lead the way and with 1000 per sons following the negro ne was led tt the road and to almost the very spot where the assault took place.
 White was given a last chance to speak. and he confessed to the murder of the girl. A stake had been arranged by an advance guard. White wai quickly chained to the post, and the dry underbrush. soaked with oil. was ignited. and the horrible execution wat soon accomplished.
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For the Brain and Nerves.

Science has demonstrated most con. clusively that mental and nerve power Is dependent upon food containing phosphorus.
 It Is but natural that the same laws which apply to the muscular system should apply likewise to the brain. For instance. wheat contains phosphorus, which It gets from the soil and in the absence of which it could not live.
 Wheat is supposed to supply to tho human system the clements it gets from the soil. Since the action of the mlId is dependent on phosphorus. wheat, fish. cheese, oatmeal and barley can be regarded as brain foods.
 It Is we'll known fact that the brain contains phosphorus in proportion to its power of producing mental effort and that this element must be supplied in proportion to mental activity.
 So 1t can be readily seen that ones mental education begins fin the dining room as we'll as in the classroom American Queen.
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Duhuuue Strike Settled.

Dubuque. la. June 24.-The strike O: the Union Electric company's conduct ors and motormen was settled last night through the good offices of the munici. pal affairs committee of the Dubuque club. The company agrees not to dis criminate against union men, 1t will recognize the unions grievance com. mittee, will allow appeals to directors from the general managers decision, will reinstate all strikers and will givt clearance cards to the men whose dis charge caused the strike. The militia was withdrawn this morning.
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FOREIGN NOTES

FOHElGN
 norEc bert Vaughan. cardi-
 n nal and archbishop of
 !" Westminster, died Sat urday in London. The cardinal had been sinking for some weeks from heart disease and dropsy. He was born at Gloucester April 15. 1882, the eldest son of the late Lieutenant Colo mel Vaughan of the British army.
 Fourteen men were killed and thir- teen injured by an explosion in the lyddite factory at the WOolwich arse nal in England on Thursday. Several of the victims were literally blown to pieces. The building was completely wrecked The roof was blown of and the interior collapsed.
 The king of Italy has accepted the resignations of Interior Minister Clio litti and Marine Minister Battolo. Pre- mier Zanardelh will take the interior portfolio ad interim. and Vice Admira Morin will be marine minister. The other ministers have been confirmed il their present posts.
 Major General Charles Comyn Eger ton. who has been in command of the Puniab frontier force since 1899, has been appointed to the command of the Somaliland expeditionary force which is operating against the Mad Mollah superseding Brigadier General w. H Manning.
 The Ziegler polar expedition has sailed from Trondhjem, Norway, on the steam whaler America for Franz Josef Land The America will pass the winter at Franz Josef Land, whence exploring expeditions will be sent out with dog sledges.
 According to q dispatch received at Madrid Saturday from Tangier. Fl Menebhi, the Moorish war minister, has lost 5000 men in a battle fought with the rebels at Anniedinna.
 A cloudburst has occurred at the will lage of Zenom. Servia. and fifty-four houses were demolished. Thirty per sons were drowned, and the damage done is estimated at $20,O0O.
 Of TOO persons arrested after the KiShineff massacre 800 have since been liberated and 1S0 have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from a fortnight to two months.
 The famine in Kwangsi is growing worse. and the starving are estimated at 100000. A Japanese paper says that human flesh is offered openly for sale.
 It is reported that 150 FormoSan ma tives have attacked the camphor refin. cry at Gilan and have killed eleven Japanese, including policemen.
 
 Ten young Jews are reported to have been beaten to death in Lodz, Russia. by Cossacks and police. A hundred oth- CTS were seriously wounded.
 Ten persons were burned to death in fire which destroyed the greater part of the village of Moenich- -Kirchen. low CT Austria.
 Thousands of acres of potatoes in the west of Ireland have been ruined by recent rains and froStS.
 A comet with nucleus and tail was discovered hy Borelly at Marseilles on Sunday.
 The volcano Ncsuvius is again in full eruption.
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the piers and slopes of the narrow bay and gave detached, irregular cheers as the squadron arrived.
 Prince Henry sent his navigating offi- cers and the captain of the port down the bay early in the morning to meet the Americans. They met the latter at Orlateu as the squadron was firing its first salute off the fort of Friedrich sort, commanding the entrance to the harbor
 The flagship Kearsarge swung into her mooring, next to the place reserved for the kaiser's yacht Hohenzollern, followed by the San Francisco. Chica- go and Machias, all the German ships being dressed in the visitors honor and flying the stars and stripes. The Unit ed States flag was also raised over the yacht club and on the hotels in the vi- cinity
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CHAINED IN A DUNGEON.
Fate of Honduran Ex-President and
 Staff Made Known.

Staff Made Known.
 New Orleans, June 24.-General Lee Christmas, the American who com handed detachment of revolution ists in ten desperately fought engage ments in Spanish Honduras during the recent insurrection and was the first person to enter Tegucigalpa, the capi- tai, after three days siege, has ar rived here.
 Christmas brings the first authentic information as to the fate of ex-Presi- dent Arias upon Bonilla's triumphal en- try into the city. The ex-president was declared to have violated the peace pro- tocol when he took a detachment of thirty soldiers, and he was charged with robbing the national bank at Te> gucigalpa of over $10000O. Bonilla's forces pursued him and caught him and his cabinet rejoicing over their booty.
 The party was brought back to the capital where the men were thrown in- to the penitentiary They are still there, chained to the stone floors, with ITO prospect of release.
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Beer Made Him Deaf and Dumb.

Tarrytown, N. Y, June 24.-Physi clans of Tarrytown are puzzled over the peculiar case of John Davis. who was stricken deaf and dumb las; Thursday night and has not uttered a word since. Davis Is twenty years old and was employed as special officer in concert hall. On Thursday night he drank two glasses of beer and felt no bad effects until he got home. Then he lost his power of speech and was later stricken deaf.
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June 29 In History.

IS52-Ilenry Clay. American statesman. died at Washington; born 1TT7 IS61- Elizabeth Barrett Browning. English poet. died in Florence; born in Here fcrdshire, England. lS09. S6S-Hole-ln-the-Day. Chippeway. richest Indian in North America. died in Min nesota. He had accumulated q, 0o0. 900; felled by the hand of an assassin, one of his own people.
 lSSS-General Washington l.. Elliott died in San Francisco; born 1891. lE95-Ex-President Peixoto of Brazil died near Rio Janeiro: born 1888. Daniel Cady Eaton noted botanist of Yale, died in New Haven: born 1884. Green Clay Smith. Union veteran. died at Washington; born 1927.
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June 26 In History.

l541-Pizarro, the Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated at Lima. l7e6-David Rittenhouse. early astronomer and manager of the United States mint. died at Philadelphia; born 17S2. lS27-Samuel Compton, inventor of the fa- nous loom, died; born l75S. lS63-Rear Admiral Andrew Hull Foote. U. s. N. a distinguished naval officer of the civil war died in New York city; born 1906.
 lSss-David Davis. jurist and early friend of Abraham Lincoln. died in Blooming ton. Ill. born 1875.
 lSS9-Simon Cameron. Lincoln's secretary of war In 1861 -62 and afterward minis ter to Russia. died in Lancaster coun- ty. Pa: born there 1T9s. lS97-Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, the English author, died in Wimbledon.
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and under Prince Eugene. the German ally. In 1733 he obtained royal char ter to found a colony in America. which he called after Englanus reign ing king. After passing several years In the colony OgiethOrpe returned to Europe. where he took command of an army and helped defeat Prince Char lie the Scotch pretender. in the re- bvllion of lIi5 Later he served in par lament.
 e97-Professor George NJ. Lane. one of the oldest tutors at Harvard. died in New York city; born lS2i. ss;l-RCar Admiral John Philip, who com nanded the Texas at Santiago. died In Brooklyn: born lS40. Desperate battle al TiCntsin; foreign ministers ordered 10 leave Picking.
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Troops to aueII Riot.

Richmond. Va. June 24-Governor Montague has ordered the Seventieth regiment. the Richmond Blues battal- ion and the Richmond howitzers. an artillery company, on duty to prevent rioting by street car strikers and their Synpathizers. The Seventieth regiment reported this morning. There has been much rioting as d result of the strike, and the situation is ugly. Nobody has been seriously hurt yet.
Connecticut western news., 1903-06-25
POSTAL FRAUD TRIALS
Special Counsel Chosen to Pre-
 sent Governments Case.
EACH PARTY ABLY REPRESENTED
Judge Conrad of New York and Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore Named to Assist Attorney General. Trials In the Fall.

Named to Assist Attorney General.
 Trials In the Fall.
 Washington, June 24.-Following the precedent in the star route trials, the government has secured special counsel to assist in the presentation of the case against Machen, the Groffs, the Lo- renzes, Miller, McGregor, Upton and Johns, who are accused of taking bribes to influence their official action in connection with the government con- tracts and decisions concerning the use of the mails
 Holmes Conrad of New York city, who was solicitor general of the United States under President Cleveland, and Charles Joseph Bonaparte of Baltimore have been retained to take charge of the cases mentioned.
 Judge Conrad was chosen because of his high standing and ability and for his special Knowledge of public busi- ness in the government departments. He is a Democrat, which lends some strength to his service, as he cannot be accused of trying to hide or smother facts for partisan advantage. MT. Bo- naparte is prominent at the Baltimore bar and is well known as an ardent champion of civil service reform. He is 8 Republican. It is not expected that the cases will be tried until next fall.
 Metcalf's Case Discussed.
 The post office investigation was a subject of conference at the cabinet meeting, and it is understood that the president and Mir. Payne discussed the question whether Mir. Metcalf. the su- perintendent of the money order divi- sion, who was removed by MT. Payne, should be reinstated. A number of in- fiuential persons have taken the matter directly to the president and appealed to him.
 A rumor has been started that H. H. Rand the confidential clerk to the post master general, will resign. No confir. nation or denial of the report can be had. MT. Bristow has said that Rand is not under investigation and that while there are before him papers showing that Rand is interested in a copper mining company in Mexico, to- gether with other men in the depart ment, 1t is denied that there is evidence going to show that Rand has solicited employees of the department to buy stock
Connecticut western news., 1903-06-25
COTTON AT KEEL.
American Squadron's Commander and Captains Dine With Prince Henry.

Kiel. June 24.-Rear Admiral Cotton, in command of the United States Eu- ropean squadron, which reached these waters yesterday, took luncheon today with Prince and Princess Henry. The captains of the American vessels were also present.
 On their arrival here the German fleet under Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, consisting of eight battle ships and six cruisers. saluted the American vessels, and the band of the German flagship played America" Some hun dreds of the townspeople gathered on
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July 1 In History.

i5S2-James Crichton. the famous scholar and gentleman CThe Admirable). was assa ssinated at Mantua. Italy. aged 22 l725-The Comte de Rochambeau (Rosham- bo). French general in America. born; died 1907. lSGa-Eattle of Malvern Hill: bloody re- pulse of the ConfCderates. lS6S-BattIe of Gettysburg begun. lSSG-Daniel De Foe, a Hneal descendant of the great author, died in San Fran CiSCO.
 ,N.N-AttgCk on Santiago by General Shaf- tsr'@ corps; battles at Fl Cancy and san Juan hill. lSe-C'harl,s Victor Cherbulicz. French academician. novelist and critic, died i'm Paris: born ls.9. 900 Chinese renewed their attacks on the allies at NeutSin.
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 Raglan (James thews- Henry Fitzroy SomerseD. British com mandcr in the Crimea. died: born 17SS. Lcrd Raglan was a younger son of Henry. fifth duke of Beaufort. and won his own title on the field of Mars. In the peEInsular campaign and al Waterloo he served on the stan Of Wellington and came out of the last battle with an empty sleeve. He was raised to the peerage Lord Raglan in 1852 and took command of the army when 1t marched to the Crimea. On the field Lord Raglan was a flashing leader. He died in camp in the midst of siege operations against Sevastopol. Admiral William Greenville Temple |. S. N. veteran of the Mexican and civil wars. died In Wash ington; born 1S2I.
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June 30 In History.
9 - Archibald Campbell.

1885 - Archibald Campbell. ninth earl of Argyll. was beheaded for re- bellion against James II.
 lIS5-General James Ed ward Oglethorpe. found- CT of Georgia. died in Essex. England; born 16SS. Oglethorpe was a valiant soldier who served his king in the nrrninS of Ma a-lhnrnnrh
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Southern Summer School.

Knoxville, Tenn, June 24.-The Sum- mer School of the South has opened its second session under very suspicious circumstances. More than 1,200 stu dents are already enrolled, and more than twice that number are expected before the end of the first week. The faculty includes ninety educational experts gathered from all parts of the United States.
Connecticut western news., 1903-06-25
A IIIne Snn,u Small

Asbury Park, x. J., June 24-A snow squaH was the unusual weather attrac- tion provided for the visitors here yes terday morning. The flakes were few and far between, but there were enough of them to establish a new rec ord for freaky summer weather.
Connecticut western news., 1903-06-25
No w.Ieome Address to Edward.

London, June 24.-At a private meet ing of the Nationalist members of the Dublin corporation which was held last night 1t was decided by 9 votes to 3 not to vote an address of welcome and loyalty to King Edward on the occa- sion of his majesty's coming visit to steland.
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A Million Dollar Scheme,

Burlington, Vt. June 24.-At a meet ing of the alumni of the University of Vermont a committee was appointed for the purpose of raising $1,0O0,OOO to be presented to the university in June, 1901. upon the occasion of the celebra- foundatiO ion
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have been murdered by Mexican bri- FaudS in the Atil district under such circumstances that international con- p!iratiOnS are expected to result The widows of the murdered men have ap- piled to General Andrade, the Mexican consul. for an investigation.
 President Diaz was Sunday nominat- cd by exclamation by the Liberal union convention as its candidate for the presidency to succeed himself. This in sures President DiaZs election, as he has already declared his willingness to continue in office if the will of the peo- pie so dictated. President Diaz is now the aYowed candidate of all the lead ing political organizations.
 Seven Indian boys, pupils of the Mo hawk institute at Rrantford. Ont, have been arrested for causing five in cendiary fires. including the destruc- ton of the institute. Some of the lads confessed. including the ringleader Roy Wilson, aged twelve.
 Dr. Pedro Portal. the mayor of Ca majuan. province of Santa Clara. Gu ba, has been twice fired upon by a dis appointed local political aspirant named Celestino Bencomo. His condi- ton is serious
 IN THE The long struggle be- tween the bricklayers'
 and stonemasons' un-
 ions. which has tied up much of the building operations for a month in Pfttsburg and Allegheny, is temporarily settled. and all the men have returned to work. Nearly 10000 men are affected by the settlement.
 All danger of a strike in the anthra- cite mines has been averted. At meeting in Scranton the United Mine Workers elected the three district pres idents by districts as their representa- tives, and the operators, through Pres ident George F. Baer of the Reading company. announced that this action was satisfactory.
 The strike of walters and cooks in Chicago is a thing of the past, and the majority of the men returned to work Saturday. On the question of absolute recognition of the union, on which the
  agreement provides for freedom on both sides.
 The textile council has declared the great strike at Lowell. Mass, at an end. The strike began March 30. The high price of cotton prevented the sue cess of the campaign for a 10 per cent increase.
 The building laborers' strike which began on the 1st of May and which has tied up all building in the city of Lynn, Mass. has been settled by the accept ance of a compromise wage scale.
 The Webster Coal and Coke compa- ny at Altoona, Pa. has averted a strike of it's 10000 bituminous miners in Cambria county by agreeing to arbi- trate all differences.
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EhsHsh Wrlter, died at Harriet Mar Ambleside; born 1892 tinaau 1SS9-Carlotta Patti an Ital-
 ian singer, sister of Adelina, died in Paris; born lS40
 lSe5-San Francisco swept by a fire which destroyed nearly s10. 0000 900 worth of property. In lSI9. 1850 and 1851 the city was visited by five fires causing an aggregate loss of S16. GOO GOO 19oo-The international relief column un- der the British Admiral Seymour re- turned to .Tientsin after a desperate attempt to reach Picking for the relief of the foreign legations: casualties re- ported in the column, G killed and 300 wounded
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Four Killed In Collision.

Raleigh, x. C., June 24.-Four men are dead ead one badly injured as the result of s head on collision on the Seaboard Ar Line at Niagara, N. o., sixty-five miles from Raleigh Both engines were torn to pieces and i've troinht oAro bAAly 0Amaxo6.
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June 28 In History,

Paul Rubens.
 Flemish painter. born: died l6l0.
 1II6-Charles Mathews. eel ebratedNcomedIan, born; died June 2S. lS35. 1895 - Giuseppe Mazzini,
 Italian reorgauizer. borIf at Genoa: dled 1872. lS36-James Madison, fourth president. died at Mont pelier. Va; born lI5l. ISsS-I pr1 Raglan flames
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,ou Thex wouId sound.

Mrs. Galley musinglyl-Suppose l should publish your love letters?
 Mir. Galey-why not simply make public acknowledgment that you mar ried an ialat2
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Secretary Roots Son Takes Prize. : Clinton. N. Y., June 24.-The senior prize debate at Hamilton college was won by Elihu Root, Jr., son of tue sec retary of war,
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June 27 In History.

lS29-James Smithson died in Genoa; born 1T65: he left $650, 900 to found the Smithsonian institution. 1S73-Hiram Powers. Amer ican sculptor whose Greek Slave" gave him worldwide fame. died at Florence; born at Wood stock. Vt, 1895.
 lS76-Harriet Martineau, the English writer. died at
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DEATHS OF NOTED PEOPLE,.

matic and musical critics in Chicago, of bronchitis. The illness which cul- minated in death was contracted dur. ing the Worlds fair, for which Mir. Steele was second in command in the bureau of publicity and promotion.
 Hugh Duncan Mcintyre, secretary of the Brooklyn Jockey club, once secreta- ry of the Washington Jockey club and a writer on topics of the turf, has sue cumbed to more than a years illness from Bright's disease. He was born in California tifty-nine years ago
 Dr. Isaac N. Love, noted New York physician and writer on medical topics. dropped dead in the dining saloon of the Cunard liner Aurania as she was steaming through the upper bay, New York harbor, bound in, Thursday.
 At Newburg, N. Y. Thursday, David N. Selleg, remarkable blind man. aged seventy-three. Although sightless from boyhood, he became by his own efforts one of the foremost business men of the city.
 In Washington, Thursday, Major General Frank Wheaton, |. s. A, re- tired, aged seventy years, His service in the civil war was an active and hon. . orable one.
 At his home in Jersey City. Sunday, Major James B. Pond, the well known manager of lecturers and singers, aged siXty-tive years.
 Anton Roman, founder of the Over land Monthly, was killed Sunday night in a railway accident at Point Reyes, Cal.
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June 25 h HiSto Y.

l7S6 - Jchn Horne Tooke. British writer and friend Of the American colo nies. born in Westmin- stSr; died 1912. lS41 - Alexander Macomb, soldier. hero Of Platts- burg. died in Washing ton; born lIS2.
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N'o HeheFaI GeofSe A. c., NTaoor,h Custer and 277 men of Gen- Macomo his command were massacred by the Sioux on the Little Big Horn river Montana.
 1SSi-Dr. Alexander Kohut. a distinguish ed rabbi and oriental scholar died in New York city; born lS42. 1s95-Philip Phillips. the noted singing evangelist. died at Delaware. O; born 1884
 1S96-Louis Charles Philippe d'Orleans. Due de Nemours son of Louis Philippe. king of France. died in Paris; born 1915
 lsOO-An armistIce asked for in Washing ton by the Chinese minister Wu, re- fused by the president. lS0l-Dr. Joseph Flavius Cook, former noted lecturer and writer, died at Ticonderoga. x. Y: born 1888.