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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
LOCAL EVENTS.

John B. GRAPHICAL of Prescott and
Ella NJ. Cavanaugh, of Milton, Or,
were married today at the home of
Rev. J. R. Lamb. Mr. GRAPHICAL is
agent for the O. R. & n. at Prescott
and they will reside at that place.
A farmer named McCutcheon from
Dayton was received at the Walla
Wala hospital last night suffering
from a fracture of the thigh. Nc
CutcheOn was driving a fOur-hOrsd
team hauling wood when the wagon
upset throwing a large pile of wood
on top of him. He was taken to Day
ton for treatment, but his injuries
were so severe that it was decided to
bring him to Walla Walla for treat
ment. The accident occurred several
days ago.
A short session Of the council was
held last night. The action Of Chief
Kaufman in issuing a license to Ed
ward Shields for Shields park in East
Alder was sustained although a big
remonstrance against the issuance
had been filed Councilman Kirkman
and Brewer both voted against grant
ing it until it could be determined
what sort of a show Mr. Shields in
tends to conduct. Manager Nelson
was present and said he would guar
antee a clean show C. F. Carts was
awarded the contract for grading the
Alder Main street alley from First to
Fifth street The contract price was
$1470.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
SHIELDS PARK.

The work on Shields park located
on the corner of Main and PalouSe
streets is nearly completed and will
be in apple pie order for the grand
opening on Monday evening, June p.
We wish to say to the theater going
public that the shows given in Shields
park will be first class in every par
ticular and strictly refined and moral.
We cater especially to the women and
children, it will be out in the open air
where it will be cool and comfortable.
The show will last two hours and the
price of admission will be 15c; reserv-
ed seats 10c extra
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17

Wallace, past grand master of the
grand lodge of Masons of Missouri {,
democratic politician or national
standing, and deputy surveyor OF Gus
toms at Kansas City, Mo, suiclded at
his home today with revolver. The
cause is unknown.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
BRITISH BARK is LOST.

New York, June 1.-THE Maritime
exchange gives up the British bark
McDuff with a crew OF 80 men for
lost. She sailed from here 30 days ago
for Pensacola
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
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Officers of Modern Woodmen.

indianapolis. June ia. B. Tai
bolt of Lincoln. Neb., was elected
head consul of the Modern Woodmen
this morning. Major Halves OF Rock
Island, was chosen head clerk and
Andrew Bort. of Beloit, Wis, banker.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
KIDNAPPED AMERICAN RESCUED.

Washington. June 17.-Consul NC
Wade At Canton cables the state de-
partment today that the American
who a few days ago was captured ana
held for ransom by pirates has been
rescued by the gunbOat CaIlao and
returned to Canton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
TITUS SAILS FOR ENGLAND.

New York, June 17.-Charles S. Ii
us, champion amateur oarsmen OF
America, sails today for England
where he will compete in the race for
the Diamond SOULS at Henley next
month.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
New Civil Service Commissioner

Washington. June 17.-Henry Green
Of Duluth, has been appointed civil
service commit .,Jner to succeed
James Garfield. who was recently
made chief of tn bureau of corpora
tons in the new apartment OF COM
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
Upton SAILS FOR AMERICA.

London. June 17.-Sir Henry Upton
sailed for America today. before
starting he received message from
King Edward wishing him good luck
in the yacht race.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17

Worth & Lamb, bargains in cit
and farm property. Rooms l and
Brechtel Bldg. Walla Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17
Captain Even Leaves Jackson.

Lexington, Ky. June 17.-Captain
Even. who was the principal witness
in the Jet case. has moved his family
here and this morning is looking Tor
cmpIoyment He abandoned Jackson
as residence through fears Tor his
life
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17

J. w Cookery, licensed embalmer
and undertaken. Babcock block, ~
First street Telephone Black S91.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17

Read the coupon offer in the States
man.
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London Times Correspondent Captured

Algiers. June 17.-Charles Harris,
the famous correspondent OF the Lon
don Times in Algeria, has been cap
cured by mountaineers.
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WalIa WaIIa Athletic Club.

Bowling, Billiards, Pool. Thursday
afternoons for ladies. VIM. Verdinius,
Mgr, 1913 w. Alder.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-17

Read the ads in the Statesman.
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Despondent Democrat Suicides.
independence, Mo, June l7.-DaViC
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
Sin and sinners.

William Oliver. aged fifteen years,
was arrested at Terre Haute, charged
with a~ssaulting a girl.
John Turner. an English anarchist.
was arrested while speaking in New
York, and he will be depcrted.
Edward Roedel, a travelling doctor,
aged sixty-two, mas been arrested In
Cincinnati for counterfeiting.
Mrs. Mary Stein, convicted In Chi
cage OF shopiifting. avoided imprisca-
ment by promising to so to Germany
and stay.
E7rs. Louis Iverson, who Killed her
three children at Salinas, Cal, has
been found insane and committed to
the asylum
Mrs. Catherine Reddy OF Ycnkers
has secured a verdict CT $4,000 against
the New York Central railroad for In
3nries suffered n q wreck.
Joseph d. Stinson is under arrest In
New York, together with Fl. ID. GiIroy.
for attempting TO extort $4,000 from
= New York mercantile agency stin-
So threatened IL sell secret records OF
ne COMPANY 70 rival commercial eSan-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
FoUR PERSONS KILLED.
Train Runs Into a Funeral Party =
Corpse Torn From Coffin.

Charlotte. N. c., Nov. 3.-Four per-
sons, all white, were killed instantly
and a corpse was torn from ito coffin
by a locomotive OF a south-bouns pas
senger train on the Southern railway
at a point near Concord, yesterday
morning. At the point where the acct.
dent occurred the country road runs
alongside the railroad for a considera-
BILE distance, the view being unob-
structed. The engineer saw the funer-
al party, but there was no cause for
him to anticipate a tragedy. Just be-
fore the train was abreast of the wag-
OF the mules drawing the wagon be-
came manageable and swerved, car
rying the wagon directly in front Of
the train. The casket containing the
corpse raj broker to pieces and the
corpse hurled through the air with the
Victims.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
nNtI
SWEPT BY FLAM[5
LARGE SECTION OF coNrv
AND IS AGAIN LAID n
ASHES.
TWO PERSONS PERISH IN flAM,
HOW MANY MORE ARE IN s,,,..
IS NOT kNcWN-MANy Ass
INJURED.
LOSS IS A MILLION OalAk
THREE HUNDRED RulIp,Ncs nc
BURNED AND 500 ARE
HOMELESS.

New York. Nov. BIN a blaze :.
terday that bafled the irenep :,
seven hours, the Bowery at Coney II
and was again laid in ashes
Two lives so far are reported 10 /.
lost, one man mortally injured, ! sco,s
of others hurt, 800 buildings destrors,
500 persons made hor,eless and mo,,
than 81. Zoo, 900 dana q done. n,
many more dead are in the ruins IL M
known. The most severely ininrea i,
clude six men and five women.
It was a fire marked by rescue nh
alone by the police, but by citizens
Before 1t had been an hour under Vay
the police could do nothin more ina,
try to keep the $4,000 sightseers out q
danger. The fire engines found it In.
possible to get liz action for nearly
four hours.
The alarm came from the hippo
drome, a low frame bcilding used il
summer for a merry-go-f5und. The
iremen thought it would all be over il
a moment, but the blaze had gained
Roadway. 1t crept under the building
under the raised street around the p.
ing, and ten minutes later the Aba.
tros hotel was alame. From that
time on,
While Alarm After Alarm
brought every fireman within len
miles, the fire seemed TO Jump from
walk to walk ard from flimsy building
to fimsy hnilding. With the lack d
water the fire had the forest OF wooden
structures at it's mercy and all that
coulu be done was to save life II ps
sible, and furniture. Everything pcrar
BILE was carried out, and soon Surf
avenue for blocks vas impossible BE-
cause of the barriers of Household
goods, weeping women and chldfea
and complaining men.
The center of the line where the hrs
lay thickest, was the Bowery, Q mar
row board walked alley thoroughisrs
dedicated to cheap dance halls ana
side elbows. The roofs of these ainsI
structures were In most instances q
tarred paper. Caught by the rapa
running FIRE, in quick succession ineI
igraited, fiared at a height. and tnsh
collapsed in a great dust Of spaTn
which were carried on to the row o.
little buildings.
III Two men, Frank Comfy. a salesnah
and Peter A. Shelley, a bartender. as
under arrest, suspected OF KNOWING
the cause of the fire. They had oeea
seen passing in an out of the trsns
building in which the blaze was mn
seen.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05

The Most Disastrous Explosion Ever
Known In R~ailroadinu.

The Most Disastrous Explosion Ever
Known in ~Railroading.
Crestline, Ohio, Nov. Zone of the
most disastrous explosions ever known
in railroading occurred here last night
when a car containing dynamite ex-
ploded from a supposed collision or jar
with another car, and let go with I'M.
mense force, Immediately setting fire
TO every car within a radius of a quar-
ter of a mile, and these in turn start
ing q blaze to at least 500 loaded and
empty freight cars. A hole forty feet
deep was blown in the ground and the
track was wrecked in all kinds OF
shapes for q long distance. 1t win DO
many hours before travel can be re-
sumed over this portion of the Penn
sylvania's lines. The shock from the
explosion was so terrific that 1t
smashed thousands OF window glass
and made many people sick because Of
the co~ncussion. Railroad ties were
blown a quarter of a mile.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
AND FRAUD.
Sensational Allegations In Report =
Receiver of u. S. Shlpbuilding 70

Sensational Allegations ~ nepS.
Receiver Of U. S. shlpbuild'ns ".
New York, Nov. 3.-Sensationai
legations of willful misstatemen's -.
Justification, swindling and irauu :
the organization and flotation Oh :
United States Shipbuilding ccmpaI'
OF attempts to mislead and cecs,''
the investing public by erroneous p'~
pectus statements and a aeilpes
plan to wreck the company py WV
holding the earnings OF the betn !
Steel company are contained IN Wv !
port of Receiver James smith, 'is
the United States ~Shipbuilding -. =
pany, made public yesterday. lhs
port concludes with the reconn II
ton that suit be brought agalas' i.
erson who received stock y ..,ss
company without paying iull i
therefor, including the prons ~
the consolidation, the vendors Il
constituent plants, and LA a
schwab, to recover from 'ne4 4
amount necessary to pay the ue0~
the company in full.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
Washington

The secret service announces the
discovery of a new counterfeit Of the
$40 note of the Millers River National
bank OF Athol, Mass.
Leopold j. Stern of Baltimore,
charged with completely In postal
frauds, was held to the grand jury in
$4,000 bail. which he furnished.
The second-class protected cruiser
Denver failed to make its contract
speed-seyenteen knots an hour-in
the governments trial test off Cape
Ann, Mass.
Mr.. Takahira, the Japanese minister,
doubts the accuracy of Gen. MacAr-
thurs information that officials of the
Japanese consulate at Manila have
been assisting the Philippine insur-
gents.
Lieut.. Commander Martin Beving-
ION of the United States navy, form
srly chief engineer on the ~battleship
Kentucky Of the Asiatic squadron,
lied Of Bright's disease at the home of
ais brother at Mansfield, Ohio.
Lieut.. Col. William Waters, retired,
s dead in Washington. He was sixty
sight years of age and served as an as
yistant surgeon in the regular army
Turing the Civil war. He became
lieutenant coloner and deputy surgeon
general in 1889. He was retired in
1897.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
People Talked About.

Joseph Monroe, a descendants of
President James Monroe, died at Pc
oria, ILL.,, aged ~ninety-eight.
Prof. Robert H. Thurston, director
Of the Sibley College of Engineering,
Cornell university, died from heart dis
ease.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger has
just finished the writing of a novel
which she will call 1.-THE Diplomats
Diary and which chronicles the adj
ventures of a young American girl
abroad.
Edward r. Kramer, cashier of the
First National Bank OF Allegheny, Pa.
which suspended Thursday, died at
lis home, aged fifty-six years. Death
vas caused by apoplexy. followed by
paralysis.
The viii OF the late Archbishop
John ]. Kain was filed for probate at
st. Louis. It provides that all of the
ate archbishop's property, both of a
personal and real character, shall be
burned v er to the diocese.
Prof. Irwin Ra~utenstrauch of Wash
ington university, who formerly lived
in Sedalia, Kan, has asked the courts
to change his name. Nobody in this
country has ever been able to pro-
nounce 1t right, and the professor has
got tired of being called Rotten
straw" which was conferred upon him
In his school days.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
= RE IN THE VATICAN.
Greatest Sensation in Rome Since the
Death OF Leo.

Greatest Sensation in Rome nee me
Death OF Leo.
Rome Nov. Sire broke out az
$3.50 last evening in that portion OF the
Vatican containing the hall OF inscrip'
lions. where the pope gives his audi
ences and which is adjacent to the
famous Pinacoteca, or gallery OF pic
tnres. The alarm caused much con-
fusion and excitement in the vatican.
Strenuous efforts we're made 70 con-
troll the flames and the firemen OF
Rome were called to lend their neip.
At l1:15 the fire was under control
No lives were lost. No idea OF the
damage can yet be obtained. The pope
came to the scene In person and re-
NAMED until the arrangements TO fignt
the fire were completed. The nre
caused a greater sensation in Rome
than has any other event since the
death OF Pope Leo. Information q
been Sent the Italian authorities, who
hurried TO st. Peter. They were cou
teously invited to enter, and did SO.
Therefore, for the first time since the
fall of the temporal power OF the
Vatican, the mayor of Rome, the pre-
feet. police officials and eve Sig. Ron
chetti. the newly appointed minister
of Justice, entered the Vatican In their
official capacities. They gave orders
directing the work Of combating the
flames and participated personally in
the fight. The entire museum of in.
scriptions. the rooms OF Father Ehrle.
part of the library and the printing
houses were entirely flooded with
water. 1t is impossible to reach even
an approximate idea Of the extent OF
the damage,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
FUNERAL OF MRS. RoorETuckER
Great Audience Weeps With the Grief.
Stricken Husband.

StfsSN~b TIdaEdB10s
New York, Nov. 3.-Funeral services
over the remains Of Emma Booth
Tucker, consul OF the Salvation Army
in America, were held yesterday after
oon in Carnegie hall. The auditorium
was filed to overlooking and hundreds
of persons who had been unable to
gain entrance waited in the streets
until the ceremonies had been con-
cluded that they might file past the
catafalque and look on the face OF the
dead Salyationist. The services, which
were conducted by Col. e ]. Higgins,
chief secretary of the Salvation Army
in America, were most impressive.
The grief of Commander Booth Tucker
was most poignant, and as be knelt by
the bier sobbing pathetically the great
err part OF the vast congregation wept
with him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
from / shores.

Michael Christi, an anarchist, has
been arrested in Rome for conspiring
to kill the king.
President Diaz Of Mexico will arbi-
trate differences between Colombia
and Nicarauga.
The Right Hon. Thomas Il. Lecky,
the historian, died in London. He was
born in Ireland in 1888.
Santos-D umont has declared his In
tention to contest at st. Louis for the
prize for dirigible balloons.
Emperor Francis Joseph has en-.
trusted Count Stephen Tisza with the
task of forming a new cabinet.
One person was killed and a dozen
were slightly injured In a railway
wreck at Sowerby bridge, London.
The insurgents 1. Sa>4 Domingo are
gaining strength and have organized a
provisional government at Puerto Plata.
L. M. Goldberger, privy councillor OF
commerce, in a book just published at
Berlin, pays a high tribute to America
as the land Of unlimited possibilities.
A fireworks explosion at a work
mems club in the village of Balkan,
Island Of Malta. has resulted in q wom-
an and four men being killed and the
injury Of fourteen persons.
The outbreak of cholera at Bethle-
hem, which vas reported Oct. IL, has
been stamped out. and the Gordon of
troops which had been drawn around
the city has been removed.
The Paris Matin has been printing
q serial whose interest cenfered in a
hidden treasure. A man found the
treasure easily, w~hereupon a mob tried
TO lynch him, and afterwards attacked
the Office OF the Matin.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
HE - r~%- M.HMNHt
KILLED IN WRECK
SIXTEEN LIVES ARE LOST IN A
COLLISION AT INDIAN
APoLls.
FOOTBALL TEAM WIPED OUT
ELEVEN or THE PURDUE SQUAD
ARE AMONG THE WRECKS
VICTIMS.
MANY ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED
THiRTY-FouR PERSONS IN THE
HOSPITALS, SOME or WHOM
MAY DIE.

indianapolis, Nov. 3. - Sixteen rsr-
sons were killed and over fifty others
were injured, some fatally, Saturday,
by a collision between a special pas
senger train on the Biz Four railroad
and a freight engine with a cut of coal
cars. The accident happened in the
edge Of this city. The passenger train
of twelve coaches was carrying the
students Of Purdue university and
their friends from Lafayette 20 Indian
apolis, for the annual football game
between the Purdue team and the In
diana university squad for the state
championship, which was to have
been fought Saturday afternoon.
Football Players Killed.
In the first coach back of the engine
were the Purdue football team, sub
stitute players and managers. Three
players, the assistant coach, trainer
and eight substitute players OF the
university team were killed and every
one of the ffty-three other persons in
the car was either fatally or seriously
injured.
There are still lying in the hospitals
thirty-four victims OF the wreck, thir-
ty-three OF whom are students of Pur-
due university. OF these fifteen are In
a serious condition.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
Paroled Prisoner Killed.

%Ishpeming. Mich, Nov. 3.-Michael
Sayant, an Italian. was shot and killed
during a quarrel in the rear yard of
S%avant's boarding house, and Dom
mick Papa, also an Italian, charged
with the shooting, was arrested a half
hour later in a swamp near Carp river.
Savant was out on parole, having been
convicted OF killing a Finn at Besse-
mer seven years ago.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
Resume OF the E1eWs.
casualties

casualties.
Paul T~ustian, a high diver exhibiting
at Peoria, H., was killed in his tent
by a live electric wire.
Fire at Pontiac, Mich. destroyed the
plant of G. j. Beaudette & Co, manu-
facturers of buggy bodies, entailing a
loss Of $4,000.
A six-pounder Maxim gun exploded
at Indian Head proving grounds, kill
Ing Frank Pennis and Nelson Jackson
colored laborers.
Edward Martin was repairing a
boiler at Marion, Ind, when gas In the
boiler was ignited by the forge and
he was badly burned.
A trolley car collided with a wagon
at Kansas City, throwing out the %
cupants of the wagon and injuring
them, two seriously.
Two foreigners were instantly killed
and another probably fatally hurt by
the explosion of a s~ixteen-inch gas
main at Cameron. W. Va.
A skiff containing five Hungarian la
borers was swept over the Springdale
dam near Colfax Station, Pa, in the
early morning fog and four of the oc-
cupants were drowned.
William Marks and Patrick Hardy Of
Butler, Pa, mistook a nitro-glycerine
can for a maple sugar can and tried to
cut it. MarSs was instantly killed and
Hardy fatally injured,
Motorman Bouray tainted and fell
from the platform of his car at the top
of a hill at Joliet, III. The car ran
away and killed a man and demolished
a house at the bottom Of the hill.
George B. Sherman, grandson OF
Gen. w. T. Sherman, and a student in
the Sheffield scientific school at New
Haven, Conn, died of hemorrhage of
the brain caused by a fall from a cliff.
Fire at Cincinnati, supposed to have
originated by spontaneous combustion.
damaged the extensive establishment
Of the Curry Woodenware company.
| The loss Is estimated from $4,000 to
500, 900.
At ~Sykesville, Nd, on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, the engine of a freight
train went over an embankment. de-
railing twenty-five cars. Brakeman
| William Levy was injured. Engineer
Linthum is reported missing.
Patrick ID. Rooney, secretary and
treasurer Of a large bedding manufac-
tory in which he is the principal stock
holder, has been killed under the
wheels of a passenger train upon
which he arrived with his wife and
child at the Grand Central station in
New York. The family was riding in
different cars owing to the crowd.
Rooney alighted to seek his wife and
fell under the wheels.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-05
nles while riahtlna Fire.

Sioux Falls, s. d.. Nov. ,;s;uf
Schwartz, a well.known farmer ars
near Ramona, was found deaa rs
Of his fields. When last seer - ~
engaged In trying to extinguisn nm
which was sweeping over ms a,.ssss
His death resulted from hear
caused by overexertion.