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hubbuck Refuses Appointment,

st. Joseph, No., April 3.-Lev
Chubbuck has been offered the posi-
ton Of chief OF the bureau OF agricul
ture in the Philippines, but will not
accept it. He returned yesterday
from Washington, where he was call.
ed BY Secretary Hitchcock, who Of.
fered theplace tohim. Mr.. Chubbuck
was formerly the editor OF a newspa.
per at Kidder and later chairman Of
the state board Of agriculture.
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Molten Metal Killed Three.

Pittsburg, March 31.-Fourteen
men were seriously burned and three
fatally as a result of an explosion
at the blast furnace 81" of the Edgar
Thompson works at Braddock, Pa.
The injured men were casting, and
without the least warning the big
furnace suddenly let go, throwing
the molten metal in all directions
and covering the men in some cases
from head to foot.
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To BE Held Under the Old Law.

Topeka, Kan, March 31.-The mu-
nicipal elections this spring will be
conducted under the old law. The new
ballot reform law will not take effect
until its publication in the official
state paper. The ballots to be used
next week must contain square OPP
posite the words mo Nomination"
1t was wiped out by the legislature
recently, but, as stated, the new law
will not go into effect until the stat
utes are published.
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Col. ID, @. Kennedy Dead .

Springfield, Mo-, March 3k-Col. D.
C. Kennedy, who founded the Spring
field Leader in 1867, edited the paper
until 1894, when he was appointed
United States consul to Malta in
which position he served for four
years, died at his home in this city
last night.
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A California Minister Stole Plants.

Los Angeles, CAL, March 31.-The
Rev. E. E. Palmetto, pastor of the
Grandview Presbyterian church, was
arrested for stealing potted plants
from the doorways of residences. He
Is believed to be insane. His wife
swore to a complaint alleging that he
is mentally unbalanced. He formerly
lived at Marion, Ind.
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LANGERMAN TELLS
OF REBEL ATTACKS.
Worlds Fair Commissioner
Spared by the SuItan's
Enemies.
GUARD KILLED In BATTLE.
Graphic Description Of Fight Between
Opposing Armies.

opposing Armies.
New York, April flames W. s,
Langerman, a commissioner OF the
st. Louis exposition to the Orient
apd particularly Morocco, returned
to-day on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse with a curious story Of how
he escaped from Fee while that
stronghold OF the sultan was besieg.
ed by the rebels under Bou Hamara,
the pretender.
"When l left Fez," said he, 81 had a
program mapped out to 60 to Tan.
gier, 1877 miles away, on business
connected with the st. Louis Expo
sition.
My guard consisted of 500 of the
finest soldiers obtainable by the Sui.
tan and when | say that all but four
OF them were slain in defending me,
it may be imagined what strenuous
time we had.
We were attacked when not more
than twelve miles outside by an over
whelming army Of rebels. My guards
were equipped with the latest make
Of English and German guns and fire
works. Not only did the rebels glory
in the practical extinction of our
army, but they cut off the heads of
the slain and exhibited them through
the territory under their control. |
was captured, but upon becoming
convinced that was an American
visitor on business only they released
me with my four men.
What occurred the day following
the slaughter of the guards | did not
learn until my arrival in Tangier.
Then | was told that the news OF the
killing OF the guard reached Fee that
same night that it had happened,
and that the sultan, enraged beyond
endurance, ordered 1000 men away
at midnight, and that the next day
an awful battle was fought.
1t resulted in a victory for the sui
tan's men, they returning to Fee with
the heads OF 300rebels stuck on their
poisoned arrows and lances. These
heads, | am informed, were subse-
quently nailed to the gates OF Fee.
The four horses which the sultan
presented to me to take to st. Louis
came from his own stable. They
were the most beautiful animals I
ever saw. They had tails that reach
ed tho ground and names four feet
long, and were as black as the sides
OF this ship.
Three times during the journey OF
1877 miles the horses and their at
PENDANTS were attacked. Even the
rebels had a dread Of harming the
sultan's animals, and no attempt was
m ade on their lives. Seven OF the
attendants, however, we're killed.
On the journey from Gibraltar to
Liverpool the ship having the horses
on board met awful weather, and
three Of them died, one breaking it's
n eek and the other two their legs, so
that they had to be killed. The sole
surviving animal is at Liverpool re.
for the transatlantic
trip. 1t will be shown at the st.
Louis Fair"
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Crum May BE Enjoined.

Charleston, S. c., March 31.-Mayor
]. Adger Smyth said that if advised
so to do by Corporation Counsel
George II. Moffet, he will apply to
the United States courts for a re-
straining order prohibiting Doctor
W. d. Crum from becoming Collector
of the Port of Charleston until the
constitutionality of his appointment
could be tested.
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Rough Riding Exhibition for Roosevelt

Cheyenne, Wyo., March 3i.-The
plans for President Roosevelt's en-
tertainment here include a rough-rid-
ing exhibition which will probably
equal that given at the annual from
Tier celebration. A majority of the
riders who compete at the annual en-
-tertainnent have signiGed their in
tention of being present, among
them Elkton Perry, Winner Of last
years championship belt.
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Nervousness Caused Her to Go Blind.

Derby, Conn, April NERVOUS
to the point of hysteria for fear she
would not be able to pass an exami-
nation, for the reason that during
the last two weeks her eyes have
been troubling her so greatly that
she was unable to study, Miss Julia
Fox, 16 years of age, has been sud-
denly stricken with blindness.
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]. c. Barclay, electrical engineer
of the Western Union Telegraph
company, has been appointed assist
ant manager of that company, enter
ing upon the duties Of the newly.
created Office April /.
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Chicago, March 31.-Secretary Of
the Treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw left for
Peoria early Tuesday, where he win
deliver an address before the Kick
apoo club.
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COLORED BOY,
Register No. 1882.

Register No. 1882.
This fine American bred draft stall
lion is black, 16k hands high, weighs
about 1900 pounds, is agood breeder
and has colts to show. Will make
the season Of 1908 at our barn 3k
miles east OF Butler. Terms $40 to
insure living colt.
WOODRUFF.
Is black with white points, 15K
hands high, will make the season at
the same barn. This jack is well
known to be asuperior breeder, terms
IS to insure living colt. Breeders
are invited to inspect this stock BE-.
fore buying.
22-4t' 1T. HYATT L SONS.
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DID BEECHER'S SPIRIT
TALK TO REV. FUNK2

Through a Medium Supposed
Shade Of Preacher Asked
About an Old Coin, Loaned
Thirty Years Ago, and De-
scribed Place Where il Was
Later Found.
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ditions and many of the inexperienced vol
unteers were sickened at the CHASTITY things
which crowbar and lever were constantly
revealing
SKETCHES OF THOSE KILLED.
All Classes of Purdue Represented in
the List of the Dead.

With the exception of Howard, all of the
men killed in the wreck were connected
with Purdue University as students.
coaches or trainers. Most of them were
young men taking courses in mechanical
or civil engineering. All classes in the
school were represented in the list of dead.
short biographical sketch of the killed
follows:
PATRICK M'CLAIRE of Chicago, recent
ly secured to train the team, was one of the
most noted trainers In the country. He
had been assisting Coach Stags. of the
University of Chicago. in training Chi
cago's team He was secured through the
initiative of the business men of Lafayette.
He was formerly identified with the Chica-
go Athletic Club, was at time assist
ant trainer at Yale and last season coached
football team in South Dakota. McClaire
was a man of about thirty-five years and
was married. His widow is living in Chi
cago.
B. j. POWELL. of Corpus Christi, Tex,
was a member of the junior class at
Purdue. He came to Purdue from
Texas University and at once be-
came prominent in athletics. While in
Texas he held the State champion
ship in the discus throw He was a prorni-
nent member OF the Purdue track team.
He was substitute on the football team
last year. and this year was playing end.
He was regarded as one of the strongest
men on the team and was one of the most
promising athletes in Purdue.
WALTER ID. HAMILTON. aged twenty
two. lived at Beardstown, III. He was a
sophomore in the School of Mechanical En-
/ gineering. Last year he played on the
scrubs, making the varsity this year.
| CHARLES Z. FURR, aged twenty Eight.
| resided at Veedersburg. Ind. He was a
| junior in civil engineering. Fur was on
the scrub team last year. making the var
sity this year.
CHARLES G. CRUDE. aged twenty-four
was from Butler, Ind. He junior in
! civil engineering. He played substitute
tackle.
E. c. ROBERTSON, aged twenty-seven
| lived at Helena. Mont He graduated in
1901 in mechanical engineering. He was
captain Of Purdue varsity team of 1899 and
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The car left the track and tumbled ever on
its side so quickly that the members of
the band and the others in the hardly
knew what had happened. All crawled out
of the doors and windows and none was
seriously injured.
KOKOMO MAN ON TRAIN.
eyes. was in the wreck, but can't tell
much about how it happened" said Mer-
ril Naftzger, of Kokomo. a sophomore at
Purdue, and a member of the band. 'T
was in the car right behind the one where
the football team was. The first thing we
knew of anything going wrong was when
our car began to bump. The next thing
we knew our car had left the track and
tumbled down the embankment and we
were tumbled and thrown about like so
many boxes of freight. We didn't have
time to think about it. We were running
along at about thirty-five miles an hour.
Then the train slackened speed, there came
a big crash and the next thing we knew our
car was lying on its side on the steep en-
bankment. Strange to say no one In the
car was hurt badly. A good many were
bruised and shocked pretty badly, but no
one was injured seriously"
ct thought we were all done for sure
when our car jumped off the track and
turned over on its SIDE" said Arthur w.
Conner. Of Dallas. Tex, a freshman and
a member of the band. "The thing hap
pened so quickly that no one could realize
until 1t was all over, of course, what was
the matter. But still. you know, a fellow
thinks pretty fast in time like this. We
have all read of railroad wrecks and how
they happen, but no one can imagine how
II is until he Is In one We heard the
crash when train hit the coal cars, and
before we understood what was going on we
were all dumped together at end of
the car The women shrieked and moaned
and everybody thought that surely some
of us would be killed. But fortunately we
all got out safely-that is. without being
hurt very much"
A WOMAN'S DESCRIPTION.
Miss Prudence Wager, of Lafayette, an
alumnus of Purdue University. was in the
third coach of the wrecked train. She was
among the first to reach the front of the
train, where the dead lay on both sides OF
the track. Said Miss wager at the Denison
Hotel yesterday afternoon:
1.-THE first thing saw when / got off the
train was the bodies of three Of the foot
ball players, who were killed instantly. 1t
was an awful sight. One could not imagine
a more terrible sight. 1 couldn't compre-
bend then what had happened We were
all laughing and thinking of the great fun
we would have in Indianapolis and were
getting ready to leave the train, for we
knew we were in the city. All at once the
car began to bump and slacken speed
Then the crash came. Our car did not leave
the track hut we were shaken ND fright
fully. AS soon as the train came to a stop
we scrambled out of the car. We knew
something terrible had happened. but we
could not tell what. 1t all came so quickly.
Then, when we saw the dead and injured
students and football players, we began to
realize the horror of the thing. l can't
tell anything more about it. 1t was too
awful"
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CONDUCTOR JoHNsoN's STORY.


Conductor Frank NJ. Johnson, of No. 1912
Woodlawn avenue. this city, who had
charge of the Purdue special, was so
shocked by the terrible accident that it was
with the utmost difficulty he was able to
give his version two hours afterward. The
thing that softened the grief and hor-
ror Of the conductor was the joy of his
wife and children at his miraculous escape
from injury. AS soon as the news of the
wreck became generally known Mrs John
son was informed that her husband. had
been instantly killed She tainted, and
neighbors who went to her assistance
worked with her for some time to restore
consciousness When Conductor Johnson
able to leave the relief party he hur-
ried to a telephone and called his wife.
Within an hour Mrs. Johnson and the two
children were at the wreck almost hyster-
ical from joy.
Conductor Johnson tells the story of the
wreck as follows:
II was I'm the third car counting my tick
cts and making UP my report when the
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Roush, of Gas City, Ind, d. s. Drollinger,
of South Bend. Ind, and Bert Price, of
Spencer. Ind, were found All bore mute
witness in frightful wounds to the death
that had suddenly come upon them
Patrick McClaire. of Chicago, one of the
athletic trainers. was taken from the wreck
in dying condition and expired at the City
Hospital an hour later.
LAST DEAD TAKEN OUT.
c. G. CRUDE. of Butler. Ind. and Walter
FUR, of Galveston, Tex, were the last of
the dead to be taken from the wreck. The
bodies were found under the demolished To-
connective and tender. All that could be seen
at first was a shoe protruding through the
debris Jacks were placed under the huge
mass of iron and 1t was raised sufficiently
to permit of extricating the bodies. Both
bodies were so crushed and disfgured as to
be almost unacceptable. CRUDE was iden-
titled by letter found in his pocket by a
fellow-student.
Others who were taken from the wreck
age after herculean efforts were ]. C. Coats.
of Burwein. Pa. who died at the City Hos
George L. Shaw, of Indiana Harbor who
had been instantly killed. it is thought:
Samuel Truitt, of Noblesville, Ind, who
was so terribly injured that he never re-
gained consciousness after removal to the
City Hospital; B. j. Powell, the young
Texan who was on the Purdue team, and
w. r. Howard. OF Lafayette. whose death.
also, 1t was supposed, had been instanta-
neous.
All the while passengers from the other
coaches almost insane from fright and
grief of the moment. hung breathlessly on
the labor of the wreckers. AS each poor
body crushed and mutilated. limbs twisted
and distorted. gently withdrawn from
the grimy, bloody mass. some anxious face
appeared, half in hope. half in terror; hope
that 1t was no dear friend or relative, fear
that another glance would disclose the fea-
lures of one near and dear. Men stood ST.
lent with drawn faces, every faculty
strained almost to the point of insanity.
Women sobbed and wrung their hands. No
| more terrible contrast could possibly be i'm
agined than the singing, laughing, cheering
trainload of college boys and girls thrown
suddenly into the depths of grief and de-
spair. The scene was so affecting that few
could withstand it's pathos and tragedy.
| An astounding circumstance of the catas-
| trophe is the fact that not single girl or
woman received serious injuries. and this
| despite the fact that a number of women
were in the third COACH which was thrown
high In the air and deposited on the mass
| OF wreckage, dismantled and torn. num-
Der were cut, scratched or bruised, some
suffered severely from hysteria and the
shock and the intense agony of witnessing
| such spectacle. but of the hundred or
more women on the train not one in all
probability will be permanently injured
A CHASTITY TASK.
| The labor of the relief party was a ghast-
ly task. So frightful had been the impact
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view Of the scene is photographed their
memories exactly. What happened after
that is almost impossible to describe they
say. The air was literally full of flying
timbers and splinters. of Jumps of coal,
and other bits of debris. They were so
placed that they could see every incident
of the wreck. after the first chaos and
they saw to their horror human bodies
and pieces OF bodies hurled high In the
air and then fall to be buried in the ruins.
AS soon as they recovered their presence
of mind they rushed to the wreck under
the direction Of Foreman O'Brien. and were
the first to begin the work OF relief. White
men and colored, with no tools save their
naked hands, did what they could in the
first few minutes before skilled help ar
rived with pro er appliances.
Hugh Jones. OF 510l1 Blake street, one OF
the members of this party, said In describ-
ing the wreck:
IT was busy laying brick when I heard
somebody yell that the college train was
coming. / looked UP and saw the engine
just coming around the curve. wasn't
looking the other way. but Walter Stevens.
who was working near me, yelled out: For
Gods sake. look at that switch enginer IL
all happened so fast after that that it's
pretty hard to recall things straight When
the trains came together both OF them
seemed to jump straight UP in the air and
hang there for a little while. Then one
of the passenger cars fell over the other
side Of the track, down into the gravel pit.
and the one behind IL followed IT. Then
saw the next car jump straight through the
air, 1t seemed to me. and fail right on top
of what was left OF the engine and the
coal cars.
GAVE THEIR AID.
1--WE all dropped everything and ran over
to do what we could to help. I've seen a
whole lot Of awful things In my day, but
never anything to touch that. We picked
young fellows out of that mess who were
all cut to pieces and yet they hardly crie1H
out"
Matt Brady. Of 1909 North Senate avenuN
said:
lone of the queer things was that tnereN
were few outcries Of any kind. You would
think everybody would been yelling and
screaming and crying, but IL wasn't the
case at all. l know IL struck US all as
mighty queer at the time. One thing / do
know, is that that train was going so fast
that it looked like a yellow streak until IL
hit the coal cars"
George Center. OF 2702 Columbia avenue.
said:
I'VE were the first people TO get over TO
the wreck. We were there before any OF
the people who live around here could get
there. simply can't describe how IL all
looked. Everything was all mixed up and
almost every place you looked you'd see a
bloody hand or arm or leg or body sticking
out of the wreck. We took out two or three
who looked to me like they were dying and
found one or two who had undoubtedly been
killed at once
These men under Foreman OBrien were
warmly commended by the trainnen and
| others who took cd the work of relief.
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ALMOST MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
Newsboys on the Train Not Badly
Hurt-Hiram Harris Injured.

Hiram Harris. of 1920 Spann avenue. who
had charge OF the wrecking crew, was Sc
verely injured about the head by a piece
Of flying timber. Harris was directing the
work on the big steam crane when the rope
snapped and sent large piece OF truck
ing flying through the air. striking Harris
in the back of the head Harris was later
sent home In the Dispensary ambulance.
Walter Butler. a newsboy on the train.
is lying at the City Hospital suffering from
injuries received in the wreck. Butler was
standing on the front platform OF the spe-
cial when the crash came and was buried
in the debris. r. r. Scobell. OF 4fSS Mar
quette avenue. St. Louis, was the other
news agent. on the train and escaped with
slight bruises Butler is a son OF the sta
ton master OF the Pennsylvania lines in
Pittsburg.
That both were not killed outright is
one Of those inexplicable things which fire.
quently occur In an accident OF this kind.
Both newsboys were standing on the front
thirty feet from where he was standing
when the wreck occurred Scobell described
the wreck as follows: II do not know
this minute whether or not 1 am alive.
was standing on the front platform OF the
train talking 10 Walter Butler. the other
news butcher. and when I was picked up
was lying near the middle OF the wreck
age. The only injuries. / suffered were
slight cuts about the head
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1900. He had been employed in an Indian
apols plant and came back to assist Coach
Cults. He was Familiarity known as cap
Robby" and played half back and tackle.
WALTER r. ROUSH, aged twenty-three;
home at Gas City. Ind., senior in science
course and great friend of Captain Osborne,
of Purdue eleven. Roush played on senior
class football team
SAMUEL p. SQUIBBS, aged twenty-one;
home. Lawrenceburg, Ind. He was fresh
man in civil engineering and member Of
football squad.
JOSEPH C. COATES, aged twenty-five;
home at Berwyn, Pa. He was a sophomore
i'm mechanical engineering and a member
of scrub team.
SAMUEL c. TRUITT, aged twenty; home
at Noblesville. He was a freshman in tech
nical chemistry. Member of football squad
BERT PRICE, aged twenty-eight home
at Spencer Ind; senior in pharmacy school,
G. l.. SHAW. aged twenty; home at In
diana Harbor. Freshman in mechanical en-
cheering.
GABRIEL DROLLINGER, aged twenty
two: home at South Bend. He was a soph-
omore in science and played on scrub team.
GABRIEL S. DROLLINGER was a La
porte county Qnd) boy. He was twenty
years of age and the only son of Quinn
| Drollinger, a well-to-do farmer of Wills
| township He entered Purdue this fall.
Last June he graduated from the Rolling
Prairie High School. He was endeavoring
to complete his four-year course at Pur-
due in three years.
| JAY HAMILTON. aged nineteen home
Huntington.
son of j. A. Hamilton, formerly landlord
| of the Teegarden Hotel of Laporte, but
now a resident of Huntington.