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FIRE CONSUMES LuErcERr PLANT
building Where Famous Chicago Mur-
der Took Place Is DESTROYED


The big sausage factory in Chicago in
which Ado:ph Luetgert is supposed to
have killed his wife in 1897 and dissolv-
ed her body in vat of acid was prac-
tieally destroyed by fire Sunday. The
loss is estimated at 5000. OO0. mostly ON
the stock, which consisted of stores of the
Library Bureau Company The struc-
ture and stock carried $4,000 insur-
ance. The spectacle Of the old sausage
factory. of which so many grewsome
tales are told and by which the timid
have passed in fear and trembling after
dark, enveloped in clouds OF the black
est smoke. with here and there a burst OF
name, drew over 10000 persons to- the
scene. Luetgert's factory, as it has al
ways been called, stood at Hermitage
and Diversey avenues. When the police
charged Luetgert with numbering his
WIFE and throwing her body into a sau-
sage vat ON the night of May /, 1897, the
mystery Immediately gained great promi-
nence. he was sentenced to life impris-
onment 3hd died of heart disease in July,
1898. Charles Westerholm was the only
person in the building at the time the fire
started. He had started fires in the boil
ers and then gone to the fourth floor.
On his return to the ground floor he
found it ablaze and hurriedly turned in
an alarm. A general alarm followed and
then came special calls for engines and
police. The Library Bureau leased the
building in April of last year. 1t had
remained unoccupied since the Luetgert
days. The origin of the fire is a mys-
terry, just as everything about the build
ing has been.
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immediate capture and punishment of the
bandit Raisul.
All along both governments have
promptly rejected the suggestion that
they guarantee immunity, which not only
haisuli but the Morocco government put
forward, the latter foreseeing the awk-
ward position tie Sultan would be plac-
ed IN if punishment We're demanded
The situation differs extraordinarily
from that which usually follows such an
act of brigandage. Raisuli is now a
prominent government official, holding
what in the present lawless condition OF
Morocco amounts to absolute sovereignty
over the numerous provinces by the war
like hillsmen.
There is little doubt that the Sultan
with an easy conscience, will break his
promises and revoke the patents of gov
ernorship granted to Raisul and replace
the robber with another governor. Should
the hillsmen decide that Raisul has been
badly treated they will resist the appoint
ment of q new governor and, aided by
the tremendous prestige of the exploit
given him, Raisuli, with the desperation
of a doomed man, will hold the provinces
at the point of the rife. Should the
Fee government refuse the demand OF
Great Britain and the United States the
action will be an affrort to the powers
and the outcome is obvious
Mr.. Perdicaris is an American by
birth, having been born in Trenton. n
j., of Greek ancestry. His father was
wealthy, having accumulated a large for
tune in gas stock, and the son inherited
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Manuel Quintana has been elected
President of Argentine Republic and
Figueroa Alcorta vice president.
George w. johnson, trainmaster Of
the Toledo division of the Lake Shore
Road. was killed by a train near Port
Clinton, Ohio.
Hattie VI. Johnson, known on the stage
as Marie Jensen, filed voluntary peti-
ton in bankruptcy in Boston. Liabilities,
81 1926; assets, SIT.
State Senator Hogg. OF Ohio, is in re-
ceipt of word from Marion. Kan, that
his ward Miss Margaret Martin, has
killed herself there by taking strychnine
Lord Dundonald is to be dismissed as
general commanding officer or the militia
at Montreal for statements that members
Of the Cabinet interfered with his work.
Kogoro Kanokogi, director Of the ecfn-
munication department for Formosa, and
Meatomo Isoda inspected the various
Offices Of the Washington Postofice De
partrnent to secure ideas Of American
methods.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has
brought suit fo- $4,000 against bonds
men of "Peter Powers" for damages said
to have been saused by the latter's pro
ceedings to prevent the Northern Securi-
ties merger.
The American Hawaiian Company's
steamship Nebraskan, which has just
been converted into an oil burner, ar
rived at San Francisco from New York,
having made the trip in ffty-four days.
While in a fit OF desperation, the
cause Of which is net known, H L.
Farmer. a well known citizen, Of Lone
Grove. /. T., shot and killed his 14-year-
old son, Emmett, and then blew out his
own brains.
John f. Campion, Of Denver. who is
heavily interested in the Little Johnny
and other LeadviIle mines, says that the
merger Of metalliferous mines organized
by Rockefeller has not reached Colorado.
and doubts IL II ever win.
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SINK ANOTHER SHIP.
Naval Fight at Port Arthur Is Won by
the Japanese.

the japanese.
Admiral Togo reports an engagement
at Port Arthur last Thursday in which
a battleship Of the Peresviet type was
sunk and a battleship Of the Sevastopol
type and a first class cruiser of the Diana
- re were damaged. The japanese fleet
was practically unchanged. Admiral
Togo sends no details, but it is reported
that The Port arthur feet came out of
the harbor on Thursday and engaged the
japanese fleet.
Russia has had seven battleships at
Port Arthur since the destruction of the
Petrovpavloysk. Two of the seven-the
Czarevitch and the Retvizan-were tor
pedoed during Togo's first attack, on the
night of Feb. s. Another, the Pobeida,
was torpedoed the day after the Petro-
pavloysk was sunk. This left Russia
four effective battleships, the Peresviet,
the Sevastopol, the Poltava and the Os-
liabia The Peresviet and the Osliabia
are sister ships, both being built from the
same plans. They both differ notably
from the others, aud it may be assumed
that the battleship sunk by Admiral
Togo's feet last Thursday was either
the Peresviet or the Osliabia. The in
jured battleship must either have been
the Poltava or the Sevastopol. These
battleships formed another type in the
Russian navy, and, with the Petropav-
lovsk, were built from the same designs.
Unless the cruiser PaIlada has been
repaired, the cruiser Diana must have
been the one referred to in Admiral
Togo's dispatch. The Diana and Pallada
were the only cruisers of that type at
Port Arthur. The Diana was a first
class cruiser with displacement Of 6,300
TONS Both the Peresviet and the Oslia-
bia were built in 1893. Each had a dis
placement of 1854 tons. Each was 434
feet long and each carried thirty-two Off
GERS and men.
The Russian army is reported in full
retreat from Kaichou (Kai-pinRl. The
two japanese armies under 0ku and
Kuroki have formed a junction az zai-
chou and are advancing northward. This
retreat marks the collapse of Kuropat-
kin's effort to hamper the siege Of Port
Arthur and to prevent Oku and Kuroki
from uniting their armies
Kuropatkin was forced to hurry south
TO save Stackelberg's shattered army
from humiliation after its defeat at Va
faa6vw. Now Kuropatkin's position is
almost as desperate as was Stackelbergs
a week ago. He can only save his army
by retreat which will be almost as demon
alizing as a defeat.
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UNION FOE is sLuGGIp.
Struck Down from Behind as He i
Leaving Chic, or, <AeIs<.<. Ia..:I<l:--

Struck Down from Behind as He Is
Leaving Chicago Office Building.
Alexander c. Allen, who as attorney
for the employers association has been
instrumental in securing injunctions
against a number of labor unions, was
the victim Of a mysterious attack late
the other afternoon as he was leaving
the building at SO LaSalie street, Chi
caGo, in which his Office is located. He
Was struck down by two men. who APP
preached him from behind. the blows in
flcting severe scalp wounds and making
him unconscious. The attack took place
just after Mr.. Allen had left the elevator
on the ground floor Of the building. The
police were unable to find any witness
to the assault, and the only statement
that the daZed attorney could make was
that he was set upon from behind by two
men whose faces he was unable to see.
The matter was not reported to the po-
lice till some time after the assault, when
they were called upon to remove the in
Jured man 10 the Samaritan hospital.
Later he was taken to his home. Mr.
Aliens unconscious form was discovered
In the rotunda of the building by Secre-
tary Wuest Of the National Metal Trades
Association. At that time no one was
near him and his assailants we're not to
be seen.
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outside Port Arthur with mines and
on the 18th he left an unprotected
cruiser as a bait to draw the Russians
out The Russians fell into the trap
and came out but when the full Jap
anese squadron compelled them to re-
treat they struck the hidden mines.
The battleship Petropavlovsk was
sunk with nearly all on board and the
Pobieda severely injured
Early in May Togo succeeded in his
third Hobson attempt Nine merchant
ships laden with stone were sunk in
the entrance to the harbor, preventing
the ships from within from coming out.
AS soon as these obstacles We're placed,
the second and third japanese armies
rushed upon their transports and were
landed, one at Pitsewo above Port
Arthur. and the other at Takushan.
Later the Russians managed to blow
out the obstacles, but their feet had
been neutralzed at the critical moment
when the transports We're on the seas.
Future history recording these eX-
PLOTS will enroll the Japanese name of
Togo as high as the highest ON her
short list of great naval captains. III
the beginning Of the war observers
made the mistake of believing that
Togo was a Japa nese admiral He is
not. He is a military genius of the
sort which but seldom in the annals of
any one country blaZes across the
pages of history. Japan has only one
Togo.
The map shows what the Russians
know of the japanese position on land.
The Japanese Outposts are within a
few miles of Kaichou. Behind them
somewhere or other lies an army
which apparently consists of the forces
which Gen. Nodzu landed at Taku-
which Gen. Oku landed above Port
Arthur. Most of Oku's army must still
be resting in the enyirOns of Port
Arthur. Otherwise the Russians could
emerge from that place and retake
Nanshan hill
The fact that the reports of the bat
tie of Telissu were sigaed by Oku does
not indicate that that general had
withdrawn his force from its objective
Port Arthur. 1t more likely means
that the Japanese staff wants TO make
the Russians think that this has been
done.
Probably Gen. Nodzu was in com
mand at the battle of Telissu. Nodzu
ranks first among the four japanese
generals. Oku being second, and
Kuroki third. Above these three gen
erals are the two field marShals, Yam
agata first and Oyama second. 1t is
now announced that Oyama has been
sent to take command in person ia the
feld-
While Nodzu's forces are in til
neighborhood of Kaichou. kuroki's
outposts are advancing over three
roads TO Kaichou. Tatcheklao. and
Haicheng respectively. These outposts
form a screen. The Russians don't
know and the world doesn't know
whether behind this screen Kuroki,S
army is advancing in three equal parts
over these three roads or whether his
main strength is being directed in
along but one Of them. The seeming
tendency of the last week has been
for Kurokl 70 edge further southwark.
getting nearer the Takushan position
vacated by Nodzu
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PENANcE FUND Is STOLEN.
Aged Widow of Murderer Misses Hun
dreds Saved for Victims Daughter.

Aged Widow of Murderer Misses Hum
dreds Saved for Victims Daughter.
For nearly twenty years Mrs. Annie
Brzobohata of Chicago has been saving
pennies penance fund for Miss Ma
RE Gro whose father was killed by
Brzobo a. Almost $1,700 had been
collected. and the other Cay Mrs. Bro
oohata wished to add few more pennies
TO the total, but when she looked for
the bag, hidden under cupboard. it was
missing. There was $500 in gold an
equal amount in currency, and about $50
IN silver and pennies. Mr.. and Mrs.
b-zobohata ran dye house in Chicago
many years ago John Gross was killed
by Brzobohata during quarrel. and the
latter served a term in the penitentiary.
On his release he Joined with his wife
IN saving fund to be left to the daugh-
ter OF the murdered man at their death.
After Brzobohata's death two years ago
the widow redoubled her efforts, as she
was nearly 20 years old. and knew she
could not keep up the struggle much long
er. Miss Cross has been living with her
for several years.
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JOIN EoR BIG FIGHT.
Kuroki and Olu Ready to Spring at
kuronatkiu's Throat

kuropatkiu's Throat.
Lieut.. Gen. Sakharoff's dispatch con-
firms the belief that the great decisive
battle of the campaign between Gen. Ku-
ropatkin's main army and the armies Of
Gems. Kuroki and Oku is imminent. The
three armies probably aggregate 100000
men and their outposts are in touch all
along the line. The japanese evidently
tried to draw Kuropatkin as far south
as possible, holding out as an incentive
a check to the advance of Oku's main
army. Meantime Oku swung sharply to
the eastward to join Kuroki toward the
Chapan pass, Kuroki at the same time
moving strong force by the right flank
toward Haicheng.
The main Japanese advance continues
along the main Feng-W ng-Cheng- Lao
Yang road, avoiding the Mao-Tien pass
by a detour TO the northward. The adj
vance in all points is being attended by
constant skirmishng. Nothing is known
OF the exact point at which Kuropatkin's
main force is concentrated, though it is
believed that a large part of the LAO
Yang force has been moved to a point
between Kin-Chau and Ta-TcheK iao.
According to a dispatch from Ta-Tche-
Kiao a large force had pushed southwark
from that place against Oku. While Ku-
ropatkin is thus extending himself, the
japanese, with great mobility, seem to
be trying to concentrate for the purpose
of striking the Russians in the flank and
rear.
Viceroy Alexieff's message, with the
brief dispatch from Rear Admiral With
OF t,.lat of A nth
throws little additional light on the sea
fight off Port Arthur The admiralty
and the Emperor are awaiting further de-
tails with the same eagerness as the gem
eral public. The loss Of three vessels Of
the Port Arthur feet is admitted to be
a severe blow, especially if not purchas-
ed by greater loss to the Japanese than
reported by Vice Admiral Togo. The
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Over 500 homes, business houses and
school houses, short distance from
Pittsburg on the Pan Handle Railroad
were inundated in from two to ten feet
OF water in Robinson Run hollow and
the Charters valley by q cloudburst.
Many buildings and bridges were washed
away, horses and cattle were drowned
and at least one life was lost. There
were many narrow escapes. In the Bas-
tan Hotel, Mcdonald, Charles Hayes,
the engineer, was caught in a room in
the basement. Almost without warning
the water poured in upon him. He
reached safety by crawling through the
tranSonl. The food did not subside until
daylight. The only fatality reported so
far was the drowning of an unknown
Italian, whose body was found floating
Ia Robinson run. The damage will reach
100000.
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GAsaAksMyEE =RCIAl
3. $50 AND ~ IN
H ~ -
zENANCA
New York. tio nspy Mercantile "a til Agency

uo., vi Reports TO the Ipterna-
h6H lUlh. tional Mercantile Agency
from commercial centers
throughout the United States indicate
greater activity in general business,
especially in the Southwest This APP
plies to most branches ~ dry goods,
with a good demand for mems and
women's apparel in light. weight gar
ments. Wholesale houses in the Chi
cago district report heavy buying for
fall delivery, with clothing, dry goods
and shoes in best demand Advices
to that center from tributary points
suggest fair interior trade and q prom
Using outlook. These conditions are
modified, of course, by disturbances
In certain cente-s where jobbers an
nounce decrease compared with last
years orders.
The volume of business In the North
and Northwest is materially below that
of 1903. Here. as elsewhere, the ap-
proach of Presidential election, with
the feeling that general trade had
slackened, have been effective in re-
stricting operations in various indus
tries. With the generally hopeful feel
ing about the crops, distribution Of
merchandise has been expedited and
sentiment materially improved Col
lections are still slow. and in the
neighborhood of Baltimore they show
falling off for the week. In Penn
sylvania the same tendency has been
felt.
St Louis territory shows up well,
with active dry-goods trade and heavy
orders for fall deliveries. Boots and
shoes are also in demand, with best
qualities selling we'll A large bust
ness has been done in hats, caps and
millinery during the week.
The labor situation is decidedly bet
ter. The tieup on the great lakes,
which has been so long disastrous
hindrance. is at an end, and from now
on the industries that suffered most
from the blockade are likely to be I'M
usually active. There is already a
great rush of work at the docks, and
while it may not be possible TO make
good the losses sustained the net re-
suit Of the strike may average small
err falling off in the total volume Of
business done than was first feared.
The striking machinists are still out
at Chicago, but the lockout IN the shoe
Industry is over.
Revival of investment buying OF
bonds has been the feature of princi-
pal significance in New York. Invest
ors in all parts of the country have
sent orders for high-class securities,
and the demand has been sufficiently
broad to justify the belief that with
the release of the July dividend fund
next week a great deal of surplus cap
ital will be permanently invested. This
weeks demand for bonds in New York
has been chiefly for the per cent is
sues selling around par.
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MANY TEACHERS MEET.
National Association Opens Forty
Third Convention at ST. Louis.

National Association Opens Forty
Third Convention at St. Louis.
The forty-third annual convention Of
the National Educational Association
formally convened Tuesday at the
worlds fair grounds in St. Louis when
the first of the general sessions was call
ed to order in Festival Hall. Later the
sessions OF the different educational de-
partments were convened in various halls
throughout the grounds, tne whole consti-
tuting the general convention OF the as
socia ton.
As the majority of the educators failed
to register upon arrival, but went direct
ly from the trains to their various stop
ping places, it is not definitely known
how large was the attendance, but it Is
known that many thousands of persons
same to St Louis for the express purpose
Of attending the convention.
Festival Hall has a seating capacity
Of about $500, but had the hall been
several times as large it would not have
accommodated the crowd. Educators
from every portion OF the United States
and many from abroad constituted the
vast throng that endeavored to find en-
trance to the hall, and the musical pro-
gram that was arranged as preliminary
to the convention was continued for some
time after the hour set in order to permit
the delegates to arrange themselves com
fortably.
The convention was called to order by
President John w. Cook. who is presi
dent Of the Northern Illinois State Nor
NAL School. DeKalb, III. He introduced
the first speaker. W. T. Darlington, sup
erintendent Of public instruction of Mis-
sour. who welcomed the educators To
st. Louis and TO the exposition. A sec
ond address of welcome was made by
C. NJ. Woodward. president OF the st.
Louis Board of Education.
The next speaker was F. Louis Sedan.
superintendent Of public instruction Of
st. Louis. While Mr.. Sedan was speak
ing Mayor Rolla Wells and President d.
r. Francis entered the ball. Mayor
Wells was introduced next and welcomed
the educators
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Rnmnr of the VA

The eontending armies. at latest ad-
vices. were apparently about to fight
the great battle Of
1t is about time for Russia to receive
smother Of those permissions 10 take her
Black Sea feet out through the Dar5a-
nelles.
Russian naval men are blamed for the
disaster al Port Arthur. though IT is clear
that the japanese were partly 10 blame
for IL
Neither Tatchekiao nor Haicheng. con-
sidered as name for great battle
grouni. can be said 10 have a heroic
sounll to the occidental ear.
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all of this wealth. Thirty years ago he
visited Europe and married an English
lady, whose son, Marley, has shared his
captivity. Some years ago while visiting
in Morocco, Tangier so captivated Perdi-
caris' aristocratic and artistic tastes
that he determined on living there and
he acquired a handsome castle four miles
outside the city. Here he lived like a
king. His home was the social center
Of Tangier and there diplomats and for
eign residents Otter gathered to enjoy
his sumptuous hospitality. His abduc-
ton created q profound sensation.
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SCARS IN OWN FLYING MACHINE.
Oklahoma School Superiase- rent Nav
igates Air for Several Miles.

oklahoma School Superilse- uent Nav
igates Air for Several Miles.
Prof. Jonas Cook. superintendent Of
the Chickasha, Okla, public school, the
other day few through the air for a dis
lance of several miles in flying ma
chine of his own invention. The mechan-
ism of the machine consists of a small
instrument that attaches TO the side and
initiates. khaki blouse that the professor
wears. In this instrument is genera
Tor or hydrogen gas that initiates the
blouse and regulates the height and the
rate the professor desires to travel. Prof.
Cook sailed from the summit of Mount
Scott, in the Wichita mountains, and
landed in the Kechi hills, several miles
to the east. County Superintendent
Nelson, G. W. Bohannon, professor of
science in the Southwestern Normal Col
lege at Weatherford, Okla; and w. f.
Kerr, a newspaper correspondent of
Lawton, witnessed the test of the ma
chine.
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While the vessel was undergoing test
in Hampton Roads, under the direction
OF Captain Cowles brother-in-law of
President Roosevelt, and other members
of a special commission, boiler valve
blew out on the torpedo boat Biddle
scalding Fireman Warren and Water
Tender O'Donnell so badly that it is ex-
pected they will die.
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Twenty-Five Die in submarine Boat.

Twenty-Five sailors were drowned at
the Baltic works, St. Petersburg, during
experiments with the torpedo boat Delhn,
which had been converted into subma-
rine boat. The signal was given to sub
merge the boat without first properly
closing the manhole.
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Moscow Is Tornado Swept.

A tornado swept Moscow, Russia,
causing enormous damage. Forty-fve
persons were killed and thirteen injured.
Two villages in the track of the storm
near here were destroyed. One hundred
and fifty deaths are reported there, while
eighty-five persons were hurt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-07-05

A threat TO cut the leyee on the Red
river, near Cham. La. was met with
bullets, which killed a man named Ham
ilton, who had started across the river
with the avowed intention of making
passage for the water. He said he had
been offered $1,000 to cut the levee. A
planter was the slayer.
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dragged to Death by Team.

George Fogle, aged 80, n prosperous
farmer who lived near Broadway, Ohio,
was driving TO town, when his team be-
came frightened and started to run. Mr..
Fogle and his little grandson were
thrown out. Fogle became tangled in
the lines and was dragged about a quar-
ter of a mile. He was picked up uncon-
scinnS and died