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The evening world., 1904-02-24
CHICAGO THEATRE
MENACED BY FIRE
Flames Break Out in Upper
Floors Of Skyscraper in Which
the Garrick Is Located, and
Panic Follows.

CHICAGO, Feb. oL.-Another theatre
building in Chicago has been attacked
by fire. The latest structure is the sky
scraper known as the Schiller, sixteen
stories in height, and located half a
square west of the Iroauois Theatre.
= The Garrick Theatre. recently re-
ing. :
Fire started on the thirteenth fioor
before daylight. and for a time seemed
likely to get beyond control owing to
the flames at such "A lofty location.
Guests at the Union Hotel. adjoining
on the west. were reused from sleep and
some OF them were In a panic.
The fire damage. however. was small
and was confined to the -four upper
stories OF the Schiller Building.
The evening world., 1904-02-24
WOMAN STABBED IN
FIGHT ON STREET
Young Dressmaker SO Severely
Wounded by Another Girl that
Her Arm May Have to Be Am
putated.

Ollie Taylor, a pretty young dress
maker. OF No. POI West Thirty-Aisth
street. is suffering in Roosevelt Hos
pital as the result of a fight with a
young woman who fave her name as
May Bell. OF No. 227 Fast One Hun
dred and Twenty-ninth street.
The women met on West Thirty
sixth street and started to fight. The
Bell woman drew a knife and slashed
Miss Taylor's arm badly. The ainbu-
lance surgeon said she might possibly
have to have the arm amputated. The
He'll woman was locked up In the West
Thirtieth street station.
The evening world., 1904-02-24

Mt the j. Hood Wright Memorial Hospl-
tai. where everything that medical
science can do TO preserve her life is
being done.
Reports from the hospital to-day said
that Mrs. Nugent was slightly I'M
proved since last evening and under
the circumstances had passed ms COM
Portable a night AS could he expected.
What the outcome OF her injuries will
be no one can say.
The evening world., 1904-02-24
100000 EXPRESS ROBBERY.
Wells Fargo Company Loses That
Amount In Mexico.

Ell PASO. Tex. Feb. a4.-It has be-
come known here that the Wells Fargo
Express Company was robbed of
500. 900 two weeks ago at Irabusto.
Mexico.
Details of the robbery are lacking.
because the officials OF the company
have used every means to keep tho
amir ~5ecrct.
officials OF the company and several
deputies are now in Mexico trying
to run down the thieves.
The evening world., 1904-02-24
GIRL SHOCKED TO DEATH.
sIisa Flint. an q Assacan, Dies In
Rome Afnar Being RoLbcd.

FOND DU LAC, Wis. Feb. 2i.-Infor-
nation has been received here that Miss
Juild Flint. OF this city. who sailed for
Europe last December. Is dead in Rome
in consequence Of a shock to her nerves.
caused by an assault of a robber.
While returning from church In
Naples Dec. q a man seized her, aud
after q struggle stole her purse. She
was taken III Immediately and never
rallied. The body Will be brought here
taR. huEiQA --~~----v--
The evening world., 1904-02-24
MRS. NUGENT NO WORSE.
stiil in Critical Condition from,
Burns She Received.

Mrs. Frank Louis Nugent, the wealthy
dr., goods dealers wife, who was so
terribly burned In her home Mt Eighty
eighth street and Riverside Drive yes
terday, continues in a critical condition
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Courier Democrat., 1904-07-21

along, because now you'll have to come
with me till this little row is over. You
won't have to stay long. Your logs IL
90 out in an hour. I'll just trouble
you to go into the brush with me for
awhile"
The scaler picked his file from beside
the weakened link.
what have you against us. anyway.
DyeI?" asked Wallace. His quick mind
had conceived plan. At the moment
he vas standing near the outermost
edge Of the jam, but now as he spoke
he stepped quietly to the boom log.
Dyers black eyes cleaned at him
suspiciously. but the movement appear
Cd wholly natural in view Of the re-
turn to shore.
'.Nothins,'' he replied. II didn't like
your gang particularly. but that's moth
Ing"
why do you take such nervy
lAancss % hture usY" queried Car
peataE.
'.Bscasss shsrss something in IL"
Courier Democrat., 1904-07-21
CHAPTER xxx111.

7TATiHAT is ttT' What Is the mat
ter?' what the IS up?'
V What's happened?. burst on
W. Wallace In volley.
ITS Dyer! gasped the young man
I found him on the boom! He held
me up with gun while he filed tb<
boom chains between the center piers
They're just ready to go. got away
BY diving. Hurry and put in a new
chain. You haven't got much timer
"He's goner now," intertected Sol
" grimly. Charley is on his trail
and he is hit"
Thorpe's Intelligence leaped promptly
to the practical question.
"Injun Charley where'd he come
from? l sent him up to sadler &
Smiths. It's twenty miles, even
through the woods"
As though by way of colossal answe,
the whole surface Of the jam moved
inward and upward, thrusting the logs
bristlfng against the horizon.
"She's going to breakr' shouted
Thorpe, starting on run toward the
river. "A c0aln, Qu1Ckw
The men followed, strung high with
excitement Hamilton, the journalist
paused long enough to glance up
stream. Then he. too, ran after them
screaming that the river above was full
OF logs. BY that they all knew tha,
lntun Charley's mission had failed and
that something under 10000, 600 feet soi
logs were racing down the river like &c
many battering rams.
At the boom the great jam was al
ready a-tremble with eagerness tc
spring. Indeed miracle alone seemed
to bold the timbers in their place.
It's death, certain death, to 70 on,
on that BOOM" muttered Billy Mason.
Tim Shearer stepped forward coolly
ready as always TO assume the peri|ous
DUTY. he was thrust back BY Thorpe
who seized the chain, cod-shut and
hammer which scotty Parsons brouRh,
and ran lightly ont over the booms
shouting:
Back! Back! Don't follow me. or
your lives! Keep 'em back, Timy'
The swift water boiled from unde,
me booms. Bang! smash! bang! crash
ca the logs a mile up stream, but plain
y audible above the waters and TIN
wind. Thorpe knelt, dropped the cold
shut through ON either side Of the
weakened link and prepared to Close 1,
with his hammer. He intended furthe,
9 strengthen the connection with TIN
ofhef chain.
smme hold her for you. You cens
49, her alone" said an unsxpeetet
svoaeo next his elbow.
Courier Democrat., 1904-07-21

ing keen glance right and left to be
sure Of his opportunity he turned and
hurried recklessly back over the logs
to the center booms. There he knelt
and busted himself with the chains.
In his zigzag progression over the
Jam he so blended with the morning
shadows as to seem one OF them, and
be would have escaped quite unnoticed
had not sudden shifting OF the logs
under his feet compelled him to rise for
q moment to his full height. So Wal
lace Carpenter, passing from his bed
room along the porch to the dining
room, became aware of the man on the
logs
His first thought was that something
deMapding instant attention had hap
pened 10 the boom. He therefore ran
at once to the mans assistance, ready
to help him personally or to call other
aid as the exigency demanded. Owing
to the precarious nature Of the passage
he could not see beyond his feet until
very close to the workman. Then he
booked up to find the man, squatted on
the boom, contemplating him sardonic-
ally.
~Dyer!" he exclaimed.
Fright, my son." said the other
eeolly.
what are you doing?
TT you want to know. I am filing
this chain"
Wallace made one step forward and
% became aware that at last firearms
were taking a part In this desperate
game. ..
'Ysu stand still" commanded Dyer
from behind the revolver. "It's unfor-
mnate for you that you happened
Courier Democrat., 1904-07-21
vooas n olind..'

woo0S u Dlind."
With innnite dimculU and caution
they reached the shore. Across the
cleaning logs shone dimly the lanterns
ut the scene Of work. ghostly through
the rain. Beyond, on either side, lay
impenetrable, drenched darkness rack
Cd by the wind.
II wouldn't want to tackle It," pant
cd Thorpe. '.If It wasn't for that
cursed tote road between Sadler &
Smiths wouldn't worry. It's just too
easy for them"
Behind them the jam cracked and
shrieked and groaned. Occasionally
was heard beneath the sharper noises
q dull boom as one Of the heavy tim
bers, forced by the pressure from its
resting place, shot into the air and fell
back on the bristltng surface.
Tin Shearer might do It" suggested
Thorpe. ''but hate to spare him."
He picked his rife from its rack and
thrust the magazine full Of cartridges.
'Come on, Wallace" said he. "We'n
hunt him up"
They stepped again into the shrek
and roar Of the storm, bending their
heads to its power, but indifferent to
the rain. The sawdllst street was sat
urated like sponge. They could feel
the quick water rise about the pressure
at their feet. From the Invisible houses
they heard steady monotone of flow
ing from the roofs. Far ahead, dim in
the mist, sprayed the light Of lanterns.
Suddenly Thorpe felt a touch on his
arm. Family he perceived ut his elbow
Q face from which the water streamed.
"Injun Charley!'' he cried. 1.-THE very
man!'
Courier Democrat., 1904-07-21
snapper the scaler. NOW. apout race.

snapper the scaIer. ''Now. apout race.
Moseyw
Like fash, Wallace wheeled and
dropped into the river, swimming as
fast as possible below water before
his breath should give out. The swift
current buried him away. When at
last he rose for air the spit Of DyeF's
pistol caused him no uneasiness. A
moment later he struck out boldly for
shore.
What Dyers ultimate plan might be
be could not guess. He had stated con-
ddently that the jam would break ''in
an hour" BE might intend to start It
with dynamite. Wallace dragged HIM
self from the water and commenced
breathlessly to run toward the board
ing house.
Dyer had already reached shore.
Wallace raised what was left of his
voice in deepairing shout. The scaler
mockfngly waved his hat, then turned
and ran swiftly and easily toward the
shelter Of the woods. At their border
he paused again to bow In derision.
Carpenters cry brought men to the
boarding house door. From the shad-
ows Of the forest two vivid flashes cut
the dusk. Dyer staggered, turned com.
pletely about, seemed partially to re-
cover and disappeared. An instant
later, across the open space where the
scaler had stood, with rife a-trail. the
Indian leaped in pursuit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-01
WOMAN SLAYS HUSBAND
MRS. JOHN wHALEY CUTS THROAT
 or SLEEPING SPOUSE.
He Had Beaten Her and Threatened to Run Away with Another Female, and Thts Cause1
 the Crime.

Gadsden. May sf-(Special.) )--Al- toona, the new mining town in the western portion of Esowah County, was the scene of another murder sun day night. a woman being the murder CT.
 Mrs Emma Whaleys German, aged forty one, killed her husband, John Whaley, aged forty. an Irisnman.
 Mrs Whaley was jealous, as her husband had become very friendly with woman who was cooking in the railroad camps and said he was go- ing to run away wifii her. Satufaay night whafSv wents 70 and gay& his wife 8 drei..A'II heaths, and thred ras ed to kill lsr and said he would leave her Monday. Sunday night after whaley had retired. Mrs Whaley se- cured a razor and cut her husbands throat as he lay in bed asleep, causing
 Mrs. Whaley threw the razor away and securing a butcher knife attempt ed to cut her own throat. but for some reason decided to cease in her attempt She remained in the house with her dead husband several hours until some one came and discovered the crime.
 She was arrested and brought to Gadsden this afternoon and placed in jail. She said she could stand tho beating he gave her, but not his run ming away with another woman and so she killed him. She does not seem to be worried over her crime.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-01
SMOKERS MUST SUFFER
THE CHEwERS, HOWEVER, ARE
 LEFT IN PEACE.
Rule Will Be Enforced in Illinois Re- publican COnyentioB--A Manifest Falling on In Enthusiasm of
 the Delegates.

Springfield Ill. May 3Is--The Repub- lican State Convention after a session lasting an hour and half and after taking three ballots for Governor, ad- journed until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. without having broken the deadlock.
 The convention after an eleven days recess reconvened at 2:13 this after noon. There was a manifest falling off of enthusiasm. Governor Yates was cheered as he entered the hall a few minutes before the convention was called to order but the entry of the other candidates was unobserved.
 Chairman Cannon opened the pro- ceedings by having read the rules of the House of Representatives. which among other things prohibits smoking 'upon the floor of the House."
 Gentlemen" said Chairman Cannon, you have adopted that amongst other rules. The chair cannot enforce that rule without the cooperation of the delegates and the chair desires to know what the rule of the convention is."
 Then he put to a vote the question of enforcing the mo smoking" rule literally everywhere fin the hall The affirmative vote was practically unan- imous and the chairman then gave per- emptory instructions to the assistant HeTBedHt dl dTInS tue pOliCe to see that all smoking in the hall was pre- vented; delegates who do not cease when requested to be reported to the chair for the action of the convention and persons not delegates who persis- tently violate the rule to be elected | from the hall.
 How about the chewingT' inquired delegate amid laughter. Chairman Cannon, who while re- Training from smoking. has been chew | ing tobacco pretty freely during the monotonous deadlock, answered grave | ly:
 'The resolution is silent on chew | ing" (LauEhter.)
 The roll was then called for the hf- | ty-ninth ballot.
 The changes on the ffty-ninth ballot | from the fifty eighth, the last one ta- ken before the recess was as follows: Sixteenth Ward, Chicago-Deneen lost one to Lowden; Edwards County Warner lost one to Yates; Jackson Yates gained 2. Lowden 1, Hamilton 1 all from Warner; LaSalle, Sherman gained one from Pierce; Madison, Ham lin gained one and Sherman one from Lowden; Mason, Yates gained one from | Warner; Menard. Hamlin gained one from Yates; Peoria, Hamlin gained two and Sherman two from Lowden; Rich land. Hamlin gained one from Warner Union. Yates gained one from Warner Woodford. Lowden gained two from Hamlin.
 The hfty-ninth ballot resulted Yates. 4S7; Lowden. 396 1-2; Deneen 3S3 1-2; Hamlin. 116; Warner, 41; Sher- man, 50; Pierce. 2s.
 | The sixtieth ballot resulted: Yates ASA; Lowden. 39S 1-2; Deneen, 3s3 1-2 Hamlin, 113 Warner. 42; Sherman. 53 1 Pierce 2S.
 | The sixty first ballot resulted: Yates | fS4; Lowden. 39S 1-2; Deneen, SS4 1-2 Hamlin. 11s; Warner. 40; Sherman, 51 Pierce. 2s.
 At 3:45 p. m. on motion of J. H. Burke of Cook. seconded by E. J. Mur- phy of Will. the convention took a re- cess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-01
PLAN OF LEIGH HUNT
ROoKER WASHINGTON WILL As-
 SYST THE IOWA PROMOTER.
Proposes to Transport Negroes From the south to Africa to superan- tend the Raising of Cotton
 in the S0udnn.
Advertiser Bureau, Colorado Building,

Washington, May 3l.- Director Roberts of the mint has just returned to Washington from a trip through the South where he went in company with Leigh Hunt, former ly of Iowa, but now the owner Of an extensive land concession in the Sou dan.
 The visitors journeyed as far South as Tuskegee, Ala. Mir. Hunt has ob- tained a concession of a large tract or land from the British government Tn Africa, and contemplates cultivating a large portion of 1t in cotton. He has conceived the idea of availing him self of the Soudan's labor. which IS cheap and plentiful in doing the rough farming work and of placing 1t under the direction of Southern negroes Ia miliar with the cultivation or the sta pie.
 It is his belief that the land ceded to him by the British government Is highly susceptible to the cultivation of cotton and that under the direction of negro cotton planters, who know how to plant and care for cotton the industry could be made very prohta- ble.
 MT. Hunt conferred with Booker Washington. the director of the Tus- keRee Institute, who, it Is said, heart-
  promised to assist MT. Hunt as far as it was possible for him to do so. It Is understood that MT. Hunt at the out set will furnish transportation to Afri- ca to twelve Southern negro families, the intention being later on to increase this colonization to 100 families from the South. If the venture should prove profitable and the new corners are sat- isfied with their now surroundings
 part of this negro colony will be taken from the Tuskegee Institute and a part from the school at Hampton, Va. Mir. Hunt feels sanguine over the re- suit of his new venture. He declares the lands owned by him are ideal cot ton lands and that the climate though warm (the tract being near the equa- tor) Is exactly suited to the Southern negro. A railroad is now building from Saukin on the Red Sea to Borbor in the Soudan. which will probably be completed by fall. This road. when finished. will provide direct railroad transportation to the tract of land owned fy MT. Hunt, thereby affording an outlet to the product of the soudan cotton plantations, through the Red Sea to every port in the world.
 The colonists will leave for their new homes in the fall.
 R. H, Watkins
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-01

is largely laid by. having reached the caring stage in the West Gulf States.
 An Improvement in the condition of winter wheat is indicated in the prin- cipal wheat States. Harvest is in pro- gress in the Southern States. Early sown spring wheat is growing nicely and the general outlook for this crop In the spring wheat region is promis- ing.
 Nearly all reports respecting oats in dicate that this crop has made very favorable progress. R Early oats are heading as far no, as the Central Mississippi Valley 4 the Southern portion of the Middle At- lantic States.
 Although cotton continues small. a general improvement in its condition is reported especially in the central and western districts. where rains have been well distributes and generally ample. The least favorable reports are received from Georgia. Florida and portions of South Carolina, where drought continues Lice are not so generally reported in the central and eastern districts as in the previous week except in Georgia. but boil wee vii continue to increase In the south west and central cotton counties of Texas. As rule the crop is we'll cul- tivated.
 Tobacco transpianting has progress ed slowly in Kentucky. Virginia and North Carolina and this work awaits rain in Maryland and Tennessee. The reports respecting apples respecting the Central Mississippi and Ohio Val Ieys are somewhat less encouraging but from the. Middle Atlantic States the reports are more favorable. In the East Gulf States a good crop of peaches is promised. but elsewhere the outlook is poor
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-01
MR. ROOSEVELT SHES
WILL HANDS OFF THE MUDDLE IN
 WISCONSIN.
Followers of LaFOllette File Notice of Contest With Acting Chairman Payne of the Republican Nn-
 tiOnal Committee.

Washington. May 3l..-President Roosevelt today again made it clear that he will not permit himself to be drawn into local political contests. A delegation of Wisconsin Republicans consisting of w. D. Connor Chairman of the State Committee; w. l.. Houser. Secretary of State; Irvine L. Penroot. Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly; c. c. Gittings and H. P. Myrick, editor of The Milwaukee Free Press, called on the President to discuss Wisconsin pol itics.
 They are supporters of Governor La Toilette. Their visit was prompted by the recent call on the President of Sen ator Spooner, who presented to him the anti-La Toilette side of the Wisconsin situation. The President has listened to the statement of both sides, but in- formed them definitely that he would have nothing to do with the contest in any way.
 Later Messrs. Myrick. Gittings and Connor was closeted with Postmaster General Payne. the acting Chairman of the National Republican Committee.
 The delegation filed with Mir. Payne what was practically a notice of con test in behalf of the four delegates at large elected by the La Toilette fac tion to the National Republican Con- VentiOn, claiming that lhey are the rlghtfully elected representatives at large of the State. Their notice of contest was filed just in the nick of time, as the rules of the National Com mittee provide that such notice must be filed twenty days before the meet ing of the convention. and this time limit would have expired tomorrow.
 The Spooner- Quarles faction filed mo- tice of contest last week with Secre- tary Elmer Dover.
 Both sides will be heard by the Ma tional Committee prior to the meeting of the National Convention. It was for inc purpose of learning the method of nrocedure in such eases and the rules of the National Committee regarding contests that the representatives of Governor LaFollette called on Acting Chairman Payne.
 During the talk with his callers, MT v,e suggested to them that no mat ter which way the Supreme Court of Wisconsin passed on the question as to which was the proper convention. inc defeated faction drop the contro- versed issues and unite with the victo- rious side for the sake of party har- monv. The members of the delegation. however. declined to commit them selves in advance as to what their fu- ture course of action would be.