The Newark journal., 1904-06-17
News Of the World

~ PAAiNS' "AAN S''AA
for the United States in July and
will visit the worlds fair.
Mrs. Samuel NJ. Clements, wife
of Mark Twain" the American
author, died last week in Italy.
The remains will be sent to this
country for interment.
1t is reported the japanese lines
outside Port Arthur extend a dis
lance of twelve miles and that the
troops are gradually closing in. A
bloody battle is expected daily.
Mrs. Nan Patterson, an actress,
has been held for the murder of
Frank Young, wealthy race horse
owner, who was shot and killed in
cab in New York city while ON
his way to the pier to take a steam
er for Europe. Mrs. Patterson was
IN the cab with Young when the
fatal shot was fired, but declares he
committed suicide. Young was to
be accompanied on the tour by
his wife.
The Citizens Allinace has openly
declared that every person connect
ed with a trades union in the Grip
pie Creek mining district must eth
er sever their connection with such
organization or leave the district.
This Is the most drastic step ever
taken against trades unionists, and
should the threat be carried out,
5000 men, many with families, will
be compelled to leave The Port
land mine, the only one employing
union men in Teller county, has
been closed BY order Of the COM
mander of the militia. and most of
the men ordered to leave
\. Y. Keech and kossuth Ligon,
charged with using the mails for
fraudulent purposes, were acquitted
in Federal court at Memphis. Lyon
and keeeh were arrested in connec-
ton with the alleged prize distribu-
ton for the Mississippi Valley
Planter, a fictitious newspaper,
which was conducted by man
named Banks, who claimed to be the
trustee for the paper. Many persons
in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas and other states were induced
to send money orders to Banks for
prizes, which they were notified they
had drawn. The postal authorities
discovered the swindle before the
orders had been cashed.
Twelve miners were killed and
seven others seriously injured at
independence, in the mining dis
trict of Colorado, by the explosion
of an internal machine The men
were standing on a platform await
ing the arrival of a suburban train
to return them to their homes in
Cripple Creek when the bomb, which
had been placed under the plat
form, exploded. The platform was
blown into splinters, the station
wrecked and a hole twenty feet in
circumference and about as many
feet deep was torn into the ground.
| Fragments of bodies were hurled
through space for several hundred
feet and later were picked up still
quivering. All the victims, with
two exceptions, were non-union men
and while mass meeting was being
held at Victor to discuss the MUIR
der of the non-union men, a riot
broke out which resulted in the
killing Of a number of union men
The city marshal of Victor and the
sheriff were compelled to resign by
members of the Mine Owners As.
ISOLATION and few hours later a
company of soldiers stormed Tho
hall where union miners were hold
ing meeting and dozen men were
killed.
| Abncr Mckinley, brother of thu
late president, was found dead in &
chair at his home in Somerset, Pa
Death was due to Bright's disease
| Gen. Bell, commander of the