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The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
THE REEkING FUMES KILL NINE
Work OF Rescuers is Retarded by the Ter
rible Difficulties that Confront Them
ItTiieir Heroic Task.

such an appearance as TO make many
In the crowd of spectators faint. but
1.-THE sight within the vault beggard ali
description. Children who were on
top of the writhing heap were rescued
flrst White they were getting out
OF The vault their feet crowded re-
lentlessly down on others who were
meeting most agonizilg death.
James Smith. aged IA, one OF the
pupils, climbed to the roof OF the
school house, united she nag and ran
with the rope TO the vault. by means
OF this rope several were rescued.
Marshal Wood had great difficulty In
keeping the crowd back and from In
tcrferIng with the ,rescners Impor-
tnnitieS Of friends, especially or
weeping mothers, were almos. beyond
the control OF the officers. II
A pathetic Incident is told .by Frank
$. Johnson, one of the rescuers. John
steinkamp insisted spon going into
the vault to rescue his little girl. but
when 1t was. shown he would only In.
terfere with the little ones who We're
then climbing out he waited. When
he found his little girl was not among
hose reEcaed he entered the vault
and carried out several bodies. among
them that OF his little girl lie did not
know he had carried out the body OF
his own daughters until informed by
others, then he tainted AT she time
there were other parents in the wait
ing crowd that tainted when ii was
announced all the living had been
rescued and their children were stilI
missing
The dead: Loretta Finke. aged IL:
Emma Stein kamp. thirteen. Amelia
Hesse. nine; Martha Bnhr. eight: Ed
ma Thee. ten. Lillian witham, thlr-
teenh Hazel Glover, eight: Fausta
Card eleven: Charmina Card nine.
Stella Coriess. ten. one OF the res
cued. Is reported tonigh. to be in
dying condition.
The tras tees say the floors were re-
paired during vacation and nothing
wrong was noticed with the girders.
An examination of the wrecked. gifd-
ers after today's accident n Is sid
showed theu TO be rotten.
Japitor Smith states that be had
told members Of the board tina. the
place was not cafe.
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city. and the defendant Is y. S. Far
mer, trustee Of Center township and
a well known man Of the cOuny.
Mills sues for $4,000 damages,
charging Farmer with having allenat
Cd his ifes affections.
Tho complaint recites that Mr.. Mills
and Miss Frances King were married
in January. 1875. and that they lived
happily together until In January.
1903. and that FIVE children we're bora
to their. unlon. I. is charged that
Farmer shovel considerable aiien
ton 10 Mrs Mills and that while she
was acting in the capacity Of nurse in
the Farmer household during the IN
ness OF Farmer's wife. the defendant
was particularly attentive 10 her.
The plaintiff alleges that the defend
ant caused her to lose her interest in
her own modest home life by layishing
every attention on her aud comparing
ihe Gcfenda1t's Injurious home with
hers and offering to make her the
miltreess q the defendants home II
she would leave the plaintiff and Sc
cure a divorce.
The defendant ls charged with h4y-
ing induced Mrs. Mills TO 20 to Kan
sas. deserving her husband. kept her
there mere than a year and while
here furnished her with the means
and other assistance in bringing a suit
for divorce against The p,aintifi. Il T.
further charged that said divorce ac-
iion not obtained legally
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Ry the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
/ Cincinnati. o.. Sept. 23.--rAt Pleas
4 ant Ridge, seven miles north OF Gin
cinnati, nine, possibly ten schoo
girls, all from he primary grades
were suffocated In vault during fore
noon recess and a score Of others mar
rowly escaped the same horrible
death
1 During the remainder of the day
this suburb vas wild with mingled OK.
eilemcnt and Indignation and tonight
those openly charging the calamity
% official negligence are making scri-
| ous threats.
When tho recess was given about
thirty smaller girls were In an out.
horgc assigned TO them, when sudden
ly the floor gave way, prccipitating
them into the vault of filth. The
yaul. is II feet deep There was
four feet of water or filth that would
cover the heads of the girls falling
in IT singly, but those falling fore
most filled the vault SO that the 9TH
ers were no. entirely submerged q.
The girls fell eight feet from The
flooring before striking the filth and
the struggles of those on top Kept at
least the nine underneath until they
were dead Frame shells over .hese
vaults were about twenty feet square
without windows and only one narrow
doorway SO that only one little girl
escaped from the door She ran into
the school building and tbld the
teachers wha. had happened. Prinx
cipal Simmerman and the lady teach
ers rushed TO the rescue. Ladies' gave
the alarm about the vicinity, while
Simmerman secured ladder on
which the drcnehing girls crawloI
ont, most OF them fainiing as soon as
they reached the surface. The teach
ers were reinforced by he entire pop.
ulation OF the town and the police
and fire departments. Children able
to climb out on the ladder themselves
were rescued by simmerman, who
finally tainted. Then others went in
TO the vault and kept bringing on,
dead bodies until the vault was clear.
ed. Firemen drained the vault 80 as
TO be sure the rescge was complete.
Those engaged in the rescue work /
recite the most ghastly experiences. !
Even hose rescued alive presented /
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new year. when his father will retire
from actice business. though remain.
/ ing nominally at the head of the firm
for some time. Wall street heard
these facts yesterday, and was not
surprised thereat. for Mr.. Morgan's
retirement has been expected for more
than a year.
The great financier has paid less
and less attention to his business and
more 70 art and charity in the last
two years, and 1t is said he Is now
willing to SHIFT almost the entire re-
sponsibility on his son and upon the
other partners. Of whom he has ten.
The Morgan concern Is at present
composed as follows, the members
taking their seniority in the order
named:
J. Pierpont Morgan. George e.
Thomas. Edward T. stotesbury, James
W. Paul Jr.. J. Pierpont Morgan 1r-,
Temple Bowdoin. Edward NJ Robin
son, Edward F. Whitney. William Pier
son Hamilton. Charles Steele and
George W. Perkins, OF these only
one. young Morgan. Is a member of the
stock exchange.
Young Mr.. Morgan has had a very
thorough training in the banking bus
mess ever since ne left college. He
began his apprenticeship under his
fathers direction in the New York Of
fce where he familisrized himself with
every department. He is a yoang
man Of much natural ability. and he
has received a thorough educaiion- lie
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WILL GIVE NEWS
TO ITS PATRONS
Union Pacific Railway to Post Bulie-
tins in Observation Cars.
Twice Daily.

Omaha. Sept 23.-An innovation
mover yet attempted on an American
train will be inangurated in less tha8
a week by the union Pacific railway.
which has arranged to supply a .ele-
graphic news service to passengers on
the overland limited twice each day.
Bulletins Of the most interesting
events Of this and foreign countries
are to be seat oat from Omaha at
noon and at 1 O'Clock p. m. and .hese
ii patches Eill be posted IN the OBJ
servation cars. Two Sesibouni trains
and two east-bagnd trains. each TWEEN
tyfour hours apart viii be supplied
with the service at the sane tine.
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KyRoPATKiN MAY NOT CONTEST.

by tn6 ASbOcldleu fTeSS.
St Petersburg. Sept 23.--The alb
senee of detailed reports from. the
seat of war despite the important char
acter OF events that are believed 10 be
developing around Mukden, leads to
the suppositlon that Kuropatkin may
after all not seriously contest the Jap
anese advance and thai the long ex
pected battle at Mukden may turn oui
to be merely a rear guard action upon
a large scale.
Gen. Sakharoff reports the Japanese
army moving from Bentsiaputze to-
ward Fu Pass, a village six miles
northeast Of Mukden and near the
right bank of the Hun river. The
river at this point is shallow. and
probably foi this reason the locality
has been selected by the japanese for
their crossing. II the Japanese sue
coed IN gaining a foothold at Flu Pass.
Knropatkin's position at Nukden will
be insecure ss the Japanese will from
thence be able 10 thrfater .he Russian
line 81 COMMUNICATION
Fu Pass is only twenty miles north
Of Bentsiaputze. but at the present
rate Of progress the japanese will
probably occupy four of FIVE days trav-
ersing IT,
The Russian force south of Mukden
is believed to consist OF only one army
corps. which is acting as a rear guard
and is not intended TO offer serious re-
sistanee 20 The lJapanese advance.
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father had committed suicide. The
daughter and Sadie Slack. who had
been staying at Donnerstads home.
are under arrest and officers are look
ing for Hugo Donnerstad. a son. who
escaped to the woods prior 10 the OF.
iicers' arrival
Donnerstad did not approve of his
sons attention TO MISS Slack. and in
said to have driven her from his house
with a butcher knife He had served
a term IN Waupon prison, charged
with killing a 500 Line brakeman
about ~ years ago.
Indications are the man was first
shot and not dying instantly. his head
was beaten in with an ak
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
LOST HIS ONLY CHANCE.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
London, Sept 23.-The Standards
CORRESPONDENT with .he Japanese army
under date of Sept. II, comments on
Kuropatkin's failure TO attack to the
south or east as showing Kuropatkin's
yaccillation. He says that at enc
lime the Russians outnumbered the
Japanese and that they have now lost
their only chance of assuming the of
feBsive before the release of the Jap
anese troops before Port Arthur.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
MORGAN TO GIVE
BUSINESS TO SON
Great Financier Will Retire
From Active Business Life.
9e
HAS HUNDRED MILLION
AND WILL DEVOTE HIS TIME TO
ART AND CHARlTY--WALL
STREET HAS BEEN Ex-
PECTiNG 1T.

Now York, Sept 23.-J. Pierpont
Morgan Jr.. has leased a New York
furnished house for four months, and
is going to spend the winter here. M.
Morgan expects to tak1 up the details
of the management Of the firm of J. F.
Morgan & Co. at the beginning OF the
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
SUES FOR LOSS
OF W|FE'S LOVE
Husband Demands s. 1000 from
Man Who Won The Wife.
MAKES UGLY CHARGES
CLAIMING THAT MAN CAUSED
WIFE TO SUE FOR A DIVORCE
WHICH GAVE HIM fiUMiLl.
ALTON AND ANGUISH.

Princeton, lad, Sept. 22.-The com.
plant in sui iagolving some well
known people and making some seh a,
tional charges has been filed in the
clerks office.
The plaintiff 10 John Mills of this
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the Chinese have been able to pen
citrate. 1t is impossible therefore, to
say definitely how Oyama has df-
posed of his forces. 1t is believed
however, that the Japanese occupy
all roads conyerging at Mukden.
OF the four armies those of Oku
and Nodzu are nearest Mukden and
.heir progress will have to be slack
ened in order to permit Kuroki and
the fanking column time to come up.
Meanwhile Oku and Nodzu have com
mand Of the railroad.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT
Window Glass Workers and manufac-
turers Adjust Scale OF Wages.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Erie. Pa. Sept. 23.-The committees
representing the. Amalgamated Win
dow Glass Workers OF America and
the National Window Glass Manufac-
turers' association reached an agree
ment this evning to a wage scale fer
the coming year.
The agreement calls for a ten per
cent horizontal reduction in last years
scale. The manufacturers wanted al
first a 2s Per cent reduction
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
WATSON ON THE STUMP.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Houston. Tex. Sept 23.-Thomas
Watson. Populist candidate for presi-
dent. tonight delivered an address 20 o.
great crowd Of people assembled here
from the surrounding country. lie
was given close attention.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
EAST FEELS THE
PINCH Of COLD
Temperature Lower Than Average For
tire Last Quarter Of a Cen
tury. q

New York. Sept 23-Unasually cold
weather for the season has been re-
cor ded here during the past twenty
four hours. The temperature Is ten
degrees lower than the average for the
pass fwenty.fse years
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
MURDERED SIRE
OVER A WOMAN
First Shot Then Head Crushed
In With an Axe.
OFFICERS IN PURSUIT
OF MURDERER WHO ESCAPED TO
THE WOODS AFTER COMMIT.
TING THE cRIME-oNCE
A CONVICT.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Rhinelander. Wis, Sept 23-The
dead body of Louis Donnerstad, aged
60, with skull crushed and two bullet
holes in it, was brought here today
Informal noia sto his condition was
sent by a daughter who stated her
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
FRENCH FLAGSHIP SAILS.


St Johns. n. = Sept 23.-The
French flagship Lavoisier has saiiei
for France under orders unexpecfo--
iy received last night. II is understood
she win proceed 20 the far East ss
soon as she can be fitted out
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
AT PnllAoelpAiA.

Philadelphia. Sept. 23-This vas the
eoldest September day On record in
philadelphia. AT the ofnclsl shsr.
mouetsr recorded 2 aesFees-
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
USING WAR BALLOONS.

Mukden. Sept 2s,-The Russians
are using war balloons southeast of
Mukjen for the purpose Of observing
Che NOV sments OF the japanese. The
line OF optposts established BY the
Japanese is 50 effective tha. not even
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25
cHEroo HEARS THE NEWS.

Associated Press
of fighting
placed
Dany
during the night Of Sept 20
Islands they
heard firing sfromio in he morning afternoon.
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-25

GcoutInuea On Second P~ge)
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-26
FOUR DISREPUTABLE WOMEN.
These for Bad Behavior are Sent to do
Work With Road Forces.

Three white women of the lowest
class and one negro woman, allin one
vehicle, were yesterday afternoon
taken out to join the county convict
force. where they are to do work for
violating the law.
The white women are: Susan Fow-
Ter frankie Lee and Lizzie Keith, the
negro woman Cora Baker. The three
disreputable white women are deni-
zens of one of Raleigh's dark spots,
the Bowery. and were sent to the
roads by the mayor, the two first
named for thirty days, the others for
twenty days. for disorderly conduct
and Indecent language. Cora Baker,
sentenced the day before to pay 1925
for disorderly conduct, could not raise
it and was given the thirty DAYS road
sentence.
In the misbehavior of the three wo-
men named, Henry McIver, a negro,
s525 nv Mavor Powell who at his
mornings entertainment yesterday tax
ed AIex Mangum, a negro bootblack,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-26
DEALING
IN MOCKING BIRDS.
Three Arrests Made in GoldsbOro by
Game Warden Upchurch.

Game Warden John Upchurch has
just returned from GoldsborO, where
i'm the interests of the Audubon So
city, he procured the arrest and had
bound over to court three offenders
against the provisions of the bird
laws protecting the hooking bird
against sale or expectation from the
State.
The three violators of the law are
j. X. Wrenn, charged with shipping
the young birds; Agnes Scott. colored
for selling them. and +. Abrams, an
old Hebrew, for Offering them for sale
Warrants were sworn out for the
three before Squire Hugh Hum
phreys. of Goldsboro, all the defend
ants plead guilty and they were bound
over to court in the sum of $50 each.
The offense for which they are arrest
ed is within the jurisdiction of the Su-
perior court alone and the punishment
is discretionary with the court.
The arrests came as the result of
the vigilance of Prof. w. G. Hamel, of
Greensboro, who is much interested
in the enforcement of the Audubon
law. He discovered at the depot in
Greensboro a box containing several
young mocking birds, consigned from
Goldsboro to a point without the Dor
ders of the State, and placed the mat
ter in the hands of President T. Gill
bert Pearson. of the society, who sent
Mr.. Upchurch to investigate and bring
the prosecutions. Mr.. Upchurch soon
traced the birds back to Wrenn, who
stated that he had bought them from
the negro Agnes Scott, who in turn
informed on the Jew Abrams, who was
engaged regularly in the knocking bird
trade. SO that Mr.. HamePs discovery
at Greensboro cut three ways in Colds
bOro.
An amusing incident relating to the
matter is told by Warden Upchurch:
When he went to investigate the
charge against Abrams, he entered the
latter's store, looked around and saw
several hooking birds in CAGES where
upon the old Jew, his eyes open for
business, Immediately offered them for
sale to the warden. who as promptly
made the arrest. 1t was perfect eX-
ample of misplaced confidence.
Like all new laws the one for the
protection of the birds needs to soak
with time into the comprehension of
the people at large. The prosecutions
which are made from time to time
have so far been followed only with
light puniShments, save when it APP
peared that the violations were fragrant
and premeditated. 1t is a good law
that will do much good, and it is al
ready becoming popular, although in
force less than nine months.
Tomorrow Warden Upchurch will
visit the Fuquay section of Wake for
the purpose of distributing literature.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-26
New Bern Military ACad-
envy
NEW BERN. N. G.

Largest and best equipped boarding
school in Eastern Carolina. Several
thousand dollars being spent in build
ings and equipments. Electric lights
bath rooms, water works, football
boat racing, baseball. faculty of 10
specialists (including lecture faculty.
CAROLINA BUSINESS COLLEGE,
New Bern. n. c..
Every graduate holding a position.
Positions guaranteed. Railroad fare
paid. Large and loyal student body
our best advertisement. Special rates
for July.
Write at once for beautifully illus.
trated catalogue.
S. j. HOLLADAY. President.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-26

on education and local taxation in the
morning and Prof. Carlyle, of Wake
Forest spoke in the afternoon. during
the noon recess there was meeting
of all the people in the community
interested in schools and 500 was
subscribed to supplement the county
school fund and have an eight
months school. Steps were also taken
for the formation of a special tax dis
trict by the consolidation of two or
more little districts. a hand primary
was held on the question of local
taxation and at least three-fourthS of
the people present voted in favor of it.
That community is thoroughly
aroused on education. During the past
year they had a large school, enroll
ing about one hundred students,
Taught by three excellent teachers.
Mr. w. o. Dunn is the most excellent
principal of this school. The people
raised six or seven hundred dollars
last year and supplemented the coun-
ty fund and had an eight months
term. They now declare their inten-
ton of putting the school on q per-
manent basis by voting in the near
future the local tax. The school it
self by attracting most of the children
in the adjoining districts has practi-
cally solved the question OF consolida-
districts ask the privilege of walking
two or three miles to come 40 this
school, passing by their own little
school house within much shorter
distance of their home. This is a
good illustration of the attractive
power of a better school and the wis
dom of reasonable consolidation. The
people know q good thing when they
see it.
This is an unusually prosperous and
enterprising community and is MAX
ing rapid progress in Industrial and
agricultural development as well as in
education, the two travel together. In
a mile of the little village . large
granite quarry has been opened in
which about one hundred men are al
ready employed. The granite is of a
peculiarly fine quality and the demand
for it is said to be greater than sup
piled at present. This is said to be
one of the best and most prosperous
communities in North Carolina. There
are no more hospitable, capable peo-
pie anywhere.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-26
Court of Inquiry to Fix the
Blame.
CONTINUED from Page One.)

condition is chargeable to Capt. White
and Iieutenant Raysey's responsible
itv for the failure to have the train
stopped and the men ordered INTO the
coach. are matters which will call for
the closest investigation OF the board.
The order. designating the officers
who will comprise the board, is as
follows: 40.
August 25th, 1904.
Special Orders No. SO.
A Court OF Inquiry is hereby ofdeF-
ed to convene at the armory OF CON-
pany A.. Third Infantry, Durham, ~,
c., on Monday, the 18th, instant at ~
o'clock, a. M, or as soon lhel 60 70
as practicable, to investigate ana re-
mort upon the circumstances attend
ING the death of two enlisted men or
COMPANY A., Third Infantry, Norlil
Carolina National Guard, ana the
Wounding of two other enlisted men OF
the same company, on the Atlantlc ~
North Carolina Railroad on FRIDAY
August 18th, 1904, and to fix the re-
sponsibility for said accident.
Detail for the court: Colonel John
c. Niche, Engineer Department;
Lieutenant Colonel Jones Fuller, judge
Advocates Department.; Major A. II.
Lloyd, Engineer Department.; Capt.
w. NJ. Fallon, Engineer Department,
is hereby appointed recorder of the
court.
.nOyr shrdl shrdl shrnann
BY order of,
COMMUNICATIVE Chief
d. S. ROYSTER,
Adjutant General.
ALFRED WILLIAMS,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-26
PENSIONERS INCREASE.
There is a Greater Number Than Was
Expected This Year.

State Auditor Dixon in examining
the reports of the County Pension
Boards finds that all are in except
those of Wake, Chatham, Durham,
Granville, Burke and Brunswick.
He is now, with the Pension Board,
passing on the lists. 1t is found that
there is an increase in the number of
pension applications in the new lists
and not a decrease, as was anticipated,
and DR.. Dixon supposes, after a cas-
ual examination, that the increase may
reach 1000. The lists will be care
fully scrutinized and all unworthy
names rejected. It was hoped that
the amount of the pension to each APP
plicant could be increased, but the
largely increased number of names
will hardly permit this.
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REV. sTRoNG's CONSIDERATION.
Ceremony by Which He Becomes
Bishop Co-adjutor to be Conduct
ed by Distinguished Diyines.

The Rev. Robt. Strong, widely
known throughout the Carolinas, who
was recently elected Bishop Co-adju-
tor of the Eastern Diocese of North
Carolina will be consecrated in st.
Johns Church at Wilmington on All
Saints Day, November list, next
Among the eminent diVineS who will
participate in the ceremony will be
the Bishops of South Carolina, of
North Carolina, of Virginia. of Mary
land. the Bishop Co-adjutor of AL
bany, the Bishop of Southern Vim
ginia the Rt. Rev. A. M. Randolph,
who will deliver the sermon.