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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
ROB TRAIN PASSENGERS
Held Up Only Twenty Miles From
the City of Chicago.
Load of st. Louis Excursionists Are
Boldly Robbed by Five Masked
Men-One Victim is Shot.

Chicago, Ill.-Five masked men held
up an Illinois Central train within
twenty-five miles of Chicago and lined
up the passengers in the Pullman
cars with pistols pointing at them and
searched them for valuables.
The train that was held up was a
special bound for st. Louis. filed with
e1cursionists going to the Worlds
Fair.
The robbers boarded the train be-
tween FlOSSmore and MatteSon, and
with drawn revolvers climbed into
cab and ordered the engineer to stop.
The engineer brought the train to a
standstill at a lonely place near some
woods, and the conductor and brake
man, who ran forward to find out the
cause of the train stopping. were also
ordered to throw up their hands n
were searched for weapons.
After the engineer, fireman and the
trainmen had handed owe what mon
ey they had they were marched back
to the baggage car. The robbers were
| disappointed at finding that they had
| held I'D a train without an express
car, but determined to make the best
of the Job by robbing the passengers
Of whatever money and v~aluables they
might possess.
The passengers were ordered to
| march out Of the cars and line up be-
side the train. Women and children.
terrified at the appearance of the
masked men. screamed and tried to
hide under the seats. The robbers,
however, made a careful search Of the
cars and were sure they had all the
passengers under the muzzles of their
revolvers before they began to rob
them. All had to hold up their hands.
A nan who was one of the last to
leave the train, struggled against a
robber who was holding him, when he
was dragged from the platform. One
of the masked men drew back and in
full sight of the passengers fred di-
rectly at the mans breast and he fell
to the ground dangerously wounded.
That's what the next man will get
that acts that way" said g man who
seemed to be leader Of the gang.
After the robbers had secured all
the booty they could find, they backed
off to the woods and escaped.
The train proceeded to kankakee,
sixty miles distant, under full steam,
and at that station superintendent
Gross, who was on board, left the
sleeper and notified Chief of Detectives
O'Neefe of the road, of the robbery.
At Ito o'clock a special train with
police officers and employees of the Ill
inois Central left for the scene of the
robbery to hunt down the robbers who,
it was believed, were either hiding in
the marshes near Madison or had dou-
bled and were working back toward
Chicago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
GREAT WESTERN FLOOD
Douglass and Silver Star, New, IN
Waters Path.
Telephone wire to Sodavi!Ie Gives tns
News and Then Breaks Down-People
Asked to Look For Bodies.

Reno, Nev.-As a result oe a cloud
burst the towns of Douglass and Silver
Star, near S%odaville, New. are reported
to have been swept away. The news
was telephoned from the scene of the
disaster to Sodaville. The report was
that a flood in waves four or five feet
deep was sweeping away houses, and
that great property damage was being
wrought. The schoolhouse and four
dwellings were swept away.
Ten minutes after the first news was
received at Sodaville the wire went
| down, and it could not be learned how
many lives were lost. There is great
excitement at Sodaville, as the people
have been warned to watch for bodies.
The volume Of water is increasing at
that place.
Near New Boston. six miles north Of
Sodaville, the Carson and Colorado
Railroad is covered with water to a
depth of six inches for half a mile, and
at Rhodes, three miles south of here,
similar conditions prevail.
Kingman, Ariz.-Heavy rains in the
mountains east of TruXton sent down a
wall of water thirty feet high through
the canon, washing out the Santa Fe
Railroad track, embanknents. bridges,
telegraph poles and everything NOV
able for twelve miles. Great steel
bridges were taken from their founda-
tons and piled up against the walls Of
the canon and massive stone abut-
ments were crumbled and carried
away.
At Crozier everything movable, in
Guiding the station signal and box cars
were piled up on the big steel bridge
west Of the station. At blackberry the
pumping house and machinery were
destroyed and swept into the valley
miles away. The big we'll was filled
to the brim with debris. Houses high
above all known high water marks
heretofore were flooded and much DAM
age vas done.
; Hundreds Of men have been hurried
to the washout by the Santa Fe Rail.
road, but it will be some time before
the water subsidies sufficiently to allow
the workmen to reconstruct the road
bed and bridges. Many trains bearing
men and material have been running
from Seligman and Needles to the
washout. and it is expected that the
work of repair will so on at once.
Many miles of telegraph lines are
down and it will take some time to re.
pair them.
Three miles of the Arizona and Utah
track were washed out, and it will take
several days to make repairs. A re-
port reaches Kingman of a ~cloudburst
at Cedar. a mining camp eighty miles
south of here. which carried away part
Of a twenty-stamp mill, gaSolene pump,
engine. blacksmith shop, forty horse
power boiler and other property. The
shaft of the Arnold mine was filed
with debris.
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DOMESTIC.

The. automobile party. from New
York to: st. Louis, reached Buffalo
safely.
Midshipman George F.. Clay, OF
Grand Rapids. Mich. died in a hospital
at New London, Conn.,, Of pneumonia.
Chicago packers assert that the strike.
is broken. 1000 more workers. being In
the stock yards. and live stock. receipts
being large.
The executive board of the Lacka-
wanna and Wyoming. district (Pa.) coal
miners, with power to order strike,
met at Scranton.
Forest fires are doing great damage
in the timbered sections Of the Flat
head country Of Montana.
Governor Terrell. Of Georgia, has or
dered troops to- Statesboro, to. protect
Paul Reed and Will Cato, accused OF
numbering the Cato family.
President George F.. Baer;;. Of the,
Reading Railroad, says there will be,
no anthracite coal strike.
Miss. Jane Clemens, daughter OF
Mark Twain, WAS injured by being
thrown from her horse in LenoX. Mass.
Robert Culvert, ffty-ilree' years ola,
Of Carteret, n. j.. was struck by q
Long Branch train and died in the
Elizabeth On. j. Hospital Of O. frac-
tured skull. Culvert leaves a widow
and family.
Two. boys were rescued from drown
ing jn the Norris Canal at Centreville,
n. J.
Mrs. Nathan Fass, 4 patient in Mt.
Sinai Hospital, New York City, killed
herself by jumping from q ffth-story
window.
A strike sympathizer, William Nc
Laughlin. was killed at st. Louis, Mo-,
by Sheriff Louis Burke, with whom
Mclaughlin interfered while an arrest
was being made. +
Some of the Chicago beef strikers
are said to be in want City charities
referred their cases 10 the president OF
the union.
Cattle raisers applied to- both packers
and strikers in Chicago and asked for
j cessation of hostilitles.
The st. Louis banks announced that
they were willing to loan the st. Louis
Exposition Company $1,O00,000.
The United States Steel Corporation
has bought the Trenton Iron Company.
Judge Bradford in the Federal Court
in Wilmington, Del, denied the applt-
cation of the Northern Securities Com
pany to pay dividends and distribute
stock and moneys.
Owing to a legal tangle twenty-five
Sing Sing New York; convicts were re-
sentenced, getting shorter terms.
The steamer Howard, from Balti-
more to Boston, went ashore off Pollock
Rip, Mass, but was oon tloated-
Russell Sage was ordered by United
States Court at st. Paul, Mimi, to re.
store to the Government certain lands
he sold as trustee OF dcfunct Hastings
and Dakota Railway Company.
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FOREIGN.

Minister Bowen was instructed to
protest against the seizure of an as
phait company's property in Venezuela.
Drastic action is threatened.
President Nord, of Haiti, accused the
foreign population of wilfully raising
the rate of exchange.
The Sultan of Morocco appointed a
French army officer to command the
Moorish police in the Tangier district.
Further trouble is feared at Tangier.
The city guards have been doubled and
Europeans are warned to come within
the gates.
The Japanese opened Ying-Kow to
trade with practically no restriction.
A Japanese battleship. q cruiser, three
at the port.
Great Britain has protested to Russia
against the inclusion of f0odstufS in
the list of ~contraband.
In consequence Of N. Plehve's assass-
nation the Cars personal guards have
be"' -ripied.
.Ir. Chamberlain. in the House Of
Commons. urged the Government to
take the general election on the policy
of preferential trade.
Germany denied the report that an
ultimatum had been sent to Haiti.
Opinion in London is that the death
of Minister 0 Plehye will hasten the
end of the Russo-JaDanese war.
Three men we're killed ard six in
jured by Il boiler explosion at the San
Rafel Paper Mills, near Mexico City.
Mexico.
German exports and imports for the
last six months both show j large in
crease. 50
Venezuelan soldiers assisted in the
seizure of the New York and Ber-
mudez Asphalt Company's properties
in Venezuela.
1t was reported at Tansier that the
Moroccan Pretender had defeated the
Sultan's troops; French cruisers
reached Tangier, causing excitement
AMONG the MoorS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
MINOR EVENTSOF THE WEEK
WASHINGTON

By melus of 4 rife in the hands OF
an expert marksman the pigeons which
made their home in tIa golden dome OF
the Library Of Congrcs~ and annoyed
readers by their i1uttcI .Igs have be,
removed and the reading room restored
to its former quiet and dignity.
The Panama Minister at Washington
made a formal protest against the es-
adjustment Of TIL American custom
house near Panama.
The State Department has informed
the Russian Government that damages
will be claimed by American owners of
the cargo on board the steamship Ara
bia.
A woman crank called at tile White
House to warn President Roosevelt
that he was in danger Of being blown
up"
The President appointed Commander
Newton e. Mason to be Chief Of the
Bureau of Ordnance. Navy Depart
ment.
Rear-Admiral George 4. Converse
was appointed Chief Of the Bureau
of Navigation in the Navy. Department
to- succeed Rear-Admiral Henry O..
Taylor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
GOVERNOR IN DISGUISE
Nebraska's Executive Goes to South
Omaha Stock Yards.
UNNOTiCED AMONG STR KERS

After Careful Investigation Governor
John Mickey Concludes Not to Send
State Troops to the Scene OF Trouble
Declares the City TO Be Safe-Mingles
With Goth Sides.
South Omaha, Neb.-Disguised as 4
laborer, Governor John Mickey. Of Ne
braSka. mingled with the strikers and
strike breakers here, joined with the
crowd in q run on the Armour plant
ard fell back with the others when
confronted by a line of deputy sher-
ifs, and unknown in his working
mans garb personally investigated the
conditions in the great meat strike
here.
AS a result of his investigation the
Governor now refuses to send any
State troops to South Omaha for the
present. He had been requested to
send a company of the National Guard
to protect the non-union workmen
who, it was alleged, were being In
terfered with when they attempted to
enter the packing plant.
The Governor, when the Sheriff and
packers had made the request for the
soldiers and stated their case, said
he would take the matter under con-
Sidcration. Then after having seen
the things the packers desired he
should see, he returned to his home In
Lincoln.
;. He donned the clothing Of a laborer
and quietly returned to South Omaha,
incognito, to make an investigation or
the other side of the case. At an early
hour he was mingling with the strik-
ers, thousands of whom surrounded
the packing houses. No one recog-
nized him and he soon was hearing
the opinions of the strikers as to how
long the trouble would last, how the
plants were being run with non-union
men and what methods were consid-
cred to draw away the strike-breakers.
Shortly after Governor Mickey ar
rived on the scene, the strikers sud-
denly broke for Armours, where 1t
was reported an attempt to run in a
. carload Of strike-breakers was being
made. The Governor stayed with the
strikers and ran to the plant. Before
reaching it, however. the crowd was
halted by deputy sheriffs, and the
Governor stood in the front row and
watched. the strike-breakers, of whom
there were fifty. enter the plant and
go to work. The strikers attempted
no interference.
For three hours Governor Mickey re-
NAMED among the strikers and says
he received information as to how a
strike is run. Then he was recognized
by Sheriff Powers, who was amazed
at seeing the Governor in a working
mans garb. But the Governor quick
" told his mission and then and there
announced that no troops would be
ordered to South Omaha so long as
the strikers remained in their pres
ent state.
Things are absolutely SAT- in South
Omaha, and there is no reason to call
out the troops" he says. II know what
I am talking about now, for I have
seen and heard just about the whole
thing"
When Governor Mickey returned to
his home in LINCOLN he was still wear
ing his disguise as a laborer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Brigadier-Genera Randall, command
ing the Department Of LuZon, has is
sued a general order prohibiting the
hiring Of natives as walters o. dish
washers at company. troop or battery
messes Dr. for the policing Of Govern.
ment stables, quarters. Kitchens or
grounds, except when specially author
lied from headquarters.
Porto Rican Day vas observed at the
st. Louis Exposition and natives on
the island cabled expressions Of salts
faction to the fair officials.
Gel~raI Leonard Wood, commanding:
the Department Of Mindanao, Philip
pines, has taken steps to- have swim
ming taught the soldiers OF his COM
mand, as the result of numerous acct
dents in the WAITER.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
Prominent People.

The Prince of Monaco is q irst-class
lecturer on dcep-sea life.
Prince Eitel, the kaiser's second son,
has accomplished the feat OF swim
ming the Rhine, just above Bonn.
The directors Of the American Steel
Foundries Company have accepted the
resignation Of Charles NJ. Schwab as Il
director.
King Edward VII. once wrote in a
confession book that the person lie dis
liked most was 1.-The man who points
at you with his umbrella and shouts
out. There he isl"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
From the Seat Of War.

The V~ladivostok squadron sank q
Japanese steamer in the Pacific.
Chinese arriving from Port Arthur
at Chefoo say 1000 Japanese took an
outpost and were then blown up by a
mine.
The German steamer Lisbon was
stopped and searched by a Russian
warship in the Gulf Of Finland, then
released.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Line
asked the United States Government
for protection against possible seizure
by Russians.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
Sporting Brevities.

The seventy-footers Virginia and
Yankee are being reitted at City ISL
and, \. Y.
New York entries ION sixteen ont
OF twenty-seven awards at the Allan
tic City, \. j., horse show.
C. NJ. Daniels won 4 fast race in a
swimming tournament given by the
Manhattan Swimming Club.
Local oarsmen carried Of the lions
share of the prizes at the New York
Gay Association regatta on the Har'
lem River,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
BABY down FORTY FOOT WELL
Fished Out Alive With Graphing
Hooks After Two Hours.

Jackson, Miss. - While l.. Vail, a
farmer living in Montgomery County,
was boring a we'll which had reached
a depth Of about forty feet, his eight
een-months-old child toddled out into
the yard and tumbled headforemost to
the bottom Of the hole.
Graphing hooks were secured ind
an effort made to draw the child out.
The cries of the infant could be plain
~ heard at the top, and hundreds Of
neighbors, who gathered after the
news of the accident spread, were
frantic in their efforts to save the
baby. A hold was finally secured on
the infants clothing, but when the
tiny body was within ten feet Of the
top the hooks loosened and the child
again slowly slipped to the bottom.
After working for nearly two hours
the child was finally brought to the
surface nearer dead than alive.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
Labor World.

II looks as though firemen on the
Lehigh Valley may make a demand for
more money.
Attempts at coalition against the La
Dor Ministry in the Australian Federal
Commonwealth have failed.
Boston NIass.) bakers have opened
a cooperative bakery. and it is the in
tention to establish branch stores in
various sections Of the city.
> The strike of cotton operatives at
Bristol, Eng, has ended by a compro-
misc, the reduction of five per cent. be-
ing agreed to for the present.
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GAMBLER KILLED IN HIS ROOM.
Charles Bosworth Murdered in New
Britain, Conn.

New Britain, Conn.-Charles BoS.
worth, a gambler, aged i~fty-three
years, was found lying unconscious in
a pool Of blood in the back room Of the
second floor of Wards Building, on
Main street, shortly before noon. He
died in the hospital at 4 p. NJ. not hav-
ing recovered consciousness. He was
murdered and the police have no clue
to his asSailantS.
When Bosworth was found there
were several wounds on his head, his
pockets were turned inside onr. and a
diamond ring had been torn from his
finger. The room was evidently used
as a policy shop, as numerous ell
velopes containing policy slips were
found on the table, which, with four
chairs, comprised the entire furniture
Of the room.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
MEMPHIS CHIEF QUITS.
And Then the Commissioners Tell
Him to- Hold On.

Memphis. Tenn.-Chief Of Police ].
J. Mason rendered his resignation to
the Board of Fire and Police Commits
sioners. Mayor Williams stated to
the board that he exonerated both
Vice-Mayor Henderson and Chief Ma
son from any guilt in recent occur
rences and shouldered all the blame
himself. The board then acted on the
resignation of the chief, the vote being
two to one in favor Of not accepting
the resignation. Mayor Williams and
Vice-Alayor Henderson voted to retain
Chief Mason, and Mr. Walsh, the
third member, voted for his dismissal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
VIPER NAILED TO THE LATCH.
Indiana Man Suspects Secret Enemy
of New Idea of Assassination.

Indiana Man Suspects Secret Enemy
of New Idea of Assassination.
Louisville, Ky.-An assassination plot
in which a deadly viper was to bite the
victim is reported by Clarence Norris,
who lives near J~effersonville, Ind.
Mrs. Donahue, a %neighbor, telephoned
Mr.. Norris that she had noticed a big
snake on his gate. Mr.. Norris hurried
to the gate ard found that a viper.
over three feet long. had been fastened
to the barrier, with its head on the
latch. The snake had been so arranged
that it would scarcely be noticed from
the inside.
After killing the snake Mr.. Norris
found that it had been securely fast
ened by a nail driven through its tail.
Mr.. Norris suspects an unknown en-
envy, and the police are working on the
case,
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Dead in Bathing Suit,

The body of a man in bathing
clothes, believed to be Richard Rein
hardt Fuenther, of North Tottenville,
S. l.. was found near Tottenville.
Some days ago Fuenther disappeared,
leaving his clothes in one of the bath
ing houses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
DESPERADOES STOP TRAIN.
Wounded Conductor, Get 81 and Es,
cape.

Delhart, Tex.-Armed With Winches-
ter rifles three masked mcl held up a
Rock Island express train in the small
station of Logan, seventy miles west Of
this place. In attempting to battle with
the bandits John York, the conductor
In charge Of the train, was shet through
the left leg, and a score of shots were
fired to %terrorize the other trainmen
and the passengers. After York had
been stretched unconscious all effort
at resistance was abandoned. The bur-
glars blew open the train safe and got
only 81 and then made off. A posse of
fifty men is in pursuit, and a report
has reached here that the gang has
been cornered in a wood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
Armenians Ambush Turks.

Official cablegrams from CONSTANT,
nople report that a band Of Armenian
revolutionists ambushed a party Of SOL
diers in the neighborhood Of Mush. On
the arrival of reinforcementS the Ar
menians fed. setting fire to three viii
lagos on their way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
The National Game.

Pittsburg has sold Catcher Carisch
to JerseJ- City.
Jones, tine Brooklyn pitcher, is a
clever acrobat.
Lumley is still the hardest National
League batsman.
The Philadelphia Club contemplates
giving the veteran Herman Long a
trial at snort field.
President Pulliam has promulgated
notice Of Alex. Smiths contract with
Chicago, L of Pitcher w I, Reidy's
release by Brooklyn .
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Dropped Dead in the Street.

Royal Luther Porter, forty years old,
who had been living at the Hotel st.
George, Brooklyn, n. Y, went out for a
walk. At Henry street, near Clark, he
fell dead. The body was taken to the
Fulton street station, where it was sub
sequently claimed by J.. E. Porter, his
brother.
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Injured in Tunnel.

Robert Buchanan. who left for AL
bany, y. u, from New York City, Oil 4
freight train. was held up and robbed.
A companion was fatally hurt in the
Poughkeepsie tunnel, and Buchanan
held him on top of a freight car until
help arrived.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-08-24
Ro1dwin'S Now AirShiD,

A successful ascension was made by
CAPTAIN Z. s. Baldwin's airship at
Idora Park, Oakland, Cal. The airship
assembled about 500 feet, made a con-
siderable circle. and landed success
fully at the place from where it had
started.
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STRIKE MOB
Riot in Front of a Chicago Police
Station.

Chicago. III. - A mob Of stockyard
strikers and sympathizers attacked the
Deering street police station in an at
tempt to seize Frank Castellano, a
butcher. who had shot 4 striker in es-
Gaping from the mob.
Two thousand men stormel the sta
ton after CaStellano had been arrest
ed. and for fifteen minutes the police,
under command OF Lieutenant Bon
field, were compelled to club and beat
the strikers until they dispersed.
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China Wants RevolutioniSt.

Because of the lack of an extradition
treaty the Chinese Government is
bafled in its desire to get Quen Man.
revolutioniSt, under death sentence.
who is sheltered in a Presbyterian mis-
sion in New York City.
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Won Plehye Buried,

The body Of NJ. Plehve, the Russian
Minister of the Interior, was buried at
st. Petersburg with impressive cere-
monies. The Emperor was present at
the funeral service. 1t is expected that
a successor to the murdered Minister
will soon be chosen.