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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19

London, oct. is.-Ths correspondent
OF the Daily Mail at Madrid says that
fearing an attack by a British torpedo
boat the bandits of Aniera tribe RE-
leased the two British officers Captain
Crowther and Lieutenant shatton. whs
were seized al Ceuta
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19
BODY c REMATED.
Ashes of late Henry Irving viii q.
Buried In Westminster Abbey.

London. Oct. 1S.--At an early hour
this morning the body Of SIR Henry
Irving was removed in great secrecy &C
crematorium and eremated The Sc
crecy surrounding the event was due tc
the desire ~ the family to avoid pub.
LEFTY. The ashes vim be taken Il
Westminster Abbey. - here as is the
custom. they win he in state IN 81
Lait..s chapel until the funeral Friday
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19
SIX BURN TO cEATA.
Mrs. Alice Hartman ard Five Children
Perish IN Flames

st Louis oct lS-Nrs Alice Hart
man and bed Eve children were burned
ca death and their home destroyed b,
Gre az Port ROYAL 81 village ia Frank
TN county
The husband William Hartuau. es-
capeH from the burning due.Ifue hut
was unable 20 save ans members .f PITS
family.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19
Two More GBpeal

Austin. Oct IS.-The Cotton Belt and
International and Great Northern are
TO be added 70 the railroads which vii
appeal from Judge Brooks decision In
sustaining the Love tax bill
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
Resume Of the neWS.

August Schimpf, an American en-
ploye, is sick with yellow fever at
Panama, and William Cox. an Amer
lean employee of the Panama Railroad
company, is dead.
The engagement is announced Of
Paul Nash, the American consul at
Venice, and the Baroness Ina Mayneri
OF Piedmont. The baroness. who
moves in the highest society, is at
present residing in Venice.
The French senate passed the bill
providing amnesty for those con-
demned in connection with the revo-
lutionary conspiracy in 1899, and Paul
de Roulede, former deputy, who is in
political exile in Spain, will be permit
ted to return to France.
The cotton growers of Mexico are
holding meetings for the purpose Of
formulating petitions to be presented
to President Diaz asking that he issue
decree increasing the duty on cot
ton, as Mexico now imports about 40
per cent of her cotton from the United
States.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
Washinuton.

w. j. Calhoun of Chicago has been
| selected special agent of the govern
ment to visit Venezuela and examine
the claims of the New York & Bermu-
dez Asphalt company.
Mr.. Adee, second secretary of state,
who has returned to the United States
, from France, in which country he
made a tour on his bicycle, has as
sumed the duties of acting secretary
Of state.
immigration Commissioner Sargent
has returned to San Francisco from
the Hawaiian Islands. In his speech
ss there he favored attracting such
immigration to Honolulu as now
comes to the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Although Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Metcalf is reported to have
denied that he contemplated resign
ing, there are many indications point
ing toward new head of that depart
ment. The statement is published
that Metcalf is to be succeeded, and
that the trades and labor unions all
over the country are taking much in
terest in the appointment of the new
secretary.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
issued an order which will bring JOY
to rural carriers. Hereafter the rural
service will be suspended on New
Years day, Feb. %, Decoration day,
Fourth of July, Labor day and Thanks
giving day. The rural carriers have
petitioned for holidays for two years,
but have only now succeeded in Sc
curing them.
Edward s. Holmes, associate statis-
tician of the agricultural department
has been summarily dismissed by Sec
rotary Wilson on the charge OF fur
nishing advance information from the
government cotton report to brokers
and spectators and manipulating the
reports in order to affect the market.
Holmes is the only public official in
volved in the scandal.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
Casualty.

Fire Of supposed incendiary origin
has destroyed the business portion of
Gridley, Col. Loss 100000.
Fire swept a large area of the bust,
ness portion of Guntersville, Ala, and
loss is estimated at $4,000 with about
one-third insurance.
August Droes was instantly killed
by lightning and his two daughters
SCARED for life during an electrical
storm near Logarville. Wis.
Two blocks of Goldfield's (Nev.)
business and residence section have
been totally destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of 100000.
Frank Hall, aged twelve years, and
Charles Rice, eleven years of age, the
sons of farmers, were drowned while
bathing in Simon's creek, near Dover,
Del.
Two brothers, Fred and Justin Finn,
aged fifteen and twelve years respect
lively, were drowned in the Winnipe-
saukee river at Laconia, N. H., while
swimming.
Nine persons were injured, one of
them fatally, in Detroit, when a Trum-
bull avenue car crashed into wagon
load of people returning from drive
about Belle Isle Park.
A score of firemen were seriously
injured or overcome by smoke during
a fire which destroyed the upper floors
of a seven-story factory building in
New York. The total loss is estimat-
ed at $250,000.
Fire in F. P. Wright's art and paint
store on Riverside avenue, Spokane,
WASH, caused losses estimated at
$4,000, and for time threatened
widespread destruction in Spokane's
business district.
While running at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, east-bound New York
fast mail train collided with a west
bound freight at Greencastle, Ind,
Fireman Tippy was fatally, and En-
gineer Garner seriously injured.
Forest fires are threatening the Lick
observatory, in which is located the
famous Lick telescope. The corps of
professors there have telephoned
asking that the governor call out the
militia of San Jose to fight the flames.
Mores Maui, well-to-do mining
man, lost his life in the Minnesota
mine near Corbin, fifteen miles south
of Helena, Mont. He descended into
the shaft of the mine, carrying can
die, which ignited gas that had es-
capped from a gasoline tank. An ex-
plosion resulted, causing the shaft to
cave in.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
ENGINEER WILL DEVOTE ALL HIS
ENERGY AND ABILITY TO
THE WORK.
HAS TALK WITH ROOSEVELT
CHAIRMAN SHONTS AND THE
CHIEF ENGINEER GUESTS At
OYSTER BAY.

! Oyster Bay, July 16. - Chairman
Theodore F. Shonts Of the Panama
Canal commission and John F. Ste
vens, chief engineer, were guests Of
the president at Sycamore Hill yes
terday. 1t was the first opportunity
the president has had to discuss canal
matters with Mr.. Stevens, and they
went over the subject pretty thor
oughly. As both Mr.. Shonts and Mr..
Stevens expect to sail for Panama on
July 20, the president desired to con-
suit with them.
It is not unlikely that Mr.. Stevens
will be made in the near future
| member Of the executive committee
of the Panama canal commission,
position occupied by his predecessor,
Mr.. Wallace.
viii Dig the Canal.
It can be said that Mr.. Stevens has
been given practically free hand to
do construction work of the canal. He
has his own ideas about the methods
to be pursued, and will not be inter
fered with in the work of his depart
ment. His desire is to dig the canal,
and to that great undertaking he will
devote all his energy and ability, leav-4
ing the executive and administrative.
details to be worked out by Chairman
Shonts, Gov. Magoon and the COM
mission.
After the conference with the pres
ident, Chairman Shonts talked frank
ly about the work of the commission
and about canal conditions.
"Our talk with the president" said
he, twas of a general character about
canal matters. The president desired
to see Mr.. Stevens before we left for
the isthmus, and to discuss with both
of us the progress of the work. Just
now we have about 10000 men at
work on the canal. That is about as
many as we could employ under the
existing conditions.
Task for Stevens.
eve have our executive staff thor
oughly organized now, but the organ
ization has not been completed on the
isthmus. That is part of the work
Mr.. Stevens will have to do. His en-
cheering staff must be organized and
its work mapped out.
NO." continued Chairman Shonts
in response to an inquiry, "the sani-
tary conditions on the isthmls are
not so bad as they have been reported
to be. A lot of people have become
frightened by the yellow fever, but it
is not so bad as might be expected. In
fact the representations from the 18TH
| mus regarding health conditions have
been grossly exaggerated.
"My belief is" continued Chairman
Shonts, that the actual digging of
the canal will have to be done by la
borers Injured to the tropical climate
That labor we shall be able to get,
believe, without any serious trouble"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
MOB SEEKS LIFE OF PRISONERS
Governor Orders Out Militia to Pre-
vent Wholesale Lynching.

governor Oroere OuS MutSta 70 pTS'
vent Wholesale Lynching.
Montgomery, Ala, July IS. - At 10
o'clock last night Gov. Jelcks received
the following telegram from Gadsden,
Ala:
my Jail and prisoners confined
therein threatened by mob. Prisoners
in Jail charged with rape and murder
of white woman. Need military as
sistance. Answer"
The governor Immediately wired
Capt. l.. Braney, commanding the
Gadsden company of state troops, to
place his company at the disposal OF
the sheriff and to keep the executive
office advised of further developments.
At midnight nothing further had been
heard from the scene of the threat
ened lynching.
The negroes in the Gadsden Jail are
Vance Gardner, William Johnson, Ed
Johnson, Bud Richardson, Jefferson,
Afford and Fannie Mayo. Their al
legged victim. was Mrs. s. J. Smith,
white, widow. The
Crime Was Committed
Saturday night. Early Sunday Vance
Gardner reported discovering the
woman's dead body. The police found
her nude body lying partially con.
cealed in some bushes by the roadside
three-quarters of mile from Gadsden.
Mrs. Smith had been attacked on the
roadside and after having been re.
peatedly assaulted, was dragged by
her hair down an embankment, over
rocks and stumps, into the clump of
bushes where she was left after efforts
had been made to conceal her body.
The details of her condition were
shocking. Her neck was broken. A
pair of scissors and case knife found
close to her body evidently aided her
in the struggle. A mob of 800 people
gathered on Broad street in Gads Zen
at dark and late last night
March on the Jail,
demanding that the doors be opened.
One young man had the rope ready to
swing Vance Gardner, one of the ne.
groes implicated in the killing. Sher-
if Chandler and Judge J. H. Disque
were prepared to meet them. Com
pany c, with First Lieut.. A. r. Brind-
ley in charge, was called out and had
pickets ont. Representative Burnett
and Judge Disque made talks, and
the mob dispersed, there being less
than 100 men present early this morn
ing. The mob lacked leader. This
alone prevented bloodshed. as Lieut..
Brndley, with his men. Sheriff Chand-
Ter and Judge Disque are determined
to protect the negroes. The corOner's
jury was in session all day and far
into the night, but adjourned until
o'clock this afternoon. No further
trouble is looked for at present.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
General,

Andrew Morrissey has resigned the
presidency of Notre Dame university
at South Bend, Ind.
A deal has been closed for the con-
struction of a 100000 hotel, ten
stories high, in Detroit.
Mrs. Helen X. Johnson, mother Of
Mayor Johnson Of Cleveland, Ohio,
died at her home in Brooklyn.
William B. Lyons, former chief of
police of Baltimore and one of the best
known detectives in the country, is
dead.
The $4,000 ton battleship Kansas
will be launched at the yard Of the
New York Shipbuilding company at
Camden, N. j., Aug. s.
Sailing master w. H. Houghton of
the Arctic exploring ship Roosevelt is
authority for the statement that John
d. Rockefeller Is the mysterious mill
ionaire who gave $4,000 to complete
the fund necessary for the expedition.
That a 12-inch shell loaded with on
ly a small charge of dunnite, the
worlds most effective explosive. will
crumple in the side of the heav-
lest armor clad vessel, though the
shell fall short of its mark by twenty
feet, has just been demonstrated at
the beginning of series Of tests at
the government proving grounds at
Sandy Hook.
"Picketing is as bad as lynching."
said Judge Mcpherson of the federal
court at Des Moines, in a decision rem
dered holding the Santa Fee railroad
pickets guilty of contempt of court
in violation of a strike order issued
a year ago at Fort Madison. No pun
isbment was fixed.
That the punishment for forgery
melted out in court sentences is in
creasing is the opinion of the detect
ives of the American Bankers asso.
citation, in a report made by James
r. Branch, secretary OF the associa-
ton, covering bank robberies and forg-
cries since Sept. !, 1904.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
sLUGGERs BREAK UP ELECTION.
Bloodshed Marks Election Of officers
Of Federation of Labor.

Chicago, July 1S-Bloodshed marked
the semi-annual election of officers of
the Chicago Federation of Labor yes
terday. At the point of revolvers the
judges and clerks of election were
forced against the wall, while gang
of sluggers smashed the ballot boxes,
tore up the ballots and beat Michael
Donnclly. president of the Amalgama-
ted Meat Cutters and Butcher Work
ers. into insensiblity.
Following the assault on Donnelly,
one of the judges of election who was
relied upon by the honest element to
see that the votes were honstly cast
and counted, the election was de-
cldrGd off.
Will Beat Machine.
Charles bold, president of the cen.
trail body. declared last night that the
events of the day had made him more
determined than ever to have an hon
est election in spite of the tactics of
the machine leaders. A new election
will be set at the next meeting, and
the DOld followers declare they will
smash the machine if it takes all the
honest union men in the city to do it.
The raid on the ballot boxes &C.
Cured about noon. Who the sluggers
were no one seemed to know, or il
they did, they were afraid to. tell.
Threats were made before the polls
opened at o'clock that unless j. F.
O'Neill was elected, there would be no
election.
Dennis O'Toole, a member of the
painters union, was doorkeeper, and
he was instructed not to allow any
one to enter the hall except those who
had cards showing that they were en-.
titled to vote.
Suddenly man appeared at the
door of the hall and when it was
opened he asked O'Toole whether he
was for or against Dold.
Its none of your business re-
spOnded O'Toole. and he tried to shut
the door, when he was brushed aside
and the sluggers entered the hall.
When the sluggers entered the hall
they drew revolvers and told the
judges and clerks to face the wall
quick. The judges and clerks were
Michael Donnelly, Barney Berlyn, J.
w. Saunders, F. E. Corrigan and w.
H. White. sDonnelly was in the rear
of the hall and did not learn what was
going OH until the other judges and
clerks had been securely locked in a
room behind the platform.
When Donnelly entered the hall a
man whose name he does not know,
but who he says Is a delegate, stepped
up to him and told him he was wanted
outside He stepped to the door in
the west end of the hall and the mo-
meat he opened 1t he was struck
down.
After dressing Donnelly's wounds,
DR.. Caldwell said he would not be able
to tell for day or two whether he
would lose the sight Of his right eye
or not, but that there was grave
danger. His face was horribly cut and
bruised. his featrres being barely rec
equitable.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
Criminal.

Beverley Letcher prominent club
man of San Francisco, is dying from
opium poison, self-administered with
suicidal intent.
John L. Markle, a vaudeville actor,
whose home was at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, committed suicide at a New
York hotel by shooting.
Paul Lorelle killed himself and his
stepdaughter Blanche Lorelle, at Ca
YOUR, Wis, because of jealousy of the
girl, who wished to marry.
John w. Woten, lawyer of New
York, was sentenced to Sing Sing
prison fo- grand larceny in the first
degree for stealing a $1,000 check
from David Rothschild.
To escape the camera Of the rogue's
gallery photographer, Sam Levine, &C
cused of attempting arson, jumped
from the sixth floor of police head
quarters at Brooklyn, sustaining prob
ably fatal injuries.
John Costello a merchant of New
York, has been fatally stabbed at his
summer home on Staten Island. He
was entertaining a number of guests
and, it is said, left the house to re-
sent remarks made by passers-hy, one
of whom, it is believed, stabbed him.
After killing his wife with butcher
knife. cutting her throat and slashing
her body in a most terrible manner,
Edward H. Mitchell, a mining ma
chinist, committed suicide at his home
in Salt Lake City by hanging. He is
believed to have been insane.
A. Keith Dargan, until recently
president of the Darlington Trust
company and the South Carolina indie
pendent Oil company, drank carbolic
acid at Columbus, S. G. He left a
statement saying that he had appropri-
ated the company's funds. Loss, $780,
900.
Henry Weidmann and his brother
John, living six miles from Waverly,
Iowa, on farm, had quarrel. Hen
nv stabbed John several times in the
back and neck. Fearing he had killed
his brother Henry committed suicide
by hanging. Henry was thirty-hve
years old and John is twenty-five.
John will recover.
After writing the following pitiful
note to his wife, Gill Neal, Moulton,
Iowa, blacksmith, blew out his brains:
"Tobaco has driven me to this. 1t
has eaten out the walls of my stomach
and made me a physical wreck.
could live only a short time. Tell my
boys the cause of my fate and warn
them never to use tobacco or intoxi-
cants. Goodbye"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

President Wheeler of The Univer-
sity of California has made a bacca-
laureate address on The Abundant
Life" This is probably the latest i'm
provement on the life strenuous ard
the simple life.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

Now comes story of lightning
striking an editor and burning up a
big roll of $40 bills in his pocket We
regard the story with some suspicion:
there might have been p big roll of
thunder around, but editors GUi. I
tempt lightning that way.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

New York's stork brigade delivers
one package every FIVE minutes. hut
the rate is lower on Fifth avenue than
on the East side. That's as it should
be: it is irving to he born to the re-
sponsibilitios of wealth
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

Young Cornelius Vanderbilt and his
wife have been entertaining Emperor
William again. but what is their glory
compared with that of the American
lady whose diamonds were notic ID"
by the Queen of England at the Ascot
races last week?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

Not being able to have a president
meeting, Yale got even by admins
tering drubbing 10 the Harvard base
ball team.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
Girls Are Hurt In RUNAWAY,

La Crosse, Wis, July is. Miss
Myrtle Goddard, daughter of Hiram
Goddard, wealthy lumberman, was
hurled from carriage in a runaway
accident and seriously injured. Miss
Goddard and Miss Edna Tarbox, who
was also in the carriage, were rem.
dered unconscious by the fall.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
Two Killed In Collision.

Roanoke, Va, July is. - Two men
we're killed and four more injured in
a head-on collision between two
freight trains yesterday one mile
north Of Midvale. Va.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
GEN. WOOD UNDER KNIFE.

Delicate Operation Made Necessary
by Accident to His Head Long Ago.
Boston, July 16.-Reports from Po-
casset, Cape Cod. say that Maj Cen
Leonard Wood has just undergone the
delicate operation of trepanning to
remove 9 bony growth on his head
The operation, it is said, was entirely
successful. and the general is making
rapid progress toward recovery. The
operation was made necessary by a
mishap several years ago, when Maj.
Gen. Wood received blow on the
head by accident.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

President Benjamin Tde Wheeler.
who believes in football because it is
rough" will have no difficulty in find
ing evidence 10 support it on that
ground.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

Another bank thief has been set free
because he is not well. Get a disease
and a pardon. The trouble with most
thieves is that they are too pesky
we'll
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

Some time ago the Mexican govern.
of the Yaquis. but the sophisticated
red men appear to think that a game
at which two can play.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

The longest article in the new sec
verb pass IT takes up sixteen col.
umns-and yet it doesn't give an in
fallible recipe for getting one.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20
Foreign.


The furniture Of the Korean lega-
ton at st. Petersburg is being sold
and the legation Is closed.
The German bark Aphrodite, IT'S
tons. was wrecked in the Nicoya gulf
at Costa Rica, and Capt. Hauenstein
was drowned.
More than 100000 deaths from bu-
bonic plague occurred in India last
wear. according to the latest reports
from the marine hospital and public
health services.
A duel with swords was fought at
Panama by Rusebio Morales. promi-
nent attorney, and Julio Arizona, well
known newspaper man. The trouble
arose over the publication Of an ar
ticle by Arizona. Arizona was slightly
wounded.
The house in which Juliet is said
to have lived, and in which she is said
to have received Romeo. has been sold
at auction at Verona. The bidding
was begun at $1,000 and the build
ing was finally bid il by the city Of
Verona for $4,000.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

June brides are found this year else
where than in democratic America,
there being several in royal families
beyond the big pond.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

Did you ever hear OF Medford
rum?" asks the Minneapolis Journal.
Did we ever-well.-did we-did we
ever hear-well, well. well.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

In his Portland address Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks remarked that farm
ing is the occupation that makes the
blood flow." Right you ale. Mr.. Fair
banks. 1t also makes the perspiration
flow.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

President Wheeler says some peo-
pie in this country dine Frenchfully.'
II must be terrible when you know
what it means
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

Civilization is progressing in the
Philippines, although at last reports
the Igorrotes had not yet been taught
to wear suspenders.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-20

new peach is called The Maiden's
Blush" This is very appropriate
name, as the maiGen's blush always
was peach.