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PACKERS TO FORM A TRUST
REPORT SAYS ENGLISH COMPANY
SEEKS TO CONTROL MEAT
INDUSTRY.

Chicago, Oct 23-The announce
ment from New York that an English
holding company is being formed to
take over all the American packing
plants bears out rumors which have
been current in La Sale street for
several weeks. For some time the ac-
tivity In the shares of Swift & Co. on
the local stock exchange has attracted
good deal of attention. The street
ried to explain the steady buying OF
| the stock that was offered on the
arket and was content to believe
that pool was operating in the shares
for solely speculative purposes.
Inquiry at the office of firms which
might undertake the financing of such
gigantic corporation, whose capital
readily would run to $500,000,000, elic-
tied almost no information. 1t was
ascertained, however, that the pro-
tracted visit of Sir Thomas Upton in
this city has significance more than so
cial.
The significance of such a movement
is that one corporation will conduct
the packing industry Of the country.
much as the United States Steel cor
poration guides that in iron and steel.
Confirms Beef Combine.
New York, Oct. 23.-Ahat a $780,
100000 beef trust is in the course of
organization, backed by English capt.
tai, was confirmed last night by Fred
erick Sulzberger of the firm OF
Schwarzchild and Sulzberger.
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MAGAZINE FOR THE BLIND.
Will Be Distributed Free to Those
Who Have Lost Their Siqht.

New York, Oct. 24-Announcement
was made yesrerdy that Mrs. William
Zeigler, widow of the patron of Arctic
explorers, has decided to publish a
monthly magazine for the blind. It
will be printed in raised characters.
which the afflicted ones will be able to
read by touch and will be distributed
without cost to all sightless ones in
the United States, so far as they can
be found Mrs. Zeiglers enterprise
will he the first periodical to enter it's
peculiar field
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MOB LYNcHEs A NEGRO FlEND.
Confessed to Attempted Assault Upon
Two White Women.

CcnreSSe0 TO Attempted Assault upon
Two White Women.
Mobile, Ala, Oct. 23-Robert Clark,
alias Dan Dove, a negro whose home
was in Kansas City, was taken from
the Lucedale (Miss.) Jail, forty-one
miles from Mobile, early yesterday by
a mob of 300, who had gathered from
several towns, and hanged to a tele-
graph pole In the heart of the city.
The body of the negro was discover
ed at daylight by deputy sheriffs, who
missed the prisoner at their Jail when
they went To feed their charges.
Deputy Hinton said he was informed
the mob organized about midnight
and that after they secured the prison
er by breaking in the Jail, which is a
small wooden affair, the negro was
given chance to pray, and admitted
that he attempted to assault Mrs. Dix
on and Mrs. Humphreys, wives OF
wealthy naval store operators in that
section.
Viewed NY Thousands.
The body hung to the telegraph pole
until II o'clock yesterday and was
viewed by thousands.
An inquest was held by Deputy Sher-
iff Hinton and the verdict was that tho
negro came to his death at the end ut
an inch rope at the hands OF an un-
known mob.
The body was buried immediately
afterwards by committee of fifty cit
liens.
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CHIEF ENGINEER MAY ALSO BE
GIVEN THE JOB CT GOV.
ERNOR.
TAFT AND BACON TELL ALL
REPORT ~ PRESIDENT ROOSE
WELT REGARDING THEIR IA.
6ORS IN CUBA.

Washington, Oct. 19-President
Roosevelt had long conference yes
terday with Secretary Taft and Assist
ant Secretary Bacon, who made a full
report of all that occurred on the ISL
and since the United States govern.
ment intervened In Cuba to restore or
der.
As to the administration Of the ca.
nal zone, left in an anomalous situa-
ticn through the withdrawal of Gov.
Magoon, Secretary Taft said after the
conference that 1t had been decided to
divide these Offices between two peo-
pie. The expediency Of making Mr..
Stevens governor as well as chief en-
gineer had been canvassed and there
was much to be said in favor of this
plan, which would be in the line OF
centering responsibility in one capa-
BILE person.
Work for Stevens.
1t was true that the engineering
work of the canal construction was
very heavy, but it might be possible
for Mr.. Stevens, nominally governor OF
the zone, to discharge the greater part
Of the duties of that office through
some competent assistant.
At the White House conference the
condition of affairs in the island and
the view of officials as to che future
were given for the purpose or enabling
the president to reach a thorough un-
derstanding OF the situation. The finan.
cial feature of the Intervention also
was talked of and the question Of the
appointment of fiscal agent for the
United States in the island discussed.
1t is expected that some responsible
banking institution will be selected for
this purpose.
Discuss anama Matters.
Neither the president nor those who
conferred with him were willing to
make more than than a general state
ment regarding the conference.
Panama matters also were discuss
ed. 1t has been decided to appoint
governor as well as an American min
lister for Panama, although the presi-
dent Is not yet ready to make pubic
the names of the persons selected.
When Gov. Magoon was at the isthmus
he filled both positions.
Secretary Taft will not accompany
the president to the isthmus. The
present expectation is that the presi.
dent will be unaccompanied by any
member Of his cabinet or other high OF.
fetal.
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FAMINE SPREADS IN RUSSIA
DEATH EXPECTED TO FOLLOW IN
PATH OF DIRE WANT IN PROV
INCES.

Paris, Oct 24.--According to CORE
spondence from Moscow, a widespread
famine is in prospect in Russia
Everywhere in the Russian provinces
the peasants are selling of their cattle
for a few roubles an animal and are
with difficulty finding purchasers.
This years crops are a failure and
the autumn sowings are effected with
difficulty or not at all. Extensive emi-
grafton is taking place from the CEN
trail districts. A large proportion of
the peasants are subsisting on the
soup kitchens established in great
numbers by the Zemstvos, but the
resources of these institutions must
soon fail, and it is expected that in a
few weeks many deaths from starva-
tion will occur.
Looking for Conspirator.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 23-The police
are searching for man named Vo-
ronin, brother-in-law of nj. Onipko,
convinced that he was ringleader in
the conspiracy to blow up the building
where the cOurt-martial trying the
CrOnstadt mutiny cases was sitting, in
revenge for the executions of mutt
neers.
1t is now learned that this plot was
originally planned for Oct l, the day
Onipko, who was one of the leaders
Of the peasant party in the former par
lament, was condemned to deporta
ton and the loss of all his civil rights
for participation in the mutiny. The
plot was abandoned on account of the
comparatively light punishment meteI
out to Onipko and the expectation that
the death sentence on the sailors
would be committed was then revived
Teeming With Conspiracy.
In spite of the apparent quiet st.
Petersburg is teeming with conspira-
cy. There are almost daily arrests
and domiciliary searches, and the
capture of bombs and arms goes ON
apparently without end.
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APPALLING DESTRUCTION AND
LOSS OF LIFE ALONG COAST
OF FLORIDA.
WHOLE TOWNS SWEPT away
AWFUL DISASTER IN SALVADOR
FIERCE BLIZZARD IN SOUTH.
WEST.

Miami, Fla, Oct. 23-The death list
as result of Thursdays hurricane
will exceed 1000. Some estimates
go beyond 1900. Millions Of dollars
worth of property was destroyed.
Every hamlet along the coast and on
the higher keys that escaped some OF
the fury of the storm has been turned
into a place of refuge.
Searching parties have started along
the coast to look for dead and injured.
Workmen on the extension of the
Florida East Coast railroad from Mi
ami to Key West suffered most. Ten
barges, each bearing $50 men, were
torn from their moorings and carried
out to sea. Of these. barges Nos. 6
and were blown across Biscayne bay
and went aground, with the loss OF
only few lives.
1850 May Be Lost.
Another barge, No. 4, was broken
up by the heavy sea. Forty-nine OF
the men were picked up by the Aus
trian steamer Jennie, which took the
refugees to Key West.
Inc Otner DdISeS, WIN tuolT l,U0U
workmen, have not been heard from,
and it is feared that they have been
destroyed.
Fears are entertained for the entire
fishing and fruit fleet, as no word has
been received from any of the vessels.
Manager Adams of the Florida Fish
and Produce company seut out boats
to look for the missing vessels of that
feet.
Great damage has been done to the
government lighthouses along the
coast.
Whole Towns Swept Away.
San Salvador, Oct. 23.-Telegraphic
communication with interior points
has been restored and news of the dis
aster wrought by the terrific storm
which has swept over the coutry is
being received. Over 100 persons have
been drowned in Coatepeque. A vast
quantity Of sulphur water was thrown
out of the Chulo volcano and inundat-
ed the town Of Panchinalco, killing
most of the inhabitants. From other
points also reports of terrible devasta
tion are coming in. Pimiento and
other towns are reported to have been
swept away by the foods.
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Whole Towns Swept Away.
WORST BLIZZARD IN YEARS.
Great Damage by Storm in Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.

Great Damage by Storm in Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.
Denver, Oct. 23.-A general storm
prevailed along the eastern slope OF
the Rocky mountains from Wyoming
to New Mexico yesterday Snow has
been falling in Colorado almost inces-
sanity for the last twenty-four hours
and still continues.
In Colorado the storm extended to
the West slope in the valley around
Buena Vista. The snow lies two feet
deep on the level, and in the noun
tains throughout the state the snow
varies from two to five feet in depth.
twenty-five inches of snow had fallen
at Florence by nightfall. Apple or
chards in that section will suffer con-
siderably.
Much Property Devastated.
Salt Lake, Utah, Oct 23.-For the
last twenty-four hours this city and vi
cinity has been swept by windstorm
of unparalleled severity. In addition
to three serious accidents to persons,
property over a wide area has been
devastated. A fire famed by the wind
has obliterated the new plant of the
Utah Packing company, causing loss
Of about $25O,OOO.
Heavy Loss Of Live Stock.
Albuquerque, N. M, Oct. 23.-The
worst blizzard since the great storm of
1882 is general throughout New Mexi-
co. A high wind is bringing a general
fall of snow and sleet through the
Grand valley, and reports indicate that
the losses to sheep growers will be
very heavy. Telegraph and telephone
service is almost completely shut off
and railroad traffic is delayed
Steamer Is Total Loss.
Norfalk, Va, Oct. 23.-Te steamer
George Farwell, timber laden, from
Jacksonville, Fla, for New Haven,
Conn, is ashore off Cape Henry and
will probably be total loss, but all
on board were saved Capt. ]. D.
Chisholm and his crew of fifteen men
were landed from the wrecked steamer
yesterday by the !ifesaving crews from
the Cape Henry and Virginia Beach
stations.
Snow in Minnesota.
Duluth, Mimi, Oct 23-From fve to
six inches Of snow has fallen the last
twenty-fOur hours over Northern Min
nesota and the Vermillion range west
to Fosston and possibly farther west.
The southern line Of the storm was
Grand Rapids, in Itasca county, ana
half way between Duluth and the iron
ranges.
Six inches OF snow fell in Bemidji,
Virginia and Ely.
Ogden, Utah, Oct. 23-One man was
killed and 100000 in property was de-
stroyed by a heavy wind storm that
swept over this section.
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is WORSE THAN OTHER TRUST.
Whisky Trust Mild Compared With the
Denatured Alcohol Combine.

Baltimore, Oct. 23.-Large buyers OF
alcohol, distillers and others interest
ed are preparing to fight, by appeal to
the department of justice at Washing
ton and by congressional action if nee
essary, the recently formed Distillers'
Securities corporation and the high
price which it is charged that corpora
tion intends to maintain for denatured
alcohol.
William Cotton, an attorney who has
the matter in charge, says he repre-
sents distillers, handlers and others in
terested in alcohol in this and several
other Northern and Southern states.
While the names of those back of
the movement are withheld, they are
said to be people of means and posi-
tion who will push their fight to the
limit.
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Otherwise.

A lockout Of $4,000 building trades
employees is threatened at Chicago as
the result of sympathetic strikes on
various buildings now being erected in
the downtown district.
Dancing gayly home from kindergar.
ten school with her playmates, Myrtle
Richardson, aged six years, Of Mount
Vernon, Iowa, suddenly fell dead upon
the sidewalk. The verdict is heart
trouble.
Attorney General Cromwell filed two
more suits against railroads operating
in Oklahoma. The defendants are the
Santa Fe and Rock Island. Alleged ex-
cessive freight charges are the
grounds OF the suits.
Owing to the bitter factional feeling
because OF the political situation in
Jasper county, Iowa, nearly all of the
attorneys have signed a petition ask
ing that all jury cases to be tried in
the district court this term go over
until after election.
Willie Hoppe Of New York again
proved his right to the title Of worlds
champion at eighteen-inch balk line
one shot In. He was challenged by
the veteran Jake Schaefer Of Chicago
and won at Madison Square garden
concert hall. 500 to 472. In forty-seven
innings.
Terry McGovern and Young Corbett
fought . hard six-round bout at the
National Athletic club In Philadelphia.
when the gong announced the close OF
the battle there was little to choose
between the fighters. The night was
ono Of the bloodisst ever witnessed In
The city.
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JUSTICE WORKS QUICKLY.
Negro Spirited Into Court and Given
lonu Sentence

Montgomery, Ala, Oct. 24.--Herman
Thompson. the negro who on Friday
attacked little Callie Belle Cain, is
now serving a twenty-year sentence at
Pratt Mines Denitentiary.
AT o'clock yesterday afternoon the
negro was Slipped into the Montgom-
cry city court room. pleaded guilty to
his crime. was taken to the depot and
was put ma special train to Pratt
mines. which had right of way to it's
destination Thompson had been in
hiding, carefully guarded by deputy
sheriffs. He reached the court house
safely by assuming the role of coach
man for prominent citizen
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UTEs MOVING NORTH.

Renegade Band Thought to Be Headed
for Reservation.
Washington, Oct. 23.-The interior
department has received dispatch
from Deputy Game Warden Johnson
at Newcastle. Wyo., saying that the
renegade Utes left Gillette and are
moving north rapidly. This is inter-
preted to mean that the Indians are
headed for the Grow reservation or the
Northern Cheyenne reservation.
The dispatch was transmitted to the
war department.
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NoRsEMEN PAY 1 CENT FINE.
Chicago Judge Says They Were Justl-
fled in BEATING Editor.

fled in Beating Editor.
Chicago, Oct. 2O-A fine of l cent
was the punishment imposed by JUS
tice Cooling yesterday ON Erling Biorn-
son and Gustav Reimers, Norwegian
lecturers. for trashing Anton B. Lange.
the editor of Scsndia, local Norwe-
gian weekly. The fine was paid imme-
diately.
The defendants pleaded guilty to the
assault described by Lange and offer
ed the articles which had inspired the
beating in defense. They declared that
since their arrival in the country they
had been made the object of constant
attacks by the editor.
Justice Cooling held that the beating
was largely jusrifiable, and he entered
the fine because the men had pleaded
guilty to the technical charge of as.
sault and battery.
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ForeIun.

Joaquin D. Cassasus, Mexican am.
bassador to the United States, has
formally rendered his resignation to
President Diaz, and the anr cuncement
of the fact will be made public in the
next issue OF the Diario Officiale.
Information received at st. Peters.
burg confirms previous reports that
the sultan of Turkey is gravely Ill. Al
though he attends the selamik and
grants audiences, his malady is incura-
BILE and will perhaps soon have fatal
termination.
With the view Of partially counter.
acting the high American customs
duties, the Swedish Export association
is preparing bill. to be introduced in
parliament providing for a reduction
of so to 70 in the freight rates on ex
ports carried on the Swedish state rail.
ways.
The Cuban Liberals are collecting
funds with which to erect a statue in
honor of President Roosevelt in Hae
vana. Some important members OF
the party of La Lucha, who is treas.
urer OF the statue committee, have al.
ready subscribed onefourtn Of the
amount required.
A Bulgarian plot was discovered at
Melnik, fifty-flve miles northeast OF
Saloniki, Turkey. Thirty arrests al
ready have been made and more are
expected. The purpose Of the con.
spiracy cannot be learned. 1t is known
that Boris Sarafor, the Macedonian
agltator, is now in Saloniki.
The reception OF Turkish officials at
the American embassy at Constantine
pie was attended by high dignitaries
ministers OF state. heads Of the de-
partments and others. This completes
the functions in connection with the
return to Constantinople Of John A.
Leishman as American ambassador.
To prevent a corn famine Gov. All.
umada of Jalisco, Mex, has made an
appeal to the general government OF
Mexico for the removal. of duties from
American corn for importation. The
corn crop in that section of Mexico is
reported to be very light, owing to the
many floods this year.
Andrew Carnegie opened the new
engineering and natural philosophy de.
partments of the Edinburgh university.
Ft1mer Premier Balfour, chancellor of
the university, in thanking Mr.. Carne.
gle, Lord Elgin and other contributors
to the funds, conferred the degree OF
doctor Of laws on Mr.. Carnegie and
Lord Elgin.
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Two Killed in Crash.

Danville, Ohio, Oct. 23.-An excur
sion train returning from Cleveland TO
Columbus collided last night, head-on,
with a freight train near here The
engineer and fireman on the passenger
engine were killed. None of the pas
sengers were hurt.
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Law Student 10 Suicide.

New York, Oct. 2O.--Alfred Hol-
brook, law student, whose father il
thought to reside In Pittsburg. commit
ted suicide by shooting In his apart
ments here yesterday. He was twen-
ty-seven years old. Holbrook had been
out OF employment for several months.
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Boat TIPS: Hunter browns.

Grove City, Mimi, Oct. 24.--While
hunting at Long lake Sunday Anton
Swanson and Carl Rosander were tin.
red into the lake and the latter was
drowned. Swanson managed to cling
to the boat and was rescued.
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Three Killed by Explosion.

PittsEurg, Kan, Oct. 24.-Three
Austrian miners were killed and a
fourth probably fatally wounded yes
terday by an explosion of powder in
Mine No. Ii of the Southwestern De-
yelopment company near Mineral.
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BOY is KILLED IN WRECK.
Son OF Montana Engineer Meets Death
in Railroad Yards,

Clancy Mont, Oc,. 24.-Ralph Hart
man, twelve-year-old son of railroad
engineer, was killed in the railroad
yards. An engine making up a train
accidentally collided with an engine
standing on a switch and wrecked it.
When the wreckage was overhauled
the dead and mangled body of the boy
was found therein. Nobody knows
how he came to be on the engine.
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Killed by Runaway Car.

Anaconda, Mont, Oct 23.-Two men
were killed Ave miles east OF this
city by a runaway car Of ore. They
are Rosario Lavucci and Basil Hoyt.
Lavucci was torn to pieces.
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DIPHTHERIA is EPIDEMIC.
Fifty-two Cases in One Week in Wor-
cester, Mass.

ceSter, Mass.
Worcester, Mass, Oct 24.-The
most serious epidemic of diphtheria
In this city since 1900 was reported by
the board of health for the week lust
ended. In one day eight cases came
to the notice of the officials, and fifty
two families are now in quarantine. af-
fecting the attendance of fifteen
schools of the city. The total number
OF cases for the week was forty-two,
while since last August there have
been 300 persons afflicted
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A disastrous fire swept the little
town Of Cheotah, twenty miles south
Of Muskogee, l. T., and Mrs Strother,
milliner, was burned to death.
The Grand Rapids (Mich) Mallea-
BILE Iron works was partially destroyed
by fire, entailing loss of 100000.
Lieut.. William Delaney was seriorS2'
hurt by falling timbers.
Five persons at Clinton, Iowa, were
made seriously i'll, three of them al
most dying, as the result of ptomaine
poisoning, supposed to have been
caused by eating cheese.
Sibley college, Cornell university,
at Ithaca, N. Y, was damaged by fire
to the extent of $4,000. The building
was saved from destruction by the ef-
forts of the fire department, aided by
students.
Three men are dead and another
will die and two others are injured as
the result of a head-on collision be-
tween fast freight train and light
engine on the Southern railway near
Winsboro, S. C.
Eugene Peronar was killed outright
and twelve others were seriously In.
jured, four of them fatally, when a
street car plunged down steep hill
at Los Angeles and dashed into q
telegraph pole.
Fire at Birmingham, Ala, which
caused loss estimated at anywhere
from $150,00O to 100000 broke out in
the building of the Powell Hardware
company. The six-story building and
contents are total loss.
Frank Mcclure of Iowa Falls, while
painting the court house dome in
Webster City, Iowa, fell q distance
of forty feet to the third roof. BY re.
markable and almost incredible good
fortune the man escaped without
breaking bone. He Is terribly
bruised, however, and is In q critical
condition.
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0ln Fire at Toronto.

Toronto, Ont. Oct. 20.-Fire last
hight destroyed nine buildings 1t tho
Canadian National Exposition grounds,
causing . loss estimated at between
@lS0.0oo and @1oo.o0o.
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TWO HUNDRED LIVES ARE LOST.
Russian Coasting Steamer Strikes
Floating Mine and Goes Down.

rI0dtTUy VJ11ue anu 00SS 0UWH'
London, Oct. 23.-A dispatch re-
ceived here from V1adivostok by
Lloyds' agency, says the Russian wood
en- coasting steamer Warjagin struck a
floating mine and foundered on Oct.
20. Some of her passengers and crew
were saved, but 180 persons were
drowned.
Another message received by a
news agency says 200 passengers per-
ished OF board the Waragin, only one
being saved.
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AUTO TURNS TURTLE: ONE DEAD.

OrIVeTs WNe 70 injured, OUT he Him.
seh Escapes.
Waltham, Mass, Oct 20.-By the
foot of long hill between Wayland
and Sudbury Central yesterday Mrs.
Fred N. Dillon of Fitchburg was killed
and Mrs. George P. Grant, also OF
Fitchburg, sustained fractures OF two
ribs and other injuries. George P.
Grant, Jr., who was operating the ma
chine. escaped practically unharmed.
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BADGER TREASURY Is FULL.

No State Taxes to Be Levied in Wis
consin This Year.
Madison, Wis. OCt 24.-The state
board of assessment yesterday voted
to eliminate all state taxes this year
and to assess but one-half of / mill
tax for school purposes. The latter
action is taken for the first time in the
history of the state. 1t is announced
that the state treasury had $2,183,0O0
cash Oct. /, the largest sum on record.