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Crimes and Criminals.

Chief of Police Jackson of Miles
City, Mont, shot and instantly killed
an unknown hobo last night at that
place during a duel in the dark.
Edward Bergman, confessed slayer
of his aunt, Mrs. Kate Quernheim Of
st. Louis, was sentenced to ninety-nine
years in the penitentiary. He entered
a plea of guilty.
At her home at Fort Smith, Ark,
A. O. Gholston, a well known educator,
kissed his wife and then cut her
throat, killing her instantly. The
cause of the murder was jealousy.
In a pistol duel at st. Petersburg
John Wheelhouse was shot and killed
| and his nephew, Richard Wheelhouse,
was perhaps fatally wounded. The
| fight was the elimination Of a family
feud.
The dwelling OF Lucio Grenaldi, an
Italian at Philadelphia, was partially
wrecked by an explosion OF a bomb.
| Grenada received recently four letters
| signed Black Hand and making de-
mands for money. No one was in
jured.
The Pennsylvania state board of
| pardons has refused to recommend a
pardon for James B. Gentry, the actor
who was convicted of the murder of
Madge York, an actress, in Philadel-
phia in 1896, and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Crazed by the effects of a drunken
| spree, Mazda Brokazinwitch of Eelle-
| vile, Ind, shot and fatally injured
Joseph Pilkerton, seriously wounded
| Michael Lapere and shot himself
| through the heart when surrounded by
a posse.
BY way Of a joke two employees Of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad at
| Corbin, KY, inflated John Ballard with
compressed air and were startled
when he died. Ballard was grinding a
valve when the two men forced an air
hose into his mouth and turned on
ninety pounds pressure.
Hearing a murder over a telephone
was the experience of Bernard j.
Gately, a constable at Lowell, Mass,
who heard the creams and shot when
Mrs. Mary A. Mcbride. a milliner. was
fatally attacked in her Office. Mrs.
Mcbride was shot down by a man who
rushed in and fired a revolver at her
and escaped.
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BIG OCEAN LINER kEELS OVER
Kaiser Wilhelm II. Fills With water
While Being Coaled.

Bremerhaven, Germany, July 20. -
The North German Lloyd steamer kal-
ser Wilhelm H., while loading coal last
evening, suddenly listed. The water
poured into her bunkers and boiler
compartments through the open coal
ports, and the vessel c~areened n lay
on her side on the bottom. When the
tide was low her bow rested on a bank,
but with the rising of the tide h
slipped from that position and keeled
over.
After some delay the steam pumps
were set to work to free the vessel OF
water. The cabins do not appear to be
much damaged, as little water reached
them, but the ship cannot be ready to
sail. the company announces, for e v
eral days.
In explanation of the accident, 1t is
said that the inspectors Of coal stow
ing had not been notified that the ves-
sci was not properly trimmed, because
as she was partially aground she kept
her equilibrium. When, however, she
began to refloat with the rising tide
she suddenly went over on her side
until hundreds of tons of water rushed
In
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KOREAN CAPITAL
Scene OF RIOT|NG
TWENTY-FIVE JAPS AND uN-
KNOWN NUMBER OF KoRE-
ANS KILLED.
GATES ARE STORMfD
WILD DISORDER FOLLOWS THE
ABDlcATIoN OF THE EN-
PERoR.
PALACE GATES ARE STORMtD

Seoul, July 21.-After a day of dis
order and threatening demonstrations,
resulting from the Japanese coup that
brought about the a~bdication of the
emperor of Korea, the city became
quiet at nightfall and is now under
military patrol.
The police report that twenty-five
| Japanese were killed and wounded
during the day. The casualties among
the Koreans are unknown. An official
Japanese report attributes the shoot
ing to Korean soldiers who could not
be controlled by their officers.
Japs Take Control.
The noise of the shooting and the
report of the casualties greatly alarm
ed the emperor, and he sent by the
minister of justice a long apologize
message to Marquis Ito, to the effect
| that he regretted that his abdication
| had caused disturbances, and he there
fore called on Marquis Ito to prevent
further trouble.
Marquis Ito called on Gen. Hasege-
wa to take military control of the city.
Troops have been offered for the safe
guarding of the consulates at Seoul.
5000 at Palace.
A crowd of 5000 Koreans was beat
en- back from the palace gates during
the disorders.
At midnight Chief of Police Maru-
yama distributed carbines to the pal
| ace police, but the crowd continued to
increase.
Enraged crowds assembled at vari-
Gus points throughout the city, and
infammatory documents against the
| Japanese were freely distributed, CIV
ing rise to a forlorn hope that some
active opposition is about to begin.
Announces Abdication.
The Japanese papers have published
some sensational rumors, but the Ko-
rear official Gazette, circulating on
the street, was the first official an
nouncement of the a~bdication, which
was signed by the emperor and seven
ministers, in favor of the crown
prince.
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Frank st,vers, a stranger, vas IA.

Frank stivers, q stranger, was IA.
tally injured by a passenger train. He
died after being taken to Wall Lake,
Iowa.
The townFof Hartland, IN the north
ern part of New Brunswick, was prac-
tically DESTROYED by fire. The losss is
placed at s250,000.
By the collapse of a section of seats
at the Auditorium at Evansville. Ind,
eight persons were seriously hurt and
forty to fifty others slightly injured.
While swimming with a party OF
boys in Tamarack dam at Calumet,
Mich, Walter Teddy, an ~eleven-year'
old boy, was taken with cramps and
drowned.
A Chicago Great Western passenger
train ran into and damaged the rear
train at Kansas City. One passenger
train at Kansas City. One passeger
was killed and two slightly injured.
While standing in the church talk
ing with the minister, Mrs. Harry
Miller of Bucyrus was struck dead by
lightning. The bolt hit the steeple OF
the church and raj down the chande.
lier.
The ~lifeless form of her baby daugh'
ter floating about in the water tank
greeted Mrs. Ross Hargreaves, wife
of a farmer living near Oskaloosa
Iowa, on her return home from a
short visit to a neighbor.
A Third avenue elevated train
crashed into the rear of a train stand
ing at the platform of the One Hun
dred and Fourth street station In New
York. and fourteen persons were in
jured, two of whom may die.
Heavy rains of the past three days
have swollen streams in Southeastern
Nebraska to high flood marks, carried
out bridges, drowned cattle and mum
dated fields where grain had been har
vested but stood in the shock. One
estimate places the damage at $3.50,
600.
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81 LIVES LOST
IN TRAIN CRASH
EXCURSION TRAIN GOING DOWN
GRADE AT HIGH SPEED HITS
FREIGHT.
FREIGHT CREW FORGOT ORDERS
ONE HUNDRED PERSONS IN
JURED, SOME OF WHOM MAY
NOT RECOVER.

Salem. Mich, July %. -Thirty-one
people are dead, a hundred injured,
eight of whom are in a serious comb
ton and not out of danger, as the re-
suit of a head-on collision Saturday,
when a Pere Marquette excursion
train, bound from Ionia for Detroit,
with 500 people aboard, crashed into a
west-bound freight in a cut located at
a sharp curve of the Marquette rail
road. about a mile east of Salem.
The passenger train Of eleven cars,
| carrying the Pere Marquette shop en-
ployes of Ionia and their families to
the Michigan metropolis for their an
nual excursion, was running about fifty
miles an hour, down a steep grade. 1t
struck the locomotive of the freight
train with such force as to turn the
freight engine completely around.
Freight Crew Blamed.
Responsibility for the wreck is put
squarely on the crew of the freight
train by officials of the road, who Sc
cured from the crew of the freight the
orders under which it was running and
which clearly showed that the freight
had encroached upon the other trains
running time. The special train was
due at Salem at $40 a. m. and at
| Plymouth at 9:20 a. m. it passed Sa-
lem on time.
The time card of the special was tel
| egraphed to the freight crew in the
| form of a train order, and this order,
| with the signature of the freight train
| crew attached, was recovered by the
officials of the road. The freight crew
left the scene early, but railroad Off
Gals said that they explained that
they had simply forgotten.
Day of Mourning.
Yesterday was a day of grief and
mourning in the little city of Ionia.
| Mayor John n. Bible says he estimates
| that one in every five of the city's in
habitants was either killed or injured
in the wreck. All of the city's normal
| activities have practically been sus-
| pended and every one is devoting at
tention to the wreck victims. One of
the most pathetic cases of suffering is
the Hass family. which lost it's father
and two sons. They were breadwin-
ners, and a widow and six small chill
dren are left nearly destitute.
Another Fatal Wreck.
Sebewaing. Mich, July 22.-In the
| second wreck on the Pere Marquette
| railroad in twenty-four hours two
| trainmen were killed nea here early
| Yesterday. The engine drawing an ex-
| ira freight train, with its tender and
one car, was ditched by running
through an open interlocking derailing
| device. and the conductor and engi-
| neer were buried under the coal from
the overturned tender and ~suffocated.
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Rebuff Evidence of the Defense.

Boise, Idaho, July 1s,-In the last
stages of the Ease against William ID.
Haywood the prosecution put six wit
nesses on the stand yesterday to rebut
the evidence of the defense. Three
testified to conditions in the Occur
dAlenes in 1899 and three to the stu
alton in Colorado during the strike pc
Rod of 1903 and 1904. The important
witnesses of the day were those to
contradict the showing made by wit
nesses for the defense that there was
no reason for calling out the militia OF
Colorado other than a desire on the
part of the mine owners to drive mem
bers of the Western Federation of
Miners from the mining district. One
witness fatty contradicted the evil
dence introduced by the defense to
show that the explosion at the Vindi-
Gator mine was due to an accident.
Perjury Charge Heard.
While the trial was going on in the
district court before Judge Wood an
interesting offshoot of the case was be-
ing held in the small room used as a
court by Justice of the Peace Savage.
c. w. Aller, the depot agent, who vas
arrested charged with perjury, was
brought before the magistrate for a
preliminary hearing.
The principal witness in the perjury
hearing was Orchard himself. He went
over his testimony with d. C. Shott,
the railroad agent, who Aller swore
interviewed Orchard in Cripple Greek
two or three weeks before the explo-
sion at the Independence depot, on
June 6, 1904. ,
Orchard Sticks TO Story.
Orchard was closely c~ross-question-
ed, but no amount of questioning
brought out any material change in
the original story. A number of other
witnesses were examined, the case
taking up most of the day. A motion
to dismiss will be argued to-day. AL
Ter was released on $4,000 bond.
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TELEGRAPH STRIKE SETTLED.
Operators Vote to Return to Work and
Leave Trouble to Arbitration

Leave fIObblC [" ShS'
San Francisco, July Platter be-
ing out just a month the telegraph OPP
orators in the Oakland and San Fran
cisco offices of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies, settled
their strike yesterday afternoon. The
operators unanimously voted to return
to work under the same conditions
and salaries as prevailed when they
went on strike, and to arbitrate their
grievances as provided for in the COM
promise contained in the letter OF Col.
r. c. Clowry June 20. BY the terms
of agreement signed by l. n. Miller, as
sistant general superintendent of the
Western Union; T. w. Storer, general
superintendent of the Postal, and Ma
tional President S. ]. Small of the te-
legraphers, both companies are to re-
employ without prejudice the men
who struck, and the question OF In
creased wages is to be taken up after
resumption of work. The employees
of each company will appoint a repre-
sentative and the company one, the
two to select a third, who will constr
tute the arbitration committee.
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BIG BATTLESHIP WILL RACE.
To Settle Question Whether Govern
ment Shall Build Ships.

New York, July 21.-The battleshlps
Connecticut and Louisiana will CON-
pete in the greatest race OF its kind
ever held, over a measured course be
tween Cape Ann and Cape Porpoise,
off the New England course.
The race is expected to settle for all
time the comparative value of govern
m%ent-built ships, represented by the
Connecticut and those built in private
yards, of which the Louisiana is a
type.
Both vessels are here now, groom
ing for the event. The Connecticut is
in the drydcck at the navy yard,
Brooklyn, and the Louisiana arrived
yesterday to be toned up for the
event.
Millions depend upon the ability OF
| the Louisiana to beat her rival, be-
| cause if the Connecticut wins the race
| the labor unions will have grounds to
urge congress that public instead OF
| private yards build future battleships
Officially the ships are registered as
having a speed of eighteen knots each
on an indicated horsepower OF $500
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Domestic.

Nineteen insurance companies have
withdrawn from Texas as a result of
the going into effect Of the Robertson
insurance law.
The American clearing house, which
for eight months has been trying to
perfect q pool OF all freight cars in
the country, is said to be in process
of dis~integration in Chicago.
The form OF organization and stat
utes for the Sisterhood Of Negroes
and Indians, organized by Miss Cath.
crime Drexel of Philadelphia, have
been approved by the pope.
Because ten children have been
born to four mothers in Town Creek,
Ala, within a month, the postal Off
Gals will be asked to change the
name OF the town to "Teddytown."
At a luncheon rendered him by Des
Moines business men, President Vim
chell of the Rock Island railroad said
that the Rock Island Is out of politics
and will do away with It's Hobbies and
lobbyists. both in the state legislature
and the national congress.
The American Shipbuilding com
| pany recently completed at Lorain
Ohio, the largest dry dock on the
Great Lakes. The Lorain dry dock is
$50 feet long and 125 feet wide. II
| will accommodate two boats at cnce
and with few exceptions conld doc,
the largest e vessels. The sec
ond largest dock on the lakes is al
Superior. owned by the same company
Washed up by the breakers or
Rockaway Beach at New York was q
ten-foot shark, wearing a barrel hooI
as q necklace. The shark had beer
choked to death, another victim q
the eternal craze &c: adcrnment. -
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TRIALOF HAYWOOD
For Murder of Gov. Steunenberg.

ton of Miners. The position taken by
the Haywood defense was that Harry
Orchard was employed by the Mine
Owners association through detect
ives to commit crimes that were
charged to the federation; that public
opinion was aroused against the union
miners, and that, il the Colorado EVIL
dence for the state was admitted the
defense had the right to show a coun
ter conspiracy.
State Replies.
The reply of the state was that the
defense had failed legally to connect
their case in any Of the particulars
stated, and therefore their evidence
merely confused the issue.
j. NJ. Hawley will open the argu
ment for the state this morning. 1t is
expected that he will take the entire
day. Mr.. Richardson, for the defense
will speak Saturday.
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SET OF TOOLS IN HIS LEG.

Deadwood, s. D., July 21.-Henry
Anderson has for many months been
troubled with his leg. Finally he be
came unable to walk and consulted
doctors, who decided to perform an
operation. The leg was cut open and
the doctors took out a chisel, a couple
OF nails, a screwdriver. some chunks
OF wood and a piece of tin. Anderson
recalled that several years ago he was
the victim of a premature explosion
while digging a ditch, but he was igno
rant Of what his leg was carrying.
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Aceidental lHappeninas.

The plant Of the General Compress
at Argenta, Ark, vas de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $2S6, 00o.
A cloudburst and electrical storm
IN GAINESVILLE. Ohio. resulted in three
deaths and inestimable property lcss.
Gillum j. Stanley, a prominent
ranchman Of Forsyth, Mont, was
killed by a bolt of lightning as he was
driving to his barn.
Midshipman H. c. Phinney Of Man
chester, N. H., was drowned while un-
der instructions In swimming with
other members Of his class at Annap-
oils.
Henry Newmas and Theodore Kos
10 we're caught In a fall Of earth In
the Tamarack mine at Calumet. Mich.
and Instantly killed. Both men leave
families.
Two members of the Italian Alpine
club lost their lives while on q noun
tain climbing expedition. They fell
over q precipice 400 feet high on
Mount M~ieaeePelyoux.
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Orchard Sticks TO Story.
State Rests Its Case.

Boise, Idaho, July 19.-The State of
Idaho rests, content with the evidence
it has introduced to prove that Will
liam ID. Haywood, the secretary-treas-
urer of the Western Federation of
Miners, %conspired to kill and therefore
murdered Frank Steunenberg, a for
mer governor Of the state. William
ID. Haywood, through his counsel. will
rest his case with the jury, SO far as
evidence is concerned. Possibly some
witnesses will be called in surrebuttal,
bat Haywood's counsel announced that
the case may close without further
evidence.
Cut Out Certain Evidence.
Judge Wood has invited argument
on his own proposition to eliminate
certain evidence from consideration
by the jury, and probably a day will be
taken to present the views of both
sides as to the instructions to the jury.
On Friday morning argument is ex-
pected and the last stage of the trial
will have commenced. After having
dismissed the jury yesterday after
noon Judge Wood stated his opinion
that the evidence introduced by the
defense to prove a conspiracy on the
part of the mine owners. by showing
the deportation of union miners from
the Cripple Creek district during the
strike in 1903 and 1904 was not ma
terial to the issue involved, and should
not be submitted to the jury.
Not Germane to the Case.
On the other hand, he said, the
showing by the state that Steve Adj
ans was concerned in the killing of
two men in the Occur d'Alene district
did not appear to the court to be ger
name, and should be eliminated. He
announced, however, that the court
would hear arguments to-day on these
points.
The witnesses examined yesterday
were from Colorado and give vivid ac-
counts Of the conditions existing
around the mines.
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Lightning at FaribauIt.

Faribault. Mimi. July 20. - One of
the worst electrical stoms of the sea-
son occurred here. Much damage was
done to the crops. Lightning struck
and seriously injured Napoleon Carron
while he was walking along tho street.
He is in a critical condition.
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100000 Blaze.

Philadelphia. July %. The stables
on John Wanamaker's estate, LINDEN
hurst. near ~Jenkintown. a suburb. were
destroyed by fire yesterday. entailinG
a loss estimated at t1eo,00e.
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From Other Shores.

Katsunoske Inouye, the ambassador
Of Japan to the German empire, has
been recalled. The reason for this &C.
ton is not given.
The death is announced at Paris OF
Eugene Rene Pubelle, at one time am
bassador of France at the Vatican.
He was born in 1881.
]. Pierpont Morgan has acquired at
Paris a most valuable sixteenth cen
fury manuscript comprising stories of
Queen Margaret of Navarro.
Frank ID. Hill Of Minnesota, the
newly appointed consul general of the
United States at st. Petersburg, has
arrived and entered upon his duties.
There is no truth in the report
which has reached Great Britain and
the United States that Count Leo
Tolstoi is dead. The count is in ex-
cellent health.
!. The sultan of Morocco has accepted
!, In their entirety the regulations to
govern the international police force
In Morocco, decided upon at the Al
g~eciras conference.
On a charge Of completely In the
revolutionary plot on July 6, resulting
In the murder of the governor of An
hui, a female teacher in a girls semi
nary at Shanghai has been decapi-
tated.
Because she was 30 ugly that nc one
would marry her. q peasant named
Johann DorosiewicE. living in Poland.
murdered his only daughter. A SYM
pathetic jury found him guilty OF man
slaughter and he was sentenced to
three years in prison.
Smoiyany, Russia, has suffered Sc
verely at the hands of the incendia-
ries. One hundred and fourteen houses
occupied by Jews and fifteen tenanted
by Christians. as well as seventy
shops, have been burned. Several per-
IONS perished in the flames.
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IT. PAUL MAN KILLED BY CARS.
Charles Mckissick Meets With Acct
dent at Fraxee.

st. Paul, July 21.-Charles McKis-
sick Of the live stock Arm of McKis-
sick Bros, South st. Paul. was in
stantly killed by a train at Frazee at
8 o'clock yesterday morning. From
information received at South st. Paul
he was on the way to catch a local
train for Detroit and was struck by
the flyer, coming In an opposite direc'
ton. Death was instantaneous.
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Is SENT TO FARIRAuLT.
Active Army OFFICER Instructor al
Shattuck.

Washington, July 20.-By an order
issued at the war department Maj.
Edward p. Audans of the Third caval-
ry Is detailed to be professor In mill.
tary science at the Shattuck school,
Faribault, MINI. This detail relieves
Mai. l.. B. Lawton, retired, from that
assignment, and indicates a purpose
of President Roosevelt to place officers
on the active list as instructors in the
schools.
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Limits Field for Argument.

Boise, Idaho, July 21.-The field fol-
argument, both for the prosecutor
and defense of William d. Haywood
has been limited by Judge Wood, whc
in a decision handed down yesterday
removed from the consideration of the
Jury all evidence bearing on the al
legged conspiracy by mine owners ant
others against the Western Federation
of Miners.
Immediately after the announce
mest of this decision argument com
menced
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SLIGHT J U KILLS.
Hand Hurt, Young Woman Dies Of
Blood POISONING,

Marquette, Mich, July 23.-As the
result of an insignificant injury to a
finger, Miss Evelyn Bengry, one of the
most popular young women of the city.
is dead at her home in Ishpeming>
Blood poisoning caused her demise at
the age of twenty years.