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NEW HAMPSHIRE


NASHUA, NJ H., Sept. 23.-At the Sep
TENDER term of the Hillsboro superior
court an appeal was brought by New
Hampshire State Treasurer Scion A. Car
ter from decision of Probate Judge Ed
ward e. Parker, favoring the beneficiaries
under the will of Mrs. Susan e. Reed,
late of this city, who gave considerable
sums of money to the charitable organi-
cations connected with the Main Street
NJ E. church. to the Kings Daughters
Benevolent association and to Pennichuck
lodge, 1. o. o. f.
ANTRIM--A message from Saranac
Lake states that Nathan G. Jameson,
Democratic candidate for governor last
year, is resting comfortably. Mr.. jane
son has been i'll for some time.
Reports of his death published in two
or three newspapers were apparently due
to a confusion of names.
NELSON-An attempt is being made to
raise money to preserve the old church
building in the center of the town. The
number of permanent residents has so
diminished that the keeping of the build
ing in repair, in addition to other church
expenses, has become too heavy bur-
den for the townspeople
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COLORADO

GREELEY, Colo, Sept. 23.-Whlle
walking home from church last nlgnt
Rev. Oscar w. Gustofsen of the Sweoish
Lutheran church was confronted py Two
men, who commanded him to holo up MS
hands Upon his refusal to DO SO one Oh
them shot the minister, the bullet strlR-
ing rib. The holdups then ran down
the street with the minister in pursuit.
When almost within reaching issuance
Of them one of the men turned and fired
second time. the bullet entering the left
side of the pastors neck and lodging In
the muscles in the back of the neck
n is thought that he will recover.
posses are securing the country In search
of the holdups.
PUEBLO, Colo. Sept. 2s.-The State
Fair association officers are much exer-
cised over a report that the fair Just
closed will be the last ever held in Pu-
eblo. Those who have started the rumor
have claimed that the exhibition was to
be removed to Denver. President Will
son gave out the following statement:
'The report that the fair next year will
60 to Denver Is absolutely untrue"
BOULDER-The Boulder Commercial
club, about 100 strong, went to Ward.
There were a number of women in the
crowd. At Ward the junketers were the
guests of the people at a magnificent
banquet
GREELEY-Mrs. Eva Ennes, wife Of
Clayton Ennes, died yesterday of blood
poisoning, aged rs years. She was born
In Humboldt, Neb., married three years
ago and leaves husband, two children,
a father, w. A. Samples Of Greeley and
nine brothers and sisters
GROvER-In well near here, dug to
depth of 100 feet, water rose to within
four feet Of the surface. Farmers there
are jubi1ant over this, as they are anx-
ious to locate artesian wells.
GLENwooD SPRINGs-The city coun-
ell held special meeting to consider re-
ports that the waters Of the Grand river
were being diverted by the Central, Colo,
Power company, which is building a
large plant at Shoshone. 1t Is claimed
that the company has diverted the waters
of the Grand, injuring the sewer system
of Glenwood, but an attorney for the
company appeared before the council and
explained that the sewer system would
not be damaged further by the company's
work.
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IOWA


OTTUMWA, Iowa, Sept. 2S.-One man
killed and two injured is the result of a
Milwaukee engine running into hand
car on which the men were riding. The
accident occurred near Farson. The en-
CINE backed into the handcar. The men
were in the employ of the Milwaukee and
were on their way to their boarding
house when the accident occurred. Cast
was taken to the Ottumwa hospital
IOWA CITY-Destroying money and
endeavoring to escape. Miss Katie Lyon,
the insane woman from Warren, Pa, re-
Gently captured by Sheriff Rowland, is
creating a sensation here. She burned
up 1870 in currency and tore up $4,000 in
certificates of deposit etc. The/ sheriff
grabbed the torn pieces and succeeded in
restoring them. Tie woman nearly
cholSed to death in fit of hysteria. Then
she called for priest, and on his arrival
repudiated him. She made a partly sue
cessful effort to escape, but was caught.
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WASHINGTON

OLYMPIA, Sept. 23.-Railroad attorneys
and representatives appeared before the
state railroad commission to protest
against the proposed rules governing pas
senger train service. Objection was made
chiefly to the constructive mileage rule,
the rule making first class good on any
day for thirty days after purchase, and
the rule requiring stations, to be kept
open until the arrival Of late trains.
BELLINGHAM-Th police received a
call from Mrs. II. Kastner living on
Keesling street, asking that her husband
be arrested, as he had attempted to poison
her. The police say that recently Kastner
is believed by his wife to have placed
poison in her coffee.
PORT ToWNSEND--A force from the
UNITED States lighthouse service has been
at Tatoosh during the past week engaged
jim installing the new whistle intended for
use in foggy weather, warning mariners
entering straits away from that danger
Gus rocky shore, but according to reports
some other means will have to be devised
If the efficiency of the stations is to be
improved. The new equipment consists
of a monster siren whistle to replace the
old one with the heavy deep penetrating
tone.
RAYMOND-Mrs. Alma Smith, wife of
Capt Alma Smith, a prominent steam
boat man of this city, died at the South
Bend general hospital after undergoing
an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Smith
was native of the Willapa valley of
this county.
TACOMA-If j. w. Slayden's wishes
prevail, Tacoma and Pierce county will
have building at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition. Slayden is one Of the
fair commissioners. and he thinks the
City of Destiny should foster this en-
terprise to keep in the limellght. An ex-
penditure of $4,000 for this purpose is
recommended.
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ARKANSAS

PINE BLUFF. Ark, Sept. pa pistol
toter is an assassin who walks around
with a pistol in his pocket ready to Kill
his fellow-man,' was statement made
to the grand jury convened before Circuit
Judge A. B. Grace. He instructed the
jury to indict every man found guilty of
carrying a weapon.
LITTLE ROCK-U. S. Rea, former
trainmaster of the Choctaw's Indian
Territory division, has succeeded G. B.
Pratt of the Memphis-LittIe Rock divi-
sion who in turn succeeds Charles L.
Symonds as chief clerk to General Super
intendent Whittenton Of the Choctaw
district.
PINE BLUFF-With the query. rs
your name Alexander" Louis Franklin.
a negro, shot and killed Deputy Constable
C. A. Butler at Cornerstone.
The negro is being searched Tor by q
posse and if apprehended will probably
be lynched
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MARYLAND

BOYDS, Md, Sept. 23.--James Boxall
of Boyds and Miss May Dillehay of Sill
dell were married at Clarksburg in the
parsonage of the M. e. church south by
Rev. F. f. Neel. Mr.. Boxalls was d.
vorced from his first wife about year
ago.
A fire yesterday on the farm of B.
Dixon at Urbana, near Hyattstown, de-
stroyed barn, corn shed and 1900 BUSH
els of wheat. Damage. $500.
HYATTsvILLE. Md, Sept. 2s.-Amos
Parquet, aged 10, and Grover Cleveland
Walker, aged %, are In Marlboro Jail, the
former charged with burglary and the
latter as an accessory to the crime. 1t is
charged that these men broke into the
station of the Chesapeake Beach railway
at Chesapeake Junction.
CUMBERLAND-Th Potomac Lumber
company organized by electing the fol-
lowing officers: President, Urner G. Carl
of this city; vice president, John e. Har-
vey of German, Md, and secretary and
treasurer, William Harvey of German.
Jacob F. Lee was made general manager.
Thirty arrests were made by Sheriff
Hamilton Of this county arising out of
the holding up Of a Cumberland 6 Penn
sylvania railroad miners train last Thurs
miners at Keeey mine.
LAUREL-Ira Brown, the 19-year- old
son of William Brown, residing in Anne
Arundel county, near Laurel, accidentally
shot himself. dying several hours later.
ANNAPOLIS-Tel Claude, the 10-year-
old son of Mayor Gordon H. Claude of
this city, was knocked down and bruised
by bicyclist. The boy was playing on
the street near his home. The rider did
not stop to find the extent of the injuries.
Over 1000 people were brought from Bal
timore to Annapolis this afternoon on the
steamers Louise, Emma Giles, Susque~
hanna and Annapolis. Some excitement
was caused by a man and woman falling
overheard from the wharf at the foot OF
Prince George street. They left one oil
the steamers and jumped in a small boat
to row to a yacht. The boat lurched and
both went into the water. They were
rescued without difficulty.
HAGERSTOWN-Jo Kaetzel messen
ger at the Hagerstown bank, died as the
result OF injuries sustained when he fel
into new building at the plant of thu
Maryland Leather and Saddlery company
Hagerstown, where he was employed.
CUMBERLAND Philip Roman fur
nished bond in the sum of $1,000 to appear
at a time to be fixed to answer thu
charge of assault upon Col George A
Pearre. This state warrant was sworr
out by Mr.. Pearre several days ago, ant
Mr.. Roman upon hearing of it gave him
self up and furnished the bond
| FREDERICK-Mis Ruth Rosanne Da
Wis, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. FRANKLIN
H. Davis, and Gilmer Ray Flautt, son o.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. c. Flautt all Of Fred
erick, were married at the home of thu
brides parents by Rev. A. J. Gill, pastor
Of the Methodist Episcopal church.
| ANNAPOLIS-Nfidsh Clarence G
| Riner and Oscar G. Salb, whose resigna
lions were accepted after they had beer
recommended for dismissal by Superin
tendent Badger of the naval academy
have not yet left the institution. TIL
designations have been forwarded, bu
will not be returned before tomorrow
and possibly not before Friday.
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KENTUCKY

!. PADUCAH, KY, Sept. 2S-Paducah's
wave of crime continues. Today an at
tempt to blow the safe of the Jackson
Foundry and Machine company was dis
covered. Several houses reported visited
by burglars last night.
MAYsvILLE-Th Pearce will case is
now occupying the time of the Mason
circuit court 1t is the most interesting
case of this session. l.. Ed Pearce of
Lexington, son of the late Charles d.
Pearce, is trying to break the will of his
father, who left the bulk of his estate to
his son. Charles d. Pearce of this city,
and daughter, Mrs John Dodd of Louis
ville The estate involved is worth con-
siderably over 100000.
FRANKFORT-Chair G. C.. Nc
Chord has called meeting Of the state
railroad commission for September "a, at
Glasgow, where a complaint from the
citizens of that city and section will be
heard. A petition has been presented to
the railroad commission requesting that
1t order reduction in passenger rates
on the Glasgow railroad which operates
between Glasgow junction and Glasgow.
The present rate per mile on this road
is five cents. The road is only ten miles
in length.
MAYSVILLE-Bruce Ringo, aged TWEEN
ty-one, of Indianapolis, Ind. and Miss
Ethel Worthington, aged seventeen, of
Dover, were married here by County
Judge Newell.
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MISSISSIPPI

JACKSON, Miss, Sept 14-A divorce
suit of more than ordinary interest is
that which is now pending in the chan
Gerry court of Kinds county, the declara-
ton being filed by Mrs Aylene Bailey
Cox, sister of the distinguished Missis-
sippian-Texan, Joseph W. Bailey, against
her husband, Peyton Cox. Mrs. Cox is
now in this city on a visit. In her bill
of complaint she sets forth the fact of
her marriage to Mr.. Cox in 1891 and of
the birth of five children as result of
the union.
GREENVILLE-S. Castleman, a mill
Iionaire contractor and corporation presi-
dent, has been fined $500 and sentenced to
a week in Jail for violating an injunc-
ton forbidding the laying of railroad
tracks.
JACKSON-The grand jury of this
county has reported true bills against
every railroad in this state for their al
legged failure to file statements showing
the number of passes issued and to
whom, as the law directs.
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MISSOURI

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Sept. 23.-Jack
Kennedy of Kansas City, called the
quail hunter" now serving a twenty
five years sentence in the penitentiary
for holding up st. Louis e San Fran
cisco passenger train at Macomb, Mo-,
seven years ago, will soon be a free man,
il the efforts of his friends succeed. ].
T. Neville, circuit Judge; State Senator p.
NJ McDavid and DIR. G. B. Elkins went
to Jefferson City last night to appeal to
Governor Folk to pardon Kennedy. They
will, It is stated, make the claim that
Kennedy is innocent, producing new evil
dence.
BEvIER, Mo-, Sept. pa. G. Rissler,
aged So years, a pioneer citizen of this
county, died this morning after an illness
of several months. He leaves widow
and several children.
KANSAS CITY--Hans Nelson, q shoe
dealer, SO years old, died of heart disease
while seated in chair at his store, 523
Kansas avenue, West Side. Mr.. Nelson's
home was at 9OS North Seventh street.
OSCEOLA-Saint Clair county voted in
favor of local option. The majority in
favor of a dry" county was between 800
and $50. In this town the majority was
So. The county has a normal vote Of 1000.
About two-thirds of this was polled.
SPRINGFIELD-The deposition Of Miss
Mary p. Brookfield, who was recently
dismissed as dean of women at Drury
college and who has since brought suit
against the board of trustees and two
members of the faculty for $4,000 damages
for the alleged entering of her room in
Mccullough cottage and removal OF her
personal belongings in her absence. was
taken before notary public. Miss Brook
field also has a suit pending in Justices
court for $3.50 for being deprived of the
use of her rooms by the college authors
ties. This case is set for trial tomorrow.
JEFFERSON CIrY-Governor Folk
committed to a term ending October
the ten-year sentence Of Leck Allen,
convicted of robbery and jail-breaking in
Buchanan county in March, 1903.
The governor also committed to term
ending October 1, 1907, the ten-year SEN
tence of Mart Parnam, sent to prison
| from New Madrid county In September,
1905, for murder in the second degree.
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DEC0Y MAID AWAY
AND ROB HOUSE

4 WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Sept. 3d. 4
1. More than $500 worth OF jewelry y
i was stolen early today from the +
4. summer residence of Mr.. and Mrs. 4
i. Ralph w. Keyser of No. 40 Grand y.
4 street, White Plains in remarkable =
4. manner. The burglars decoyed SER 4
i want girl by putting her on trolley \
+ car bound for Mount Vernon, under !
i the pretense that her employer was =
i. dying in a hospital there and had 4
j. sent for her. i
!. The burglars ransacked the house 4
T. from attic to cellar and obtained 4
4. watches, diamonds and rare bric-a- 4
4. brac. When Mr.. Keyser went home !,
+ last night his house looked as 4
i. though a cyclone had struck 1t. 4
+ Goods were thrown all over the +
i. rooms, carpets were torn up and fur 1
i. niture overturned. When Mrs Key \
4 ser went home she sought her Pol i
!. ish maid, but could not find her. I
i Later the girl appeared and said +
!. that during the afternoon two young i
i men came up the street and appear 4
+ ed to be looking for some number 4
!. Finally one of the men came to the !
1. door and told her that Mr.. Keyser !
f. had had his arm cut off in aNtrolley =
4. collision and that she was wanted at 4
i once. =
i. The girl asked where Mrs. Keyser 4
4. was, and the man told her that che +
4. was with her husband at the Mount \
4. Vernon hospital He offered to es- 1
i cort her to Mount Vernon, and after +
I. the girl had hastily closed the house 4
i the two went to store, where the <
+ girl had a bill changed. They got 4
!. on the first Mount Vernon car and (
i when it reached Mount Vernon the I
j. man eluded the girl. +
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GIRL UNCONSCIOUS
FOR 1870 HOURS

4 RICHMOND, Va, Sept 23-Lucy 4
1. Ross, the strange motionless patient I.
\ at the city hospital, died at 1880 4.
!. this morning. after having been I'M !.
Il scious for 1870 hours. The case Is not !.
i. the first Of the kind recorded, but Is i
1. quite rare. Lucy was a young ne y
4. gress employed as domestic in Nthe !.
4. family of David Whitehead. Eight 4.
i days ago she was found lying I'M 4.
!. conscious in room of the house, z.
i. with unlighted gas issuing from jet. :.
4. There was nothing to indicate any K
4. thing other than an ordinary case of 1.
j. asphyxiation. The girl was re- \.
4 moved to the city hospital, but all 4.
4. efforts to arouse her failed. The at i
i. tempt was repeatedly made, not \.
!. only that day. but on succeeding 4
4. days. For seven days and half the Z.
+ patient lay absolutely motionless ex- !.
i. cept for the feeble action Of the re- 4
i. spiratory muscles, and the occasional 4
!. opening and closing of the eyes. Not 4
!. limb was moved, not the slightest <.
!. tremor was there to indicate that X
j life was in the body, except the X
]. faint breathing. Dr. Strole, who 4.
!. was in charge of the case, said to- 4.
!. day that the patient became weaker Z.
4. and weaker as the gas poison grad 4.
!. ually destroyed the red blood cor +
!. puscles. When these corpuscles had I.
4. been completely disorganized death 4.
!. ensued. Many Richmond doctors 4
!. went to the hospital to observe the 4
!. "motionless" patient. !.
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VIRGINIA

WINCHESTER, Va, Sept. 23.-John
Woomer, the aged stonemason who sew
eral years ago came into notoriety by
digging his own grave in Mount Hebron
cemetery and afterward walling 1t up,
preparatory to his death, was stricken on
the street with paralysis today and is in
a critical condition. Mr.. Woomer is
nearly so years old and is not expected to
live. He has requested that, in the event
of his death he be buried in the grave
dug by his own hands, and relatives will
carry out the old mans wish IL the pres
ent attack proves fatal.
NORFOLK--In letter addressed to the
committee of directors which arranged a
settlement of differences existing some
weeks ago between himself and Presi-
dent Harry st. George Tucker of the
jamestown exposition, James M. Barr re-
quests to be relieved of his duties as
director general.
WARSAW-Fire this morning about
o'clock destroyed the canning factory Of
v. B. Hardwick, at Acorn, WestmorelanC
county, entailing loss on building, ma
chinery and canned goods to the amount
of $4,000. The fire had it's origin from the
bursting of gasoline pipe.
CULPEPER-Mrs. c. C. Mitchell
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Shot.
|well of this city, died while at hospita
in Richmond. She had been married only
three months when the disease for which
she was operated on developed its alarm
ing symptoms. She was one of the pop
ular young ladies of Culpeper. Her body
will be brought here for burial
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MINNESOTA

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 23-Denver
was selected by the sovereign grand
londge of the Odd Fellows as the place
Of meeting next year. General Manley
A. Raney of Iowa was reelected COM
manding general of the Patriarchs
Militant and he has been the first Off
Ger Of that rank to wear the new in
sigma of his office which was voted
by the grand lodge. The jewel will
consist of bar and medallion OF solid
gold studded with eight diamonds,
and valued at $500.
wINONA--Adolph Munson, BUSH
ness man of Albert Lea, has been ar
rested on a charge of numbering a
woman with whom he had been liv-
ing. Her name is Mrs. Clifford Julian
and it is said that she came from Iowa.
During the dinner hour at the Com
merciaI hotel the guests were startled
by a pistol shot on the second moor.
Mrs. Julian rushed from the room, blood
streaming from her breast. and shout
ing: my husband has killed me- and
investigation showed that the woman
had been shot through the heart. She
died while being taken to the hospital
~DInUTH-The directors of the North
Butte and Calumet and Arizona decided
to curtail the production of their copper
mines SO per cent. This will mean
reduction of 700 tons a day at the Calu-
met and Arizona mines and 500 at the
North Butte. The Calumet and Altoona
is one of the leading producers at Bis
bee, Ariz., and the North Butte operates
large mines at Butte.
ST. PAUL-Operating officials of the
five railways involved in the strike OF
boilermakers, the Great Northern, the
Northern Pacific, the Chicago Great
Western, the Chicago, st. Paul. Min
neapolis & Omaha and the Minneapolis,
st. Paul & Sault ste. Marie, formed an
organization to meet strike conditions.
The organization will at once proceed
to fill the places vacated by strikers.
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INDIANA

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 23.-Lorenzc
B. Lockard, supreme protector, and the
other supreme officers of the Knights and
Ladies of Honor were ordered to appear
in the county court on a writ of man
damus filed on behalf of John d. O'Keefe,
the deposed grand protector of the Mis-
souri, grand lodge of the order, to show
cause why at the opening session of the
supreme lodge of the order here the Mis-
souri, grand lodge is denied representa-
ton.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Chicago. indianapolis & Lou
isville Railway company here James Muir
dock of lafayette and Morton F. Plant
of New York were reelected directors
and Lewis w. Parker of Chicago was
elected director to succeed Gilbert B.
Shaw of Chicago.
BEDFORD-Two of the Monon's largest
freight engines collided at Horseshoe
Bend five miles north of here, tearing
up the track for 200 yards and badly
damaging the engines. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. The crews jumped.
EVANSVILLE-Willia Wilson, son OF
j. r. Wilson. a wealthy farmer near
Corydon. KY. while climbing over a
fence with shotgun, was accidentally
shot in the left breast. The wound Is
fatal.
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CONNECTICUT

DANIELSON, Conn, Sept 2S.-There
was a strike at the Quinebaug mill and
about one-half of the weavers went out.
The trouble arose from the overseer,
George L. Lyon, ordering one of the
weavers out because he would not COM
ply with the company's order, and so the
others left and refused to go back unless
the discharged weaver was allowed to
come back.
NEW HAvEN-Rev. Alonzo Lewis, a
retired Episcopal clergyman who resided
in Westville, died at the age of rs. He
was graduated from Yale in 1852, and OF
this class Daniel c. Gilman of Johns Hop
kins university was member. Rev. Mr..
Lewis was the class secretary. He was
formerly rector of Christ church, Mont
peler, VT.
Former State Senator Minotte e. Chat
field announced that he would accept the
Republican nomination for mayor of the
city if 1t was rendered to him.
TERRYVILLE-Th postoffice at Grey
stone will be discontinued September 30.
The present postmaster has resigned and
the mail will be furnished to the people
in that vicinity from route No. of the
Terryville free delivery system.
PUTNAM-Signs have been placed on
Grove and South Main streets ANNOUNCE
ing that the road to Danielson by way
of Whites crossing is closed