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MfLLfN PLANS A
GREAT COMBINE
MAKES HARRtMAN'S MANiPULA-
lATlONS LOOK tNS!GNIFI.
CANT.
PANAMA CANAL IS KEYSTONE
COLOSSAL MERGER INCLUDES
FOUR SYSTEMS-S1.c COO. 600, 900
CONCERNED IN DEAL.

WASHINGTON. May 20. While the
eyes of the whole country have bee
centered on F.. II. Hartman as the
master manipulation OF the railroad
world. a greater and more extensive
combination of railroad interests has
been in progress of perfection until
now the plans are matured for the
public declaration of this gigantic
merger.
A Colossal Scheme.
More than a thousand million dollars
capital are involved and the mileage
of the new system will extend practi-
cally from the most northern part of
the Atlantic coast TO the Sul fports,
with a network of tracks gridironing
New England. the East and Middle
West and tapping the greatest freight
producing territory i'll the world.
This colossal merger when perfected
viii be known as the greater Pennsyl-
, vania system. 1t will include four
great systems. embracing practically
all the railroad mileage in New Eng
land, together with the present Penn
sylvania lines east and west of Pitts
burg. with through connections to New
Orleans and Mobile on the gulf.
Panama is Keystone.
Instead of projecting a transconti-
mental line ron ocean to ocean, the
keystone Of the new system will be the
Panama canal. Traversing as it does
the most ~con9ested sections of the
United States and reaching every
great industrial M manufacturing
center east of the Mississippi. it will
afford an oySlet to the products of this
vast section to all the ports of the At
lanfic north of the Potomac, n also
give them a direct route to the Orient,
via the gulf and the new isthmian Ca
nal when completed.
MeIlen 10 the Master.
Charles $. Mellen is credited with
| being the master mind that conceived
this vast project. Mellen and his as
| sociates in his great project feel as
sured. according TO the hest informa-
ton at their command, that there will
be no opposition to or criticism OF
their venture on the part of the admin
istration. as no competing parallel
lines will be merged except in the case
Of a few unimportant branches.
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People Talked About.

Miss Lulu Chaser, the actress, and
Ralph c. Herr. an actor. were married
Ut the Little Church Around the Cor
ner in New York.
Charles Frederick Cutler Of Morris
town. N. j., president of the New Yorl
Telephone company. died suddenly @.
heart disease at the Saranac Inn, Sar
anac Lake.
John A. O'keefe, one OF the best
known building contractors in the
West, died in Omaha Of heart failure
He built many hundred miles of West.
ern railroads.
Erysipelas caused the death OF DR..
Frank L. James of st. Louis, who was
one Of the experts in the "embalmed
beef investigation during the Span
lsh- American
Joseph H. Berry. one Of Detroit'e
leading capitalists and a we'll known
varnish manufacturer, is dead. He was
sixty-eight years old and had been
suffering from q complication of dis
oases
Arnold Moldauer, for twenty-five
years one Of the first violins in the
Boston symphony orchestra, and a
member OF the Adamowski quartet
from its organization, died in Boston
following an operation.
James X. Wood. United States dis.
tr1ct attorney, a prominent figure in
Ehe Noyes-McKenzie clalm-jumpins
scandals In Alaska, is dead at Nome
Wood was the man from whom Rel
Beach drew his character of Struve il
s"The SDOilers."
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BODY FOUND IN TRUNK.
Grewsome Security Left by Roomers
for Unpaid Room Rent.

SstPdtU 'SS'' ''Sfs
New York. May IS. Three weeks
Ago Mrs. Annie Sherer rented n of
her rooms to two unknown men. When
last Wednesday the rent was not
forthcoming. the dodgers. both Greeks,
told her that she was amply secured
bv their we'll filed trunk. The follow
Ing morning the men disappeared, and
yesterday the trunk was broken open.
To the horror of Mrs. Sherer it was
found to contain the badly decomposed
BODY Of a ma believed TO have been a
priest of the Greek church.
Later the body was identified as
that of Rev. Father kaspar Of the Ar
menian Apostolic church OF Hoboken,
N. J.
The police think it possible that the
body was shipped here from Chicago
bv express. and the authorities OF that
city have been asked to follow one
clue. based on a meal ticket also found
IN the trunk. Because Of the condi-
ton OF the body. the manner O. death
was not Immediately apparent. FOL
lowing an autopsy at the morgue Two
men were arrested on suspicion.
Death Due to Sutfocation.
The autopsy developed that the neck
had been broken. as had one arm.
Coroner's Physician Leblanc declared,
however. that death was due to suf1o-
cation. The internal organs were con-
sested. and DR.. Leblanc gave it as his
opinion that the man was thrust INTO
the trunk while alive and the cover OF
the trunk held down until death en-
sued. The condition OF the organs
vas found to be similar to those IN
cases of aspbyxiation.
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A passenger train crashed into q
traction "a at Cincinnati. One man
was killed and two we're seriously in
jured.
The Jermyn Breaker No. , Of Old
Forge raj completely destroyed by fire
at Scranton, Pa. The loss is about
$4,000.
Mrs. n. V. Tyrell was instantly kill
ed in Rice township, near Leon. Iowa,
by the upsetting Of a buggy in which
she was riding.
A terrific and destructive electrical
storm passed over Menominee, Mich,
doing considerable damage in the
country districts.
A passenger train went into the
ditch near Hillsboro, Ga, and twenty
three persons were injured, none, it IS
reported, seriously.
While bear hunting near Neihart,
Mont. John Govander, a miner. was
accidentally shot by n of his com
panions and probably fatally wounded.
Frank Ellgeyer of Greenwood. Mich,
was struck in the eye with a pitch
fork, inficting severe injuries. He is
in a critical condition at the hospital.
Two children of John Goodlin were
sufocated at Scott Haven, near
Greensboro. A lamp left in the room
where the children were sleeping had
exploded. setting fire to the furnish
ings.
Five fatalities have occurred in
mines at Negaunee. Mich. the past
fortnight. the latest being James Mar
ga and Frank Livere. killed by falling
ground in the Cambria property of the
Republic Iron and Steel company.
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attending physicians noted when dis
solution came.
There vas no struggle-no pain.
Mrs. Mckinley never knew of the eff
forts made for days to prolong her
life. nor of the solicitous hope against
hope of her sister and other relatives
for her recovery.
At the Mckinley home when death
came there We're present Mr.. Cor
telyou. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. C. Barber,
Mrs. Sarah Duncan. Mrs. Luther Day,
Justice and Mrs. William Fl. Day, Drs.
Portmann and Rixey and the nurses.
Vitality Vas Wonderful.
Mrs. Mckinley lived hours longer
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Criminal.

Four cracksmen blew the safe Of the
W~innehaso City (Neb.) bank, getting
away with money and securities worth
s.. 900.
Carlo Clardi, who was convicted in
Ithaca. N. Y, of the murder Of Luigi
Porzi on Nov. 80, 1904. was electrocu-
ted in Auburn prison.
Clyde Fitch, a negro. charged with
%assaulting a t~en-year-old negro girl at
Chickasha, |. T., was tried by a jury
of negroes and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life.
his sanity, Herbert Sanders, a wealthy
retired farmer near Charles City, Iowa,
committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid and paris green.
Edward Manning. proprietor OF a
restaurant at Portland, Mich, was
murdered while on his way home from
his establishment. He was shot in the
back. Robbery was evidently the mo-
tive of the crime.
A. A. McGehee shot and killed Geo.
otICIs deSu t"OutN ohC SoA "a q
prominent merchant at Southwest
City, Mo. Oyler had been keeping
company with McGehee's daughter
against the fathers wishes.
Ralph Beard, tw%enty-one years old,
committed suicide at Bonaparte. Iowa.
by shooting himself through the head
with a revolver. He told several of his
young friends that he intended to kill
himself, but they thought he was jest
ing and made no effort to stop him.
II. p. Axelberg. an expert account
| ant, has just finished going over the
accounts of Former Secretary Fred c.
Wells Of the school board OF Iron
River. and alleges that more than $4,-
| 600 was secured during the Wells re-
| gime by forged orders and other
| forms of cro%okedness and graft.
Two hundred Purdue students broke
up he performance in a circus side
show at Lafayette. Ind. and afterward
gathered to make an assault on the big
show. A skirmish with circus EN-
| ployes followed. in which a number OF
the students were badly battered up
| No serious injuries were reported.
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etery. which holds the body OF her
husband, until the completion OF the
national mausoleum on Monument
hill, when both caskets will be trans
ferred to ~receptacles in that tomb.
Condolences Pour H..
From numerous frienus of the de-
ceased. Mrs. Barber last evening re-
ceiyed kilograms of coincidence on the
death Of her sister. Among them were
kilograms from President Roosevelt
and Vice President Fairbanks.
Mrs. McKinley's life of almost sixty
years had been made familiar to the
nation by the fact that for Over thirty
years she was an invalid.
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Domestic.

Homer Williams Of Menominee,
Mich. caught a sturgeon in a pound
net that weighed 100 pounds and meas
ured six feet in length.
Nav Irwin. the Coincidence. has con-
fided to her friends in New York that
she is about to marry Kurt Eisfelt,
her manager for the last WI seasons.
Fifty-two cadets were summarily
expelled from the Blees military acad-
envy at Fort Blees, near Macon, Mo-,
became of INSTRUMENTATION resulting
from the efforts of the authorities to
break up secret societies.
Contracts were signed by the city
oficials Of Menominee, Mich, and vari-
GUS contractors whereby the city will
expend $16o,OGO for municipal i'm
provements. principally street work.
during the present season.
A request for an advance of 10 per
cent in wage will be served on all
mill owners in Rhode Island who have
not already signifed their intention
OF following the lead OF Fall River and
New Bedford in advancing wages.
Bishop Berry Of the Methodist
church, president Of the Epworth
league. in a sermon in Philadelphia.
said Methodists must relax their disci-
pine and permit dancing and card
playing.
Mai. Edwin H. Conger, former Uni
ted States minister to China and am
bassador to Mexico during the early
part of President R~ooseve1t's admin
istration. died at his home in Pasa-
dena. Cal. from acute intestinal
trouble. He was sixty-four years old.
The immigrant faces an increase in
eteerage rates from Europe within, six
weeks. when the United States law In.
creasing the head tax from 81 to -
for every alien entering the country
goes into effect.
Mayor Busse Of Chicago. in an at
tempt to ''renovate' the "tenderloin"
district OF Chicago. made the most
sweeping change yer made in the 10.
cal police department. He transferred
the entire police force in the district
from captaip down, embracing $40
men, to other parts Of the city and ap-
pointed other men.
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DENY MERGER REPORT.
No Agreement Between New Haven
n Pennsylvania Roads.

New Haven, Conn. May 2a.-Owing
TO the fact that President G. S. Melien
Is absent from New Haven, no state
ment could be had from him yesterday
relative to the reported formation Of a
merger or working agreement between
the New York, New Haven Il Hartford
and the Pennsylvania railroads.
which would give the Pennsylvania
control of lines from the Central West
and the gulf to st. John. n. 3. In an
other high official source. however. an
absolute and unqualified denial of the
report was made. The denial can be
regarded as authoritative.
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Devastates Wide Section.

At Gihble Springs twenty or thirty
houses we're wrecked. Two persons
were killed and a score injured. three
of them fatally. The tornado devas-
tated a section Of growing land about
two miles wide.
At Emory four persons were killed
and many were injured and crippled.
some Of whom will die. A large num-
Der of negroes were hurt. The corn
and cotton crops in the path of the
storm were completely pulled up.
One of the most severe rain ard
electrical storms for many years
swept over North Texas. causing much
damage to property. Three persons
were killed by lightning and several
were injured. some OF them fatally.
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NOTABLES At FUNERAL.
O%bsequies Of Mrs. Mckinley Will Take
Form Of Ceremony Of State.

Canton. Ohio, May 2s.-Although it
is not intended that the funeral of Mrs.
ceremony Of state. vet the coming OF
the president and members Of his cab
met. the vice president. the governor
of Ohio and many other people OF note
will make it such, in a degree at least.
Late yesterday afternoon it was deter
mined to change the arrangements for
the funeral so as to allow the remains
to be viewed by Canton friends of the
deceased. The time fixed for this is
from 3 TO 5 o'clock today.
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Electric Current eurn.

Menominee, Mich. May 20. = Jack
Miller. foreman of the electric light
company of this city, was severely
burned about his face. arms and hands
by an electric current while repairing
q motor.
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BOY KILLED BY TRAIN.

Father Attempting to Rescue Son 10
Fatally Injured.
Philadelphia, May 29-In a futile e.
fort to save the life OF his eight-yeaT-
old son who was ground to pieces I'm
der the wheels Of a locomotive at Fort
Richmond, William Johnson was SO Sc
verely injured that physicians say ne
cannOt recover.
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iowa Farmer Killed.

Iowa City, Iowa, May %. - Elmer
Pratt. a prominent young farmer of
Johnson county. shot and killed w. F.
Council. also a farmer. whose land ad-
Joins the Pratt farm. The murder is
the result of an old feud.
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Run Down in the Yards,

Winona, Mimi. May %. Andrew
Gazell was run down while picking up
coal droppings near the depot OF the
St. Paul railroad. One foot was badly
crushed and cut. Amputation of the
foot at the ankle may be necessary.
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Small Fruit Ruined.

Vermillion, S. D., May 20. Fruit
growers fear that the crop was killed
by the heavy white frost last night. 1t
is certain that early strawberries are
ruined. Plums and apples have also
suffered.
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$4,000 MEN GET ADVANCE.
New England Cotton Mill Operatives
Get a 10 Per Cent Raise.

Boston. Mass. May 29.-The general
upward movement in the wages of
New England cotton mill operatives
yesterday affected about So, 900 opera
tives in Rhode Island. Southeastern
and Western Massachusetts, Ames-
bury. Mass. PoWnavale and other
places in Southern New England. The
advances in the sections named
amount to about 10 per cent.
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X HAS TORNADO.
Storm Causes Much Destruction O.
Property and Crops.

Fort Worth. Tex, May 2S.-A lorna
do swept a portion of Texas yesterday.
killing twelve persons and injuring
scores. Many buildings were wrecked
At Wills Point the tornado cut a
path 200 yards in width through the
entire town. Three persons were kill
ed and six seriously injured. The tor
nado came from the southwest. carry
ing with it portions of buildings and
other debris as if it we're whirling
leaves. Dead horses. cattle and fowls
are scattered through the path of the
storm
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Three Killed on = BRIDGE.

Morristown, Ind. May Is. Three
men were caught on a railroad bridge
over Blue river and killed. They were
sitting on the bridge. looking down
into the stream when a fast passenger
train bore down on them.
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Dead Shriner Was Robbed.

Allentown. Pa, May Poems val
ued at about 81, 900 n accident insur-
ance policies aggregsting about $50. 900
are missing from the effects OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis NJ. Ellenhoge en- of this city.
. member Of Rajah temple. who were
killed in the wreck of the Mystic
Shriners' train at Honda. Cal. 1t ts
supposed that the gems and policies
were stolen.
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BUYS 6,61s ACRES.

Heavy Purchase Of c~ut-over Lands 10
Made in eeitrami County.
Bemidij. Mimi, May 29.-Eix thou
sand six hundred and nineteen acres
OF Beltrami county cnt-over lands were
sold and transferred this week, the to-
tai consideration for the land being
between $45. 900 and $50, 900.
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ARE Fo,LED.

Motorman Sees Rock on Track and
Flags Train.
Boone, Iowa, May 2S.-An attempt
vae made to wreck a fast train on
the North Western road near here. A
rock weighing half a tor had been
loosened from a bluf and thrown d.
rectly across the tracks An 1nternr-
han line runs parallel with the tracks
at this point. and Charles Cheney. a
motorman. discovered. the obstacle
He Ragged the train in time TO pre-
vent a disastrous collision.
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GERMANY HIT BY FLOODS.

Dams Of Danube Break and Hundreds
Of Houses Collapse.
Budapest. Hungary. May 20. - Tie
bursting of the dams on the Danube
have caused disastrous foods in the
n%eighborhood Of R~udolsgnad. In Ter
mol county $50 houses have collapsed.
Troops are %succoring the distressed H.
habitantA.
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DELMAS GRAFT DEFENSE.
Thaw's Lawyer Appears for Glass and
Halsey in California.

San Francisco, May 29.-Delphin NJ.
Delmas has been engaged TO defend
Louis Glass and r. p. Halsey, two Off
Gals of the Pacific States Telephone
and Telegraph company. indicted fer
bribery. He made his first appearance
In court yesterday morning.
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SYMPATHY FOR EMBEzzLER.
Bloomington Girl Who Stole Church
Funds Nav Escape Penitentjarv

Bloomington. H.. May %. - Helen
Dixon may escape the p~enitentiary
despite her sentence for embeZzling
the Christian church organ fund. Al
most the entire population is behind a
movement to secure a modification to
4 Jail sentence instead.
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DOG CAUSES FATALITY,
Snaps at Horses Heels, which Thrown
Rider. Death Resulting.

NTueF, O0ath HeeuItInQ.
Helena, Mont, May 70. - Davis
Blackey, a well known mining man OF
Garnet, has been killed as the result
of a somewhat singular accident. He
had just purchased a horse and wss
riding it for the first time when a dog
dashed into the roadway and
at the animals heels, causing it to he
come unmanaeeable. Blackey was
thrown violently 10 the ground and
died o afterward.
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COMES TO
MRS. M'MNlfY
WIDOW or MARTYRED PRESi-
DENT PASSES AWAY PEACE
FULLY.
TO Bt LAID BESIDE HUSBAND
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS
WILL ATTEND FUNERAL GER
EMCNiEs.
TO Bt LAID BESIDE HUSBAND

Canton, Ohio. NAV Is. - Mrs. vii
liam Mckinley died Yesterday after
noon at los. The transition from life
to death was SC peaceful and gradual
that il was with difficulty that the
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than We expected said the secretary.
Her vitality vas wonderful said
DR.. Portmann. 1t was by Secretary
Cortelyou that the announcement Of
the demise was given to the public.
AS this was flashed over the land, Will
liam Mckinley post and George D..
Harter post. G. A. r.. were forming in
line. and to the strains of The March
Relisiosa' went to the First Methodist
Episcopal church to listen to the an
nual memorial address. which was
given by Or. Buxton. Mrs. McKinley's
pastor.
Dr.. Buxton will have charge OF the
funeral services. which are TO be sim
pie. They will be held at the Mckin-
ley home at 2 o'clock Wednesday aft
O
President Will Attend.
Secretary Cortelyou Is directing the
arrangements and will remain here
until after the funeral. 1t was an
nounced last night that President
Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb would
arrive in Canton Wednesday morning
TO attend the funeral. Vice President
Fairbanks, who had often beer a guest
of the Mckinleys. is expected to reach
here to attend the service.
The body Of Mrs. Mckinley will be
placed in the vault in West Lawn Gem
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Accidental Happenings,

N4EEM
4 terrific explosion In crowded Mott
Street, New York, seriously injured
night children, three OF them possibly
fatally. and struck terror to the hearts
u hundreds In the crowded thorough
ehre. The cause of the explosion has
6ot been explained.
One man was killed and four others
seriously injured by the falling OF an
elevator at the garage of the Quaker
City Automobile company in Philadel.
phia.
Thirty persons were injured. some
seriously. In a collision between a
three-car electric train bound for
New York from Coney Island and q
trolley cars
Two men we're killed and the cleo.
fric light plant At Brazil, Ind, was to
.fslly destroyed at ! loss OF $40, ZOO by
che explosion q q boiler at the Clay
CITY elsetr4c Hight plaDt
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From Other Shores.

Frost. rain and hail have done con-
siderable damage to the fruit and field
crops in Southwestern Germany.
The French government has sue
ceeded in s~idetracking the bill which
has been pepding before parliament to
Increase the duties on American oil
seeds.
Sir Joseph Fayron, physician ex.
kraordinary to King Edward. is dead.
He was born in 1924, served in the
army throughout the Indian mutiny
and retired as surgeon general.
The German Atlantic Cable company
Aas received a concession from the
Spanish government for a third cable
from Emden to New York, using Tene-
rife. Canary islands, al an intermedi-
ate station.
]. Pierpont Morgan has purchased
IN Paris for more than 81, O00. 900 the
great Hoentschel collection of carv-
tngs, statuary and furniture, consider
"a by experts the greatest assemblage
Of objects of the applied arts and
crafts in the world.
Alarmed over the brown tail moth
throughout Nova Scotia and the dan
ger to agricultural business through
out the province should the pest be-
come general, the provincial govern
ment has offered a bounty Of 3 cents
for each specimen Of the moth Sc
cured.
E -, &t -H. -#H##
The British wal ONCE has ordered
that American canned meats be again
issued to the army. British army Of
0cers made q thorough inspection Of
The American plants and reported that
the conditions under which the canned
meats are now prepared by the firms
now supplying the army are in every
way satisfactory.