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Defiance Weekly Express (Newspaper) - April 23, 1903, Defiance, Ohio Defiance express daily and weekly. Will c. Kegel., publisher. Office Latty bldg., court 8t. Entered at the Post office at Defiance Ollie As mail matter of the second class. Daily evening edition Only delivered by carriers to City subscribers.10c per week. By mail outside City $3 per year Cash in Advance. By mail six months,.$ 1.75. By mail three months.$1 of. Presa wednesday evenings. Per year $1.00, Cash in Advance. Short news notes they come from Many parts of the world. Information of recent Date collected in various ways and condensed for the convenience of our Busy readers. Minnie Williams an English governess has been arrested at new York City on a charge of the larceny of valuable jewelry and furs belonging to the family of Albert reitling �?o6 i a j before or of London by whom she was for _ gov. Odell a appointment of George Wilson Morgan of new York City to be superintendent of the state Bureau of elections for the metropolitan District to succeed John Mccullagh has been unanimously confirmed by the new York state Senate. Burton Parker a sorter in the Chicago Post office was arrested on the charge of robbing the mails. He confessed that he had been opening letters and taking Money from them for several weeks. Parker has been in the government service for ten years. In consequence of the unusual a Mand for fish for stocking Rivers and Small streams the United states fish commission is preparing to make a greater distribution this year than a fight in court. Encounter Between attorneys at Lafayette ind. It Nofte for the control of a Young millionaire doctors pronounce Moses Fowler Chase insane one of the attorneys fined. Review of Trade. Long distance Telephone a 14 Northwestern Telephone a 34 cheap Homes in Texas and Arkansas. Along the Cotton Belt route land that can be bought for $2.00 to $5.00 an acre and up Cut Over Timber ground that makes Good grazing land furnishing Range ten or eleven months of the year farming land for Corn wheat Oats Cotton some of it peculiarly adapted to Quick growth and Earh maturity of fruits and vegetables such As peaches pears plums strawberries tomatoes potatoes onions cabbage melons finding Good markets in the North at fancy prices on account of excellence of Quality and earlier maturity than in other sections. An Ideal place for the Man of Small Means cheap fuel cheap building material Long growing seasons Short mild Winters a land of Sunshine and plenty. Let us Send you literature descriptive of this Cann to y. Quot Homes in the Southwest a a glimpses of Southeast Missouri Arkansas and n. W. Louisiana a a through Texas with a a fortunes in growing fruits and vegetables a Quot the a fruit and truck growers journal. On first and third tuesdays of each month the Cotton Belt route will sell one Way tickets from St. Louis Thebes Cairo and Memphis to Points in Arkansas Louisiana and Texas at half the one Way rate plus $2.00, or round trip tickets at one fare for the round trip plus $2.00, allowing Stopover going and 21 Days return limit. For full information address e. W. La Beaume g. P. Amp t. A., St. Louis Molow rates via Missouri Pacific railway and Iron Mountain route. Doth one Way and round trip from St. Louis and Kansas City to Points in Kansas Missouri Nebraska Utah Colorado Arkansas Texas Louisiana and Pacific coast Points. Through tourist and Standard sleeping cars from St. Louis and Kansas City. Free reclining chair cars on All trains. Best dining car service. Write for illustrated printed matter and full particulars. G. A. A. Deane it 200 Sentinel bldg., Indianapolis. According to the published interviews with or. Lorenz that Able gentleman was very much amazed by his experience with 4>ur Good president and with the various dignitaries whom he encountered at Washington. He remarks pleasantly that or. Roosevelt reminded him strongly of a a policemen i met in Chicago a and by this delicate compliment says Roswell Field in the Chicago Post he makes two Good men Happy. Certainly it is no Small Merit to resemble a policeman if the policeman is honorable and trustworthy and no policeman can reasonably object to a resemblance to a president of the United states if the president fulfils the Best popular expectations. But or. Lorenzo a amazement did not Stop with the meeting with or. Roosevelt. He noticed that Quot one of the gentlemen present a High dignitary kept one of his hands concealed in his trousers pocket and another dignitary had placed his knee on a chair. That struck me As very not at All. The second dignitary probably Laboured urn Der the fear that or. Lorenz yielding to a professional impulse might Endeavor to pull his leg while the fit dignitary having heard of the doctors financial Success in America deemed it a Wise precaution to maintain a tight hold on his Loose change. These things Are very easy to understand when you have lived some Tim in America and have had experience with foreign visitors. Snerly employed. It is alleged that miss Williams Stoie about $15,000 Worth of valuables. George m. Reed of Indianapolis a National organizer of the United mine workers of America was waylaid at North Fork w. Va., and in the encounter which followed his Skull was crushed with a Stone causing probably fatal injury. The officers of the United states steel corporation say that there is no truth in the report that further mergers of the various subsidiary companies Are still being considered. They say also that the report that they have decided to hasten a greater merger of All the Iron Ore mines steel Mills furnaces Coke ovens etc., into a single ownership with a Parent corporation is entirely without foundation. At Media pa., Albert West a negro was hanged for the murder of Mart w. Allen a policeman of Chester a. The crime for which West paid the death penalty was committed in Chester february i 1902. The negro was quarrelling with a coloured woman whom he threatened to shoot. Policeman Allen interfered and was shot and killed by West. Fresh charges Are being received constantly at the Post office department in connection with the investigation now in Progress but their nature is being withheld from the Public. The Western federation of miners is contemplating a movement quite new in the Way of labor unions. They Are planning to organize the hosts of chinese and japanese employed in the mines and smelters of the Northwest and British Columbia. W. D. Haywood Secretary of the federation says the chinese and japanese Are willing to become affiliated. Several Hundred non Union miners employed in the Hughes mine at Barboursville ky., struck because they were refused Semi monthly Days. A new York Syndicate has purchased 8,000 acres of Coal lands in Sullivan county Indiana. The Price paid was $300,000. The Illinois Senate has passed a House Bill appropriating $5,000 for the Relief of mrs. John p. Altgeld widow of the former governor. At Harrisburg pa., the Phillips racing Bill has been killed by orders of the Senate. The Bill which was introduced for the purpose of legalizing betting on race tracks in Pennsylvania was passed by the House after the betting clause had been amended. The wholesale Boot and shoe House of n. Greenfelder amp co., one of the largest concerns of the kind in Chicago has assigned and Frederick t. Ryder of Boston has been appointed receiver. About 200 linemen employed by the Nebraska Telephone co. And the Western Union and postal Telegraph companies in Omaha and throughout Nebraska have struck for higher wages and recognition of their Union. Construction on the new lines of the postal Telegraph co. Along its transcontinental route is at a standstill. At Elizabeth n. J., Edward Burbank 12 years old while in the Street attempting to catch some Wood which was Drifting Down the Gutter. Great uni american habits. Pittsburg is to have a verify that will rival the big colleges and universities of the East and West. For its endowment it is said the millions of Andrew Carnegie and 20 other wealthy pit to burgers Are pledged. Following the attempts of the House Smiths and Bridge workers Union to tie up work on the Crane for the battleship Connecticut at the Brooklyn Navy Yard 15 Union machinists in the main Power House at the Yard employees of the Quincy engine co., of Quincy 111., have gone on strike. The strike is purely in sympathy with a strike now in Progress against the engine company in Quincy. Officials of the National Bank at Woodbury n. J., Are authority for the statement that a Man has brought for Deposit in the Bank $18,-500 which had lain buried in his Yard for years. They say the Money was nearly All in $20 Gold pieces. The same Bank received also a Box full of Gold Silver and Nickels from another Man who had to take it to the Bank on a wheelbarrow because it was Tim much of a Load for two men to carry. The residence of the late Gen. Philip Sheridan in Washington which was presented to him by admirers throughout the country has been sold by mrs. Sheridan the Price received timing $55,000. Lieut. Thomas f. Howard of the United states army a graduate of West Point Drew a razor across his Throat at the Missouri Baptist sanitarium in St. Louis. When found by an attendant be Wras dead. All the holdings of the economies in the Sewickley Valley Are said to have passed into the hands of a Syndicate of Pitts burgers by a Deal just consummated the consideration being $8,500,000. The senior trustee John s. Duss of the Harmony society As the organization is called is said to have been the moving spirit in the Sale which carries with it the title of 2,600 acres of land including the town of Economy a. The department of agriculture has issued a comparative statement of the wheat crop of the world showing that the total of 3.124,422,000 bushels in 1902 was distributed As follows North America 781,120,000, South America 75,984,000, Europe 1.798.963.000, Asia 376,428,000, Africa 48.000.000 and Australasia 43,927,000. The crop in the United states was 670.063.000. At Denver col., District judge Mullins has issued an injunction restraining gov. Peabody a appointees As members of the fire and police Board of Denver from attempting to take Possession of their offices or interfering in any manner with the old Board in the discharge of its duties until the legality of the appointments is determined by the courts. A dispatch from Hong Kong says the Arsenal at Canton which was destroyed by an explosion Lasit week was blown up by officials whom the Viceroy had charged with Selling powder to rebels in order to hide the d Feal nations. Asbury Park n. J., completed the Purchase of founder James a. Brad i Eye a famous Boardwalk when Bonds Lafayette ind., april 17.�?there was a fist fight in the circuit court room yesterday Between attorneys Dan Simms representing Fred Chase father of Moses Fowler Chase and a. L. Kumler representing or. And mrs. Charles Duhme of Cincinnati who Are struggling for Possession of Young Chase the millionaire. The attorneys had met for a conference with the judge As what should be done with Moses Fowler Chase pending the hearing of the guardianship Case. Kumler denounced the attorneys on the other Side and also chases father and declared that Moses Fowler Chase had been brought to Indiana from France by Force and fraud. He had further asserted that the unfortunate Young Man was put Oil exhibition at the Law office of Chase s attorneys when sex judge e. P. Hammond shouted a a a that san absolute attorney Simms jumped from his seat and approached Kumler who tried to Ward him off. Simms then landed a fierce right hand swing on Kumler a jaw and followed it with his left. Both blows landed Kumler protecting himself As Best he could. The court room was crowded and lawyers court officials and spectators sprang toward the combatants and dragged them apart. The judge fined Simms $25 for striking the first blow and this quieted matters. Simms then apologized and Kumler asked the court to remit the Fine As he said he Felt sure that Simms struck in a moment of temper. The court remitted the Fine and directed that Moses Fowler Chase remain in the courts jurisdiction with the understanding that or. And mrs. Duhme his aunt and Uncle Are not to interfere with him. They have the privilege of applying to court for authority to see him however. A guardianship application served on the Young millionaire is returnable april 27, for which Day the Case is set. Detective Weinhart was placed on guard at the office of Chase s attorneys and ordered everybody out but the sheriff. Doctors Lacy Davidson and Hin Nedge of Lafayette and or. C. B. Burr of Flint mich., examined Young Chase in the afternoon and pronounced him insane. They declared his answers to the most simple questions were incoherent although he appeared perfectly sane when taken off the train. Duhme a attorneys have decided not to file application for a writ of Hareas Corpus or any other papers. To bring Chase into court in his present excited state. Newspaper men were admitted to see Moses Fowler Chase and he appeared to be a gibbering idiot. He rambled on incessantly in a Low tone of voice looking Down toward his right hand which he kept stretched out at length. His attorneys say he has not recognized his father from the time the latter saw him on shipboard to the present. The Young millionaire was taken to a hotel by his father after the court proceedings and is kept in his room. His father will get a House in a quiet part of the City for him. Detectives Are guarding the Young Man. Three attendants Are with him constantly. Flour Mills close. A list of charges. Bad weather has retarded business considerably new York april 18.�?r. G. Dun amp weekly review of Trade says cold and wet weather during the past week in any sections of the country retarded retail Trade in Spring and summer wearing apparel. Jobbers also Felt the effects in a lessened activity Aud agricultural operations made irregular Progress. Production of farm Staples May not be curtailed by the later planting although in some cases there will be greater danger of loss at the end of 1 the season through Early Frost. Traffic conditions Are steadily in j proving Jet some complaints Are i still heard Aud further additions to i motive Power and terminal facilities j must be made if another season of i congestion is to he averted at the j next time of pressure. Railway earnings thus far in april exceed last year s by 12.5 per cent. An output of Over 300.000 tons of Coke weekly and sufficient traffic facilities to keep furnaces supplied remove the alarm regarding future Scarcity and the situation has become More Normal which makes it possible to ascertain to what extent prices have been inflated by special conditions. Thus far no accumulation of material is reported notwithstanding unprecedented production and the Prospect favors continued activity in demand after the present period of uncertainty is past. Contracts for structural steel Are also placed wih great caution not because of Light business in sight but owing entirely to the fear of labor troubles. It is hoped that controversies in the building trades will be settled by May i. Textile Mills have not received any material increase in amount of new business and there is evidence that the exceptionally heavy transactions of january and february provided sufficient supplies for present needs. No improvement has occurred in the Market for menus heavyweight woolens and there is Prospect of an unusually Early opening of Spring lines for next year in order to maintain activity at the Mills. As a Rule the footwear Market is quiet. Failures for this week numbered 212 in the United states against 261 a year ago. And 16 in Canada compared with 24 last year. Suicide epidemic. Labor unions of Washington have formulated them. The equipment Bureau of the poet office department is made the object or complaint accused officials of favouritism badly wrecked. A big steel Steamer narrowly escapes Goins to the Bottom or Hake Michigan. Chicago. April 20.�?with a 50-mile Gale driving her up Lake Michigan and three Miles of roaring water Between her and the Shore the big steel Steamer Saranac of the Lehigh Valley line came near. Figuring in the i greatest Marine disaster the Lake has seen in years. Twice the big freight j or struck a sunken obstruction. A i Val architects declare it a Miracle j that the vessel did not break in two and sink with All hands. Not until the Hull of the vessel was bared at a dry Dock in the River was i the full extent of the damage known. The Survey showed 20 frames and stanchions broken three immense i Deek beams shattered and bolts and i rivets started in All portions of the ship. So near did the boat come to dividing that for 70 feet along her deck the heavy steel plates Are Bent j and twisted. Repairs will take Sev i eral weeks Ami Cost $20,000. when the boat struck her firemen j deserted the Stoke hold but were driven below decks again by the in j j gingers. Their temporary desertion i i caused a drop in the steam pressure. I j the boat was hardly Able to get her j i head into the sea and in going about i was boarded by immense Waves. I which swept everything movable from the decks and wrecked her i Calkin. All the firemen on the vessel were a new men on the water Ami were i panic stricken and Only the action of j the sailors prevented their leaving the Stoke hold. So frightened did j two of them become that Thev faint i an outlaw killed a desperate fight takes plat a at Bakersfield Cal a Deputy she Riff was also kills it a Coll table fatally shot James a Kinney the note outlaw was hiding in a Joss House v Washington april 18.�?the indications Are that organized labor will become a party to the investigation of irs of the Post office department. A special committee of labor unions of this Vicinity which has been secretly considering the matter has formulated charges of favouritism and incompetency against certain official of the mail equipment division of the department. The charges allege that mail bags that do not conform to the specifications have been accepted by the chief of the division. Col. Thomas p. Graham. Other charges allege that a worthy and needy White woman is discriminated against in favor of a negro woman employee there that the for woman of the sewing room used offensive language toward her sub Ord it nates that the machine operators were reduced from $2 per diem to $1.75 per diem the salaries of the superintendent and some of the other officials were raised from $1,500 to $2,000 per annul that the suspension of one clerk was illegal and another unjust that engineers Are worked overtime without compensation that the Foreman of the lock shop is not a Locki Naker and that recommend i cd and another. Richard Saurs. Lost stepped upon a live wire which had for $150,000 were turned Over to Agassiz always taught his pupils to kill fish As soon As caught by a blow on the Back of the head that they might not suffer before dying. Such fish keep better and Are better to eat and the Best fishermen in Europe and America always kill their fish As soon As they catch them by a blow on the Back of the head. A doctor in an institution with Many children declares that nothing irritates a cough More than to cough. He bribed the children in one of the Hospital wards to hold their breath when tempted to cough and was himself astonished at the speedy Relief of amp one of them. The Wall Street journal print this a history of the world in six words a War. Poverty. Peace. Prosperity. Pride. War. Warts have their Bacillus. It has just been found in the prickle layer by or. Kuhnemann and it is in the form of exceedingly delicate slender reds Roost plentiful when the wart is recent wad Seldom entering the surrounding to Kin. Fallen during the storm. The wire coiled about Bim and he was burned to death in the sight of several persons who were attracted by his screams and did not dare to go near him for fear of being shocked. The Captain and Crew of five men of the american Schooner Bella Russell have arrived at new York City on the norwegian Steamer Bergen having been taken from a Small boat partly filled with water in which they had spent eight hours. A terrific sea was running when the Small boat was sighted by the Bergen the boat was nearly awash and the men were wet cold and exhausted. A successful operation has been performed on a child at the Albany n. Y., Hospital for the removal of a pin from the stomach. The child a ten months old babe was placed under the a Ray and the pin was found to be stuck in the Throat. The surgeons Fox eed it into the stomach and then that Organ was opened and the pin removed. At Castleberry ala., the Louisville amp Nashville fast mail southbound was wrecked on an open switch. Mail clerk Donovan and a negro fireman were killed. Fire in a Junction hollow pa.,-boarding House was responsible for the loss of two lives. The incinerated remains of two boarders were found in the ruins. The House committee on municipal corporations of the Illinois House of representatives has agreed upon a Bill authorizing every City in the state to own construct Purchase mortgage and lease Street railways. It provides for leasing not longer than 20 years but no City can do anything towards the construction of a railway without the Sanction of a three fifths vote of the electors. A terrible explosion occurred at Tivian w. Va., at the mines of the Peerless Coal and Coke co. A Small Chanty containing a Large amount of powder near the mine caught fire in some unexplained manner and an explosion followed. Six men Are reported killed and several others seriously injured. It is announced that Soo men in the Michigan Central shops at Jackson. Mich., Are to have their raised immediately. The of machinists i is increased from $2.65 to $2.90, Black Smiths from $2.75 to $2.90 and boiler i makers from $2.65 to $2.95 for a Day j of ten hours. The men asked for $3. The Washington theater at Home i n. Y., owned by Wallace Gilmore i of Oswego has been destroyed by fire. The loss is Between $125,000 and $150,000, about hair covered by insurance. The Arlington lurid adjoining took fire twice but the flames were extinguished without much damage being done. Judge Holt in the United states District court at Ineve York City has rendered a decision Adverse to mrs. Phyllis Dodge in her action against the Treasury department to recover $39,000 Worth of pearls and diamonds seized on her return from Europe four rears ago. H. C. Frick and Charles of. Schwab Are to Exchange jobs in the steel Trust. Friction will be the cause of the to cheap. Extend sympathy to some people and they begin to cough All the More 3&2dlj, to Abow you How bad they a George w. Robertson of Pottsville pa., representing Pennsylvania Bankers. The consideration for the property which is $150,000, is said to be Only about one seventh of its real value. Andrew p. Due a of Ghat collector for the Detroit Post office has been held to the grand jury under $1,000 bail having confessed the theft of a number of letters containing enclosures of Money. Forty five unopened letters were found in his Possession. A dispatch from Japan states that the derelict British ship Fannie Kerr was sighted on March 22 by the British ship . Smoke was issuing from the Hull of the vessel and All her masts were gone. The Fannie Kerr bound from Newcastle Australia for san Francisco was abandoned off Honolulu nine months ago. At St. Louis while the family was eating supper burglars ransacked the second Story rooms of the residence of Philip Stock Secretary of the English brewery Syndicate securing nearly $2,000 Worth of jewelry and valuables. Considerable other jewelry was overlooked. Union paper makers in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin have declared a strike. Ten Mills and 1,000 employees Are Idle. Print paper and Fibre Mills Are the Only ones affected. The men demand a 65-hour week and no saturday night or sunday labor. Burglars using dynamite secured $2,700 from the Allen Kansas state Bank. At Admire a few Miles East they robbed the Post office of a Small amount of Money. The fishing Schooner Independence arrived at Gloucester mass., recently and reported the loss of four of her Crew who were knocked overboard by the main Boom during a Gale and drowned. At Ogdensburg n. Y., the striking longshoremen employed by the George Hall Coal co., after being out two weeks accepted the terms of the company and returned to work. They will receive the Union scale but the Union is not recognized. By the breaking of a Chain in the Jenks shipyard at port Huron. Mich., the head of a boiler weighing More than a ton. Fell and crushed out the life of Emery Wethy and injured Charles Strong so badly that his recovery is doubtful. Wethy a head was crushed to a pulp. Or. Charles Howard of St. Paul. Ind., was killed and Richard Rice of Indianapolis was seriously injured at Indianapolis by the collision of their automobile with a Street car. They failed to see the Street car in time to Stop. The Post office department has issued a general order calling attention to the prevalence of smallpox in certain sections of the country and directing All postmasters to strictly enforce the postal regulations governing the treatment of mail matter and supplies infected by disease germs. The i United states armoured Cruiser up.,. A a i West. Virginia was successfully the Almoian Soldier who shot m. A launched at tile Newport a i ship a building Yard in the presence of 25,-000 people. A Street pageant in which military companies from several Virginia cities an artillery detachment from fort Monroe Anil the officers marines and sailors of the German Cruiser Gazelle participated preceded the launching. The strike of the Iron workers against the american Bridge co. Has been settled. It is understood that the agreement provides that the men shall return to work upon the conditions that prevailed before the strike was declared and continue to work under those conditions until May i. Tile Northwestern Hilling Industry strikes a Snag. Ali Neapolis minn., april 17.�?the Northwestern Aliner says a every flour Mill in Ali Neapolis and practically All of the merchant Spring wheat Mills in Minnesota and the Northwest shut Down entirely last night and will cease turning out flour for an indefinite period. This aet has been forced upon the Millers by the conditions surrounding the manufacture and Sale of flour. For some time owing to the Price of Cash wheat the High rates of freight and the depressed state of the flour markets Mills have been operating at a loss but the crowning disadvantage which has paralysed the milling Industry throughout the Northwest was the aet of the line of boats operating Between Duluth and Buffalo in moving wheat on a basis of two cents per Bushel while the present proportionate rate on flour from Duluth to Buffalo is Naii stained at nine cents it or Hundred pounds equivalent to 5 4-10 cents a Bushel. The transportation lines have told the Millers that under the operation of the Elkins Bill they need not anticipate any discrimination in rates against flour but the action of the line boats in making this two event rate on wheat Shoals that such an Assurance was meaningless. Until freight rates on the manufactured product shall be placed on a parity with those Given the raw material or until the two event rate Given Tiree attempts by residents of Washington two of which were successful. Washington april attempts at suicide of which two resulted fatally occurred in this City thursday night and Friday. Wilson s. Reed. A lawyer who was a member of the Washington Stock Exchange until about a year ago. When he sold his seat shot and killed himself about noon of his lodging House. He was unmarried. X it cause unless it be some impairment of health and grief Over the death of his Mother several months ago is known for the deed some time Between Midnight and 8 a. In. William h. Harnest a local drummer for a grocery company ended his life by swallowing laudanum at the homeward bound Mission. Where he had secured lodging for the night. He came to this City from Virginia a year ago. He had just been married at that time. Thursday night he sent word to his wife he would not be Home. A letter left by Harnest said his Only regret at leaving this world was parting with his wife. He was at his place of business thursday apparently intoxicated. Shortly after Midnight miss Nellie Russell keeper of a boarding House near the Capitol drank part of a bottle of carbolic acid and hurled herself Down a flight of Steps at her Home. She probably will recover. Ill health is supposed to have caused her attempted suicide. Some severe criticism. Tons for promotions Are not based on Merit. Reports that a a promotion ring existed to control promotions in the Brooklyn n. A Post office similar to that which is now being investigated in new York City were brought to the attention of the Post office department. It was stated at the department however that As yet there was no evidence of such in its Possession. Postmaster general Payne said last evening that he was not contemplating the suspension of any official pending the close of the investigation. But added that if fourth assistant postmaster Bristow who is directing the investigation were to recommend suspension the recommendation would be considered very carefully and with a disposition to follow the recommendation. Air. Payne was asked regarding the alleged Advance information furnished to interested parties with reference to the appointment of Rural free delivery carriers. A i suppose you mean by that a responded the postmaster general a the possibility of collusion Between the department and business concerns interested. I do not see How such tips could come from the department because the civil service commission has to pass on the selection of the postmaster general said he thought it was the duty of newspapers that acquire evidence of improper actions of persons in the service to furnish it to the department and Aid Iii the investigation now in Progress. His mind. Riot in Chicago. Bakersfield. Cal., april 20.�?jame? Mckinney the outlaw was shot and killed Here. Sunday. Deputy sheriff titbits was also killed and Constable Packard was fatally shot. Sheriffs Kelly of Kern Collins of Tulare Ami Leovin of Arizona counties with officers will and Burt titbits Gus Tower and City marshal Packard surrounded Mckinney shortly before la o clock sunday morning in a chinese House. Will titbits and Packard approached Mckinney in the House and ordered him to surrender. Mckinney answered by shooting. Will titbits was shot through the stomach and leu soon afters Packard was shot through the need and shoulders and dangerously wounded. Burt titbits a brother of the dead Deputy shot Mckinney through the Mouth and neck killing him. Mckinney had been in Bakersfield two Days. And was harboured in friends in a chinese Joss House. The House was a regular fort. In the place with Mckinney was Hill Hulz. A desperado. Mckinney had a sawed j off Shotgun and Hulz used a pistol. Hulz would not obey the order to come out of the barricaded House and the fire department was ordered to the scene. Hulz gave himself up. He was taken to the county jail. An in i Rense mob surrounded the jail and i tried to take him from the officers. Another accomplice of Mckinney was known to be in the House where greek who attacked a policeman got the worst of it three of them were Fichot. Chicago april 20.�?because one of ,. la. ,. _ the Battle took place but he would their number had been arrested for. _ a not surrender. At 6 4.> p. In. The Lipton is unlucky. His new report of English workmen who visited the United states. London april report of the commission of British workingmen who were taken to the United states at the end of last year by Alfred afo Seley a wealthy englishman to study conditions of labor there was issued Friday. It presents the views of 23 delegates who separately their deductions resulting from the american trip. The report shows a Lack of unanimity except that All agree that the British Workman has nothing to learn from the american Workman while British employers Are not a far advanced As the americans in the treatment of their employees. Arr. Alo Seley says the american Workman has a far better education Quot is infinitely better paid housed fed and clothed and moreover much More sober a Arr. Afo Seley says in conclusion a if we Are to hold our own in the Commerce of the world the old methods must by dropped and the old machinery a Holdup on a ferryboat. Washington a. April negro desperadoes Velbur Sharp and Cornelius Wilkens. Held up a ferryboat in the Middle of the afo Nonga i Bela River opposite Courtney this j county and with it Jan revolvers j robbed the passengers of their Valu Ables. Isaac Ames an old Man who i challenger is Dis masted during a Squall. Weymouth eng., april Thomas Lipton s new challenger for the americans cup was Dis masted in a Squall Friday shortly after leaving this Harbor preparatory to another trial spin with the Shamrock i. Her Mast As it fell Over the Side carried several of the Crew and All the gear and Canvas overboard. One Man was drowned and several persons including sir Thomas who was knocked Down a Hatchway were bruised or otherwise injured. The Man drowned was named Collier and was a brother in Law of capt. Wringe. He was handing a binocular Glass to sir Thomas at the time he was swept overboard. One of sir Thomas hands was injured but not seriously. In an interview with a correspondent of the associated press sir Thomas said a it is impossible yet to say How Long it will take to refit the boat. Aly Only lasting regret is the loss of the Man. All the rest can be made Good and no time will be lost. It cer j to Iii in Means delay. How Long i do not know but it will be some weeks. I still however anticipate being Able to fulfil my engagements off Sandy Hook August 20. The yacht s Hull is uninjured. The injury is confined to the Mast sails top sail Yard and lighter standing gear. I have cabled news of the Accident to the new York yacht club. Creating a disturbance a crowd of greeks who were celebrating their easter sunday Here yesterday created a riot and before the mob could be dispersed three of them had been shot by policeman Cohen and Henry Oppenheimer a bystander who came to assistance of Cohen. The three wounded men who Are said to have been the leaders of the attack on the officer were arrested. None of them was seriously injured. The disturbance occurred near the greek Catholic Church in Johnson Street. During the easter Celebration some one threw a lighted firecracker among toe pedestrians in the Street and policeman Cohen immediately arrested the offender. The crowd attacked the officer knocking him Down with a Brick. Cohen sprang to his feet and fired a shot into the crowd hitting Nick Rizzutto in the left shoulder. This aet infuriated the mob which again rushed at the officer and probably would have killed him had not Oppenheimer sprung to his assistance. He held the crowd at Bay for a moment until Cohen could recover from the attack. Surrounded by the maddened crowd they fired several shots wounding two of the disturber. Cohen and his companion after being severely bruised and having their clothing almost torn from their bodies managed to escape to a Saloon where they held the crowd Back until the arrival of police Aid which dispersed the mob. Foes of alcohol. End of Hie firemen s strike. Buffalo n. Y., april strike of the Marine firemen which has been on since the opening of navigation has been settled and the men will resume work to Day. The firemen demanded $52.50 a month for the Midsummer season and $60 a month after october i. The Lake carriers a association offered the men $45 a month until october 1 and $65 after october i and 25 cents per hour for overtime. Last evening both sides made concessions. The Lake carriers agreed to $47.50 a month in Midsummer and $65 a month after october i. The firemen waived the offer of the association to give them 25 cents an hour their International Congress at Etc men was a notable affair. Berlin april 20.�? mrs. Alary h. Hunt of Boston representing the women a Christian Tempe Ranee Union at the International anti alcohol con Gress at Bremen has sent the following communication to the press a the International anti alcohol Congress that meets biennially on the continent has been ii the matter of attendance and Well known persons present the most remarkable of any session of the Congress. This body of 1.400 delegates notable in science and in the service of humanity have come Here from fifteen different nations of two hemispheres. A questions of religion and politic were wisely ruled out of such a j varied assemblage. The subjects Dis a cussed were the teachings of science concerning a moderate use of alcohol and the effect of its use on every phase of human Progress. Two schools of thought were represented the moderates who Call themselves a the Temperance school and the total abstainers who Are called a the abstinence by common consent the Congress passed no resolutions but the applause for total abstinence showed the moderates to be in the minority. P. In. Inc 1 building was set on fire and the Man i was soon smoked out and taken to jail. Mckinney was accused of commit a Ting several murders. Be was a native of California and was first sent i to the Penitentiary from Tulare county for assault to murder and after his release went to Randsburg cal., where he figured in some further shooting trouble. He escaped trial coming to Bakersfield soon afterwards where in the latter part of j 1900, he shot and killed Tom Sears a a Gambler As the result of a dispute j Over a game of cards. No one saw the fight and Mckinney was acquitted. Last july in Porterville he killed Billy Lynn and wounded Constable John Willis and another Man in a Drunken Row. He made a sensational escape from capture and for several months wandered unnoticed about the country. A few weeks ago sheriff Collins located him at Hermosillo. Calexico. And an application for his extradition was made. The mexican authorities. However had released him i before the arrival of the papers and he disappeared again for parts in a known. Nothing More was heard i from him until april 6, when news came from Kingman. Ariz. That Mckinney had murdered Charles Blakely. Known As the a Cowboy pianist and Roy Winchester a Young Miner. Nothing definite is known of the i cause of the murder but it is thought that Mckinney took the men for offi cers and Laid in wait for them on the Trail. After the shooting he went to a ranch and compelled the rancher to shoe two horses for him and then Rode away. Posses started in Pursuit of Mckinney. But he eluded them and succeeded in reaching Bakersfield where his two Brothers live. Wheat shall be advanced the Millers resisted was shot through the left for overt be when called upon to Iii. A a i i a it Rivao it o n / i i n to in Ovanic if to ann/1 of i _ St. Cherbini the russian Consul at Mitro Vitza inflicting a wound from which the latter subsequently died has been sentenced to death the russian embassy to Turkey demanding a revision of the sentence of 15 years imprisonment. William Al Collier of new York who recently was appointed assistant attorney to the attorney general has been detailed As solicitor of the department of Commerce and labor. During a severe Northeast Gale the scow Hughes capsized in the Delaware River off Marcus Hook pa., and of tar men of the grew were drowned. Will find it impossible to grind and unless something shall occur to improve the milling situation the prospects Are that the practically Universal shut Down of the merchant Spring wheat Mills will be indefinitely a crippled steamship. Detroit april 17.�?the Anchor line Steamer Codorus arrived from Erie yesterday with her engine so badly injured that she had difficulty coming up the River. The Captain reported that powdered Emery was found in the High pressure Crank journal and it is alleged to have been put there by strikers. He was afraid to tie up at the docks Here for fear the strikers would induce his four non Union firemen to leave the boat and anchored in the River where the engine was taken apart and the disabled parts brought ashore in Small boats for repairs. Students act As firemen. Buffalo n. Y., april 17.�?three students from the University of Chicago arrived in the fire hold of the propeller Tampa yesterday. They shipped at Chicago for the Sake of the experience and As a recreation. The strikers Here were very bitter against the students and when the Tampa came up the River a gang of eight boarded the vessel. The police patrol boat was summoned and the a officers chased the strikers off the propeller. The students remained on the Tampa All night. They will leave for Chicago to Day. Largest Furnace in the world. Marquette mich., april 17.�?the new blast Furnace of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron co., said to be the largest in the world went into commission yesterday. It has taken More than two years to build the Furnace which Cost $1,000,000. Its Dally product will be 150 tons of pig Iron besides important by products. It will employ 200 men. Breast and dangerously wounded. The passengers were held at Bay by Sharp while Wilkens did the robbing. When the boat reached Shore the negroes backed off. Flourishing t ii fir revolvers and disappeared in the darkness. No strike of a a la Road employees. New York. April 18.�?the threatened strike move of the a a la Road employees was practically settled last night after a conference Between the executive committee of the a i a employees e. P. Bryan vice president of the inter Borough rapid transit co., and William d. Mahon president of the amalgamated association of Street railway employees. The employees had decided to strike in support of the demand for a nine hour Day but president Ala Hon. Who opposed such a course arranged the conference which seems to have arranged matters amicably. Quick won Hie Handicap. Kansas City. April . A. Quick of Eldorado Springs. Alo., yesterday won the Consolation Handicap at too targets the last event on the pro work when off watch. Fitzs Wile is dead. New York april . Robert Fitzsimmons Rife of the sex Champion heavyweight pugilist died Friday at her Home in Brooklyn. Four people drowned. Clinton ind., april Eddington his wife and their three Small children with two neighbor boys started to Cross the Wabash Bottoms yesterday in the face of a warning of danger. The three Eddington children and William Dudley were drowned. The party got off the Road and were soon beyond their depth. Hundreds of people witnessed the disaster but a Relief boat was late in reaching the struggling people. Eddington escaped on a horse and his wife was rescued by William jacks 12 years old. Three of the bodies were recovered. Arrested the Trayor. Mayaguez. Porto Rico april i5.�? chief Hamill of tile insular police Bas arrested Galateo Fajardo the i mayor of Al a agy Fez charged with glum of the fourth grand american Frau s of Large amounts. The police Handicap tournament at targets by breaking 95, the highest score of the tournament in the Hundred target i powder factory explodes. Lisbon Portugal april 17.�?an explosion has occurred at the military pc Der factory near this City. Several persons were killed. Quot contests. Quick shot from the 15-Yard line having been advanced one Yard because he was not among the winners in the grand american Handicap at targets on thursday in which his score was 81. A. C. Connor Pekin 111., and h. Pearse Chicopee kau., each scored 93 a legislator is arrested. Arkansas City ran., april Samuel d. Pollock representative in the Kansas legislature was arrested have been shadowing the mayor s Nee thursday As it was rumoured that he was preparing for flight. The amount of the Bond was fixed at $30,000. Fajardo refused to allow his friends to furnish the Bond. He was taken to jail last evening followed by 20 carriages and tremendous crowds including women and children crying wailing and decrying the police. Alabama s Wen Are champions. Pensacola Fla. April 18.�?the gunners of the battleship Alabama Are the Champion marksmen of the i boxers will be beheaded. Washington april 20.�?minister Conger reports to the state department from Pekin under Date of March 12 that an attempt has been made in the District of Yustien about too Miles West of Pekin to reorganize the Box amp a movement but was promptly suppressed by the ener Getic action of the Viceroy the a j Mous Ahi an Shihi who stood like a Rock against the boxers in 1900. Sev i Era soldiers lost their lives in the attempt to arrest the criminals. Seven of the criminals were killed and ten others were arrested who Are to be beheaded and their Heads exposed where the organization started. Air. Conger says Only such prompt and severe measures will prevent similar organizations in other localities and that it is believed Yuan Shihi will continue As he has begun. War Cloud grows Blacker. London. April 20.�?the correspondent at Belgrade of Tine daily Avail has had an audience of King Alexander i of Servia. In this interview the King i said the situation in the Balkans was exceedingly grave and that the Al i Banian difficulty was a greater me Nave to peace Tihan the macedonian j question. Quot the massing of turkish i troops in old Servia a King Alexan a Der said to the mails correspondent a will Force me to take similar Steps. Servia will not take the initiative but if the other Balkan states move j Servia will not look on. But must i protect her own stricken in the pulpit. Philadelphia. April 20.�?rev. Francis Horton pastor of Temple pre. Of Terian Church this City was stricken with apoplexy while preaching last night and died shortly after being removed from the pulpit. Or. Horton was delivering a Sermon to Young men. And had been speaking about ten minutes when his words became incoherent and he tottered. Several worshippers went to his assistance and he was removed to his Home where he died without regaining consciousness. Or. Horton was 58 years of age. Brake did no to work. An electric car runs away and crashes into a freight train. Pittsburg april 20.�?because an electric Brake refused to work a crowded Western Avenue car of the Pittsburg railways co. Ran away yesterday on Federal Street. Allegheny wrecked a Carriage broke through the safety Gates of the fort Wayne Railroad derailed a fast moving freight train and then went to pieces. Almost All of the 45 passengers aboard the ear were Hurt although Only one fatally. When the Motorman tried to make the safety Stop on the Steep Grade at Stockton Avenue he found the Power Brake was useless and the car beyond control. It had about 125 Yards to go before reaching the Gates of the Railroad which were Down to let a freight train pass. The big ear gained momentum every second Harry Catlin was trying to get his Carriage off the track but failed and it was wrecked completely. The Cai dashed through the Gates struck Aren by refrigerator ear in the moving freight train turned it Over and derailed several other ears. By this time the trolley was a wreck itself and its passengers were strewn in All directions the wonder being that there were not Many fatalities. Three people drowned. Kalkaska. Mich. April 20.�?the capsizing of a Rowboat on a Small Lake six Miles East of this Village re last night for embezzling $964 from j american Navy having made a record i suited in a triple drowning sunday. The United states government. The i of 59.7 out of a possible too at tar theft was committed when Pollock was assistant postmaster in the Arkansas City office. Agreed on a wage scale. Huntington w. Va., april 18.�?the joint conference committee of miners and operators after be no in session four Days agreed on a scale for the get practice. This covers the work of one week with guns of All calibre. At no time did the vessel steam at a rate of less than ten knots or at a Range less 1,400 Yards. The victims Are John Victor his wife and Maggie filet mrs. Victor s sister. All were from Kentucky. Ltd on Essed a double harder. New Castle Wyo. April 20.�?the mystery surrounding the disappearance several weeks ago of j. W Church and his wife formerly of Omaha but More recently engaged in ranching near Here has been cleared up by the confession of a slim Clifton who has been under arrest on suspicion of having murdered the couple. Clifton admits that he killed them and has told the authorities where he buried the bodies. Talked Turkey to the Sultan. Constantinople april 20.�?the italian German russian and ans a Trian ambassadors to Turkey have1 had audiences of the Sultan in which they urged the imperative necessity of checking the albanian disorders. Much comment has been raised by the significant tact that the austrian Ami russian ambassadors saw the Sultan jointly As this is almost unprecedented. It is reported that the representatives of both these countries took a very serious tone in speaking with the Sultan and that that ruler promised acquiescence to their demands. Returned seven indictments. Jefferson City. Mo., april 20.�?the Cole county grand jury has returned four indictments three presumably against state senators for the acceptance of bribes in connecting i the Alum Bill legislation. These mate seven indictments so far issued by the grand jury. One of the seven indictments returned by the grand jury is against Daniel j. Kelly of new York on the charge off having attempted to by get Lieut. Gov. Lee gov. Dockery has issued a requisition on gov. Odell of new York for the return of Kelly. Declared a Trace. Appleton. , april 20.�?As the result of an unexpected development at the meeting of the Neenah and Appleton brotherhoods of paper makers the paper Mill strike is called off., a truce has been declared for owl forty boats foundered. Marseilles april a result of a storm Here which has not been Kanawha Field. Ten to twelve thous equalled for 15 years 40 Craft foun and miners Are employed in this Field. Dered. The Ohio rises again. Evansville ind. April 20.�?after remaining stationary Here for several Days the Ohio River started to Rise again sunday and stands at 34 feet one foot under the danger line. It a probable that the danger line will be passed by tuesday nigh i week and the men will return today. A Veteran editor Dies. Reading pa., april 20.�?jesse g. Hawley proprietor of the Reading Eagle of which he was one of the founders in 1868, died Here last evening aged 63 years. Or. Hawley was born in Chester county pa.,

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