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DEATH AND WRECiTBY
AT
t errific Storm Casts Great Ships
.From the Harbor.
MANY NATIVES LOSE LIVES
Crowded River Swept, Hundreds
Perish -American Vessels in
Disaster Structures Razed and
, Streets Blocked.
Hongkong. A cylclonic storm of
Irresistible violence broke over this
city in the early forenoon, spending
its fury for two hours upon the har
lor and :the water front. Several
hundred persons perished, more than
twenty-one ships and sailing vessels,
including ocean liners and war ves
sels of different nations, were
wrecked or badly damaged, the loss
on water and land amounting to many
millions, f . : ; , : '
The. visitation was the typhoon of
the China Sea. exactly the rotatory
wind storm of the Central Mississippi
Valley of the United States, and had
a v?Iccity of more than 100 miles an
hour. Its power was so great that in
an instant it had cast great ships up
iiKo the city streets crashing through
buildings and mowing them down as
though from the onslaught of thous
ands of cannon balls.
Although the barometer was low,
a condition that alwaj's precedes the
typhoon." but is only infrequently fol
lowed by one, there was no thought
of the coming of the whirling hurri
cane. Under ordinary precautions
the usual harbor work was in pro
cress when the storm struck the ship
ping without warning. Vessels were
pitched ashore, and the docks and
sea walls were strewn with wreckage.
Steamers, sailing vessels, junks, sam
pans and ferryboats were piled up in
the streets and the flooded highways
were blocked with the wreckage.
The greatest loss of life was amon
the natives. Pearl River was crowd
ed with boats, and the storm sent
hundreds to the bottom. It is impos
sible now to estimate the number
that perished.
Among the few ships in the harbor
which escaped damage is the Empress
of Japan. An unknown steamer col
lided with the British steamer Strath
more, seriously damaging the latter.
The British steamer Loong-Sang col
lided with the British steamer Chip
Shing. with slight damage. The river
boat Fy.tshang fouled the, French
mailboat Polynesien.
The British steamer Mont Eagle,
the German steamer Signal, the Ger
man steamer Emma J,uyken, the
British steamer Changsha, the Ger
man steamer Setta, the Kowloon fer
ryboat and a waterboat were driven
ashore. The American steamer Sor--og-n
and the German steamer .To
hanne are awash. A Jananse steam
er is stranded on Reliefs Island. The
British river grnboat Moorhean is
leaking badly, the French tornedo
boat deatroyer Franeisque is ashore
and two others dragged their anchors
th entire length of the harbor.
The American ship S. P. Hitch
rock was driven high and dry on
shore. ' The Eritish river steamers
Kwong Chow. San Cheung and Sun
Lee foundered. The French steamer
Clir!rl?s Hardouin was damaged. The
little Chinese steamer Wing-Chai was
beached.
Numerous steam launches and
lizh?r3 foundered, and most of the
wooden pirs on the water front were
demolished.
The British Government officials
Immediately started to succor the
homeless. A complete estimate of
the damage will not be obtainable for
wc"ks. No Americans are reported
to have been killed or injured.
Hongkong is an island situated in
the China Sea off the coast of China,
from which it is separated by a nar
row strait. It was yielded to Great
Britain by tre?ty in 1S42. The road
te?d has a well protected anchorage.
Victoria, the capital ( itself commonly
called Hongkong) is situated on a
magniant bay the same name,
setting uo into the north side of the
island. Kongirong is a great centre
of the foreign trade of China. Tot?l
exports are rough 'y estimated at
$125,000,000 and imports at $100,
000,000. As a British colony on
Chinese soil it is the most important
in its political and defensive position,
and is tha headquarters of the mili
tary, naval and mercantile establish
ments. The population of Hongkong,
the city, is about 275,000.
ADMIRAL CHICHESTER DEAD.
He Was the Man , Who Stood by
Dewey's Fleet at Manila.
Gibraltar. Rear-Admiral Sir Ed
"ward Chichester, who commanded
the British squadron at Manila dur
ing the Spanish-American war. died
here of pneumonia after an illness of
a few days.
It was Sir Edward Chichester who,
according to report, "stood by" the
Americans in Manila Bay at a time
when friction between Admiral
Dewey and the German commander
seemed likely to lead to serious consequences.-
Accused of Embezzling $204,000.
Suspected of embezzling $294,000,
Bland von den Berg, a notary and di
rector of the South Holland Bank, at
Rotterdam, has been arrested. The
shares of the bank dropped 100 per
cent, on the Bourse.
Japs in Fatal Duel.
3. Morriami and H.Miya, Japanese,
who have been roommates, became
involved in a dispute at Portland,
Ore., and Miya shot Morriami - to
death and was himself fatally stabbed
by Morriami.
War on Impure Drugs.
Health Commissioner Darlington
declared the ..Board of Health, New
York City, will make bitter war on
druggists who sell impure drugs and
food3, and will not wait for the new
food law to become operative.
VOL, XXIX, .PJTTS3BQEQ, CHATHAM
ISLAND EXPRESS ,
PLUNGES FROM BBIDCE
Passengers Swept Miles Down a
River in Oklahoma.
MANY EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPES
Few of the Saved Float Miles Day
' Coach Carried to Bank With Oc
cupantsLoss . May Never Re
Known Cause of Disaster.
Guthrie, Okla. Buried in the
treacherous quicksand or floating
down the rushing current of the
Cimarron (Spanish "wild") River are
a score or more passengers and the
wreckage of more than half of a
Rock, Island passenger train that
plunged into the river off a high
bridge near Dover, Okla.
Eight persons are known to be
dead, twenty were badly injured,
either in falling with the cars into
the water or being battered with
driftwood before they were rescued,
and some twenty others are missing.
Several children are among those
drowned.
Locomotive, tender, baggage and
mail cars, smoker and day coach of
the train that left Forth Worth
dropped into the flood-swollen stream
when it reached the . bridge, which
had been knocked, out of true by a
mass of driftwood.
Passengers who escaped say twenty-five
or thirty men were in the
smoking car, and in the struggle to
reach its doors as it rolled over and
over down stream only a few escaped.
This car was carried by the current
a quarter of a mile. The mail car
and the locomotive sank like lead.
The mail and baggage men swam
ashore.
Those fortunate enough to fight
their way out of the death trap and
catch pieces of drift rode down the
stream for miles. One man was
taken off a piece of the wrecked
bridge nine miles down stream; an
other rode thirteen miles before ber
ing rescued; a third was nearly dead
when rescued twenty miles away.
Another, a negro porter, when seen
fourteen miles down river, shouted
to men on shore that he would get off
at the next station.
It may never be known how many
were drowned. The present estimate
of twenty to thirty may be reduced
when those who may have drifted
down stream are all heard from.
The train was an hour late and
was running at high -peed. The en
gineer did not see the condition of
the bridge until he was within a few
yards of it.
Sheriff J. P. Love, of Kingfisher,
said: "Just as the car was turning
on its side I fought my way to the
rear and forced my body through the
door. WHen I came to the surface
T was swepc down stream. In the
last stages oi exhaustion I touched
bottom and drew myself up on the
bank. There were at least thirty
others in the smoking car. I saw
two besides myself escape."
L. H. Coy, a salesman of Kansas
City, who was in the day coach, said:
"I jumped and landed on . the short
piece of bridge that did not go out at
the south end. The chair car came
up within three feet of me before it
stopped, and all thatsaved my life
was the fact that the engineer threw,
on the air before he jumped. The
drag of the heavy Pullmans caused
the train to break in two."
WINSTON CHURCHILL BEATEN.
f
Floyd Nominated For Governor of
New Hampshire on Ninth Ballot.
Concord, N. H. Charles M. Floyd,
of Manchester, was nominated for
Governor on the ninth ballot at the
Republican State convention, receiv
ing 404 votes out of a total of 799.
It was.the most exciting political
convention ever assembled in New
Hampshire. The delegates were
called to order at 11 a. m., and it
was not until after 10 p. m. that ad
journment was reached. The con
vention, was marked by disorder
throughout, and progress was delayed
by ballot-box stuffing, three votes be
ing declared void by reason of the
total exceeding the number -of dele
gates entitled to seats.
The feature of the convention was
the fight put up by Winston Churchill,
the novelist, for the Gubernatorial
nomination.
NEW YORK PRIMARIES. .
Murphy Retains Tammany Leader
ship, Parsons Defeats Quigg.
New York City. In one of the
hardest fought primary elections in
the political history of Greater New
York' in which the organizations of.
both the Democratic and Republican
parties were threatened, Charles F.
Murphy, of Tammany Hall, and Her
bert Parsons, with the Roosevelt
backing, won sweeping victories
Murphy over the McClellan-O'Brien
forces, and Parsons over the Odell
Quigg faction.
Both the Democratic and Republi
can primaries were turbulent. There
was much repeating, many assaults
and money was openly used.
Life-Savers Under Charges.
Charges of cowardice against Cap
tain , Van Wicklen and his life-saving
crew at Long Beach have been made
to -the Treasury Department, in
Washington.
Stricken While Preaching; Dies.
Rev. Dr. Frank Woods Baker, of
New Haven, Conn., died at Islesboro,
Me. He had been spending his vaca
tion at Castine 'and went to Islesboro
to officiate at Christ Episcopal Church.
During the service he was stricken
with heart failure.
Merely Bryan's Private Opinion.
William J. Bryan disclaimed any
purpose to compel his party to ac
cept his Government ownei-ship
views. - -
DYNAMITE WRECKED
TENNESSEE I
Half of Jellico Wiped Out as if
Swept by a Cyclone.
BODIES BURIED IN
THE RUINS
Exploding Car Kills Twelve and In
jures More Than 200 Damage
to Property Estimated at a Mil
lion Dollars.
Knoxville, Tenn. The town of Jel
lico, which lies partly in Tennessee
and partly in Kentucky, was all. but
wiped off the map at S o'clock a. m.
by the explosion of a carload of dyna
mite. '
At least twelve persons are dead,
fifty are seriously injured and more
than 150 are slightly injured.
The property loss will exceed $1,
000,000, nearly 1000 people are
homeless and practically every busi
ness house and factory in the town
was demolished.
A great hole, fifty feet deep and
100 feet across, marks the spot where
the railroad car which contained the
420 cases of dynamite stood.
Buildings a mile away from the ex
plosion were shaken and some were
demolished.
The dead may reach twenty-five.
The telegraph offices were de
stroyed, and but for the fact that the
long distance telephone office was far
from the explosion, the town would
have been completely shut off from
the outside world.
The news was -telephoned to this
city within ten minutes after the ex
plosion, which was heard for forty
miles, and a special train with a
score of physicians and newspaper
men made a quick run to the scene.
Relief was also sent from nearby
towns.
Tho work of rescuing victims bur
ied under fallen buildings was begun
at once. Flyi debris, pieces of
timber and iron, seem to have been
most disastrous to life and limb, a
number of those killed being distant
from the scene of the explosion.
Th: car of dynamite was standing
on a Louisville and Nashville Rail
way siding, having just arrived, con
signed to John L. O'Connor, a rail
road contractor, at Clearfield, Ky.
Cars were being switched, and a car
loaded with pig iron was backed into
the dynamite car, causing the ex
plosion. While this is the story generally
believed, the official report sent out
by the Southern Railway otricials says
that several men were shooting at a
target fastened to the dynamite car,
and that the bullets set off the dyna
mite. The list of known dead com;: rises
George Atkins, thirty years old, line
man for the East Tennessee Tele
phone Company; John Cook, fifty
years old, car inspector for the South
ern Railway; Walter Rodgers, twenty-eight
yea- old, clerk for the
United Cold Storage Warehouse, cut
to pieces and almost unrecognizable,
and John lordon, colored, tnirty
years old.
Five other dead bodies have been
found, but they are so badly dis
figured that they cannot be ident.fied.
The . Armour Packing Company's
warehouse, the Jung Brewing Com
pany's . arehouse, the Pinnacle brew
ing ompany's warehovise, the Ken
tucky Consumers' Oil Company's
tanks and warehouse, the Stanv.ard
Oil Company's warehouse and the H.
T. Hackney Company's grocery ware
house were completely demolished.
Twenty-five other business houses on
:he Kentucky side were so badly dam
aged that they will have to be re
built. On the Tennessee side, which in
cludes the larger part of the town,
the damage was more extended.
Business houses were badly .is
figured and the stocks of goods
ruined, while residences suffered se
verely, win lows and doors beins
blown out in houses a mile away.
ROBERT R. HITT DEAD.
End Comes at Summer Home at Nar
ragansett Pier.
Narragansett Pier, R. I. Con
gressman Robert R. Hitt. of Illinois,
died at his summer home here.
Heart failure following a long period
of increasing physical weakness was
the final cause of death. Mrs. Hitt
and two sons, W. S. Hitt and R. H.
Hitt, were at the bedside.
When Congressman Hitt, accompa
nied by his wife, arrived at Kinney
Lodge, their summer home here, in
June, it was understood that the
Congressman was not in good health.
Robert Roberts Hitt, for many
years a Representative from Illinois,
was born at Urbana, Ohio, January
1C, 1834. He" was the second son of
the Rev. Thomas S. Hitt. When he
was three years old the family moved
to Mount Morris, 111., which place
was his home for the remainder of
his life. He had been chairman of
the House Committee on Foreign Af
fairs for many years. He was a
friend of ?many Presidents and for
forty-five years helped to shape the
policy of this country, especially in
foreign affairs. He started as a re
norter and made stenographic rec
ords of the Lincoln-Douglass debates.
Direct Wire For President.
Direct communication was estab
lished by wire between Oyster Bay
and Havana.
Chicago's New Court House.
The cornerstone of Chicago's new
county building, which will be the
largest court house in the worJd, has
been laid. Vice-President Fairbanks
was the orator anl addresses were
also made by Governor Deneen and
Mayor Dunne. .
Russell Sage's AYill Probated.
" Russell Sage's heir agreed to ac
cept double the amount of their lega
cies and the will was admitted to pro-
' bate. -
COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
BABY ALIVE FIVE DAYS :
BESIDE DEAD MOTHER
:
W . ....
rouna uasping Near tiooy wrier
Door Was Broken Open.
INFANT BRAVELY FIGHTS DEATH
Mrs. Catherine Denliani, a Lone
Woman and a Fourteen-Months-Old
. Foundling Discovered in
Brooklyn After Many Days.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Struggling for
life with all the resoluteness of a
prehistoric child and with the intelli
gence of a civilized one," John Boyle,
fourteen months old, through five
terrible days - kept himself from
death, though alone in a little fiat In
No. 4201 Third avenue, with the body
of Mrs. Catherine Denham, his moth
er by adoption; He was found there
by the dead , woman's aunt, who, ob
taining no answer to repeated calls,
got a patrolman to break in the dtor
of the fiat for her. Mrs. Denham's
body lay. in the middle of the kitchen
floor, close to the stove. Apparently,
she had died of heart disease when
about to light the fire five days be
fore, for in her stiffened fingers a
match was clutched, and the Coroner
and ambulance surgeon said she had
been dead at least that long. Beside
the body little John was close to his
last hour.. He had eaten everything
his strong young jaws could nibble,
edible or inedible, and had come to
the end of his strength: - Yet' so" great
wr.3 his vitality, medical men said he
would pull through.
Little John's tongue was black and
swollen with thirst when they found
him. His voice had dwindled to a
gasping whisper. One would have
said his eyes were falling out of his
head. The once rosy cheeks were
sunken. His wrists and ankle? had
gone down to nothing. From top to
toe he was as emaciated as children
in the horror pictures of Indian fam
ines. The fatal bloating of the stom
ach from prolonged starvation had
not occurred, but it would have hap
pened in a day or two had the child
survived his experience that much
longer.
Guessing was all Mrs. Denham's
sister, the policeman and the doctors
could do when they gazed about the
tiny flat and tried to imagine what
had taken place there. Itwas enough.
On all sides were strewn crusts the
baby had gnawed until they became
too hard even for his rare pluck to
conquer. He had broken a milk bot
tle to get at the contents at any
rate, he had dragged the bottle off a
low table and evidently had lapped
up the milk off the floor when the
glass was shivered. How he avoided
swallowing splinters from the bottle
was a mystery, yet the physicians
found no symptoms that he had done
so. The little chap, not old enough
to toddle stoutly, nevertheless had
swept the bottom shelf of the pantry
bare in a hunt for food, and a chair
placed near showed that the baby
must have tried to climb up to reach
the higher ones. A small pail which
had contained lard was empty, licked
empty by the starving baby, the
neighbors believed. He had eaten
flour from a broken bag until the
agony of thirst made him stop.
. Enough injurious substances went
into that small stomach to kill an or
dinary child. Physicians said a Fifth
avenue baby would have succumbed
in two days. Little John, being a
waif Mrs. Denham had adopted him
from the Guardian Angel Home.
Twelfth avenue and Sixty-fifth street
fought it out for five. Instinct led
him to food as long as there was any
to be had. When there was no more,
tie. gnawed a little cloth horse stuffed
with sawdust gnawed it until his
sharp little teeth worked through the
sloth, and doubtless he swallowed a
?ood deal of the stuffing. A rubber
teething ring was found beside him,
tmawed to shreds.
Small John evidently slept where
sleep overtook him. There were signs
that he had inhabited each of the
three rooms. Fortunately, he was
too young to think. A child a few
years older, if not clever enough to
unlock the door, might have died of
fright at being shut in with a corpse.
The baby had pulled at the old worn
in's hair Mrs. Denham was close to
sixty years and tugged at her dress
ing sack in efforts to arouse her from
:he sleep of death. Failing that, he
perhaps ceased ' to notice the body.
Yet whether by chance or instinct
he had fallen beside it when at last
his little legs gave way under him,
md his hand, shrunk to the seeming
f a bird's claw, was stretched toward
:he dead woman. '
Neighbors said they df not recall
rearing the baby's cries. They hard
ly noticed the fact that Mrs. Denham
was not in evidence in the first few
lays, and when at last they did, they
assumed she had gone away on a
Tlsit.
Mrs. Denham became lonesome a
rear ago when her husband, William
I. Denham, a civil engineer, died,
ind from the sisters of the Home of
ihe Guardian Angel she obtained an
orphan. In such a case a foster
mother is allowed $8 a month for the
?are of the child, and this she accept
ed, as her husband's deaf- had left
ier impoverished. Johnnie Boyle's
oarents, Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle,
lad died within a-few week- of each
ther soon after the death of Mr.
Denham. and he had been in the
iiome only, a month when Mrs. Den
iam adopted him.
10,000 DEAD AT HONGKONG.
Six Hundred Fishing Junks Lost in
the Great Typhoon.
Hongkong. Sit hundred fishing
Junks, the entire. fleet, were lost in
the typhoon. This increases'the mor
tality to 10,000 persons. The dead
here are being carried off i carlo-ids."
A relief subscription of $10,
300 has been received from the Chi
nese of San Francisco.
SUCH CROPS NEVER KNOWN
Nine Principal Staples Estimated
to Be Worth $2,898,720,000.
1 1
A Year Like This Does Not Come to
Farmers More Than Once .
in a Decade-
New York City. The estimated re
turns available at this season for the
nine principal crops of the United
States, excepting hay, indicate the
unparalleled total value, at Decem
ber prices, of $2,S98,720,000. which
is about $130,740,487 more than the
wealth produced by the farmers last
year in these staples. Although it is
usual for final returns on the princi
pal cereal crops to show a diminution
from the September estimates (which
last year amounted to 8,924,000
bushels in corn and 11,467,511 in
wheat), the concensus of opinion
among the experts seems to e that
this year the final estimates will show
even higher yields than are at pres
ent indicated, so that the final total
of values which will be issued in De
cember may be expected to show even
higher figures. Further it is not
higher prices, but record-breaking
production that makes this year the
greatest in the country's history.
The following table compares with
last year's figures the estimated
yields and values of the nine princi
pal agricultural products: . ,
Crop. Yield.
Corn '' Bushels.
. 1906 2.780.000.000
1905,.. :2.707,993 .540
Wheat
Dec.
Price.
.42
Value.
$1,167,600,000
1,116,696,738
549,366,000
518,372,727
263.959,000
, 277,047,537
57,197,000
55,047,166
18.000,000
16,754,657
9,278,000
8,565,490
179,320,000
160,821,080
600.000.000
566,000,000
54,000,000
48,674,118
1906...,
1905....
Oats
, 1906....
1905....
Barlev
J906....
1905....
Rve
759,671,000
692.-979,489
851.482,000
953;216,197
142.969,000
136,651,020
.71
.31
.40
.60
.65
.60
1906.... 30.000.000
1905.... 27,616,045
Buekwheat
1906.
14,274,000
14,535,082
298,859,000
260.741,291
1905....
-1905...
Cotton, bales
1906.... 12,000,000
1905..., 11,320,000
Tobacco, pounds
1906 600.000.000
!905.... 633,033.719
Estimated.
?50.00
50.00
.09
It will be noticed that this jrear's
crops, both in production as well as
in value, are far in excess of. those of
1905 with two exceptions, oats and
buckwheat. It is also expected that
the returns from the hay crop, when
they are in, will make a poorer show
ing than last year's. Hay was dam
aged by the same July and August
rains which were the salvation of the
corn.
Such a year as this, with new
records established in so many sta
ples, does not come to the farmer us
ually more than once in . a decade,
though last year, too, established its
own records in wheat and corn and
produced a cotton crop which had
been only once exceeded.
The banner year of. the nineties
was 1891, not in point of total yields,
but in the distribution of fine condi
tions and the establishment of new
records. That year saw new high
records fixed for wheat and cotton,
while corn was only surpassed by the
great year of 1889. Wheat broke
all records in 1898, though cotton
was second in the list of years and
corn fourth. In 1879 wheat produc
tion exceeded the best previous rec
ord by 28,600,000 bushels, corn beat
its previous record by 159,700,000
bushels, and the cotton crop jumped
687,000 bales ahead of the greatest
precedent,
Of these "record years" all marked
were periods of great prosperity ex
cept 1891. Last year was the only
-one in which there was great money
stringency.
FIFTY FORGERS CAUGHT.
Banl Included Sons of Prominent
Frenchmen Made $10,000.
"Paris. The police discovered a
band of expert coiners having inter
national connections, and fifty mem
bers of it were arrested, including
several Latin Quarter students whose
parents hold high official positions.
The students are implicated on ac
count of having passed the money,
most of which was in ten and twenty
franc pieces.
The process used by the counter
feiters was a perfect one, the coins
being electroplated with gold dust.
It is estimatec". that 200,000 francs of
this money has been passed in the
last six months.
"he band operated also in England
and Germany and was making prepa
rations to open business in Chicago
and Buenos Ayres.
KILLED HIMSELF WHILE JOKING
Revolver Flourished in Hilarious
Mood Ends Owner's Life.
Beloit, Wis. Charles Parker, aged
twenty-five, a painter by occupation,
while in a hilarious mood from
liquor, placed a revolver at his head
to frighten his wife and a fri"nd, and
blew out his brains. It is not ba-
lieved he had any intention of killing
himself. He was in his.rocjni in a
boarding' house with his wife and an
other boarder, and, when remonstrat
ed with for carelessly handling the
revolver, remarked:
"No one need be afraid; I am not
going to point it toward anyone but
myself see." Placing the muzzle
under an ear the revolver was dis-
RIOTS OVER SUNDAY LAW.
Paris I'clice' Forced to Cltzrc Mob
.md Arrest Twenty. ,
Paris. Although a majority of the
stores here complied withthe com
pulsory 'weekly rest, day law, several
remained opea, causiug numerous
demonstrations. The police, were
forced repeatedly to charge a mob of
400 persons in, the Ternes district,
arresting twenty. Other demonstra
tions were easily dispersed.
l
27, 1906. NO, 7.
E FIAKGE WED RIVAL
Brooklyn Girl's Trap For Lover
Faithless to Old Sweetheart
1 ma zed "Bridegroom Brought Face to
Face With the Woman He Had
Jilted- Bride-Elect Bridesmaid.
Brooklyn, N. Y. No writer of fic
tion ever conceived a more dramatic
stage setting than the circumstances
surrounding the remarkable wedding
3f William F. Thober, a diemaker, of
Trenton, N. J., and pretty seventeen-year-old
Viola Glover, of Newark.
- The knot was tied at the home of
Miss Mary MacDonald, No. 247
Fifty-third street, this city, whom
Thober- had intended to wed, and
who successfully trapped him into
the predicament, where his only loop
aole was to marry the girl he had
previously loved and jilted. It was
the most unusual marriage ever re
corded. t -
Miss MacDonald had perfected, all
arrangements for her marriage to
Thober. She discovered his perfidy
in the nick of time, and summoning
Miss Glover and a minister instead
of a priest, as had originally been
planned, saw to it that the ceremony
was performed.
Miss MacDonald was bridesmaid
instead of bride, wearing the wedding
gown that she had made for her own
marriage. Flowers brought by the
bridegroom shed their sweetness for
the girl he had discarded.
: Arriving from Trenton Thober had
hurried to the MacDonald house. He
was the picture of happiness as he
bounded up the steps carrying a box
of candy and a bunch of flowers.
Miss MacDonald met him at the door
and led him into the parlor that bore
a festal appearance.
On entering the parlor with Miss
MacDonald he had been met by Bar
tholomew Griffin, her sturdy brother-in-law.
'.'Eager for the wedding?" asked
Mr. Griffin. "
"Yes, indeed; I can hardly wait,"
replied Thober, casting an affection
ate glance at his intended bride. .
Congratulating Thober Mr. Griffin
entered the parlor and announced
that everything was ready for the
ceremony. At the same moment
doors were thrown open and in
marched a bridal party with Miss
Glover in the lead. There were sev
eral persons at each door.
Bewildered at first Thober hesi
tated. Then Miss MacDonald told
him she never would marry him and
that he must marry Miss Glover. The
Rev. H. C. A. Meyer, of St. Jacobi's
Lutheran Church, Forty-sixth street
and Fourth avenue, stepped forward
and without asking anv questions be
gan to read the marriage service.
Mr. Griffin had provided a ring and
acted as best man, while Miss Mac
Donald was bridesmaid. Meekly and
without a word of protest, Thober re
peated the words that made Miss
Glover his wife.
When the ceremony was finished
Miss MacDonald told Thober to leave
the house at once. Handing his hat
to him she showed him the door and
told him never to enter the housa
again. Thober left without saying a
word. With Mrs. Thober presiding
at the table a wedding supper was
served without a bridegroom.
Miss Glover, who will call herself
Mrs. Thober because she considers it
her duty, told a reporter that, she
would never live with her husband,
and that she never wanted to set eyes
upon him again. It is doubted if she
ever will, as Thober made a hasty
and mysterious escape. Few men
have ever had such a shock as has
been his.
Mrs. William G. Glover said: "Tho
ber courted my daughter for sixteen
months. We looked upon him., as a
gentleman, but he proved himself to
be a scoundrel. I will never permit
Viola to live with him."
Mrs. Viola Thober is but seventeen
years of age; Miss MacDonald is one
year her senior. Thober is twenty
one. DEATH FROM SINGLE BEE STING.
Tragedy Attributed to Toison From
Strange Flower.
Onawa, Iowa. Two recent myster
ious deaths in this vicinity from the
sting of a single bee has so alarmed
the people that now ordinary honey
bees are regarded with somewhat the
same- terror as rattlesnakes. The
first victim was E. W. Pegg, of Mon
damin. He was hiving a swarm of
honey-bees, when one lone bee stung
him. A few minutes later he went
into the house and fell unconscious.
Just thirty minutes after the bee had
stung him a physician was called, but
arrived after he was dead.
The second death occurred at Ute,
Iowa. Mrs. Clara Box was stung by
a honey-bee. Immediately afterward
her face began to swell and paiii hei
greatly. Physicians could do nothing
to relieve her, and in twenty-four
hours she died in great agony. The
only explanation that has been given
of these deaths is that the bees have
found some poisonous flower in this
section.
HORSES FOR HAVANA.
Leave New Orleans .and Many More
Will Follow Them'.
New Orleans. About 200 of the
horses intended for the Cuban Gov
ernment were shipped on the steamer
Excelsior for Havana. It is reported
that an additional consignment oi
about 900 horses and mules will be
ready soon for shipment.
CLOUDBURST SWEEPS VALLEY.
Wave Seven Feet High Does $100,
000 Worth of Damage.
Jackson, Neb. Water from a
cloudburst rushed down the valley,
sweeping away hundreds of tons of
ha;, drowning hogs, flooding cellars,
w asn ing . away railroad tracks and
('oiD' othsr damage, aggregating
:100,000. Tho wave of water in the
crzelc ;haa it struck Jackson was
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SCOTCH EXPRESS WRECKED
Crowded Special Jumps the Track
at Grantham Curve.
Flying Midnight Train Dashes Over
Embankment Coaches Burst Into
Flames All England Shocked.
London. Just getting over the
shock of the terrible railroad catas
trophe at Salisbury, England was
horrified to read that the crowded
Scotch express train on the Great
Northern Railway, from London, was
wrecked at midnight outside of
Grantham, a railroad junction twenty-three
miles southwest of Lincoln.
The train should have stopped at
Grantham, but failed to do so.
Shortly after passing the station
the train left the rails and jumped a
bridge. The engine and several
coaches were dashed over the em
bankment, the engine turning turtle.
Several coaches immediately took fire.
There are many passengers be
neath the debris. Of ten extricated,
five have died. The number of lives
lost is not known,, but is believed to
be large. Many were injured.
" The coaches caught fire and the
fire brigade was called out.
At the-spot where the express was
derailed there i3 a curve, and it is
supposed the brakes failed to act.
The train appears to have gone up a
siding, smashing the parapet of the
bridge, which was completely shat
tered. A later report states that the engi
neer and fireman are dead under the
engine, that the superintendent of
the mail car is missing and that seven
injured persons have been taken to
the hospital.
At 5 o'clock a. m. it was , officially
stated that' ten persons had been
killed and sixteen injured. .
A dispatch from Grantham stated
that the fire was well under control.
TYPHOON DEATH LIST GROWS.
Several Thousand May Have Been
Lost at Hongkong.
Hongkong. It is estimated that
5000 Chinese perished in the ty
phoon, many, within short distance
of the shore. The property losses are
estimated at several millions of dol
lars. Only a few" Europeans . are
missing. One launch that was cap
sized had 130 Chinese on board.
They were all drowned. Over 1000
sampans and junks are missing.
Vhen the typhoon started Bishop
Joseph Charles Hoare, of Victoria,
was on his way to visit some neigh
boring islands on the yacht Pioneer,
which stranded in Castle Peak Bay.
Mrs. Hoare, went in a Government
launch to search for her husband.
The harbor is strewn with wreck
age. The river steamer Fatshan
drifted into collision with a French
mail steamer. The entire Chinese
crew climbed aboard the French
steamer and left' Captain Thomas,
who was injured, one officer and the
engineers to navigate the Fatshan to
Shelter Eay, where she was blown
ashore.
The people are incensed at the of
ficers at1 the observatory for not re
porting the approach of the typhoon,
and an inquiry has been demanded.
DIED UNDER X-RAYS.
M. F. Murphy, Pennsylvania Banker,
is Strangely Stricken.
Philadelphia. While undergoing
an X-ray examination, Martin F.
Murphy, a banker of Renovo, this
State, died suddenly.
Mr. Murphy was fifty-eight years
old. He had developed what was
thought to be cancer of the throat
and was sent to the Polyclinic Hos
pital for examination. He had been
examined exhaustively before the
rays were turned upon him, and no
organic weakness of any kind was
found. His body was bared to the
waist and the rays were turned diag
onally down Upon him. striking the
throat on the left side two Inches be
low the ear and penetrating down
ward toward the right to a "point of
emergence below the eighth rib. At
the very moment the rays were
turned on Murphy he rolled from the
chair. Death was instantaneous.
DOWIE OUSTED, 1911 TO C.
Voliva Made Zion City Overseer
Heavy Vote by Women.
Chicago. Wilbur Glen Voliva was
chosen by the people of Zion City as
their leader by the overwhelming
vote of 1911 to 6 for his opponent, A. .
E. Bills. The election was held un
der the direction of Judge Landis of
the United States District Court, who
was asked some time ago to' settle
the controversy between John Alex
ander Dowie, founder of the church,
and Voliva, as to- who should have
control of Zion City. j
About half of the total vote was
cast by the women of Zion City, who
went to the polls singing hymns and
praying.
Eight-Hour Law Extended.
President Roosevelt extended the
eight-hour law to apply to all oublie
work under the supervision of any
department of the Government. This
order from Oyster Bay, N. Y., affects
more particularly work on river and
harbor improvements.
Oklahoma Land Opened.
President Roosevelt opened for set
tlement 505,000 acres of fertile land
in Oklahoma.
Starving Out Americans. '
American arriving at New Orleans
from Havana say Americans on the
Isle of Pines are threatened by a food
famine. "
"ure Food Law Enforced.
The Pure Food law special commis
sion announced its tentative rules re
garding labels. They forbid false and
misleading statements of all kinds.
General Nicolaieff was shot and
LUled in Warsaw, Russian Poland, by
terrorists, the murderers escaping.