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225. RUIN Death Spread On the Island of Jamaica By the Hurricane, Which Devastates Entire Eastern End. Port Antonio Razed as If Upset By a Quake. Only Six Houses Remain in Thriving Town. Host In Cities and Country Rendered Homeless, And Loss To Plantations Is Many Millions.

Great Damage Is Also Wrought in Kingston, Where Over 1.000 Houses Were Demolished. CABLE TO THE ENQUIRER. Kingston. Jamaica, August was struck this morning by a hurricane, which devastated the entire eastern end of the island, Causing great loss of life. lay- Ing thriving cittes in ruins and destroying thousands banana plantations.

Owing to the crippled condition of the telegraph full extent of the damage wrought has not yet been ascertained, but knows that enormous damage done the weatern portion of the Thus far reports show a loss of 98.000 to the plantation owners alone, Jess which it will take many years to re- pair. FINE SEAPORT IS RAZED. Port Antonio, the second largest town of Jamaica, and one of the most Important kaports off the West Indles, was overwhelmed great storm. Only six houses are fleft standing. There the full force of the hurricane was spent, razing vast structures as well as frame rest- cences, and causing great ruin in the harbor, The Hotel.

Titchfleld, the largest building. lies in ruins flat on the ground, eff overturned by an earthquake. The United Fruit Company's wharves, entices. hotel and plantations were utterly demolished. To-night thonsands are wandering on the trenched homeless and hungry.

Tents and temporary sheds have been put 5p, but these can not give shelter to more than half the homeless throng. so that tany of the women and children even will compelled to spend the night outdoors. The distress great, and increasing hourly, and unless immediate relief comes disease starvation may add to the horfor of the appalling situation. IN THE HARBOR. The once beautiful harbor of Pert Antonio Alters sight.

It is strewn local sailing vessels. The United Fruit Company, however, was fortunate escaping the destruction of its Reamers, which. including the Alfred Dumois and Brightdriven ashore, but they are now bing in Port another torn on the north east end, but not as large. Here there was considtable loss It is the fatalities will have been already been reportprincipal among seamen in the variCus harbors by the hurricane: Reports been pouring in here since this of vilalges having been Piped out. buildings destroyed and churches I Thousand peasantry, rendered stitute.

are wandering about and shelter. The deFraction banana plantations has been lazed fruit trade is parafor months. Hundreds of rowers have been brought ruin. the end, which was at first mapposed escaped, new banana partly destroyed and the coffee crops were also injured. DAMAGE TO VESSELS.

The Norwegian steamer Salvatore di Giargi and ashore at Annotte Bay lies in dangerous position. Several vessels were wrecked on the north It is still stormy and there threatening and are fears that there may be a reof the storm. Torrential rains have increased the misof the poor land homeless. Thousands in wharves Kingston were damaged, the Here buttered and several coastVessels were sunk in the harbor. Trading is practically The at a standstill.

was portion of the southeastern island denuded of 44 and many crops, the rivers are floodand men were carried out to sea drowned. Considering property the damage to during the hurricane the loss of THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13. 1903. JAMAICA TOWNS STRUCK BY DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE. PORT ANTONIO.

STREET SCENE IN KINGSTON. AN dell for Bull Royal i MAP OF THE EASTERN END OF THE WHICH WAS ENTIRELY DEVASTATED. A SOUTHERNERS In Large Number Attend the Chautauqua Mob Conferences. Chautauqua, N. August thousands of Southerners at Chautauqua the mob conference audiences are lecidedly bipartisan.

It is the belief that never before have mobs, lynchings and strikes recelved such fair-minded discussion in meetings having equal representation of extreme partisan supporters. Rev. Dr. Dean Richmond Babbitt, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Brooklyn, answered John Temple Graves, of Georgia, in an elaborate address to-day on lynchings and mobs from an American standpoint. He showed the prevalence and increasing violence of the mob spirit, its tendency.

to leap the color line -and to lynch for minor offenses than criminal assault and murder. He paid a glowing tribute to order and lAW as represented in Governors Durbin and Yates, of Indiana and Illinois respectively, and upheld Prestdent Roosevelt. Lynchers, the speaker declared, were plain, brutal, savage murderers. and should be treated as such by the authorities and all worthy to bear the name of American citizens. EASTERN BELLE To Become the Bride of Gordon Hughes, Son of Colonel Joseph Hughes, of Hamilton.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Baltimore, August May Brown, the only daughter of former Governor Frank Brown, of this state, is soon to marry Gordon T. Hughes, a young lawyer of New York City. Miss Brown inherIted a fortune from her mother and made her debut three seasons ago. She has spent her summers abroad prior to this year, and received much attention from foreign noblemen.

Her most determined foreign suitor was Baron Rudolph Lehman, reputed to be one of the richest young men In Holland, who came to this country with 27 trunks and two servants and spent a small fortune in trying to win her hand. He returned almost broken-hearted. Mr. Hughes is a Harvard graduate and a son of Colonel Joseph B. Hughes, of Hamilton; Ohlo, who was Consul at Birmingham, England, under Cleveland's first administration.

He is a member of several leading New York clubs and was for a time Secretary to Justice Horace Gray, of the United States Supreme Court. JILTED Three Weeks Ago By Dolly Douglas, Young Sargent Weds a Pair Indiana Girl. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Indianapolis, August 12. -Leonard Sarsent, a wealthy young Indianapolis bustness man who was jilted three weeks ago by pretty Dolly Douglas, of St.

Louts, on what was to have been their wedding day. was married this afternoon at Greencastle to Miss Maude May Reece, of Cloverdale. It was not exactly case of "oft with the old love and on with the new with Sargent. Miss Reece was his sweetheart before he met and fell in love with Miss Douglas. He procured license to marry Miss Douglas.

She agreed to come here for the ceremony, but she only got far the St. Louis station with the wedding trousseau. There she disappeared. Sargent searched for her, but was unsuccessful. An effort was made to-day to keep his marriage a secret, but it leaked out.

PRICE FIVE CENTS comparatively small, though the present estimate la that the death list will reach: 50. Hundreds of persons were inJured, and there were numerous breadth The property loss $10,000,000, HEADED NORTH Is the Hurricane, and Warnings Are Out in- Many Ports. Washington, August 12-The tropical storm was apparently central Wednesday afternoon near extrente Western Cuba. and recurving. It should enter the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico during Wednesday night and move northward or northeastward during Thursday, Hurricane warnings have been continued from Port Fade to Jupiter and storm a warnings from Jacksonville to Charleston.

The Weather Bureau this morning issued the following: "West Indian storm apperently is recurring northward toward the south coast of Western Cuba. The gale will set in over southeast gulf. Southern Florida and Western Bahamas this afternoon and night and probaly over northeast part of Gulf of Mexico and along and off our South Atlantic Coast Thurrday. It la impossibie to now determine whether the storm will reach our Middle and North Atlantic Coasts. Due and timely notice will be given 12 1t khapes a course toward these coasts.

Vessela have been warned riot to sell southward from Atlantic ports." CUBA SUFFERS Little From the Fury of the Hurricane Which Ruined Jamaica. Havana, August 12. While high winds and threatening conditions prevail in all the provinces of Cuba, there have been no reports up to to-night of any important damThe land telegraphic connection with Santiago, which was repeatedly interrupted, has been restored. There was some destruction of crops and small buildings in the Province of Pinar del Rio, where the wind appears to have been the strongest. Cable connection with all the islands of the West Indies is intact, with the exception of Jamaica, Martinique, Guadaloupe and Do- minico.

CABLE IS RESTORED. New York, August Commercial Cable Company to-day announces the resstoration of communication with Jamaica by way of Bermuda. LABORERS Resisted Robbers, Who Killed Two and Seriously Wounded Another. Glendive, August masked men attempted to hold up in Northern Pacino freight car early to-day six laborers en route to the wheat felds of the Dakotas. The laborers resisted the demands of the robbers and general fight ensued, resulting in the killing of Thomas McGowan, of Philadelphia, who was shot through the right lung.

and an unknown man whose body was found in the car later In the day. W. R. Menshing. of Perham, was shot through the neck and perhaps will die.

The robbers escaped unintured, but two of them were arrested night. FATHER Kidnaped His Daughter While the Mother's Body Was En Route To the Cemetery, 'Tis Said -Posse After Him. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Muncie, August the restdence of her uncle, Dr. W.

S. Brandon, at Daleville, pretty little Marguerite Tucker, aged 4, was kidnaped this morning by a man said to be her father, just few minutes after the hearse containing the dead body of her mother had left for the cemetery. The father, Alfred Tucker, deserted the child's mother when the babe was only 6 weeks old and had not been seen since. She was granted a divorce. In poverty she took her child to the house of her wealthy relatives, where she was reiceived.

A few weeks ago the mother became land died three days ago. To-day the funeral was held. The chid was thought too little to take to the cemetery and was left to play about the house. The cortege was just well on its way to the little cemeItery when a man drove rapidly in a buggy from the other direction. He grabbed the child from the porch and started toward Muncie.

As soon as the child was missed a posse started in pursuit of the man, who had been seen driving away. A few miles east of Yorktown he had abandoned the horse and buggy and caught an east-bound interurban car for Muncle. To-night the police scoured the city in search of the man, but could get no trace of him. Dr. Brandon will spare no effort or money to recover the little girl, whom he intends to adopt into his faimly.

SIX YEARS The Pair Corresponded and They Will Meet For the First Time at Marriage Altar. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Frankfort, August M. Presnal, oll operator of Breazoria County, Texas, and Miss Emma Bennett, an 30- complished and pretty young woman ct Gist, Henry County, will be married tomorrow after correspondence of six years, though the couple had never met before to-day. The' engagement came about in romance through young Clements, friend of Presnal, who was sociated with him in Texas six years ago.

On leaving for home Presnal told Clements he had heard of the fame of Kentucky's pretty women and that he would be pleased if he would place him in correspondence with an eligible and it companion possessing the charms for which they were noted. Presnal was advised to address Miss Bennett and the courtship followed. Pictures were exchanged and on meeting to-day the couple were mutually pleased. They will leave to-morrow for Houston. Texas, where they will make their future home.

Presnal is about 35 years of age, prepossessing in appearance and is sald to be man of wealth. PRIEST SUED. DISPATCH TO THE Waterbury, August 12. Father Joseph E. Senesac, of St.

Roman Catholic Church, has been sued Louis Struck for $10,000 damages. alleges the priest allenated his wite's HUGE BELL Tell Workers, Crushing Out the Lives of HOMES As a Nation's Safeguard Upheld By Wade H. Ellis, of Cincinnati, in Convention Of Ohio Building Association League at Put-in Bay. Decrease of Home Owners 1 Proves Topic of Heated Discussion Between Delegates. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Put-4n Bay, Ohio, Auguat Ohio Building Association League opened its Atteenth annual convention with about 200 present. President Rufus Jones, of Dayton, addressed the meeting touching on the responsibilitics of associations such as theirs that handle the savings of thousands of laboring people. He referred to the recommendations of the State -Inspectors as to a change in the law to provide for annual examinations of all associations and uniform system of bookkeeping. This the Preaident hesitated to indorse, as only in very general form could it be made the subJect of legislation. Wade H.

Ellis, of Cincinnati. followed with the most eloquent paper of the day on American Home." He pointed out that the safeguard of the Institutions of a nation must lie in its homes and regretted the decline in the past decade of the number of home owners. It was in his opinion due to overtaxation of this kind of property and the admixture of races in this country. The latter must be one of the strongholds of the nation, but the immigration was in many cases of a class that were not home makers, and he suggested that means should be taken to make them so to some extent before the right of citizenship be extended to them. COMBINES ARE BLAMED.

The paper gave rise to much discussion. Other reasons assigned for the decrease of home owners were by E. R. Hlett. of Toledo, the combine operations which crippled manufactorles and threw men out of employment, making them uncertain of their ability to pay for a home; by Mr.

Locke, of Bucyrus, the increase of civilization leading directly to a decrease of home makers; by Mr. McKee, of Dayton. who claimed the panic previous to 1900 was responsible and the decadence is not serious. Mr. Wells, of Wellsville, attributed it to the Increase of apartment houses, and H.

M. Farnsworth, of Cleveland, attributed it to bullding associations. which require too high rates. C. H.

Gallup. of Norwalk. attributed to the consolidation of banks, combines and railroads which thus close down smaller concerns. E. J.

Sweter illustrated a system of bookkeeping to the meeting. which was heartily Indorsed by some, severely criticized by others, and which gave rise to the exchange of A good many personalities and hard raps. but which concluded without any very definite conclusion being drawn. VALUE OF AN AUDIT. A.

C. Ernest, of Cleveland, gave a paper on the value of an audit by an expert, advocating strongly a thorough audit. At the evening session Judge Sperra, of Columbus, Deputy State Inspector of Bullding and Loan Associations, addressed the meeting briefly on the heavy responsibility it owed the working people. C. J.

McKee, of Dayton, followed with an earnest plea sO far as possible for the establishment in dome form of the Torrens system land transfer in the State of Ohlo, and hie sentiments were heartily applauded. Resolutions were referred to the Committee on Resolutions that information should be gathered from other states where the system is used and a bill be prepared to present to the Legislature to provide for the adoption of the Torrens system In Ohio so far as possible. Resolutions were also passed to indorse the recommendations of the Inspector for annual examinations of associations and a uniform system of bookkeeping. The session was concluded by H. F.

Cellarius, of Cincinnati, reading an account of the proceedings of the United States League at Boston. NEW HAY Caught Fire Spontaneously and Marshal Found No Firebugs. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Findlay, Ohio, August 12-On the lookout for an organized band of firebugs of the stripe recently convicted and sent to the penitentiary from Williams County, Deputy State Fire Marshal Beardsley, of Columbus, arrived in the city last night only to find that the presence of the object of his search in this city was only Imaginary. About a week ago the barns of John C.

Peterman and E. V. Pepple, in Jackson Township, were destroyed by fire Spontaneous combustion in haymows in which new hay had been stored was the cause in both Instances. YOUNG CASHIER ENDS LIFE. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Meridan, August 12-Frank W. Rev. Caher, 24 years old, cashier of the Eagle Anne's Cotton Oil Company, prominent in local soby clety, shot himself dead in the Southern Struck Hotel here this morning. Unless note af- which he left behind clew, there WAS no apparent motive for the suicide. to death fourth of dent plant Compa Instantly kitted George furnace Krejel Verna, The three another could Ohio.

starting of the cave way and metal bell for lowering fuel mace fell from a height of feet directon them. The crumbed their forts almost beyond nition. WOMAN RUSHED Across the Courtroom To Attack torney Prosecuting Her. SPECIAL THE Bucyrus, Ohio, August 12 -W. an attorney of this county, attacked in the Probate Court here to-day by Mr.

Elizabeth Errett, over whose of tosanity there has such Mr. Geer arguing bis woman when she broke a from those near her, and, running the length of threw herself upon the ney. The Sheriff rushed to the latter' but it required several men get her back to Jail. The Judge pronounced Mrs. Errett insane, notwithetanding her confession that she is shamming.

She will be taken to a private sanitarium. COLUMBUS MAN Must Answer To the Cadiz Grand Jury on Charges of Assault. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO ENQUIRER, Cadiz, Ohio, August 12 8. B. Beebe.

wealthy real estate dealer of Columbus. who was for many years a prominent Izen of this city, was arrested to-day and placed under a bond of $500 to answer to the coming of the grand jury on charge preferred by Mrs. Smith, the wife of a blacksmith st Spellacy's camp, on the new Wabash Railroad. Beebe denies the charge, and declares that he can prove his innocence by the dence of a thirteen-year-old girl who with them at the time of the alleged attempted assault. BOYS CONFESSED They Had Committed Many TheftsHad an Organization.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Marion, August 12-Eight boys, whose ages average 11 years, captured by the police, acknowledged having an organIzation for the purpose of robbing houses and places of business. Numerous robbertes of cash registers, money drawers, freight cars, chicken houses and many petty thefts have puzzled the officers for months. The boys were registered Frank Forehand. Herbert Ferguson, Clarence King.

Gunice Moore. Otto Moore, Earl Hill, Harvey Turner and Alfred Bennett. GRABBED Revolver From Father And Shot Him Twice Cleveland Woman Protected Her Aged. Mother From Abuse. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-Mra. Julia Humphrey, attractive, intelligent and refined, is under arrest at Central Police Station on the charge of shooting her father, Ezra Jones. He limped into the Thirteenth Precinct Station. blood spurting from three bullet wounds. have been he gasped.

daughter tried to kill me." He was faint from the pain he had suftered. An ambulance was called and the wounded man was taken to St. Clair Hospital. Meanwhile officers had been sent after Mra. Humphrey.

Unable to give bail she was locked up. Jones's injurles were not as serous as supposed. After him wounds were dressed the nurse stepped from the room a moment. The wounded man jumped from the window. making of his escape.

He went to the home relative on the West Side. It was sald that Jones did not want to appear as witness against his daughter. He was formerly a B. and O. detective.

but recently has been doing special work for Mayor Goff in connection with saloon cases in Glenville. At the Central Police Station this Mrs. Humphrey gave her, version of ing the shooting: "It a terrible thing to shoot one's father," she said. "And yet feel as though I was in the right. "Day after day father came home intoxicated and abused my mother and myself.

sometimes it seemed as thodgh I could stand it no longer. Tuesday father was more violent than ever, and I made up my mind then to settle it once and for all. When he drew two big revolvers and threatened my mother's life it was 100 much. I seized one of the weapons and turned it on WAITED Thirty-One Years For the Return of His Wife, Before Applying For Divorce. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TEE Cleveland, Ohio.

August 12. Jeremies Doree waited 20 years and then his patience was exhausted. To-day he filed a petition for divorce, alleging willful absence. Thirty-one years ago he was married to, Amelia Doree. The ceremony took place at Ottawa, Canada.

The young people removed to Cleveland and began housekeeping on Detroit street. At the end of two years domestic bliss had been replaced by strife. One night Doree returned to his home to find it vacant. His wife had deserted him, he alleges. Since that day he has neither seen nor heard from her.

He says that he has tried In vain to find her so that a reconciliation could be brought about. He has accumulated considerable property from his ings, and it was his hope to share this with the woman he had as his life partner. Becoming convinced that Mrs. Doree would never return. he filed the action in order to cut her out of any dower rights that she might have in the estate.

They had no children. Doree says that the property will go to his nieces and nephew ENDED THEIR DRIVE. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Kokomo, August 12-While driving along the street to-day Taylor Coons, an old showman and former proprietor of the Clinton Hotel, was showing a large new revolver to his wife. The weapon was accidentally discharged.

The horse received the contents of the gun and fell dead in the shafts LARGEST Of World's Railroads Seaboard Air Line, Last of the Independents, Under Operation in the Southern Section, Has Been Merged With Rock Island System. Hundred and Twenty. Five Million Dollars Involved in Big Deal Completed Yesterday, Though No Money Passed Hands of Bankers. End Desired By Southern Securities Company Has Been Attained and Laws of the State Evaded. RIFLE Kept Family at Bay, While His House, Set on Fire By Tharpe, Was Burned.

"Tricky Tom" Is Again in the Old Familiar Jail He Was Charged With Assisting Curt Jett To Escape, But Evidence Was Insufficient. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Jackson, August "Tricky" Tom carpe 1 arrested yesterday at Elkatawa, a station on the L. and E. Railway, and lodged in the County Jail at Jackson.

The arrest was made by Captain Longmire, in charge of the provost guard tioned here to preserve order. Several days ago Tharpe, it alleged, engaged in a quarrel with his wife, and, becoming frenzied, set fire to his house, and with cocked Winchester in hand, stood guard to prevent his wife and children from attempting to extinguish the flames or from removing their scanty supply of clothes and other effects from the burning building. The poor woman, trantic with fear, and the children rending the air with their cries, were compelled, the muzzle of gun. in the hands of the irate husband and father, to stand by and see everything they possessed disappear in flames. One of his sons, a lad 16 years old, attempted to enter the burning cottage, and received a bullet wound in the arm.

MADE HIM WALK. Tharpe, when found and taken into custody, refused to walk, demanding that he be taken on the train which was due three hours later. Captain Longmire ordered two of his men to take Tharpe to Jackson afoot, and the soldiers, supporting him on each side, started up the railroad, his feet ging along over the cross ties. He soon had enough of this, and announced his willingness to walk and the officers found no further difficulty in conveying him to jail, where he now awaits his examining trial. Tharpe acquired the name 'Tricky" by the adeptness heretofore displayed in his ous dealings and in his many original methods of evading the law.

He has served one term in the penitentiary, and has spent a great part of his life in jail, where he is very much at home. The Circuit Court criminal docket has hardly been free from his name for years. The operation of "blind tigers" has been his principal occupation. Prior to 1902 he carried on this business in various places the county and managed to great extent to evade punishment, but in the spring of that year he opened up one of these places just outside of the corporate limits of Jackson, where disreputable characters assembled and treated the neighborhood nightly to a "rough He was arrested and tried before Judge Hargis, fined $230 and his place closed up and he lodged in jail in default of payment of the fine. CHARGED WITH HELPING JETT.

After remaining In jail several months Tharpe became a trusty, and, being a good cook. was assigned work in the kitchen cooking for the prisoners. Curt Jett. now on trial at Cynthiana, was an inmate of the jail at the time. One morning the town was startled with the Announcement that Jett had broken jail and disappeared.

Jett was not kept in a cell. and escaped through a hole in the brick wall. evidently made from the "Tricky' was out that night, and suspicion at once rested on him as the party who had aided Jett to escape. He was arrested. tried and held to answer the charge of assisting a prisoner to escape.

Jett was arrested later and returned to the Jail, and when taken before the grand Jury at the following term of Court refused at first to tell who helped him out, finally swearing that it was dark at the time and that he did not recognize his kind assistant. The military camp was enlivened to-day by the arrival of the Catlettsburg company under the command of Captain Markham. The Kentucky State Band composes a part of this company, and as they marched up the street on their way to the camp playing martial airs quite a commotion was created. This afternoon the provost tents on the public square were tastefully decorated with laurel and other native flowers, and to-night the square is brilliantly Illuminated, and the whole town in attendance at concert given by the band at provost headquarters. FOR INSUBORDINATION Warden Allagood Said Miss De Crist Was Whipped.

Milledgeville, August 12- The takIng of testimony by the Georgia Prison Commission in the case of excessive cruelty charged against Warden Allagood has been completed. The voluminous evidence will be submitted to the commission this week, and from this the commission will formulate its report to Governor Terrell. Warden Allagood's testimony before the commission was a denial of Miss De Crist's charges of improper proposals. He admitted whipping her, and said the punishment had become necessary because of her insubordination. He put her to work in the Melds after her he said, because he wanted her to realize an easy time she was having in the house." Evidence given that Warden Allagood was "humane, man of good character and above reproach." SPECIAL DISPATOR TO New York, August Another great property was added to the Rock Island aye.

tem to-day when, without the Issue of a gle dollar of money, a $125.000.000 deal completed, annexing the Seaboard Air Line, the last independent line of the South. This gives the Rock Island 2.600 miles more rail, a steamship line from Florida to Cuba, and one from Norfolk to Baltimore. It puts Rock Island trains over controlled roads bland. Into Washington, Tampa. Norfolk, WImington, Savannah and Jacksonville, on the Atlantic seaboard.

Junction with the Rock Island system will be made at Birmingham over the Frisco. By trame agreements Rock Island trains can even enter New York over the Baltimore and Ohio from SHOTS From Canadian Cutter Riddled the American Boat, But It Got Away. Erie Captain Fished Upon the British Side. Twenty Odd Holes Put in the Boat Before the Plucky Sailors Had Escaped. Erie, August Sliver Spray.

a fishing boat, owned here, came into port this afternoon in a badly shattered condition, due to an encounter in midlake about noon with the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel. The Canadian authorities have had trouble with American fishermen for years who were poaching on their side of the lake, and the Petrel is kept constantly on the lookout for them. About noon she came upon the Silver Spray, on the Canadian side of the lake, and at once ordered Captain Chris Chau to stop. The Petrel is a strong steel craft. and, it is said, attempted to ram the American boat before she could comply with the Petrel's order.

DECIDED TO RUN. Captain Chau, remembering the fate of several other boats from this side which had been captured and confiscated, two from Erie, only last season, decided to try to escape, and started ahead at tull speed. The Captain of the Petrel, when he saw that the Silver Spray was trying to get away, opened fire with all the guns he had on board, and before 'ne ceased firing some 20 shots had struck the Silver Spray. One passed through the smokestack into the pliot house, in which Chau stood at the wheel, and two more struck the pilot house, one of which came within a few inches of Chau, scattering splinters around his bed. Two shots entered the lavatory, two plerced the cabin, two split the roof, three swept the after hurricane deck, while others hit various parts of the boat.

THE CHASE KEPT UP. The chase was kept up for some time, and Captain Chau was nearly in despair, as his cold water pump refused to work, and he feared that his boat might be struck below the water line. He finally crossed the international line, and the Petrel gave up the pursuit. The Silver Spray is a double-decker. and was for 12 years in service at Buffalo as pleasure steamer.

Captain Chan will report the affair to the State Department Washington, as he says he was not fishing. but looking for some of his nets, which had drifted from this side toward the Canadian shore. A large number of American fishing tugs have been confiscated by the Government. one, however. belonging at Dunkirk, being a few days ago ordered returned by Secretary of State Hay.

RICH NEGRO. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Louisville, Ky. August 12. The will of Ed Warden.

a negro saloon keeper, probated to-day. The estate. which worth $30.000, was left to his widow. SWING STRUCK HIM. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE Cosbocton.

Ohio, August 12. Harry Shook. 8 years old, was perhaps fatally hurt by being struck by a big swing at the street carnival here to-night. SAW MOTHER SAFE, Then Emily Beach Tried To Rescue Baby Sister Burned. SPECIAL DISTATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Lorain, Onto. August seeing that her mother had got out of the house Emily Beach went after her two days' old sister, who waa in an upstairs room of their burning residence. Smoke and flames overcame her and her charred body, together with that of the babe, was found after the flames had been extinguished. Emily, who WAS aged 18, WAS Ailing gasoline stove and the fluid overflowing from the tank caught fire from the stove. Burns received by the mother, Mrs.

Julius Py, will probably cause her death. FORMER OHIOAN, Who Became Prominent in the West, Succumbs To Disease. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Portland, August, Reed, one of Washington's most prominent public men, died here to-day, aged 45. Mr.

Reed was born in Cambridge, Ohio, In 1858, coming West and settling in Washington in 1878 at Yakima, with which city he has ever since been identifled both as business man and as city official. He was one of Yakima's first Councilmen and was Mayor in 1893. CHILDREN Left in a Sparsely Furnished Home Without Food For Days and Were Almost Starved. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Louisville, August children, the youngest 5, the eldest 12, were brought to the office of the Board of Children's Guardians this morning by Mrs.

Eliza Hart, who turned them over to Agent Julius Hild. The father of the children, George Cole, was sent to the workhouse several weeks ago, and the mother, Mattie Cole, has disappeared. A few days Ago Mrs. Eliza Hart, who lives two doors from the children on Rollins street, heard cries from the house and went with her husband to Investigate. They found the four children in a room bare of all furniture except a bed.

They had been without food for several days, and were in the last stages of starvation. Mrs. Hart took them to her home at 123 Rollins avenue, fed and clothed them. and this morning brought them to the police, from where they were sent to the School of Reform. When the mother is found she will be prosecuted for criminal neglect.

IN AGONY Fifty Guests of Senator Stewart Rolled Upon the Ground From Ptomaine Poison. Washington, August 12-Ptomaine poison to-night laid low 50 guests of Senator Stewart at Ashburn. Va. A large number of persons had gathered to attend the sale of a dairy farm owned by Senator Stewart, of Nevada. The Senator served to the prospective buyers light luncheon, consisting of coffee and ham and beef sandwiches.

Shortly afterward 50 persons were taken violently Ill, suffering from ptomaine poisonIng. One after the other they tell to the ground. writhing in agony. Horsemen dispatched in all directions for doctors and a number responded and took prompt measures to relieve the sufferers. The doctors say that the patients are out of danger, although many are exceedingly sick.

An Investigation developed the fact that the beef, which had been purchased in Washington and kept in cold storage on the farm for several days, was the cause of the trouble. Washington. Rock Island thus becomes in mileage, capital, extent and richness of territory traversed the greatest railroad system the world. Its mileage -amounte to almost 29,000, and it exceeda by many hundred miles the great Pennsylvania and New York Central systema. This deal has been under consideration for several montha, and but for the disastrous collapse of the stock market would have been put through Immediately after the Frisco deal was com- pleted.

GREATEST OF ROADS. It was not finished, however, until late Tuesday night, when John Skelton Witliams, President and chief stockholder and the man who has stood out defying J. P. Morgan's attempts to harmonize Southern railroad interests, agreed to the entry into his board of B. F.

Yoakum, Henry Clay Pierce, B. S. Guinness, Oak- leigh Thorne and B. F. Van Voret.

As Ernst Thalmann, of the Arm of Laden- burg Thaimann, of which Mr. Guinness also a member, has been for some time Director of the road, the new interests have a clear majority. Mesers. Yoakum, Pierce, Guinness and Thorne were also elected Voting Trustees. The other Trusteen are: President Williame, James H.

Dooley, C. 8. Shepard and William Mar- an a a tura. Announcement of the deal made after the close of the Stock Exchange today by Mr. Williams and by Ladenburg.

Thaiman who will have charge of the necessary transfer of securities. It was known long before noon. however, that tae Rock Island was in control, and the masterly financiering displayed in securing this rate-cutting independent line without the use of any money so turned the Wailstreet sentiment in favor of the Rock Island managers as to cause a sharp advance of all the stocks involved. Reports that the Frisco had invaded the Southern territory and reached the seaboard In deflance of the will of J. P.

Morzan caused the new owners of the property to issue a statement late to-night saying that the deal was in the interest of harmong, It was intimated that Mr. Morgan himself approved the plans before they were finally adopted. Him own Southern Railway Company is barred by Southern laws from controlling the Seaboard Alt Line, which is a competing property. An a contribution to the peace agreement the Rock Island people have agreed not build the projected Seaboard Air Line branch from Athens, Ga, to Charleston. This leaves Charleston in control of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern Railway.

As the Seaboard Air Line taps the Louisville and Nashville at Birmingham and at Montgomery, and since every railroad in the South is now under the immediate control of J. P. Morgan and his intimate business friends of the Atlantic Coast Line and of the Rock Island, a close working agreement between the various roads will now be put into practice and the entire Southern field will be as absolutely in control of Morgan Co. as if his projected Southern Securities Company had been carried out. The new arrangement evades all railroad laws of the South, it is understood.

PRESENT MANAGEMENT Official announcement is also made that the present management of the Seaboard Air Line will be continued, the property being operated separately by Rock Island. The Seaboard Air Line will land freight for the Rock Island into New Yorks City,.