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Jtt r. 'r. V. rjr SIXT EDITION FAIR; WAUUKR. The Saturday Nts 'is lit Sunday paper in In iisr.a.

IL1L ii VOL. XXXIII TUESDAY EYEKIXG, JUKE 10, 1902, TWELVE PAGES rivK ri.t.AR9 (two A TKAU THE FODREft CJVSE IS ilOl'J UNDERWAY Jary Made Up and Statement for the State Made to the Jury. TALK BY JUDGE NEAL Asked Newspaper Men to Cling to the Facts and Avoid Sensationalism MakerUp of Jury. i (Frcra KtafT Correi pondept NOBLKoVILLE, Jun .19. Tb'.

was the second day of the trial In the. Hamilton Circuit Court of William Fod rea. on the charge of assassinating John Stay. Up to this time the State ha ben presenting It tide of the ease, and has good progress with Jts witnesses. The, Jury that is hearing the case Is tr.ude up as.

follows: C. Ku i daily. Sheridan; George F. Jerrell'. Fall Creek township: II.

A. Bcheldmeir. Cicero; Darwin Myers, Boxley; Albert'Good, Cicero; C. E.1 Elliott, Sheridan; Jesse Mussey. Crrnh Loren Hankley, Omega; Eliaa Lunsford, Fall Creek; Jerry Klotz, No blesville; Michael Klser, Noblesville; John R.

Hosts, Fishers. Statement for the State. llalph Jt. Kanek for the Stale, made the opening statement. He detailed the threats alleged to have been made by Fodrea against Scay because the latter ket company with" Miss told Fodrea tried to get work athamitt where Seay wan employed and when Informed that there was no placefor him, replied that ho was willing to work; for nothing "to set the ruir of that Fodrea was cn lurking around tne mm lata 'at night and was seen standing at another time on the spot at the milt where the murderer Mood; that Fodrea ti frequently seen peering Into the mill when Feay was there.

Mr. Kane sharply defined the kitl irg of Feay and the finding of the dead in the mill. Miss Fhllllrs pressed her handkerchief to her eyes and wept. Fodrea was Unmoved. 'Fodrea glanced time and again acroeu roum at the weeping girl and a lnwcd his lio're to wander around hut other than that he was not af nted by til Ury.

he attorney fr the State caused. a sensation vhen he declared that the State will show that the night of the murder. William' Fodrea, was seen within two of the mill with a shotgun In his hand. At this statement Fodrea, ror the first during Kane's remarks, showed H.fme Interest, lie turned pale for. a second, ond then flushed.

JI leaned over to 'hH sister, who Mtt Inside him. and they hisperr for etvetnl rninutes. What the i.v paid to her brother seemed to cheer tip. for ho untied end then Fettled 1uk in It c'hflr and watched the pro as If he were a. disinterested ctator, Witnesses for the State.

Tw enty flve oT the State's wltneusea lined up behind tii! Jviry and sworn. The defendant glanced down the longr Kj.e of uplifted lisnds, but his face was ltrt witness for the State wttt put in the xtand late yesterday afternoon. He1 via Frattk Hond, who worked with the ni'irdcred man. lie told of hla and Seay's action at the mill the night of the murder, the diseovery of the body and the finding of a number of J2 gauge gun. wads jiesr It.

Tht cU fonse did Tut examlne the witness. Judje Talked to Reporter. XJefore the eaae was called. Judge Xeal jked the reporters for the dally papers to corns to hla desk. He explained to them that he had no desire to observe a consorshlp over the pres or restrlot the reporters In, their work, but he naid that there Is considerable feeling because of tho crime In the county, and there was dlvUion of fttttirr.cnt over the puilt or lnnooence of r.idre.t.

1 For that rensmv he desired to caution, the members of the presn against handling th cAldenec In jenattonal way or com i tncniinu on It In a maimer not Justified by the facts. Judge Neal urged that nothing be said or done that In any way would av tho public to be exilted. 1'rlv ately, Neal nald that while no tremble was anticipated, or would beper eaitted.there was Indignation over the com tnUslon of the crime, and he tliought Pest to do everything that would prevent the public from becoming more inflamed. "While the Indignation Is great at th Kirocioufnes or ine crime, mere is a larne eientert of people who do not be lv Fo irea guilty. The pr! ner's f.ither, I erl.

D. Fodrea, lived In Hamilton county over fifty iff. lie wiv a soldier and two or tlciiea newas candidate for re r.T.'fr ef this county and finally was rxftCit to tne omce. ins term was a roi)s one and he left the office with iv.ih thousand dollirs. He 'M fir iuslness at Indianapolis and lost money.

Father Stands byHis Son. ince tht time l.e hs been In the real liisSness in a final! way, but haa ot accumulated, much of a competency, ic will take all he has and more to bey. William Fodrea. ag iir.st whom the In fitctmer.t was returned, ts about thirty years of age and. with the exception ot a e.r or two.

l.s spent Lis entire life Jlamlilcu county, lie has always been rr.in(e.t end unassuming and did not have a lurge circle of Intimate friends. I Vidrea, some time ago. opened a laun 5ry. and was vifll; when a man he 0 employed caused him, to lose ail. At tlnje he remarked In a morbid way, 'tt st ems as If everyotws that has any to with me beats me." That re Is JalJ to ba characteristic of the rung man's make up.

hile In jalf he sss lint and morose, seldom speaking anyone, and at r.o tltno discussing the rirt.e lth which he nas chargvM with sheriff or Jail authorities. In fact, to (ir fi is known, he ne er hss talked of hr perhaps, with near rc'atlxxs ml his attorneys. The Murdered Men's Habits. Seay. the victim of the 'murder.

es, In a way, a with a similar cJ Pat TWO BOLD CONVICTS. Prowled Around Salem After Killing Three Guards. SAhKM, June 10. Tracey and Merrill, the escaped convJeta, who killed three gnards, at the penitentiary, in getting away, yesterday, returned here last night, atole clothing from two men. took a team of hows from a third man and tarted northward.

The convicts met J. W. Jtoberts, a cltlsen, returning to his home In South Salem, about 10 o'clock. They robbed htm of h's clothing and then' commanded him to enter his house, which was nearby, and remain there aU nlsht under pain of death. The convicts later met an irrtman, and from him they took an overcoat and nair of overalls.

They then stole a team belonging to Felix Labranthe and drove northward. At 4 o'clock thia morning Roberta ventured from hia home. SILK IMPORTERS ARRESTED. Outcome' cf Frauds Which Caused New York Custom House Shake Up. NEW YORK.

June 10. Two jn'erchanta are. held In Sfle.OuO ball on charges of defrauding the Government jln the biggest customs swindle In recent years. They are Martin I. Cohen and Abraham B.

Rosenthal, members of A. S. Rosenthal i2 Greene street. The frauds, which were carried on by false declarations of silk Importations, will, It ts said, amount to millions. The affair madje so much trouble In the trade that It was one of the causes of the resignation of Secretary Lyman J.

Gage, who was tired of hearing It, and of tne reiusai or the president to reappoint Collector Ridwell, who opposed Wakeman In the matter." DANIEL RE! D'S HOUSE. All Its Plans Blocked by Failure to Get a Lot. (Special to The Indianapolis Newa.J RICHMOND, June 10. The half mlUlon dolIar mansion of Daniel G. Reid, the tlnplate magnate, which he proposed to erect li this city, his former home.

111 not be fotthcoming this summer, at least. The inability of Mr. Reid to acquire all the ground he desires lias stopped progress for the time being. Kvery pteee of property on the juare wen secured except, that of 54. H.

DM, which lte midway jn the block. He does not want to dispose of the property; bplng attached to it because it was the homestead of Mrs. Dill's parents. It is said that Mr. Reid offered for it.

INDIANA.MAVAL CADETS. Their Standing Determined at Recent Examinations. (Fpet tal to The Indianapolis News. ANNAPOLIS. June 10.

The standing of next year's first, second and third classes of naval cadets has been determined by the examinations. Indlanlans stand ns follows: First class, John S. Arwlne 57; James D. Wilscn, SD. Second class, Roacoe F.

Dillon, 42, Third class, IIS members: tidward M. McSheehy, 17; John A. Maudevllle, 34; Nelson H. Gom, Harry K. Shoemaker, 92; Hugh Ilrorn.

107. TWO MEN WERE ASLEEP. They May Have Been the Murderers of James Lacy. to The IndWnapoTls News. une 10.

Two. men, believed to lave en the murderers of James Lacy, near Marion, were seen by number of persons' lying on the grass, near IMessant Hill churrh, southwest of this city, yesterday, but news of thectragedy had not reached here, and nothing was thouRht of the sleeping men, or their rig, httched under trees. When the Marion officers appeared, here searching for the men, they had left. GAMBLING SHUT OUT. Elks at Muncle Begin the Week's Carnival.

IPpecal.to The Indianapolis News.J MFNCIE. June 10. The Elks carnival, to last all wreck, began last evening with an attendance probably of 3,500. The Elks shut out all gambling from the carnival and the police promptly arrested tnoae wno atiempiea to start gambling operations outside the carnival grounds. The carnival attractions, which number about thirty.

Include Kllpatrlck, the one legged bicyclist and automobllist. TORNADO IN MINNESOTA. Four People Killed and Many Houses Wrecked. ST, FAl L. June 19 A tornado swept across the northern, part of Minnesota yesterday afternoon, killing four persons, injuring ten others, and demolishing the homes of flftoea families.

Among the killed were Mrs. Berg, who lived near Voss postofnee, and Andrew Holn, four miles farther north. Hundreds of heads of live stock were killed. The path of the storm was half a mile wide and ten miles a i' 4. GREAT BRITAIN'S FINANCES.

Expenditures for the Coming Year Greater Than Revenues. LONDON. June 10. A. Parliamentary paper, issued to day, presents the revised financial statement for W2 03.

It is esti mated that the expenditures will total K6.S."i!.(W0. and that the revenues will amount to flS.CS.OOO. The deficit will be met out of the pro ceeds of a consols loan of leaving available for ContlnceneiM and the redemption of part of the national oeot. MARSH WAS NOT DEAD. Met Crowd that was Going to See: Him Hanging In His Barn.

ISfeoiaJ to The In.lianspol.'a New. BLFFFTON, June 10. Someei ctrcuiaie a report, aast nignt. that Joe Marsh, a prominent farmer, west of this city, had rums himself In his barn. Flvei hundred people drove out to see the sight, among them the coroner and two of Marsh's relative.

They met Marsh com Ins to town. CHILDREN RAISE FUNDS! An entertainment was 8iven by the Martha Washington sewing school for the benefit of the Fresh Air Mission. The children, who took part la the show are aa follows: Leon a I gran, Katie Ballard, Ralph Ballard, Alt Barnfuhrer, Alma Oehl. Anna. Oehl.

OoHnisch. Nora McClana ban, Grace Mowwe. EJ Pfaff, Linfe iFchnelder, Arthur Kurn, Harvey Bird. The a tmisslon was one cent, end the amount collected was in MAN ASSASSINATED AT NOBLESVILLE: MAN ACCUSED 3 i i I li'lcl ll I', I Itil' mm ifil ii'' il'iil mi 'pi! FEAR FOR HiS LIFE Said Chinese Had Threatened Kill Him. rf He Continued to Help in Chin Hee Case.

to BITTER CHINESE FACTIONS Interpreters for Both Sides Employed in Grand Jury Room What E. Lung Said. Moy Kee has been threatened with, assassination if he continues to assist the State in getting evidence to convict Chin Hee, the accused slayer of Doc Lung. This fact developed thte morrnlng whn the MOT KEE. grand Jury asked that Moy Kee act as interpreter before that body.

Moy Kee and a number of his, friends say that open threats have been made on his life by friends of Chin Hee. When the grand jury began Its Investigation of the Doc Lung: murder, Moy Kee and the other Chinese subpenaed by the State stood in a little group in the grand Jury waiting room. Moy Kee then paced nervously up 'and down the; room and iwtaen attorney Taylor Gronlnger entered the room Moy Kee asked to be presented to Prosecutor Ruckelshaus. Gronlnger in traduced the Chinese, and he caught Prosecutor Ruckelshaus's hand in a firm grasp. "It you please, you excuse me," said Moy Kee to the prosecutor, his lips erlng with emotion.

"I go back to my little business. I want no more to do with this." "No, we need you as an said Prosecutor Ruckelshaus. "No, please," insisted if oy Kee. kill me." "What do you mean, Moy?" 'I mean the kill rne. I mean if we do amy more about GhJn Hee I get killed.

So do the others. I go first, they say." Attorney Gronlnger heard of Moy Kee'a last words arjd approached him. The ''mayor" of Indlanapolis's Chinatown turned to see If he was being heard by others, and then he repeated his story to Groninger. "Don't be afraid of anything like that," said Prosecutor Ruckelshaus. to comfort the terror stricken Chinese.

"No, there's no. danger," said Gronlnger. "The police will protect you." Protection No Good to Dead Chinese. "iTes. they protect me." Moy Kee said.

"Tlley protect me when my head la off like' Doc Lung. They will do it They say; so. What food protection do a dead Chinaman? My head is off; then I am dAd to the world. Sure thing, they tbVaten to cut my head off like Doc Lnnjf. I beg you to let me go back, to toy little ouslness.

I know them." Moy Kee then returned to hla friends In the waiting room and they engaged In earnest conversation. Theirj heads were close together and they nodded them significantly. Moy Kee's purple coat could be seen In the center of the group. Moy Kee then returned to Prosecutor Ruckelshaus and Jnformext him that he had good evidence prove that he had been threatened with assassination If he continued to art as Interpreter for the State in the Chin Hee case. the Threat to Kill.

"Who bas threatened to kill you, Moy?" asked Ruckelshaus. 'E, Lung come to me and say he kill Continued Page 10, Cc turr.n 8. MOT SHOWED I iv i ri 'v v. vi. i.

i' "'ili' i 1 1 i mm 'r OHN 6BA1T. HALL CONFESSES THAT HE BOUGHT QUESTIONS GOT THEM FROM A COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. THE EVIDENCE AGAINST ELLIS Effort; Being Made to Have Grand Jury Thoroughly Investigate the Case. Joseph Hall, the Indiana Medical College student who sold teachers examination questions to J. II.

Fickle at Marion, has confessed. He says that ho received the questions from a county superintendent. He was. with George Ellis, superintend ent of Elkhart county, for twenty minutes on the morning on which he got the questions, and aa he was in Goshen all of that morning until he took the train for Marlon at 9 o'clock, and tho Questions we're not received tyari' superintendent until after 7 o'clock that toils seem to be thickening about Ellis. Confessed to Jones.

State Superintendent Frank Jones returned thl? afternoon from Marion and Terre Haute. While in Marlon, Hall finally confessed to. him that he had received the questions from a county superintendent. Ellis said to a News representative' Friday, in Goshen, that he would not be surprised if Hall should claim that he (Ellis) gave, the cuestions to hlmi in order to secure immunity from punishment. Ellis Friday announced his intetition coming to Indianapolis yesterday to see 8tate Superintendent Jones regarding the leak by which the State examination pa pers became public, but has not yet appeared.

In the meantime steps are being taken in Elkhart county to summons the grand Jury before court adjourns on July 1. and thoroughly to sift the riiatter of the disappearance of the papers there. The evidence as to Hall's whereabouts between the time of the mailing of the questions and the telegram he sent to Marion the next morning makes it Impossible to believe that he got the questions any place other than Goshen. ElUa continues to reiterate his innocence. Hall Also Under Joseph Hall, out on bond from: Marion, was said to be in the city yesterday.

No trace of him could be found, however. At Delphi, where his, brothers live, he has always; borne a good repucation. was appointed to West Point In lwn by Con gre3sta.m llammond, but failed on his physical Aid from the International. The International Association of. Woodworkers" has come to the financial assistance of th local union In its strike, and Thamas Kidd, general secretary of the International, will bo In the city the last of this week to counsel with the strikers.

The strikers have returned to work at the Schumacher, Jungclaug and Coburn mills. i' iM t1 1 ii! ill '1 I Ii 51 it i.Scinj ji i i Mm ii i lis Jill llilS II iilJ If? 4v WILLI AW; WATSON BOYS AT YALE IN DANGER INDIANAPOLIS STUDENTS NOT HEARD FROM SINCE SUNDAY. WENT SAILING ON THE BAY Fear is High Entertained by Reason Wind Family Here Has Heard Nothing. of NEW HAVEN', June 10. Three members of the graduating class of the Sheffield scientific school, of Yale Univer sity C.

L. Watson and his brother, G. Watson, both of Indianapolis, and H. II. Bartlett, of Worcester, Mass.

have been missing since last Sunday, when they chartered a small sloop and sailed down the harbor. Owing to "the high winds that have anxiety is felt concerning them and classmates have instituted inquiries, thus far without re Suit, along the coast of Long island sound. The W'atsons are grandsons of Mrs. George F. Adams, of this city, and are taking their final examinations at Yale.

They have visited here frequently They are young men of high character and excellent standing 1ft the college. Their father lives in Peoria, III. The family in this city has heard nothing of the matter. WHITE ASH COAL MINE DESTROYED BY FIRE. Flames of Unknown Origin Cause a Loss of Twenty Fiye Thousand.

Special to The Indianapolis News. SULLIVAN, June 10. The White Ash coal mfne, north of Hymera. was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The loss was JS.OOO.

partially covered by insurance. The origin of the Are is not known. Drowned In White River. Special to The Indianapolis News. ANDERSON, June 10.

Perry Tlm mons, twenty four years old. was drowned in White river to day, "one mile west of the city. He was subject to epi lepsy, and while suffering from an attack fell in the river. His body was recov ered an hour later. Most's Sentence Stands.

ALBANY, June 10. The "Court of Appeals to day unanimously affirmed Ithe Judgment of conviction of Herr Most, who was convicted of puDiisning an im proper article in a paper owned by him. ana wno was sentenced to one year a imprisonment in tne New xork eniten tiary. BURNING OF THE ST. LUKE'S SOCIETY BUILDING rpl I I i i I I Fire In the building ocouple3 oy tho St.

Luke society, at Wabash avnue arid Twenty rst street; Chicago, yesterday caused the death of ten persons; over a. acc re acre were Lsj orei, eeyeral are iicjouste i for." OF THE CRIME. POOREA. TEH PERISHED III 1 HOSPITAL EIRE Awful Fate of Patients Who Were Imprisoned in Big Build ng at LONG LIST OF INJURED Frightened Victims Jumped from the Windows St. Luke Society Suffers Heavy Less.

CHICAGO. June 10. At least ten lives were lost in a fire that swept through the sanatorium of the St. Luke Society, an Institution for the treatment of habltua users of drugs and liquors, avenue and Twenty jflrst street, late yesterday afternoon. Among the victims.

is Alder man Wlliram E. Kent, of the Fourth ward, known as "Blind Billy" Kent Some" beat out their strength against the iron barred windows and double locked doors, that cut them off from freedom and life, on the top 'floor of the five story building, and others hurled themselves to death or fatal 'Injuries on the pavements of the street. Many were injured In their flight from the place or seeking to rescue those of the Inmates "who still lived. Struggle for Life. Most pathetic of the struggles waged for life was that of Alderman Kent, who.

blind and alone, freed from the bonds that held him to his bed by the flames leaping across the room and lappinr at the mattress, made hia way to the bars that held him captive and beet his handB against the screening until he fell back suffocated. Another a saloon keeper, named Newell, held fast In a strait jacket. and with his hands cuffed across hia breast, lay helpless In his place unmind ful of the bolts and locks that hemmed him In because of the fever of delirium which possessed him. He was found where he had been left by his attendants, burned almost to a crisp. A woman, maddened with the "frenzy of fear, locked herself In a closet on the fourth floor and met death there.

Dead and Injured. The dead: ALDERMAN WILLIAM E. KENT, Chicago. S. G.

NEWELL. Chicago. JOSEPH HARRINGTON, Chicago. SAMUEL DALZELL. Chicago.

JOHN B. KNAPMAN, Chicago. MRS. M. BAUM ANN, Chicago.

J. E. BISHOP, St. Louis. GEORGE A.

RIB BECK, Hillsdale. Mich G. S. GOTT. printer, LaVergme.

IIL DR. B. II. BOYD. Chicago.

The injured: H. C. Davis, manager of the 'sanatorium, severely burned In attempting rescue; Carl A Carlson, In ternally hurt by (jumping; Joseph T. Suit. injured by Jumping into a net; Frank Johnson, night attendant of Alderman Kent, burned about face and body; Thorn as Gallagher, pipeman of engine No.

8, cut by flying glass; Mrs. B. H. Bowman, burned while rescuing her four year old daughter from third floor; Grade Bow man, four years old. burned about body.

not serious; Michael Hadley, fireman burned trying to rescue Carl A. Carlson from fourth floor; Mrs. Leah, wife of Omaha brewer, over come by smoke: Michael Luby, laborer; C. M. Osborn.

New York, wrfst 'cut and face lacerated; Mary. McMannls, patient, burned and overcome by: smoke; Mattie Jameson, patient, overcome; Mrs. Amelia Wilson, patient, may die from burns; Minnie Ellis, patient, not serious; John Downey, Omaha, patient, "no! serious; A. C. Davis, business manager of the hospi tal, not serious; Henry Norman, colored, not serious; Fred Kapra, cut by glass, not serious; Dr.

II. L. Luce, asleep. burned about hands and body: A. W.

Wattles, attendant, may die; Malcolm Morrison, Chicago, seriously; T. F. Mear.s, Enosburg Vales, may die. Beat the Bars. The flames, starting after 3 o'clock.

spread from the basement up through the structure with incredible swiftness. Back and forth through the upper halls the patients ran, shrieking In terror. In the vio lent' wards were men chained to cotn and locked within cell like rooms. There was no time to free them. They perished amid their terrible struggles for freedom.

Semi maniacs beat at the bars and tore their ecant clothing as they found egress blocked. Ore patient, hammer In hand, fought his companions, desperately. Fierce, animal like roars came, from the windows. with horror peering from their eyes and foam cn their li.vs. rehch at Iron barrier until the blood Cowed In firtajra from their hands.

Sev eralj who found windows unguarded on lower floors, leaped to the xavemer.tSf and were either, killed or badly injured. Rescues and Leaps. Spectacular features abounded. There wer thrilling rescues and leaps from upper floors, and cheers and groans of despair from thousands of spectators who watched the scene. i When John B.

Knapman leaped to his dath from the third floor on the Wabash avenue side, there was great cheer for his daring, followed by a contagious wail when it was known that his life was lost. Two men who jumped from the topmost floor; the fifth. Into a net at the rear of the, building, were caught by the firemen. One of these. Dr.

B. II. Boyd, afterward died In Mercy Hospital. The wife of Mr. Watson was rescued from a fire escape on the third floor." She had crawled to the place and was either too frightened too weak to make the descent, when two firemen, seeing her predicament, brought her safely to the ground.

Kick in the Doors. Two men patients were helped down fire escapes from the third floor by Louis Williams, employed In an. adjoining saloon, and L. P. Green, of Austin.

W. H. Coolins took a man from a fire escape at the same hlght, and Thomas Brown, a colored man. carried two persons from the third floor. Officer Edward Zimmerman, of the central detail, was slightly burned carrying a woman down a fire escape from the fourth floor.

A man who gave his name as Charles Burns, of Cincinnati, kicked in the doors of five rooms on the fourth floor and, finding a helpless woman In one of them, carried her down a ladder, Some sought to koep out of the fire by wrapping rags about their heads. The greater part of the men were partly or entirely undressed, and their bodies were without protection from the flames. When the last man who was able had appeared on the windward ledge and was assisted out danger the fire. escape waa Origin of the Fire. The fire's origin is a mystery.

It started in the basement, where house fireman Lee Seymour, who began work only yesterday, was cleaning flues. A tank of gasoline, used for both cooking; and lighting purposes, was also on this floor, and a if aw minutes before the 'alarm of. fire was given this tank was being filled by two men. under direction of house engineer William Lar.ahan, whose term of service also began yesterday. W.

'W. Watson, who was proprietor of the Woodruff Hotel, which occupied the building until February 1, when tha St. Luke's Society took possession, and who was still rooming on the third floor, thinks the disaster may have been caused by the use of gasoline. After the fire was over the police arrested William Lanahan, the engineer; Lee Seymour, the fireman of the building, and J. P.

Nagel, the Inventor of a gasoline plant In use In the basement of the Institution. The building was valued at Insurance, J50.000. NINE GIRLS DEAD. Caught in Burning Building in the Heart of London. June ,10.

Nine young girls were burned to' death and fifteen pea sons were injured in a fire which destroyed a five story building next to the Mansion House station, in the business part of London, yesterday. The fire department was unable to render assistance, and the apparatus was useless. The bodies were so badly charred that only two could be Identified. Five Dead at Saratoga. SARATOGA.

June 10. Five lives were lost In the fire which destroyed the Ar cade and the Citizens' National Bank block yesterday morning." The dead are: Mts, Elizabeth M. Mabee. Mrs. Sarah Owens, David Howland.

Mrs. DavidIow land and Miss Farrlngton. All were burned to death. NEW SHIP CORPORATION. The, Capitalization will Probably be NEW YORK, June 10.

Details concern ing the proposed combination of ship building Interests were made public here to day. The combine probably will be known as the United States Ship Corpora tion, and will be incorporated ln' Kew Jersey, "The capitalization will be aboutt $25, 000,000, equally divided in common and preferred shares, and It Is likely that bonds in two classes amounting to 000, will be Issued. The Trust Company of the Republic, of this city, will finance the combine and act as transfer aKents. Alexander Green will be the general counseL it i stated that the following companies and firms have been Invited to enter the combination: Union iron works. of San Francisco; Bath iron works, Bath, Hyde W'lndlas Company.

Bathj Creiacent shipyard, Ellzabethport, N. J. S. L. Moore Sons Eitzabethport, and the Harlem Hollingaworth Com pany, of Wilmington.

Del. TWO AMERICANS HONORED. Cambridge Confer Degrees on White law Reid and H. W. Parker CAMBRIDGE; June 10.

The de gree of doctor of laws was conferred this afternoon on Whltelaw Reid, the special ambassador of the United States to the coronation of King Edward, by Cam bridge University. John r.dwln Sandys was the orator. Mrs. Reid was present at the ceremony. The degree of aoctor or music was con ferred on Prof.

Horatio W. Parker, of Yale University. LOU SING PULLED UP. Colorado Mob's Method of Preventing an Elopement. IDAHO SPRINGS, June lO.

Lou Sing, a Chinese, was strung up to a tree wlce by a mob and threatened with death if he did not leave town, never to return. Lou Sing had planned to run away with a white girL It is not believed the Chinese suffered severely. HOME FORA CHILD. This Iresh air letter comes from Columbus, "I believe I could make a little child quite happy for a two "weeks' visit to my house. We have a fine yard, four children, lots of chickens, a driving horre' and plenty of play thinrs If know of a little bey that needs frehenine tp, serd him to lis.

A' child between three end six preferred. 1 will take the child for two weeks now, and in July. or August wi'l take the time child, or another, for two or three weeks. Let lis know the train, that we ay meet th child." IIS GREA Oil ST. VIECE The Relief From the United Was Gratefully Received cn the English Island.

HUNDREDS ARE WOUNDED AHD THOUSANDS HOMELESS. SCENES OF MUCH SUFFER I. 'G Experiences of the Inhabitant cn the Eruption cf Souffriere The Relief Work (From Jime V. Hornaday. faff Correspondent.

KINGSTOWN. St. Vincent. May'ltU Addttional corroboration of the report of much suffering on the Island of. St.

Vincent, eighty miles farther south, was jk celved by Captain Berry, of the I'lxi. while the stores for Martinique were 1. lng unloaded, and so no time was i getting under way for the second rof destruction. As soon as the last lighter' had sent, ashore Thursday evening. May the icrulser put oft for Kingstown." the principal seaport on' the leeward bM St.

Vincent. The cable had told is Souffriere, the volcano on thjsK! was stlll active, and not wishing to sp proaeh the island at nig'tt. the capt. i i directed that a "loafing xun" mode so a to bring the cruiser off the about daylight. Mont Pelee Duplicated.

The north end of the Island, from which the volcano rises, was sighted at and as the cruiser approached ith caution we could sea Mont Pelee duplet ted. There waa the umbrella of steam at Intervals above the crater and float.iv.t; oft to sea; then came a puff of bla. smoke which hid the mountain from sight until It was scattered by' the and down the sides of the volcano were jets of steam Issuing from the earth JuM as we had seen them at Pelee. Passing down the west coast a goodvl 'w of the work of destruction on that side" of the island was to be had. For ten rn or mr'a the mountains and the Valley had been devastated.

A coat of gray ash covered the landscape. No towns of any size had ever exNf between the volcano and the west coast, but there were at the time of the eruption many settlements of Carlos along the rocky coast. No Sign of Life. Most of the inhabitants been. the survivors had been rescued and takers to Kingstown.

No sign of life appe. .1 anywhere as the cruiHcr, passed down. Through the glasses we could see many ruined sugar plantations. Mills nrr wrecked and partially covered with flow from the volcano, i The plantations, which, two weeks before. Were rich la vegetation, looked dv like waste places on a desert island, At 6 o'clock In the morning the Dixie joined.

the Brl i cruisers Pallas and Indefatigable in 5 little harbor. at Kln town. A more velcome visitor never entered the harbor. i The British ships boomed a sajlute, and not content with thatv the shore batter! extended a welcome. The cruiser Cincinnati, which had followed us down from Fort de France, came in a little later, and she, too, received a salute from British cruisers and from the shore.

It was a relief to enter a British colony an 1 hear the English language once more. Real Need of; It did not take long to learn that thrj was real need of reliefon this Island the need was many fold greater than 1 Martinique. On the way down from Martinique son of the passengers had expressed opinion that Great Britain, proud an 1 amply able to care for her own, would decline the Dixie's cargo with thanks, they were mistaken. The cruiser was received by "the governor and the officers iof the Lrni. cruisers as a friend In need, and arrnji.v ments were made at once to reccie stores.

Conditions were entirely different fro those in Martinique. Only about or. twentieth as many lives had been lo.f 1.600 In all, but for one person on Martinique who was injured and su rvive hundred could be found on St. Vine Thousands, too. had been made fcome'e; and penniless.

The real need of relief was not ccn.1:v to the city of Kingstown, by; the eruption, had become the refer thousands Of persons from other parts the island. Homeless people. them suffering from Injuries, were i gregated in a half dozen towns island. In fact, the entire end of island, which had not suffered from eruption, was dotted refuge and pital Disaster Preceded that of St. Pttm.

The disaster that can on (his preceded that of St. Pierre one day, the world did not hear cf the v. til after the news of tne st ruction ct IMerre had gone out. Llie the Martinique, the Inhabitants of St. Vfix had warning that the volcanoe a i bocome active.

rossiMy the warr.ire. not so long before the "diiaater camel.t: Jt was ample. No large cities or town were at the foot of t.he volcano; the loss of life would I.nve bn Surely Pierre, if she had been o.t i base of fiourrrlere. wculi hay. fared 5 better than she did at th ba.se if Pelee.

Some of the cvj.niry p.ij flee to 'places of afety when the b'Kan to emit smoke and Meam, tut rr. ot them went about their dally lalsT the plantations, believlnar tre was mediate denser. Along about April 25 tu lives ed Souffriere reported that' tr. jhh hot. No one seemed to when the fitet steam an 1 str cut, but it was not it tr r.

4. M.iy 3 tic lUrtvri li ri a Th noise In the direction i the that evetiirg smoke whs i. from t. itr. Souff Here's Eruption.

The eruption became pre thlt r.ri.t tv ty tz. cn Tu.