The Glen Elder Sentinel from Glen Elder, Kansas • 2

MURDERERS TO EH PUNISHED, The People's Sentinel DID NOT OBEY BITS OF INFORMATION 8 Kansas Notes Chinese Government Cays It Is Sorry W. R. BAKER, Ed. Pub. k5 About the Missionaries.

PEKING. (Special.) An edict has been issued ordering the murderers Entered at tha Postofflce, Glen Elder, Kansas, as second-class matter. CARELESS MOTORMAN CAUSES COLLISION OF TROLLEY CARS. of an English missionary named Naturally Europeans are curious to Bee three real soldiers. HE PAID FOR IT WITH HIS LIFE Lewis and an Australian missionary named Bruce to be punished.

The crimes were committed at Chen-Chou, In Hu-Nan province. The government expresses deep regret at the occur Venezuela seems to be suffering Irom au overdose of Castroria, rence and promises to make repara Two Others Were Killed and Many Badly Injured Collision Occurred Three and a Half Miles From Norfolk, Va. Both Cars Were Loaded With Sunday Excursionists. tion. After all, can Cuba be blamed for wanting Who doesn't? It is reported that the murders were the outcome of an outburst of super stitious frenzy on the part of the populace, based upon the idea that Now if Ilobson would get married perhaps the girls would let him alone.

the missionaries in question had caused an epidemic of cholera, which is raging at Chen-Chou, by poisoning King Edward has been "coronated," but Mrs. Maybrick has not been liberated yet. drinking water. The mob wrecked the mission building and murdered the missionaries, who had but re The man in Venice who doesn't want to go to church now has a rattling good excuse. cently arrived at Chen-Chou, where they were cordially welcomed.

HUSBAND IS ACCUSED. If Minister Liang Cheng Tung makes any mistakes they will be mere slips of the Tung. Nearly every town in Kansas has reported a plague of some kind this summer. Ottawa has a "plague oj noisy dogs." The "meanest man" made his appearance in Atchison this week. He asked a blind man to change a dollar for him.

and then gave him a Mexican dollar. The short grass country may find it necessary to change its name. In one town within hailing distance of the Colorado line the weeds are nineteen feet high. General Funston has agreed to attend the reunion of the Twentieth Kansas regiment. Controversy over the Lansing skull should be referred to George W.

Martin, secretary of the State Historical society, for settlement. V. Gunz: Pack my box with delf jars," is not a very intelligible line, and its only claim to interest is that it is the shortest sentence yet devised containing every letter In the alphabet. It contains twenty-seven letters, and is the only one duplicated. J.

Householder of Winfield composed it, Atchison boasts of a man who has fifteen suits of clothes and five overcoats, but doesn't say how long he has been in accumulating them. An old toper in Neodesha drank sixteen ounces of lemon extract and died. In Meriden the principal duty of the town marshal consists of cutting the weeds. Parsons wants to break into the Missouri valey base ball league next season. Parsons is not much further away fro mthe Missouri valley than Fort Scott, Chanute, Joplin, Iola and the other league towns.

Without wishing to prolong tha Mrs. Minnie Masterson Murdered In NORFOLK, VA. (Special.) In a head-on collision between two cars on the Bay Shore Terminal line, late Sunday, three people were killed and many others badly injured. The dead: W. S.

Yandell, motorman. C. B. Colden, motorman. Linwood Fentress, aged 10.

Seriously injured: W. R. W'aller. R. J.

Davis. George Stephenson. Mrs. J. P.

Stephenson. Joseph White. M. V. Ahern.

Benjamin Rowson. Mrs. Lillian Land. John Taylor, colored. Maria Fentress, colored.

Miss Ruth Banks. Phoebe Frederick, colored Corliss Waller. Mrs. Victor Parks. Louis Parks.

The accident occurred three and Switzerland has 17,000 hotels. The land area of Hawaii is 4,000,000 acres. France has now 4,288,037 acres of vineyard. Good-by Is a contraction of "God be with you." Natives in the Punjab have taken to ping-pong. Germany has twenty-two shipyards, employing 60,000 men.

The record aurora borealls lasted for a week in August, 1859. The earth's population doubtless doubles In about 260 years. The average longevity in the United States was 35.2 in 1900. Magazine rifles will be issued shortly to the Moorish army. Last winter 1,129 women were studying at German universities.

The most dangerous element of illuminating gas is carbonic acid. The demand for American goods is increasing throughout Canada, Every square mile of sea is estimated to contain some 120,000,000 fish. At Amburg. there was recently collected a pile of 13,000,000 logs. There are now some six Europeans in the Buddhist priesthood In Burmah.

Italy spends 43 per cent of her revenue on the Interest of her national debt. The wife of the governor of New Borneo has a baby rhinoceros for a pet. King Lewanika has promised to institute a temperance crusade in Barotse-land. Paris streets are lighted by 50,000 lamps. Their cleaning occupies 3,753 men.

Hot water is supplied from wells direct to houses and offices in Boise, Idaho. By heating sawdust with caustic alkali a cheap and fast brown dye is obtained. Out of 316 recent cases of persons wounded with bullets in the brain 160 recovered. In an ironclad of 10,000 tons the hull weighs 3,400 tons and the machinery 1,400 tons. Electric railways are rapidly displacing the old-fashioned diligences In Switzerland.

A person with good sight can see another person's eye at a distance of eighty yards. Thibet is larger than France, Germany and Spain combined, but has only 6,000,000 people. Two coal mines are now in successful operation In Alaska. They produce good steam coal. Vladivostok possesses the only crematorium that has been erected in the whole Russian empire.

An orange tree in full bearing has been known to produce 15,000 oranges; a lemon tree 6,000 fruit. Prof. Frederick Hirth of Berlin has accepted the offer of the Chinese chair at Columbia University. Two methodist missionaries In Moroni, are the only gentiles in the place. No converts yet.

It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other. Two modern flouring mills, with American machinery, have recently been constructed at Harbin, Manchuria. The most expensive and roomiest railway station in the world is that of the Peninsular railroad at Bombay. A reasonable allowance of water for a town Is eighty gallons per head of population daily, for all purposes. a Mysterious Manner.

ALBANY, IND. (Special.) Mrs, Let it be said for Polar Explorer Baldwin that he got back without a relief expedition, anyway. Minnie Masterson, wife of James Mas terson, was murdered here Monday and her husband is in jail charged Prince Chen has proved that he has the constitution of a diplomat by surviving a fifty-course dinner. with the murder. He denies the charge.

He says that he and his wife were returning from Louisville to their home on South street, this city, when a man stepped from behind a post and The Missouri river will have to keep Its snags or employ some other dentist. Uncle Sam gives up the job. grabbed his wife, who was a few steps ahead of him, and the woman screamed, "For God's sake Willie, don't," and three shots were fired in half miles from Norfolk. One car The man who hints that he "dies for his family's sake" generally has some coward or crazy reason of his own. rapid succession by her assailant.

was coming from Ocean View and the other going to the View. The Masterson insists that the murderer of his wife fired two shots at him, one of which took effect in his arm. orders were that the southbound car should wait at the siding for the other. Motorman W. S.

Yandell failed Senator Clark's new mansion is temporarily obscuring that other Montana product, Mary He was bleeding profusely from a wound in his arm when arrested. to obey the order, and the crash came 400 yards beyond the siding. Yandell endeavord to jump, but was crushed in the telescoped cars and died. Mo CUT OFF BY THE TIDE. Five Children Drowned In View of A skeleton with an eight-Inch jaw has been found in Texas.

Lots of good senatorial timber was wasted in the past. torman C. D. Colden. of the other car, Their Mothers.

"youngest grandmother" contest unduly, the Ottawa Republic tells of a grandfather there who is only 21 years LONDON. (Special.) A harrowing holiday tragedy occurred Saturday at old. He married a widow of twice his Filey, a watering place near Scar age, with grown children. More oil in Texas. That once inimical state is In danger of floating off, some morning, on a wave of petroleum and prosperity.

borough. Five children who were playing on the sands were cut off by the A clergyman in Western Kansas In relating recently the story of Job, said 'Every manner of affliction was heaped upon him. His servants were taken The Alaska earthquake was not an event of much importance, inasmuch as it did not shake any gold nuggets out of the ground. from him, and his herds, and his children. His wife was left with him." R.

J. Alexander of Anthony is writ ing his reminiscences of fifty years inflowing tide and drowned before their mothers, who were sitting on the beach, had notLsd the danger which threatened them. The shore at ho scene of the tragedy was deserted and no boats were available. The mothers of the children and others made heroic attempts at the rescue. The oldest child made a futile attempt to save the youngest one by holding it up in his arms.

Those who attempted to rescue the children had narrow escapes from drowning. ago. He was a trapper with Kit The cruiser Chicago has arrived at Cronstadt, Russia. We shall soon know if vodka is all it is cracked up to be as an intoxicant. John Dark of Galena is a Caucasian all right, but he makes his good by holding down the position of night policeman.

The main trouble with Mr. Carnegie's plan for dying poor is that as fast as he gives away one big fortune he goes to work and accumulates Word was sent out recently that the applied his airbrakes as soon as he saw the danger, the collision occurring on a curve, and then tted to jump, as did young Fentress, son of R. E. Fentress, president of the Norfolk Cold Storage and Ice Company. Both Colden and Fentress was caught under the platform of the shore-bound car, which piled upon the other, and were killed outright.

Colden's head was almost torn from his body and both legs were cut off. The Fentress boy was crushed to death. Both cars were full or Sunday excursionists and few escaped injuries. Help was telephoned for, and physicians and ambulances were soon at the scene. In the meantime a large number of the injured were taken to the city In private conveyances.

There is no complete list of the Injured. Mr. R. P. Waller, a brother of Major L.

W. T. Waller, was on one of the cars and sustained serious injuries. M. V.

Ahern, of the Virginian Pilot, was wedged between two seats and internally injured. Benjamin Rowson, managing editor of the Humorist, also sustained serious injuries. People who were near the front of the shorebound car state that Motor-man Yandall was talking with a young woman who was standing on the front platform when the crash came. After the crash, this woman was removed in an unconscious condition from beneath the motorman's body. PRIDE LED TO HER DEATH.

traveling men of Kansas had under taken to raise by subscription the money necessary in appealing the case of Jessie Morrison to the su A New York man was detained as an Insane person because he threw away his money in London. Surely Ithere must have been some other preme court. In the Eldorado Republican the following card appears, over the signature of a traveling man in Wichita: "It is possible that a few traveling men are favorable to such a movement, but AO per cent of the trav eling men of Kansas are opposed to it, not only because they think Jessie Manifold are the uses of the injunction. Now a persecuted Chicago 'bachelor applies for one against a jwoman who persists in trying to marry him. Aged Woman, Too Proud to Beg, Found Dead From Starvation.

BALTIMORE, MD. (Special.) Mrs. Sarah Schumacher, aged 70 years, was found dead in her room Friday night and her daughter Martha, was wandering in a half dazed condition about the lower floor of their home. Coroner Joyce said that Mrs. Schumacher had died from starvation.

Martha Schumacher said she and her mother were too proud to tell anyone of their Impoverished condition and that for several days neither had had a meal. It is said the Schumachers have well-to-do relatives in Philadelphia and in Virginia. Ill health had rendered Martha, the sole support of her widowed mother, unable to work for several weeks. Morrison guilty, but because Roland Wiley, the father of Mrs. Castle, is a traveling man, and they are not in favor of throwing an insult in the face of a follow traveler by giving money to defend the person who killed his daughter.

The traveling men usually The veracious story from Bay City, that a girl there Is supposed to be turning to marble, should be a warning to girls who are developing a marble heart. FOUND HANGING IN A BARN. stand by each other when in trouble, and I believe I speak the sentiments of 90 per cent of the traveling men of Kansas when I say that they are With the present outlook in the coal market, now is the time for inventors to bring forward their processes for storing and utilizing the iheat rays of the sun. not in favor of contributing money with which to defend a person who has killed the child of one of theU number." The man who makes a living by Nebraska Town Inundated. PLATTSMOUTH, NEB (Special.) Rain fell in torrents in this city for four hours Thursday, and for the fourth time this season inundated the lower portion of the town.

All the merchants on the main street suffered severely and walks and other movables were washed away. It Is estimated the loss will exceed $40,000. At a recent family reunion in Indiana there was one man present who hcl seen six generations of kinsmen and still had $5 in his pocket that jhadn't been borrowed. permitting nails to be driven into hiii skull has reached Fittsburg. One nail was imbedded so firmly that it Not Clear Whether a Case of 3iiicide or Lynching.

RUSSELLVILLE (Special.) Hugh Marshall, the man who was accused of murdering Miss Zada Vick near here last Wednesday, was found Saturday in a barn about one mile from the scene of the crime. Decomposition had set in on the body, and he had evidently been hanging for a day or so. It is not definitely known whether he hanged himself or was hanged by a mob, but it is thought by most persons that he killed himself. He was found by a Mr. W.

C. Bilyen in his barn near the scene of the murder. Excitement has subsided and the people seem Ireland is steadily losing population. The decrease last year was 31,435, entirely accounted for by emigration. Prehistoric amber objects are now being manufactured In Austria from the mouthpieces of old cigar-holders.

The latest returns of the population of Japan, Including Formosa and the Pescadores, gives a total of 46,444,524. One Australian syndicate has offered Gen. De Wet 250 weekly and expenses for a lecturing tour in Australia. Germany produced last year 20,000 tons of calcium carbide, equal in lighting power to 9,500,000 gallons of paraffin. The largest cut diamond in the world is that belonging to the Rajah of Milan, in Borneo.

Its weight is 376 carats. Seattle's exports to Japan are now about $5,000,000 per annum, which is eleven times what they were six years ago. There are no less than 3,202 different species of fish inhabiting the waters of America north of the isthmus of Panama. The oil of the beech tree, which is used in tanning Russia leather, is a perfect preservative against mold or mildew. The total valuation of Canada's mineral product in 1900 reached over $63,000,000, or $12 a head of the population.

In Bohemia sixty-three nobles own the greater part of the country. Mone of their estates is less than 12,000 acres. The mortality from accidents in railway employes was reduced 35 per cent last year by improved coupling devices. Hard times in Germany are said to have caused a large diminution in the consumption of wine and spirituous liquors. There are in the world 649,333,000 men and 636,333,000 women.

The men are thus in a majority of thirteen millions. Alaska has paid its cost twenty times. It was bought for $7,200,000, and has supplied $150,000,000 in furs, fish and gold. The Dead Sea has recently risen nearly five feet. It is supposed that Its bottom has been raised by volcanic disturbances.

Any child over seven can be prosecuted as a criminal in England; but In Germany twelve is the limit of responsibility. Unmarried women of Michigan are to petition the legislature for exemption from taxation on estates less than $5,000. Of Scott's first editions "Wavetiey" is the scarcest, and "Guy Mannering" next. A copy of the latter sold recently for 150. The rotation of a waterspout at the surface of the sea has been estimated at 354 miles an hour, or nearly six miles a minute.

The death rate at Santiago de Cuba under Spanish rule was 137 per 1,000. Now, under American sanitation, it has fallen to 22. The bamboo holds the record among plants for quick growth. It has been known to grow two feet in twenty-four hours. T' great bulk of chalk is composed of eight different species of tiny shells but nearly 300 kinds have been found in it.

The strongest paper is made of Manila hemp. A single sheet of "legal cap" of this material will bear a weight of 300 pounds. One hundred and fifty landladies have been summoned at Vienna for taking in boarders without the permission of the police. Mrs. Mercy Merity of Pratt county, Kansas, has been fined for spanking her husband because he refused to cook dinner for her.

All the cork used in the world in a year weighs just over 1,000 tons. It comes from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and North Africa. The emperor of Japan is to confer the highest decoration upon Lord Salisbury, it is said, in honor of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Peru has passed a new military law, making military service compulsory between 19 and 50 years. The army has five separate classes.

The biggest nugget of tin on record has been found at North Dundas, In Tasmania. It weighs 5,400 pounds and is 67 per cent pure tin. Forty-five tons is the record weight ever pulled by a pair of horses. This was in the shape of bark loaded on a sleigh, and pulled on Ice. Rome, though the capital of Italy, is not the largest city.

It ha only 452,000 people, while Milan has 490,000, and Naples nearly 700,000. The population of Canada increased only lOVii per cent in the past ten years. That of Australia increased 19 per cent in the same time. British Columbia grew the world's record apple last year. It was sixteen Inches In circumference and weighed one pound and three ounces.

Reutenbourg, a German village, with 444 inhabitants, rejoices In the curious distinction of having an exactly equal number of men and women. One hundred and eighty miles northwest of Bulawayo is a coalfield 400 square miles in extent, and in many places only forty feet below the surface. No less than 1,132,257 of Italy's town population above the age of fifteen, are illiterate. This means that, of the whole population, 10,250,000 can neither read nor write. Lake Baikal, in Siberia, seems to be the deepest lake in the world.

It is 4,500 feet deep, its surface being 1,850 feet above sea level, and bottom some 3,000 feet below. Belgium has twenty-nine and a half miles of railway to every 100 square miles of surface. England has seventeen, Germany fourteen and the United States six miles only. The common house-fly sounds the note In flying. This means that Its wings vibrate 335 times a second.

The honey-bee sounds implying 440 vibrations to the second. Among the Czar's suite of 173 people, fifteen only are members of the Imperial family. One hundred and twenty-eight are Russians, the rest being Germans, Poles, Greeks, etc. Divers' boots weigh twenty pounds apiece. The helmet weighs forty pounds and the diver carries nlso eighty pounds of lead to enable him to keep his balance at the bottom of the sea.

One of the biggest engineering works in prospect is the carrying of the Central Pacific railway thirty-two miles on trestles across the Great Salt Lake. This will cut off 107 miles of journey. Up to twenty years ago, It was usually estimated that our atmosphere was but forty miles deep. It is now put at from 1S7 to 216 miles. Its thickness is judged by the incandescence of meteors.

was necessary to take him to a machine shop to have it removed. J. W. Rout, a militiaman, has beei" On the government experimental track between Berlin and Zossen, Germany, a trolley was recently run at the rate of 110 miles an hour. See what we are coming to.

arrested at Emporia for wearing his soldier trousers while doing manual labor. "These trousers," says the Ga Has a Surplus of Wives. OTTUMWA, IOWA. (Special.) Two women have appeared claiming to be the wives of Greely Napier, arrested here and wanted in Harrison county, on a charge of burglary. It is stated that eleven other women at various points in Iowa and Missouri claim to be wives of the zette, "belong to the state.

Rout's defense is that he had to wear the state's trousers or stay in bed, and if he stayed in bed he would starve. Here is a case for lawyersH. That petrified ship beyond the may be the ark. or may simply show that attempts to lift what is now the America's cup have been made ever since the stone age. A Montgomery county boy was leav ing his home to seek his fortune in the city, and his father, when the time came for saying good-by, used the op Cholera Situation Bad.

MANILA. (Special.) Cholera of. ficlal statistics show a. total to date oi 24,206 cases and 18,040 deaths. The actual number of cases and deaths greatly in excess of the official reports.

In Manila there were but eight cases reported Monday. In some of the provinces of Luzon, the cholera situation is bad, 414 cases and 317 deaths being reported from the province of Ilocos Norte. portunity to deliver some good advice. "Beware of gamblers, son," ho Persons should be careful about experimenting with queer medicines. The Pennsylvania farmer who tried the bee sting cure for rheumatism is now an object of interest to the nearest undertaker.

Kentucky Murderer Caught In Iowa. FORT DODGE, IOWA. (Special.) A. G. Hall, who is wanted at Granger-ville, to answer to a charge of murder, was arested by Sheriff Giea-son, of this county, Thursday, while at work on a farm near Industry.

Hall acknowledged that he was the man wanted, and that there was a standing reward of $300 or his arrest. paid, "they'll skin you. Leave cards alone; don't touch 'em. They're worse'n the plague. But if you must play, shuffle and cut, son, shuffle and cut.

They'll skin you just the same, pon, but it'll take 'em longer." There were 103 British war vessels at Splthead, ostensibly for a naval review. The real reason Is they got together to protect themselves and other British shipping from Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan. An artificial lake is to be dug In Northside park, Hutchinson, surround ed by a forty-foot driveway, so that the public can drive about and watch the swimmers and skaters.

Fifty Soldiers Drowned. LONDON. (Special.) In a dispatch from St. Petersburg, the correspondent of the Daily Express says: "During the maneuvers near here a squadron of cavalry was ordered suddenly to charge. It galloped into a river and fifty men are reported to have been drowned.

Details of the affair are difficult to obtain." Married Fifty-two Years. TUSLA, I. T. (Secial.) J. W.

Richardson and wife, living near here, celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary Wednesday. He Is 76 and she is 70 years of age. Both are hale enough. They were originally from Missouri and have lived la the territory twenty years. In a recent teachers' examination In Kansas one of the questions was: Which is the farther north Venice, Italy, or Boston, Most of the A Cleveland, paper sneers at American recipients of Prince Henry's souvenirs as a "job lot of citizens, anyway." The trouble seems jto be that there wasn't a Cleveland man In the whole bunch.

Experiments at the University of Chicago have found that mosquitoes have a strong preference for dark red and blue. They still seem to be able to find the white spots now and then. teachers supposed Boston is, but they were wrong. "Now, honest," says the Neodesha Register, "isn't this 'youngest grandmother' business getting tiresome? Monday Wichita dug up one only 33 years old, Tuesday Chanute found one only 32, and Wednesday Coffeyville slid in with one only 31." Two Small Boys Drowned. CAMDEN, N.

J. (Special.) Edward and Richard Sutton, aged 6 and 8 years, respectively, were drowned together in Coles creek, near Merchant-ville, while wnding in the stream. Recent rains had washed several holes in the creek which ia normally about two feet in depth, and the boys stepped into one of these and wero drowned. Arsenic In the Flour. BEDFORD, IND.

(Special.) Mart Collier, aged 52 years, the husband of Mrs. Mart Collier, who, with her chW-dren, grandchildren, sons-in-law and several boarders, were seriously poisoned with arsenic Thursday, was arrested Monday and placed in jail on a charge of poisoning with arsenic the flour from which cookies were baked and served to the household. Collier and his wife have been separated for some time. King Edward's head is not so uneasy as it was before the coronation. A tactful woman saved him the annoyance of getting his crown on crooked.

A man in Ellinwood came upon the city scavenger, who was trying to his horse to pull a load of rubbish through the city frog pond. Won't your horse draw" asked the The Earl of Dudley, who has just been appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, may already count on having aevaral million enemies. No woman can make a success ot marriage who refuses to pretend to be fooled when, she Isn't man. "Yes," replied tne owner, ne draws the attention of every blamed Biggest and best Defiance Starch..