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Men were seen tampering with the track near Ischua late to-night. Instruct all track men to remain on duty until after the funeral train has passed.

Creighton, Superintendent Allegheny Division.

It is believed that anarchists had perfected a plot to wreck the Presi dential funeral train and that they made the attempt on Sunday night, acting upon incorrect information regarding the time of its departure from Buffalo and probable hour of passing Ischua. Ischua is a small station in this State, 57 miles from Buffalo, on the Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania road. Sunday night a number of men were seen in the vicinity of Ischua placing obstacles on the track. The fact was reported to the Pennsylvania Company by two men who witnessed the work of the train wreckers in time to warn the agent at Ischua. The latter saw to it that the obstructions were promptly removed. The Ischua agent saw the men at work when he approached the spot designated by his informants. The train wreckers discovered the agent before he was close enough to get a view of their features and made good their escape.

On the stretch between Frankville and Olean the Washington special makes a speed of 60 miles an hour. The anarchists chose a point for their work which would have made the wreck complete and would inevitably have destroyed a large number of lives.

THREATENED LYNCHING IN MINNESOTA.

St. Paul, Minn., September 18.-Rev. Albert Dahlquist to-night barely escaped being lynched by a howling mob of about 1,000 persons, who demanded that he be hanged.

Dahlquist is alleged to have made a speech in Minneapolis a few days ago in which he referred to the assassination of President McKinley as "a noble deed." The man is an itinerant preacher and has been holding meetings on Payne avenue in a district largely inhabited by Scandinavians. Many of these persons had heard of his Minneapolis speech, and when he appeared at the hall to preach a crowd of over 1,000 had assembled.

As soon as Dahlquist appeared a rush was made for him and threats of hanging and other ill treatment were made on all sides. He had

anticipated trouble, however, and a squad of policemen acted as a bodyguard. They had great difficulty in protecting the man, and at last he broke away, jumped out of the window and ran down the street with the mob at his heels. Dahlquist outfooted his pursuers, however, and escaped.

QUICKLY SENT TO JAIL.

New York, September 18.-At the Essex Market Police Court this morning a man in the crowd of spectators openly sneered at the badge of mourning which the police magistrate wore around his coat sleeve out of respect for the late President. Two minutes later the stranger was on his way to Blackwell's Island to do a sixty-day sentence to "give him time to reflect over the next insult he might offer to the memory of Mr. McKinley," as the magistrate put the case.

Alfred Danschaal, a Dane aged fifty-two years, was sent to jail at Plainfield, N. J., for sixty days in default of a fine of $60 imposed for abusive language directed against the late President McKinley.

WAR AGAINST THE ANARCHISTS.

Newark, N. J., Sept. 18.-The war of extermination against anarchists in Newark, which has been instituted by the police and the grand jury, was continued to-night by the executive board, which, on complaint of a police captain, voted to reject the application for a saloon license made by the men charged with harboring the anarchists, Zolkowsky and Cesceo, who were arrested Saturday night in the saloon while drinking a toast to the health of Emma Goldman and Czolgosz and commending the assassination of the President.

The board also adopted a resolution to the effect that any saloonkeeper possessing a license who shall be charged by the police with permitting anarchists to assemble in his place of business and make demonstrations against the government or the good order of the community shall suffer the revocation of his license and shall not again receive a license.

Stanberry, Mo., Sept. 18.-A mob to-day captured Perry Marsh, who had said that he wished President McKinley would die, and taking

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The windows indicated by X are those of the room occupied by President McKinley after the shooting.

him to the city park threatened to lynch him. Marsh apologized humbly, his apology was accepted by vote and the crowd dispersed. Marsh, who is a laboring man, left town.

Cleveland, O., Sept. 18.-Frank Idings, who a few days ago said that he belonged to a society that would give $50,000 to any man who would kill President Roosevelt, was to-day ordered turned over to the board of managers of the Ohio penitentiary by Judge Kennedy of the central police station. Idings was identified as a paroled convict. He was sentenced to the penitentiary in March, 1898, to serve five years for burglary in this city and was paroled in December, 1898. He will now serve two years more in the state prison.

Norman, Ok., Sept. 18.-Citizens of Norman are demanding the resignation of Police Judge A. Overstreet because he is reported to have said that it was a shame to arrest Emma Goldman and that it would have been better for the poor people if McKinley had been killed long ago.

Marshfield, Ore., Sept. 18.-John Peterson, who says he is a Norwegian, was run out of Marshfield to-day on account of utterances derogatory of the late President McKinley. Two men living on Coos river are reported to have expressed satisfaction at President McKinley's assassination. A party has been formed to visit them to

morrow.

ANARCHIST IS SHOT DOWN.

Sharon, Pa., Sept. 18.-John Martina, a sympathizer of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, is lying in a critical condition at Coaltown, the result of being shot last night for anarchistic utterings. Martina and several of his friends got into a heated discussion over the shooting of President McKinley, when Martina exclaimed that Czolgosz did right and ought to be cleared. This unpatriotic utterance started the fight, revolvers were drawn and Martina was shot. It is feared that he will not recover.

Evansville, Ind., Sept. 18.-Robert Walsh was taken before the police judge and sentenced to the county jail for three months for making a remark to the effect that he was glad McKinley had been killed.

Quenemo, Kan., Sept. 18.-William Graham, a section hand who

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