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RAILROAD MAN IS HONORED 0. L. Dickeson of .the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy Railway company was appointed vice-president of the White Pass & Yukon route, I.e most important' railway property tapping the rich niineral fields of .Alaska. This pr6iotion comes to Mr. Dick eson after a brilliant record, achieved fin the Chicago and middle west rail. road world. As superintendent of transportation of the Burlington, he has handled- many of the inportant general policy transactions, not only of the Durlington, but of all the rail roads centering in Chicago. Mr. Dickeson is a young maii. lie was born in Ottuinwa, Iowa, in 1877. His father was a pioneer Baptist min ister, and is still living, enjoying a prime old age, now more than eighty years of age. lie received his early education in the Ottumwa public schools. At the age of fifteen lie was compelled to make his own way. le camne to Chicago, and by sheer pluck Ona determination secured a good business education. He entered the service of the Burlington as a stenographer in the trans portation department in 1899. A few years later he succeeded his immediate superior and took charge of the department as superintendent of transporta tion. The importance of this office has steadily grown under 1\tr. Dickeson's management. During the recent hearing 'before the interstate commerce commission In the famous freight rate case he was made general spokesman for the railway presidents, his record as spokesman for the general managers in the F trike arbitration negotiations having commended him. SUCCESSOR OF PAUL MORTON William A. Day was elected presi dent of the Equitable Life Assurance society to succeed the late Paul Mor ton. Mr. Day has been acting as presi dent since Mr. Morton's death. lie has been vice-president of the company since 1906. Mr. Day acted as special assistant to the attorney general in the interstate commerce and anti-trust cases. Mr. Day's salary will be $50,000 a 4 year, as against $80,000 a year pal' Mr. Morton. The board went on record in favor of iutualization, continued the coin mittee on mutualization, and instruct ed it to co-operate with the state de partment of insurance, the trustees and Mr. Morgan. The vote stood twenty-six for Mr. Day and three against and was made unanimous. Thomas Spratt, chair man of the conmiI reorganiza. Mr. Day on personal grounds, but that the trustees and Superintendent Hotchkiss believed the election should have been postponed until a definite mutualization plan had been effected. LANOTHER FRONM CHICAGO WARD The Twenty-first ward of Chicago, which has aliready furnished eight / 'V7 ~ members of President Taft's omlal faimily, has been drawn upon foir still another. Samuel Adams has been appointed by Secretary of the Interior F isher as his first assistant to filll the vaicancy caused by the resignation or Assistant Secretary Frank Pierce tary lUnllinger. Mr. Adams was born at Syracuse. ~\ N. Y., in 1871. Hei graduated from Har'vard in 1892 and later studied at thelarvard Law scoo mndth Northwe stern University Law school Since 1893 he has practiced lawv in Chicago. For the past few years he has been a member of the fim of Adams & Candee. D~uring the traction litigation in Chicago lie was a special \ \ counsel for the city, associatedi with* Walter L. Fisher, now secretar'y of the interior. Mr. Adams resides at 48 East Elm street, andl is the ninth Tweny-frstwar reidet apoitedto a position in the Taft administra tion. Besides Secretary Fisher, Secretaries Fi'anklin MacVeagh and Jacob M. Dickinson, heads of the treasury and war dlepar'tments, respectively, hail from the Twenty-first ward, and former Alderman Friancls W. Taylor of the ward recently was namedl as 'assistant to Secretary~ MacVengh. George A. Carpenter is United States district judge; William J. Calhoun, minister to China, and Henry T. Isoutell, minister to Switzerland. All are from the Twenty-first wvard. |CAPTAIN RESTORED TO DUTY] Trho court of seven i-car' adlmirals which triedl Captain Austin M. Knight, . - U. S. N.., on charges of "cuilpable negli gence and ineficiency in the hprfor ance of duty" relative to the ordnance test on thme mnonitor- Puritan, has re affirmed its original veirdict of 'comn p'lete and honor'able acquittal, but Secretary of the Navy Meyer has dis approved the findings. The officeer has - been restored to duty, however, and the action relieves him of arrest and ' \I formally terrminates his trial. The conclusion of thoecase, with the 4f, secretary's disapproval of the verdict, { created a mild sensation among oel cers of the navy. The notable court, headed by Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, which tried the accused officer, held its session at the Norfolk navy yard. After an exhaustive examination of ' the record by the legal and execu tive officials of the navy department1' the seetary announced that the de partment became satisfied that the evidence of the trial proved all the specd fleations cited against the officer. The secretary thereupon referred the ,case back to thme court for re consideration, The review of the testimony railed to change the opinion of the court and conse guently the verdict' of acquirttal standis. Captain Knight is the senior captain of the navy. By his acquittal and restoration to duty ho probably will be promoted to the rank of roar admiiraJ as soon as a. vacancy occurs, SETS DEATH TRAP FOR STORE THIEF DEVICE OF ITALIAN MEROHANT AT KANSAS CITY LANDS' PRIZE. Kansas City.-The grocery 'store of John and Andrew Barbera, in this citye, had been robbed six timen in as many weeks and goods valued at $200 stolen. This became monotonous to John Barbera, twenty-one years old, and he set about to catch the thief. He cut a hole in the money drawer the size of a revolver muzzle and placed the weapon so it would be dis charged when the drawer was opened. Then he attached a string to the trig ger. Barbera was watching outside his store the other night and when he heard a shot within he went home and went to bed. When he opened the store the next morning he notified the police of an attempted robbery and a shooting. "Why didn't you notify the police S.......... lo Weapon Was Discharged When Drawer Was Opened. when you heard the shot?" 13arbera was asked. "What was the use?" he replicd. "I knew I had the thief." The police have an Italian, twenty two years old, -under guard at the general hospital with a bullet wound In his right shoulder. This man was found lying on a mattress in the base ment of a building next door to the Barbera store. lie told the police he did not know how he was shot, but they believe he is a victim of Barbe ra's trap. LIMIT IN STAGE REALISM Gruesome Scene In Gilbert's New Sketc)i, "The Hooligan," Pre sented In London. L.ondon.-It would not be easy to imagine a more gruesome suhject for a thatrical piay than the last hours and confession of a murderer in a condemuedl cell. This was seectedl by SIr William S. Gilbert, the Londoti dramatist, for a new sketch, "Trhe Ihooligan,"' pre~sented a few nights ago at the L.ondoni Coliseum. The little play, horrible, un pleasan, begins with the discussicn by the pt-is on warders of the execution wit hin a coule of hours of the prisonecr asleep in his bed. Theiy awake him from his brokeni slumber, wvitn~ess his horror when he recollects that he has to die in two hours, and as ho dIresses give him renmin iscences--to keep upl his courage-of howv pluckily other- lrison era had gone to thelt- doom. 'lThe pit eous plea of the wrtetchedl youth for a rept-ieve, his insistent cry that he had Duly intended to woundl, not to 1kil1, hIs e~etheart, wetre realistically agoniz lng. llis descriptions of his night PIteous Pleas of the Wretched Youth for Reprieve. mares, his shrieks when he heat-s steps outside the coil door, added to the ghastliness of the whole busIness. WVhen at last the governor, chapl lain and officials enter his cell, he lost control of himself. le shrieked for another half hour, half an hour with the clergyman. He crouched on the floor, clinging to a leg of a table. Trhenx quietly the governor told himn that a reprieve had been grantedi. There the gruesome side of the tale Eeemed to have ended. Not r-eally so, however, for the strat~n of the news was too .much for the man; ho stoodl upi, swung himself around anud fell dlead on the floor of the cell. W~' en the cur-tain, in response to appiau e, was taken up, the dead body of tile pt-Is or-er was seen lying on the lbed, WOMANIS FREED BY UNWRITTEN LAW Texas Jury Acquits Her of Charge of First Degree Murder. STORY A SENSATIC'NAL ONE For Two Years Womarn Prayed for Her Victim, Then Shot Her When Prayer Did Not Prove Efficaci. ous--Dead Woman Stole Her Husband. Fort Worth, Tex.-Tho unwritten law inl Texas aplilles to women as well as mei, acording to a Jury at Fort Worth, which cleared Mrs. T. M. Brooks, chargeld with first degree mur der in slaying Mlrs. Alary iinford whom she charged with trying to break up hor- home. Insanity was the grounds she was freed on, but there was not a word on insanity mentioned in the trial. It was a plain case of the unwritten law and it was enough to free the woman. Mrs. Ibooks Is the wife of a Fort Worth attorney. I)uring the busy part of the day of January 16 last, she wcnt to a large department store where Tlrs. lBinford was e'nployed and shot her to death. Shi left a prayer meeting at her own home to accomplish the deed. The story of hpgw Mrs. Brooks, al ways prominent in Methodist church circles, prayed every day for two years that tho Lord would make a better woman of Mrs. Iinford, and how, after hearing, unwittingly, a tele. phone conversal,*"a Letween her hus. band and airs. Ilinford, 2irs. Brooks gave up the struggle and reslved to kill the woman who had spoiled her life, made one of the most sensational murder trials Texas has had for years. It was Mrs. .1. W. loyd, formerly a next door neighbor of the Brooks', who declared that she knew of her own knowledge that the defendant shad prayed for the redemption of Mirs. Ilinford, change her husband's dispo. sition and end her troubles. Airs. Htoyd had talked to the witness fre i Shot Her to Death. qluenitly as to what course shoul be p~ursuedl to end(1 matters so V iveybodiy wouldl be satisfled and t hey dOci~ld that prayer alone could accompllish this. "We were very happy utili we miovedl to lFort Worth," said Mtrs. Brooks on the stand. Then she toldl howv Mrs. Ilinford caine int~o her life nearly five year's ago. She said: "She came to my husband's; oflice to get a divorce, and AMr. Ih-ooks called me up and said: 'Mlamma, there is a woman in my office who wants me to do0 a little lcgal work for her. She has -n0 friends in the city andl little money. What (10 you say if I bring her up) tonight?' "She camne. That was the begin. ning. WVelcoming her as a frienless y'oung woman11 in a strange city and with a dlesire to give her ai good start, 1 fostered the cause ofi my wreck. ed happiness, stoodl it as long as couldl aind then killed hecr.' GAVE AWAY CHICKEN LUNCH Leads to Discovery of Ancient Cold Storage Poultry-Twenty Thou sand Pounds Condemned. Cincinnati.-What amilounte rd to practically a raidl on cold storage pouik try was coimpleted 11y Doctor Illume, the city meat inspector. Wit hiun the monthl he and his assistants have condemned 20,000 p)ounds of cold stor age poultry. Doctor IBlumie says ho found meat that had beenm in cold stor-* age for five years, some venison actually being stamipedI 1905. D~octor Illume saidi that what first attracted his attention and~ sulggestred the investigation was the fact tho cheap restaurants were selling a chicken dinner for 15 (cents and lthat somne saloons were suply3ing chicken in thei,r free lunches. "I conjectured," D~octor IBlume said, "t hat somelthiing must he (he matter with poultry that could be sold1 at that figure." Dies In Fasting for Cure. Torionto, Ont.-lIerblert D everell i1. drad here as the result of a 1 5-day fa~st which he undertook in the hopc of curin:g a slight illness. Two years ago lie successfully fasted for three weeks. SPEEDING THE MAL Automatic Mail Clerks in Use In New York. First Plant for Handling Mail by Ma. chinery Now in Operation In Penn sylvania Terminals-Saving of Seconds Valuable. Now York.-The first complete me chanical system for loading mail imat ter into cars, providing for its hand ling entirely by automatic appliances from mail wagons to train, has just been installed in this city. The apparatus is part of the equip ment of the new Pennsylvania terni nal, through which passes 40 per cent. of the mnail matter leaving New York. The saving even of seconds is valu able, and from the time when the wagons from the post office deliver the pouches at the street level until they enter the mall cars waiting oil the level of the tunnel, 70 feet lower down, human labor is supplanted by nine rapid muechanical devices. There are three stages in the pro cess of getting the sacks of mail fron the street to the mail cars. Soine tim before the fast mail train to westerr points, consisting of perhaps half a dozen cars, is scheduled to leave the station, it is shunted to the mal track. Into these care there shortly begin to drop automatically delivered pouches coining from some unseet 9ource. As the moment of departure approaches the pouches come in niorE rapid succession, until they are shoot Ing into the cars in a constani stream. Lising slightly above the floor of the station at the point where the mail wagons make their deliveries arc a number of lige hollow sheot-iror cylinders. Into these the pouches arc duiped, and slip (own to a point jus1 above the roofs of the waiting cars The pouches do not fall in a direct line, since this im igh t injure their con tesn;ts, but they go down on spira Autonatc Cosveor Crryng al hadlig Csonded. rm Cartn Mon Bhy ags o to Tnerfainumbr coieully moving endles which Icon veyrs tli lagrach tv lus above oi roofs of the cars of thie wailing train Each cyl 1nde r leads to ai cr1t a In helt and each bill serves the t rains se on ai certain t rack. liiut. as all t h mlail is not carried in onei ('ari, a thlru Operatio lau inecissary. Stainmg im numb' er of movable curived cliutes jns long enlouigh to reach from thle con voyor belts to the door of the meai Calr, andr by means of an ingen lon: pouch. 'as It reaches t he polint abov' lhe car for whIiich it. is dest i ned, fall:h fromi the belt in to the curved (htii and hands on the floor of the car. COSTLY HATS THROWN AWA1 Garbage Collector of Seattle, Wash. Dumps Valuable Headgear Into City Refuse Dump. Seattle, Washi.---No Seegambia, Saltral) will stalhk the junegles of I hi Dark ('ont iient with prouider gr1: ii than will mark (lie ca rriage of sever dlonen sonls of Italy, engagdl in t hi hlonorale an 11a itaryl~u~ o(cupaion lcii tr'iianporiing Seailttles garbla;ge to thy dumpili- that is, if thie polici' depart mnen t fails ini elorts ato recover S81)( worth of P'anaita hats fliat Sinigermlar & ion s, at. Second a venue1 and iien iie-c street, had planned to sell this sping lbecansme a blox that lie foun d in Ii rear of0 the Sinigerman at ore was light al sca1vengefr jhur' pod to the concluisio, that it conitinled onliy exOclsior. HI carted it away and cast it off at th city dump at tile foot of Mene street, OnlI 1-:1 ion. ZLip! U poi the odorrouls heap of re-fuso boun e<e the b)ox full of expenrlsive P'aanmas. TUhe hats remnainedi ulndistulrbedl fr several days. Tlhlen aL garbage ma1:1 with a well-developed~ hampi of curq ity directed lils No. frs against a si$. of the box, crashing it. m and dlis(1 closing th~e headgear to) view. Im mi(iat ely a riot (ensui -l and the garbage men bore ulounii uPoen i ha box. Within less thani a minute cver.1 hat had been appropriatid , even t hose thrt were torn inl the scramle. Not until every scavenger ini p08 .aession of a P~anama is b~ehiind tht barsa ay the rintentivnn., will they res TRADIL a/ /ARK A trial packalge of Munyon's Paw Paw Pills will be sent free to anyone on re quest. Address Professor Mlunyon, 53d & Jeff erson Sts., l'hiladelphtia, Pa. If you are in need of inedical advice, dio not fail to write P'rofessor AMnyan. Your communi cation will be treated in strict confidence, and your case, will be diagnosed as care fully as though you had a personal inter Munyon's Paw P'aw Pills are unlike aill other laxatives or entharties. Theoy coax the liver inito activity by gentle methiods. Thecy do not svou r, they do not gripeo, they dot not weaken, but they do start aill the secretions of the liver and stomachl inl a wayI tlutlt Soon1 puIt. these organs. inl a heailthly conldition andl~ corrects constipation. In my opinion constipation is4 respIonsible for 11uost ail mentsi. There are 26l feet, of Iman111 bowels, which is; really at sewer pipe. When this pipe becolms vloggedl the wN*hole System becomles poisoned, cauls ing biliousniess, inidigestion and impure bloodl, which often preluce rheumatism andl kidnecy ailmnenlts. NO woman11 whio suffersi with contstipation or- any.% liver ailmnent enn expect to htave a clear Complexion or- enjoy good lhealthl. If I hadl my wavy I would prohlibit thle sale of nlinletenlths of thle entartielis that111r0 nOW being Sold1 for thle reason101 tiutt thejy Soon1 <vestroy the hling of thet stoimach, setting Lip serious forms of indigestion, anld so pmralyze thle bowels, that they re fitse to atct, uless forced] by st ronig purgatives. Mun11yon't l'aw Paw Pjills are a tonic to the Stotitmehl, liver andi nerves. They itivigorate inlsteadl of w.leake ; they ('n rich- the blood itstead of Irnpoverishl it ; they- enlable the stomaich to get all1 the nourishlinit'nlt, from fond that is put into it. These pills con1tailk no0 calonteli, no tintey ar, Soothirig, healing an1d .,timillatin~g. They School t he bowels. to act wvithouit physie. Reua ize b6ttle, contain i , Nets AlnYfan's 1.:0boratory., 5:3A deffon Ss.,Philadelphiai. 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