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TMP R OV EITCO NDITI ON 5 1
AT SAN FRANCISCO
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Removing Wreck and Ru2n j
Left by Earthquake Ci
and Fire. n
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| . RIGID ECONOMY WITfl RATI3NS "
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Ac'.anl Kebullillu:: of the City Hat Begun
v ?The Mayor Says There Should Be >*o r;
Break In the Kelief Movement?Un- ^
dergronnd Chinatown Amazes the
Tolice?Other California Towns Pre- a:
paring to Keconstruct ? The Insane C1
- . Asvlnin Horror.
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San Francisco.?The loss of some 300 I>
lirao nnil thn /larletafirtn n f nlmncf ^
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four square miles of the best part of it
[ San Erancisco Lave now beeu written b
in history, and every one is confident V
for rapid progress in the rebuilding of
P'- c a greater and better city. S(
The actual beginning of the disen- tl
r-;j tanglement of the earthquake and fire is
stricken town from its disordered con- ?
dition is on and the work of reconstruction
will proceed rapidly from this ir
time. On many sides are visible indi- n
? ! cations of the determination of mer- a
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chants to resume business. Gangs of ^
~ men with teams are excavating for d,
foundations in numerous vacant lots, ai
and in other places the removal of de&y
. bris is well under way.
, The streets are early thronged with
laborers on their way to the burned dis- la
trict, where they are cleaning up. The tl
boats from cities across bay and local
electric cars from suburbs are packed sl
trifh TrArlrin<rm?M hi
In many places advertisements are
posted oy walls seeking laborers, and J)
there inquiries for men are met with
numerous responses from heads of *
families who are willing to take any
kind of labor.
Relief work was continued on a ?
* large scale, under General Greely,
and with a closer check than ever
against waste and against the unwor- ,
* thy. Distribution of food to the home- ?.
Jess is being made on the army ration P
plan, as evolved by General Greely, J
and the output of supplies was lessened
so that twenty-one days' food is *
now in sight.
With no immediate prospect that t
conditions will be so normalized that
the community will be able to feed
and take care of itself for several
;weeks, the citizens' committee has be- .
gun to evolve some way to provide
against a failure of supplies. Mayor .
Schmitz informed the general committee
that 700 carloads of food and sup
plies had been distributed since April
18, and transportation lines had information
of only 108 cars on the way. ?*!
0 * "If," said the Mayor, "this information
is correct, we will soon be worse ..
off than we were a week ago. If the h
information has gone abroad through
the country that we are amply supplied g
it is most unfortunate, for it is appar- ^
ent that we are not. It is not even ?
known how much money we can de
pend upon with which to purchase supplies,
for you hav? heard from Mr. ^
Phelan, on several occasions, that part
v at least of this money subscribed by or
individuals or companies in the East
is 'disbursed through private agents
here> m
"While it is true that contributions
Sir of money will be very much more to
the purpose than contributions of sup- f?
plies, it should be made known to the
.world if the one is not available the
other will be moot gratefully received."
Chairman Phelan made a gloomy
gpeech, in which he said that the L(
Rockefeller and Standard Oil contribu- .
tions were being distributed through ?;T
Standard Oil agents, and that prob- ^
ably many other heavy contributions f18
.which had been put down to tho credit
' of the committee might be distributed
In the same way. "We 1 ave but $51S.- es
000 of real money," said he. "though
funds placed, to our credit in all parts .
of the country total $3,500,000." . *
Clothing and bedding sent will prove ie:
of the greatest value. One of the chief
needs now in the relief camps is for re
women's and children's warm clothiug. ar
Thousands are wearing the clothing ??
they escaped from the tire in. No material
of this kind will be wasted.
,, , In the future food will not be given t0
shle-bodied males in Sr.n Francisco ve
with a view to forcing them to go to .
work. Luxuries will be given only to 01
those who are ill. *
The exo*U3 of San Frr.-:ciscans has ee
4 lightened the drafts on the food supplies
to a large extent. According to a
Southern Pacific official 200,000 of the gt
population of th:s city nave left and pj
the Southern Pacific Company has ^
carried 50,000 persons to points east of *
Ogden since April 18. ^
In order to reduce the expenses of (j,
the army at San Francisco as much s-'
> as possible, so as to have more funds je
for the relief of the earthquake sufferers.
General Greely has decided that w
1000 additional^ troops will be enough ea
to take care of the situation. General
Bell sent General Greely full informa- w
tion as to what lias been done with the Q.
$2,500,000 appropriated by Congress. It _
is estimated that ?500,000 of this fund ^
is still unexpended. ^
The American Red Cross forwarded
$300,000 by wire to James D. Phelan.
Chairman of the Red Cross and Relief
Committee. Mr. Phelan was advised
that SI.000,000 more is at the disposal R
of the committee. ai
Reports from the refugee camps and m
hospitals show an astonishingly small of
percentage of sickness and the fear of di
threatened epidemics has been buried, in
it is hoped, for all time. of
The water supply is getting better re
TOWN SHATTERED BI 11 AIL,.
Housetops Beaten In and Live Stock ol
Killed at Branchville, Va. 11
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Branchville. Va.?During a severe fj
rain and electrical storm here large 01
hailstones fell, killing many fowl, h,
small animals and two horses. Housetops
were beaten off and the Seaboard
? 'Air Line Railway's sheet iron warehouse
roof was ruined by the hail.
Vegetation and crops were almost com- cl
pletely cut off. The storm continued tl
for forty-five minutes. u
' ;* Limited Ballot For Women.
By the narrow margin of one vote
the bill of Senator Raines, which al- o
lows women in cities of the third class a
to vote on matters pertaining to taxa- ^
tion when they are taxpayers, passed h
the Senate of New York at Albany. ii
Victory For Free Seeds.
After wrangling two days, the
House, Washington, D. C.. put into Y
the agricultural bill, by a vote of 133 C
to 58, a paragraph carrying $202,000 tl
for the distribution of free seeds by li
members of Congress. u
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' Chinese criminals ana tne rauure 01
any a raid upon fantan games or
ave dens.
Probably no other class of profesonal
meu suffered so severely as the
jysicians, more than 1000 of whom
id their offices in the burned district,
ew saved even so much as a scalpel,
ot only have their libraries, instruents.
records of personal research
id office paraphernalia been deroyed,
but the diplomas, without
hich they cannot practice in another
:ate, have drifted to the four winds
The Oakland refugee camps are beg
deserted at a rapid rate. The
ilv hindrance to more rapid evacua
3ii being the difficulty of getting mon'
for transportation from friends
id relatives at other points. The
ails are congested, the express com- j
inies nearly swamped vitli b-oiness
id the telegraph companies working
ery available end of communics>n
to handle the enormous mass of ;
isiness. i
H. J. Kinney, formerly of Hoi j
jrings, Ark., has been released un- ]
ir a pardon from Oakland prison,
llowing his trausfer from the Gov- j
nment prison at Alcatraz Island. He
as arrested on the first day of the ]
e for having drawn a revolver in
der to compel an automobilist to ,
rry his wife, children and two in- ,
red women to a place of safety.
ie policefcian who made the arrest ,
isunderstood the situation, and Kiny
languished in prison for ten days (
fore he got some one sufficiently in- ,
rested to seek a pardon for him. .
The conditions following the earthlake
at the State Hospital for the ]
isnne at Agnews, in Santa Clara
>unty, have yet to be^ully told. ,
Desperate maniacs were lioerated
' the f.ambling of the walls, and
Ith no other means of detention at
md, many of them had to be tied to
ses like wild beasts.
Several inmates escaped during the
citement, but were recaptured and ,
e housed in the San Jose jail. The
0 most dangerous have been sent to
ockton. One hundred and one bod3
have been taken from the ruins. <
As for the remainder, Agnews now ;
sembles a'tented city. About 850 i
e being cared for on the lawns. The
ouads are roped off into two sec- *
>ns. On one side the women live in i
eir tents, and the men brve a little
wn on the other ude of the inter- |
tning ropes.
raER towns will rebuild
irthquake Ditmaen Ontsldo of Sail
Francisco to Be Repaired at Once.
Bakersfield, Cal.?The rest of the ;
ate is following the lead of San i
ancisco and getting ready to re- I
lild and go at it again.
The cities which have the most to j
> are San Jose and Sant:?. Rosa. The
image at other points is not excesve;
perhaps Salinas is the next heavst
sufferer.
There the Spreckles sugar factory,
hich was twisted out 01 shapo by the
rthquake. has begun jn addition
hicli will cost S2"?0,000. Damage
as heavier at Hollister, one of the
ilest towns in nortnern California
id the county seat of Sau Benito,
ian was reported at first. It is esoiated
at half a million.
To Reward Army Ileropt.
Washington, D. C. ? President i
ooscvelt has called upon the War |
id Navy Department to report the j
lines of the officers and enlisted men
! the Marine Corps and army who
splayed special gallantry in checkg
the San Francisco fre by the nse
' dynamite; this with a view to their
ward and commendation.
Child Drowns in Cistern.
Josephine Modisette. the six-yeard
daughter of Frank Modisette, of
elena, Ark., who disappeared four
lys ago and was thought to have
illen iu the river, was drowned in an
d cistern iu the rear of her father's
3ine.
Great Britain Has a Surplus.
The British Chancellor of the Ex- i
lequer introduced the first budget of !
T.ihora 1 nilminis}ivi tinn. n ml ail- I
ounced a surplus of $17,333,000.
Governor Iloch and That Kiss.
All Kansas is aroused and excited
ver the charge that Governor I-Iocli
ttempted to kiss Mrs. Stanley, the
ife of his predecessor. The iucident
as begun to assume giant proportioug
i the political eye.
Resisting Eighty Cent Gas.
Consolidated Gas Company, of New
'ork City, applied to the Uuited States
Circuit Court for injunction to prevent
tie enforcement of the eighty cent rate
ivr until its constitutionality is passed
pon in the courts.
very day. and iu several sectious of
jo saved districts the force o" water
i the faucets is almost as strong as it
as before the big tire.
Estimates prepared for General
freely show that 7000 tons of food
ere distributed free in San Francisco
tiring the first ten days. The daily
jst of relief was about $1."H),<)00.
The figures show .hat considerably
lore than enough to feed the city has
een given out. The number of per- i
ins who still require relief is 200,<R)0. I
t is expected that before long free |
)od will be supplied only to women,
tiildren and sick and fetble meu.
One of the best signs that order is !
lpidly arising out of chaos is the ex- j
msion of the telegraph, telephone and j
treet car system. The Southern Pa- !
itic Railway has obtained its tenipor- |
ry franchise to run tracks into the s
Ity for the disposal of debris.
It is now known that the wholesale :
r heavier valued district in the lower
art of the city suffered the most se- j
erely from earthquakes, while the i
eaviest damage from official dyuamit- |
lg and back firing occurred in the
anking and insurance district along
an Ness avenue. Both of these quesons
are important factors in deterlining
the losses. From several
jurces of information it would seem
lat the earthquake damare involved
i fully forty per cent, and that of dyamite
twenty per cent, of the entire
estruction.
There are 10S companies interested
i the San Francisco disaster, and it 19
ow predicted by conservative insur
ace men uere Tnat wurnn tuiriy uays
venty-eight of them will be out of
usiness. Five already have -one uner
and the remaining twenty-three
re in danger.
Now that underground Chinatown is
ftposed, the police, who thought that
ley had a good idea of the ramificaons
there, are astonished at the revetions.
No family of rodents ever
innelled more persistently nor ingenusly
than did the denizens of this
aarter. So complete was the chain of
lbways that every part of Chinatown
id its underground exit. The main
rteries have been traced as far as
eavney street on the south and Powi
street on the north, a distance of
iree blocks. The tunnels extend un?r
the streets. This subterraneau
iaze explains the mysterious escapes
1VIFE MURDER CHARGED
Harvard Professor Took Body to
Chicaero Fcr Burial,,
ARSENIC FOUND IN STOMACH
Erich Muenter, Against Whom Accnnation
is Made, Disappeared After
Funeral?Wn a Faitli Curl>?t? IJurlal
Certificate ItefuRed by Physician*?
Second Child Born.
Cambridge. Mass.?A warrant was
sworn out by the "Cambridge police
charging Erich Muenter, an instructor
in Gorman at Harvard University, "with
the murder of his wife, who died about
two weeks ago.
?Muenter took the body to Chicago
for Durial on April n, aim iueu uiaappeared.
He is a native of Germany,
and before coming to Harvard was
an instructor iu bis native language
at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Kan. He is thirty-five years old
and lived at 107 Oxford street, tbis
city. His wife was formerly Miss
Leone K. Krembs, of Chicago.
The attention of the authorities was
called to the case just after the woman's
death on April 10. Ten days before
that time a child was born to
Mrs. Muenter, who was attended by a
faith cure doctor and by two nurses
of the same cult. The physician was a
Mrs. Nicherson, of Winchester. The
nurses are both residents of Cambridge,
a Miss Case and Miss Derrick.
Some time after the child was born
two regular physicians, Drs. Frederick
W. Taylor and Herbert Mclutyre, were
called in. Both of these physicians
decided tflat Mrs. aiuenter avus buuw
ing from some ailment of the stomach.
They prescribed for her, but later, it
is alleged, they ascertained that the
nurses were not following directions.
Drs. Taylor and Mclntyre then declined
to have anything further to do
with the case. A few days later Mrs.
Muenter died.
On the same day Muenter applied to
Dr. Mclntyre for his signature to the
certificate of death, but Dr. Mclntyre
declined to sign the paper. He decided
that the case needed investigation,
and notified Medical Examiner
William D. Swan, who as soon as he
received Dr. Mclntyre's report performed
an autopsy on the body.
The Medical Examiner sent the
stomach to Professor W. F. Whitney,
the chemist of the Harvard Medical
School. Having taken this step Dr.
Swan permitted Muenter and the two
nurses to take the body to Mrs. Muenter's
former home in Chicago for
burial. The party left Cambridge and
took along Muentor's two children,
Helen, aged three, and the Infant.
A report of the analysis of the stomach
was received by Medical Examiner
Swan from Professor Whitney. Professor
Whitney reported that he had
found marked traces of arsen'.. Dr.
Swan immediately laid the case before
George A. Sanderson. District Attorney
for Middlesex County, who in turn
notified the Cambridge police.
The authorities quickly issued a warrant
for Muenter, charging him with
the murder of his wife. The Chicago
police were notified to hold the man if
he could be found in that city, and
circulars were sent out containing his
complete description.
The report of Professor Whitney
paused intense surprise at Qarvard
University. The university authorities
stated that Muenter was appointed instructor
in German nearly two years
ago. while he was stationed at the
University of Kansas. He at no time
had acted as professor at Harvard,
but received his appointment as instructor
temporarily, that is, from year
to year.
He was serving his second year at
the university wheu his wife died.
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FEARING SIX GIRLS, LAD DIES.
Commits Suicide Rather Than be Graduated
the Only Boy in Class.
Oxford, Pa.?The only boy in a class
Df seven, James Andrews, aged sixteen
years, committed suicide rather than
Graduate. His body was found in
White Clay Creek, where he had
drowned himself in about four feet
of water. His coat pockets were filled
with flatirous aild stones, which held
bim down.
Young Andrews was a senior in the
Oxford High School, but was so diffident
that he did not wish to take part
in the graduation exercises, especially
as lie was the only boy. His relatives
and teachers insisted upon it. and the
fear of having to appear with so many
girls weighed upon his mind so that
he threw himself into the creek.
When the body was recovered a note
nddressed to bis mother was found
asking her to take care of bis younger
brother. Young Andrews bad confided
to several of bis companions that Le
never would graduate.
LIGHTNING KILLS BOT.
Stroke Burns Hair From Head?Sister
Badly Injured.
Erie. Pa.?John Peters, of Utica, Vanango
County. Penn., a student at the
Edinboro State Normal School, while
walking through the fields near Edinboro
Lake with his sister Margaret, a
student at the same institution, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
The hair of his head was entirely
burned off. but his body bore no
marks. His undereJotJjjng was destroyed.
his shoes torn into shreds and
his hat was perforated. His sister was
knocked dowu by the shock and severely
injured. It took her an hour to
x*each a farmhouse only a quarter of a
mile distant.
Dowie Challenges Trnducers.
Dowie, speaking iii the Tabernacle at
Ziou City. 111., challenged his tradueers
to accuse him there. Dowie held his
meeting while Voliva, the rival leader,
was holding one. The test proved a
"frost" for Dowie, there being only
about 150 of his followers among his
listeners.
Millionaire Student Hurt by Auto.
Edward K. Wallace, a Yale freshman,
worth $2,500,000 in his own right,
was thrown from his motor-cycle and
fatally hurt.
Sporting Notes.
Six nations will compeLe in the
French Grand Prix for automobiles.
At Schenectady. N. Y.. Union College
adopted basketball in place of
football.
Slosson is now champion, having defeated
Schaefer in the final billiard
match 500 to 390.
H. L. Bowden's Mercedes made the
best showing in the motor boat races
at Palm Beach, Fla.
Thirty-two American athletes will
compete for world's honors on track
and field at Athens Gre?<*?.
" $100,000,000 FOR THE NAVY "
Commiit?e Provides Tor a Great
United States Battleship.
Over ?50,000,000 For Ihe Increase of tlia |
Force?Toped?? Boat Destroyers nnd
Submarines Provided For.
Washington, D. C.?The Naval Appropriatiou
bill was reported to the
House by Chairman Foss, of the Committee
on Naval Affairs. The measure
carries a total of $99,734,215, against
estimates by the department aggregating
$121,565,718. The largest single
item iu the bill is that of $20,000,000
for pay of the navy. Under increase
of the navy there is appropriated $17,830,829
for construction and machinery
and $15,143,000 for armor and armament.
Aside from these items the Bureau
of Ordnance gets $8,408,000; the Bureau
of Equipment, $6,874,028; construction
and repair, $7,782,824; for
public works, under yards and docks,
$2,843,450, of which amount $95,050 is
to be expended at the Boston yard,
$128,500 at the New York yard. $459,500
at Charleston, $207,000 at Olongapo,
$100,000 for a floating steel drydock
and $300,000 for preservation and
repairs at navy yaflds.
The department's request for an increase
of 3000 in the number of petty
officers and men is refused because of
I the fact, as stated in the report, that
the present quota of 34,500 men, and
apprentices to the number of 2500, is
short of being filled by about 5500.
An appropriation of $406,000 is recommended
for modernizing the batteries
of the Massachusetts and Oregon
and for new guns on the New York.
An increase of $1,000,000 is made in
the appropriation for coal and transportation,
due to the increase of the
fleet, and the requirement is made that
coal be shipped in American bottoms.
Under increase of the navy the bill
contains the following provision: "One
first class battleship, carrying as heavy
armor and as powerful armament as
any known of its class, to have the
highest practicable speed and greatest
practicable radius of action, and to
cost, exclusive of armament and armor,
not exceeding $6,000,000."
Three torpedo boat destroyers, to
have the highest practicable speed and
to cost exclusive of armament not to
exceed $750,000 each, are provided for.
The Secretary of the Navy is "authorized
in his discretion to contract
for or purchase subsurface or submarine
torpedo boats to an amount not
exceeding $1,000,000."
The cost of such a program, it is estimated,
will be $10,000,000 for the battleship,
$2,250,000 for the three torpedo
hnnl- rtastrnvars nnd Sl.000.000 for the
submarines, or a total of $13,250,000.
Regarding the big battleship, the report
says:
"The great naval powers of the
world are building battleships of large
tonnage. England has recently
launched the Dreadnought, a ship of
nearly 19,000 tons; Japan is building
one of even larger tonnage, and Germany
has recently increased the tonnage
of some of her ships heretofore
authorized to 18,000 tons. The Secretary
of the Navy recommended that'if
Congress shall authorize but one battleship
this year 'it shall be the largest
and strongest battleship that is known
to be afloat.'"
The committee recommends that the
limit of the cost of the Connecticut be
increased to $4,000,000, an increase of
$380,000, made necessary "by the increased
cost of construction in navy
yards."
The bill carries an appropriation of
$100,000 to repair, equip and restore
the old Constitution and put her as: far
as practicable in her original condition,
but not for active service.
. HEROISM AT SEA.
Thrilling Acts of Self-Sacrifice as Cadet
Ship Sank.
Hamburg, Germany.?The survivors
of the Belgian cadet ship Cointe de
Smet de Naeyer, -which foundered at
sea, lauded at Cuxhaven and came to
this city. Their story shows that uo
storm or sudden squall was responsible
for the disaster, but that it was due to
a mysterious leak, which was not noticed
for some time, presumably on
account of tlie cement in the cargo
soaking up the water. When it was
noticed !t was too late.
All hands were called to the pumps,
hut the hand pumps failed and then
the steam pumps gave out. As the
water rose In the hold the ship set signals
of distress, which were unavailing.
When it was finally decided to
abandon the ship great difficulty was
experienced in launching the boats, the
sea then wcsliing over the decks.
Two of the boats were sunk, but the
third got away with twenty-four persons
in her. Commander Fourcault,
First Officer Barns Van Suylen and
Chaplain Kuypers refused to leave.
Each was at his post when the ship
broke in two and sank, carrying them
down with it. The last seen of the
chaplain he was making the sign of the
cross.
The first officer was picked up by
the lifeboat after the ship sank, but
seeing that the boat was too heavily
loaded, he threw himself overboard
and was drowned.
Anti-Cigarette Law Valid.
The Parks Anti-Cigarette law passed
by the Inst session of the Indiana Legislature
has been declared valid by the
Supreme Court. The court interpreted
the law as meaning that it is illegal to
sell cigarettes in Indiana or keep them
for sale, but it is not illegal to smoke
them and it is not illegal to bring them
iuto the State. A
New York Life Not to Contest.
Thomas A. Euckner, vice-president
of the New York Life Insurance Company,
denied a report that the company
would test the constitutionality of the
law requiring the publication of the
list of policy holders.
Public Must Pay 'Frisco Losses.
The losses of the fire insurance companies
in the San Francisco conflagra<inn
will hnvp to lie naid by the sreneral
public throughout the United States
instead of the stockholders. Rates
huve already been raised.
Mail Burned at Toronto.
Fire of unknown origin did $40,000
damage to the general postoffice at
Toronto, Canada. The charred body
of George Letray, the engineer, was
found in the ruins. A great quantity
of mail matter was burned and lost<
but the registered mail in the vaults is
safe.
Gapon Story Confirmed.
i The Novoe Yremya, the leading paper
of Russia, has published a story
which tends to confirm the reported,
murder of Fathe; Gapon by revolutionists.
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POLICE FIRE ON STRIKERS
Four Men Shot Down in Pennsylvania
Coal Region.
MINERS EXCITED AND ANGRY
Counted Constabulary Fight For Life
"VVlth Foreign Miners at Mount
Carmol ? lUot Caused by lleport
That the Terms of Agreement
Were Kejected.
Wilkesbarrc, Pa. ? Mobs of riotous
foreigners attacked twenty-two men of
Troop C of the Pennsylvania State
Mounted Police at Mount Carmel. In
repulsing tliem the troopers shot seventeen,
four of whom were fatally injured,
two others being in a critical
condition. Four troopers are injured,
L. F. Koch being the most seriously
hurt
The rioting started, following a mass
v?aartf fa?*alr?n hnt?n minq TT'rtrlrnrC!
uiuului5 ut iviclqu wlmjl ujiu-. itviuviw,
at which their leaders told them the
operators had refused*to grant any of
their demands. An attack "was planned
upon seventy employes of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company at the Sayre
colliery, where they are sinking a shaft
and building a breaker, but mining
no coal.
Sheriff Sharpless asked for Troop C,
and Lieutenant Smith and twenty-two
men were rushed to the scene. When
they reached Mount Carmel the Sheriff
was not there and the local authorities
were missing, but news of their arrival
soon filled tJbe streets with an excited
throng, and the Commercial
Hotel, where they breakfasted, was
surrounded and stoned by the crowd,
while the troopers were hooted and
cursed, and when they appeared at the
door were pelted with stones.
They charged with clubs, but the
crowd fled before them and again
fired volley after volley of stones at
them. Four men had been struck and
badly injurftl when Lieutenant Smith
ordered the men to draw their revolvers
and fire. At the first few volleys
few were hit, the bullets going high,
and the rioters replied with showers
of stones and some shots.
Three times the troopers loaded their
revolvers and fired more than 150
shots. , The mob fought back, howling,
cursing, throwing stones and clubs,
charging upon the twenty-two nnd
paying no heed to those who fell before
the steady fire of the revolvers.
Not until they had exhausted the last
cartridges did the troopers withdraw
and make their way hastily to the
Sayre Colliery, where they found protection
behind the high stockade.
Meanwhile the rioters, picking up
their wounded, slowly dispersed, and
when Sheriff Sharpless arrived the
town was quiet. He reached the colliery
and took refuge behind the stockade
with the troopers. In his opinion
the force, although it was reinforced
by the remaining members of Troop
C. until Lieutenant Smith has more
than fifty men, was not strong enough
to attack the mob..
The town has a population of 9500
foreigners, and these were aroused to
a high pitch of excitement. A large
number of them are drinking heavily,
and it is feared there may be serious
iruuuii:.
SCHOOL HEADS IN FATAL DUEL
Professor U. F. Duff, Famed as an
Archaeologist, Shot Dead.
Deming, New Mexico.?Professor W,
H. Dickey, superintendent of the Deming
Public Schools, shot and instantly
killed Professor U. Francis Duff, superintendent
of the Luna County
.schools, one of the most prominent educators
in New Mexico and a student
of archaeology who had achieved national
reputation by his writings.
The shooting took place shortly after
noon in front of the postoffice in the
main street of Deming.
Dickey had been driving about town
In a buggy during the racrning and had
passed Professor Duff several times.
As he drove in front of the postoffice
Duff stepped out, drew a revolver from
his pocket aud called to Dickey to stop.
Quick rs a flash Dickey drew his revolver,
leaped from the buggy and
opened lire. Both pistols cracked at
once. Professor Duff fell dead with a
bullet through his head. Dickey was
shot in the side, but is not believed to
be fatally hurt.
For come months there had been
bad blood between the men, arising
from differences in connection with the
management of the Deming schools,
although it is hinted that personal matters*have
also entered into the quarrel.
It is said that Duff had frequently
threatened to shoot Dickey on sight. It
was simply a question of which could
shoot first.
DIVIDES FRIARS' LAND MONEY.
Vatican Settles Distribution of $7,000,000
Paid by United States.
Rome, Italy.?The Vatican has definitely
settled the question of the
money, $7,000,000, paid by the United
States for the friars' lands in the Philippines,
having decided that the interest
shall be divided into three separate
sums and be distributed yearly by the
Vatican, one to the Philippine dioceses,
another to the institution erected by
the religious orders in the Philippines,
and the third to the orders, largely for
their missions in ine X' ar i^asr, ana aiso
to the support of the aged friars who
"were in the Philippines.
Cardinal Merry Del Val, papal Secretary
of State, warmly urged a settlement
on the above basis.
W. J. BRYAN IN JERUSALEM.
Astonished to Find Few Christian
Tourists There.
Jerusalem.?William J. Bryan, who
is visiting Jerusalem in the course of
Ills tour of the world, addressed a special
meeting held in the Tabernacle by
the Christian Missionary Alliance. He
spoke for seventy minutes ou the life
tfl' Christ and His teachings, and expressed
astonishment at the small proportion
of Christianss from America
and Europe visiting the Holy Laud.
Constitutional Democrats Win.
The recent elections to the Russian
Parliament show that the Conservatives
and Reactionist parties are in a
hopeless minority. The Constitutional
Democrats hare a working majority ot
seveu.
Friars Accept Vatican Plan.
Advices from Rome say tbnt the Do
minicans and other religious orders
have accepted the Vatican's plan foi
the division of the $7,000,000 paid bj
the United States for friars' lauds.
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YANKEES WIN AT ATHENS
Secure More Trophies Than Any
Other Nation Does.
Official Score of American Athlete* i* IX
First*, G Second* and 5 Thirds
in 39' Brent*.
Athens. Creech?The Olympic games
of 1906 were brought to their official
close when the King of Greece crowned
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INDIANS WIN $4,000,000
Government Must Pay For Removal
of the Cherokees,
Fifty Thousand Red men tJeneflt by
Largest Private Claim Erer Allowed
Agalmt the United State*.
Washington, D. C.?Tie responsibility
for tlie payment of the expenses
I of the removal of the Cherokee Indians
from the Eastern States to the In,
dian Territory, more than half a cenI
tury ago, has been decided by the Su!
preme Court of the United States to
rest with the Government. By this
decision the largest private claim ever
allowed against the United States
Government was awarded. It will distribute
$4,589,588 among the Eastern
Cherokees, who number about 50,000
persons. Nearly all of this money
will go to residents of Indl.m Territory.
The opinion was handed down by
Chief Justice Fuller, and affirmed the
decision of the Court of Claims with
slight modifications. These expenses
were charged to the Cherokee treaty
fund and the Indians alleged that this
was improperly done. The question
of Interest on the paym&nts also was
raised. The' judgment of the Conrt
of Claims was in favor of the Cherokees
and against the United States,
and called for the payment of about
$4,000,000. The case has received
much attention from Congress and in
the courts.
The modification in the decision of
j the Court of Claims, which was made
I by the Supreme Court, consisted in
cutting out tne oia settlers or western
Cherokees, thus giving the entire sum
awarded to the Eastern Cherokees,
who did not remove from their homes
in North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee
until 1838. Robert L. Owen,
who is an Indian and represented the
Eastern Cherokees, said that originally
there were about sixteen thousand
of them, but that their descendants
number about fifty thousand. The
award will be divided among them
after expenses are paid.
The original, claim was for $1,111,*
284, but the award carries an allowance
of interest since 1838. The money
used in the removal was part of a fund
growing out of the sale of the Eastern
lands of the Indians and held in
trust for them. The Government es
pecially resisted tie allowance of intdrest,
but it was overruled. The old
settlers were cut out because the court
found that they had heretofore been
fully reimbursed for their share of the
expenditures from the trust funds. The
decision provides for a per capita payment
to the Cherokees who remain in
North Carolina, Tennessee and other
Southern States. There are about six
! thousand of them. They asked for onefourth
of the entire award.
Mr. Owens will receive a fee of fifteen
per cent, of the award, the largest
ever allowed in a. Supreme Court
case. .
PARIS MOBS IN CHECK.
Min^r Riots on May Day?Troops Preventing
a Serious Outbreak.
Paris.?May Day was a day of high
nervous tension and considerable excitement,
but there has been no organized
movement which by any possibility
could be described as revolutionary.
There were perhaps 100,000 persons
on the streets in the character of manifestants
and some of them suffered severely
at the hands of the police and
aniriiprs hut there was no concerted
purpose on the part of the mob, and
curiosity was the principal motive for
the presence of a large majority of the
crowd. About a thousand disorderly
persons were arrested.
The workmen, on the whole, were
orderly, and. barring a few hotheads,
I confined their demonsti-atlons to wear
j ing scraps of pasteboard on their hats
| or collars with the inscription: "A daj
I of eight hours' work and a Sunday hoiI
iday."
BABY AND MOTHER DROWN.
Mrs. Scheibner Leaped Off the Pier tc
Save Her Little Son.
New York City. ? Mrs. Marcus
Scheibner and Jacob, her two-year-olc
son, were drowned in the East Rivei
: off the foot of Tenth street Mr
Scheibner is a Jewish lecturer.
Mrs. Scheibner, her husband anc
two children, the second one a boy oi
seven years old, went to the pier at th(
foot of East Tenth street to spend ar
hour or two. .
Little Jacob ventured tooVear th(
edge of the pier and slipped into th<
water. Mrs. Scheibner, with a cry oi
horror, ran to the pier's edge. She sav
her baby swirling in an eddy and be
I ing carried from the pier. She stooi
' dazed- for an instant, and then leapec
j into the river after little Jacob. Botl
were drowned.
THOUGHT GOD HAD FORGOTTE>
Woman of 108 Years. Despairing oi
Death, Cuta Her Throat.
Uniontown, Fa.?Mrs. Mary McKit
! trick, 10S years old, so far as knowr
the oldest woman in America, kiilei
! herself at the home of her son, Lukt
j McKittrick, an octogenarian, near this
city, by cutting her throat with a carv
j iug knife. She had been in ill healtl
for several weeks and her miud hac
| failed. She declared God had forgot
ten her and had neglected to call her
Mrs. McKittrick was born in Countj
j Kildare. Ireland, March 17, 1793. The
fact of her birth is duly recorded in tin
j parish register, and the authenticity o1
; her age is well established. She waj
! eighty years old when she came tc
America.
Gapon Executed as a Spy.
A document purporting to have beer
? Ti?.,rti?f;rtno)(Tr \Vnrkr
| iSSUGCL oy xue x\evuiuuuuaij ?. ~?
: men's Tribunal of Russia claims thai
! Father Gapon was executed as a spy
j after having admitted his guilt.
Thinks Mother Sent Poison.
j Josephine Davenport, the child liv
I ln?? near Trenton, N. J.. who was poi
souecl by candy, toid the authorities
she believed her mother seut her the
lios of sweets.
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Newsy Gleanings.
Conditions at Mount Vesuvius ar<
reassuring.
Up to this date the Filipinos have
cost us ?35 apiece.
South America is eager to buy see
oud-haud automobiles.
The endowment fuud of the coI!eg<
at Newberry, S. C., has received ?23,
000 from Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chi
cago.
Chairman Shonts says that the mos
quito is almost extinct in the Cana
zone. Panama.
ine atuierus wuo huu jiutca m mc k>h*
dium. There was a big; assemblage,
aud all the athletes were received with
applause. The men from the United ;
States received an ovation, but the
greatest reception of all was for the
winner of the Marathon race, Herring,
the Canadian. The athletes expressed
themselves as highly delighted with
the games.
The Games Commission proposes
that busts of the winners be placed in
the Stadium. The foreign competitors
are discussing the erection of a marble
statue of Victory on the hill overlookI? *flifl
CfoHSiim
1 U? LUW kllUU lUili.
The overshadowing importance of
the Marathon race in the estimation of
the Athenians, as compared with the
other events, is shown by the hero
worship of which the winner has become
the unwilling object. The Greeks
have recovered from their disappointment
that one of their countrymen did
not win, and are now showering gifts
and attentions on the victor.
The Americans took eleven firsts,
six seconds and Ave thirds out of twenty-nine
events, in many of which,
however, the Americans did not compete.
James E. Sullivan, manager of the
American athletes here, announced
the American victory to President
i Roosevelt in this cablegram: rg
"Americans won hurdle, half mile
and standing jump. Final score for
Stadium events: America, eleven firsts,
six seconds, five thirds; total, seventyfive
points. Great Britain and all her
> possessions, four firsts, six seconds
and three thirds: total, thirty-nine
points. Greece and Sweden tied for
third piece. Great athletic victory for
America."
The list of American firsts, which
does not include the winning by C. M.
Daniels, New York A C., of the 100
metre swimming race, follows:
-i/vr? Dunninff P a rp?Won bv
AW J1CUC i.vuuum0
Archie Halm, Milwaukee A. C.
Hurdles?Won by R. O. Leavitt, Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass.
400 Metre Running Race?Won by;
Paul H. Pilgrim, N. Y. A. C.
| 800 Metre Running Race?Won by;
t Paul H. Pilgrim. N. Y. A. C.
1500 Metre Running Race?Won by,
' J. D. Lightbody, Chicago University.
Running T?ng Jump?Won by Myer
Prinstein, ...dh-American A. C., New:
York.
Standing Broad Jump?Won by Ray;
C. Ewrr, N. Y. A. C.
Standing High 'Jump?Won by Ray;
: C. Ewry, N. Y. A. C.
Free Style Discus Throwing?Won
by Martin J. Sheridan, Irish-American
A. C., New coru.
Throwing the Weight?Won by Mar
tin J. Sheridan, Irish-American A. 0.,
New York. .
, 1500 Metre Walking Match?Won by,
George N. Bonhag, Irish-American A..
' C., New York.
GOV. HOCH BY ACCLAMATION.
Kansas Platform Approves Roosevelt'g
Rate Regulation Message.
Topeka, Kan.?Governor Hoch was
. renominated by acclamation.
i When be appeared to accept he reL
ferred to the cats of the press and the
' growls of society, who used the name
? of respectable women in order to injure
bim.
This reference was to the recent
' hugging and kissing episode.
. The platform declares for railroad
rate regulation as outlined in jrresi*
dent Roosevelt's message.
State Officer of New York.
Governor Higgins, of New York, appointed
Otto Kelsey, State Controller,
as Superintendent of Insurance; May>
nard N. Clemeut as State Commissioner
of Excise, and John Sanford, Congressman
J. W. Wadsworth and H. K.
i Knapp as State Racing CommissionL
ers.
Kansas Crop Prospects Bright.
There were never better prospects
L for a -bountiful crop than at present in
f Kansas. Sunmer County has the best
i wheat prospects that it has ever had
i at this time of the year.
i Eight Tin.:s a Murderer.
' At Dresden, Saxony, Max Dittrich,
' a leather worker, who was arrested rer
cently on the suspicion of murderTcon*
fessed that he j'ad killed eight persons
J in the course of seven years.
1 Cotton Crop Reports Denounced.
n? nmont cmn rpnnrfs were de
UUt CLUlliCUV V. V|, -wr- -- - _
, nounced by the International Conference
of Cotton Growers and Manufac- v<
p, turers in session at Wasnington, D. C. ^
Fatalities at San Francisco.
The Coroner of San Francisco stated
i that it was likely that 1000 more bod1
ies would be found in the ruins, bring?
ing the total of dead up to 1500.
5
Order Restored in Paris.
J Order has been completely restored
1 in Paris, three-fourths of the strikers
have returned to work and the public
* is calm.
r
i Lottery Plant Seized.
; Secret Service men seized in New
5 York City a lottery company's printing
> plant which had been shipped from ,
Wilmington, Del.
Carteret. N. J.. Becomes Roosevelt.
Carteret, N. J., hereafter will be
i known as Roosevelt, in accordance
"T Aoiolofnva i
Willi a law ijaaseu uy mc u<r^ioimu>v
t aud accepted at a special election,
r There were 300 votes favoriiig tlie
change and only one against iti
Casli in Auto Ends o?.nk Run.
Using an auto to rusr $200,000 to
the Dollar Saviu/s Jank of Paiusville,
s Ohio, the First National Bank of
> Cleveland stopped a run on the former
institution.
In tbe Limelight. ^
Rojestvensky lias made a formal ap?
plication to be retired.
J President Roosevelt enjoys the reputation
of being a careful marksman
i among his brother hunters.
The University of Pennsylvania recently
conferred an honorary degree
ou King Edward of Englanu.
i (General Funoton no louger lias to
fall back upon his Philippine laurels.
He has a new crop of home growth.
.Tobn W. Rindle ha *-arrived at Bel
grade to iresent his .letters accrediting
1 him as Minister of the United States
to Servia.