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> CARNEGIE HERO FUND MAKES IM AWARDS Twenty-six Medals and $10,500 Bestowed For Bravery. DANNY CURTIN'S NERVY ACT He Saved Two Girls--Will Get Med al and $2000--Unique Case of Girl Who Sucked Rattlesnake Poison From a Wound. Pittsburg. Pa. -Twenty-six medals and $10,500 were awarded here by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. The most unique case ever brought to the attention of the commission was that of Miss Lucj* E. Ernst, twenty years old. of 2922 North Sixth street. Philadelphia, to whom a silver medal was awarded for sucking the poison from a rattlesnake bite inflicted on Jtiarry &. scuoenuur, ui rmmuwyuia, July 8, 1905. Charles A. Swenson. of No. 59 Atlan tic avenue. Brooklyn, receives a bronze medal for saving the life of Gustav Herb, of Brooklyn, on November 5. 1905. Herb, while intoxicated, jumped from a boat oft' Atlantic avenue, Brook lyn. and Swenson saved bim at great risk to bis own life. Daniel E. Curtin. of No. 332 East Six ty-sixth street. New York, receives a 1 a ?OAAA 4.1* V* * /> uronzs uieuai auu o-vw ? uu ? un.u <.v educate himself. On August 21. 1905, he plunged into the East River off East Seventieth street. New York, and saved Hulda. Johnston and Hilda Elg from drowning. Curtin is only fifteen years old. The .$2000 is to be put in trOst for him, to be paid out as he needs It for his education. Michael P. O'Brien, of Xo. 1637 Lex ington avenue. New York, got a silver medal for saving Mrs. Bessie Eyl and two children from death by fire May 14. 1904. at Third avenue and 110th street. New York. The rescue was from the fourth story of a tenement house. Therese S. McXally, a. thirteen-year old girl, of Waterbury. Conn., received a bronze medal and $2000 for her edu ' cation, for rescuing Loretto Merwin, a four-year-old child, from drowning-at Woodmont, Conn.. June 10, 1904. The act was one of exceptional bravery. ... Miss McXally is an orphan, living with her grandmother. She is to get $400 a year for her education. A bronze medal and $r>00 were awarded to William L. Wolff, of Xo. 1060 South Second street. Camden, X. J., who, on September 22. 1903, at the risk of his own life saved Albert S. ? J TaU? T nrnin rr? l-\ A horl > rossiuuii auu juuh ?uu uuu been precipitated into the water. Other awards were: To the widow of Michael Gismondi. of Mount Pleasant, Pa., a silver medal and death benefits amounting to $000. Gismondi lost his life while trying to resoue a fourteen-year-old boy who was overcome, by gas in an unfinished well in September, 1903. A silver medal and $1200 to liquidate indebtedness on his property to Will iam Watkins. a coal miner, of Ed wardsvllle, Pa., for rescuiug three miners from death by gas in an ex plosion in the Kingston Coal Com pany's mines in September. 1904. A medal and a like sum for the same purpose to Timothy E. Heagerty, a lake pilot of Ashtabula, Ohio, who in April, 1905, rescued the captain and t#ew of the schooner Yukon in a gale on Lake Erie. A bronze medal and $300 each were given to Robert W. Simpson, the engineer of the tug of which Heagerty was pilot, and Michael Sasso. the fireman, both of Ashtabula. George B. Williams, of Elizabeth, Pa., in October, 1904, lost his life in try \ Ing to rescue a man from electric cables which were burning him to death. Williams was knocked from a bridge and factured his skull. A sil ver medal is awarded bis sister. A silver medal is given to Walter H. Murbach, of Elyria, Ohio, for the res cue of a thirteen-year-old schoolboy from drowning. A mA/lAl C1 AAA Aa<% f hon. A ihuuac mcuai auu vXt/w uvaiu wwi? eflts are awarded to the widow of Henry Stuchal, of Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Pa., who lost his life in an attempt to rescue two la borers from drowning in June, 1904. Harry E. Moore, a railroad conduc tor, of Alliauce, Ohio, lost part of his arm in trying to rescue a man who had fallen asleep on the track, and he re ceived a bronze medal and disablement benefits of $300. John Delo, of Oil City. Pa.. received a bronze medal and disablement bene fits of $500. He suffered a fractured skull in January. 1906. by a fall from an electric light pole which he had climbed to rescue a fellow workman who had come in contact with a live .wire. A bronze medal and So00 are award ed to Richard X. Hughes, of Bangor. Pa., for rescuing a fellow workmau whose clothing had caught fire iu an explosion. Edward H. Campbell, of Buena Vis ta. Pa., rescued two. young men from drowning in August. 1904, and receives a bronze medal. William J. Wild, of No. 3ST.3 West Twenty-fifth street, Cleveland, Ohio, gets a bronze meilal for the rescue of several men from a burning car in a wreck at Clifton Station in March. 1903. A bronze medal is awarded to Ed ward Murray, a yard conductor, of Pittsburg, who rescued two children from in front of a locomotive, in Janu ary. 1906. Special mention is made in the com mission's report of ;4;t* of heroism in San Francisco following the earthquake and fire disaster. Copper Company's Big Earnings. The Anaconfa Copper Mining Com pany published its first full report, showing net earnings in 1903 of $5,718, 828. Standard Oil Denies Charge. The Standard Oil Company denies in detail President Roosevelt's charges that it profits by illegal freight rebates. Kaiser Sorrows For Schurz. Kaiser Wilhelm sent condolences to the family of the late Carl Schurz. Sporting Notes. Radtke, the jockey, is sixteen rears eld and stands a good chance to earn 0,000 this year. Sysonby, the kins of the turf, who won mcfe than $142,000 for James R. Keene last season, will not race this year. Spring practice for the Harvard foot ball men has begun. The practice will be held in order to try out the new rules. ^ Jim Jeffries is thinking of becoming a baseball magnate. There is talk of his buying the Los Angeles team of the Pacific Coast League. [LOST GOSPER FRI6IHT Discovery Announced of Christ's Words on Purification. Written on a Scrap of Vellum, Yel lowed by Sixteen Centuries, Found in Ruins of Oxyrhyncu#. London.?Drs. Grenfell and Hart, during continued researches of the viiins r>f Oxvrlivncus. whose ancient monasteries some years ago yielded the famous Logia of Christ, found a fragment of a supposed lost gospel, which is uow in Queen's College, Ox ford. It is a tiny scrap of vellum, perforat ed by worms and yellowed by sixteen centuries, but the writing is perfectly legible. It is written in Greek char acters, which are almost microscopical lyyminute, with scarlet initials. There art? about 300 words. It is certainly no part of any extant gospel, but its theological value must be left to theologians. It is unusually well written from a literary viewpoint. It begins in the middle of a speech. Jesus and His disciples have entered a temnle and met a Pharisee, who re thai-,! fnv mriif-Hnfr som."> ppre monial of ablutiou. Jesus asks the Pharisee what the latter has done to comply with the ceremonial. The Pharisee's reply minutely describes the process of puri fication. of which no previous authority has given the details. Then follows a powerful, eloquent denunciation by Jesus of mere outward purification. He saying that He and rT' ? K<\a? nnfirin/] hr -f 11 ?115 Ul5CI[?ie5 UiUtT uccii (juuutu uj waters of life. There is also a mention of a hitherto unknown part of the temple called the Hegneuterian, or place of purification. Theological circles are greatly inter ested in the discovery, which promises a sensation equal to that created by the Logia of Christ. MINERS' WIVES RAID BANK. Spectacular Run on Savings Institu tion When They Hear President is 111. Cumberland, Md.?Several hundred excited women caused a spectacular run on the Lonaconing Savings Bank at Lonaconing. The bank met all de mands, keeping open after hours. Bus iness men paid no attention to the alarm of the small depositors, one man depositing $1700 when the run was at Its height. It is thought the run was caused by the illness of its President, David Sloan, also President of the Maryland Bankers' Association, who is in Balti more being treated for diabetes. The small depositors feared that his death might interfere with the bank. The women largely attend to business, their husbands being employed during the day in the mines. SENIOR ROCKEFELLER ALIVE. Frank Rockefeller Says His Father is Wnl 1 PotaH TTnr IT til VU1VU JL v?. Cleveland, Ohio.?"My father is alive, so far as I know, and I kuow pretty well," said Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller. "If he died to-day I would hear of it immediately. Of course, I am not on good terms with John D. Rockefeller, but I do not think he told New York newspaper men that his father died before John D., Jr., was born.* It "Was SUJJJ^tJSieu IU .ril. ttwacic iti that be might tell the residence of his father, but he refused to do so. "ROCK OF AGES" AUTHOR DEAD. The Right Rev. Henry Bickersteth Succumbs in London. London.?The Right Rev. Edward Henry Bickersteth, D. D., late Bishop of Exeter, is dead. He was born in 1825. He had served as an ecclesiastic in the Church of England for more than half a centuiy. Besides being a high churchman, the Rev. Bickersteth was an able and versatile writer and poet. He was the composer of the famous hymn, "Rock of Ages." which for years has been sung in churches of all creeds. 400 OFF FOR CORONATION. Scandinavian Excursionists Leave Minneapolis For Norway. Minneapolis. Minn.?Four hubdred Scandinavian excursionists left Minne apolis for Norway to see King Haakon crowned. Each one of the excursionists paid $113.75 for a round-trip ticket to Cbris tiania, making an aggregate payment by the party for transportation of $45, 500. Burning 10.000 Freight Cars. , The Pennsylvania Railroad is burn ing up 10,000 old freight cars, which were in use on lines west of Pittsburg. The cars are of small capacity, worn out and were built long before the fast freight schedule came into effect. The iron is removed from them before they are thrown into the luvip. General Tidball Dies of 01(1 Age. Brigadier-General Jolin Caldwell Tid ball, U. S. A., retired, a distinguished artillery officer of the Civil War anil first Governor of Alaska, died of old age at liis home, in Montclair, N. J., aged eighty-one. Will Buy iu Cheapest Market. Secretary Taft declared his intention of buying supplies for the Panama Ca nal where he could buy them cheapest. Defaulting Teller Caught. Tbe Syracuse, N. Y., police announce the apprehension in Norway of Charles H. Pnine, absconding toller of the Onondaga County Savings Bank. Paine took $13,500. Big Vote Against Carmack. Returns from tbe Democratic Sena torial primary iu Tennessee indicate that ex-Governor Taylor has beeu nom inated over Carmack by not less than 15.000 majority. Automobile Strike Over. The strike of workmen in tbe auto ntni-tiia nf Frsinre is virtually at au end. Policyholders' Panic Checked. Appeals to policyholders to halt in their rush to ahandou the Mutual iu England had their effect and the pauic was checked. Limited Repair Bill Defeated. The House of Congress defeated Mr. Tawney's amendment fixing a ten per cent, repair limit for naval vessels. \ ID LOVER DEALS DEATH AND PERISHES ; An Infatuated Operator Creates Reign of Terror Near Atlanta. TERRORIZED THREE COUNTIES James H. Clark Runs Amuck Armed With a Shotgun Madman Roamed at Large, Firing on All Who Approached. Charabloe, Ga. ? Crazeil by disap j pointment in lore, James H. Clark, a I telegraph operator bere, killed one mau \ and left five others close to death be | fore he shot himself through the heart I in Dun woody, a village five miles from j this place. The madman terrorized j for eighteen hours a community of J twenty-four square miles, embracing | parts or umtou, De ivaiu aaa uooo ; counties. After killing oue man out ; right, wounding sis, some of whom will ! die, aud firing a residence, Clark fled. I pursued by a posse. ; The posse surrounded him in a grove I near Dun woody. To a summons to ! surrender Clark answered by a shot, j The posse and Clark exchaugcd shots j for some minutes, when Clark, realiz I imr that escape was not possible, put j his revolver, which hud only one car i tridge left, to his breast and fired a /bullet iuto his heart. As Clark fell ! dead the posse rushed iu aud riddled 1 his corpse by repeated volleys. His hat aud coat, lying at his side, were decorated with honeysuckles. Clark is supposed to have been crazed by his unrequited love for fourteen year-old Nellie Gay, the pretty sister I in-law of James W. Purcell. Recently this love affaii was broken up and Clark became convinced that Mr. and Mrs. Purcell had interfered. A large part of the day Clark was in a drunken stupor, but during the ! afternoon he roused himself, aud about | S p. m. went to the home of E. S. Pur cell. next door to the home of J. W. j Purcell, where Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pur | cell were at the time, and demanded admission. On being refused he broke in the door with an axe and was fired i at by J. W. Purcell. The infuriated j operator secured a lot of kerosene oil. j saturated the kitchen of the Purcell ! home and set fire to it. When the | fiames burst out the Purcells were seen I J? ??./! Oln,.!- ftnano/l firrt linnil them from behind a tree. J. W. Pur cell was shot in the thigh and a serious wound was inflicted. E. S. Purcell was shot in the haud. It is believed that iu the return lire Clark was wounded in ! the hand and side. I Clark went away, but returned about j midnight, by which time the Purcells - had gathered some of their neighbors ! to help them defend their homes. Clark j made a second attempt to fire the j house. A fusillade followed, shots be i ins fired by those in the bouse and by Clark. The result of the midnight bat tle was that W. S. MasK, station agent, received a slight wound in the back of his neck. Clark was repulsed and did not attack the house again. ! The crazed man, heavily armed, went | down the railroad toward Dunwoody, where he appeared very early in the morninp. Entering the store of Nash & Cheek he demanded ammunition, his supply having been about exhausted. The news of his acts had been tele phoned to Dunwoody. When Cheek told Nash not to sell I Clark any ammunition, Clark turned | upon him with a revolver and fired, the ! bullet entering Cheek's heart and kill ; ing him instautly. Wash dodged behind the counter as his partner sank to the ! floor and Clark fired two shots at him. Clark then walked behind the couu ! ter, supplied himself with cartridges ! and left the store. As he walked away j he met a man named Satterfield, to i whom he handed seventy-five cents, j with the statement that he had taken ! some ammunition and supposed that ! amount would pay for it. Clark started back toward Chnmblee, ! walking along the railroad. He had I gone only a slioit distance when be met 1 XV. J. Coker, whom he attacked, wound ing liim slightly. After going a little ! further he pluuged into a taick woods, ] where later he was trailed by the posse. | When Nellie Gay heard of Clark's j death, she paid: "I never loved him. j He was hateful to me."" i MURDER OF RUSSIAN'OFFICIALS. Vice-Admiral Kuzmich Stabbed to Death?Constantino!! Killed. ! St. Petersburg, Russia.?The cele i hrntion of - the Russian May Day ' (Greek calendar) was marked by the i assassination of two high officials, j At the new Admiralty works in this city Vice-Admiral Kuzmich, command j er of the port, who was very unpopular ! with the workmen because of his des I potic ways, was stabbed to the heart j by a workman after he had tried to prevent a May Day demonstration. In Warsaw, ToMce Captain Constan ! tinoff was standing in a street with } two policemen and four soldiers, when a young man threw a bomb into the group. The explosion of the bomb lit erally tore Captain Coustantiuoft' to pieces and severely wonnded a police man and six other persons. The assassin tried to escape, and. j firing his revolver, wounded a soldier. The other soldiers replied with a volley. I killing the assassin and two other per ! sons. The soldiers then, with their : bayonets and the butts of their guns. ! attacked the pedfj'.e who had gathered, | wounding eleven persons, making a I total of four killed and uineteeu | wouuded. Chicago Traction Decision to Stand. I The Supreme Court of the United j States, Washington, D. C., has denied ! the petition for a rehearing in the I niiinncrn h-notion cases. Gift For Arts Building. Andrew Carnegie Las offered 51. | 000.000 for a united arts building ill New York City. Tillman Denies Sendiog Euvoy. i On the floor of tLie Senate Mr. Till j man denied that lie ever sent auy rate envoy to the President. Newsy Gleanings. There are 30,000 Americans in Mex I ieo. Over $200,000,000 of American capi j tal is invested in Mexican railways. Mt. Vesuvius has assumed its nor | mal condition, and the people within ! the danger line have again settled | down to their daily work. Carriage builders in England are complaining that automobiles have eu tirely ruined their trade, as there are now very few demands for their product. The British National debt is now 53,944,950,000. !DR. C8SPSEI FOUND GUILTY Convicted of Heresy and Sus pended From Ministry. He Will Appeal, Thereby Getting a Stay of Sentence--Court a i I Rochester, N. Y. ? The ecclesiastical court which tried the Rev. Dr. Alger non F. Crapsey. rector of St. Andrew's Church, of Rochester, on charges of heresy,, found him guilty and sentenced him to suspension from the ministry. The court is divided, four members, . XV. C. Roberts, C. II. Boyuton, G. S. Burrows and John Mills Gilbert, voting in favor of suspension, and the fifth member. Francis S. Durham, declaring his belief that Dr. Crapsey did not deny the doctrines of the church. This in brief is the sentence of the court: "That the respondent be sus pended from exercising the functions IJl il UilUlSiei UL LUIS v-uiutu U1J111 outu time as he shall satisfy the ecclesias tical authority of the diocese that his belief and. teaching conform to the doctrines of the Apostles' Creed and 1 the Nicene Creed." It was announced that Dr. Crapsey ] will appeal to the court of review. The . appeal will act as a stay of sentence. The decision was made public by Chan- j cellor Brown in the office of James Breck Perkins, Dr. Crapsey's attorney. 1 The accused clergyman was present J when it was given out, but had nothing to say in regard to the decision. The majority found Dr. Crapsey 1 guilty, as follows: ? 1. That in his book, "Religion and Folitics," he "impugns, if he does not j express his belief in aud denial of" The doctrine that Jesus Christ is \ God, the Saviour of the world. 2. That in the fifteen extracts from . "Religion and Politics" set forth in the J presentment Dr. Crapsey "impugns and f denies" : (a) That Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost. : (b) The virgin birth of Christ. * (C) xnepuysicai resurrection. Last of all the court found Dr. Crap- ? sey cuiIty of violating tliree of liis or- ? dination vows by the doctrines which he has preached. ARMY TO QUIT SAN FRANCISCO. J General Greely Fixes June 1 as Date ? For Withdrawal. s Oakland, Cal.?General Greely has y notified the Finance Committee that he c 4- K? ?KIa 4-? T,. oil nf I S iu Uw auic iu nuuuiutT mi vi j the Regular Army 011 duty in the city f by June 1. J. In explanation of bis course, General * Greely said tbat as matters were con ducted at present there was every indi- * cation tbat tbe relief system would be in sucb definite and comprehensive shape by tbat time as to enable the | Red Cross to assume full charge of the field. Tbe only exceptions to be made were in the cases of two or three refugee . camps at the Presidio. General Greely has transmitted tc the War Department a report announc ing that while conditions are improv- a ing, the miserable situation is indicated p( by tbe fact that food for 300,000 per- A sons is being cooked on the streets. 1, maI'aP ft?nm +lia ^ JU4\d'jr 1C1ICL LI/UIUUIIUWU UVUi luv East is joyfully received. The work of clearing away the debris Is proceeding in a systematic, well ordered manner, every able-bodied man beiifg put to work. TROOPS SLAY COWBOYS. Fierce Riots Over Attempt to Lynct Colored Soldier. Crawford. Neb.?Troops of the Tenti United States Cavalry, a negro regi ment from Fort Robinson, clashed witt the members of n cowboy mob who were attempting to lynch Sergean; Reed, confiued in the city jail here or !T charge of murdering Marshal Arthui A. Moss on Sunday night. Philip Mur phy, alleged to be the leader, and an other member of the mob were shol and killed by the soldiers, who wer< guarding the jail in which the soldiei murderer was confined. All day cowboys from the rang* gathered into Crawford, bent on lynch insf Reed. A guard of negro regular! was thrown around the jail. This is s cattle country, and hundreds ol' cow boys live in the county. RELIEF OF SMALLER CITIES. I 1 j 0 Fund of ?20,000 Will Be Spent in AW | ^ of Others Than San Franciscans. C( Sacrameuto, Cal.?Rollin P. Grant cashier of the New York National Ex ] change Bank, placed a fund of $20.00( in the hands of George W. Pettier ? vice-president of the California B;ink evs' Association, to be used for the re lief outside of San Fraucisco. Mr. Pet tier says that the money probably wil' il go to persons in Santa Rosa, San .Tos( I t.' and other places which, because of lo J fc cation, did not receive any aid from th< r geueral relief fund of San Francisco. J 2 i ti 3 DEAD. 10 HURT IN COAL MINE j l\ Laborer Drops Can of Dynamite in th? j u Shenandoah City Works. j D Mahanoy City. Pa.?Five men an ! D ueau UllU uiuvikku iujuivu iio niv n-o... . c of a Hungarian mine laborer dropping ( a can of dynamite on the first lift o: the East Buck Mountain vein in th< g Shenandoah City mine, operated by th< Reading Company. I The explosion took place about 2<X yards from the slope. Five mine la borers, all Hungarians, were literal^ 1 blown to pieces. f Big Coking Coal Venture. Contracts were iet in Pittsburg foi the expenditure of ij>3.00u000 for open . ing bodies of coking coal iu Washing ton County. Pa., estimated to contain * 200,000,000 tons. [ Standard's Secret Pipe Line. ' Smashed by the anchor of the battle rntn/Ntc. n tvwrnf ninn liiid of the I MJHI IIIIIIUIO. ii ~ -- Standard Oil Company was revealed | I under the North River, at New York City. Tlie Field of Sports. Cagno, driving an Italian car, woe tiie Targa trophy at Palermo, Italy. George Slosson heat George Sutton at 18.2 balk-line billiards, in Baltimore, by 400 to 3S3. August Belmont will race a strins of thirty horses on the metropolitau tracks this year. Jay Gould defeated Vane rennell iu the tournament for the British lawn tennis championship. Walter and U. Chandler Egan have signified their intentions of entering | the Western amateur golf chamoion 1 ship. v; --V" - f lieliiSis TO BUM'S flEMii Fleet, However, Will Be Kepi Handy Pending Settlement. MIDNIGHT VISIT BY THE VIZIER Last Futiie Effort Made to Arrange a Compromise Rosults in Sultan's Back Down-?Probable Military Measures. London.?In a manner characteristic of Turkish diplomacy the Porte has made an eleveuth-hour surrender to the British demand concerning the Ta bah boundary. It had been believed in many quarters that the Sultan would not yield until actual force was displayed, but his decision probably was facilitated by the knowledge that none of the Powers supported his atti tude, aud the fact that British naval preparatjons had kept pace with her llplomatic demands. Sir Nicholas E. O'Connor, the Brit ish Ambassador at Constantinople, in Ills earlier dispatches had prepared the British Government for Turkey's com pliance with its demand, and little at tention need be paid to the reports o! x conditional surrender, ttait phrase srobably being intended to satisfy the rurkish people. At the Foreign Office t was learned that it was quite un ikely that Great Britain would accept inything in the nature of a mixed or nternational commission to examine into the frontier question, and the foreign Office declined to believe that Embassador O'Conor had accepted any 'conditional" surrender. It is understood the British fleet will )e kept at Phalerum Bay pending a inal settlement of the question and he delimitation of the frontier. Vice Idmiral Lord Charles Beresford, com nanding the fleet, with his officers, at ended a banquet at the British Lega ion in Athens, at which King George nd the* royal family, the Greek Pre aier, and the American and French linlsters were guests. When the delimitation of the bound ry is settled it is expected that the Jritish Government will take meas res to render Egypt strategetically se ure against any similar aggression by stabllshing a strong Egyptian garrl on and fortifying El Avish, and, if the rater difficulty in the desert region an be solved, by placing Egyptian ;arrisons at point on the desert routes rom Tabah and Gaza, along which an nvadlng army might threaten the Suez Canal. It is also not unlikely th:\t Great Jritain will demand thi withdrawal of he Turkish Commissioner at Cairo, Jhazi Ahmet Moukhtar Pasha, who is redited with fostering anti-British agi ation. WHITECAPPERS SENTENCED. lississippi Lawbreakers Plead Guilty in a Body and Take the Penalty. New Orleans, La.?Thre^ hundred nd thirty-two whitecappers, indicted or intimidation in the counties of .mite, Pike and Franklin, Mississippi, ave pleaded guilty before the United tates District Court at Jackson, Miss., nd have been sentenced to three lonths' imprisonment and a fine of $25 ach. The outrages occurred in 1902. At first it was found impossible to oppress the Whitecaps or get evi ence against them. The vigorous pol :y of Governor Vardaman, however, ucceeded in getting at all the facts in ue conspiracy. The indictments and arrests broke up le Whitecaps, and there has been eace in the disorderly sections since. PAPER TRUST'S DEATH BLOW. urrenders to the Government and is Ordered Dissolved. St. Paul, Minn.?In the Federal Court le General Paper Company, known as be Western Paper Trust, threw up its ands and abandoned the fight into if ttqo fnrooH hv til a O/WPm lent when the Attorney-General rought suit to dissolve it on the round that it had entered into an greement in restrain of interstate omraerce. The Court ordered the mist dissolved. The suit was begun in December, 904, and was delayed by the refusal f witnesses for the defendants to tes ify. The United States Supreme ourt, to which their appeal was taken, jcently decided that they must testify. 30LD UP CANADIAN EXPRESS. lighwaymen Rifle Mail Car on Pa cific Railway Near Vancouver. Vancouver. B. C.?The imperial Uni ted was held up on the main line of be Canadian Pacific Railway near Eamloops, 250 miles from here. The obbers compelled the engineer to un ouple the mail car from the rest of the rain and haul it a mile away, where bey rifled it of registered letters. The discarded packages contained a - & AAA i r\ *vs\1s? n nrl honb" ipwaru U L ?J)iU,WV 1U iiUiu auu uuua, ,otes. During the search of the ear the aask slipped from the face of the lead r, and he was recognized by Mail JlerU Thorburn as Bill Miner, who leld up the express at Mission City on ieptember 2, 1904. nsurance Losses in California Disaster Aggregate estimated losses of insur nce registered in New York State in he California disaster exceed $113, *00,000. Czar Wants to Reorganize Navy. The Official Messenger, at St. Peters nirg. contains an imperial rescript )0inting\>ut the necessity of promptly eorganizing tbe Russian Navy on an entirely new system. Says McCarren Demanded $25,000. 4 ?;i.-.e-frAof nlnn nine in. -i. wiiuwa in iuc outvi vivmuiuq ... ,'estimation, in Now York City, testified hat Senator McCarrcn demanded $25. XX) for Liis aid In getting a city eon tract. Prominent People. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) lias purchased a summer home in Red ding. Conn. King Edward dined with President Fallieres in Paris, and mutual ex pressions of good will were inter changed. Chancellor Day. or Syricuse Uni versity. denounces President's Stan dard Oil message as "an amaziug blunder." Speaker Caunon had the biggest birthday party ever given in Wash ington, in honor of his seventieth an niversary. PREACHER'S FAMILY SLAIN Man, His Wife and Seven Children Cremated at Milton, Fla. i i Each Skull Crushed In -- Woman Found Dead Near New Born Babe - Big Reward For Murderers. I Pensacola, Fla. ? In Santa Rosa 1 County, ten miles north of Milton, Joseph M. Ackerman, widely known as a preacher in this sectiou of the | State, his wife and seven children, the I oldest between thirteen and fourteen years old, were murdered and their bodies cremated in the home which . was fired bv the murderers. [ The crime was discovered next morn ing by persons with whom Ackerman 1 had an appointment, who found the i home a mass of ruins aid the charred ; bodies of Ackerman, his wife and | seven smaH children among the wreck age. Details indicate that the father, mother and each of the seven children were murdered before the building was fired, as the skull of each was crushed j in. The body of Ackerman was found j near the door leading from the bed room In which he slept and by his side was a revolver. The bodj of Mrs. | Ackerman, who gave birth to a child j on Friday last, was found with that of , #er infant outside of the sill at the front of the house. The oldest child was found near the door leading out to the front porch. All of the bodies were badly burned, practically ouly the trunks remaining. The bodies of three boys were found ' practically where the bed upon which they slept stood previous to the con : flagratioo. a eirwt Viqo Knon IUUU UL iliULC LUUU ?PAVW liUO UVVlt I raised by the citizens of Milton, which ; <vill be offered as a reward for the ap prehension of the murderers, and the Governor has been appealed to to offer j at least $2000 on behalf of the State. Ackerman moved to the settlement which was known as Allentown from Opp, Ala., about three years ago, and has always been considered a good and peaceful citizen. While he had no reg ular charge it was his custom to preach in the many small places throughout that section of Santa Rosa County. He was not known to have had any ene ! mies, and the motive for the atrocious I crime is a mystery. NEVER SOUGHT SENATOR'S AID. ! President Roosevelt Repels Attack of Mr. Tillman and Mr. Bailey. Washington, D. C.?Tht President I sent to Senator Allison a letter refer j ring to the attack in the Senate by Senators Tillman and Bailey, and dem ! onstrating the efforts he had made for, I constitutional railway rate legislation, | incidentally showing that these Sena j tors had sought his aid, not he theirs.' i The letter is. in part, as follows: "After the Rate bill was reported from the committee, and after by vote J of the committee Mr. Tillman had been put in charge of it many Senators and many outsiders came to see me with ! reference to it. Among others I was | asked to see ex-Senator Chandler, as I representing Mr. Tillman, who was in ! charge of the bill. I stated in response I T tttoo rtf /w-?iirco ontlrelv willini? luat a n ao? v *. wui-uv^ ......?0 to see Mr. Tillmaa personally or to see Mr. Chandler or any one else who could speak for him, and I accordingly di rected my secretary to make an ap pointment for Mr. Chandler to see me. My understanding was that he was the representative of Mr. Tillman. "As to many of those amendments | (including among others the substance | of the so-called Long, Overman, Bacon ! and Spooner amendments) I stated that I should be entirely satisfied to have them in the bill; as to others, I suggest ed modifications which would make them satisfactory; as to none did I ever say, either to Mr. Chandler or to any. one else, that I should insist upon hav ing them in the bill as a condition of my approving it. On the contrary. I was always most careful to state that I was uot trying to dictate any partlcu- i ! lar program of action." Senator Tillman denied that he had i | asked Mr. Chandler to open negotia- j ' " - i.l.A n..A?r | tions at rue wince nuuse as mc ito? dent suggested, and this denial was repeated by Mr. Chandler, who de j dined to make any further statement CORPSE OF GAPON FOUND. | Still Hung Suspended Where He Was , Executed by Revolutionists. St. Petersburg. Russia.?The mys-! tery of the fate of Father Gapon was j apparently cleared by the discovery of i a corpse which has almost positively i ! been identified as that of the former I ; priest, ililll??IUg3 111 iuc vuuiuw> ! of a lonely villa in the summer suburb J of Ozerki, Finland. The villa was i rented on April 8 for the summer, and ' a deposit paid by an uuktiown man i from St. Petersburg, who, after visit . ing tlie house several times, iu com- i panj with a young workman, disap ' peared April 11, taking the key with | him. ! The proprietress of the villa, alarmed at the nou-appearauee of the teuant, ! , notified the police, who entered the I ; house. Breakiug down a door they ! | were confronted by a body in a long j . coat hanging from a nail, the feet touching the floor. Decomposition of : the face made positive identification j difficult, but the features resemoieu I those of Gapou and the clothing cor ' respond wltli that worn by the missing j labor leader. The police are convinced that Ga | pon's fellow-revolutionists executed f ; him as a traitor. Shoots Stepfather to Death. P. L. Cannon was shot to death on ! the principal business street at Spar : tanburg, S. C., by his stepson, Ub! V. J Millicent, a student at Wofferd Col * - * y'o i 11 f T?rvo f m (\n f" j lege, uecause 01 wuuuuo of liis mother. General Amnesty Demanded. A committee of the Russian lower ; house has partly completed an address | in reply to the Emperor's speech; there I is a hint of force behind the demand ' for general amnesty. Japan Has Her Own Wireless. It is semi-orticially stated, at Tokio, that the Japanese Government has adopted a wireless telegraph system as the result of a special investigation which has been iu progress since 1000, which is unique and totally independ ent of other existing systems. Children Burned to Death. In a tire that destroyed Cue residence of Marcus A. Woodward, at Clifton, Pa., two children. Margaret, twenty one months, and Marcus, eight months old. were burned to death. Their bod ies were found iu the ruins. BIG POWDEB_ EXPLOSION - Whole State Shaken When Mag azines Go Up at Bridgeport Lunatics in Almshouse Escape Panic Stricken--Fish Are Killed in Long Island Sound. ^ ! Bridgeport, Conn.?Three terrific ex plosions which shook houses and shat tered window panes, sent the people of this city rushing into the streets just before sunrise in f(j.ar of an earth quake. The streets were filled with * -i men, women and children in their night v clothing and in all degrees of excite ment and terror. Women knelt upon the splintered glass on the pavements clasping their babies, praying in the drizzling rain that their lives might be spared. The cause of this panic was the blowing up of four powder magazines on Success Hill, in the northern section of this place. These belonged to the Union Metallic Cartridge Company. There are ten such magazines grouped together a quartei of a mile distant from the nearest inhabited house?the > isolation hospital of the Town Farm. These are small, frail structures of cor rugated iron. ' -u First a magazine containing coarse blasting powder exploded at 4.25 a. m., sending up a dense column" of black smoke shaped like an enormous cigar. Then followed, in rapid succession, two other explosious, involving three magazines filled with smokeless pow der. A boulder, weighing quarter of a ton, was blown through the rear door of the Isolation Hospital, where An thony Waish and his Wife were asleep. They were thrown out of bed. Quar- - ter of a mile further pn is the alms- " house, in which are housed 150 per- v. sons, including about twenty lunatics. All these fied the building, screaming that the end of the world had come. The insane patients, unmanageable at first, were calmed and returned- to the i house. 1 The shocks were ' felt throughout i Connecticut, especially in the hilly country, and the idea of an earthquake was general, the people remembering the recent slight tremors at East Hampton. A most curious freak of the explosion {> was the removal of a house six feet from its foundations. It is situated f two miles away from the magazines, and was occupied by Jacob Leitz and his family, who were too frightened to run, but crotiched in their rooms until the house came to a standstill. The sites of the exploded magazines are now four deep holes in the ground. Large trees nearby were blown to splinters. Powder cans are lodged in the tops of many tall trees hundreds of yards distant. A magazine a " hundred yards distant from the nearest one that exploded was almost demol ished, but its store of explosives is in j tact. No person was injured directly by the explosion, but the sudden death of Patrick Doherty, a New York, New j Haven and Hartford signal man at I Milford, is ascribed to it. Aroused | from bed, he ran to his signal tower, j and when he reached the top of the steps he fell dead. The cartridge company will pay all uninsured losses, such as broken win dow panes, and including repairs of damaged chimneys, according to Its custom. This will cost perhaps $25,000: Reports from Long Island state that the shock wac felt distinctly, espe cially in North Shore towns, shaking houses as an earthquake does. Many fish, killed by the concussion, are be ing washed ashore. DEATH OF CARL SCHURZ. One of the Romantic Characters of American History Gone. New York City.?Carl Schurz, form?r Secretary of tfie Interior, died at his home, 24 East Ninety-first street He | was seventy-seven years old. Ev>r a Troar Mr Srhnrz had been ail ! ing. In the last week he suffered from pulihonary oedema and his life was despaired of because of his advanced age. With the death of Carl Schurz one of the most interesting and romantic figures in American public life lias " passed. Schurz the soldier, statesman, author, editor and revolutionist, had a romantic past when he came to this country as a young man. On his ar rival as a German refugee he immedi ately jumped into public prominence and has stayed there. Even in his retirement and with his unsuccessful battle against so-called imperialism, Carl Schurz has always been surround ed by a halo of romance and has re mained one of the last survivors of that strong-thinking, strong-talking, strong acting circle of men who had so muchi to do with the formation of the Repub lic in its second great epoch. SIT TXTTT*r A XTT\ a COULUIS T IUAA \ r? Under No Circumstances Would He Again Run For President. Philadelphia, Pa.?Grover Cleveland reiterated his declaration that he never would be a Presidential candidate again. Following his address before the Na tional Conference of Charities and Cor rections. Mr. Cleveland spent the night at the home of the Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, 1701 De Lancey street, in this city. "Could anything induce you to change your mind," Mr. Cleveland was asked, "concerning a Presidential nom ination?" "Positively nothing," exclaimed the fYirmni" Prpsi<if>niL "Nothins under any circumstances." Suits Against Insurance Trustees. Suits aggregating $1,250,000 were brought against Mutual Life trustees, charging negligence in passing on im proper expenditures. Eastern Speculators at San Francisco. Eastern men aro opening large ac counts with the San Francisco banks, presumably as investments. Army to Harvest Kansas Wheat. About 23,000 men are expected to be needed to harvest the Kansas wheat crop this year. The National Game. Each club in the Western League posted S40?K) guarantee to tinish the season. The schedule calls for 150 Sanies by each club. If Terry McGovern succeeds iu get ting on the Brooklyn team Mr. Mc Graw may well look to his laurels Aii:l the umpires to their welfare. Manager Lajcie of the Clovelands has a weakness for big men. Yet every pennant winning team in the big leaguers In recent years has had a liberal share of small and medium sized men. Size is impressive only in the bos.