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H I WON S??T?IIC?S FOR j I RAILWAY SE6ATERS I Burlington and Four Beef Con1 cerns Fined $15,000 Each. I JAIL FOR TWO NEW YORK MEN ?8 George L. Thomas Fined $6000 and I ,S??. Four Months in Prison and L. E P. Taggart Fined $4000 and I n f Three Months. K Kansas City. Mo. ?In the United I >tate District Court Judge Smitli Mcg Pherson, of Red Oak. Iowa, sen0 tenced each of the four packing 1 houses, and the Chicago. Burlington H and Quincy Railroad, recently con.victed of making, accepting and con& spiring to accept rebates on ship ments, to pay a tine or sio.uuu. Besides the railroad the companies thus convicted and fined are Swift & Co., Cudahy Packing Company. Armour Packing Company and Nelson Morris & Co. George L. Thomas, of New York, was fined $G,000 and sentenced to ; four months in the penitentiary, and ti. B. Taggart. o? New York, was fined $4,000 and sentenced to three months in the penitentiary. Thomas, who is a freight broker, and Taggart. his chief clerk, were convicted of securing rebates from railways en shipment from New York to Sr. Louis and Kansas City by dry goods concerns. At their trial several prominent merchants who admitted having signed contracts with Thomas testified to receiving ar various times # sums of money from mysterious sources. Many thousands of dollars were thus received, and some of the witnesses admitted the likelihood of it having come from Thomas. The penalty provided is a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than two years, or both fine and imprisonment. The four packing companies were tried jointly and convicted on the charge of apcepting concessions from the Burlington Railroad, in connection with connecting lines, on packing house products, for export via New York. The Burlington Railroad Company ? .was convicted on four counts of granting concessions to the packing companies. The penalty provided in the case of the packers and the Burlington inTolves a fine of from $1,000 to S20. 000 on each count, but no imprisonments. ApDeals were filed in each case. The bonds In the case of Thomas and Taggart were fixed at $6,000 each. These two men apoeared in court personally and upon being sentenced '' 1 ? ' ? * ranuirnH ' promptly luruisucu mc bonds. The bonds In the case of the packing companies and the Burlington were fixed at $15,000 each. Motions for new trials for the packers, the Burlington Railroad and Thomas and Taggart were all overruled. ' MUTINY ON CONVICT FARM. Louisiana Prisoners Turn on Guards ?Four Men Killed. : Natchez. Miss.?Four men were killed and a fifth was fatally injured during an attempt by three life convicts to escape from the Angola (La.) State convict farm. Captain J. W. Block, foreman of the State convict sawmill. was shot dead, as were three convicts. J. W. Gibson, a guard, was shot through the body. All of the convicts were sent up from New Orleans and were working in the sawmill. At 9 o'clock, a. m. while Captain Block was reading a I paper. Singleton, a convict, obtained ' i. Block's revolver, and in company "with Dutch and Bird were making I off. when the attention o the guard. Gibson, was attracted. Gibson fired on the party and Singleton returned the shot, shooting Gibson through the body, and as Gib" son tell, Bird, another convict, took the revolver. Compelling Foreman Block to accompany them, the convicts started toward the river and "had placed their cantive in a skiff when they were fired on by a trusty named Deleth. Singleton then shot and killed Block. Pay Guard J. 7. Ogden joined Beleth, and in the fusillade of shots thah ensued three men were killed. } iEXPELS LEGISLATURE. I Bay State House Finds Member Guilty of Attempted Bribery. Boston. Mass.?At a session, marked at one time by unusual disorder, the Massachusetts House of Representatives voied to expel Representative Frank J. Gethro, of Boston. The House thus upholds the report of the Committee on Rules, .which, after a long investigation of charges of bribery, made in connection -with the defeat of the AntiBucket-shop bill, recommended Gethro's expulsion, on the qxound that he had sousrht imoroperly to influence legislation. The vote wa3 112 in favor of expulsion and 54 against It. . ? Double Guard at Pekin. Arrangements ware made whereby America's Legation guard in Pekin "will be doubled. .TOO Chinese Sail For China. The Pacific Mail Liner Korea, which sailed from San Francisco for the Orient, carried about 5Of' destitute Chinese, rendered homeless by the big fire. The refugees are going back to China at the expense of the Chinese Government. Bryan Against Private Monopolies. YV. J. orynu visneu x ruuuiijeu.'. Norway, to see the coronation, and said in an interview ' corporations should l:>e regulated but private monopolies should ba exterminated."' . FcJl Dead at Mother's Feet. After accidentally shooting himself in the neck with the gun he was cleaning, Byron Gray, eight years old, of Granville. N". Y., walked to the veranda of his home, where his mother was silting, told h&r what had happened and dropped dead at lier feet. ' Erst May on Record. Railway earnings are very large, the increase for May being over fourten per cent., thus stamping the month as th9 best May on record, H .. . - $?-: ySrfl w " . * .. ' - * HJUKON ICROWNED - I Democracy Keynote of the Norwegian Coronation. Striking Contrast to the Old Viking Ceremony When New Ruler 1 Aseeuds Throne, . Troadhjem, Norway?Tn .striking contrast to the kings whom he succeeds. the Vikings of GOO years ago, King Haakon VII. and his queen, Maud, were crowned sovereigns of re-born Norway in this the ancient Norse capital. Visitors from faraway countries could not fail to think and to give expression .to the thought, that the Vikings rnade themselves. kings?King Haakon was made king by the grace of the people of Norway. Everything was carried out w.V.h the utmost simplicity, in this respect resembling more closely the inauguration of an American President than a royal pageant. Mingled with the expression of patriotism from the thousands of Norwegians in the old capital city, was the sentiment th?t their new crowned king was the ornament to the new political structure that the people had reared, while the visitors from abroad viewed the coronation more or less as a peculiar survival of medievalism and perhaps among the last such occasions of kingly pomp to survive the twentieth century, tbo J era of democracy. Beside the new-crowned king was v>Ja hririp rrnwned in her turn. Queen Maud, daughter of the King of England. Affection miugled with tho patriotic sentiment that stirred thousands here for the coronation, but underlying the general feeling there was clearly shown a spirit, almost fierce, of nationalism, "All for Norway," as the national motto has it, that has never been' equalled since the days of Norway's independence and power. The coronation ceremony took place in Trondhjem Cathedral, not yet completed, but so covered with decoration for the occasion that its defects were not noticeable. King and queen sat in ancient chairs under canopies of red and gold, capped by crowns embroidered with the initials of Haakon and his wife, the whole placed between the two transets under the dome of the structure. The royal procession from the palace to the cathedral was truly impressive. The populace, augmented many-fold by the visitors, seemed never to end their shouting. In the ca-thedral it was the same; although more dignified. A battery of artillery boomed out its royal salute as tne coronamm i was completed. The coronation music followed, consisting of a specially composed cantata in four parts, the work of Conductor Halversea, of the National Theatre of Christiana, and sung with a chorus of 220 voices. RICH. HELP FOR MURDER. Mrs. Kaaffinan Goes to Jail Charged With Killing a Servant. Sioux Falls.?Mrs. Emma Kauff man. wife of Moses Kauffman, a millionaire brewer of this city, was held without bail for trial in the Stato Circuit Court on the charge of the murder of Miss Agnes Polrei3, a sixteen-.vear-old girl, who was employed by her as- a domestic. Mr3. Kauffman soon after the conclusion of her hearing was taken to the county jail. Her husband accompanied her to ?? OVA i.nr) o norvnns rMlanse prison, one xA.au. ci uv? ~K? ia the afternoon. The proceedings in court occuoied only a few minutes. When Mrs. Kauffman emerged from court her carriage, through a misunderstanding, was not at the curb. The crush became so gre:?t and the demeanor of the people so threatening that the narty was comoelled to seek refuge in a livery stable across the street, where they hired a rig. Shouts of "Lynch her" "Hang her!" followed the carriage until it had passed out of sight. DIVORCE FROM TASKMASTER. Plaintiff Had to Commit Classics to Memory Each Night. Chicago.?Mrs. William Palmer Armstrong, whose husband said her culture did not equal his. and gave her daily "stunts" to do In the way of memorizing the diotionary, has obtained a divorce. It was the task of the girl-wife each night, before retiring, to prooerly spell and thoroughly define the meaning of many, words not ordinarily in present use. As a 3ide line, and by way of recreation, she was expected to commit to memory such trifles as Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the majority of Shakespeare's plays. According to the plaintiff the tasks were hard and the results were not all that her husband desired. TURKISH SOLDIERS MUTINY. j Feizi Pasha Turned nis Artillery Upon His Own Troops. Constantinople, Turkey? Feizi Pasha, commanding the Turkish troons in Yemen Province, whose hands are already full in attempting to subdue the rebellious Arab3, has been obliged to deplete his artillery against his own mutinous soldiers. Whole companies of regiments anxious to get homo mutinied and decided to go to tbe coast. A stubhorn fight between the loyal and disaffected troops ensued The latter finally surrenden?d after sustaining heavy losses. 17!i<rlitw Ont fias V'irtorv. ?J * * T'? Appellate Division decided that gas consumers of New York City need not pay more than 80 cents for gas pending the decision on the constitutionality of the SO-Ceut Gas law in the Federal courts Steel Trust Stops Graft. The United States Steel Corporation issued an order forbidding employees to accept gratuities from any person or concern doing business with it. The Labor World. There is a great demand for agricultural laborers in Western Australia. A union of the Waltham. Mass., bleachery men has been organized in that city. Toronto. Canada, carriage and wagon -makers recently went out for a nine-hour day. Since March 1"> more than 1000. contract laborers have been deported ov the Ellis Island, New York, au thorities. . STANDARD Oil CO. MMMTEO Roosevelt Decides to Bring it to the Criminal Bar. SPECIAL COUNSEL EMPLOVEB "Conspiracy Against, the United states" to Bo Charged in Pushing of Rebate Cases ?7 Cabinet Orders Sweeping Attack at Once. Washington, D. C..?Between the administration and the Standard Oil Company the fssue now is joined. General and systematic prosecutions against the great oil monopoly have been ordered by the President and the Cabinet, and proceedings are to be instituted at once. An official announcement to that effect was made by Attorney General Moody. It is the expectation of the Government that it will be able to convict the Standard Oil officials of violation of the Interstate Commerce law. the Sh'rmar. Anti-Trnst act and the law making rebates illegal. It isalso the hope of the Government that it will be able to convict the standard Oil officials of conspiracy against the United States, so that the court may if it sees fit impose a sentence of imprisonment. Hence it is not without the bounds of possibility that some o* the wealthiest nnd most powerful men in the world may go to jail In order to have these cases handled by men who can give all their time to them the Attorney General has appointed Frank B. Kellogg, of St. Paul, and Charles B. Morrison, of Chicago, special counsel. Mr. Morrison will resign as District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Tne District Attorneys in various parts of the country and the Federal grand juries are expected to work on these cases all summer. It is understood that one of the first cases to receive the attention of the Government prosecutors will be the secret rate granted by the Penn sylvania Railroad on oil from Olean to Rochester, and l-.ence to Vermont and New England points. For this purpose the Federal Grand Jury may soon be called together at Buffalo. It can be stated authoritatively that Chicago will be the scene of one of t'e first legal actions to be taken against the Standard Oil Company and the railroads charged with offense^ in connection with the great oil corporation. The Chicago field and adjacent territory were fully investigated. both by Commissioner Garfield's agents and by agents of the Attorney General's department, acting independently of the Bureau of Hnrnnralinns. The material gath er:d about? Chicago is said to be the richest in the possession of the authorities. Every kind oi! case that can be marie against the Standard will be brought to trial, and wherever the Federal lay can get a grip on the big oil concern it will be haled into court. GRADUATE GOER INSANE. L.iura. Kelly. Takes. High Honors, Loses .Mind and Passes Away. Owantonna. Minn. ? After four years of study and hard work in the Pillsbury Academy Miss Laura Kelly, eighteen years old, died after being out of her mind since June 13. the day she received her diploma. Miss Kelly had won high honors in her school work and she seemed in the best of health and spirts on the evening of commencement day. Af i er sue nan miue ner uuui era mat evening, however, she hecameso very nervous that she had to be takon home, and before a doctor could arrive she had lost her mind. From thUt time until her death she had ben unable to recognize even her parents or close friends. PRESIDENT TO ?0 TO PANAMA. Will Violate Precedent by Leaving This Country. Washington, O. C. ? It was announced at the White House that President Roosevelt would visit the Isthmus of Panama in November next and that he will remain th?re long euough to make a thorough examination of the conditions on the canal strip. The details of the journey have not been worked out, but the general olan is to visit the ca^al zone as late io the autumn as possible in order to enable the. President to return to Washington in time for the convening of tiie regular session of TIT ATtrlo v in Trior ATT* - ber. He will 30 on a warship. CAT BITE CAUSES SUICrDE. Kansas Man, Fearing Insanity, Puis Iinllet Into His Head. Chicago. III.?Bitten by a rnad cat in his home, in South Haven. Kan., a few weeks before. Ira A. Foy became frantic in the offices of the Home Fire insurance Company, in La Salle .street, and killed himself by firing a bullet into his right temple. Foy left a note saying he was led t- commit suicide because he had been told by physicians he could expect no relief from the cat bite, which was driving him insane. GREEN ACQUITTED. Former Siate Senator Found Xoi Guilty of Share in Po9taI Frauds. Washington. D. C?Former State Senator George E. Greeu. of Binghamton, N. Y., and Williard D. Doremus, of this city, who had been on trial here for four weeks charged with bribery and conspiracy to de fraud tlie uovernmem. m uuuuowiv* with the sale of canceling machines to the Post Office Department, were acquitted in Criminal Court No. 1. Prominent People. John D. Rockefeller never has been abroad before. William Dean Howells fs at Kittery Point. Me., where he expects to spend a restful summer. Harry N. Pillsbury, chess master, died in Philadelphia of apoplexy. Railroad magnate James J. Hill has bought a house in New York for $*00,000 It has been agreed by Governor Beckham and Senator McCreary that the next United States Senator from Kentucky shall be chosen by the peoi pie in primary election ? ~ " RATES CUT IN KENTUCKY ! ' I State Commissioners Deal a Heavy Blow to Railroads. .4 ? i Order Reduction of 25 Per Cent, in Freight Rates?Called Astound? ing and Revolutionary. Louisville, Ky.?The State Rail| road Commission, sitting in FrankI fort, dealt a heavy blow to the Louisville and Nashville and Illinois Central roads, others also being affected, when a decision was handed down ordering a sweeping reduction in rates to all local points, effecting a saving to shippers of an amount estimated at $1,800,000. The Louisville and Nashville is hardest hit of all the roads, the commission ordering that its present rate be reduced twenty-five per cent. The Illinois Central is also singled out for censure and is forbidden to charge in excess of the rate fixed for the Louisville and Nashville. The freight rate charged on the main stem of the Louisville and Nashville running down toward Nashville is taken as the basis for alt freight rates in Kentucky. The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific and Southern are also held to he charging unfair rates, but these roads are not censured as are the first two named. The Chesapeake and Ohio is practiccflly exonerated. It is practically certain that the Louisville and Nashville and-the Illinois Central will make a vigorous fight against the enforcement of the new ruling. It was shown in the report that Cincinnati was greatly favored over Louisville. The effect of the decision is summed up in the terse statement of a prominent railroad man:, ' "The decision is astounding and revolutionary." VOTE FOR LOCK CANAL. Last Obstacle Removed Prom Path of Panama Waterway. Washington, D. C.?By voting in favor of a lock instead of a sea level canal at Panama the Senate probably decided for all time the question which two weeks ago seemed likely to remain undecided for a long period. The amendment for the lock plan to the Sea Level bill reported by the committee was offered by Senator Hopkins. Senator Kittredge moved to table the amendment, and on thi3 the test vote came. "Thirty-one favored the sea level and thirty:six the' lock plan. Twenty-one Democrats, together with Ankeny. Burrows, Burnham, Dick, Gallinger, Hale, Klttredge, McCumber, Nelson and Piatt voted for the sea level plan. Thirtyfive Republicans and one Democrat, Patterson, of Colorado* voted for the lock plan. A lock canal is estimated to cost $135,000,000 and to require eight years for its completion. The President held that the canal should be built for present use and not for posterity, and he favored whichever type would be the least expensive and produce the most speedy results. It was estimated that a sea-level canal would cost $235,000,000 and require at least twelve years for construction. "As soon as I receive official notification of the action of Congress I'll tell Shonts to cut loose." This was the first exclamation of the President when he teamed that the Senate had declared in favor of a lock canal 100 EDITORS POISONED. Ill After Partaking; of Canned Chick* on and Ham. Warsaw, Ind.?Nearly one hundred members of the National Editorial Association, due in Chicago for breakfast, were poisoned by eating ham and chicken sandwiched in. Marion, Ind. Many narrowly escaped death. All of the ill are not out of danger. Many were unable to accompany the excursion further. They are confined to their beds in .Winona Lake, two miles from here. The meats which contained ptomaine were from packing houses? whether or not Chicago houses is not known. So frightened were the editors that they cancelled an. invitation,. previously accepted, to take breakfast <with the Chicago packers. Instead they ate in the Press Club. Nor will they go near the Stock Yards. DROWNED OFF PALISADES. Clerk Wandered From Home While Mentally Unbalanced. New York City.?The body of Samuel Westervelt, of Tenafly, N. J., was found in a culvert at Clinton Point on the Palisades. He apparently crawled part way jnto the culvert and was drowned, probably in one of the heavy downpours of rain. He had been missing since the day before. For two weeks he had been ill. and it is supposed that he wandered away while mentally unbalanced. He had been connected with the. firm of Lord & Taylor in New York for many years. He was Treasurer of the village, also of the local Royal Arcanum and of the Presbyterian Sunday-school, and also Clerk of the school district. The Wheat Outlook. At the moment the outlook is for a very good yield of wheat, though damage reports are numerous. } Gets Damages For "Third-Rail Eye." The Supreme Court naving conflrmed John S. Woodall's verdict of $1000, the Boston Elevated Railway Company is likely to be sued by other sufferers from the "thirdrail eye." It has been asserted that 1-tm.anna havp hpfin injured in their eyes by particle3 of metal falling from the ''L" structure. Heavy Movement of Merchandise. The heavy movement of merchandise is attested by an increase in railway earnings. Graft in British Army "Supplies.' At <he first session of the British royal -commission, appointed last June to inquire into the South African war-stores scandal. Sir George Goldie .one of the older members, pointed out that certain contractors, starling without capital, had made profits amounting to S600',000 on purchases amounting to $1,150,000. Machinery Well Employed. Machinery is well employed the country over, though summer shutdowns will be more in evidence from > now on. EMERY ENDORSED BY PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRAT! Fusion With Independent Lincol Republicans Wins in Convention. BATTLE OVER STATE ISSUE: Grandson of Jere S. Black Nominate For Lieutenant-Governor and a Earnest Campaign Inaugurate ?The Iieaders Defeated. Harrisburg,' Pa.?The Deraocrati State convention nominated the fol lowing ticket: Governor, Lewis Em ery, Jr., of Bradford, the Lincol: party nominee; Lieutenant-Governoi Jere S. Black, of York; Auditor-Gen eral, William T. Creasy, the Prohibi tlon nominee, and Secretary of In ternal Affairs, John J. Green, of Phil adelphia The platform deals entirely wit] State issues, except on the pianlc which commends William J. Bryan The convention did not go on recor< in favor of Bryan's nomination foi President. Emery was the choice of the dele gates who favor fusion with the Lin coin party on a State ticket. He waj nominated on the first ballot by i vote of-261 to CO for Arthur G. De u/qH aP T.^liiorVi P/Minfir f Vt a A1/11 vvcwi,, \jl 1 vuuatj, one V/iiuiui of James M. Guffey, National Cora mitteeman. of Pittsburg, and others who favored a straight Democrat fo Governor. In the. Lincoln ranks are man] Democrats ofvdistinction opposed tc their own party. A month ago i' was not deemed ppssiblo that th< voters could oppose the Democrats party so long managed by Colone James M. Guffey, but the sentimenl throughout the State made the Con vention representative of the people Up to the last minute Mr. Guffey'i lieutenants planner to defeat Emery but they could not overcome th< tide. Many men willing to take or ders at any other time candidly saic they would not dare return t( their home districts and be responsible for the defeat of Emery. Guffej remained in Pittsburg, suggesting the names of men who might be presented as candidates againBt Emery His lieutenants then frankly advisee him that the convention could not b< controlled'foe any Democrat, anc that no man known as an "independ ent" would stand a chance with th< delegates. Many : KeRuuucaus ipju Pittsburg and Philadelphia, who ow'< allegiance to Senator Boles Penrose were on the ground wearing Demo cratic buttons and shouting for z straight ticket. Long before the roll call these men abandoned all though! of stampoding the convention. Leaders opposed to Guffey in th( Democratic party met the representa tives of the Lfncoln League and agreed upon a fusion ticket. Th< Lincoln party offered to withdraw their candidates for Lieutenant-Gov ernor and Attorney-General. This was accepted, and the Democrat* promised to name E. A. Coray, Jr., ol Luzerne, an independent Republican . for Secretary of Internal /Affairs This part of the program was defeat ed in the convention. Thomas J Green, of Philadelphia, after a fierj speech, stampeding the delegates foi John I. Green, of Philadelphia, a man of Emery's pattern. ' rnuiA nWT TC.ATR TAW LU11 x lv v-vjbj^ia ? ; ' Ohio Business Men May Take Action Against Railroads. Cleveland. Ohio.?The railroad corn panles in Ohio are ignoring the two cent fare law as applied to inter-State traffic. Attorney-General Ellis has ruled that tinder no circumstances car they charge In excess of two ceuts s mile within the State, even on inter State business. The commercial trav elers of the State, through their Ohic organization, threaten to begin pro ccediugs against the railroads to com pel them to adhere strictly to the new law. A ticket purchased in Cleveland foi a point in an adjoinihg State costs t .straight three-cent rate. Traveling lr the other direction, the rate is tw( cents a mile in Ohio. It costs $8.8; to travel first-class from Cleveland t( Charleston, West Va.; make the trii the other way and $G.GQ is enough. COUNCIL OUSTS MAYOR. Terre Haute'.? Chief Executive Re fused to Enforce Gambling Laws. Terre Haute, Ind.?Mayor Bidaman of this city, was formally ousted fron office by a two-thirds vote of the Com " ? * ^ 4-rv /\i? moil Council necause ue remwu iu Cn force tlie -laws against gambling anc saloons. Tlie impeachment proceeding: came after many charges against tlx Mayor had been fifed, and tlie tria tliat culminated in a verdict ag.iins him has heen in progress several days Evidence was introduced to sliov that the city is wide open, the lawi defied and the Mayor inactive, if" no actually encouraging tlie lawbreakers Mayor Bidanmn came in just as tin verdict was rendered and, taking tin Mayor's chair, declared lie would uo surrender it. English Steel For America. Large orders are reaching Britisl steel corporations from America. Las week lO.'OOO tons were sold for quid despatch, and orders totalling 50,(XX tons are also in the market. The pric< is $24.50 f. o. b. Armour Calls Exposures Slanders. J. Ogden Armour, head of the Chi cago packing house of Armour & Co. has returned from Europe and issue< a statement calling promoters of tin meat exposures slanderers. "* Deficit For France. in tne irrencii uuugtri mcic m .v fioiency of $S0,000,000, of which $50, 000,000 was the cost of preparation for war with Germany during the Mo roccau crisis. Feminine News Notes. It is publicly announced lha Canada "wants women." The sum total realized for the El len Terry Jubilee Fund Is $43,920. In Madagascar every woman wear silk, as it is cheaper there than linen "Made in Germany" can be truth fully said of every garment in thi trousseau of the Kaiser's new daugh ter-in-law. The other day a Berlin womai boxed the ears of her child., agi seven, and the child died of brail fever. The woman is to be tried fo manslaughter. PERISHED JN_PEIROLEli 5 Three Waterbury, (Conn.) Work _ men Die at Call of Duty, n Engineer Rowley Drowns in a Pont of Crude Oil?Two Rescuers Succumb. s Waterbury, Conn?Eugene Rowley d Frederick Scott and Dennis Sullivai n were drowned in thirty inches o! d crude petroleum which h;ul settled a tbe bottom of one of the big pits ii the yard of tlie Benedict <x Burnhan Manufacturing Company. Scott anc Sullivan met death in a brave effort t( rescue Rowley. A huge ftfel tqnk stood in the centn " of the pit. It was diaraveml that tlu 1-. tank, was-leakUig. RpivvlV-y, the'engi . neer in charge, came rushing to tin scene, closely followed by Scott, his assistaut, and Sullivan, a pipei*'f " heli?er. "If anything happens," cried Rowloy h as he started down the ladder, "don'i you boys come after me. You can'i " breathe gas any more than you cai; ' breathe lead. But I've got to suut on 1 that valve." ' r Half way down Rowley ovprcome I)) the fumes, reeled, lost bis hold anil " pitched into the escaping petroleum. "f can't stand this," said Scott,."I'ir s going after hiiu." A "Get a rope," warned Sullivan. "No time." answered Scott. 3 "Gene would be dead before I got there. Don't you take any chances, Sully. Just yell for help." l" Scott dropped unconscious almost at tbe first round. Then Sullivan shut bis 7 teeth. "TbeyVe I>otb got wives." be * muttered; "and I'm Defnnis Sujlivain 1 that's no good to anybody, bere goes," I and .shaking off tbe men who. tried to z restrain-him, be weut over"the side. In a moment be had joined the dead t men soaking in the oozing fluid below. Through the crowd came Wilbert Babcock, superintendent of the* Wider3 bury Brass Goods Corporation. He J was stripping off bis coat as be ran. "No use, Mr. Babcock," pleaded a " fireinau; "you're a dead man tbe minute you hit that ladder." * "Go to thunder!" veiled Babcock. * and started doyvn. He collapsed almost at the pit's rim, hut William ' Kearney caught him as he fell and dragged him back. : When the factory officials readied the scene, they drove away the men . and sought frantically to stop^ tlje tlow of oil.; TJite in-the afternoon the time [ bodies were recovered. ' Babcock was; taken to his home in a * ' critical .'condition! ; MURDERS HIS BRIDE-ELECT. i . Man About to Marry Her Shoots Hee t Down in Cold Blood. Comfort, Tex.?Attired in her wedi ding dress and with btfdal flowers " in her hands, Miss Ernestine Kutzer ' was shot through the heart in het * home here by Joseph Reinbardt, the ' man who was to lead her to the altar. Many of the wedding guests saw the J murder, and before one of them could ' interfere Reinhard had shot himself ' twice in the body. mi.. X ?l ! Ik . xue two liiiiiiUKis are ,\muut; uue ' wealthiest and most prominent in the county. Not the slightest light .hftfl been thrown on the mystery of the [ tragedy. It was believed that there was a true romance between the young 1 couple. Miss Kutzer possessed a substantial, fortune in her own right, and Reljuhardt himself was wealthy. No " sign of insanity was .ever seen in him, and a few minutes before the shooting 1 be was'apparently the merriest in the whole gathering. I THOMAS E. WAGGAMANN DEAD. i Failed For $4,000,000 When Tressi urci' of the Catholic University, i Washington. D. C<?Word was rp ceived here that Thomas E. Wagga mann of this city, former treasurer of > the Catholic University, who failed for - more than $4,000,000 about a yenr ago, died in poverty in a farm house near ' Annapolis, Md. The cause of death was cancer of the face. He was 00 ' years old. i Waggamann's failure startled this ? city, where 'hundreds of persons had > placed with him various sums of > money for investment. His art coliec) tion, .which was regarded as one of the ) most valuable in the country, was sold at auction in Nejv York, in order partially to satisfy his creditors. .Soon a tier ue was ueumreu <1 n.uiM<i|n nuu twice indicted for embezzlement. Ha was never tried. 3 GIRLS DROWN IN STAR LAKE I Hotel Servants Go Beyond Their Depth While Bathing. j Watertown, N. Y.?Three young ? women, Miss Alice M. and Miss Jennie 3 Burgess, sisters, of this city, aud Mis.= 1 Mabel Love, of Gouverneur. were t drowned in Star Lake. The girls, who were employed as servants at the Star ; Lake Inn, were bathing and went he* yond their depth. t i. Queer Cause of a Riot. J There were riots at many school? 3 on the east side of New York Cit.v t owing to a wild rumor that the children in the schools were to be massacred. The trofible arose over operations on some children under direction i of the Board of Health. t c New Cable to Japan. ^ President Roosevelt and tbe Emper-. - or of Japan exchanged messages over the new cable from Guam to Japan. Greene-Gaynor Bill, $100,000. - - 1 ^ ? Cr 1 AA AAA It COSC tue cruveniiueut jxuu^v.. . to extradite Greene and Gaynor and ] bring them to trial. This statement ? is contained in a letter written by Attorney-General Moody to Chairman Tawney, explaining a request for a deficiency appropriation. Suits Against Railways. Attorney-General Moody has brought 3 suite against eighteen railroads '* charged with violating the safety appliance law. t Sporting Brevities. Three yachts started from San Pe dro in a race to Honolulu. The agitation against football ia 3 gradually shaping up into definite action by the different colleges. The ocean yacht race to Bermuda 0 for the Lipton cup was won June ?, - by the Tamerlane, with the Gauntlet second. 1 F. B. Alexander and H. H. Hackett e won for the second consecutive year n in New York the title of metropolir tan lawn tennis champions in doubles. ??? ? ' . ,y'T> u:\tf''}. & WW NIORDERS . STANFORD WHITE - Millionaire Shoots Noted Archi itect on New York Roof Garden. TROUBLE OVER ACTRESS-WIFE ^ \ i Before Audience of a Thousand th? E Young Pittsburg Society Man t Suddenly Leaves 3in Seat and ) Kills His Victim. 1 New York City.?Stanford "Wbite, a ' well known architect and member oC ' exclusive clubs and prominent in society, was shot and instantly killed | by Harry K. Thaw, a very 'wealthy man of Pittsburg, on the Madisoo 5 'Square Root Garden. i It was near the close of "Mamzelle 1 Champagne," a musical comedy with which the garden was opened, that j Thaw approached tbe table at wbicb [ White was seated with another maw i and fired three shots from an autof matic revolver iuto the breast of "the architect. > Thaw was arrested without making 1 any resistance, after he had dramatically assured the terrified audience ? gesture that be would shoot no mora and had emptied tbe weapon of Cacti-lrlffM. Ha wns lnr?kp/! in flu* WmA Thirtieth street police station, where he made a statement that file deatl? of White was deserved (or many reasons. There is no doubt that jealousy, amounting to an almost insane hatred, was responsible for the deed.. In hi? statement Thaw mentioned" several times the name of his wife, coupling ^ . this with denunciations of Whito as a blackguard and scoundrel. ' White met his death in the building the designing of which was one of liia first great sqccesses as an architect and in which he was one of the prln cipal stockholders. Thaw, defending his deed, bitterly, denounced White, both in the garden and in the Tenderloin police station, to which he was taken after his dramatic surrender in the garden. Mrs. Thaw, who was Evelyn Nesbit, an actress, before her marriage., was on the roof at the time of the tragedy.. She had only time to rush out as the special policeman was leading, her husband away a prisoner and throw her arms around his .neck, crying bygsjerically, "Oh/ Harry! 'Harr^Vjtarrfc!'*^ when she collapsed and was ttucea away by friends. That.,there was no panic jn tte the-. atre was due as much to the scene that - was then on the stage and to the coolness of Lionel Lawrence, the manager, several men in the audience antf attnnhM The dim light of the scene prevented* all from seeing tlie tragedy. The de- \ tonating reports of the revolrter so much resembled a firecrabker that few, received the first alarm. Then it waai that Mr. Lawrence and the othepB. springing up everywhere, called upon all to remain in their seats, as tliera was no danger, while others covered the body of White with their coatB and ?cloths. The performance was at once concluded, but the audience passed out .without giving evidence of more than ' | great excitement. The tragedy, while a shock to the friends of both men, was not altogether a surprise to them. TJibf kaew, and have known for several years, that agafhst the arcmtect ' Thaw had the most bitter i feeflog. Tf dated back to the time wheirhe' first fell in love with the young woman who is now his wife. He made no secret of tltis feeling. Thrills All Pittsburg. Pittsburg.?The news that Harry, Kendall Thaw had shot and killed Stanford White in New York caused the wildest excitement in Pittsburg, where for year3 the Thaws have , ueeu ueuu uie sr"?i auuai ic&usia. Harry Kendall Thaw is broth.afc-inlaw of the Countess 0/ Sfarmo&W and son of Mrs. William Thaw, of Pittsburg. The Thaw family waa prominently identified with the aarly days of the Pennsylvania Railroad. SHOT BY JEALOUS LOVER. Rose Cowley Meets Death at tho Hands of Cleveland Longcore. Netcong. N. J.?Rose May Cowley, nineteen years old, who llvetf , with her parents in a farmhouse near here, was'shot and killed instantly by Cleveland Longcore, twenty-one years o*ld, her rejected suitor. To get "the girl out of the housei he , ^et it afire, and it was burned to the | ground. After killing Miss Cowley, I Longcore went to his own Home, three miles away, and killed tfilfaself by shooting. ^ 1 Longcore had been an ardent ad- ^ ' mirer of Miss Cowley. He found recently that there was no chance to win her. The barn o? the Cowleys was fired several days before, but the daughter was not at home that night. The family were asleep in the farmhouse when the father was ! awakened by the smell of smoke and ; the crackling of burning timbers. The dwelling house was afire. The entire family rushed out into "the ('ront yard when the girl was sbot> Immigration Bill Passed. After eliminating the educational test and ttue increased head tax, the House, Washington. D. C.<, passed ';he immigration bill" CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY'S FARM / Jrift, Valued at $900,0(10, to Establish an Agricultural Department. Berkeley. Cal.?The will of the ate Theodore Kearney, of Fresno, bequeaths to the University of California his entire estate, valued at ?900,000, to be used in: the establishment i :)f a Kerney Agricultural Experiment Station a3 an adjunct of the univer 4,ty- ^ Reject tainted" Money. Because of the cry of "tainted** money the- oSfer of John D. Rocke'efter to give $5,000,000 to start the | work of a national juvenile improvement association dn lines suggested Sv Judge Lindsey, of Denver, has ieen rejected ty the friends of the children. I May Withdraw From France. It was announced that because ,c* i new French law the Mutual Life insurance Company may withdraw xom France