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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.
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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.
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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."'
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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.
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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,
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* HJUKON ICROWNED
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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.
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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.
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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
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" RATES CUT IN KENTUCKY
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I State Commissioners Deal a
Heavy Blow to Railroads.
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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. '
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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
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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.
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& 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