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K r\ mmmTb AND SPECTATORS CHEER n I ' Demonstrations of Joy in CourtOne Girl Kisses Him. c HOME AGAIN WITH HIS BOYS, j}g * They Thought He Had Been Away on C a Trip?The Jnry Out an Hour S( and a Quarter ? Two Jurors p Wept?History of Case. s' in Toms River. N. J ?The trial of Dr. Frank L. Brouwer on the chargs u of murdering his wife. Carrie Brou- 3 r wer, ended with his acquittal. When the foreman of the jury an- d< ' nounced the verdict the crowd of peo jj.0 pie which packed the court room gn broke into a wild demonstration of j to I, delight. The jury had been out an v hour and a quarter, just long enough ^ to sharpen the anxiety of prisoner. ! tj( counsel on both sides and the village ; pa folk who had been following the case j in with keenest interest from the start ; be of the trial, nearly two weeks ago. Judge Hendrickson's charge to the at 1 - jury lasted an hour. It was consid- j br ered fair and strictly impartial by , or the defense. He sent the jury to its | Cc '* l rooms to deliberate on a verdict and j he held court in session, awaiting a word of irom lis ioremau. After a short recess the court con- wl vened and announced the verdict. Di The court was in an uproar as Judge an Hendrickson declared the prisoner m discharged. The men cheered and ci1 the women applauded. Dr. Brouwer if was so overcome that he seemed to in have difficulty in speaking as he ;; turned to the court. When order tri was restored the discharged man of asked the court's permission to ad- th dress the jury. He first thanked the th Judge for the impartiality he had pr shown, and then, turning to the jury, or he said: El "I am thankful, very thankful for er ft the way you have treated me, and I hope that none of you will ever be ro placed in a position such as I have c0 been in." ba He then shook hands with each fir juror and started to leave the court de room. The crowd was so anxious to ha congratulate him on his acquittal, however, that he was compelled to P? stand and shake hands with the men hy and.women as they filed by. A fourteen-year-old girl wanted to kiss him, St and he leaned over and received the mi h kiss. The last day of Dr. Brouwer's trial S'1 ?,v consisted entirely of argument. Prank McDermott, for the State, re- an viewed the evidence presented by the ill prosecution, and declared that it es- tic tablished a circumstantial case which proved the prisoner guilty of poison- ro I Ing his wife. fe Mr. Wilson, for the defense, point- in! ed out that had Dr. Brouwer intended to divorce his wife he would not have w> transferred property to her or made sa out insurance for her. In reply to wthe charge that the accused man fe: loved another woman Mr. Wilson wl asked why this woman had not been th produced. During the plea for acquittal two au of the jurors were so affected that th they, had to wipe the tears from their tic eyes. Dr. Brouwer, at the mention th of his dead wife and of his mother P*" and children, also wept. Dr. and Mrs. Brouwer had been tei A married nine years when Mrs. Brou- su wer died. Before her marriage she h'< was a school teacher. Before going an to Toms River they lived at Lakehurst. The doctor established a good tei practice and became one of the best of known physicians in Ocean County. re When Mrs. Brouwer was taken ill her husband employed two nurses, fei both of whom appeared as witnesses of against him in the trial. They left the Brouwer house, as they declared, because they became suspicious of the treatment the patient was receiving from her husband. Another Ef aurse was engaged. After seven days of illness Mrs. Brouwer died, and rumors were started that there was dumeiuiug Luyaitjnuu? iu uer usaiu. . Trevonia Hyer, brother of the dead woman, began an investigation, as an did the Metropolitan Life Insurance yf. Company, which had issued a $1000 a ' policy on her life. The body was ei- ? humed and an autopsy was held. An unwsighable quantity of arsenic was on found in the organs of the body, and m: a very small quantity of glass. BOYS SAVE FAST TRAIN. " Find Broken Rail and Flag Engineer With a Necktie. st< Franklin, Pa.?Edward Thompson ji1 and Clinton Coefield. two fourteenyear-old boys, discovered a broken tri vaV on the Frankliu branch of the Erie road near here. As the passenger train from Oil City, which connects with the New York and Chicago 1 trains at Meadville, approached, ne ' Thompson threw off his red necktie and waved it frantically. The engineer saw the signal and stopped his sa :rain. He said his train would doubt- a.r less have been wrecked had it struck (c the curve at full speed. " ^ A. Religious Promoter Arrested. Alleged victims of the Rev. A. M. ^ Kelley, promoter of the Beulah Religious Land Settlement in Dickson .. County, Tenn., have had him arrested for illegal use of the mails. lii Secretary Taft Home. tl Secretary Taft's party returned to J< . Washington from Havana. 01 Railway Earnings Increase. Railway earnings available for October surpass similar figures for last pi year. ei p.i Robbed by Auto Gang. fc Burcrlara. thousht to be the auto ej gang, robbed J. E. Ward's bome at Convent, N. J., of $5000 in jewels. Killed Her Husband. While her daughter watched, Mrs. . l Sarah Alcopa killed her husband in cj Chicago, to save her own life. b Fish's Directors Elected. Stuyvesant Fish succeeded in electing his candidate for the board of dl- g rectors of the Illinois Central after a u bitter light with Harriman at Chicago. 2 1 Japan Interferes in India. Japan is encouraging the anti-Brit- c, ish movement in India and raising v the cry of "Asia for the Asiatics." n A Sub-Treasury Deficit Discovered. ^ Deficit of ?61,500 was discovered j a in the United States Sub-Treasury at j < St. Louis. 11] - Iff 3F Sii BESUjl aw York Central 2nd ftiansgct y May Be Fined S24Q.G0D. ounsel For Defendants Asci'iDes Verdict to Public Hostility to Corporations. New York City.?The New York entral Railroad Company and its meral traffic manager, Frederick L. p, omeroy. were each found guilty on ^ x counts of giving unlawful rebates ur i 1904 to the American Sugar Re- m ling Company, by a jury in the pi] nited States Circuit Court. Criminal ranch. , The conviction makes each of the ra jfendants liable to a fine of $20,000 fe r each separate offense, or a fine of ot 120,000 for the railroad and the be .mo amount for its employe, or a tal of ?240,000. The indictment, W( hile indicating that about 52G.C00 ^ as secured by the Sugar Trust in q] llawful drawbacks on the trans.ic- c< ans set up. specifically alleges the ivment of not more than 510,000 aD the ofTenses i'or which the fines can te s imposed. to Judge Hole did not fir: the penalty p, once. Immediately after the jury ^ i ! * ifrt A npftn n TTnv ?-% I'U^UL III 1 LZ> n.ur,i,iii V* . a w.v i bebalf 01 the defendants asked the >urt to fix a date on which he could jj :ar argument on a motion for nrrsst ta judgment. After it is disposed of idge Holt will fix iho penalties, ,-n lilch, it is expected by United States rj istrlct Attorney Henry L. Stimson Wi td his assistants, wil! be near the aximum. Th?s? operate only as ^e' yil judgments, and the defendants gl they refuse to pay them cannot be mrisoned for their action. The conviction, which cams after a ial lasting only three days, but two 0I which were consumed in putting q( e evidence before the jury, marks 0f e successful completion of the first sj osecution of either a corporation an individual for infraction of the kins lav; ever initiated in the Fed- j-j al courts of this district. jj{ The indictments on which the rail- 0j ad company and its servant were w nvicted charged the giving of re- jn ,tes to the wholesale sugar jobbing t! m of Edgar & Earle, of Detroit, on m mand of the Sugar l'rust. The re- fr ,tes were five cents off the tarifi' n, te of twenty-three cents a hundred b, unds paid by the railroad company rn?/?Tioi? x,, . 111 United States District Attorney ' imeon summed, up for the Governsnt. No member of the jury could : iJ to see, he said, that the system of iring the rebates must have been G io\vn to the president of the road, d the Elkins law plainly made the egal act of an agent of the corpora?n the act of the corporation itself. IF "It is no excuse at all for the rail- B ad to say that it had to give secret vj bates to the American Sugar Refing Company, although not to Ar- . ckie Bros., on the plea that other- 1D se the freight would go by water," id Mr. Stimson. "The real reason 01 ly the railroad has not put in a de- m Qse is that it has none. Its clerk 10 paid the rebates did not send K em ir ihe form of checks, but y< ugh( lifts. When the railroad's w dit accounts were destroyed every a. ree months no trace of the transac- 01 >ns was left. They forgot, however, ai at we could subpoena the banks to oduce the telltale drafts." The jury was out about three-quar- :* rs of an hour, coming back once for : a pplementary instructions taken r am a list handed up by Mr. Fox, d a copy of the Elkins law. " At the conclusion or the trial Ausa G. Fox, who appeared on behalf w the railroad, made the following w mark: "It is impossible to successfully de- , nd rebate cases in the present state r! public opinion." NO HOPE FOR THE LUTIN. Torts to Rescue Men in Sunken $ Submarine Fruitless. Biserta. Tunis.?The French subarine Lutin still lie3 at the bottom q the sea three miles from this port, a( d the officers engaged in the sal- a] ge work express the certainty that jc I the fourteen members of the crew j! ,ve perished. Men on board the aJ g Ishkul, which convoyed the Lutin fC : her last voyage, say that the sub- _ arine plunged twice successfully, C( id that after she had gone down for e third time her bow showed twice $ iove the surface of the water before j; e Anally disappeared. This leads g. the belief that the catastrophe re- ^ lted from a sudden leak at the Q] ?rn. The water probably rushed 9 and overturned the accumulators, <r lis would have caused deadly fumes w Dm the acids. 5 Admiral Bellue is uncertain wheth- c, the salvagers have really located n e Lutin or not. Divershave reached 0 e bottom, but owing to the rough- C1 ids of the sea they were unable to main below long enough to make a orough investigation. Fourteen .lvage vessels now form a cordon ound the spot where the Lutin went s >wn. The divers descend in relays, 1; id are displaying untiring energy. II their endeavors, however, to loite the Lutin, so as to permit the Q >e of the powerful lifting apparatus, tl ive been in vain. * S Si n Militia at Hanging. h Governor Heyward, of South Caro- ci na, sent militia to Conway to see c iat the execution of Commander v )hnson, a white man, proceeded a3 v *dered. e Annam's King Kills His Wife. 11 c King Than-Thai of Annara, who is n onounced insane, not only put sev- t al of his numerous wives to torture id death, but had one cooked and >rced his attendants to help him it her. ^ Cleaner Money Advocated. f Before the convention of the Aineran Bankers' Association in St. ouis Representative Fowler advoited the issuance of cleaner money ? - t 9 y tne uovernmenc. Prominent People. Sir William Henry Perkin was the j uest of New York chemists at a diner. I James J. Hill says there will be t 00,000,000 people in this country in 950. t President Amador of Panama, ac- b Dmpanied by his wife, will make a isit to the United States next sum- * ; Vice-President Fairbanks, speaklg at tbe Pike centennial in Color- ^ do Springs, said that the legend, j Pike's Peak or bust," was typical of j ie American SDirit. R5, JEFFERSONOAVIS DEflO ved to Be Eighty, Surviving Her Husband Seventeen Years id Been Failing in Henltli For the Last Three Years?She Was Varina Howell, of Mississippi. tfew York City.?Mrs. Jefferson ivis. widow of the Confederate esidert, died in her apartments at e Hotel Majestic. She had been iconscious for twenty-four hours, rs. Davis caught a severe cold and leumonia developed. Her last hours of consciousness 3re spent in recalling old war time miniscences. Her mind was perctly clear and she recognized withit difficulty all who approached her dside. With her at the time of her death are her pastor, the Rev. Dr. Nathan Seagle. of St. Stephen's Episcopal lurch; Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, of jlorado Springs, Mrs. Davis* only ring daughter; Dr. Gerald D. Webb id Mrs. Webb, wbo is a granddaugh r; Jefferson Hayes-Davis, of Prlncen, N. J., a grandson; Mrs. Joseph ilitzer, who was Miss Kate Davis; iss C. 33. Patson, a niece, and Dr. Dbert H. Wylie. Funeral services were held at the otel Majestic and the body was ken to Richmond. Va., for burial. Mrs. Davis was born In Mississippi, old Adams County, in 1826. Vana Howell, as her maiden name as, became the wife of Jefferson ivis before 3he completed her eighenth year. Her father was distinilshed for service in New Orleans in e War of 1812,and the Howell famf was among the most prominent of at section. She was Mr. Davis' secid wife, his first wife, a daughter of eneral Taylor, afterward President ! the United States, having died a tort time after their marriage. Mrs. Davis was known for her clear idgment and she decided the first me that she saw her future husind, who was then thirty-six years d, that he was the right man. She as then seventeen years old and wa~ ivited at that time to come over to lie Hurricane, the Davis place, to eet Jefferson, who had been away om home for a long time. She had jver seen him before, but he had ? o-raaf ofinti for *CU IXlCtZVIllft Cfc 51 A -w. imself at that time and his fame id spread throughout the State. BERTHA KRUPP MARRIED. old and Silver Gifts in Honor of Heiress' Marriage. Essen, Prussia. ? The civil cereony of the marriage of Fraulein ertha Krupp to Lieutenant Gustav >n Bohlen und Halbach took place : the registry office of the village of redeney, near here. The proceedgs were strictly formal. The directorate of the Krupp works 1 the occasion of the religious cereony next day presented to all of the j nployes who have been in the 1 rupps' service for longer than five I sars a $2.50 gold piece, and to those ho have served less than five years $1.25 silver piece, making a total ! about $150,000 to be distributed nong the workmen. In the presence of Emperor Willm and 140 guests Fraulein Bertha j rupp and Lieutenant Gustav von j ohlen und Halbach were married ' iligiously in a little improvised cha}1 adjoining the brfde's birthplace, ic Villa Huegel, by the pastor of le neighboring village church, here the Krupp family has long orshiped. Emperor "William sat with the famy while the simple Lutheran marage service was performed and then j epped rorwara ana congrauuaieu i te bride and bridegroom. POSTAL DEFICIT LESS. 10,516,305 For 1000, Against $14,572,534 For the Previous Y^ar. Washington, D. C. ? Postmastereneral Cortelyou has given out an ivance statement of the receipts id expenditures of the Postal Serve for the fiscal year ended June 30, J 06. It shows a reduction of the tinual deficit from $14,572,534.13 >r 1905 to $10,516,995.94 for 1906 -over $4,000,000?or 27.83 per int. The total receipts for 1906 were 167,932,762.95, an increase over 905 of $15,106,197.85, which is the reatest increase for any year in the Istory of the service. The per cent. i increase in receipts ior i?uo is ,83, as compared with G.42 for 1905. he total expenditures during 1906 ere $178,449,778.89, an increase of 11,050,609.66 over 1905. The per jnt. of increase is less than for a umber of years, and is smaller by ne-third than the per cent, of inrease during 1905. BURTON MUST GO TO JAIL. upreme Court Refuses a Rehearing to the ex-Senator. Washington, D. C. ? In conseuence of a 'decision handed down in ae United States Supreme Court exenator Joseph R. Burton, of Kanas. must go to jail to serve a six lonths' sentence. The court denied is petition ior a renearing in me ase in which he was convicted of acepting an attorney's fee while he ras serving as a Senator in a case in rhio.h the Government was intersted. There was no formal announcelent of the action in the Burton ase in open court, the Chief Justice lerely handing a brief memorandum o the clerk just before convening. Vice-President's Son Elopes. F. C. Fairbanks, son of the Vice'resident, and Miss Nellie Scott, of 'ittsburg, eloped and were married a Steubenville, Ohio. Toy Exposition in Paris. Paris is enjoying its sixth annual xhibition of toys. Sporting Brevities. "Unusual activity marks the bowing season. Siliko won the $14,000 Trotting futurity at the Lexington (Ky.) rack. Athletes from the battleship Kenucky won the games held by the quadron at Bar Harbor, Me. Robert LcRoy, of Columbia, won he intercollegiate lawn tennis chamjiouship for the second time. Clarence H. Mackay's four-in-hand andem teams were winners at the ?iping Rock Horse Show, Locust Valey. L. I. SIOPS FIGHTJi NUJOB Mrs. Wister Quails Before Bit of Paper weigntman lbtl Klieet, on Which Wealthy Chemist Wrote Opinion of Daughter-in< Law, Brought From Hiding. Philadelphia.?Confronted with a scrap of yellow paper, upon which her father-in-law, the late William Weightman. had written his last wishes and thoughts concerning her, Mrs. Jones Wisler abandoned her suit again3t Mrs. Anne M. Weight man Walker, her sister-in-law. to whom Weightman left all of his $50,000.000. Rather than have the contents of ' the memoradum read in court M*-s. Wister acknowledged defeat and gave up her fight, permitting her attorneys to be? Mrs. Walker to make ' ro opposition to an indefinite cona j ? c ~ ha +V10+ fho h/acf uuiiiiiiue til u:tj cttot:, au iiiui. vnv. possible face would be put upon Mrs. Wister's backdown. The admission of defeat came at a moment when interest in the testimony was at its height, and when it seemed that Mrs. Wister's remarkable charges about the conduct and intellectual capacity of the aged chemist were about to be substantiated. Tn holding back until tho very last moment the weapon in her possession. and choosing the mo3t potent time and place, Mrs.- Walker takes full revenue for the social slights put ( upon her by Mrs. Wister when thn 1 richest woman in America was trying lo enter the exclusive circle of Philadelphia society, in which Mrs. Wister has been a power. J Upon the paper there appeared, ac! cording to the belief of Mrs. Wister's attorneys, the codicil in which Weightman might have made provision for his granddaughters (Mrs. : i Wister's children), on behalf of whom Mrs. Wister contested the will. Neither codicil nor will did the paper prove to be. With the keenness of a man who has made his $50,000.000 and is determined to protect wiiat ne naa garnereu ana aevise n . , as he saw fit, Weightraan had care[ fully transcribed upon this bit of paper what purported to be his prei else relations with Mrs. Wister, with I whom he is said to have been in love. Moreover, he had declared coriclu| sively in that document that he had . no intention of having Mrs. Wister ! or his grandchildren share his j wealth. He completely washed his hands of the Jones Wisters and jotted down some statement concern; ing which Richard Wain Meir3, a sonj in-law of Mrs. Wister and nephew of Mrs. Walker, made this statement: "For the sake of Mrs. Wister, T I would rather cut out my tongue than j | divulge the contents 6f it. Until the j I paper was produced at to-day's hear- j ing only four persons in the world | had seen it. I hope with all the ear- ' 1 nestness of which I am capable that \ 110 one else will ever see it. "Unless the other side should perI mit it to escape them, I feel sure that tj the scrap of paper which turned the .j I current of to-day's events will never * be made public. It is buried deeper than the foundations of my office building. It is neither a will nor a | codicil, but what it contains caused I the abrupt ending of the case." , 1 Mrs. Wister said her father-in-law i wished her so well that when her first 1 husband, his son, died he was eager to marry her. Weightman's mental I state was questioned by medical men who were friends of the contestant. Among the peculiarities for which he | was known were refusals ever to ! give a cent in charity and hatred of i music and children. ! MANY KILLED IN MINE. I Terrible Result of Firedamp E.vplo- < sion in English Colliery. Durham, England.?As a result of .in explosion in the Wlngate colliery, near here, thirty-five miners have been killed and 200 were temporarily entombed. It was fortunate that few of the 1000 men employed were in n.- ?' - - -.1 -n. - tnnV t le lllllie WUCU I.IIC CA1IIW1UU place. The cause is supposed to have j been firedamp. The explosion was 'heavy, and in Wingate town many windows were broken. Soon after the news of the accident became known crowds of half clad people were rushing toward the mine, and there were heartrending scenes at the mouth of the pit. Family Ate Toadstools; Three Dead. At Anderson, Ind., Mrs. Robert Arrol is dead, making the third death in one family from eating toadstools by mistake for mushrooms. SAM JONES, REVIVALIST, DEAD. ] Famous Fighting Preachcr Who Was J ? Feared by Liquor Rings. Little Rock, Ark.?When a porter went to a berth occupied by the Rev. J Sam Jones, the revivalist, in the sleeper of a train running to Memphis i on the Oklahoma, Choctaw and Gulf Line, to awaken him. he found the famous preacher dead. A physician said the revivalist probably died about 4 o'clock in the morning. If so. the first day of Jones' sixtieth year was his last. He was fifty-nine years old. The evangelist's health long had been so poor that almost any severe attack of heart or stomach trouble would be likely to carry him off suddenly. Friends in this city took charge of the body temporarily, pending instructions from the preacher's home In Cartersville, Ga. New Equestrian Statue in St. Louis. As a part of the general holiday in St. Louis, an equestrian statue inbronze of St. Louis was unveiled in' Forest Park, St. Louis. ^ - yuccii u viaviv uiiuL. The Queen of Italy is a dead shot and practices with both gun and revolver on tt\,e Island of Monte Cristo. Cuba Must Pay Costs. Cuba will have to pay the United States at least a million dollars, it is estimated, for pacification. The National Game. Chicago has now won seven National League pennants to Boston's eight. Cincinnati will probably sign Unglaub to play first base next year. ueat won't cio. Speaking about great left-handed pitchers, don't forget "Doc" White, of the White Sox. The Pittsburg Olub has secured catcher Hughes, late of the Waterbury (Conn.) Club. Cincinnati's new pitcher, Del Mason, ia built on the Vic Willis order an$.lo$ks like a good oue. i - A-.x, , . . .w. COLOSSAL _IMI STEALS" Government Defrauded Out oi I!II!amii r\( A ?mo hii D^ilrn^Wc lYIIIilUlld U I HOI Cd UJ IVQIII UUUJ. liig Sensation Promised in Commissioner Prouty's Report on Union Pacific Deals. [ Washington, D. C.?Something distinctly out of the ordinary is expected when Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty produces his report ! on the great land frauds along the 1 Union Pacific road, which he has recently investigated. It is strongly nntimated that he will prepare a re-': ;',port which will have to be written on: asbestos, and that he will give a.complete outline of the whole scheme of .land frauds that has been for many years Inextricably tangled with the processes of mining and transporting coal in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Sensational as they have been, the revelations about affairs in Union Paciflc territory are said to have only scratched the surface. Other big railroad and Industrial companies are said to present opportunities for just as remarkable developments, involving the looting of the most valuable parts of the public domain. The Denver arfd Rio Grande in particular, noonrriinsr to renort. is likely to come in for some searching inquiry t.hat will prove disappointing if it fails to uncover a situation as bad, or worse, than that in the Union Pacific's sphere of influence. The Santa Fe and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company are also named as concerns whose relations to Uncle Sam's lands will-'not bear thorough investigation. All these, it is said, are about as deep in the muck as Union Pacific is i in the mire. | These phases of the situation are understood to be slated for attention later in connection with the Interstate Commerce Commission's series J of investigations under the Tillman- , 1 Gillespie resolution. Largely as a ! result of these revelations the Presii dent has issued an order withdrawi ing coal lands of the public domain [ from entry. But it is pointed out , that much more drastic measures than this are necessary. To set aside I the patents, fraudulently obtained, I for millions of acres of mineral tim( ber lands is one of the duties requirj ing attention. f -Every alternate section for twenty [ miles on either side of the Union Pal ciflc belongs to that system's land grant. This is as if the black square on a checkerboard belonged to the. , road and the red to the Government, subject to entry. There are almost no country roads through this region, and the railroad company, being extremely unfriendly to private development of mineral resources, easily finds ways to prevent anybody else getting access to the lands it does not own. To get to them it is necessary to trespass on the railroad lands, and that sort of thing is promptly visited with the heavy displeasure of the corporation. A deal of criticism has been aimed in this connection against the Department of the Interior for its failure to protect the public domain. The department has various agents through the public land country, but they accomplish little, and the success of Commissioner Prouty on his recent investigation was a revelation to some of them. They are largely amenable to local political influences for their appointment, and these political influences are declared to trace fairly up to the management of the railroad. D. 0. Clark, president of the Union Pacifirf Coal Company, is a brother of Senator C. D. Clark, Senator from Wyoming sinfe 1895, and elected to serve until 1911. Commissioner Richards, of the General Land Office, Is a former Governor of Wyoming. Cyrus Beard, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, on the stand testified to using $3000 of money provided for him by the rail, road company in entering lands ' which he afterward relinquished to the railroad interests, getting $200 for his trouble. Others didn't get so much; bartenders and gamblers got as low as $3 and $5 for the use of their names in entering property which they afterward turned over to .these coal companies. By these methods the law's provision that a company or association may not secure more than four quarter-sections has been nullified. ORPHANS STARVED TO DEATH. Accusations Brought Against Colorado's "Brotherhood of Light." Denver, Col.?That a dozen children entrusted to the "Brotherhood of Light" by the Denver authorities have starved to death is the direct charge of the State Humane Society. } The Brotherhood of Light colony i3 located on a ranch 400 miles I southwest of Denver, and is in charge of C. C, Rose and others, who send solicitors over the State to gather funds to support the orphans, which it makes a specialty of boarding. Of I twenty children in the custody of the brotherhood only seven are alive. The older of the survivors are in the fields with the adults. It is charged by Secretary E. K. Whitehead, of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection; H. B. Kerr, agent of the bureau, and Dr. M. H. Sears, of the State Bureau of Health, that all the children who have died at the colony have starved to death as a result of the peculiar diet, on the vegetarian order, that the religion of the brotherhood prescribes for all who would be "holy." Hanged For Double Murder. Daniel Francis, a negro, was hanged in the jail at Chicago for the mnrrter nf his wife and Mrs. Mary Scroggs in a curtain cleaning shop conducted by two women. Francis 1 accused Mrs. Scroggs of causing trouble between himself and wife. Crime Rampant in San Francisco. The reign of petty crime in San Francisco caused the summoning of a mass meeting to organize a comI raittee of safety. Newsy Gleanings. The Treasury Department is buying silver. On the monument to Victor Emmanuel IL in Rome ?4,000,000 has already been spent and $1,000,000 more will be required. T tTJ i. t, ? ft A Of! A rnomhoi*c! Willi UVCI uiwtuu&tu, Baptists of the new State of Oklahoma are in the lead. The next world's Y M. C. A. conference will be held at Barmen-EIbcrfield, Germany, in 1909. A London paper printed a rumor of a plot to blow up Lord Rothschild and other prominent Jews. e Immigration Authorities Studying the System. Newfoundland and Canada (hp Y)ares From Which Chinamen Ave Sent Across the Border?Big Traffic. Washington, D. 0.?Newfoundland as a base of operations Tor smug-. gling Chinese into the United State?,. in violation of the immigration hws, is to have the special attention of th^ immigration authorities, in view of the capture of the Chinamen brought into Providenco on the sehooner Frolic the'other day. For several months past the immi-' gration officials have h&d reason to believe that smugglers of Otfinese were unusually busy at that point, and that the Asiatics were being brought there on the theory that thev could thus be sneaked into the United States with greater ease than elsewhere, since the American officials along the Canadian land border have proved themselves so vigilant and sines Canada has made the head tax or. every Chinaman brought into that country $500. Commissioner-General Sargent regards the capture of the Chinamen as an important piece of work, and is prepared to direct a mo3t rigid investigation of the circumstances in connection with their smuggling in. Thpugh the bureau has had long exnpripnrR with the "wavs that are dark" of the Chinese in their attempts to get into the United States without proper 'authorization, and has intercepted many of them both on the Northern and Southern borders in all sorts of disguises, the recent attempt of bringing them iu on a yacht to New England ports is regarded as one of the most daring efforts to circumvent the law ever made. The department is anxious to determine whether the expedition of the Frolic is part of a well organized "system by which Newfoundland is used as a centre of activities for shipping Chinamen into the United States in large numbers, and if so to prevent any future efforts of the kind. Most of the attempts to smuggle in Chinese have been made on tl'S Pacific coast of Canada, where the officials had grpat trouble in breaking up the trade, but succeeded in doing so by alertness .on the part of the agents and an arrangement with the steamship companies which requires that Chinese brought to Vancouver destined for the United States must be brought under bond and delivered to immigration officers at the ports of entry. There is reason to believe that the Chinamen on the Frolic were brought from Liverpool across the Atlantic instead of by the Pacific route, and in this case it is believed an arrangement may be disclosed whereby regular shipments are being made to Newfoundlnnd with smugglers operating.from that point as a source of supply. CHIDE CHIEF IN A TRAGEDY. Shoots Dying Husband and Kills Herself "to End It All." Liberty, Mo. ? Wedded only five days, Jesse Webb, son of a wealthy farmer near here, lies dying with a bullet wound through his breast, and his bride is dead with a shot through her heart. The tragedy was wi'f'ighi by a. pistol in the hands of the young woman herself. The couple resolved to die together after a physician told Webb he was hopelessly stricken with tuberculosis. In an ante-mortem statement the young man said: "Nellie cried and told me she could not live without me, and I told her I thought it would be better to end it all." For a minute the bride seemed dazed by .? L 9 J ,1 ~ ? 1 ? U .NM tne suggestion. dui buuucuijf iin face cleared," ran the bridegroom's statement, "and she said, 'It is the better way, Jesse. I cannot bear to see you die slowly, and we'll both die together.' " Webb wanted to talis the pistol. ( but his wife insisted 011 firing the* shots. They were together in the parlor of the new farmstead which was a wedding present from the young man's father. Mrs. Webb held the revolver clo3e to her husband's left breast, but the bullet was deflected by a bone from the heart. The moment the man struck the floor Mrs. Webb killed herself. In falling her body upset a table, which was spread with wedding gifts of silver and cut glass. The shot3 were heard by men passing the house in a buggy, and rushing in they found the bride dead and the bridegroom j dying.. The doctors say Webb cannot recover. FIGHT ENDS IN DEATH PLUNGE. Quarreling Youths Fall Four Stories From Open Window. Cleveland, Ohio.?While engaged in a scuffle two young men fell irom the fourth story of the Lake Shore Railroad office building, and, clutched in each other's arms, were hurled to their death on the pavement. The dead men were J. V. Eunts, aged thirty, and I-Iarry Wilfred, aged seventeen years. Eoth were clerks in the employ of the Lake Shore Railroad. They renewed an old quarrel over a girl and while fighting tumbled through the open window. During their fall, in which their bodies ere hurled over and over again, neiiher of the men relaxed the death-like grasp he had maintained from the beginning of the scuffle. 1 ? OClitfl'UI silliiivaij m vuu*?* Charles E. Magoon, late Governor of the Panama canal zone, who will succeed Mr. Taft an Provisional Governor of Cuba, Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon have arrived at Havana. Governor Taft made public a proclamation of amnesty to all Cuban rebels and those eonuected with the movement against the Government. Marines have been withdrawn from Cienfuegos owing to the appearance Df yellow fever there. Five Thousand Autos Coming Home. It is estimated that 5000 American owned motor cars are crowding the garages of London preparatory to shipment across me mianm- nuum the next few weeks. Salvation Army in the .South. The cornerstone o? the first J;Ivation Army citadcl in '.he South was 'aid -tf Greenville, S. C. Witte Pessimistic About Russia. Count Witte, in an interview in Paris, said he was pessimistic at present oa t-Ke outlook in Russia. The Field, to n New restaur^^NHB^^^^^^B^H OU1L L\JL came to ham mutton-chop-fi3h-^^9^H^HH^^^^H9 more Field looked emnly, and at last replied: "Oh, friend, I want none of ther a things. All I want is an orange and a few kind words."?Ladies' Home Journal. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. How a Veteran Was Saved the Amputation of a Limb, B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of , ' Roosevelt Ave., Indi^rjfcpoliB, Ind., says: "I had been 'shoeing symp m toms of kidney trouble from the time I JpfffiV - A was mustered out of the army, but In all SjbibLj|b> my life I never suffnred as in 1897. Headaches, dizzinesa and sleeplessness first, and then dropsy. fSBBL bH I was weak and helpgjgragN^BH less, having run down from 180 to 125 pounds. I was having terrible pain in ine Kianey3 ana me aecretiuna passed almost involuntarily. My left leg swelled until it was thirty-four inches around, and the doctor tapped it night and morning until I could no longer stand it, and then he advised amputation. I refused, and began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The swelling subsided gradually, the urine became natural and all my paln^ and aches disappeared. I have been well now for nine years 3lnce using Doan's Kidney Pills." For sale by all dealers. 50 ceats a box. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Asia bought $105,000,000 worth of American goods in the last fiscal year, a decrease of $23,000,000 from 1905, but an increase of $36,500i000 over 1904. ^ FOUR YEARS OF A(JONY. Whole Foot Nothing Bat Proad FleshHad to U?e Crutches ? "Cntlcrra xvemeuies botvu owmii "In the year 189& ihe side of my right foot wad cut off from tbe little toe down to the heel, and the physician who bad charge of me was trying to sew up the * side of my foot, but with no succes*. At last my whole foot and way up above my calf was nothing but proud tiesh. 1 suffered untqJd agonies for four years, and tried different physicians and all kinds of ointments. 1 could walk only with crutches. In two weeks afterwards 1 saw a change in my limb. Then 1 began using , Outicura Soap and Ointment often during the day, and kept it up for seven months, when my limb was healed up just the same as if i never bad trouble. Jt is eight months now since 1. stopped using Cuticura Remedies, the best on God's earth. 1 ana working at the present day, after five years of suffering. The cost of Caticura Ointment and Soap was only $6, but the doctors' bills were more like $800. John M. Lloyd, 718 S. Arch Ave., Alliance, Ohio, June 27, 1905.'' The Cement Age. A man has invented a cement shingle. It is a metal shingle covered with cement, and is really a tile as lasting as stone. As cement becomes more known, and it is learned that every man can make his own cement, there will be a boom in cement build ing. The great cost of building haa been the increased coat for materiail and the high price of skilled labor. With cement there need be only one skilled man and plenty of common labor, even In building houses. The price of cement is quite high now, but there are vast supplies and no possible monopoly* Cheap machines for making the blocks and plenty of sand and a little knowledge is the foundation, and the price outside the cities will be cheaper. We are beginning the cement age, and concrete houses will be the houses of the future. Building lumber of good quality is almost Impossible and brick and stone are out of refeuch, so t cement is the reliance.?Birmingham Ledger. Worse. "Whew! it's getting late, boys," said Peckham, at the club, "I'll have to be going. My wife expects me home before midnight" "0! she's a fighter, eh?" sneered Lushman; "afraid she'd go for you if you stayed too late?" "No: I'm afraid s^e'd come for . / me."?Philadelphia Press. 1 NO DAWDLING^ A Man of 70 After Finding Coffee Hurt Him, Stopped Short. When a man has lived to be 70, years old with a 40-year-old habit grown to him like a knot on a tree, 1 chances are he'll stick to the habit j till he dies. But occasionally the spirit of youthi and determination remains in some; men to the last day of their lives.; When such men do find any habit of, life has been doing them harm, they! surprise the Oslerites by a degree of will.power that is supposed to belong to men under 40, only. "I had been a user of coffee until. I three years ago?a period of 40 years; ?and am now 70," writes a N. Dak.' man. "I was extremely nervous and-: debilitated, and saw plainly that I' must make a change. "I am thankful to say I had the ' nerve to quit coffee at once and take oil Postum without any aawanng, and experienced no ill effects. On the' contrary, I commenced to gain, losing my nervousness within two months, also gaining strength and health' otherwise. [ "For a man o? my age. I am verywell and hearty. I sometimes meet: persona who have not made their Postum right and don't like it. But I tell them to boil it long enough, and call their attention to my looks now, and before I used it, that seems LUUV 1 LL\j I li ( "Now, when I have writing to do, I or long columns of figures to cast up,. I feel equal to it and can get through I my work without the fagged out feel-' I ing of old." Name given by the Pos turn Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the book, "The Road to WellviHe," ia pkga. "There's a reason." i