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CARS LEAP BRIO Twenty Injured in "V City on New E vania Rail PASSENGERS HELI Train Runs Along Trestle, Feet of Water?Reset Atlantic City, N. J.?Fifty lives j . were blotted out in an instant here when two coaches from Camden on J i:he new electric line jumped from the trestle bridge over the Thoroughfare and sank ia mud in twenty feet of water. The passengers were caught like rats in a trap, and only four men in the two cars succeeded In saving their lives. They burst * ? J ? ? ? 41*^2** Un*t/1n nvifl f r? ??/ ? wiuuuws wiiii men uauus, auu iui<-, ing their bodies through the openings came to the surface after the " ;ars had been immersed almost a minute. The line is known as the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad, but it Is the property of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Electricity was substituted for steam only a month ago, and the third rail is used. The run from Camden to this city is made in an hour and a half, and the train was du time. The most horrible sight of the appalling disaster was that of the third 2oach, which completed the train, and which was held suspended for thirty seconds by a projecting beam in the bridge. The coach was tipped on end, and after thirty passengers had escaped the car dropped, and falling In a mud bank was not covered by the water. Several persons were . caught in the coach and were , drowned. Their cries were heart breaking. A rescuer, jumping on the roof, caught a woman's wrist through a ventliator and held it until the rising tide claimed her life. When the coach went into the water a fat man was stuck in one of the windows. He was filled with hope when he found that his head was above water. Presently, however, he iiscovered that the tide was rising, and he made desperate struggles to gain liberty and life. Two men on the roof pulled his arms in vain, and all his striving was useless. He grew jrazed with despair, and threshing ihe water with his arms prayed and cursed alternately until the tide swept over him. His body was cut out an hour later. His struggles were so terrible thaat tht flesh on his jides was torn away by contact with the window frame. Coroner Gaskill, after inspecting the bridge, said that what he found Indicates, he thinks, criminal negligence on the part of the corporation or Its employes. The tracks on the Jrawbridge are higher than those on the trestle, and the condition of the ends of the rails on the draw show that this condition has existed right along, and that the ends of the rails have been battered by the wheels striking them. Another thing, there were no guard rails along the tracks on the bridge. The Coroner is convinced that had there been such guards or even an iron railing along the side of the bridge all the cars would not have gone into the water. One car hitting the guard railing might have gone through, but the insistence would have been enough, he thinks, to have stopped the second car and, as a result, the third. The train went over as a result of the spreading of the rails. But after leaving the tracks it traveled for 100 sards along the trestle work, and it is believed that Walter Scott, the motorman, must have become unnerved, as he had sufficient time to set the brakes and bring the train to a stop. He went down with his train, however, and the truth never will be known. The tracks were examined only a few days ago, and it was thought they were safe. The Thoroughfare trestle is one mile long, with a drawbridge in the middle. The drawbridge had been open just before the train ran out on the bridge. A yacht passed through the draw. Scott slowed down as he approached the structure. A signal was set against him, and he had almost brought the train to a stop, when the draw was dropped back into position, and he got the signal of a clear track. He turned on the power, and the train gathered momentum. The speed at the time the cars went from the rails was about ten miles an hour. The first car was the first to leave the track. Engineers report that the rails appear to have spread under it. The other two coaches were dragged from the rails and the train went running along the wooden floor of the structure. Several times the cars were kept from going over the side by a heavy iron guard rail. There were a dozen men crossing the bridge oil foot, and they said that at tne moment the coaches left the tracks Discharge of Soldiers Recommended. The report of General Garlington to the- President on the rioting by negro troops at Brownsville, Texas, vecommends the dishonorable discharge of three companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. To Prevent Corrupt Elections. "The Association to Prevent Corrupt Practices at Elections" is the title of a corporation chartered at Albany, N. Y. Sporting Brevities. The Japanese-are said to be taking heartily to football. "Kid" Lavinge, an old timer, has agreed to fight "Kid" Sullivan. O'Rourke, Cornell's big guard, suffered a dislocation of the knee. Official averages of the Connecticut League show Burke, of New Haven, jh who is now with the New York Giants, as the leader in batting, with I .349 per cent. | D. C. Johnson's Roseben, 126 I pounds up, ran seven furlongs ground " one turn at Belmont Park in 1.22, superseding all previous records. IGE?MANY DEAD Vreck Near Atlantic lectric Pennsylroad Line. ^ bAi TPS a r* u m ircwr ukuwi^ Then Plunges Into Twenty le Almost Impossible. that the passengers began to shout in terror. The passengers were seen leaving their seats and crowding toward the doors. Before any of them could get out, however, the two coaches went into the water and instantly sank from sight. The coaches went over at one end of the drawbridge. There was no protecting guard rail here, and the first coach shot clean out from the bridge and struck the water with its wheels spinning. The second coach was almost perpendicular for a few seconds, when the rear end slipped from the bridge, the car sinking flat in the mud like the first. The coupling of the third car was broken, and it turned almost at right angles to the bridge before it fell. It was the decreasing weight, as the passengers fought their way through the rear door, that finally sent the coach into the water. A great beam pierced the floor and held the coach on its point. That' all in thp third rnarh did Tint die was due to the heroism and foresight of William Wood, a brakeman. After the train jumped the tracks and while it was running along the trestle floor he rushed to the rear of the last car and opened the door. He believed that the train would go into the water and he opened the only easy avenue of escape. Had he waited the door could not have been opened, as it was strained by the tearing of the beam. Wood stood guard at the door until the coach finally fell. He assisted twenty persons to escape through the door, and as he worked he kept calling for everyone to remain cool, as the least excitement or panic might result in greater loss of life. Wood was rescued when being carried away by the tide. He was unconscious when picked up, but was resuscitated by a physician. Harry Reemer, a young man living in Philadelphia, was instrumental in saving several lives after he had escaped from the front car. Reemer had a remarkable experience. He wa3 walking through the car when the rails spread. "I felt the coach sink under me," he said, "and as the wheels began to bump I knew that we had left the rails. I steadied myself by gripping the backs of two seats. Every other passenger in the coach, and it was crowded, was in panic. They all sprang to their feet and started for tne doors. I saw tne water on both sides of us and I realized that if we went over that I would be lost if I tried to fight my way to either door. I said to myself: 'You must keep your head, and you must go through a window.' "So, while all the passengers divided and stormed the doors I stepped between the seats and waited in the middle of the car. I was watching through the window meanwhile and shouting at the top of my voice for order. But the turmoil was so great that I could not hear my own cries. The screaming of the women was terrifying, and I saw one womaif striking a man with her fist in the face as she struggled to protect her baby in the crush. "I wondered why the train did not stop. I was almost thrown off my feet by bumping against the guard rail and I remember asking myself, 'Is the motorman mad?' I believe we must have been runing twenty-five miles an hour when suddenly we went over. Thdre was an end of the roar of the wheels on the timbers, and for an instant all our voices were hushed as if in expectation and awe of the fate confronting us. "Just as the car struck the water I put my fist through the window, and as the tide rushed in I broke out the bottom of the pane with my foot. I felt the car strike the mud, and I thought'that if I could keep clear of the drowning passengers I. could save myself. I held my breath, and with as much deliberation as I could muster I put my head and shoulders through the window, and gripping the edge of the roof with both hands, I began to draw the rest of my body through. "I was almost clear when a hand closed on my left ankle. I pulled with all my strength, but was unable to break the hold. I thought ^ would be drowned, and I began to kick in desperation. Whoever had the grip on me must have been wedged between the seats or else must have been so frenzied as to be unable to take the chance offered to escape. I was unable to get free by kir.kint*. and with a last pffnrf rlpar ing my mind, I deliberately put my right foot against the wrist and pushed with all my strength. I was successful. Suddenly the hand Terrorists Capture Treasure. Russian Terrorists in a daylight attack in St. Petersburg got $193,000 which a custom house official was taking to the Treasury. T. P. O'Connor Leaves. T. P. O Connor, tlie Irish member of Parliament, who has been visiting this country, has returned to Inland. Births Decrease in Paris. The birth rate in Paris is still decreasing. BRITONS TO BUY COTTON LAND. Lancashire Spinners decide to Try Cotton Growing the United States. London.?As a result of the observations of the commission sent by the Lancashire cotton spinners to examine the methods of cotton production in the United States, a second pnmmicclnn introctari xirith larf^Pr powers, has sailed on the steamer Caronia for New York. The commission is authorized to buy suitable land in the Southern States and to experiment in the growing of cotton on behalf of certain Lancashire spinners. ' slippctd. I drew out my legs, and letting go of the roof, I rose without encounl ring further trouble to the surface." Reemer was almost exhausted, but he had strength to swim to a pile. He had both arms around it when the thir<*. coach fell, the rear platform n1mAni> k:M r? - ? woo arv tWiliUdl OUlAtUg U K111. Jtveeinei irc*s? cw close to the car that he was covered by the splash. He saw that there were persons caught in the coach, and dropping from the pile, with a few strokes he managed to lay his arms across the roof. Then, working along the side of the coach, he kicked in several windows, through which several passengers worked their way to safety. Reemer was taken out of the water by two men in a rowboat. Blood was running from his ears and moutn, but physicians believe he will suffer no permanent injury. Marco Bono, an Italian merchant of Philadelphia, met with a terrible death. His end was doubly pathetic by reason of the fact he would have lived had he maintained his presence of mind. He was in the last coach and went down with it. Three fishermen in a skiff attempted to rescue Bono, but the man lost his reason. He got his head through the top of a window, and instead of remaining quiet, he disobeyed the instructions of the men and became violent. In csf rnoro-lao Vto n'QO fritrhffnllv nnt "1J Obi u^5it-g uo ?? ".-J v-?? on the broken glass, and the water was dyed with his blood. Finally, he was pulled out by the fishermen, but he died from loss of blood five minutes after he had been hoisted to the trestle. His neck was covered with wounds, and one of his fingers was almost severed. The dead are: Charles Albertus, Morristown, Pa.; P. Anguroso, member of Tosca's Band; Mrs. Walter Eeadishly, of Eastport, Me., sister of George West, manager of Hotel Walton, Philadelphia: Mrs. Brodish, identified by her niece; J. P. Dempsey and wife, Camden; Vincente Donelli, member of Tosca's Royal Artillery Band; James Egan. No. 2408 Pacific avenue, Atlantic City; Samuel I. Fiel, seventy-two years old, West Washington lane. Philadelphia; David Fried, 1227 Madison avenue, New York City; Laura Laurence, Eleventh and Brandywine street3, Philadelphia; Mr3. Laurence's husband was rescued; Frank Monroe and wife of Camden; Pasquallo Mazello, Christian street, Philadelphia; Fran de Saceseno, banaman, of Royal Artillery Band; Walter Scott, of Atlantic City, motornian; Mrs. Selina Womfer, No. 318 Federal street, Camden, N. J.; aged woman, dressed entirely in black; five bodies not identified; woman, about thirty years of age, wearing a wedding ring with initials I "I. P. B. to I. M. G., also inscription, "Sam to Rachel until death do us part;" middle aged man. The Injured are: Camillo Vita Colona, Philadelphia, laceration of hands and face; went home; Frank Decesri, No. 921 League street, Philadelphia; Joseph De Vito, manager Royal Artillery Band. No. 1151 South Nineteenth street, Philadelphia; John Dougherty, Philadelphia; shock; went home; Ida Dubell, Flor ence, in. j.; shock; m uospuai; uan d'Annizo, Philadelphia; shock; went home; Angelo Fanzoni, No. 720 South Clifton street, Philadelphia; Mazarro Fontoni, Philadelphia; laceration of scalp; in hospital; John Fortunato, No. 914 South Eleventh street, Philadelphia; Philip Freda, Philadelphia; laceration of jaw; went home; H. B. Joseph, No. 211 South Fourth street, Camden, N. J.; John E. Kelley, Chester, Pa.; bruises of right shoulder and shock; went home; Nicholas Mastragelo, Philadelphia; laceration of hands; went home; Edward Morgan, Scranton, Pa.; contusion of left hip and back; in hospietl; George McGee, No. 2510 North Thirty-first street, Philadelphia; injured; Oreste Roy Natalleo, Philadelphia; contusion of right hip; in hospital; Pascgall Petron;'no address; slight laceration of hands; in hospital; Al. Ree3e, No. 59 Archibald street, Scranton, Pa.; Oreste3 Roy, No. 1024 South Eighth street, Philadelphia; F. Rico Sillmoni, Philadelphia; slight laceration; in hospital; W. H. Stewart, Wenonah, N. J.; E. Tosca, leader of band; badly cut; went home; Andrew D.JTaylor, Camden; employe; in hospiK'^v^X The missing zxeijjf/ \A. R. Endicott and wife, 0^1,2? V?- W. H. Stewart and aoiw/Xv. ..-TO J.; J. H. Walsh. / { ATTEMPT TO[ ? v . . \ Indicted Capitalists " \ 'jf ... & w.*. .** il bile A<y - . J Kansas City, -it; i a capitalist, under * ( Louis on a bribery ' ' in an automobile) I . / pendence Bouleva^ i* avenue. The auto"v4;^ cle ridden by a mel : died later. V .. The chauffeur, the boy, turned the i 7. r and drove it with gr< V; an iron post at thd. y Snyder was thrown tl , first. He was takem^i^^- v where he died a few mr ' ? t. , GIRL TAKES ACID , . J Miss Brovrn Fonnd Deadf'H T - "* ^ oftheAIta^" Kansas City, Kan.?. v. /^ie I Brown, aged twenty-five yK ^fegistered under an assumed naS.j?^ at a leading hotel here, without' funds, and asked the clerk to telegraph to her "guardian," W. H. Kindross, in Omaha. The Omaha man seat no money and Miss Brown was requested to leave. After services at the Catholic Cathedral she was found dead on the altar stairs, having taken carbolic acid. Marlborough Separation Denied. A solicitor for the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough issued a statement in London that no deed of separation between the Duke and Duchess had yet been signed. Heavy Burden For Farmers. Increased cost of wire netting is proving a heavy burden on Australian farmers. In Victoria the price per ton ha3 raised from $105 to $237. Prominent reople. Lord Curzon's loss-of health, the result of his long and arduous labors in inaia, ana ine saocs 01 me reueui death of his wife, has induced him to travel. i Irving Bacheller, author of "Silaa Strong," and Hamlin Garland, author of "The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop," are planning to make a joint lecture tour. Charles Francis Brush, the noted Cleveland electrician, has on his office door: "Office hours, 11.30 to 12." He la there promptly and never works overtime. HI GOULD BEATEN en can Msmui Asks Custody of Children?Corespondents Are Not Named. PITIFUL STORY TOLD IN COURT T:Vrcck of American Girl's Married Life Revealed by Counsel in Long Address?Divorce Dccrcc IPrayed For. Paris, France.?The Castellane divorce case v.*a3 heard before M. Henry Ditte, {president of the Tribunal of First Instance of the Seine. Neither the count nor countess, formerly Anna Gould, daughter of Jay Gould, of New York City, was present. Maitre Cruppi, for the qountess, pleaded for a divorce upon the documentary evidence submitted, and told a complete and pitiful story of the wreck of her married life. In an extended review counsel declared that the countess at the beginning of the suit was not acting under influence, but solely for the purpose of ending forever the peril of the moral desolation of her household. He explained the marriage contract, by which the regime of separation of property was established, from the very beginning, and scaiea tnat aoraestic difficulties arose over the question of money. Ill treatment soon followed, the count even striking the plaintiff before the servants. When he reached the question of the' infidelity charged against the count, Maitre Cruppi did not mention names or even initials, designating the corespondents as "Mme. A," "Mme. B," and so on. Maitre Cruppi asked that the countess be given the custody of her three children. The courtroom was crowded, among those present being many members of the American colony. The early troubles of the countess' narried life were due primarily to the count's inordinate extravagance, the lawyer declared. Even in spite of their domestic infelicity the countess was too good and scrupulous to begin an action for divorce until she possessed full proof. Anna Gould was only twenty years old when she was married in 1895 in New York City to Count Boni de Castellane, and, Maitre'Cruppi asserted, the happiness of the honeymoon was uiauuutju uu tueu ciiTiVcii ill fans by the count's demands for money. The countess' income was then $700,000 ar.d the count allowed her $S0 pin money. Jn the face of the overwhelming evidence submitted, Maitre Cruppi declared, his opopnent could not expect the tribunal to ask for the summoning of witnesses, aud added: "Does he imagine by dragging out. the case to obtain forgiveness? No! No! Count Boni's plan to reconquer his wife's affections is too transparent!" The final rupture came the day after the famous entertainment of King Charles of Portugal, December 12, 1905. The count insisted that they, the count and countes3, go to a shooting party given by a noblewoman of whom the countess had cause to complain. When the count became enraged at the countess' refusal she abruptly announced her intention to* separate from him and began legal proceedings. Counsel placed at $$,000,000 the , total of the count's expenditures preI rnrUna f Vi o o T\r*rvi n t m dti * nf a trnafoo Maitre Cruppi asked that the custody of her three children be given to the countess. TAFT TO VISIT MANILA AGAIN. He Will Sec the New Philippines Assembly Installed Next Year. Washington, D. C.?The President is preparing to redeem his promise, made to the Filipinos through Secretary Taft, that they shall have a Parliament of their own, conditioned upon their good behavior for a term of two ye^irs, and it is understood that Secretary Taft himself will proceed to the Philippines next spring to witness the installation of the new form of representative government. On March 27, 1905, the Philippine census was published, and consequently two years from that date, March 27, 1907, under the terms of \the act of Congress, the President jwill direct the Philippine Commission to call a general election for the j-ichoice of delegates to what will be kknown as the Philippine Assembly, r This body is to take over all Iegis ' lauve powers neretorore exercised oy /the Philippine Commission in all that , part of the archipelago not inhabited I by Moros or non-Christian tribes. | LIFE SENTENCE FOR RIOTERS. A Negro Charged With Murdering Por liceman, Convicted. Atlanta, Ga.?Life imprisonment was the sentence imposed upon Alexander Walker, a Brownsville negro, for the murder of Couhty Policeman J. L. Heard, of which he was found guilty, with a recommendation of mercy. A motion for a new trial was immediately filed by his attorneys. Walker was indicted with flftyeight other negroes for the murder of Policeman Heard during the September riots here, his being the first case tried. Newfoundland Resists Treaty. JAOV JLUUAlUlttilU 155UCU ilQ Ul UCi ill < efiance of tlie Anglo-American agreement, and has decided to tes; the val^lty of the modus vivendi ana intends to prosecute fishermen who ..Jiave been ^hipped by Americans outside.the three-mile limit. .President Takes ltest. The President, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, went to her cottage? Pine Knot?in Virginia, to work on his msssago to Congress. About Noted People. Sir William Gray Wilson, Governor of Nassau, Bahama Islands, has arrivprt in P.anaria. Baron Von Achrenthal, Ambassador to Russia, succeeded Count Goluchowski as Austro-Hungarian Premier. Both King Edward and Queen Aiexandra have been experiencing the trouble of automobile breakdowns. Bishop Vincent,before the National Sunday-school convention, at Topeka, Kan., advised against the holding of long family prayers. t GROWTH OFJOLD RESERVE Report of Charles H. Treat, United States Treasurer. Total, $877,296,23S?Treasury Surplus For 1000, $25,009,332? Available C!:?sh l^Hlnnrf' ! ?i Washington, D. C. ? Charles H. Traat, Treasurerof tho United States, . submitted his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury, and in "reference to the more noticeable ; transactions said in part: ' The net result of the ordinary revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year 1906 was a surplus of $25,669,322, as compared with a deficit of $23,004,228 for the preceding year. A continuation of these favorable condltiODs is reflected in the transactions for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, in which-the revenues were $5,S71,3'14 in excess of the expenditures. The available cash balance on June ;30, 1906, was $180,689,354, an increase of $35,211,862 as compared with that of twelve months earlier. The monetary stock of the country took on a growth during the year of $186,866,727, of which $118,050,777 Was in gold, $5,450,396 in silver and $65,392,554 in national bank notes, while the Treasury notes decreased $2,027,000. The aggregate stock of money at the close of the year was (3,069,976,591, of which $2,736,646,628 was in circulation. The national baijk depositaries have been utilized during the year as a medium through which the excessive accumulation of money in the Treasury was restored to the channels of trade. About April 1 an unusual stringency in the money market was relieved by t*ie temporary increase of public deposits with depositary banks, to enable them to import gold. Through this aid more than $49,000,000 in gold was imported. The balance in banks to the credit of the general fund on May 5 was 3102,708,123, the highest point reached during the fiscal year. The national bank notes presented for redemption during the year amounted to $296,292,885, as against $308,298,760 in 1905; the national banks have not issued $5 notes to the limit allowed by law, and thereby have forced upon the Treasury the burden of supplying the smaller de nominations required by the business interests of. the country. However, in response to the appeal of the Secretary of the Treasury, .the banks have increased the volume of their $5 notes. The Treasury holding of gold continues to attract the attention of financiers both at home and abroad. It is apparent from the continued accumulation that a large share of the product of the gold mines of the world is brought to the United States. The gold coin and bullion in the Treasury on June 30, 1905, amounted to $706,592,399. At the close of the fiscal year 190G it had advanced to $S07,051,690. By October 26 it attained a maximum of $877,296,238. The United States paper currency issued amounted to?629,896,000, and redemptions were $577,445,100, a net increase in the volume outstanding of $52,450,900. The pressure from bankers and others for larger and more regular supply of small denominations of currency continues unabated, while the Treasury is without resources for the issue of small bills to comply with their urgent requests. It is to be expected that Congress will ulti mately enact legislation that It has under consideration, which Tvili bring full relief from the existing conditions. FIGHTING ENGLISH SOAP TRUST. / Newspaper Publicity Aiding Firms Which Oppose Combine. London.?Great public interest has been aroused here by the efforts of the English press to wreck the newly formed English soap combine. The trust began operations by issuing soap in packets of fifteen ounces to the pound and by adopting the customary methods to coerce the smaller manufacturers into joining. But a goodly number of prominent firms have stood out and are being rewarded by free advertisements in the daily papers, which publish lists of the firms outside the combination and urge the public to confine their soap purchases to them. The consumption of trust soaps has been seriously affected by this boycotting campaign, and already the shortweight packages have been withdrawn from sale. NO DEATH PENALTY IN FRANCE. Cabinet Approves Measure and Parliament Will Make It a Law. Paris, France.?The Cabinet heid a meeting and approved a measure providing for the abolition of the death penalty. This means that Parliament at its coming session will enact a law to that effect. Such action has been expected since the office of "Monsieur de Paris," or public executioner, was suppressed a few months ago by the excision of his salary from the budget. At that time neither the Sarrien Ministry nor the Chamber of Deputies took formal action declaring that capital punishment would no longer be inflicted in France, but M. Clemenceau, the new Prime Minister, has decided on taking a definite sten to that end. National W. C. T. U. Elects Officers. At Hartford, Conn., the national convention of the W. C. T. U. elected these officers: President, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Maine; vice-president, Miss Anna Gordon, of Illinois; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Susanna M. D. Fry, of Illinois; recording secretary, Mrs. E. P. Anderson, of North Dakota; treasurer, Mrs. Harriet W. Brand, of Illinois; secretary of the Y. W. C. T. U.f Mrs. Cora Seberry. of New York. French I'atrol Killed. News wai received at Zunguru, Nigeria, that a French camel patrol, consisting of one officer and sixty men, was surprised and annihilated by a Senoussi force, at the enr' of August, 200 miles northeast of Lake Tchad. Peaceful Conditions in Russia. American Ambassador Meyer re turned from a trip in Southern Russia to St. Petersburg; says all signs pointed a return to peaceful con-' .ditions; Government securities i:se sharply. JAPANESE COM _ WTO Mil San Francisco Board of Education is Fnininnrl. ANXIETY FELT AT WASHINGTON Ambassador Aoki Calls en Secretary Root to Protest Against the Exclusion of a Japanese Child From the Public Schools. San Francisco, Cal.?Judge Wolberton, of the United States Circuit Court, has issued an order to the Board of Education of San Francisco, citing that body to show cause why an injunction should not issue, compelling the reinstatement of I. Yasuhara, a Japanese pupil recently excluded from the Pacific Heights Grammar School. This order followed an application for injunction presented to Judge Wolberton. It is the intention to make this a test case. The ground for asking an injunction was that the resolution cf the Board of Education excluding Japanese pupils from the city schools is in violation of the Constitution of the United States and also in violation of a treaty now existing between the United States and the Empire of Japan. A mass meeting of the Japane3a residents discussed the situation regarding the children's exclusion. Washington, D. C.?Through activity on the part of the Department of Justice a test case of the exclusion of Japanese children from schools of San Francisco has been begun in the United States Circuit Court in the California city. According to unofficial advices, a Japanese parent has appealed for an injunction against the Board of Education, and Judge Wolberton, of1 the Circuit Court, ha3 called on the board to show cause why an injunction should not be granted restraining the board from excluding the child of this Japanese parent from a certain grammar school. It is understood in Washington that the sten was taken through agents of the Department o? Justice. It is about the only thing that the Government can do to remedy the 'conditions which exist in San Francisco. The result of the hearing in the case will be most important. If the Board of Education ir restrained from excluding Japanese children the existing diplomatic situation will be materially clarified here. In such an event the State Department may inform the Japanese Government that there, has been no infringement of treaty rights. The protest of Viscount Aoki, the Japanese Ambassador, to Secretary Root against the exclusion of Japanese children from the schools of San Francisco, has caused a decided stir in diplomatic circles, and is still seriously worrying the Administration. The question has assumed, it is admitted, more serious interna tional importance than the San Franciscans perhaps would believe. There is now no concealment here of the fact that an anti-American sentiment is rapidly growing in Japan. COURT FINES BEEF COMPANY. Packing Concern Fined $10,000 Under the Arkansas Anti-Trust Law. Little Rock, Ark.?Because of the refusal of the Hammond Packing Company to produce witnesses and records before Special Commissioner Lyle D. Taylor, in Chicago recently, Judge Winfield, in the Pulaski Circuit Court, on motion of AttorneyGeneral Rogers, has ordered the answers of the company stricken from the record. Judgment is entered against the company for $10,000 for violating the Arkansas anti-trust law. Although the action is just what was expected, it is the first point in favor of the State in the suits which were brought by Prosecutor Rhotoc and Attorney-General R. L. Rogers. It was also agroad that no further action be taken in the other five suit.1 until this case is finally disposed o! in the Supreme Court, and agreements have been entered in the ccurl records in each case to this effect. KILLS HIS FAMILY OF FOLK. Farmer Crazed by Drink Shoots Himself Alter the Others. Gage, Oklahoma.?O.B. Heyworth, a farmer, shot and killed his wife, two daughters, twenty-two and eighteen years old, and a son of twenty. He then turned the weapon on himself, inflicting a mortal wound. Heyworth had spent the night drinking in Guthrie. When he returned home he went directly to the room where his wife was asleep and shot her. Young Heyworth went to investigate and was shot down by his father.. The two girls were killed as they rushed from their room. Killed For Courting. The attentions of Charles SulU van, a cigarmaker, to his landlady, Mrs. Laura Klein, at Chicago, cost him his life, John Klein, the woman's son, s'aooting Sullivan. Education Bill Pressed. The House of Parliament reassembled at London; the government party in the Lords decided to press the discussion of the Education bill. Despondent Banker a Suicido. Despondent from ill health. President Worth B. Jennings, of the First National Bank at Hendricks, \V. Va., killed himself. Magnificent Hall of Records Opened. The $10,000,000 Hall of Records was opened in New York City, and three denartments moved in their documents. Factories Increase Wages. Many voluntary advances in wages are noted among factories. Newsy Gleanings. A courss in photography will open at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. The Scotch Presbyterian Church; New York City, celebrated its 150tb anniversary. The British battleship Dreadnought fired its whole broadside of twelveinch guns in practice, and stood ur remarkably well under the severe strain. A new coal discovery at Cape Bre ton is reported by Consul-Genera Holloway. A 200-foot bore hol( shows a seven-foot vein under ar area of possibly fifty square miles. I ' STANDARD OIL TRUST RNEO I Case in Findlay, Ohio, Ends With , $5000 Penalty. ' ;V; If Found Guilty on All Charges Cor* \ poration Blight Have Had to Pay ' ,1 $8,000,000?Ohio to Prosecute. A I " Findlay, Ohio.?By a decision of Judge Bankes the Standard Oil Company of the State was fined $5000; [ for preventing competition. The prosecution expected that the fine would include each day since July 6, 1903, when the company was notified to stop its methods. This would1 have meant a fine of about $6,000,000. ' The fine imposed is the,limit for . ;J one offense, and the law. stipulates that each day of the illegal combiu*tion constitutes a separate one. From this is computed the possibility of i the $6,000,000 fine. After imposing the fine the Court ordered that the defendant company, be allowed forty days in which to prepare and file its bill of excep tions in the case, and another motion by the Standard lawyers,. Joseph O. ! Troup, of Bowling Green. Ohio, and S. H. Toller, of Cleveland, the 3en- ;l tence imposed was ordered suspended, for a period of sixty dayB for the purpose of filing a petition on error in' this case. It was also ordered that the criminal information pending against John D. Rockefeller, the Buckeye Pipe Line Company and the Manhat- . tan Oil Company be continued until the next term of court. The decision interests IawyerB all over the State. It had ~been-tfce -3 opinion that suits under the Valentine Anti-Truut law could b8 b8gun;, and then if the offending corporation' -3 did not at once cease business It! could be found guilty and fined foreach day's violation of the law at the rate of $5000 a day. Judge Banker holds that a separate conviction must be obtained for every separate offense. He holds that the Valentine law is so planned, that the fines are not cumulative. ln; other cases which have been tried 4*' Ohio under the Valentine law. it has been held, that separate convictions are not necessary, and that a corporation found guilty of being a trust' must pay a fine for1, each day on which the law was violated. Ohio Will Prosecute. , ' , .f ?l Columbus, Ohio. ? Attorney-General Ellis said a conference'between. the Government attorneys and himself in regard to the prosecution of the Standard Oil Company would be held. He expects John J. Sullivan, of Cleveland, United States DistrictAttorney, will come here to see him. Mr. Ellis says the Government has r little evidence that will be of use to him, but he has much the Government can use. ' We secur.ed some good evidence at Findlay," said Mr. Ellis, "and, regardless of what the Government does, the prosecution of the Standard by this office will proceed.'-' 4 GET CODIES PROM SUBMARINE. Remains of Dl-Faled Crow Horribly Burned by Acids. Eizerta, Tunis.?Six bodies were removed from the French submarine boat Lutin, which sunk off this port October 16, with fourteen men and two offlcerb on board. i The bodies of the commander, Lieutenant Fepoux, and four men were found clustered amidships. Six other bodies were found in the stern, I qtkI <>iq romalTirtov in Hio hnw. All .. were in a horrible condition, owing to the action of acids. The identification was *)y mean3 of objects found on the corpses. Most of the men were barefooted. The indications are that they met their death instantly. ; The opinion prevails that the Lutia tried to come to the surface too rap[ idly, and that her stern consequently struck on the bottom. Thi3 caused rivets to start and plates to burst. . Six leaks were found in the hull, i _ WHOLE BLOCK BLOWN UP. Explosion of Gas in Kansas Kills Two i and Injures Twenty-four. I Topeka, Kan.?Two persons were ^ killed, four' were seriously injured and twenty more were hurt in a terrific explosion of natural gas that demolished five two-story brick buildings at Coffeyville. The dead , are Mrs. J. E. McDanlel and Jesse . Ross, a negro. It is supposed that the gas escaped from a mine somewhere in the-block. The buildings were occupied by a real estate office, three stores and a restauraut. The second floors of all the i buildings were occupied by roomers. [ The block of buildings was leveled to * I the ground. There was no insurance against explosion. A fire started, but was quickly extinguished, as little was left to burn. Several persons were buried in the debris. One little girl, the daughter, of S. D. Frazier, was under the timber for twenty minutes, but was taken out uninjured. The explosion was heard-five tfriles '< away. > Eight-Year-Old Girl Rescued. Eight-year-old Ada Fields, of Mt. Holly, N. J., attempted suicide by I hanging in a closet into which sh? liad been put after being whipped. Cost of Insurance Too High. A special committee named by Governor Hanly, of Indiana, has decided that the cost of life insuranco to the public is too high. Rescued From Burning House. The house of Louis L. Lorillard 1 was considerably damaged by fire at Newport, R. I. Mrs. Lorillard, whc is in poor health, was rescued. The European Petroleum Union, which has been organized at Bremen, i Germany, to fight the Standard Oil Company, has a capitalof 55,000.000. Stub Ends of News. i Richard Croker cabled his son ot his intention to return soon to Amer[ ica. The 500,000-word Standard Oil inl dictmeut equals in bulk seven $1.5C ! novels. > The mint at San Francisco ha? ' - - ? ' - ' A PAA AAA i been ordered to raase i.auu.vwu mw ican half dollars, the order to be filled within six months. 1 The peonage case at Cape Gir ? ardea'u, Mo., resulting in the eonvici tion of Charles M. Smith, his son ami five others, will be reheard. Vw ' >? i- - . VwS . Jfl