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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. /
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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 '
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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.
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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.
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' STANDARD OIL TRUST RNEO I
Case in Findlay, Ohio, Ends With ,
$5000 Penalty.
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If Found Guilty on All Charges Cor* \
poration Blight Have Had to Pay ' ,1
$8,000,000?Ohio to Prosecute. A
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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.
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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.
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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.'-'
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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,
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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?
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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.
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