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f 9 m i i ?B?-mm?mm?? Mmmmamm? iFuHI PLACED ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Scenes Attending Opening of the Famous Case in New York. QUESTIONS ASKED TALESMEN Wife, Mother and Sister of Stanford White's Slayer All in Court? Preparing to Counter Defense of Momentary Insanity^ New York City.?Harry Kendall Thaw was placed on trial before Justice Fitzgerald in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court for the murder of Stanford White, the architect, on the Madison Square Garden roof on the night of June 25 last. Greatly agitated, but wary, as he scrutinizes with eager eyes the talesmen from whom his jury is to be selected, Thaw finally was called to the bar. Inside of the room of the Criminal Branch ol the Supreme Court, surrounded as never man was in the history of murder trials in this city, cheered by the presence of loved ones and secure in the knowledge that no expense has been spared to secure counsel whose only instructions are to have him set free, this man of thirty-three approached the crucical period of a tempestuous career. No murder case in a century has been so much written about, so much theorized about, so much talked about as this one. From the beginning it has been a foreordained cause celebre, not only because of the spectacular and dramatic method of the killing, but because every one connected with it to the remotest degree belonged to that little group in this country who keep themselves always in the spot light of publicity, and concerning wnose aoings, meir comings and their goings, their amusements, their clothes, their equipages, their every detail of life, there is an inexhaustible curiosity. Scenes approaching absolute disorder were incidental to the opening of the trial. Most of the clashes were between reporters and correspondents and the police. Press arrangements for transmitting reports of the trial from the court room to the newspaper offices throughout this country and in London and Paris are more suggestive of a great national convention to nominate a candidate v for President than of a trial. There were 200 newspaper men present, representing papers in nearly all the large cities of this country and several London and Paris publications. And there was as many policemen as there were reporters. They were in command of an inspector. Only about fifty newspaper writers finally were admitted, the remainder of the space in the court room being reserved for the 200 talesmen sum moned on the special jury panel. The police lines had been extended from the corridor adjacent to the court room to include the entire first floor of the Criminal Courts building. The public had been warned in advance not to attempt to get into the court room and few persons appeared. , District Attorney Jerome is conducting the prosecution in person, assisted by Mr. Garvan of his staff. Shortly after 10 o'clock the 200 talesmen less a few delinquents summoned as the special panel were allowed to enter the court room and every seat behind the rail was occupied. Then there was a bustle and a mur, mur as five women heavily veiled entered the court room by a side entrance. They were accompanied by Daniel O'Reilly and A. -Russell Peabody, of counsel for the defense. The , party consisted of Alice, the Countess of Yarmouth, and Mr9. George Lauder Carnegie, sisters of the prisoner; Mrs. William Thaw, his mother; Evelyn NeBbit Thaw, his young wife, and May Mackenzie, an actress friend of Evelyn Thaw. The young Mrs. Thaw sat between Miss Mackenzie and Thaw's mother. "" She wore a thin white veil and was dressed in a neat, tailor made suit of blue velvet, with hat of the same material, trimmed with violets. She carried a mink muff and wore longsleeved black gloves. The elder Mrs. Thaw, who is very stout, was heavily veiled and dressed in black from head to foot. The Countess of Yarmouth was magnificently gowned. She wore a heavy long coat of gray, lined with white and gray squirrel, a suit of olive green, tan elbow length gloves, and her small hat was trimmed with green ribbon and black fox fur. She carried a muff and scarf of black fox. Mrs. Carnegie was plainly dressed in brown. Miss Mackenzie was in lavender and had a purple veil. Thaw's brother, Edward, and Mr. Carnegie, his brother-in-law, were also in the party, which, arriving in a large touring automobile, was immediately surrounded by the crowd in front of the building. It was necessary for the police to club the curious back before the party could enter the building. Leaning on the arm of Mr. O'Reilly, and suported by her son Edward, Mrs. William Thaw was the first to enter the court room where her son is to be tried for the killing of Mr. Stanford White. Then came Evelyn Thaw, on the arm of Mr. Peabody. The Countess of Yarmouth followed, with Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie. The party were escorted to seats that had been reserved for them directly behind the prisoner, in such Stock Issue Enjoined. Judge Oscar Hallam, at St. Paul, / Minn., enjoined the Great Northern Railroad Company from issuing its purposed increase of $60,000,000 in stock, deciding that an application must be made to the Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission, thus leaving the question of fact undecided. Mexican Railway Opened. President Diaz of Mexico opened the Tehuantepec National Railroad. Woman's Funeral in Boats. The mourners at tne funeral of Josephine Thompson, at Cincinnati, Ohio, reached the cemetery in boats. On her death bed the woman was forced to abandon her home on account of the flood. Wesleyan Ceme tery was cut off from the city by the flood. Three Boys Crushed. Three boys, all about fifteen years 1 old, were crushed to death by the ' collapse of a stone foundation in an old cellar at 48 West Fourth 3treet, South Boston, Mass. -:J. -v-V ' v - .> >., .. j close proximity to him that lie could Q turn around and converse with then: y whenever he wished. Directly liehind Thaw was seated Mr. Carnegit and Edward Thaw and behind then: the women. A few minutes later District At torney Jerome entered the courl room and took his seat. Following w' him came Carlos 0. McDonald and Dr. Austin Flynt, two alienists. Thej presented Mr. Jerome's cards at thf court room door and were admitted It was said that the reason foi their presence at the trial is due tc the fact that they had been engaged l>y District Attorney jerome to waicc ^ young Thaw during the trial and enable Jerome to prove that Thaw was not suffering from emotional insanitj at the time he shot and killed Mr. White, should the defense presenl such a contention. Mr. Jerome has left no stone .unturned to foil any at-' bi tempt the defense may make. __ At half past ten o'clock Thaw's . lawyers arrived at the building. in Clifford W. Hartridge, Delphin M. ea Delmas, of San Francisco fame. Hen- 3t ry W. McPike and John B. Gleason entered together. They were met by Mr. O'Reilly and Mr. Peabody, and they all entered the court room at once and took their seats at the de- bo fense counsels' table. ar The Thaw family gazed with much be wonderment at the District Attorney, Sp Mrs. William Thaw fastened her eyes Bi upon the man who is prosecuting her pr son with intense feeling. pa Court opened promptly at half-past du ten o'clock. Court Clerk Penny then co began calling the role of talesmen. * After announcing that absentees were qu fined $100 each thtj court clerk sat bu down. t re District Attorney, Jerome then st< moved that the cas? of the people fic against Harry K. Thilw, charged with dii murder in the first dfegree, be begun, ca Judge Fitzgerald first ordered that dr perfect quiet must be maintained and mi then motioned to Court Clerk Penny iai to call the defendant < - er "Harry K. Thaw to t^e bar," the court clerk announced. ? < at The murmur of voices'in the court sh room, instantly ceased. Everybody by turned as a door opened in the rear Nc of the room. There was a little wait de and then Thaw stepped out of the sh prisoners' passageway. - tei Thaw blinked his eyes in the bright als light of the court room, hesitated for rei a moment, but finally strode with St< easy gait to his seat. He turned as Pa he passed the row of veiled women toi and recognizing the slight figure of nn his wife, nodded. sp< Thi nod was acfcompanied by a exi glance that took in all his friends, but he did not smile. Qu His face was pasty yellow ? his br< natural mottled color?except where w< two patches of color burned unnaturally just under his eyes. His big P" eyes, with lots of white around them, wi like the eyes of a half broken horse, in roamed uneasily, searching out faces ac as he passed. He smiled and his lips thl moved silently as he slid into his seat Sii and surrendered his big ulster to Mr. W Peabody. He didn't speak to any of su his lawyers or look at them. He dis stared straight at the Judge. Thaw wore a blue serge sack suit, a slender blue tie and a turn-down Th collar. The gray streak in his rougb Ca hair had preceptibly increased since dri he was last in the court room. Ex- de Aant fnr o clio-hf torii-ph 1 ntr at tho rnr. Efl ners of his thick lips, he showed no signs of uneasiness. As soon as Thaw sei was in his chair Clerk Penny read of the customary routine: we "Hairy K. Thaw, if you intend to s^( challenge an individual juror, you ait must do ^o when the juror appears or( and before he is sworn." Thaw made no sign; he wasn't ex- co^ pected to reply; his lawyers will do that for him. It was merely by way of being a signal that the great trial mi had at last begun. frc pri coi Questions Asked Talesman.. du New York City.?District Attorney fro Jerome exercised the greatest care tee in selecting the jury. The following no are the questions each talesman was asked: ' * 5 Have you formed anyopinion about ma this case? An Have you formed it from reading cal newspapers? ha1 Would what you have read influ- Go ence your judgment in regard to the eai testimony? a ] TP o n trt V? i r? er tcava nroaonfa/1 V? oro SGC XL auj (.uiug n ci V/ ^/iwawubvu uoi v concerning a higher law?an un- C01 written law?would you allow it to sway your judgment; or would you An obey the law as it is laid down by the ] Judge? ? the The only form of mental aberra- the tion recognized by the laws of this a.n< State as an excuse for crime is when citthe person was unable to distinguish def between right and wrong. Now, if w<? the Court were to charge you that cei you must regard this law a3 binding ten upon your verdict, would you a^ide fc0 by that charge? Did you ever have any business re- em lations with Abraham Hummel or Mr. 1 Evarts? J Do you understand that the juror w" who refuses to accept the law as laid down by the Court violates his oath? foc Would you be guided by the evideuce as to the facts involved or by the the Court? &aj Have vou ever served as juror in an( any capital case? }.lvi Have you discussed the case with , any one who was personally familiar with or interested in the case? .J Could you render a verdict based * upon the sworn testimony? on< Did you know Stanford White? District Attorney Jerome made clear from the beginning that he would insist upon a verdict of murder in the first degree, and would combat every effort to prove Thaw insane at the time he shot White, or to justify 1 the shooting under the "unwritten sm law." He forced every talesman to All swear that he would give no heed to lie! the "unwritten law." Richmond Blues' Armory Burned. In a fire which threatened the . business section of Richmond, Va., ? property was damaged $500,000. ? The fire started in the plant of B. T. ??J Johnson Publishing ComDany. The :?* armory of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, one of the most famous military organizations in the South, was destroyed. ha: Appropriations For Harbors. Tsi The Rivers and Harbors Appropria- ha tion bill, carrying $83,466,138, was Ha completed iu Congress. Prominent People.' i TJn/lrnr/1 "LTi rvl 4 r? or 'o nnnlo fV?A F. W. Macdonald, is making a first cal appearance as a writer. spl King Leopold of Belgium is a prominent shareholder in some of the we largest hotels in Europe. pri William J. Bryan has eighty-six tbi engagements to lecture the coming P?: summer at $500 a lecture. Alabama's new Governor and Lieu- wh tenant-Governor, B. B. Comer and H. Ke B. Gray, are Birmingham neighbors. tio They live on the same street and ?n within a few doors of each other. rec They are also close friends in politic^ 'A - - . .'V.' . ' p.. / . : f , ' /A > "f" ' * ?' iBUS OFflCltS Of JI1ICI sclare "Bonds of Blood and Language a Mockery." (HUMANITY OF SWETTENHAM mcricans Adopt Resolutions of Condemnation at Their Treatment? Injured Driven From Vessel to," Make Room For English. New York City.?'Charging the 'itish of Kingston, Jamaica, with oss incivility and inhumanity durg the reign of terror following the irthquake and conflagration in the ricken city, 112 Americans, mostly urists, came into port on the steamip Prinz Eltel Friedrich. The ship with the refugees on iard, about forty women, sixty men id a dozen children, left Kingston sfore the break between Governor rettenham and Rear-Admiral Davis, it none of the refugees wa3 surised by the news of the sudden derture of the American warships ;e to the behavior of the British lonial Governor. It was not the story of the earthake itself that the Americans were rsting to tell as soon as the ship ached Quarantine, but it was the ory of the action of the British ofials of the island and of the treatjnt meted out to them as Amerins. This treatment caused them to aw up resolutions declaring the uch talked of "bonds of blood and aguage when tested to be a mocky and a diplomatic phantom." These resolutions were drawn up a meeting of the passengers on the ip. The meeting was presided over Percival Cable, a hotel man of >rristown, Pa. The refugees conmned thoroughly and comprehenrely not only Sir Alexander Swetaham, Governor of Jamaica, but jo Sir Alfred Jones, Managing Dictor of the Imperial West Indian eamship Company, and Captain .rsons of the steamship Port Kingsa of that line. Of the two latter my of the refugees had difficulty in eaking without an explosion. In planation they cited these facts: From the morning after the earthake until the Prinz Eitel mercifully Dught them away, eighty men, forty >men and some twelve children ire herded togeijier on the open ;r of the Hamburg:American Line, thout food, withoaj water even, want and agony, looking only ross to the next slip thfcy could see b Port Kingston, and orchis ship Alfred Jones and Captain'farsons sre entertaining with every comfort ch of their British friends as^were jposed to share their hospitality. The Americans sent to the ship a Ddest request for food and water iey asked that Sir Alfred and his ptain allow the women and.chilen to sleep at night on the bare cks of the Port Kingston. The glishmen denied these requests. In some cases it was solemnly as ted that the wounded and dying, American and other nationalities, ire ejected from their places of elter and left exposed in the open without medical assistance, in ier that Enlishwomen and men to were unhurt, might be more mfortably quartered. These statements as to the British )ly to the request are not the sumng up of loose talk. They come im Father O'Donovan, the brave est who was the courage and the isolation of the whole company ring those two days of need, and >m his companions on .the commiti which went seeking succor where ne was to be obtained. From this same little American ref committee comes also the inforition that the intervention of the lerican sailors, if such it may be led, was not unsolicited, as might ire been supposed from the letter of vernor Swettenham and from other lier data, but was the response to request of the Jamaican Colonial :retary, Mr. Anderson, who was lsulted by a representative of Adral Davis on the arrival of the lerican fleet. \ror is this all. It appears from ! statements of the priest, who is : Rev. John O'Donovan, of Boston, i of August W. Caldwell, of this y, that the American sailors were initely assigned to relief and police rk, and that these assignments reved the assent of Governor Swetham until the latter began sending Admiral Davis a remarkable series contradictory messages, which | led in the request for a withdrawal ! the American landing parties. More than this. On Wednesday, en the need was most acute, some the Americans went foraging for id. They returned to report that 5 of the most interesting sights sy had seen was Governor Swettenn riding around in his state coach i pair, attended by red-and-gold sried servants, vointing out the iteresting sights" of the earthlke to a party of ladies. Sarly dispatches as to the number lead are found to be correct. That 5 thousand perished is the estimate de, and it is practically official, rhe property loss is estimated at 5,000,000, with about one-fifth ined. Labor Organizations Praised. Governor Hughes attended a oker given by union labor men at jany, N. Y., and declared his beE in labor organizations. Cotton Quotations fjy Wire or Mail Senator Culberson, of Texas, has roduced a bill prohibiting the tding of any information regarding ilings in cotton futures either over erstate telegraph lines or through ; mails. Disorders in China. Another anti-dynastic movement s broken out in the middle Yange region, China, and two regiments ve been dispatched thither from mkow. The World of Sport. The Boston. Americans are confiat that Lou Criger, their star :cner 01 iwo years ago, wm De in endid shape next season. Gunner Moir, the new heavyight champion of England, has actically decided to make a trip to is country in January for the purse of getting on a fight. Representatives of some clubs lich are members of the American nnel Club object to the incorporan which places the control of the janization in the hands of the di:tors. jUCEItSES MEO FOR IlHES j President Approves La Follctte's Bill Controlling Coal Lands. Senator Says His Measure Follows Advanced Steps Taken in Other , Countr ies?Gracing Lands Saved. Washington, D. C.?Creat was the surprise of many politicians when Senator La Follette appeared as the author and sponsor of an important bill bearing the approval of President Roosevelt and providing that the rich coal and mineral public lands of the Government never shall be disposed of, but developed and operated under licenses issued by the Government. Senator La Follette has worked studiously on his problem for more than a year, and, after many conferences 1 with the President, officials of the Department of Justice and others, he has prepared an elaborate plan of legislation to k;eep the rich public lands from the clutches of the railroads and other corporate, interests which have been fast acquiring them. There have been withdrawn by President Roosevelt, largely at Senator La Follett's suggestion, from entry and sale, nearly 46,000,000 acres of these public lands possessing coal or mineral deposits. Other withdrawals will follow. The President will use all his influence to make the bill law. All patents to public lands hereaf ter issued will contain a clause reserving to the Government the right to all the coal, oil, gas and aBphalt underlying them. Employment in any of these mines under license to operators of boys under fourteen .years and of women shall be prohibited. Senator La Follette, when asked to give an analysis of thi3 proposed | legislation, said: t "The bill follows the lines of the most advanced legislation which has been enacted by other countries for the conservation of their fuel supplies. "The object sought to be attained is to retain in the Government the title to all minerals upon or under the public domain which are or can be used for fuel or lighting purposes. At the same time it aims to preserve to bona-fide settlers, and under terms that are as liberal asthe present laws, the right to acquire agricultural and grazing lands, so that the withdrawal of more than 50,000,000 acres of land from entry and sale will not in any way retard the growth and progress of the agricultural and grazing industries in the West. "The bill provides that licenses shall be issued by the Government to prospect and mine for coal and other minerals mined for fuel, oil, gas and asphalt, and that not more than 3200 acres shall be licensed to one individual, corporation or association. Under the terms of the bill no officer, agent or stockholder of a common carrier will be permitted to secure a license to mine for these materials. "The effect of limiting the amount of mineral lands which shall be licensed to any one individual, corporation' or association, and to forbid the common carriers from acquiring any interests In such licenses will have the effect of building up genuine competition in the production of coal, oil and gas. This will result in opening up new mining districts, the development of new markets, and will not only give to the people dependent upon tfcfese coal deposits for their fuel supply, the benefit of real competition, but will also be a direct benefit to the agricultural and grazing industries of the great West." BAILEY IS RE-ELECTED. Investigating Committee to Continnc Its Work?Dramatic Scene. Austin, Texas.?J. W. Bailey was re-elected to the United States Sen- . ate. One hundred and forty-seven votes were cast in the two branches of the Legislature. Of this number he received '107. The remaining forty votes were scattered among ^ nearly that number of men. The scene attending the placing in nomination of Mr. Bailey was dramatic. The galleries were crowded with visitors, many of them from other parts of the State. The promise of Mr. Bailey authoritatively announced on the floor that he would resign from the Senate if ; the charges filed against him are sustained, caused many members who had heretofore opposed his election to vote for him. It is stated that the election of , Mr. Bailey will not prevent a thorough investigation. NEW SHAH 13 CROWNED. 3 Mohammed Ali Asccnds the Gold Pea- ' cock Throne in Persia's Capital. , Teheran, Persia.?The coronation { or Mobammea All Mirza as snan or 1 Persia took place here with impres- < sive ceremonies. The Shah ascended 1 the peacock throne and sat on a' \ carpet embroidered with pearls, with 1 a cushion behind, similarly embroidered. The Grand Vizier placed the crown 1 upon the Shah's head and a priest i recited passages from the Koran. ; He proclaimed the titles of Mohammed All, after which the crown ? was removed. 1 The Shah was dressed in black and ( covered with magnificent diamonds. < He wore a jeweled sword. The jew- ] els on the Shah were worth probably I more than $5,000,000. ] j PACIFIC TIDAL WAVE HORROR. 1500 Persons Killed in Islands Near Sumatra Alter Earthquakes. ] The Hague.?On January 11a tel- j egram was received from the Dutch ] East Indies that a tidal wave had de- j vastated the island of Tana, with the ( loss of 300 lives, and that forty had 5 been killed on the island of Simalu, both off the west coast of the island of Sumatra. A late telegram says that the disaster was much more serious. ? The tidal wave destroyed the south- c era coast ot ihe island of Simalu, which has nearly disappeared. The loss of life probably amounts to 1500. There have been daily earth- i quake shocks. The civil governor i has gone to the scene or tne disaster -c with medical help. ? The smaller island of Simelutu-- j choot was entirely engulfed. ( i Nitric Acid From Atmosphere. 1 Sir William Crookes, the eminent! ( British physicist, has discovered a process by which nitric acid can be, extracted from the atmosphere in. sufficient quantity to make it avail-' 1 able for commercial Qurposes. 1 1 J to aim di nuiu Tn mcpco Jllttllt DLUVVIl IU riLULQ B( POWDER EXPLOSIOf, Score of Passengers Perish ir Railroad Horror at Satidford, ill. SHOCK FELT THIRTY MILES Cars Hurled From Track?Many ol Injured Cremated as Coaches Burn?Five Hundred Kegs ol Powder in Freight. Terre Haute, Ind. ? Twenty-two charred and mutilated bodie9 were taken from the smoldering ruins of the accommodation pa3senger train on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the "Bie Four" Rail road, following its destruction by the explosion of a carload of powder as it passed a freight train at Sandford, Ind., five miles west of Terre Haute. It is believed that the list of dead will number at least a dozen more. The number of injured will reach at least thirty-five. The cause of the disaster has not been fully explained, but several theories are advanced. The result was terrible. The shock was felt for thirty miles, many believing it to be an earthquake. The entire train, including the locomotive, was blown from the track, the coaches were demolished, the engine was hurled fifty feet and the passengers were either .blown to nieces, consumed by fire Or terribly hurt. According to trainmen on the freight the explosion of the powder was caused by the concussion of the nassenger train, which was slowing down for Sandford. Besides the passenger train eight freight cars were blown to pieces by the exnlosion. Huge masses of iron were thrown hundreds of feet from the track./ The tank of the nassenger locomotive was hurled 100 feet, landing in a gravel pit. Not a building in Sandford escaped damage. Windows were shattered. disheB and furniture broken and doors torn from hinges. The accommodation passenger train was running from Indianapolis to Mattoon, 111! It was inky dark when the freight train drew in on a side track to let the passenger go .by. Shortly afterward the passenger train approached the station, setting brakes a3 it passed the freight train. As the coaches were just abrea3t of the powder car the contents of the latter exploded. The entire passenger train" was blown from the tracks into the air and crashed to the earth a tangled masB of wood and steel beneath which lay forty human beings. Fire broke out in the wreckage, and before the eyes of citizens and rescuers, who rushed from their home3, many burned to death. By the glaring light of the burning coaches the people of Sandford did their best for the wounded. The residents of the village threw open their homes to the injured and worked amid the debris heroically, but were soon forced back by the terrible heat. Affcer the fire drove the rescuers away from the immediate scene of the wreck they searched for scattered persons until the heat died down and then began dragging charred bodies. As the fire burned down to a smoldering pile lanterns were brought. Four mutilated bodies were found in a woods several hundred feet from the tracks. tv A thousand feet of track was torn up and a great hole shows where the powder car stood. This car was bound from Concord Junction, Mass., to East Alton, 111., and contained 500 kegs of powder. The dead are: William Thompson, Sandford, Ind.; William Davis, Vermillion, 111.; J. W. Sutherland, Paris, 111.; John Franklin, Ashmore, 111.; A. D. Hector, Elbridge, 111.; Charles GosnelJ, Paris, 111.; Claude Steele, Sandford, Ind.; A. A. Hicks, Sandford, Ind.; Dr. Haslett, Grand View, 111.; Frank Fielder, Findlay, Ohio; Mary Earhart, Terre Haute, Ind.; H. Blakeley, Findlay, Ohio; John A. Bowen, Mattoon, 111.; five unidentified bodies, one a woman. These are nn/l frt Ko TlfrO iiiissixi5 auu uciicrcuiv */w u^uu. Bud Wolfe, Sandford,Ind.; two young daughters of Mrs, Wolfe; A. Kuykendall, a fireman. HURRICANE AT BUFFALO. Steel Ships Ashore?Loss There and at Tonaivanda $3,000,000. Buffalo, N. Y.?With the suddenness of a typhoon an eighty-flve-mile gale struck this town, doing great iamage here and in the Tonawandas uhai is estimated at $3,000,000. There were twenty-three steel freighters, jrain laden, moored under the breakwater. Five were piled high and dry in the b^ach. Each of these big Doats is worth 3350,000, and three of :hem will cost a pretty penny for ;heir release. A mile and a half of lumber docks it the Tonawandas were swept into :he river and five miles of docks were submerged. The damage there is M AAA AAA P JL, V V V, V V V. Dunkirk. N. Y.?The wildest lake jtorm since October 3, 1S93, when ;he steamer Dean Richmond foundered off shore with all on board, occurred here. Two lives were lost, Pearl Shear, eleven years old, daugh;er of J. E. Shear, ice dealer. Mrs. Frederick Soldwick was fatally injured. Boiler Explosion Kill3 Three. By the explosion of the boiler of a Pleading engine attached to one of he Atlantic City flyers at Blue Anchor, N. J., the engineer, Edward HcConaghy; the fireman, Frederick Arthur, and an extra fireman named Dlark were instantly killed. No passengers were hurt. Railroads Stopped by Fuel Famine. Railroads were almost \at a standitill in Washington and Oregon us:ause of the fuel famine. . Damages by Ohio Flood. Great damage was doue by floods ilong the Ohio River. At Portsnouth, Ohio, the levees broke and ibout ten thousand persons were Iriven from their homes, many in light-clothes. Heavy damage was lone at Cincinnati, Louisville, Au ora and Lawrenceburg, Ind., and the ast named town was in', imminent langer of being completely flooded. Bad Business Methods. Thomas Nelson Page told the State 3ar Association in Albany, N. Y., the Iduciary principle had been lost in nodern business methods. * i( / 'I ) \ ( jH RSN_ PAST LI6HTS I Passengers Burned and Crushed to Death at Fowler, Ind. i n a ma. n^n?-s.l t vnrs vaicn r ire aiier collision in Fog on Big Four?Engineer's Fatal Blander. ; f Fowler, Ind.?At least sixteen per; I sons were crushed or burned to death i . here in a collision between a freight 1 train arid the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Queen City Afar, from Chicago. Ten . persons were seriously injured and several more slightly hurt. The passenger train was running flfty miles an hour, and consisted of j a combination coach, three sleeping J cars and a Big Four private car, occupied by Mrs. C. F. Schaff, wife of j the vice-president of the railroad. The train was destroyed by Are, exI cept the private car and one sleeping : car. Seven of the dead have been Identified. Eleven of the victims were burned to death in the combination coach, and only two of these have been identified. I The crash of the wreck awakened I nearly every person in Fow*er. ' Among the first to reach the wreck were the County Recorder and the County Auditor, who prooured axes and saws, and before the flames reached the sleeping cars began the j work of rescue. They worked their way into the mass of wreckage fcaused I by the tender and combination coach. Pnnp Vinriiaa -mora eoan nrntriiillnff / V/Ut UUUtVU ?? V? V MVVM V Vi n from among the broken seats. John j Meyer, of New Yorl* was rescued when the fire was within a few feet 1 of him and he was begging some one to shoot him. His leg was broken. I It is probable the exact number of | victims will never be known. Railroad officers, of whom there were ; several on the train, said there were not more than fifteen passengers in : the combination ccach. but passengers say there were nearly thirty per! sons in that car. If this be true, the death list may reach twenty-five persons. With one exception, every member of the passenger train crew was killed. The known dead are: W. E. ( Harris. Indianapolis: died in Emer[ gencv Hospital, Kankakee, 111. I. H. Hiddinger, Indiananolis, conductor of passenger train. 'J. H. Magee, bagI gage master. Indiananolis. J. A. Shannon. Williamsport, Ind.; died on !,way to Emergency Hospital, Kanka[ kee, 111. Henry E. Olcott, Cincinnati, ' fireman of passenger train. Henr^ A. Price, Long Beach, Cal.; en route to { Lafayette; body totally burned. Mrs. Henry A. Price. I The passenger train,- in a heavy fog, ran by a telegraphic block signal which called for a ston. The red light was not obeyed. It was iirobably obscured by the fog. The locomotive was telescoped with the com-" ! bination coach, making a mass of j wreckage, under which the passengers in the cars were wedged. Seats I were nuriea tnrougn tee rooi ana , coals from the firebox set the debris In flames. LEE'S MEMORY HONORED. Confederate Leader's Virtues in War and Peace Praised. Washington, D. C.?With elaborate exercises and in tbe presence of a distinguished audience, the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of General Robert E. Lee was celebrated here under the auspices of the United Confederate and Southern societies of the District of Columbia. A special section was set apart for Confederate veterans, who marched to the New Willard Hall in a body, escorted , by the United Spanish War Veterans. The United States . Marine Band played "Dixie" and other Southern melodies. President Roosevelt sent 1 a letter, in which he extolled the virtues of the Confederate general in war and in peace. His suggestion that the centennial anniversary be celebrated by the establishment of a permanent Lee Memorial at some great representative educational inef4t??+if\Ti r\f iVio Q/MtfVi mot with In. stant favor. Following brief remarks by Senator Berry, of Arkansas, and Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, spoke. Lexington, Va.? Charles Francis Adams, Sr., of Boston, head of the Massachusetts Historical Society, was the principal speaker here at the Robert E. Lee centenary celebration. Louisville, Ky. ? General Robert E. Lee's one hundredth birthday anniversary was celebrated generally throughout the South. Elaborate programs were carried out at Charleston, Nashville, Birmingham, New Orleans, Waco and many other cities. Richmond, Va. ? The Robert E. Lee centenary was generally observed here as a holiday. State and municipal offices were closed and at St. Paul's Church there was a memorial service. f $700,000 FIRE AT BEAUFORT, S. C. Business Part of the Town and Best Residences Destroyed. Savannah, Ga.?Fire destroyed a large part of Beaufort, S. C. The fire began shortly after 1 o'clock p. m., and it was late in the evening be- j fore it was under control. The w#ter i j supply failed and there was no way to fight the flames, which burned | themselves out after cutting a wide ; swath through the best business and residential section of the town. It is estimated that the damage is between $700,000 and $900,000. The insurance is light, i Defaulter and Suicide. By a suit filed in Philadelphia iiie fact is made public that Representative Robert Adams, Jr., stole $75,' 000 belonging to his father's estate ana 10 a Dromer ueiuic uunug n?n:self last year. Fire Indians Burned in Jail. Five Indians were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the jail at the Umatilla Indian Reservation Agency, n Oregon. It is thought the Indians vere trying to burn their way out. Newsy Gleanings. Typhoid fever is raging in certain sections in the Bronx and Brooklyn, N. Y. It will cost the Belmont syndicate $6,000,000 to substitute trolley lines for the present hoi3e cars in the city of New York. Japan has decided not to send its naval training squadron to the Pacific Coast, on account of the hostile feeling in California. Hut in Wisconsin the railroads have been warned to run their trains on time or have a good excuse ready j I for the Commissioners. I HOUSEHOLD FRIEND. , Prruna is a household frUnd in more 'han a million home*. This numb*; ie; ncreasing every day. Banna has become ^ i household word all over the English tpeaking world. It is an old tried remedy ; for all catarrhal diseases of the head, 'Jiroatj lungs, stomach, kidneys, Madder and female organs. Ask Tour Druggist for Free Pehruna Almanac for 1007. There Mlgfit Be Worse. The Tartars regard onions, leeks jtiJ mi>Ka ?i norftiniM <A lftdv Of Tartary will rub a piece of freshlycut onion on her hands and over,her countenance* to, enhance her attrac- 1 tions.?Baltimore American! Legacy From a Cat. A cat named Pinkeye has died at * Wilkes-Barre, Pa., leaving an estate of ^20,000 to a sister cat. Each of the cats Inherited $20,000 last year from B. F. Dilley, an eccentric millionaire.?Pittsbnrg Die patch. . His Best Achievement. Aunt?"I think you say your.prayI ers very nicely, Reggie'" j. Young Jiopeful?['Ah, but you . should hear me gargle!"?Punch. J AWFUL EFFECT OF ECZEMA. Covered With Yellow Sores?Grew Worse?Parents Discouraged? CuticuraDrove Sores Away. "Our littlq girl, one year and a half old, , . was taken with eczema or that was .what the doctor said it was. We called in-the family doctor and he gave some tablets RiiH i*he would be 411 ariaht j? lew . > days. The eczema -grew worse and we , called in doctor No. 2. He said the *wis teething; as soon an tbe teeth were through she woold be all right. But she still grew worse. Doctor No. 3 stud it was ; eczema. By, this time she was* nothing bat a yellow, greenish sore. Well; he said he could help her, so we let him try it about a week. Onie morning we discovered a little yellow pimple on one of her eye*. Of course we 'phoned for doctor No. 3. He came over and looked her over and * said that he could not do anything more .y for her, that we had better take her ;to some eye specialist, since it was an ulcer. So we went to Oswego to doctor No. 4, and he said the eyesight wa^ gone, but that he could help it. We thought we would try doctor No. 5. Well, that , prove! the same, only he charged 110 more than doctor No. 4. We wo-r? neaHy discouraged. 1 saw one of thfe Cuticura ^ advertisements in the paper and thought we would try the Cuticara Treatment, so I went and purchased a set of Cuticura Remedieq, which cost me $1, and in three days our daughter, who had 'been sick about eight months, showed great improvement, and in one week all sores had disappeared. Of. course it could not restore the eyesight^ but if we had used Cuticura in tim6"l am confident that it would have saved the eye. We think there is no rem-VN^ ,, edy so good for any skin trouble or impurity of the blood as Cuticura. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abbott, R. F. D. No. 9, Fulton, Oswego Co., N. Y., August 17, 1906." Was It Sympathy? ^ Pethick Lawrence, husband of one of the "suffragettes" Imprisoned la London, has promised to subscribe $50 a day to the woman's suffrage fund for every day his wife remains in jail. Whether Mr. Lawrence Is actuated by sympathy or gratitude, i^annnont salth not. j' UC^/VUVMV TERRIBLE TO RECALL. -:li Five Weeks in Bed With Intensely s Painful Kidney Trouble. Mrs. Mary Wagner, of 1367 Kossuth Ave., Bridgeport, Conn., says: "I was so weakened and generally run down with W kidney disease tbat for a ldDg . time I could not 38 l*L\ -:'W do my work and r--|| was five weeks in f.; bed. There was continua* bearing 'f down pain, terri* ble backaches, headaches and at I ' times dizzy spells when everything was a blur before me. The passages of the kidney se- , cretions were irregular and painful, and there was considerable sediment and odor. I don't know what I would have done but for Doan's Kidney Pills. I could see an improvement from the first box, and five boxes brought a final curs " r .Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. y. , ' f' / * . . - . ' % v / t ' ? ..., - ?r ^ v . - ais