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CRISIS III THAW TBIiLJEBflME CULLS HIM IWSflWE Climax Precipitated When Defense Introduced Dr. Hamilton. '! ATTACK ON PRISONER'S COUNSEL District Attorney Says They Knew Their Client Was Not Sane? States He Does Not Want an Insane Man Sent to Chair. New York City.?After a startling climax in the most sensational criminal trial of modern times, Harry K. Thaw, on trial for the murder of Stanford White, was brought face to face with the imminent peril of imprisonment in the State Aslyum for the Criminal Insane in Matteawan rather than danger of death in the electric chair at Sing Sing. Not since the trial was begun nine weeks ago in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court had .here been a court session filled with so many surprises, and, when court finally was adjourned, the general opinion of those in the courtroom was that within a fortnight Thaw would be on his way to New York's Asylum for the Criminal Insane. As the direct resulc of a surprisingly audacious move of the defense, in , calling to the witness stand Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton in the hope of strengthening a jeopardized case, District Attorney Jerome was given gratuitously the opportunity for which he has watched since the trial began. He seized it and laid before the Court facts looking to the appointment of a commission to determine the present mental state of the defendant. The prop Thaw's counsel sought to insert beneath a tottering defense was converted by Mr. Jerome into a weapon against it. In an impassioned address, during which his voice at times vibrated with deep emotion, the District Attorney, after the jurymen had retired at the Court's behest, asserted the profound belief that Thaw's counsel, by the deliberate suppression of evi dence of hereditary taint of insanity in the defendant's family, had forced the Court and the prosecuting attorney into the anomalous attitude of placing on trial for his life a man who was and who still is the victim of a progressive and practically hopeless type of insanity, and who is at the present moment incapable of properly deliberating with his counsel upon an issue that concerns his * life. Mr. Jerome almost from the beginning of the trial iias been convinced that Thaw is a paranoiac. The depositions made before him and Mr. Hartridge privately by Dr. Bingaman ( and Dr. Deeman some weeks ago, A f f A H AO PAO ?1 v lug uii cvb vi iuui of pronounced Insanity, some of them 1 epileptic in character, aftong Harry Thaw's immediate blood relatives, ' tended strongly to confirm the Dis- J trict Attorney's belief. It was this he had vin mind when he repeatedly 1 told the Court he hoped to be able ' to escape the necessity of opening the sluice gates to the flood of fetid ' scandal that subsequently was loosed with the testimony of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. 1 Though it was District Attorney Jerome who brought about the condi- : tions that made the appointment of the Lunacy Commission stand out as the logical outcome, the purpose of the District Attorney would have re- ! mained far from being accomplished If it had not been for John B. Gleason, one of Thaw's lawyers. Gleason . insisted on flinging himself into the , foreground of the proceedings, and . the result was that Dr. Allan McLane 1 Hamilton, 'called as an alienist for the defense, asserted pointblank that in his opinion Thaw was insane now. and that his mental condition was ' such as to make him incapable of , consulting rationally with his counsel. Dr. Hamilton, retained as an expert by the lawyers who first under- j took the Thaw defense, made four examinations of the defendant ia the Tombs, the first of which was two days after the homicide. As a result he reported his conclusion that Thaw is a victim of dementia praecox of a r paranoiac type, and that the ultimate recovery in such cases is only about : two per cent. This did not suit the defendant, who scorned the insanity defense except as a temporary expe- , dient, and who dismissed as his coun- ] aol the firm nf Rloplr Olrntt' Omhor * & Bonynge. That Mr. Jerome has all along be- , lieved that Thaw was insane when he j shot White and is insane at the pres- , ent time he made perfectly plain in the course of an impassioned address to the court after Dr. Hamilton had , testified. The scene when he made ^ his appeal was one of great excitement. Every spectator was leaning forward in his seat, fearful of missing a single word and hung upon the sen- ( tences that fell from Mr. Jerome's lips. The District Attorney was much moved and Justice Fitzgerald himself showed that the case had i "eached its crisis. As for Thaw's lawyers, a condition b^dering upon panic prevailed tnem. i ney were an on meir feet >n(j most of them had hurried i inside 0f the rail where they could talk wit, Delmas. This was the state of affairs when the jury had been sent b0m the room in order that Mr. Jerome tight tell the court what he knew fr^ hts investigations American Peanut Shortage. Holmes & Dawsoi, 0f Norfolk, Va., estimate a yield of fifty-three and one-third per cent, peanut crop based on the crop of 1905 (^hich was estimated by the American Nut Journal, of Petersburg, Va., at 1.4,000,000 bushels). V * Wounded in a French Duel. M. Arene. a Senator, and M. Brisson, a newspaper man, fought a duel with swords at Paris, in which the former was severely injured. Blasting Cap Tears Off Man's Head. \ L. L. Walden, superintendent of thp Pnrrpll minPB in the Rorritn Mountains, Arizona, was killed by the explosion of a blasting cap which he was crimping between his teeth. He lived several hours with his head almost off. j To Be Electrocuted on a Saturday. An electrocution on Saturday instead of Friday, as has been the custom, will be that at Columbus, Ohio, of Dr. Oliver C. Haugh, who will die April 6, the Supreme Court having .decided against hi? apaeaLj . V\ f ? ' r'?;V S'L*hi' about the mental history of Harry Thaw. 5)iit which technical legal objections had kept him from getting before the jury. This was the thunderbolt that smote the Thaw defense: "If the real facts were known, I have no r!ght to be here trying this man. It would be absolutely prohibitive. But this knowledge that I have cannot be put in any legal form at this time. If it could it would shock the conscience of the court and instantly this case would be stopped. "I know and so does every man who has followed this case and who has watched this defendant, that Harry Thaw is insane at this moment, and that he is absolutely incapable of conferring with his lawyers. To execute him would be butchery. We have no right to try him for his life." A babel of voices brotce upon the courtroom?Jerome, Delmas, Gleason endeavoring to get the ear of the court, Justice Fitzgerald striving to calm the agitated advocates. In all parts of the room excited men were on uieir iccc, ucopnc cue tuuu of the attendants for order. Surely, no more dramatic picture has ever been presented in a court of justice. But this was not all. The District Attorney, raising his voice to a pitch tbat found the remotest corners of the courtroom, proceeded to make a savage attack on the lawyers for the defense. He asserted that if certain statements in regard to Thaw's actions which had been made to him were true, he would ask the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to take judicial notice of the conduct of the lawyers for the defendant. The appointment of a lunacy commission has been invoked under Section 658, Chapter 5 of the Criminal Code. Under this the court is empowered. If the defendant is reported sane, the trial will be resumed; if reported insane, he will be sent without further proceedings to Matteawan. A THEFT OF $400,000. American Mail Bag Stolen on Board La Provence?One Arrest. Paris, France.?An American mail bag, the contents of which are valued at approximately $400,000, has been stolen. The theft occurred on board the French Line steamer La Provence, which left New York on February 28 and arrived at Havre on March 6. The postal authorities have placed the affair in the hands of detectives. A man giving the name of Butloss was arrested here recently with American securities to the value of $42,000 in his possession for which he could not account satisfactorily. Butloss is believed to be an accomplice of the thieves, and to have been attempting to negotiate the proceeds of the robbery. BANK TELLER ABSCONDS. It is Rumored That He Had Been Playing the Stock Market. Charlotte, N. C.?Frank H. Jones, teller in the Charlotte National Bank, left town carrying $50,000 of the bank's cash and leaving a further shortage of $18,000. He told a bank official he had an urgent call to Richmond. The bank has offered $1000 for his arrest. Jones was prominent in social and church circles, being a Sunday-school teacher and otherwise religiously allied. He left a wife in a hospital under treatment, and three children. The shortage will not inconvenlanfo hnnlr. as it has SI.100.000 assets. It is said Jones played the stock market. EXPELLED FROM ASSEMBLY. Punishment Inflicted on the Rev. J. Frank Burke at Trenton. Trenton, N. J.?For the first time in the history of the New Jersey Legislature a preacher has been driven 3ff the floor of the House. This was the punishment inflicted on the Rev. J. Frank Burke, secretary of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, because of his charges of conspiracy made against Assemblymen Perkins, Klenert and Alexander for the failure 3f the House Judiciary Committee, Df which they were a majority, to report the local option bill introduced it the instance of the Leasue. Mr. Burke failed to substantiate tils charges and this was the punishment decided upon by the House. MOB LYNCHES TWO WOMEN. Negresses, Who Had Attacked White Woman, Shot in Arkansas. Stamps, Ark.?Two negro women were shot to death by a mob at McKamie, a village six miles south of here. The town has no jail and the women had been locked up in the schoolhouse and a guard placed in charge of the building. They were charged with using a razor with probably fatal effect on Mrs. Ella Rhoton, a white woman, and her daughter, and kicking Mrs. Rhoton's little son. JAIL FOR COAL TRUST HEAD. umana juage nnesnuHt-u auu \jivco Him Six Months' Sentence. Omaha.?Samuel E. Howell, president of the Omaha Coal Trust, was sentenced to serve six months in jail and pay a fine of $2000. This is the limit of the law. Judge Sutton, in sentencing Howell told him he was "no better than a common highwayman who put a revolver to a man's face and made him give up his money." He said that if it had not been for money aud good lawyers Howell would have been "in jail long ago, where he belonged." Cleveland's Birthday Observed. The seventieth birthday of Grover Cleveland was commemorated at Caldwell, N. J., at the First Presby terian Church parsonage by the unveiling of a tablet inscribed: "In this room Grover Cleveland was born March 18, 1837." In New York City National, State and city flags were flown from the City Hall in his honor. Mrs. Sage's Gift. Mrs. Russell Sage gave SI'S,000 in charity to four organiatizons. HUSBANDS VENGEANCE. In This Case the Man Who Steals a Wife is Killed. Richmond, Vn.?C. B. Miles, a miner, at Seaboard, Tazeweil County, was ?iuui auu insiauiiv Miitu u v ivituard Ferrell. It is alleged that Miles, who had been boarding with Ferrell, had become too fond of Ferrell's wife. He was ordered to leave the place, but he persuaded Mrs. Ferrell to with him. Ferrell came upon t.' two while they were making their escape and promptly shot Miles dead. Ferrell g&YS. Uim??lf CROW i ?E " LOOK FOR ST1 mm Talk About "Laying Bare Her Sot Day's TelegpapMc News, ] PTPitfic flf flnoA thft UAVUUU UV VUVVI utv It is not necessary to "look for woman" in any of these short and teresting stories. As always aroused the love, inspired the j' ousy, excited the hatred that le them all a moral and makes them I so valuable to the student of hue nature?New York World. Father Tears Bride of 14 From Husband's Ar Richmond, Va.?Jeter Matherlj young man of Pittsylvania County under arrest at Chatham,' char with swearing falsely to the age Miss Edna Adkins, the fourteen-ye old daughter of Preston Adkins, get a license to marry her. The E A. T. Ponton, pastor of High P( Church, had just said, "Now you married; may you be happy," wj Papa Adkins and a policeman ente the parsonage. The father seized the tearful i and took her home, where he loci Mer up. The young bridegroom cr and raged in the road and begged see his young wife in vain. Adfc says ne will prosecute jnaiueriy abduction as well as false swear and that on these grounds he will vorce his daughter. Matherly i tests his love for the girl, who biti ly resents her father's interference Bridegroom of 18 Shoots Wife and Kills ilims Richmond, Va.?Oris Thompsoi cotton mill operator, eighteen ye old, shot and fatally wounded young wife and killed himself Lynchburg. They married th months ago and quarrelled two we ago. Then the bride, who has w long skirts only since her weddi left her husband and sought a boa ing house. Thompson went to wife's apartments and talked tv her awhile. She vowed she would not returr him. Mad with jealous rage, drew a revolver and shot her tw one ball piercing her neck. T1 Thompson blew out his alle; brains. Kills Man, Flees With Victim's Wife; is CapLui T>;~u Xfo "ITirJ" Cnlnn XViV^LLLLLUUU p V C*. iviu ksvsavs&a wisely killed Edward Darling at Eskridge & Carrington'a camp, 1 miles from Free Hill. Darling's v left him two weeks ago and went Solon's home. Darling, who is s to have made threats to kill Sol went to Solon's house. Solon ? him coming, ran into the yard i fired twice, killing DarlLng instan He took $40 from Darling's poci and fled with Darling's wife. But fact that she was with him made capture easier, and he was si 1 taken. Jealous Woman Puts on Man's Clothes and Sho Kenosha, Wis.?A woman wear man's clothes shot twice at Hert A. Graves, a young unmarried ari tect, in his office. One bullet pier his left hand. He cays only: "The person who shot me st behind portieres and I saw a rainc SUB-TREASURY CASH NOT FOU Count of $62,000,000 in Chic T^nJIa fr> PpvpaI MRsinc 817ft.00< Chicago.?The official count of money in the Sub-Treasury was c< pleted, and with it went the last h that the missing $173,000 might accounted for through a mistake depositing or checking up. Practically $62,000,000 was g< over under the direction of Dep Assistant Treasurer Gideon C. Bai who came, from Washington to pervise the work. The Other Side of the World. China's trade with Japan has creased sixty per cent, in the last years. India is using much portli cement in building, for temples i ticularly. ampuuiiuing in ju.pu.ii eiupiuja 000 men at Nagasaki, 8000 at K and 4000 at Osaka. All the Japan yards are full of orders. New South Wales offers 330 a h toward the passage money of proved agriculturists and dome servants to that colony, and ?2< head for othej^ desirable immigra NED AGAIN. vrx ? ly Macauley, in the New York World. MAT HERE; ! HER' VARYING MOOD! ll"?These Brie! Stories, Gathered From On Prove What Adam Knew, That She . Loftiest and Lowest Emotions. the and women's boots and a man's hal in- She ran away." gke She left tils note, which the polio have : eal- "I'have decided to kill myself nds Don't br.ng any more girls from Ken ail osha to Racine while I am alive, cam wouId have killed you last night onl; my nerve failed me." The note is unsigned. The polio say the writer is a married woman o Racine, where the Graves family live ms> Graves admits that the Racine womai is jealous of him, but vows he is no r. a fortoin that chfi him is " "* ged * ^ of "Pleasant Surprise" .For ' to Jones and His True, Wife Lev. Saltillo, Mexico.?The wife of G >int Belle Jones, a wealthy American busi are Qess man in North Mexico, has ar ben rived here from Long Beach, Cal. red where she lived for several years She was pained and shocked to fine girl her husband living with another Mrs ked Jones. He weakened, was taken be ied '?re the local authorities and swor< 1 to the Long Beach woman was his lega :in8 wife. for Jones came to Mexico twelve yeari ing ago, bringing wife No. 2 with him dl- The original Mrs. Jones says that sh( >ro- received letters regularly from him ter- He always wrote that he was work' !, ing at a small salary in a remote mining camp and could not gel enough money ahead to visit her. Sh< has been saving money for severa elf- years to make this visit, thinking tc i, a give him a pleasant surprise. He has (ars a son born in Mexico. his at ree' Died Rather Than Marry eks Man Her Mother Chose, orn St. Louis.?Rather than marry thf n?' man her widowed mother chose foi lJ"j her husband, Miss Grace Trultt, i rj. ? pretty girl of sixteen, killed herself She took carbolic acid at Mrs. Henrj Lang's home, No. 4252 Finney ave 1 Jr? nue, and died in an ambulance on th< .ne way to the City Hospital. A lettei *ce> from J. H. Weakley, of Pueblo, Col. was found in the girl's pocket. Ir gea it he called her his "black-eyec friend." He regretted, too, that Miss Grace and her mother could not gel along amicably. "I often advised Grace to be less 'cc1, girlish and to think of marriage,' un. said Mrs. Truitt. "Mr. Weakley was the deeply in love with my daughter anc two wanted to marry her. I favored th( irjfe match. We moved to No. 90 North ; to Garrison avenue two weeks ago, and 'aid I told Grace that she could not reon, celve any yoang men there." >aw > md ... . _ . tjy All of a Sudden vvintaroerg :ets Lost a Good Appetite Lakeview, Iowa.?Mrs. Charles hls Wintarberg, the young and prettj DOn bride of a business man here, has suddenly disappeared, causing a sen sation, particurarly to Mr. Wintar berg. He iound this note on the din. ing table instead of his dinner: "Good-by, Charlie. I am going ing away. I do not love you any more.' >ert Inquiry develops that a well-knowi :hi- young man of Auburn, Sac County ced to whom Mrs. Wintarberg was once engaged, is absent from home. Thf ood husband says he had no intimation ol :oat his bride's unhappiness. ND Nine Die in School Wreck. Nine persons, eight of them school a8? children, were killed and many oth ). . ers injured at Durango, Mexico, bj the the collapse of the roof of the public jm. school Duiiciing wnne me rooms wert 0pe crowded. The dead include one oi be the teachers. in William O'Brien Gains Libel Salt, one The jury in the libel suit of Will uty iam O'Brien, M. P., against th( itz. Freeman's .Journal, of Dublin, Ire su- land, awarded the plaintiff a fai'thint on each of the six counts. . The Field of Labor. intwo A building trades council has beer formed in Lawrence, Mass. and Eighteen unions in Germany pub' )ar. lish a newspaper of their own. Boston (Mass.) ladies' garmen 10,- cutters formed a union recently, obe Master horseshoers, of 2an Jose lese Cal., have granted ?he journeymer the wage raise demanded, ead Union printers of Norfolk, Va. ap- have made a demand for an increast stic in their wage scale of $3.50 a week 0 a The increase is based on the increasec Qts. cost of living. T ' Ss-WWg. ; / hDrninrmrn nnnrrnninrp If rntoiioi o uunrcncnuLO c ON HUD CONTROL, . ! Discussing Situation With Various Governors and Magnates. i VIEWS ON WALL STREET FLURRY B. F. Yoaknm First to See Roosevelt r ?Rock Island's Head, Like Har- ii 'riman, Se^s in Federal Control 5 Lesser of Evils. a a Washington, D. C.- ? President Roosevelt began a series of confer- t] ences regarding the policy of the ^ Government toward the railroads h when he had an hour's talk wi?h B. t< F. Yoakum, Chairman of the Board 11 of Directors of the Chicago, Rock ^ Island and Pacific Railroad. i-resiaenc Meiien. or tne New York, b New Haven and Hartford Railroad, S also had a conference on railroad 31 matters with the President. ^ No decision has been reached as ci to whether President McCrea, of the C Pennsylvania; Hughitt, of the Chicago and Northwestern, and New- p man, of the New York Central, will r< come here for a conference, but it is ti the President's purpose to discuss f] this matter thoroughly with the Gov- h ernors of several States, and other persons who are posted on railroad n matters. ' 0 President Roosevelt is determined n to secure further legislation, which a will give the Government more power over the railroads, and the rail- a road presidents themselves are ready u to agree to it if by so doing they can ci bring to an end the hostile legisla- -n tion by the States, wHich has, they p say, caused depreciation in railroad t stocks and bonds, and made it diffi- j-j J cult to borrow money for better- 6i J ments. v t] But Roosevelt and the railroad v< presidents are not in thorough accord as to what actioh shall be taken r< g to end the agitation. The President x desires the enactment of a Federal ^ franchise law, providing for the issu- tl ance of licenses to corporations, ineluding railroads, and another law pj which will result in squeezing the tt water out of railroad securities and protect the public against the "high ^ " finance" methods of the railroads. w The railroad presidents want Pres- vj e ident Roosevelt to issue a statement which will cause a change in the attitude of the people and State Legis" latures toward the railroads, and also . I desire him to use his influence to y end unfavorable legislation by the 3tates. With this end in view Chair e man Yoakum called at the White t House to assure the President that so far as his road is concerned it ear3 neatly desires to co-operate with the c t Government in the enforcement of ^ the new rate law, the Elkins AntiRebate law and the Sherman AntiTrust law. Mr. Yoakum said there . would be no objection to further Fed- rc eral legislation, especially if it be Yf such as to guarantee to the railroads Bl 3table freight rates and protect them from hostile legislation by the States. m The view is entertained here that : pi ' with the unprecedented prosperity of I j the country and the large patronage jto 1 the railroads are receiving, the j 01 shrinkage in values which is recorded *? in Wall Street must be the result of "3 | speculative tactics which have abnor- fo mally bulled the market, and that se- e1 curities are merely returning to their d( ' Qormal value because the manipulat- cc ors have been unable to maintain an ! unnatural inflation. The President m and his advisers make no pretense to v? 1 a deep insight into Wall Street methi ods, but it has occurred to them that H t perhaps the present shrinkage is not ! an altogether unmixed evil, and it is Bl I a perfectly safe inference that a ma: terially greater shrinkage would not ! produce anything approaching a Danic among the men in charge of cc the affairs of the nation. ci < gl ARRESTS FOR LONDON THEFT. f1 lo ! Tito Famous Criminafs Taken For Robbing Tiffany's Abroad. cc New York City.?Charged with P1 (l having committed a jewelry robbery pr in London, the biggest recorded by n( ; the police in twenty years, two 01 ) thieves well known to the police were S1? | arrested on board the Hamburg, American liner Amerika when she I reached Quarantine. Jewelry valued p i at between $25,000 and $30,000, 5" j which it is alleged they stole from Tiffany's London house and another j big jewelry store in Bond street, was concealed about their persons and in , their first cabin on the Amerika. Ti j The men were booked as Arthur , Preston Green and Charles Rohrer. [ Their pictures are in the Rogues' Gal- e! [ lery. y( tD MANITOBAN LABOR FAMINE. h< a Vast Railroad Projects That Contrac- tt tors Are Unable to Carry Out. ia Winnipeg, Manitoba.?Six thou- eJ J sand miles of railrtad are under con- m r tract to be completed during 1907 on rc ! the prairies between Winnipeg and fi< " the mountains cf Western Canada, st ' on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, ai ' Canadian Northern Railroad, Great fu Northern and Grand Trunk and Pa; cific. The latter has opened 100 new towns. 1 There is ro labor to complete this Q1 ' work. Contractors are growing des! perate, as they are under heavy pen- m | alties to complete the work. All hill oj * onntracts are let with a bonus and penalty in Western Canada. J d, zfr> ? ????? I Felony to Run a Bucket-Shop. ; Governor Folk, of Missouri, signed J1' | the bill passed by the lasi LegislatI ure making it a felony to operate a p bucket-shop in Missouri. The pen- w alty clause also includes any tele- v< graph or telephone company which furnishes information to a bucket-. " shop. The Governor also signed a J bill amending the pool-selling law so jr " as to make telegraph and telephone ^ ? instruments devices for registe-ing Ci bets on horse races. . tj Newsy Paragraphs. Balloons are to be purchased for the United States Army. rj England is experiencing a wave of reform in business methods. w . I The first thousand Kanakas have t< been deported from Queensland witnout any trouble. e. Legislative investigation of the cost n of Pennsylvania's new Capitol was begun in Harrisburg. c I Over twenty-five State Legislatures n this winter have undertaken to enact | laws against the railroads, mostly p through, regulation, direct or indirect, n of their charges and serviM^ (Y ' r% p SALVADOR JK KONDORJtsT licaragua Wins Sea Fight and s Takes Trujillo. c [ondnrr.n Navy, Manned With Amcrical Gunners, Defeated?2500 t! Salvadorean Troops in Field. s Panama. ? Information has been ' s eceived here from reliable sources i Salvad^f tending to show that the Lepublic of Salvador has formed an lliance with Honduras in the war gainst Nicaragua. Twenty-five hundred Salvadorean roopB are said to have made a land- I lg at Amapal'a on March 10, and to ave started on the march to Cholueoa. The troops are under comland of General Jose Pre*a, are well quipped, and came from San Miguel, [onduras. General Bonilla, President of t^e 4 [onduran Republic, has started for 4 egovia. Nicaragua, leading a coniderable number of soldiers, among 'hom are two large detachments of 'i ficaraguan revolutionists under f< Dmmand of Generals Chavarria and tl hamorre. a The Guatemalan Government is re- g( orted to have refused to grant the equest of some Honduran revoluionists for permission to cross the fl rontier for the purpose of invading; a [onduras. " p Managua, Nicaragua.?Nicaraguan a aval forces have captured the port p f Trujillo, Honduras. One gun. a e umber of rifles ahd considerable ^ mmunition were among the spoils. * The Honduran gunboat.Tatumbla t: nd the Mexican steamer Olympia, a nder charter, both with ex-Ameri- i] an seamen on board, as gunners, rere reDorted to hav4 sailed from p uerto Cortez, Honduras, bound for rujillo. It is said here that the honduran naval vessels were defeati by the Nicaraguan forces or else iey did not arrive in season to pre- ? snt the capture of the town. Washington.?Philip Brown, sec- t] Jtary of the American Legation at t< egucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, a as telegraphed the State Department a lat it is reported there that Tru- n llo, a port on the north coast of t 'onduras, is being attacked from } le sea by Nicaraguan forces. It was reported several days ago P lat three Nicaraguan steamships ith armed forces aboard were in the ici'nity of Trujillo. STEUNENBERG CASE BEGUN. f rgnments on Motions in Moycr, Haywood and Pettibone Trial. n Boise, Idaho.?Moyer, Haywood h id Pettibone, accompanied by four a -med guards, were taken to Cald- . a ell. The train was stopped near the ei ourt House at Caldwell and the pris- tl lers were taken from the train. n All the attorneys for both the State 5. id the defense except Clarence Dar- x ?w were present when court con- (j >ned with Judge Fremont Wood, of ^ oise, on the bench. y, The Court announced that the re- r ittitur from the United States Su eme Court having arrived, he ould hear arguments on the motion dismiss. The motion was argued P 1 behalf of the defendants by Atrney Richardson, who was followed r James H. Hawley, chief counsel I r the State. When the arguments b ided the Court took the matter un- cJ ?r advisement until 2 p. m. and on mvening denied the motion. Arguments were then begun on the otion of the defense for a change of I: snue. K ELICON HALL BURNED DOWN. g r low to Upton Sinclair's Colony at n Englewood. ^ Englewood, N. J.?Though Heli- ^ ?n Hall, the home of Upton Sin- fj air's co-operative colonists in En- j( ewood, was totally destroyed .by a ^ e of mysterious origin, with the .. ss of one life and injury to five of :e colonists, Mr. Sinclair is em- v latic in his statement that a new v -operative colony will soon take the a ace of the old, and that the fire will i< ove to be an incident merely ana , )t a quietus. The father of the colly said that as soon as they got the aoke out of their eyes the searchers ? iter a modern Utopia would set * >out re-establishing themselves. * Joseph Briggs, a carpenter from rovidence, R. I., was caught in the lrning building and killed. d GETS A PRIZE AND DIES. j a own Belle Expires After Skating 0 Four Hours in a Rink. f: ? " -r - <?T IaaI firoH " ?, Kayvme, liu.? i icci su i.?vv>, ^ isped Miss Mary Hixon, twenty p ;ars old, the belle of the town,, at u idnight after she had skated four :>urs in a roller rink without missing number. Miss Hixon fell back into a le arms of her escort, Roland Will- a ,ms, and was dead in a few seconds. o A physician said that the night's n certion had affected the girl's heart, j] iss Hixon recently adopted the y iller craze, and had become a pro- _ ;ient skater. An hour before being ricken she and her partner had been yarded the prize for the most grace- s' li couple on the floor. a Cuban Sugar Plantation Burned. At Guantanamo, Cuba, fire broke ^ at on the Confluente sugar plantaon. The damage is estimated at ore than $400,000. The president . ! the company owning this planta- h on is Senor Lema, the Mayor of Ma id. h h Mother of Dr. Osier Dead. n Mrs. Featherscon Osier died at her -vmo in Toronto. Canada, in her ^ 01st year. She was the mother of tJ rofessor William Osier, of Oxford, . ho advocated the chloroforming o! sterans over sixty years of age. ti Duma Hall Ceiling Falls. The f-U of a large part of the ceilig of the hall in which the Duma 11 as been meeting in St. Petersburg a xused an indefinite postponement of d ie sessions. t Prominent People. 3 President Roosevelt has joined a a .flemen's association. s President Truesdale, of the Lacka- c anna, deplores the public hostility ti ) railroads. Senator Clark, whose term has just xpired, once worked in the quartz fl 11UCS lui V*--" ? v- . Former Senator Spooner was 0 hosen as counsel to all o? James J. j. [ill's financial interests. Joshua Pisa, ot' the Isthmus of t anama, and one o? the greatest pearl lerchants in the world, is visiting yashiagtoa- 1 r ' ,4 >vV,.V. i i v. v v Perverted Proverbs/ y: 5 In onion there is strength. .1^ Sweats are the juices of adversity. Cosmetics cover a multitude of kins. -7/I A soft director turneth away graft. Hell hath no fury like a woman's orn. A wise boss maketh a glad'party, ;^ A fat rebate is rather to be chosen & ban straight profits. A woman is known by the cooks ~vv he cannot keep. ' \ ' Fools invest where angels fall to .Mi wim.?Saturday Night. i FADED TO A SHADOW.. , J V'orn Down by Five Years of Soffer* ing From Kidney Complaint. Mrs. Remethe Myers, of 180 South 'enth St., Ironton, O., says: "I have worked hard in my, time and have been I 9 exposed again and rf *JI again to changes of weather- ** *sno wonder my kidneys i^ai gave out and I went all to pieces at last. fR For five years I was ading away, and finally so weak that , ' ' dt six months I could not get out of . be house. I was nervous, restless* nd sleepless at night, and lame and ; ore in the morning. Sometimes, verything would whirl and "blur beore me. I bloated bo badly I could ot wear tight clothing, and had to, . * ut on shoes two sizes larger than .? y sual. The urine wasi disordered and assages were dreadfully frequent. ! ;; ot help from the first box pf Doatfs ; adney Pills, however, and by the ; ? ime I bad taken four boxes the pala..;/"'. nd bloating was gone.< I have been 1 good health ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. 'oster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ' j. l . r Odd Names of SaUors. When the crew of the timber ladn vesael from Nova Scotia were Ined up at Liverpool in order that bey might- "declare" before the Cussms officer, one man gaye hjs name s Washington Seafoam, and another s Salvation Army, Thinking; the len were joking, the officer appealed 3 the captain, who confirmed the accuracy of the names.?.-Birmingham 'ost : 1 THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA. , > Fere Treated at Dispensary?Did Not Improve?Suffered 5 Months ; ?Perfect Cure by Cuticura. "My three children had, eczema for five lonths. A little sore would appear on tbo ead and seemed very itchy, inereajiag ay after day. The baby had had it about ' week when the second boy took theJuvlse and a few sores developed, then tho aird boy took it. For the first three lonths I took them to the' N? Dispeairy, but they did not seAn to improve. ^ hen used Cuticura Soap' and Ooticnm lintment, and in a few weeks they had nproved, and when their heads were well ? u ?IL: -t i.1 i UU CO IIIU. BCC UUVUlUg Vi iUC DUiWJ, :ate Keim, 513 West 29th: St., New York, .'M r. Y., Nov. 1, 5, and 7. 1906.'f , There have been more President* o? the resbyterian faith than of any other. . One trial will convince you of tha pejliar fitness of Nature's remedy, Garfi<?kt , ea. For /liver, kidneys, stomach acut owels, for impure blood, rheumatism aad ironie ailments. Centenarians and the Bath. v One's heart goes out to the aged rishwoman who was up against the [eynsham Guardians in the matter f a bath. They desired that she ' hould take the statuory bath. She, _ $fused. She alleged that she had; ot done such a thing for fifty years, ind she had reached the age of 83 rltli/Mit onw tpii/ib vlfh TTirtHflrn 'XVUUUI/ aujr VI UVn n<vu ad of washing. She is with the maDrity. The centenarians, as a rale, on't wash. Many aged peasants his writer has known in Kontiah j " illages. One typical old fellow,/of : ague but advanced age, ("might be n 'undred," was the general opinan,) was worried about his hair, 'hich was thinning. The doctor had dvised washing the head. "Wafch ly 'ead!" said the old fellow. "Why, . ' 'd as soon think o' washing nay eet!"?London Chronicle. Fattening Fish on Corn. ... Here is something new in the-pro-y ^ uction of meat. A telegram from [enosha, Wisconsin, says that people long Fox River, in that State, have ^ ; pened up a new industry and are. ?, h attening fish on corn for the Chicago aarket. German carp, which are" lentiful in Fox River, are scooped p in nets and placed in a big pea . - enced off in a small stream. They re fed on corn and grain, the same s hogs. It Is claimed the fish take vv n flesh rapidly, and It is not uncom- , ion to take carp from the pen weighig from thirty to fifty, pounds. Last ear the ingenious workers fn the ew industry sold over two tons of sh fattened in this way. This sea- * on they will dispose of twenty tons, s there is a good demand. FOOLED THE PREACHER. i l Doctor's Brother Thought Postam J Was Coffee. j A wise doctor found out coffee was urting him so he quit drinking It He was so busy with his practice, v; owever, that his wife had to write ow he fooled his brother, a clergylan, one day at dinner. She says: ' "Doctor found coffee was injuring im and decided to give Postum a rial, and we have used it now for 3ur years with continued benefit. In ict, he is now free from the long ?? rain of ills that follow coffee drinkig. "To show how successful we are In laking Postum properly, I will relate n incident. At a dinner we gave octor suggested that we serve Posum instsad of ordinary coffee. 'Doctor's brother, a clergyman. ' J upposed it was old fashioned coffee s J nd remarked, as he called for hia J econd cup, 'If you do preach against J offee I see you haven't, forgotten how I a make it.' " This goes to show that well-made I -fully boiled?Postum has much the I lavor and richness of good coffee al- I hough it has an individuality all its 1 wn. A ten days' trial will prove that M t has none of the poisonous effect o! Jfl ordinary coffee but will correct the^^H roubles caused by coffee. "There's " Vomo f>irniqh"hv Ppfl. L i cacwu. ^ - w"v um Co., Ltd., Battle Cre?k. Jflfilu