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I" GISTAVE I REIGNS ; IBS OSCAR DEAD I New Monarch Accepts Homage of State Officials. DEATH OF PEOPLE'S FRIEND Sweden Bowed in Grief by Loss of Democratic Ruler Who Was Proud of Family's Low Origin? Oscar Was a Hero and Scholar. Stockholm. ? Oscar II., King of Sweden, died in the royal apartment of the palace, where, surrounded by i the members of his family, including Queen Sophia and the Crown Prince, Oscar Gustave, and high Ministers of State, the end had been awaited. Outside the palace great crowds stood with bowed heads and tearful eyes long after the announcement came of ~ ^ ttta] 1 iavg 1 oaxtor I LUC UCatU Wi tucii ntil iwivu wv?v4 n eign. The whole country is bowed with I grief, for King Oscar was something [ more than a ruler of his people, and [ had endeared himself to them as an a intimate and personal friend. When i- the flag on the palace was dipped to L half-stafT there was a moan of anL guish from the assembled multitude, r and many of them cried: "6ur dear old King is dead." |e The death certificate was worded as follows: ?. "Wo declare upon oath that His il Majesty King Oscar II. expired peacea fully at 9.10 o'clock in the castle at |Q Stockholm at the age of seventyI eight years, nine months and sevenL teen days, as the result of calcification of the cerebral and cardiac blood vessels. ;t "BERG, a "EDGREN, i- "PLENSBURG." i- The succession to the throne of a Sweden now passes to Oscar Gustave _ 'Adolphe, Duke of Vermland, the oldt est son of the late King. At a meetL ing of the Council of State the new " King took the oath of allegiance uns der the title of Gustave V., and f adopted the motto, "With the Peot tV>A PofliArlQn/?' " Tho nrin/>Qo I- pic wz tuc x- av.uvi muu. a uu yi iuuvm r took the oath of allegiance and the 3 new monarch accepted the homage of f the State officials. The King received degrees from so many universities in Europe that he might fairly be called, so far as degrees indicate, the most learned man in Europe. He was an author, a 5 translator, a learned man in political a economy and the science of- government, a musician, a historian and a playwright. All the great masterpieces of literature,, historical, philo1 sophical and religious, he translated, i into Swedish. One. of his novels, the 1 one which has become the most widely known of hia works of fiction, deals with the rise of his own tamily of Beinadotte and the accession to the I. throne of Sweden or his grandfather. With all his accfpmplishments as a scholar King Oscar was a brave man and wore upon his breast on State occasions a medal bestowed on him the French Government when he was a young man. "NIGHT RIDERS" IN KENTUCKY. Damage Done at Hopkinsville by MeD Engaged in Tobacco War. Hopkinsville, Ky.*?-Descending suddenly on this city of 10,000 inhabitants, a body of 500 night riders, armed to the teeth and many of them wearing masks, took complete possession at 2 o'clock a. m. The members of the Police and Fire Departments were corralled and kept in I their houses under guards, the telephone exchanges were captured and the young women operators ordered out, and the telegraph operators were prevented from sending any messages to the outside world. Then began the work for which the mob was organized. It dynamited and burned to the ground the warehouses of W.; H. Tandy & Co.. and Tandy, Fairleigh, Dridge & Co., both of which are supposed to belong to the Tobacco Trust. Several residences also were burned, and for a time it looked as if the whole city might be swept by the flames. The property loss is estimated at ?200,00 0, with about $60,000 insurance. The Tandy building is owned by John C. Latham, a New York banker. SHOT THREE IN STATE HOUSE. Lunatic Went to Kill Massachusetts' Governor But Turned on Labor Men. I Boston, Mass.?Governor Guild narrowly escaped death at the hands of John A. Steele, a lunatic, recently paroled, who visited the State House for the sole purpose, it is believed, of killing him. Finding the Governor engaged in the executive chamber. Steele turned on three prominent labor leaders who were in the anteroom waiting to se6 the Governor and fired three shots at them, fatally wounding Edward Cohen, of Lynn; seriously wounding Dennis D. Driscoll, of Boston, and injuring with the muzzle of his revolver Arthur M. Huddell, of Boston* > Crawls in Cypress Log to Die. . The body of Oscar Taylor, a promgaH fnent young mank of Hawkinsville, jggfl Ga., was fouud in a hallow cypress 9rh log in the swamp' near the city by gmH searchers. Taylor disappeared from ORH home and had crakvled into the log, made a pillow of h|is Coat and fired a 9hH bullet into his heai-t. Full Time in Pennsy Shops. Mail The Altoona vjorkshops of the BB38I Pennsylvania Railroad Company, it is raH announced, will be: operated ou full time this winter. irai * ?~? Grain iteceilpis Large. With the easing in the money pitugfaBM ation has comt a mqre iberal m? ??etMSgl ing of the country's products and grain receipts at interior markets are HHB larger.BBSS About Noted People. NKgljg J. J. Hill says men should sleep a long time and awake with both eyes open. Brffir King George of G reece is the poorest of all European Kings. His lnjj>ft9 come is about $700 a day. Frederick Massoin, former secreIPSflM tary of Prince Napoleon, issued a ftgfl statement that no Relics of Napoleon The German CrownPj-ince continBBkB ues his work at t.\r-~"*^ry of the flBmfl Interior, and will a\ ^jirse of lectures on Governr the University of Be^ * : GOVERNOR mm AHEAR! Manhattan's Borough Preslden j Charged With Neglecting Duties Hughes Makes It Clear That No A< cusation of Personal Gain Was Brought Against Accused. Albany, N. Y.?Governor Hughe nas removed John F. Ahearn froi the office of President of the Boroug of Manhattan, and Dtates his reason therefor in an opinion of 5000 words Charges of misconduct on the par of President Ahearn were publishe in the newspapers in the fall of 190( and Mr. Ahearn requested an invest: gation by the Commissioners of A< counts, which was later ordered b Mayor McClellan. The report of th Commissioners was made to th Mayor lin July, 1907. Thi,s sev.er.el arraigned. Mr. Ahearn's administra tion. This report and the evidence take before the Commissioners were foz warded to tne tjovernor, anu inert after formal charges against Mi Ahearn* with a petition for his re moval, were presented to the Got ernor by George McAneny and Henr C. Wright, individually and as officer of the City Club of New York. Th hearing, which the Governor person ally conducted, consumed six weeks and nearly a month has since elapse^ while the Governor has looked i over and formulated the opinion jus announced. The Governor's jurisdiction in re moving a city official was questione at the beginning of the hearings b Mr. Ahearn's counsel. 1 This was done so that the matte might be taken on appeal from th Governor's decision into the courts This procedure will probably follow as Ahearn's counsel intimated tha such a course would be pursued. The matter of choosing a successo to Mr. Ahearn is vested in the Boari of Aldermen. The condition of disrepair and neg lect which President Ahearn per mltted to obtain in the streets o Manhattan Borough, especially thos. paved with asphalt, is the principa ground on which Governor Hughe bases his removal of Presiden Ahearn, but he alludes also to "grav abuses in the administration of th Bureau of Public Buildings am bfficesi" one of the departments un der Ahearn's jurisdiction. The Governor takes pain3 io cal attention to the fact that persona corruption was not alleged or provei igainst the Borough President?"tha is," he says, "it is not shown, and 1 i Is not claimed, that he has convertei ! public money or property to his ow: ; use, or has personal:/ profited in a: unlawful manner by ii.-;s official 90a duct." FINANCING TEXAS' COTTON. Galveston Bankers Said so Hav? Ar ranged to Take Care of Crop. Fort Worth, Texas.?At a confer ence between Malcolm Graham, r-?p resenting Galveston barring houses and President D. J. Noll!, of th Farmers' Union, arrangements wer made to finance the ?r.;t.ire cottoi crop of Texas on liber?' terms. Un der the new arrangement tie farme may ship his cotton to Galveston am receive an advance payment in Ne^ York exchange at once. If he want the cotton held subject to his orde the bankers will advance him $20 i bale; if left to be sold at their discre tion he will receive $30 a i'aie, am if to be shipped to foreign market he will receive an advance of $35 i bale. This arrangement is onl:- a detai of the fight for fifteen cent cottoi being carried on by the Farmers Union. It is believed that the .an nouncement of this arrangement wil start a movement of the cotton croj ail over Texas. OFFICIALS ASKED TO QUIT. Wholesale Resignations on Ashevill Division of Southern Railway. Asheville, N. C. ? Superintenden Ramseur, Roadmaster Ramsey, Gen eral Trainmaster Fortune, Chief Dls patcher Johnson and others ofs th highest officials of the Southern Rail way or tne Asnevine uivision navi been asked for.their resignations a the result of a row among official for which no cause is given othe than "factional differences." The: have one week to comply. Superintendent Ramseur woul< give out no statement for publicatioi other than to say he was discharged None of the other officials would tall about the affair. General Superin tendent George A. Loyall arrive* from Knoxville and held a conferena with General Agent Hayes. KILLED HER GRANDCHILDREN Shocking Crime of Mrs. Emery Hnnt ley at Somerville, Mass. Somerville, Mass. ? Announcinj that she had killed her two grand children, Mrs. Emery Huntley wallce< into a police station and gave hersel U1J.. The bodies of the children, Ray mond Shomo, six years old, and Car oline Huntley, four years old, wen found at Mrs. Huntley's home. The children had been stnpeflec by illuminating gas and then placet in a bathtub and drowned. The: were on a visit to their grandmother They were brother and sister, wh< on the death of their parents a fev years ago were adopted by others. American Sent to Prison. Charles P. Baird, of Philadelphia whose motor car ran over and kille< a boy at Neuilly, France, on Octobs 10, was sentenced to a month':} im prisonment and a fine of $10. Hi must also pay $2000 damages. Famine in Turkey. Famine prevails in Turkey, accord j ing to a cable dispatch received ii New York Cit/ by the Christian Her aid from Secretary Peet, representa tive in Turkey of the American Boar* of Foreign Missions. Feminine Notes. Miss Helen Gould and Mrs. Rns?el Sage are often seen shopping in Nev York City. Mrs. Mary K. L.'chael, of Hamilton Ohio, is an expert plasterer and pa perhanger. Mrs. Caroline Dana Howe, poetess died in Portland, Me. She was eighty seven years old. The girl ushers at the Mnnhaitai Opera House, New York City, art studying to be singers. i Mme. Zola is grieving for the los1 of souvenirs of the late Emile Zola, o which she has been robbed. % - VV?' i seven b mi is ? BRIDGE GOES DOWN Flood at Mifflinville, Pa,, Causes > Fatal Accident. FORTY THROWN INTO THE RIVER (S ' n Partly Completed Steel Structure li Collapses, Throwing Victims s Into the Raging Susquehanna? i. Names of the Lost and Injured. * Bloom-iburg, Pa. ? High water caused the collapse of a new bridge ' In course of erection over the west . branch of the Susquehanna River at y Mifflinville, eight miles north of here, e and resulted in the death of seven e men and the injury of nearly a score ^ of others, two perhaps fatally. Forty men were at work on the traveler on n :he middle span of the structure when it collapsed. They were all thrown 1 into the swollen river. >- The collapse of the bridge was r. caused by the rapid rise in the river, y The wa^er rose during the day at the s rate of a foot an hour and debris e carried down the stream by the floods l- struck the false work of the bridge ), and caused its collapse. i The accident occurred at nightfall t when the men were preparing to it abandon their work. As a result the work of reaming t.hnnfi whn wp .. thrown into the water and caught in j the mass of twisted iron and steel was y greatly retarded. The second span of the bridge was being erected, and r It was this section that fell with the e big traveler. The bodies of four of those killed r( were found floating on the surface of t the water entangled in the bent and twisted girders and ironwork. Many r of the men were caught in the rapid i water and carried a mile or more down the river before they were res:ued. William Nesbit was caught in L the ironwork and held a prisoner fo:* f an hour with his mouth and chin e above water before being rescued. ,1 The bridge was being built by the s State, to replace one carried away in t a. freshet in 1903. Superintendent e Lawton, in charge of the construce tion, and who was on the bridge when i It fell, says that he h&s not been able . to ascertain the cause of the collapse. The. dead are: A. W. Fahs, Selins 1 Grove; , Charles Creitzer, Selins 1 Grove; Adam Nuss, Selins Grove; i Adam Tritt, Beaver Valley; Irvin Upt degraff, Georgetown; Millard Bow* man Ml'fflinvlllfi! flenrerp. R H'aiiT. i I The most seriously injured are: a William Boyer, New York, back broa ken, probably fatal; Ray Sherwood, _ Afo8hoppen, skull punctured',\ probacy fatal; Percival Reighterback, leg rjken; Howard Reighterback, leg :/ic:ured; William Meyer, leg bro ten; Luther Eckerd, shoulder disloca.ed; Cecil Sharer, shoulder dislocated; Newton Dalton, general contusions; Harry C. Goodling, right . arm broken; John Seesholtz, general . :ontus?ms; John Fisher, arm broken; i( Willian Weiking, general cuts, and e Jacob Johnson, fractured leg. a CHICAGO GETS CONVENTION. r Has 31 Votes to 18 For Kansas City ' and 4 For Denver. >/ 0 Washington, D C.?The Republi] cau National Convention will meet in a | Chicago on June 16, 1908. This de. | cisiou was reached here at the final 1 i tneeiing of the Republican National q Conrrnittee. The vote stood Chicago, a 31; Kansas City, 18; Denver 4, after whJ-ra it was made unanimous. 1 Is. was a hard fought battle, and a ar.li igh the result had been gener; alii expected the losing delegations . reli) jed to give up hope and many 1 impassioned speeches were the result, p The utmost good humor prevailed among the contending factions. EfTorts are being made to give political significance to the decision of the committee in favor of Chicago, but there is little or no such significance involved. Taft men voted for Chicago, anti-Taft men voted for t Kansas City and third term men were . to be found among the advocates of J. both cities. e But there is ever:' reason to be. lieve that even had" not the political e phase of the question been devels oped the decision tfould have been 9 the same. An appreciation of the hoi.-i fl.-Mu: A AIU A/lvnnfnffAO f tei iaciUlltJS ctuu tmuttiit aumuMgw y of Chicago would doubtless have proved decisive of itself once Chlj cago made an effort to capture the 3 convention. 1 | { 1 HIBBARD MAYOR OF BOSTON. I City Gives Him 2000 Plurality Over e a Democrat and an Independent. Boston.?In the closest and hardest fought election contest Boston, has known for many years the city went Republican by about 2000 .votes. Postmaster George A. Hibbard, Re.publican, defeated Mayor John F. , Fitzgerald, Democrat, who was a can didate for re-election. The revised j returns show the following vote cast f for the Mayoralty candidates: John A. Coulthurst, Independence League, 15,871; Fitzgerald, 36,054; Hibbard, 38,UbV. * The city voted to license the sale " of liquor by a large majority, though j somewhat smaller than in previous j years, owing to a hard campaign on the part of the clergy and others in an endeavor to keep the saloons out ' of the suburbs. Worcester, Lynn and Woburn were won by the temperance voters. GOLDPIELD PROMOTER KILLED. i r Editor Who Advocated His Being Run Out of Town Shot Him. e Goldfleld. Nev.?Francis L. Burton was shot and killed at Mina by J. Boltman Buck, editor and proprietor of the Western Nevada Miner. Buck printed in his paper an article as1 sorting that Burton had been run out of the town of Rawhide by a com" mittee, and counselling the same 1 treatment by the citizens of Mina Burton took Buck to task and in the quarrel ensuing the former was killed. 1 Lieutenant Cordier in Peru. First Lieutenant Constant Cordier, ' cf the Fourth Infantry, the American Military Attache, went to Lima, Peru, to witness the maneuvres of the Pe* ruvian Army as the guest of the Min ister of War. 1 Goebel Murder Predicted. Judge D. D. Field testified at the Powers trial at Georgetown, Ivy., * that Governor Goebel's murder was ' openly discussed before it took ulace I Late News BY WIRE v I **T o fcrrrtf/imrvV I ?vaonmuiu:i, President Roosevelt's order directing more severe physical tests for army officers was made public. Secretary Cortelyou accepted bids for $25,000,000 Panama Canal bonds at an average price of 103. A project for a National Council of Commerce was launched at a conference held in the office of Secretary Straus. There will be no financial legislation before the holiday recess of Congress. Secretary Cortelyou in his annual report to Congress asked for the speedy passage of a remedial currency law. . Postmaster-General Meyer's annual report advocates establishment of postal savings banks and extension of the parcels post. Rear-Admiral Henry Lyon, who commanded the Dolphin during the 3panish war, haa retired from the aavy on account of age. The President asked the AttorneyGeneral and Secretary o? the Inter-rrJ (YAr?rt?elTr AV/smr latlon of the land laws which Secret Service Agent Walker was investigating while murdered in Colorado. Paymaster Henry I. McCrea, U. S. N., resigned to join the chorus of a musical comedy. The President -sent to the Senate the nomination of John B. Vreeland, Distript of New Jersey, to be United States Attorney. : OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. J. K. Taylor, the United States architect who has been planning public buildings for San Juan, Porto Rico, arrived from that city on'the steamer Caracas. J. Lor Wallach, of Honolulu, Hawaii, who has been granted leave to attempt the treatment of twelve lepers from Molokai, announces that he will soon make public the secrets of his leprosy cure. . United States Marshal Hubbard left San Juan,? P. R.. for Washington to explain to the Administration the dispute between the Insular-Government and the Federal Court over the method of disbursing insular funds. The Japanese cruisers which were Bent to the Jamestown exposition arrived in Manila Bay on their way home. , The Cuban sugar crop this year will probably be one-flfth less than it was last year owing to the drought. DOMESTIC. ,The National Rivers and Harbors Congress, at Washington, D. C., ad-' journed after adopting resolutions favoring a broad and liberal policy in the improvement of inland waterways. . New wireless stations at Fairbanks I and Circle City, Alaska, are in servI ice, and the Signal Corps hopes to extend the system to Bering Strait inside of ^,year. John A. Steele, paroled from the Danvers (Mass.) ifisane asylum, went to the State House in Boston to shoot Governor Guild, but finding the door, to his office closed wounded three labor leaders, one fatally. John B. Hill, of Atlanta, is the first negro in the country to receive a Carnegie hero medal. A check of $500 was sent as a regard for risking his life in qaving several people in danger from a runaway team. fohn Maginnis, former Mayor of i Butte, Mon., has sent to Boston | Chapter, JCnights of Columbus, an 1 offer of $25,000 as a gift toward the I fund that is to be devoted to the purchase or a building. With $2,127,000 in Filipino pesos aboard, the army transport Thomas sailed for Manila, carrying also eleven troops of cavalry and 100 cabin passengers. Crazed by cocaine Wash Mussay, a negro, ran amuck at Augusta, Ark., shooting seven white peoples-one" fatally?two being women, before being riddled by a posse. Charged with systematic robbery of ? 10,000 worth of diamonds, Louis W. Harris, city salesman of Rudolph. Noel & Co., Maiden Lane, New York City, has been arrested. mi r? s i t* a a j me xvuniamc loon iduu itiiu me I Cymric 900, foreigners, mostly ItalI ians, out of Boston, on the annual i holiday return home. i The President Lincoln left with 3800 Italians, taking out the largest, 1 number, of passengers ever carried to Europe on a single vessel. The National Bank of Commerce, of Kansas City, Mo., failed after a i six weeks' run, paying out $19,000,000. FOREIGN. The Anfious tribesmen won a decisive victory over the troops of Mulai Hafig in Morocco. According to the terms of the Congo treaty King Leopold loses control of the crown domain. A roKe warn ronn leofl 1CU muuonuu /ltauo nvig iv/|;uidwu j by the French army in Algeria, losing j i 1200 killed, while the French lost | only eight men. The French forces in Algeria made J the first move to punish the Benis 1 Nassen tribesmen. The French army dirigible balloon 1 Patrie traveled a distance of 275 kil- * ometres at an average speed of forty ' kilometres. ] Premier Franco, of Portugal, announced his determination not to , compromise with the opposition. 3 Japan's complaints against China's ] plans may result in an indefinite j postponement of the Manchurian i loan. The Crown Prince of Korea and suite, accompanied by Prince Ito, the Japanese Resident General,embarked at Che-Mul-Po for Japan to complete ^ his education. Baron Takahira was formally ap- j pointed Japanese Ambassador to the , United States. < Juhlin, who resigned the office of Minister of the Interior of Sweden on i account of dissensions in the Cabinet, has been appointed Postmaster-Gen- ] eral. The French conscription law will be made applicable to Algeria, thus ] adding anocher contingent of 100,000 j men to the army of France. 1 Major-General Sir Henry Edward, < Colvile, who was recalled from the Boer War after the disastrous battle 1 at Lindley, was killed in an automobile accident in Surrey, England. General Luis Saenz Pena, cx-President of the Argentine Republic, i 1892-5. died in Bueno3 Ayrcs at the 1 age of seventy-seven. j . vfinusf IN MINE DISASTER ' k j? Fire in West Virginia Colliery Delays Work of Rescue. ??i SAD SCENES AT PITS MOUTH ^ Revised Figures by Superintendent Show That 'About Four Hundred Were Caught?Over a Hundred Bodies Found. ' < r Monongah, W. Va. ? While it is Impossible to determine the exact dumber of lives lost by the explosion tn Mines Nos. 6 and 8 of the Fair- * , aiount Coal Company, the worst fears ire likely to be confirmed. One estimate, Bald to be based on the best information now obtainable, places the number of lives probably lost at J64. The least grievous figures in- , ; iicate the death of over 400. At dark on the day following the tragedy only fifty-three bodies had ieen recovered from Mines 6 and 8. Fifty-six hours had elapsed since the ^plosion,, and the bodies were in ?uch condition as to necessi'ite immediate burial. It is now believed that the number of dead will not be over 400. .It transpired- that many miners who were believed to have been entombed Slid not go to work on the day of the iccldent. The fire broke out again in Mine 8 md the rescuers were ordered to the rarface. The fire is still burning. Members of the rescuing party say that over,-100. bodies have been losated int?he two mines. . V y Clarence Hall, a Government mine expert, arrived, and he and Chief filine Inspector Paul .spent the remainder of the day at the mines. Hall will make a thorough investigation. In a statement President Watson, at thq Coal Company, said: "There have been numerous reports that the families of the dead men are desti^ tute. These reports are wrong. , The Fairmonth Coal Company is taking :are of all these families. In addition the ladies of Monongah, Fairmont And other places have organized re- i lief measures and are rendering effective assistance." The condition of the bodies thus far recovered is horrible. Many are dismembered, some are fearfully irushed, and the rest are blackened jind burned beyond recognition. The body of J. M. McGraw, pit boss, and bne of the best known mining men In f tVest Virginia, was discovered in Mine 1 . '} No. 8. It was headless and otherWise disfigured, identification being made by the clothing and shoes he wore. , Five carloads of coffins were de* Jivered here and unloaded in preparation to receive the bodies of the dead. At the mines six undertakers are working with a number of assistants ' fmd the temporary morgue in the partially completed bank building at ivionongah is rapidly filling. A score or more of men of the rescuing parties are in a critical condition from inhaling black damp. Sev? eral of theip are expected to die. One of these men, John Qabbert, was carried from the mine almost a raving maniac.; His lungs were filled with black damp, which produced a condition similar to one Insane, and the services of four men were necessary to hold him while doctors attended blm. The accident, the greatest in the kIn^nwTT ' A n r*ce > l%oa UlOWUi J l/l awci IV?OU uiiuiug) - uwc dazed the people of jthis vicinity. The streets of both this town and Fairmont are crowded with people, while thousands line the hills in the yicinity of the mines. Every barroom in. Fairmont and Monongah is closed. So far the company's police have been able to preserve order about the mines, although it has been a difficult problem to handle the large crowds of men, women and children. , .4 TAFT'S MOTHER IS DEAD. Passed Away at Millbury, Mass., in Her Jtfgimeui xear. Millbury, Mass.?Mrs. Louisa M. Taft, mother of William H. Taft, Secretary of War, died here aged eighty, after a prolonged illness, of stomach trouble complications. For the past week she had been unconscious. She passed away at the old Torrey man- ^ Bion, where she lived in childhood. Mrs. Taft's disease had not assumed fatal aspects until a week or so ago, when messages to her son caused him to hasten his departure from Europe. Mrs. Taft, who was Miss Louisa M. Torrey, of Millbury, was married to the Secretary's father in 1?54, she being his second wife. To her were born William H., Horace D. and Fannie Louise Taft. YOUNG COUPLE MURDERED. Former Fricpd of Wife Suspected of Clubbing Thepi to Death. Muscatine, Iowa.?Mr. and Mrs. William Van Winkle, of Fairport, six miles from here, were clubbed to death some time during the night.' The bodies were discovered next morning by Glen Brewer, who called Willi UO 'CAycutauuu Ui nuiftiuo Van Winkle. The sheriff was notified. A posse spent the-day scouring che woods in the vicinity cJ che Mississippi River, but no tn ee of the murderer was found. Suspicion is directed toward Harris Jones, who was in love with Mrs. Van Winkle before her marriage five months ago, and who remarked at Vluscatine while slightly intoxicated ;hat he expected to go to the Van iVinkle home. Cleveland Wants 1908 Convention. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who haa leclared in favor of W. J. Bryan as :he Democratic candidate for Presilent, has raised a fund of $100,000 n order to induce the National Committee to hold the convention at Cleveland. ITALY FIGHTS EMIGRATION. Movement to the U. S. Checked by the Government. Rome, Italy. ? The Emigration Bureau is dissuading emigration to :he United States and consequently ;his movement is practically at a standstill. An increase of destitution is feared :hroughout Italy next year. Japan Will Stop Emigration. It is stated in Tokio that Japan will innounce its decision to limit all em^ration to America pending t^e adjustment of existing uifferp '