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lOELEPUmiLSWOtti Gores Her With His Tusks 2nd Tramples Her Body. p? eared by Explosion, Clears Roadway For a Mile. Demolishes Barber Shop, Wrecks Dry Goods Store. Riverside, Cai.?A bull elephant driven mad with fear following the explosion of several tanks of oil in the Standard Oil Company's storage plant here killed a woman, seriously injured three men, partially wrecked the ground floor of the Hotel Glenwood and kept the whole town under siege for several hours. Miss Ella Gibbs, a deaconess of the | First Congregational Church.. who came to Riverside three years ago from Chicago, was the woman killed. The elephant gored her with his tusks and trampled her under his feet. A circus had set up on the outskirts of towfc three blocks from the oil tanks and the afternoon's perfor- , mance was about to begin when a barrel of oil on a delivery wagon driven by J. J. Wormser exploded inside the Standard company's yards. Wormser was hurled into the air and his clothing caught fire from the "blaze. While rescuers were extinquishing the fire in the man's clothing several other barrels of oil went off and the flames spread to a large oil tank, which blew up before the fire companies could get to the scsne. I At the sound of the big explosion the elephants in the circus menagerie 1 began to trumnet and strain at their chains. The keepers tried to quiet j them, and other circus attaches hastily cleared the arena of the people ' who had taken their seats there. Be- ! fore the tent was cleared the herd of . elephants broke their fastenings and ' charged through the side of the men- j agerie tent out into the open fields. The beasts, headed by one big tusker, ' ranged through orchards in the vicinity, breaking fences and tipping over sheds and farm machinery. After hard work and an exhibition t of fine daring the circus men man- . aged to round up all the elephants but the big leader. He grew madder ' with every minute of freedom. Turning into a turnpike leading to town he ran toward the centre of the city, causing a general rout among all the vehicles there. After running a mile the mad elephant turned into the courtyard of the Glenwood. one of the newest and best known of the California winter hotels. Miss Gibbs happened to be crossing the open Spanish court of the hotel. The elephant saw her and charged. The terrified woman had no opportunity to find a doorway. She was caught by the animal's tusks, pinned against the wall of the hotel and gored and trampled so badly that she died within a few minutes. After the elephant had killed the t woman he seemed to be possessed with greater'fury. D. P. Chapman, ono of the hotel guests who had run | into the court to Miss Gibbs' assistance, was picked up in the elephant's 1 trunk and thrown violently to one I side. He managed to crawl away out of further danger, although several ' ribs were broken by the fall. After 1 tcssing Chapman the mad beast walked through the ddtor of the hotel ] barber shop, carrying the frame with him. 1 He waded through the shop, leav- 1 ing wreckage behind him, crossed the main street of the town and smashed his way into a dry goods ' store. Here he trampled a clerk, ! though not seriously, and leaving the | store ran down the street to a livery stable. 1 There the circus men, who had been in hot Dursuit of the runaway with four of the quieter elephants 1 of the herd, managed to get the wild fellow in a corner and chain him, 1 v but not before one man was thrown, the entire town was in terror and the local police force were preparing to turn out with riot guns. The oil Are which had started the 1 trouble burned 60,000 gallons of oil before the flames were checked, at a J total loss of $10,000. Miss Gibbs, who was killed, was a I well known worker in the Japanese ' and Chinese missions here and had done much to help penniless con- 1 sumptives who come here from the 1 East seeking a cure. DUCHESS IGNORED DUKE. Consuelo Gave Him No Glance of Recognition in Paris. Paris, France.?The Duchess of Marlborough is spending a week in Paris at the Hotel France Choisene, while the Duke is hei^e on his way to . Beaulieu to visit Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson. The Duke and the Duchess dined in different parties at the Ruiz. Their simultaneous presence excited the ut most curiosity as to wnemer any glance of recognition would pass, but ' they appeared to be the only two peo- i pie in the room unaware of each othr er's presence. The Duchess left first ! to go to the theatre, and while two members of her party saluted the 1 Duke as they passed out she swept by with delightful unconsciousness of his presence. The Duchess* friends here say the Duke is now desperately anxious for a reconciliation, finding his present anomalous position irksome and disagreeable. His ambition is to become Viceroy of Ireland, like his grandfather, under the ne?t Tory government. but it will be impossible unless he is reconciled with his wife. Cuspidors For Street Cars. The West Virginia State Board of Health passed an order requiring that cuspidors shall be provided for all railroad coaches and street cars. The order applies also to theatres. Forestry Bill Unconstitutional. The report of Chairman Jenkins, declaring unconstitutional the Appalachian-White Mountain Fostery bill, was submitted to the House Judiciary Committee, at Washington. About Noted People. Colonel Goethal3 says the Panama Canal will be open for business January 1, 1915. . John D. Rockefeller complimented the Rev. Dr. Aked on a sermon condemning race tracks. Governor Johnson, of Minnesota. In a speech at Shiloh battlefield, said recent Supreme Court rulings tend to class States as federal dependencies. Many years a director and for a time president of the New York Life Insurance Company, Alexander E. Orr, retired on account of advancing years BETfiOTHED_PASTOR SUICIDE The Rev. G. W. Tomson Shoots Himself at Woodbury, N. J. His Engagement to a Widow Was Announced a Few Days Before?Another Woman Denounced Him. Woodbury, N. J.?The Rev. George W. Tomson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of this place, was found dead on the floor of his room in the Newton Hotel with a bullet wound in his temple. There are many elements of mystery in the death of the prominent clergyman, who numbered among his congregation a number of wealthy Philadelphians who have their homes in this fashionable suburb. The verdict of the Coroner's Jury indicates suicide, but the theory that the minister took his life is supported only by the fact that he was in trouble with some women of his congregation. Nothing indicates a premeditated plan to kill himself. The door of his room was unlocked. His body was found practically hidden behind a bed, and the revolver was some distance from the body. On a table in tfte room was tne manuscript ui cm. Easter sermon prepared by Dr. Tomson on the text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life." The absence of any evidence of premeditation and the fact that the troubles of the preacher might incite in others a desire for revenge as well as to lead him to suicide, makes the killing of Dr. Tomson a tangled mystery, and the authorities here have Jetermined upon a thorough investigation. Only a few days ago a report was circulated among members of the congregation that a brother of a wealthy widow, who had bean the object of attentions since the death of his first wife, had demanded that Dr. Tomson at once publicly announce his sngagement to this woman. Other women, in turn, including another widow, claimed that Dr. Tomson had trifled with their affections, and the preacher was beset on all sides and ?rew despondent. About a week ago an announcement appeared in the local paper that Dr. Tomson was engaged to be married to Mrs. Fannie Kenworthy, a wealthy widow, living in a magnificent home, and the mother of an Jighteen-year-old daughter. The day following this announcement there was a congregational meeting at the church and a sensa:ional scene was enacted. Miss Helen Moore, a handsome woman of thirty5ve and a teacher of the Sundayschool of the place, rose and faced :he preacher. He turned his head iway. "I wish to tender my resignation as i member of this church," said Miss VIoore. "The pastor has broken his promise to marry me, but he will never marry Mrs. Kenworthy. He is i hypocrite. "He owes me all the love and duty belonging to a wife, and I shall not permit him to desert me now." The words of Miss Moore threw 'he meeting into confusion and she was immediately surrounded by the women members of the congregation, who appeared to sympathize with Dr. romson. These women made a formal demand upon her to leave Woodbury at once. Miss Moore broke down and weepIngly declared that she had spoken only the truth and should have the sympathy of the women members of the church. None was extended to her and she was finally forced to igree to leave the city. Dr. Tomson left the meeting. He was staggering and when he reached the top of the stone stairs leading from the church pitched headlong to the sidewalk. One of his friends rushed to his aid and asked him if he was badly hurt. "Unfortunately not," was the short reply of the preacher, and he asked to be allowed to go to his hotel alone. Since the departure of her family to the Pacific Coast some time ago, Miss Moore has been living at the S'ewtan Hotel, and is reported to have nursed Dr. Tomson during an illness. Until her dramatic denunciation of the preacher in the church, however, io one suspected that there was anything between Dr. Tomson and Miss Moore except the friendly relations of a pastor to one of the teachers In his Sunday-school. NEW XETS STOr TORPEDOES. American Navy Ha3 a Steel Dcvice That Will Protect War Craft. Newport, R. I.?Exhaustive tests with steel nets to resist attacks from torpedoes against war craft have been going on in Narragansett Bay recently. They have demonstrated that the navy now has a resistible steel net. The ships will soon be fitf-ort with this Ons of the nets, twenty-five feet square, was held by two large naval launches. Within about 800 yards the torpedo boat Mcrris, under full speed, fired from her forward tube a Whitehead torpedo, which ran at a speed of between twenty-five and twenty-eight knots an hour. It hit the centre of tha net and bounded back. Senator Foraker Defends Negroes. Though ill Senator Foraker, before a great audience of negroes in the Senate galleries, pleaded for justice for the Brownsville soldiers. Co-Operative Apartment House. Five Chicago men, having become tired of paying rent and desiring to live in apartments constructed after thejr own ideas, have pooled their money, and with 5100,000 will nava constructed an apartment building, in which the plans of each one will be carried out in the minutest detail. Danish Women to Vote. The Danish Folkething adopted the Government franchise bill, which gives to women taxpayers the right to vote in communal elections. Notes of the Diamond. Joe Tinker's injured hand is healing nicely. Manager Joe Kelley reports his pitchers as being in fine shape. Pitcher Upp, of the Cincinnati Reds, is troubled with a persistently lame arm. Tommy Sheehan has pleased Patsy Donovan with his conduct around third base. Jake Stahl is showing consistent hitting form. Stahl can hit the ball when he has no managerial duties to worry him. SIR HENRY CAMP campbellbannerian; lute british preiwier,' dead_!n, london r J ~ ? OiT. Uonmr fomnhpll-Rail LlUUUUU. Oil IIEUI J v>iiu!>Uv.. nerraan, ex-Premier of Great Britain, died at 9.15 o'clock a. m. at his residence in Downing street. The ex-Premier was unconscious most of the time for the last two or three days of his life, and his sinking was gradual. A few hours before his djeath telegrams announcing that his end was near were dispatched to King Edward who, with Queen Alexandra, is visiting the Danish royal family at Copenhagen; the Prince of Wales and the Cabinet Ministers. Sir Henry's final illness dates from February 12, when he last appeared in the House of Commons and moved the closure of the Scottish Land bills, although he had been ailing since No"omhpr 141 907. when, after address-1 Ing a political meeting at Bristol, he was seHously stricken with an affection of the heart. Later influenza was added to the heart trouble. Sir Henry was aware of his serious condition and offered to give up the Premiership some time before he formally resigned early this month. There will be a funeral service in Westminster Abbey at noon on April 27, attended by representatives of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, diplomats and members of Parliament, and the following day the body will be taken to Meigle, Pertshire, and placed beside the body of Sir Henry's wife. Messages of sympathy were arriving all day from every part of the world, and hundreds called to leave their cards of regrfet. Among the callers was the American Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid. "He was the faithful servant of his country, and I am truly 6orry he has gone," King Edward remarked on hearing of the death of Sir Henry. The Right Hon. Sir Henry Campoell-Bannerman, G. C. B., late Prime J Minister of His Britannic Majesty's I Government, and First Lord of the i Treasury, was born on September 7, 1836. He was the youngest son of 'the late Sir James Campbell, of Stracathro, Forfarshire, Scotland, at one time a merchant in Glasgow. His ^mother was Janet, daughter of Mr. Bannerman, of Manchester. It was under the will of his maternal uncle, Henry Bannerman, of Hudson Court, Kent, that in 1872 Sir Henry assumed the additional surname of Bannerman. Sir Henry entered Parliament when he was thirty-two years old, after having been educated at Glasgow University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He represented the Stirling Division of Scotland. His official career began in 1871, during Mr. Gladstone's first administration, when he was appointed Financial Secretary of the War Office. He resigned three years later, to be reappointed to the ~ I" ifiCA Tn 1882 hp bp 0<ViUC JSWOV iU. X V VV. came Secretary to the Admiralty. Two years later he received his first really important office in the Secretaryship for Ireland. In 1886 for a few months he held the office of Secretary of State for War and held a similar Cabinet place while the Liberals were in power, between 1892 and 1895. In the latter year he received his G. C. B. (Grand Commander of the Bath) when the Rosebery administration went out. In 1889 he became Liberal leader of the House of Commons, succeeding the late Sir William Harcourt. The fortunes of the Liberal party were never at a lower ebb than when "C. B.," as he was affectionately known in England, strolled, as it were, into the leadership. Baseball Enthusiasm. Thirty thousand persons saw the Giants beat the Brooklyns 3 to 2 at I nnonintr nf the National Leaeue baseball season in New York City. PLAGUE RIPE IN GUAYAQUIL. Kills Chemist Who Caught Disease While Making Prophylactic. Guayaquil. Ecuador.?Flores Ontaneda, a noted Ecuadorian chemist, died in this city from bubonic plague, which he contracted at the Municipal Laboratory while preparing Haffkine's prophylactic. Twenty new bubonic cases and nine deaths from the disease have occurred in six days. Prominent People. Representative De Armond suggests using the Philippines as a hatchery for dukes. The Hon. Reginald Walsh has been gazetted British Consul-General at New York City. A service in ineiuurjr ui ^uabiwoman Smith, of Illinois, was held in Washington. D. C. James Jeffrey Roche, the American Consul at Berne, Switzerland, died there after a long illness. Since their arrival in Hungary the Szechenyis have received nearly a thousand begging letters. BELL-BAN NERM AN. I. F. RYAN TELLS AMAZING STORY OF TRACTION LOOTING New York City.?In the minutes of the Special Grand Jury made public Thomas F. Ryan's own story of the looting of the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company is told and an amazing method of finance is revealed. Mr. Ryan's testimony shows among other things: That Thomas F. Ryan had purchased from Anthony N. Brady a one-half interest in the franchise of the Cortlandt Street Ferries Railroad Company, a "paper" concern, which William C. Whitney afterward bought for the Metropolitan Railroad Company for nearly a million dollars. That $500,000 loot in connection with the paper railroad steal was to repay Ryan and his associates for money contributed to defeat William J. Bryan for the nomination in 1900. H. H. Vreeland, the minutes also show, swore that in thirty years' connection with big corporations, he had never known one that did not contribute to political parties. It had never occurred to him, he said, to question anything that Mr. Whitney did, and he advanced Mr. Whitney large sums of money whenever asked, because he knew Mr. Whitney was working for the best interests of the company. "You can't go about in New York buying anything of value with a brass band," he testified. In regard to a check for $200,000 in 1899, Mr. Vreeland declared that the check had been for stock, but as Mr. Whitney handled the matter he did not know anything more about it. This is thft first time in the history of New York County that the minutes of a Grand Jury have been given to the public. The Grand Jury, feeling the pressure of public opinion, following the failure to Indict, asked Justice Dowling to make the minutes public. Mr. Ryan's testimony reads like a romance of high finance. He incorporated in it the statement which he made public. He told of raids on the Metropolitan stock in which he implicated a New York newspaper. The Wall and Cortlandt Streets Raltway deal was taken up in detail. Mr. Ryan told how Anthony N. Brady insisted on breaking into the Manhattan Traction "clover patch." He admitted that he was thoroughly under the domination of William C. Whit ney. He declared that had Whitney died before the "paper railroad" opportunity for repayment came that they could not have recovered a cent from Mr. Whitney's estate. His testimony that the money was advanced as political campaign contribution in the interests of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company is absolute. That part of it was used to counteract a Bryan boom in 1900 had not been intimated before. Inspection of the minutes of the Grand Jury which investigated the Metropolitan further shows that millions of its money passed through the hands of William C. Whitney, much of which went to some one in Tammany; that ex-Justice Cohen compelled the company to buy 200 shares of his client's stock at an advance of fifty points by threatening to sue directors for paying dividends out of capital, and that hundreds of thousands were used in stock speculations SAY TAFT FIGHT IS WON. Claim He Has More Than 500 Undis |H1U'U UCIVgUirs, Washington, D. C.?After a conference of William H. Taft, Charles P. Taft, Arthur I. Vorys and Frank Hitchcock the announcement was made that Secretary Taft h;is more than 500 undisputed delegates to the Republican National Convention, rnd will be nominated on the first ballot. Only 491 are necessary to nominate. Railway Bonds Sold. It was officially announced that the Pennsylvania Railroad had sold to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of New York City; M. Rothschild & Sons and Baring Bros., of London, its issue of $40,000,000 forty-year four per cent, con SOlKiaieu niurigagt: uuuus. Assassins Put to Dentil. The Guatemalan cadets who tried to kill President Cabrera as he was about to receive the new American Minister were immediately put to death. The National Game. Ty Cobb started off at a rapid pace with the stick. "Mathewson as good as ever" is the general verdict. Hans Wagner is again playing with the Pittsburg Pirates. From all accounts the best drawing team in the South this spring was Cleveland. Fielder Jones, the White Sox leader, says the new rules prescribing a sacrifice hit on a fly that scores a man from third base will result in batters making sacrifice hits when 1 they are not wanted. KILLED BT STUDENTS' KOTOS Princeton Man and Harvard Man Charged With Manslaughter, Machine Pilled With Shouting College Boys and Trenton Girls Swerves to Sidewalk. - Trenton, N. J.?Death to an Innocent bystander marked the climax of a morning lark here in which three students of Princeton University and as many young women of this city were the principal actors. At an early hour of the morning a big automobile dashed down South Broad street on the macadam, which' was wet with rain and slippery. The few persons abroad at that hour halted to watch the car in its reckless rush. The occupants were yelling at the top of their voices. Charles Balligum. the eighteenyear-old son of a well known resident of Trenton, was harrying homeward along South Broad street when the light of the on-rushing auto caught his eye. He stopped to see the machine with its occupants go by and that act cost him his life. Suddenly the car swerved from its course, and, skidding over the wet roadway, bounded upon the sidewalk. Balligum had no chance to get out of the way. The car hit him, carried him from his feet and crushed him against the brick wall of a residence. His skull was Crushed into a shapeless mass. Walter Wright, another Trenton youth, was standing near Balligum; he saved his life only by a quick jump. The unmanageable car grazed him as it plunged at Balligum. The latter was crushed against the wall of Dr. Pierson W. Yard's residence. That physician, aroused by the excitement, hurried into the street, but the victim was dead. The occupants of the car, dazed and horror stricken, made no effort to escape, aud were arrested. They are: Corwin Nichols, twenty-three years old, of Wilmington, Ohio, owner and driver of the machine; Winfred Adams, nineteen, of Roanoke, Va., and Walter C. Horton, twentythree years old, of ,Corinth, Miss. Nichols and Adams are seniors at Princeton, and Adams is a member of f-ha sonhomore call. The women with them were: Anna Dancer, Mabel Fisher and Kate Dowling, all of this city. It was an hour after the tragedy before the dead man was identified by papers in his pocket. The police sent for his father. Mr. Balligum Identified the body, then fell unconscious beside it. Prosecutor Crossley, who states as his belief that the college men uad been drinking, has begun an investigation. The prisoners, released under bail, have engaged counsel, fearing a charge of manslaughter. Nichols' father, Clinton Nichols, president of the First National Bank of Wilmington, Ohio, has come here to remain with him until the trouble is over. Nichols is out on $1000 bail. BARYARD STUDENT ARRESTED CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER Watertown, Mass.?Frederick OliThnmnonn nf Hoa IWninPR r tl JL uuiu^UWU, xy v-w w?>? ?| a first year student at Harvard University, was placed under arrest, charged with manslaughter, following an automobile accident in which an unidentified woman was struck and fatally injured by a machine in which Thompson and another Harvard student were riding. The woman died at the Cambridge Hospital without recovering consciousness. She was about twentyfive years old, well dressed and apparently a woman of refinement. The accident occurred at the corner of Adam and Mount Auburn streets, in this town. Thompson was released after his j arrest, in bonds of $3000. FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT IK BRIGHTON, NEAR BOSTON Boston.?William Gallagher, twenty-four years old, of Russell street, Maiden, was almost instantly killed: Joseph Shine, twenty-two years old, of No. 24 Quincy street, Maiden, suffered a concussion of the brain and may die, and William i?lynn, twenty3ix years old, also of Maiden, was injured iu an automobile accident in Commonwealth avenue, Brighton. Gallagher, who was driving the car. apparently lost control of it on a down grade and it smashed into a telegraph pole, throwing out the occupants. Gallagher was thrown against the pole, his skull crushed in md one foot severed. He died as he was being taken to the Brighton police station. RYAN ABSOLVED BY GRAND JURY Traction System Throttled by Legislature and Courts, He Says. New York City.?The Grand Jury which has been Investigating the management of financial institutions | and traction companies sinus jauuaij I 6 handed up to Justice Victor J. Dow| ling, iu the Criminal Branch of the I Supreme Court ;i presentment in ! which it declared that it had not been able to find, in its investigation of the traction situation, evidence showing a commission of crime on which it could act. The Grand Jury was thanked by Justice Dowling and dis charged. $4750 Her Verdict For a Kiss. At Duluth, Minn., Mrs. Olga Berg, erman, of 1-libbing, got a verdict of $4750 tor a kiss. This is a reduction of $250 from the verdict awarded at the first trial. She was a tenant of Jacob Kitz, of Hibbing, aud alleged that he one day kissed her by force when he called to collect the rent. Kitz's defense was blackmail. Portrait I'ainter Bankrupt. Walter Russell, the celebrated portrait painter, filed a petition in bankruptcy fixing his debts at $3?0,5>6u in New York City. With the Toilers. Technical schools are attracting tho attention of Minneapolis (Minn.) unions. The Mayor of Key West. Fla., is enforcing the child labor law by appointing a police officer to see that the children attend school. Minneapolis and St. Paul Trades j Assemblies will exchange fraternal delegates iu au euurt uo neey iu closer touch with one another. I International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers' Union now boasts ! of 202 branches, scattered throughI out the United States and Canada. / ORDER WOODJPKJLP INQUIRY House Passes Resolution For Committee to Study Tariff, > Probe For Paper Trust ? Cannon's Measure Wins by Party Vote?Tnnoot-icvafnxa Ifrxirlori liv Mnnn. Washington, D. C.?Speaker Cannon put through the House by a vote of 184 to 110, under the crack of the party whip, his answer to the demand for the removal of the tariff on wood pulp in the shape of his resolution for a general investigation of the Paper Trust and all the circumstances surrounding paper prices by a special committee of sis. This- meano that there will be no revision of the tariff for the benefit of newspaper and magazine publishers. Such was the declared effect, if not purpose, of the Cannon resolution, which provides for the appointment of a committee to investigate and re port WUCIUCI UI nut mote noo a wuibination to force up the price of paper and what effect the tariff on wood pulp and print paper had upon the price of the latter article and upon the forests of the United States. The resolution was reported from the Committee on Rules at the first opportunity. It was opposed for the Democrats by Mr. DeArmond, of Missouri, on the ground that it was adding insult to injury, and by Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, because in his opinion it was not intended to get at the facts in the case^ but to whitewash the effect of the tariff upon that particular industry. Messrs. Payne, of New York, and .Cushman, of Washington, declared there would be no revision in the tariff until it was made along all lines, and not until the House was In possession of all information necessary to enable it to act intelligently. The resolution was adopted, 154 to 110. Speaker Cannon announced that the following members would constitute the committee: Mann, of Illinois; Stafford, of Wisconsin; Miller, of Kansas; Bannon, of Ohio, Republicans; Sims, of Tennessee; Ryan, of New York, Democrats. As set forth in the resolution the duty of the committee is to investigate "and obtain all possible information" as to the reasons for the increased price of white paper, "to the end that needful legislation may be enacted." A protest on the part of fifty big paper manufacturers of the United States against the proposal to remove tha tariff on print paper pulp and pulp wood is about to be filed with the House and the Senate. Delegations representing paper manufacturers are arriving here to enter their opposition to the movement. MORRISSEY WON MARATHON. Sturdy Runner of the Mercury A. C. Led a Field of 125 at Boston. Boston.?Thomas P. Morrissey, of the Mercury Athletic Club, of Yonkers, N. Y., won the Boston Marathon race here, and thereby he gain9 the honor of being the first American to make the Olympic team which will represent the Unitsd States in the struggle for world honors in London this summer. He defeated a field of 120 of the greatest long distance runners in the country and finished as fresh and strong apparently as though he had only romped a half mile. John J. Hayes, of the Irish-American A. C., of New York City, finished second, and Robert A. Fowler, of Cambridgeport, third. Morrissey covered the twenty-Qve mile course in two hours, twenty-five minutes, forty-three and one-fifth seconds, which was second only to the record made last year by Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian marvel. T.nnchnat traveled the distance one minute, nineteen and one-fifth sec onds faster than did Morrissey. QUITS PLAGUE FIGHT TO DIE. Passed Assistant Surgeon Halsted A. Hiansfield Ends His Life. San Francisco, Cal.?Brooding over the death of his wife and daughter, which occurred last year, is believed to have unhinged the reason of Dr. Halsted A. Stansfield, passed assistant surgeon in the marine corps, driving him to resign his position as official bacteriologist and diagnostician of the laboratory in this city under Dr. Rupert I31ue, and prompted him to blow out his brains in the Sutro forest, where the body was found two days after the deed had been committed. Some of Dr. Scansfield's associates hint that the young physician's life as a government agent, detailed to wage csaseJess campaigns against the plague, cholera and malarial fevers in many unhealthy lands, may have warped his brain and brought on creeuins: insanity. 41 KILLED IN AUSTRALIA. Victims of Train Collision Nenr Melbourne?Sixty Arc Injured. Melbourne, Australia.?Forty-one persons were killed and sixty injured in a collision between two trains at Braybrook Junction, eight miles from this city. A train from Bendigo, with two heavy engines, crashed into the rear of a train from Ballarat, wrecking five cars of the train. The wreckage took fire and was aJrrmn' mmnloffllv nr\nanmMAT"V Of the bodies were unrecognizable when recovered. NEW GERMAN WARSHIP DOCKS. Government Will Soon Begin Their Erection on Kiel Canal. Berlin.?The Imperial Government will soon begin the erection at Brunsbuettel, at the entrance of the Kiel Canal, a great docking and repair establishment for warships. The plan is to build one dry dcck now and another in 1909. Minneapolis Painters Organize. A new union of si;n painters has been organized in Minneapolis, Minn. Stub Ends of News. Hamilton, Ohio, ha3 sixty-cent gas. Chicago win estaDiJsn a curu iumket. Independent automobile manufacturers plan a traveling exhibition of cars. The German Imperial Government is thinking of establishing a petroleum monopoly. America leads the world in trade w'th Japan, according to figures published in Tokio. The National Civil Service Reform League In a pamphlet attacked the 'irumoacker census bill V ; . .fT ' ii Made With'a Penknife, 1 Hiram Martin, of Reading, Pa., with a pocketknife made^wo miniature boats, one a steamer and the other a canal boat, each nearly four feet long, and one ypar was devoted f?otr /I nrlno* ano ro nmmAntfl. VU Cue baon, uuitu^ UI/M> V In Donbt. A clergyman was recently telling a marvelous story, when his little girl ^ said: ? "Now, pa, is that really true or Is it just preaching?"?The Tatler. What Will He Do With It? * Anent the swarm of incompetents who aspire to office, John Temple Graves tells this story: While traveling one time he noticed a little yellow cur which was pursuing the train with loud harks and every sign of disj pleasure. An old farmer in front of I Mr. Graves was greatly amused at the sight, and. turning around, he said: "I wonder what he'd do with it if ' he caught it?"?Lippincott's Magazine. '! , ;-V >'. ?? ?y ru psfflgs o^Eiixir^Senrto acts Oentlyj/et promptly ontKe bowels, cleanses, me system effectually,! assist one in overcoming habitual constipation, fe permanently. To get its. beneficial ejects.buy ! h Jio Syrup Co, SOLO BTtEAOlNGrORUOGiSTS-fiOtf^eOnit The market for Japanese beer u fast widening in North China, Korea and Manchuria. ___________ ,y FITS,-St. Vitus' Dance, Nerrvoos Diseases per manenciy curea Dy ur. iume a umv Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.H.R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila^ Pa. A rat recently caught At Gateshead-onTyne measured, eighteen and one-half inches. Animal Sounds. Not only, writes a correspondent, are we particular as to the right word I for expressing the sound of an aniI mal, but, if the language of the sportsman of the middle ages had not been allowed to become obsolete, we should be equally rich in our directions. Thus, in mentioning companies of animals, we should speak of a pride of lions, a herd of deer (but a bevy of roes), a sloth of bears, and many others. When our quarry retired to rest, we should say that the hart was harbored, the buck lodged,the hare fofmed, and the rabbit set on A nr? .nn. These picturesque descriptive nouns I were not confined to animals, but f I were also applied to human beings. I A number of princes was a state, of 9 hermits an observance, of porters a I safeguard, of butlers a draught and of B cooks a temperance; but while a com- I pany of harpers was a melody, one of I pipers was a poverty, and, oddly I enough, a skulk might be either a I collection of thieves or friars.?Lon don Chronicle. 9 Clever Danish Inventor. 8 Vladimar Poulsen, the Danish in- E ventor, who is only thirty-eight years 3 old, is the son of a judge in the High B Criminal Court of Copenhagen. Her I has succeeded in matting wucieoo i ^ telephone connection between Lyng- |l by and Weisensee, a distance of 259. H ' miles. Kg H A motor vehicle purchased by the M town of Tynemouth, England, can be EH used as a prison van, fire apparatus, or H ambulance. COFFEE EYES 9 It Acts Slowly but Frequently Pro- B duces Blindness. B The curious effect of slow daily Hj poisoning and the gradual building H In of disease as a result, Is shown in H numbers of cases where the eyes are H : affected by coffee. 9 A case in point will illustrate: B A lady in Oswego, Mont., experl- . H enced a slow but sure disease setI ~ hny avaa In tho fnrm of in- ', mBh creasing weakness and shootinc pains H with wavy, dancing lines of light, so vivid that nothing else could be seen w for minutes at a time. She says: SB "This gradual failure of sight 38 alarmed me and I naturally began a very earnest quest for the causo. About this time I was told that coffee poisoning sometimes took that form, ? and while I didn't believe that coffee ^B i was the cause of my trouble, I con-, ^B eluded to quit it and see. m "I took up Postum Food Coffee Kg in spite of the jokes of husband, ^fl whose experience with one cup at a ^B neighbor's was unsatisfactory. Well, SSP. I made Postum strictly according to HS directions, boiling it a ucue longer, because of our high altitude. The ' result was charming. I have now wfl used Postum in place of coffee for flB about three months and my eyes are well, never paining me or showing HD I any weakness. I know to a certainty ?&?> I that the cause of the trouble was I coffee and the cure was in quitting it j and building up the nervous system : on Postum, for that was absolutely the only change J made in diet and EB I took no medicine. BH "My nursing baby has been kept 99 in a perfectly healthy state since [ have ubed Postum. "Mr. , a friend, discarded coffee and took on Postum to see if BB he could be rid of his dyspepsia and EBB frequent headaches. The change pro- EflH dwced a most remarkable improve- HR ment quickly." "There's a Reason." Name give* M by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. . MB Graae Nuts No. 1797. KB