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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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SOLO BTtEAOlNGrORUOGiSTS-fiOtf^eOnit
The market for Japanese beer u fast
widening in North China, Korea and Manchuria.
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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
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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
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